08-22-2015, 11:56 AM
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They’d left behind the temple and stepped out into a dead forest filled with nightmare monsters.
What are the odds of that?!
Top Man rolled his eyes as he jumped backwards to avoid the oncoming swipe of one of the shrieks. When the Robot Master landed on the ground, his gimp knee buckled just enough to cause him to lose his balance. As he teetered, a second bestial darkspawn tackled him to the ground. Spit spattered on Top Man’s face as a mouthful of teeth tried to clamp around his skull. Quick reflexes allowed the robot and clench his fists around the shriek’s neck and prevent it from taking any more pieces out of him.
Although he’d dealt with the immediate threat, the shriek still had two fully functioning fists that starting raking against Top Man’s chest. If he’d been made of flesh and blood, the scene would have been gruesome and gore-filled, but since his body was made of ceramic titanium, there was just a lot of scraping sounds. Before the creature could rip its way into Top Man’s insides, a brown blur slammed into it. The impact from Pinocchio knocked the shriek over, and as it fell, the robot rolled with it, keeping his grip on its neck. With the creature momentarily confused, the Robot Master shifted his hands up a little and wrenched his attacker’s neck.
Once he heard the snap, Top Man scrambled up to a standing position and flashed a thumbs up to the wooden puppet, who merely stood and stared at him with wide eyes.
“You okay?” Top Man asked before a darkspawn sprung out from the trees and smashed down on the Robot Master’s back and shoulders. A beat later, the robot’s sensors picked up a sudden spike in temperature, and one horrifying scream later, the weight was off his back. Rolling over, Top Man glanced to his left to see a charred corpse with little puffs of green smoke twisting up from its twitching corpse. To the machine’s right, the little feller with the staff was laughing up a storm.
“Boom!” The goblin cackled as more darkspawn separated themselves from the surrounding tree line and stalked toward the group.
Once he was back to a vertical position, Top Man glanced over to see the pony and the girl fighting side-by-side against more shrieks. This isn’t going to end well. Slowly but surely, they were being closed in on by the slobbering monsters. “We need to leave!” The Robot Master shouted as he glanced to his associates. Grobdum seemed too busy blasting apart anything within eyesight, but even with the shaman’s dazzling display, more of the monsters poured out to replace those that were now smoldering corpses.
“This way!” The voice was that of Raw Onion, who had punched a hole in the enemy lines with the assistance of Lyra. Turning to the two ladies, Top Man saw that Pinocchio was already en route. The puppet’s wooden limbs seemed to almost flap about as he rushed toward them. In the other direction, the robot saw that the goblin was still intently focused on blasting apart anything close to him. In fact, the only respite the shaman took was when he was casting other spells. As Top Man watched, one of the shrieks toppled over and started to rake at its own flesh.
“Come. On!” Top Man shouted as he ran over to the goblin and closed a hand around his shoulder. “Time to go.”
“I got dis! I—”
Thwack!
Top Man’s palm left a red mark on the side of shaman’s now wide-eyed face, but before Grobdum could react, he was being half-pulled, half-dragged toward the tree line. Once they were through, the group kept moving and hoping beyond hope that they could get away from the mob of corrupted elves trying to cut them into tiny pieces.
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They’d left behind the temple and stepped out into a dead forest filled with nightmare monsters.
What are the odds of that?!
Top Man rolled his eyes as he jumped backwards to avoid the oncoming swipe of one of the shrieks. When the Robot Master landed on the ground, his gimp knee buckled just enough to cause him to lose his balance. As he teetered, a second bestial darkspawn tackled him to the ground. Spit spattered on Top Man’s face as a mouthful of teeth tried to clamp around his skull. Quick reflexes allowed the robot and clench his fists around the shriek’s neck and prevent it from taking any more pieces out of him.
Although he’d dealt with the immediate threat, the shriek still had two fully functioning fists that starting raking against Top Man’s chest. If he’d been made of flesh and blood, the scene would have been gruesome and gore-filled, but since his body was made of ceramic titanium, there was just a lot of scraping sounds. Before the creature could rip its way into Top Man’s insides, a brown blur slammed into it. The impact from Pinocchio knocked the shriek over, and as it fell, the robot rolled with it, keeping his grip on its neck. With the creature momentarily confused, the Robot Master shifted his hands up a little and wrenched his attacker’s neck.
Once he heard the snap, Top Man scrambled up to a standing position and flashed a thumbs up to the wooden puppet, who merely stood and stared at him with wide eyes.
“You okay?” Top Man asked before a darkspawn sprung out from the trees and smashed down on the Robot Master’s back and shoulders. A beat later, the robot’s sensors picked up a sudden spike in temperature, and one horrifying scream later, the weight was off his back. Rolling over, Top Man glanced to his left to see a charred corpse with little puffs of green smoke twisting up from its twitching corpse. To the machine’s right, the little feller with the staff was laughing up a storm.
“Boom!” The goblin cackled as more darkspawn separated themselves from the surrounding tree line and stalked toward the group.
Once he was back to a vertical position, Top Man glanced over to see the pony and the girl fighting side-by-side against more shrieks. This isn’t going to end well. Slowly but surely, they were being closed in on by the slobbering monsters. “We need to leave!” The Robot Master shouted as he glanced to his associates. Grobdum seemed too busy blasting apart anything within eyesight, but even with the shaman’s dazzling display, more of the monsters poured out to replace those that were now smoldering corpses.
“This way!” The voice was that of Raw Onion, who had punched a hole in the enemy lines with the assistance of Lyra. Turning to the two ladies, Top Man saw that Pinocchio was already en route. The puppet’s wooden limbs seemed to almost flap about as he rushed toward them. In the other direction, the robot saw that the goblin was still intently focused on blasting apart anything close to him. In fact, the only respite the shaman took was when he was casting other spells. As Top Man watched, one of the shrieks toppled over and started to rake at its own flesh.
“Come. On!” Top Man shouted as he ran over to the goblin and closed a hand around his shoulder. “Time to go.”
“I got dis! I—”
Thwack!
Top Man’s palm left a red mark on the side of shaman’s now wide-eyed face, but before Grobdum could react, he was being half-pulled, half-dragged toward the tree line. Once they were through, the group kept moving and hoping beyond hope that they could get away from the mob of corrupted elves trying to cut them into tiny pieces.
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