Giant robots fight for our future! Takeshi vs Moira

Moira couldn’t say she wasn’t nervous. This new league wasn’t full of pushovers: her last fight had certainly proved that, but she had learned her lesson, she reckoned - her Zoid’s legs now had had more armour plating on them - surely that’d buy her enough time to cut her opponent down. If not, well, she just had more armour to put on her shopping list.

In any case, the battlefield was certainly an exciting one - Once again, it was a little bit of a shame to destroy something like that with gunfire and chainsaws, but then again, how cool would the video look? Heck, she had to wonder if she couldn’t just get somebody to hide the Zoids with CGI and then not work for a few weeks. Although given she wouldn’t be able to use that as an excuse to foist the team-related busywork to somebody else, perhaps that wasn’t such a good plan. Of course, if she just ‘borrowed’ one of her teammates’ flying Zoids, perhaps she could go and have a little holiday down by the sea and just ignore everything else… No, no, that probably wasn’t a very good idea. It’d been hard enough to learn to pilot a land-bound Zoid, let alone one that could fly...

To start things off, a triad of missiles blasted off from the torso of the Spino Sapper. Moira figured that if she couldn’t catch up to her opponent with speed, she’d simply pin him down with weaponry. With that in mind, the Spino Sapper bolted off. Or, at least, it ran in its usual, slightly awkward gait that really wasn’t particularly fast in any way.  Indeed, the pilot had more than enough time to direct the nanomachines present in the armour of her Zoid to defend her against whatever bullets or shrapnel or whatnot that could be flying her way at any moment - she didn’t have much of an idea of what her enemy could do, so the optimal course of action was just to… Guess? Perhaps that wasn’t right, but what else could she do? It wasn’t like she could just look up some battle replays right in the middle of the battle. Or.. Well, she could. She just shouldn’t.

Moira held down the trigger, and bullets sprayed out of the two guns either side of the Spino's mouth, destroying a good deal of the ground in front of Moira, and with a little luck, they’d do much the same to her opponent. After that, the dinosaur lurched, and changed direction - it was a manouvre that Moira had been practising - swinging the weight of the top half of the bipedal Zoid to pull the lower half with it, and perhaps dodge some incoming fire. 

Diving past the short buildings, the Spino Sapper swung its tail towards its target, followed by a bright point of light shining from the barrel of the beam gun as it heated up. With a loud crack, a glowing energy-round whizzed across the battlefield towards her opponent's legs. If she wanted to have a chance to have a go with the saws, then she was going to have to slow her opponent down somewhat.

 Moira cast her gaze to her sides - her path had taken her from the east side of the little city, to the west. Her opponent..? Well, he remained staunchly unpredictable to her - possibly because she hadn’t exactly studied up on his battle techniques before showing up to the battle. Ah well, all she had to do was not get hit - simple! The dinosaur Zoid lurched across the battlefield in a wide zig-zag pattern, first to the left, and then to the right. Not great, but better than making a targeting computer's job extremely easy.

Speaking of which, Moira consulted hers as to where would be best to fire some more missiles from -  Lights flashed on and off inside the Spino Sapper’s cockpit as Moira flipped switches, bathing her in more and more red light until it seemed everything inside had been dyed a deep shade of crimson.  Three missiles came screaming out of the dinosaur’s chest, and for a moment the cockpit shone pink before normalcy resumed and the Spino Sapper charged, apparently after the missiles. If nothing else, Moira intended to make the broadcast exciting. 

The beam saws unfolded elegantly from their moorings, beginning to generate the rotating energy fields that gave them their name. Moira guided her Zoid across the battlefield as rapidly as she could, gratuitous amounts of energy dissipating into the atmosphere as she went, and making the Zoid look for all the world as if it had wings. Stubby, useless wings. 

 She figured that a target like this would be difficult to resist, and hopefully she could bait her opponent out just long enough to slice off a limb - as she had experienced herself, that was a fine tactic to employ. And indeed, the saws that so defined the Sapper were just the tool to do that job.

A saw swung down with a glowing arc, and then the Spino Sapper jumped away with all the agility the thing could muster. Plainly running away wasn’t the most glorious of tactics, but if it kept her in the game, Moira couldn’t say it bothered her particularly. Besides, she’d never fought in a sportsmanlike way before, and she sure as hell wasn’t about to start. No, digging in her heels and hanging on by a thread was more the Moira way to go about it.

1a. Multiple Missile Launcher @ Legs - 20DP x3
b. NTBP against Physical Rounds

2a. Dual Repeater Machine Guns @ Body - 40DP
b. Dodge - Twist again! Everybody do the twist again!

3a. Pulse Laser Gun @ Back Legs - 65DP
b. Dodge - Zig-Zags! Zig-Zags everywhere!

4a. Multiple Missile Launcher @ Legs - 20DP x3
b. Dodge - Chaaarrrrge!

5a. Dual Omni-Directional Beam Saws  - @ Back Legs - 90DP
b. Dodge - Run Awaaayyyy!