ROCK'EM SOCK'EM ROBOTS [BIG OPEN FIGHT LOG]

[sufferist]

Who: Signless, Robots, and YOU
Where: City Hall, and all over downtown LA.
When: April 14th
What: Signless bates the Cybetronians into having a big fight in downtown LA while attempting to get a valuable artifact. Earth civilians and superheroes are SUPER WELCOME to notice the fuss and try to stop the fighting/safe people from collateral damage.
Warnings: SUDDENLY ROBOT ULTRAVIOLENCE

Signless leaves himself, and the hammer, visible at first. He wants them to see him, to know that the battle is imminent - and with any luck, a conflict will start. He'll do his best to disappear and keep them hunting for him as as long as possible after he's initially been spotted. Maximum collateral damage is his goal.

It also helps that he's an empath. He'll be taking whatever opportunities he can to agitate people's emotions, whether it be anger, panic, or fear, in the attempt to make ever more chaos.

This is a party style log, meaning you can make you own threads and scenarios. Signless will be around with the hammer. LET'S MAKE THIS AS BIG OF A CLUSTERFUCK AS POSSIBLE, GUYS.

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[starscheme]

Starscream scowls right back and completely misses the point as usual: "Don't you chastise me about my punctuality! This is your last chance. Hand over the forge, and I won't have to turn you into an ugly red smear on the ground."

[sufferist]

Signless shifts into a low stance, obviously preparing to fight. More of that 'blood' begins leaking out across the surface of the building, his blade taking a position to strike from.

"Why don't you take it from me?" he hisses, and swings the scythe, releasing a slash of energy in Starscream's direction.

[starscheme]

He yelps as he dodges, incapable as he is of ever remaining truly silent and collected, but he dodges all the same. One charged up energon blast rockets back at Signless; he doesn't necessarily expect the shot to land, but he figures it'll give him a pretty good idea of how far Signless is capable of dodging in a pinch, giving him more information towards a proper and hopefully successful counter strike.

[sufferist]

He doesn't dodge it so much as he whips up a shield out of the blood pooling around him, which mostly diverts the blast. It sends him stumbling a few feet but that's it, and then he's taking the whole Forge in his psionic grasp and swinging it at Starscream as hard as he can.

[starscheme]

Somehow he did not expect the troll to actually utilize the forge at all in this fight. When the hammer began to move, he assumed that Signless was just tossing it out of the way to free up some energy for this fight, not preparing to swing it right at him. The forge catches him just as much off his guard as much as it catches him directly on the face. As in, completely, and to a painful result.

Starscream goes flying and topples and skids across the ground a good few yards.

[sufferist]

Well, okay then. Effective strategy, that. Signless pauses for a moment as Starscream goes flying, taking in the energy of that flash of pain and the rest of the bot's intense agitation. The emotional power ripples across the surface of the building, as Signless closes in for his next attack.

He raises the Forge again and smashes it down against the roof that Starscream finally comes to a stop on, while also throwing several spears of blood in a dual assault.

[starscheme]

Starscream manages to roll out of the way of the Forge, but one of the spears catches him on the wing. It really only skims the surface, a glancing blow against hard armor plating, but it still leaves a visible scratch. Then he's back on his feet again sending another volley of shots in the trolls direction.

[sufferist]

Another ripple of energy spreads across the roof of the building, ripping up shingles as it goes. The pool extends, and spikes attempts to spring up beneath Starscream's feet. Meanwhile, however, Signless is distracted by the volley of lasers.

He tries to bring up a shield to defend himself, but not fast enough for all of them. He has to take a tumble to avoid the last of them, rolling across the roofing. He seizes the Forge once again, and decides that it's time to run.

He skitters across the rooftop, threatening to leave Starscream behind once again.

[starscheme]

Starscream yelps, dancing around the spikes as they rise up and try to impale him. When they finally cease their assault, he becomes aware of the Signless' retreat at the very last moment, cursing to himself and firing off one desperate shot at the surface ahead of the troll to try and block his escape.

[sufferist]

The shot forces Signless to spring backward again, rolling back the way he came to avoid the worst of the blast. He winds up on his knees, snarling up at the robot. He hurls the forge in his direction as hard as he can.

[starscheme]

With another indignant squawk, Starscream manages to successfully side step the throw this time, whirling back around on his enemy in a single staggering motion. His next move is far more deliberate; he lunges forward, trying to close the gap between them and swatting one large, clawed hand downwards at the spot where Signless is crouched.

[sufferist]

It comes just as Signless is attempting to cut and run. When he throws the Forge, he lets it go, letting it crater itself into the side of the building. He'd been hoping that Starscream might focus on that instead.

He doesn't.

Instead, the Decepticon comes sprawling at him right as he's preparing to flee. The timing is bad. For all his power, the troll doesn't react in time. Starscream's claws bite deep into his flesh, and Signless can feel something tear as he darts away. He falls to the roofing, struggling, but stunned with the sudden pain of the injury.

The blood on Starscream's claws tingles with empathic radiation of desperation, anger, and fear.

[starscheme]

Starscream is almost confused as he feels the blow hit his target with the rather unfamiliar sensation of his claws raking through flesh, instead of the usual metal. It's enough to give him pause; he raises the bloodstained claws to inspect them, expression not unlike that of a person who just lashed out to swat a fly and completely did not expect any sort of success in the endeavor: thrilled, but with a tinge of mild disgust at the mess that's left behind. The emotional waves coming off of it only further that sentiment.

His eyes flick back over to the troll, expression splitting into sadistic grin despite of the poisonous effect of the blood on his hands. "Perhaps I should have given you fair warning. No one can elude a Seeker for forever," he gloats, stalking his way over towards the troll. "Though I can grant you this: you proved more of a challenge than most."

[sufferist]

He feels the blood trickle between his fingers, and he knows he's hurt badly. It bothers him less than it really should. But he knows that Starscream is probably going to finish the job if he stays there - and as much as he would like to just let him do it, for a moment, something deep down drives him forward.

Bleeding is a mixed blessing with an affinity like his. It means that he's weakened, but it also puts him at his strongest.

He takes his bloody hand and lashes out at Starscream with it, sending a spray of especially sharp and penetrative psionic daggers, cored with slivers of his actual blood. Then, on stumbling feet, he makes for the edge of the building - leaping off into open air.