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Colossus By Design: Season 3 - Excerpt 87

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  1. [May 2, 2168]
  2. [South American Wasteland]
  3. [Former South American Continent]
  4. [Canadian Colony State]
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  8. At the site where Irys fell from the void, the Destroyer drops down from the sky in its Aggregate form. As the crustacean abomination walks up to Irys's petrified body and puts its claw to its chest, it suddenly stops midway and looks up to the sky behind it. It snarls loudly before turning around and preparing for combat; Mary Stoker and Daiyu Chen are left wondering what has even the powerful Destroyer spooked.
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  11. (Mary Stoker): What is it, Oxy?
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  13. (Daiyu Chen): Still a really stupid pet name.
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  15. (Mary Stoker): Quiet! Oxy, is it the C.D.F.?
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  18. The Destroyer Aggregate hisses aggressively, its attention still drawn to the dark storm clouds above. It then puts its right claw down and allows Mary Stoker and Daiyu Chen to slide down to find cover. With its VIPs scrambling to safety, the Aggregate form focuses fully on whatever it is in the sky that has its attention. Out from the dark gloom, dozens of bright pink lights burst through. These are no mere drone fighters, however.
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  20. Vultures.
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  22. Straight from the factories of Mechagodzilla Prime, these elite fighter units descend upon the ruined landscape of the South American wasteland, uniform and coloured in a darkened form of Nanometal. All of them fire their railguns down on the Destroyer simultaneously, peppering it with so much firepower that its whole body is left obscured by the sheer amount of explosions and smoke left behind by the kinetic impacts; it's also left somewhat stunned albeit relatively undamaged.
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  24. From out of the smoke, the Aggregate form of the Destroyer fires off is Micro-Oxygen Beam into the sky in an attempt to shoot down the Vultures. However, their A.I. and flight mechanisms are fast enough to quickly react to this and evade out of its line of fire. As the Destroyer continues to fire off its deadly ranged attack, it starts to advance forward in order to better sweep through the sky with its beam.
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  26. While a few Vultures are shot down, the majority of them continue to perform evasive maneuvers and successfully dip around the incoming Micro-Oxygen. Two groups of them form up and strafe around the crustacean monster, focusing fire in a more directed fashion in 2 simultaneous volleys. With this distraction in play, another group breaks off and dives down and begins focusing their railguns on the ground that the Destroyer Aggregate's left legs are treading upon.
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  28. In just a few shots, the breakaway group manages to indent the ground enough to trip up the Destroyer, causing it to fall down on its left side. While this strategy hasn't done any actual damage, the Vultures have managed to temporarily immobilize the ultimate evolution of Bagan.
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  30. Mechagodzilla's Vultures regroup and ascend into the sky. All of them then simultaneously dive down and focus their railgun fire on the Destroyer's head, leaving it too stunned to properly get up.
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  32. The flying A.I. units swoop back up from their dive before they hit the ground and prepare for another bombing run. Just as they begin to dive once more, missiles suddenly fly in from the distance, destroying some of the drones and forcing the others to scatter. Soon enough, even more missiles are launched, destroying even more of the Vultures and leaving less than a dozen still in the air. These remaining Mechagodzilla units are forced to ascend into the clouds; their pink exhaust trails can be seen as they retreat from the wasteland even through the dark clouds.
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  34. As the Destroyer gets back up on its feet, it notices that 3 Drone-Hybrids have shown up. The Warmonger-P.E.M.F. monstrosities cackle and snarl at first, but eventually they all get down on 1 knee and bow to Irys and the crustacean monster.
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  36. The Destroyer roars loudly towards the sky in response to this gesture of submission and acceptance by these strange cyborgs as their new Alpha.
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  43. [Mechagodzilla Prime]
  44. [Honshu Island, Japan]
  45. [Japanese Mainland]
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  49. In the clearing in front of Mechagodzilla Prime, President Tori Bott-80 and General Dolu-do are looking over the live feeds of the Vulture units from their mission against the Destroyer. As the Vultures are forced to retreat, their feeds are ceased by Mechagodzilla Prime. The general looks quite proud, a disposition that the Japanese president isn't entirely convinced of.
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  52. (President Bott-80): Why are you so happy, General Dolu-do?
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  54. (General Dolu-do): I'd have thought it'd be obvious, ma'am.
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  56. (President Bott-80): Enlighten me, then.
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  59. General Dolu-do inputs some commands into his forearm computer and brings up some holograms containing images captured from the Vultures' live feeds. He specifically zooms in on and enhances images of the Destroyer, Irys's petrified body, and the 3 Drone-Hybrids bowing down to the Destroyer and Irys. Despite focusing on these images, President Bott-80 still isn't impressed.
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  62. (President Bott-80): What does this prove? These were obvious from the feeds.
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  64. (General Dolu-do): It means we now know exactly where they are, and thus know to strike there.
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  66. (President Bott-80): General, our forces are scattered and unfocused, our strongest allies are currently preoccupied, and your own forces are currently still in an untested phase. What else could we possibly do?
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  68. (General Dolu-do): The Vulture units broadcasted all this information to us without any jamming or disruption. It means that we can follow the enemy wherever they go and focus on the elements we have control over.
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  71. At this revelation, President Tori Bott-80 looks up at the converted Nanometal mountain that used to be Mt. Fuji and then back at the Bilusaludo general. While she doesn't share the same ecstatic feelings that the general has, she does understand the value in what she's learned.
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  74. (President Bott-80): I'll bring this up with the G.U.D., then.
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  76. (General Dolu-do): I thought you might come around.
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