Colossus By Design: Season 3 - Excerpt 79

[April 29, 2168]
[Mt. Fuji]
[Honshu Island, Japan]
[Japanese Mainland]

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Despite supposedly being an inferior albeit advanced prototype Warmonger from years gone by, Obsidian Fury has proved itself to be an extremely adaptive and powerful combatant; its use of skill and an experimental equipment generator allowed it to disable or destroy the 2 Mechagodzillas deployed against it. Now it stands once again, battle-damaged but still stronger than ever before, but this time faces down a different breed of mech: Jet Jaguar.

The super robot motions its head to a clearing around the other side of Mt. Fuji, to which Obsidian Fury responds by pacing towards the indicated area; it maintains a stern and unbroken gaze at Jet Jaguar as it walks sideways to the area. Once it does this, the colourful mech follows suit. Before it steps into the clearing entirely, it stares at the hole made in the side of the inactive volcano; its eyes briefly flash blue before returning to their colourless visage. Jet Jaguar then meets Obsidian Fury in the clearing it decided upon as their new battleground.

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While the 2 titans are off to wage their battle safely away from any major collateral, C.D.F. detachments and surviving Bilusaludo are hard at work trying to recuperate losses from the attack and pick up the pieces.

As crews are busy loading Kiryu up on several large ferrying platforms, some of the chief engineering heads of the Mt. Fuji Joint-Species Research Centre touch down on the ground next to the third iteration of Mechagodzilla from their hover bikes; Commander Galu-gu and Lieutenant Belu-be step off of one of the impulse craft.


(Cmdr. Galu-gu): So.... is Kiryu salvageable?

(Lt. Belu-be): Faint signatures, but it's still alive.

(Cmdr. Galu-gu): Will it be combat ready within a reasonable timeframe?

(Lt. Belu-be): Maybe not anytime soon. But there is good news. Before Kiryu was deployed, I implanted an experimental version of the Nanometal we were developing into its core, and, well.....


The lieutenant shows the progress report from Kiryu's core functionality to his superior; Commander Galu-gu is left speechless, albeit positively so given how he starts smiling upon seeing the results.

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Obsidian Fury and Jet Jaguar now stare each other down in the clearing facing away from the direction of Tokyo. Compared to its cold and unfeeling mannerisms earlier with the 2 Mechagodzillas it fought with earlier, the Warmonger prototype is much more chipper and playful in the lead-up to its fight. It beats on its chest plating and taunts Jet Jaguar like wrestlers or boxers would do to try and rile up their opponents in a tournament match.

Jet Jaguar doesn't give in, however, and remains steadfast in his combat stance.

Upon seeing that its opponent is treating this seriously, Obsidian Fury drops the taunting act and puts up its fists like a professional boxer. The 2 of them start pacing around each other, keeping their attention fixed to each other's movements. As quickly as it began, Obsidian Fury and Jet Jaguar charge at each other; their left and right fists respectively clash, sending out a suppressed pressure wave that ruffles the leaves of the trees and loosens some debris on Mt. Fuji behind the 2 mechs.

The black-clad invader throws a right hook at Jet Jaguar's face but is quickly countered by the super robot's left forearm; the two continue to attempt to land blows at each other for a few moments. As they continue to exchange blows, Jet Jaguar tries to sweep out Obsidian Fury's legs with his own, but this is stopped by a swift knee to the colourful mech's groin region. This knocks a bit of wind out of Jet Jaguar, allowing the Warmonger prototype to send a strong left uppercut into his chin that knocks him up off his feet a few dozen metres. Before he even comes back down fully, Obsidian Fury sends a right jab into Jet Jaguar's abdomen that sends him flying back a few hundred metres.

As Jet Jaguar gets back on his feet, Obsidian Fury extends its plasma-edged chainsaws from its forearms and starts its taunting once again; this time, it enables its loudspeakers instead of remaining silent or uttering mechanical groans.


(Obsidian Fury): Is this all the great Jet Jaguar has?! Here I thought I'd finally get a fight with a true titan!


Despite being more than capable of returning banter, Jet Jaguar remains silent as it stands up.


(Obsidian Fury): Have you no words for the second coming of the Children of Monsters? Then die with the rest of them!


The Warmonger assailant swings its chainsaws wildly, forcing Jet Jaguar to dodge and weave so as to not risk taking damage from attempting to block the plasma-infused sawteeth. Eventually, Obsidian Fury manages to graze the super robot's shoulder, allowing it to continue to land slashes little by little. Soon enough, the Warmonger manages to force Jet Jaguar down to one knee while he only barely manages to prevent its criss-crossed saws from cutting into its head; even then, Obsidian Fury's left plasma-infused chainsaw starts to slowly cut into the side of Jet Jaguar's head.

Before the chainsaws can cut through fully, Jet Jaguar manages to activate extremely intense lights in its eyes, temporarily blinding Obsidian Fury and allowing the super robot to get back on its feet and push back the Warmonger prototype; he then starts sending several palm strikes into his opponent's chest repeatedly. The colourful defender then gives a solid rising kick into Obsidian Fury's chin, sending the mech stumbling backwards and nearly taking it off its feet.

Jet Jaguar then fires off a salvo of machine gun-style RE-Pulsar right into Obsidian Fury's chest, blasting it even further back. The Warmonger prototype shakes off this assault, though significantly worse off than before. As it prepares to engage once again, orange electrical arcs of Ki energy start to form around the hatch over its power core. Before it can fully develop another new weapon system or upgrade, Jet Jaguar suddenly rushes in and jabs Obsidian Fury in the region, stopping the energy arcs and seemingly halting the mech's adaptive equipment generator.

Jet Jaguar then follows up by instantly generating a white hard-light sword with a flick of its right hand that envelops its hand and reaches a length roughly equal to that of Obsidian Fury's own specialized melee extensions.

The two titanic mechanical warriors charge at each other once again. Obsidian Fury attempts to swing at Jet Jaguar with its left chainsaw, but the super robot blocks with its own sword. The Warmonger prototype then attempts to swipe at its opponent with its other chainsaw blade, only for it to be parried by Jet Jaguar's forearm blocking it on the flat side of the extension so as to avoid taking damage.

Just as Jet Jaguar prepares to headbutt his enemy, Obsidian Fury quickly engages the missile launchers in its shoulders and fires off a salvo directly into his face, causing him to disengage from the struggle. The Warmonger then fires off another salvo at Jet Jaguar's right ankle, forcing down his right leg. Obsidian Fury then opens the hatch around its solar plexus and fires its particle beam, prompting Jet Jaguar to bring up its hard-light sword to block the incoming charged energy beam. While it keeps the pressure on its opponent, the invading mech quickly starts backing up.

Eventually, after Obsidian Fury backs up enough to be a good kilometre or so away from Jet Jaguar, it deactivates all its weapon systems and turns around to flee the battlefield.

Jet Jaguar gets back up to his feet and watches as the assailant mech makes its retreat. Rather than pursuing his opponent, however, the super robot instead turns his attention back to Mt. Fuji.