Colossus By Design: Entry 0122 - The True Beast

[February 12, 2146]
[South American Wasteland, former South American continent]

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The Alpha roars in a particularly threatening manner at the charging Warmonger, as indicated by his dorsal plates now flush with a bright blue glow; Freedom of Justice continues to charge, possessed by the strange red aura that permeates throughout his being now.

Fiery blue plasma begins to form in the Alpha's mouth, but before he can release it, Freedom of Justice gains an unexpected burst of speed and tackles the Alpha head on. Despite his incredible power, he cannot stop the Warmonger and is easily pushed back, right into a large rocky hill. The impact causes the Alpha to fall to the ground, and the hill collapses on top of him, completely covering him in rocks.

Freedom of Justice, unsatisfied with his work, attempts to reach down to the buried Alpha. However, the rocks suddenly fly away from the mound in all directions, and the Warmonger is hit by a full blast of plasma that sends him flying backwards onto his back. The Alpha now gets back up to his feet and shakes off all the remaining rubble from his body whilst his opponent gets back up to his feet.

Both combatants face each other and begin to pace in a circle, never taking their eyes off of each other. Finally, both come to a stop and stare directly at each other.

Silence permeates the battlefield, with neither of the two combatants doing anything for several moments, as if sizing each other up. After what seems like an eternity, the Alpha roars and charges forward, and the Freedom of Justice follows up. Their hands interlock as the two of them engage in an intense grapple; neither is able to overpower the other. However, in an unexpected maneuver, Freedom of Justice's hands transform into plasma cannons mid-grip and fire off several successive shots directly into the palms of the Alpha, causing him to release his own grip as he recoils away. The Alpha looks down at his hands, sees that they're smoking and slightly burned, and shoots a particularly angry expression towards the Warmonger.

The Alpha charges forward once more, but Freedom of Justice, with his plasma cannons ready, begins to concentrate all of his shots at the gill slits on the sides of the Alpha's neck, causing him to roar out in pain as well as swing his head around all over. Freedom of Justice converts his cannons back into hands and, whilst the Alpha is busy flailing about, jumps up and punches the Alpha square in the gill slits, staggering him backwards a great deal.

He does so again to the other gill slits, knocking the Alpha back even further than before. After that, he readies one plasma cannon, aims at the recently damaged gill area, and fires one shot. However, as the Alpha is still flailing about, he unintentionally ducks just short of the plasma shell. Instead of hitting him in the gill area, it hits something situated on the back of his neck.

At this point, the Alpha's eyes suddenly stop glowing red; they return to their normal amber colour as he looks around with a confused expression. Freedom of Justice, however, pays no mind to this and, seeing the brief lapse in his opponent's demeanor, readies both plasma cannons. Before Freedom of Justice fires, a distant shriek catches him off guard.

Freedom of Justice turns around, only to be suddenly swept up into the air. The Zeta has appeared; she carries the Warmonger in her legs, high into the sky. However, Freedom of Justice is clearly not happy with his current circumstances and flails about, trying to grab hold of the Zeta in mid-flight.

She then lets go of him; his metallic body crashes with an enormous thud into the ground below.

The Alpha, looks up at his ally briefly before lumbering towards the impact point where the Warmonger landed; he carries a look of curiosity. Out of the blue, Freedom of Justice leaps out of the debris cloud, grabbing hold of the Alpha's snout and dangling from it with one hand.

This takes him by surprise; the Alpha swings his head around all over the place. Freedom of Justice continues to hang on and promptly reaches up with his other hand to bring his entire body onto the Alpha's back. This doesn't make things any easier, as the reptilian giant now begins bucking about back and forth like a rodeo bull, trying to shake off the Warmonger. However, Freedom of Justice hangs on; one hand firmly holds onto one of the Alpha's dorsal plates as his other extends an electrified blade.

The Zeta flies back down, hovers behind of the bucking Alpha, and fires off energy beams from her antennae at Freedom of Justice. However, the Warmonger manages to swing the Alpha's body around so that the energy beams hit him square in his chest instead, knocking him backwards slightly. The Zeta ceases her attack, as she's not willing to risk possibly hitting the Alpha again.

Despite the continuous flailing, Freedom of Justice maintains a firm grip and plunges his electrified blade directly into one of the gill slits on the side of the Alpha's neck. He roars out in intense pain, coughing up a small bit of red blood as the electricity of the blade now courses around the area it pierced.

All of a sudden, blue aura circulates around the Alpha's body, and a blue energy pulse is sent up Freedom of Justice's blade and throughout his entire body. The pulse immediately shorts out the Warmonger; he falls off of the Alpha and to the ground, limp and unmoving.

The Zeta swoops down and lands beside Freedom of Justice's head; her antennae glow a bright golden colour whilst glowing particles fly off her wings and falls on him and the immobilized Tzar Bomba V2 and Blade of the People.

Whilst this is going on, the Alpha takes notice of the small, but still alive, Trilomite on the ground. As he walks up to it, it attempts to get away, but the Alpha steps on its tail and immobilizes it. He then bends over and picks it up in his hand, looking at it intently.

With one last angry growl, he promptly crushes the creature in his hand.