Shuriken Throw vs. Scorpio

San, Ni, Ichi….. Akutibinisuru!

The insectile robot charges off straight away, but is far slower than the 8 Shuriken of its opponent. Three of the shuriken spin straight into the bamboo armour, and prove effective at cutting straight through it, but less effective at getting out again – although one of them succeeds in spraying shards of bamboo across the arena floor, the other two become lodged in the armour, and against the greater mass of their foe are unable wriggle free.

Unfortunately for Scorpio, the Kyoketsu-shoe weapon is far too slow and unsuitably angled to hit any of the tiny spinners, even as two more of the spinners impact into the side, shredding more bamboo and freeing one of the lodged robots, a shot from the blade deflects off the top of one of the little robots, but manages to snag a second of the little clusterbots by accident as it gets tangled into the chord as it’s spinning motion entines it entirely. A quick retracting of it’s within range of the huge hammer, a single two strokes leaves the tiny robot flat as a pancake.

By this point the arena is littered with shards of bamboo, and two of the clusters have actually got enough clogged in their drive train to immobilize one side of them and so they spin helplessly on the spot.

However, by now the repeated attacks against Scorpio is taking its tole- the robot is slowing under the sustained attacks, and the armour is really not suited for blocking spinners. It manages to grab onto one of the semi immobilised machines and again crush the thing flat, but this proves its undoing – it leaves itself exposed at the back where one of the little shuriken manages to shred out one of the go-cart wheels, leaving it barely moving and entirely vulnerable to the death my a thousand cuts that the spinners are free to dole out.

CEASE IS CALLED

Shuriken Throw advances to the final!

Up next….

The Grand Final!

Shuriken Throw vs. OniBox 359


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