Heat 9 - Shadow Zone v Nitro-Gene

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And the 9th heat final off the series begins! And the beginning is, at best tentative with what seems a little like a repeat of the match between Nitro-Gene and Y4, though without doubt Paul will be more nervous in this fight than he would of been in his previous as he faces a far more terrifying prospect this time in Shadow Zone. Kodys machine immediately seems to be looking to be the more offensive one, driving at Nitro-Gene with the front wedge, but immediately Paul just traverses out of the way of the incoming solid block and tries to switch his attention to the skirted sides of the Matador-esque machine. This doesnt really seem to get Shadow Zone worried though, nor does it seem to get Nitro-Gene anywhere in terms of slipping underneath Kodys machine. This doesnt stop Paul continuing to try and nibble away and hope for a weak spot, and when eventually he thinks hes found one, he fires the flipper, but ends up throwing nothing and instead just nearly topples himself under the force of the arm.

As Nitro-Gene fires himself into the air rather than his opponent, Shadow Zone realises what a good opportunity this is and quickly spins and tries to catch Nitro-Gene as he falls down. Instead of catching him on the flipper however, he only manages to get him onto the skirt and part of one of the mini-wedges and as a result cant get the flipper underneath. After a couple of swivveling attempts to get him to fall onto the flipper arm itself, Nitro-Gene falls off the wedge and skirt and continues on his way, though Pauls brow appears to be slightly sweaty as he manouvres away quickly before Shadow Zone has a chance to slip under for real. Kody attempts to immediately catch his escapee, but Nitro-Gene turns around at the last second and the 2 flippers grind together. Shadow Zone backs off and turns around, evidently trying to get back into the habit of using plan A, which was to use the wedge at the front. The machines charge at each other front first, and grind their prospective wedges together, both with an absolute zero ground clearance.

The 2 machines spend a brief moment grinding together, wheels spinning, before Nitro-Genes drive unleashes itself and he accelerates full pelt, and slams Shadow Zone right across the arena and into the arena sidwall where hes met by an angle grinder and the join together in beautiful matrimony and firworks fly into the sky... oh wait, no that[s just sparks as the aircraft grade aluminium gets sliced into. Nitro-Gene turns and manages to get Kodys machine to stay on the extension plate, before driving him into the wall and the next angle grinder along, he waits for a moment, before firing the flipper. Shadow Zone lands on the top of the fence, teeters momentarily, and then falls over the edge, giving Paul a one flip ko, and meaning hes done all he needs to get him through the fight.

CEASE

Shadow Zone was a shadow of his former self whilst Nitro-Gene, levers, or should that be levis his way into the semi-finals.

Next time, heat 10

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