Battle time again!

Eliminator 4
The Final Cut vs. Gabriel V

The Final Cut's new to the scene, but that doesn't make him any less dangerous! A Hardox-armoured beast, H-shaped with tracks, and decent drive to power them is all good and well, but the real strength is in its weapon: a scary 35kg horizontal spinning disc in the middle! Its diameter reaches out past the body's entire length, so wedges beware! That being said, it won't have the manoeuvrability of wheeled machines...

and Gabriel V, sadly, is a wheeled machine. 2 wheels, in fact. Around those 2 wheels are C40-300 Magmotors, a 25mm stainless steel frame, a 4mm Hardox main body and a powerful front-hinged flipper that can toss nearly 3 tonnes! It has a tool steel nose cone and side spikes as well, removeable titanium skirts on the sides and back, and two giant ears to prevent machine from going over the top. Sadly, with 16mph it'll be hard to control this 2WD beast...

Roboteers, stand by...

Joey is removing the skirts from Gabriel V for this battle.

House robots: Count Bleck and Renegade

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ACTIVATE!

Straight away Gabriel V is out, its game plan to take out the disc before it takes him out! However, The Final Cut is, incredibly, the faster of the two, and while not having the better acceleration, backs off before Gabriel can even get halfway across the arena! Its plan falling apart, Gabriel turns face and goes for the pit release button, but Andy isn't blind and sees the change of plans. The Final Cut charges, guns-a-blazing, towards the area, but unfortunately forgets about the arena saws! BZZT! Luckily they haven't carved him up too much, but that's allowed Gabriel to get away and reposition himself. Shaking his fist in the direction of the saws, Andy steers The Final Cut around to keep the disc facing its spunky opponent, whose thoughts are now on full-out aggression as Gabriel plunges towards Andy, the 'stop-the-disc' plan back on! Andy however simply turns his machine and Gabriel nearly shoots straight into the wall! He does turn around fast enough to meet The Final Cut's disc, though. The collision isn't too big, but it has put those killsaws to shame with the huge amount of sparks emanated. Gabriel, having slowed the disc down, moves in further, but The Final Cut isn't too far up the wedge to be blocked by the ears, and falls off to the side, the disc now completely stopped. Gabriel, not knowing anything else to do, flips. It really doesn't do much, as a track was barely hanging over the flipper in the first place, but the track falls back onto the ram before the flipper can be pulled back! Uh oh. Gabriel tries driving backwards, but the disc's held by the tool spike, so The Final Cut is dragged with Gabriel. Andy tries to move The Final Cut away, but neither of his tracks are really touching anything enough to gain traction to move. Gabriel moves towards the pit, his last resort, but at that instant The Watcher crashes into him, ordering Gabriel to 'let go'. You dingbat of a referee, they're stuck! Realizing this, The Watcher sticks his lifting arm in there to try and separate the two. Not only is this completely ineffective, but it forces The Final Cut's track to squeeze in through the 'hole' between the ram and the hinge of the flipper, which closes just a bit more, meaning they really are stuck now!

The audience starts booing; they didn't want to see two robots sit there and struggle with each other. Andy groans and tries to find some way out of this. Joey is looking the slightest bit confident, but also seems quite peeved. As for The Watcher, he can't seem to do much and decides to call for back-up. Renegade comes out of his CPZ at the ref's request, pincers snapping, but neither Gabriel or The Final Cut seem to want any part of this, and Joey guns towards the pit before the house robot can arrive. Andy is looking less happy than ever as the dark hole nears and nears, and flicks the controls back and forth, trying to get The Final Cut out of danger. Renegade pursues them, but Gabriel's on the edge of the pit, and goes side on to the edge, hoping against hope that The Final Cut falls in first...and that he does, dragging Gabriel in with him. Renegade pouts on the edge of the pit while Count Bleck randomly blasts smoke out of his top hat. Andy sets down the controls and after a moment's hesitation gives Joey the thumbs-up.

CEASE!

The Final Cut lives up to his name! It was no choice slice, let me tell you.
Gabriel V advances to Round 2!

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Next battle: Lethal Weapon vs. Qwertyuiop

I need tactics from Tony and Nav.