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(( I'm going to say that he was hiding to the left of the door, then, and bum rushed rage towards the basement door (to the right of the stairs on the far side of the room).

I'll respond when rage does. )) ... (( Or, since I see it in the preview window. xd ))




Rage was right... partially.

The robot hadn't taken into account that Rage was a human with faster than average reflexes; its calculations were off by a few tenths of a second in this regard. As such, it wasn't prepared for Rage to duck under the rush... yet, at the same time, as the machine tripped over Rage, it fell almost on him.

The left foot forwards, when Rage ducked the right knee would have come up to strike Rage in the left shoulder, and at that, with the error in motor control due to restricted range of motion, CR32-B would topple over rage. The full 1900 lbs of robotic fury collapsing on him from above... for just a moment before the machine spread its limbs to the sides and caught its fall. Incidentally, this would drive a metalic knee into Rage's stomach, as well... but it would make an easy target for Tsu-

Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee~!

The sound of Tsu's blade slicing through the black rubber skin on the back of the robot's neck echoed through the building, even if the blade, itself, barely managed to scratch the machinery underneath.

Tsu hopes the robot is still recovering for a moment, knowing it's unlikely but not risking missing the chance. He lifts the blade up and stabs straight down in the middle of the slash he made in the robot's neck.

Daisy approaches rage and the robot from a distance and sends him a wave of kitty-cutenes, lighting up the room for a moment with a brief flash. There...that ought to help a little bit...

Meanwhile, the other cats gather in a dark corner behind the fallen robot, keeping to the shadows to avoid being seen by the metallic beast.

Mewing with horror, Daisy ran to Rage, climbed on top of him, and surrounded him with her healing kitty powers...it wouldn't be enough to heal a mortal wound, but it could give him enough energy to get to safety...

Meanwhile, the other cats passed through the archway, keeping in the shadows. They gathered behind him and, without a sound, pounced on him, covering his back, neck, and lifeless head. The Cat Lady emerged from the shadows and pushed the no doubt horrified Tsu away from Rage and towards the robot...

Rolling to his right as soon as he could get his bearings (just after the cat healed him, and after the robot stood), Rage would presumably avoid the blow of his own teamate. His left shoulder and, now, stomach in just as much pain as ever, he scrambled to his feet to chase after it. The head was looking completely busted... if he cut that off, and the robot stopped moving....

Stumbling a bit as he got up due to his rush, Rage kept his eyes fixed on the back of the robot, running with the blade at his right hip. It was glowing again, although a bit fainter than before. When he caught up with it, he'd slice straight at it's neck with the katana in his left hand.

No worries Tsu, sent Rage. I'm a lot tougher than you might think. He couldn't remember if Tsu could actually hear his thoughts... but he figured he should cover all bases.

He'd have to stop and thank the cats later....

CR32-B regarded the cats as a nonexistant threat, nothing more than one would treat a shredded drape that fell from the window onto a person's back.

With the humans coming at it in single file, now, CR32-B's mechanical brain could calculate much more quickly: reducing the amount of variables shaved precious milliseconds off of calculation time, which resulted in faster 'thinking' for the robot.

It rushed forwards just as Rage did, reaching out with the right arm to try and stop Rage's blade before it reached CR32-B's neck. At the same time, though, the machine would strike at Rage's own neck, attempting to grip it just as it had before; to pick up and carry the swordsman and run him straight over his own ally.


(( Edit: You've got a superheated sword, and this thing is pretty mangled on the right side. Feel free to lop off the arm if you'd like. ))

Figuring the robot might pull the grab trick again, Rage continued his motion with his sword - it was still hot, and could still possibly cut deep into or perhaps through the hand and arm. He put his own fire-based energy into the blade, causing it to increase in heat once again... and slice right through. He continued the motion straight through, hoping he might be able to catch another apendage in the process... if he could just get that thing's head off....

CR32-B failed in its attempt to catch the blade... miserably.

The sword cut through its arm like a hot knife through butter, slicing clean through the hand and the wrist, and when the robot shifted its balance and raised its arm even more to try and catch the weapon with what was left of the arm, it cut straigt through the forearm and elbow as well, finally lodging itself into a stub of the upper arm, as debris that had once been the machine's right appendage littered the floor.

Computation speed increased. One limb was useless, it would not factor into any more variables from this point on.

The left hand caught Rage around the neck, just as the right had before, and lifted the swordsman off from the ground as CR32-B rushed through into the next room-

-unfortunately, Tsu was laying in wait to the left side of the archway as the two passed through, and struck towards its already injured left leg with his blade. The mechanized terror stumbled as the leg gave out beneath it, sparks flying off in every direction as a piece of steel snapped and pierced the black rubber skin at the knee. The balance was thrown off, and the machine began to fall, unable to catch itself with a nearly useless left leg, now...

It was down to two limbs, but it still had two perfectly good ones.

The superheated blade had proven to be troublesome, and keeping it close could easily complicate the injuries that CR32-B had recieved. As it fell, the bot twisted at the waist, throwing its (now 1400) lbs of weight counterclockwise. The result of this would be that Rage, gripped by the neck by the machine, would be flung back over the robot's falling form, and straight into Tsu's chest.


(( Edit: Oh, sorry... I thought your edit meant that you were going for the left one again. ^^;

I'll change this if you'd prefer? ))