Steel Tormentor

[Knock Out]

//No, my face can be rearranged! Wit, girl, without them witty remarks just don't quite work!//

They aren't even paying attention to him? No stopping to admire his fancy pole twirling? Well then what was even the point of doing that? This is quite infuriating! "Damnit, do not ignore me!" He runs back up to the road and transforms, both blasters rising from his hood as he takes off after the blue lightning, unleashing a volley of laser blasts upon the highway, before transforming and leaping at Blurr, trying to get a good hit in with his polearm.

[Fracture]

//Hey, if that's how you roll, pretty boi...!//

Oh, Knock Out, Fracture is the wrong car to be impressed by what you can do with metal poles.

Fracture transforms at the same time Blurr does, though probably nowhere near as quickly. Shots from Haywire speckle her chest and arms in those too long seconds between vehicle-mode and robot-mode, knocking out circuitry. Her movements are jerky as she hefts her gun-

Then she cackles and stomps one foot down!

The ground heaves like a ship at sea.

[Blurr]

This is not working out the way it should.

Blurr–

"I know I know I know!" Blurr sees the wave incoming, slow motion upheaval, and he's more afraid for the humans than he's even the slightest bit worried for himself. At least the traffic behind them seems to have stopped coming. Maybe the traffic flowing in the opposite direction has been stopped. He hopes it's been stopped. It isn't as though the local authorities could miss this mess. He hopes they noticed.

He crouches for stability as the shockwave reaches him, shifting his weight in tiny, rapid movements to compensate for the rolling motion and the crackling, splitting ground under his feet. It takes him a moment – not long at all in the grand scheme, but longer than he likes, and enough lag time for a laser round or two to scorch him – to adjust to the damaged terrain and get moving again. He scrapes in just below the red car's leaping strike Then he surges forward, angling squarely toward the girl-bot while Haywire cranks up the rate of fire probably more than necessary. Electrostatic blasts pepper the pavement as Blurr runs, aiming to clothesline her if he can't damned well shoot her down. Those earthquakes on command will be a problem.

[Knock Out]

Blast, he missed! The spear is driven into the ground, making the doctor curse. At least it offers him something to hold onto while the ground ripples beneath his feet, providing some stability. He hangs onto it with one arm and raises his laser gun, trying to get a bead on Blurr before opening fire, trying to nail him while his back is turned. "My, Fracture, you certainly know how to rock a mech's world!"

[Fracture]

"I can shake you all night long, Knock Out!" Fractures tries to duck out of Blurr's way, not aware of how futile trying to avoid Blurr can be. Her gun remains curiously silent - instead of shooting, she unleashes another mini-earthquake.

[Blurr]

Are… are the Decepticons flirting in the middle of all this? Blurr isn't sure he likes being able to have several hundreds of processes running at the same time right now, because one of them is trying to sort out the banter flying round him. Flirting? Could it be code? He sort of hates having to pay attention just in case.

Better you than me! Haywire jokes even as he turns his aim on Knock Out – Blurr is concentrating on Fracture, not the bot trying to shoot him in the back – and while he's quicker than most almost purely by his link with Blurr, he doesn't have his partner's faster-than-lightning focus and he isn't too sharp on his accuracy to begin with; anger doesn't help matters. His volley fires wide of Knock Out, further thrown off by the second earthquake. The ground surges up beneath Blurr's foot as he steps down, just barely too far to knock Fracture off her feet. He flexes his knee before the opposing forces can buckle the joint and still feels a strain. It'll take a while to soak out later.

On the plus side, he isn't directly between Knock Out's gunfire and Fracture any longer. Haywire saves the sigh of relief for later.

[Knock Out]

"My, that better be a promise!" Judging from the cocky grin, he might not be planning to kill her after all. But Blurr? Oh, very much so. Luckily he doesn't have to try too hard to dodge the blasts, but unfortunately the quakes mean that he's not hitting the Autobot and his little friend either! This is starting to frustrate him horribly! "Oh, to hell with it!" He clutches his spear, firmly plants his feet and then yanks his weapon out and leaps towards Blurr, twirling it in midair and aiming to crash into Blurr and drive him into the ground.

[Fracture]

"I don't make promises!" Fracture steps forward, aiming a kick at Blurr's midsection followed by a jab towards his head. Her movements and the way she holds herself says this is a combat-style she is happily familiar with. The gun in her hand vanishes into subspace.

She still hasn't figured out that "trying martial arts on the super-fast guy" is not actually workable.

[Blurr]

Blurr's distracted with Fracture; those feet of hers can cause earthquakes, so he certainly won't stand still long enough for one to smash into him. Not as slowly as she's moving – but everybody else moves at a crawl to him. She throws a punch like she knows what she's doing, maybe even better than Blurr does. He can hold his own in close combat out of sheer speed, but he's no savant. He sees the kick coming, the follow-up punch, and he sidesteps in a blink, countering with a high-speed haymaker.

Fast as he is, he doesn't have eyes in the back of his head. In the hand that isn't hurtling at Fracture's face, however, he has another pair of eyes. Wide, horrified eyes watching Knock Out make that leap.

"Look out!" Haywire cries even as he turns in Blurr's fist, firing wildly at Knock Out and the surrounding air. Behind you!

[Knock Out]

How did he-!? Before he can ponder that too much the blast hits him in his chest, crying out sharply and tumbling before crashing into the ground, way off mark. "Spawn of a-!" He growls, clutches his weapon and sweeps it at Blurr's feet, trying to catch him off guard and make him trip.

[Fracture]

Fracture's head snaps back, Blurr's fist connecting before she even registers he's thrown a punch. Her optics jump towards white - he's fast.

She stumbles back, knowing it won't make a difference if Blurr wants to close the distance. But Knock Out should keep the blue car distracted long enough for her to collect herself. It's only a moment she needs.

A moment can be a long time against Blurr.

If Knock Out keeps Blurr's attention long enough, Fracture tries to stomp another earthquake. If not, she tries to block whatever Blurr throws at her and kicks at his knee.

[Blurr]

Haywire warns of danger at his back and starts firing. Blurr leaves it to his partner – and gets his legs knocked out from under him for it even as Haywire swears and calls it a split second too late. Blurr hits the ground at an awkward angle, mostly on one elbow, and kicks himself into a roll to get back on his feet. It takes barely a fraction of a minute, and Blurr is fast, but it's time not spent keeping Fracture from shaking the highway down again.

[Knock Out]

Knock Out actually hit Blurr. No, scratch that, he actually floored him! "Has nobody told you that sometimes being too fast can be a bad thing!?" The evil doctor chuckles darkly as he rolls over, not wishing to waste any time with standing up, trying to grab Blurr and pin him to the ground for Fracture to have her fun. If he were movie Bumblebee, he would totally play "These boots are made for walkin'" right about now! If he can get his claws on this speedy demon, anyways!

[Fracture]

The ground shakes, rattles, and rolls. This is probably helping no one, but it's definitely delighting Fracture if her laughter is any indication.

[Blurr]

"Too fast a bad thing? There's no such thing! If it's anything it's a good thing because too fast is plenty fast enough to be faster than you!" Blurr quips back at Knock Out as he darts away in a wide arc toward the shoulder, a blue bolt running steps ahead of the seismic wave and stowing Haywire as he goes. The gun protests; he's ignored while Blurr, hands free, tears away a long section of the guardrail. Then he doubles back on Knock Out, intent on wrapping up the red car good and tight.

He'll get to Fracture again shortly.