Chapter 38 Mecha Co-op and Mecha Surprise.

"Do you know where Jake and John are?"

Tumunomi Escaver set himself as Primary Controller, so all of his suggestions would be taken.

"No."

Jacob was now Secondary controller, so his suggestions came as ideas directly through Tumunomi Escaver's brain. So that it was hard to tell whose ideas exactly did what.

In summary, it was what made excellent cooperation.

"I thought we lost you."

Andrew was throwing jibes at Tumunomi Escaver and he only got a laugh in return. He was a Tertiary Controller, meaning that his job was to talk about energy reserves, capacity levels and heating percentages.

"We are down to 70 percent!"

And Jason was Quaternary Commander which - with their number - basically meant his work was simply to obey.

Within Tumunomi Escaver's mind hough, he was excited!

Abilities Of MRS-Octopus1136

Ink Orb - Singular orb of ink to slow down enemies. Combustible.

Full powered fires off 16 Ink Bubbles

Camouflage - adapt into the color of he surroundings for stealth

Tentacle Whip(s). Swinging about of appendages for melee damage

*Abilities of MRS-Spider4412*

Jump 30 meters

Fully Powered 60 meters

Glide - Can ride upon currents if legs are fully outstretched.

Roll- Can Spin like a tire

Merged Abilities of MRS-Spider4412 and MRS-Octopus1136.

Enhanced Ink Orb

Normal at 1-16

Fully Powered at 32

Jet Fountain - Column of ink black spray

Spin- Tentacles and legs combine to make a fan which can cut through most hard substances.

Flight - Can Maneuver Airborne for 30 seconds.

Fully Powered - Can Maneuver airborne for 1 full minute.

Steering - During MRS-Spider4412's roll ability, direction can be changed by anchoring tentacles, mid - spin.

Division - During MRS-Spider4412's Spin ability, direction can be locked by anchoring tentacles to the target area so that victim can be split.

Shield - Tentacles and limbs combine to make ball of protection.

Shield Attack shield can protrude spikes

Shield Roll - While in a shield, Mecha Solder can move and attack.

Tumunomi Escaver licked his lips as he wanted to see how Iri would defend herself!

Outside, Iri's Mecha Robot looked around for the Octopus Mecha Soldier but she found nothing. She had been on alert since she saw the new version of Tumunomi Escaver's Spider Mecha Soldier.

She flew in the air, observing them both, when the New Mecha Soldier seemed to suddenly appear before her, covering all that she saw.

WHAM!

She gained ground fast and Tumunomi Escaver was rolling atop her until he could tell tha her cannons were heating up, where he ramped off her Mecha Soldier which sprayed beams into the air and had completely missed him.

ZOOOOOOOOOONNNNNGGGGG

Bang!

Iri had expected the Spider Mecha Solder to hit he ground like she did but she did not see the Spider Mecha Soldier. Only for her to see something that resembled a ball divided by a spinning disk which about.

Tumunomi Escaver had seen one of the acquired skills when he had merged with Jacob's Mecha Soldier.

Flight!

The Spider Mecha Soldier did circles about the air, until it came close and fired off a spray of Ink in the form of a pillar or like the form of firefighter's working hose. Another new ability.

SPLOOOOOOOOOOSHHHHHH!

Iri had avoided the spray of jet ink as she had been lifting off. Then, as it saw them getting closer, Tumunomi Escaver rearranged his Mecha Soldier so that the spinning blades allowing it to fly now was close to 90 degrees, facing up.

ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNGGGGG

the beam she blasted forth not only hit them but pushed them away and Jacob's teams scolded himself for getting relaxed.

SPLOOOOOOOOOOOOOSHHHHH!

Tumunomi Escaver had retaliated after he had been hit and the jet black ink covered the Insect Mecha Soldier until was forced to land again.

"*METAMORPHOSIS*"

"Health Status 70 percent!"

Tumunomi Escaver's Mecha Soldier crashed shortly after but picked itself back up almost immediately.

He then waited for Iri to return to the air or sow movement, but her Mecha Soldier seemed to have stopped working.

Sensing something was wrong, he used a normal jump that took him 50 meters into the air before he landed on the Insect.

PFFFFFF!

Now, that sound was just wrong. The Merged Mecha Solder began using its limbs and some of its extra tentacles to roll the Insect Mecha Solder, only to discover that Iri's weapon of metal was now covered in an elliptical casing of diamond.

What was this?

Tumunomi Escaver jumoed high into the air and turned his whirling blades to 90 degrees but did not fyi upwards, instead allowing himself fall.

"*JUMP!*"

UNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGG

"*SPIN!*"

His rotating blades did not even leave a mark!

Iri laughed on the inside and Tumunomi Escaver did a full jump backwards when the diamond suddenly cracked. Rising to full height, her Insect Mecha Soldier had changed from a cylindrical shaped creature to that which resembled a butterfly.

"THE INSECT HAS GROWN TO BECOME THE BUTTERFLY. NOW, WHO WILL BE THE PREY HERE?"

Tumunomi Escaver's face was impassive as Jacob's was pensive.

Andrew stared in surprise and Jason was slack - jawed.

At the peak of Iri's Mecha Soldier's wings, it reached 70 meters in height and 50 in breath.

"*BOMBS AWAY!*"

Tumunomi Escaver watched as at least one thousand beams - no longer linear but now spherical - blasted towards him like ballista bolts.

Jumping at full power, he dodged the 1st 250, flailing about his tentacles he hit away the next 250 and reduced the health of his Mecha Soldier to 65% then finding a new resort, he enclosed himself with his tentacles and his health only reduced to 63 percent.

"*SHIELD!*"

When he unraveled his form, the Butterfly hovered in mid air and he scowled.

"This is wrong!"

"*JUMP*"

He then did a full leap again towards it.

"PREDATORS EAT PREY AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!"

"OH, SHUT UP!!!"

Now flying, his surroundings lit up, like the pertirbed sky.

"*BEAM BLAST!*"

"*FLIGHT!*"

ZOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNGGGG

ZOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNGGGG

ZOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNGGGG

...

The two left wings fired off 800 straight beams and when he veered right to dodge, the two right wings fire off another 800 straight beams.

ZOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNGGGG

ZOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNGGGG

ZOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNGGGG

...

Tumunomi Escaver who was veering right began releasing jet ink.

"*JET SPRAY!*"

SPLOOOOSH!

And where the attacks met, it ignited to leave a trail of fire washing the sky in deep red color, most of it white. It even pushed the Merged Mecha Soldier farther and worked in heir favor.

When they got separated too far, Tumunomi Escaver resumed his flying and cut a wide arc around her.

"*INK ORB!*"

He then shot out a plethora of jet black orbs of ink. And the 16 would have reached and coated her if she had not reacted in time.

"*BOMBS AWAY*"

"*CAMOUFLAGE*"

Tumunomi Escaver arced about he air as he was firing shots. And when he saw he multitude of sphirical beams from Iri's Butterfly Mecha Soldier, he then went invisible and she almost panicked until she rose higher until she was 100 meters.

"*POLLEN BOMB!*"

If the *bombs away* was a light drizzle, then *Pollen Bomb* was a heavy storm of beams. And while pollen bomb ended spherical, behind each sphere was a beam trailing to add to its acceleration as it fell back down to the sands.

"*JUMP!*"

Tumunomi Escaver chose to then jump 100 meters and away from the blast range of his attack.

"*SPIN!*"

Then he flew in after monitoring the trajectory path of the beams.

BOOM!BOOM!BOOM!BOOM!BOOM!BOOM!BOOM!BOOM!BOOM!BOOM!BOOM!BOOM!BOOM!BOOM!BOOM!

"*JET FOUNTAIN*"

The beams had began hitting the ground when Tumunomi Escaver chose to spray ink her way in a column.

SPLOOOOOOSH!

But instead of the beams catching fire until they trailed the blaze back to its owner, the momentum of her beams made sure that they only caught fire as they fell to the ground

"*BOMB BLAST!*"

But now she had found out their position, Iri's Butterfly Mecha Soldier now blasted 1,600 spherical orb beams their way.

"*SHIELD*"

60 percent health

58 percent health

56 percent health.

It finally stopped at 40 where they had dodged all they could and were now on the ground.

Tumunomi Escaver wondered what to do and then he planted his 16 tentacles on the ground, giving ample space away from his body.

"*ROLL*"

As he picked up speed and sand became a smoke screen, he added a technique.

"*SPIN!*"

The sand gathered in a thick cloud and Iri wanted to fire at it but also wanted to be sure, so she waited

"*SHIELD ROLL*"

Now in a shield, Tumunomi Escaver's Mecha Soldier picked up speed yet again, as well as the heating.

"Systems Overheating by 10 percent.

"Systems Overheating by 20 percent

"Systems Overheating by 30 percent

"*SHIELD SPIN*"

"Systems Overheating by 40 percent

"Systems Overheating by 50 percent."

"Systems Overheating by 60 percent."

"*JUMP*"

At that point, Skrylla Yokuta let go.

"Systems at 60 percent overheat."

"*BEAM BLAST*"

1,600 beams sprayed forth.

"*FLIGHT!*"

"Systems at 65 percent overheat."

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

Tumunomi Escaver endured strikes as he got closer and closer.

"35 percent health"

Iri could see the rapidly approaching enemy Mecha Soldier and her Secondary Controllers down to her Quaternary Controllers were wondering why she was not doing anything.

"30 percent health."

Iri watched the enemy move closer and closer, even Andrew now stealing glances at her in frustration.

"25 percent health."

Some of her controllers had jumped away from their workstations to jump away. Alas, the Butterfly Mecha Soldier dodged the spinning blade of an attack *just* when Tumunomi Escaver reached it.

However, tentacles shot forth from the Merged Mecha Soldier and anchored to the Butterfly Mecha Soldier it had just passed.

"*DIVISION*"

"Systems Overheating by 40 percent."

Tumunomi Escaver had cling to the Butterfly Mecha Soldier and he had paused because of his own approaching speed.

"Systems Overheating by 45 percent."

He still was not able to pull back and he smiled because he could not wait. And Iri chased away fear to steel her mind.

"Systems Overheating by 50

percent."

She allowed the Whirling blades to slam into her Mecha Soldier and the Butterfly construct shook until its sparks that reaches the clouds began infiltrating its body.

"*BOMBS AWAY*"

"*INK FOUNTAIN*"

"Systems Overheating by 55 percent."

Iri blinked as her cannons were stuffed with ink an most of them were not firing.

"*DIVIDE!*"

"Systems Overheating by 60 percent."

"*POLLEN BOMBS*"

"*SHIELD ATTACK!*"

Now they were beginning to hit him again but he eas still cutting into her Mecha Soldier.

"Systems Overheating by 65 percent."

Now an edge of he blade had penetrated into her control room but she did not change her actions.

"20 percent health."

On his side, he was willing to see who would outlast who because he did not believe this her transformation could last forever.

"Systems Overheating by 70 percent."

Almost as if the universe had heard him, Iri's Mecha Soldier started pulsing a blue light. Tumunomi Escaver could see the light so bright it shone through the flying sparks.

"15 percent health."

The spinning blades had now passed through the Mecha Soldier it was against and yet more people had left Iri's workstation.

"Systems Overheating by 75 percent."

Tumunomi Escaver smiled wider as his blades had finally penetrated but Jacob, Andrew and Jason were paying more attention to the warning signs.

"10 percent health"

A good quarter of the The Merged Mecha Soldier had been pierced through and Tumunomi Escaver saw some figure lying about.

Were his eyes playing tricks on him? Anyways, he could not be too sure of who he just saw as the sinning blades had now dug even deeper

"Systems Overheating by 80 percent."

Iri saw the blades approach and stuck up her chin. Tumunomi Escaver was not hearing his warning bells and wanted to outdo her. He could imagine what their combined Mecha Soldier will look and feel like

"5 percent heal-"

Luckily for Tumunomi Escaver, his other crew - Jacob, Andrew and Jason - bad unplugged their connection tot eh Mecha Soldier which stopped it running its attacks.

Luckily for Iri, the metamorphosis gave out just as Tumunomi Escaver had been forced to stop. Meaning that she would have been cleaved in half as his Merged Mecha Soldier had deactivated all action just before her hair.

A few strands had even come off.

However, everyone's bad luck was that they were all going down!