As the explosion erupted against the fist, Sektor's hand was splayed open, and the sudden movement flung Hugo high into the air, forcing Ileyna to quickly catch him before he plummeted.

"Damn humans!" Jigitalis snarled. Sweeping around, the Daorek swung its giant back. Up above, Ileyna pointed with her hand and called upon her Stand.

"Mass Effect!"

Immediately, the white and orange Stand appeared before her, unleashing its power against the bat she had aimed it at. The bat became brittle and soft in the hand of Daorek as it swept down at Helena and Alasea.

Another artful dodge from Helena pulled Alasea out of the way as the heavy, soft mass flattened against the earth. The fiery snake still whirled after her, and with a sweep of her claw, it swung up and towards the Daorek.

"Yeah, we're not so easy to take down, are we?" Matt said quietly. His specter lined up another shot. "Of course, when you jack my ride, you're going to recieve only the finest in punishment." He fired another pod at the Sektor's feet. This one immediately detonated to create a massive, shallow crater that the Sektor would hopefully stumble in.

The flame snake forced the Daorek to relinquish its weapon as it swept up, and Alasea took advantage of the moment, sweeping her hand about in a gesture, channeling power to phase several large boulders into existence. They crashed down on the softened bat, shattering it in an instant.

Unfortunately for Matt's shot, the explosion and the crater formed only made the Sektor step back, preventing it from falling into the ground.

"Chitori!" Jigitalis called out, his Daorek backing up against the Sektor. "We'll need to combine!"

"Right!"

Ileyna blinked, feeling her senses tingle as something changed in the Omega Essence' signatures. "Uh-oh."

"Uh oh?" Hugo repeated. "What 'uh oh'? What's going on?!"

A field of energy burst about the frames of the two Ganmen, forcing Matt's canister pods to be expelled from them, detonating them prematurely and covering them in smoke. R.D. brought up his shield to defend against the shockwave, then quickly looked back up.

Within, he saw in brief glimpses as the two Ganmen changed. The Daorek's ears and arms combined with its legs to form longer, bigger leg limbs, and the Sektor's body split, merging with the Daorek's back. Sektor's head locked into place on the Daorek's head, and its large arms locked into place on either side of the other Ganmen.

"Oh crap," he muttered, leaping backwards. Clenching its hands into fists, the combined Ganmen stepped out of the smoke with a heavy step.

"Now you filthy humans are going to pay!" Jigitalis shouted. "This Daorek-Sektor will see to that!"

Edited by RisingDragon on December 6, 2009 at 2:05:37.

"Shit!" Matt shouted. "Nobody told me they could do that!"

"Get out of here!" Hugo bellowed at the group.

Matt hit the rock again, and lined up his next shots. Explosive charges weren't going to be enough now. Now it was time to get creative. His glanced flickered towards the sky, as dark clouds began rumbling in from the east. Perfect.

"Haha!" Kamina laughed. "So they're going to fight with their combination this time!? Let's go, Simon!"

"Right, bro!" Simon shouted, urging the Lagann over towards the Gurren.

"Cover him!" Yoko shouted at Matt as she began firing repeatedly at Daorek-Sektor. "Simon has to get to Kamina!"

The bullets rained down on the combined Ganmen, but to no effect. With a leap, the Daorek-Sektor was airborne, and hurtling down at the Gurren. A swift punch smashed the Gurren hard into the dirt.

"Damn!" Kamina growled, trying to hold the giant fist back with the Gurren's arms. "Looks like you two do have some fighting spirit in ya!"

He had to delay until he could set up for his big attack. With that, Matt fired a new kind of pod at the Daorek-Sektor. It immediately burst open into a tussle of thick vines that crawled around the combined Ganmen's limbs. It wouldn't hold long, probably, but it'd have to do.

The vines did their trick, and the Daorek-Sektor struggled against them, giving the Gurren the chance to break free. The crimson Ganmen's fist shot up and smashed hard against the Daorek's body, and R.D. shot up to give aid, launching another Shotgun Cannon salvo into the Daorek-Sektor's face.

The two beastmen piloting the combined machine gave cries of anger and dismay as they fell back, but they quickly made their mecha tear away the offending vines. "You'll pay for that one!" Jigitalis bellowed.

"He sounds pissed," Ileyna commented as she settled down next to the girls, setting Hugo down before her. "What can we do to help R.D.??"

Hugo looked up at Helena. "What's the biggest fire you can make?"

Helena spread out her claws. "Pretty big. If we were in a forest, it could spread farther." Her eyes widened. "Hey, maybe Matt could-"

"Just what I was thinking," Hugo said. "Alasea, call Matt and tell him to create the biggest forest he can. We're going to make it burn and smoke, which should confuse the pilots long enough to get Ileyna in there."

"I don't think that'd be a good idea, Hugo," Alasea said, shaking her head at the Mettaur. "Those things have advanced sensors and a forest fire is only going to make it hard for everyone but you and R.D. and the Ganmen to see. We'd be putting ourselves at a disadvantage."

"But we have to do something!" Ileyna exclaimed as R.D. pelted the Daorek-Sektor with energy blasts, up until the Ganmen smashed a fissure towards him, forcing him to break off.

"We will do something, we just--!"

"ALRIGHT!" the Gurren suddenly shouted as the Lagann reached it. "Let's go, Simon! Let's combine!"

"Ehhh!?" Alasea's eyes widened, hearing Kamina's declaration.

"Combine?" Hugo said, looking towards the Gurren.

"Combine?" Helena said, also looking towards the Gurren.

"COMBINE?" Matt yelped with joy, a big grin spreading across his face as he clenched his fists.

The Lagann leaped up into the air, level with the Gurren's face, and the crimson Ganmen snatched it up before flinging it even higher, then leaped up into the air after it. Within the cockpit, Simon yanked back on the control yokes, forcing them into the middle of the cockpit's sides.

He twisted them in a circle before jamming them back into place as hard as he could, and the Lagann's limbs folded into its body before the underside produced a massive drill bit. The mini-Ganmen plummeted down, straight into the Gurren's head. The drill pierced through and kept going, burrowing into the Gurren at a rapid pace.

With a confident grin beneath his crazy sunglasses, Kamina merely leaned his head to the side at the tip finally burst through the ceiling of his cockpit.

Green bars of light filled the viewscreens of both Ganmen, bathing Kamina and Simon in emerald light. The Gurren's limbs suddenly exploded outwards, becoming longer and more streamlined, one limb at a time. Twisting about, a helmet flipped out of nowhere and landed neatly on the Lagann's head, and the curved headpiece split open to reveal the center circle in the Lagann's forehead.

With powerful movements, the new machine brandished its fists and the large emblazoned plates mounted on its shoulders for everyone to see. "BROTHERLY COMBINATION..." Kamina and Simon declared simultaneously.

It crossed its arms before chambering them back slowly.

"GURREN-LAGANN!"



The combined Ganmen landed hard on its feet, crushing the ground beneath it before standing up tall, facing the Daorek-Sektor.

Dumbfounded, Alasea could only stare and whisper. "Gurren..."

"... Lagann?" Ileyna finished, equally stunned.

"...what the hell is that," Hugo muttered to himself.

It was so WONDERFUL. Matt felt pride wash up in his chest. Yes, this was hardly the time to feel such attachment to a giant robot like this, but truly, the combination was awe-inspiring. Now let's just hope the Gurren Lagann was enough to drive the battle in their direction.

"Alright, Jigitalis!" Kamina shouted through the Gurren as the mech pointed a finger at the Daorek-Sektor. "Its time for you to pay for stealing my Gurren, and taking that car!"

With a mighty crash, the two combined Ganmen clashed their fists against one another, each struggling to overpower the other. R.D. leaped back out of range, knowing getting between the two would be suicide now.

Even so, Matt continued his plan. The storm clouds were thicker now, swarming over the fight like a mass of spectators. One more solid shot from Silent Scope landed the final pod, just to the back of the Daorek-Sektor's head. There. Now to wait for the right moment.

"What can we do now?" Helena asked.

"Good question," Hugo said.

"Hold on," Helena cut in. "Let's go find the car so we're not so vulnerable out here."

"What are you shooting at them?" Yoko asked, lining up another shot and pulling the trigger.

A bullet smashed into the Daorek-Sektor's leg, and the two Beastmen gave a shout of surprise as it buckled. Gurren-Lagann slammed a fist into the Daorek-Sektor's head, jolting Chitori around in her cockpit.

"Haha!" Kamina shouted with glee. "Let's see you like this one!"

The Gurren-Lagann snatched up the Sektor's arm and began to swing, twirling the Daorek-Sektor around in circles. "Keep-Your-Filthy-Hands-Off-My-Stuff... SWING!"

And the Gurren-Lagann let go, flinging the Daorek-Sektor into the wall of the plateau, hard. R.D. winced at the sound of the crash.

"... yeah, we better get the car out of the way before it gets smashed," Alasea said. "We don't need to hear Matt rage if it gets busted."

Matt stumbled and fell, grasping to any rock he could as the Daorek-Sektor rocked the world. Grimacing, he held up his pointer fingers. "And while you're at it, Keep-Your-Hands-Off-My-Ride-And-SUCK-ELECTRIC-BREATH, BITCH!"

The sky crackled, and the pods riddled all over the Daorek-Sektor extended thin antennae. Lightning exploded from the heavens and coursed at the antennae, supercharging all over the combined Ganmen's frame. The lightning crackled WAY too close to the plateau's edge.

Yoko yelped and scrambled back from the ledge as the Daorek-Sektor crashed into it. "Dammit, Kamina!" she shouted through her comm. "Watch where you're throwing those guys!"

That's when the lightning rained down on the Daorek-Sektor, causing her to scream once more. The bolts crashed down on the combined Ganmen, lighting it up like a Christmas tree. Jigitalis and Chitori's screams could be heard from down below.

With a roar from Jigitalis, the Daorek-Sektor flashed, expelling the lightning rod from it before the combined Ganmen crashed into the Gurren-Lagann, knocking it back. This time, it got the upper hand, and a fist crashed hard into Gurren-Lagann's head.

"Ah, damn!" Simon cried, knocked about the Lagann's cockpit as the Daorek-Sektor struck again.

"Damn humans! Take this!" Chitori cried, smashing a hammer-fist into the Gurren-Lagann.

Okay, now this was getting stupid. Matt dug in his coat pocket for his communicator, and flipped it open. "R.D., talk to me, where are you headed?"

R.D. leaped back as rocks went flying from Gurren-Lagann crashing into the ground. Upon hearing the muffled voice of Matt, he quickly distanced himself from the fight and answered the transceiver.

"I'm trying to get a shot on the Daorek-Sektor," he said, opening himself up to Lumiya's power. "I need to make sure I don't hit Gurren-Lagann in the process. Where the hell are you, anyway!?"

Daorek-Sektor's fist came down on the Gurren-Lagann again, only to get caught between the combined Ganmen's arms, and a swift kick chucked the Daorek-Sektor over Gurren-Lagann, smashing it hard into the ground.

"Come on, is that the best you've got!?" Kamina taunted, speaking through the Gurren's face.

"I'm sniping with Yoko on the plateau," Matt said. "Where's the car? Is everyone else heading towards it?"

"Far as I can tell, yeah," R.D. said, giving a cursory glance around with his scanner active. "I'm not seeing them around the fight. Ah, shit!"

R.D.'s fist slammed down into the ground, propelling him high into the air as the Gurren-Lagann latched onto the Sektor's arm and twisted the entire mech around, locking its arm in an attempt to break it off.

Damn it! Matt shot a look back towards the fight, and directed Silent Scope to fire another pod. As this one clamped against the Sektor's opposite shoulder, it blinked. The shattered boulders made from the Daorek-Sektor's impact into the cliffside floated up, flying at the Ganmen to smash into its flank.

"Make sure they get there," Matt said into the communicator. "Get them driving towards the Daorek-Sektor, and when I give the word, I'm gonna trip it up. Then you help me push it over so Ileyna will have time to pull the Essence. If we can get at least one, then Gurren-Lagann should have an easier time."

"You know, you're probably going to lose your car like that," R.D. said over the transceiver in response. "Just make sure you know what you're doing."

"We'll rip up this thing's parts and fix it again!" Matt snapped. "Just do it!"

R.D. sighed and stowed the device away. An arm cannon formed on his right arm, and he began firing energy beams at the Daorek-Sektor as he backed away, trying to do as much damage to it as he could before hightailing it out of there.

A quick activation of his matter converter resulted in the creation of a Nova Reactor on his back, and he took to the air for a brief few moments as blue-green particles spewed out from behind it. He quickly caught sight of the group as they were making a break for the abandoned Firebird.

"Keep going!" Hugo shouted at the group, and though Ileyna was flying fast and Helena was dashing with enhanced speed, he couldn't help himself from repeating it again. The Mettaur looked back to the giant brawl they were fleeing from.

Alasea was the first one to reach the revamped car, and quickly yanked open the driver's side door before sliding in. She twisted the key about in the ignition, muttering. "Come on, come on, come on... YES!" she yelled as the car quickly roared to life. "Get in!" she screamed to the others before slamming the door shut.

Helena shot into the backseat, angrily muttering to herself as she worked to fold in her wings and tail. As Ileyna sat in the front, Hugo barked, "Let's GO!"