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(Hey, woah, slow down, folks. I know we're working together to tell a story, here, but I also have things I want to do. You control your characters, and I'll control mine. This does mean that I will often be dictating the pace of combat, and you may not need to post at times, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Now, let's rewind a bit...)

Pawn was expecting to land gingerly on Print-Man's head, but found himself striking some sort of phantom mirror, that sent him coming back to from whence he came. He rolled upon hitting the ground and jumped to his feet, but he had only popped up just in time to get nailed in the chest with one of Gamble-Man's bombs. "Well..." was all he could mutter before the detonation was triggered, sending him reeling backwards and lying on his back.

"Looks like you got me," coughed Pawn, his chassis smoking. "Yeah...I am just a pawn, I wasn't supposed to be strong." Suddenly, he began to spark a bright cyan color, but he did not seem alarmed. "The good thing about pawns, though...is that they're expendable."
As his head hit the ground, Pawn's core exploded, and eight more Robots identical to Pawn burst forth from his shell. Hoping to take advantage of the shock of his foes, they rushed their foes, two on each of the opposing Robot Masters. Two buckled their shoulders and dashed to tackle Mage-Man; one hurled another over Insanity-Man's head, then they both ran at him at once; one threw another straight at Gamble-Man; and two went for the blow they had attempted before: planting both feet firmly on Print-Man's head.

[OOC: Sorry, CHAOS. :(]

"'Comic relief'? Why, I never!" Print Man exclaimed as he suddenly got to his feet. Drawing his Vorpal Pen, he knocked away both Pawns with a well-placed slice.

Spitting the dirt from his mouth, he took a moment to examine his surroundings. The beautiful courtyard had been thrown into disarray, with several shrubs uprooted and a few on fire. An elegant fountain stood in the middle of the chaos, topped by a shield-bearing statue of King. Normally, Print Man would have taken a moment to awe at its beauty.

But now was not the time. "We'll see who's the real comic relief!" cried Print Man as he rushed into battle.

[OOC: Oh, I never knew that that the enemies were reserved. Really limits the story to me, but it is your roleplay. By the way, the Pawns that are currently fighting our characters, can we use them for now? You should make a list for reserved characters.]

"Ah yeah, this is what I'm talking about!" exclaimed Insanity Man right before getting sacked in the stomach(His underbelly is his weak part, after all.)

"Wait, that one was a cheap shot! Whatever, the first guy was easy, which means you guys should be three times as hard, considering there's two now." While the Pawns continued to wail on Insanity Man, he stated this.

"Eenie meanie, miney moe...Who should I take down first? Maybe....the left?"

The left pawn smirked a little smile, and proceeded to put up a shield. Insanity Man goes to strike the left pawn, but then turns around, goes into ball form, and rolls right over the right Pawn. He then morphs back into his larger state, and takes a screwdriver-like tool from his shell, which seems to carry all his tools, as many noises can be heard shuffling together. He unscrews his hand, and it rolls inside his arm.

"Cannon, please."

A stout cannon device comes out, and he points it at the other Pawn.

"Guess what? I can do cheap shots too, you know."

He fires it right after, and the Pawn falls to the ground, dead the minute he was hit.

Before Print Man could rejoin the rest of the party, the two Pawns he had knocked away leap up and grasped him by the coat and punning him down. Landing on his bottom, he retaliated by swiftly kicking both Pawns; one landed in a hedge row a few meters away, while the other was knocked into the fountain halfway across the courtyard. The former got right back up and rushed towards him, only to be met with a hail of shots from his Pencil Buster.

"Who's the comic relief now, eh?"

[OOC: Sorry about that Chaos, got a little carried away.]

"3.716 seconds. This is how long it will take for the thrown pawn to make impact with me" Gamble Man calculated. Already using 0.893 seconds to get that time, he knew he could not set up a bomb in 2.823 seconds, so he was unsure on what he had to do. An idea popped up quickly, though. He was still prototyping the knew ability, and would never normally use something he was unsure about. Unfortunately, this was a not normal situation, so he announced with uncertainty in his voice "Card Shield!" It would take the pawn 0.634 seconds to crash into the large Queen of Hearts that hid Gamble Man. "The thrown pawn will not be knocked out, but only dazed for 15-20 seconds, so I have time to focus on the 2nd pawn." thought Gamble Man. What is it planning next?

Before Insanity Man went to help out the others, he noticed Print Man's act.

"Hmm...That attack seems pretty dangerous. I should watch my shell around the little wimp, or maybe he might catch me off-guard...IF we were to ever fight. I guess he's not so weak after all....Imma laugh at him anyway."

Because of this little intervention, Insanity Man completely forgot about the fact that the others were in danger, and decided to use one of the Pawns as a trampoline.

"Yep, you sure are expendable! You're pretty bouncy too!"

Unfortunately for Insanity Man, all the bounces acted as a jumpstart for the robot, waking up Pawn.
(The one who was rolled over. The one that was completely blown to pieces....He's not making another appearance anytime soon.)

Insanity Man took note of this and jumped off his body. Insanity Man gave a innocent smile to Pawn, even waving at him. Pawn was not amused.

"To be honest, I didn't see that coming. Maybe I need to lose some weight....Does this shell make me look too big?", said sarcastically by Insanity Man.

Pawn rushed at him, and Insanity Man readies himself for the oncoming attack.

(Not much of a challenge for you to fight a character you're controlling, is it? :P)

The one remaining Pawn targeting Insanity swung clumsily with his bare fists, which glanced off of his shields quite easily. He seemed tired and weak, then suddenly, with great force, he snapped forward and swung rapidly, aiming to deliver a quick, powerful blow to his foe's face.

The Pawn in the fountain sat there for a bit, letting the water run over his damaged frame, before slowly and carefully getting to his feet. Raising his arms, he threw them both forward, before, without warning, the fountain's water rushed out of the fountain and in the direction Pawn was facing—straight towards Print-Man. The Pawn that was gunned down with the Pencil Buster was picked up by the deluge and hurled off towards Mage-Man.

Realizing that the 3 allies of his were being attacked but not himself, Gamble Man summoned a count-bomb onto the Pawn in the fountain. Unfortunately, the bomb missed an veered off several feet to the side. Catching the pawn's attention, it sent a quick burst of water towards the card shield, pushing it back and causing it to collide with Gamble Man.

The torrent of water flung Print Man across the courtyard, dropping him onto a hedge row. Seething in fury, he armed his Pencil Buster and targeted the Pawn in the fountain. But after pausing for a moment, he instead shot at the base of the statue of King atop the fountain, casing it to fall onto the hapless Pawn bellow.

"Check and mate." grinned Print Man.

Mage Man grinned. "Now's my chance for a REAL attack!" He said, then launched two Mage Fireballs, one at each Pawn that charged at him.

The Pawn directly struck Insanity Man on his left cheek, and although it didn't damage him all that much, it appeared to anger Insanity.

Pawn continued to throw continual punches, and Insanity Man managed to block each and every shot.

"It appears, you've underestimated us. Even letting your guard down on a weak being like me....Will result in your loss."

"Yeah, true. But here's the thing about Pawns. They rely on the method of "Strength in Numbers." And looking around you....You seem to be the only one. What do you do?"

Pawn was struck not by Insanity Man's attacks, but his speech. He truly was only strong with others, but he didn't have any teammates to support him. He ignored this and tried to lay the final blow on Insanity Man, but Insanity Man simply jumped above him and kicked the Pawn in his neck, finally subdued. Insanity Man picked up his limp body, and threw it against the fountain.

Being rather ticked off by the collision with his card shield, Gamble Man marched towards the Pawn that was thrown at him that was just now waking up, attached a count bomb to it, and angrily yelled "Hey, I think you forgot something!" and threw the Pawn towards the one that had originally thrown him, causing the bomb to detonate on impact.