The Alienapolis Five Million
The Alienapolis Five Million is a fictional story in the Challenge of the GoBots Season 2 series.
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The following was first posted on the Ask Vector Prime Facebook page on October 17th, 2015.
Q: Dear Renegade Rhetoric,
Can you honor us with tales of your glorious adventures from after you left the miserable rocky planet Quartex?
Cy-Kill: Damnation and good riddance to Quartex.
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Next we encountered an advanced society devoted entirely to automotive racing. I hatched a scheme to assume control by winning the Alienapolis Five Million. I entered my fastest warriors, quite confident of victory. Unfortunately, Leader-1 somehow discovered my plan and entered racers of his own. Rather than risk losing, our forces tried to cheat, but we were discovered by Scooter and Nick and disqualified from the race.
Mathew Robert Ignash: Fascinating, which speedy Renegade and Guardian warriors were entered in the Alienapolis Five Million? Which warriors fought the alien arena?
Cy-Kill: My team for the Alienapolis Five Million were three of the fastest GoBots you ever did see. My first choice was Spoiler, who converts into a Lamborghini Countach 500LPS, thinking his boundless enthusiasm would be an asset. Next I selected the wildly independent Stallion, a Fort Mustang. Naturally, I placed Crasher in command. Not only is she one of my most loyal and capable fighters, but her Porsce 959 configuration made her ideal for the mission. They should have been more than a match for the dimwitted Guardians Sparky, Street Heat, and Turbo, but I took no chances and had Cop-Tur lay a series of booby traps for the Guardians. Street Heat was knocked out of the race, but the accursed Scooter discovered our malfeasance and tattled to the officiants. Crasher refused to yield, even after being disqualified, but Turbo edged her out to the finish line anyway. Can you believe he declined leadership of their society, instead telling them to "go your own way" and then leaving? Preposterous!
As for the Arena of Strife, they snatched Crasher, Slicks, Destroyer, and myself, leaving only Cop-Tur to man our Thruster. We faced off against Leader-1, Scooter, Van Guard, and Defendor. I assume Turbo was left behind as well, for the Guardian Command Center continued to harass Cop-Tur and eventually forced him to engage the Stealth Device and go into hiding. I felt quite conflicted about the one-on-one encounters they forced us to participate in. On the one hand, it was a chance to annihilate a Guardian without them having access to their usual trick. On the other, Cy-Kill is nobody's puppet. In the end, I had no choice but to go along with Leader-1's plan to pursue the unusual energy reading Scooter had detected. It was quite satisfying to watch Crasher's seismic stomp blow the Guerr-O-Vac to smithereens.
Louis Sun: Can you tell us more about your subordinates Slicks and Destroyer?
Cy-Kill: I would be pleased to! Slicks is a Renault RE30 F1 car, and one of my fastest warriors. Had he been available to me during the Alienapolis Five Million, I surely would have used him, but he was back at Rogue Star. He's a bit of an opportunist. In fact, the first time I met one of the Swindles he reminded me a bit of Slicks. He faced off against Van Guard in the Arena, and I'm happy to say he won his conflict through speed and cunning.
Destroyer is a mighty Leopard 2A4 tank. Perhaps not my most imaginative warrior, he at least knows how to follow orders, and his dogged persistence puts him in good stead. He's also fearless around Zods. His battle against Defendor, a Saladin Mk. II, looked to be a near thing despite Destroyer's superior firepower, but he too managed to win in the end.
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