Shovels In Spades

The two gargantuan Automatons immediately began charging their lasers. Daz wasted no time and got Rimmy to throw him even though the lasers took roughly thirty seconds to charge up.

"SHOVEL SMASH!" The blood-red Hamson crashed into the thick and impenetrable metal arm, moving it slightly away from its original position. However, Daz wasn't done yet.

Daz used his high Agility to twist his body mid-air and he threw Hamson with as much strength as he could, straight into the Automaton.

A high-pitched screech echoed out as the Robot's arm was moved more, getting it closer to being aligned with the other Robot's core.

Daz fell through the air and Hamson returned to his hand thanks to his Throw and Retrieve skill. Blood seeped out of his gear by his shoulder and his arm felt like it was on fire.

As soon as he was just about to hit the floor, Rimmy caught him and spun around before launching Daz like a rocket once more. He knew that Daz was hurt and it pained him to throw his Master and friend again only for him to certainly injure himself even more, but he knew the importance of what Daz was doing, so he grit his metaphorical teeth and watched as Daz repeatedly hit the Robot's arm as much as possible before it fired.

As this was happening, Crusher had been thinking about how she would reach her target's arm and it had taken her fifteen seconds to finally come up with an idea.

"This is gonna hurt like a motherfucker..." Crusher mumbled before she sucked in a bunch of air and picked up her sledgehammer.

Crusher ran forward despite the pain her body was experiencing and she did something unbelievable. Everyone watching from the wall was already shocked by Daz's actions, but what Crusher had done was so... oddly effective.

Crusher had slammed her hammer down onto the ground and used that force to propel herself into the air. It sounded ludicrous, and that was because it was ludicrous. The only way this could be possible was thanks to Crusher's insane amount of stat points into the stat of Strength.

She sailed through the air like a loosed cannonball and just as Daz had done, she spun her broken body around and around to gain momentum and her sledgehammer heavily impacted onto the arm of the Automaton, sending it flying in the opposite direction and actually denting the metal.

Crusher then sagged out of the air like a lifeless doll. Before losing consciousness, she had one final thought. 'Did I maybe hit it a bit too hard?... hahaha... I hope not... or Lord's gonna yell at me once he fixes my mess...'

Unfortunately, Crusher's thoughts had hit the right nail on the head. Unlike Daz who had perfectly lined up his Robot after several small hits, Crusher's single attack had its laser cannon pointing just past Daz's Robot, meaning that it wouldn't hit its target.

Daz was tired, exhausted and felt like he was going to die from the pain in his arms and torso. He watched in horror as the two Automatons fired their beams of death and only one was successfully destroyed while the other still stood tall and was ready to destroy Fort Skip at a moment's notice.

"Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCK!" Daz began cursing with what little strength he had left. How was he supposed to deal with this? Crusher was unconscious and neither he nor Rimmy had the power left to even stop this Automaton, let alone destroy it.

Almost like a scene out of a nightmare, the now-dead Tank Issue Mark IV Automaton slowly moved and fused with the current one. What was created was a monstrous-looking Robot. A tiny, Human-size ball of metal was floating off of the ground, and levitating above it was a far larger sphere of metal. Hovering on either side of this sphere was an arm just as large as the one from before.

Both of these arms immediately began charging a laser that seemed to be even more powerful than the previous ones. Daz's face fell and he felt truly terrified.