Gutsman

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The behemoth charged towards the duo. Axel looked at his teammate and asked, “So, there really isn't any peanut butter in that truck?” Zero yelled, “Stop thinking about your stomach and think about stopping this thing! Gutsman is an S-class Maverick that only needs to hit you once to destroy you!!!” Axel yelled, “We'll see about that!” He ran at the machine yelling “Charge!!!” Zero closed his eyes and turned away as a loud cracking sound rang in his ears. Axel flew past him and once again crashed into the wall. Sighing, the warrior asked, “You still alive?” Axel muttered, “Ooh! Stars!” Zero sighed. “Knew it. The bloody bastard is too stupid to die.” A moment later, Axel said, “Hey, Zero, have you seen my hand?” The blond man shook his head. “Little busy here!”

“Never mind! I found it!” Zero dodged a devastating punch and yelled, “What do you want? A freaking medal?”
“No, but if you have still have your welding wand, can I borrow it for a sec?” Zero got a punch to the face and flew into the wall next to the teen. “Axel, do me a favor and shut the Slag up.” He got to his feet and charged the machine again. He continued slashing at it with his saber, with the monstrosity evading it with unnatural ease. Suddenly, it caught the warrior's blade in it's hand and lifted him to his face. “Guts!”

 Zero looked at him and asked, “Hey, you  got any Tic-Taks in one of those trucks? You might want to consider using the whole crate.” The machine looked at him dumbly. “Guts?” Zero used this moment of confusion to his advantage. He wound his leg back and swung it at his foe with every ounce of strength he could muster. A loud cracking sound was immediately followed with an expression of pain on the mans face. “BLOODY HELL!!!” he yelled as the full weight of the failed attempt to drop his foe with a well placed blow to the groin clicked in. Axel muttered, “And you call me an idiot? You just tried to Rock-Sham-Bo a robot!”

Gutsman prepared to deliver the final blow when he was hit in the head with a massive concrete slab. The impact caused him to drop the swordsman. Zero looked at him and yelled, “Slag it, Rock! What the hell took so long?” The man looked at him and replied, “I'll bring a building crashing down on you and you can tell me.” Axel muttered, “Well, we're all here, and vastly out muscled. Now what?” Rock drew a pistol and said, “Didn't any of you guys read the manual for these things?” Axel scratched his head and muttered, “I can't read, remember?” Zero then added, “What kind of idiot makes a manual for a gun? Point, shoot, target dies. Not really rocket science.” Rock sighed and flipped a switch. “Chapter two in the manual was about this.”

He aimed at the machine and fired. The shot hit Gutsman, but seemed to do nothing other than make it laugh. Zero sighed. “Great. Chapter two: tickle your enemy to death.” Axel muttered, “Sounds useless if you ask...” Gutsman suddenly went through the wall next to where the youth was. He scrambled to his feet and yelled, “Holy Matrix! How did you do that?” Rock stood there, his arms now made of large Iron gloves, saying, “Chapter two, Effective use of secondary ammunition  - copy-shot. Slag. Do I have to do everything?”

Zero looked at him and replied, “I've got a busted leg and Axel's missing a hand. Do the math, you idiot.” Rock looked at him and said, “I'm an idiot? You missed the sniper, brought a building down on your captain, let your teammate lose a hand and then tried to Rock-Sham-Bo a robot. Hate to say this, but you're winning today. Lecture me about intelligence...” He blindly moved out of the way of a rather massive piece of debris as he finished, “When you finally get your Chip together. Now, if you'll excuse me.” He lunged at the massive machine and the two of them and consequentially brought the whole structure down on top of them.

Zero looked at the wreckage and muttered, “You should keep score of yourself, you idiot. That's roughly fifty points gone right there.” Axel looked at him and beamed, “Don't worry. I plan to make up for that loss.” Zero palmed his face and muttered, “Three hundred twenty-five thousand and eighteen Reploids in the world and we get stuck with the only one to win five Darwin Awards and ten honorable mentions in the course of a week.” Axel smiled and rubbed the back of his head, blushing. “Yeah. That was the best week of my life.”
“Idiot.”

After a few minutes, Axel asked, “Think we should start digging out Rock?” Zero shook his head. “Give him five minutes. Gutsman was never one to keep a building on top of him.” Axel sighed as Zero lit a cigarette. The youth looked at him and said, “You know, those things are bad for you. Cancer and stuff like that.” Zero threw the match away and said, “We're machines, you Git. We don't have biological organs to get cancer with.” Axel nodded. “That's right. Can I have one?” Zero shook his head. Not a chance. They're bad for you. Cancer and all that.” Axel looked disturbed by the thought and said, “Uh... never mind.” Zero sighed and mumbled something about vending machines versus axel in the way of intellect when something went flying out of the debris.

 Axel looked up and said, “Wow. That copy-shot thing really made the boss drive that scrap heap. Look at it go!” Zero swatted him, saying, “That was the boss. Bloody hell, how did you manage to survive this long, you Blockhead?” Axel smiled and said, “Regular system repairs driving the maintenance team to insanity.”
“Well, that explains the drop in staff.” He threw the cigarette to the ground and said, “Well, no holding back on this one.” Energy started building up in his hands when he yelled, “OVERDRIVE PHASE ONE: GOLD FIST!” Gutsman staggered over to the blond warrior and looked at him. He wound back and yelled, “GOLD DU...” before he could finish the attack, the monstrosity fell to the ground. Rock crashed landed behind him.

 Zero powered down his weapon and said, “Well, that was anti-climatic. What happened to ugly?” Rock held a glowing crystal and said, “I told you guys that we need one of their logic cores still intact. He was nice enough to let us “borrow” his.” Axel smiled and said, “I knew he wasn't all that bad. That was pretty cool of him.” Rock sighed. “I guess the twerp wasn't programmed for sarcasm.”
“Nope,” replied the swordsman. “Just stupidity.”

The leader sighed and said, “Well, lets get to HQ so Ceil can take a look at this thing. There was something about Gutsman that leaves me a little unsettled, and I want to know what it is. Too bad the traitor wasn't here. I would have loved to...” Zero put his hand on Rock's shoulder and said, “Rock, this isn't the place to relive ghosts. Let's get the trucks and get out of here before reinforcements come looking for the convoy.” On that note, the trio headed to the prize of their battle. Next stop was home.