Friday, July 22, 2022

Story Post: Bout #12: The Killing Joke vs Hard Hat [Darknight vs Singularbyte]

Arena Hall A was packed - so thick with people that they were crushed against the perspex safety barrier that separated the stalls from the arena itself. Fans of the Killing Joke could be picked out from their lurid green make-up, while Hard Hatters were identifiable by their pastiche construction worker gear. The atmosphere was electric when -

THE LIGHTS WENT DOWN!

And then, a single spotlight on position 4 - THE KILLING JOKE in pole position, its motor already revving!

A second spotlight on position 15 - HARD HAT! A fresh yellow paint job makes it glisten in the arena lights!

And then the floodlight flash to life and the bout is on!

It’s the Killing Joke first out of the blocks, springing forward. This bot has added sharp spikes to its chassis and - oh, they’re not for show! It smashes into Hard Hat, ripping deep gouges into that Cattle Catcher! But right in front of Hard Hat is not where you ever want to be, so this may be a tactical error - Hard Hat now bumping forward as well, into the spikes, and only now do we see - yes! Hard Hat has gone nuclear! This bot is powered by the atom! Killing Joke had no answer to that kind of shoving power, and, spikes be damned, this bout will end the same way that the first did - Killing Joke is shoved from the ring!

Hard Hat wins by TKO!

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