Woosh...woosh...*wind carries a tumbleweed*, Round 1: Ravager vs Silverclaw

"Mmmhu hu hu huuu...mmmhu hu" Silverclaw hummed the Wild, Wild West theme song. Her sapphire gaze focused only in the strange bot; she had never seen something alike. Is that fur...and..scales? she thought.
Weird as he looked, the silver bot would have laughed if the mech didn't had such a threatening look. Maximal he was, yet Silverclaw had the impression that he was from another parallel universe or something like that.
The femme shook her head from the thoughts and transformed into her griffin mode. The creature was smaller than her, yet he seemed to be a formidable and capable mech, the enough to even extinguish her spark...but, maximals wouldn't do that; though this was hard to tell if he would kill one of his own specie.
Silverclaw lowered her body assuming a battle position, waiting for the other mech to make his move. "Nice look" she mocked the transformer, hoping that he would start the fight already. Her method didn't involve shooting first..but rather allowing the other foe to attack first thus giving Silver an idea to know the enemy; evasiveness and speed where the gryphon's deliverances.

Ravager just kept himself calm and collected in the face of this strange mech. She had to have been 13 ft tall in her robot mode. Ravager himself was around 7 ft but didn't look it compared to her. Obviously she wasn't from his world, he'd have noticed a tall attractive femmebot who turned into a silver griffin. He kept his distance and ignoring her little taunt started to scan her. According to his internal computers she was just about as powerful as he was but was way faster. That combined with her size would make her a hard opponent to beat if he didn't get a hold on her.

When she reverted to beast mode he did the same to keep things level. The larger feet of his beast mode helped him keep his footing in all this shifting sand. Crouching down and tensing his thighs up for a pounce he offered his own taunt in hopes of provoking an attack.

"Ladies first" he said in somewhat of a mocking tone.

Silverclaw startled when the mech transformed into his beast mode. He looked like a sort of saber toothed cat with scales, and Silverclaw was clearly impressed by him.
When the mech spoke the femme tilted her head and smirked "A gentleman indeed".
The silver maximal extended her blade-like wings and regarded the alien creature with a
small bow "If you say so" she responded in disappointment.
Like a streak Silverclaw sprinted around Ravager her optics never leaving the mech as she gave rounds around him. Beating her wings hard as she ran golden sand lifted from the loose soil and joined the griffin's circling movement. The gales sent by the
strikes of the razor wings howled angrily and increased the speed of the growing golden twister. Silverclaw's intention was to disorient the foe in order to give him a nice and clear blast from her cannon.
"BITE THE DUST KITTY!" she yelled.

Keeping his head down Ravager did his best to keep the sand out of his beast mode eyes. Okay maybe having her go first wasn't a hot idea, he thought to himself. In order to protect his eyes better a piece of red glass slide down in from of them from a space above each eye.

He crouched back down and tensed up his thighs again. Carefully watching his opponent, he stayed in place until finally seeing a decent opening. His strong pouncing legs pushed forward towards a space in the cyclone, his forelimbs stretched out, his big head sideways and his jaws a full 120 degrees open. He was basically just flying forward with the hope of catching Silverclaw's legs, or just startling her enough to make her stop this cyclone of sand.

Seeing her foe crouch gave Silverclaw the impression that he was totally blinded by the sand, alas she hadn't watched carefully enough to notice that he had already the protective lenses on and that the position he had adopted wasn't that of trying to hide his face from the sand..but rather pounce.
Ravage's motion caught her by surprise, indeed he didn't knew where she was, but he had sprang when Silverclaw was almost reaching his front and the beast's attack had been accidentally perfectly timed.
"AUGH!" the griffin cried frightened as the tiger caught her side. "LET GO!" she shrieked at him panicked while at the same time jumping and shaking herself violently like a bucking bronco, her wings beating frantically trying to bash the strange mech off of her.

Trying his best to hang on to the griffin but alas the large wings beating against him were too much. One of the blades even cut him a little on his back, thought not too deep. He finally just released her from his claws grips and back up a bit. Not one to miss as opportunity Ravager tried for a quick attack by spinning in place as if about to whip his tail at her. However he began to transform in mid spin turning it into a spin kick in order to try and take her off guard.

When the strange transformer had let her go Silverclaw had instantly spun for his direction only to find herself getting kicked in the chest by the savage. It hadn't damaged her badly, just a small dent in the protective plate. The female growled furiously and charged Ravage, beak fully open ready to strike and tear whatever it closed upon with its razor edge and fangs.

Ravager took a small leap back after his first kick made contact with Silverclaw. Obviously a mere kick to the chest wasn't really gonna do anything to the larger female. Apparently it's gonna take a kick to the head he thought to himself as he watched her charge ready to slice and dice.

Turning himself slightly to his side he executed a quick side kick. He didn't have the time to aim properly but hoped it would.

The femme didn't saw it coming, apparently she thought that the smaller mech would cower at the sight of a humongous metal griffin charging directly towards him; wings spread wide and plates raised in order to puff herself Silverclaw neared the maximal waiting for him to duck or do any escape attempts. It wasn't what she had expected. Ravage performed a side kick which hit her head and unbalanced the silver bot. Silverclaw stumbled, her head hang low and swinging to the sides disoriented.
Again it hadn't damaged her badly, a small scratch where the foot of the fuzor had hit her; yet the strength of the attack and angle where the enough to shake her core and equilibrium.
Trying to not be an easy target in her state, Silverclaw shrieked hoping to AT LEAST disorient the bot. The screech ability of hers however drained some energy doubling her
instability making the blue streaked mech pratfall heavily. Silverclaw groaned as she saw the world giving rounds; however, she managed to regain control slowly.

A sonic attack wasn't something that Ravager had anticipated. He was prepared for some kind of physical attack from the femme. The sonic waves hit him like a brick and his balance was knocked right out. He had to kneel to keep himself from falling over. It took a few moments before that sensation wore off enough so that he didn't feel like he was on a rollercoaster. Though it didn't do him any good, he still couldn't see straight, his optics sensors kept picking up doubles of everything.

It wasn't a good state to be in, especially considered the strange femmes abilities. Unfortunatly Ravager had no choice, he had to stay kneeling until his optics cleared up. He did prepare himself for an possible attack, even with the double vision he could tell when she close enough for a good old fashioned uppercut to the jaw.

Wow... this one's close. It's hard to decide the winner, since they both seem pretty evenly matched. However, Ravagar is partially organic, which can be a liability against all-metal bots. Plus that sonic attack seems pretty effective against him. He's more of a melee fighter, while Silverclaw could just stay back and use her more powerful long-range attacks to weaken him effectively before closing in for the proverbial kill.

My vote goes to Silverclaw.

Didn't expect that teehee :3

Boy i am lame sorry 'bout that D=

This post has been edited by Silverwing on Mar 3 2008, 09:45 PM

Ya have to give it to Silverclaw too. Close but XtSS's last paragraph sealed the deal.

I have to get my vote to Silverclaw. She had the advantage over the land and sky, plus that sonic attack of hers really seem to seal the deal against Ravagar.

If Ravager could have gotten in a good solid hit on Silverclaw's flying apparatus, he might have been able to at least ground her. But As stands, The sonic weapon combined with the flight advantage seems to be getting the better of him.