General Mishaps

Spike rolled out of the way of another metal fist. 'This is insane!' He ran as fast as he could behind a pillar.

"WHY DO YOU HIDE LIZARD? DO NOT EXPECT YOUR TRICKS TO WORK ON THE LIKES OF ME!!" The behemoth punched against the wall. His allies fired at the beetle but each shot was like throwing pebbles at it.

Even Sora and Shiro were hiding behind an empty food stand. It seemed the robot girl was charging up something big.

"This sucks...just avoid detection until Shiro can take it down, this is too much for you to handle right now. Just act like you are doing something useful." Spike nodded and crawled his way through more fallen rubble, the creature would hit near every time but Spike was just beyond getting crushed each time.

"Crap crap crap." The bug monster unleashed an unearthly scream that shook the entire stadium. More pieces of the ceiling crumbled and fell to the floor below. Spike's sensors detected one large rock over his position so he quickly leaped out of the way.

"FACE ME COWARD!" He grabbed the pillar and pulled it off the ground with minimum effort. Before he could make use of the new weapon a rather large amount of explosions rocked the backside of the giant. He grunted and staggered forward but caught himself before falling. He turned slowly to see a group of the plant people firing a barrage of large rockets.

"Take this you creep!" "Fuck off will ya!?" "The General will burn you to a crisp!" They called out this and various other obscenities in a fearless manner. In response to this, the giant lifted up the pillar again and threw it at the opposition. As it flew the attackers jumped out of the way just before they were crushed. That is all for except one.

Spike's head snapped to attention one he heard a pained female scream coming from the other side of the pillar. "Oh no." His eye outlined the figure of a white female plant girl who had her left leg crushed by the massive weight of the pillar. She struggled but it would be impossible for her to lift the massive object without the help of some heavy lifting equipment.

“Spike I need you to stand your ground and attack that thing in a defiant manner but stay at safe enough distance from it so we don’t get killed.” Nova ordered this as the trapped girl screamed in panic. The fighters around her could do little to help her as every attempt to get near her would be met with a swift hit by a sweep of the arms or an attack of machine-gun fire that came from the metallic arms. Allies were swept away and some who hit the walls would not get back up for some time due to the heavy force of the impact. By all means, no help would be coming her way soon.

‘What about her?’ Spike asked this out of instinct as he watched her struggle. The giant was over her, looking down in a pitiful manner.

“COME OUT GENERAL OR I’LL CRUSH THIS GIRL LIKE A BUG!” Spike’s eyes opened in shock, not wanting to believe the reality before him. Nova was silent this time seemingly in deep thought at the current situation. When no response was given the giant grunted. “VERY WELL THEN COWARD.”

Spike shook his head around frantically, time seemed to slow somewhat, it being due to his new augmentations or natural reaction he was unsure, he looked to Shiro who was still charging her attack, his eye calculated what level of charge it was at, 79% charge. His eye seemed to know what he was thinking and registered the attack route in hitting the monstrosity right in the chest as well as the amount of time it would take to lift its flesh leg and crush the trapped girl below. The program ran this scenario almost 100 times before coming with the final results.

CHANCES OF CREATURE BEING DISABLED WITH ATTACK: 89%

CHANCES OF CREATURE BEING KILLED: 66%

CHANCES OF TRAPPED ALLY SURVIVING ENEMY ATTACK; 3.34%

These words glossed over Spike’s eye and mind and he found himself feeling frozen to the core. ‘…Nova.’ He started as time slowly got faster and faster, the stress forcing him to lose his focus. ‘How do we-‘

“Nothing.” She answered simply without regret or emotion in her voice.

The dragon was left dumbstruck, he could feel his heartbeat quicken in pace, it grew heavy in despair.‘w-what?’

“The likely hood of us surviving a head-on encounter with that thing is at a near-zero percent chance with your current skills and abilities, I am sorry but there is nothing we can do now…the General has dealt with casualties in the past so his reputation will barely be scratched with a little manner such as this, just act like you gave it your best and was too busy coordinating the skirmish.” Spike could not believe what he was hearing.

‘I can’t just…she’s…’ Spike didn’t know what to do. ‘Dammit I’m a goddam coward…I can’t do anything else but watch.’ Suddenly Spike felt sick at the very thought of stealing the name of the General, maybe if he wasn’t there then the others would formulate a better plan but everyone expected him to do something. One look at the room and he could see nearly all of the nonoccupied forces were looking straight at him in anticipation, but one thing he noticed was no fear as if they knew everything would work out because he was there. That was because he was a beacon of hope. ‘I’m a fraud.’ Even Sora was staring his way with a cold unreadable face.

Despite trying to act bravely in front of certain doom the trapped girl’s bravado shattered in an instant and she broke down in terror. “HELP!!”

!!! Spike heard the pleading scream and it broke his heart…no it did more than that. Suddenly Spike felt a fury in his soul that wanted to burst free. ‘I…MUST…’ His body got up as if he were possessed with a powerful demon.

“…Spike?” Nova felt this surge and became very worried.

His eyes turned to sharp slits and his teeth grew in size and sharpness. Quickly his body grew a few inches in size, he could feel his bones and armor shift around to fit around the new size, and his spines arched down slightly and became as sharp as a razor blade.

‘I’M GOING TO SAVE HER.’ Spike felt this from the heart, not because everyone expected him or because this is what the General would have done, this was Spike’s true desire, and at the moment he wanted to do nothing more than to save a defenseless person who needed help.

With a mighty roar, Spike jumped out from his hiding spot at rushed at the titian.

“What the hell are you doing!?” Nova screamed into his mind. “You will get us both killed.”

‘I don’t really know my legs just started moving haha!’ Spike smiled internally, feeling good for the first time in months.

The monster lowered his foot only feet away from the plant girl. “TOO LATE LIZARD!” Spike heard this and saw that his current speed would never reach the girl in time. He thought frantically about what he could possibly do when…

“Alright fine!” That was it, Spike’s legs moved at an impossible speed for a creature such as himself, half a football field’s length was crossed in a mere second, and each step left a crater in the tiled floor. “Do not fuck this up for us you idiot.”

The distance was crossed so Spike used his forward momentum to jump with his powerful legs and head bash the bastard right in the chest, were he a normal being his head would have split apart like a watermelon hit by a hammer but he was not most people. “AUGH!” The bug monster was knocked back just enough that his stomp attack just missed the girl by inches. Also, Spike stuck onto the bug due to his sharp head piercing the metal frame. He grabbed the side edges of the frame and pulled himself out. The giant trashed around violently to try and shake the dragon off but his grip held strong. Spike saw that his head left a small tear in the armored chest of the bug so he used his right arm to tear the small hole further and further apart, he could see some more bodies but also saw some movement within. On instinct, he puffed up his breath and unleashed a fiery inferno into the opening.

The monster roared and punched itself in the chest, Spike dodged this just narrowly and as a result, the monster ended up hitting itself. It stepped back and fell on its back. Now the various creatures all around grew in morale and started attacking the downed enemy while cheering on the General for his heroic actions.

Spike started pounding down on the chest with all his might and made a few dents a process. The monster leaped up again but now Spike held on upside down and pulled the metal apart with both his hands while his feet held to the surface by other edges. Now a wide hole was made. Spike looked forward to seeing Shiro aiming her fully charged weapon right at him. “DO IT!” Spike screamed as he let go. The Ex-Machina nodded and unloaded a dark green burst of concentrated plasma with a light blue center, were it not a highly concentrated blast the heat would fry all of the nonheat resistant beings in the stadium.

The hit impacted the monster's direct dead center in its opened chest cavity. The entire beast lit ablaze and designated into ashes that blew away by the impact’s power. Shiro breathed out a puff of steam and fell to her side which Sora caught just before she fell to the floor.

Spike landed on the floor and made his way to the downed girl. In one action he lifted the giant pillar that gave the monster some effort to lift like a twig and threw it out of the way. A purple liquid streamed around his leg in a puddle and started to burn his armored leg, he stepped back in shock but even more so when he saw that the corrosive liquid came from the crushed leg of the injured girl.

“The white ones have corrosive blood, do not touch it.” Of course Spike expected her leg to be crushed but had no idea about their biology, questions for later.

Carefully Spike lifted up the white plant girl in a bridal style manner, mindful to keep her bloodied leg from leaking on him, and moved hew away from the battleground. As he did this he felt a soft hand touch his face. He looked down to see the girl smile weakly with half-opened eyes. Despite her pained state she lunged her body up to embrace the side of his head, he could feel her flower stem head curl around the other side of his neck. "Uh-" Spike's commanding and powerful demeanor fell apart at that moment and his body shifted back to his smaller and leaner form. He was flustered and felt the blood rush to his side fins to emulate a blush. But before he could comment on this further her body relaxed and she was breathing in a normal rhythm, she passed out it seemed.

The people all around crowded around Spike, they were obviously about to praise his actions in full force but before that, they seemed to hold in their words as a group of robots rushed to the scene and surveyed the damage. Two of them in white paint came up to Spike and saluted. "We'll take it from here boss, good work out there." They held out their cushioned arms. Spike nodded and handed over the injured girl to them. They nodded back and marched off to assumably a place to treat her leg if it was still possible at this point. Then he noticed three well-armed robots searching the ashes.

"Got it!" One cried, the other group around him. Spike and his fans joined them to see what the commotion was about. The robot grabbed something the size of a tennis ball and shoved it into a laser shielded cube about the same size. Spike saw a small beetle in it looking very fried.

Nova was ready to sate his confusion. "That is Commander Blcona of the Hive Order, he and the General have been battling for years due to his ability to survive the most fatal of hits but when heavily wounded he reverts to his infant form to heal, now since the General is against the killing of children he sends the bugger to a rehabilitation enclosure in an attempt to raise him as a law-abiding creature but he reverts to his old ways after every attempt, still the General tries but even I am starting to see it as a waste of time." Spike thanked her for the info dump so he could properly speak to the guards.

He walked up to the troop and they saluted. "Good work boys, send him to the usual, maybe after a beating like this he'll learn to fly right this time." He spoke with poise and authority, much like how a leader should.

They nodded. "You got it, boss, you did fantastic as always." They marched off. Now with matters attended to the group around him began their cheering other than some light bruising and bleeding everyone seemed to be in good spirits. The few that took heavy hits were moved out with the help of the medical bots.

Spike decided to play the part once again and let the praise hit him because for once he actually earned it.

He failed to notice Shiro who reverted back to her human form and Sora both watch from the side.

Sora smiled with a small grin.

"Interesting."