SIS Book 1 Chapter 93: Plan and Deadlift [First Draft]

Daz saw that the Tank class Automaton was ignoring him and readjusted its arm before it began charging it's laser once more. "Crusher!" he yelled.

"What?!" she screamed back. Just like Daz, she was anxious and felt like the destruction of Fort Skip was imminent.

"Whatever you do, don't kill the last normal Robot! It might turn into a second one of these fuckers!" Daz roared. He was struggling to think up a solution to dealing with one Tank class Automaton, the last thing he felt like he needed, was two of them.

Suddenly, a young and feminine voice spoke to Daz over his earpiece. "Stupid brother. You need to do the opposite. Kill the other one thousand and things will get far easier."

Daz didn't have time for his sister's nonsense, but he replied regardless. "Explain."

"I know you're short on time, so I'll be brief. Allow a second large one to be created and use them to kill each other," Rose stated with a happy tone to her voice.

While normally emotionless like Daz, Rose was still a child and even she couldn't hide it when she was proud of a certain idea of hers.

"Now that's my sister. You always were the smart one," Daz whispered.

"Naturally. Afterall, someone has to look after you," Rose replied sarcastically.

Daz smiled and turned to Crusher before yelling, "Change of plans! Kill them all! Kill them as fast as you can! I'll deal with this guy until the second one appears!"

Crusher licked her lips and grinned. "You got it, Lord! Hahahaha!"

Crusher then began working with Rimmy in perfect synchronisation to destroy as many Automatons as humanly possible with the support of Heather, Ger, Ellie and Sarah.

"I was rushed earlier," Daz mumbled to himself, "but 'that' skill should totally be able to interrupt this guy, right?" he added.

Daz looked at the charging laser and hoped that he was right. He ran straight up to the base of the Tank class Automaton and pointed a hand towards it. "Stun!"

Indeed, Daz had used his stun skill. That skill had two levels to it. The first allowed him to stun anyone for five seconds so long as they had no resistance to being stunned with a twenty-second cooldown and the other allowed him to stun anyone even if they were resistant for a single second with a two-minute long cooldown.

Daz had used the first ability of the skill. Daz held his breath and peered his head towards the massive arm. "Thank fuck," he exclaimed. The laser had stopped charging and had completely reset.

Despite his success though, Daz frowned. "This skill costs fifty death energy per use... I can only do it another fourteen times. Will that be enough?"

"Crusher! You've got four minutes to kill the rest of them unless you want Fort Skip to suddenly disappear!" Daz yelled.

"Heh, so you're stopping it with a skill? Well, time to go all out then, I suppose," Crusher said before she pulled back her sledgehammer and started spinning on the spot.

Daz was mildly confused, but he was busy using his Throw and Retrieve skill to help kill the Robots while keeping a close eye on the Tank class one to interrupt it before it could shoot its laser again.

"AHHHHH! SHE SWINGS!" Crusher screamed while she rotated like a spinning top.

"SHE SHOOTS!" Crusher's arms bulged out and her veins could be seen pulsing with blood and energy before she suddenly let go of her sledgehammer's handle, sending it rocketing through the army of Robots.

"...Huff...huff...she scores..." With a big grin strewn across her face, Crusher charged straight towards her still flying hammer. 

She jumped over destroyed Robot after destroyed Robot with glee. That swing had taken a lot of effort, but it was more than worth it. With that single toss, Crusher had managed to kill at least eighty Automatons. She made sure to use her new gloves to help her punch a few more, caving their heads in and rendering them useless as she collected her weapon.

It took her some time, and Daz had been forced to stop the Tank class again with his stun skill, but she reached her sledgehammer and repeated the same move several times. Every time though, she was throwing the weapon slightly closer to her starting point. 

Crusher didn't have an inexhaustible supply of energy, and even with her regeneration stat, her muscles were getting torn and her arms were starting to feel weak.

Currently, only forty or so humanoid Robots remained and only three minutes had passed thus far, so Crusher was moving rather sluggishly while she and everyone else picked off the rest of them. "Hahaha...to think that all of this damage would come from myself...when was the last time I felt this weak from working out? Maybe the time I deadlifted two hundred and fifty kilos?"

Crusher wasn't even using her sledgehammer anymore and she had settled on using her fists alongside Rimmy. As powerful a weapon as it was, it weighed too much right now, so Crusher couldn't hold it unless she wanted to completely destroy her muscles.

Finally, the last Mark II Automaton fell, and just like before, all of the bodies of the Robots joined together to form a Tank class one. Now Fort Skip was faced with two boss monsters. Crusher was exhausted and she could only hope that Daz had a plan to deal with them.

"I know this sucks, Crusher, but we need to redirect their lasers to hit each other at the perfect time. I'll get this one, you get that one, okay?" Daz said with a serious expression on his face. Clearly, he was very nervous and they didn't have much time.

"You damned slave driver...hahaha...fine. No pain, no gain." Crusher straightened her back and grabbed her sledgehammer which was sat next to her before she activated her blue aura of strength.

Rimmy stood next to Daz and was prepared to throw him again towards the arm at the right moment. Fort Skip's survival would come down to this moment.