| Metal Man didn't seem bothered by his foe's newest, strangest attack, because there was really no reason for his limbs to be stuck together, except perhaps by his foe's fear of Metal Man escaping; had he feared that, though, he should have known to try something more sneaky, as Metal Man punched his way out of the fish, and, still covered in acid, walked out of the water and then grabbed Vapor by the neck, the acid now burning the very person whom was bent on using it against him.
"You are rather pathetic, with your redundant usage of whimsical but weak attacks. It is your loss, however..."
The fist tightened around his foe's throat.
"I shall not fall from any mere magic trick; what do you think this armor is for? Fun?"
He laughed, before hurling his foe to the ground and flicking his thumb a weird way. It was but the most subtle of movements, accompanied by a small click. The smell of the acid and the water hung in the air for a moment, before a loud servo noise engaged.
This noise was going to be the last one Vapor heard for a moment, because immediately after Metal Man's arms began punching again and again like pistons. Even worse, Vapor was most likely on the ground--therefore the overall effect would be like being hammered flat, into the ground.
Metallic armor contacted soft tissue, rending whatever it touched and crushing the structures it hit underneath. Pain would have quickly gone away, however--if this continued hitting for but a few moments, it would destroy vital parts of Vapor's central nervous system.
Most bodies being unable to compensate for the extremely fast, rattling beatdown this sort of attack would give, Vapor would have two choices: Escape the attack and risk being maimed by the arms being knocked off balance, or be pounded into a wafer-thin pancake and die.
The mechanical piston-punching noise had only one competitor: the operator's laughing.
"Who's the crazy one NOW? Huh? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!"
It was quite an unsettling laugh... the vicious, sadistic man of steel apparently gave no quarter to anyone. |