You're Mecha-ing Me Crazy!

Chapter 9: Slow & Furious

Sheena was left fiddling with the keys in the ignition. Verodith was heading this way. Each time it flapped its wings the vehicle slightly lifted off the ground. The winds the wings created had a strong enough force behind it to blow you away if you weren't prepared. I braced myself each time it flapped its wings, fearing I'd fall off the vehicle if I weren't careful.

"Hurry Sheena!"

"I'm going as fast as I can!"

The engine finally turned on. Verodith swooped down towards up, but Sheena was able to press down on the gas pedal fast enough to avoid Verodith's attack.

"Holy shit...I did it Rama hahaha"

"Don't take it easy now Sheena! It's right on our tail!"

Verodith quickly turned it's big body around and chased us.

"..ama...Rama! Good stuff! You should've let me know if you were going to aggro it! I would've prepared myself. Now it's going to take me awhile to prepare, so keep it occu-"

"THAT WAS NOT ON PURPOSE! You think I'd be crazy enough to aggro it without an actual game plan???"

"Oh...well it's too late for redos kekeke."

"UGH Just finishing prepping what you need to do Jack, I'll figure something out down her-"

Verodith swooped its body over us. The size of it was breathtaking. It almost looked like it was just toying with us.

"Turn quickly Sheena! It's going to turn and face us after it flies over us."

"Ahhh! You're making so many unreasonable requests right now!"

"What do you meeEAANNN!!!! AHH!!-ATLEAST TELL ME WHEN YOU'RE GONNA TURN, I ALMOST FELL OFF!"

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN? YOU JUST TOLD ME TO AND WOULD YOU STOP YELLING! ISN'T THERE LIKE A SEATBELT OR SOMETHING UP THERE?"

I looked around to see if there was anything that can fasten me in place, sadly there wasn't. A grim look befell my face.

"N-nothing..."

"Well what's your gameplan Rama, just keep running away?"

I studied Verodith's movements closely. It didn't look like there was a set pattern on it's flight path. It looked like it was a boss capable of its own movements and wasn't precoded by the developers. I wouldn't mind running around, but the only problem right now is predicting it's attack. With no information about the boss, it's dangerous to try anything risky.

"Alright, I got it Sheena. We'll do a hit and run tactic."

"What do you mean?"

"Usually with monsters like these, they have really powerful attacks, but as long as you stay out of their line of sight their attacks won't hit you."

"I get that...but if you stay out of their line of sight, wouldn't that defeat the purpose of aggroing it?"

"That's where this turret comes in. Once Verodith drops its aggro on us, I'll shoot it and re aggro it again. A simple hit and run tactic."

"...are you sure that's going to work Rama?"

"Nope, but I don't have any better plans at this moment."

Sheena and I turned the vehicle around and drove towards Verodith. As soon as Verodith had its eyes on us, we drove in a different direction. Everytime I turned back to check on Verodith's status, its eyes were barely locked onto us. So far so good, but as we kept this up, I had a very bad feeling.

"Hey things are looking good Rama!"

"...but I haven't even gotten to shoot it yet..."

"Don't complain, let's just keep this going."

"Aww..."

I hung my head down in despair as we kept driving around in circles.

"Let's switch Sheena!"

"HUH?"

I got down from the turret.

"Come on, come on, let me drive please!"

"Didn't you want to use the turret instead? Ahh- is it because you're bored up there that you want to switch?"

I twiddled my thumbs and nervously looked the other way.

"Ugh, alright hold the wheel as I get up."

"Yay! Thanks Sheena!"

"Ahh! Enough get off me!"

She awkwardly made her way off the driver's seat while she was peeling me off of her. We tried to make the switch as smooth as possible, but trying to keep a foot on the pedal made it extremely awkward to maneuver this transition.

"Happy now?"

"Yes! Thanks!"

Sheena got to the turret as I kept the vehicle moving.

"Just let me know if it does anything weir-"

I heard a loud screech.

"What was that Sheena?"

I tried to look at Verodith, but I my view was obstructed.

I heard another screech. This time it was louder.

"Owww..."

"Ahh-! My ears!"

"What's going on Sheena? Can I get an update? Sheenaaaa-ow oww oWW OWWW OWWW!"

Sheena kept kicking me in the back of my head.

"Wha-ow is-ow happen-OWWW STOP KICKING ME!"

I wanted to see the commotion for myself so I turned the vehicle around to face Verodith.

From the clouds I saw that five other dragons had descended from the sky.

The bad feeling I had, just manifested right in front of me.

"Oh. Shit."

END