Mark approached the simulator. Due to the recent cancellation of official zoid matches, the match between Atta and Dorian Jacobs had to be changed to a simulator battle. That meant that Mark had to take over for Atta, although not that big a deal. Mark got into the simulator, setting up the match, and choosing a shield liger as his zoid, waiting for his opponent to arrive.


Battlemode: 0992. Terrain: Open Plains. Distance: 500m.

Dorian walked up to the simulator and smiled, he was sure he would win as he got in the simulator chair. "This is going to be over in no time...hahaha!!!" he laughed cockily as he also selected a shield liger as his zoid, as he readied himself he looked at the system settings..."Right, open plains, nowhere to run, nowhere to hide....should be fun!!!" he said childishly as he prepared for simulated battle...

((Guardian goes first. Begin.))

Dorian stared across the virtual plain and wraped his hands around the controls...a grin came across his face as he pushed on the controls making the liger start running towards his opponent...starting off slowly but then picking up speed as he ran across the plains closing in, but running at an angle so that, in theory, by time he made it within firing range he wouldn't be directly infront the opposing liger but enough of a distance away so his opponent couldn't lock onto him as easily as being face-to-face...

"What? No firing? well, easier for me."
*Mark turns his liger to face the incoming liger and deploys the AMD double-barreled 20mm Beam Cannon and fires at the incoming ligers right leg, switching to the left in the unlikely event that he manages to take it out. Mark also attempts to gain a lock with his missiles, deploying and launching 4 from each pod when they get a lock. Mark is standing still. When the enemy liger is withing 100 meters, Mark fires the 3-barreled schock cannon, spurs the liger forward, ceases fire, activates the shield and attempts a shield ram, then will drop the shield and engage the opposing liger in melee, attempting to take out the front legs of the enemy liger, while avoid the copckpit.

((If you're shooting at the front legs, you don't have to say that you're avoiding the cockpit.))
((Dorian . . . you have this awful habit of using punctuation in triplicate. Three exclamation marks, three question marks, and way too many ellipses.))

Dorian's Shield Liger sets off running, quickly picking up speed as Mark's fire traces across its forelegs. The beams do inconsequential damage. Dorian's plan is to try broadsiding the enemy, but he forgets that anything he can do, the enemy can do.
They are, after all, both in the same zoid.
So Mark turns in place to face Dorian's Shield Liger, toggling a missile lock and firing. Eight missiles streak towards the advancing Shield Liger, with one missing, one glancing blow, and six direct hits on the Liger's front end and flanks. It absorbs some shock cannon fire, and the round ends with Mark kicking his Liger into high gear. The two zoids are now thirty meters apart, closing fast.

((Reverse order and continue.))

Mark continues with his shield ram hitting the enemy liger and pushing, then dropping the shield and attempting to melee the front legs. While the melee attempt is going on, the 3 barreled shock cannon and the 20mm cannons are firing into the enemy liger whenever they have a legal target.

Dorian tries to take as much as he could as he attempted to pull away from his opponent long enough to activate his shields to keep from being damaged much further. A grim look across his face he motions for the liger to run towards his opponent with full force hoping the shield will do enough damage as he pushed onward trying to plow through the enemy zoid.

The zoids speed up, closing in at high speeds. Mark's shield flickers on just in time for the impact, Dorian's Liger sliding back as its claws plow furrows in the dirt. The shield sparked, and Mark dropped it. A volley of shock cannon shells slammed into Dorian's liger at close range, and then Dorian raised the shield. The shield formed around Mark's Liger, locking the two together. Mark's left paw was locked in it, but the right was quite free to mangle the enemy.
Dorian dropped the shield, turning tail to run. Mark caught him, leaping up and catching the other Liger by the hindquarters before it could get very far at all. Dorian's Liger stumbled, suffering as the other zoid attempted to simultaneously climb it and fire shock cannon shells at point-blank range.

((Reverse order and continue.))

Dorian truned to face the enemy liger as he backed up quickly as he aquired a lock on the enemy he unloaded all of his missles and the 3-barrel shock cannons blazing as he pulled back as fast as he could while keeping a lock on the enemy as he fired his 20mm as well not letting up if he could help it. He then activated his shields one more time for another full-force run at the enemy "Let's see you handle this!" he said as he tried to plow through his opponent once more as he kept running at full speed....

Mark raises his shield in an attempt to keep Dorian inside and not let him get away. Once tha tis done, Mark continues his attack, meleeing at legs first, firing his shock cannon and 20mm when legal targets present themselves.

((Dorian, it's probably best to keep the 'RP' to a minimum, if the best you can come up with is a Bit Cloud impression.))

Mark's shield comes up, only to find Dorian's shield in the way. They cross each other, creating an overload. Bolts of lightning dance from where they bisect to their generators, and by three seconds in the generators have exploded. The shields flicker out, teaching a valuable lesson.
Don't overuse the goddamned shield-lock and shield-ram. Bad things will happen to you if you do.
This, naturally, led to some problems with Bit's plan. But not to worry, because Mark still held onto his ass. The two Ligers ran about in a tight circle, until Mark managed to knock the other Liger over.

The hatches open up with a hiss of hydraulics, the consoles retracting back to get ready for the next pilots. There's a line, seeing as how the ZBC actions have been officially suspended. Five hundred credits have been transferred to both pilots' accounts.