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[theycalledmeacurse]

the mutant and the machine.

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[redcosmedic]

Rogue's quick thinking and reaction time causes the Sentinel to miss its initial grab, and its arm crashes into Knock Out's side. The blow sends him skidding on his tires hard enough to leave a smear of rubber on the concrete pad, leaving a swipe of metal bent inward along his side panels, but he hardly notices. Knock Out explodes out of vehicle mode, the transformation which normally takes seven or eight seconds to complete reduced to half that, and grapples bodily with the construct, forcing it back.

It's messy and inelegant, the sound of metals shrieking against each other. The two are almost of the same height, mere feet of difference between them, but that is where most similarity ends. The Sentinel, faced with an unexpected opponent not meeting any of its battle criteria, hesitates to calibrate and that is all the opening Knock Out needs. One leg comes up to plant solidly in the Sentinel's torso and shove it away.

Now he has room to move. Now he has leverage.

One moment Knock Out's hands are there and the next they're not, replaced by two spinning circular saws. His stance is light but not unsteady, and as the Sentinel lunges forward to deal with this new threat, the medic ducks the tackle and retaliates with two deep gouges in the silver and purple plating. Sparks spray across the concrete as the saw blades bite in, severing lines and structure, and just as fluidly he slips back out of reach once more.