Jack shape

The Inferis forces had made steady progress against The Grand Alliance and their allies. If the speed of their destruction were kept at the same pace they would soon have most of the Grand Alliance dimensions either conquered or destroyed. Fortunately for the Grand Alliance the Grand Arms forces were now mobilizing their best destroid units…

With a sudden expansion of joints, limbs and torso the so-called “Thin Duke” or more commonly used Jack shaped fighter was in fighting form. Slowly observing the destruction caused by his minions and pawns the Jack shaped fighter regarded any mecha, which might prove to be a challenge. With a crackle of barley contained necro energy (energy used by the Inferis is always derived from decaying or dying life or power sources) an eerie green glow revealed itself from etched lines in the body of the mecha. “Thin Duke” had already in its sealed form blasted a path with its main cannon thru the forces rallying against the Inferis, many destroyed foes would attest to the power of the one blast. A large Sturmtiger unit caught its eye and in a blur of barley perceivable motion and speed it teleported or more correctly menaced towards the next victim.

“Holy $#!T!” Thought Lt. Ortan as the “Thin Duke” suddenly appeared in front of his Sturmtiger. This thing was fast and if he weren’t more careful the speed would most certainly mean the end for him. It was powerful for sure, the one shot form its main cannon had wiped out close to half the fleet. However he was against a Sturmtiger, there were even more powerful destroid units but this model had fought in the “Final war” and had bagged itself countless kills. It even dealt a mighty blow against an elder goddess! So Lt. Ortan was regarding this new enemy with some caution but also some arrogance in his equipment’s ability. Releasing a storm of faust Lt. Ortan’s Sturmtiger “Peacock King” was readying its powers and abilities against this fearsome new foe. With a quick check Lt. Ortan had locked on most of the primary, secondary and tertiary guns on this fearsome foe. Firing out a blast of energy that would give even the big bang a run for its money the white-hot beam streaked a path straight for the “Thin Duke”. With a sudden tear of reality the “Thin Duke” slipped out of the way to appear in the exact spot it had been. Lt Ortan was going to have to do better…

Most of his class 1-3 and even a few class4 and one class 5 faust had been destroyed. This was by no means an easy feat, the lesser cube shaped fighters had been getting pulverized by his fellows Sturmtiger’s lesser faust. This one Jack shaped fighter and about 500 cube shape was all that was left of a force of 2000 cube shaped and one Jack shaped. Of course the Grand forces had not got off easy and they were down to about a third of their original numbers. Lt. Ortan was getting extremely exhausted even trying to keep this Inferis fighter at arms length never mind trying to destroy it. It was fast, offensively powerful at range and close in, durable and last of all intimidating. Lt. Ortan was sure that once the rest of the 500 cubes were destroyed they could con fire on this one menace and be over with it.

Maybe the “Thin Duke” was playing or he had somehow sensed his opponents thoughts of impending victory, either way in what seemed a display of utmost arrogance the “Thin Duke” suddenly stopped in front of the “Peacock King”. Even in front of the many arrayed guns the “thin Duke” seemed non-plussed as it wrenched over and suddenly exploded limbs outward, the etched lines of power suddenly turned a malignant red colour, lastly the eerie green gems turned the same malignant red. All of a sudden all remaining cube shaped fighters were caught in some kind of spastic dance. After about 10 seconds of this what emerged were even larger, bestial, demonic looking cube shaped fighters. Even the jack shaped fighter took on even more menacing appearance.

“Now insect your end will come.” Blared the message from what was presumably the pilot of the “Thin Duke”…

Grand designation: Thin Duke

Speed: ??? (predator form), 1c (sealed form)

Height: 30 meters

Armour: Gravity forged dark matter, super tempered necro shell metal

Shield: Hellfire barrier, Absolute existence field

Reactor: Collapsing black hole

Weapons: Central destroyer cannon, 2 x beast claw arms, 8 x necro energy missiles, 1 x remote destroyer cannon shoulder, 1 x remote ravager shoulder, 2 x remote swords

Assigned to high-ranking commanding officers of the Inferis forces this mecha was the most deadly enemy unit encountered by the Grand forces. However its most fearsome ability was the ability to induce “hell frenzy” in all Inferis forces in the immediate area. This made all Inferis units “evolve” into bigger and deadlier forms.

It is with no surprise that these units if present on the battlefield were given the highest priority for elimination.