YAF-ARH Encounter

## Belligerents

**ASWS Corporation*** YAF-ARH

**The Gang*** VOTE-X Abrams
* Reece
* Zeve
* Spitfire
* Vohantex
* Thompson
* Wall-Z

**ASF**

## Casualties and Losses

None
Casualties:* Everyone in the Gang
* Reece's dignity

Losses:

* Countless ASF members

The **YAF-ARH Encounter** is an event where The Gang and the ASF meets YAF-ARH for the first time.

## Timeline

### Revisiting former locations

After countless fights, the ASF is low on resources and searches through former battlefields with their fights against ASWS. With the assistance of the Gang, they are able to collect valuable materials they can utilize often having Thompson to act as transport to their temporary bases. Unbeknownst to them, they are still being monitored by ASWS via satellites where they predict the next location they would go next in order to set up an ambush with their latest robot development.

### Deploying YAF-ARH

With their predictions being correct, ASWS load their latest robot onto a hyperjump dropship and send it to where the ASF and The Gang would be. The ASF and The Gang, except Reece, were caught off guard by this and prepared to fight what it was deploying. Which it deployed a giant robot spider tank named YAF-ARH who lands behind Reece acting smug until he turned around only to scream and run as fast as possible behind Spitfire. YAF-ARH introduces himself and give them a choice, surrender or die.

Not wanting either option, the ASF fired upon YAF-ARH first but is shocked to realize that he is unfazed by their weapons but still continued to open fire. The Gang joins them and all try their best to attack from a distance except Reece who is too terrified to attack. YAF-ARH slowly approaches groups of ASF members and violently crush them with his legs and later fire upon distant members with his cannons. Shorty after he turned his focus to the Gang and start to attack them giving ASF a chance to collect resources and flee.

### The Gang fights YAF-ARH

YAF-ARH attacks Spitfire first as he perceives her size and Sonic Pulser weaponry to be a higher threat, Spitfire tries her best to attack from a distance and goes into helicopter mode to gain distance. YAF-ARH responds by firing his S-hedsive mortar at her rotor blades, seizing them up and forcing her back into robot mode and is instantly tackled. She manages to fire a Sonic Pulser shot point blank and while no physical damage is done, YAF-ARH's shielding flickers. Spitfire prepares to fire another shot point blank but her weapon's clips suddenly eject causing her to panic.

Before YAF-ARH could take advantage of her panic, Zeve and Vohantex fire at him but does little to no damage to YAF-ARH. He fires his S-hedsive mortar at Vohantex who did not expect it, gets immobilized and unable to fight back. Zeve tries to help Vohantex get free but is knocked to the ground by YAF-ARH. Wall-Z then attempts to use his speed to physically attack him but knocks him to one side with his cannons and tries to stick him with his S-hesive mortar but Wall-Z manages to avoid all shots. Reece tries to attack YAF-ARH with his Chaos energy balls but is frozen in terror when YAF-ARH looks at Reece and rapidly approaches him.

Wall-Z tries to help but accidentally runs over one of the S-Hedsive blobs and gets stuck. VOTE-X quickly helps him get out and along with Wall-Z, attack YAF-ARH in his Combat Mode but proves to be ineffective and gets pinned down. Reece finally manages to attack YAF-ARH and knocks him over with his Chaos Spear and he quickly goes to Zeve to check on her. YAF-ARH soon recovers and ready his cannons to fire at Reece and Zeve, only for Thompson to enter the fight as an armored bulldozer before turning into a turning into a attack helicopter and unloading every weapon it had at YAF-ARH. This gives some time for the rest of the Gang to recover including freeing Vohantex and Spitfire's rotor blades.

YAF-ARH retaliates by firing his cannon directly at Thompson and, while severely damaged, continues to fight YAF-ARH by turning into a tank and manages to push YAF-ARH into a corner before collapsing due to exhaustion while transforming back to his bus form. YAF-ARH approaches Thompson and stares at him only to see the Gang behind him. Instead of continuing the fight however, YAF-ARH simply leaves after telling them that all but Thompson disappoints them.

### Regrouping

After the intense fight with YAF-ARH, the Gang regroup back at their mobile base and immediately head to the nearest ASF temporary base. While en-route, Reece is uncertain about their ability to fight against YAF-ARH, especially his own. Zeve tries to comfort him but he goes back to his own room and isolates himself. VOTE-X meanwhile is busy repairing damages to Thompson and is curious as to why he charged head first as it wasn't normal for him. Thompson replied that due to the circumstances, he tried to be extremely aggressive which while it worked, proved too exhausting for him.

Vohantex is slightly traumatized from the experience but Spitfire keeps him calm. Wall-Z complains about the S-Hedsive YAF-ARH fired at them and even though Spitfire and Vohantex laugh in response, they are also annoyed by it and the three discuss of various ways they could combat it. Though no conclusion was made, they agreed that they have to find a way to jam the mortar before it could fire on them. VOTE-X and Thompson continue their discussion about the latter's performance especially when YAF-ARH said all but **Thompson** disappointed him. This made Thompson worried he would be prioritized more should they encounter him again.

### Aftermath

With their first encounter with YAF-ARH, the Gang and the ASF now know ASWS is a force not to be taken lightly with the former receiving injuries while the latter suffered fatalities. While they were successful in salvaging for what they need, they would be more careful in future missions. YAF-ARH proved to be a very difficult enemy to combat with his powerful shielding and weaponry as well as the ability to immobilize targets with his S-Hedsive mortar, so much so they are unsure if he could even be destroyed.

On the Gang's side, Reece is not sure why he fears YAF-ARH so much as he froze in fear upon YAF-ARH turning to face him. The others try to think of ways to destroy YAF-ARH, failing that at most stopping him in his path. Thompson is however nervous of future encounters as he believes that due to his abilities, YAF-ARH would try and target him over everyone else first due to possessing unknown capabilities.

On ASWS's side, YAF-ARH's performance proved to be a runaway success but were puzzled when he left the battlefield instead of continuing to fight. Unbeknownst to ASWS, YAF-ARH had regained his memories and personality which was the reason why he left the battlefield, though due to his newfound strength and power, he has chosen to try and toy with his enemies in future encounters.