Inertia

**Inertia** is a vertical-disc armed robot that competed in AWS 34 to AWS 48. It became a champion in its debut year.

## Robot History

### AWS 34

Inertia's first ever opponent was Dynamite. Dynamite drives in and Inertia claws it, then flicks it up, then continues attacking Dynamite, flipping it and sending it into the trench.

Next was a plain square-shaped robot. The square-bot rushes in only to be launched upward by Inertia's disc, and this seems to cripple it. Inertia attacks it more, trying to push it off the arena while the square-bot was crab-walking away, but one good shot from Inertia got the square robot into the air again, and landed right in the trench, so Inertia won.

Now it had TNT. TNT rushes in and scoops Inertia but couldn't carry it anywhere, so backs off. Inertia pursues it and lands a hit, ripping the right-wheel off and flipping TNT, who was virtually helpless, so Inertia won.

Next was a horizontal bar. Inertia comes over at full-spinning speed and sent the bar-spinner flying up into the trench, winning again.

Now it came against Antisocial Ant. Antisocial Ant rushes in and receives a jab, and Inertia hits it more. Antisocial Ant retreats but went too close to the arena's edge and got stuck, and Inertia reversed in to finish it off.

Unfortunately in the finals it had to fight Antisocial Ant all over again. Once more Antisocial Ant rushes in and this time scoops Inertia and pushes it toward the arena's edge. Antisocial Ant backs up after getting Inertia stuck on the edge, but when it zooms in Inertia turns and dodges it, making Antisocial Ant kill itself, and while Inertia fell in too, it was champion of series 34.

### AWS 35

Inertia's first opponent this year is Good & Evil. Inertia tackled the horizontal-spinner first and sent it flying, then focuses on the wedgebot, ripping it in half and killing it. Inertia returns to the spinner and again sends it flying, only it also lost its wheel to Inertia and went into a trench, so Inertia won.

Next was Truant. Inertia lands the first hit which made Truant bounce, then sends it away. Inertia continues to claw Truant about and eventually pushes Truant off the arena, winning again.

Next was Antidisestablishmentariunism. In one hit Inertia 2 dissects Antidisestablishmentariunism, causing some wires to hang out, but also flipped itself and was riding on its disc to a wall, which places Inertia 2 on its back. Unable to move Inertia 2 was counted out, giving it its first lost and placing it in the loser's bracket.

It now had Wolkig. Wolkig drives over but gets sent upward by Inertia 2's disc, Wolkig tries to getaway but receives another hit that placed it on the arena's edge where it fell off, so Inertia 2 wins.

Next was Warhorses. Inertia 2 started with the orange bot and shreds it, but flips itself onto its rear and Warhorses chose to leave it like that, and Inertia 2 was counted out, dethroned and eliminated.

### AWS 36

Now called Inertia 3, its first opponent was Black Books. Inertia approaches and slaughters one member in a single shot, then flips the other member, incapacitating the whole clusterbot, though Inertia pushes the second one off the arena. As a result Inertia won.

Next was Craig Charles Signed My Robot. Inertia shreds C.C.S.M.R. and kills it, winning already.

Now it had Accelerant. The first hit by Inertia launches Accelerant who lands upside-down. Accelerant tries to self-right but Inertia attacks it and forces it off the arena.

Next was Stewie. In one hit Inertia dismantles Stewie and sends it out the arena, so obviously, Inertia won.

Now it had Morbo. The first contact flips Morbo, who now couldn't fight back. Inertia 3 continues and then removes a wheel-ring, but Morbo continues to evade. Inertia 3 gets it again and flips it three more times, and flips it again on a fourth. After driving around Morbo tries to attack and gets flipped back over. Another collision made Morbo summersault in midair before landing. Inertia 3's disc however seems to have died and Morbo takes advantage, pushing Inertia 3 off the arena, so Inertia 3 lost and was now in the loser's bracket.

Next was Anticide. Immediately Anticide scoops Inertia and flicks it off the arena, so Inertia lost again and was now eliminated.

### AWS 37

Now dubbed Inertia 4, its first opponent was Catatonia. Inertia mobs Catatonia, flipping it, but Catatonia saves itself and pushes Inertia off the arena, so Inertia lost and was now in the loser's bracket.

Next was Variant. Both started with small taps, but one collision sent both flying away. Variant's weapon seems to have died, Inertia's remained alive and it comes in and launches Variant upward, where it bounced into a trench, so Inertia wins again.

The next opponent was Skidmark. Skidmark immediately ran off the arena, forcing a redo. Inertia 4 approaches and claws Skidmark, killing it already, so Inertia won.

Now it had MANTis. MANTis comes in but can't scoop Inertia who claws it with its disc, ripping the left-wheel off. MANTis kept fighting, only to get launched away by Inertia and land on its rear. MANTis tries to self-right, but falls backwards into the trench instead, giving Inertia the win.

Next was Choose your own Adventure. On the first collision Inertia gives a big hit that repels its opponent, however C.Y.O.A. rams and pushes Inertia off the arena, giving it its second lost and eliminating it.

### AWS 39

Still called Inertia 4, the first opponent this time was the familiar Warhorses. Inertia started on the orange-member and gets it on the barrier briefly, but it escapes and rams Inertia 4. Warhorses was dominating for a moment: scooping Inertia and flipped it at the wall. While gyrating Inertia slashes at the blue-member and it suddenly stops moving, probably disabled. Then Inertia catapults the orange-member into a trench, officially winning.

Next it had Implosion. Implosion immediately scoops Inertia 4 and sends it off the arena, beating it and sending Inertia to the loser's bracket.

Now it had Cosmos. Cosmos scoops and lifts Inertia 4 several times while Inertia struggled to damage it. On one collision Cosmos launches Inertia 4 where it lands on its disc and bounces into the wall. Cosmos tries to do it again, but in doing so drives off the arena, and although Inertia 4 was sent bouncing again, and this time into the other trench, it won due to Cosmos going down first.

The next opponent was Malevolant. Malevolant drives around and Inertia claws at it, but Malevolant shoves Inertia 4 into the barrier. Inertia escapes, but Malevolant scoops it again and pins it to the wall. Inertia escapes again but Malevolant keeps on it and manages to push it off the arena, defeating and eliminating it.

Inertia 4 also entered the Annihilator with Killed in the face, Zenith, Flippertron 2, Smart Ant 2, Svengali, Napalm Death, BulletProof, Nom Nom Nom, Randar and an unknown bar-spinner, none of which Inertia met before, except Malevolant who's also competing. Once the round started Zenith got up to speed, and popped Inertia, but it landed upright, BulletProof then flipped Killed to death near the drop off. Moments later Zenith, and Randar then went weapon to weapon, with Randar winning the exchange, flipping Zenith. Fortunately for Zenith whose weapon had stopped upon contact with the floor leaving it with no way to self right, Killed in the face was also unable to self-right. As the latter was closer to the edge, it was an easier target than Zenith, and was quickly shoved out by Inertia, eliminating it just as BulletProof shoved Napalm Death into the unknown bar spinner, flipping Napalm Death as well.

Inertia 4 survives to the next round. This short round started with Zenith getting up to full speed, it then hit both Napalm Death, and Randar, this launched Randar onto the top of Nom Nom Nom's bar spinner, before bouncing itself out the arena.

Inertia 4 was still in contention. Malevolant started this match off by moving out it's starting position, and shoving Inertia 4. However it was quickly broadsided by the spinning bar of Nom Nom Nom, launching it onto the wedge of BulletProof. The latter then started shoving the former towards the push out zone. Before BulletProof could do anything however, Inertia 4 slowly drove towards the unknown bar spinner, and collided weapon to weapon. The resulting hit sent both robots out the arena simultaneously, and ripped the weapon off of Inertia 4. As Inertia 4 had hit the floor first, it was eliminated.

### AWS 40

Now called Inertia 5, its first opponent this year was RMS Titanic. Immediately Inertia 5 spins up and approaches Titanic, and flips it. Inertia tries to attack again, but this made both bots bounce around, and Inertia got the worst of it as it bounced off the arena, so it lost.

Next was Permanant Forever, however Inertia 5 seems to have had technical difficulties that were too time-consuming to repair, so it forfeited and eliminates itself.

### AWS 45

Inertia's first opponent this year was, rather oddly, a fleaweight named Spall. In one hit Inertia splits Spall in half and kills it, so Inertia won.

Next came Randar. When they meet Inertia was launched by Randar and flipped onto its rear. Unable to move Inertia was counted out and now in the loser's bracket.

Now it had Ouchie. Immediately Inertia flips Ouchie and chose to leave it like that, though does push Ouchie around.

Next was a massive clusterbot. Inertia attacks randomly and already kills the black-member and orange-member, plus lacerated the red-member but suddenly freezes and refused to move, which got it counted out, so Inertia lost and was eliminated.