The one who came 4th in CB&3, and the recent C&B4 Heat Finalist. Completely unchanged, with overvolted S28-400 MagMotors and 4WD to propel the invertible angled box to 20mph quite quickly. Its has compact dimensions, but big enough to accommodate the Nitrogen-powered flipper that can send robots flying...however, those flips are very limited. It also brings to the table a 3.25mm Hardox monocoque, and 4.5mm titanium skirts around the body proving mildly impervious to spinner assault. Will Nitro-Gene burn out or boost its way to the top? The Atomic-style flipper is made from 4mm Hardox, and is powered by 3 1.1kg CO2 tanks and 2 80mm stroke 6mm bore rams, so you don't need to be a rocket scientist to know that those flips will hurt. It's got 35 of them too, so it can outlast its opponent. It also has more power in the LEM130 it powers its drive with, and has tracks for more traction. Having tracks, though, won't see it being as manoeuvrable... Having taken all of Nitro-Gene's wheels off the ground, Monsoon drives forward again and tosses Nitro-Gene across the arena. You know, in an awkward way, Nitro-Gene looked like a dog trying to catch a frizbee in mid-air, just then. It does catch the ground though, and is belly up, though not in the mood for a tummy tickle and re-rights itself...or does it? Nope, it went into a 450 and crashed onto its snout...before coming back down onto its back! Apparently he's running short of full pressure now! Seeing this, Monsoon leaves Nitro-Gene in its self-righting misery and goes for the pit release button...but Nitro-Gene is right behind it! Daniel, didn't you realize that Paul's machine is invertible? Not that it makes much difference...or does it? Nitro-Gene's rear skirt finds Monsoon's rear and gets under it, the angled rear of the body not hindering the progress at all as Monsoon is slammed against the pit release button...what's that sly grin on Paul's face?! ...oh wow. So that was the plan! Pity it didn't work as hoped. Nitro-Gene flipped itself while under Monsoon, sending the Britespark flipper very nearly OOTA but Monsoon just manages to stay in the arena, performing an excellent replication of Nitro-Gene's railing bouncings, before coming to rest inverted! But Nitro-Gene ISN'T inverted now! As Monsoon self-rights, Nitro-Gene pummels it from the side, gets under, and flips...and suffers because its flipper isn't powerful enough to get Monsoon Season over the fence this time! It has however pinned the fellow flipper against the arena wall, so it holds Monsoon there for a few seconds, then tries flipping it again. The effect is somewhat weaker, even then, as Monsoon is carefully rolled along the wall onto its back. Monsoon self-rights, but again the tenacious Nitro-Gene is back on its case, wedging it immediately and pushing it into Rorschach's CPZ! Who watches the Watchman? Why, the Watcher, who else? But for now Rorschach can have his fun as Monsoon is swept into the plow/scoop, and squeezd by the claw! Ooooh...HDPE, however thick it is, it's not holding up to the piercing beak. Look at that, what a major hole in the armourment! Damocles isn't moving from his CPZ, content to let Rorschach do away with the Britespark machine, but Rorschach lets Monsoon go...has damage been caused internally? Daniel answers this question with a hefty ram to the front of Nitro-Gene, who'd been loafing about in the center of the arena and not paying quite as much attention as he should have. And thus Nitro-Gene is wedged onto the fellow flipper and taken the opposite way of Rorschach's CPZ...unfortunately, that's Damocles' CPZ! This won't end well! It's rather round and tall, with 2WD (4WD in actuality, but the wheel set-up is that of Crushtacean, note 
) making it invertible. Hardox armouring protects its vitals and it has a low enough ground clearancem, but the real threat is the counter-rotating discs powered by Perm 080 motors. Such counter-rotations prevent overbalancing, and the discs are ridiculously powerful. Not a robot for the long battles, however, as the batteries will drain very quickly.
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