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Huge, hulking, and handsome (in my own opinion), Fight City is the first combiner. Constructed to face the ever-growing kaiju threat, Fight City was the savior Tower City needed. 

Fight City is archaic compared to newer combiners, and even some of its contemporaries. It possesses three large Aether Drives that required each of the pilots to be in constant contact with in order to acclimate them to the damaging effects of the drives. To facilitate that, the mecha is divided up into three sections that the pilots live in. Fight City’s individual sections are fully furnished and have all the luxuries and amenities of a penthouse suite. When disassembled, the mecha bears a resemblance to a small neighborhood, which is where Fight City derives its name. (Perhaps city is an exaggeration, but audacity is half the battle.) 

Fight City’s arsenal is just as archaic. While it does have quite a bit of physical strength, mostly owing to its massive size. It is equipped with a pair of large daggers as its primary weapons. Fight City’s other stats are pathetic compared to modern mecha. It’s slow as dirt, it has fairly thin armor, and even its physical strength is nothing special.  

So why would anyone care about this antique? Well it might have something to do with the having one of the best track records in Tower City history. Fight City and its crew defied all odds and managed to take out threats far greater than itself. It even managed to take out the dreaded Kaiju, Scardigrade, on its own. A feat that usually requires several mecha.  

What’s its secret? Does it have some special weapon I didn’t mention? Some superpower that defies all logic? Eh… sorta. It might have something to do with the peerless skill of its pilots, Peter Johnson, Kora Zonita, and their leader Brian Templeton. 

Eventually, Fight City was dismissed as it was officially obsolete. It was dismantled and its current whereabouts are unknown.

When a combining mecha team is in perfect synchronization, and their pilots are perfectly attuned to their Aether Drives, they can push their drives well beyond their normal limits. This is called Overclocking. 

Overclocked Aether Drives make even the weakest combiners a force to be reckoned with. Overclocking can make mecha move at insane speeds and boost their strength by completely unknown amounts. The longer they are that state, the more energy accumulates. In rare cases, an several overclocked Aether Drives can warp reality in bizarre ways. They can seemingly heal metal, or generate powerful new weapons, or absorb and deflect attacks like it’s nothing. 

It does come with a cost. Overclocking Aether Drives generates a tremendous amount of heat. Mechas seemingly erupt into flames, venting heat from every possible opening. The heat alone puts a ton of stress on the pilots and can be deadly on its own. If the heat doesn’t kill you, the energy drawn straight from your nervous system into the drives will. Even the toughest pilots will burnout in a matter of minutes. 

Not only does Fight City have the honor of being the first combiner, it is the first one to ever overclock. After realizing they could influence their drives with strong emotions, Captain Templeton devised a crazy plan. Through the combined might of three close teammates simultaneously venting all their pent-up white-hot anger, Fight City can do things no one thought possible. Its hulking frame can move at supersonic speeds, and deliver punches with the force of a nuclear warhead. It is able to fire a large heat laser from the heat regulation fins on its head. The intense heat radiating from its body, and its punishing Aether Drive field, can torch and kill anyone unlucky enough to step in its radius. Even its daggers become a pair of massive flaming swords. 

Through sheer force of will, the Fight Citizens of Fight city were able to do the impossible and dispatch the Immortal Scardigrade. 

Overclocking is a rare skill. It requires one to be attuned to their own particular Aether Drives to such an extent that they can manipulate them with thought. Most combiner teams will likely never witness this power.