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Zip/Swing
A surprise machinegun volley rattles off somewhere behind you, sucking bits of land and building into the air. A lucky shot tears by your cheek, but you don't flinch. You coolly lift your hulking graphite arm and... CLANK! VZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! With the grace of an acrobat and the force of a hundred cannon balls you rise ten floors in as many milliseconds, pausing only to make your final leap onto the roof of your new hideout. That's the zip.
But the chase is still on. A seemingly insurmountable gap in the urban landscape separates you and the rifle that'll put a hole through your determined pursuer. CLANK! You fire your wire again, and this time it grabs hold of a metal catwalk above the gap. You leap from the edge of your perch and dive toward the ground. Anyone else would be picking concrete out of their teeth, but they don't have a fusion-powered arm. Your wire snaps taught and you swing like a pendulum onto the next platform.
Rifle; scope; aim! Ten seconds ago your hapless pursuer was sure he had the upper-hand - now he's a trigger-finger away from annihilation. That's the power of the Bionic Arm.
Punch
Your $500 million arm is the most advanced piece of technology on the planet. It interfaces directly with your nervous system, reacting without delay as signals fire from your brain to your limbs at near-instant speeds. It's an ultra-complex piece of engineering genius, and what do you use it for? Bashing grunts off cliffs.
The Bionic Arm is capable of two main punches: light and heavy. Light punches can be chained into combos, whereas heavy punches require a bit more recovery time. A good heavy punch, however, will knock your victim into the air, giving you a couple seconds of human batting practice. A jump and another swing from your freight train of an arm sends your human projectile thrashing into his cohorts – that's team work!
Zip Kick
You're backed into a corner. You've only got your arm and your pistol and he's clenching a Drayton AA-9 "Hiker" with an armor-piercing, flesh-tearing slug that's about to rip a hole in your chest. Well, you didn't think that Bionic Arm of yours was only good for swinging from trees, did you?
CLANK! You fire your wire and it clamps onto the approaching grunt. He holds his ground. No problem – two seconds later you're in the air and then ZIP! You retract the wire and your body becomes your weapon – a 200 pound wire-guided missile that's in the grunt's face before he has a chance to… POW! This is not your average, sharp-pain-in-the-chest kind of kick. This is a bone-crushing blow of unparalleled proportion. This is what a flying kick from Bruce Lee would have felt like – if Bruce Lee had been a fusion powered part-mechanized super soldier.
Your foe is tossed out like a pile of old chicken bones, flailing over the edge of a 500-foot cliff. So much for that armor-piercing slug – it's just a hunk of useless metal in comparison to the Bionic Arm.
Death from Above
You stand high above the battlefield, surveying your opponents – you need a valuable moment alone to plot your attack. Time is bleeding away, but your planning will be worthwhile. Another moment of mental calculation and you've got your mark – you dive!
You spread your arms to slow your meteoric fall – a moment of grace to line up your path. They're right under you – two unsuspecting grunts who would have been wise to look up. FWOSH! You reorient yourself and accelerate, flexing your beastly composite arm to absorb the impact. They look up – it's too late. The ground shatters under the force of your fall, and the bones of your opponents may as well have been egg shells.
Just a moment – RIIIP! Within seconds, you've hoisted your massive arm out of its impact crater and you're back on your feet. The bystanders weren't so lucky.
Throw / Smash
Anything is a weapon if you throw it hard enough, but with an arm stronger than an industrial tower crane, how hard you throw something is not nearly as crucial as what you throw. A giant boulder twists off your Bionic Arm like fastball from a Major League pitcher. But this isn't baseball, and your target won't be doing any walking after being pegged by your half-ton projectile.
If you'd rather take a more direct approach, forget rocks and grab the enemy himself. Lean back and SLAM! Flesh and concrete become one. There's no time to slow down, so fling the limp grunt aside like an empty soda can and move on to the next.
Rip
The Bionic Arm can zip you from place to place – but you're not the only thing it can tug on. A tenuously supported monorail car becomes a massive weapon when you rip its metal clamps from the track and let its hulking frame tumble into a BioReign encampment.
And if your trap didn't finish them off, the rip ability can be used to yank distant enemies to the tip of your nose, so you can crush them personally.
Kiting
What's better than a sweet, breezy Spring day and a bit of relaxing kite flying? How about flying a kite with four limbs? The kiting technique is performed by grappling an opponent with the Bionic Arm's wire and pounding him with bullets until he's airborne. One he's levitating at the end of your wire, all that's left to do is introduce his face to the ground, making sure they become best of friends. Inseparable, even.
