Challenge of Aria-Bellum
The Challenge of Aria-Bellum is an ancient Cybertronian form of fighting, which, if invoked, means two Cybertronians must face each other in single combat. It's so old, even Kup doesn't know about it!
Fiction
[edit]Rodimus vs. Cyclonus
[edit]When Kup and his crew left Quintessa to find Ultra Magnus and his bots, they were ambushed by Cyclonus. Hot Rod, knowing that Cyclonus would tear the ship apart, hailed Cyclonus, and invoked the Challenge of Aria-Bellum, challenging Cyclonus to single combat, hoping that it would buy the others time to figure out a way to ditch Cyclonus. Kup expressed his bewilderment at Hot Rod's invoking a Challenge he had, amazingly, never heard of. Hot Rod admitted he did not know how he knew of it, only that he somehow did. Rodimus vs. Cyclonus
Notes
[edit]- "Aria-Bellum" is probably meant to look like Latin for "solo combat", but it is gibberish. Bellum means "war", not "combat", while "aria" is not Latin and only means "solo" in the sense of the Italian/English term for a solo-voiced song. "Solo combat" can be expressed in Latin in several ways, but a preexisting term is Certamen Singulare. Alternatively, if "Aria-Bellum" is supposed to be poetic and reflect "song of war", the grammar is still off because that would require bellum to be rendered as belli.