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This Story is a special episode, based somewhere with in the Bubblegum Crisis Avatar Slider story. I won't give you an exact date, I decided to start this story because I'm in a bit of a rut with the other stories. I know what I want to write, but I can't put any words down to make any sense so this story will hopefully clear my mind for me. Plus this story will be a real shocker when you read it.

Bubblegum Crisis Avatar Slider Special

Avatar Doppelganger

"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing." -- Kinglsyey Amis

"So what did you think of the film" Robert asked, as he and Linna walked out of the cinema.
"Predictable what else" she signed "I mean no one can write a good James bond Script like Quinton Tarateeno"
"Man, I wish it had been better, but I guess your right" Robert said as he hailed a cab "Let get something to eat, Captain Murttok recommend this Italian restaurant down by the bay"
"That fine with me" She replied as Robert opened the cab door for her.
"You Ok, you seemed to be a little unsettled this week, what wrong" he said as he got into the cab after her.
"Nothing really just a little queasily" she said "Come on, I'm hungry"
"Ok ok, Driver to Little Italy on 75th street" and with that the cab pulled away from the street.

An hour later, the couple walked out of the Italian restaurant after eating.
"I take that back" Robert said as he stared at the bill he was holding in his hand.
"What was that?" Linna asked as she followed him
"This bill, man how much did you eat, you can't be sick and eat that much" Robert replied still staring at bill "Look" he said showing the bill to Linna.
"Arr... I thought you would spend anything on me" Linna replied.
"Yes well I not going to any place that Murttok recommends again" Robert said "Come on let's take a walk down to the bay park" As Robert pointed to the park down the road.
"That be nice" Linna replied "there something that I want to talk to you about"
"Really and what might that be Hun?" Robert asked.
"Wait till we get to the park" Linna replied. Mean while something had been bugging Robert all day, but something for the past hour had Robert on edge. May be being a Knight Sabres for the past few years had him on edge, but dating Linna for the past year might affect him more as well as his wallet.
After a few minutes of silent walking along the street, Robert was telling some jokes and they where holding hands. The two of them enjoyed the summer night air. Soon the two of the entered the park and made their way towards the boating pond.
"So what did you want to speak about, Hun honey" Robert asked as they stopped by the edge of the pond.
"Well it about you and me, there been something I been meaning to speak to you about the past week" Linna noticed that something was wrong with Robert "Rob are you listening..." Linna asked, while looking at Robert who seemed to be on edge.
"Sorry, something been bugging me today honey" Robert replied "I don't know, but I feel like something going to happen"
"What do you mean?"
"I don't know, but something doesn't feel right, maybe we should go to Sylia..." Robert stopped for a second and turned round scanning the area "Linna Get out of here" he said to her.
"What wrong?"
"Just move it" he shouted as Linna began to run for the park exit, the ground around him shook. "Who there..." he shouted with a mute voice.
"Himm finally someone who willing to fight, it been a long while since I sparred" Came a voice from an electronic altered voice box from in front of him, what scared Robert was that the person in front of him was wearing a hardsuit. Not just any type of hardsuit suit but one that matched his very own current one, the only different was that this one was all black, Robert hardsuit was a light grey with orange stripping.
"Who the hell are you?" Robert asked, as he prepared himself, he quickly glanced down the path, to check that Linna was ok.
"Don't worry, I not interested in her, it only you I'm interested in" the electronic voice spoke.
"Who are you?" Robert asked again.
"I'm your worst night mare" The voice said.
"I said who the hell are you?"
"Ready or not" the voice said as the Hardsuit visor slid opening revelling the face of the wearer. Robert stepped back in shock as he saw the face, "Surprise"
"What the fuck" all Robert said, as he looked at the face staring him. The reason Robert was surprised was that this guy was Robert. "Who are you?"
"Who am I you ask, I am Thornton Howard, and I'm everything evil about you" the man in the hardsuit said with Robert voice, which scared him to death.
"What do you want" Robert asked, as the shock began to wear off.
"I want to kill you" he answered.
"Why what have I ever done to you"
"Nothing just your existence, is a very hindrance to me" he replied, raising his armoured fists "Prepare to fight" he said as he closed his visor.
"A little unfair, as I have no hardsuit" Robert replied.
"Who said I had a heart" he chuckled with the electronic voice of the hardsuit. 'Thank god, I finished it yesterday' Robert thought back as he took a combat stance, as he had an ace up his sleeve or should I say on his hand.
"Well I can be a little stinker as well, because I lied"
"What!" Shouted his evil doppelganger.
"Hey I'm a mercenary, not a super hero" Robert chuckled to himself, this only enraged Thornton, who suddenly charged at Robert with his hardsuit sword. But before he could reach Robert in front of him.
"Hardsuit Combat Mode" Robert Shouted, as suddenly the cloths that he had been wearing turned into Black metallic liquid that submerged Robert in it, it then reformed as his state of the art hardsuit. This gave quite a surprise to Thornton as he watched the whole processes that happen in front of him, he stopped and asked.
"Ere... How long have you had that?" was all he simple asked.
"Since yesterday" Robert replied.
"Err Shit, of all the days to chose, I had to pick the one day when you upgrade"
"Come on, I thought you wanted to fight, I need to combat test this" Robert said priming his knuckle bomb gloves.
"Arrrrhhhh...." Screamed Thornton as he charged at Robert with his hardsuit blade, Robert simple side stepped with the simplest of ease out of the way.
"You missed me" Robert Chuckled
"Prepare to die" was all he got in response from his doppelganger and again he charged trying to attack Robert.
"Come on what this all about" he tried to ask, as he ducked and dodged the black hardsuits attacks from in front of him. He didn't get a response from him 'Ok it time to go on the offensive' Robert thought, as he started fighting back.
"You had everything go right for you, my life been hell. If I can't have neither can anyone else" Robert double said as he aimed his hard suit rail gun at Robert, he let off a burst of fire, Robert dodge with ease.
"You got to do better then that, I do live fire for training" Robert replied as he tried to think of what to do, this wasn't what he had expected to deal with as a Knight Sabre.
"I will stop at nothing to see you dead" Robert heard him say, 'Damn I got to get away from here, I putting these people in danger, Where to go, where to go?' he thought 'Yes, that construction site will do' as he laid eyes on the construction site on the other side of the park.
"Then follow me, ass hole" Robert said to anger him and make him follow Robert away from any civilians in the city park. It was quite successful as Robert hit his hardsuit jets, His new enemy follow suite.
"Running away won't save you Knight Hawk" The hardsuit electronic voice bellows out behind him.
"Who said I running ass hole" Robert replied as he landed on a steel I-beam in the construction site "Now the fun begins" Robert chuckled to himself. Suddenly the black hardsuit rushed at him, Robert tired to dodge, but the other hardsuit blade connected, hitting head on. Knocking Robert off balance, he tired to correct himself and keep his balance, but he slipped 'Shit' he thought as he fell back. Suddenly he was falling 'Come on' he tired to hit the jet thrusters on his hardsuit, but an error warning came up on the visor screen 'This isn't good', BANG Robert hit the floor hard, falling from the tenth floor above, Suddenly steel beams started to fall Wham one of them hit the ground hard, pinning Robert under it. If it wasn't for Robert hardsuit, the beam would have killed him. But the impact dazed Robert, as he tried to sake the dizziness from his eyes.
"Him... I though you where going to put up a fight, guess I was wrong" the electronic Voice of his duplicate hardsuit said. "O well, I save myself the trouble" he said as Robert heard a click of a switch and the sudden high wine pitch of electronic build up. Robert began looking for where it was coming from 'God I hope it isn't what I think it is', then as he laid eye's on a small black sphere rolling towards him.
"Crap" he shouted as he saw it, he rushed through the hard suit options trying to boost the hardsuit exoskeleton strength.
"Well I'll be going, good bye Wish Ass" Robert's double said before he turned and disappeared in to the night.
"Come on, Come on I need power now!" Never before had he tired to talk to his hardsuit, be never before was he in this type of danger, suddenly out of now where Robert forced the steel beams off his legs. 'Damn there no way I can out run this' Robert though as felt the pain in his leg's, with the hardsuit jet's not working. The only way out of there was to walk, the electric pitch was almost consistent meaning it was about to blow. Suddenly out of nowhere Robert began to hear a phone ringing, this shocked him he almost though the bomb went off.
"What the..." Robert said as the mobile phone rang, suddenly out of nowhere the phone phased through the skin of the suit. Robert picked it up, 'it only one person who can do that' he thought "Nemo is that you" he said after connecting the phone.
"Robert, we have a problem, Sorry about the delay but we had trouble from the council. There is someone after you, he will be trying to kill you" Nemo voice came over the line.
"I very much aware of that!" Robert said as he tired to hobble along the floor, trying to get away from the bomb on the floor "He almost got me here, I need HELP NOW!" Robert shouted over the phone.
"I'm on it" Robert heard Nemo say, suddenly the bomb sphere behind him stop, Robert turned and looked.
"O shit that isn't good" Robert said as he started to try to run. The bomb blew in a large explosion, it would have engulfed Robert in it blast. If he hadn't first disappeared in a flash of light. On the other hand the construction site was levelled by the explosion of the bomb, with in minutes the site was surrounded by fire trucks and police cars. As they tied to deal with the disaster around them.

Across the parkway, atop of another tall building stood another person watching the construction site blaze.
"Man I really thought that he would have some fight it him" The Lone man said out loud to himself, "O'well, on to the next one" He pulled out a small device out of his hardsuit and switch it on. It began to hum and lights lit up "Next stop RE-34-IO-LK" and suddenly he too was engulfed in a bright flash of light.

Several minutes later the same spot was occupied by three more hard suits this times the users of these hardsuit where female. "Linna, you sure he was heading that Way" Sylia said as she viewed the blaze down below.
"Yes, god I hope he ok" Linna said turning away, not wanting to watch the scene below.
"Nene Anything yet?" Sylia asked the Red hardsuit wearer.
"Nope, I picking up nothing, no hardsuit tracker beacon from him, No Communication, nothing, Linna don't worry I'm sure he turns up" Nene said trying to comfort her friend.
"God I hope so" Linna said as Nene put her hand on Linna shoulder "Because I never got to tell him" and Linna started crying.

Meanwhile somewhere else, Robert began to stir. He had landed on the ground with a hard thump on parkland grass.
"What the hell, err.... Where am I?" he muttered to himself as he woke himself, he looked round trying to get s bearing on where he "This isn't Mega Tokyo" he said after viewing the unfamiliar sky line, A sudden gust of wind blew. A piece of litter flew by Robert, with sudden grace Robert hand shot out grabbing it, 'Great a newspaper' he thought, then he looked and the title °Mega Tokyo Wire° "This can't be right" he said as he double check the nights sky line, he then spotted the date of the newspaper 'June 5th 2054'. There was no other way he could put this, and then put them in the words of another famous time traveller
"O boy" Robert was left speechless.

The End, for now.

Hawkeye

Well that it for now, Tell me what you think of it, Review and comments welcome. Next chapter soon.