'This is far too easy' she thought as she looked around the gym with a small frown on her face. Metal parts were strewn about the place; the center being a large boxing ring. Rain bit back a scoff when she saw the huge concrete blocked used to 'train' bots hung off to one side. This gym may have had some redeeming qualities, but they clearly lacked the funds to do anything huge. Then again, Atom was to be a 'junkyard dog' for a reason. Rain softly sighed as she looked over at who she had come with before she chuckled. He seemed more interested in the ring and training than she was at the moment.
Rain weakly sighed and shook her head. For people dealing with illegally bought bots, their security was rather lax at this point. Maybe that woman had been the only one here at the moment. She had seen the woman leaving the gym, but she hadn't locked all of the doors. Oh well, lucky Rain then. This meant she could get in and take a look around first. Just who had bought the old Noisy Boy?
She had known it was had been the real deal the moment she heard that this Midas had taken down Noisy Boy when his trainer had been unable to find the right commands to input. Only the original maker could have handled Noisy, that rat bastard Tak- No. She wasn't going to think about him anymore. She had other things to worry about at the moment. Like where her tool for revenge- Er.. New friends and partners were. The only one she was finding she could trust these days was her own bot.
Her Noisy, the real one as far as she was concerned, had been built up with his programming to be better than the one she now labeled as a fake. Built in programs to keep him from being totally wiped out if something would happen. It was mostly if Noisy took a particularly jarring blow and had either lost communications with Rain's headset or Rain was doing something stupid. Like fighting when she had a fever of 101 only because someone had insulted her building skills. Just because someone can build both underwater bots and boxing ones does not mean that they are always the brightest of people.
The regal purple bot huffed as he looked about the gym with an air of dissatisfaction. So this place was where the fake had been? How boring. He paused when he heard his trainer sigh and shifted slightly so that he could peer down at her. Was she not feeling well? His files recalled the last time she had been ill; it had been horrible for him as well. It had taken Trainer a whole day to scrub all of the bile off of him, another one to buff out all of the scratches to his paint, and by the third day he had been finally waxed and shined so he was back to normal again. If there was one thing that Trainer liked more than him winning was him looking good.
She paused when her bot, Noisy boy, moved to look down at her with a worried look on his face. The bot had been gifted with some programming to make him more human like when not in the ring, but Rain was still having a hard time getting a vocalizer to work. She had listened to many simple voices, but they all sounded too robotic.
"S'nothin… Dun worry about it," she told Noisy, who just huffed in reply. "Oh don't you gimmie that sass. Be glad m'lettin you run on auto around here."
He would have rolled his eyes if they had been able to. He was forced to be contented with another huff and looking away.
"Gawd… like a freaking five year old," she grumbled to herself and bit back a laugh as Noisy had gently nudged her shoulder with a large gloved hand. He had heard that! "But I do hope they get here soon. I am tired of waiting."
Rain should have been alarmed about a ten foot fighting robot acting on his own, but it was how she had made him. Before she had been a fighter, Rain had been a researcher for Roboaqua and her bots needed to think for themselves. Her fish, dolphins, and sharks would need to be able to function on their own from time to time; certainly if she had multiple bots out. That had been the plan.
And that was when she shuddered as her mind began to recall just why she had switched from water bots to land ones. It was hard to not be absorbed by memory when it seemed to be forever burned into her mind; right down to the point where she swore she could taste salt on her tongue. Her mind had been panicked as she struggled for air and her mind screamed for her while she was trapped underwater. She could feel the thrashing and the water amplified the sound of serration and all she could do was stare at those god damn black soulless eyes that-
She jerked back into her current surroundings when she felt another nudge on her shoulder and heard Noisy let out an almost crooning sound. Well, as much as a crooning or comforting sound a half ton robot could make. This was one of the main reasons why Noisy was rather self aware. Despite her therapy, flash backs were common for her due to phobia. Rain gave Noisy a half smile and she made a slightly surprised sound when his open gloved hand patted her head with the utmost care. Christ, it was almost shocking to have Noisy act out on all of his programming. Giving him enough programming to be more social than a regular bot may have been a bit foolish, but Rain was happy with how he was at the moment.
Noisy, thanks to said programming, was a rather observant bot. Of course, he never really acted on such during most fights, Trainer was in charge then, but he was quick to figure out his Trainer. The first few times she had seemed to just paused for no logical reason before having what the internet labeled as a panic attack, he had just watched her; confused as to why Trainer would act in such a way. It wasn't until he watched Trainer and another human interact when she did shut down that he finally understood that in order to prevent illogical break downs was to keep Trainer from getting too deep in thought when she paled. So, he had started to gently nudge her. And Trainer had not corrected him, so he figure it was all right.
Rain shook her head; what a bother this place was. Why couldn't someone be here? She perked up when she heard a truck rumbling up to the back door. 'Oh good here they are.' She thought as she heard a few doors opening and some laughter. Were they going to be surprised? Rain was a little uncertain as to just what the reaction to her being here might bring.
"Woaaaah! Charlie. Look look! Bailey must've been really bored," a young male voice said and Rain had to assume that it was Max. What other young boy would come around here? Rain stepped around Noisy Boy to see Max leading Atom as Charlie walked next to them.
"Somehow I doubt that is the case, kid," the older man said with a frown on his face. Just who was this woman and why did she have a bot that looked like Noisy Boy? Or something like it. She didn't appear to be high up on the social ladder so he doubted the bot was a fan made knock off. Her clothes looked worn out and covered with oil stains. Sneakers were more than likely were the shoes hidden by her slightly baggy tan cargo pants. Charlie could see a few screwdrivers sticking out of one of the pockets, which was not surprising considering the woman seemed to work on bots. Murphy's Law and everything. A well worn red shirt that bore the Dr. Pepper logo on it was her top and it fit her loosely. The woman's face looked a little on the stern side despite the fact that her green eyes didn't portray any hard feeling at the moment. And her black hair was in a bit of disarray even with being in a braid that stopped mid back.
"Mr. Kenton... I just need a moment of your time; only a few questions and then I will be-"
"Atom isn't for sale," Max interrupted and Rain couldn't help but chuckle.
"Well neither is my Noisy Boy but somehow you got your hands on what you thought was him. Care to explain how?"
Now Charlie was on edge; he knew that bot had been too good to be true. "Well, it's nothing but a hunk of junk now so you've got nothing to worry about."
"Mr. Keaton, I can assure you that-"
"Charlie."
Rain raised a brow a moment, but mentally shrugged. "Charlie then... I am not here to try to get anything out of you other than information. Someone had sold my original plans of Noisy and I want to know who and why. I figured that whoever did so might be connected to who you bought your bot from. That is all."
Meanwhile, Max had walked a bit closer to Noisy Boy with Atom in shadow mode at the moment. His critical eye caught the small circular pattern on the plating that came from hand waxing and knew that this Noisy Boy was well cared for. It would take a great deal of time to wax a whole bot from head to toe, even if this woman hired someone else to do it for her. However, what surprised him the most about Noisy Boy was how the bot actually crouched down a little in order to apparently get a better look at him. A shadow function? No, he wasn't mirroring anyone as far as he could tell. "Why did you make him look so human? Don't you know that is in the past?"
Rain just shrugged in reply. "I am happy with how he looks; it's different. Besides, why not make them all more like this? It'd be a new gimmick and all."
Max frowned; that was not the reply he had wanted to have heard. "Huh... Think he'd beat Zeus?"
"I think anyone that is not intimidated by Zeus can beat him. That's what happened with you two, isn't it? It was a rather impressive fight. I never thought I'd see a G2 sparing bot go that far; we never made them to fight like you use him. But overall…" Rain looked Atom over. "I am rather impressed."
The words got Max to frown; she'd never thought a G2 would go so far? Rain seemed to know about the old bots, then again so did Bailey and Charlie. It could be the fact that they were just older than them. He had recalled seeing someone like her in a few photos for major WRB matches. And she knew how to make her own bot as she was clearly going away from the social norm for them. But why? Certainly she didn't think she'd get a league fight. Unless… This willowy woman was someone who knew the higher ups in the league and potentially every major fighter out there.
"Did you know we were going to lose?"
Now that got a rather deep frown to form on her face. "Fight rigging is not somewhere that I am very knowledgeable in."
Charlie wanted to swear; Max sure put his foot in it now. "Look. What can we do for you, Miss Campbell?" He needed to diffuse the uneasy air.
"I am looking for a name; your seller. That is all I need." Rain was uncertain that she was wanted to hang around here; that she was wanted.
Max looked disappointed. "I... You can't stay? Even for a little while? Can't you show us some of Noisy's moves?"
Now it was Rain's turn for a little surprise. "I.. Uhm.." she looked over at Noisy Boy, who just shrugged back. "I guess so? If you don't have anywhere you have to be?" If she planned on getting back into the ring in order to at least beat the bot who bested the fake Noisy into the ground, then she needed to get back into the game a little bit. "Besides... I need to make sure I can beat a certain golden bot." No one dragged her bot's name through the mud and got away with it. Rain could be rather blood thirsty.
"Who? Midas?" Max asked and shrugged as Rain began to guide Noisy Boy over to the ring. "I dunno if they're going to just let you in with what they think is another Noisy."
Rain scoffed. "Oh please... I could get a fight with just about anyone in the underground... Money talks," she replied as Noisy stepped into the boxing ring. "Now then... let's see how rusty I am at this."