The Five Astros
Chapter 1
It is an average night in Metro City. The hustle and bustle of the daily grind is all returning to their homes for a good night's rest. But when the humans go to bed for the day, the robots will play. Or in this case The Robot Revolutionary Front who is on their moped with Sprx on the wheel, Robotski on the back, and Mike the Fridge in the sidecar.
They are all singing Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto after a night of drinking turpentine, which as everyone knows is the robot version of alcohol. Drunk out of their processors they swerve all over the road carelessly almost hitting people and other robots on the road. Naturally the next thing they hear is a police siren and of course a police car.
"Oh no no no no no no this is bad." Sprx slurring words together.
"I knew this would happen sooner or later. I told you guys one of us had to be deson-something driver." Mike slurring his words just as much as Sprx.
"I won't back to jail, I can't go back" Super drunk Robotski said as he grabbed the moped's handles and tries to go faster. But, of course tipsy as he was he crashed the moped into a wall.
Moaning from the drunken nausea and pain from the whiplash they got the RRF accepted their fate as the police car stops near them. However, instead of policebots coming out the car the RRF got the surprise of seeing three punks come out.
Sprx still wasted asks the two "Hey, I like the new uniforms guys."
"Sorry Metalhead. But, we ain't coppers. Buts we dids take one of their's cars." One of the punks said to Sprx who then says to the two other crooks "See, I told youse guys that pretending to pull people over so wes can mug them woulds be a good idea."
"But Mitch they're robots they don't got cash." One of the other thugs said to which Mitch then responds "Maybe not, but we's can take them apart and melts them down for a little cash right?" An idea so good that the other thugs cheered in agreement.
Even though Sprx was greatly under the influence of turpentine he was still afraid as hell of being melted into something like plumbing pipes. So he went and grabbed the now-passed out Mike and Robotski and carried them into an alley. But, he was so drunk and weak from overdrinking that he fell over.
Sprx lied on the ground seeing as the four crooks ganged up on him and as he thought "This can't be the end. I have to keep on functioning until the RRF have accomplished their goal of freeing all robots. It can't end like this." he closed his eyes only to open them up again as he heard one of the punks scream as he was thrown into a dumpster. Sprx was shocked to see another figure there but instead of helping the thugs he was fighting them. The mysterious figure then grabbed a trashcan and put on top on of the crooks then kicked him into the wall knocking him out. The last two then jumped up on him and tried to strangle him with a chain but he could not be choked. The figure then performed a karate chop on the two knocking them out as well.
The RRF was saved but instead of relieved Sprx was confused. He was about to pass out but he could recognize the figure: he was small like a little boy, and he wore nothing but underpants and red boots, but most of all his hair had two pointy spikes coming out of his head. He looked like his friend Astro but something seemed….off.
But, then the figure spoke "You guys okay?" The voice was WAY different then Astro's. But before Sprx could say something he passed out. The Astro look-alike knew they were all right and then flew off into the night.
The next day the REAL Astro came home from school.
"Hey Orrin"
"Welcome Home Astro"
"Hey, has Dad called to say when he'll get home from Energy Summit?
"Actually he said he'd be home by tonight."
While listening to Orrin Astro plopped right down on the sofa and turned on the TV. The very first thing he saw was a news story already in progress.
"with the monkey taken in for questioning." The anchorman said or at least what he said the second Astro turned on the TV. "In other news a group of thugs were arrested last night after stealing a patrol car. The four crooks were found knocked out in an ally in front of three passed-out robots, however these robots were found with a high amount of turpentine around their mouths along with 2 tanks by their moped. So it's safe to say that they merely got wasted after a night of drinking and that they were not in any way harmed. Looks like Astro Boy saved the day again. Thanks Astro."
Astro was confused. How could he stop some criminals when he was asleep the whole night? "Hey Orrin?" "Yes Astro" Orrin replied. "You were awake all night did I do anything weird in the middle of the night?" "Hmmmmm Well Actually…..Ehhhh no can't say you did." "Hmm, I guess the police did it and the news thought it was me again. Ever since I became a superhero people have been saying I've been doing a lot of heroic stuff I didn't do."
Just then, a humongous crash was heard and seen outside. Almost in an instant Astro went and looked out the window. It was the giant orange, one-eyed, tentacled alien again who swore in its native alien language after his first defeat by Astro that it wouldn't rest until it had its revenge. In fact this is the 14th time it's attacked.
"Don't stop cooking dinner Orrin, this will only take a few minutes." Astro said as he took off his civilian clothes leaving only his iconic underwear and boots. And in almost an instant Astro flew out the window and straight into action.
Astro flew until he stopped in mid-air when he reached the alien. "Don't you ever get tired of this you weirdo?" he said. The alien looked angry the minute it saw Astro and in its language said: "Don't think you'll beat me this time robot. I've learned from my losses and I've got a secret strategy." Astro didn't understand it but got the gist of it when the alien picked up random objects in each of its tentacles. Its plan was this: throw anything he could get from the ground and throw it at Astro before he punches his eye and once he's down it will use its eye lasers to blast him to Kingdom Come.
But of course, no matter what it threw Astro dodged, punched, and blasted his way through the objects. And when Astro got close the alien panicked and began flying away. Astro then grabbed two of the alien's tentacles and began swinging him around. However, the alien also anticipated this and used one of his tentacles to grab a building. And by doing so it stopped Astro's motion and threw him into the Metro City Mountain.
The alien then grabbed Astro and began beating him around like a rag doll and when he was beaten up enough he then dropped him to the street. The alien laughed sinisterly as it had finally beaten its arch-foe. But first, it had to vaporize Astro with its lasers. Astro quickly regained consciousness only to see the alien charge up its laser to finish him off once and for all.
But just when it was about to fire its laser, like a miracle from a guardian angel another laser hit the alien's eye. It flinched in pain as it could dish it out but couldn't take it per se. The laser then hit the eye again but unlike Astro's lasers which fire off separately in large clumps it fired off in a continuous motion. Then something flew into view and Astro saw that the lasers came from the objects fingers. The alien then blindly slapped the object into the street in front of Astro.
Astro then got up and went to help the object. Astro called out to the object to see if it was all right. "Yeah, I'm okay. I usually have to deal with something like this all the time." And when the smoke cleared Astro saw the object and it was something that shocked him to the very Blue Core. It was him, another Astro Boy was right in front of him with the same chocked expression as him.
End of Chapter 1