Before Gold Ranger, before Aquitar part one, pulled from the Whoiverse, you can tell which is not mine.
"Make sure the Cogs are upgraded to their fullest ability, General!"
"Yes, King Mondo." He bowed deep in respect.
"Good, now is there anything else that I'm missing? My Queen?" He looked to his left.
Queen Machina shook her head no. She replied, "No, your highness."
Facing his right, he turned his attention to his son. "What about you, my wonderful Prince?"
"I want…the moon, Daddy!" Sprocket said.
"Yes, get Prince Sprocket the moon. Now off you go," King Mondo dismissed.
General Gear rolled his machine eyes at Prince Sprocket's outrageous request. In the long line of many, but outrageous still none the least. He couldn't understand why such a family was in a high position. He headed back away from the Royal Chamber, towards the path of the Army area, but deviated from the path down a small narrow passageway. He stood in front of door. Knocking once, the door opened just a crack.
"Pass code?" The squeaky voice asked behind it.
"Oh shut up and let me in," he grumbled in reply.
The door opener jumped in fear. "General, what a pleasant surprise! We all thought the King would hold you for much longer!" It was Klank, one of the top two robots that serve the Royal House of Gadgetry, who opened the door and allowed General Gear to fully enter.
The room was darkly lit, lighting a small round table. Around that table, there sat Orbus: the other robot to serve the Royal House, both working as double agents, King Aradon: Mondo's archnemesis , Louie Kaboom: an ally of Rita and Zedd who proved himself knowledgeable at battle strategies, though Gear didn't trust him as far as he could throw him, Borax: a member of the bounty hunter race on Vorax, who sole reason for being there was the large bounty on King Mondo's head, and Specialist Brass: General Gear's assistant.
It was a motley crew of the best of the worst all assembled by General Gear to achieve one thing: to overthrow King Mondo and take control of the Machine Empire and rule space. They were the Machine Rebellion.
They started formulating a while ago, and were eager now more than ever to make an attack.
"We're waiting too long," complained King Aradon. He's reasons for joining the Rebellion? He wanted leverage over the Machine Empire, another kingdom to add under his rule. "The longer we wait; King Mondo gets stronger and stronger. And I'm not sure Thing 1 and Thing 2 here can keep their traps shut any longer," he said pointing to Klank and Orbus.
"Hey!" They responded in unison.
It was the one downfall when working with the best of the worst, their lack of patience was worst than Prince Sprocket's spoiled behavior.
"The time will come, King. Specialist is doing all that he can to rewire the Cogs under our control. Klank and Orbus both have also set aside monsters than will join us in battle," General explained as Klank and Orbus turned to King Aradon, taunting him.
Louie sighed in frustration, "Well, we're not getting any younger here, Gear."
"Take your time," Borax said. The longer it took, the higher the bounty went on Mondo's head. "I can wait forever until we attack."
"But I can't!" The King stood up in frustration. "I want action, and I want it now."
"King, all of you, calm down, you have yet to hear my news," General Gear said, calming the room. The others listened in intently.
"Well, come on, General, don't keep us any longer!" Orbus cried.
The General sat back in his seat, before informing. "There is a spirit, energy so great that a full scan of it seems impossible. The only records that indicate a similar energy show it's a bit age duration, whirl occasional life flux. "
Confusion was all over the group's faces.
"A time vortex," he further added.
Still confused.
He sighed, "A really powerful light thing."
"Oh," the Rebels murmured as they understood.
"We get a hold of this; we can easily destroy King Mondo, and have the Empire to ourselves and rule space."
"I want it," Borax growled.
King Aradon asked, "Does Mondo have any clue about this energy?"
"King Mondo has no clue what he's having for dinner, I highly doubt he recognizes anything," General answered.
Louie moved closer to Gear, "And just where is this power?"
"You wanted battle, didn't you?" General replied. He laid out a map of the galaxy on the round table, pointing to each planet. "We attack Triforia first. Then we move to Earth. Next it's KO-35 and Aquitar..."
"Planet by planet? Are you sure this strategy is wise?" Louie asked.
"They are placed by the likelihood that the energy would be there."
"When do we attack? Dawn?" Klank questioned, excited about the looming battle.
"No, we wait…"
The entire table groaned in frustration, except Borax of course.
"We wait," General repeated, "until there is a break in Mondo's control. When he's at his weakest, we make our move towards the kingdom, overthrow Mondo and attack the planets."
"Then the Empire is ours," Louie said devilishly.
"No," Gear corrected. "The galaxy is ours."
What happened yesterday? Kat thought to herself as she sat at a distant table at Ernie's Juice Bar. Her head was pounding; her arms felt heavy, her whole entire body was sore. She tried to shake off her uncomfort and focus on the wonderful task at hand, Biology review. It was her first exam.
She flipped pass many of the pages in her notebook, material was she was sure she knew, until a page caught her attention. BAD WOLF was written in thick, bold lettering, and Kat gave a smirk in delight, her pain quickly gone as she felt rejuvenated, her right hand becoming encased in a mist of gold dust.
"Kat?"
The voice broke her out of her trance. She turned around quickly. She was met with Tanya's smile.
"I knew it was you." Tanya pulled out a chair next to her, sitting beside her friend. "You're the only person I know who can handle all this noise while studying," she said motioning around them.
Kat shrugged. "The background noise is sort of comforting, you know? It's almost a lull." She looked down at her notebook, the BAD WOLF page still facing her. She hastily slammed it shut, much to Tanya's amusement.
"You okay there, Kat?" she asked almost chuckling.
Kat seemed alarmed. Part of her wanted to show her the words, in hopes that Tanya could stop this power from controlling her altogether, but the other part of Kat, all that power, didn't want Tanya to know, in fear that Tanya wouldn't understand that she wanted the power. The things she could do with this energy, the things she had to do…
"Hello, earth to Kat?" Tanya waved her hand in front her face, snapping Kat out of her trance.
"I'm sorry, Tanya, it's just…"
"Exams, I know. We're all acting a little weird," she said putting her hands in front of her. "But you may have to break from your studies for a bit. Billy wants to see you."
Kat's breath hitched in her throat. "Wha…what could he possibly want? I haven't done anything, maybe it's power upgrades or something…"
"Kat, you're talking 50 miles per hour. And you only do that when you're nervous…"
"I'm not nervous," she denied as she crossed her arms. She wasn't, she wanted to see him. She remembered the feeling when they made eye contact last night in the Power Chamber: the pull, the attraction, closing in on a prey…however she didn't know if it was the energy in her or not that made her so anxious.
"There's no need to be, he just wants to run a few tests. He said he'd ask you questions to help you study during it, since I gave him a rough time from taking you away from your 'natural habitat'," Tanya said with a smirk, referring to the scattered books and papers on Ernie's table.
"Well the sooner I get there, the faster I can return to my niche," Kat said playing along, packing rapidly.
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