Metal Arms 2

I just realised something! I have no quotations in my previous chapters! I shall fix that in due time!

Chapter 3: Jobs III A whole lot of trouble

Glitch was still hanging with his new Droid friend when another Droid was running up to him and seemed to be in a panic.

"Glitch!" The Droid yelled. "Glitch!"`

"What is it?" Glitch asked.

"Thank the Morbots I found you, the Zombiebots attacked them!" The Droid yelled.

"What, the Zombiebots attacked who?" Glitch asked.

"The Droid scout crews, I don't know if they have been destroyed or are still fighting!"

"Where did they go?! Glitch asked more serious.

"They went down the path to the old Mil bases, they were ordered to disarm old Mil security systems so we could take the bases!" The Droid said.

"Thanks for the tip, I'm gonna go rescue them before they get destroyed." Glitch said.

He ran into the garage and the heavy doors rose above him. He completely ignored Krunk who was still working on the statue. Krunk did the same. Glitch jumped on the R.A.T and got into the driver's seat. He started the engine and did a small skid before speeding out the garage. It got Krunk's attention and just saw the R.A.T getting smaller in the distance.

"Who the F%c# was that?"

Glitch was driving the Wastelands at a high speed. He was heading down the same path he went with Krunk and Zobby when Glitch was driving the R.A.T. They were chasing a purple Grunt under the name of Vlax. He was of course loyal to General Corrosive. Glitch was almost day dreaming until he heard sounds of growling. Glitch looked up on a cliff and saw two Zombiebots intercepting the incoming R.A.T then two more trotted with them and they did something that would surprise anyone. They jumped of the cliff and tried to land on the R.A.T. Glitch was actually a little surprised by the new ideas the junk monsters came up with. He speed up more and at the same time changed he weapon to the Level 1 Scatter Blaster (Don't ask about the Level 1). The Zombiebots weren't that lucky as they landed in front of the R.A.T and exploded into pieces. Glitch heard weapon shots in the distance and charged towards the sound. He went over a hill and found what the sound was. He found the Droid scout crews, they had four R. and eight Droids. Four were in turrets and other four took cover behind the closest R.A.T. They had Level 1 S.P. and were shooting in many different areas. At least twelve Zombiebots were trying to destroy the yellow Droids. Glitch knew that he needed to do something; he used his R.A.T to run down the Junkbots. He hit seven of them but they seem to have improved in taking cover. Glitch tried to go and ram them again but they did something unexpected, they shot spikes at Glitches R.A.T and its front tires burst. The R.A.T got out of control and kept speeding. It was charging towards a cliff that seemed to go very deep into water beneath. Glitch had to jump out of the R.A.T before his Droid life came to an end. The R.A.T fell far and went into the water and sinked. Glitch had quickly stopped looking down into the water and saw the Zombiebots almost touching the Droids. Glitch ran to the Droids and fired his Scatter Blaster at the Zombiebots. A Zombiebot had hit three times. First hit did little damage, second hit did a lot more, and the third hit tore him to pieces and destroyed him. Only one Zombiebot remained and it counted as Glitches kill as his Scatter Blaster finished it. A Droid (assuming that he was the leader of this operation) walked up to Glitch.

"Thank you Droid, you've got the skills of an elite commando, we could use you-"The Droid stopped speaking and changed his tone when he realised who he was speaking to. "Holy hell it's you. You're Glitch!" The Droid said excitedly.

"Yes, I seem to get that type of attention more often now." Glitch said. "So uh, what's the deal with being out here? Why are you out here with all these Zombiebots around?"

"Well sir we wanted to gain control of some Mil bases out here since they can't fight back now that they have shut down. We were gonna see if they had anything of value here. We're kinda like smugglers because our group finds useful goods and sell it to Droids for a reasonable price." The commander Droid explained.

"So you sell things to other Droids like the Barter Droids Shady and ?" Glitch asked.

"As I said, we sell things at good prices not like those cheapskates." The commander said.

"Ha, so have you looked in the base just yet?" Glitch asked.

"No, we didn't have the time since the Zombiebots attacked us. I'll admit that if you didn't arrive, we wouldn't have survived." The commander said.

"Well except for that unlucky Droid." Glitch said pointing to the remains of the Droid destroyed by three blows of a Zombiebot.

"Well we're gonna need a replacement Droid. The commander said. "Say, how would you like you join our force?"

Glitch wasn't sure, he would think that he wouldn't be able to work much in Droid Town and assist the Droids when it came under attack. He would worry but he knew that since the Mils weren't active anymore he should have spare time.

"Glitch?"

"Uh, what?" Glitch asked.

"Do you want to join us?"

"Oh, yeah I guess so." Glitch replied hoping that he would not regret his choice.

"Great, oh, and my name Glitch is Clutch." The commander said.

"Great to know, Clutch." Glitch said.

"Well, let's check this base." Clutch said leading Glitch across a small bridge with two other Droids following. They saw two metal doors shut in front of them and as they were three feet away the doors opened.

"Oh no, this is not good." Clutch said.

"What's not? The doors are open and we can get in." Glitch said.

"That's the thing Glitch, there is power in here. The doors are opening so I think that since the Zombie seem to be getting smarter. I think they might have gotten inside. Hell, they could be waiting inside hiding as junk." Clutch said.

"Hmm, good point Clutch, I see what you mean. Then what do we do?" Glitch asked.

"Well, we didn't bring any heavy weapons with us like those two Droids we heard you saved at that Mil base." Clutch said.

Glitch knew who he was talking about, he save two Droids from the Mils at a Mil base one. One had a S.P.E.W and the other one had a Rocket Launcher. After Glitch finished the battle he didn't know what had happened to them as they parted ways when he got back to getting Vlax.

"So, those two Droids made it back." Glitch said surprised.

"Yeah, so we need to be careful. Next time we bring good stuff." Clutch said.

They entered the base and looked around. There were a few deactivated red Grunts with Mining Lasers on the metallic ground. They had to work their way around the bodies. One of the following Droids picked up a Grunts corpse and pulled a Mining Laser of the right arm and put it in his backpack. Glitch, Clutch and the other Droid looked at him.

"What? I always wanted one of these." The Droid said.

They continued their path until Clutch stopped Glitch. Glitch looked at Clutch. Clutch pointed toward a wall and Glitch looked at it. Claw marks.

"See? I told you they were smarter." Clutch said.

"Damn, and stronger too." Glitch said.

They walked to a point of the building where a hall bent left. There was a lot of junk in this hall. Glitch was gonna keep walking but once again, Clutch stopped him.

"(Sigh) What now?" Glitch asked.

"Patients Glitch." Clutch said.

Clutch pulled out a circle device that looked silver and very shiny. He threw it at the centre of the hall. It exploded into silver pieces and then glows white and very light blue. Certain pieces of the junk were stabbed with light from the orb of light and the junk screeched then shacked. Soon the pieces disintegrated. Glitch couldn't believe it.

"Glitch, for a hero you sure need to watch your back still." Clutch said.

"I, agree." Glitch said.

"Here, take these." Clutch said pulling out some more of the same grenade. "You may need them."

"Thanks Clutch." Glitch said.

The next turn in the hall way had turned right. This time there was sealed doors and a large closet. The Droids paced quickly because there pretty much was no junk left to worry about. It seemed easy… too easy. They then walked past the closet. They should have checked inside it before. The closet smashed open and two wild Zombiebots charged out. Glitch was the first to react. He shot at a Zombiebots head and it fell to pieces. The other Zombiebot was taken down by three S.P.E.W waves.

"Ok, we should have probably looked inside the closet." A Droid soldier said.

"Yeah, I doubt we would all be alive right now." The other Droid replied.

Their path lead them to the door way. The door was a lot more solid than the rest. At the side of the door was a control panel with a red glow of a four fingered hand. It was a Mil console.

"Well, I can tell whatever is behind this was meant to be hidden from Droids if they got this far." Clutch said.

"Perhaps we can use one of the Mil Grunts hands here?" A Droid asked.

"No, these consoles were made for Mils with power in their bodies. Using a corpse would make it useless unless you had a Control Tether." Clutch said.

"Well I have a Control Tether." Glitch said. "Perhaps I can use it to take control of one of the Grunts here and give them a small energy boost."

"Great Glitch, give it a go!" Clutch cheered.

Glitch pulled out his Control Tether and ran down the hall to look for a Grunt to Tether. He looked towards the Grunts on the ground and tried to tether them. From what he could see, none of the Grunts in his face were Tether able.

"Damn it!" Glitch cursed. He continued to look and he found a Grunt with an AI mark on its back. Without hesitation he hacked the Grunt and got it to power up. He knew it was very weak. While he would be able to get the solid doors to open, the Grunts vision had the "Losing Signal" screen appearing. Glitches body was in three pieces on the ground now. His hacked Grunt went down the hall to Clutch. He saw the Droids looking at the red Grunt walking towards them. The two unnamed Droids knew Glitch was in it but they still kept their weapons raised in case the Grunt went rouge on them. The Grunt got the console and put its hand up to the red glowing print. The beeping sound from when a console was pressed went off. The doors opened up and on the other side was an elevator.

"Well I didn't expect to go underground but I think we should." Clutch said. "Ok Glitch, the doors open!"

Glitch complied and the Grunt shut down before them. Glitches body got up and went to regroup with the others. Glitch got into the elevator with Clutch and his Droid companions.

"It's down we go I guess." Glitch said.

Meanwhile with Exavolt. . .

Exavolt was on his ship working on new plans on destroying Iron Stars Droid population. This time instead of taking prisoners he was gonna annihilate the entire Droid race. He knew that he wouldn't want to risk being defeated again and being captured. His desperate attempt to rule had come again. So far he only had five Mils and he needed many more.

"Doctor?" A voice said behind him.

Exavolt looked behind him and the red Grunt was behind him.

"What is it, I'm busy?" Exavolt asked.

"We finished what you wanted us to do. Is there anything else you want Doc?" The red Grunt asked.

"As a matter of fact I do. I want you to salvage General Corrosive's memory chips." Exavolt replied.

"Why?" The red Grunt asked.

"(Sigh) I shall explain it later." Exavolt said. "Just tell the others fool!"

"Right away Doc!" The Grunt replied loudly.

"Hahaha! Everything is going according to plan! Oh yes!" Exavolt yelled with an evil smirk that would last for a while.

Back with Glitch. . .

The elevator was going down. Glitch changed his weapon to a Level 2 Rivet gun. The other Droids still had Level 1 S.P. . The elevator ride seemed long. The wiring sound of the lift going down was loud. As it hit the ground, Clutch and the Droids were about to leave the elevator but Glitch stopped them.

"What's wrong Glitch, why are we stopping?" Clutch asked.

"I know things about Mil bases Clutch; I know that in the underground bases had many turrets tied into their systems. While the Mils are gone, their bases must still be hostile." Glitch explained.

"Well, what can you do about it?" Clutch asked.

"I'm gonna scout ahead while you guys follow me but keep a distance." Glitch replied.

"Ok Glitch, but be careful." Clutch warned.

Glitch nodded and walked out of the elevator but quickly stopped. He looked outside of the elevator and looked around the room. Glitch was correct; there were turrets in the bottom of the base. He shot two shots at a turret on the right corner of the room and the blue charges blew the turret up thus leaving the turrets remains hanging. He found another turret on the opposite side of the room. This turret had locked on to Glitch due to the locked on sound being heard. Glitch got cover behind a wall and heard the turret shot. He has heard the turrets gunshots patterns a lot during his adventures and knew when he could attack them. As the turret stopped shooting for a second, Glitch shot three shot at the turret. The turret exploded just like the other one. He looked around again for more turrets. He saw another turret but this one was different then the last two. This one was bigger; it was on a small platform and had a missile launcher. Glitch was gonna destroy it but had another idea. He pulled out an EMP Grenade and was just about to throw it at the gun turret but it quickly aimed at Glitch and fired both its main guns and its missile launchers. Glitch went to cover and tried to throw the grenade right next to the turret. It exploded and the turret shut down. Without hesitation, Glitch ran up to the turret and jumped on the turrets controls. He changed the settings.

[DROIDS] = [HOSTILE]

[ZOMBIEBOTS] = [HOSTILE]

[MILS] = [FRIENDLY]

[MORBOTS] = [?]

Glitch edits the settings a bit and then hoped he got it right.

[DROIDS] = [FRIENDLY]

[ZOMBIEBOTS] = [HOSTILE]

[MILS] = [HOSTILE]

[MORBOTS] = [UNKNOWN]

The turret Glitch was on started up again and Glitch tested it out but jumping in front of its sensor. It seemed like it ignored Glitch completely. It also had a Droid marker above it's head.

"Clutch, it's clear!" Glitch called across the room.

The three Droids left the elevator and regrouped with Glitch. They were startled when they saw the last turret.

"Don't worry about the turret guys. I hacked it, and in case the Zombiebots intrude they will try to hold them off." Glitch explained.

"Ok, so what next?" A Droid asked.

"We look for something of value." Clutch said sharply.

"Well, there's a door over there." Glitch suggested pointing to a door. "Let's go and check it out!"

"Lead on." Clutch said to Glitch.

"Right." Glitch replied. "I don't think there is much more threats left in this base."

"How would you know that?" A Droid asked.

"Experience outranks everything." Glitch replied.

The two soldier Droids just stared and followed Glitch and Clutch.

The next room they entered was a lab that had many interesting items in it. More bodies were in there. There were blue, green and black Grunts in there. There was also Elite Guards on the ground. Glitch looked up and didn't realise that there were four turrets on each corner of the rooms ceiling. What surprised Glitch even more was that they weren't shooting. He decided to ignore them and continued looking around. The room contained two R. and two Sentinels. There was also a large garage door in front of the R. . Everything was quiet… too quiet. Just then a large sound was heard banging on the garage door. Everyone looked at the door. There was a large dent in the door. Another hit at the door and a hole was in it. A Zombiebots head was seen. The strange thing was that instead of the blue glow of the Zombiebots head was now glowing yellow and their grows sounded more monsterish. Glitch took that as a 'make it quick' thing and lead the Droids down a hall that had another shut down turret in it. There was also another door on the right side of the labs hall. They entered the room behind the door and the room had cameras in it of the labs turrets. Glitch began to think that there might be ways to activate the turrets and use them to their advantage.

"Glitch, what are we doing in here?!" A Droid panicked.

"I'm looking for a way to stop the Zombiebots from destroying us. You can either help me or you can make you chances of destruction higher!" Glitch replied annoyed.

"Ok, ok!" The Droid replied.

"What are you actually looking for Glitch?" Clutch asked.

"I'm looking controls for the turrets." Glitch replied.

"Turrets?" Clutch asked. "What turrets?"

"The turrets in the lab!" Glitch replied. "You guys didn't notice them and since they didn't shoot I didn't mention about them!"

"Well find something Glitch, because those Zombies won't be holding for much longer." Clutch said.

Glitch found it hard to find anything useful until he found some controls marked for the turrets. The turrets had an enemy choice and alloy choice similar to the controls of the turret out the front. Glitch remarked the controls again.

[DROIDS] = [FRIENDLY]

[ZOMBIE] = [HOSTILE]

[MILS] = [HOSTILE]

[MORBOTS] = [UNKNOWN]

As soon as the Zombies broke through the door, the turrets fired at the Zombiebots. Over ten Zombiebots had entered the lab and didn't know where to go for cover. Everywhere they went seemed impossible to hide in the room. They were heading towards the door where Glitch, Clutch and the two Droids were in. Glitch saw this on the fifth turrets camera.

"Jam the door!" Glitch yelled.

The two soldier Droids used the controls to lock the door. On the other side of the door Zombiebots were tearing at the door heavily. As Glitch was looking at the cameras he found out he could take control of the turrets. He was relying on the turret in the hall to buy them enough time to escape. Other Zombies in the other section was trying to jump at the turrets but kept failing. Glitch finely stopped using the turret and looked around the room for any weapons. He looked at shelfs of random trash and dug into them. He was about to give up when his eyes lights grew lighter as he looked at something interesting in front of him. He pulled his left hand in front of him and grabbed a large item. The others watched Glitch curiously. He put the item on the ground and lifted his Rivet Gun from his arm and pulled it in his pack. The item on the ground was indeed a weapon. It was held like the Level 2 Rocket Launcher/Barrage Cannon and used bullets. It was like a turret. Glitch drew his attention back to the cameras. The Zombiebots at the door were destroyed. Glitch knew that this would be the best time to leave.

"Open the door."

"What?" Clutch said.

"Open the door!" Glitch said more seriously.

"Ok Glitch, I just hope you know what you're doing." Clutch said.

"Trust me Clutch, I always do."

The doors opened up and Glitch ran out with the Droids close behind him. As they ran, they looked at the garage door and saw many more Zombiebots behind it. They ignored the Zombiebots and charged out of that room. As they left the room, Clutch stopped everyone.

"Wait!"

Glitch then stopped.

"What?"

"We need to make sure that no Droids go down here and fall victim to these Zombies." Clutch said. "I've got some Det-packs in my backpack and they have a sixty second timer on them. I propose that we use these to block any access from this area."

"Great idea Clutch, if you want to do a really want to make sure it works, put some on those pillars over there and one at the bottom of the elevator." Glitch explained.

"Ok Glitch, can you place them? You know, since you're good at doing that? Clutch asked.

"Sure Clutch, say, you guys can go back up, I'll deal with this." Glitch said confidently.

"Thanks Glitch, we shall see you shortly." Clutch said as he and the two Droids entered the elevator. It went up thus splitting up Glitch from any Droids.

Glitch quickly went to each location and placed Det-packs on every pillar to the room. As soon as Glitch placed each Det-pack, Zombiebots were appearing from the Lab door and chased after him. Glitch relied on his new "toy" to destroy all attackers. The weapon was very affective yet Glitch wasn't very aware of how to reload it and what ammo it took. Just then Glitch tripped over something small yet solid. He looked at what he tripped on. It was a large pile of ammo belts. Somehow Glitch instantly knew that these were for the weapon. He continued shooting the Zombiebots apart. Just to make sure they did not escape, he placed an extra Det-pack on the ground. He quickly got inside the elevator and activated the Det-pack's timer. The lift was slow while it went up and Glitch was worried that the Det-packs timer might malfunction and destroy him. The lift reached the top and Glitch still had a copy of the timer. It had twenty seconds left. Without hesitation he ran out the halls of the Mil base. As he made it outside he saw that the R. and the Droids with the S.P. were fighting some remaining Zombiebots. Then the Det-packs had clearly gone off. Then the top of the base exploded and thick smoke had blown out of it. The shock wave had pushed Glitch over. Then a Droids hand pulled him up off of the ground. It was Clutch.

"Glitch, you did it, great job!" Clutch yelled.

"Yeah, I guess I did." Glitch said sounding tired.

"Glitch, get inside the R.A.T and we shall drive real softly." Clutch said.

Glitch nodded and got inside the passenger seat in the R.A.T. Clutch then got in the drivers seat.

"We're heading back to Droid town Glitch." Clutch said.

"Thank you can't wait to get back." Glitch said.

Meanwhile with Exavolt. . .

"(Sigh), here's Corrosives memory chips Doc." The red Grunt said. "Now what's the deal with you wanting this?"

"Get all the others Grunts here and I shall explain it to you." Exavolt said.

The red Grunt had regrouped the other Grunts and waited to hear what Exavolt was gonna say.

"Now I know you think that since the Master Mil Console was destroyed we can't reactivate the Mils without a whole lot of work. But that's where I made a failsafe switch computer in Corrosives head; it was also linked to the Mils on Iron Star. So with this switch fused with power it will send a signal to all the Mils slowly to repower and activate themselves. Also in their nature, they would destroy anything that is and looks like a Droid." Exavolt explained.

"Oh yeah, I can't wait for this to happen!" The blue Grunt exclaimed.

"Yeah, imagine seeing those old Titans of ours tearing apart the Droids on an act of revenge, whoo!" The green Grunt said.

"Fools, the only problem is that we don't have a simple power source!" Exavolt said annoyed.

"Well, what do we do?" The silver Grunt asked.

"I need you to build a Generator." Exavolt replied.

"Well then, let's get to work!" The green Grunt said.

The Grunts took pieces from the destroyed Space Station and were building a Generator. Exavolt watched with pleasure.

"Hahaha, soon, so soon I will have control of Iron Star once more!" Exavolt said.

I'm starting to think that this chapter is very lazy in the way it was written. Aw well, I shall continue.

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