Dinner Time Appel!
Michal was back in the observing room with the exit sign and the one with wires coming out of two holes above the door. Going by memory from when Miora took her go a different room there was another door in that room. But where? Closing her eyes and walking attempting to use muscle memory, she made her way around the room.
semi flash back
Michal walked around exploring the new room.
'Here is where we will take your training a few steps up.' Miora said running a metal hand along the control panel. His hand stopped, hovering above a red switch. She watched him flip the switch and under neath the control panel layed an open trap door. Miora turned to face the red hedgehog. 'There is your new sleeping quarters, training room for small things and planing room. Use your time carefully, don't want a tragedy to fall upon one of your friends now would you.' Michal gulped and shook her head. Definitely NOT a good idea. The robot waited and Michal stood there blankly.
'Well?' Miora drawled. 'Go in.' Michal gulped again and crawled into the room.
end semi flash back
Michal was now back in the first room were she once was tied up. Her memory had lead her to the wall where her "bed" used to be. The place was now blank. She looked at the tiling for something fimilar. What it was she wasn't sure, but Michal knew she would know it when she saw it.
At a park
Envy and Vernesser laughed as they calapsed on a grassy area.
"I'm still not going to pay for the bill." Envy giggled. Vernesser frowned but nodded.
"Fine you win but you owe me money." Vernesser huffed. Envy let out a loud Ha!
"You are a royal Vernesser! You don't need any money." Envy laughed her arms wrapped around her middle, emerald green eyes closed.
"Who says!" Vernesser said with a glare.
"That's rich!" Envy grinned. Vernesser blinked.
"Did you just pull a pun?" Vernesser asked slowly. Both the girls stared at each other. Envy's grin widened and Vernesser smirked. They then broke into laughter again.
"So what if I had? Do ya wanna check again?" Envy laughed. Vernesser laughed with her friend.
"You are!" Vernesser exclaimed. The girls continued to giggle. "I didn't know you liked puns."
"Did ya think I only liked to torment our fellow school mates with onion juice water? I do have a life after all besides saving the world an all. I am a royal guard for the queen of dragon kind. " Envy said standing up. Vernesser frowned. They were practically best friends yet they hardly knew anything about each other anymore.
"So you aren't in training anymore?" Vernesser asked looking down at her hands. Envy flapped her wings happily.
"Yep! I haven't been for months!" Envy said giving her wings a strong flap. It gave Vernesser a nice breeze. "Well technically re-training because I was a royal guard before I have just been taken up to the next level!"
"Heh, I didn't know..." Vernesser said turning her hands over. She knew they were drifting apart, she could tell!
"Erh I didn't tell a lot of the others. It sort of became general knowledge very quickly and then I didn't know who knew." Envy shrugged. 'When did this happen?' Vernesser thought. "Oh and my full dragon form has gotten stronger now. The wing span is so amazing!" Envy beamed. It was true her wing span had expanded a lot in her semi human form as well.
"Yeah." Vernesser sighed.
"Well I think we should get moving. Whacha think?" Envy asked, hands behind her head.
"Definitely." Vernesser agreed and stood up. "Wanna check up on Reboot if we can find her?" Vernesser asked with a grin.
"Lets." Envy grinned back and they began to walk off to find Reboot.
A little while of walking around
"Hey Envy?" Vernesser said.
"Yes my queen?" Envy said with a mocking bow. Vernesser glared and smacked Ency on the arm.
"We agreed to call each other by names! Not titles! Anyway what where those things Reboot had eating her called again?" Envy blinked at her vampire friend.
"I think she called them DTAs" Envy said slowly.
"It sounds like PTAs" Vernesser giggled.
"Yeah! Only PTAs are boring and DTAs are deadly!" Envy smiled with a toothy grin. Sharp teeth shined in the sun light.
"Not all PTAs are boring. I should know I've had to sit threw sooooo many its not funny. Except they where a total thing." Vernesser said with a smile showing her fangs. "Back to the point what does DTAs mean?"
"Hmmm. They are a torture device. That eats the victims slowly..." Envy said thinking. "Maybe Dinner Time... Apple!"
"Apple?" Vernesser asked raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah! No. That sounds stupid." Envy said shaking her head. "That also doesn't work."
"At least it sounds funny." Vernesser pointed out.
"Maybe Appeal! Yeah. Dinner Time Appeal!" Envy yelled flapping her wings. Vernesser shook her head, long blonde hair swaying from the moments.
"It works but I don't think that is what the scientists would have called it." Vernesser said smiling. Envy nodded and they continued on in silence.
"Hey Vernesser?"
"Yes Envy?" Vernesser responded. They were in town now, their wandering had landed them there.
"If the DTAs eat the victims to death, do they take breaks to empty themselves of the flesh they have eaten or can they keep going until they want to stop. If so HOW?! They are so small!" Envy ranted a little.
"It probably eating away at the soul or something like that, you know death to all in gruesome ways." Vernesser said, waving her hand dismissively. Envy nodded.
"Then while the actual eating of the bodies?" Envy questioned.
"To make them more scary?" Vernesser said questioning the answer herself. Envy shrugged.
"Meh." Envy said shrugging. They walked to a shop with cloths. Dresses were displayed in the windows. "Vernesser, why are we here?" The vampire shrugged.
"Because I want to."
"Well I want to find Reboot and the others. Sooo, see ya!" Envy said turning away readying her wings.
"Do you even know where Reboot lives?" Vernesser yelled before Envy could take off.
"Nope! I'm going to fly around until I find it." Envy replied before launching into the air.
"Have fun!" Vernesser yelled into the air. Vernesser stood there before sighing. "Of course."
Miss Blue Bird's mansion
Archer walked in after Flora in a daze. He knew that that program had just been activated and he hated it! He knew the actions that would happen were his fault, but he couldn't control what happened. He barely could remember what happen too! It was driving him insane. His anger burned silently inside of him while the out side stayed neutral.
At least one thing stayed... Archer sighed. The next time he saw Miora he was going to destroy it. He was going to make sure-
"Hey Archer!" Reboot called breaking him out of his daze.
"Yes?" He responded. Reboot rolled her eyes. Her hair was dripping wet and her visible wounds bandaged.
"I was calling your name for a while are you okay?" Reboot asked. Archer blinked. What?
"I'm fine." He responded getting off the wall he was leaning on. When did that happen? Reboot narrowed her eyes.
"If you say so. Any way I'm hungry let's go get something to eat." Reboot said dragging Archer with her to the kitchen.
"Not again!" Archer yelp. Why was this always happening to him? He groaned. He was a ninja and yet this kept happening.
They stopped at the kitchen and Reboot grabbed out some cereal.
"Want some?" Reboot asked pouring it into a bowl, milk following. Archer gave her a look that read really? "Okay more for me." She said bitting it. Archer looked away and zoned out. Out of all the place to be waiting it was here. A mansion! He should be searching for Michal. He should be helping! The fight wasn't over until the stupid robot was scrap metal in a hundreds of different tiny pieces.
"Archer!"
Maybe he could find her records and see if there is any kind of contacts. Family too.
"Hey Archer! Are you even listening?" Reboot asked waving a metal covered hand in front of him. He glared at the hand and rolled his eyes.
"No." He responded. Reboot threw her hands up in the air and groaned.
"Well I'm not repeating what I just said because I don't even remember half of what I just said, so gah!" Reboot yelled crossing her arms. "Do you even have a battle plan?"
"Sort of." Archer said. He lent against a wall.
"You and your walls." Reboot mumbled.
"What?" Archer blinked. Did she just... what?
"You like leaning against walls." Reboot pointed out.
"And you have metal arms." Archer responded with a grin. Reboot gasped.
"H-how I-I ummm... shut up!" Reboot yelped and turned around. Archer rolled his eyes again before responding.
"I usually don't talk this much." He said and smirked. He then frowned. They should be working on finding Michal. Did they even check where she lived? Where does she live? Archer groaned. She might not even be missing! How stupid.
"Come on we need to check the school records." Archer said dragging Reboot out of the kitchen.
"Hey!" She shouted. "What records? What for?" Reboot yelped.
"Michal's address." He responded.
"Why?" She asked.
"We never checked where she lives." Archer said.
"Miss Blue Bird!" Reboot called out. Said bird lady came out with Flora. Both ruffled.
"Yes?" Both of them called back. Miss Blue Bird looked at Flora with a glaring look.
"Could you find out where Michal lives? Or get the school records?" Reboot asked. Archer let go of Reboot and sighed. Of course, she must be some kind of higher up.
"Why?" Miss Blue Bird asked snatching the microphone out of Flora's hand. Flora glared at the other female.
"We need to know where Michal lives to see if she is okay." Archer said playing with the handles of his swords. Flora watch them worryingly. The memory of earlier playing in her mind.
"Yeah good idea." Flora said pulling Miss Blue Bird away. Archer gave a silent ha and shook his head.
"Okay?" Miss Blue Bird said glancing at Flora.
"Are we actually going to give them someone's address?" Miss Blue Bird asked pulling up her F.L.F.M stuff. She gave a small laugh. The name was so stupid.
"Yeah we are.." Flora said. She glanced back at to where the other two are. Archer leaning against the wall with the door in it and Reboot rocking on the heals of her feet. Miss Blue Bird typed some stuff up and waited.
"It should load in a bit." She said look at Flora. Flora glanced nervously at Miss Blue Bird and the two younger ones. "Okay what's wrong?" Miss Blue Bird asked. Flora gulped.
"Archer.. has a... code word activated programming. I.. found out the hard way." Flora said hesitantly. Miss Blue Bird's jaw dropped.
"W-what?" Miss Blue Bird whispered.
"I called him little and he went all crazy and won't stop until I nodded at him saying I understood. " Flora whispered at the word little. Miss Blue Bird nodded.
"Little activates Understood deactivates." Miss Blue Bird repeated. Flora nodded. A small beep drew their attention back to what they were doing earlier.
"We got her file!" Miss Blue Bird yelled. She glanced at Flora. "We'll deal with the new information later." Flora nodded and they walked back to the other two.
"Finally!" Reboot said. "Well where does she live?" Miss Blue Bird opened the file.
"Heh. That's weird." She said. The others blinked.
"What is it?" Archer asked now next to Miss Blue Bird and Flora.
"This Michal doesn't seem to have anything other then school records but even then there is a huge gap between grade six and now. There is a few purchases for some items and food but nothing besides that. They were all paid in cash. So these are just sightings." Miss Blue Bird said. "And get this she was eight when she was in grade six. In other words a pure genius." Reboot gasped. While Archer stood back.
"How is there soo little on Michal? It doesn't make sense!" Reboot said. Archer shook his head. It was familiar...
He heard someone calling his name before getting lost in memory... some thing forgotten... some thing removed...
flash back starts
They were all lined up at the target practice using their weapons. He had been there for about a month. Anything he did helped the evil thing. Keeping up his strength, skills even eating helped it. Didn't want to get his warriors dead yet. He scoffed, what a bunch of rubbish! He threw one of his wrecked swords at the target. It hit. He threw the other one, another hit. He retrieved his swords. When he was about to throw his blades again the door opened. He lowered the blades and watched. The evil rob- thing walked in with another victim. Everyone turned and stoped to see who it was. A very short red hedgehog with sky glue eyes stood there looking at the other six there.
'Ex.3 show Ex.7 what to do. You others continue what you were doing earlier.' The evil thing known as Miora commanded. He glared but did as he was told. Any muck ups and back to reprogramming.. The other went back to training.
'What did you do to them?!' The red hedgehog, dubbed Ex.7 shouted at the evil being.
'Convinced them that my side is the best side for them.' He responded simply. He rolled his eyes, this was going to be stupid. Ex.7 gawked at him.
'So when talking doesn't work you kidnap them, then torture them into going to your side.' Ex.7 said crossing her arms. Miora let out a chuckle. He had to admit the female was a bit funny. It was practically true. He went through that, but the other... he wasn't so sure.
'No my dear I just talk to them, they are the ones hurting themselves.' The thing then pushed Ex.7 over to the him waiting.'Have fun.' Miora taunted. Lier! He through in anger. He then looked at the red hedgehog. It was going to be a long day. He could feel it.
'The objective is simple. Hit the targets.' He said pointing ruffly to said targets. Ex.7 looked at him.
'With what? I don't have any weapons' she asked. He shrugged, then chucked a broken sword at the target hitting it. He put a lot of anger into that throw.
'Hey ummm are you okay?" Ex.7 asked reluctantly. He chucked another broken blade. That obvious hmm?
'Never have been.' He said as the blade hit the target. He then waited for the others to stop hitting the targets. When they were all finished some of them retrieved what they were using to hit the targets, the rest reloaded their weapons. Might as well show her how to do stuff properly in training, right? When he got back he held out his broken swords expecting Ex.7 to take them. Ex.7 tilted her head.
'What?' She asked. He sighed and faced palmed with his empty hand.
'You can use my weapons to hit the targets with.' He said. This situation was getting really annoying real fast. Ex.7 blinked.
'Okay.' She hesitated, opening her hands. He dropped them into her hands and stepped back. She tested the weight of the broken swords.
'The weights are off.' She mumbled to herself.
'Ha!' He laughed, the female hedgehog jumped slightly. 'They are broken swords.' He said leaning against a wall, arms crossed, the rest of him hidden in the shadows of the room. He then frowned. The hedgehog didn't have a proper stance and she was gripping it wrong! Seriously no training at all?! What kind of world is this?
'Why are they broken?' She asked throwing one of the blades. It barely went a meter. Ex.7 huffed at the sword. He sighed silently.
'Robot jerk known as Miora.' He said now next to her.
'What are you doing?' She asked as he adjusted her stance and the position of the blade.
'Helping.' He said. He then stood up straighter and stepped back to go against the wall. 'Try now.' She nodded and threw the other broken sword. It went further then her first try.
'Thanks.' She said turning to where he was before collecting the blades. She turned back to the targets, just to have her view block by the him, again holding out the blades. She laughed quietly. What is she finding so funny?
'Are you a ninja or something?' Ex.7 grinned. He coughed. What? Did she just seriously ask that?
'I.. actually am a ninja...' he said awkwardly scratching the back of his head.
'That's awesome!' She yelled. He gave a sad smile. Not anymore... ninjas are subpost to be good at stealth, and yet he had not landed a single hit on Miora since he had been captured. The fact he even got captured showed his skills were... not good...
'Not really.' He whispered. Ex.7 held out her hands again for the blade to be dropped into her hands, again. She went straight to throw them. 'Where's your stance?' He asked commandingly. Did she just forget her stance!? Ex.7 tilted her head.
'What stance?' She asked. He face palmed at this. She did...
'The one I moved you into earlier .' He replied.
'Ohh.'she said and sifted around until she was in the stance he had put her into previously. 'Better?' She asked. He nodded and she turned her head to face her target. She threw the blade again, though this time it landed half way at the target. The next one was closer to the red hedgehog then the target. Ex.7 groaned. 'This is not working!' She said turning to him. 'Why am I even doing this? It's just going to help Miora in the end!' She puffed and crossed her arms. He rolled his eyes. Yeah! Everything and anything they did helped that evil robot.
'How old are you? Nine?' The completely black figure said with a grin. Veil... yay... Ex.7 gulped.
'I'm actually eight... Smokey.' Ex.7 with a small smile. He smirked. Smokey aye? He was defiantly going to use that latter on. He then frowned. Eight? That's an all time new low for Miora.
'Smokey!? Who are you calling that?' Veil asked darkening. She's getting angry.
'Well I don't know your real name and you look like smoke, so I nicknamed you Smokey.' Ex.7 shrugged. Veil darkened even more, then sighed getting lighter. Heh. Payback, in the form of a newbie.
'That is reasonable.' She said 'My name is Veil. And yours is?' Veil spoke. Ex.7 blinked.
'Mine's Michal.' The red hedgehog said holding out her hand. Veil looked down at her hand the up at him.
'How often does this happen to you?' Veil questioned. He grinned. Gotta love things from other worlds. This was going to be funny.
'Way more then you would expect.' He replied. The newly redubbed Michal lowered her hand, and grimace.
'Sooo what is your name?' Michal said turning to him. He blinked. I guess it would hurt to tell her...
'Archer.' Archer said and retrieved his broken swords. Oh and he was right. It was a going to be a long day. A very long day.
It had been a few weeks later since the newest four victims joined and Miora had started experimenting again. At the moment he had to battle a robot made to destroy another hedgehog called Sonic. The thing was it only tracked how fast thing moved and the colour blue so he easily defeated it. One blow to the head latter it fell to the ground destroyed. The speed he could get but the colour blue! Really! It would end up attacking a car. Actually with speed it could still attack a car...
'Very good Ex.3 but next time try to keep it alive." The evil thing that was a robot said.
'Robot's are not alive idiot.' He responded and walked away. All of his hope for robots was lost during the war at his home.
He walked back to where the "bedrooms" were kept and he stopped. He could hear Michal crying, chanting 'I hate it.' He walked into the room.
'We all do.' He said walking over to his "bed"
'I still hate this.' He nodded with out thinking and sat on his bed. It was the closest to the door. He chose that one because if an intruder entered then he could defend the others and it made a quick escape in case someone wanted to kill him.
He pulled out his blades and began to sharpen the remains. He'll need them to be so sharp that they would cut through metal. If his plan to kill the robot was going to work he will need them to be as sharp as possible. He watched the hedgehog from the corner of his eye. She was watching him sharpen the blades, with a tear stained face. Silently he wondered what Miora had done to her as an "improvement". She was small so if he needed anything to get into tunnels he could just send her in. So size wouldn't be it. She said she was eight, and the other three of the newest victims came in with her, she was just introduced later on. Archer smirked. Reprogramming humans are much easier then other creatures, aren't they stupid robot? Maybe it made her smarter. But if he was correct on her being part of the area the other three were from, then this Michal was already a genius. He wouldn't want her to be too smart. She would just over power him that way. No Miora was smart, very very smart. Archer then frowned. The robot wouldn't bring her in if he wasn't going to do something with her and yet she showed no signs of being changed in anyway. So what was it planing?
end of flash back
Archer groaned. That was such a weird time to flashback. It was a fuzzy one but still a memory all the same. He looked up at the others. They had surrounded him and he himself was on the ground. Did he faint as he had the flashback? He shook his head... they were all altered in some way... wait a second!
"He altered her speed!" Archer growled launching up, he went to run for the door. He had to find her now! ...only to be grabbed and pulled back down.
"Woah hold on a second Archer! You just collapsed, we have to check if you are okay." Reboot said in her completely metal covered form. Red visor shining slightly.
"I am fine. We need to get to Michal." He said escaping her grip and dashing for the door. She was there too...
"Archer!" Miss Blue Bird said in a strong tone. He stopped. "What do you mean he altered her speed?" She asked. He gulped. This was going to take a bit.
"Miora changed her speed to be faster." He answered before leaving the mansion.
"Who's Miora?" Flora asked. Reboot and Miss Blue Bird both looked at each other then at the door.
AN: I'm gonna take a break for a while on the story sooo yeah. Thought you would want to know.
see ya!