Alrighty, then! Here comes the big conclusion of the Battle of Wits. Enjoy! (BTW: I do not own BloSC. I only own MINERVA40, and that's it!)
Ch. 4-The Battle of Wits (Part Two)
NOS-4-A2.0 flew himself at Buzz hoping to sink his fangs into the Ranger's suit so that he could control it, but Buzz was too fast for him. He quickly flew up and over the vampire. NOS circled back around and growled angrily.
"What's the matter, NOS? Getting too slow to attack?,"
the Ranger taunted.
"Be careful what you say, Lightyear. Since my reconstruction, I've been improved ten-fold!,"
the vampire crooned.
Then, as fast as lightning, the vampire flew at Buzz and knocked him backwards with a punch to the chest. He then turned towards XR.
The little robot Ranger crouched further back in fear behind MINERVA. She looked at him for a minute, then looked at NOS-4-A2.0.
"No, NOS. I won't allow allow you to harm XR anymore. If you want to inflict damage to someone, do it to me,"
she told him, hoping that he would take the bait.
"Very well then, my sweet. If you want to take the blow for someone else, then so be it!,"
he cried, flying straight at her, fangs bared.
That gave MINERVA the advantage she needed on him. For a split second later, she pulled out a Star Command-regulated hand blaster and aimed at the vampire. Another second later, she fired. The blast hit its target, and he took the full blow of it.
"Arrgh!,"
he growled in pain.
"How could you have been faster than me?"
"Simple,"
she said, blowing the smoke out of her blaster's barrel.
"I've got better energy and more experience than you."
"Well, we'll see who'll have the better energy soon enough!,"
the vampire growled, flying off.
"Did you really want to take my blow, or was that just a ploy for him to attack you?,"
XR asked her after NOS disappeared.
"It was both. Even though it was a ploy, I still would have taken the blow for you. That's because that's what teammates and friends do for each other, XR,"
MINERVA answered.
"Well, thanks,"
he replied.
"No problem,"
she replied, smiling.
"What did you mean by 'better energy'?,"
Mira asked.
"I run on the best energy the Spirito quadrant hand the galaxy has ever know: pure star energy. I'm the first robot to run on this kind of power,"
MINERVA answered.
"Well, either way, he's gone for now. Let's head back and report this to the commander,"
Buzz told them, clutching his chest.
"Are you okay, Buzz?,"
Booster asked.
"I'm okay. I'm just hurting a little,"
the senior Ranger replied.
"Let's go."
They all flew back down, boarded the ship, and took off from the planet back to Star Command. But what they didn't know was that they had an unknown hitchhiker. For the vampire had clung onto one of the wings of the ship, riding back with them to further exact his revenge on them.
"Soon, they won't even know my true power of destruction!,"
he thought, laughing a truly evil laugh as the ship flew through space.
So there you have it. Be prepared for the next chapter: it's to die for! (Sorry for the bad pun, it's too close to Halloween and it's making me go loopy!)