A/N: The title of this chapter should be called, 'Random Angst between President Stone and Astro'. LOL.
I know not a whole lot of people like this story, but I'm proud of it and the route it's taking.
Also, I got my first reviewer! xD I was worried I was gonna have to start PAYING people to review, LOL JK.
Sorry. xD Thanks for the review!
"I've been waiting," President Stone whispered, leaning down next to me. "I have been biding my time and collecting your weaknesses and I feel your revulsion…I feel you shuddering, shaking…"
I winced away from him. "I will not, will never let you take it out of me easily! You can't have my Blue Core!"
"Relax, Astro," Stone said to me. The name I'd liked so much on the surface repulsed me coming from his mouth.
"I…you…you can't have it!" I declared. "I will fight you."
I stood up and got ready to fight Stone again, but a voice came from the back of the ship. "Calm down, Astro Boy. This will not hurt a bit. Just lay still."
"No!" I hollered, trying to power up my rocket shoes. I felt nothing. Looking down, I saw no fire. What was wrong with me? This isn't the time! I thought impatiently, hoping the shoes would get the message. Nothing happened.
"Ah, yes, the wire." President Stone's voice was callously amused. "I have it, son."
"It wasn't the fall that caused it, you daft boy. It was not accidental." He smiled coldly. President Stone was cold as ice.
"Give it back!" I yelled.
"Oh, yeah, and give you a chance to escape?" he asked. "I think…not dear child."
"Why can't you just leave me alone?" I hollered. "I get it. You despise me, all because of a stupid Blue and Red Core thing. Okay? I get it. You want it. But you can't have it so let me go."
"Ah, that is the REALLY amusing thing, Astro." The peacekeeper informed me. "I need your cooperation very little."
I glared. "You can't get it out of me if you can't catch me!" And I dashed to the window and unlatched it.
"Where will you go?" Stone asked me seriously. "It's not like you can go running back to Daddy in the state you're in, we're above the city already."
"It was all you." I said quietly. "You! You made me lose my power! I…I…I'm not…you're not…I'm not losing my power after all!"
"Yes, dear boy, very clever." President Stone said, sarcastically. "Get back in here, Astro. You won't survive the fall."
"Robots can survive anything." I told him stubbornly.
"Suit yourself," He shrugged.
"I'd rather be dead anyway." I told him. I waited for the catch. Was he just going to let me go?
He took me back, away from the window. "Problem is," he explained patiently, "while I'd love to watch you fall, while I would, in fact, pop popcorn and drink soda and watch, I can't let you. I need the Blue Core. With the Core, I can be as powerful as I was with the Red one!"
"You're mad!" I cried. "Don't you realize what happened last time you came in contact with the Core? We both nearly…" I trailed off, thinking of it.
"Yes, yes, I know." He told me. "But this time, I'm better prepared. I don't have the Red Core in me anymore, don't you see? I need the Blue one. It's the only one we have left. I need it…" But he stopped himself as if realizing saying his plan aloud might give me an idea.
My mind worked furiously. Obviously he wanted the Blue Core to rule again. But how? No one would let him out of the Metro City jail.
No one.
So how had he gotten out?
"President Stone?" I whispered, "How did you get out of prison?"
He snorted. "I had to promise some of the Blue Core to some oaf who calls himself Ha—why?" he squinted suspiciously.
"Who?" I asked urgently.
"Oh, you're not playing me," he announced gloatingly. "I shan't tell you, boy!"
I sat back, defeated. "Okay, fine."
He eyed me suspiciously. "Why did you want to know, brat?"
"I…I…" I shook my head. "Nothing. It's not important." My suspicions about Hamegg were most likely wrong, anyway.
But birds of a feather flock together, I reminded myself.
It could well be right.
I shook my head. "No time to think of Hamegg now."
"What?"
"No." I told him. "It's nothing, Stone."
"Anyway," Stone said malevolently, "I promise to make you beg for mercy by the end of this. What do you say to that?"
"I say you're never getting the core, asshole."
He smiled. "You will not keep it from me. You can't. You're much weaker than you think, Astro Boy. But you're also stupider than you think. And that might just be your downfall, I warn you."
I glared at him. "I am stronger than you know."
"And weaker than you think."
"But still way stronger than you know, President Stone."
A/N: Anyway what do you think? I've tried, really tried to make President Stone threatening but I don't know if I did. Tell me!
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