Chapter 4 – "I Spy."
Previously on "BMO's Greatest Adventure!" After solving the riddle, to gain entrance into the Hot Dog Kingdom, BMO was on a mission; To find more information about the Beep Cheep, the ancient yellow computer chip that could rebuild and restore the land of Ooo. Asking around for the library, one of the many Hot Dog Elders had told him about Lord Frank, Son of the previous Lord, Lord Grandstand, the only one who knew anything about the Beep Cheep. Alas, his life was cut short, which caused BMO to go back to Square one. He thought he was lost, didn't know where to go, until he caught a lucky break; He looked into the eyes of a Science Guy, a robot from the Pre-War, to see if it held any information. Fortunate shined itself upon BMO for he caught not only a location, to where to go next, but he also caught a name: Betty, the scientist who created the Beep Cheep, and ran off with it, to protect. BMO now knew what he must do: Find Betty, and find the Beep Cheep, so he, or they, could restore the land of Ooo to its once former glory.
BMO came out on the other side of the cave, which connected Red Rock Pass to a path that lead down the mountain. He looked up at the sky and seen that the sun was setting, so he knew he had to find shelter, and fast before he would face the creatures that lurked. He looked around at all of the post-war tech that was in rows, along both sides of the walls, so he could do a makeshift shelter. He found everything and anything from old, pollen-covered sheets of metal to destroyed, but salvageable, pollen-covered robots of all shapes and sizes. He would huff and puff as he had digital sweat marks on his screen. When he finished setting up his lean-to, makeshift shelter, he crawled inside, made his arms and legs go into his body, as if he was a turtle, and would shut down for the night, going to sleep.
The next morning, he woke up from his slumber as he stretched. Rubbing his face cutely as he crawled out. Yawning as he spoke his first words for the day "Beep, it felt like I slept on Lumpy Space Princess's lumps, which are hard, dry, and crusty!" He shuttered at the thought as he would walk down the path. He could see all of the post-war tech that he could see, which made his processor race with curiosity, so he would go scavenging a bit. He pulled out a lot of interesting post-war tech: two old, tattered, cloth-made, but short-circuited Robo Suits, one non-charged Electrode Gun, three small, compact Night Vision X-Ray Goggles with broken lenses, one scuffed and tattered Imagination Machine, and 12 Universal Translator Devices. He opened up his compartment in his chest as he would put it all inside, which made him a bit heavier than normal, as he began to walk down the path in the longest strides he could.
He had digital sweat marks on his panel while he swung his arms back and forth as he spoke "I feel like that I ate Jake's Bacon Pancakes with Extra Pancake!" He huffed and huffed as he would make it down to the bottom of the path. He fell on his back, on the ground, panting as he squirmed, trying to get up. He was like a turtle on his back in the sun. He squirmed as he was getting angry, speaking out loud "11110100010101110001!" He never did get angry, but when he did, he would say things in Binary Code for him to use instead of using actual curse words. He then was able to roll over on his front, pushing himself up, brushing himself off, and walking off into the other side of the Grasslands.
He could see everything all around him as he walked, heading through the short grass that tickled his feet, seeing the trees blowing everywhere, along with the flowers. He stopped as he looked down, seeing the large River of Junk infront of his sight. He could see everything inside that River, everything from old mattress and nasty moldy food to old tires and boxes. BMO gulped a bit, realizing that he is filled with things that could weigh him down, as he would make his way to the River of Junk. When he got closer, he could see everything getting bigger inside the River. He would gulp a bit and gave out a war cry of "Beeeeeeeep!" while running towards the River, jumping on top of it as it carried him. He continued jumping and grabbing onto each piece of junk that would help him, as he made it onto the other side.
He grabbed onto his tiny knees, panting heavily as he huffed and puffed into the air, even if he couldn't breathe like a human. He looked up as he would begin to walk further into the Grasslands, hoping to find his next destination: Junktown. What seemed like forever to him, had only been 30 minutes, BMO finally seen Junktown in the distance. Junktown was large for what it was made of. The buildings had rusted metal walls with tarp-like roofs. Lines that connected each other for power was old copper wires. Tall towers that gave out signals were made out of weathered wooden posts that had on a few small tin antennas. Advertising signs were made out of old rusted cast iron that had the advertisements barely readable. Some signs were custom made for different things. Soon BMO's eyes shake a bit, since he was picking up a faint radio-like signal from Junktown. He couldn't hear anything, so he would begin to make his way towards Junktown.
He stood there as he could see quite alot. He would see that there was a mixture of Humans and Robots, living together in the large town. A patch job of a robot walked up to BMO. His body was made from an old antique MAC computer with copper pipe limbs, and had a coat hanger antenna on its head. It sounded like it was printing something as a piece of paper came out from its printer under the screen. It ripped the paper out and handed it to BMO as it said "Beep! Welcome to Junktown!" It soon walked off. BMO tilted himself as he would walk around the large town. BMO still felt weird, having a radio-like signal on him, but he didn't hear no music, no announcements, nothing. At first, he grew a bit uncomfortable at the thought of someone spying on him, but he put the thought in the back of his mind. He then stopped another robot as he spoke "Beep Beep! Is there any Trades?" The turned to look at him. This one was in much worst shape. It was completely rusted from head to toe, every time it moved, it squeaked something annoying. It opened its mouth, as it squeaked from there too, as he spoke "Go to the Trader Thinker. I'm sure he can help you." BMO flailed his tiny arms as he ran away, speaking "He sounds like an old fax machine, giving its high pitch whine before crashing! Ahh!" He ran off into the wrong direction.
He stopped in the center of the town, seeing a sign with rusted arrows pointing in all directions, leading to certain places, and Trader Thinker was on there, so he ran off to him. He would arrive at a decent size shop as he walked inside. Seeing all of the shelves on the walls and rows behind the tattered and weathered wooden counter. There stood a robot that looked like was something from the Post-Mushroom War.
The robot had on a screen that was powered by a mixture of vacuum tubes and brass gears with teeth that was old typewriter pieces. Its body was a mixture of tin and metal. Its face was a brass piece. It looked like someone dissembled an old type writer, and turned it into a robot. The robot looked at BMO as he spoke, with each of its typewriter pieces clattering "Hello there, how may I help?" BMO gulped a bit, feeling nervous around him as he replied "B-Bzzz B-Beep! I-I have some stuff to get rid of." The Thinker nodded as he spoke with his clattering sound "What do you have?" BMO nodded and pulled out all of the stuff that he gathered. Thinker was surprised to see so much was still out there, but he hidden his excitement from BMO as he spoke "What do you want for all of this?" He then spoke out to him "I'm needing something that was from a woman whose name was Betty." At first, Thinker stroked his brass face, picking his typewriter teeth as he asked "I'm sorry, I never heard of her, do you know what she looked like?" BMO bent his knees and opened his butt as he printed a picture of Betty, from his memory. A small ding sound was done as he pulled the picture out and handed it to Thinker. Soon Thinker's vacuum tubes light up as he spoke "Ahh yes! I have seen her here a looooooong time ago. She wanted to get rid of everything she had, so I took it all from her, except for some weird fancy computer-like chip she had. It was a strange looking thing."
BMO's panel face lighten up with such exciting news, he then asked his next question "Do you still have her things?" The Thinker gave a slight "Hmmm" sound as he snapped his brass fingers. He would walk over from around the counter as he spoke "She didn't give me much, if I remember correctly, just some strange shiny thing with a tiny Flash Drive. I tried to figure out what was on this thing, but it is hard to crack, as if she had something important on here to hide. I kept this hid from everyone, so if someone who knew her wanted it back, I would hide it." He then went into the corner of the shop, as he shown BMO the golden necklace with the small USB flash drive. The Thinker grinned as he spoke "I'll tell you what, you give me all that stuff, I'll give you these two things. Deal?" BMO didn't even have to think it over. He nodded and spits all that stuff out of his chest panel as he took the two things. Before he left, he looked at the Thinker and spoke "Do you know where Betty went to?" The Thinker shook his head no as BMO nodded and ran off.
When BMO got to the edge of Junktown, in a quiet place, he opened his chest panel. Soon, a berserk robot jumped out. The robot was an old thing, having a green screen panel with a white body, but red eyes. It beeped and screeched as if it was about to crash. It did speak, but it very slowly, since it sounded like it was on dial-up. "Beep Cheep!" It charged at BMO. He stood up as ran with the berserk robot chasing. While it chased BMO, it kept saying the only word that it knew "Beep Cheep." Over and over. It tackled BMO as BMO fell forward. The robot would reach for BMO's panel chest, but BMO would kick the robot off with its tiny but powerful legs. He stood up as he ran over, jumped in the air as he shouted "BMO Chop!" But the robot moved out of the way, making BMO missed as the Robot tackled him again, trying to get to BMO's panel. BMO then used the back of his panel to "headbutt" the robot, pushing him off again as he took some of the nearest wire and tied him tight. The robot squirmed and struggled as it would shout out louder "Beep Cheep!" over and over. BMO looked at the wire as it was tied to the antenna in the center of the town, as he had an idea.
He looked at the Robot as he spoke to him "Do you want to know why you're about to have a hard time at computer science?" He asked while he shuffled his feet on the ground. The robot stopped as he looked at BMO with a confused, but angry looked on his face. BMO raised his hand up as he had sparks on his tiny hands, as he answered his own question that he asked "Because you're going to have a terrible time decomposing!" At that note, he shocked the Robot, causing the electricity to surge through its body, also causing the electricity to run up the wire, to the antenna, and caused the electricity to jump out and shocked all the robots, causing the radio-like signal on BMO, and every other robot, to disappear.
BMO gave a sly look on his face as he would walk away, leaving through the back of Junktown. He then would sit down underneath a tree about two miles out from Junktown, so he was now alone and by himself. He opened his chest cavity and pulled out the two items: The USB Flash drive, and a Golden Locket. He opened the tiny locket as it was a picture of Betty in it, but he was confused on the man that was next to Betty. The male too looked like the intellectual type. He was a bit darker than Betty, but he had long brown hair, with thin rimless glasses, with a forest dark green sweater, and a red bowtie. BMO never seen a man like this before, but he wondered who he was, so he closed the locket back, and puts it back inside his chest panel. He took the tiny cap off of the USB Flash Drive as he would put it to his USB Port and plugged it in.
What could have been on that Flash Drive that is so important for BMO to risk his life, and limb, to such a crazy robot? Could it finally be the location of where the Beep Cheep and/or Betty is? Or could it be more clues pertaining to one or the other? What does the Mystery Man, in the locket, have to do with all of this? Could he be Betty's former science partner? Maybe her former husband? Or maybe could it be a virus to destroy the Beep Cheep, or anyone who uses this Flash Drive? Find out on the next chapter of "BMO's Greatest Adventure!"
