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In response to Mr. D's review, yes, you will find out what it is (or at least you should figure it out).
Anyway here's Chapter 4.
Lawrence and Dr. Nefarious trudged through the desert's blazing hot sands, keeping an eye out for any type of civilization that could possibly exist in this desolate place.
After about three hours of aimless wandering across the dusty plateau, Lawrence tapped the doctor, who had been walking in a sort of half-trance for about an hour now, on the shoulder, and, as per usual, Nefarious overreacted.
"Ahh!" he yelled, jumping back, "I told you not to surprise me, Lawrence!"
"I'm sorry sir, but, if you'll look over there, it appears that we have come across an old military outpost," he said, jabbing his thumb in the outpost's direction.
Nefarious looked excitedly in the direction that Lawrence indicated and saw a collection of six small, rectangular structures, surrounded by a chain-link fence with barbed wire and a sigh that read, "Weapons Development Outpost 0300. No one appeared to be standing guard.
"Finally, a place to stop and clean this blasted dirt out of my joints! Especially my jaw; it would have clamped shut long ago if I hadn't had that extra few drops of oil." he exclaimed; Lawrence looked disappointed. "And an abandoned military base! How much luckier can we get!"
"It's not abandoned, sir."
"What are you talking about? How can you tell?"
"Check the parking lot."
Sure enough, several vehicles were parked to the right of the complex.
"Oh. Well then we'll have to MAKE it abandoned then, won't we Lawrence?" He looked toward the lightly guarded facility. "Time for some fun," he said with a grin.
About twenty minutes later, every researcher and the few outpost guards lay asphyxiated on the meeting room floor of Module 05 of Weapons Development Outpost 0300, killed during a short briefing. During this time, Nefarious had found the security room in Module 01, hacking the security system and locking the doors to Module 05. Searching the rest of the base, he also found the air processing chamber, which scrubbed the atmosphere of poisonous fumes, the results of failed experiments and frequent weapons testing. He simply bypassed the chamber's failsafe, deactivated it, and watched with sadistic glee as the organics in the meeting room slowly choked to their deaths. Some attempted to open the door, but he simply laughed at their futile struggles.
After the guards had been dealt with, he turned to the Holocompuer screen in front of him.
"Now, let's take a look at what these puny beings were working on."
After file minutes of searching through documents, memos, and some 'personal' files, he found something that caught his interest.
"Ooh. Lawrence! Come have a look at this!"
"What did you find this time, sir?" asked Lawrence, "More downloaded videos from that one si-,"
"NO, Lawrence!"
"Then what did you fid, sir?"
The doctor grinned. "I found some new equipment that may be of use to us. Take a look."
On the screen were two objects, one a robot with six spider-like legs with integrated Gravity Boot technology and four many fingered hands capable of heavy lifting and delicate manipulation if objects, and the other a drop pod equipped with a large drill.
"And just what do you intend to do with them?" asked Lawrence.
Nefarious explained.
"Oh my, sir," said Lawrence, "For once, you came up with a good idea."
"Yes, it is a good idea, isn't it?" he said, oblivious to the insult.
"It does seem a little off track, though. What do they have to do with you ruling the galaxy?"
"They'll get in the way if I don't put and end to them now!" exclaimed Nefarious. "After their dealt with, we will return to my top secret facility on Daxx to finish my master plan!"
"You mean the one in Super Villain Weekly?"
"Yes, that one. Now find that ship's location while I get this drone and program it for the task."
"Right away, sir," replied Lawrence.
Nefarious rooted trough the base, searching for the drone and the pod. He found the robot in the second structure he searched, quickly uploading his plan onto a disk and inserting it into the robot's drive, but the pod was nowhere to be found.
"If it's not in the outpost, THEN WHERE IS IT!" he yelled to himself, standing just outside Module 06.
His question was answered immediately when he spotted the craft on a launch pad. He ran over to check its status.
As luck would have it, it was prepped for launch.
"Good," he said, rubbing his metal hands together.
Suddenly, Lawrence came running over, a compact disk in hand.
"Here you are, sir," he said, handing over the disk.
"Excellent work, Lawrence," he said, inserting the disk into the drone's drive, and placing the drone into the pod.
They then stood in a nearby shelter, and ignited the craft's engines by remote, watching it disappear into the sky.
"Come on, Lawrence; let's take on of these ships to Daxx. I don't want to waste anymore time on this forsaken mud ball."
That's Ch. 4. Remember to review. Make sure to be patient for the next one, since school is starting here and I'm having some writer's block.
Oh, and kudos to Mr. D for being the first to reply to the first three chapters!