hey. It's been awhile. Here's another chapter.
Myra and Lucette both awoke to the sound of the TV blaring downstairs, and each pushed aside the glass casing of their recharge-stations.
"Wow, it's already 9:00?", Lucette said with a glance at the old-fashioned clock hanging on the wall, "of course my internal clock would get messed up after time-traveling like 100 years into the past."
Suddenly, the distant sound of gunfire and explosions filtered into the once peaceful silence of their current residence.
"Okay, what the shit.", hissed Myra while tentatively pulling out her guns, "Isn't this supposed to be some kinda pre-maverick, super-peaceful era? Why the heck would there be gunfire that sounds like it comes from an entire army?"
"Hold on, I can try to find out by listening in to this military's communications. There should be something…"
Lucette stood still, with one hand on her helmet, and after a few seconds, turned to Myra with a deadpan look on her face.
"Welp, it seems like we got the honor to witness the first mavericks in history."
Myra and Lucette walked downstairs and were greeted by the sight of mass panic. Roll was crying, with Dr. Light trying to comfort her. X and Zero were standing off to the side and discussing what to do, while Rock and Blues watched the news on T.V.
"Soo…. what's the plan? And why did they go mav- rogue?" Lucette asked curiously.
"We want to be able to recover their IC chips, so we can figure out why the went rogue. Right now, we have no idea As for the plan? We aren't sure yet, but X and Zero thought the four of you could go after them. There's six of them, so you could accomplish it pretty fast. I can get their locations for you." Dr. Light responded, still comforting roll.
"I want to go, too!"
"Rock, it's too dangerous. All of the robots that went rogue were programmed by me. It might be something in my coding. I don't want to risk losing you too."
Rock sat down with a huff, and Blues patted his shoulder, still intently watching the screen. Myra and Lucette walked over to X and Zero, who were trying to determine who should take which robot master.
"Well, all the masters are aligned with elements, so we should think about that," Zero was saying.
"Maybe since I was made by Dr. Light I can interface with them and take their powers, so that would be helpful."
"My kusarigama can be aligned with ice, fire, and electricity, so I can help against robots weak to those," Lucette added.
X and Zero blinked, having not heard Lucette and Myra walk up.
"Oh uh… you'd be good against Ice Man, Bomb Man, or Fire man I guess," X said.
"So how about this? Lucette can take Fire Man, Myra can take Ice Man, X can take Cut Man, and I'll take Guts Man. Whoever finishes first goes on to take a second one, if you're able."
Everyone agreed to the plan, and they set out to take down the robot masters.
"So this is where Fire Man's supposed to be?"
Lucette looked around at the lava gushing in streams past the platform she was standing on. The sweltering air and hot metal surroundings would've made it impossible for any human to continue.
"Ehhh… I've seen way worse."
Lucette dashed forward, jumping onto the copper platforms while occasionally slicing through little fireball robots. Ahead of her were what looked like… fountains of lava shooting upwards?
"How did they remodel this place into a deathtrap so quickly? Wasn't this a waste-burning factory before?" Lucette mumbled to herself.
"Well, the less time I waste, the more people I get to fight", she said with a grin and quickly darted around the fiery defenses.
A set of doors with the letters "Dr. W" written on them loomed in front of her.
"I swear… if this is what I think it is…"
As she approached, the doors opened up with a swoosh, and Lucette stepped forward with an excited hum.
"Well, I guess this is my invitation."
Lucette sauntered through the open doors and came face to face with a red robot master who seemed like he had a torch on top of his head.
"Ah, you must be a combat robot Dr. Light built and-"
"Nope. Check your database, I'm not a DLN."
"But… you're not a DWN either! Who are you?!"
"Eh, that's not really important right now. I'm just here to fight you, so please make this interesting!", Lucette exclaimed with a maniacal grin spreading over her face.
Fire Man took a disconcerted step backwards, but quickly pointed his two fire blasters at her as she took a step forward.
Lucette dodged the whirls of flames blasted in her direction with ease, simply stepping to the side at the last second.
"Aw, come on. You can do better! See, I'm not even using my weapons right now…"
Suddenly, Lucette surged forward at incredible speeds, seemingly appearing out of thin air behind Fire Man. Her foot collided harshly with his back, tearing through metal plating, and sending him skidding across the room.
"...to do this! So you can surely do… Aw man, you're already out?", Lucette whined.
Grin fading into a pout, Lucette walked up to Fire Man's limp body and kneeled down. She pried open the metal casing around his chest area and pulled out the small I.C. chip located just above the hole torn through his back.
"Whoops, I sure am lucky I didn't accidentally destroy his chip. But it's not my fault the robots of this time period have such poor armor plating…"
Holding a hand up to her helmet, she contacted Dr. Light.
"Yeah, doc, I got the I.C. chip."
"Good. Please reunite with the others to go over further plans of action; they should be done soon too."
At the same time, Myra was trudging along in sub-zero temperatures, trying not to slip on the patches of ice littering the ground.
"Y'know, I'm not really sure what I was expecting. He is Ice man, after all," she grumbled, as a particularly cold gust of wind blew by.
Ice Man wasn't particularly hard to get to, unless you were afraid of long drops. Or the cold. Honestly, this couldn't be easier if he tried. Myra jumped on a block, ready to jump to the next ledge, when the block suddenly disappeared from under her feet.
"What in the…" She looked up, seeing blocks appearing and disappearing. "Well, at least they're in a pattern."
It took several tries to get past the room, and Myra felt proud as she dropped into the room below, looking around to see… more moving blocks? Myra heaved a sigh, staring intently in an attempt to memorized the pattern.
Once she got through the second block room, she walked out and stopped dead in her tracks.
"You have got to be kidding me."
In front of her was a giant pit, with a few floating platforms, that were also shooting bullets. Myra inhaled deeply. She was not looking forward to this.
Once successfully on the other side, Myra sighed in relief. She dropped down two more levels, landing in front of a big, hopping robot. Myra glared at it, and decided that it would be a good target for all her pent up frustrations, destroying it in a few blasts.
She then noticed some double doors at the other and of the room, with a giant Dr. W painted obnoxiously on it. She wandered through, looking around casually.
"HEY!"
Myra looked down boredly at the robot, who barely came up to her shoulders.
"Uh.. hey. Where's Iceman? I need to talk to him."
"I AM Iceman!"
Myra couldn't contain her laughter. Iceman was very upset, and started lecturing her something, but at this point she wasn't paying attention. After a minute, she straightened up, staring Iceman straight in the face.
"Sorry, I'm just used to… larger enemies than yourself. I'm not usually so.. unprofessional," She said with a devious smirk, pulling out her gun and pointing it straight at Iceman's chest. "Luckily for you, I'm not allowed to damage you… too badly." She fired, sending Iceman flying across the room.
A few shots later, Iceman lying wrecked on the ground. Myra walked over easily and pulled out the I.C. chip. Then, she called Dr. Light's Lab.
"Hey, I took down Iceman. I got the I.C. chip as well, so don't worry."
"Thank goodness. Please return to the lab, the others will be back soon."