Outcasts

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Chapter 7: Fall of Man

Things were bad. The town was being torn about by every machine there, which were a lot. Misty raced towards where she hoped Sheldon would be, she was afraid that if he happened to run into Jenny she would blast him to bits even if neither one wanted that.

She was guessing she might find find Sheldon right at Wakeman's home since he did intern for her. She flew across the sky trying to find him. That was when she reached that neighbor and found Sheldon and Wakeman running from some robots she had never seen before. That's when she noticed that Sheldon's Silver Shell suit was firing on them too.

After the initial attack Wakeman acted fast and tossed Sheldon though a window and then followed him. It was an abrupt escape but it helped them escape their immediate danger after did what they could to avoid the machines that now chased them out of the house.

As they ran Sheldon couldn't help but be thankful for Misty's training or he would have been taken down by then. Still he wished he had some help neither him nor Wakeman wanted to be killed by their own creation. Their wish was granted when Misty swept down and grabbed them and lifted them up in the air.

"MIsty?!" Sheldon exclaimed at the turn of events.

"Yeah," coyly she said. "So I've had a hectic day. What about your day?"

"Enough with the patter." Wakeman told them. "The X-J Units might not be able to catch up so easily but Sheldon's suit-"

At that point Sheldon's suit took off into the air following them. Misty took any maneuver she could to avoid the blast sent by the suit. Every blast cost her a few feet and the suit started to catch up and it didn't help that she wasn't used to carrying people.

"Yes, that." Wakeman said when they saw what was now following them

"Is that your suit?" Misty asked.

"...yeah." Sheldon answered sheepishly.

"I thought you fixed it so no one could take control of it but you."

"I did."

"Not working then?!"

"I don't know what going."

Wakeman glared at them, "Robotic suit is headed our way! Misty toss Sheldon at his suit!"

"What?" They both yelled.

"Just do it. Trust me!"

Hesitant Misty tossed Sheldon at the suit. Sheldon was less then thrilled by the fact and expressed that by a very girlish scream. Sheldon a moment later smashed into the his suits head piece.

"Sheldon!" Wakeman yelled. "Open the hatch. Use the manual door hatch!"

The suit quickly tried to grab him but Sheldon was slippery and jumped onto the side and opened the hatch. Suddenly the robot suit opened up and Sheldon jumped in quickly grabbing the controls. The controls were not responsive and Sheldon panicked.

"Remove the power source." Wakeman continued to bark out orders. "I don't know what's controlling it but if you remove the power source it won't be able to move at all."

Sheldon scurried to grab the power core that was located beneath his seat. Whatever force controlled the machine moved the hands into the chest cavity were Sheldon was.

Misty flinched as she moved towards him but was stopped by her passenger. "We can't help. Sheldon has to be the one to stop it. We'd just get in the way."

Just as the hands reached him Sheldon managed to grab the handle of the power core and with a twist and a pull the battery was out. With no power the suit was as good as dead and it dropped.

The suit hit the ground with a crash and Sheldon staggered out. "It worked."

They couldn't power the suit anymore and it was difficult but they dragged the suit into Sheldon's garage and hide.

"So what's going on?" Misty sat on Sheldon's work bench as Sheldon and Wakeman worked on the suit.

"No, idea." Sheldon answered.

"So what are you doing?"

"Trying to figure what took control o the suit." Wakeman said holding a wrench in her hand. "If we can find out what took control of the suit we might be able to stop it from controlling all the other machines in town."

"Any clues?" Misty asked again having nothing better to do.

"Some sort of sophisticated signal." Sheldon said pulling out the print out of the reading from the suits on board black box. "Something broadcasted all over town, something that basically hacks into the systems of any machine."

"Systems?" Misty said. "So not the the programing? That's why Jenny talked like normal when she blasted me."

"I would think so." Wakeman told her. "It by passes normal programing in robots and AI and takes the controls over from them. It's like having a set of controls for any machine that bypasses regular means of controls."

"So they took the controls over form Sheldon's suit like that even if you made enhancements,"

"Yeah the last controls were keyed into my DNA and any other DNA would be locked out of the controls but with no DNA to lock onto that system didn't work at all."

"So how are we to keep it from happening again?"

"Isomorphic controls." Sheldon stated like that meant something. "It's a trick I picked up from a friend. It will key into my brainwaves or else it won't work at all. Even if the signal tries to take over the systems it shouldn't work unless it read my brain waves."

"So sort of like a password lock?" Misty guessed.

"Yes, sort of but not really." Sheldon tried to explain.

"While that's all well and good," Misty started up. "you know if machines are taking over. It's a nice suit but I doubt it will be able to handle an entire towns worth of machines."

"Well we can't waste our time fighting every single one." Wakeman told her. "We need to come with away to figure out how to track the source of the signal and stop it. That will not be easy as any device we build to track it could be used against us."

"Huh?" Misty said. "That's stupid. If someone is controlling all the machine in town then they have to be in town. So why not just go to the only place in town not being wrecked by machines, I mean, it's not like they're going to wreck their own place right?"

Sheldon and Wakeman looked at each other wondering why neither of them had come to that conclusion. It wouldn't be hard to find since like Misty the location was the only place in town without a mini riot. Little did any of them know that Universal Technologies was in the center of it all. That the person behind it was behind everything that they had gone through recently and what their plan would ultimately result.


Authors Notes: Okay sorry for the delay, July has been a weird month for me with conventions and me getting sick. I also lost motivation to write for a while. Next chapter will be something we find the man behind the curtain and thought it's not a cross over story there will be things from other shows and series. So leave a review and tell me what you think I live off reviews and let me now any tech from shows you like and if I can work it in I will.