Sailor Bloodlines
Sequel to Sailor Moon: The Alternate Story
And the Sailor Kuiper Trilogy
Chapter 7: The Decrepit Factory
Once they enter the Decrepit Factory, Percy and Linda remove their breathing apparatuses. Unlike the domes, the air in the factory is quite stale, but it's still safe to breathe. Near the entry way, the group comes across a control panel. Rusty says that the Factory is locked down by a system known as Security Double Omega, but he has the override code in his software, and types it into the control panel, shutting down the main security of the factory. Unfortunately, this also grants access to the factory to mutants, such a slimy mutant that falls from the ceiling. Rusty analyzes it to find the mutant is made mostly of acid, and is highly vulnerable to light and electricity. Percy destroys it with the Slash of Light, and the group delves deeper into the factory.
As they walk through the factory, taking out acid mutants along the way, the group comes across a room filled with inactive robots. Linda takes a good look at them, impressed at the engineering that went into making the machines. However, she loses her balance and knocks into one, setting off an alarm and activating the robots. Six of them surround Percy and try to bum rush him, but he counters with a Cyclone Slash. Linda pulls out her pistol and starts firing on the machines, much to her unwillingness to do so. Percy notices that Linda's laser pistol is doing more damage than usual, and she reveals that while she was working on Rusty, she took some time off combining parts from her pistol and the plasma guns of the androids from Beta Dome to give it more oomph.
However, this conversation distracts Linda long enough for a robot to tackle her to the ground. It then steps onto her ankle, trying to crush it. As Linda begins to cry out in pain, tears trickling down her face, Rusty's arm shoots off from his body, puncturing the robot, who falls over next to Linda as Rusty's arm retracts to his body. Percy and Rusty approach Linda and Pull up her pant leg to see how bad her injury is: her ankle appears to be fractured and blood is dripping from a spot where the skin was punctured. Rusty aims his laser cannon at Linda, saying he can help her. Percy steps between the two, thinking Rusty means amputation. Linda tells Percy that she trusts Rusty's judgment and tells him to step aside. Rusty fires a clear green laser from his cannon, but instead of severing Linda's foot, the flesh wound heals, and the ankle reforms to its original shape. Rusty says he has both restorative and destructive lasers, and can choose which one to use based on his own free will. Linda thanks Rusty for his help and the group continues their way through the factory.
Eventually the group makes it two what Rusty suspects is the deepest part of the factory, but the generator is guarded by a large door and a pass code. Rusty tries to remember how to get past this door, but the only thing that comes to mind is the word "BARGY". Percy tries to think what BARGY means when he takes a look at the panel next to the door and notes four buttons on it color red, yellow, blue and green. These colors? BARGY? It suddenly comes to Percy: he approaches the panel and pushes the buttons in the order blue, red, green, yellow. The door to the generator opens up to them. Linda approaches Percy, telling him she is impressed he could figure it out like that.
The group approaches the generator, with Percy and Linda wondering how to activate it. Rusty places his hand into the machine and twists it. This activates the emergency power for about a minute. Back at the Beta Dome, Karin notes the power turning on and presses the button to the time sphere's room, opening it up just as the power goes back off. Back in the Decrepit Factory, an alarm goes off telling all personnel to evacuate the building immediately. As they make their way back, the group notices the walls trying to crush them. Rusty fires a blue laser from his cannon whenever the walls are shut, welding them shut for good.
Just before they reach the exit, six more robot appear out of nowhere, and except for being colored blue, they all look just like Rusty. Rusty claims that they are his brother units, BU-265-P to BU-271-V. The other BU series bots are not as thrilled as Rusty is to see them though. They claim that he is a defect and a traitor and start to wail on him. Percy rushes in to try and stop them, but Rusty tells him to his brothers alone. After they finish beating him up, they stuff him into a trash compactor and turn their sights to Percy and Linda. They all bum rush the duo, but Percy and Linda counter with the Flaming Tornado, turning them all into scrap metal.
They pull Rusty out of the trash compactor, and to their relief, he can still be saved. Putting on their breathing apparatuses, Percy and Linda carry Rusty with them back to Beta Dome, with Karin helping them out once they get inside. While Linda repairs him, Rusty asks Linda if they are trying to save the world. Linda confirms this and asks Rusty what he's going to do once he is repaired. Rusty is surprised by this, as he was never asked such a question before. He ponders the question throughout the entire night.
Once morning arrives (or what they believe is morning due to the thick cloud cover), Rusty has decided that he wants to join Linda and her friends in their mission to destroy the Chaos Spawn. Overjoyed by the addition of their new ally, the four of them go through the now opened door and enter the time sphere. And so the journey continues!
