New Bot on the Block

Chapter 8: Slight Déjà vu

Tucker woke up slowly and opened his eyes in a narrow leer, before he blinked and opened his eyes to see that Leo wasn't in the sleeping bag. He then heard someone snoring and looked under the top bunk to see Brad resting his head on his arm, with his mouth gaping as he snored. Tucker heaved a sigh before he went down the ladder, wanting to grab some cereal; as he reached the Kitchen, he heard the shower running suddenly and thought that Leo probably got up first. Tucker then went over to the bathroom door and knocked on it, but he heard the shower still going; he then rolled his eyes and went back to the Kitchen to have his cereal.

A few minutes later, Tucker heard the shower turned off and went over to the bathroom door before knocking on it and Leo responded "Who is it?" Tucker shook his head and entered the Bathroom to see, much to his immediate shock, a familiar looking robot, but different. Leo looked awkwardly at Tucker as the latter looked awkwardly back; Leo then said "Let's face it, this is a really awkward encounter." Tucker made a smirk, before he replied "Well, we're agreed on that much… Wait, do you have powers and weapons like Jenny?" Leo rubbed the back of his head and noted "Well, yeah… yeah, actually." Tucker made a broad smile and asked "What do you have?"

Leo's smile faltered into unease and replied honestly "To be honest, my powers and weapons had been locked from a Failsafe Chip inserted in the back of my head. It's melted into a crisp now, but fact still is, no powers or weapons." Tucker nodded, sad that Leo has no powers or weapons now, when he said "Sorry for the distrust, I just didn't know you were a robot." Leo then made a shrug and replied "No need to apologise, Tucker. I just needed to fit in a bit more, really." Tucker shrugged with a smile, before he noticed Leo's Human Exo-Skin; Leo turned and saw the Exo-Skin before Leo said "Sorry for being rush-rush, but I've REALLY got to change into that now."

Tucker nodded before he witnessed in awe Leo's Human Exo-Skin merge with Leo and turned him to a human. Leo then said "Well, I'd better have some breakfast… if it's not a problem." Tucker looked blankly in surprise at Leo, before he shook his head in a smile and went over to the Bathroom sink as Leo left the bathroom and went inside the Kitchen to have some cereal. A couple minutes later, Brad came into the Kitchen in his Pyjama's and puts waffles in the toaster as Tucker came into the Kitchen; Brad then said "Morning guys! I see you resolved some tension between you two."

Both Leo and Tucker shrugged in broad smiles, before Brad grabbed the Waffles in mid-air and puts them on a plate before he turns on his Musique and tuned in to the News Forecast, as the presenter said during mid-sentence "…Sky Patrol had done some examinations on the Escape Pod yesterday night, but came up without any leads. The Captain of the Sky Patrol had kindly responded to the progress in the examination…" Tucker looked at Leo, who looked back at him and made a shrug before the Captain said "We've made some progress in our thorough examination of the pod, but all we managed to find was the occupant was only known as 'Test Subject #9' and the co-ordinates to where it was ejected is encrypted in a code far beyond Earth's Militairy coding. Whoever or Whatever was in that pod, they covered their tracks well, but it's only a matter of time before we find out."

Leo widened his eyes and looked at Tucker, who looked back at him with widened eyes too. Brad then turned off his Musique and said "Well, we'd better get ready for school today, guys." Leo and Tucker nodded at Brad before he went to his room to get ready; once he was out of earshot, Tucker then said to Leo "I won't breathe a word about you, especially to Jenny. If she finds out what you are, she'll boot you to the sun herself." Leo nodded in agreement, before they got ready for school.