Happy Thanksgiving for those of us who live in the US and Canada! Time to watch the parade and make some food!
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The soldiers opened fire. Rex formed his Smack Hands while Six's blades slipped from his sleeves. Rex blocked the bullets. Six jumped in front of Rex. He began deflecting the bullets back. A few soldiers were picked off by the ricocheting bullets.
"Now!" Six yelled to Rex. Rex rescinded one of his Smack Hands and placed his hand onto the floor. Blue lines spread from the floor to throughout the room. The lights shut off. The room plunged into darkness.
"Hold your fire, you idiots!" Gris yelled when they continued firing. "Someone get the lights back on!" Within a few seconds the lights came back on, but Rex and Six were gone.
Everyone looked around confused. "Don't just stand there! Go find them!" Gris bellowed.
The soldiers scattered.
0o0
Six followed Rex as he ran down the hall. Rex slid to a stop when he reached a round platform.
"Ok, I got from the computer that she's down there." Rex placed his hand on the wall the platform started dropping.
"Rex, can you distract them?" Six looked at him.
"Hey, have I ever let you down?" Rex asked confidently.
Six continued looking at him.
"Nevermind. Look, don't worry Six. Go rescue Doc." Rex amended.
"Thank you, Rex." Six said. "And for what it's worth… you've never let me down." With that Six jumped down the hole. Rex stood stunned for a moment by the uncharacteristic compliment. A lopsided grin spread on his face.
"That's right! Cause I'm awesome!" He formed his Rex Ride. Giving the engine a good rev he peeled down the hall.
0o0
Six dropped onto one knee upon the platform that was still moving down. Even before the elevator hit the floor, Six jumped off. He scanned the new space he was in. Only one door had light leaking from the bottom.
"Holiday!" He yelled.
"Six?" A voice answered him.
He ignored the flutter in his chest the answer produced.
"Holiday, I'm coming." He said.
"Be careful! I don't know where they all went." She answered. Although Six knew she was right, he threw caution to the wind. Running to the door, he began slashing at the door. It barely produced a scratch. He tried a few more times. He gritted his teeth. Checking around the sides, he found a control panel. He connected his blades into a tuning fork. He jammed it into the panel. Sparks flew out. It began smoking. The acrid smoke stung his eyes but he continued holding the blades until he heard a popping sound. The doors slid opened.
He stepped through the door. All the robotic arms paused in mid action.
"Six! Watch out!" Holiday yelled. The arms all turned towards the door. "They might be programmed to…"
All the robotic arms flipped back to reveal lasers that began firing. Six somersaulted to avoid the shots. Then connecting his blades by their handles to form a double blade staff, he spun it like a fan. The blasts were reflected back at the arms, knocking a few out. He thrust the tip of his blades at others all the while carefully avoiding being hit.
Holiday seeing that Six was determined to come after her began yanking at her chain. It, however, did not budge but her wrist was chaffed raw. Nonetheless she kept pulling. There must have been a pressure sensor because a small drone rolled up to her.
"Desist." It said in a robotic voice. "Or be terminated." Holiday glared at it.
"Make me." She said petulantly.
The drone produced a laser from its center. It was just what she was hoping for.
The drone fired at her. She pulled the chain taut and in the line of fire. In a second she was free with several feet of heavy metal in her hands. She flung the end that hit the drone in its sensitive optic sensor effectively blinding it. The drone began wildly firing. Holiday dove behind the console for cover. The sound of metal being sheared made her look out. Six was standing over the split drone. Looking around she saw he had taken out all the defenses.
"What kept you?" She asked with a smirk. The adrenaline rush was making her giddy.
"Sorry, had to take a detour." He returned her smirk.
Holiday's face erupted into a smile before growing worried. "How are you holding up?"
"I've been better." Six answered taking her fettered wrist. With one smooth motion the chain dropped onto the floor.
"Thanks." She said rubbing her tender wrist. "Now how do we get out?"
Footsteps were heard running towards them.
"Working on it." Six said. He grabbed a fallen gun from the floor and handed it to Holiday.
"Don't tell me we're going out like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Holiday looked at him.
"No. They didn't have swords." Six answered before running towards the footsteps.
"I didn't mean… Oh, never mind." Holiday checked the ammo gage. If she was going out, she was going to go out fighting… with her man.
0o0
Rex plowed through a group of soldiers who had the unfortunate luck to be in the hall with his battering ram as he rode through.
"Sorry, guys but you are trying to kill me first." He told them as they dispersed. He finally reached the front room where he and Six had entered. The soldiers there opened fired. Rex's Smack Hands came out to block the bullets. Then he swept them across the room knocking them over. He ran to a panel and placed his hand on it. The door slid opened. Bobo and Gatlocke drove in.
"About time." Bobo snarked. "We got rid of those jokers ages ago."
"They were a piece of cake. Speaking of cake, why do we use cake as a metaphor? I mean have you ever made a cake? It's not easy. Now cobbler, that's easy…" Gatlocke babbled.
Rex and Bobo ignored him. "Six went to get Holiday. We need to distract these guys."
"Oh, I'm good at distractions." Gatlocke piped up. "I'm so good I distract myself."
"I'm sure you do." Rex muttered. Then in a louder voice, he said, "Why don't you go that way and see what you can mess up."
Gatlocke's face fell. "Aww, I thought we'd do it together as a team…Gatlocke and the…"
"Shut up!" Both Bobo and Rex snapped as they both walked off.
"Well, that was rude…" Gatlocke sniffed. "Don't expect a Christmas gift."
Before they even made it a foot, reinforcements arrived.
"Bobo go high. I'll go low." Rex told his sidekick.
"I'll go for ice tea." Gatlocke announced. "Or I'll go ice them, I always get that mixed up."
Bobo jumped to the rafters and grabbed an exposed pipe. He shot from above. Rex formed his Slam Cannon, loaded it, and blasted the concrete at them. Gatlocke blasted randomly. While he did manage to take out a few guards, he also nearly hit Rex.
"Hey! Watch it!" Rex yelled at him.
"Well, you're in my way. You're not doing much good. Why don't you skootch over?" Gatlocke scoffed.
Rex clenched jaw. His Slam Cannon disappeared and his Boogie Pack sprouted from his back. As he hovered in the space he aimed the turbines at the soldiers. Turning the engines on high, the soldiers were blown back until not a single one was standing.
Rex landed and looked triumphantly at Gatlocke.
"Skootched over enough for ya?" Rex asked.
"Nobody likes a show off." Gatlocke pouted.
"Hey fellas, the party's not over yet." Bobo indicated that that more people were on their way.
"Bobo! Go see if you can radio Providence and tell them our location." Rex told the chimp. "We'll hold them off."
"Ooo, we?" Gatlocke brightened up. "And here I thought you didn't like me?" He grabbed Rex in a hug.
"Get off me, you psycho! And use that insanity on those people over there." Rex pointed at the guards that were showing up.
"Psycho? I don't know what you are talking about." He said in a dignified tone until the first man reached the room. Then Gatlocke screamed like a banshee and tackled the man before he could even get out a shot.
"Yeah, complete nut." Rex shook his head as he formed his BFS and got ready.
Thanks for reading! I hope it was good. Honestly, almost done. I'm going to wrap everything up this month. There has been some new writers on the site, please go check them out. Demoness Kneesocks has several AU stories with EVO Holiday. Maniac345 has a story about Rex having his whole life taken from him and the person who would take advantage of that (Warning for language). Don't forget Moddy as well. Please go read and review!