CHAPTER 10

RE-EDIT 2

Lopez Speech

O'Malley Speech

RED BASE

"Is it just me or does this jeep seem like really bad luck?" Grif asked his friend Simmons. "Yeah." The maroon soldier said, "Now that you mention it, it does seem like every time we get in the damn thing." Simmons begins to count off the many times the jeep has caused misfortune with his fingers. "It breaks or explodes or goes crazy and tries to kill us." The two reds stood on the edge of their base. Watching Sarge work on the flipped over jeep.

Donut rushed over and stood next to Simmons' left. "Maybe we should exchange it for a few motorcycles." Donut chimed, "No wait, wait! A big tank like the Blues have. That thing never seems to have any problems at all."

BLUE TEAM

Donut's statement about the Blue's tank is ironic. The Blue's tank hasn't been reliable to them in some sense, for it has been destroyed a few times. The thing is giving off sparks right now.

"Alright, that's the deal, Mister Robot. You fix our tank, we'll let you go free." Church explained to the Mexican robot. Standing a few feet, Caboose turns to Tucker and whisper to him really loudly. "I thought the plan was to trick him into fixing the tank and then Church will take over his body again when he is done."

Tucker too speaks in a whisper tone, though unlike Caboose. He was much much softer. "Yeah, but you don't go telling the person you're tricking what's going on Caboose."

"So, if I'm the one being tricked. Then you would not tell me what's really going on!?" The Blue soldier said it in a way like it's the craziest thing he ever heard. "Why would we trick you?" Tucker asked.

"Oh, I think you know." Back over with Church and Lopez, "Where will I go? Even my friends tried to kill me." Church assumed what Lopez said was yes, he then told him to get to work. Seeing no other option, Lopez steps up to the busted tank and gets to work.

RED TEAM

"Donut. How's our most vital soldier doing?" Sarge asked. "I'm doing fine sir. You didn't need to ask Donut since I'm right here." Simmons said. Sarge turns to him and yells, "Not you Simmons, I meant Ryan!"

"Ryan?" Simmons questioned. The Red leader tilted his head, "Son, did you forget that we were in explosion that destroyed our jeep that sent us flying few feet into the air?" It was Simmons turn to tilt his head. It took him moment for him to remember. "Oh right! I forgot about that." He said. "How could you forget something like that?" Donut asked.

Simmons turns to the pink soldier and spoke in rude tone. "Gee Donut, maybe because after the jeep we were in exploded. I was sent flying through the air and crashed hard onto the dirt covered ground!"

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"How high did you go?" He asked him. Letting out a heavy exhale through his nose. "...Shut up Donut." Sarge loudly cleared his throat to get everyone to focus. "Getting back on topic," Sarge again asked how Ryan is doing. "He's fine, just resting. His armor took most of the blast." Donut then said, "I even rubbed some aloe vera on his neck." The Pink soldier showed him the bottle. "I hope that's the only place you rubbed." The red leader grunted. "What's that supposed to mean?" The pink trooper asked.

"Nothing." The Red leader shook his head. "Aw crap." Said the teams lazy soldier. Grif stood on the flipped over jeep's tire, some how not losing his balance and peering through a sniper scope. "Hey, uh, they got a guy fixing their tank." Sarge turned to look at him and gruffed loudly. "Impossible! Our intelligence clearly states-" Donut cuts in, "We have intelligence?"

Sarge continued as if Donut hadn't said anything, "That the only soldiers in this canyon with any mechanical training. Are me, the dead the freelancer, and Lopez." It then clicked to Sarge. "Oh wait a minute!" Simmons speaks urgently, "Sir, are you thinking what I'm thinking?" He then counts off with his fingers, "Lopez runs away, the jeep starts driving itself, and suddenly there's a new guy on the Blue Team?" The maroon soldier couldn't believe it took him this long to figure it out.

Sarge nods his head in agreement. "Yes Simmons, I am. Quite obviously, the Blue Team has constructed some kind of diabolical mind control ray beam." He wiggled his fingers in a spooky like fashion. "That they used on Lopez and now he has to do their evil Blue bidding." He's whole theory was really out there. "Or..." Grif interjected, jumping down from the tire, "Since he's a robot. Maybe they just reprogrammed him." Grif's logic made the most sense.

"Or maybe that blue guy who got killed by the tank came back as a ghost and now he's possessing Lopez's body. That could also explain why Sarge went nuts when we had the prisoner. The blue ghost probably possessed him too. And the jeep going nuts was probably a set of coincidences, While the guy try learn to use Lopez's body." Donut's theory too was out there, but completely true. However, "I think I like the ray beam idea better." Simmons said. Grif mockingly laughed, "Yeah rookie, your idea sounds a little dumb."

BLUE TEAM

The Blue Team's tank, a.k.a Shelia. Is about 99% repaired, thanks to the repair skills of Lopez. Caboose was so excited, he's jumping up and down. "Hurry, hurry, hurry fix the tank! So that I can say hello to Sheila!" The Blue soldier turns to Tucker. "And start killing EVERYONE!"

Tucker didn't like how Caboose said 'everyone' in the slightest. "You mean all the reds, right?" Caboose nodded his head and exclaimed, "Of course!" Tucker relaxed his shoulders hearing that. "For starters!" Tucker quickly turn to look at him. "Come on, how much longer Lopez?" Church asked the Spanish speaking robot.

Lopez put the tool he was using into the tool box, "Complete." He gets up and hops off of Sheila and onto the ground. He's heavy weight pick up some dirt. In one second, Sheila booted up, her female robotic tone spoke once again, "Thank you for activating the M808V Main Battle Tank."

"Sheila!" Caboose ran up to the tank and hugged one her front treads, "You're fixed! You're fixed!" He cheered. "Hello Private Caboose. It's good to see you again. Thank you for repairing me."

"He didn't fix you. The robot did." Tucker corrected. Caboose let go of Sheila's front tread and turned to Tucker. "Don't Cockblock me!" Caboose growled to the Aqua soldier. "Robot?" Shelia said, confused, "I wasn't aware that our squad was outfitted with a robot." Lopez looked up to the barrel and likewise the barrel looked down to Lopez. It was love at first sight. "I don't like where this is going." Caboose said. She introduced herself, "Hello there. My name is Sheila." Like wise, the robot introduced himself too, "And I'm Lopez The Heavy."

"Lopez," She repeated, liking the name. "What a nice name for such a nice soldier." She said. "You have such excellent motor skills." She complimented the robot. Not wanting to let this continue, Caboose explained Lopez has to leave because he was only here to fix her up.

Tucker's starting to find this whole love triangle thing weird, "Church, will you take your fucking body back." The ghost nodded, "Roger that." He then runs to the robot to posses him once again. Though Lopez wasn't to keen on being possessed again, "NO!" He screamed.

Church entered into Lopez, like every time he does so. The body would twitch, but this it was different. Lopez's body was twitching more eraticly, as if there's another presence fighting for control. "You ok Church?" Tucker asked, he didn't get a response. "Church, what's going on? Do I need to flip your switch?" Just then Church appeared to the right of the aqua soldier.

"What the? That wasn't me. What the hell is going on here?" He said. "Well..." Said a all to familiar female voice. They all looked towards Lopez, "Buenos dias, cockbites." 'Lopez' turns around, "Guess who's back?"