Okay time for the next chapter of Akira and Lara. With seven relics down, the heroes have more power to defeat Metteraun and save their families. Until the next relic is found, enjoy some light missions like this.

We currently see the school doing some charity car wash. Some of the faculty were washing some vehicles, along with a few students and Principal Carrie. She seemed to be enjoying this, 1) because she's doing this for free, and 2) because of the embarrassed looked she sees on Zalio we he see's her outfit for this. She wore a red tank top, cargo shorts, and sandles.

"Ahhh charity, where you give to those who really need it. I love giving things for free." She sighed while scrubbing down a soapy Honda Civic. Just then a blue corvette appeared and the driver revealed to be an elderly woman in a red sweater.

"So does this mean you're giving back my ancestral mansion that I was forced to sell when I went through hard times?" Yeah the mansion Carrie lives in use to belong to this woman, who's ancestors founded this town.

"Not today!" Carrie exclaimed, which caused old lady Middleburg to sadly sigh as she drove away.

In the distance, laying against a tree was Zalio, who kept his eyes firmly on Carrie. While he did that, we see two boys with a bucket with two straps on it and a ladder.

"This is going to be hilarious." Akira said as he filled the bucket with water from a hose.

"Especially with this, The Buck Pack." BJ said as he put the thing on and started to climb the ladder, he made it half way before...

"WAIT I have a better woah!" he said as he fell off and landed on Akira, getting them both soaked.

This snapped Zalio out of his trance as he saw what transpired behind the tree he was resting on, "Haha, prank fail! Carrie even you could do better then clumsy ole Boone Juni-DOW" He laughed until a water bucket was accidentally hurled on to his head.

"Sorry." Zalio just growled.

later

The gang was now heading for work, Akira was going on about BJ latest flop in their prank on the gym teacher.

"Another botch from Boone Botcherson Junior."

"I DON'T bocth everything!" BJ indignantly stated.

"Weeeeeeeell..." the others said.

Flashback

We see BJ with a volcano project, which then exploded the entire gym.

Now it's the cake he blew up the oven with in home ec class.

Then we see him getting himself out three times in smash bros.

Lastly we see the boys with an ice bucket, before BJ fell off the roof and landed on a bush, and the bucket fell on him dousing him in freezing cold water, he fidget and shivered in cold as his wet clothes got ripped off because he landed on a rose bush with extra thorns. So he was now streaking home while shouting "COLD COLD COLD COLD-" Akira and Tyler just facepalmed at this epic disaster.

End flashback

"... and that last one was just yesterday." Tyler pointed out while rubbing his temples. BJ just blushed at the embarrassing memory, Cass rested a comforting and apologetic hand on his shoulder. Which got a smile out of her brother/secret lover (Don't judge, it happens).

"Well at least Zalio got soaked because of Carrie," he said as they entered Junk Stuff ".. or should I say: Zalio's BJ."

ZAP

We now see a steampunk flying city, in one of the old looking buildings we see an iron lab with many robot parts lying around. We then see BJ in a lab coat, brown pants, goggles, and flip flops. On a table next to him was a tiny radio with glasses.

"Woah, some kind of steampunk world. Ooo a radio." BJ then winded up the radio and heard it say.

"BJ it's me."

"Oh hey Casserino, you look hot in gears."

"Save the flirting for home, anyway I got a message for our mission," Cass said as a tiny robot arm brought out her MUHU, she then showed him a projection "You are a brilliant inventor, you must build four automatons which will battle four evil automatons in a eight robot intergender tag team match. If the evil robots win, they'll get mass produced and take over the world."

"Cool. By the way, where are the others?" BJ asked. And that's when he heard.

"They're the automatons you have to build."

"WHAT!"

Just then they were joined by Carrie in a lab coat and black skirt, and a robotic cat man. Apparently her workshop is flooded and will have to split the heroes lab.

Carrie and Nigel advised against this idea but powered down.

When the two were alone now, BJ broke the ice. "So looks like we're building robots."

"Yeah I guess we are. So now we must focus."

"Yep, focusing."

3

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"So what's with the plant?" BJ gestured to the plant that Carrie brought with her.

"Well in the movies when someone gets fired, they always take a plant but hey never go in with a plant."

"You know, Akira never once asked me for a plant, despite some subtle hinting."

"Zalio never thanked me for a plant, I think it comes from deep insecurities."

"Yes there's nothing more insecure then a crabby looking grown man who commits evil part time and has villains for parents." BJ sarcastically said.

"I know right."

We then see a little montage of BJ and Carrie doing some things like Boone Sr and Larry did, instead of working on their robots.

The two were now laying down in a pool of snacks.

"Man I never had more fun in my life." BJ said.

"Same here." Carrie agreed.

"Akira should really take you more seriously. You know what he called you? Zalio's BJ."

"And Zalio called you: Akira's Carrie." They both laughed at this.

"I don't know why they say I'm a botcher and screw up."

"I was wondering that too."

"Just because I shrank the football team's uniforms once... or twice."

"And I made cupcakes for the students, and they ended up with diarrhea."

"And at the science fair I accidentally got Cass's spray on my team."

"The one that decomposes non organic matter."

"Yep" They laughed, until BJ came to a realization of what that incident caused. He then frowned when many other mistakes and other failures he had caused that left his team or others hurt, wet, or naked in public. 'I really am a botch.'

Carrie had finished laughing, "You know I recall this one time when me and Zalio went to a part time villains convention, I may have overdosed on the shots and a series of events that caused us to be... wait." She looked back on that story and realized. "Oh no."

"I really am a walking mistake machine." They both said.

"Akira was right about me, I am Boone Botcherson Junior." BJ sadly admitted.

"Oh man, what is wrong with me?" Carrie question as she started to cry into her hands.

"They'll never let me live it down if we lose." They sadly said, then realized their jobs. They then glared at each other and finally got to work on their robots.

The next day

We now see a sky high arena with a squared wrestling ring. There was a a set of bleachers where the people will see this epic battle. Did I say epic battle, I meant disaster.

Because when it was time to unveil the automatons that will be battling... well.

GASP

"Please tell me this a joke?"

"They're hideous."

"Booooo"

All along other not so kind things, because both sets of robots looked rushed and broken down. A lot of parts and joints looked out of place, think of automaton Penn and Rippen, but worst. BJ pressed the buttons to activate his... partially functional friends.

"Hey guys."

"It felt weird not being built."

"Yeah I made you guys." BJ told them to their dread.

"Oh no." Tyler complained.

"I predict this will end in another failure." Rose gravely said.

Meanwhile with the villains.

Carrie had just activated her robots, and Zalio proceeded to cough? "Why did you program me to cough tch tch. "

"I have no idea." Carrie just said.

Well you all know how this goes with robots like these. Their weapons were all useless junk, they fell apart whenever they made contact with their opponents, it was a major flop. The people would have left if it wasn't for a no refund policy.

Thirty minutes of this horrendous bout, the robots saw BJ looking all sad and self loathing. "BJ are you okay?" Akira asked his heavy friend.

The part time wiseman just sighed, "You guys were right about me." They raised an eyebrow at this. "I can't do anything right. I made robots that fall apart at a simple breeze. I make inventions that totally backfire on me. And any prank I plan on Zalio always ends in one of you five publicly humiliated. I am a Botcherson." BJ slumped on the apron.

They felt awful for this, they didn't mean to make him this miserable. The part time team knew what they had to do.

"To be honest BJ, we couldn't do any of these missions without your ideas." Akira told him.

"While some of them seem totally ridiculous, they get the job done." Lara admitted.

"Your dumb ideas actually have more success then those of ancient gods." Rose

"You're different BJ, and that's good." Tyler finished.

BJ smiled, "Thanks guys, from here on I promise to do more thinking before doing."

"Actually, just stay who you are." Akira told him.

After that the four heroes had used the worthless weapons BJ gave them in more creative ways to inflict pain on the villains. A with a four way robo-tied, the heroes got the win. And then BJ and Carrie went on another balloon ride, that crashed down.

Well that's it for now. The automaton episode was a little strange for me. It knida made me think that Boone and Larry are total dunces who have no concern when they do something wrong, like selling their friends stuff online or slacking off on important battles among other things people would think before doing. I kinda made their descendants more thoughtful of their mistakes and failures.

But anyway, let me know what you think. No flames.