I am on vacation right now. But I pre-wrote a bunch of stories so that I can update as long as I can find internet and my phone doesn't give out. Keep your fingers crossed. This is how dedicated I am to you guys.
Guest, smackedlove, and ms. george: Thank you for being the only ones to review so far. I'm glad you liked it. I was worried it was too boring. Gracias por ser los únicos que revisen lo que va usted. Me alegra que te guste. Me preocupaba que fuera demasiado aburrido.
Okay, this one should have a little more action. Sorry, trying to find the right balance. I feel like I have too many things going on at once. But stay with me. Hopefully, the pay off will be worth it.
I do not own.
Black Knight stood in front of the gates of a penitentiary. Officers came out of the guard house.
"You are trespassing on government territory. Please leave now." One of them trained a gun at her.
Black Knight chortled as she made her mace. She began walking towards the men who began firing. The bullets bounced off her. She raised her whip.
Within minutes she was inside. Alarms were blaring and prisoners were yelling from their cells to be let out. Security personnel lay on the floor unconscious. Black Knight, however, was focused on one thing. She purposefully moved to where the maximum security prisoners were kept. She blasted open the door.
"Hello, Black Knight. About time you came." A calm voice greeted her.
"Do you have what I want, Moses?" Black Knight asked.
"As promised." Branden Moses pulled something out from underneath his mattress. It was a rather large metal cuff festooned with buttons and lights.
"This thing work?" She reached out to take it.
"Uh-eh, remember your end of the bargain." Moses pulled the cuff back.
Black Knight tore down the cell door. She held out her hand and Moses dropped the cuff into her hand.
"Just let it charge for 24 hours and then the rest is up to you." Moses stated.
"Thank you. Your car and money are outside waiting for you as per our deal." Black Knight said.
"A pleasure doing business with you." Moses nodded as he walked out of the room.
"Can he be trusted?" Alpha's form appeared slightly to the side of Black Knight.
"There's only one way to find out. If he lied, he will be sorry. However, everything I've seen leads me to believe this is our chance for revenge."
"Revenge is secondary to my primary goal." Alpha reminded her.
"Don't worry. We will get you Rex's nanite. Then the world is ours." Black Knight laughed.
0o0
Beasly walked into the infirmary. He walked past a row of beds until he reached one at the end.
"Hey Wade." He said softly.
Wade opened her eyes and looked at him. "Hey." She replied listlessly.
"You're looking better." Beasly said.
"Cut the crap, Beasly." She hissed.
"No serious. We thought you were a goner." Beasly tried again.
"Should've died." Wade closed her eyes.
"Don't say that! Don't you ever say that!" He said furiously.
"Why not? My career is over, my life is over." Her eyes flashed.
"It's not over. Sarge lost his arm. And that didn't stop him." Beasly reminded her.
"What is Providence going to do with this?" Wade violently pulled back her covers. Beasly tried not to wince at the two stumps where her legs use to be.
"Maybe Dr. Holiday can help?" Beasly tried to comfort her.
"How?" She challenged. "Prosthetic legs mean I can't move as fast or be as agile as I use to be. I can't ever be on the field again. I don't want a desk job or be a teacher. I don't have that kinda patience!"
Beasly had no answer. There was awkward silence.
"Beasly, I don't want to keep you. You still have a job to do." Wade turned to the wall so he couldn't see the tears in her eyes.
"Hang in there. I'll be back, Wade." Beasly promised.
Wade just shrugged as Beasly walked away. When his footsteps died, she let herself dissolve into tears.
0o0
"Everyone, I just got a strange message from David." Holiday stared at her phone.
Beverly had just stormed out. Rylander went after her offering to have a talk with her. White Knight went on with the meeting as if nothing happened. Caesar kept talking as if his girlfriend hadn't just yelled at him. Holiday wondered how they could all act like nothing was wrong. But she was doing it too. Talking as if her little sister hadn't all but accused her of selling out her principles. Then an email message just popped up out of nowhere from David. All eyes turned to her. She did not notice Six bristle at the name.
"It says family fork." Holiday frowned. "What does that mean?"
"Chess move." White Knight answered. "It's when the knight attacks more than one enemy piece."
"You mean Black Knight? Black Knight has David? We have to help him!" Holiday was alarmed. Six noted her concern with apprehension.
"He should be fine," Six answered flatly. Then he clarified when Rebecca glared at him, "Momentarily. She probably needs him alive to get what she wants."
"Caesar, I expect you and your eggheads to come up with some way to neutralize Alpha and Black Knight." White Knight said to Caesar and Meechum. Meechum was visible upset at the insulting term.
Caesar as usual did not notice. "I just need to pull my dimensional disrupter from storage and recalibrate it. Perhaps my colleagues can find a way to separate the two. "
"I wouldn't mind seeing Black Knight in another dimension but I guess it would be a death sentence so… I'll go get Rylander and see what we can do." Meechum rubbed his eyes tiredly. "Gonna be another long night. I'm going to have to pay the babysitter double again."
"Six, take the hot shot and see if you can find out what happened to our benefactor." White Knight said. "The rest of you, you have your orders. Get to it." Then the screen went black.
"Come on Rex." Six grabbed Rex by the shoulder and hauled him up.
"Where are we even going to start?" Rex protested.
"I have an idea." Six said in his usual monotone.
"Dr. Holiday, perhaps you can lend us your expertise as well." Caesar suggested.
Holiday didn't want to lend her expertise. She wanted to talk to Beverly but that would have to wait. If Alpha has truly teamed up with Black Knight the world was not safe.
0o0
Rex found himself in Six's jump jet in the air 20 minutes later. Forty minutes later a bored Rex started asking Six questions.
"Where are we going? Are we there yet? What are we going to do when we get there? Are we going to fight?" Rex rattled off question after question at Six.
"You'll see. No. I don't know. Maybe." Six answered.
"Come on! I don't even remember what I asked." Rex complained. He looked out the window. "Hey, is that one of the offices of Mr. Feines?" He pointed at a large complex.
"That's the office." Six answered as he landed the jet on the launch pad on the roof.
Six and Rex got out of the jet and were greeted by security.
"Mr. Six, how are you? Mr Feines, unfortunately, is not in his office right now." The friendly security guard said.
"Of course he's not in his office. He's been kidnapped!" Rex exclaimed.
The security guard looked bewildered. "Kidnapped? When? We saw him no more than an hour ago in his office."
"Oh well, are you sure?" Rex continued to talk to the guard. At this point, Six already was walking down the stairs to the main offices.
"Excuse me, sir. You're not allowed to go in there." A different security guard said as Six strolled through the empty halls. The man made the mistake of grabbing Six's shoulders. In a split second the guard found himself on the floor with a very long blade at his throat.
"Woah, woah Six. Easy. Let the nice man up." Rex said when he came down. Six folded up his blades. Res looked at the frightened guard on the floor. "Sorry, he gets cranky when he hasn't eaten… low blood sugar." Rex whispered the last part. Six had left and moved to David's office door. One kick and the door flew opened. Walking in with his blades drawn Six quickly scanned the room. The office window was wide open and the evening breeze blew the curtains around.
Rex ran in. "Geez, Six. Wait for your partner will ya?" He looked around. "Wow what happened herel?" He walked over to the cracked wall. A crunching noise told him he stepped on something. He moved his foot back to see what. He had stepped on a picture frame. The glass was now cracked "Opps." Rex muttered hoping Six wouldn't notice. He glanced at his mentor who was surveying the window. Rex scooped the picture up to place it on the table when he realized…
"Hey, Six. Take a look at this." Rex called. Six came over. He grabbed the picture and pulled it out of the frame. He then shoved the picture back in.
"Come on, let's go." Six said.
"Wait, where are we going?" Rex asked surprised. He put down the picture and followed Six out. The picture was of David and a solemn looking young girl. The girl was Black Knight.
"Look Six, it's not that I don't appreciate the angsty silence, but you should really tell me where we are going." Rex protested as they got back in the jet.
"Your CEO has been kidnapped by Black Knight. I highly suggest you alert the authorities and call your board of directors." Six informed the startled guards before the hatch of the jump jet closed and the plane lifted off.
"So, uh, Six?" Rex prompted his mentor.
Six internally sighed. "Did you see where the photo was taken?" He asked Rex.
"Sure. It was by a building thingy and some trees…" Rex trailed off when Six glared at him. "Okay, I didn't really take that good a look."
"There was writing on the back." Six said.
"And?" Rex hated these games.
"We're going to the Adirondacks." Six stated.
"Cool! I've always wanted to go there… Uh, where's that?" Rex asked sheepishly.
"Upstate New York." Six said.
The plane banked sharply throwing Rex off his seat.
"Hey, you did that on purpose!" Rex accused as he pulled himself back into his seat.
"Didn't Holiday tell you to wear your seatbelt?" Six merely asked.
"Didn't Holiday tell you to wear your seatbelt… I swear it's like living with a ninja mother hen…" Rex grumbled under his breath as he put his seatbelt on.
Six hid a smile as he headed toward New York.
0o0
Holiday sat with the scientists. Rylander had told her about his talk with Beverly.
"Given time. I'm sure she'll understand." He said cheerfully. Holiday wasn't sure about that. Beverly was stubborn as was all the females in her family.
"So if there was a strong enough magnetic resonance I think we can easily separate the two." Meechum's voice broke through Rebecca's thoughts.
"Yes, back when Six and Rex first encountered Alpha, Six was able to separate Alpha from its mechanical body using his magna blades… but at a great cost to himself." Rebecca said remembering her fear of losing him.
"That's it then. We build a magnetic resonator find the right frequency and separate the two." Rylander nodded. "Let's get to work."
Rebecca was glad to be focused on something. It took her mind off her personal dilemma.
She glanced over at Caesar who was working away on his weapon. Rebecca almost envied his ability to shut out distractions. But little did she know that inside he was trembling. He had felt tremendous guilt over creating Alpha and then having to banish his creation. Every time he heard Alpha call him father, he felt it mocking him. What kind of father tries to destroy his own child? That's why he could never bring himself to fully kill Alpha. He would only banish it because that was better than killing it. Surely Beverly could understand that he didn't want to destroy his creation. He did try to help Alpha. He really did. But in the end, when Alpha nearly killed that lab technician when he merged with him… he had no choice. Rylander had told Caesar not to worry too much about Beverly but Rylander didn't know Beverly like he did. The way she looked at him with such disgust turned his stomach like nothing else. He wished he could make her understand. He would make her understand after this was all over. He promised himself. He would make things right. So he pushed himself to work harder on his machine giving off the air of someone unconcerned about anything else.
0o0
"Are we there yet?" Rex groaned.
"Rex, if you ask me one more time, I'm throwing you out of the jump jet." Six stated flatly.
"I'm so bored." Rex complained.
"Well, luckily I can see the mountains overhead." Six said with some relief.
"Yeah, where?" Rex asked excitedly looking out the window. "Wow, it's pretty out there. Circe would love…" He trailed off when he realized what he said.
Six quickly glanced at the suddenly silent teen. "Hey, you need to keep your head in the game." He admonished.
"Yeah, I do." Rex agreed as he shook himself. "If Black Knight was the one who hurt her, she's gotta pay."
"This isn't about revenge, Rex." Six said worriedly. "We need to get David away from her and then get out. We don't want Alpha taking your Omega-1 Nanite again. The results could be catastrophic."
"Yeah, yeah, you worry too much Six." Rex waved his hand dismissively. "Don't worry. I got this."
This made Six worry more. Nonetheless he landed the plane in small clearing.
"The site is approximately 5 kilometers away. We need to walk the rest of the way." Six told Rex.
"What? That would take too long. Why can't I make my rex ride?" Rex asked.
"Because that would not be stealthy. Now come on." Six had already started walking.
"But it's getting dark and there are bugs out here." Rex said.
"Are you scared?" Six asked almost tauntingly.
"Wha? Me? Pfftt, Of course not, scared. Why would I be scared of the dark, creepy woods with blood sucking insects and possibly a couple of homicidal EVOs waiting to pop out any second…" Rex's eyes nervously darted back and forth as the shadows grew long.
"Rex." Six snapped.
Rex let out a girlish squeal as Six had startled him. He quickly cleared his throat. I mean "Yes, Six?" He tried to pretend it didn't happen.
"If you're done trying to give away our location," Six said flatly. "Look over there."
Rex turned his attention to a dilapidated building. A light was on inside.
Rex looked at Six who nodded. Rex's face hardened as he looked back at the light. He formed his smack hands.
"Not yet." Six put a hand on his shoulder. "Let me do some reconnaissance first." He disappeared in an instant. Rex impatiently waited in the bushes. He slapped at some insects buzzing around his neck.
"Stupid bugs. Bobo was right. Nature's over-rated." He grumbled.
"Rex." Six came back.
Rex jumped but didn't scream this time. "What did you find?"
"I saw David tied from the ceiling." He answered.
"Really? From the ceiling? That's so not original." Rex said.
"Well when you kidnap your brother you can do whatever you want." At the sound of Black Knight's voice Rex formed his smack hands. Six's blades came out as well.
"Hello Rex, Agent Six. Happy to see us?" Black Knight asked hovering in the air. A red aura surrounded her.
"Yeah, not really." Rex glowered at her. "But I do have something for you." He rescinded his smack hands and his slam cannon came out. Grabbing the rock behind him he fired.
Black Knight formed her own cannon and blew the fodder away. "My turn." She shot several energy bolts at Rex and Six. They both quickly scattered. The foliage immediately disintegrated when they were hit.
Rex formed his boogie pack and flew at Black Knight who dodged him. She wrapped her mace around one of the wings and pulled it off. Rex plummeted to the ground but quickly formed his sky slyder. He flew up and formed his blast castor. Both their whips met and an explosion sent them both flying back. Rex hit the top of a tree and fell through several layers before hitting the ground.
"Oww, I think I got a splinter." Rex groaned.
Balck Knight, however, recovered in mid air. She floated over to Rex but was stopped when Six's blade went through her torso. She turned around. Six was on the ground holding the other blade.
"Killing shot? Tut, tut. I thought you were working to get beyond your killer instincts." She sneered at him. She pulled out the blade and threw it back at him. Six leapt out of the way. The blade planted itself into the ground. Six watched with chagrin as the hole in her middle closed up. "You can thank my partner for the advanced healing power." She cackled before forming her own energy sword and flying at Six.
Not having enough time to get his other blade, Six had to defend himself with only one. He blocked her shot and kicked her away. She floated back but her other hand became the mace. Six eyed both weapons warily. He didn't forget that the last time he faced off with her. He was knocked out by the shock in her electric mace. Her whip came fast but Six was faster. He jumped up and came down with his sword slicing the whip. Then he swung his blade just in time to block the sword from slicing his head. He had both his hands on the hilt. Black Knight was usually a strong opponent but now with Alpha amplifying her strength and weapons Six had a hard time holding her back. He could feel his heel slipping as the sword pushed down on him.
Just as Six could feel the energy sword winning, Black Knight was rammed from the side by Rex in his rex ride. She flew into the woods as Rex slid to a stop.
"Yeah, and that's what you get for messing with my girl." He crowed as he pulled his goggles up.
"Rex! Keep her busy. I'll go get David." Six called as he grabbed his other blade. He headed for the building.
"What do you mean keep her busy? I just knocked her…" A shadow loomed over him. "…out?" Rex squeaked as he narrowly avoided an energy bolt. He pulled his goggles back down and rode off into the woods. Black Knight gave chase.
Rex looked back to see that she was close behind. He began weaving dangerously between the trees and bushes. Black Knight was more direct. She made a line straight through the woods, mowing down anything in her way.
"Hey, no fair! Well two can play at that." The front of Rex's bike became a battering ram. He also began plowing through the forest. Rex looked back. He made a sharp right turn just as Black Knight's sword came close to his head. The blade was so close that a few strands of Rex's hair got cut.
"Watch the hair! " He formed his BFS and blocked the next blow. He then turned his bike around and sped off with Black Knight close behind.
"Turn and face me, or are you scared?" Black Knight mocked.
"Of course, I'm scared! You're trying to kill me. But…" The bike reabsorbed into Rex's body as he spun around. He made his funchucks and swung them at Black Knight hitting her square in the chin. She bounced back and demolished several trees as she fell. "That doesn't mean I won't fight!"
0o0
Six climbed through a broken window. He did a quick once over before landing on the ground.
"Get out! It's a trap!" David yelled at him.
"We know. Rex has Black Knight preoccupied outside." Six assured him as he nimble scaled the leftover equipment to get to David.
"No, no this whole place is set to blow. She wants us dead." David said frantically wiggling in his constraints.
Six paused at that. He stopped and listened. Sure enough he heard the faint beeping of an incendiary device.
"Get out of here, while you still can!" David cried.
Six gritted his teeth.
0o0
"Had enough?" Rex asked at a safe distance from Black Knight.
Black Knight rose from the debris. He face plate was cracked and sparking. She held her hand over the injury. Alpha didn't seem to be healing it.
"You think you're so clever. Well, I'd say I have the win tonight." She said in a slow menacing voice.
"What are you talking about? I beat you…" An explosion knocked Rex off his feet. He was stunned and disoriented when he got up. Then it registered. The building Six had gone into was on fire. Rex gaped.
"No! NO! SIX!" He screamed. Then he spun around as Black Knight flew away laughing maniacally into the night. Rex was about to go after her when another explosion caught his attention. He had to see if his Six was okay.