Chapter 21: Ghost in the Machine
In the woods is where Dib waits the spot he has gone to with Zita since they started to date. This spot to him was sacred. Now he new what Nny meant when he said it was a location that had personal meaning to them. The matter was still personal before coming here. The hunter took Zita and he was going to save her.
Then Dib saw something move behind a tree it looked like a ghost at first but then it moves with great speed and punched him in the face. "Definitely not a ghost, they can't hurt the living only a demon or a poltergeist can do that." Dib turns around to see his copy. "I was wondering if some alien would pull this on us. A copy would make it hard to beat when it knows what I know." Yes Dib I'm you and I'm going to kill you. My master doesn't care about the money he just wants to get the job done."
"He must be very smart I'm guessing he took some DNA from each of us and made a copy by turning it in to data to get the information. The problem is that he can't make a copy of Raven. A reaper can't be copied Raven told me that one." Dib smiles. "Silence you are only partly right. My master has watched all of you to collect data we are programmed with everything we know how you fight how you think and even how you act. Fool we are made to counter your actions." Dib grins, "You don't know everything. We have trained in secret so your master couldn't see what we can do."
Dib started to attack the machine only to have the attack blocked with the copies great speed. When the copy would attack back it had the same problem. "We are evenly matched." "I know maybe you master should have made it to where we fight each other and not a direct copy. You master is a failure." The machine attacked back hitting Dib harder then before making cuts into the skin. "Now are we the same Dib? Don't you see that I am better then you?" Dib would fight back moving with speed and hitting harder then he has ever done before. The copy was starting to get cracks in the metal. "Impossible nothing can damage Neo Space Titanium!"
The robotic clone made a change in fighting style and started to use grappling movements. He got Dibs leg and started twist at the ankle until it popped out of socket. "AAAAHHHH FUCK!" Dib screamed out in pain as he fell to the ground holding his leg. "That's right Dib I'm going to rip you apart then I'm going to rip your girlfriend apart but first I'll break all her bones and then once that's over I'm going to rip her head off and crush her skull.
Dib pops his ankle back in place and stands up. "No one hurts her and gets away with it." Dib starts to attack with blinding fury and rips the machine's arm off. He starts to beat it with its own arm. Then he puts his foot on the copies chest and starts to pull the head off. "No one is this strong!" "Love is my strength!" Dib pulls the head off and then it stopped moving. "Now lets see what makes you tick!" He starts to take the bot apart until he found the core and smashed it. "You wont come back from that. Wait is that a SIR memory disc?" Dib takes it out of the head and puts it away.
I guess I have to have Zim look into this. It might hold the location of where Zita and that hunter are. Don't worry Zita I'm going to come save you. Dib gets on his communicator, "Zim do you read me? Zim I have a memory disk if you can hear this meet with me as soon as you can. Zim… Damn it! I have to get to Zim."
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