Third part. Enjoy.

Andromeda Part III

"I spy something large with a flame design on the front," Lan said.

"The column to the right of us," said Solo, not even bothering to look around.

"Damn it. How the hell does he do that?"

"No idea," Sonia said.

Suddenly, Solo halted and then jumped at Lan. "GET DOWN!" He sliced through a missile that had been about to impact on the back of Lan's head. "Someone or something is here."

Multiple robots stepped out of the shadows, all of them small wrist blades, holding miniature rocket launchers, and a large mallet on their backs or sides. "Targets found. Engaging," all of the robots said.

"Everyone watch each other's backs and help when you can," Max said. "Katana, battlechip, download. Battle Card Predation, Longsword." He grabbed the hilts of both swords as they appeared. "Let's get it on." And with that, they all jumped into battle.

***

"How you holding up, Omega-xis," J asked, locking wrist blades with a robot.

"Just fine, bub," Omega-xis answered, clawing through a robot. "You?"

"Same old, same old." J sliced through the robot, ridding himself of another opponent. "Next," he called, being rather nonchalant. "Come on, haven't got all day." He locked blades with another opponent and dispatched it just as quickly as the first.

"Good job, you two," Jen said, finishing off another robot. She was knocked forward from behind and she hit the ground. When she managed to turn around, she saw a robot about to deliver a death blow with its mallet.

"HANDS OFFA MY KID/GIRL," Omega-xis and J yelled, respectively. Omega-xis came from behind, plunging his right hand through the top of the robot's head, J attacking from the front, impaling the robot through the chest with both wrist blades.

Did they just say that, Jen thought to herself.

Did I just say that, both J and Omeg-xis were thinking to themselves. "Thanks," Jen said.

"Ummm…you're welcome," J said, turning away to hide the deep red blush on his face.

"No problem kiddo," Omeg-xis said in turn, a plan forming in his head. "Anyways, let's stop talking and get back to fighting." And with that, Omega-xis charged a three robots, clawing through the first and took its missile launcher. He used the rockets to get rid of the other two. "And Geo thought I'd be irresponsible with a rocket launcher."

"I still say you are," Geo called, a few yards away, fighting off two robots.

"Oh what do you know?"

***

"Do you ever talk in battle? Or even at all," Will asked, trying to make small talk with Solo.

"Why does it matter to you," Solo asked.

"Well, it kinda helps in teamfights. Duck," he said, slicing through a robot that had come up behind Solo.

"Thanks. Robot at six." Will turned to dispatch the robot.

"Hey, Solo."

"What?"

"I think we're surrounded." And it was true. While they had been fighting their opponents, twenty more robots had snuck up around them and all had their wrist blades up. "How about a tag team?"

"Sure. Why not?" Solo gave small grin and settled into a stance, locking his right arm with Will's right arm. They began to run in a circle, gaining speed, until a small funnel of wind was surrounding them.

"BLADE TORNADO," they yelled and began to move around the circle of robots, slicing through them like a hot knife through butter. (Side note: Think Taz from Looney Toons. That should be close enough.) Once all of the robots were dispatched, Solo and Will began to slow their spin, eventually stopping.

"Nice," was all Will said. "Hey, are you okay?"

Solo was stepping around like he was drunk. "Yeah," he said. "Just a little dizzy."

***

"Hey, Lan," Chaud said. "How are you doing?"

"I'm doing great," Lan answered, destroying another robot with his virus buster. "These guys are kinda weak individually. Are they actually supposed to stop us?"

"Who knows? But at least we're getting something of a challenge after so long."

"Yeah. Hey Maylu, are you okay," Lan asked.

"Yeah. I'm fine," Maylu answered. "But I'm worried about Yai, Dex, Tory, and Sean. They're doing pretty well so far without cross fusion, but they're still in a lot danger. We need to finish this now."

"Agreed," Max said appearing out of nowhere. "Lan, go to Elecsoul. It's time to put that training to use."

"Right. Elecsoul, synchro chip, slot in," Lan said, a light appearing around him. Once it disappeared, he was in Elecsoul's armor.

"Elec Fusion." Max was soon in his Elec Fusion armor. "Everyone with barrier battlechips and battle cards us them and overlap them. Everyone else, get in the barriers." Everyone complied and was soon in a large barrier that was from the overlapping cards and chips. "Let's do this Lan." Both teens began to focus, building up electricity around them. Soon, the level of the electricity was double what it was when Max had fought Blademan and that had only taken forty seconds. When the levels were closing to four times more powerful, Lan and Max prepared to release it. "If this doesn't fry them, only one other thing will."

"ELECTRIC PULSEWAVE!" They released the electricity in one wave, the wave itself rolling out, but curiously stopping at the edge of the room. All of the robots began to jerk and spark and soon began exploding, including the ones that had already been sliced or smashed. Lan and Max released their forms when all of the electricity was gone.

"And now that that's done, we go on."

***

As they entered the next room, a man appeared from behind a large stone pillar, one of many. "So, you've finally arrived. And you don't look very tired," the man said. He was in red armor and had a helmet with two spikes going out to each side, the spikes a red orange color. He had a pistol strapped to his right hip. "My, how you've grown."

"Who is this," Geo asked.

"Andromeda," Max said.

"Wait that's Andromeda? Are you sure?"

"Yeah. Why?"

"Well, it's just that, in our zone, Andromeda is about the size of Earth and really ugly."

"Yeah. Ok then."

"If you are done talking, can I take this guy," Bud said. And with that, he charged at Andromeda, lowering his head.

"No, Bud. Wait." But Bud didn't listen. When he got to Andromeda, Andromeda lifted his right hand and slapped Bud away, without much difficulty it seemed.

"Pathetic," Andromeda said. He drew his pistol and fired an incredibly large ball of energy, knocking everyone down except Z and Max. "So you two stayed standing? Well, I'll remedy that." He fired at Max, who blocked with a barrier just in time.

Z turned to face Max and get into the barrier, but then Andromeda fired. When everyone looked, Z was standing with a stunned expression on her face. She looked down to see a small hole in her side and then fell. "Z!" Max ran to her and caught her before she fell. Everyone else was looking on in disbelief. Will got up and ran to his friends, standing in front of them, his only thought to protect them. He felt a hand on his shoulder and turned around to see Max holding Z in his arms. "Will, let me handle this. Take Z, set up an overlapping barrier and tend to her wound." Will nodded and took Z into his arms and walked to everyone else. Max turned to Andromeda. "You're gonna pay for that you bastard."

Now Max is pissed. What will happen? Please review.