As the robot continued moving around through the woods, he kept trying scare and taunt them.
"I really hope you don't think you stand a chance against me. That's a very foolish thing to believe. However, if you really think you can win, then you are welcome to try all you like. Who knows, you might just get lucky," the robot said very confidently.
A moment later, the robot said "Ah, now I see why you picked this spot. I thought that mound of leaves seemed strange. That must be a building of some sort under there. You must be planning on hiding in there should you start finding it impossible to beat me. Don't you worry though, I'll be taking care of that building soon enough."
"I can't pin point his location. His voice sounds like it's coming from more than one place, and he moves too quickly," One of the snipers whispered.
"Keep him talking," Grace whispered.
"What? Why?" the sniper asked.
"When he's…talking, his movement…slows down," Grace explained.
"Yeah, your right. I didn't notice that before," the sniper whispered.
"What exactly are you whispering about? A clever plan maybe? Just remember, the more noise you make, the easier it is for me to find you," the robot said.
At that moment, the Sniper, Grace, and a young woman fired in the same direction. It's not a sniper's style to fire at target that they can't see, but this time, he couldn't afford to allow the enemy to have enough time to attack. The robot dodged the bullets fairly easily.
"You know, your aim is way off. I didn't even have to move and I would've still dodged them," the robot said followed by a laugh.
A few seconds later, the robot said "You should've realized one thing. I can tell what directions the bullets came from. Now it's my turn."
A moment later, a large stone weighing about one hundred fifty pounds came flying through the air in the direction of the other young woman that fired along with Grace and the sniper. She was sitting on a tree limb about ten feet off the ground. She shrieked and barely managed to move out of the way before the stone hit her. The stone kept going until gravity finally took over.
This first attack may not have proven fatal to anyone, but the result wasn't exactly pleasant. The stone didn't land on the ground first. It bounced off of a male high school students left leg before it landed on the ground. This impact shattered a large portion of the bones in his leg and tore his flesh open pretty badly. The pain was so great that he only cried out for about a second before fainting. Luckily, he let go of the trigger instead of squeezing it. The result of that would've been disastrous. One of the soldiers again told everyone to remain in their places and not to break up the formation.
"From that yell that I heard, that's one down. I bet you're wondering why I used a rock instead of one of my weapons. Well, I happen to think that it's a lot more fun this way. Besides, why should I waste my ammunition on you?" the robot asked.
Jenny used her sensors to scan the area instead of using her eyes. Taking her eyes off of them would've revealed what she was trying to do. The purpose was to map the city in her mind so she could devise a strategy. She realized that attacking them directly was too risky, so she needed an indirect approach.
She realized that her best option was to use the ship's weapons, but the problem was that she could not be in two places at once. Then there was also one other option. There was a factory on the other end of town that stored large amounts of propane and other highly flammable substances. If she could lure one or both of them in there, and hit the building with a powerful enough attack, she might be able to destroy them that way. It would be almost the same as what she tried to do to herself earlier.
She could always try to fight them directly. She might get lucky. She just wasn't willing to take too many unnecessary risks.
As she was about to make her move, she received a message from XJ3 in Morse code saying "I'm sorry I took so long. I had to find a way to keep the boy from running off and doing something stupid. I'm on my way back now. Do you have any good plans on how we can beat them?"
Jenny sent her a message saying "I have one. I could definitely use your help on this one. If you can, sneak onto their ship while they aren't looking and take control of its weapons. You will have to use them manually. I will send you a signal when I want you to fire."
XJ3 sent another message saying "That's simple enough…hopefully."
"What are you planning anyway? It must be really elaborate if it's taking you this long to think it up. Or did your CPU just crash?" Smytus asked as he threw a large ball of green energy at her.
Jenny waited until the ball was about a foot from her face. She grabbed it with both hands, turned around and threw it at Krackus. As Krackus avoided the attack, Smytus used this opportunity to attack Jenny while her back was still turned.
Already anticipating his attack, Jenny waited until he was about a foot behind her. She moved straight downwards carrying Smytus with her by his left ankle with her right hand. About a second before he hit the ground, she flew forward and landed about twenty feet away from him, while still holding onto his ankle with the help of her ability to extend the length of her arms.
As soon as Smytus crashed into the ground, she lifted him up a few feet off the ground and started swinging him around in a horizontal circle. She used her left hand to fire small white balls of energy at Krackus to keep him from interfering with her attack on Smytus. When her rotation reached a certain speed, she extended her arm even further until Smytus's body was being used as a wrecking ball smashing through the walls of nearby buildings. Being unprepared for such a wild attack, Smytus had a lot of difficulty trying to free himself. He wasn't the only one with problems. Krackus actually get hit by a few of the balls of energy while trying to dodge them.
About ten more seconds passed when Jenny finally let go of Smytus. As he traveled through the air, he went crashing through several buildings. As soon as Jenny retracted her arm to its normal length, she transformed that arm into a laser cannon twice the size of her usual ones, and then fired in the direction that Smytus went. Not wasting a second, she pointed the laser at Krackus and fired at him as well. She forced Krackus into a specific spot by sending a circular formation of small energy balls at him forcing him to dodge through the middle a second earlier.
When the lasers connected with their targets, they exploded violently producing a bright white light. Jenny immediately flew straight upwards to an altitude much higher than Krackus was so she could get an overhead view of everything that was going on at that moment.
When the explosions cleared, she could see large bright green balls of energy where the explosions were a few seconds ago.
Disappointed, Jenny yelled "Dammit! I should've known you had force fields as well."
When they deactivated their force fields, Smytus yelled angrily "I can clearly see that we didn't know what we were up against. Know we know. Krackus, we can't underestimate her any longer. We must crush her now."
"Agreed," Krackus answered.