As everyone's attention was focused on Jason, one of the soldiers realized just how stupid they were being. Without saying a word, he signaled three other soldiers with his left hand to refocus their attention on the robot during the distraction. A few seconds later, they opened fire on the robot. Machine gun and laser rounds pounded against the robot's armor. The robot screamed and started moving around again.
"Lucky bastards. I can't believe you actually hit me. No one does that to me. Now it's my turn," the robot yelled.
Everyone refocused their attention on the robot. The robot began randomly firing laser rounds not caring which one got hit, just as long as they died.
After seeing a few people become seriously injured, one of the soldiers yelled "Everyone, fire at will. One of us is bound to hit him at some point."
Everyone who was able did as he commanded and started firing wherever they thought the robot might be. The robot was apparently still able to dodge quite well considering the fact that shots were still being returned.
About twenty seconds later, Grace looked down at her shot gun and realized that it wasn't doing her much good since she had to reload after every shot. She stood up and ran over to a middle school boy who was doing a terrible job of trying to keep his machine gun steady. She pulled it out of his hand, and started firing in the direction she thought robot was in, completely ignoring the complaining boy.
"How is that bastard dodging all these bullets?" one girl yelled.
That's what most of them would've liked to know; not that they really had the time to try and find out.
The robot started to grow increasingly nervous as he realized that someone out of the group had unusually precise aim. Whoever it was, this person's aim was actually better than any of the soldiers' aim.
Once he realized who it was, he thought to himself "This odd looking human girl has better aim than the soldiers do. But how is she able to come so close to hitting me so often when I'm hidden behind the trees?"
The more he fought to make sense of it, the more distracted and careless he became. The moment he realized that he was becoming sloppy was a moment too late. He found himself being hit by several rounds.
Everyone focused on the sound of bullets ricocheting off of metal. The robot's movements grew much slower until he was barely moving at all. A lot of them felt pretty bad about continuously shooting something that was screaming so much, but they kept firing anyway. Soon, the robot finally fell from a tree limb and hit the ground.
"Everyone, hold your fire," a soldier yelled.
A few seconds later, everyone finally stopped firing. As a safety precaution, one of the soldiers opened a metal box and pulled out a grenade launcher. She loaded a grenade into it, aimed at the spot that the robot fell, and fired one round. The explosion was quite loud making a lot of the people there cover their ears.
The soldier loaded another grenade into the launcher and yelled "Get all of the wounded and dead out of here now."
As she aimed the launcher, several people began dragging the wounded and dead away. Fortunately, there were only three dead out of how many that there could've been. There were about twenty five injured however.
About a minute later, people started to calm down as they became convinced that the robot was dead. As soon as the soldier began to lower her launcher, the robot rose to its feet and started running directly towards the crowd in a screaming rage.
Most of the people began panicking as the frantically tried to aim their weapons again. The soldier with the launcher waited until the robot was completely visible and fired a grenade directly into its open mouth. A second later, the grenade exploded and took the robot's head with it. The robot ran a few more steps and finally collapsed.
"Yes, it's finally dead," an officer yelled.
Most of the others already began celebrating their victory. Everything seemed fine until a person that decided to inspect the robot heard a strange noise coming from it.
"Everybody, shut up!" the person yelled.
When everyone was finally quite, they heard a beeping noise coming from inside the robot's body.
"Run, it might be a bomb," a soldier yelled.
Everyone panicked and started running for their lives. A few seconds later, the robot's arms detached and grabbed someone's legs. This person was Jason.
"I can't move my leg. These hands are too heavy," Jason yelled.
"They're not coming back to save you. Did you really think that my CPU was in my head? Fools. In any case, I can't face Lord Smytus in this condition, but I'll be happy knowing that I took one of you with me. We have about ten more seconds to live human," the robot said as he started laughing.
A few seconds later, he stopped laughing when he realized that someone did come back to try and save Jason.
"What, why would you sacrifice yourself to save him?" the robot yelled.
"Grace?" Jason asked in disbelief.
"I don't…plan on sacrificing myself," Grace said as she knelt down beside Jason with two bullet proof shields to protect them from the explosion.
"At least, I hope this works," Grace said.
As soon as she finished her sentence, the robot exploded. It was a huge explosion that almost reached the shelter. Grace pushed against the explosion with the shields as hard as she could. At that moment, Jason realized that Grace must be really strong to be able to withstand that kind of force.
When the explosion cleared, Jason was about to comment on how strong she was, but was interrupted by a loud crackling noise.
"What the hell?" Jason asked.
Soon, the ground under them began crumbling. Grace struggled to drag Jason to safety, but it was too late by then. A large hole opened up in the ground beneath them and they fell under screaming at the top of their lungs. Some of the people came running back when they heard the screaming and realized that somebody fell into the hole.
"Who fell in, and why is there empty space down there?" an officer asked.
"I remember now, there is a subway system under there. Well, I don't know how they survived the blast, but they're gonna need another miracle if they hope to survive that fall," a high school student said.
"Well, I guess she must be dead. She's been under there long enough," Krackus said.
Before Smytus had a chance to comment, they both saw a shockwave extend from the base of the collapse in all directions horizontally.
"I guess it's too early to celebrate," Krackus said.
The collapsed building began rumbling violently and a bright white light shined through the cracks. A moment later, a laser shot straight upwards out of the top of what was left of the building. Smytus and Krackus moved out of the way of the beam.
A few seconds later, Smytus asked "Why hasn't she come out yet?"
About another ten seconds passed, and then Krackus said "What if she was inside the laser?"
Before either of them could react, Jenny quickly wrapped her extended arms around their bodies and started swinging them around in a circle, but much faster than when she was swinging Smytus around earlier.
"Bingo! You have just answered today's big question. I stayed down there long enough to repair my damages and come up with a plan. Hiding inside the laser is so unpredictable," Jenny explained.
Once she reached a certain speed, she aimed at the factory and let them go. She then sent a signal to XJ3 telling her to fire at in the direction of the factory at full power as soon as she gives the final signal. She transformed both of her arms into laser cannons and began charging a lot of energy into them.
As soon as they crashed through the walls of the factory, Jenny sent the final signal telling her to fire. XJ3 pressed the button on the console.
As soon as the ships lasers extended as far as Jenny was, she yelled "Now!"
She immediately fired her lasers so both hers and the ship's lasers would reach the factory at the same time. When the lasers connected with the factory, it created an explosion powerful enough to start pushing Jenny away from it. She had a somewhat difficult time trying to stay in the position she was in. She really wanted to see how this was going to turn out.
"I survived your attack, now let's see you survive this one," Jenny yelled.