Back with James, Jenny, and Leaf...
The three of them were finally inside the warehouse, ready to confront Preston and Esma on what they were doing. They kept themselves hidden behind a pile of boxes, watching Preston and Esma talking to each other on the second floor's platform above. Once they walked off to the office room that was on the second floor, the three hidden themselves behind the boxes again, and started to talk to each other, but in whispers
The prep and MorcuCorp girl walked out of the office. The two of them walked back over to the middle of the platform, holding soda cans that were from a vending machine that was inside the office. They talked to each other as they were standing there.
"Well, how long will it take for us to get that rock to get a little more stones for the new crown?" Preston asked Esma. The MorcuCorp girl took a sip of her drink.
"With two workers, I believe that this new crown is going to be made a little more quicker." Esma says, lowering her soda can. "Now all we need is some metal that is...rather rare, but Morcubus told me that he found the metal from the caves in the nearby cave area. Hopefully, there is still some in that cave after Paul, Cyrus, and Michael searched it beforehand." Preston nods his head, glaring towards the windows nearby.
"Of course there's more involvement in collecting items." Esma looks over to Preston. "Never knew that creating something as simple as the Nightmare Crown is so...difficult." Esma shrugs, before hearing a voice from nearby.
"Oh really?! You think that you can get away with this?!" The two heard Jenny's voice shouting from below them.
The two looked towards the first floor, noticing that Jenny, James, and Leaf were all standing there, glaring up at them. Thankfully, for them, the three of them were on the first floor, while they were on one the second floor. Preston scoffs, before looking away from the three of them.
"Oh we're so scared." Preston said, glaring down at the three of them. "Do you honestly think that me and Esma are scared by the likes of you three?! We're not afraid of you."
"Tease all you want, but just know, Jenny is somebody who works for the SPA Agency, so you're screwed if she tries to call them." James shouts, trying to sound threatening. Esma rolls her eyes, as she pats Preston on the shoulder, before walking away from him. The prep looks down at the three of them again. "We heard everything from behind that wall, Preston. Not only are you trying to create that Nightmare Crown with Esma, but apparently, as you said yourself, you're a cheating son of a bitch!" Preston's eyes widened hearing that last part being brought up into this argument.
"W-What the hell is THAT?!"
"By cheating, you mean cheating on a test, right?" Leaf asked James. The geeky goth slowly looked over to the elf, raising an eyebrow.
"What? By cheating, I mean..." James stops himself, before glaring up at Preston, pointing at the prep. "...Preston cheated on Beebee with Esma!" The other workers around the warehouse gasped in shock hearing that being said. "You mind explaining that part?!" Preston looks left and right, before looking down at the group below.
"Well, I believe I don't really need to tell you!" Preston shouts at them.
"Why?!"
"Because..."
Suddenly, a trap door opens up below the three of them. James, Jenny, and Leaf screamed as they fell down the trap door, as Preston stood there, shaking his head with a smirk on his face. He smiled, knowing he didn't have to let himself tell that part of his life to them. It was annoying to have to think about that, let alone tell somebody about it.
Esma came out of the office room. She actually pressed a button that was inside of the office, causing that trap door to open. Preston looks over to the girlfriend, patting the rail of the platform he was on, smiling at her.
"Thank you, Esma." Preston said.
"No problem." Esma said. "Now...back to the situation at hand, I must ask, shouldn't we go and try to collect ourselves that metal that we need for the new Nightmare Crown?" The prep bows his head, before he and her began to walk down the nearby stairs.
"Of course."
"But what about those three? Should we be worried if they escape while we're gone?" Preston shook his head, before he and Esma got into the truck that the prep borrowed.
"The trap door leads down to the basement, Esma. I doubt they have anyway of escaping from there." Preston even points at a nearby door. "The basement door is also locked, so it going to be hard for them to exit that room." Preston then looks forward. "Nothing to worry about, Esma."
"I sure damn hope so..." Esma said, before she started to drive off to the cave that she was talking about.
While the two drove, the battery that Esma had in her pocket fell out of her jacket. It fell onto the floor as the truck drove off. One of the workers, accidentally kicks the battery down into the trap door, right behind it closes all the way shut.
The elf thought that he was dead...
He was slowly opening his eyes...
He heard the sound of James and Jenny's voices, as well as some loud bangs of metal...
Slowly opening his eyes, Leaf took notice of the two of them, trying to bang on the door that was leading to the stairs. It appears that it was locked from the outside, since James was trying to use all of his strength to kick the door down. Meanwhile, Jenny was trying to look around the room for them to use to get out of here.
The elf finally woke up, taking notice of the whole situation at hand, and then Jenny looks like she was going off deeper into the basement. Leaf stood up off of the ground, rubbing the side of his arm, feeling pain inside of it as he stood up. James was still trying to kick the door down as the elf came closer to him. James finally took notice of Leaf being awake.
"Oh, Leaf...you're awake." James said, eyes widened at the elf. "...Sorry, I've been trying to get this door to be open, but nothing is happening..." Leaf gave the boy a smirk, before raising his hands.
"Dude, this is simp-ow..." Leaf said, trying to raise his arm, only for him to feel pain in his arm. "Oh crap, that fucking hurts!" James's eyes widened.
"You must've landed more terribly than I thought..."
"I fell off worse things than...whatever the hell that thing they used was..." Leaf then scoffs, standing up again. "Crap, I should've know that using magic to get that door open was not going to work. Those pricks don't even know I use magic, and they STILL found a way to get use to not escape that way." James nods his head, before he ended up hearing his girlfriend screaming from a distance.
"Uh, guys! You might want to come see this!" Jenny screams from one part of the basement.
Leaf and James ran towards the spot where Jenny was located at. The two of them searched the entire basement, until they found Jenny standing in front of what appears to be a giant cargo crate with a person on top of it.
The person doesn't appear to be moving whatsoever, considering all they were doing was sitting there, looking upward. The person has black short hair, with a black jacket, and a light gray skirt that reaches her knees. Leaf floats himself up towards the person who was on top of the cargo crate, looking down at the her. Leaf then looks over to the two geeky people behind him.
"Guys, you might want to come up here." Leaf said, as James and Jenny were climbing up the box. "It's a girl, whoever she is." Jenny then rubs her chin, noticing who this was.
"Oh God...I know who this is..." Jenny said.
"You do?"
"Yeah. Eleanor mentioned her as she was out in the Industrial Park back when Esma and Brandi were trying to take over the warehouses there." Jenny explains. "She was pretty vague about her, but all she said about her was that this girl has associations with Dr. F, and Alexa Lexington, two scientists that I actually met beforehand."
"Dr. F, and Alexa? Why would this girl have anything to do with them?" James asked. "She doesn't look like somebody who would have anything to do with those two." Jenny kneels down, then places a hand on her arm.
"Woah...I was not expecting that." Jenny then stood up from the ground, before looking over to James and Leaf. "This girl, I don't see her breathing, however...I doubt that she's dead. Feeling her arm, she's made out of metal." Jenny explains to them. "Since Dr. F and Alexa both created a robot who...ironically enough, now owns a diner, but they must've created this girl as well. The only difference is, this girl isn't like their previous robots, admittedly enough."
"So...now what?" Leaf asked, before he heard the sound of something hitting the ground behind him. "Be right back."
Leaf disappears from the sight of the two geeks, before appearing once again, this time holding the battery. Jenny took the battery that Leaf was holding. She looks at it for a couple seconds, reading what was on it. The battery said 'Makoto' on it, which has Jenny a little confused.
"Guess Esma or Preston has her battery this whole time." Jenny said, before turning the head of the robot girl.
There appears to be a hatch opened on the side of her head. A spot where batteries should be placed in was opened there. Jenny nodded her head, before placing the battery into the hatch. She closes the battery lid, before standing up, in hopes of the robot turning back on.
"Let's just hope this works..." Jenny said.
It took a bit of seconds, before the robot started to do anything. Jenny, James, and Leaf hopped off of the cargo crate, before looking up, hearing the sound of beeps and gears going off up there. The eyes of the robot open, revealing red lights coming out of them. The robot slowly stood up, as the noises still happened, and she still had the eyes glowing.
The robot stared at the three of them below, before falling off of the side of the cargo crate, closing its eyes. The three looked at the robot for a few seconds, before the robot slowly attempted to sit up. This time, the robot girl's eyes were not glowing red.
"Uh...are you okay?" James asked, hoping that the robot wasn't going to attack or kill them. The robot girl looks over to the three of them, before smiling.
"You..." The girl started off saying. "...You woke me up...you saved me..."
