-Dryl corridor-

Annika carefully opened the door to their hiding place and checked if everything was safe. As soon as she was sure she gave her friends a sign and they sneaked through the corridor as quiet as possible.

When they arrived at a door Annika suddenly heard something from the other side of it and she quickly pulled Alice and Clara with her to the side of the room. On the other side of the door began to scan the location it could reach through the keyhole.

After it didnt detect anything it rolled on and the three girls continued their way.

As they managed to get to Alices room Clara was about to open the door with both hands but Annika held her back by grabbing her hand, which was about to touch the door handle.

Alice slowly peeked through the keyhole of the door and seemed relieved. Now Annika let Clara open the door and they walked inside the lab.

"Finally. It is torture for me to be quiet and you know that, Annika. I havent been talking for so long!" Clara complained dramatically and Annika just smirked and rolled her eyes.

"As soon as we turn this rolling ball of death off you can talk as much as you want. I promise." Annika attempted to cheer her friend up and it worked a little bit.

Meanwhile, Alice searched in some of her books for an answer. The books she didnt need she just threw onto a table, that already had a lot of books on it. Finally, she seemed to have found something.

"Did you find anything useful?" Clara asked curiously. Alice nodded smiling and just walked over to the machine, the invention came from.

"Are... are you going to show us?" Annika added a bit confused. Alice turned around and looked embaressed.

"Oh, sorry. Im still getting used to having more people around. The only people, that are here from time to time are my parents." Alice explained and waited for her friends to come to her.

"Oh right, what about your parents? Why did nobody find the ball yet?" Annika noticed worriedly.

"Luckily that is one thing that we dont have to worry about. Theyre in the lab for all the clones. Today is the reprogramming to assure that every clone is safe and arent turning evil or something." Alice said calmly and continued to work on the programming of the machine.

"Well then. Lets just hope they stay in there until we got your invention under control." Clara said.

"Can you turn the ball off from here?" Annika asked Alice hopefully.

"Thats what Im trying right now. Considering its settings it should be possible, but if the machine already has a defense system itllbe harder." Alice explained as understandable for Annika and Clara as she could.

A few minutes passed and Annika and Clara watched out for the robot ball. Suddenly Alice sighed desperately and sat on a chair exhaustedly. Annika and Clara walked towards her and looked at the screen of the machine.

"What happened? Did it work?" Clara wondered.

"No, the machine has a firewall, so we cant turn it off from this machine. Wed have to do it manually. But thats nearly impossible." Alice answered doubtfully.

"Nearly impossible is still possible. Well just lead the robot here and do a surprise attack. As long as we don't talk everything should be alright." Annika suggested convinced to succeed.

"That won't work as well. If the machine asks and gets no answer after a while, it will also shoot at us. I should have never built this monster." Alice disagreed sadly.

"Hey," Clara began."We've helped the princess of the ice kingdom win an illegal race, where someone tried to kill her. Kind of. And we survived an attack from a mad voodoo man at Salineas, who was the grandfather of the princess."

"Wow, you guys experience a lot of strange stuff." Alice noticed confusedly.

"And that's just what we saw outside of Bright Moon. But what I am trying to tell you is, that we are used to facing danger by now. So let's just try and maybe well stop this robot. But we need someone, who knows what we have to do." Clara told Alice with a determined look on her face.

Alice smiled and stood up. "Alright girls, Ill try as good as I can... But can you do the fighting part and I'll just tell you how to do it from the corner?" She asked politely.

Her friends nodded and Alice smiled and went back to reading her book.

"And that's why I like you talking so much. Because you don't just talk much, you also talk good." Annika praised Clara, who smiled and blushed a little.

With the help of Alice's guide, the girls made a plan to trick the robot. They prepared traps and other things to weaken the don't ball. When they were done Alice nodded to Clara, who left the lab bravely.

-in the corridors-

The robot ball rolled around and scanned the area. Suddenly something caught its attention. It was Clara, who walked through the corridor as if nothing was wrong.

The robot located the girl and asked: "What do you think?".

" Uh... Maybe?" Clara answered purposefully wrong and prepared herself to run.

"That does not make sense." the robot warned and started chasing Clara again. Clara immediately ran away and towards the lab.

"I just hope that plan works..." Clara stated nervously.

-back at the lab-

Annika stood at the closed door and heard with her cat ears how something came closer.

"They're here. You ready?" Annika warned Alice, who grabbed a book and hid behind a table.

"Yup. I think so." she said, trying to sound brave.

"Good, because a no would be unfortunate." Annika said and grabbed the doorhandles.

She waited until she heard, that the noise from the other side was near enough and then quickly opened the door.

Clara sprinted past her and the sense sensor was right behind her. As soon as both were inside Annika closed the door and pulled on a rope, which led to a ton of metal landing before the door.

The robot was still trying to catch Clara but it couldn't locate her anymore.

Suddenly Annika jumped onto the robot and tried to hold on. the robot noticed her very quickly and made attempts to shake her off.

"Alice now!" Annika shouted determinedly. Alice grabbed a large book and went towards the sense sensor.

" What do you think?" it asked again. This time Alice was prepared. She opened the book on the first page with a text and started reading.

" All you need to know about how to use a spoon." Alice began while the robot listened peacefully.

Annika didn't hesitate and climbed to the manual control system of the robot. It was a small screen.

"Alright, I found the manual control system. What now?" she asked. Luckily Clara had the instructions from Alice on a piece of paper and read them to Annika as quiet as possible.

"Okay, first there should be a codeword you have to type in."

Annika found the space for the codeword and looked back to Clara.

"Good now type eight, five, n, seven, w, zero"

Annika wrote the code but it got denied.

"It didn't work, Clara" she whispered, starting to get nervous.

"Uhhh... okay, it's possible, that the zero could be an O. Try that," Clara suggested.

This time it worked. Now the screen showed an endless number of codes and programming language, which Annika couldn't understand.

"Next there should be a file called 'emergency control'." Clara read on. Meanwhile, Alice kept reading to the sense sensor and it seemed to go pretty well.

"There is no emergency control. I think..." Annika disagreed with Clara's instructions.

" What? There has to be. Did you look at all the files?" Clara said and read the instructions again.

"Clara, this screen is full of numbers and letters I do not understand at all! I'm not a programmer! How am I supposed to read that language?!" Annika hissed stressfully and her cat ears showed in an angry position.

"Well, whatever you do next, do it fast. Because Alice is almost done with the book. Wow, she can read fast..." Clara warned Annika, who now was under even more pressure.

She looked at the screen again and again until she randomly pressed at one of the files and turned it off.

The robot's eyes suddenly turned red even though nobody said anything wrong and shot lasers again.

Annika fell off the robot ball and landed on the ground next to Clara. They quickly ran to Alice and together they hid under a flipped table, while the robot shot around not even aiming for something.

" What happened? I thought you had my instructions." Alice asked panting.

"I...uh...may have turned off its entire sensor for sense and now it's just a laser-shooting killer machine..." Annika admitted embarrassed.

"Oh no, I knew I should have translated the program into English." Alice blamed herself.

" That's not important right now. We have to think of a way to stop this robot! Any ideas?" Clara asked and watched the robot destroying the lab.

" The only way I see now is that we overload its processor for words so that it has to shut down by itself. But that would require one of us to talk faster than it can process words." Alice stated nervously.

"I'd know someone who can do that," Annika recalled and looked at Clara.

"Me? But I thought that annoyed you." Clara said concerned.

"It does. And maybe it's enough to defeat the robot. You're our only chance." Annika pleased. Clara peeked out of their hiding place and saw how the robot ball continued to destroy the room. Then she stood up and looked at her friends determinedly.

"Alright then. Wish me luck." Clara said and walked straight towards the robot.

"Hey, robot? Can I call you robot? Forget it, I should think of a way better name than robot... How about...roball! Get it? Because... you're a robot and a ball...No?" Clara began to talk while the robot listened and seemed to process her words.

"You know, that reminds me, do robots have feelings or is it just a program that tells you how to react?" Clara wondered. The robot looked very confused.

"That's a program, but nevermind..." Alice whispered to herself triggered, but she got a pat on the shoulder from Annika.

"Oh, and I have to tell you about this crazy thing that Annika happens when she transforms. I don't know how it works but it is so amazing. She can grow cat ears, a cat tail, cat claws..." Clara went on, now completely forgetting about the robot, who tried to process her words.

"That...does... make...not...make... sense it..." the robot managed to say before spinning around and shutting completely down.

Annika and Alice came out of their hiding place and looked at the defeated piece of metal.

"...I'll call this one a work in progress..." Alice stated, already thinking about how she could fix the machine.

Annika walked to Clara and put an arm around her shoulder." Well... Now we have scientific proof."

"For what?" Clara asked confused.

"That you are professionally annoying." Annika joked and made Clara smile.

Suddenly something banged on the door of the room. The girls slowly opened the door and two figures stepped closer. It was Entrapta and Hordak.

"Alice, we just finished the control and-" Entrapta started to talk excitedly but stopped as she noticed the giant mess in the room.

" What happened here, Alice?!" Hordak asked shocked and looked around. Alice looked at Annika and Clara helplessly.

"Um... We...did some tests?" Alice answered innocently and grinned at her parents.

Meanwhile, Entrapta picked up some parts of the robot that fell of while it smashed the ground. "This is a fascinating robot. Why is it shut down?".

" Well, this robot had a... mistake in its programming and it wanted to destroy us," Clara said and shrugged.

"We'll clean this up and then we will have a look at this robot again. Even if this is a mess...I'm...glad you are alive." Hordak managed to say and got hugged by Entrapta and Alice.

"Oh, by the way, did you see Imp?" Alice remembered.

"No, he's been playing in the vents again. He'll get out sooner or later." Entrapta answered calmly. Alice returned to her friends and told them about Imp.

"Well, I don't know how I'll get it but I will get that piece of paper with the results. Even if it takes a while...But maybe I can bring it along when we meet again." Alice said happily and her friends looked at her excitedly.

"You want to join us? Sweet! You won't regret it." Clara reassured Alice.

"But for now we have some cleaning to do. Come on, girls." Annika repeated their task and they all began to help cleaning.

From a vent above Imp watched them with a piece of paper in the mouth. Then it flew through the vents into a little hideout and put the paper there with some other stuff.