A/N: My deepest apologies for the very long wait between chapters.. I was really busy with school and personal stuff, and I was on my trip, which as a matter of fact that I only got two days left before it ends..
Either way, I hope you'll enjoy the second chapter so far.. Hopefully this won't take as long then the previous..
Enjoy.. ;)
UPDATE AS IF ON 5/1/21: I have decided to reupload the second chapter to fix up a few things that don't really make sense in this story..
(CHAPTER CONTENT WARNING: Drug Use, Mentions of Death)
-Barley's Bar, later that evening-
"I'll take the freshest water you've got.."
Barley nodded before walking towards the water fountain to fill the glass cup with the liquid the figure requested.
He then proceeds to give the figure the water glass after doing so, walking towards the customer to receive the order he is requested to give to. The figure, reveals to be Rager, the same figure who took Roxy back home.
Rager then proceeds to take a sip of the fresh liquid before placing it onto the bar table. He turns his head around the bar, looking at the adult brawlers calmy enjoying their time inside, while the child brawlers, viciously consuming the plate of the edibles the chefs had cooked.
Rager turns his head back to the shelves filled with nothing but refreshments the adults would quench their thirst in. Whenever they feel sad, or feel like planning a party..
He sips the next round of the refreshment before turning his head towards the customer, arriving near him, he slams his glass onto the table before glaring at the figure, he proceeds to speak afterwards.
"What do you want..?" Rager growled before speaking, the figure proceeded to talk.
"You have any stuff for the party?" The figure requested the other, leaving him in shock.
"Party? What party!?" Rager replied back, asking about the party the other planned.
"The party you're invited in!" The figure spoke back to the first figure, leaving him in both worry and anger.
"Look, I do not know who you are, so please back off.." Rager spat, telling the figure to step away from him.
Rager glared at the figure before ordering Barley a refreshment. Once doing so, the figure proceeds to turn away, with a glass in it's hand, the robot cocks his head as he continued to stare at the figure, Barley never noticing a thing from the figure the robot was staring at.
Once the figure finishes what Rager tried to look at, the figure then offers the robot the refreshment, the figure made, as a matter of fact being "special"..
"It looks like a customer has offered you a drink, kind sir.." Barley spoke to Rager, he turned his head to him.
The figure pocked Rager at his left shoulder before he quickly turned his head towards it, glaring in deep anger.
"WHAT IS IT THAT YOU WANT!?" Rager shouted, the figure started to offer him the drink it made.
The drink was revealed to be very clear, just like the same type of liquid like water.. However, Rager went in confusion when he noticed that there are white micro particles floating around the entire liquid.
"Sorry, but I'll just deny it.." Rager spoke quietly, denying the offer.
The figure then begs Rager to try at least one sip of the refreshment it made.
"C'mon! Just one eeny bitty sip? Pleeeeeaaasssse?" The figure begged Rager to try the drink it made, yet he still had chosen to refuse the offer.
"Yet, I'm still not trying it.. Maybe not in a million years pal.." Rager spoke as he continued to refuse the offer.
The figure then glares at Rager, it continues to beg the robot to try the drink it was offering him, but yet still refuses to do so.
"I'm still not trying that out, pal.." Rager spat, refusing the drink the figure tried to offer.
Instead of getting into a fight, it then proceeded to smile before grabbing a spoon from it's purse. Rager starts to hear the sounds of metal clanking from the spoon inside the purse, yet not had turned his head towards it.
"What's it doing now..?" Rager thought in annoyance, staring at the pictures on the wall.
After the figure grabs the spoon out of it's bag, it then proceeds to stir the mixture of the drink in order for the particles to disappear.
Once doing so, the particles remain unseen, and the figure then starts to offer Rager the drink he refused to take.
"Here's the drink, sir.." The figure offered as it proceeded to slide the glass towards Rager.
Rager looks at the glass cup, filled with water, the particles have remained invisible after the exact amount of stirring left them unnoticeable.
"Alright, fine.. I'll accept the offer.. Just, walk away from me, alright?" Rager sighed, he then proceeded to take the sip of the "special" drink the figure has made.
Rager then starts drinking the refreshment the figure offered him, the figure turns away before turning his head towards it, rolling his eyes in annoyance.
Once the refreshment is now empty, Rager then continues to turn his head around the pub.
"Alright, I'm gonna head home, I wanna check on Roxy for a bit to see if she's doing fine.." Rager said to the figure before he gets off the stool.
Once placing his hand onto the saloon doors, the figure quickly grabs Rager's arm before whispering to his non-existent ear.
"You're not going anywhere, mister.. You're going to stay here, and later on, you're going to that party and that's final.. F for FINAL.. You hear me?" The figure whispered to the robot, the slightly feminine voice of the figure left him in horror.
The figure was revealed to be a female, sharing the same species Rager was in. She then proceeds to walk off before Rager sulks next to the doors, in worry.
Once the figure was busy talking to Barley, Rager manages to grab a drawing of himself he drew as a child, he sticks the drawing onto the wall before proceeding to arrive outside without the figure noticing a sound.
Rager stops before turning his head towards the bar, leaving his childhood drawing behind. He sighs before getting onto his cart, driving back to Roxy's home.
"God, no wonder why that drink never affected me.. Yet apparently.." Rager spoke to himself as he continued to drive his cart onto the desert road.
Back inside the pub, the female robot then finishes talking to Barley before realizing Rager had gone out of sight..
She gasps before her face twists in anger, she proceeds to shout before Barley and the rest of the customers flinched due to how loud the voice was.
"I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME!"
-Back at Roxy's house-
Rager begins to park his cart inside the garage before hopping out, his hearing begins to ring before rapidly shaking his head.
"Jeez, no wonder why those engines were so loud, my ears were ringing.." Rager spoke as his hearing began to regain back to normal.
Suddenly, his vision began to sharpen before the room started to spin. Rager luckily managed to get back home before the effects took place.
He opens the door only for him to start hitting his torso against the laundry machines, before hitting the wall.
Before managing to arrive at the living room, he sees Roxy, sleeping on one of the chairs. He slams his torso against the soft cushions on the couch before the albino cheetah opens her eyes, turning her head towards Rager, laying on the couch.
"Ah, got a long day, Rager..?" Roxy yawned before Rager proceeded to answer her groggily.
He mumbles before Roxy could not understand what he had said. She gets off the chair before she gently shakes Rager in order for him to wake up.
"You doing okay there, Rager?" Roxy asked Rager to check on him.
Yet still no answer, nothing but mumbles. Due to his vision being blurry, he wasn't able to write what had happened in the notebook on the coffee table.
However, his vision regained back to normal before he proceeded to write what happened in the notebook. He gives the paper to Roxy before she begins to read what the note had said.
"Robot at the bar almost poisoned me, I need help ASAP.." The note said before Roxy gets confused, asking about Barley.
"You mean Barley?" Roxy asked Rager, he then began to speak before realizing the robot at the bar, not Barley but the female figure had nearly poisoned him at the bar earlier.
Roxy shook in horror before asking Rager why he didn't tell her about the situation at the bar earlier.
"Why didn't you tell me about it, Rager?" Roxy asked Rager in shock.
She begins to walk around, back in fourth before running to the kitchen to grab the medicine from the cabinet.
"Here, take one of these.." Roxy spoke as Rager took one of the pills from the bottle.
Once doing so, Roxy gives him a glass of water before proceeding to drink the glass she gave him.
"Don't worry, I'll call Pam, just hang on.." Roxy spoke to Rager before calling Pam on her cellphone.
She proceeds to call Pam before talking to her about the situation Rager had experienced earlier. Once she finished, she ended the call before telling her sentence to him.
"Pam's on her way.." Roxy said to Rager, telling that Pam is on her way to heal him entirely.
Rager nodded, Roxy sat down on one of the chairs, minutes had passed, and a knock on the door was heard. Roxy runs towards the door open, Pam is seen, standing towards the entrance before letting her inside the house.
"What seems to be the problem?" Pam asked Roxy, her face was filled with worry as the brawler was taken to the living room by the cheetah.
Once they both arrive at the living room, the junker falls in shock, seeing the robot laying on the floor, left palm on his forehead in pain.
"We're fixin' him.." Pam spoke before Roxy turned to the junker.
"Y-You're..fixing him?" Roxy asked Pam in worry.
"Well, not just fixing him like Jessie usually fixes any robot that's injured or somethin', we're just gonna fix him with some kind of medicine that gets rid of the poison.." Pam explained to Roxy, grabbing the medicine out of her turret.
"Y-You're not going to take Rager to your..scrapyard..correct?" Roxy asked Pam, making sure Rager won't be sent to the scrapyard.
"I'm not takin' him to the scrapyard, because this special medicine actually heals robots who got poisoned." Pam responded, pouring the medicine onto the bowl of the spoon.
Pam once finishes pouring the medicine onto the spoon before giving Rager the fluid the junker requires him to consume.
"Alright, Rager.. This medicine might taste bitter, but this will make you feel a lot better.." Pam said to Rager, giving the robot the required medicine the brawler explained Roxy about.
Once Rager puts the spoon in his mouth, the medicine once is consumed before putting the spoon out afterwards. Pam cleans the spoon with a paper towel before putting both the metal object and the medicine back inside her turret.
"Is he going to get better..?" Roxy asked Pam, worrying about Rager.
"This special medicine will heal robots just seconds after consumin' it.. It cures just poison getting inside these metal machines of their species.." Pam explained to Roxy about the medicine.
Before leaving, the junker then asks Roxy who had poisoned Rager, the cheetah lets Pam speak before answering her question.
"Before I leave, tell me, who had poisoned your friend?" Pam asked Roxy, telling who had poisoned Rager.
"Y-You see, Rager, a very close friend of mine, soon to be boyfriend-" Roxy's sentence gets cut off by the shocked junker.
"Boyfriend?" Pam shook before Roxy could finish her sentence.
"Y-Yes.. He's soon to be my boyfriend.." Roxy responded, her face flushed red.
"Nah, don't be embarrassed, Roxy.. It's alright to talk to me about..boyfriends and stuff.. Me, I let Jessie have a boyfriend..but she seems too embarrassed about getting one like you.." Pam explained to Roxy.
Pam then continues to speak the same question Roxy tried to answer but got cut off instantly.
"Rager, a close friend of mine got poisoned by some female robot, not Nani, but a different female robot of his own species.. He luckily managed to get home before he started to act like he was going to pass out.. When I first saw him pass out on the couch, I thought he had a very long day of battling, and now for a second glance, he wrote something on a notebook before he couldn't talk since he kept on mumbling which I couldn't understand what he had said.." Roxy explained to Pam, she then continues to finish her sentence before leaving the junker in shock.
"He wrote something on the notebook he picked up on the coffee table and wrote down that a female robot had poisoned him.. Not Nani, but a different female robot.."
Pam falls in shock before he faces twists with fury, she then thanks Roxy for explaining the whole story to the junker.
"Thanks for tellin' me that, Roxy.." Pam thanks Roxy before speaking to Rager, turning her head towards him.
"Rager, I'll see you in battle when you have the chance.."
The junker then leaves the house before Rager started to speak normally again.
"W-what happened..?" Rager groaned, rubbing his forehead with the palm of his hand.
"Y-You told me you were poisoned by that female robot, not Nani, but a different robot of what I'm talking about right now.. Not really poisoned, but you nearly got poisoned by that..creep!" Roxy spoke in shock, leaving the robot horrified.
"C-Creep? H-How did.. How did you know..?" Rager muttered in horror.
"One time, I saw the same robot who tried to get a male brawler to hang out with her.. She poisoned him and died from the drugs she had bought from a..trading market or something.. I-I do not know where or how did she get these pills, but it was somewhere outside of BrawlTown.. Tara wrote something to warn me about why I shouldn't go near the same girl you had seen earlier.." Roxy explained to Rager, leaving the robot terrified.
"I-I don't want to go near her again.. S-She tried to poison me but..you and Pam managed to heal me up before it's too late.." Rager sighed, calming down after what Roxy had explained.
Rager then empties his pockets before a small folded paper has fallen off, he picks the paper off the floor before unfolding, realizing the female robot had stored the paper with her phone number written on it, leaving him both in shock and in fury.
"Alright.. This female robot has GOT TO GO!" Rager snarled, crumbling the paper up before throwing it into the trash can.
"Where are you going?" Roxy asked Rager, about to leave the house.
"I'm going to deal with her, you coming?" Rager responded before asking Roxy if she can go with him.
Roxy nodded before running outside, she jumped into the cart before Rager proceeded to start the engines after getting on the vehicle.
"We're going to deal with that drug dealer and we're teaching her a VERY good lesson.." Roxy spoke to Rager, a smile on her face left the male robot grinning for a slight second, before telling Roxy another sentence.
"Then let's get it on then, Rox.." Rager chuckled, calling her by her newer nickname, leaving her very confused, yet ignores before replying to the robot.
"We're going to teach that robot a lesson and stop her from killing us!" Roxy spoke with glee, Rager began to drive his cart to the bar.
The vehicle proceeds to start the engines before Rager takes Roxy to the same bar he went to earlier the following evening..
"We're going to show her how to become a REAL robot!" Rager cheered, driving his cart to the bar.
-End of Chapter 2-
A/N: That's a wrap up for this second chapter.. I know this looks a bit rushed, but hopefully it'll look better in the third chapter..
Yet I still don't know when the third chapter is out, hopefully not at the end of April..
Hope you enjoyed the second chapter so far, I'll see you in the third one.. ;)