The Castle Sewers, ?.
The castle's underground sewers have beautiful, glimmering crystals that shine constantly and have regal and elegant rocky formations. Some of the outlaws can't help but wonder about the sewers' atmosphere being so different and unique compared to the standard messy, smelly and grimy sewers. The castle sewers are clean and have no revolting sights or smells at all.
"This place looks like something out of a video game," Lavender began, "Or more importantly, something removed from a video game..."
Rose chuckled, "If Flamethrower was here, he'd be talking about the sewers' true origins nonstop."
"If he was, then I'd be wearing earplugs." Bronze grumbled, "And i thought listening to Duster and Greis arguing were bad enough."
Duster ran to a pillar that has a flickering green orb inside, trying to get it out. His brother tried to stop him and talk him out of it, but to no avail.
"You need to stop being a crybaby, Greis," Duster growled to his brother while trying to pull the orb loose, "That ultimate god machine guy can't hurt me because I'm a little kid. He only cancelled my powers."
"But he's hurting your father and his outlaws." Greis argued with his younger brother.
"He's your father, too, graybrain." Duster scoffed.
"Jasper is NOT my father. I'd rather be adopted by a World Bomber, or even that God Bomber who's been chasing us, since he might be an Esper just like you and me! Even Bomb Gunman has redeeming qualities compared to Jasper Jones himself!"
"I heard that!" Jasper scolded his oldest son, not wanting him to talk about being adopted by someone kinder than him, including the aforementioned American Bomberman and the ultimate beast machine god himself.
"Jasper, you need to understand that you're not my-" Greis wanted to explain to Jasper that he is not his son, but was cut off by his "father".
"Greis Schwartz Jones, i don't want to hear another word about leaving us and getting adopted by anyone else, that includes Bomb Gunman and the World Bombers, Bomberman and that ignorant bomber god of this planet. You understand?" He said sternly.
"Yes, sir..." Greis gulped, trying his best to stay on his adoptive father's good side, not wanting the gray-green bomber to get angry at him. "Greis Schwartz Jones... I hate being called by that!"
"Good." Jasper puts his hands on his hips.
Duster finally pulled the orb out of the pillar, only to see the sewers' security robots showing up, resembling bats, miniature tyrannosaurus rexes and triceratopses.
"So much for the sewers not being guarded." Rose frowned.
"I knew there was something strange about that place." Lavender commented about the robots.
"You mean...?" Bronze followed.
Lavender nodded.
The tyrannosaurus robot let out a mechanical roar, prompting its fellow robots to attack Jasper and his men.
"How about a little target practice?" Jasper pulled out his rifle and began shooting the sewer's security robots. The other outlaws did the same with their weaponry.
After destroying some of the dinosaur robots, the bat robots swooped in and attacked them, letting out electronic screeches and squeals.
Rose was confident at first due to her magic, but they scratched her several times. She swatted them with her magic wand, and fired beam shots to destroy them.
Greis used his psychic abilities to slam the electronic bats to the ground, as well as taking them apart one by one, but he was overwhelmed as more and more of them emerged from the darkness, so he ended up throwing bombs at them instead to avoid getting a headache from using his powers too much.
"Get away from us, you flying tin-cans!" Duster shouted while throwing his bombs, destroying the bat robots. He also wanted to use his psychic powers, but decided that the bombs are better against them. He continued to throw the bombs at them until he tripped on a rock.
"Duster!" Greis shouted, rushing to his aid, trying to lift him off the ground, but the bat robots decided to attack both of the Schwartz Brothers.
"Oh no you don't!" Jasper rushed in to protect his sons from the mechanical bats by shielding them with his body, but they ended up attacking him from behind, slashing and tearing away the back of his jacket and his shirt with their claws. Luckily, Rose swinged the bats out of Jasper's back with her baton-sized magic wand before they injured him further.
"Thanks, Rose..." Jasper winced, as he felt the painful injuries on his back.
Even the highly trained outlaws Bronze and Lavender are also having trouble with them. Their arms have also been scratched while trying to fire arrows and rockets at them. Jasper and Rose destroyed the robots with their weapons and their bombs, letting out a huge sigh of relief.
"Oww..." Lavender groaned in pain, holding his arm. "Thank you for saving us."
"You keep risking your life to save your kids, Jasper?" Bronze responded while holding his injured arm.
"Keep that in mind, we're a family, too." Jasper retorted, before he and the other outlaws destroyed what's left of the sewers' security robots.
Bronze scoffed. "Families. Children. Who needs them?"
Lavender glared. "...Bronze, you may be my friend and older brother figure, but sometimes, i hate you..."
In the castle's main control room, God Bomber felt disappointed as he watched Jasper and his outlaws letting out a huge sigh of relief after destroying the security robots on the holographic screen, but he left the room as the gray-green bomber take off his jacket and his shirt to see about the scratches he received from the bat robots. "Why in Mihaele and Sthertoth's name would i want to watch that?"
"I should've made the dinosaur sentry robots more violent like i did with the bats. The bats slowed them down and gave them some injuries, but they were destroyed."
Pretty soon, the outlaws will find the first floor of the castle, but it'll be crawling with guards and his own line of Mecha Bombermen.
"What else do they want besides the crystals of this planet? Fame? Fortune? ...Violence?"
He gulped at the last part, as there are two children in the group, the Schwartz Brothers, since they're always following Jasper and his outlaws in their escapades and their crimes, letting out a shudder.
"What are they teaching those kids? To be violent and ruthless? This is not a good family unit."
God Bomber closed his eyes and shakes his head.
"Is it too late to find them a stable, non-violent home? I wish i had that answer."
Back in the hideout, Flamethrower is still playing the red and black-colored game system that he found in the attic earlier, and starting to feel disoriented, due to the way the system and the games are designed.
"Flame," Blade said quietly, as he felt that Jasper, his children, and the other outlaws haven't returned to the hideout yet. "I think you should take a break from playing that thing. It's been an hour."
"In a minute..." Flame replied, with hints of him having motion sickness.
"Jasper and the others haven't returned, and I'm getting worried. What if Bomberman found our hideout and captured them?"
"One more stage..." Flamethrower muttered, "That vampire bomber is hard to beat because-UGGH-" He finally put the eyepiece away and rushed to the bathroom.
Blade sighed. "That's the problem with virtual reality, it'll make you sick. I can see why Jasper didn't want to play it earlier... He could use a hobby."