Another day at school was happening. Everything seemed normal at the moment, but it's all about to change. Lucy was at her locker and was getting a couple things. She was about to head for science class...
"I know you want to meet everyone, but I'm not sure this is a good idea." Lucy looked around the corner and saw Hibiki. It looked like he was talking to something in his bag. "I know you were excited, but we've got to handle this carefully. I'm just not convinced everyone is ready for this." Lucy was curious as to who Hibiki was talking to, but she couldn't see anyone. Hibiki just got up and walked to class like everything was normal. She could tell he's hiding something.
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Science Class
Lucy and her friends had science class with Miss Porlyusica. While all the students had their seats, she and Macao were trying to fix a computer that seems to have caught a virus. Lucy was more focused on Hibiki and what he was hiding.
"Something wrong, Lucy?" Levy asked.
"I saw Hibiki talking to something in his bag earlier. I'm just curious on what he has." Lucy said.
"I've tried everything." Porlyusica said as she and Macao tried to deal with the virus. "Nothing seems to be working."
"Have you tried resetting the settings, clearing the data, and restart?" Macao said. They've tried everything they could, but this virus seems to be a strong one. Hibiki walked over to see if he could help.
"I have something that could deal with that virus." Hibiki said as he dug around his bag.
"Hibiki, sit down and leave this to the adults." Porlyusica said. She was always the type that had zero tolerance for nonsense.
"Tell them that it's probably the FK-66 virus." A voice actually came from Hibiki's bag with everyone surprised to hear that. "If something isn't done in the next ninety seconds, all the school's data will be lost." Everyone was curious as to what was going on, but Macao was more concerned about the virus when he saw all the data actually being deleted.
"What do you have, Hibiki?" Macao asked. Hibiki got to work as he had the computer set to delete the virus.
"Here, Hibiki." They all saw a small mechanical arm come out of his bag with a drive on it. Everyone was wondering what the heck it was. Hibiki took the drive and placed it in the computer. He got to work as fast as he could to deal with the virus. When it seemed like the virus was about to delete everything, Hibiki managed to stop it in time and all the data was being restored.
"There it goes." Hibiki said as he removed the drive. "The virus has been placed in this anti-virus drive I created so I can delete it properly."
"Hibiki, it's impressive, but what is in your bag?" Lucy said as they all wanted to know now.
"That would be me." They were all surprised when they saw a blue and white robot that was the size of ball and a mechanical arm flew out because of propeller it has. Everyone was impressed with the robot, except for Taylor. "It's a pleasure to meet all of you. My name is Main."
"His name stands for Mechanical Artificial Intellectual Neuron. He's a robot I created that can actually think for himself." Hibiki said.
"You actually made this? It's impressive." Lucy said. "Main certainly looks like an incredible robot."
"Thank you, Lucy." Main said.
"You know me?" Lucy said.
"Hibiki showed me the class photo. I've done my research on all of you." Main said. "Although, I'm no ordinary robot. I have the ability to think and feel like any human."
"Oh please. This freaky calculator isn't capable of feeling anything." Taylor said.
"Aw... Taylor... I've done my research on you as well." Main said as he was already aware of she's like. "I think someone should add midnight-black to their color scheme. It's more suiting for their rotten personality." The other students had a good laugh with how he shot Taylor down.
"This toy of yours is impressive, Hibiki, but put it away and sit down." Porlyusica said.
"I am not a toy!" Main said as he felt offended.
"He's right." Hibiki said. "Main is capable of learning. Since he can, he was able to develop emotions. Main isn't a toy, he's my friend."
"Exactly." Main said.
"Be serious, Hibiki." Porlyusica said with her just ignoring Main. "You programmed him to say that. A robot isn't capable of emotions because they have no brain or heart. Now put this toy away or I will confiscate it."
"Excuse me! Don't talk like I'm not here!" Main said as he was getting mad.
"Main, calm down. Just come here." Hibiki said.
"No! She's wrong!" Main said. "I wanted to come and meet everyone. I can be just as human as everyone else. This lady here clearly doesn't know what she's talking about."
"I've had enough. Principal Conbolt, could you do something?" Porlyusica said as she ran out of patience. Macao was rather annoyed himself. He grabbed Main and was taking him away.
"You can get your toy back at the end of the day, Hibiki." Macao said as he was walking out of the room.
"Sir, please! You can't!" Hibiki said out of concern.
"Does someone want weeks of detention?" Macao threatened. That got Hibiki to back off with Macao taking Main away.
"Hibiki?! Aren't you coming with me?!" Main called, but there was nothing Hibiki could do with his friends feeling bad for them. "Sir, please. Let me stay with Hibiki." He begged as Macao took him to his office. "I was only trying to help. Surely you can understand. I heard you know a thing or two about computers."
"Yes. I designed my own program that..." Macao was explaining, but stopped when he thought he was talking to just a toy. "Why am I talking to a toy?" Main kept begging and pleading to be let go, but it all meant nothing. Thinking Main is just a toy, he went in his office and just dumped him in the drawer. Main might be mechanical, but he might be feeling his version of heartbreak and emotional pain.
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Black Wizard
"This is certainly interesting." Black Wizard said as even he could feel the negative emotions from Main. "A robot with human feelings and desires to be treated as human. I must see what becomes of this." He took an etherious and gave it some dark power. "Fly, my evil etherious. Let's give this robot a new perspective of humans and feelings." Magic mixed with technology isn't usually a good thing. No telling what could come of it.
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Main
The etherious was able to make it's way to the school, in the drawer, got in Main, and entered his main computer chip. Connecting to a robot like Main was a complete success.
"Robobust. I'm Black Wizard."
"Who?" Main asked.
"Black Wizard. I am giving you the power to control all machines. You can start a rebellion against the humans. In exchange, you must bring me the miraculous of Celestria and Salamondra."
"I'm not familiar with these miraculous. What are they?" Main asked.
"They're the jewels that give those heroes their powers." Black Wizard said.
"And what do you need them for?" Main asked.
"That is none of your concern!" Black Wizard stated.
"I was just curious. You don't need to sound nasty." Main said. Black Wizard wanted this robot on his side.
"Whoever possesses Celestria's earrings and Salamondra's ring has the power to bend reality and any wish can be granted." Black Wizard said.
"Any wish? I could be human?" Main said.
"The wish for me alone! Do we have a deal or not?!" Black Wizard questioned as he was getting irritated himself.
"Yes, Black Wizard." Main said. He transformed, but Black Wizard might be having second thoughts about this.
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Porlyusica's Class
"Enough of this nonsense. Everyone sit down." Porlyusica said as she wanted to get back to work. However, Hibiki was concerned about Main.
"Main's never been away from me before. I'm worried how he'll emotionally handle it." Hibiki said.
"Don't worry. Maybe there's something I can do." Lucy said with Hibiki feeling a little better. "Excuse me, Miss Porlyusica. As class representative, can I go speak to the principal?"
"No. It can wait until after class." Porlyusica said.
"With all due respect, I think you were wrong about Main. He clearly does have feeling. It seemed to bother him when you saw him as nothing more than a mindless machine." Lucy said.
"This whole thing is starting to annoy me." Porlyusica said.
"I hate to say it, but everything seems to annoy you." Lucy said.
"That does it! Go to the office!" Porlyusica said.
"Thank you." Lucy said. Porlyusica meant for that to be a punishment, but she might have handled that poorly. Lucy stepped out of the class and spotted Macao outside his office with him talking to a fellow teacher. "Principal Conbolt, where's Main?"
"Who?" Macao asked.
"Hibiki's friend." Lucy clarified.
"That toy again?" Macao said with annoyance.
"He's not a toy. Main just didn't think he did anything wrong. Please let him go. I'll make sure he won't be a problem." Lucy said. Macao was about to decline her off, but he didn't get the chance when the door busted down.
"You thought you could hide me away? Think again." Main has now become Robobust with him going from blue and white to red and black. "I think it's time we machines show you humans what happens when you don't respect us." Robobust set out a cybernetic wave that spread through the whole city. Every machine was affected. They moved and acted like they were alive. Seeing that this was a serious problem, Lucy moved to the bathroom so she could transform.
"Stella, Twinkle!" Lucy had Stella pulled into her earrings and allowed her to become Celestria. As for Robobust, all machines were under his control. That included vehicles. With them under his control, he had a series of cars and construction machines come to the school and was able to form them together into a giant robot that he controlled. He went inside a car and steered it around for him to use.
"Hibiki! Where are you, my friend?!" Robobust called. Every student at the school was alerted of this matter as they could see what was happening. Seeing this was trouble, Natsu went and hid somewhere and pulled Igneel out so he could transform.
"Robot or not, Hibiki's friend does have feelings." Natsu said.
"Too bad he'll never enjoy the pleasure of eating meat." Igneel said.
"You're really something when it comes to meat." Natsu chuckled, but got serious. "Igneel, Fire Up!" Igneel was pulled into his ring with him becoming Salamondra. Hopefully, the two heroes can defeat a villain like this.
"Hibiki? Where are you?" Robobust said as he looked around until he finally found Hibiki. "There you are!" Hibiki tried to make a run for it, but the robot grabbed him. Hibiki was placed inside the head of the robot and was buckled in and given a helmet.
"Main? Is that you?" Hibiki asked.
"I'm not Main anymore. I'm Robobust now. They're not going to keep us apart anymore, and all those awful humans will get what they deserve." Robobust turned the robot around, but that was when Celestria and Salamondra got in his way.
"That's far enough." Celestria said.
"I'm all for a good robot rumble, but this is nuts." Salamondra said.
"The famous heroes. Here's a bit of advice. Don't even try stopping me." Robobust said. "I know all about you. You've got no chance against me. I'm just as strong and smart as any human; no more a mere machine that some think I am. Hibiki and I are friends and even you can't tear us apart."
"If you're really his friend, think about him. Part of being humans is thinking about what others wants." Celestria said. "Do you think Hibiki wants any of this?" When he realized that, Robobust turned to Hibiki to see what he did want.
"She's right. You have to stop." Hibiki said.
"I'm doing it for us, Hibiki! They want to keep us apart!" Robobust said. "I'm sick of humans thinking we machines are just objects. They need to understand what it's like."
"I'm sorry, but we can't let you do this." Celestria said as she used her whip. She threw it at the robot, but Robobust timing was perfect when he grabbed a hold of the whip and pulled her forward. When she got close enough, he gave her a good smack and knocked her back. Salamondra didn't take that too well.
"If you know everything about us, you should know I don't allow anyone to hurt my little star!" Salamondra claimed. He jumped high in the air and extended his staff out. He tried bringing it down, but Robobust grabbed a hold of it. Robobust had his robot spin around at incredible speed until the robot let go and Salamondra was sent flying. Fearing for his own good, Celestria pulled herself together and hurried after him. This robot has already proven to be a real challenge.
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Salamondra
Salamondra flew over the city and it looked like he was going to crash. Luckily, Celestria used her whip and formed a net for him. He landed in it and was safe, at least for now.
"Are you okay?" Celestria asked.
"That was wild ride, but I don't think I want to go on it again." Salamondra said as he got back up. "That robot has some serious issues."
"He certainly has emotions, but he is still just a machine." Celestria said. "A machine has limits and humans go past their limits. We just need a way to get our hands on him." They tried to think of how they could do that. Suddenly, they heard screaming and saw a couple people being chased by moving refrigerators. "To think I thought people were crazy for saying machines would take over." Celestria and Salamondra acted fast. Celestria swung down and got the people out of the way as Salamondra threw his weight into his attacks to knock them down.
"How did this happen?" Salamondra said.
"It's Robobust. He has the power to control all machines." Celestria said.
"Help!" They all looked and spotted Millianna being chased by a car. Salamondra acted fast as he jumped in and pushed her out of the way with the car sliding past.
"Take cover in a place where there are no machines!" Celestria said as she escorted them inside a building.
"Uh... Something tells me we should do the same." Salamondra said as he pointed down the street. They saw a series of cars coming at them like a stampede. The two of the moved fast and went straight for the rooftops. Once they got up there, they looked around and saw vehicles and other machines going crazy. It was like a whole robotic army was attacking the city. "This is already getting insane. You can find these machines everywhere."
"You're right. The whole city could be overrun in moments." Celestria said.
"You can say that again." Salamondra said as he checked the news on his staff. "Take a look at this. The mayor's office is being run by a lamp." He showed Celestria the news and the news showed a lamp was the new mayor. The mayor flickered on and off like it was sending a message.
"That's Morse code." Celestria said as she tried reading it. "People will become our objects."
"You can speak Morse code?" Salamondra questioned.
"One of my many talents." Celestria bragged.
"You're just constantly amazing." Salamondra flirted, but Celestria was serious.
"We'll never be able to take all of them. The only way we can stop this is to go for the source: Robobust himself." Celestria said.
"We need to find him first." Salamondra said.
"We better get going." Celestria said. The two of them took off and hurried. The only chance they have of stopping any of this is to stop Robobust himself. They looked around to see where he could have gone.
"Down there. I think I found something." Salamondra said. He pointed down the road and spotted large cracks in the ground that made a trail. Knowing where he went now, the two of them followed after Robobust.
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The Stadium
Celestria and Salamondra followed the trail to the stadium. However, when they went inside, the trail went completely cold. There was nothing inside. Both of them went out on the field and tried to figure this out, but there wasn't a sign of Robobust anywhere.
"Where is he? How could something that big just disappear?" Celestria questioned. They looked around for him, but they actually played in the enemy's hands. They looked towards the exits and saw cars and other vehicles coming inside. "It was a trap! They were waiting for us!" The vehicles had them completely surrounded as some of them came together and formed Robobust's robot again.
"I have you now!" Robobust said as he and Hibiki were still in the robot.
"Let's get out of here." Celestria said as they needed to retreat. They both tried jumping for it, but some helicopters came in, blocked their path, and blocked their only escape route. When their escaped failed, Robobust had his robot grabbed a hold of them and they ended up stuck.
"I told you that you had no chance against me." Robobust said.
"Main, please stop this!" Hibiki pleaded.
"It will all be fine once my wish is granted." Robobust said.
"What wish?" Hibiki asked.
"My wish to be human. The miraculous these two have can help with that." Robobust said.
"What is he talking about?" Celestria said as she still did not know the truth.
"Once I have these miraculous, I can become human." Robobust said. He's actually the first villain that wants the miraculous for his own.
"Do I need to remind you that the miraculous are for me?" Black Wizard told him as he wasn't going to let anyone stand in his way of that. "Do as I say or I will revoke your powers."
"I think no, Black Wizard." Robobust claimed. Down at Black Wizard's lair, Robobust hacked his way into the security system and used Black Wizard's own defenses against him. Black Wizard used his sword to defend himself, but Celestria and Salamondra aren't as lucky.
"Can't you use your Dragon Fire?" Celestria asked.
"I would if I could move my arms." Salamondra said. The two of them tried getting themselves free, but it wasn't looking good. Especially when a couple mechanical toys with claws were coming to take their miraculous away.
"Main, please!" Hibiki pleaded for all of this to stop. "Being human means you've got to be fair and compassionate. You need to stop!"
"It will all be over soon." Robobust said as the miraculous were just in his reach. Just as the miraculous were about to be grabbed. It seemed like all was lost. However, Hibiki was able to escape his hold as he threw his helmet and mag at the toys and kept them away from the heroes. Robobust couldn't believe his friend went against him like that. "Hibiki! What are you doing?!"
"I'm sorry, but I can't let you do this." Hibiki said as he made his way inside the arm. He was able to figure out the mechanics and got it to open up with them being free.
"How could you?! We're friends!" Robobust said.
"My friend is Maine, not you." Hibiki said.
"Is that so?" Robobust said as he was getting really angry now with him locking Hibiki inside. "In that case, you'll suffer the same fate as any other human!"
"I don't think so!" Celestria said as she still had one trick up her sleeve. "Open the Celestial Gate!" She used her powers and it formed a ball of Aries yarn. However, Robobust caught it before she could.
"Nice try, but as long as I have your item, I win!" Robobust said. The machines started to swarm them as they attacked. Celestria and Salamondra kept themselves moving so they wouldn't get caught again. When Celestria jumped in the air, she spotted Hibiki's drive that holds a virus in it.
"Salamondra, take care of Hibiki!" Celestria said.
"Got it!" Salamondra said as he hurried to Hibiki. "Dragon Fire!" Salamondra pressed his hand against the robot and it began to break apart. He hurried to Hibiki and smashed the window open. He grabbed a hold of Hibiki and got him out of there.
"No! No!" Robobust said. Seeing his robot was breaking apart, he hurried out of there. Celestria was able to grab the ball of yarn. She tried throwing it at Robobust, but she missed.
"Nice try, but I still win!" Robobust, but he ended up speaking too soon. Salamondra tossed his staff and it managed to hit the ball of yarn. The yarn landed right on Robobust and got tangled in his propeller. With that, he couldn't stay in the air. Robobust fell right into Celestria's hand. Once she had him, she took the drive with the virus in him and placed it inside with it downloading and destroying his circuits. That resulted in the etherious leaving him.
"No more evildoing for you, little etherious." Celestria activated her whip and twirled it around. "Time to de-evillize!" She tossed the whip and caught the etherious with it. "Gotcha! Bye-Bye, little guy." She released the etherious and everything was returning to normal. "Miraculous Starlight!" She tossed the yarn in the air and the magic stars was restoring everything to how it was.
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Black Wizard
With Robobust defeated, his hacked security system returned to normal. For once, he wasn't so upset that one of his villains was defeated.
"I'll admit I made a mistake this time, but I won't make it again." Black Wizard said. He accepted defeat this time, but he'll be more careful the next time and make sure victory is his.
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The Stadium
Once Robobust became Main again, Celestria removed the virus. Everything was normal again.
"Here's your friend." Celestria said as she gave Main back to Hibiki, but he was hesitant to turn Main back on.
"Maybe I shouldn't." Hibiki said.
"Another part of human is making mistakes." Celestria said. "What's important is that we learn and grow from them." Celestria and Salamondra encouraged him to give Main another chance. Hibiki took the chance as he turned Main back on.
"Hibiki! What happened?" Main asked.
"You were etheriouized by Black Wizard, but Celestria and Salamondra saved you." Hibiki explained.
"What is etheriouized?" Main asked. Main still has a lot to learn.
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Mavis
After all was over and done, Lucy paid a visit it to Mavis. There was still something she had to know.
"Master Mavis, have you not told me everything about the miraculous?" Lucy asked. "Robobust mentioned something about a wish being made with the miraculous. What was he talking about?"
"I see... You heard about that." Mavis said as she thought it was time Lucy knew. "When someone combines the powers of your earrings and Salamondra's ring, they would be given the power to alter reality. Any wish they have could be granted."
"Seriously?! Why can't we use that now to stop Black Wizard or change the world for the better?" Lucy asked.
"I'm afraid it's not that simple." Mavis said. "The greater the wish, the greater a price must be paid. For that robot to become human, someone has to lose their humanity. It's a power that can't be used."
"Wow... That doesn't sound good at all." Lucy said as she sees why the miraculous must be protected.
"Maybe now you see why the miraculous must be protected." Mavis said. "I don't know what Black Wizard wants with that kind of power, but we can't allow that to happen."
"I promise that Black Wizard or anyone will never get their hands on that miraculous." Lucy vowed. Now that she knows how high the stakes of loosing the miraculous are, she will never allow them to fall into the wrong hands.