Vin and the Shadow Dancer Chapter Six: Balister Blitz Part Two


Henry cackles like a mad man as he approaches Caleb and Niu in their respective mech.

"That scrawny guy?" Caleb wondered if that is the person Dana warned him about. "He doesn't look so…"

Henry activates his laser cannon from his robotic suit's right arm and blasts a laser at Caleb's mech.

Caleb dodges it in time.

"Holy ****, this dude trying to kill us!" Caleb exclaimed in fear, almost wetting himself.

Caleb launches large chess pieces from the arms of his mech at Henry. The intruder dodges them easily and makes a leap into the air. Henry then does a dive kick into the center of Caleb's mech, piercing the machine into two.

"Oh ****," Caleb cursed again.

Henry points at the head of the mech with his robotic suit's laser gun. "Hasta la vista baby!"

"No, I haven't gone through puberty yet to be buff," Caleb whined.

Before Henry can finish off the chess prodigy, Niu activates disco lights from her disco ball shape mech.

"I knew I should have taken some time off my schedule to study these controls," Niu complained to herself, clearly pressing the button she did not intend to push.

This distracts Henry. The intruder turns around to face the disco ball mech. His robotic suit puts back the laser cannon inside its arm. Taking the opportunity, Caleb gets out of the control room of his mech and flees to safety. Wherever that may be.

"You really want to die today, don't you?" Henry asked Niu as he walked toward the goal digger's mech. "You could have just run away. Instead, you decided to play the hero." The intruder's robotic suit's hands turn into fists. "Just like Buck."

Niu activates a superior armor that covers her entire mech. The armor looks like the shell of an armadillo.

"It's useless to stop me!" Henry exclaimed. He punches the shell with his robotic suit's hands repeatedly. "Useless, useless, useless, useless, useless!"

Henry is able to crack the armadillo armor from Niu's mech.

"I was planning so much during my life," Niu cried out in sorrow for her possible death. "I don't want it to end like this!"

Henry stops punching and activates the laser cannon on his suit's left arm. He lifts the arm. "Sayonara! Have this last dance!"

A large knife is thrown, slicing through the laser cannon. This makes the cannon utterly useless. The large knife sticks to a part of the road as the cut cannon part drops to the ground.

Henry turns around and notices Margaret's mech.

"Nice color scheme," Henry complimented. "Can't wait to have you bathe in it."

"No one brings fear to my teammates except me," Margaret exclaimed, her mech mimicking her actions. "Now I'm going to show what true terror is like."

Niu takes the opportunity to get out of her control room and leave the area.

"Well then whoever you are," Henry spoke as he takes the knife stuck to the road with his robotic suit's right hand. "Let's see who gets the last laugh."

Henry and Margaret clash with their knives, using them as swords.

Elsewhere, Sami and Yves are currently heading to where the battle is at. That is until Daniel gets in their way, having his mech perform dance moves while music is blasting loudly from the machine.

"Um hello? What are you doing?" Yves exclaimed in annoyance to Daniel.

Daniel uses the mech's dance moves to attack Yves and Sami. The two girls dodge the attack.

"Did you not get the memo we have to stop a potential murderer!?" Yves told Daniel angrily.

"I think he couldn't hear the news because of him blasting the music so loud," Sami told Yves as the two dodged a dance kick from Daniel's mech.

"Ugh, we don't have time for this!" Yves said frustrated.

Back with Henry and Margaret, the two continue the sword fight with their respective large knife. That is until Henry has enough and grabs Margaret's large knife with his robotic suit's left hand, breaking the weapon. Though, since a large knife is sharp this does damage the hand a bit.

Henry then uses the knife he took and pierces it into the stomach part of Margaret's mech. Thank goodness the control room is in the chest area.

Perhaps for the first time in her life, Margaret's eyes widen in fear. Her mech is too damaged to move. Which means she has no choice but to exit out of the control room. But if Henry sees her on the ground trying to escape, no doubt she will be toast.

"You actually put up a good fight," Henry respected. "Too bad this will be your last." He tries pulling the knife out of the mech's stomach but is stuck tight. "Of course."

Just then more contestants come to stop Henry. These are Violette, Valerie, Mitch, Garett, and Brittany.

"Better get some distance," Henry told himself and headed to another area close by. The five contestants follow him.

Now in a more open space, Henry smirks at the five mechs in front of him.

"Let's see if all of you can last a minute against me," Henry said smiling wickedly.

"I believe this battle requires a team-up," Mitch told the four.

"As if," Brittany declared.

Brittany charges at Henry. The intruder simply activates the laser cannon on his robotic suit's right arm and shoots directly towards the mech's face as it approaches. Brittany's mech immediately goes down.

"Maybe I should hear others out more," Brittany told herself inside her control room.

Violette activates her rabbit mech to spring into the air. Henry makes a big leap and grabs the mech with his robotic suit's strength. He does a spin before launching Violette's mech into Mitchell's. This partially destroys both mechs.

Valeria and Garret are next to face off against Henry. While the two are battling, Yves and Sami are still having trouble passing Daniel who keeps being distracted by his music and fighting them.

"Have any ideas how we can pass him?" Sami asked Yves.

"My suit's forcefield can only protect me when I'm not attacking," Yves told her teammate.

Sami ponders for a moment. "Oh, I got it. Activate your forcefield when he attacks you. Then grab his arms. Leave me to do the rest."

"You know, a good plan will let me know everything that is about to happen, but I trust you. This once," Yves stated.

Just as Sami said, Yves activates her shield and allows Daniel to get hits on her. Then Yves grabs Daniel by the arms tightly.

Daniel turns off the music he is blasting. "Hey girl, you're ruining the vibe."

"And you're ruining the chance for us to save lives!" Yves countered.

"Say what?" Daniel asked confused.

Sami is shown descending from the sky. She drop-kicks the right arm of Daniel's mech. Thanks to the rollerblades under her mech's feet, Sami slices the arm off. Sami then uses her rollerblades to cut off the leg parts of Daniel's mech.

After defeating Daniel, the two Beta Bots rush to rescue the others, hoping they still have time.

Henry is going defensive, having his robotic suit's arms crossed like an X to endure the onslaught of Valerie using her mech's boxing glove hands to try to defeat his suit.

Garrett in his mech approaches slowly behind Henry, having his giant guitar in a baseball bat position for a nice swing.

"This might be too much, but if it gets of rid this rascal from disrupting my plans then so be it," Garrett declared.

Approaching a safe distance, Garett swings his giant guitar directly at Henry's head. The intruder anticipates this and makes his robotic suit bend its upper body to avoid the swing. The guitar instead breaks off the head of Valerie's mech.

"Hey, who side are you on?" Valerie exclaimed irritated at Garett.

"Oops," Garett said, surprised his plan fail.

Henry takes this opportunity to use his only functioning laser cannon to blast Valerie's mech dubbed Valor at the chest area. Where the control room is. The Valor falls onto the ground with a large thud.

Henry stops bending, stands straight, and turns around.

"Good job, but that technique is not going to work for someone who uses it as well," Henry told Garett. "And that someone is me!" He fires his laser to destroy the giant guitar.

"Dang nab it!" Garett exclaimed frustrated.

Henry gives a swift kick to knock down Garett's mech by using his robotic suit. The intruder then aims at the mech's chest.

"You want to know what death tastes like?" Henry rhetorically asked.

"Henry!" Called out the voice of Yves.

Henry halts his fire and turns around to see Yves in her mech.

"Yves is that you? Did Buck make you that mech? You know, I was getting confused with so many people in mechs here," Henry admitted. "This place doesn't even resemble Crowstillo Island. But then I saw Buck and I wanted to have fun beating up the others."

Okay, for sure this Henry is not from here since he does not know of this place. Plus, Back to the Islands never happens in this world so the events of Radiant Redemption do not take place. However, this still raises questions. Henry is currently arrested in Yves's world. Could this be a Henry from another dimension? But then how did he get here in the first place?

Garret takes the opportunity to get out of his mech and flee.

"Henry, listen, I know this sounds crazy, but you are stuck in another dimension," Yves told. She remembers what Yvette told her. "By any chance did you encounter a velvet cloud?"

"Now that you mention it, while I was putting on my bag a cloud did come onto me. Next thing I knew I am here and saw Buck hopping onto a jaguar-like mech, so I followed him," Henry confessed.

Well, time to talk to Vin again at night. First Yvette and now Henry. Something is connected. Yves just does not know what yet.

"Look, Henry, stop this madness. Maybe I can help you go back to your world," Yves stated, wanting to assist.

This makes Henry cackle. "You're joking, right? I pretty much murdered two people and destroyed these mechs. I am not just going to stop. For what? To get arrested. Fat chance, I already defeated Buck." He aims his laser cannon at Yves's mech. "I don't know what's going on, but I do know this is an island. And if it's an island, Chris is here with the cash prize. So, lead me to him or suffer just like the others."

"I guess you're always destined for failure," Yves told Henry. "For a moment I thought you'll realize all of this won't satisfy you in the end. Just like what happened to me."

For two seconds, Henry frowns. Then he scowls and fires a laser blast from his laser cannon at Yves's mech. This does not do damage since the forcefield is up.

"What!?" Henry wondered flabbergasted and enraged. "That was a direct hit." He keeps blasting. Yves approaches the intruder slowly and menacingly.

"Why can't, I, hurt, you!?" Henry asked perplexed, each word coming after a laser blast fired.

Distracted, Sami arrives from hiding near a building and uses her mech's rollerblades to cut Henry's robotic suit's arms, including the laser gun.

Yves rushes to grab Henry so she can remove him from his suit. Thinking quickly, Henry activates the eject button from his suit and presses his backpack to trigger it, transforming it into a jetpack.

"We'll meet again Yves," Henry told, floating in the sky thanks to his jetpack. "I'll be back to get those million dollars from Chris, no matter what universe I'm in!"

Yves sighs. Another situation to deal with.

"He's getting away," Sami told her teammate, about to run after Henry.

"Don't, he's probably leaving the island," Yves told Sami. "No point in going after him now."

The radios in each girl's control room turn on.

"Yves and Sami, go help the contestants stuck in their mechs and bring them inside the dome," Dana ordered.

Time passes and the contestants except for Valerie, Yves, and Sami are at the area of the dome where the mechs were sent off. Chris and Dana arrive talking with each other.

"That's the second time someone somehow got into the island undetected," Dana told Chris. "We need to upgrade those security bots now."

Chris narrows his eyes. "We both agreed we will upgrade them coming to the next challenge since they have no fighting experience. We'll just tell the contestants that was an intern that got upset for not being paid enough."

Dana sighs and accepts the plan. She smiles a bit. "Well, at least the mech fights were awesome. Better than I initially planned. So that's a win for me. Yeah, you're right. We'll keep this between us."

"Now you're starting to think like a host," Chris complimented Dana.

As the two hosts tell their lie to the contestants at the dome the missing contestants return.

Sami's mech's right hand is holding an injured Valerie. Everyone witnesses this and approaches with distraught except Chris and Dana. Yves gets out of her mech.

"That's not good," Chris admitted, checking Valerie's injured stomach. It is burned.

"She will be alright for staying," Dana assured. Though, she does not look that confident in what she said.

"I don't know about that," Buck told Dana. "That burn isn't looking pretty."

"Is there already going to be a medical elimination already?" Niu wondered worryingly.

Chris checks out Valerie's stomach again and winces. "Yeah, sorry Dana. But no dice. Unless Valerie is a fast healer, I doubt she will be able to continue the game."

"It's fine, I probably deserve this anyway," Valerie said, fighting the pain so she can speak.

"So, since Valerie is out of the competition, that means our team doesn't have to vote for anyone despite us losing," Garrett proposed the idea to Dana and Chris. This gets him a few glares coming his way, but he does not care.

"Yeah, the Delta Droids don't have to vote off a teammate," Chris confirmed. "I'll call the ambulance to bring in a helicopter to take Valerie to the nearest hospital."

"I still don't buy this bull**** of that dude being an intern. The dude had murderous intent in his eyes. He really got that pissed off for not getting paid enough?"

"I mean, have you seen how Chris treats his interns?" Daniel told the short kid.

"I bet these two don't even know the intern's name," Caleb pointed at the hosts.

Chris and Dana flinch. Caleb has a point.

"His name is Henry," Yves told Caleb. "Now drop the subject. It has been a scary day. Let's just take things easy and do stuff to take what happened today off our minds." Oh, if only it was that easy for the dancer.

"What Yves said. Dana and I will stay here with Valerie until she is medically evacuated," Chris informed.

Daniel, Margaret, Brittany, and Garett head to the hallways. All four are still annoyed at what happened today.

"Take care agent," Calvin told Valerie. "You contributed well." They are not teammates, but he is going to give his goodbye. He leaves the area.

"Make sure to get rest and not stress," Niu advised Valerie before she leaves.

Sami gets out of her mech but leaves it on so Valerie can still lay on the hand. She, Buck, Mitchell, and Violette give goodbyes.

Yves is thinking to herself. Henry is on the loose and not just any Henry. A Henry that is possibly from another dimension. Who knows how psychopathic this version can get. She has to talk with Vin as soon as possible, but first.

After the four Beta Bots say goodbye to Valerie, is time for Yves to tell goodbye as well.

"Hey, I'm not really good at giving goodbyes to people," Yves told Valerie as she takes her butterfly hair clip out of her hair. "But I want you to have this." She puts the hair clip in Valerie's left hand. The injured girl closes her hand to not let it fall.

"It will look good on you. Because like a butterfly, you are beautiful," Yves sincerely said.

Valerie smiles. "Maybe there are people out there that are good." She goes to sleep.

Good; that word lingers in the dancer's head. When was she ever good during her time on the show? She is just trying to make things right. For others and for herself. After giving her hair clip to Valerie, Yves heads to her bedroom to wait for King Vinoripmav to bring her to the hideout. There, she is going to get answers.

As the night arrives, Henry is shown at a shore part of the island. He is sitting on the sand with his arms on his knees together. His jetpack is near him.

"Stupid jetpack," Henry muttered. "Didn't fill it up with enough fuel."

He hears the sounds of feet walking towards him. Turning around, he smiles at the figures approaching him. "Ah, looks like I might get to complete my revenge after all."