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Chapter 8: Omega Vs. Tekno

"Get up, Omega," Tekno repeated, "now." His robotic arm had opened on the top and there was some sort of miniature gun turret sticking out of it.

Omega stood up. "Why are you doing this?" He asked. "Why get Robotic Hylians to be Hyrule's bodyguards, and then destroy it? Why attack us?"

"Because," Tekno said, in a 'matter of fact' tone, "because I saw myself ruling Hyrule, and there's no other reason."

"Then why'd you destroy it?" Nick half-shouted at him.

"I destroyed it," Tekno said in the same tone, "because I don't need people. My Robotic Hylians can be my citizens. They don't talk back and they're not evil."

"No, but you are!" Ashley said, angry, "why'd you lead me out here to meet my friends then???!!!"

"Because you are the only people that can stop me from ruling Hyrule! I'd rather destroy you all at once than pick you off one by one, so I had some stealth robots watch you until you were all together. You are supposed to stop the corrupt Jeweled Ones, and I don't see that as a worthy cause to live. If you do manage to defeat me, at least I'll make a good first challenge."

"What are you talking about?" Omega demanded. "You know something! Defeat the corrupt Jeweled Ones? What the Hell are you talking about?"

Tekno looked surprised. "You don't know?" he asked back. "Then you won't learn it from me! Now, enough talk! Let's fight!" He said immediately aiming at Omega, then firing.

Omega dodged the shot, then jumped in and punched him in the face, knocking him over. As Tekno got up, he said, "is that your best shot? You'll never defeat me with that?" Then he jumped to his feet and shot at Omega again, but again Omega dodged.

"You've gotta help 'im!" Nick demanded of Mark as they watched Omega trying to get close enough to land another punch or even to get enough time to pull off a Pokemon maneuver.

"But I don't have any weapons," Mark said, "how can I help him?"

"Geez, are ya' or aren't ya' a Raichu Halfling?" Nick demanded. "You can use his moves, ya know."

Mark decided he should try one, so he focused on performing Thundershock, and he found knew by instinct how to do it.

Tekno was still busy firing at Omega, when he heard a "Rai..." and turned around to see what it was. In that instant, he also heard Omega shout, "Thunder!!!"

He was hit by two electric attacks at one time in a flash of yellow light. He stood up again. "Geez," Omega complained, "How much does it take to get rid of this guy?"

"More than you have!" Tekno shouted and tried to fire his gun, but it didn't fire, it didn't even click. Omega heard Tekno whisper, "damn electricity overload!"

Omega knew this was his chance. He ran in and started punching him in the face. He got in three punches, but then Tekno blocked with his robotic arm and threw him back, stunning him. In the moment Omega was stunned, Tekno threw a punch, but Omega was able to recover in enough time to shout, "harden!!!"

The robotic arm bounced off Omega's hardened skin and started shaking. "Oh n-" Tekno started to shout, but then the arm exploded in a giant fireball. Omega was thrown back twenty feet.

Ashley immediately ran up to Omega and leaned over him, "Brian, Brian, are you alright? Please be okay!!!"

Omega opened his eyes and saw two Ashleys. "I'm okay, Ashley," he said dazedly, "it just knocked the wind out of me because I was hardened. Let's see what happened to him."

They walked up to the crater where Tekno's arm exploded, and Omega jumped in it. A moment later, everyone heard him say, "well whattaya know."

"What?" Mark asked. "What'd you find?"

"Look," he said, jumping out of the small crater holding something in his hand, "his jewel survived the blast." He held up the jewel that was on Tekno's forehead and then held it up to his face to look at it.

In the next moment, there was a blinding light and then a string of energy flew from Tekno's jewel to Omega's jewel and knocked Omega to the ground.

Ashley ran up to him again. "Are you... what?"

"What's wrong?" he asked, looking up at her, who was staring at his arm. He looked at the arm she was staring at and saw Tekno's robotic arm. "What?" he asked. "Hey, maybe..." Then he closed his eyes. His jewel started glowing and the robotic arm slowly changed back to Omega's pure white arm.

He opened his eyes and looked at his arm that changed back. "What the Hell am I?" he asked no one in particular. Then he looked up at Ashley and said, "so, how'd you know that guy Tekno?"

"He was there when I woke up," Ashley shrugged, "and gave me equipment to go on a journey. It's weird..." she added as an afterthought.

"What is?" Nick asked, looking up at her curiously.

"Well," Ashley said, addressing everyone at once, "he was different. He didn't seem that harsh, he seemed more kind and gentle, everything about him was different. Even the way he spoke, he was very general and emotionless, except when he got angry at someone he called a Demon, and then he seemed full of emotion, but not like he did before. And his grammar was different, too."

"Maybe he was acting to fool you," Omega suggested, playfully changing his arm to the robotic and back over and over.

"I don't know..." Ashley said, "he seemed like a whole other person. Oh, well, you said someone named Black was hunting you, right?"

"Yeah, he was nasty." Mark nodded, "he seemed... creepy and full of hatred."

"Tekno said not to kill someone named Black," Ashley said, "because he had a bigger part to play, and I think we should still listen to him, even after that."

"I wouldn't know how t kill him, anyway," Omega said, "you haven't seen that guy, he's incredibly powerful and no matter where I go, he seems to find me. It's getting dark, we'd better set up camp. Wait a second, what's that?" Omega said, looking behind Mark.

Before anyone could answer, he walked to where he was looking at and then whispered, "guys, over here. It's another window!"

"What?" They all said at the same time.

"A window! Let's go through."

"Why?" Nick asked, "I don't see any reason ta' go through it."

"Oh, crap." Omega said, staring between Nick and Mark, "there's a good reason, Nick."

They turned around. Half way across the field, a dark figure was running towards them and getting close fast. Nick and Mark both recognized it at once. "It's Black!!!" They both yelled.

"Through the Window, now!!!" Omega shouted as they were doing just that. Then he jumped through himself, and again it closed itself, while they heard Black's voice shout, "you can't run from me forever, Omega!!! I will find you, and then I'll kill you!!!"

"That was close," Omega said, "Hey is that an inn over there? Let's see if they have vacancies and if we can find out where we are!"

They started walking towards the Inn, until they were about twenty feet away from it. By then it was dark. Omega stopped everyone. "What's wrong, Brian?" Mark asked.

"That guy over there," Omega said, "what's he doing?"

They saw a figure look against one of the windows, then back off about ten feet, then run and jump through the window."

" 'The Hell?" Omega exclaimed. "I'll check it out."

He ran towards the Inn, not knowing what he would find.

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