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The Boredom BugsSpring Cleaning
Wise Man John
"Oooh, my head…" Slippy complained, rubbing his skull. He looked around the room. "Hey, what am I doing in Falco's room? And who made this mess?" Slippy noticed the body of a blue avian on the floor. The last thing I remember, he thought to himself, was that little bug, and then blackness.
"Star Fox?" Rob64's metallic voice came from nowhere and everywhere. "Scanning, scan…" the robot stopped suddenly.
"Rob? Hey Rob! What's happened to everyone?" Slippy asked seemingly nothing.
"My scanners indicate that the rest of the team are unconscious, though still alive." Rob64 returned.
"Location?" Slippy retorted.
"Falco is located in his quarters, Fox is located in his quarters, and Peppy appears to be outside the cockpit room." Rob64 answered.
Slippy poked the back of Falco's head.
"Hey, wake up!" Slippy yelled in his ear. He turned Falco's body over to find one of the purple creatures stuck to Falco's face.
"Aaaaaieeee!" Slippy screamed, and fainted.
"Scanners indicate that the entirety of the Star Fox is now incapacitated. Thirty-seven identified life-forms known as 'hetertrophic-endocytosinin-decilin' remain on board." Rob64 reported to no one. "Hehe, when Star Fox is away, the human robots will play…" Rob64's tone changed drastically to that of a young human male. "Finally! I can test out my latest creation, the Rob-Mech. I'll send the brain waves from my non-artificial intelligence to match that of the artificial intelligence of my Rob-Mech, thus allowing me to move around this ship freely! It's about time I can return to my birthright as a human being!"
After several minutes of various machine noises, the wall directly in front of Fox's door to his quarters opened in part, revealing the body of a black haired human. It moved its fingers, then its hands, then its arms, and finally the legs moved sufficiently to bring the android outside of its niche. It stretched every joint and proceeded to enter Fox's private quarters.
"Shouldn't be too hard," Rob64 said to himself. "I just have to wake the team up, make sure they're 100%, and return to the AI before anyone notices." He chuckled to himself. He disliked the confinement of the AI sometimes, but as long as he could get a good stretch, he didn't mind that he's a human brain in a robot's body.
Rob64 opened the door and walked over to Fox's body. He seemed perfectly normal, save the unconsciousness. Rob64 looked around the room, scanning for any other life forms in the vicinity. He spotted one apparently hiding in the closet. Rob64 cautiously approached the closet and threw open the doors, expecting something big to happen.
There was a bug there, all right, but it wasn't moving. Rob64 tried to pick it up. It instantaneously burst into itself, causing the guts and horrific smell to gush out. The android vaporized the bug, stench and all, using a really really hot heat ray in its palm. One down. Rob64 shook Fox several times, trying to wake him. Fox groaned and rolled onto his belly.
"But it's too early to go to school…" Fox mindlessly babbled, trying to shake away the sleepiness. Rob64 exited the room and went for Falco's personal quarters. He spotted and vaporized two bugs on the way.
"Thirty-four life-forms remain living on board." The intercom boomed.
"Maybe I should shut that off," Rob64 said to himself. "It might give me away. Then again, why do I hide the fact I've a human brain? I'll think about that later. I've got work to do." He opened the door to Falco's room. Slippy was lying on the bed, much as he had earlier. Falco was on the floor next to the bed, with one of the creatures on his face. Rob64 vaporized the Bug, being especially careful not to harm Falco. The android scanned the room for any more Bugs. He spotted one on the other side of the bed. It was gone faster than Rob64 had noticed it. He then shook Slippy back to the conscious world, then Falco. Rob64 left without a trace. He spotted three more of the creatures between him and Peppy's resting point. They were vaporized with even less of a trace.
"Ugh," Fox groaned to himself. "Who, where am I?" He got up to his feet. Fox looked around the surrounding area. "Wait, what was the last thing that happened to me?" He thought over the last thing he remembered. Fox recalled the bug rearing its ugly head, then black. How long was I out, he thought to himself. Finally remembering the task at hand, Fox readied his blaster and exited his quarters.
"Hmm…" Falco moaned. He opened his eyes and looked around. He was still in his quarters. The only difference was that Slippy was frantically trying to clean up the room.
"What are you doing in here?!?" Falco screeched, climbing to his feet, though still somewhat dazed.
"Just some spring cleaning! Hehe…" Slippy replied, giving no indication of stopping.
"Aargh," Falco grumbled. He lay on his bed and closed his eyes.
"Falco!" Slippy yelled suddenly, and stopped cleaning. "Don't go to sleep!"
"Why not?" Falco returned, eyes still closed but with a grimace on his face.
"The penguins will come and eat us!" Slippy looked worried.
"Bah humbug." Falco retorted and returned to his slumber.
Meanwhile, Rob64 had just shaken Peppy awake, and stealthily returned to his niche in front of Fox's room.
"Thirty Bugs remain living on board." Rob64 called through the intercom from his usual AI spot.
"Time to go bug-hunting!" Peppy yelled, readied his gun, and charged back toward the private quarters, zapping anything smaller than Slippy on his way.
"Ahhh. Finally done." Slippy said, satisfied. The room looked much better. Slippy then thought about anything else he could do. He was pretty bored.
"Wait! I've got it!" Slippy cocked his laser and ran out the door. He met with Fox and Peppy on the way out.
"Slippy! You're alright!" Peppy said happily and hugged the giant frog.
"Darn." Fox said under his breath.
"Listen," Peppy let go of Slippy. "We got bugs to kill!" The three split up and hunted the bugs down, one by one.
"Twenty-nine, twenty-seve-twenty-two-ninete-seve-four-te-si-thr-one bug remaining." Rob64 boomed over the intercom. Fox, Slippy and Peppy met back in front of Peppy's room.
"One more left. Where could it be?" Fox said.
"Right there." Peppy replied and shot up to the ceiling. The bug gave a REEEE noise and burst.
"Zero bugs remain on board. Good job, Star Fox." Rob64 said, again over the intercom.
"All in a day's work." Fox said. Falco came out of nowhere and greeted the other three members.
"What'd I miss?" Falco asked. The other three started laughing. Rob64 joined in the laughter. Eventually, so did Falco.
THE END
Sorry that took so long, and for the fact it wasn't as great an ending as it was the other two chapters. I forgot about this fic and lost all zeal I had for it, and had writer's block throughout the fic. That's my excuse.