|"If given a second, anyone can give up and run. So just keep on |
|walking. There's something only you can do so that this blue planet |
|doesn't lose it's light." –Digimon ~*Brave Heart |
| |
Chapter 3:
Extreme Tension
The two robots had been walking for three hours, searching for any sign of life and attempting to keep their supper in check when they saw the condition of the city and its people.
Just when the silence was beginning to become unbearable, Rock's wrist communicator blared to life, making the blue clad robot jump and yelp in surprise. But his sudden fright was soon to be replaced by a much larger shock. Rock lifted the communicator and just about choked. "Q-Quick Man?!" he yelped as his arm was yanked over by Blues as the red and gray clad robot said something about wanting to make sure Rock wasn't imagining things.
"Well, I'll be d***ed…" Blues muttered when he saw the face on the small screen.
Quick Man looked different then usual, now clothed in a dark orange tee shirt that was covered in dirt, blackish-red fluids and ash, black smudges on his cheeks and forehead. His bright green eyes were wide as the ex-Robot Master asked, "Blues? Rock? That you?" His answer was a nod from both robots. Sighing in relief, he said, "Thank Ra!"
"Ra? The Egyptian Sun God?" Blues asked, raising an eyebrow from under his helmet's visor. His answer was a slightly embarrassed nod.
"Anyways…Look, Crash Man and I find a girl claiming she's your sister. She's badly damaged and we just got the @#!^ing s*** beat out of us by something that looks like it belongs in some sort of Sci-Fi movie. Hey!!" Quick Man's face vanished from the screen as his communicator was yanked away and a new, yet familiar, face greeted them.
This one was clad in a dark red shirt and an even darker shade of red was the color of his messed hair that fell over one silver eye. He, too, was covered in blackish-red fluids, dirt and ash. "Rock? Blues? Look, I know we've had our differences and all, but…right now…we really need the help. So, if you could," he paused for a moment before yelling, making Quick Man, who was in the background, sweat drop, "GET YOUR SORRY A**ES OVER TO DR. COSSACK'S Lab,"
"Or at least what's left of it…" Quick Man added, earning himself a glare that could freeze Ice Man.
"…BEFORE WE BECOME ROBOT FOOD!! Crash Man and Quick Man out!!" Crash Man snapped, putting Quick Man in a headlock that would put Lina Inverse to shame.
The screen went blank as Quick Man said, "Aaa! Leggo!! I may be a robot, but I still need to breathe!!"
Rock and Blues looked at each other, neither one sure whether or not to go help the ex-Robot Masters. After a minute or so, Rock started forward, making Blues stop him and ask, "And where the h*** are you going?"
"I'm gonna help them. Maybe they've changed…for the better." Rock answered, shrugging his brother's hand away and continuing to walk, ignoring the dark muttering he had earned himself due to his need to help someone no matter who it was.
Several minutes passed before they saw any sign of life. And, even then, the creature they saw was not alive, but a mere shell of metal and wire, its red eyes flashing as it tore at the corpse of a human, ignore the red ooze that streamed down its large mechanical saws and dripped onto the ground.
It was huge, standing about twelve feet tall and ten feet wide. It's head was like that of a mechanical dragon's skull, its body was like that of a hunched over titanium covered dinosaur and two ten-foot-long Plasma Cannons rested on its shoulders.
Rock and Blues gaped at the creature, fighting down their lunch as they did so. Suddenly, Rock asked softly, "What…d-do we do?" This, unfortunately, caught the robot's attention.
It raised its head and sniffed the air, turning to look at Rock and Blues, tossing aside what was left of the human aside and advancing toward the two robots, who readied their Arm-Cannons as the mechanical beast neared them, its heavy footfalls causing the ground to shutter. It leaned forward and sniffed at them, almost as if it were trying to decide whether or not to eat them. The two Light robots prayed it was latter.
Once it had decided, it tilted its head upwards and let out a roar that sounded much like a Raptor's before lowering its head and again and charging up its shoulder cannons.
"Run!!!" Blues yelled, grabbing Rock's wrist and dragging him toward the safety of the side of a crumbling building and ducking behind a slightly crushed car. The blast went off and twin beams of purple energy shot past them, burning everything in its path before the attack came to a stop at the Tokyo Radio Tower, sending up the smell of burning flesh and metal into the air.
Rock gagged and pressed the button on his wrist, recalling his armor as he spoke into the microphone in his Armor Summoner, "C-can anybody hear me? Please! If anyone is there, please hurry to Main street. Hurry!! We've got an…*hack*…insane robot here."
"A big insane robot…" Blues added, firing off several rounds from his Arm-Cannon once he had recalled his own armor.
"…Please hurry!!" Rock yelled before closing the transmission and firing charged round after charged round from his Arm-Cannon at the oncoming robot.
Their attacks did little to the robot other then make it agitated and fire more frequently as it tried to retire the two robots.
Blues jumped out of the way of the robot's claws for the tenth time and returned fire, wishing that he had some of the upgrades that Dr. Light had made for him and Rock.
Rock jumped over the lashing robot's long mechanical tail and landed safely several feet away, once again bombarding the strange robot with the yellow spheres of plasma. Suddenly, a yell reached his ears and he turned just in time to see Blues get blasted backwards by the robot's five-foot- long titanium claws. "Blues!!" Rock yelled, running toward his brother only to get slapped away by the mechanical tail of the attacking robot.
"BLUES!!"
~*Extreme Tension: Slayers
Chapter 3:
Extreme Tension
The two robots had been walking for three hours, searching for any sign of life and attempting to keep their supper in check when they saw the condition of the city and its people.
Just when the silence was beginning to become unbearable, Rock's wrist communicator blared to life, making the blue clad robot jump and yelp in surprise. But his sudden fright was soon to be replaced by a much larger shock. Rock lifted the communicator and just about choked. "Q-Quick Man?!" he yelped as his arm was yanked over by Blues as the red and gray clad robot said something about wanting to make sure Rock wasn't imagining things.
"Well, I'll be d***ed…" Blues muttered when he saw the face on the small screen.
Quick Man looked different then usual, now clothed in a dark orange tee shirt that was covered in dirt, blackish-red fluids and ash, black smudges on his cheeks and forehead. His bright green eyes were wide as the ex-Robot Master asked, "Blues? Rock? That you?" His answer was a nod from both robots. Sighing in relief, he said, "Thank Ra!"
"Ra? The Egyptian Sun God?" Blues asked, raising an eyebrow from under his helmet's visor. His answer was a slightly embarrassed nod.
"Anyways…Look, Crash Man and I find a girl claiming she's your sister. She's badly damaged and we just got the @#!^ing s*** beat out of us by something that looks like it belongs in some sort of Sci-Fi movie. Hey!!" Quick Man's face vanished from the screen as his communicator was yanked away and a new, yet familiar, face greeted them.
This one was clad in a dark red shirt and an even darker shade of red was the color of his messed hair that fell over one silver eye. He, too, was covered in blackish-red fluids, dirt and ash. "Rock? Blues? Look, I know we've had our differences and all, but…right now…we really need the help. So, if you could," he paused for a moment before yelling, making Quick Man, who was in the background, sweat drop, "GET YOUR SORRY A**ES OVER TO DR. COSSACK'S Lab,"
"Or at least what's left of it…" Quick Man added, earning himself a glare that could freeze Ice Man.
"…BEFORE WE BECOME ROBOT FOOD!! Crash Man and Quick Man out!!" Crash Man snapped, putting Quick Man in a headlock that would put Lina Inverse to shame.
The screen went blank as Quick Man said, "Aaa! Leggo!! I may be a robot, but I still need to breathe!!"
Rock and Blues looked at each other, neither one sure whether or not to go help the ex-Robot Masters. After a minute or so, Rock started forward, making Blues stop him and ask, "And where the h*** are you going?"
"I'm gonna help them. Maybe they've changed…for the better." Rock answered, shrugging his brother's hand away and continuing to walk, ignoring the dark muttering he had earned himself due to his need to help someone no matter who it was.
Several minutes passed before they saw any sign of life. And, even then, the creature they saw was not alive, but a mere shell of metal and wire, its red eyes flashing as it tore at the corpse of a human, ignore the red ooze that streamed down its large mechanical saws and dripped onto the ground.
It was huge, standing about twelve feet tall and ten feet wide. It's head was like that of a mechanical dragon's skull, its body was like that of a hunched over titanium covered dinosaur and two ten-foot-long Plasma Cannons rested on its shoulders.
Rock and Blues gaped at the creature, fighting down their lunch as they did so. Suddenly, Rock asked softly, "What…d-do we do?" This, unfortunately, caught the robot's attention.
It raised its head and sniffed the air, turning to look at Rock and Blues, tossing aside what was left of the human aside and advancing toward the two robots, who readied their Arm-Cannons as the mechanical beast neared them, its heavy footfalls causing the ground to shutter. It leaned forward and sniffed at them, almost as if it were trying to decide whether or not to eat them. The two Light robots prayed it was latter.
Once it had decided, it tilted its head upwards and let out a roar that sounded much like a Raptor's before lowering its head and again and charging up its shoulder cannons.
"Run!!!" Blues yelled, grabbing Rock's wrist and dragging him toward the safety of the side of a crumbling building and ducking behind a slightly crushed car. The blast went off and twin beams of purple energy shot past them, burning everything in its path before the attack came to a stop at the Tokyo Radio Tower, sending up the smell of burning flesh and metal into the air.
Rock gagged and pressed the button on his wrist, recalling his armor as he spoke into the microphone in his Armor Summoner, "C-can anybody hear me? Please! If anyone is there, please hurry to Main street. Hurry!! We've got an…*hack*…insane robot here."
"A big insane robot…" Blues added, firing off several rounds from his Arm-Cannon once he had recalled his own armor.
"…Please hurry!!" Rock yelled before closing the transmission and firing charged round after charged round from his Arm-Cannon at the oncoming robot.
Their attacks did little to the robot other then make it agitated and fire more frequently as it tried to retire the two robots.
Blues jumped out of the way of the robot's claws for the tenth time and returned fire, wishing that he had some of the upgrades that Dr. Light had made for him and Rock.
Rock jumped over the lashing robot's long mechanical tail and landed safely several feet away, once again bombarding the strange robot with the yellow spheres of plasma. Suddenly, a yell reached his ears and he turned just in time to see Blues get blasted backwards by the robot's five-foot- long titanium claws. "Blues!!" Rock yelled, running toward his brother only to get slapped away by the mechanical tail of the attacking robot.
"BLUES!!"
~*Extreme Tension: Slayers