Part 2
"If you make even one meeting wrong, then even the feelings of love become thorns. The pain I submerged deep in my heart screamed and was revived. Sometimes I try to blame myself, saying, "Why did I do that?" Sometimes I ask my friend, saying, "But why?"" – Aoki Kuumiko ~*Water-Mirror (Fushigi Yugi)
Chapter 4:
Push It
"C-can anybody hear me? Please! If anyone is there, please hurry to Main street. Hurry!! We've got an…*hack*…insane robot here." Someone yelled through Forte's Armor Summoner's communicator. He looked up from his frantic search through his apartment and listened with mild interest to the message.
"A big insane robot…" someone added.
"…Please hurry!!" the first person yelled. Then the transmission ended.
He made a soft, 'hmm' sound as he straightened and, after grabbing up his jacket, said, "Well kids, looks like the two nimrods, Blues and Rock, need our help. Wanna come?"
"I thought you hated Rock-san?" Shock Man asked, peeking out from the kitchen.
"Whose to say that I don't want to be the one who sends that little punk to the big scrap yard in the sky?" Forte said, grinning as he exited the apartment in hopes that maybe his hated rival found Gospel.
Shock Man and Torch Man looked at each other and shrugged before they followed their friend and, for now, guardian.
----Meanwhile…
The room was dark, no, black. No light could escape this room; no light could enter this room either. A person sits upon a ebony throne, her hair shielding her eyes from view as she pets the demonic cat that sat on her lap, staring at the sphere of dark-light before her, allowing her to see Forte, Shock Man and Torch Man as the three ran down the street, summoning their armors as they did so. The woman cursed.
"Blast it…that boy has already found the warriors of Light and is on his way to find the two Warriors of Earth…" She murmurs, her harsh tone startling her cat, which meowed loudly, casting a disapproving glare to its owner before it lays its head back down, its gold-green eyes watching Forte with great interest its tail flicking back and forth.
"Well, I better slow them down a bit…" She waves her hand and a pair of glowing red eyes peered from the darkness and a mechanical Dragon slides free from the shadows, glowing with its own dark light.
"You called…?" the dragon asks, its voice revealing it as a female.
"Yes I did, Dragu. I have a little task for you…" The mechanical dragon smirks, glowing brightly as her master tells her this.
"I shall not fail you, Master Dark Moon…" the dragon hisses before disappearing back into the shadows.
----Meanwhile…
Forte, now attired in his ebony armor, DASHed down the street, Shock Man, Torch Man and Silver Fang at his heels.
Suddenly, he skidded to a stop and looked around, his hand forming his Arm-Cannon as he murmured, "This isn't good…"
Shock Man stopped beside his friend and asked in his girlish voice, "What isn't good, Forte?" The older bioroid pointed to the sign beside them. "Huh? But…This can't be Main Street!" He looked like he was about to panic. "Isn't this the place where Rock-san and Blues-san were?"
"This is where they should be…it was only five minutes ago that we got that transmission…" Forte growled, taking slow, cautious steps into the street, passing by pools of blood and carnage, all of it from either robots or humans. He wrinkled his nose in disgust as he stepped in a dark pool of blood. Sighing in annoyance, he continued to walk, not caring whether or not Shock Man and Torch Man followed.
He paused and listened, his mouth dropping slightly as he listens. A song reaches his ears, calling to him like a siren's melody. He starts to take a step, but stopped and growled, "D***it…I am not falling for something that is obviously a trap…" but yet he takes another step until he is running toward the music, ignoring the protests his mind yelled as well as the yells of his friends.
He came to a stop before a crumbling building, his gaze shifting from the doors to the top of a crumbling statuette. A young girl, probably no more then 17, sat upon it, her mouth moving as she sung softly a melody that captured Forte.
She suddenly stopped singing and looked down at Forte, a small smile on her lips as she jumped down, landing gracefully on her feet, her armored boots clanging dimly against the ground as she said, "Hello. I've been expecting you."
Forte took a step back, unsure of what to do. He opened his mouth to say something obnoxious, but all that came out was, "Huh?"
The girl giggled and stepped forward, smiling as Forte took yet another step back. "Scared that I might hurt you, Forte?"
"How do you know my name?!" he asked, his voice cracking slightly. He mentally slapped himself for letting that happen.
The girl stopped advancing and said, "I know more about you then you yourself." Forte shook his head.
"No way!" he snapped, glaring at the strange girl, whom he had never seen until then. The girl giggled again and tweaked his nose, making Forte blink. He was used to people screaming in terror when he glared at them and here someone was staring up at him and giggling. "What's so d*** funny?" he asked, his face twisting in annoyance.
The girl smiled. "I was just wondering how your creator couldn't tell you about your true power…"
Forte blinked again as he asked, "What do you mean?"
The girl grabbed his hand and dragged him toward a particularly deep pool of blood and said, pushing him to his hands and knees so that he was staring into the puddle, "What do you see?"
Forte, clearly disgusted, growled, trying to stand, "Nothing but my reflection." He yelped as he was suddenly pushed down again, this time into the puddle. He sat up, coughing and spitting up the blood he had almost swallowed. "Are you out of your @#!^ mind?!" he yelled, shaking his head to remove the blood from his helmet as he tried to wipe the rest of blood from his armor.
The girl smiled again and wrapped her arms around his neck, putting all her weight onto Forte's back as she said, pushing Forte face first into the blood and holding his head under it, "No. I'm just showing you what your destiny is…"
Forte gagged as the blood rushed into his mouth and down his throat as he fought futilely against the girl's grip. D***!! This kid's stronger then I am!! He thought as he attempted to roll over, only to get his face pressed deeper into the ground. D-d***…he could almost feel his Energy Core being clogged by the sticky human fluids.
"Hey! Get off of him!!" Someone, Torch Man, yelled as he struggled to pull the girl off of his friend before he was retired. Torch Man was thrown into the side of the building with a sharp yelp of surprise.
The girl howled, "Fireball!!" Forte heard Shock Man's scream of pain, followed shortly by a loud crashing noise and metal hitting cement.
Suddenly, he heard the sound of a struggle and the weight was lifted from him, allowing him to sit up and breathe as he coughed up as much blood as he could, throwing up the rest.
He felt a hand on his shoulder as someone said, "Hey, Forte! Are you okay?!" Forte didn't answer, simply coughed and gagged on the red gunk. The owner of the voice scowled and yelled, grabbing someone, "What did you do to him, you b****?!"
Someone, the girl, said calmly, "Simply teaching him a lesson."
Forte shakily wiped his eyes with the back of his hand as he gasped, his body shaking violently from the convulsions, "W-who…?"
Another person spoke up. "Forte! Buddy, you okay?" The speaker knelt beside the ebony attired bioroid and touched his shoulder gently. Forte looked up and just about fainted.
"M-Metal Man?" Forte gasped upon seeing the ex-Robot Master. Metal Man grinned and nodded.
Forte looked the Robot Master over, noticing that the smaller Robot Master was out of his armor. Metal Man was wearing a red tee shirt with a picture of a saw-blade on it and a pair of silver gloves, one with the fingers cut off and the other one intact. His red shirt and black pants were covered in dirt, blood and dust, as was his pale skin. His deep red hair spilled into his face, allowing people to only see a little bit of his bright green eyes.
The older Robot Master smiled and said, helping Forte to a standing position, not moving until Forte's legs weren't quite so shaky and he was able to stand on his own, "Are you okay?" Forte nodded slowly, still unsure of what was going on.
Looking over to his right, he saw Magnet Man shaking the girl like a rag doll, an anime vain popping on his forehead. "Magnet Man?"
The red clad Robot Master looked over at Forte and said, giving a little wave before returning to shaking the girl, "Hey, Forte! Long time, no see!"
Once everyone was back to their feet, they waited for Magnet Man to stop shaking the girl, whose eyes were little spirals by now, so they could ask her some questions. Magnet Man reluctantly complied and threw the girl to the side, waking her up none too gently. "Wakey, wakey, you little turd." Magnet Man growled, kicking the female robot hard in the side.
The girl yelped and sat up, rubbing her side as she said, "That wasn't very nice."
"Well, neither is you trying to drown our friend." Metal Man growled, pushing the girl back down when she tried to stand. The girl glared at him, but he either didn't notice, or he didn't give a d***. Either way, he delivered his own glare to her and asked, "Now, we want answers. Why did you do that to Forte?"
The girl didn't answer until Magnet Man's Arm-Cannon was put in her face and the trigger-happy bioroid snarled, "Care to push your luck, girl?"
She slowly shook her head, her eyes never leaving the Arm-Cannon as she answered Metal Man's question reluctantly. "I was merely doing what my Master told me to."
"Your Master told you to drown Forte like a rat?" Torch Man asked, sounding angry as he, too, pointed his Arm-Cannon at the girl's face. Shock Man simply leaned on the metal rod he had found, unwilling to resort to violence unless he needed to.
Before the girl could answer, they heard someone yell, "BLUES!" The five robots looked at each other, then in the direction the scream had come from.
"Sounds like Rock…" Torch Man said, not waiting for a reply before DASHing off to help. Shock Man quickly followed, taking the metal rod with him as he activated his DASH Boots and raced after his friend. Forte swore.
"D***it!" With that, he stood and ran after the two 'children' Magnet Man and Metal Man dragging the female robot with them as they ran after their friends.
~*Push It: Garbage
"If you make even one meeting wrong, then even the feelings of love become thorns. The pain I submerged deep in my heart screamed and was revived. Sometimes I try to blame myself, saying, "Why did I do that?" Sometimes I ask my friend, saying, "But why?"" – Aoki Kuumiko ~*Water-Mirror (Fushigi Yugi)
Chapter 4:
Push It
"C-can anybody hear me? Please! If anyone is there, please hurry to Main street. Hurry!! We've got an…*hack*…insane robot here." Someone yelled through Forte's Armor Summoner's communicator. He looked up from his frantic search through his apartment and listened with mild interest to the message.
"A big insane robot…" someone added.
"…Please hurry!!" the first person yelled. Then the transmission ended.
He made a soft, 'hmm' sound as he straightened and, after grabbing up his jacket, said, "Well kids, looks like the two nimrods, Blues and Rock, need our help. Wanna come?"
"I thought you hated Rock-san?" Shock Man asked, peeking out from the kitchen.
"Whose to say that I don't want to be the one who sends that little punk to the big scrap yard in the sky?" Forte said, grinning as he exited the apartment in hopes that maybe his hated rival found Gospel.
Shock Man and Torch Man looked at each other and shrugged before they followed their friend and, for now, guardian.
----Meanwhile…
The room was dark, no, black. No light could escape this room; no light could enter this room either. A person sits upon a ebony throne, her hair shielding her eyes from view as she pets the demonic cat that sat on her lap, staring at the sphere of dark-light before her, allowing her to see Forte, Shock Man and Torch Man as the three ran down the street, summoning their armors as they did so. The woman cursed.
"Blast it…that boy has already found the warriors of Light and is on his way to find the two Warriors of Earth…" She murmurs, her harsh tone startling her cat, which meowed loudly, casting a disapproving glare to its owner before it lays its head back down, its gold-green eyes watching Forte with great interest its tail flicking back and forth.
"Well, I better slow them down a bit…" She waves her hand and a pair of glowing red eyes peered from the darkness and a mechanical Dragon slides free from the shadows, glowing with its own dark light.
"You called…?" the dragon asks, its voice revealing it as a female.
"Yes I did, Dragu. I have a little task for you…" The mechanical dragon smirks, glowing brightly as her master tells her this.
"I shall not fail you, Master Dark Moon…" the dragon hisses before disappearing back into the shadows.
----Meanwhile…
Forte, now attired in his ebony armor, DASHed down the street, Shock Man, Torch Man and Silver Fang at his heels.
Suddenly, he skidded to a stop and looked around, his hand forming his Arm-Cannon as he murmured, "This isn't good…"
Shock Man stopped beside his friend and asked in his girlish voice, "What isn't good, Forte?" The older bioroid pointed to the sign beside them. "Huh? But…This can't be Main Street!" He looked like he was about to panic. "Isn't this the place where Rock-san and Blues-san were?"
"This is where they should be…it was only five minutes ago that we got that transmission…" Forte growled, taking slow, cautious steps into the street, passing by pools of blood and carnage, all of it from either robots or humans. He wrinkled his nose in disgust as he stepped in a dark pool of blood. Sighing in annoyance, he continued to walk, not caring whether or not Shock Man and Torch Man followed.
He paused and listened, his mouth dropping slightly as he listens. A song reaches his ears, calling to him like a siren's melody. He starts to take a step, but stopped and growled, "D***it…I am not falling for something that is obviously a trap…" but yet he takes another step until he is running toward the music, ignoring the protests his mind yelled as well as the yells of his friends.
He came to a stop before a crumbling building, his gaze shifting from the doors to the top of a crumbling statuette. A young girl, probably no more then 17, sat upon it, her mouth moving as she sung softly a melody that captured Forte.
She suddenly stopped singing and looked down at Forte, a small smile on her lips as she jumped down, landing gracefully on her feet, her armored boots clanging dimly against the ground as she said, "Hello. I've been expecting you."
Forte took a step back, unsure of what to do. He opened his mouth to say something obnoxious, but all that came out was, "Huh?"
The girl giggled and stepped forward, smiling as Forte took yet another step back. "Scared that I might hurt you, Forte?"
"How do you know my name?!" he asked, his voice cracking slightly. He mentally slapped himself for letting that happen.
The girl stopped advancing and said, "I know more about you then you yourself." Forte shook his head.
"No way!" he snapped, glaring at the strange girl, whom he had never seen until then. The girl giggled again and tweaked his nose, making Forte blink. He was used to people screaming in terror when he glared at them and here someone was staring up at him and giggling. "What's so d*** funny?" he asked, his face twisting in annoyance.
The girl smiled. "I was just wondering how your creator couldn't tell you about your true power…"
Forte blinked again as he asked, "What do you mean?"
The girl grabbed his hand and dragged him toward a particularly deep pool of blood and said, pushing him to his hands and knees so that he was staring into the puddle, "What do you see?"
Forte, clearly disgusted, growled, trying to stand, "Nothing but my reflection." He yelped as he was suddenly pushed down again, this time into the puddle. He sat up, coughing and spitting up the blood he had almost swallowed. "Are you out of your @#!^ mind?!" he yelled, shaking his head to remove the blood from his helmet as he tried to wipe the rest of blood from his armor.
The girl smiled again and wrapped her arms around his neck, putting all her weight onto Forte's back as she said, pushing Forte face first into the blood and holding his head under it, "No. I'm just showing you what your destiny is…"
Forte gagged as the blood rushed into his mouth and down his throat as he fought futilely against the girl's grip. D***!! This kid's stronger then I am!! He thought as he attempted to roll over, only to get his face pressed deeper into the ground. D-d***…he could almost feel his Energy Core being clogged by the sticky human fluids.
"Hey! Get off of him!!" Someone, Torch Man, yelled as he struggled to pull the girl off of his friend before he was retired. Torch Man was thrown into the side of the building with a sharp yelp of surprise.
The girl howled, "Fireball!!" Forte heard Shock Man's scream of pain, followed shortly by a loud crashing noise and metal hitting cement.
Suddenly, he heard the sound of a struggle and the weight was lifted from him, allowing him to sit up and breathe as he coughed up as much blood as he could, throwing up the rest.
He felt a hand on his shoulder as someone said, "Hey, Forte! Are you okay?!" Forte didn't answer, simply coughed and gagged on the red gunk. The owner of the voice scowled and yelled, grabbing someone, "What did you do to him, you b****?!"
Someone, the girl, said calmly, "Simply teaching him a lesson."
Forte shakily wiped his eyes with the back of his hand as he gasped, his body shaking violently from the convulsions, "W-who…?"
Another person spoke up. "Forte! Buddy, you okay?" The speaker knelt beside the ebony attired bioroid and touched his shoulder gently. Forte looked up and just about fainted.
"M-Metal Man?" Forte gasped upon seeing the ex-Robot Master. Metal Man grinned and nodded.
Forte looked the Robot Master over, noticing that the smaller Robot Master was out of his armor. Metal Man was wearing a red tee shirt with a picture of a saw-blade on it and a pair of silver gloves, one with the fingers cut off and the other one intact. His red shirt and black pants were covered in dirt, blood and dust, as was his pale skin. His deep red hair spilled into his face, allowing people to only see a little bit of his bright green eyes.
The older Robot Master smiled and said, helping Forte to a standing position, not moving until Forte's legs weren't quite so shaky and he was able to stand on his own, "Are you okay?" Forte nodded slowly, still unsure of what was going on.
Looking over to his right, he saw Magnet Man shaking the girl like a rag doll, an anime vain popping on his forehead. "Magnet Man?"
The red clad Robot Master looked over at Forte and said, giving a little wave before returning to shaking the girl, "Hey, Forte! Long time, no see!"
Once everyone was back to their feet, they waited for Magnet Man to stop shaking the girl, whose eyes were little spirals by now, so they could ask her some questions. Magnet Man reluctantly complied and threw the girl to the side, waking her up none too gently. "Wakey, wakey, you little turd." Magnet Man growled, kicking the female robot hard in the side.
The girl yelped and sat up, rubbing her side as she said, "That wasn't very nice."
"Well, neither is you trying to drown our friend." Metal Man growled, pushing the girl back down when she tried to stand. The girl glared at him, but he either didn't notice, or he didn't give a d***. Either way, he delivered his own glare to her and asked, "Now, we want answers. Why did you do that to Forte?"
The girl didn't answer until Magnet Man's Arm-Cannon was put in her face and the trigger-happy bioroid snarled, "Care to push your luck, girl?"
She slowly shook her head, her eyes never leaving the Arm-Cannon as she answered Metal Man's question reluctantly. "I was merely doing what my Master told me to."
"Your Master told you to drown Forte like a rat?" Torch Man asked, sounding angry as he, too, pointed his Arm-Cannon at the girl's face. Shock Man simply leaned on the metal rod he had found, unwilling to resort to violence unless he needed to.
Before the girl could answer, they heard someone yell, "BLUES!" The five robots looked at each other, then in the direction the scream had come from.
"Sounds like Rock…" Torch Man said, not waiting for a reply before DASHing off to help. Shock Man quickly followed, taking the metal rod with him as he activated his DASH Boots and raced after his friend. Forte swore.
"D***it!" With that, he stood and ran after the two 'children' Magnet Man and Metal Man dragging the female robot with them as they ran after their friends.
~*Push It: Garbage