Etwas Trigger: Chapter Five: Beyond the Ruins/The Factory Ruins
Author: GuinevereKoopa
Fic Note: Chapter five is quite long. Funny, but long. This part covers.well, the entire future. **nodnod** Mope is um.well, he breaks character a lot. He's just like that. He doesn't really have a fourth wall, so he's going to screw with Robo's lines very badly. Yeah.
They emerged into a dismal, rusty looking metal room, and were thrown to the ground by the force of, um...gravity. Goyd shrieked and Perlin muttered a faint, "Ouch..." before everyone decided to pick themselves up off of the rusty metal floor before somebody ended up with tetanus.
"No way the Chancellor can reach us here," Goyd stated. "But where are we?"
Perlin got up and walked to the door at the back of the room. The black door with a pixilated seal on it. "This civilization seems advanced," she said, musing over the design of the seal.
'I say we're in the future now,' Jsi thought, but nobody heard him, of course.
"It's like we're in another world," Goyd agreed.
Jsi sighed. 'WHAT did I just THINK at you? We're in the future! It's obvious!'
Perlin and Goyd agreed that they should go find somebody so they could ask where they were, completely ignoring Jsi because they couldn't hear him.
The Overworld was a murky, dismal place as well, covered in what seemed to be an eternal sort of rain. They walked to a place that was similarly pixilated, yet larger, than the one they'd exited, and went in. Inside they found a grimy people dressed in grimy clothes, sitting in the rusty, grimy dome, looking...well....grimy.
After talking to the grimy folk, our heroes decided that the often mentioned "Arris Dome" might be a better place to be. Unfortunately, they had to cross an old factory ruin to get there.
So, being the intrepid heroes they were pretending to be, they went to the ruins and ran through them. There were many odd creatures there, like piles of living slime, and huge fat bird things with one foot and two legs, and rats that stole tonics. But the point is, they made it through. And they found Arris Dome.
And in Arris Dome, they found MORE grimy people. But they had a grimy leader. His name was Doan, but Jsi figured that he looked a lot like the mayor of Laca, Jurieno. After asking around for a while, they found out that somebody had gone down to the basement to get food a long time ago, but hadn't come back. So they decided to go down to the basement to find the guy who'd gone down to the basement to find food.
As they approached the ladder, Doan, blonde and youthful and elven as he happened to appear, approached them. "Are you going down below?" he asked.
'No duh.' But of course, Jsi wasn't heard.
"Of course," Goyd answered.
"But no one's ever returned from there."
"Gotta try, right?" was Perlin's response. "We might find some cool stuff, never know."
'Like the corpse of the guy who got lost down there?'
"... It's nice to see such spirited young people for a change. These guys all suck, y'know? Careful now. And come back alive."
'Yes, because we really could come back if we all died.' His sarcasm went unnoticed, though, and they set out for the basement.
They walked through the basement and found a statue of a rat sitting on a long series of catwalks. Somehow the statue told them that anybody within the vicinity of the storage room would be attacked. So, being the unwary heroes they were, they went to find the storage room and were attacked when they tried to walk through the door to it.
It was a tricky boss fight, but they managed to win it. After doing so, they ran into the storage room and stopped.
"Phew...something reeks," Goyd said, walking to stand in the middle of the room.
Perlin examined the food spilling out of the metal boxes and observed, "Everything's completely rotten. The refrigeration must have failed. I guess things are the same no matter where you go.... Nothing ever works."
"Crono, look!" Goyd shouted, pointing at the corpse on the far side of the room.
'You want me to look at the dead guy....why?'
She ran over to his body and said, "...Must've passed away a long time ago."
"Hey, he's that guy who came down here to get food who we came down here to find!"
Goyd blinked. "Run that by me again?"
"Never mind. What's that in his hand?" Goyd leaned down and yanked something out of the corpse's hand, and unintentionally yanked his hand off with it. She blinked, unaffected, and dropped the hand, giving what was in it to Perlin. "It looks like some kind of seed..." Perlin said.
"A seed? Do you suppose it could grow in a place like this?"
"A place like this?"
"You know, in between the rusty floor boards or something?"
"...I dunno," Perlin shrugged. "Let's go give it to Doan."
Goyd glanced back at the now one-handed corpse, and noticed he had been holding a grimy sheet of paper in his grimy hand. "What's that say?"
It said, "The rat is more than just a statue. It knows the secret of this dome. Catch it!"
'Aw, great. This isn't some Tom and Jerry thing now, is it?'
They ran back out to the catwalks, and found the rat sitting in front of them. Perlin briefly explained how to catch it, and Jsi briefly wondered how she knew, and so they chased it. Jsi stumbled and fell a couple times, so they had to give it quite a few tries before he finally caught it and it told them the code to open up the panel on the first screen of basement.
They ran back to the first screen of basement and used the code, and then ran through the door that it opened up. There were some enemy battles and all, and they got lost a few times due to Jsi's inability to see in such faulty lighting.
Eventually, they found a chamber containing a rather pixilated machine, where they got to view footage of the pixilicious end of the world. In 1999AD. Which meant that, Jsi was right, they were in the future.
"No..." Goyd muttered, falling to her knees. "That can't be how the world ends... It's not supposed to end with some ball of fire named Lavos falling to Earth, it's supposed to end when Snazzy summons Vyecheslav..."
'YOU DO REMEMBER!' Jsi shouted mentally, with a grin.
Suddenly the alert system went off and a girl with brown hair walked into the room and whacked Goyd upside the head. "NO BREAKING CHARACTER!" she shouted, and ran out. She paused just before leaving and called back, "You didn't see me!" And then she left.
Goyd blinked. "Wha' happen?" she mumbled, staring blankly into space.
"You were about to demand that we save the future?" Perlin suggested.
"Oh yeah! Crono!! We can't let this be how the world ends up! We need to stop it!"
"I guess..." Perlin said, looking at the now blank screen. "It was a stroke of luck we ended up here and got to see how the world ends up, so we can change it."
"Come on Lucca!" Goyd ran over to Crono and said, similarly, "Come on Crono!"
Jsi nodded. Might as well go along with it. Saving the world couldn't be THAT hard, could it?
They ran back through the basement and as soon as they climbed up the ladder, Doan walked over to them. "You're back!" he exclaimed.
All the grimy people there gathered around. Jsi began to feel like a sideshow. "Well? What'd ya'll discover?" Doan asked.
"This is our future!" Goyd exclaimed.
"Dude." Doan blinked.
Some guy randomly shouted "Who cares? Where's the food!"
Goyd held up the seed they'd found. "This is all we could get."
"Seeds...?" Doan mused.
'Dude, there's only one seed. It's seed. Singular,' Jsi thought.
"You should plant this, and stuff!" Perlin stated.
"You can um....throw them in between the rusty floorboards and water them, or something!" Goyd grinned.
Doan took the seed, staring at it grimly. "I suppose.... Huh. You're, like... strange." He looked back up at the crew. "You're different from us..."
"I think it's because we're healthy!" Goyd said.
'Way to insult the guy, Goyd,' Jsi thought.
"Heal...thy?" Doan blinked. "Healthy. Nice ring to it. What's it mean?"
Goyd blinked. "Er...Uh....Not sick?"
"Gotcha!" He turned to the little girl who walked up to his side, and said, "Go, like, throw these seeds between the rusty floorboards, man! They just might be our future!"
The little girl took them and did as he had told her. As she did this, he turned back to Jsi. "Goin' to Proto Dome, dude? Take this with you." He handed them something called a Bike Key. "It's a key to the Jet Bike at Laboratory 32. I used to ride it when I was younger."
The crew blinked. Though he was grimy, Doan looked quite young. Long blonde hair and bright green eyes and everything. But they shrugged it off and took the key anyway.
"Take care. And, like, stay.... healthy. Dudes."
They left and headed for Lab 32. As they approached the Jet Bike, four robots came out and the battle music kicked in. It soon wound down though and turned into a rather upbeat theme, as a motorcycle-like man rode onscreen. "Hold it there!" he shouted.
The robots immediately set themselves up to have the best view of him and shouted, "Hold on! It's...."
"Thanks for the intro, babe!" he grinned, and the robots finished what they were saying with a shout of, "...The MAN!"
The MAN turned and looked at them with a smug look on his face. "You lowlifes can call me Johnny!"
"Johnny's the MAN!" the robots chorused.
"EEEEEY!"
Jsi blinked. That was a familiar sound...
Perlin screamed. "EEEE! FONZY!"
Johnny looked at her. "What? No, babe, the name's Johnny."
"No, you're FONZY!" she squealed. "FONZY!! Fonzy, how did you stay alive so long?!"
"I WAS ASSIMILATED! EEEEEEY!"
The robots chorused back an, "EEEEEY!"
Fonzy looked at Jsi. "Part of an old highway runs through these ruins. Think you can beat me in a bike race? Use that Jet Bike and... don't chicken out, babe! EEEEEY!"
Jsi walked up to the Jet Bike and got on. Piece of cake! ...Right?
The race was long and grueling...well...not really. But Fonzy/Johnny's constant shouting of "EEEEEEY!" WAS rather trying on the nerves. It took a few tries (Jsi kept crashing into random things), but eventually Jsi won the race.
"YOU beat me? I don't get it!" Fonzy exclaimed, dragging his wheels onscreen. "At least it wasn't for pinks, EEEEEEY!" he shouted with a grin. "You can challenge me anytime, we'll ride the wind babe! EEEEEEY!"
Jsi, Goyd, and Perlin ran away as fast as they could, to get away from all the "EEEEEEY"ing. They ran to a place called Proto Dome, where they found a boy lying in front of a door at the end of the room.
The boy was lying on his stomach as if he'd tripped, fallen, and hadn't bothered to get up. He was wearing a gold jumpsuit with a funky brown loincloth-looking sash around his waist, and his skin and hair were painted gold as well. Jsi could recognize him immediately as...well...one of those two twins. The boy. He could never remember which was the boy and which was the girl, though. He took a wild guess and decided it was Mope. Yeah, Mope...
"What's this?" Goyd pondered, walking over to the boy's side.
"It's in bad shape... But it appears to be a humaoid robot!" Perlin exclaimed happily.
"...No, dude, I think it's a kid with gold paint."
"Nonsense! It's a humanoid robot! And I can fix it!" She ran over and took out a screwdriver, leaning down at Mope's side.
"WHOA!" he shouted, and jumped to his feet. "What are you gonna do with that thing?!"
Perlin blinked. "Um... I was going to repair you, but it would appear that you don't need it."
Mope looked between the three of them, who stood there blinking at him, and he cleared his throat. "Good morning, mistress. What is your command?" he said to Goyd.
"MISTRESS?! I AIN'T YOUR DAMN MISTRESS!" Goyd shouted. Mope blinked. Goyd blinked. She cleared her throat and said, "I mean...Call me Marle. This is Crono, and Lucca here fixed you."
"Whoa, I ain't been fixed by anybody, lady!" Mope denied. Everyone blinked at him and he sighed, shaking his head, and then resumed his unemotional robotic face. "Understood. Madam Lucca fixed me."
"Just Lucca will do," Perlin said.
"Impossible. Your name is really Perlin."
'Somebody else remembers!' Jsi cheered in his mind. But the others just blinked.
"No... No, my name is Lucca."
"Sorry... What I meant was.... Impossible. That would be rude."
"But I hate formal titles. Don't you, Marle?"
"Yeah, they suck," Goyd said with a giggle.
"I understand, Lucca," Mope said.
"What's your name?" Perlin asked him.
"My serial number is R-66Y," he replied.
"R-66Y? COOL!"
"That'll never do! I can't remember a name like that! Crono, let's give him a better one!"
'How about we call him Mope so I can stop being so confused?'
"That's a great name! We'll call you Robo!" she said, looking back at Mope.
"I am Robo. Data storage complete."
'That's not what I said.'
"Yo, Robo, why aren't there any people here?" Perlin asked.
Mope looked around. "...Dude. There WERE people here, once... But I guess something killed 'em all or something."
"Something awful must have happened," Goyd said, looking suddenly sad.
"Yeah, it looks like that, but really, that's just what you're supposed to say."
They blinked at him. He sighed again. "Okay, let's skip it. Check that door there. It's locked because there's no power. I can restore the power by turning on the generator in the factory to the north."
"You'd do that for us?" Goyd asked.
"Yeah, sure, whatever. But one of you has to stay here to hold the door open, because the power won't stay on too long."
Jsi tapped Goyd's shoulder and pointed to the door. "What? Me? YOU JERK! You're gonna make ME stay behind?! How rude!" she shouted at him.
He started walking off, and Perlin and Mope followed. She stood there by the door, fuming, as they walked offscreen.
The factory to the north was...well...um....to make a long story short, they went in, turned on the power, and accidentally activated the whole R series and ended up in a confrontation.
"Stop! These are my friends!" Mope cried, stepping in front of the R series robots to stop Jsi and Perlin from attacking them.
"R-66Y! You are defective!" one of them shouted at him.
"Defective...?"
"You must be reprogrammed!"
"NO! I am not defective! I'm a REAL BOY!"
Everyone paused, including Mope, then shrugged, and then the R series robots proceeded to grab Mope, beat his aise down, and throw him into a tube. Perlin screamed something to the effect of, "NO! YOU BASTARDS!" and they fought and defeated the R series.
Then they dragged Mope back to the Proto Dome, where he was "repaired" again. From there, they went through the door that Goyd had been holding open, and up to the gate. None of them knew where it would take them, but they didn't seem to care. Anywhere was better than this rusty ol' future, anyway.
They leapt through.
Author: GuinevereKoopa
Fic Note: Chapter five is quite long. Funny, but long. This part covers.well, the entire future. **nodnod** Mope is um.well, he breaks character a lot. He's just like that. He doesn't really have a fourth wall, so he's going to screw with Robo's lines very badly. Yeah.
They emerged into a dismal, rusty looking metal room, and were thrown to the ground by the force of, um...gravity. Goyd shrieked and Perlin muttered a faint, "Ouch..." before everyone decided to pick themselves up off of the rusty metal floor before somebody ended up with tetanus.
"No way the Chancellor can reach us here," Goyd stated. "But where are we?"
Perlin got up and walked to the door at the back of the room. The black door with a pixilated seal on it. "This civilization seems advanced," she said, musing over the design of the seal.
'I say we're in the future now,' Jsi thought, but nobody heard him, of course.
"It's like we're in another world," Goyd agreed.
Jsi sighed. 'WHAT did I just THINK at you? We're in the future! It's obvious!'
Perlin and Goyd agreed that they should go find somebody so they could ask where they were, completely ignoring Jsi because they couldn't hear him.
The Overworld was a murky, dismal place as well, covered in what seemed to be an eternal sort of rain. They walked to a place that was similarly pixilated, yet larger, than the one they'd exited, and went in. Inside they found a grimy people dressed in grimy clothes, sitting in the rusty, grimy dome, looking...well....grimy.
After talking to the grimy folk, our heroes decided that the often mentioned "Arris Dome" might be a better place to be. Unfortunately, they had to cross an old factory ruin to get there.
So, being the intrepid heroes they were pretending to be, they went to the ruins and ran through them. There were many odd creatures there, like piles of living slime, and huge fat bird things with one foot and two legs, and rats that stole tonics. But the point is, they made it through. And they found Arris Dome.
And in Arris Dome, they found MORE grimy people. But they had a grimy leader. His name was Doan, but Jsi figured that he looked a lot like the mayor of Laca, Jurieno. After asking around for a while, they found out that somebody had gone down to the basement to get food a long time ago, but hadn't come back. So they decided to go down to the basement to find the guy who'd gone down to the basement to find food.
As they approached the ladder, Doan, blonde and youthful and elven as he happened to appear, approached them. "Are you going down below?" he asked.
'No duh.' But of course, Jsi wasn't heard.
"Of course," Goyd answered.
"But no one's ever returned from there."
"Gotta try, right?" was Perlin's response. "We might find some cool stuff, never know."
'Like the corpse of the guy who got lost down there?'
"... It's nice to see such spirited young people for a change. These guys all suck, y'know? Careful now. And come back alive."
'Yes, because we really could come back if we all died.' His sarcasm went unnoticed, though, and they set out for the basement.
They walked through the basement and found a statue of a rat sitting on a long series of catwalks. Somehow the statue told them that anybody within the vicinity of the storage room would be attacked. So, being the unwary heroes they were, they went to find the storage room and were attacked when they tried to walk through the door to it.
It was a tricky boss fight, but they managed to win it. After doing so, they ran into the storage room and stopped.
"Phew...something reeks," Goyd said, walking to stand in the middle of the room.
Perlin examined the food spilling out of the metal boxes and observed, "Everything's completely rotten. The refrigeration must have failed. I guess things are the same no matter where you go.... Nothing ever works."
"Crono, look!" Goyd shouted, pointing at the corpse on the far side of the room.
'You want me to look at the dead guy....why?'
She ran over to his body and said, "...Must've passed away a long time ago."
"Hey, he's that guy who came down here to get food who we came down here to find!"
Goyd blinked. "Run that by me again?"
"Never mind. What's that in his hand?" Goyd leaned down and yanked something out of the corpse's hand, and unintentionally yanked his hand off with it. She blinked, unaffected, and dropped the hand, giving what was in it to Perlin. "It looks like some kind of seed..." Perlin said.
"A seed? Do you suppose it could grow in a place like this?"
"A place like this?"
"You know, in between the rusty floor boards or something?"
"...I dunno," Perlin shrugged. "Let's go give it to Doan."
Goyd glanced back at the now one-handed corpse, and noticed he had been holding a grimy sheet of paper in his grimy hand. "What's that say?"
It said, "The rat is more than just a statue. It knows the secret of this dome. Catch it!"
'Aw, great. This isn't some Tom and Jerry thing now, is it?'
They ran back out to the catwalks, and found the rat sitting in front of them. Perlin briefly explained how to catch it, and Jsi briefly wondered how she knew, and so they chased it. Jsi stumbled and fell a couple times, so they had to give it quite a few tries before he finally caught it and it told them the code to open up the panel on the first screen of basement.
They ran back to the first screen of basement and used the code, and then ran through the door that it opened up. There were some enemy battles and all, and they got lost a few times due to Jsi's inability to see in such faulty lighting.
Eventually, they found a chamber containing a rather pixilated machine, where they got to view footage of the pixilicious end of the world. In 1999AD. Which meant that, Jsi was right, they were in the future.
"No..." Goyd muttered, falling to her knees. "That can't be how the world ends... It's not supposed to end with some ball of fire named Lavos falling to Earth, it's supposed to end when Snazzy summons Vyecheslav..."
'YOU DO REMEMBER!' Jsi shouted mentally, with a grin.
Suddenly the alert system went off and a girl with brown hair walked into the room and whacked Goyd upside the head. "NO BREAKING CHARACTER!" she shouted, and ran out. She paused just before leaving and called back, "You didn't see me!" And then she left.
Goyd blinked. "Wha' happen?" she mumbled, staring blankly into space.
"You were about to demand that we save the future?" Perlin suggested.
"Oh yeah! Crono!! We can't let this be how the world ends up! We need to stop it!"
"I guess..." Perlin said, looking at the now blank screen. "It was a stroke of luck we ended up here and got to see how the world ends up, so we can change it."
"Come on Lucca!" Goyd ran over to Crono and said, similarly, "Come on Crono!"
Jsi nodded. Might as well go along with it. Saving the world couldn't be THAT hard, could it?
They ran back through the basement and as soon as they climbed up the ladder, Doan walked over to them. "You're back!" he exclaimed.
All the grimy people there gathered around. Jsi began to feel like a sideshow. "Well? What'd ya'll discover?" Doan asked.
"This is our future!" Goyd exclaimed.
"Dude." Doan blinked.
Some guy randomly shouted "Who cares? Where's the food!"
Goyd held up the seed they'd found. "This is all we could get."
"Seeds...?" Doan mused.
'Dude, there's only one seed. It's seed. Singular,' Jsi thought.
"You should plant this, and stuff!" Perlin stated.
"You can um....throw them in between the rusty floorboards and water them, or something!" Goyd grinned.
Doan took the seed, staring at it grimly. "I suppose.... Huh. You're, like... strange." He looked back up at the crew. "You're different from us..."
"I think it's because we're healthy!" Goyd said.
'Way to insult the guy, Goyd,' Jsi thought.
"Heal...thy?" Doan blinked. "Healthy. Nice ring to it. What's it mean?"
Goyd blinked. "Er...Uh....Not sick?"
"Gotcha!" He turned to the little girl who walked up to his side, and said, "Go, like, throw these seeds between the rusty floorboards, man! They just might be our future!"
The little girl took them and did as he had told her. As she did this, he turned back to Jsi. "Goin' to Proto Dome, dude? Take this with you." He handed them something called a Bike Key. "It's a key to the Jet Bike at Laboratory 32. I used to ride it when I was younger."
The crew blinked. Though he was grimy, Doan looked quite young. Long blonde hair and bright green eyes and everything. But they shrugged it off and took the key anyway.
"Take care. And, like, stay.... healthy. Dudes."
They left and headed for Lab 32. As they approached the Jet Bike, four robots came out and the battle music kicked in. It soon wound down though and turned into a rather upbeat theme, as a motorcycle-like man rode onscreen. "Hold it there!" he shouted.
The robots immediately set themselves up to have the best view of him and shouted, "Hold on! It's...."
"Thanks for the intro, babe!" he grinned, and the robots finished what they were saying with a shout of, "...The MAN!"
The MAN turned and looked at them with a smug look on his face. "You lowlifes can call me Johnny!"
"Johnny's the MAN!" the robots chorused.
"EEEEEY!"
Jsi blinked. That was a familiar sound...
Perlin screamed. "EEEE! FONZY!"
Johnny looked at her. "What? No, babe, the name's Johnny."
"No, you're FONZY!" she squealed. "FONZY!! Fonzy, how did you stay alive so long?!"
"I WAS ASSIMILATED! EEEEEEY!"
The robots chorused back an, "EEEEEY!"
Fonzy looked at Jsi. "Part of an old highway runs through these ruins. Think you can beat me in a bike race? Use that Jet Bike and... don't chicken out, babe! EEEEEY!"
Jsi walked up to the Jet Bike and got on. Piece of cake! ...Right?
The race was long and grueling...well...not really. But Fonzy/Johnny's constant shouting of "EEEEEEY!" WAS rather trying on the nerves. It took a few tries (Jsi kept crashing into random things), but eventually Jsi won the race.
"YOU beat me? I don't get it!" Fonzy exclaimed, dragging his wheels onscreen. "At least it wasn't for pinks, EEEEEEY!" he shouted with a grin. "You can challenge me anytime, we'll ride the wind babe! EEEEEEY!"
Jsi, Goyd, and Perlin ran away as fast as they could, to get away from all the "EEEEEEY"ing. They ran to a place called Proto Dome, where they found a boy lying in front of a door at the end of the room.
The boy was lying on his stomach as if he'd tripped, fallen, and hadn't bothered to get up. He was wearing a gold jumpsuit with a funky brown loincloth-looking sash around his waist, and his skin and hair were painted gold as well. Jsi could recognize him immediately as...well...one of those two twins. The boy. He could never remember which was the boy and which was the girl, though. He took a wild guess and decided it was Mope. Yeah, Mope...
"What's this?" Goyd pondered, walking over to the boy's side.
"It's in bad shape... But it appears to be a humaoid robot!" Perlin exclaimed happily.
"...No, dude, I think it's a kid with gold paint."
"Nonsense! It's a humanoid robot! And I can fix it!" She ran over and took out a screwdriver, leaning down at Mope's side.
"WHOA!" he shouted, and jumped to his feet. "What are you gonna do with that thing?!"
Perlin blinked. "Um... I was going to repair you, but it would appear that you don't need it."
Mope looked between the three of them, who stood there blinking at him, and he cleared his throat. "Good morning, mistress. What is your command?" he said to Goyd.
"MISTRESS?! I AIN'T YOUR DAMN MISTRESS!" Goyd shouted. Mope blinked. Goyd blinked. She cleared her throat and said, "I mean...Call me Marle. This is Crono, and Lucca here fixed you."
"Whoa, I ain't been fixed by anybody, lady!" Mope denied. Everyone blinked at him and he sighed, shaking his head, and then resumed his unemotional robotic face. "Understood. Madam Lucca fixed me."
"Just Lucca will do," Perlin said.
"Impossible. Your name is really Perlin."
'Somebody else remembers!' Jsi cheered in his mind. But the others just blinked.
"No... No, my name is Lucca."
"Sorry... What I meant was.... Impossible. That would be rude."
"But I hate formal titles. Don't you, Marle?"
"Yeah, they suck," Goyd said with a giggle.
"I understand, Lucca," Mope said.
"What's your name?" Perlin asked him.
"My serial number is R-66Y," he replied.
"R-66Y? COOL!"
"That'll never do! I can't remember a name like that! Crono, let's give him a better one!"
'How about we call him Mope so I can stop being so confused?'
"That's a great name! We'll call you Robo!" she said, looking back at Mope.
"I am Robo. Data storage complete."
'That's not what I said.'
"Yo, Robo, why aren't there any people here?" Perlin asked.
Mope looked around. "...Dude. There WERE people here, once... But I guess something killed 'em all or something."
"Something awful must have happened," Goyd said, looking suddenly sad.
"Yeah, it looks like that, but really, that's just what you're supposed to say."
They blinked at him. He sighed again. "Okay, let's skip it. Check that door there. It's locked because there's no power. I can restore the power by turning on the generator in the factory to the north."
"You'd do that for us?" Goyd asked.
"Yeah, sure, whatever. But one of you has to stay here to hold the door open, because the power won't stay on too long."
Jsi tapped Goyd's shoulder and pointed to the door. "What? Me? YOU JERK! You're gonna make ME stay behind?! How rude!" she shouted at him.
He started walking off, and Perlin and Mope followed. She stood there by the door, fuming, as they walked offscreen.
The factory to the north was...well...um....to make a long story short, they went in, turned on the power, and accidentally activated the whole R series and ended up in a confrontation.
"Stop! These are my friends!" Mope cried, stepping in front of the R series robots to stop Jsi and Perlin from attacking them.
"R-66Y! You are defective!" one of them shouted at him.
"Defective...?"
"You must be reprogrammed!"
"NO! I am not defective! I'm a REAL BOY!"
Everyone paused, including Mope, then shrugged, and then the R series robots proceeded to grab Mope, beat his aise down, and throw him into a tube. Perlin screamed something to the effect of, "NO! YOU BASTARDS!" and they fought and defeated the R series.
Then they dragged Mope back to the Proto Dome, where he was "repaired" again. From there, they went through the door that Goyd had been holding open, and up to the gate. None of them knew where it would take them, but they didn't seem to care. Anywhere was better than this rusty ol' future, anyway.
They leapt through.