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Clouded by the Dark Force
By Chrono Eternal
Chapter 2:
Lucca: The Flaming Love
"So, you want to hit them with a Magic Duel Tech?" Lucca questioned. "I might be available."
"An Antipode? Is that what you had in mind?" Marle asked.
"Let's go for it!" exclaimed Lucca.
"Ice!" shouted Marle.
"Fire!" Lucca yelled.
"ANTIPODE!" they both screamed. This time, Marle's Ice and Lucca's Fire came together and hit the knights and their dragons. They had taken several of them down, but there seemed to be an endless amount of them.
"Lets use it again!" suggested Marle.
"Stronger this time!" replied Lucca.
"HATE CLAWS!" This time the soldiers' dragons shot out purple beams of light. They hit the dragons, but they would get payback.
"Ice 2!" Marle yelled.
"Fire 2!" Lucca screamed.
They both shouted, "ANTIPODE 2!" This wiped out even more soldiers, but the endless amount remained.
Lucca screamed, "I've had it! Let's get 'em Marle!"
"Right! Ice 2!"
"Flare!"
"ANTIPODE 3!" There was severe damage done to the soldiers, but there still seemed to be more coming.
Lucca was breathing hard, because of using the Antipode attacks. Don't forget that she had been knocked out earlier and was barely awake.
"Luminaire!" Sparky shot a huge green ball at the soldiers. It had only done about as much damage as the Antipode 2 had done. "Guys...girls, whatever, look up. Do you see that really big, black cloud?" Crono said.
"He speaks. It had to happen sooner or later," Lucca thought to herself.
"Yeah!" responded Marle.
"It's not a cloud," said Crono. "It a whole bunch of knights on dragons. We need to use a real strong attack that can get from down here to up there."
"A Triple Tech!" shouted Marle.
"Yeah, the Delta Force attack," said Lucca.
"Let's go for it!" said Crono. "Lightning 2!" Sparky and Crono started to glow a bright yellow.
"Ice 2!" shouted Marle. She and Icy started to glow a bright blue.
The Lucca shouted, "Fire 2!" She and Fiery started glow.
Then they all yelled, "DELTA FORCE!!!"
The three made a gigantic triangular prism of Magic, reaching from the bottom of the Earth to the top of the sky. It took out practically all of the soldiers but more were far behind.
"Let's go!" shouted Crono.
They were now in eastern Truce where Crono's house was. Instead of going into the house, Crono lead everyone into the back yard...except for Lucca.
"Lucca, bomb the door," he commanded.
"Napalm," she said and threw grenades on the door.
"It has to look like we barged through here," Crono explained. "Now! Into the cellar!"
When they got into the cellar, Marle, Sparky, Icy, and Fiery were asleep.
Crono said, "We'll finish this tomorrow, Flaming Dart." But Lucca was already fast asleep.
* * *
Lucca woke up un-equipped. "Hey? Where's my stuff? I thought Crono gave it back to me..."
"You thought that didn't you, Lucca? Well, I thought you would never be the most famous criminal in Guardia. Well, we were both wrong, Miss Flaming Dart. Now explain!" Crono was giving Lucca a lecture.
"Crono! You're being so unfair!" Lucca started, but then she saw her best friends glare at her without pity. "Robo...Robo's been hurt. I didn't dismantle the Epoch like I said I'd do after we found Crono's mom at the End of Time. I traveled to the Future, to see if Robo was doing okay. He was, he really was, and the Future was just as beautiful...no, no MORE beautiful than the Present, but..."
Marle said, "Lucca, what happened?"
Lucca sighed, "Here let my tell you the story.
* * *
"...And children of the Nation, I now declare that man and robot alike will treat each other with kindness and respect. No man is stronger and has more power than a robot and vice versa. Anyone who decides to have some law about "No Men" or "No Robots" will not be tolerated unless I have said otherwise. I appreciate all of you for coming to this speech, and believing in equality. Thank you," said Doan, the leader of the Future. He is an elderly man, and like most other people, was not healthy at all during the original Future, before we and our friends defeated Lavos.
"Doan! Doan! DOAN!" I yelled.
"Ah, Lucca, we haven't seen you for a while. What brings you here?" Doan asked.
I replied, "I'm looking for Robo. Have you seen him?"
Doan said nothing, but looked awfully confused.
I realized that Doan probably never used the nickname we gave Robo so long ago, so I reworded my question, "I'm looking for Prometheus: 66Y. Have you seen him?"
Doan pulled out a device. "Oh! Well I have this nifty robot tracker, being leader of this new nation and all. Okay...his serial number...66Y. What's his series?" Doan asked as he pushed buttons on his keypad.
"Oh, he's an R-Series robot, sir," I replied. I didn't feel comfortable talking to Doan as if Robo was a toy, but I needed to find him.
"Okay..." said Doan.
"Search complete," said a mechanical sounding voice. It was Doan's "nifty device."
"Prometheus: R-66Y? Why, Lucca, he was here just a bit ago. Right now it looks like he's going home," said Doan.
"Geno Dome?" I questioned.
"No, Lucca. He doesn't enjoy that life, but he has Proto Dome all to himself. I live in Geno dome, our birthplace, but it's much different from you might remember it," said another mechanical sounding voice. I looked and saw a pink humanoid with a green ribbon.
"Hey, don't I know you from somewhere?" I asked.
The robot replied, "You might remember me. I have been told that I worked for my at once evil mother and tried to stop you from defeating her. You defeated me instead. I am Atropos: XR. I haven't seen you in some time, Lucca."
"Can you...take me to Robo, I mean Prometheus?" I asked.
"Of course, it will not take long. Lab 32 is very clean, not like you might remember. Johnny, if you remember him, might want to race you. Still, the Jet Bike might make it quicker to get to Proto Dome from here, Arris Dome," explained Atropos. "Doan."
Doan tossed Atropos the Jet Bike Key. Johnny was a human who loved extreme sports, but one day he got hurt, badly. However, they kept him alive by giving him humanoid armor. He couldn't participate in a lot of sports, but he uses his built-in wheels to race away.
While Atropos and I were running towards Lab 32, I asked her, "So, how do you know my name? I mean, if we destroyed Lavos in 1999 AD, then how could you remember I came here, so long ago?"
Atropos giggled and said, "I only go by what Prometheus and Doan tell me. They say they've traveled through time - to 1000 AD even! Sometimes I'm forced not to believe their stories. And Lucca, everyone knows you! You're the famous scientist that had the blueprints for the Man-Robot Armor Project that saved Johnny. You're a hero, Lucca!"
"Atropos, do you use Enertrons?" I asked.
Atropos replied, "No, not much anyway. We use them at hospitals, for humans... We, robots that is, don't need them. You see, robots can be repaired and reprogrammed; we don't die. Humans...do. They need the Enertron to stay alive. It's funny, but it seems like nothing has changed at all, that Lavos existed and all your work didn't go to waste. At Arris Dome, where we just were, do you remember the tree?"
I replied, "Oh yes, the fruit looked delicious."
"That was from the seed that you got from the storage room," said Atropos.
"No! It can't be!" I exclaimed.
"Prometheus has researched that for a long time. He has come to a conclusion: Lavos was not destroyed. Affirmative Lucca, I still do not believe him. Prometheus himself does not believe it, but it is the only theory he has come up with," explained Atropos.
"Well if he's right," I thought, "it must be the work of the Entity."
"Okay, Lucca, here we are. Johnny, are you there? Johnny? Johnny! Hmm...wow! I guess Johnny isn't here. That is a first. Come, follow me, are you still in possession of the Jet Bike Key?" Atropos said.
I nodded.
"Let us go," said Atropos.
It didn't take that long at all to get to Proto Dome. Lab 32 was more like a park with a racetrack, rather than a lab, except some scientists doing research on plants.
When we arrived at Proto Dome, I started yelling, "Robo? Robo, are you there?"
Atropos gave me a confused look.
I rephrased my call, "Prometheus? Prometheus, are you there? Prometheus! I guess he's not here. Maybe we should take a look around."
"Lucca, come quickly," said Atropos. "Prometheus is...he is...he is..."
* * *
Lucca started to cry.
"Lucca, Lucca, what's wrong? Are you okay? What happened?" asked a worried Marle.
"We found Robo and he was completely taken apart...malfunctioned...DEAD!" Lucca sadly yelled.
"But, Lucca, you just said robots can't die...they didn't need the Enertron to survive," reassured Crono.
"No! Something happened, and that's why I worked so hard to get the Orb of Life! It can bring Robo back to life, if I transfer the energy!" Lucca explained.
Crono and Marle exchanged looks and nodded. Crono's serious face turned into a smile. "To the Epoch."
"What made you change your mind about this?" Lucca asked.
Marle smiled. "Lucca, you were the Flaming Dart, a caring Flaming Dart, and Lucca, you're not a harmful dart; you went back to show your love for Robo. You're the Flaming Love."
Clouded by the Dark Force
By Chrono Eternal
Chapter 2:
Lucca: The Flaming Love
"So, you want to hit them with a Magic Duel Tech?" Lucca questioned. "I might be available."
"An Antipode? Is that what you had in mind?" Marle asked.
"Let's go for it!" exclaimed Lucca.
"Ice!" shouted Marle.
"Fire!" Lucca yelled.
"ANTIPODE!" they both screamed. This time, Marle's Ice and Lucca's Fire came together and hit the knights and their dragons. They had taken several of them down, but there seemed to be an endless amount of them.
"Lets use it again!" suggested Marle.
"Stronger this time!" replied Lucca.
"HATE CLAWS!" This time the soldiers' dragons shot out purple beams of light. They hit the dragons, but they would get payback.
"Ice 2!" Marle yelled.
"Fire 2!" Lucca screamed.
They both shouted, "ANTIPODE 2!" This wiped out even more soldiers, but the endless amount remained.
Lucca screamed, "I've had it! Let's get 'em Marle!"
"Right! Ice 2!"
"Flare!"
"ANTIPODE 3!" There was severe damage done to the soldiers, but there still seemed to be more coming.
Lucca was breathing hard, because of using the Antipode attacks. Don't forget that she had been knocked out earlier and was barely awake.
"Luminaire!" Sparky shot a huge green ball at the soldiers. It had only done about as much damage as the Antipode 2 had done. "Guys...girls, whatever, look up. Do you see that really big, black cloud?" Crono said.
"He speaks. It had to happen sooner or later," Lucca thought to herself.
"Yeah!" responded Marle.
"It's not a cloud," said Crono. "It a whole bunch of knights on dragons. We need to use a real strong attack that can get from down here to up there."
"A Triple Tech!" shouted Marle.
"Yeah, the Delta Force attack," said Lucca.
"Let's go for it!" said Crono. "Lightning 2!" Sparky and Crono started to glow a bright yellow.
"Ice 2!" shouted Marle. She and Icy started to glow a bright blue.
The Lucca shouted, "Fire 2!" She and Fiery started glow.
Then they all yelled, "DELTA FORCE!!!"
The three made a gigantic triangular prism of Magic, reaching from the bottom of the Earth to the top of the sky. It took out practically all of the soldiers but more were far behind.
"Let's go!" shouted Crono.
They were now in eastern Truce where Crono's house was. Instead of going into the house, Crono lead everyone into the back yard...except for Lucca.
"Lucca, bomb the door," he commanded.
"Napalm," she said and threw grenades on the door.
"It has to look like we barged through here," Crono explained. "Now! Into the cellar!"
When they got into the cellar, Marle, Sparky, Icy, and Fiery were asleep.
Crono said, "We'll finish this tomorrow, Flaming Dart." But Lucca was already fast asleep.
* * *
Lucca woke up un-equipped. "Hey? Where's my stuff? I thought Crono gave it back to me..."
"You thought that didn't you, Lucca? Well, I thought you would never be the most famous criminal in Guardia. Well, we were both wrong, Miss Flaming Dart. Now explain!" Crono was giving Lucca a lecture.
"Crono! You're being so unfair!" Lucca started, but then she saw her best friends glare at her without pity. "Robo...Robo's been hurt. I didn't dismantle the Epoch like I said I'd do after we found Crono's mom at the End of Time. I traveled to the Future, to see if Robo was doing okay. He was, he really was, and the Future was just as beautiful...no, no MORE beautiful than the Present, but..."
Marle said, "Lucca, what happened?"
Lucca sighed, "Here let my tell you the story.
* * *
"...And children of the Nation, I now declare that man and robot alike will treat each other with kindness and respect. No man is stronger and has more power than a robot and vice versa. Anyone who decides to have some law about "No Men" or "No Robots" will not be tolerated unless I have said otherwise. I appreciate all of you for coming to this speech, and believing in equality. Thank you," said Doan, the leader of the Future. He is an elderly man, and like most other people, was not healthy at all during the original Future, before we and our friends defeated Lavos.
"Doan! Doan! DOAN!" I yelled.
"Ah, Lucca, we haven't seen you for a while. What brings you here?" Doan asked.
I replied, "I'm looking for Robo. Have you seen him?"
Doan said nothing, but looked awfully confused.
I realized that Doan probably never used the nickname we gave Robo so long ago, so I reworded my question, "I'm looking for Prometheus: 66Y. Have you seen him?"
Doan pulled out a device. "Oh! Well I have this nifty robot tracker, being leader of this new nation and all. Okay...his serial number...66Y. What's his series?" Doan asked as he pushed buttons on his keypad.
"Oh, he's an R-Series robot, sir," I replied. I didn't feel comfortable talking to Doan as if Robo was a toy, but I needed to find him.
"Okay..." said Doan.
"Search complete," said a mechanical sounding voice. It was Doan's "nifty device."
"Prometheus: R-66Y? Why, Lucca, he was here just a bit ago. Right now it looks like he's going home," said Doan.
"Geno Dome?" I questioned.
"No, Lucca. He doesn't enjoy that life, but he has Proto Dome all to himself. I live in Geno dome, our birthplace, but it's much different from you might remember it," said another mechanical sounding voice. I looked and saw a pink humanoid with a green ribbon.
"Hey, don't I know you from somewhere?" I asked.
The robot replied, "You might remember me. I have been told that I worked for my at once evil mother and tried to stop you from defeating her. You defeated me instead. I am Atropos: XR. I haven't seen you in some time, Lucca."
"Can you...take me to Robo, I mean Prometheus?" I asked.
"Of course, it will not take long. Lab 32 is very clean, not like you might remember. Johnny, if you remember him, might want to race you. Still, the Jet Bike might make it quicker to get to Proto Dome from here, Arris Dome," explained Atropos. "Doan."
Doan tossed Atropos the Jet Bike Key. Johnny was a human who loved extreme sports, but one day he got hurt, badly. However, they kept him alive by giving him humanoid armor. He couldn't participate in a lot of sports, but he uses his built-in wheels to race away.
While Atropos and I were running towards Lab 32, I asked her, "So, how do you know my name? I mean, if we destroyed Lavos in 1999 AD, then how could you remember I came here, so long ago?"
Atropos giggled and said, "I only go by what Prometheus and Doan tell me. They say they've traveled through time - to 1000 AD even! Sometimes I'm forced not to believe their stories. And Lucca, everyone knows you! You're the famous scientist that had the blueprints for the Man-Robot Armor Project that saved Johnny. You're a hero, Lucca!"
"Atropos, do you use Enertrons?" I asked.
Atropos replied, "No, not much anyway. We use them at hospitals, for humans... We, robots that is, don't need them. You see, robots can be repaired and reprogrammed; we don't die. Humans...do. They need the Enertron to stay alive. It's funny, but it seems like nothing has changed at all, that Lavos existed and all your work didn't go to waste. At Arris Dome, where we just were, do you remember the tree?"
I replied, "Oh yes, the fruit looked delicious."
"That was from the seed that you got from the storage room," said Atropos.
"No! It can't be!" I exclaimed.
"Prometheus has researched that for a long time. He has come to a conclusion: Lavos was not destroyed. Affirmative Lucca, I still do not believe him. Prometheus himself does not believe it, but it is the only theory he has come up with," explained Atropos.
"Well if he's right," I thought, "it must be the work of the Entity."
"Okay, Lucca, here we are. Johnny, are you there? Johnny? Johnny! Hmm...wow! I guess Johnny isn't here. That is a first. Come, follow me, are you still in possession of the Jet Bike Key?" Atropos said.
I nodded.
"Let us go," said Atropos.
It didn't take that long at all to get to Proto Dome. Lab 32 was more like a park with a racetrack, rather than a lab, except some scientists doing research on plants.
When we arrived at Proto Dome, I started yelling, "Robo? Robo, are you there?"
Atropos gave me a confused look.
I rephrased my call, "Prometheus? Prometheus, are you there? Prometheus! I guess he's not here. Maybe we should take a look around."
"Lucca, come quickly," said Atropos. "Prometheus is...he is...he is..."
* * *
Lucca started to cry.
"Lucca, Lucca, what's wrong? Are you okay? What happened?" asked a worried Marle.
"We found Robo and he was completely taken apart...malfunctioned...DEAD!" Lucca sadly yelled.
"But, Lucca, you just said robots can't die...they didn't need the Enertron to survive," reassured Crono.
"No! Something happened, and that's why I worked so hard to get the Orb of Life! It can bring Robo back to life, if I transfer the energy!" Lucca explained.
Crono and Marle exchanged looks and nodded. Crono's serious face turned into a smile. "To the Epoch."
"What made you change your mind about this?" Lucca asked.
Marle smiled. "Lucca, you were the Flaming Dart, a caring Flaming Dart, and Lucca, you're not a harmful dart; you went back to show your love for Robo. You're the Flaming Love."