Okay chapter VII has some scenes that I liked and I think that's all I can say form this chapter From: LOROS
Chapter VII: "The glory of having power"
In the earth the reparations of Jenny were almost finish but the restless teenage robot wasn't as calm as Ms. Wakeman wanted and was getting tired of her "Calm down XJ-9! And stop moving so much it's difficult enough to repair you without proper equipment to endure your childish behavior!" Jenny raised her arms and started waving them like a little girl impatient to go to the beach "Mom! Hurry up we have been here for almost an eternity meanwhile Brad and Red are taking all the glory!!" Ms.Wakeman continued her work on Jenny without paying too much attention to her tantrums "Hmmm.... Almost finish... Okay XJ-9 you are finally repaired" Ms.Wakeman then started to talk to herself "Even in this kind of conditions I was able to repair XJ-9 sometimes I amaze myself, hi, hi, hi, hi, ha! ha! HA!" Sheldon entered the room just to see Ms.Wakeman laughing like a maniac "... Ms.Wakeman are you okay?" Jenny walked next to him covering her face hiding it "Don't waste your breath Sheldon she can't hear you, she always act like that when she finish something that she thought was impossible or very difficult" Ms.Wakeman was still laughing and Jenny just shock it's head "Shess, it's so sad" Sheldon seeing Jenny very ashamed took advantage of the situation putting his hand on Jenny's shoulder and with all his strength he muttered a few words "(Gulp)...Yes, great scientist are like that but don't worry Jenny I won't tell anyone...It, It'll be our little se... (Be strong Sheldon!) se, secret" Sheldon trembled and seriously blushed when Jenny looked at him "(Okay just what I needed another wacko!) Ummm....Sheldon I ..." Upon hearing these words Sheldon couldn't take it anymore and fell down into the ground in front of Jenny with a goofy look in his eyes. Jenny looked for a moment at Sheldon who was in the floor then she looked at her mom still laughing then again at Sheldon, she raised an eyebrow seeing the pathetic scene "Damn, being a genius (or a nerd) can totally screw up your mind"
Zinder entered the room "(??) Hello? I suppose that everything is fine?" Jenny turned to Zinder with a very happy expression on her face "Finally! Someone normal (Even if you are a double crosser backstabber Cluster puppet)" Jenny got serious remembering the situation "So who are the preparations for our mission?" Zinder continued to watch Sheldon and Ms.Wakeman "(Those two are very weird humans)" He shock his head turning to Jenny "Well in one hour I'll be waiting in the operations room to decide which base we should attack first meanwhile you can prepare yourself" Jenny smiled to him raising her fist "I'm ready for anything" Jenny then turned to see Sheldon and Ms.Wakeman, she lowered her head covering her face "Except this (sigh) we might need more time" Zinder laughed exiting the room "Well, I'll be seeing you and the rest in two hours then XJ-9!"
Back in Alpha Brad and his new companion Doroban were in a dark cave running from two Cluster soldiers, they had entered from a lot of passages until they reached a dead end Brad knock Doroban head making him stop. It was totally dark so Brad took a flashlight from his backpack; he turned it on and started to look around for a moment. Brad jumped off from Doroban´s back to the ground and was there for a moment listening until he smiled "Uff.... I think we lost them" Doroban then approached him looking very impressed "How did you capture a star with that tiny machine?!" Brad at first was unsure what Doroban was talking about, Doroban approached looking to his hand like he was charmed "I've never been near a star so close" Brad then realized what he was talking about "OH! You mean the flashlight, no, no, my friend this isn't a star, it's just a bulb and some batteries" Doroban moved his head studding it "A bulb and batteries, what are they? Can they create light like a star?" Brad just smiled at him "I forgot that you lived in a desert for a long time (Hmmm...) You know you make me remember a friend of mine, she was aware of the world outside the window but unsure if she should leave her room, she just needed a little push to actually go outside just like you (Jenny...)" Doroban looked at him very confused "(???) Sorry I don't understand a thing you are saying" Brad laughed at his friend putting his hand on his head "Don't worry I'll explain everything to you later right now we must prepare something for our friends that are following us" Doroban shocked his head "Friends? I thought they were..." Brad stared at him with a very serious look "(Oh man, This will be a loooong day) Just come with me Doroban"
Brad and Doroban returned following the same path they took until they stopped in a rather large space. Brad put his backpack on the floor checking for something "There has to be something in here that can help us" Doroban looked at him "But Brad we are returning to the same place we entered" Brad continued to look "Of course, my little brother once me that in this kind of caves the only exits are the one that is on one side of the mountain and the other is the one were the rivers exit the mountain any other path leads to a dead end, I just listened and followed the cave that didn't make too much water noise" Doroban moved his head "So why did you chose the dead ends?" Brad stood up holding something "Instinct, luck, hunch, I don't know, I assumed that they knew about this kind of caverns so instead of going to the river exit like a scared rabbit we just entered the dead ends paths waiting, just to return to the entrance"Doroban watched him for a second "You thought all that in just a few seconds? Impressive very impressive" Brad just smiled a little embarrassed for Doroban words.
Brad jumped smiling maliciously "Bingo! These might be what we need!" Doroban approached looking to the artifacts that Brad was holding "These little things?? How can they help us?" Brad ran to the entrance "These little things are proximity mines and looks can be deceiving, Wait, I will put them at the entrance" Brad started to put them in the entrance very carefully because he didn't want to active them accidentally. He finished cleaning his forehead of the sweat "Finally it's done and if those Clusters walk this way the mines will explode at contact eliminating them" Doroban started to get near them but Brad held him "Whoa! Careful my friend these things are very dangerous they will blow you up if you touch them." Brad walked away when followed by Doroban who walked next to him. Doroban then asked a question that made Brad stop immediately "Is there no other option? I feel that destroying them is too much" Brad looked at him "(He looks so old but he has the innocense of a child ... What should I do?) Well now that you mention it there is other option" Brad grabbed a stone and tossed to the entrance making the mines explode sealing the entrance, he turned to Doroban smiling raising his thumb up "Now they will not follow us that easily, you made me remember that we must avoid meaningless destruction and death at all costs even if they are Clusters...(Nevertheless I hope I'm not making a mistake)"
Brad and Doroban walked in silence for a while until Brad stopped staring deeply at the landscape "Beautiful, the mountains, the rivers, heck! If I had the time I would definitely go exploring" Doroban also looked at the landscape "Indeed this is something I never thought I would see, these is a place were you see the perfection of nature it doesn't need anything" Brad put down his backpack "You know what does these place need?" He grabbed a handkerchief then he grabbed a stick making a flag and with a pen he wrote "DoroBrad plains" he climbed a rock putting it in a safe place "What these place need it's a name so from now on these plains will be know as the DoroBrad plains!! Maybe after all this we can comeback with all my friends and make a picnic or something in here" He jumped down to the floor smiling Doroban just stood watching the little flag move with the wind "Which way now?" Brad took out the same device Red was holding as he jumped on Doroban´s back "Well according to this thing...we must go that way!! (Red... I hope we find you along the way, we could really need some help later)"
In the earth Jenny, Ms. Wakeman, Sheldon and Zinder were in the operation room. Zinder went to a computer the lights turned off and a holographic model of Alpha appeared in the middle of the room. Zinder approached the holograph pointing two locations "Well the way I see it our situation is like this" He pressed a button and a picture of Red and Brad appeared "According to our information our two friends somehow got separated in Alpha... but the good news is that they are moving to the target" Jenny just crossed her hands staring coldly at Zinder "(Brad, What the heck are you thinking!) Good news?? They got separated and that is not good at all!! But Brad going toward an enemy base ALONE is totally disastrous! (Maybe he went mad or something...)" Zinder walked next to the screen "I agree I was hoping that they will look for each other but now that the are separated there is high chance that they will be captured making the mission a complete failure" Ms.Wakeman interrupted reading her notebook "Then our main priority must be to find the portal that connect this world with Alpha and help them as soon as we can" Zinder pressed a button then the holograph changed to a model of earth "I also agree the machine we need is located in one of these two possible locations: One is located in the Antarctic circle exactly in the everlasting snow region. The other base is located at the bottom of the ocean in the Nansen depths, this is one of our obstacles: the location"Zinder then walked and pressed another button then an image of Valdar and Crystal appeared "Our second and perhaps bigger obstacle are Crystal and Valdar. Our current information says that the Antarctic base is protected by Crystal while the other one is protected by Valdar" Ms.Wakeman then corrected her glasses "(Hmm... These two robots they look slightly familiar I definitely have to explore this anyway...) The bases are located in uninhabited places making them susceptible to a full scale attack" Zinder nodded at Ms.Wakeman while sitting on a chair "Now which one do we attack??? Both of them are located in regions difficult to reach and if we fail in choosing the correct one we will have serious trouble attacking the second one"
The room was silent for a few minutes everyone was looking at the holograph until Jenny stood up pointing at Zinder "For crying out loud! Just choose one now! At this rate the Cluster will find the ruins and we will be doomed, toss a coin or something!" Zinder moved his head avoiding contact "Why don't we call an election? I can't make this kind of decision alone and in the case we have a tie I also suggest to toss a coin" Jenny sat on her chair confused that Zinder considered her proposition meanwhile Zinder turned to her "Go ahead choose one Jen" Jenny widely opened her eyes a little annoyed "(This guy has a lot of nerve!) Hey! Zinder only my friends can call me "Jen" and to tell you the truth I still don't trust you that much..." Jenny just moved her head smiling cutely at Zinder who was shocked from the unusual answer.
After the little incident Jenny started to think about the mission "Anyway I choose to attack the Crystal base, ummm, wait No! Perhaps, the Valdar base? Or maybe it would be easier to attack Crystal base first? (Which one? AH! Whatever!)... Okay! I vote to attack Valdar base in the ocean!" Jenny sat down proudly when she realized that everyone was looking at her "What! I swear that I thought about it (For a second)".
Sheldon shivered in fear remembering Valdar but he looked at Jenny courage invaded his hearth making him stood up then he spoke confident and loud for the first time"(That guy is too powerful!! Jenny is not prepared for him) I VOTE to attack Crystal BASE!!" Unfortunately Jenny didn't even move or react meanwhile Ms.Wakeman and Zinder just looked at him like he was some kind of freak, Sheldon realized this and just sat down slowly very embarrassed.
Zinder was still a little hurt for Jenny's harsh words "(Such a spoiled girl!! I don't know why I tolerate this Arggh... but I must calm myself this is no time to be thinking about this kind of stuff) Huh! ...I vote to attack Valdar base" Then everyone except Jenny turned to Ms.Wakeman expecting to hear her decision but she didn't show any sign of nervousness, she just stood up pointing the holographic earth model correcting her glasses "We will attack Valdar base first, I think that explanations aren't necessary right now" Zinder turned the computer off. The lights turned on as he walked toward the exit "Okay we will attack Valdar base in twenty minutes (Oh! I almost forgot the Silver robot matter...) by the way Sheldon will you come with me there is an urgent matter we must discuss" Sheldon nodded and followed Zinder, Ms.Wakeman just watched him go while speaking to Jenny "Interesting... what does he want with Sheldon? Anyway XJ-9 let's prepare..." Ms.Wakeman turned just to see Jenny with her headphones moving her head up and down Ms.Wakeman just moved next to her and tapped on her shoulder, Jenny opened her eyes realizing that the meeting was over and that Ms.Wakeman was next to her looking very angry "He, he, he, sorry mom, it was boring and the lights you know...so which base did we choose?" Ms.Wakeman walked toward the exit shaking her head "Why did I built her as a teenager?"
Zinder and Sheldon were walking in the hallway when Zinder stopped in front of a room Sheldon looked at him speaking nervously "Ummm...e, excuse me but what is the (gulp) urgent matter you wanted to discuss with me?" Zinder opened the door "Look inside" Behind the door was a laboratory and several scientist were there and in the middle of the room there was the Silver Shell inside a capsule, Sheldon just moved toward it, he picked up some of the reports and as he read them he just lowered his head "Oh no... The Silver Shell is in pretty bad shape" Zinder walked next to him looking at the Silver Shell "Yes unfortunately we couldn't repair it completely and I was hoping you could finish the reparations yourself" Sheldon looked at him "But what about the mission" Zinder shook his head "There is no way you can be in it without your armor" Sheldon just sat on the floor looking very sad, Zinder looked at him then at the Silver Shell "Listen to me I have met a lot of people in this earth and to tell you the truth I always believed that humans were just cowards and hypocrites but then I met you and Colonel Red and even your friend Brad and I'm happy that I was wrong , Now stand up and repair your armor as fast as you can! Jenny and me will be waiting for you at Valdar base" Sheldon stood up while Zinder left the room Sheldon then grabbed a scientist "Give me a screwdriver!!" The scientist turned to him with a puzzled look and Sheldon just smiled at him realizing his last action "Please??"
Jenny walked to a helicopter that was going to transport her and Zinder to the base Ms.Wakeman was next to her, they weren't talking until both of them were in front of the helicopter. Jenny turned to face her mom "So here I go wish me luck..." Ms.Wakeman looked at Jenny even thought she was extremely powerful you could notice that she was nervous, Ms.Wakeman couldn't help but hug her "Go my daughter! I believe that you will succeed! Remember that not only Brad and Colonel Red are in danger but the whole world" Jenny smiled and returned the hug, it was not often that her mom showed a tender motherly action like this "Don't worry I'll be back before you know it" Jenny then jumped inside the helicopter meanwhile Ms.Wakeman returned to the base with some tears in her eyes. Zinder was already in the helicopter looking outside meanwhile Jenny sat down looking at her mom, she closed her eyes and with a confident voice she said the words that Zinder was waiting "Let's go Zinder!!" Zinder nodded "Soldier proceed, our objective: Underwater base at the Nansen depths!" The helicopter turned on and took off. Sheldon ran as fast as he could but he could only see the helicopter disappearing in the distance, he waved his hands hoping that Jenny would see him "JENNY!! Good luck!! (I'll come as soon as I can)"
The helicopter was in the middle of the ocean when it stopped, Zinder stood up and walked to the helicopter door "The base is underwater and the only way to get in without too drawing too much attention is an elevator that is located in that platform, come XJ-9 we mustn't waste the element of surprise" Zinder opened the doors and jumped to the platform in the ocean, Jenny turned her pigtails rockets on and followed him. In the platform there was a panel and Zinder pressed a few buttons suddenly a door opened showing an elevator Jenny moved closer she was impressed of the Cluster technology "How clever! A holographic machine was hiding it" Zinder stepped in followed by Jenny, Zinder pressed a button and the elevator started to move down "Remember XJ-9 our priority is to get the portal machine" The elevator continued to move down Jenny jumped a little like she realized something "Talking about that How the heck I'm going to recognize that machine!?" Zinder pressed one of his needle arms then a holographic of a strange looking machine was shown "It looks like this and if you see a machine that looks like this under any circumstance destroy it or put it in danger" Jenny nodded "Don't worry by the way How do you know so much about this machine?" Zinder moved his head up "Because I built it" Jenny looked at him then she jumped grabbing Zinder violently "You built it!! Then why don't you build another one genius!! Instead of risking our butts in this stupid mission!!" Zinder struggled getting free "Let me go!! Urgg!! Don't you think that I thought that!! But for your information the parts needed to built a machine like that are scattered trough the universe it'll take centuries just to collect the parts to build one" Jenny backed off putting her hands on her back "S, Sorry I didn't know that, I'm a little nervous but there is something that has been bothering me Why did you want to betray the Cluster and why did you build that machine?" Zinder vision started to fade then he grabbed his head like he was in pain "(Why did I build it?? I build it because Vexus told me... NO! She didn't, it was my idea... but why? I, I can't remember... my head, My HEAD!!!)" Then Zinder saw many confusing visions of destruction, the earth, Alpha, and Jenny finally a silhouette of something appeared then everything turned white "No, it's not time for you to remember yet...Bring Jenny to Alpha time is running out" Zinder moved his head regaining consciousness, he was lying on the floor "Urgg..." Jenny was next to him "Zinder are you Okay!! You were screaming and moving like you were possessed, you scared me to death" Zinder stood up "(That voice, that girl voice, it felt like an old friend hmm...maybe I'm going crazy. No matter we must accomplish our task first) Nothing, nothing is wrong let's continue the mission" Zinder stood up like nothing happened meanwhile Jenny raised an eyebrow with an odd look in her eyes "(It's official something is definitely wrong with this guy)"
The doors of the elevator opened two cluster soldiers were there. They immediately pointed their weapons towards the elevator "Halt! Name and code number" Zinder steeped out of the elevator without saying a word and the Cluster soldiers lowered their weapon "Commander Zinder? We weren't expecting you but according to Valdar orders we can't let you pass" Suddenly a shadow jumped from the darkness and the sound of metal was heard and in the blink of an eye the Clusters were in the ground. One of the soldiers tried to look at his attacker but he just saw Jenny's back with her hand transformed into razor sharp blades "Sorry boys but we are in a hurry" The Cluster looked at her and before he lost his consciousness he muttered a few words "XJ-9 and Zinder together? Impossible..."
The base was huge you could see that there were five buildings and that the Clusters were everywhere Zinder stepped in front of Jenny "In one of those buildings is what we seek XJ-9 we better split so we can cover more terrain. Try to avoid useless confrontations remember that they are not aware of our presence. Take this it'll keep us on contact...good luck" Finishing his speech Zinder gave Jenny a communicator device the he ran toward one of the buildings.
Jenny grabbed the two soldiers hiding them then she moved around studying the base "Now If I were a Cluster where would I hide a portal machine?" The four buildings didn't show anything special that would differentiate between each other. "Okay. I'll choose door number one" Jenny watched one of the buildings from outside you could see that the building had three or four floors she took a deep breath entering the building. Four soldiers were inside of it and immediately they drawn their weapons "Intruder alert!!" The Clusters didn't waste no time and started to shoot at Jenny, She protected from them transforming her hands into a shield. She quickly moved behind a pillar avoiding the fire of the clusters "So much for the surprise factor..." Jenny turned her pigtails rockets on and flew into the air and with a descending kick she hit one of the Clusters making him crush in the wall, Seeing this the soldiers rushed toward her "Quick get her while her guard is down!!" The soldiers jumped grabbing Jenny "We got you know little girl!!" Jenny smiled at him "Little girl? I'll show what this little girl can do!!" She started to spin fast making the Clusters fly and crash into the walls and before they could recover Jenny flew next to them and one by one she hit on their heads making them faint "Okay that wasn't so bad I better go upstairs"
The second floor seemed a lot more like a maze laboratory. There were writings in the walls and Jenny tried to read them but unfortunately she didn't recognize the language, she was there for a while until she heard some steeps approaching "Oh no!! The portal machine might be here... then fighting is not an option " She looked around looking for a place to hide when she saw a table "Bingo!" She quickly hid behind the table when two bizarre robots walked in the laboratory, Jenny looked at them surprised for their appearance"(For god sake! they look like two bulbs walking!)" One of the robots walked to the computer while the other was preparing some sort of drilling machine. They turned on the computer and the image of a human was shown and the scientist in the computer started to talk "The queen new order is to prepare a report to see how many humans do we need before they destroy them. Well I need some to show me if they can survive without some of his...organic parts" The other continued adjusting his drilling machine "Meanwhile I'll be able to see if my thesis was correct. The humans feel a lot of pain when being drilled oh, I can't wait to prove it with a hundreds of animals..." Jenny was there with a disgusted look getting very impatient "(They are sick...I know I promised Zinder not to fight recklessly but these two guys are really making me angry)" The robot in the computer then opened a drawer grabbing a test tube with a glowing material inside of it then he looked at it while speaking again "I heard that humans can't live long when they are induced to a small amount of radioactivity... to prove that theory I'll need more animals, preferable young ones or recently born ones..."
Jenny couldn't take it anymore "That's it! You are going down!" Jenny jumped from behind the table punching one the scientist making him crush in the computer, the other moved pressing a button "Security we got an intruder on sector two!" Immediately ten cluster warriors appeared surrounding Jenny "Okay, you didn't waste any time" The scientist in the computer recovered laughing "Ha! Ha! Ha! I presume that you are XJ-9, what an honor! I always dreamed on studying you and your body" The other scientist grabbed the drilling machine "Don't you get it animal lover? We the Clusters have power beyond your imagination and I'll prove my theory to you now" Jenny looked at them unsure of what she should do "(I have to fight but what if the machine is around here...Damn I hate this!)" The cluster approached her. Jenny raised her fist closing her eyes "(Brad, Red)" Jenny opened her eyes taking out her wings suddenly she flew around the laboratory hitting and knocking some of the Clusters soldiers that were on her way then she stopped taking her lasers out pointing them at the Clusters scientists "(I'm sorry guys!!)" She fired her lasers closing her eyes.
On the next Chapter Brad and Doroban are still in the search of the ruins meanwhile Jenny must fight the Cluster soldier know as Valdar if she wishes to escape from the underwater base on Chapter VIII: "A proud warrior"