SnowChaser: Only Jamie would consider 'destroying the city' a useful reference...
Gryphon-Wonder: Thank you! New stories always make really nervous, I'm glad to see you're enjoying it!
Kuramafangirl11: Oh, there's a few more around here somewhere. But I'm glad you saw this one! Anyway, there WILL be some action in the story, though it won't necessarily be the Glorft(I THINK that's the correct spelling)...winks mysteriously
animeloverj: blushes furiously I DO try and write what I think the characters will actually say. Still, that's very kind of you!
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Disclaimer: I WISH I had a giant robot, but sadly, I lack one at the moment...
The dust covered wall clock hanging above the door of McBurgers read 2 o'clock in the morning as Jamie drifted off to sleep, his face nearly landing on the rather burnt patties he had been cooking.
"JAMIE! You gotta stay awake!"
A shout from the cash registers jolted Jamie awake.
"Coop, you're the only one crazy enough to buy fast food at 2 in the morning. Notice the complete lack of morons--I mean, customers?" Jamie grumbled, glaring blearily at his friend the 'cashier'.
"Oh really? What about that one guy?" Coop retorted, hands on his hips.
"You mean the insomniac who didn't actually BUY anything, but wandered around in here for 10 whole minutes. Why does a burger joint have to be open all night, anyway?" Jamie muttered darkly.
"It's our duty to the customers!" Coop declared, one hand over his heart as the National Anthem began to play somewhere in the distance. Jamie rolled his eyes and went back to sleep.
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Elsewhere, Kiva was sitting in an abandoned warehouse as she waited for her new 'teacher' to arrive. She didn't have to wait long, as a man with messy, greasy black hair,
jeans and a black turtleneck ran inside, looking furtively all around him as he slammed the door shut.
"Ah! A pupil! Most excellent, now we can begin!" The man exclaimed, rubbing his hands together in a devious fashion.
"Was it really necessary for us to meet here?" Kiva asked him, raising her hand as she had seen on old videos from the 30th century.
"But of course! How else would I show you the crowning point of my research into the dark and twisted history of the U.S. government? Behold, for I give you--an actual robot from the infamous Area 50! They said it didn't exist, that I was just another anarchist! However, this seemingly harmless looking warehouse is the key to it all!" The man cried, whipping a ratty looking cloth off of a huge heap in the dusty corner of the warehouse to reveal a pile of rusted gears and bolts. Kiva thought she might have been able to make out a central programming unit, but it might have just been a racoon.
"I don't think that's a robot from Area 50, or even a robot at all." Kiva said skeptically, gingerly examining the scrap metal heap in front of her.
"Oh, really? What would YOU know about the robotic techniques used in Area 50? Perhaps you're just some kind of government spy, hmm?" Her 'teacher' whirled around furiously, pointing a rusted pipe he had found at her.
"For your information, the only Area 50 robot I've ever heard about ended up in the Grand Canyon." Kiva informed him, her hands on her hips.
At this, the man stopped dead in his tracks. "Of course! Why ELSE would the U.S. care so much about the Grand Canyon? Brilliant, simply brilliant!" He shouted exuberantly, rushing out of the filthy warehouse at once.
"Maybe I've got the wrong place..." Kiva muttered to herself as she watched her one-time teacher head towards the Grand Canyon.
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Kiva returned to Coop's basement to find her friends already waiting for her.
"Aren't you guys supposed to be at work?" Kiva asked them.
"Aren't YOU supposed to be at school?" Jamie muttered under his breath.
"Oh, some guy got mad because Jamie didn't wash his hands before returning to work. It's an important policy, you know." Coop said, giving Jamie a reproachful look.
"Good riddance. That place is evil. I worked from 10pm to 6am, and by the time I got home, slept and ate it was time to get ready for work again! Not my fault there are too many whiners in the world." Jamie said defensively, slouching down further on the couch.
"Well, don't worry, we can always find new jobs!" Coop decided cheerfully.
"WHAT?!" Jamie shouted, sitting bolt upright.
However, Coop never got a chance to explain, seeing as how part of the wall was blasted away several seconds later. As the smoke cleared, two tall, grey round-headed aliens with big liquid black eyes entered the room.
"Coop, why are there Martians standing where the wall used to be?" Jamie asked, his voice tinged with something bordering on hysterics.
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