Well, here it is, don't have time to answer my ONLY review, I will do it with the others next chapter.
Sheldon's world had turned upside-down.
Here in front of him was the girl-robot he had a crush on, an alternate version of his own alter ego, a kid just younger than him that looked like he belonged in a sci-fi TV show, a disgruntled XJ-6 with a plasma cannon bigger than her whole arm, and four robots that looked like they could tear a small country apart, all dueling it out. And then after all that, Jenny was being held hostage.
Despite this whole thing seeming like a bad movie plotline, when he saw Jenny in danger, he knew he had to act!
Sheldon drew himself up dramatically, thinking: THIS LOOKED LIKE A JOB FOR...
Then he remembered he had left his Silver Shell suite at home, and slumped back into his seat.
Meanwhile...
Mrs. Wakeman felt like the whole world refused to hold completely still, and continued to shift as she woke up. She noted that her wrists were strapped to a wall of metal behind her, and she felt an unnatural chill in the air, like ever nerve in her body was screaming "DANGER!"
Her vision finally cleared, and she saw a figure standing confidently before her. A very familiar figure...
"XJ-9? What is going on here?"
In a flash, Jenny struck her with a single slap, a look of contempt on her face. She had turned down her strength levels, so it was nowhere near as bad as it could be, but it stung nonetheless.
"SILENCE!" she boomed, "You will not speak unless spoken to!"
Mrs. Wakeman was at a loss for words, as mad as XJ-9 had been; she had never struck her before. In a way, it had hurt in a way that went beyond mere pain.
#Now now my dear, we must be kind to our...guest, she is very special for a human, after all.# said a voice coming from a figure in the darkness.
Mrs. Wakeman saw a humanoid figure, about 7 feet tall, covered in a robe of pipes and wires that trailed down to the floor, and connected to various outlets behind it. The pipes and wires seemed to move with a life all there own, and a few disconnected ones writhed through the air, while some positioned themselves like scorpion tails. Nothing was distinguishable beyond that in the gloom.
Jenny immediately bowed down in the creature's presence, whether it was voluntary or not was impossible to tell. "As you command, my master." She then slinked away, obeying an unspoken command.
#Now then# said the figure in it's own twisted voice. #I imagine you are confused, well just think over the data you saw#
After a moment, comprehension dawned on Mrs. Wakeman's face. "So YOU were the one who sent me that message, and according to the data...but what would you want with me?"
#Ah, allow me to...explain what I want you to do...#
Meanwhile...
"Traitor? What are you talking about?"
"I SAID DON'T MOVE!" XJ-6 practically screeched. "Like you don't know, you dirty backstabber! You probably would be trying to kill us all if I didn't have this gun aimed at your head"
The Silver Shell stepped forward, looked down at Jenny, and stated, "who would have though catching the overlords personal right-hand agent would have been this easy! Now we finally have some leverage"
XJ-6 looked positively furious at the thought of letting Jenny go. "YOU'RE GOING TO TRADE HER BACK? And after all she has done? If you make any deals with the overlord, he will not honor them, and he would probably sacrifice her just to wipe us out! Better just to kill her now!"
"Um, guys?" said the strange boy "I don't mean to interrupt, but has anyone besides me even LOOKED at the area around us?"
Silver Shell did so, and gasped.
"The land is unspoiled! The plants are in full bloom! And...the sky is no longer scorched!"
This last note seemed to be the most amazing of all.
"Not a single place in our world is so untouched, so pure!"
"So what?" said XJ-6 "Don't tell me you believe the crackpot intelligence about the dimensional shifter, it's probably an illusion, meant to get us to trust HER!"
She indicated Jenny by nudging her with the plasma gun.
Jenny was not saying anything, but now she felt a desire to speak "it's no illusion, my world is really like this."
"WHY SHOULD I EVER BELEVE YOU!" XJ-6 screamed, raw fury dancing across her face "After you KILLED five of our sisters, and our MOTHER! Were they just useless obstacles? Well guess what, they mattered to ME!"
Killed? Jenny though, her dream coming back to her.
Silver shell barked, "THAT'S ENOUGH! You are out of like XJ-6, this is MY call to make!"
"Make the right one" she hissed
"I will" he said grimly
Meanwhile...
"WHAT?" Mrs. Wakeman screamed "I would never help you with such a vile task, nor your other request, because I honestly don't think you should get any help!"
The figure, still shrouded in shadow spoke again #ah, what a shame, now we have to do this the hard way#
In a flash, a series of wires dove at Mrs. Wakeman, setting themselves upon her back and inserting small needles into her spine. She screamed as pain raced through her, and she felt the presence of another mind forcing itself upon her own.
#Let me put this simply, you are going to help me, whether you want to, or NOT!# and with that, a surge of energy blasted through her.
Everything swirled, got hazy, and faded to darkness. Her last thought was how close that came to what would happen to the universe. After that, she knew no more.
To be continued...
Well? Good? Bad? Let me know, or I will...umm, I don't know...Edit: sorry about the poor quality of the last update, I updated the thing at 11:30pm, so the auto-spell check did more work than I did. Hope your enjoying the story so far, and I have even more that you look forward to the next update, because this thing has a ways to go!
Yea, I know, I drive you crazy with these cliffhangers, but I love doing it. (I have an Issue, I admit it)
