Don't ask why it took me so long to update, I'd rather not talk about it.

Anyway, I'm gonna make up for it, so hang on tight!

Chapter ten reviews:

-Kojin-san

-Sweet!! Now this is starting teh get interesting! The action, the anime style romance, the... other stuff... anyways. This is a really well written fic. My two thumbs are up, my five are belong to you, and I give this a 10/10. Hope to read the next one soon!

Glad you like it, sorry to make you wait.

-hyper monkey

-::looks at nearly torn shirt:: never noticed that...::steals Sheldon's sweater and wears it:: well that answers my question about the Silver Shell...now to figure out about Mrs. Wakeman! lol anyways awesome story can't wait for the next chapter and yeah I'm just...gonna go now...yeah bye! ::runs away from Sheldon::

You may just find out more than you want to in this one. Dun dun DUN!

-Loros

Ha!! Poor Brad he almost got her!! I guess that you like to see jenny and Brad as a couple ...Hmm

Yes, yes I do.

Well, that's it for reviews, now on to the fic!

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"What do you mean put peoples lives in danger?" Jenny asked, "I was trying to help that man!"

"6" Tuck stated, "As interesting as this fight would be, I am afraid that we don't have the time! Shell told me to meet him at Jenny's house right away"

XJ-6 looked rather upset about her fight being stopped, but still stepped aside.

"Right away?" Jenny asked "but I thought I had another hour." She was starting to become concerned, what could make them rush like this?

"Beats me" Tuck said, shrugging his shoulders. "I'm just following orders"

Without another word, they all sped off toward Jenny's house, the tension still thick in the air.

Meanwhile...

This was not good.

The Silver Shell now stood in the ruins of the Wakeman house. Items were strewn everywhere and there was no sign of Miss Wakeman anywhere.

Silver Shell knew the pattern of attack; this was the work of the enemy, the ultimate enemy. The Overlords agents had been here, and by the looks of it, there had been a lot of them.

"What now?" he asked to no one in particular.

Without Miss Wakeman's help, they had little of no hope of ever returning home. The Silver Shell was considering if that would be a bad thing, when he heard the sounds of the others arriving.

"What happened here?!?!" Jenny screamed, gazing at the chaos as she walked into the room with the others.

"I am afraid that our enemies got a hold of your mother before we did, Jenny" Silver Shell said, feeling like he had let her down.

"WHAT! We have to go after them!" Jenny said, beginning to panic.

Tuck gave the Silver Shell a quick review of the incident over Tremorton, then Silver Shell talked to Jenny.

"Calm down Jenny, blowing up won't help. There is nothing we can do just yet, I'm afraid."

XJ-6 looked on uncaring, while Tuck looked at Jenny with concern on his face.

"Ok, that does it" Jenny said, getting right up into Silver Shells face "I'm tired of being kept in the dark, Your gonna tell me everything, right now!"

The Silver Shell paused for a moment, took a deep breath, then said, "Alright, sit down, I'll tell you all you need to know"

(And now, flashback time)

"It began five years ago, everything was just as it should be, a world much like your own. Then one day, a massive armada appeared in high earth orbit. There were over 100'000 ships, including a command ship longer than the entire state of Texas. For three days, they simply stood there, circling the earth. Then, out of the blue, they attacked, and a global invasion began. They were known as the Scourge, a name they lived up to.

People ran through New York as the strange 20-foot squid-shaped ships fly over where city, blasting everything in there path with there array of weapons. A military force groups together from the reconstructed World Trade Center, and launch a counter assault, but as they fall one by one, it is obvious that they are outgunned and outnumbered.

Then a massive Scourge warship, longer than the entire city, covered in massive weapons and armor, flies over the chaos, and starts sending out still more of the strange squid-shaped ships. The entire city was taken in hours.

The Shell continued. "The war went on for months, and we were losing. XJ-9 was the only weapon with a very high level of power against this force. Then about 5 months into the war..."

The whole room went silent, no one having the strength to say the truth.

XJ-6 decided to be blunt about it. "XJ-9 switched sided, Killed Miss Wakeman, and slaughtered people by the hundreds"

Jenny froze in horror, the whole room fell dead silent, and not a single word was said for quite a while.

Jenny finally found her voice "Why? Why would I do that?"

"We don't know" Tuck said, glad to have the ice broken "You just went off one day."

Silver Shell decided to continue the story, to keep everyone mind off this "the thing was, before that day, the mysterious leader of the scourge known only as the Overlord could not be traced, he never stayed in one place, and no one ever saw him."

"Then one day, the same day of Miss Wakeman's death, a structure appeared in the heart of Tremorton made out of vile and twisting metal. We are not sure, but we believe that the Overlord is inside, and that he is stuck there because of something Nora did before her death, something they were trying to stop"

Jenny thought about that, and it made sense. Her mom would have gone down fighting like that.

Thinking about her mom brought Jenny back to the present. "Did the Cluster have anything to do with this?" she asked.

"I'm coming to that, hold on" The Silver Shell said "after that, the other XJs, already reactivated for the earths protection, were upgraded for combat. After that, all the nations, many of their capitals having been destroyed, united under one banner: the resistance. Culture, religion, all was secondary to our own survival, and we knew it."

"The fight was out in the open very little, gorilla warfare being our preference. A lot of things happened in that time, from Tuck joining us about 3 years ago, to Brads death, to the near extermination of the XJ line." He said with a sad tone.

"Ironically, one of our major allies in the war was Vexus and her Cluster"

"WHAT? The Cluster? But they are my worst foes! How could the Scourge fight against them?" Jenny asked, now very confused.

Silver Shell took a deep breath and continued "Most of the Cluster joined us out of necessity, their attempts to reason with the Scourge failed, and they two were assaulted. They had no choice bout to help, and while we held up the fort on earth, the cluster drew there attention into space. The Cluster was eventually destroyed, a little less then a year ago, with the destruction of Cluster Prime. Vexus is missing, presumed dead"

"The destruction of...you mean they destroyed an entire PLANET?" Jenny said, shocked at the mere concept of such horror. She had hated the Cluster, but killing off an entire planet was beyond anything she could imagine.

"Yes" Shell said "there mother ship has a weapon that can do that, we believe that the only reason they have not is because there Overlord cannot leave the planet"

Silver Shell paused, then said "Not that they did not try to harm us, the most notable was about two years ago, when they scorched the atmosphere. The resulting fire storm hurt us both, and since then the sky has been blood red, and not a single plant can grow on it's own" he said.

"Our situation has become increasingly despite, and there were recent rumors of a secret Scourge project to cross into another world. I guess we know it's true now."

Jenny simply stared into space, taking in all that she had heard. A whole new world, plagued by a great enemy, where SHE was their greatest foe.

"So, why are you guys here?" Jenny asked.

Tuck cut in, wanting some attention "We were on a mission to confirm the rumors of a dimensional shifting device here, we were just about to fight those robots you saw, when there was this weird energy pattern on my scanner, then poof, here we are." He finnished

Jenny though for a moment, then heard XJ-6 say from the other room "So, when would you guys like to head home?"

Meanwhile...

Brad was walking home, thinking about what had been a nice day had ended on such a sour note.

He was walking along an empty street, when it happens.

"Ugh, my head" he said as a splitting headache and dizziness took him. He tried to shake it off, but it only got worse, until he was down on his knees in pain. As he passed out, the last thing he remembered was seeing a red sky...

To be continued...

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Well, that was interesting, are you all glad to know the truth now?

Hold on, because I'm not done yet!