I LIVE!
I Hate to have left you for so long, I'v just had alot of shit on my plate. Won't bore you with the detales.
On to reviews!
Kojin-san
DUDE! sounds like your killing brad off just to add a little chaotic key to some of the heroe's snaping eh? well, I shall continue reading!!
(Jumps into the space/time continuum)
Yea, you keep telling yourself that. I don't just kill off characters like that, I'd have made it much more dramatic.
hyper monkey
...Whoa...clusters helping? That's oxymoron right there! They wanted to take over the human race and here they are ...protecting them...very oxymoron but anyways there goes all of my questions and stuff...ok I have to run now because Sheldon is in his Silver Shell outfit...and he's tracking me down...yeah bye! ::runs for dear life as Silver Shell fly's after me shooting with a laser gun::
Yea, it is unusual to have the cluster help, but I wanted to set up the idea that the scourge was worse then them, makes them seem scary.
IEATfood
Hey it's me 'hot choc' I'm reading your fic I'd have read it earlier but I didn't have the time...
it's very good I've already started initial sketches of alternate Tuck
I saw it; it rocked beyond anything I could have ever hoped for. I imagined the gloves and boots being bigger, and the helmet being more V shaped, but other than that it's all good.
Well, that's all. Enjoy this chapter.
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"What do you mean go home?" Silver Shell asked. "We can't head back until we..."
"Get the plans for the shifting device, which happen to be right here" XJ-6 stated from the other room.
Quickly, they all moved in, and saw the blueprints on the screen for a device of some sort.
"How did THAT get here?" Tuck asked, tilting his head to one side.
"Well, a recent file had it inside, but most of the data was deleted. This is all that's left. XJ-6 said with a note of disappointment, she had expected something more. "I can re-calibrate my recall device to take us home, but it will be a while before we can travel freely between worlds." She said.
"Right" said the Silver Shell, "we best head back to central command and tell them all we know, set the device up!" he ordered.
"Wait..." Jenny asked, "What's a recall device?"
"A one-way teleporting device that takes you instantly to a base with a teleport receiving point, we use it for quick escapes." Tuck said, seemingly proud that he knew so much. "It's actually made with cluster tech"
"Ready in a few minutes" XJ-6 said.
"Look" Jenny said "You guys need to take me with you"
All three figures were silent, and then XJ-6 cut in "NO WAY! We have enough trouble with one of you!" she practically screamed, "Besides, this is none of your business!"
That was the last straw, Jenny had put up with this girl's rude attitude, here distrust, even her all-out hostile attitude, but she was not going to put up with THAT!
"It is my business! There's an evil empire out there that could come here and wreck my world, and they have my mom!" she shot back at her "And I'm going, no matter how much you don't like it!"
There was a long pause, while everyone else looked on in shock.
Then to everyone else's surprise, Silver Shell started laughing.
"Well" He said after he was done "I really missed that attitude, looks like I have no choice, you can come."
Tuck grinned, happy to have Jenny along. XJ-6, however, was not so happy.
"WHAT? But sir, she..."
"Is coming with us, and that's that" Silver Shell said, a note of finality in his voice. "Take us back"
XJ-6 and Silver Shell glared at each other for a moment, then 6 backed down. She grumbled, and pressed a few buttons on her wrist.
Suddenly, a humming filled the air, and everything seemed to grow brighter. To an observer, it would look like the figures were turning into solid light.
Finally, there was a blue flash, and they were gone.
Leaving nothing but an empty house behind, with a single suspicious bug on the wall. It activated its robotic wings, and flew off. Its master would be pleased with its report.
Meanwhile...
"What's WRONG with him?" Tuck cried as the doctors examined the limp form of Brad. They had rushed him the hospital as soon as they found him.
Tucks mom and dad were away an a business trip, and there cell phone was not working, but Tuck had gotten the phone call, and came right down.
Now they were running all kinds of tests on him, while Tuck, practically in tears, watched from the sidelines.
Finally, a doctor came out to him.
"I'm sorry" he said "but he's in a coma"
"What? How? Why did this happen?" Tuck asked, his face full of sorrow.
The doctor shrugged his shoulders, and said, "Don't know, it's like his mind just left him..."
"What?" Tuck said "But...where is his mind?"
Meanwhile...
High in orbit around the scorched world below, the scourge fleet rested. Like a predator watching it's prey.
Within the hull of a particularly large ship, a new story was about to unfold...
"All systems online, wake up" a voice said.
A robot opened his eyes to take in all that surrounded him. It looked like a place for new robot designs, pieces and parts on tables everywhere, and half-finished robots stood here and there.
Before him, a strange orb floated, four arms coming out of his sides, and a robotic eye in the center was focusing on him. It spoke in the same voice he had heard before. "You are now fully operational."
"I am SC-12843, your creator and master. You owe your allegiance to the great scourge empire first, myself second, and no one third."
"You are Experimental Self-Aware Combat robot-5, the SACR-5. Codenamed: Epsilon" SC-12843 stated, "Do you understand?"
"Yes sir" Epsilon resonded in a strange voice, like a person with a deep voice speeking through a microphone. Then something odd happend in his mind, he started to think...
I'm a robot? Of course I am, why wouldentI be?. It just felt like...for a moment...like something was wrong with that.
"Excellent. I need to go tell the captain that you're done. Feel free to move about, but don't leave this room." SC said in his hi-pitched voice. He then hovered out of the room through a door that apparently opened itself, his multiple arms folded under him.
Finally by himself, Epsilon got a chance to examen his body.
His legs apperently bent bacwards instead of forwards, and ended in two massive feet. His upper torso was a bit oval shaped, and seemed to be able to move 360 degrees independently of his lower torso. His arms semmes rather long, and his left one ended in a gun of some sort. He was adorned with sholder pads, and his entire body was colored red and silver. Through a reflective piece of mettal, he saw his face. It was a slightly dome-shaped disk, with two green eyes looking out from it. There was no visible mouth, or any other features.
He looked around, and saw that he was standing on a platform with equitment to both sides. They looked perfect for makeing a robot.
After a few moments of dificulty, Epsilon managed to move himself around on his own, and did a few laps around the room to make shure he had it right.
Not haveing anything eltse to do, he stood and waited for his master to return.
While he did so, his mind wanderd. It did not have far to go, he had only existed for a few minets, and he knew so little.
Epsilon thought about his master...what the scorge empire was...why he had been made...Jenny...
Wait, who was Jenny?
Epsilon concintrated with all his might, but he could remember nothing. He wonderd where that name had come from.
Before he could think about this any more, SC-12843 returned through the door.
"Ah! I see you're up and about!" he stated
"That's good, because the captain wants you combat trained right away!"
To be continued…
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Well, that went well, looks like it's picking up now.
Send those reviews, or I'll wait another 3 weeks to update. You know I'll do it, too!
