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Titanium Showdown: Tale of the Zero Clones

Chapter Ten: The Gathering

Things seemed much different in the morning. Omni had stayed watch the entire night, and had nothing to report. Sapphire had stayed with him, to keep an eye on him she said. End and Whistler had made full recoveries in almost no time at all thanks to Omni's spare nanobots. Hunter still had some reservations, but Virus had spent three hours drilling questions at Omni and had come to trust him. He still hadn't told them much of anything about his past, and it didn't seem he was going to willingly.

"I think now is –" Hunter was cut off by an alarm sounding. The entire group ran to the massive holographic display to find that a massive wave of the Empire's enforcers were sweeping the area, probably looking for Omni and the rest of them. The main group was still a long way from their current position, but they would arrive in no less than three hours.

"This is terrible! What will we do!? They'll be here soon, and when they get here, I'm sure they'll find us!" End was panicking. Hunter gave him a sharp smack across the face.

"We'll have to fight them…"

"But --but, they'll kill us! There are too many!" Hunter hit him again.

"They'll do it faster if you're going to panic!"

"Ahem." Omni had something to say. "I believe I have a solution that will fit our needs effectively." Hunter stared contemptuously at him.

"Why should we listen? Our situation is hopeless as it is!"

"Not true." Omni remained calm, though Hunter was positively seething with anger. "It is true that if we stay here, we will be overrun, but I see this mobilization as a gift." Everyone else in the room was stupifyed. Virus was the first to speak up.

"How is this a gift?"

"Allow me to explain…"

Things were abuzz at Alpha Site. Sigma was angry, and when Sigma got angry, things went from bad to worse for everyone. He had dispatched the entire Enforcer army to find the final traitor dubbed "Omni.Zero". His scientists had projected that his newest project would take several more months to complete, but he ordered it finished today.

"L –l –lord Sigma, th –the prototype is finished." A terrified lab technician delivered the news to Sigma.

"See to it that it will not fail me! I demand assurance!"

"I –I'll get th –the docu—" Sigma fired a blast of energy and killed the studderring reploid.

"I'll get them myself." He stormed down the vacant hallways to the room where the scientists were madly trying to finish 'Project X-II'. "Which of you is in charge!?"

"I am, your lordship." A tall reploid wearing a white labcoat stepped forward."I am informed the project is complete, where is the proof that this thing will not malfunction!?"

"Right here, your lordship." The reploid produced a packet of paper with code on it. "It's hardcoded into this one."

"Good. I want this ready to dispatch within the hour."

"Yes your lordship."

Omni had finished explaining what he planned.

"We either die here and take a few enforcers with us, or we do some real damage." There was general agreement among everybody. "Then we should go now."

"Alright, just let me take care of something first. Then, I'll be ready to leave, Omni." Omni nodded at Virus. Virus stood up and walked down the hallways to the room he had bee using. He looked around for Rush. "Hey Rush. Rush, where are ya?"

"Wha--? I'm over here." Virus walked over to Rush and picked up the small robot.

"Hey Rush… we're going to be leaving again, but this time, nobody's gonna be here to keep you company. So, I need you to do something for me, alright?" Rush made the peculiar motion of a nod. "Ok, I want you to hide Rush; hide until I get back, but if I'm not back in the next two days… then you need to get away from here –far away from here. Alright?"

"You'll be back soon though, right? And X too, right? He's been gone a long time, and he told me he'd play games with me when he got back." Virus couldn't help but smile at the childlike innocence that only Rush still had.

"I hope so Rush. Now, I need you to promise me that you'll do everything I've said. Okay? Promise me"

After some delay, Rush promised, and Virus got back up and walked to the door. "Good-bye Rush." After he sad good bye, Virus walked back to the rest of the group. "Alright, we can go now."

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