Disclaimers: I don't own Ratchet and Clank. If I did, ammo for every weapon could be found in boxes.
Thanks, SLYFOXX, captain deoxys, Sarge11 and Gruntzilla for reviewing.
I dedicate this chapter to SLYFOXX for that great idea. I've made a few small changes to it, though.
Chapter Twenty-one: Raxamis, Part 1
"Your powers are impressive."
"Thanks, but those robots were easy to get by."
"That's true, Mr…er--"
"Heinous. Dr. Heinous."
"Ah. You're the one I've heard so much about."
"Ha! Didn't know I was a celebrity. Do you have a name?"
"They call me Shield."
"Nice to meat you, Shield."
Heinous stood in a big, empty, square shaped room. Right now, he was speaking with a robot guard. Behind Heinous, laid a broken door and in the room before this, was a hallway, flooded with robot parts.
Shield was slightly taller than any of the identical troopers. There were two long blades, attached to his back. Also on his back, was a holster. Whatever the weapon, stashed in the holster, was unknown to Heinous. Shield was covered in platinum armour. On his chest, was a picture of a Jolly Roger, but it was of a trooper head and cross blades picture instead of a skull and crossbones. He had the face of a typical trooper; a V-shaped eye and no mouth or nose.
"Who are you, exactly?" asked Heinous.
"I'm the most powerful guard in this base," said Shield. "My job is to stand in the middle of this room ten hours a day and make sure no one reaches that room," he pointed behind him with his right thumb.
"What's in that room?"
"Very special tools."
"What a coincidence. I came here to collect these tools."
"What for?"
"If you let me through, you'll find out in a while."
"Okay," Shield stepped aside and held out a hand to the room of tools, "they're all yours."
"Thanks."
Heinous walked past the guard.
He was about to reach the door when a long, sharp blade, about the size of Chainblade's blade, landed right in front of him and made a small crack in the metal floor. The blade resembled the sword in the stone. Heinous screamed in surprise and fell on his butt.
"Oh, silly me," said Shield as he walked to his weapon. "Did I forget to mention that I'm programmed to terminate all who enter this room without clearance?" he walked past Heinous who was still on the ground.
"No," said Heinous as he got to his feet.
"Well then. I'm programmed to terminate all who enter this room without clearance." Shield pulled his blade out of the ground and stood in front of the door to the room of tools.
The hole where a door used to be was replaced by another door out of nowhere.
"Oh, come on," said Heinous, "you must let me through. I'm trying to make the galaxy a better place for robots by destroying all organic life-forms."
"Is that why you need these tools?"
"Yup."
"As much as I hate organics, I can't go against my programming," Shield said as he pointed his blade's point to Heinous' forehead.
"Okay then," Heinous smiled, "it's your funeral."
Shield unsheathed his other blade.
Heinous narrowed his eyes.
Both got into fighting stances.
Shield let out a war cry and charged at Heinous. The scientist merely stepped to his left and stuck out his right leg, causing Shield to trip.
Heinous jumped back a few feet and unleashed his tiny, yellow blasts from his hands. Shield spun his blade and deflected every blast. He charged towards Heinous again. Heinous turned around to face the wall. He ran to the wall. Shield was still charging. Heinous ran up the wall and did a back flip. He landed behind Shield. The scientist grabbed Shield from his shoulders, spun around and threw the guard.
The guard landed on his front and skidded to the middle of the room.
Heinous charged his power up and unleashed his yellow blast from his chest. Shield barely jumped out of the way. He landed on his hands and did a role.
Shield stood up.
Heinous was ready.
Shield held out the blade in his right hand. The tip began to charge bright blue. A small ball of energy was 'expelled' from the blade's tip at Heinous.
Heinous thought he could deflect it with a single swipe. He was dead wrong. Before the ball could come in contact with Heinous, it exploded. The scientist was flung into the wall. He then fell down on his front. There was a hole in the shape of Heinous' outline in the wall.
"You're gonna pay for that!" Heinous bellowed.
The scientist stood up.
"Oh, am I?" Shield remarked.
Heinous sprinted towards Shield. The guard began firing more blasts from his sword. Heinous sprouted his wings and took to the air. He dodged the blasts will ease. He reached behind him, formed a green ball of energy and dropped it. The ball landed behind Shield and exploded. The shockwave sent Shield falling backwards.
Heinous was right above Shield. The robotic wings contracted and the scientist was falling, his hands shooting yellow blasts. Shield spun his blades to deflect them, but Heinous was getting closer.
The scientist landed on one of Shield's spinning blades. Because of the sudden weight, Shield stopped spinning. The guard grabbed Heinous' ankles with one hand and flung the robot to the right.
Before Heinous hit the wall, he shot a small disk from his mouth. The disk his on of the blades and broke it in two.
Shield got up and starred at his broken blade. Heinous, getting up from his second crater in the wall, smirked.
Shield growled and flung the broken weapon at Heinous. Heinous just ducked and the weapon hit the wall.
Shield still had his other blade. He began firing at the scientist.
Heinous shot another yellow blast at the guard. The blast hit the guard in the chest, causing him to fall on his butt yet again. This is what Heinous needed.
The scientist crouched and put his left hand on the floor. His other hand clenched into a fist. He punched the ground and pushed his fist inwards. Blue and yellow sparks ran down Heinous' right arm into the ground. He kept his fist under the floor. A few feet away, a large, bright blue ball of energy, with yellow sparks emerged from the floor.
The ball started bouncing towards the recovering guard. The guard was struck by the attack and flung into the wall. He stuck to the wall for a few seconds before falling down. There was a crater where he struck the wall.
Heinous smiled and said, "Now you know how it feels."
Shield stood up, screamed and ran at Heinous. The guard was loosing his cool.
Shield swiped his blade horizontally. Heinous ducked.
Shield tried a punch. Heinous grabbed the fist, turned the guard around and kicked him in the rear. The guard stumbled forwards.
Shield growled, spun around and threw his blade at Heinous.
Heinous wasn't ready. The blade hit his right hand and sent him to the wall in shear force.
Luckily, there where no craters.
Heinous looked to his right. The blade had impaled his hand and stuck itself into the titanium wall. Although he didn't feel any pain, Heinous was stuck. The scientist's yellow eyes widened when he saw Shield running towards him.
Heinous tried to pry the blade loose from his hand. He knew fixing his hand wouldn't be a hard task.
The scientist was knocked out from his thinking when Shield slammed his fist into Heinous' face.
Shield punched again and again and again and again and again…
Heinous had enough. He grabbed Shield's incoming, left fist with his left hand and squeezed hard. Sparks emerged from the hand before it broke into several pieces.
Shield gasped.
"Now, we're even," said Heinous, gesturing to his impaled hand by cocking his head to the right.
Shield growled and aimed his right fist at Heinous. The scientist, grabbed the fist with his feet, pushed it away and uppercut Shield in the chin with his left fist.
Shield went flying, hit the ceiling and fell to the cold ground.
Heinous gathered all his strength and pulled the blade out from his hand and dropped the weapon. He examined his hand. There was a small slit in the palm and the middle finger was missing.
Not a problem; he could easily fix it.
Heinous walked up to the blade and picked it up with his good hand. He then slammed the weapon on his head, shattering it.
Shield got to his feet. He looked at his opponent. Heinous twirled a piece of the broken blade.
"Looks like you have no more attacks other than those lame blade swipes," said Heinous with his arms crossed, "I thought you'd be more of a challenge. I guess I'm more powerful than I thought and this body isn't even a month old. I'm just discovering my new powers. I haven't even used all of them."
"I'm not done yet!" exclaimed Shield.
Shield flew to the middle of the room, propelled by jets on his feet. The guard reached into the holster, tied to his back, and pulled out a R.Y.N.O II.
Heinous' eyes widened.
"I hope your favorite colour's blue!" Shield yelled.
"Actually, my favorite colour's orange," muttered Heinous.
Shield held his finger on the trigger and let loose a wave of blue bullets. The bullets spiraled towards the scientist.
Heinous' reflexes kicked in.
The scientist ducked, arched forward, arched backwards, arched left, arched right, flipped left, flipped right, flipped back, flipped forward, rolled, jumped, crawled, kart wheeled, leaped, jogged, deflected, spun, ran, blocked, tumbled and tap-danced to avoid the onslaught of the R.Y.N.O II's bullets.
Heinous jumped up and his wings came out from his back. Shield kept firing.
'Just a little longer,' thought Heinous, 'you'll be running outta ammo soon.'
Heinous unleashed his yellow beam from his chest. Shield dove out of the way.
Heinous shot multiple disks from his mouth. Shield zigzagged out of the way.
Heinous soared towards Shield. The guard panicked and shot two bullets. Heinous dodged one but he the other one hit his left wing.
"Crap," Heinous mumbled.
The scientist fell to the ground and skidded towards Shield. When he stopped skidding, he was only a few inches away from the guard.
Shield held the R.Y.N.O II to Heinous' head.
"Like I said," Shield began, "'I'm programmed to terminate all who enter this room without clearance'."
Heinous closed his eyes.
Shield pulled the trigger.
Nothing.
"Huh?" Shield looked at the gun. He pointed it at Heinous and pulled the trigger several times like a madman.
He was out of ammo.
"Oh fu--" Shield started but was cut off when Heinous punched him in the chin.
Before the guard could be sent flying from the blow, Heinous grabbed his leg. The scientist spun the guard over his head until the joints gave way and Shield flew into the crater he made earlier, only this time with only one leg.
Heinous looked at his hand to see that he was holding a leg.
"Cool," he said and tossed the leg aside.
Shield got up and stood on one leg. He was still holding the R.Y.N.O II. He threw the ammoless weapon at Heinous. Heinous effortlessly caught the weapon and chucked it back at Shield.
The weapon struck Shield's other leg and broke it off. The guard fell down. He saw Heinous marching to him. Shield started to crawl away as fast as his arms could pull him.
Heinous caught up and planted a foot on Shield's back. With his working hand, he pulled Shield's arms off and tossed them aside. He flipped Shield over, reached down and pulled the guard's head off.
He held the severed, but still working, head above his own, charged his power up and blasted the body to pieces with his chest laser.
He then dropped the head to the floor.
"Please don't," Shield begged.
Heinous raised his foot.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Heinous stopped. He knelt down and said, "Ya know what? I'll let you go, cuz I want you to see me when I destroy all the squishies in the galaxy."
Heinous stood up and walked towards the door to the room of tools, away from the head.
"You can't just leave me here like this!" Shield yelled after Heinous.
Heinous kept walking but said, "True. But I hear the robot guard is checked once a week."
"I was checked yesterday!"
"Then you have a long week ahead of you," Heinous chuckled.
The scientist went to where Shield's blade struck his hand. He looked at the floor, searching for something. His narrowed eyes scanned the hard steel. Then he spotted it.
"Ah there it is," he said and picked his middle finger up.
Heinous approached the door. There was a number pad on the right. The robot scratched his chin. He turned around to face the head.
"What's the code?" Heinous asked.
"Eight, eight, one, five, one, four, one, eight, one, nine, nine, one," Shield said.
Heinous punched in the numbers and the door slid open.
"Lotta ones," Heinous joked with a smirk.
Shield grumbled to himself.
Heinous entered and stared at the items stored in the room.
"It's beautiful…" he fluttery breathed with his hands cupped together as if he was going to pray.
There where several tools lined up neatly on a tall and wide case of shelves. Up to fifty tools. Heinous didn't even know what some of them were for. He didn't care, because he was going to take every single one of them. The extras might come in useful. But how would he take them?
Heinous was so overconfident about this, that he didn't even formulate a plan. The robo roosters where on Planet Horax, helping Albert with his stuff. And the troopers were guarding the ship. Sandy was too short to fly the cargo ship.
Heinous looked around for something that could help in transportation.
His yellow eyes stopped on a red hover vehicle. This vehicle looked like a scooter except the part where the driver was supposed to stand on was longer and wider. Up front, there were two levers, a pedal and a keyboard with several buttons, supported by a metal pole in between the levers. This would do.
He loaded every tool onto the vehicle. He pressed the button and the vehicle rose.
"Hmm," Heinous wondered to himself, "I wonder what this button does."
He pressed the button. Suddenly, small compartments in the hover vehicle's sides opened. Hundreds of roped came out from the right side, went over the tools and wedged themselves in the holes on the left side. The tools were secure.
Heinous was about to steer this hover vehicle, when he remembered he was still missing a finger.
He reached behind him and pulled out some random tool that resembled a ray gun. With his left hand, he held the apparatus, pressed its only button and aimed at his damaged right hand. A green ray was emitted from the gadget and the slit was gone.
He then jumped off the vehicle, put his right hand on the floor with the palm facing upwards, placed his finger near its socket, picked up the ray gun-like with his left hand, aimed and pushed the button. The same green ray was produced and the middle finger was in place.
He then extended his left wind and fixed the hole.
Heinous smiled and jumped back on the vehicle.
He steered the vehicle to face the shelves. The robot charged his chest up and shot his yellow beam at the shelves.
The beam crashed through the shelves and through the wall, leaving a gapping hole. Heinous pressed his foot on the acceleration and the vehicle hovered forward at full speed, out of the base, and into the open air over the ocean.
Heinous turned the vehicle around and drove towards the island where his ship was parked. The carrier flew at respectable speed over the water. The tools hadn't fallen out.
It was going to be a ten minute ride. If Heinous still had his nose, he'd inhale the salt air.
The wind kicked at his antennas.
Suddenly, an alarm went off and a large door, facing the sea opened. Ten robots flew out, arm guns loaded.
(Author's Note: These robots are those bigass robots with no legs. The hover and shoot from their hands. Ratchet and Clank first encountered them on Planet Daxx)
"RRRRUGH!" Heinous growled. "How many damn robots does this base have?"
The scientist slammed his foot on the acceleration. The transporter picked up speed. So did the robots.
One robot fired and hit the back of the vehicle.
Heinous pressed another button and a shield formed over the tools, protecting them.
However, Heinous was still open for attacks.
All the robots began firing at the vehicle. The shield remained up.
One robot appeared on the vehicle's left and another on the right.
Heinous let go off the levers and held his arms out in a crucifix position and fired his yellow hell.
The bullets hit the robots and they fell into the ocean, destroyed.
"Two down and eight to go," Heinous said with a smirk.
He saw a button that said 'AUTO-PILOT'. He knew where the ship was. He could see the island from where he flew to the base. He aimed the ship straight at the island and pressed the 'AUTO-PILOT' button.
The scientist let go off the controls, turned around and literally jumped onto the shield. Although the shield was dome shaped, Heinous kept his balance.
The eight pursuing robots zeroed in on the scientist.
Heinous held his arms out and fired his yellow bullets. He managed to struck another two robots, sending them crashing into the cold waters.
The remaining six fired. Heinous had nowhere to run and if he flew, he'd lose the vehicle and the tools. He started firing his yellow bullets at the oncoming blasts, but it wasn't enough. He shot three disks from his mouth. Each disk met its target.
"And then there where three," Heinous said.
Suddenly, he stopped firing his yellow bullets and let the pound him. He began powering up.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!" Heinous yelled loudly.
His arms spread and his head arched back as he unleashed a powerful wave of pure, red energy on the robots. The robots were the robots destroyed, but the entire base also perished along with them. Millions of debris fell everywhere.
This attack had good range.
Heinous panted. That attack had cost him a lot of energy.
(Author's Note: Hey, if Nefarious could cough like a madman in Metropolis, then Heinous can pant)
"Woops," he said. The attack hadn't cost him his sense of humor.
He jumped off the shield and landed in front of the controls. He switched off the auto-pilot and guided the ship the vehicle to its island destination.
"… and this is the food court, where delicious foods are served to the hardworking people of the Phoenix," Qwark said. "Like me."
Ratchet rolled his eyes.
Nefarious was silent throughout the entire tour Ratchet and Qwark were giving him and Lawrence.
"Ya know," Nefarious began, suddenly, "you don't have to tell about this place, cuz I don't eat."
"Well, it's good to know where everything is," Ratchet said, "encase you need us and--"
"I won't need you," Nefarious spat.
Lawrence winced.
"Moving along..." Qwark said.
The group walked into Ratchet's quarters.
"And this," Qwark said, "is where Ratchet has played all my vid-comics, teaching him about all my adventures. The makers even added you as a boss in the forth game, Nefarious."
Nefarious looked at Qwark, "They did?"
"Yessery. But, like all my amazing adventures, Ratchet managed to beat you and the other vid-comics." Qwark flexed his muscles.
"Including 'The shaming of the Q'," Ratchet added with a smirk.
Qwark stopped flexing.
"Not that I want to, but…" Nefarious said, "but… could I play the vid-comic which features me as a boss?"
"Sure," Ratchet said. "Do you know how to play?"
Nefarious smiled sand said, "Of course. I may be an evil genius, but I have to something in my free time."
Ratchet nodded and went to his stash of vid-games and pulled out 'Deja 'Q' all over again'.
Ratchet was about to put the vid-comic in the VG9000, when Qwark said, "Not so fast!" He waved a finger.
Ratchet looked up and said, "What?"
"If Nefarious is gonna play my adventures, then he'll play all of them in order."
"But--"
"But nothing. Get 'Booty is in the eye of the beholder'."
Ratchet grumbled to himself and did as he was told. He wasn't in the arguing mood.
He put the vid-comic in the VG9000.
Everyone sat down on the couch; Nefarious in the middle, Lawrence on the right edge, Qwark on Nefarious' right and Ratchet on Nefarious' left.
Nefarious grabbed the joystick.
Qwark's grinning face flashed on screen. Qwark's logo appeared. The music started. The professor's voice spoke.
Professor's voice: "These are the real adventures of Captain Qwark…"
"… and then, I broke his hand into several pieces," Heinous told Sandy.
Somehow, the sand shark understood and howled in awe.
"Yeah, you should have been there."
Sandy faced the ship's front window and started growling.
"What is it, girl?" Heinous asked.
Sandy stood on her right foot and pointed her left foot towards the window. Heinous looked out.
There seemed to be something, floating in space.
Heinous pressed his face against the glass and narrowed his eyes.
"What is that thing?"
The 'thing' came into closer view. It was shiny. As it came closer, it looked as if it had arms, legs and a head.
Heinous brought the ship to a stop. He pressed a button and a robotic arm with a claw came out from under the cockpit. Heinous took control of a joystick and made the hand move forward. When the claw was almost touching the object, Heinous pressed a button and the claws grabbed it.
"Gotcha!" Heinous exclaimed.
Heinous guided the claw back to the ship.
"Unknown object acquired," came an artificial voice.
Heinous pressed another button.
"Please wait," the voice said.
Sandy whimpered.
Heinous patted his pet. "Awww. Don't worry. What's the worst that could happen?"
Before Sandy could make another sand shark sound, the two chairs in the back of the room moved backwards and separated into corners. The floor slid open and suspended animation pod rose up. The claw, hanging from the pod's 'ceiling' carried the unknown object from its foot.
Heinous knelt down near the glass and rubbed his chin. He looked into the pod.
"I can't see it," Heinous thought aloud, "there seems to be some sort of material in the way."
Sandy barked a sand shark bark.
"Good idea," Heinous said to Sandy.
The scientist went back to the console and pressed another button. Two small, thin, robotic hands came out of a compartment in the pod's inner top. Heinous used a joystick to guide them through the pod. The hands neared the edge of the material. Heinous squeezed the joystick, causing the hands to grab the material. He robotic hands pulled the material up. Heinous smiled.
"Now let's see what you look l--" Heinous gasped.
Qwark's voice: "What? Blackwater City's under attack? Yes, sir, I'm on my way!"
Professor's voice: The excitement continues, (cough) yeah (cough) right. Ahem. The adventure continues in Qwark Vid-comic Episode Two."
Nefarious switched off the VG9000. He had just played through 'Booty is in the eye of the beholder'.
"Man, Nefarious," said Ratchet, "you're good."
"Next game, sir?" asked Lawrence.
"What? Oh! Yeah," Nefarious said.
Ratchet put the vid-comic in the game console.
"Hard to believe you got through there so quickly," Ratchet said.
"I'll tell you how after I beat all of these Qwark vid-comics," said Nefarious, his hands on the joystick.
Qwark's grinning face flashed on screen. Qwark's logo appeared. The music started. The professor's voice spoke.
Professor's voice: "Qwark Vid-comic Episode Two 'Arriba Amoeba'. A horrible evil was gathering in the depths of Blackwater City. A horrible evil, known as 'Amoeboids'. Born in the labs of a twisted scientist, named 'Dr. Nefarious'"…
Heinous stood in front of the base, outside his cargo ship, carrying Sandy under his arm. Four troopers were carrying the detached pod. The stolen tools rested on the hover vehicle outside. Heinous had just called Albert the same way as last time. He had also sent a radio signal to the robo roosters to accompany Albert.
The Big Room's doors opened and Albert, followed by robo roosters, ran out.
When the butler reached Heinous, he said, "You yelled, sir?"
"Have the constructobots I sent finished what I told them to?" Heinous asked Albert.
"The fifteen you sent to make or find those magnifying glasses couldn't find any, so they started making them. They were on their last one last time I checked."
"And the crane and pod?"
"The crane is finished, but the pod isn't."
"Okay," he pointed at the robo roosters with his free hand and said, "Take that pod," he pointed at the pod which the troopers were carrying, "to the lab in the twenty-seventh floor and put the object inside the pod on one of the tables and wait there."
The robo roosters nodded and took the pod out of the troopers' hands and marched towards the base.
"Again with the pods," Albert complained. "Sir! What's in that pod? And, why did you ask the constructobots to build you another one?" Albert crossed his arms in front of his chest.
Heinous put a claw on the blarg's shoulder and said, "I can't tell you why I ordered the constructobots to build a pod. But, I can tell you what's in the other pod. Come." Heinous started walking to the base, followed by Albert, when he said without turning around, "Troopers, take the tools and stolen vehicle to The Big Room. Once that's done, guard the ship."
The two walked to the base.
Qwark's voice: What? I held my breath."
"Well done, Nefarious," said Ratchet.
"Thanks, Ratchet. And thanks for that cheat code to unlock Qwark's special costumes," said Nefarious.
Qwark cursed under his breath.
"Okay, get me the next came," said Nefarious, the joystick in his hands.
Ratchet got the next game. Before he put the vid-comic on the VG9000, he said to Nefarious, "Who knew you were so good at videogames?"
"Guy's gotta have fun, you know."
Ratchet put the vid-comic in the VG9000.
Qwark's grinning face flashed on screen. Qwark's logo appeared. The music started. The professor's voice spoke.
Professor's voice: Qwark Vid-comic Episode Three 'Shadow of the robot'. For six days, Captain Qwark…"
Heinous and Albert walked down the hall in on the twenty-seventh floor.
"… and if he beats you, he and Lawrence will go back to the asteroid."
"Uh huh."
"'Uh huh'? Sir, didn't you listen? Your stepbrother is back and he has teamed up with the organics to beat us."
"I heard every word, Albert."
The three turned right.
"Well? Aren't you astonished? Or irate? Your brother--"
"Stepbrother!" Heinous help a finger up.
"Right. Your stepbrother survived the explosion, sir! Aren't you the least bit annoyed?"
They turned left.
"Nope. In actual fact, this is a good thing, Albert."
"Come again?"
"Think about it, Albert. I'll be able to beat him again. Humiliate him again. Throughout our childhood together, I always tormented him. This will be another chance to prove that I'm the better brother."
"Don't you mean 'stepbrother', sir?"
"Whatever. Anywho, Vince is a loser. He has always been a loser. He will always BE a loser. This will just be another chance to rub it in his face again."
"You can be quite sadistic at times, sir."
"I try."
The three came up to a steel door. The door slid to the right and Heinous and Albert walked into the lab.
The lab was a cross between a lab and a hospital room. Blue walls, floor and ceiling. This room was very long. There were five tables lined up in a row. One computer with a big keyboard. A few desks. And, lastly, an empty--but soon to be filled with stolen tools--closet.
The ten robo roosters stood in a line, awaiting orders.
The pod lay horizontally on the table, the object still inside.
Heinous sat Sandy down and said, "Stay."
Heinous then walked up to the pod. He grabbed one side with one hand while the other hand held the pod steady. With all his might, Heinous turned one part clockwise like a childproof cap. The 'cap' came off and was set down on another table. Heinous reached both hands in, grabbed the object and started pulling it out.
Albert, who had been watching silently, said, "Sir? Are you sure that's ethical?"
"Let's hope that this thing doesn't know what 'ethical' means," replied Heinous, who had already pulled out one half.
Heinous placed the multicoloured object on a separate table.
"Robo roosters," said Heinous, "Put the pod in my cargo ship's cockpit. Then send five constructobots here. Lastly, go to my room and wait."
The robots nodded. Some picked up the pod, others picked up the lid. Heinous, Albert and the object were alone.
Heinous took some items from the object and put them in the closet. Albert looked at the object. Heinous also looked.
The object was none other than a robot. The shocking part was that it looked like Dr. Nefarious. There were a few differences, though. Those differences being that it was one foot shorter than Nefarious and Heinous, who were both the same height. The torso was metallic green. There was an emerald green colour from the shoulders, to the tips of the fingers. The hips downwards were grayish blue. The bottom part of the head was grayish blue like the hips downwards. The neck was also grayish blue. The top of the head--that being the pointy part--was dark mauve. The insides couldn't be seen. The pointy, purple part of the head had a big, green 'R' in its centre. There was a twelve inch, vertical crystal that had a bright azure colour. The eyes were closed.
"So… What should we call it?" asked Albert.
"It has to begin with the letter 'R'."
"How about 'Rover'?"
Heinous gave Albert a confused look.
"'Robert'?"
"No."
"'Randy'?"
"Nope."
"'Rex'?"
"Uh uh."
"I give up, sir."
Just then, five constructobots entered the room.
Heinous noticed this and said to the robots, "Ah, you're here. I'll be leaving, so don't do anything."
"Sir, what did you put in the closet?" asked Albert.
"I put a purple cape and a utility belt."
"A cape and a utility belt? Maybe this robot is a superhero."
Heinous gave Albert another confused look.
"Never mind."
Heinous left the table and made for the door.
"I haven't officially settled in. Come help me with my room, Albert."
Albert left the table. Heinous picked up Sandy and the three left. The only ones there were the constructobots and the robot.
Silence. Not even the constructobots moved. The computer was off and didn't make that humming sound computers make when they're all on.
Suddenly, the robot's eyes opened, giving off an orange colour. The robot turned its head, looked in the direction where Heinous and Albert left……… and blinked.