BIGGER
"Is that tea almost done?" Present Mic shouted from a mile away. "Feels like this test's been going on for four weeks."
"Yeah, hurry up on that," Power Loader chimed in. "I think I'm running out of robots."
"How are you running out of robots? You've got Borg and Cybermen out there. Aren't those the same thing?"
"They're not, you philistine! One's a cybernetic hivemind that incorporates any organics they run across in Star Trek, and the other is a cybernetic hivemind that incorporates any organics they run across in Doctor Who."
"Enough, you two," Aizawa snapped. "Five more minutes on the tea. Then we get to clean up this mess."
Nezu, having heard that, stopped sending orders to the army of robots at his fingertips and called up the big boys.
Off in Test Area C, which lacked a walking weapon of mass destruction or a walking weapon of mass destruction with attitude problems, Koda and Mineta huddled together in a cramped hollow beneath a toppled building with a group of terrified, generic students. Just outside their meager shelter, a swarm of Daleks floated past, shouting "Exterminate" in tinny voices as they fired lasers at some poor victim. Cybermen stomped past, stopping to peer into the abode as the students all scurried behind rocks before moving on.
"Dude, are those flying trash cans? I bet we could take those."
"You bet we could take the battle droids, and look where we ended up," another student snapped, who sported blaster burns on his back. "Just shut up and hope we don't get caught."
"Should we make a break for it?" one whispered.
"Are you kidding?" Mineta asked. "Last time we tried, this human-looking robot yeeted me into a wall. I'm still picking masonry out of my hair!" He pulled a brick out from behind his ear and said, "See!"
Koda wished he had an animal to talk to. Of course, they all had the sense to flee the area the moment robots from every major franchise opened fire in the streets.
A rumble in the ground silenced the students. The earth groaned as the largest opening yet slid open in their mock city. From the gaping abyss, a robotic leviathan, shaped like a bipedal dinosaur, lumbered onto the streets, shattering concrete and shaking the ground with each step. As it loomed over the ruined edifices around it, Mechagodzilla let out an ear-splitting roar that shattered every pane of glass around it.
As one wall gave out from the quakes, exposing the students both to the giant robot dinosaur and the assembled armies milling about the streets, Mineta fell to his knees, crying as he wailed, "I want to go home!"
The cyberman that threw Mineta half a mile didn't quite have the upper arm strength to oblige his request, but at least it made the effort.
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