I have gotten lots of reviews on this fic so in honour of that, I give you all one more chap. It is not the last one… I guess… you are all going to hate me after you have read this…
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Rock looked up through the window. Something felt wrong. Very wrong. And it wasn't the fact that Roll was beating him and Blues in the card game they were currently playing.
"How do you do that, Roll? I mean you have beaten us four times in a row!" Blues exclaimed and lay his cards on the table. He was getting tired of this…
Roll smiled and picked up the cards to mix them again. "Luck I guess. And you now own me a good back rub and my morning shift tomorrow" she smirked. "Hey, Rock, something wrong? You look distracted…"
Rock blinked and looked at Roll with a worried look. "I'm sorry, Roll. I just… something is wrong. At least feel wrong and I can't put my finger on it" he admitted.
Blues rubbed his chin as he listened to his brother. "Wrong, hu? Do you know anything that can be wrong?" he asked. He didn't like to see his brother like this. Now when Rock mentioned it, something did feel wrong. If he hadn't decided to spend time with his family he would have gone to look for whatever was bugging him.
"Are you busy´?"
Rock looked up to the door and saw his 'father' standing in the doorway with a newspaper in one hand. "Dr. Light! No no we aren't dong anything important at the moment. Why?" he asked and stood up.
Light sighed and sat down. "I couldn't avoid overhearing you, Rock. I might know what is bugging you" he said. He placed the newspaper he had brought with him on the table. "Look at this" he said and pointed to where he wanted them to look.
Roll picked up the paper and read out loud for her brothers.
"Two days ago an apartment was broken into violently around 11:00Pm. The owner of the apartment was not found at the scene but all evidence point to that a struggle broke out within the apartment. The police suspect that the owner has been kidnapped. Since no objects seemed to be missing the police don't suspect a robbery gone wrong. What ever more clues the police might have is not known"
Rock and Blues looked at each other. "Hu?"
Roll lifted one eyebrow and looked at Light. "I don't understand. What has this to do with Rock's worrying?" she asked.
The old man took the newspaper back and looked at his 'children'. "I know the owner of the building so I asked him about the name of the missing person. Ben Liwy is his name"
The three robots looked like living question marks.
But after a few minutes Blues figured it out. "I got it! LIWY is WILY when the letters are tossed around. But… Ben? That I can't figure out" he said and rubbed his head. "I hate guessing games…"
Light chuckled. "I know. That is how you were programmed" he said and then looked serious. "I was as confused as you were to a beginning since I knew that there was something that was bugging me about the name. Then I figured out the last name, but then again, it could just be a coincidence" he said. Lifting one hand he held up one forefinger. "But then I found out something that assured me that I was right. The person in the apartment had a dog. A big silver white dog"
"That sounds like Gospel" Blues cut him of.
The white haired man nodded once. "When I got that information I figured out who the person really was. Ben Liwy is Bass Wily"
Rock's heart stopped beating. Bass? "Oh my… Can we go there, Dr. Light! I really…"
"No need to explain, Rock. Go. I fear that Wily is the one that attacked the apartment and if he got his hands on Bass I fear the worst" Light said and stood. "Take Blues and Rush with you and come back in one piece" he said and hugged his son. "I hope for yours and Bass' sake that this will work out"
Roll hugged her brother to before going to the lab to prepare some energy tanks for the two.
Blues called for his armour and stretched his joints. "Let's hit it"
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"Oh my goodness… I didn't think it was this bad"
Rock felt ill as the two stepped in through what remained of the door. Aqua blue eyes scanned the scene before him.
The apartment wasn't that big with one living room, bedroom, bathroom and shower. The apartment looked like it had been neat and tidy before the attack. All furniture were flipped over, broken or burned. The floor and walls were scarred and covered in bloodish-red oil. Small balls of fur covered the once clean carpet. All in all, it suggested that a huge fight had broke out and someone had lost.
Blues dipped his finger in the oil on the wall and looked at it closely. "I guess we were right that it was a robot that lived here. No human could hurt a robot this bad" he said and looked at his now pale brother.
Rock shook his head. "If that human isn't Wily that will say. I know that Bass were here" he said and looked at the scene, trying to find something more.
Blues nodded. "At least we know that Treble were here. He was probably protecting Bass" he said and picked up a tuff of hair. "But if he lost or not… I don't know"
The blue robot shook his head. "I know that Bass made it out of here. Treble would never let anyone have Bass even if it cost him his life. The blood on the walls isn't from Bass" he said and sighed.
The red robot tilted his head. "How do you know?" he asked.
"Bass was built after my plans so he is like a copy of me. My blood doesn't look like that and I know that Bass' doesn't ether. I have seen so much blood in my life that I can almost identify the person by just one drop of it" Rock said and explored the apartment.
Blues followed his brother's example and started to explore the small apartment. He didn't have to go far though. "ROCK! Get in here!"
Rock dashed quickly to his brother's side to see what was wrong. He gasped when he saw what his brother had found.
A long trail of oilsh blood trailed from the door where the two robots were standing and ran all the way over to a torn down curtain that had piled on the ground. The room was as messy as the living room but not all that damaged. It was more bloody then any other part of the apartment. By the curtain pile, almost too bloody and torn to be recognized, lay…
"TERBLE!"
Rock ran forwards the wolf and kneeled beside the canine's head. Gently lifting the black bot's companion's head he rubbed one torn ear. He felt tears sting in the sides of his eyes as he looked into the unseeing eyes of the once proud wolf. "Oh, Treble…"
Rock cried and hugged the wolf to his chest, letting his tears flow. He could see that the wolf had suffered a lot before his systems had shut down. He had tried to drag himself to a safe place… wounded as he was he had tried. All that blood in the other room… it was Treble's, Rock was now sure of it. Trebles right ear had been ripped off and a huge gash ran from the canine's chest to his belly, reviling all inner workings that were now dead. The wolf's muzzle had tons of scratches and oil leaked from the nose, indicating that Treble had been punched hard. Treble's legs had been crushed and a big crack ran over his head, looking like someone had slammed their foot down on the wolf's head. Dead eyes were looked in a sad look, staring at the wall before them.
Blues kneeled down beside the two and shook his head. "He's gone, Rock. Looks like he has been for a while" he said and reached out to close the open eyes of the wolf. He felt ill and sad at once. Who could have done this to the wolf?
Blues rubbed Rock's shoulder as the smaller bot sobbed helplessly. After a few minutes he stood. "Rock, I know you are sad for Treble… but we must do him one favour and we must do it now"
Rock sniffled a little and looked up at his brother. "What do you mean, Blues? What favour? Revenge? You know I don't…"
"No, not revenge… ok that to but I'll handle that part. I mean, we must find Bass and protect him. That is what Treble tried to do. Let's finish his mission for him" he said and held out a hand forwards the blue bot. "What do you say?"
Rock smiled a little and nodded. "For Treble's sake" he said and stood up with Treble in his arms. "We can't leave Treble here, Blues. We must get him to the lab"
The red bot sighed and shook his head. "Treble is beyond all repairing, Rock. Light can't save him, no matter how much he tries" Blues said.
Rock nodded. "I know that, Blues… but…" he looked down at the wolf's bloody face. "… I don't want to leave him here. He deserves something better then this place. If anyone finds him here, he'll probably end up in a museum or the dump…"
"I have one idea, Rock" Blues said and walked over to the bot. Taking Treble's lifeless body in his arms he looked at his brother. "I'll take Treble to the lab and get him cleaned up. You can go after Bass" he said and turned around to leave the apartment with the wolf. Stopping in the doorway, he turned once more to face his brother. "Be careful, Rock"
"I will, Blues. I will"
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There… an update. Now stop pestering me! LoL… just kidding. I have no time for this fic so this might just be the last chapter. Who knows?
