OMG! Sorry this took so long, I HATE writers block! Here's the next chappie!
Thirteen: A Rescue
A small, blue humming bird zipped quickly along the Sewers of Jump City. Then, coming to the old, underground factory, it stopped and looked around. Robots walked here and there, not noticing their small, blue guest. Taking this opportunity, it zoomed over the heads of the humanoids, unnoticed.
It then flew into a room that was empty except for nine slabs with nine different people on them, all unconscious.
The bird flew over to the youngest one; Nightstar.
Her eyes began to open as she felt a small gush of wind by her face.
"Birdboy?"
The humming bird turned into human form and Birdboy began to work on her restraints.
"I'm getting you out of here," he said.
"Be careful," said Nightstar.
Suddenly, a sharp shot hit him squarely in the stomach, knocking him off his feet. He looked up and saw a robot army coming after him, weapons blazing.
He quickly turned into an emu and barreled through them, knocking many in the air. Then, ten robots jumped on his back, bringing him to the ground. Then, he turned into a condor and knocked them off. Then, turning into a vulture, he ripped off the head of a robot coming towards him and threw it into another's stomach.
But then, another shot took him out of the air, sending him crashing down.
When he could see again, he looked at the hundreds of robots coming toward him. He couldn't move. Suddenly –
SKEEEEET – KABLEWY!
Birdboy could merely blink as the front line of robots exploded after being hit by a thick ray of electricity. Then, a yellow hand came into his view. He broke out of his daze and looked up.
"Watch it, blueberry," said Drone. "I can't save your butt every time."
He smiled and took his hand, standing up.
"You OK?" said Hex.
"Yeah," said Birdboy.
"Ok," said Drone, "Hex and I'll take care of these toy soldiers, and you go get Nightstar. 'K?"
"Right," said Birdboy.
"So?" said Hex. "What are we waiting for!"
They split up.
Birdboy quickly turned into a woodpecker and flew above his teammates, who were in the middle of taking the ninjas apart ten by ten. He then started pecking like the wind on one of Nightstar's restraints.
"That's not working!" she said, panicked.
"Try the wires in the back!" said Richard, who had regained conciseness during the commotion.
He quickly flew to the back and ripped out a wire, causing her restraints to open, allowing her limp body to fall to the ground. Birdboy quickly turned into his human self and helped her up.
"Now listen to me," said Richard, "get out of here as fast as you can! And don't come back, you understand?"
"But," said Nightstar, "what about you? And Mom? And all the others?"
"Forget about us! Just go! GO!"
They began to run, and Drone and Hex, seeing this action, gave a few last blasts and followed after them.
They took off down the sewer made their escape.
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The Tower was quite that night.
Pete and Anna were sitting on the couch, Jessie leaned against a wall, and Mari merely looked over the city from the window.
Finally, Anna spoke.
"This is way more then we bargained for," she said. "We're over our heads. No way are we going to defeat a robot army…"
"And Mr. Grayson said to stay out of it," said Jess. "He said to leave it alone."
Pete merely looked over at Mari, who hadn't said anything all night.
"You're still going after them, aren't you?"
She looked over her shoulder and smiled.
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T.