EPISODE 6 THE TRUE MEANING OF TEAMWORK
Date Monday august 25th 2014
Time 2:30 pm
location Earth, tremorton high school
It was a fine day at tremorton high school, Tyler, Jenny and brad were hard at work with their individual tasks that their teacher assigned to them alongside the students in class,
"geez, we are really on it today," said Jenny as she was doing her best to complete the worksheet presented to her,
"you bet Jenny," replied Tyler, nearly finishing up his worksheet, sharing jenny's pain
brad was also hard working on his work alongside the other students in class, then after a few minutes of writing and filling out questions, the bell rung and the teacher spoke up, as she had an announcement to make,
"class, this week we have a big pronouns test this upcoming Thursday, you will all each have a guide on pronouns" the teacher announced "like when to use who and when to use whom, you can even have a study group after school, you may use index cards, highlighter and markers, and we encourage you to answer practice questions, remember class you have 3 days to prepare,"
"only 3 days, that may take up most of the week," spoke Tyler
"yeah, but either way we're in this together" encouraged brad
"now each group have their names written on this chalkboard, the leaders of each group will be the captain," the teacher spoke as she picked up a piece of chalk and began writing on the board, "John will be captain of group #3, his team will have Micheal and Susan," then soon enough it was down to the final 3 "the final team's captain, will be Tyler, his teammates will be Jenny, and brad," the teacher finished, she later explained that they may study at the library of the high school afterwards, that who ever's team, or teammates scores the most and have been tallied will be permitted to enter a pizza party the day after the test on Friday
after the teacher passed out the index cards, markers and the highlighters, the class was dismissed as the bell rung right on time, and the band of friends was off to their next class,
"geez a pronoun test, you'd thin giving out a math would be punishment" exclaimed brad,
"a math test is just as hard," replied Jenny "and beside if we don't do well, a pizza party's on the line!"
"jenny's right brad, now's not the time to lament," encouraged Tyler,
"and we'll have to come right back for study anyways," Jenny added "I'd better call mom and let her know about this,"
"please do Jenny," replied Tyler "dr wakeman worries about you a lot,"
"and worst case in senerio, she could pick us up," added brad,
"she'd pretty much love to," answered Jenny,
"ture, but right now, let's focus on the class in front of us" Tyler said as the group continued on, but little did they know, they would soon have bigger problems..
meanwhile, at the royal palace of cluster prime, queen vexus sat upon her throne upon the place's control tower, reminding on the past events, she couldn't believe what transpired...
"unthinkable..." growled vexus "that after all I went through, to have xj9, their most powerful weapon, as my obedient pet, and with one scream from a fleshing, another robot rose up and took my most prized possession from me! disgraceful!"
she slammed her mechanical fist on her throne's arm, the drones surrounding her shook,
"they will both suffer for this humiliation," vexus vowed "xj9, with or without you, the earth will be mine, soon enough once my troops complete the device for this very purpose,"
then, as the ruler of cluster prime pondered about her revenge, the main door slid open with 2 cluster drones entering to report to vexus,
"my queen," the drones bowed
"ah my faithful troops," greeted vexus, "what news do you bring me?"
"the weapon you have devised is nearly ready to launch my queen," one of the drones reported,
"excellent," said vexus pleased with the news "and the latest lines of our military offense power?"
"the cluster super robot series, has been initiated my queen" another of the drones reported "our engineers, including your inventor, krackus had been assigned to create the first in the line, improving from our previous mega cluster drone enforcer,"
"perfect," commended vexus "this may be more then a match for that so called "firebird", while this other device shall force xj9 to join our regime,"
"what are your next orders my queen?" asked a drone
"when the device is completed you are to sneak past the humans, and implant the device in one of their structures," commanded vexus, "when the device is activated and our newest enforcer is complete, send them both out to destroy the earth and those two robots!"
"understood my queen," the drones acknowledged
"good, you are all dismissed," vexus waved off as the drones left the large chamber, "that other robot, "firebird" will regret he ever interfered in my affairs!" she laughed as she was looking forward to watching earth's destruction...
Time 5:00 pm
meanwhile back on earth, the threesome study group were just exiting the library of tremorton high after completing their study session, already making their way out to the exit of the high school
"whew, haven't been forced to stay inside school longer in a while" exclaimed brad tired from the long hours of study,
"nor have I ever been in a study group" added Jenny
"not ever been in a study group Jenny?" questioned Tyler in surprise
"not since everyone gave me a hard time," lamented Jenny,
"well, I for one am glad bard and I could change that," reassured Tyler,
"yeah jen," added brad "if there's any study I would be in, there's none I'd rather be but with you and Tyler,"
"thanks guys" Jenny awed receiving encouragement from true friends,
having making their way to the exit, they saw the sky nearly at sunset and there waiting for them, was dr wakemans van, with the brilliant scientist rolling down the window to see her child, with her study buddies,
"hello xj9!" dr wakeman greeted and waved to Jenny
"hi mom" Jenny waved back with a smile
"good to see you dr wakeman" Tyler smiled,
"have you had a good day at school today?" dr wakeman asked them
"we sure have mom!" answered Jenny, as the group of friends then got inside of dr Wakeman's van and drove away back to the Wakeman residence
"anything happen at school?' dr wakeman asked
"turns out the school is giving out a big pronouns test this upcoming Thursday" Tyler explained
"and three students have to study as a team together in order to prepare" added brad
"and what study are you 3 chosen as?" dr wakeman inquired
"Tyler was chosen as the captain, and me and brad are to be his teammates" Jenny explained "and so far we seem to be doing good,"
"I'm pleased to hear to that you are getting to be part of a group and with such friends" said dr wakeman pleased to her daughter was part of a team, "and where will you be studying until Thursday?"
"at the library at tremorton high," answered Tyler "it's not easy though, staying quiet though..."
"it sure isn't young man" dr wakeman spoke, sharing those same pains in a previous life,
soon enough as their pleasant they soon arrived at the home Jenny and firebird, and the four quickly got off and walked towards the residence,
"well, guess brad and I better get going Jenny," said Tyler
"yep, another hard day at school" added Jenny as she walked into the house with her mother,
"and tomorrow will be even harder" added Tyler, knowing their study battle is far from over,
"yeah but hey! we got each other's backs!" encouraged brad
"I guess you guys are right," smiled Jenny, "we got this!"
"you can that again Jenny!" added Tyler "welp, see you tomorrow Jenny!"
"see you tomorrow!" waved Jenny her friends farewell for today, walking through the door of the house, Tyler and brad soon following suite with their own home
as night settled over tremorton, over at a office building at downtown a sneaky operation was underway, near the building entrance, four suspicious looking business men managed to bypass security and gain access inside while also holding a large suitcase, after a few minutes of sneaking past suspicious eyes they make their way inside the I.T room after closing the door behind them the business men's eyes then glowed green and they revealed their true forms, cluster drones
"drones, we have our orders" their leader commanded, the drones nodded, they then opened a suitcase to reveal a hexagonal shaped device, almost as if it was a large container, they then quickly placed the device in the center where the servers are and they began to rewire them into the device for data
"there, it's done," said a cluster drone
"now the deadly swarms which lie within that device will not only terminate the humans but also bring xj9 to her knees!" boasted another
then their leader called for vexus "my queen the device has been plated, bring us back,"
"excellent work," commended vexus over the radio as she then slashed open a ported and the drones stepped through it back to cluster prime, vexus' plans already proceeding as planned...
THE NEXT DAY...
Date Tuesday august 26th 2014
Time 10:30 am
as the school bell rung, and the class exited into the hallways, Tyler, brad and Jenny were at the lockers discussing last night,
"so guys how was last night?" asked Tyler leaning on the lockers,
"well we did the best we could on actually TRYING to study," said brad
"yeah, mom was really on me," groaned Jenny "having put me through much studying,"
"I'd imagined she'd do so," lamented Tyler,
"your telling me," replied brad "and I'm pretty much just having trouble on one particular pronoun,"
"which one?" inquired Jenny turning her head to brad,
"who vs whom," answered brad "the subject, for a pronoun is pretty confusing,"
"it sure is complicated," replied Jenny, "and I'd imagine mom giving me a science lecture..."
"whatever the case" added Tyler, "we may have to discuss this over lunch,"
"your right," replied brad "right now we have another class to get to,"
and the group of friends hurried on their way to the next class...
meanwhile, on cluster prime vexus was at the palace control room, ready to set her plan in motion, as she pressed a button to call up one of the drones,
"drone!" called the cluster queen, "is the device ready?"
"yes my queen, we await your command," answered the drone,
"premission granted" answered vexus "destroy the wretched humans!"
on the screen the drone could be seen pressing a button as the device they planet on the office building had been activated, vexus then checked over another screen calling for another of her mechanical minions,
"is the cluster super robot ready to launch?" she called
"yes, it had been completed 3 earth hours ago," the cluster drone answered
"excellent," spoke vexus in grim delight, "this latest enforcer as soon as that firebird comes out, he will destroy him, and xj9!"
"yes my queen," replied the drone, as he then cut communications,
vexus then turned away form the monitors her eyes glow with a grim smile on her face, "and now xj9, you will be mine, and firebird, will pay!" she laughed sinisterly
Time 12:30 pm
later at tremorton high school, it was lunch time and the study group of friends had just been discussing with brad about how they will go over the problem with who or whom pronoun subject of the upcoming test,
"so how do you think we should handle this?" asked brad, still eating his lunch
"we should step back into the library this afternoon and see if the computers can tell us anything," suggested Tyler,
"or we could hook me up and I can print out some cards of that subject" added Jenny thinking of using her robotic capabilities dr wakeman designed her with,
"that'd be like hooking up a flash drive!" replied brad,
"we can do that too Jenny," added Tyler "and while your hooked up to the computer, brad and I will type a power point concerning The Who or whom subject,"
"and ill make three copies of each card," finished Jenny,
"man Tyler" praised brad "for your time as captain, you pulling out all the stops,"
"just doing my best to help out" returned Tyler
"it's settled then," added Jenny "this afternoon it's back to the library, and do some pronoun surfing,"
"right!" Tyler and brad agreed,
but even as the group of friends were going how they would spend their afternoon study session after school, a voice rang out!
RRRRRRRIIIIINNNNGGG!
the ear piercing sound of fire alarms flared everywhere in the school, the cafeteria where the study band of friends were hanging out was already raised in confusion and chaos and as students summered and panicked there, a mic sounded and a man's voice sounded,
"attention all students in high school!" the man's voice panicked it was the vice pricinpial of tremton high school razinski, "we have a emergency all around the facility! please evacuate to the nearest emergency exits! this is no drill everybody! no drill!"
the entire cafeteria all but Tyler and company rushed out near the emergency exits, fleeing for their lives the entrance filled with panic, inside Tyler looked serious
"an emergency here at high school?" he thought out loud,
"wonder what's the trouble THIS time," asked Jenny
"whatever it is," replied Tyler "we better check it out!"
Jenny and brad nodded and the 3 friends raced outside the cafeteria to figure out what all the commotion was about, as they exited through the door to the main hallways of the cafeteria, they soon got their answer!
"wha the heck are those!?" panicked brad as he pointed towards what appears to be a swarm of mechanical hornets, they drilled and blasted holes all around the lockers of the high school, Jenny immediately recognized the miniature robots structure, it was the cluster!
"it's the cluster!"cried Jenny, she then transformed one of her arms into a handheld laser rife and began firing at the swarm, as she fried, the mechanical hornets began to fly towards the pair as they continued to wreck havoc upon the school
"they're everywhere!" cried Tyler, as he and brad saw the swarm though weakening still coming closer,
eventually Jenny summoned more of her weaponry and unleashed twin saw blades and slashed at the swarm of mechanical hornets, slicing and dicing through her opponents, the swarm eventually gave out,
"whew..." panted Jenny as her arms transformed to normal hands, "where did THEY come from?"
"I'm not so sure," replied Tyler as he and brad met up with Jenny, it would not be long before they got their answer however, for at that moment, jenny's stomach hatch opened and a mechanical arm supporting a tv monitor went up and as static showered on the screen a familiar voice sounded
"xj-9!" dr Wakeman's voice rang as her image appeared on the monitor screen, a serious look on her face, "there is panic all over the streets outside, swarms of robotic hornets are wrecking havoc!"
"we know" Tyler confirmed "we've encountered a swarm of them here at high school"
"well, there's more outside I'm afraid" added dr wakeman "any d I have a feeling they may be the work of the cluster,"
"it's definitely vexus again," guessed Jenny
"yes I'm afraid so," dr wakeman added "you must go out there and find out what the cause is of all these swarm while also taking care of civilians"
"I'm on it mom!" said Jenny
"and Tyler," dr wakeman turned to him, "you know what to do,"
Tyler looked towards his arm which held the wrist device nesscary to call upon firebird, then lifted his head to dr waken and nodded
"we'll do our best mom," whispered Jenny to dr wakeman
"very good, I'll leave the rest up to you,"replied dr wakeman softly and cut communications as the monitor went back into jenny's stomach hatch
"well, it's time to go to work," said Tyler,
"what about the others here?" asked Jenny, concerned for the high schoolers outside's safety,
"leave that to me!" exclaimed brad making Tyler and Jenny turn to their friend,
"brad, are you sure?" asked Jenny
"yeah I'm sure," brad insisted "those guys as real bugs are bound to breach outside of school,"
"but brad," asked Tyler "do you have a plan?"
"I think I can try to distract them till you guys figure out where they're coming from," explained brad, not one for sitting on the sidelines
"but brad-" asked Jenny till Tyler interrupted
"Jenny, we're a team now," said tyler "your not fighting this alone anymore, let him help"
hesitant but agreeing nonetheless Jenny nodded in which Tyler nodded affirmatively back to brad
"thanks guys," smiled brad, the team now know what they have to do,
"now I better get to a hiding spot to call firebird," Tyler spoke again
"right," replied Jenny "and I'll join out there, and handle these bugs,"
"alright," said Tyler "good luck everyone!" he then ran to find a hiding spot to summon firebird,
"thanks!" shouted both brad and Jenny as they split up
as Tyler ran, he soon stumbled upon an empty boys locker room he quickly closed the door and checked his surroundings, once he made sure he was alone, he unrolled his sleeve and pressed the small blue button on his wrist device, as the black circle then flashed a blue Phoenix on it,
as the call went out, the underground hangar of the three vehicles began to sound the alarms, as dr wakeman had anticipated this, she immediately opened the hatch for the vehicles to launch to the surface, the tanker and speeder sped out to the surface and the scout jet flew out of the ground, already on their way to the source of their signal
meanwhile the mechanical prodigy of dr wakeman flew all around tremorton blasting and swatting mechanical bugs, and as dr wakeman had order she also took the time to save the civilians that had been put in danger in the midst of this crisis, but the swarms kept coming,
brad at tremorton high kept his word and went in front of the cluster swarms,
"hey! over here!" brad taunted in which the mechanical bugs began to follow him around the school facility, eventually he managed to drive them outside the high school through the back exit door, and still trying outrun them,
the tanker soon arrived at the side exit to the high school in which Tyler quickly went out to the door and jumped in as tanker then rolled along in the roads ahead, then he saw Jenny was trying to blast away another mechanical swarm as Tyler quickly pressed a button and raises the tankers machine guns on the bugs barely making them retreat
"thanks Tyler!" thanked Jenny as she gave a thumbs up to Tyler who then returned the gesture as she and Tyler then continued on to deal with more of the swarms
brad then continued to make the bugs give chase, as the scout jet quickly swooped in and blasted the swarm of mechanical bugs weakening them in their chase to captured brad who was still running,
as Jenny and Tyler continued to go around destroying mechanical bugs and rescuing many of the civilians a large green portal opened up "what the?" said Jenny, suddenly a large green mechanical robot stepped out from it as the portal then closed
"it must be one of vexus' new minions!" cried tyler as he looked at the mechanical giant in front of him it had green armor, pointed shoulders, pointed wings and long sharp mantis arms along with mantis shaped head, it's yellow eyes flashed as they fired large beams towards the duo,
"watch out!" cried Jenny as she then converted her arm into a large circular shield, blocked the laser beam as they exploded on her shield,
"Jenny!" cried Tyler in worry,
"I'm alright, I'll deal with the rest of them," reassured jenny "you handle the big fella!"
"you got it!" smiled Tyler Jenny then retracted her shield and then flew off to take care of the swarm of mechanical bugs as the cluster super robot then strode forward, Tyler knew what he had to do as he then pushed a lever "CHANGE! FIREBIRD!" the three vehicles then came together and formed firebird as he roared to life once more!
Jenny then flew upwards to handle the rest of the mechanical swarm, she brought out many of her weapons in her hyperspace arsenal, some of the cluster mini bots nearly did damage on her, but Jenny barely held them off,
then, as she battled through, there was a static crackle and a voice rang in jenny's communication hub, "xj9, are you there?" called dr wakeman
"yeah mom, I'm here," spoke her daughter, shooting another swarm, "what's wrong?"
"I think I may have a way to figure out where these mini bots are coming from," said dr wakeman "if you can just grab one of them, I maybe able to trace it's transponder signal and figure out what's the cause of all this"
"got it mom!" nodded Jenny in acknowledgement she then brought out a buzz saw on one hand, and a capture claw on the other, and then sliced and diced some of the insectoid robots while Jenny barely managed to captured one and began scanning it for it's signal's trace of origin,
dr wakeman, working from her computer interface with Jenny and hacked into the small robot bug's systems, and traced it's signal to where it was launched from, eventually, dr Walkman discover it and called for Jenny trough radio,
"xj9! I've got it," she cried, "they're all being launched by a small pod device that's designed to launch mechanical swarms like a plague! vexus must be behind this attack!"
"no doubt about it," muttered Jenny, "where can I find this pod?"
"it's inside an office building in downtown tremorton," dr wakeman explained " sending you the coordinates now,"
Jenny then checked her radar hud and saw a marker with coordinates to guide to the source of the mechanical swarm, "got it! I'm on my way mom!" she cried, flying towards the office
at buildings as below her, brad saw her fly by while he was distracting some bugs of his own, "where could Jenny be going?" he thought in his panicked mind as he kept running and panting, hoping that she will soon put an end to this onslaught,
meanwhile, the cluster super robot walked towards firebird as he took his stance, beginning his very first full duel against the cluster empire, the insectiod machine's eyes glowed and then fired bright yellow eye beams towards the blue gladiator, who narrowly took a side step,
"whoa!" cried Tyler, as he then prepared an attack of his own "FIRE BEAM!" he shouted as he then fired the bright blue chest laser against the cluster super robot, who took medium damage as he slid back a few feet,
then the cluster super robot charged towards firebird, intent on using his arm blades to scratch him, in which firebird barely dodged the first and second, which the gigantic robot counted with a punch to the mechanical monster's chest plate and then a kick to one of the cluster super robot's arm blade when he tried to attack again,
"man, wish I could help out Jenny," Tyler thought as he watched and waited for the cluster super robot's next move, in which two sharp wings on it's back suddenly flashed pink and he took flight to the air, hover above firebird and then fired his eye lasers again, "whoa!" cried Tyler, acting fast, he brought up his shield to absorb the laser blasts
as the cluster super robot hover above, firebird made his next move, "ROCKET PUNCH!" he shouted as he fired his only free forearm at the mechanical monster, striking the shoulder, almost knocked him out of being airborne,
"jeez, seems vexus has made some improvements since last time..." Tyler thought again as firebird's flying metal fist then reattached, he carefully studied the cluster super robot's movements, and it was certainly an improvement from the mega cluster drone he destroyed last time, THIS one, was built to fight the blue gladiator himself!
then the cluster super robot with an arm blade at the ready, flew towards our hero in which he tired to block with his shield at the ready, but was barely skidded back a few feet, in which he then countered with throwing another punch with his free fist, kicking the cluster super robot back
meanwhile, Jenny soon arrived at the coordinates dr Wakeman had downloaded to her hud, in which she landed right in front of an office building, seeing an armadas of swarms coming out of a hole on the right side of the building,
Jenny radioed for dr Wakeman, "mom?" she asked as she looked at the door to the almost empty building, "are you sure this is the place?"
"yes, this building is meant to be an architect building," explained dr wakeman "my theory is that vexus must have implanted her forces to launch from there so they can collect data to coordinate the swarms' attacks on the building's structural weak points,"
"that may bring the whole city down in a matter of minutes!" exclaimed Jenny,
"I'm afraid so xj9," lamented dr wakeman "you must hurry inside, I don't know how long it will be until the swarms reach the house as well, the sooner you disable that device the better! but you must disable it without destroying the building,"
"I'll do my best" said Jenny as she hurried into the architect building,
"please be careful," worried dr wakeman over the radio, "I fear vexus will have anticipated this and will not leave that device unprotected,"
"got it mom," said Jenny one last time before communications were cut, she then rounded a corner in the hallways, noticing that it was all but deserted, the people inside must have evacuated when the swarms attack was commenced, then as Jenny followed the coordinates still uploaded on her hub, they took her deep into the center of the building,
when suddenly, she would be confronted by cluster drones, where a couple of them came from behind her "Halt xj9!" they cried bring out their blasters and then firing at Jenny when she barley dodged then blasts and then extended her mechanical force arms, spiked fists already equipped and hitting her twin targets, once they were knocked down, Jenny brought her arms back to her, and continued on her way to the central server room,
back at downtown, brad was nearly all but exhausted, he barley took cover in a nearby alleyway, catching his breath "whew..." he panted "I sure hope Jenny gets to the bottom of this with Tyler.." but as he looked up he saw not the swarms that infest the city, but firebird himself dueling the cluster super robot, after firebird knocked the mechanical monster back with a another jab, it fired yet another powerful eye blast,
"eh!" grunted Tyler as the beam knocked firebird back a few feet, leaving only a few marks, in which Tyler quickly retaliated, "GATLING MISSILE!" the side missile pods slid open and open fired upon the insecitod giant, in which he sliced a few of the missiles, but few of them hit anyways, dealing medium damage to him,
the cluster super robot snarled with rage, bright pink laser cutters flashed at the bottom edges of the arm blades, the beast then ran towards the blue gladiator, arm blades at the ready, firebird caught one of the arms, but not the other, the laser power arm blade made a small cut on firebird's left shoulder pad, "graa!" Tyler grunted as he then fired another fire beam and blasted the kikaiju back, while also dealing much damage to it's chest armor
the insecitod machine's eyes flashed again, but not for another eye blast, suddenly a squadron of the mechanical swarm hulled itself at firebird in which he brought up his machine gun gauntlets and fired "MIGHTY SHOOTER!" the bullets sent the mini bot scattering in all directions, but while he was distracted the cluster super robot took the chance to again slash the metal giant, in which he barely reached out a metal hand to block the long blade, while keeping the other lashed on firing at the swarm directed at him,
brad watched the action unfold as he barely catches his breath "boy, ms wakeman sure knows a thing or two about getting Tyler better for driving that thing!" he thought "but theres no time for that! I got to keep going!" he then had a look of resolve as he caught another swarm surrounding people's attention and raced away from them with the mechanical swarm in pursuit, along the way, he saw his little brother tuck as he too was under threat for the cluster mini bots,
"tuck!" his older brother cried in worry as just as a swarm was about to hit them, brad tackled tuck and rolled away form the swarms, tuck opened his eyes and looked up to his older brother brad looking worried about him "brad.." tuck replied, thankful that he was saved by his brother, but their troubles weren't over yet, as another swarm closed in on them and the two brothers hurried on their way
soon after battling her way through several cluster drones, Jenny arrived at the server room where the device where the cluster swarms had been coming from, with several drones to guard the device, Jenny then peered from a coroner of the door to the room, "that must be it," she whispered to her self as small doors from the pod seem to be open for the swarms to launch, as if they from through a portal, as they all went through drilled holes at the side wall,
then, from jenny's comm link dr wakeman spoke, "yes," she said, "now please be careful, you blasters could easily destroy the whole server room if your not too careful," dr wakeman was right, for even if she gets past all those guards and the swarms, she has to disconnect the right cable that connects to the device to the power,
"got it mom," Jenny whispered, she then thought real hard about the situation, she then had an idea, her arm then transformed to a small radar dish, which she raised it towards the cluster drones, then a small sonic wave shot out from it, as the sonar struck the insecitod minions, they suddenly felt dazed the electronics within them started to arc and crackle, their field of vision blurred, seeing her chance now, Jenny rushed forward, and with a few swift jabs, all four drones plummeted to the floor and shorted out
"that takes care of those guys," Jenny muttered to herself, she then walked towards the device "now, where's you off switch?" she scanned the device to find the cable that leads to the power and the servers, her scanners then detected a long black cable with green linings to it,
"that must be it!" Jenny muttered to herself, she then transformed her arm into a pair of steel cutters she then did her best to align the two blades together, she may had been careless before, but this time she would be trying to make an effort to do better than last time, after finding the cable and setting the cutters, Jenny quickly snapped the blades together as the cable was cut,
the portals the small side doors had opened had then closed alongside the doors, some of the swarm still escaped through the side wall, "that did it!" smiled Jenny "now to get this thing out of here!" she then carried the device, now safely disconnected from the servers, and flew out the open hole in the wall and flew upwards into the sky, where she threw it, and immediately fired upon the device, creating a small explosion,
brad and tuck were getting much tired after having the swarm chase them nearly outside the town, they both panted and collapsed on the grassy plain trying to catch their breath,
"tuck..." brad panted wearily barely clinging to his brother when the swarm was just mere inches from them, they suddenly stopped and fell to the ground deactivated, and devoid of power "what the?" tuck muttered in awe
"Jenny must have done it!" brad barley shouted raised a fist in the air triumphant, "she's shut them down!"
"now they're really in for it!" tuck cheered himself still panted, and all over town, many of the swarms had been devastated with the device destroyed,
firebird continued to try to hold off swarm after swarm, as he kept his only grip on the long metal arm blade, the swarm attack suddenly stopped, as they bots feel to the ground below, the cluster super robot saw this and was infuriated, he swung his only remaining arm blade and firebird grabbed it, and was struggling o make sure the blades didn't scratch him, the blades closed in when suddenly,
"hang on firebird!"
a familiar voice rang, as two laser blasts were fired upon the cluster super robot, knocking him back and allowing firebird to counter with a kick, knocking him back even more as Jenny hover above firebird, "those swarms shouldn't be a problem now!" she said "I took care of them!"
firebird raised a thumbs up to Jenny, "thank you, Jenny!" the blue gladiator spoke,
"no problem!" Jenny gestured back, "now what say we finish this!"
"I couldn't agree more!" agreed firebird as the cluster super robot struggled to his feet, then firebird's eyes glowed as his leg holster opened "RAIJIN KEN!" his sword shot up and was equipped into firebird's waiting hand,
the cluster super robot roared with rage as he charged with his arm blades, but firebird was ready for him this time, as both of their blades clashed again and again, after moving back a few feet, firebird then took a stance with his sword as it powered up and flashed a bright blue as the metal giants charged towards each other, they clashed blades again but this time, after a second blow, both of the cluster super robot's arm blades thrust downward towards their pray, but with firebird powered up sword, he swung it towards the blades
"KYAAA!" shouted the blue gladiator, as his blue shining sword slashed both of the kikaiju's blades, rendering him nearly defenseless as firebird then ran in for the final blow
"LIGHTNING BOLT SLASH!" with a shout, firebird cleaved the mechanical monster horizontally in half, sparks and electricity arked and crackled before finally exploding, ending the kikaiju's Champain of terror, in a smoldering pile of molten scrap,
firebird then pulled his sword upwards and relinquished it and posed triumphantly
"wa-hoo!" Jenny cheered happily, "that did it!"
"indeed, Jenny" replied firebird, "but if it weren't for you, or your friend, we would've been finished,"
"aw, it was nothing," said Jenny, thankful for firebird's compliment, and knew exactly what he meant,
"I better get going," said firebird "I'll see you soon!"
"see you soon firebird!" replied Jenny as she flew off to the skies, firebird following suite, the battle, and the day was won
"argh! that arrogant robot firebird!" growled vexus seeing as her latest plan had failed through the monitor screen "again, he gets in our way!"
"yes he has my queen" a cluster drone kneeled in fear, "the device, those swarms, and the super robot should have taken them both out!"
"and yet, they still stand!" the mechanical queen threw out her arms out "grrr...well, there will be another day, firebird, and especially YOU XJ9!"
"what are your orders my queen?" questioned one of the drones
vexus turned to him "continue with the cluster super robot army project, tell them to accelerate their efforts,"
"yes my queen," said the drone as he left the throne room,
vexus them walked over to the large window overlooking the city of cluster prime, robotroplis, "darn you firebird..." she snarled, "but you have not seen the last of me, or the cluster! from now on, we will find ways to eradicate you, force XJ9 to join me, and terminate humanity!"
she then went back to her throne in the observation tower to think of more ways to destroy her enemies...
Time 2:30 pm
back at tremorton high school, a panting Tyler was rushing back with a flying Jenny in the lead, she eventually got there first with an exhausted Tyler panting, while throwing an arm over the wall,
"whew... we made it" said Tyler in exhaustion,
"yeah," replied Jenny "wonder where the others went,"
"not...too sure," Tyler panted "but...I think...we should save the studying for another day,"
"agreed," Jenny nodded, "where's brad by the way,"
she turned her head for her answer to see an out of breath and sweating brad just coming up to her, panic and relief in his face,
"Jenny..." panted brad, "thanks a lot,"
"no problem brad," replied Jenny in kind
"we should also be thanking you as well brad" said Tyler, knowing his friend's efforts helped win the day
"okay, so Tyler says we should wait until tomorrow," explained Jenny "we've all been through a lot today"
"can't..agrue with that.." replied brad, "thanks guys...really,"
"anytime brad," said Tyler "now let's get in there and finish the job,"
and the band of friends went through back to the high school, barley managing the rest of the day,
Date Wednesday august 27th 2014
Time 4:30 pm
the next day, after school Tyler and company kept their word and went to the library and wasted no time getting their computers, once Jenny was plugged in, brad and Tyler got to work on each of their power points knowing this was their last chance to study and prepare for the pronoun test..
"whew...it was big day," said Tyler as he did much research as he could on the pronouns mainly whom vs who as he then typed in on his power point,
"yeah" replied brad doing the same as Tyler "I still can't believe we managed to work to together, both in school and in real life emergencies"
"yeah we make a good team," replied jenny "for our first full time ever,"
"you can say that again Jenny," said Tyler as he worked as hard as he could, "getting good grades is one thing, but protecting lives is certainly more important than that,"
"yeah, vexus must be as mad as hornet right now," joked brad
"I'll be she is," giggled Jenny,
"she sure is," said Tyler, "but she will be back, with another scheme I'll bet,"
"yeah, but we'll be ready for her," spoke brad with confidence, "just like we're gonna be ready for this test tomorrow"
"with how hard we're working, they would expect nothing less," said Jenny
"indeed my friends," replied tyler "but for now, focus on the task at hand,"
and they did, a half an hour later, and the power points were ready for printing, Jenny converted into a printing machine and started printing out 3 large and long pieces of paper for each of them, afterwards the team started cutting the papers and stapling them together and set all 3 of them like flash cards, the study group of heroes now had their study guide in the final hours before the big pronoun test, the task completed they all went back to their homes to study for the big day tomorrow,
Date Thursday august 28th 2014
Time 10:30 am
today was the big day at last, as promised the period our heroes and the other students were passed on the papers for the big pronoun test, the others studied last night as much as they could, they hoped the time they spent would be enough, despite vexus' attack slowing them down,
45 minutes later...
halfway through the class an each of their papers filled out, our heroes, passed their tests to the teacher under heavy breaths
"well done team #3," said the teacher, after having each papers in hand, "I shall go over these and tomorrow, you may know the results and we'll see how well you did,"
"thank you ms" said Tyler,
"your welcome," replied the teacher "you three are dismissed,"
and the study group soon left the class for another period, their hearts beating fast, hoping they had done well on their tests, after all the hard work and other circumstances that came in between...
Date Friday august 29th 2014
Time 11:30 am
Tyler, brad and Jenny were walking down the hall to their classroom where their teacher said they would see their results of their teamwork, praying it would pay off, and as they opened the door, the students and the teacher were waiting for them, as they scurried quietly went to their seats, awaiting the teacher's announcement,
"okay class," the teacher breaking the silence "before we get started, let me announce the study group's grades first, "
after a few minutes of announcing team 1 and 2's grades in the test, it was down to Tyler, Jenny, and brad,
"and now," the teacher spoke again, "for team #3's grades,"
Tyler, Jenny and brad held their breath as they watched the teacher scribble on the chalkboard with their names on the results, the silence grew more tense...
until...
"team 3's Tyler, and Jenny wakeman have scored A's and brad carbuncle a B+"
the teacher's words immediately made the study group of friends sighed in relief and then awaiting their prize
"for those of you who scored C or better," announced the teacher "please head to the classroom next door,"
wasting no time Tyler and company walked out through the door to the pizza party, triumphant, they giving high fives to each other, and eating a much deserved pizza prize, thankful that they have grown in friendship and teamwork, even in the midst of vexus' attack, but when she returns, the blue gladiator and his friends will fight to protect the earth and all the people who live there...