Chapter 3 - Maverick Pushovers

Alpha-X stopped dead in his tracks, the silence being shattered by a muffled scream from the opposite side of the door. He called out after Fidget's form, "Fidget, get back here, forget 32 for now!" He heard the stuttering clanking of slowing feet. Fidget came running back, staring up at AX.

"What's wrong?"

AX pushed the button to open the door, sighing a little, "The kid's in trouble. I just heard him scream."

Enzan struggled against the robotic arms gripping his shoulders, his screams for help falling on deaf ears. He struggled a little harder, only causing the gray robot attached to his shoulders to grip tighter, almost piercing through the flesh.

"ARGH! LET GO OF ME!"

Tears began welling up in Enzan's eyes as he grit his teeth in pain. He tried to go somewhere else, where this wasn't happening. That he was free from the grip of robotic arms. And then suddenly he was, he felt the pain from his shoulders dissipate, and he opened his eyes, watching sparks shower from the robot's neck, where the head used to be. He glanced toward the door, Fidget standing there, both pistols aimed.

"Get up, kid!" AX yelled, dashing forward, boosters shooting from the bottom of his boots, a massive light blue saber ignited in his right hand.

Enzan twisted quickly, jerking his right leg free from the second robot. He sent his shoe straight into the robot's face, denting it and shattering the sensors. He pulled away and crawled toward Fidget, AX's saber slicing downward through the robot, both exploding simultaneously on either side of him.

"AX, more are coming!" Fidget shouted, pointing toward the door.

"I see them! Get the kid out of here, I'll hold them off here!" AX yelled back, before activating his thrusters and sliding toward the massive archway of the entrance.

"Come'ere human!" Fidget's hands dropped on to Enzan's shoulders, pulling him through the door, and partially throwing him across the room, "Get down those stairs, ask for someone named 32. When you find him, tell him we've got trouble. Got it!"

"Yes, Fidget, I got it," came Enzan's stuttering reply as he climbed to his feet.

"Now go!" Fidget ran back out through the door, activating the doorway as he passed the control panel, forcing it to slide closed, locking both him and AX in with the invaders.

Enzan stared after the brown reploid, turning and running down the stairs, the lights flickering slightly from the explosions from above. He came to a stop in front of a hallway full of doors, "Gah.. Which one?"

Fidget leaped over a charging robot, igniting his spear and slamming it downward into the robot's spine, splintering it into the floor. He wrenched the blade free and spun it above his head, smirking a little as it exploded.

"The kid's getting help, AX!"

"Good, good! Get your ass over here and help! NOW!"

AX wove through two beam staves, igniting the back end of his glittering light azure saber, swinging the blade quickly through the two robots, cleaving them in half, their explosions sending smoke across AX's vision. Fidget slammed his spear down into the floorboards, drawing forth his pistols, letting fly volleys of blasts, the robots within the smoke being littered with blast holes, explosions rocketing AX's stance slightly.

"Dammit, Fidget. Watch where you're shooting, you're going to scratch my paint!"

"Don't be so vain, AX. You know I'm a better shot than that."

Fidget lifted his left hand to side of his helmet, tapping the green gem there. A small mask slid down over his visage, a green visor activating, his vision clearing immediately, letting him see through the smoke.

"Niner!"

Alpha-X spun to his left, his beam saber slicing clear through a massive robot, the explosion sending him flying through the smoke and into one of the walls. The wall began crumbling in upon him as he pulled himself free from the debris. A beam of energy came down through the ceiling, ripping apart the bots standing in that particular area.

"Need some help?"

"Anode!"

A silver and black Reploid shot down through the ceiling, landing on the outer edge of the crater in the floor. He lifted his left arm straight out away from his body, aimed at the entrance to the base, his right arm set at his side, his fist tight. AX leaped from the hole in the wall and landed beside Fidget, both of them watching Anode's actions. A light gleam focused at the end of his buster, before activating, a light sweeping forward from the tip of it, a massive blast ripping through the base front, eradicating the last remnant of the attacking robots.

Enzan stared silently at the screen, watching this new Hunter; Anode, wipe out the entire attacking force with a single shot from his buster. He stepped away from the console, falling into a chair set directly behind him.

"That's amazing.."

"As it should be. Anode is one of the best we have."