Hey guys sorry for the long wait and to make it up here's an extra long chapter.
Protagonist Prep.
Ch. 7 part two, A.I think this was a bad idea
I own nothing but my own characters.
In a spacious dimly lit room seven figures huddled around a large circular table and some of them weren't very happy .
"When we fight!? Me getting bored!" A large figure yelled quite it's voice sounding simple and it's tone angry.
"Chill bro, we'll get a chance to turn them into paste." A second more broken looking figure told it's voice a mix of a teenager and an adult, it's tone sounding bold and confident.
"Why should we believe you, you were easily beaten by a simple buffoon." A third much smaller figure said voice childish and tone mocking. The insult more than angered the broken figure as it stomped towards the small figure, its eyes glowed red, it growled at the small figure and its voice deep and booming.
"I only lost because that buffoon surprised me and if I had a chance for a real fight, I would win!" The small figure just shakily apologized.
"I-I'm so-sorr-sorry Si-ir. What's your plan?" The broken one just wickedly grinned.
"It's going to be killer." The scene then switches to the student area the next day where a ferocious battle was about to take place. On the couch the two biggest gamers were ready to destroy each other in the virtual world.
"You ready to eat digital dust?" Gaz taunted with a cocky smile present on her face.
"Hehe, how about you tell me how it tastes." Marinette taunted back with an equally cocky smile. Those were fighting words because as soon as the game started they didn't hold back against each other. It was a heated battle between the two with each of them trying to get an advantage over the other. But after an adrenaline flowing, heart pounding, sweat producing match a tragedy was around the corner. The screen suddenly started to glitch multicolored bars began to appear, characters froze in place and a gamers worst fear happened. The entire screen turned pitch black, both Gaz and Marinette just stared at the TV in shock until they just screamed in terror.
"Don't worry I'll fix it, probably just a few loose wires." Dib said, he walked to the gaming system not wanting his sister to get in a mood from lack of gaming. He stopped and bent to see what was the problem, well until the disc tray rammed into his head.
"Oww, what the heck!?" Dib screamed out, the disc tray then slammed against his head again but three times harder. Dib just fell back onto the floor unconscious, the other students looked at Dib with worry and at the gaming system with a little bit of fear.
"Umm, shouldn't someone go and check on him?" A worried yet cautious Steven asked the others. Most of them seemed more than a little worried about approaching the machine.
"Really you guys are afraid of a little game cube?" Sashi asked them, her tone full of disbelief as some of them dealt with crazier situations in their dimension. The other kids looked a little sheepish and embarrassed, until Marinette stood up for them.
"We don't know what we're dealing with and its literally alien technology." Sashi just huffed and walked towards the unconscious alien nerd, as she walked closer to Dib the game system began to shake and vibrating. When she was right next to Dib the commotion just stopped for a moment, but when she grabbed Dib's arm the machine started to shake again. Then it began to shoot discs at the two, Sashi lugged Dib onto her shoulders and ran towards the couch.
"Everyone hit the deck!" She yelled as she jumped over the couch with Dib in tow.
"Why should we fear these primitive entertainment devices?!" Zima screeched, and if to answer his question one of the discs was launched past his head and was embedded in the wall.
"Does that answer your question!?" Alya yelled to the alien, who didn't answer instead he just ran to the nearest cover. The kids scrambled for cover as the deadly discs flew at them.
"Anyone got ideas!?" Penn asked the others.
"If me and Marinette were able to transform we could defeat it, but we haven't been able to since we got here!" Adrien yelled to Penn.
"Same with my wand, hasn't work since I got here!" Star added from her cover behind the chair. All the noise and disc flying annoyed one person that didn't want anything to annoy her. The girls dormitory door was slammed open and Chloe looked livid.
"What is going on!?" She yelled at the top of her lungs, voice filled with rage and to her she had a good reason to be angry. Her makeup was entirely messed up , her lipstick was smeared across her checks, mascara on her forehead, and finally her eyeshadow was all over her face.
"How can I apply makeup when all of you are making this much noise!?" Chloe shouted at the group, she was so blinded by her anger that she didn't see what was happening.
"Can it queen bee, we got bigger problems!" Sashi yelled back with equal anger.
"Well I'm sorry about your gaming troubles but I have an actual problem here!" Chloe shouted, unfortunately with her standing still and yelling at the top of her lungs made her an easy target for the gaming system. So while she was standing around waiting for someone to apologize to her the gaming system locked on to her.
"Chloe look out !" Adrien warned his childhood friend but it was too late, a disc was fired from the gaming system and its target Chloe. Time slowed down as the disc towards the spoiled girl, in less than a second the disc hit her. No one said a word as the unspeakable happened, cut hair floated in the air and a shredded ponytail holder. Chloe ran her hands through hair to feel it and to her horror it was true, her hair was cut short, uneven and worst of all her entire hairstyle completely ruined. This made her madder and that anger was directed towards the gaming system.
Her fists were clenched, eyes showing a dangerous fire and her face was redder than Drooler's entire body. The gaming system scanned this, and it was currently wishing that it was offline or unplugged so that it won't feel the pain of being smashed. Chloe stomped near the gaming system with most of the other kids quickly getting of her way.
"You can make noise, mess up my make up and even try to rob me of my beautiful looks but there is one thing you leave alone! And that is my hair!" She yelled at full force to the gaming system and grabbed the heaviest object that was in arms reach of her. Said closest thing was the couch and with a surprising amount of strength lifted the it well above her head, Chloe threw the couch straight at the gamming system. The gaming system tried to shut itself down to save itself the pain, but it was too late the couch landed onto the gaming system and it also destroyed the tv, the tv stand, and several games. Chloe huffed and puffed for a little until she calmed down, but her face stayed red due to the fact embarrassment replaced her anger.
"Did-did—I do that?" Chloe asked the other kids with enormous amounts of shock in her voice, before she could get answer the wall blew apart again. As the dust clouded the area two voices could be heard from the it.
"As I predicted a high enough electric current would overload the walls code." The first voice sounding familiar and technical.
"Wall went ka boom!" A second more childish voice sounding excited and unaware of the destruction that it caused. When the dust the cleared the kids could see two figures, the first one was Tech and the second was an 8-ft. tall golden furred wolf like creature that. Both were standing in the hallway and they seemed rather relived that the kids were fine, as well as surprised at the destroyed TV stand.
"I see all of you experienced technical difficulties as well." Tech surmised while Chloe just blushed even more.
"Wait as well?" Penn asked, highly worried that technology in a hyper-advanced school having a virus that could turn machines deadly.
"Yes, many of the rooms have been effected but luckily there is somewhere safe from this malicious malware." Tech told the kids with a slight worry in his voice, the kids were infected by this worry, but they felt some relief at the mention of a safe room.
"So where is it?" Marco asked the two creatures suddenly got a little more nervous.
"Well that's a bit unwelcoming news you see." Tech told the students a little bit of embarrassment, of course this caused confusion among the student but if it was safe it couldn't be that bad. It was bad the students stood outside a certain door, a door that Chloe didn't want to see in a million years.
"Why here ?!" She screeched at the top of her lungs, afraid of what could happen to her this time.
"Well sir hasn't exactly trusted technology since that incident with his spells and computers, never thought it would gain sentience." Tech muttered the last part to himself so that the kids wouldn't go into a panic. Tech opened the door and the kids could see the other teachers huddled in the room except for two.
"Umm, where's Fire Hazard and Snow Cone?" Star asked the other teachers who didn't say anything, but they did slightly smirk at the nicknames given to their friends. The kids got there answer as horrible screeching, scraping sound as Jack pushed a weird looking ice sculpture into the room. On a closer look the kids could see that the ice sculpture was Drooler incased in ice, and his face in surprised.
"What happened to him?" Steven asked concerned for the fire being.
"Boss got a shower of liquid nitrogen." Jack told the kids showing no emotion, some thought was a bit cold and the more scientific kids knew that Drooler wouldn't make it. Then cracks began to form on the ice and the surprised look on his face turned into on of anger, the kids knowing that something is going to happen they began to hide behind the biggest object in the room which was Behemoth. Soon the cracks became bigger and then the ice was either blown off him or melted, the ice shards went flying breaking anything fragile and Drooler let out a roar louder than anything the kids heard before.
"RAAAUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH!" The kids were slightly afraid of what was going to happen next since he had a look of rage and insanity on face, luckily it passed as he became confused.
"Um, why is everybody in my lab?" Drooler asked as he was completely baffled at the number of people in his room. Though after a few stories from the teachers such as Ghost's treadmill launching him, Behemoth's reading light blinded him and of course the game station incident with the students.
"So Combot went AWOL, hacked into 6 other robots, and he's currently trying to take over the school by being an annoying jerk." Drooler summarized with a tone and face that could only be described as 100% done. While Tech just glumly nodded not wanting look up at the being he failed, Drooler let out a long, drawn out sigh as he started to pace back and forth trying to think of a plan. Luckily inspiration hit him as a slightly crazed/evil grin spread across his face.
"Fellas, I got an idea!" Drooler loudly proclaimed his voice filled excitement and a little bit of battle lust as well. The teachers stood to attention and tensed up ready for what ever order the fire being would give, while the kids seemed a little less convinced.
"Well this should be good for a few laughs." Zim muttered under his breath his voice full of venom.
"Tech start tracking down the robots, with any luck they could lead us straight to Combot. Also try and see if you can activate the safety protocols in those tin cans and work on trying to get the school under control. Guys when Tech finds get your gear and try to offline them, we're going to try to lead them away from the school. Zapp stay with the kids and make sure that none of the appliances of doom attack them, Behemoth you stay too in case Zapp needs backup." Drooler ordered the group, his words sounding like an old general and his tone commanding. The teachers nodded as they began to get ready, dozens of blue holographic screens appeared around Tech as he began to input information, Zizzoro muttered something under his breath and two blacked sheath 12 ft. long tachis appeared, Jacks hand markings began to glow and 3ft long ice shards began to form. From behind his back Barrage with his lower arms pulled out two Browning Hi-powers and his upper arms pulled out two Hector&Koch G41s, Ghost ripped out two of his tail spikes and they turned into sickly green hunting knives, Boulder reached into his armor and pulled out a dark blood red chain. Finally the markings on Drooler's body began to glow and flames traveled down his arms, and the flames took solid form as two 10ft double headed, black metal battle axes with flame red handles and slate gray spikes at the end of the handle. The group began to walk out of the room but they were brought out of their superhero walk by the students.
"Hey what about us?!" Gaz asked rather annoyed at the fact that the teachers forgot about them.
"Yeah what if the robots come after us?!" Chloe yelled, she already had to deal with enough this morning and she needed time to fix/mourn her hair. Luckily some of the students went and defended their teacher's aaction.
"Hey, we got Zapp and Behemoth to defend us!" Steven voiced his opinion loudly trying to defend the gentle giant.
"Yeah besides if those robo-rejects even tried to get near us Behemoth would just rip them to shreds!" Star exclaimed with wonder at his strength but he seemed to have paled at the ripping shreds part.
"I would rather prefer not to, if there's a chance to talk to peace I will try to find." Behemoth told the students who were surprised at the fact that a literal behemoth didn't want to fight.
"But you turned that inferior machine into nothing more than scrap!" Zim screeched out disappointed that an E-class being isn't as blood-thirsty as legends said.
"Yes but Combot didn't offer much negotiations for a peaceful discussion, did it?" Behemoth told the small green alien and he just smiling as the same alien couldn't think of anything. However discussions would have to wait as the screens surrounding Tech turned red for a second and four blue dots appeared on them. The dots were a couple inches away from a medium sized rectangle but that seemed to dishearten the teachers.
"Great only four of dem, and they're in da forest." Jack complained rather miffed at the fact there was going to be a long search before he could punch something. Drooler just had a look of deep thinking before of a another plan, luckily it didn't take him that long this time.
"Okay, those of us that are going to find the robots will split up into groups. Two groups of two and two of us will be on our own, Boulder I want you to cover the skies. If you see one of those trash cans try and steer to one of the groups. While those who are staying will try and find the others, they could still be in the school." The groups for the tracking team were Barrage and Zizzoro, Jack and Ghost, while Boulder and Drooler were going alone. All of them left the room in rather flamboyant way, Drooler's eyes glowed orange and he mumbled something in a foreign tongue. Then a ring of fire appeared around them and enveloped them, after a few seconds of a burning bonfire the fire died revealing that they were gone. Though that made some of the students worried considering the only ones left were Tech, Zapp and Behemoth which seemed like a disadvantage, considering Tech lost to a robot, Behemoth was a pacifist and Zapp was currently just staring at scroll with what seemed to be scibbles.
"Welp we're dead." Sashi said rather disappointed that they seemingly got the short end of the stick.
"Come now that won't happen, now who would like to get some retaliation on that mechanical menace?" Luckily that seemed to have taken their mind off the depressing matter, the students split into three separate groups. The first group consisted Zapp, Alya, Star, Sashi, Marco, and Penn while group two was Behemoth, Steven, Connie, Zim, Gaz, Marinette and Adrien. The others stayed with Tech, who didn't really like the idea of that. Group 1 went to look for the other robots on the east side of the school while group 2 went to the west side of school. While group 2 was looking for Combot, Zim decided to try and pry into Behemoth's reason for not wanting to feel the rush of committing a violent act.
"So beast why do prefer boring peace talks while you could just turn them paste with a single swing of your fist?" Zim asked in the politest way he could manage which was still insulting, Behemoth just rolled his eyes he knew that he would get these types of questions from an Irken.
"Zim, I prefer not to talk about my reasons, but I know this when you welcome violence for a solution the outcome is far worse than what it was before." Behemoth answered the young alien rather glumly, Zim was about to ask again but he was cut off by glares from Marinette and Connie. As they were walking Behemoth felt something in the air, his ISO sensors were telling him that something was coming this way but then it stopped. This caused the kids to bump into his leg, most of them started to worry except for Zim and Gaz who got annoyed at the action.
"Why'd we stop?" Gaz asked the crocodile creature who said nothing just kept on staring down the hall, Zim just rolled his eyes and began to walk forward. Until a hypodermic needle full of a glowing, neon green liquid shot right past him and as the needle broke against the wall it left a huge acid burn on the wall. Guided by instinct Behemoth grabbed all the kids and turned his back towards the attack, not a second too soon as thousands upon thousands of needles were fired at them all containing acid. Thanks to Behemoth's quick action the kids were safe from the acidic projectiles, but the floor wasn't as lucky since it was eaten away by the highly corrosive substance. After a distressing two minutes the onslaught of needles finally ended, Behemoth hesitantly put the kids down onto the ground and he let out a breath of relief. Which was released too early as they could hear a sparking sound could be heard and a strong scent of alcohol attacked their nostrils.
"Did the tr—tr—treat-ment w-wo—rk?" A glitching feminine voice could be heard from across the canyon of melted metal. From the acidic smoke a figure could be seen, it was robot rather feminine in figure, with red and white paint slightly peeling off, with wires extending out of it's back to the ceiling and one of it's arms was now a modified gun holding the acid needles. The kid were petrified at the sight of the robotic nurse while Behemoth turned around to face the nightmare nurse and he harshly whispered to them.
"Get away from here and try to find Combot, I'll hold her off." Most of the kids seemed a bit uneasy about the decision but Behemoth didn't seem to be open to discussion.
"Also Mrs. Marinette, Mr. Adrien and Mrs. Maheswaran before I forget I must do something. For Mrs. Marinette and Mr. Adrien out e tuuina atu ia te oe le faataga." When he was done speaking the phrase two familiar floating figures were in front of them and for Connie Behemoth's markings began to glow and a medium silver blade with semi serrated double sides came out, he handed it to Connie who smiled and gave a nod of thanks. Then the robotic nurse began to charge at Behemoth with her wires giving sparks in a firework fashion, the kids began to run as Behemoth prepared to battle. After running through the halls blindly for ten minutes they stopped to catch their breathe and figure out where Combot could be hiding.
"Maybe he could be at the gym, that's where we saw him last." Connie suggested to the group but one of them disagreed.
"I don't think so he would have to be close to the school's mainframe to hijack most of the tech and have a sophisticated enough computer to run that much data at once." Gaz told them, they were rather surprised since Gaz kept mainly to herself and only spoke when annoyed or called on by one of the teachers.
"What I used to hack into my brother's computer to make him think that our government would confiscate his evidence of aliens." Gaz told the group most of the group just deadpanned at the statement while Zim just had a small grin on his face.
"So which room would it be?" Connie asked all of them and sadly none of them could think of it, so far the only rooms they saw were mainly classrooms and only one personal room. Most of the kids were a little saddened by this development until a little voice in their head helped them.
'Hello, hello can you guys hear me?' In the most literal way possible as familiar voice rang out in their heads and they not so surprisingly freaked out.
"What the, Tech how are you-?" Steven asked the disembodied voice of the math teacher, just utterly confused at what just happened.
'It's hard to explain but I believe I can help with your predicaments.' Tech told the kids, who are still rather weirded out at the new ability that one of their teachers however they needed help.
"So what can you offer me you smaller beast?" Zim rudely asked Tech, while the others looked like they would strangle the green alien except for Steven who just looked upset at him.
'While beside giving you detention I can tell you that my cameras caught Combot breaking into the computer lab and has been trying to use the computers to gain access to school.' Tech answered Zim's question rather smugly while the invader just glared slightly.
"So where is the computer lab?" Connie asked the disembodied voice still rather creeped out by it.
'Down the hall about thirteen feet to your right.' Tech answered Connie, the kids nodded at the instructions they quickly ran to the lab and stopped when they saw a medium door with a grid pattern on it and when they opened door they saw something horrid. It was Combot but he was changed for the worse, its metallic skin now an obsidian black, spikes erupted from its arms, and finally the lower half of it's body gone replaced with black and neon green tentacles. Combot's head turned 180 degrees to face the slightly creeped out children and spoke to them.
"Well, well the newbs have arrived to try and beat the final boss. Too bad for them they're going to first blood for the OP gamer god that is me." Combot taunted the group and the creep factor was greatly diminished and the annoyance factor went up a little. Mainly it was annoying for Gaz and Marinette both seemed a little offended at the newb comment.
"Hey I got more than 5,000 hours on Doom Brawl!" Gaz yelled angry at griefer robot, flames in her voice.
"And I played all the versions of Ultimate Mecha Strike!" Marinette said with not as much anger but still rather upset at the comment.
"Ha whatever you really think that those trash games will prepare you for us?!" Combot yelled out at the children, though they were slightly confused about the us part. Until what seemed like a huge fireball was speeding towards them, luckily Steven activated his bubble to protect them. It did and the kids got a look at Combot's player two, he was ten feet tall, sphere like body, metallic red, legs that looked like red tree trunks, two cannon like arms with three claws, finally he had one singular yellow eye.
"Meet Pogtan." Combot tauntingly said to the but they weren't afraid many of them either faced worse or built worse, Marinette and Adrien transformed into their costumes though Marinette didn't like the suits tightness, Steven summoned his shield, while Connie got into her stance. Finally spider legs came out from his pak and Gaz picked up a few rocks ready to throw them. One sadistic robot just smiled at the challenge while the other just saw threats that needed to be eliminated for safety. The fight was an uphill battle when the kids found out that Pogtan didn't have anything to counter close combat they tried to rush but Combot covered him. Similar was when they tried to attack Combot from a far but Pogtan just shot it down, the fight seemed to be lost until a certain problem solver came up with an idea.
'Tech are you there?' Marinette thought trying to contact the bird like creature.
'I'm hearing you Marinette what do you do need?'
'I have an idea could you broadcast it to the others?' Marinette asked and of course Tech obligated, as the kids began to hear of the plan they began have hope though Zim did have complaints that were quickly shot down. First Adrien charged Combot his staff in hand and hit him, of course Combot just caught the staff with it's tentacles but it failed to notice a familiar pink disc flying towards it. However Pogtan took notice of the odd projectile, he aimed and fired a bomb as it got closer to shield the shield just disappeared from sight. Adrien noticed the signal from Gaz he, using his staff, pushed Combot into the bomb's path and flipped out of the way. Confused Combot began to turn its head and noticed the bomb heading it's way, too late to dodge the bomb and the explosion caused Combot to stumble back and fuel leaked. Pogtan just looked worried and used his eye to display a message.
"Sir, I am sorry the enemies tricked me int-" Then one of Combot's tentacles slammed into Pogtan and it sent him scraping across the floor leaving red marks. Combot just stomped towards the downed robot and began to beat him senseless.
"How could you mess up this badly?! I gave you one simple job yet you idiotic lagging piece of scrap!" It shouted out in rage at the defenseless machine as metal chips began fly off Pogtan body, however Combot was stopped from his rampage as the shield made a return and smacked his head. Combot just turned its head slowly as if to process the fact it got hit by a child, then it's eyes just narrowed in anger and began to stomp towards Steven with intent to kill. Steven stood his ground not even flinching as the as the rage robot came closer until a little voice warned him to move.
'Umm, Steven hate to burst your movement but you might want to move about 0.025 inches to your right.' Steven did and it was good decision to do so, as the doors were destroyed as Behemoth charged through his jaws wide open. Which clamped down on Combot hard and loud enough to create a small shockwave, Combot tried to escape but that plan was foiled as Behemoth started to death roll. The kid quickly got out of the way as Behemoth's actions were creating a mess, then Combot's head fell out of his jaws and tried to use wires to crawl away but that plan was foiled by Connie stabbing her sword through it finally killing it. As Behemoth swallowed the robot remains he turned his attention to Pogtan but Steven stood in-between the two.
"Please don't he's hurt enough." Steven said feeling rather sorry for the beaten robot who didn't even move since the killing of Combot while the kids were glad to see Behemoth, some may not admit it, they wondered what happened to the nurse robot.
"So, what happened to the nutty nurse?" Adrien asked the enormous English teacher.
"Well you see…" Behemoth tried to say until the zapping sound could be heard and they could smell the medical alcohol.
"I-I—I—is everyone o—o - okay?" The nurse bot asked the kids who just looked completely terrified and petrified at the arrival of the other psychotic robot. All of them entered a battle stance until Behemoth put up all of his hands and he made a calming motion with them.
"Be at peace, while I was battling Tibbi I noticed a strange pattern to her moves. It took me a while to figure her fighting style out until I realized she wasn't trying to fight but trying to subdue and tranquilize. Though Combot corrupted her outer data she was still a nurse deeper within so in order to bring it out I acted out as if a terrible blight was upon me. So, the hacking program was overridden by her primary programing and she took care of the blight." Behemoth told the kids who still were wary of the nurse but they slightly accepted the explanation.
"C—co—come with me to the healing station." Tibbi kindly order glitching as she talked, the kids hesitantly followed the former rouge nurse and Behemoth to the healing station. Later Tech contacted them and gave them news that both group A and the other teachers were okay, so were the robots when asked why Drooler just grumbled about a fee they would have to pay. While everyone at the school seemed to be happy that technological reign of terror was over in another place something was enraged at the failure of it.
"Auggggh, I knew those buckets of bolts wouldn't be enough to wipe out those beasts!" A large figure in a dark, wet cave yelled out in anger it's eye livid at what just happened.
"Grrrr, luckily I have a few more backup plans to deal with those monsters." Opening it's palm it used some sort of magic to see sixteen people projected before it, the figure just smiled wickedly and just smiled showing yellow teeth that wer sharper than a shark.
"Hopefully for their sake they don't fail me."
End scene.
Hey if you have any questions about the story or the characters I have an ask blog firebeing on Tumblr