Yellow eyes open in darkness as someone growls. "Beware..." A large foot steps down. "I am...Killgore!" A large looming robot declares with flames behind him. "The supreme, merciless, ravager of kingdoms!" However, it turns out that Killgore...is just a wind-up toy with the tag villain attached. And his words are just all talk as he's about 2 feet tall. "I am the destroyer of worlds! The rankest compound of villainous..." The owner winds him up. "Villainous...villainous..." His voice becomes more high-pitched, which just makes him less of a threat than he thinks he is. "Odor that ever offended a nostril."
"Good morning, Killroy," The owner walks past with a smile, shocking the little wind-up toy.
"That's Killgore!" He corrects angrily. "And you mean evil morning, for it is the dawn of doom, for I am the scourge of man. I am..."
"The cutest thing ever!" He blinks at hearing a new voice.
A little girl picks him up and he tries to push her away.
"No! Do you not hear my diatribe? Can you not read my label?" He gestures to his tag. "It clearly states that I am-"
A bunch of girls storm in, staring at him. "The cutest thing ever!" They all squeal at the sight of him, rushing forward. They all start tackling each other for him and he spins around in the air. They all grab at him and he flies around since they can't get a good grip on him.
"He's mine."
"Tell them that you're mine!"
He falls to the ground, glancing back in a smug way.
"Aha! In this chaos that I will make good my escape!" He laughs evilly as he leaves, closing the door behind him. "Now where should a sinister robot find allies for his sinister purpose?" He looks around, his hands clasped together. He sees a poster recruiting the Cluster, which for some reason is next to the toy shop. He enters the office, and two Cluster robots turn to him.
"Yes, can we help-" They blink as they don't see anymore, looking down and seeing the wind-up toy. "You?"
"I would like to destroy mankind."
They glance at each other and start snickering. Because of his size, they don't take him seriously. "Okay, let's see here," One of them speaks as they literally look down at him. "You're 10 inches tall?"
"10 and a half," Killgore answers proudly, hands behind his back.
"Right. And you're powered by a watch spring?"
"Correct," Killgore smiles widely at them.
"Do you have any weapons?"
"Of course!" Killgore showcases that his tiny hands are all that he has.
"Hmm, usually all we require is a, you're a robot, and b, you wanna destroy mankind?" He takes out a paper and pencil. "But now we have a brand-new policy." He wrote that 'you must be at least this tall to destroy mankind'. "You must be at least this tall to destroy mankind."
Killgore's eyes go wide in shock as he's nowhere near the height of the bulletin board. The two laugh at him and he frowns deeply. They high-five each other while laughing. "Mock me for my size, do you? Well, from this acorn a mighty oak of evil shall grow! I shall prove myself worthy of the cause," He storms over to the wanted bulletin board...and sees wanted posters for both Jenny and Ms. Mecha. He snatches them and shows the still chuckling duo. "What if I capture the XJ9 and Ms. Mecha?"
"Capture XJ9 and Ms. Mecha, and we'll make you our leader!" The red one exclaims, although he's probably joking as they erupt into laughter again.
"For Ms. Mecha, you could ask that school friend of XJ9's! The one that always disappears whenever we show up!" The green one says while laughing.
"Agreed!" He smiles at the pictures. "Beware, girls. You two will be mine!"
The two girls sit in class as they're taking a math quiz. "Before class ends, I've got a quick quiz for you all. Remember, no one can use a calculator. Except Ms. XJ9, who, uh, is a calculator."
Everyone except Amy groans as it's unfair that Jenny's allowed to use one because of her being a robot. She holds up a finger to turn it into a pencil. Amy cracks her knuckles and her neck as she picks up her pencil, both of them ready to start.
"Surrender!"
Their eyes widen as they look down at the space between their desks to see Killgore glaring up at Jenny. "Well, aren't you a cute little fella?" She pats him on the head with a smile.
He smacks her hand off. "I am Killgore, and I am here to destroy you and your mecha companion. Now give up her location to me!" He turns around and points up at Amy. "You there! You must be her human companion I was told about. Surrender!"
"What?" Amy murmurs in confusion, wondering how he even tracked Jenny down or knew about her. Jenny giggles at him, also not taking the threat seriously like the Cluster.
"That's nice. But I'm in the middle of something right now, so maybe later, okay?" She picks him up, and then grips the spring. She spins her hand around rapidly and then flips his feet. She places him down so that he speeds out of the room.
"Beware my wrath!"
"Okay then," Amy raises a brow at him, and Jenny uses her mouth as a pencil sharpener. She takes Amy's pencil and sharpens hers as well. The brunette smiles at her before they prepare to start. However, before they could, Killgore's hands grasp Jenny's pigtail.
"Ow!"
He lifts himself up to her. "Surrender."
She tosses him in the trash and then flips it. He glares at Amy, who feels a bit unnerved that he's staring at her. She turns around and Jenny cracks her neck, about to take the quiz when something bumps her desk. The same thing happens to Amy as Killgore hits both of their desks by moving back and forth. "Surrender!"
"Really?" Amy places a hand on her forehead in annoyance at this. Jenny plants her foot in front of the trash can, extending her neck down to glare down.
"You know, you're really making a pest of yourself."
However, the bell rings...meaning that the quiz is over. Both her and Amy give horrified looks as they look up. "Alright, class, turn in your quizzes."
"But we didn't finish!" Jenny protests as she and Amy stand up. "We didn't even start!"
"Sorry, girls," He takes the blank papers from them. "Perhaps if you hadn't been playing with toys."
"But we weren't!" Amy groans at him, a hand on her temple. "I really didn't wanna have to resort to this, but..." She leans down and whispers to the teacher, confusing Jenny. His eyes widen and then Amy leans back, crossing her arms. "Well?"
"...You can retake the quizzes tomorrow afternoon."
"How on Earth did you pull that off?" Jenny asks the brunette as they walk out of class.
"...I have connections that I don't like using," Amy says slowly, whistling awkwardly.
"But that stupid little..." The robot grumbles, Killgore following after them.
"Surrender!"
"Oh no..." Amy looks back at him in dread.
"Hey girls, how's it going?" Brad wonders while leaning against the lockers.
"Well-"
Jenny almost stumbles, but catches herself. She and Amy glare down at the robot. "Surrender!"
She holds him up to show Brad. "This fellow won't leave me alone."
"I will not eat, I will not sleep, I...will...not...stop..." However, he runs out of steam thanks to his spring slowing down.
"Huh, that was it?" Amy asks in surprise that it's over.
"Well, what do you know? He stopped," Brad looks up at them.
"Thank goodness. He almost got us failing grades on the math quizzes, and Amy somehow managed to convince him to let us retake them," Jenny states, the brunette wincing at being mentioned. Brad looks at her in shock.
"Wow, how'd you do that? What'd you tell him?"
"Don't worry about it," Amy shrugs it off.
"All she did was talk to him. I didn't really hear what she said, I was too busy being angry at him," Jenny glares down at Killgore.
"Hey, can you do that to help me out on my quizzes?" Brad grins at her widely.
"Brad, if you wanna get better grades, why don't you actually study?" She remarks to him with a blank look and he pouts. "What I did with our math teacher isn't gonna work every single time."
"What a pest! This little guy's-"
"Just darling!" Pteresa snatches Killgore from Jenny, to her surprise. All the girls gather around to gush over him. "He's absolutely precious! And he's got a wind-up key!" She turns it to make him talk again.
"I...I...I will destroy you!"
A few girls giggle at him and Pteresa snuggles him. "I love him!"
The three friends smile at each other. "Well then, you can keep him," Jenny smiles happily as they leave.
"This isn't over! Killgore will not stop until you surrender!" He cries out to them. Amy turns around and blows a raspberry at him.
"Good luck with that!"
Jenny yawns as she wakes up the next morning, feeling refreshed and in a good mood. "What a beautiful morning!" She sits down at the breakfast table with a smile. Nora walks past her. "
"Good morning, XJ9."
"Good morning, Mother," Jenny responds cheerfully. Killgore pops out of the toaster, alarming her.
"Surrender!"
She falls off the chair, her legs falling on the table.
Amy whistles happily as she places down breakfast for her sisters. She goes to the fridge for milk, only to find Killgore inside.
"Surrender!"
"Aah!" She screams as she falls on her back.
Jenny climbs up the rope in gym glass, only to find Killgore at the top. "Surrender!"
Amy runs into the girl's locker room from gym to grab something, opening up her backpack to find Killgore inside. "Surrender!"
Jenny opens up her locker, and there he is again. "Surrender."
He pops out of a frog in science class that they have to dissect. "Surrender."
He then gets into Jenny's backpack. "Surrender."
"Surrender!" He looks up at Jenny while in her book. She slams it shut, flicks him off a desk, and puts him in a recycling bin. Amy risks her lunch to catapult him off her tray and they use a balloon to fly him away. However...Pteresa manages to find him and wind him up.
Jenny pulls down a screen for the AV Club, only to be met with Killgore. "Surrender!"
He pops out of the speakers. "Surrender!"
She smiles in front of her computer, Amy standing behind her. "You've got-"
"Surrender!" He somehow appears in Jenny's email, alarming them both.
"Surrender." He gets dumped into a garbage truck, shot with a rocket, thrown into the toilet, and is on the back of a just married car. Jenny slams the door shut as they lock him in a safe. They also tie him to the back of a horse, smacking its butt so that it can run off with Killgore in the desert.
Someone winds him up again, though.
Jenny attempts to use lipstick on himself, but Killgore pops out of it. "Surrender."
He bumps into the glass of a vending machine as he got himself inside while the two were trying to get a snack. "Surrender."
He even uses a blimp over their heads. "Surrender."
"Surrender! Surrender! Surrender!"
He echoes that word around Jenny and Amy as they feel like they're hearing it everywhere. The two scream their heads off as they couldn't take it anymore. The two run to Jenny's house and they open the door, slamming it behind them.
"Su-"
Jenny screams out loud as a surprise party is in front of them, but she thought she was hearing Killgore. Amy sighs tiredly, sagging her arms. "Prise...?" Tuck finishes in confusion.
"He's-he's everywhere! He could be in this cake!" Jenny destroys the cake looking for him. "Or in this punch!" She dumps it onto the floor. "Or this present!" She opens up a present to reveal a kitten and she screams. She bumps into a wall before dashing through a door, breaking it into pieces.
"Told you she'd be surprised," Tuck smiles up at them.
"Sorry about that, guys. She would've reacted better if this whole Killgore thing hadn't gotten worse," Amy pinches her nose.
"Killgore?" Nora asks in confusion.
"This annoying little 10 and a half inch tall robot that wants us to surrender to him. He shows up everywhere and it hasn't helped out our lifestyles. It's to the point where my sisters have armored up the house in case he shows up," She jerks a thumb to her house and they look outside to see that the three sisters have prepared lava, a moat, and bazookas even...
"What does he want with you, though?" Tuck points at the girl.
"Apparently because I hang around Jenny the most, that's a reason for him to bug me," She narrows her eyes. "Guy can't seem to take the hint that we want nothing to do with him. But I'm sure he'll back off...eventually..." She doesn't seem confident in that answer as she goes to check up on Jenny.
"Wow, guys, you gotta relax," Brad comments as he takes the girls out to Mezmers one night, and it's not any better. Amy had tried to calm Jenny down, but it didn't work. And now she's shaking so much that bolts are coming out. Amy looks really tired and on alert as because Killgore sneaks into her house at night sometimes, she loses sleep. Her hair is a mess and her eyes look bloodshot. "You're going to pieces!"
"H-How can I? Everywhere we turn, it's surrender, surrender, surrender," She extends her neck to look down at Brad with a panicked look in her eyes. She puts her head back to her body.
"Every time we get rid of him, he somehow always manages to come back to haunt us," Amy shakes so much her teeth shatter. "I can't even get a good night's sleep anymore."
A waiter hands her a coffee and she snatches it, gulping it down.
"Most villains give up after 10 or 20 failures."
Killgore pops out of the stereo nearby. "Surrender!"
She smacks him away from the table, disconnecting the radio. She narrows her eyes in annoyance. "I just don't get it," She states as everyone else gushes over him. "Why does everybody like him? He's an annoying little punk."
"Surrender."
Everyone just laughs and Amy sighs.
"So's Tuck and Pi-" The brunette glares at Brad not to finish his sentence and he clamps his mouth shut. Everyone is gathered around Tuck and Piri as they awe over them.
"Surrender!" They exclaim, the crowd around them laughing.
"Cuteness sells, unfortunately. Even if it's something that won't leave," Amy places her chin on the table, placing a hand on her head in exasperation.
"I thought Piri hated him too," Jenny stares at the little girl, who looks to Killgore and slices a finger in front of her neck. "Ah. Now I get it."
"I think she's doing it so that he won't know when to expect her revenge or something like that," Amy waves it off, not seeming to be worried about what her sister has planned.
"But everybody likes them. Annoying, plus small, equals popular, like Amy said," Brad shrugs at the robot.
"That's one equation that does not compute," Jenny storms off and the brunette sighs, yawning.
"I'm going too. See if I can get some actual sleep since Killgore's here," She trudges after her friend. "Take Piri home for me."
"No problem," Brad waves to her.
They walk out of Mezmer's, a shadow looming over them. They turn around defensively to see Killgore standing there. "Surrender!"
"Alright, Killgore, that's it! The kid gloves are off!" She removes her regular hands to replace them with spiky ones, her leg doing the same. She raises a leg, prepared to kick him as Amy glances to the side. She steps back in alarm.
"Uh, Jen?"
"Stop!" Pteresa grabs him before Jenny can do anything. "How could you?! What kind of heartless freaks would harm such an adorable creature?"
"I shall eviscerate your bowels!" Killgore declares while everyone else is glaring at the two.
"You're total freaks, you two! Freaks!"
Tears well up in Jenny's eyes and she runs off crying, taking off parts off the sidewalk thanks to her leg. Amy glares at Pteresa and runs off after her friend.
Nora and Amy sit on Jenny's bed, looking down at her. "It's not fair. If I fight him, I lose. And if I don't fight him, I lose. How can I beat a villain who's more popular than me?" She laments, holding her head.
"There, there, XJ9," Nora pats one of her pigtails. "Things will look better in the morning," She states as she and Amy leave. The brunette sighs as Nora turns off the lights and closes the door. "All of the things in the world, a wind-up toy has her out of her element..." She mutters as Amy shakes her head. She just hopes this all blows over...
Scraping is heard and Jenny opens her eyes to see that she's somehow outside. She's on the sidewalk, looking up to see Killgore is dragging her across, along with Amy by the hair. The girl wakes up and flinches in surprise.
"What the-?!"
Jenny stands up and screams in frustration. "It's the middle of the night! Everyone's asleep! Everyone's asleep," She realizes that no one's gonna see her kick his butt, narrowing her eyes with a smirk. "That means there's no one to see..." She plucks him off and tosses him to the ground. "The questions now are what weapons to use and what dumpster to leave the pieces in?" She summons all of her weapons, aiming straight for him. Amy wishes she could attack, but she left her brooch in her room.
"Killgore fears nothing! No—aah!" He falls on his back, struggling to get up. Jenny and Amy frown, glancing at each other. Targeting someone who can't even get up to experience just didn't feel right. Not to mention it's not like he could actually harm them...he's just only annoying. And it's kinda sad to see him like this right now.
"Aw, man," Amy sighs a bit at him. "You can't do it either, huh?"
"No..." Jenny relents after a few seconds. "I can't do it. I can't destroy a defenseless creature, no matter how annoying it is," She puts away all her weapons, helping up Killgore. "Okay, little fella. What's it gonna take to get you off our backs?"
"Killgore will accept nothing less than your complete and utter surrender! And the identity of your mecha slave! When Killgore hands you to the Cluster, they'll see he is a force to be reckoned with! Not belittled, not humiliated, but reckoned!"
"Mecha slave? What gave you that context?" Amy asks in confusion, shaking her head in realization. "Wait! All this time, this is all because of the Cluster?!"
"Sounds like the Cluster were pretty hard on you," Jenny smiles as she gets an idea. "As for my partner, she's-"
The brunette flinches and covers her mouth in alarm. "I am not risking my identity for a wind-up toy," Amy gestures down to him, crossing her arms.
"Well, it's not like anyone will believe him, though. Besides, he can't do anything that'll benefit him if he knows."
"I-" Amy pauses as she blinks. Killgore isn't really capable to telling people her identity—well, technically, without anyone saying that he's adorable. And he doesn't know her name anyway. "That's actually a good point."
"Aha! I have found you!" Killgore declares while pointing up at her.
"Okay, little guy, we will surrender to Killgore, tomorrow after school, okay?" Jenny smiles down at him.
"Victory is mine!" He cheers happily and Amy shakes her head.
"I don't know about this, Jen..."
"Trust me," Jenny winks up at her.
"Killgore! Killgore! Killgore!" A crowd of students gather outside school the next morning as they await his arrival. They cheer as he walks past them, Jenny and Amy in cuffs behind him.
"Crikey, Killgore. How many people did you tell about this?" Jenny asks him quietly. People see Amy and whisper, most of them confused on why she was going with Jenny. Thankfully no one will put two and two together.
"Killgore has many admirers he shall destroy!" He points at the crowd, Amy giving a blank look.
"If you told people about my identity, I swear I'll make you regret it," She hisses down at him.
"Killgore shall reveal nothing!"
"I've arranged for the Cluster to meet us here, but before they show up, ask yourself, wouldn't you rather spend your life with humans who like you instead of robots that don't?" Jenny questions the little wind-up toy.
He looks at some people in sweaters that spell out his name. "We love you, Killgore!" The R and E switch places.
"Kill...gore!" A student reveals that he has the name drawn on his fingers. "Yeah!"
Someone even has a tattoo of him with surrender underneath it. "You rule!"
Killgore smiles happily upon seeing this. "You're the cutest thing ever!" A girl shouts at the top of her lungs.
"Y-hoh! Where are the Cluster?" Killgore demands as he gets impatient. A bike bell is heard and he turns around...to see Sheldon, Tuck, and Brad posing as the Cluster while on their bikes. Amy groans as she closes her eyes.
"Oh, you didn't..." She murmurs to Jenny; she put her faith in her friend for this?
"Greetings, fellow robot," Brad speaks up as they walk up to him. "Thank you for capturing the XJ9 and her friend. We now totally won't mock you or anything and will, uh, like make you our robot leader."
"Isn't he a little small?" Tuck wonders, Brad hitting him upside the head. "I mean, uh, yeah, you can even ride on my handlebars."
"Please hand over XJ9 and the girl."
Shaking occurs and they all freeze. A gust of wind blows off the disguises as the Cluster ship hovers over the bikes and then destroys them. "My bike! I mean, my bike!"
Amy sighs slowly at them. "Oh, give it up, Tuck," Brad dismisses him. Jenny and Amy attempt to break free as Killgore smirks.
"The real Cluster! But how?"
"Killgore arranged for them to meet us. Killgore is small. Killgore is not stupid."
"Alright, shrimpy, hand over XJ9 and...who is that?"
"It's her mecha slave!" Killgore gestures to the girl, everyone murmuring in confusion. Amy looks really nervous though as she glances around in a panic. "Can't you tell the difference?!"
"Not so fast," Brad states as the three boys all glare at him. "If you want them, you have to get through-" They duck from a laser and then run off. "Sorry girls, gotta run!"
Amy looks at them in worry. "Okay peewee, let's have 'em."
"What about our deal?" Killgore demands them.
"Oh yeah, right. The whole, uh, leader thing. Here's the new deal. Hand them over, and we'll let ya...wax our spaceship."
"What?! Killgore refuses! Jenny was right. Why would Killgore join forces with such double-dealing tricksters? Killgore did in two days what they couldn't do in two years! Killgore is too good for the Cluster. He shall destroy mankind without them."
"Eh, yeah, that's nice, but I'm afraid the Cluster don't take no for an answer," They point their laser guns at him. "Hand over the girls!"
"You are making a grave mistake! If I become your enemy, I will not stop until you are destroyed!" The wind-up toy declares.
"We'll take our chances," One of them grabs the spring and removes it entirely. Killgore shuts down and falls, and they throw it into the sewers. The two then start laughing.
"Killgore!" Jenny cries out and then realizes she could've done that a while back. "Wait, why didn't I think of that?"
"I think that's the least of our worries now," Amy states as they pick the two over their shoulders.
"Whether she's Ms. Mecha or not, she's still the one most associated with XJ9. We'll take her for questioning. Let's go, the Empress is waiting!" The orange one laughs evilly as he kicks away Killgore, and they walk towards the ship.
"Nooo!"
"Let us go!" Amy struggles in the alien's grip. Killgore lands in front of Pteresa, she and other students holding up springs.
"Kids with wind-up keys?!" The orange one exclaims.
"I'm on it," The green one drops Amy as he grabs a cannon, firing at them. The other one drops Jenny as the students duck. The laser hits a billboard sign with large scissors, and the scissors fall over the students. Pteresa winds up Killgore, who presses the button to release the girls. Jenny flies forward and picks up the group, saving them. Amy sighs in relief as she runs over. Jenny swoops down and picks her up.
"Hey Killgore, what should we do with those big jerks?" She smirks down at the Cluster.
"Killgore has an idea."
Jenny summons her fists and her large feet. "Uh oh..." Jenny, Amy, and Killgore head for the duo, Jenny and Amy knocking them both out. They use essentially the same methods that they used on Killgore to get him away. The girls then punch and kick them to the ship and they crash through the window. The ship then flies off into the sky, all the students cheering happily.
"Nice work, Killgore. Put her there," Jenny offers him her hand.
"Smack!" He slaps it away. "Make no mistake, Killgore is still a villain through and through! Black is his heart, and sinister his purpose! And once Killgore crushes the Cluster, he shall return to destroy mankind!" Jenny then grabs him. "No! Let me go!" Jenny hugs him happily as Amy smiles as they weren't that annoyed by him anymore.
"Aww, he's so cute!" Everyone says in unison.
"No! Did you not hear my diatribe? Can you not read my tag? I am not cute! I am Killgore! KILLGORE!"
Amy walks down the sidewalk with Jenny, meeting up with Sheldon halfway home. "Here you go, Amy," He hands over her brooch. "Thank goodness for Jenny asking me to hold onto it, right?"
"Okay, fine," Amy rolls her eyes to the back of her head as Jenny smirks knowingly. "When you said to trust you, you meant it, Jen. But that was a close call, though. And what about Killgore? He could've told people. They're gonna think that I'm Ms. Mecha."
"I asked around; all he told people was that he was gonna hand over my 'most associated ally'," Jenny tells her and Amy sighs in relief. "And hey, at least some people actually stepped in to help you too."
"Hey, you're right. I guess they don't want me to suffer through the Cluster," She shrugs a little.
"I'm so sorry I abandoned you to the Cluster!" Sheldon gets on his knees in front of Jenny, both girls looking away awkwardly. "I'll do anything to make it up to you!"
"Sheldon..." Jenny sighs at him. "It's okay, really. My plan didn't work out like I hoped, but you still tried."
"Oh no!" He holds his head in a panic. "You must be really mad now! I-I gotta go do something!" He runs off quickly and the two just stare at him wide-eyed.
"He does realize that I'm not really mad, right?" Jenny asks her friend, who just pinches her nose.
"Don't worry, I'll go calm him down...eventually."
Angel: Weird that I mentioned Xiaolin Showdown not too long ago and yet here's Omi's voice actress being hilarious as usual XD I did say I need to rewatch the show, maybe this is a sign or something.