Albert walked around, repeating one word in his head. Scrapped. Albert shuddered at the idea that Black Ghost still would do that. It scared him more than the fact that they were still around. He rememberd back to when he first became a cyborg, back in the 60's. His body had failed to live up to the expectations the scientists had wanted.
"If we don't fix him, we have to scrap him. Leader's orders." Albert remembered another scientist saying that to the Doctor. Albert had broken down after escaping and asking what that meant, and he regretted ever asking. The Professor explained all that they did. First they drugged the subject to calm them, but not sleep. They slowly shut down the body except the brain, taking apart all the working cybernetics. Then, finally, the subject was melted and disposed of, while still alive. Albert shuddered as he remembered all the screams from failed experiments that had met that aweful fate. He was sure that no one else besides him and the professor knew what that meant, but he also knew that someone would ask soon enough.
"004?" He looked over at the brunette cyborg who looked concerned. "Are you ok? You've been really distant these past couple days." Albert should have known Joe would be the first to check on him. Joe was extremely kind hearted, and though it sometimes caused problems with strangers, he always made sure the team was alright. If Joe ever saw that something bothered someone, he always came to see if they were ok.
"I'm just thinking things through." Albert tried to cover up just how scared he was, hoping Joe would drop it.
"Well if you need me, come find me." Joe walked off with Albert's back turned to him. "Hey Jet." Albert sighed. Now he couldn't escape.
"Well you sure are uppity today." Albert could hear Jet smirk.
"Not in the mood 002." Albert meant it as a warning, but knew Jet would just keep pestering him.
"Well most of us aren't very happy, y'know? You're not the only one surprised those bastards are still around." Jet leaned against the wall next to Albert. Albert shrugged. Jet glared. "What's really your problem 004?" Albert sighed knowing the hot headed american wouldn't stop if he didn't explain.
"I'm just worried for that kid." Albert watched as Jet's hard expression softened.
"Yeah, I feel sorry for him." Albert was surprised to hear Jet show concern for Mikolaj. Albert knew that Jet was a caring person past the cold hearted tough guy act, esspecially with kids, but he also knew Jet was to prideful to let his guard slip very often.
"Hey guys, come check this out!" The two cyborgs went downstairs and saw the news. A local power plant had suddenly went up in flames, putting several area's of the city without power. While the media blamed the accident on lack of staff during the night, the team noticed similar styled scorch marks on the wall of the place.
"Looks like electrical damage." Pyunma spoke up, recognising the style from when the team had fought the 0010 twins.
"But for there to be that much damage over something so minor. Plus most of the plant was unharmed except for that area." Francoise spoke up. Behind them Mikolaj was typing away on a laptop.
"What are you looking at kiddo?" Albert looked at the screen.
"I looked up more on the accident, and found some pictures from the security camera's." He showed the team the pictures of what appeared to be a teen sneaking into the place late at night.
"How did you find these? They haven't even shown them to the public yet." Joe looked at Mikolaj, who just shrugged.
"I just found them." Jet cocked his head and looked at Mikolaj. Joe looked at Albert.
"Should we check it out?" Ruby eyes met blue as Albert looked at him.
"It's probably worth checking out. The problem is getting in." He looked at Mikolaj. "And kiddo should stay here, to be safe." Joe nodded in agreement.
"Then we'll scope it out tonight."
Several hours later the team, short of Ivan, Mikolaj, and the professor were hiding just outside the view of the camera's when something caught Francoise's eye.
"We'll have to sneak in somehow. Me and 002 can probably go in and shut down the alarms without to much trouble." Joe whispered to the group. Jet nodded in agreement and the two started over when Francoise pulled on there yellow scarfs.
"Wait, you two!" Jet hissed a bit under his breath.
"What's wrong, sweety?" Joe ignored as Jet made an annoying and teasing 'aww' sound.
"The camera's are shut off." Francoise pointed to the camera's closest to them.
"Maybe they got damaged during the accident?" Chang thought out loud. Francoise stared at the building.
"No. The place is completely quiet. Everythings shut off." The team looked at Francoise.
"Well then let's take the oppertunity to walk in undetected, while it lasts." Albert said. The eight people stormed into the place, with Francoise wondering what could have caused everything to shut down. The team split up into three groups. Chang, Jr, and Pyunma took to the north of the building, Albert, Britain, and Jet took the west and Joe and Francoise took the east. The teams all looked around for anything out of the ordinary, but appeared to find nothing. An hour after arriving the team met back up.
"Nothing out of the ordinary?" Albert looked at the team.
"Maybe it really was just an accident?" Britain said just moments before a huge explosion rocked the facility. The team all ran towards the large room, filled with expensive looking computers, now all fried. Standing in the center of the room was a teen wearing a blue uniform with a red scarf, his back turned to them. He turned to look at them. His long black hair was kept up in a ponytail and had dark brown eyes. His facial features were much like Joe's.
"Is he a robot?" Joe asked, noting the resemblence.
"He's a cyborg." Francoise said, surprised. Joe glared.
"Who are you?" The teen scoffed.
"I'm 0014. I'm glad to finally meet you." He smiled slyly. "Big brother."