Chapter 6- An Offer He Refused
Allen and Aqua were sitting at a resturant, eating their food. Allen turned around and saw everyone in the restaurant was looking at them. Allen tried his best to ignore them, but Aqua turned around and said, "Have you ever seen a cat and a robot eat food before, stop looking you pitiful humans or I'll slice you and dice you." Everyone screamed. Allen quickly turned to the patrons, "She's only kidding, pay her no mind, just keep doing what you're doing," he said. His tail bushed up a bit from the embarrassment. He then turned to Aqua. "Just ignore them. Humans have a habit of not understanding what they don't know. It's just best to ignore them and be a smart ass when they say something stupid to you." Aqua nodded.
"So do you have to be at work tomorrow, Allen?" asked Aqua. Allen nodded. "It shouldn't take to long I should be back in the afternoon." The two continued to eat their food and then walked home in the rain, when Aqua's antenna began to beep. "What's wrong," asked Allen. "I don't know, but I think it means something is going to happen soon with all of this rain and me," said Aqua. " I'm sure it's not something to worry about. Let's just get back home, and watch a movie," said Allen. Aqua agrees and the two ran home.
The next day Allen arrived at work and the annoying coworker wasn't there. Thank God. If I see that asshole again. I'm gonna claw his face out, thought Allen. He got his work done and turned it into his boss. "Hey cat. You haven't seen your friend at all today by any chance. He hasn't given me his work," said the boss. Allen shook his head, "No sir, I'll possibly let you know if I see him." "Thanks cat, now bug off out of here you're giving me no-money-hives," said the boss. Allen left the building, he began to walk down the almost flooded street toward his home when a tall figure approached him. "Cat," he said. Allen turned around, "What." He was punched in the face and thrown into a black car.
When Allen eventually woke up, he was sitting in an office looking over the entire almost flooded city, with a tall figure looking over the city also. "It's almost fascinating seeing humans walk around in the rain without a care in the world, just doing everyday ordinary things in their ordinary lives," said the tall figure. Allen wasn't sure what this figure was talking about or where he was. "I wouldn't know," said Allen. The tall figure ignored him. "Still imagine that I end up finding out a not so ordinary person ends up deviating from his ordinary schedule, and finds a not so ordinary object in an alleyway, and takes it home, and fixes it to working condition. And now this not so ordinary person is sitting in this very room," said the tall figure pointing at Allen. Allen gulped. The tall figure changed his tone, "So mister cat, can I interest you in a tour of our facility. As if you've got a choice," said the tall figure almost happily. He pressed a button and a short figure came in. "You rang sir," said the short figure. "Let's give a tour, to mister cat over here," the tall figure smiled. The small figure nodded and three chairs popped up from underneath the two figures, and aligned with Allen's chair. "Let's begin shall we," smiled the small figure.
A door opened up and the row of chairs moved inside of it into a room with machines moving robot heads into their positions above their bodies. "You see mister cat we try to take care of our robots that do our bidding, we give them the most updated features that they need in order to function," said the tall figure. Allen saw one of the robot heads glow red eyes and show some sharp teeth, and it was staring right at him. "I'll take you're word for it," said Allen, uneasily. The chairs continued forward, into a room, that a bunch of scientists were observing a robot up close. "Don't mind this room, it's not really important," said the small figure. Allen didn't listen to her. He watched as a scientist poured a glass of a bronze looking liquid into a bin that led to the room with robot and the robot self destructed. Poor thing, thought Allen.
Finally they ended up in a room that stopped with a new model of a robot that looked close to Aqua's design, except they were more grey colored with their arms, legs, and neck pipes were striped black, grey and white. Their mouths and eyes were pure black, and the antenna beeped a glowing grey. The robot reach for a glass of water and gave it to the tall figure. He took a drink of it and began to speak. "Ah this is our newest model. It's based off a previous model that was light blue with magenta and blue stripes on its arm, leg and neck pipes. It can camouflage in the dark and moves fairly quickly to keep out intruders, only stopping when the intruder shines a light at them." "Why," asked Allen. "It's a bug we're currently working on." The small figure spoke, "So mister cat are you interested in our new model, and junk that robot you found. Hell we'll even junk it for you." Annoyed by this, Allen has had enough of their fake act. "Uh, gee let me think. Yeah, uh, no. I'm not going to give her up just like an outdated gaming console. Everyone may see her as just a robot, but I see her as a real person. The thought that you would try to get me to get rid of her to you assholes. My response to this is as follows: 'Never going to happen.'" said Allen. He left and went out into the rain.
"What are we going to now," asked the small figure. "We resort to plan B. Give me that number for that guy that told us about him," said the tall figure. The small figure wrote down the number, and the tall figure called it. "Yes, we have a job for you. Here's what you have to do."
Chapter 7- A Kidnapping, and a Fight.
Allen had left the apartment to pick a game, and some groceries for him and Aqua, as the two of them had recently planned to try and best each other at a game Aqua picked, (Allen and her flipped a coin. Allen lost.) Aqua was at the apartment alone, looking for Allen's cookie stash, when a banging noise occurred at the door. "Open up robot. Time to go back to where you belong," said a voice. Scared Aqua hid as the door flew open. From where she was at, she saw Allen's co-worker was looking for her. "Come out, come out, wherever you are. There's no use hiding from me, and other obvious searching phrase cliches," said the co-worker.
The co-worker began to ransack the apartment. He tipped over Allen's TV, tore up his shelves, and breaking everything that wasn't nailed down. "You had better come out little robot. It's no use hiding. I will tear up this place to find up you," said the co-worker. He looked around some more he noticed the rain was trickling down really quickly. Looking on the ground, he noticed a weird raindrop figure eight shape with an antenna sticking out of its head shadow on the ground. The co-worker had an idea. "Well I guess if you're not here, I might as well leave," he said. He backed up to a door and slammed it hard. Aqua dropped down from the ceiling, and immediately the coworker covered Aqua in a burlap sack. She screamed as loud as she can and she bashed into the walls and scuffing up the floor in an effort to escape, but the co-worker was to strong for her as he continued to leave the apartment.
When Allen came home, he dropped the game he bought and the groceries in shock of the mess that was left in his apartment. The TV was destroyed, games were all over the floor, and glass was everywhere. At first he was going to yell at Aqua for causing this mess, but then when he looked at the walls and the floor he noticed a sign of a struggle. "Aqua," shouted Allen. He began to look all over the apartment for her. There was no sign. Allen heard a clapping noise through the front door frame.
"So sad to see the cat looking for his missing toy," said a voice. Allen turned to see his co-worker just smiling. "You had better leave before I claw out your eyes. I don't want to deal with you right now," said Allen taking his gloves off. "Aww... that's too bad because I know where your robot toy is. I took her there myself," he said. "If you took her then why did you come back," said Allen. "For three reasons. One. To gloat. Two. To watch you squirm like the pathetic cat you are. Three. To watch you lose the only friend you had. Now all of that is happening, I feel a great sense of pride that it is all happening to you," he laughed. Allen felt a rush of anger flowing into him "Bring her back you bastard," he said unsheathing his claws. "Never. She's at the other place that I work at. Let's face it. The place we work at pays squat, while the other place pays me handsomely. So I'm working for them. I only work with you to spy on your company and take over for my boss." Allen ignored him, his blood was beginning to boil, as he was seeing red and his tail was bushy. "Last chance you bastard. Return her or I'll kick your ass," he said. The co-worker continued to talk. "And now, I'll be able to as I'll be eliminating the one thing that was in my way. And that being you. You're your boss's favorite and I heard he was going to promote you when he retired. He gives you hell just to prep you for the real world, he just never told you just to keep it a surprise. I can't have that now can't I. I deserve it more. I have lightweights like you do my work for me. I deserve it. So now to destroy you," he said.
Allen had enough he let out a loud hiss and a growl, as he launched at the co-worker. The co-worker moved out of the way of the anthropomorphic cat. "You even fight like a weak cat, now I'll show you how a human does it," he said. He grabbed Allen's tail. Allen let out a loud "MREOW" as he was flung into the hallway. The co-worker came charging out and knocked right into Allen. Allen coughed up some blood. He saw the coworker was standing near a set of stairs that led to the roof of the building. Getting on all fours Allen lunged right at the human, and ran him right up onto the roof and into the rain and thunder.
The two fighters were standing face to face. Allen had blood stains on his muzzle, while the co-worker had a busted up back. The both of them were breathing heavily. The co-worker charged right at Allen and he moved out of the way until he almost fell of the building. He stopped in his tracks, and quickly orientated himself. Allen came toward him with claws at the tip of his hands.
Allen had smacked his clawed hand on his face it sent him off the edge of the building, he grabbed the ledge with his hand, and other hand trying to grab onto the ledge. Realizing what had happened, Allen snapped out of his animal state and rushed to the coworker. Allen tried to grab the co-worker by the other hand, unaware the co-worker's other hand was already slipping.
"What you're trying to help me, you hate me," said the co-worker. "I'm only doing it, because if I don't, I'll feel guilty about it later. I still despise you and I'm still trying to decide if I should let you go," said Allen, "So if you want me to help before I change my mind I suggest you grab my hand." The co-worker tried to give his other hand to Allen, but his grip slid from the building, and it sent him sinking down into the ground with a loud splash, outright killing him in the process. "Damn it," shouted Allen. After a few minutes, Allen went back into his apartment and played with his slinky as he looked out the window to think about what happened to the coworker. "He was an ass, but he didn't deserve to die," he said. The clock dinged and Allen noticed it was time for him to start cleaning up. He did so into the night, eventually falling asleep in the process.
The next day the rain was pouring harder than it has been for the past few weeks. Allen went to the window and he looked at the massive rain cloud in the sky, and noticed it was swirling the building that he was taken to the day before. "That must be where Aqua is," he said. He left his apartment and made his way toward the building.
Chapter 8- Escaping the Dark
Once at the building, Allen ringed himself out from the rain outside. "Its coming down worse than ever, at this rate the city will be a lake," said Allen, twisting his tail. He turned on his flashlight that he brought with him as the first level was pitch black. The light itself only reached a few inches in front of Allen. Normally he's not afraid of the dark, but something about this room was freaking him out. A small breeze blew past Allen, and he shined his light in that direction. "Allen, where are you," said a voice. Allen thought it was Aqua, but there was something off about this situation. As the voice was coming from one direction, then came from another. After wandering around a bit, Allen heard something bang across the floor,almost like bricks banging across a concrete surface.
He turned his flashlight and saw a robot that looked close to Aqua's design except with blacks and grays."Oh it's that robot they tried to pin on me," said Allen. He shined his light off of the robot, but doing so the robot moved his hand up to try and strangle Allen. Allen turned around and shined the light back onto him. He shrugged. Another noise occurred as Allen spotted another robot that looked like the one before. "Something strange is going on here," he said. Turning around Allen accidentally dropped his flashlight. More noises came coming from all sides and Allen turned his light back on and he was surrounded by the robots. Allen's eyes widened. He turned his light off then back on, and the robots were closer to him. He screamed. Allen went onto the floor with his back with the light facing up toward the robots faces, and the flashlight was in his mouth, and he crawled on his back out of the circle of robots. When he got up he flashed the light back at the robots, this time their heads were looking directly right at him, with their sharp teeth showing and reds lights in their eye bulbs. Allen walked backwards away from them keeping the light on all of them, he felt his hands on the wall, looking for a light switch. No luck. Now the flashlight was beginning to glow dim and the smiles on the robots were growing bigger and bigger.
The flashlight gave out, and Allen found himself in pitch darkness. A loud screech pitched through out the air, the robots were on the move. Each of them were using phrases that were in Aqua's voice, "Allen we won't hurt you," and "Allen come here and play," were echoing in the air.
Allen kept running throughout the room when he ran smack dab into an elevator. He pressed the button as fast as he could, but the elevator was slowly coming down. "Come on. Come on," he chanted. The robots continued to get closer and closer. The elevator dinged, and the doors opened up with a little light coming from inside freezing the robots in place only a few inches from Allen. Allen climbed in and pressed the button to the next floor, and escaped the robots.
Chapter 9- Allen Vs. Water
The Elevator doors opened up and Allen was in the room that the scientists blew up a robot with that strange liquid. The room was completely empty with only a few lights to keep the room lit. Beakers were scattered all over the floor, and some green liquid was coming out of them. In the center of the room a book was left wide open. Allen walked toward it, and began to read it. " 'Wednesday March 28th, 2016. The robot we stole back from the cat has appeared for its first experiment. It reacted positively to the liquid we gave it. She refused and demanded to go back to her cat friend, but our boss came in and forced it down her throat, she then went into shut down mode for the rest of the day.' That is just sick," said Allen. He kept reading. " 'Today, The robot has began to show signs of a mutation, it seems to have grown a larger body with large teeth, and red eyes, longer arms and a thirst for blood. The robot no longer can speak normal english, but at an instant she has already started to kill…'" That's where it ended. Allen was in shock. He looked at the day on the book. "Oh shit," he said. He heard a clang hit the ground. He turned and saw this robot that had multiple large red eyes, multiple arms almost like a spider and a head that looked like Aqua's head. The machine roared. "Au… Aqua. It… Its me… Al… Allen." he said scared. Once again the machine roared. Allen heard a clapping noise and Aqua spider froze. In came the small figure.
"Well I see you made to our labs, cat. Come to take back what is yours. Well now she's ours," said the small figure. "Roy Arro, what do you want me to do with the cat, he's here past the silent robot guards" said the small figure speaking to the tall figure. "Kill him, Regina Vore," said Roy. "What the hell, why did you do this to her," yelled Allen. "That's for us to know and for you to find out," said Regina, " 'Aqua,' play time." Aqua roared and Allen ran for it.
Regina followed them down the hallway and Allen made his way into a room with a bunch of robots pressing a button. Allen ran and ran as Aqua bashed into all of these robots pressing their button. Regina yelled, "You stupid robot, don't run into our workers we need them." At that moment Allen had an idea. "Aqua, I don't know if you can hear me, but note I never called you stupid," he said. Aqua roared, her eyes blinked blue, then back to red. "Don't try that cliche nonsense on it. It never works," yelled Regina. "How do you know have you tried it, ya dumb bitch," said Allen. Aqua roared a bit of a laugh. Angered, Regina pressed a button and Aqua resorted back to what she was doing. "Now I'm back in control. Try that lovey dovey shit now stupid cat," she yelled. Allen saw Aqua's eyes turn a brighter red, and she charged at Allen. Allen quickly dove out of the way and Aqua crashed into the window, breaking it in the process, and the rain to come in. Wind was blowing really hard, and it caused Regina to drop the button that controlled Aqua. The button flew around the room and Allen caught it. Regina noticed this and ran after Allen to drop the button, Allen pressed it, Aqua turned and shoved Regina out of the window. "Good job, now which of these buttons return you to normal," said Allen. Allen pressed a button and lightning came of the switch and struck Aqua, knocking her out. Allen saw her body return to normal. Then he heard a large sucking noise coming from the roof and a tube like wire came down and sucked Aqua inside of it. A voice appeared on an intercom.
"Well, well cat. You may have slowed down my plans, but I'm so far ahead, it doesn't really matter you destroyed my robots. I will still win. So as my victory is practically complete. I want to reward myself, and my reward is to destroy you, myself," said Roy. A door opened up. "So to make sure you come up here. I have the pathetic robot you desperately want." "My god will you just shut the hell up," yelled Allen. He entered the doorway and up into the main office.
The main office was big. It had lush red carpets, giant windows that were now broken presumably from the raging wind outside, and standing in the middle was the tall figure himself, Roy. "Cat it's so good you made it. Is this what you are after," he said holding up Aqua. "Let her go, you bastard," said Allen sternly. "Gladly," Roy said holding Aqua over the window. "No don't," said Allen. "Alrighty then," said Roy. "Just what are you doing, why use all of these robots, and why were you wanting Aqua back," asked Allen. "I might as well tell you, since you're going to die anyway," Roy laughed. He stared back out the window, "Ever noticed how it's been raining everyday for the last few weeks," he began, "Well it's been me causing it the entire time. The rain water itself is slowly poisoning everyone on Earth, as each of the robots I had pressed the button to keep it raining every single day. Ever noticed how the clouds kept swirling around this building's antenna." Allen thought about and he did notice it when his coworker fell he noticed the clouds swirling above the building. "Well that is just the first part of my plan. The next part is killing everyone who has been drinking water and turn them into liquid spider creatures, just like I did to your robot. They will all bow down to me, and I will rule the world. The one catch was me junking this here robot. I didn't count on her booting back up and you finding it. She could've told you my plans. I couldn't let that happen, so I stole her back and experimented on it, and turned it into my spider prototype." "Well that's where you were wrong. Aqua couldn't remember anything about this place. She was more happy to be away from you. So guess what dumbass you just told me your plans. And seeing as how I'm the only one here I'm going to have to stop you." "Well then what are you going to do. You're are just a pathetic cat. Very well. If you think you can stop me bring it on." Roy tossed Aqua aside and drank a potion he pulled out his pocket. "To make this a fair fight. Goodbye," said Roy. He then fell out of the window and into the rain.
Allen ran to the window, and watched as Roy splashed right into the water below. Roy disappeared as the water began to bubble and rise rains was pouring faster than what it had done before, causing the wind to blow the whole roof off of the building. A water arm came up from below and struck down a wall and then another are struck down the other wall. Water rose up just before the building and formed a human face. "You are in my domain cat, Time to drown in my water like body," said Roy through the water. "That sounds wrong on so many levels," said Allen. Ignoring him, Roy chugged up a water arm and knocked down the base of the building. The building wobbled, and began to fall over. Allen rushed to Aqua and grabbed her arms, folding them just like a backpack. As the building fell Allen quickly jumped to the next building. "There is nowhere you can hide, cat. Water is everywhere. Water is everything," said Roy moving his body chasing after Allen and Aqua. Allen quickly looked around each of the building looking for a way to defeat Roy. Think, think, think. What gets rid of water, he thought. He looked around and noticed some telephone poles. Worth a shot, he thought. He hopped across some of the building and made his way to the poles. Roy followed. Allen stood on one of the poles, and watched as Roy unleashed a water arm, and hit the wires of the poles. It electrocuted both the water and Allen as sent him flying in an opposite direction it did however wake Aqua up. Allen was out cold, as Aqua turned and saw Roy was a giant water monster. "Ah little robot you awoke just in time for me to kill your friend for good," said Roy. "No I will not let you harm him," she said as she shielded Allen. Allen got up. "Never doing that again," said Allen, "Aqua you're awake." "Allen no stay down you're too weak, to fight him," said Aqua. "I'm fine, I'm not going to let him beat us." She nodded, "Do you have an idea to beat him, clearly electricity didn't work." "No no idea, too bad the sun isn't out… That's it. Follow me," said Allen. He grabbed Aqua's arm, and the two ran from Roy as he followed after them. "Where are we going," she asked. "If Roy was controlling the weather with an antenna, why can't it work for us." Aqua's eyes widened, and she nodded. The two hopped along the buildings and went to Allen's apartment building's roof. "Aqua, go into the apartment and get the laptop. I want you to hook up to it and call out the sun. I'll distract him," said Allen. "Me, why can't you do it," said Aqua. "You know more on how to operate the weather antenna back when you were with him, so you must know how to get the sun out," said Allen. "But I…," she started, but was interrupted when Roy smashed a water arm into the ground. "Alright I'll do it," she said as he ran into the building. Allen turned to Roy.
Inside the apartment, as the ground kept shaking from the water, Aqua found Allen's laptop. And she hooked herself to and hacked her way into Roy's weather company, and began the process to call out the sun.
Allen faced Roy's giant form. "You've threatened my friends," said Allen. "They weren't real. It was just a robot," said Roy raising up a water arm. "You've kidnapped Aqua." "She was mine to begin with," he said, as he rose up the other arm. "And you've tried to kill me." " Correct, and now make sure you are dead," said Roy pulling his arms, down, until something burnt his back. "Yeowch," Roy shouted. "And time for me to bring the sun out," said Allen. He ran into his apartment, "Now Aqua." She pressed the enter key on Allen's keyboard. The two raced back out. And watched as Roy evaporated into the air. "Noooo, my plans, ruined. Get rid of the sun. It'll cure everyone. Why did I just say that. Nooo, I'm evaporating. What a world," shouted Roy as he disappeared into the air. Allen and Aqua huggd it out as they watched everyone come out of their homes, to take in the fresh sunlight. Allen then let go of Aqua and proceeded to faint. "Uh Allen," said Aqua. She felt his pulse, there was a very slow heart rate. "I better get you to the doctor," she said. She went back into the apartment and called the ambulance.
Chapter 10- Allen in the Hospital
The following day, Allen woke up in a bed in a super bright room. Aqua was sitting next to him. "I suppose this time I should thank you for saving me," said Allen, groggily. She smiled, "The doctor was in shock of how you managed to survive close to a dozen volts of electricity. He also mentioned because you were holding me the electricity passed safely from you and into me," she smiled. Allen tried to sit up, "I guess my stupidity saved you," he gave a small laugh. "Careful don't assert yourself. The doctor also said to take it easy for a few days to make sure all the electricity passed," said Aqua. "Alright fine," said Allen laying back on the bed, "I guess I ought to say thank you for saving my life." Aqua smiled again, "I didn't do anything, I just called the ambulance. I must say this hospital is very accepting of most people, they weren't even bothered by the fact that I'm a robot." Allen nodded, "Yeah they've always been accepting of everyone." The doctor came in, "Alright Miss Aqua time to go. Allen needs his rest." She agreed and went home.
After two days had passed after Allen returned from the hospital, Aqua found more of Allen's cookie stache. He walked by her and she asked if she could get a cookie. He said if she could figure out a way to open up the stache then she could have one. So she found several pounds of dynamite, piled it up, and sat it on fire. Allen walked back in the room, "Uh Aqua what are you doing," he asked. "Going to blow up your cookie stache," she said. He nodded then walked away, only for after a few seconds had passed, he ran back into the room, "Wait, what," he yelled. A loud explosion occurred that can be seen from space, and the next thing Allen knew he was back in the hospital, in a full body cast. Aqua came in, "Allen I got the cookie," she opened up her chest plate placed it in their and grinded it up, and dropped the leftovers in the trash. "Oh and the doctor, said you'll be here for six more weeks," she said. Allen groaned, then rolled his eyes. If she is going to live with me full time, I need to be specific with her, I also need to start hiding my secret cookie stash away from where she can easily find it, he thought. He then proceeded to go back to sleep.
The End