A.N- Just for a reference I want to say that Han's robots are supposed to look like the robots from the movie 'I, Robot' except that their faces aren't so human. Then the cyborgs look like 'The Terminator' guy when he had half of his face off.
Also, since winter break's over, I'm going to be updating only on weekends again. Unless it's not a busy week.
dopeycookiemonster- Yeah, I had it like this when I started the story and don't know why I ever changed it. I have a lot of language on here and kind of mature themes.
Birdwatched- Thank you for that idea but I'm going to stay with the idea I had when I started writing this (hint, hint, wink, wink) like I told you. Thank you so much, it made my day to hear that, and I most certainly will not:)
Lost Battle- But Not Yet War
I was about to hit the top of a pine tree when I closed my eyes thinking that this would be the end. Until I slammed into something- hard.
I had wrapped my arms around my torso protectively long ago, in a useless attempt to save my child. And now that I had felt myself stop falling, I cautiously opened my right eye a slit, still clutching my stomach.
I saw the red light sky from the setting sun and then huge black things filled my vision. I opened my eyes up fully, getting scared all over again, until I slowly realized what they were.
Fang. They were Fang's wings!
He had reached me in time. He had saved my life, and possibly his child's; that part without even knowing.
I looked down and saw that I had fallen with back against his chest. He had wrapped his arms around me, holding me to him as he fell a few feet from the impact and hit the tree against his back.
He stopped flapping when he crashed into the tree, holding onto me with one arm as he tried to grab onto something with the other. We were falling again and there wasn't enough room to safely extend his wings with all the branches around us.
I started to fear for our lives again, until I realized that Dylan was still coming towards us at full-speed.
He reached the tree, right as Fang had started to fall, and reached for us.
He folded his wings in as he came through the trees behind us and fell, more gracefully than Fang and myself, through the branches. He reached for us again as we all fell and finally caught Fang's gray shirt by the hem, which would have been great- if it hadn't ripped.
Fang's shirt ripped up the middle where he was still clutching onto me. I decided to try to reach for something myself and managed to grab a medium-sized branch. It bent really far and almost snapped at the pressure, but we were saved by Dylan; who had grabbed Fang and I's arms.
Him grabbing our arms made us fall slower, so when I grabbed the branch, it made us stop. I realized that Fang had also grabbed a branch by mine, but his had snapped off in his hand.
Now that we had stopped falling, I took the opportunity to look around.
I was now hanging painfully by my left arm on a branch, Fang clutching my torso from behind with his left hand, and Dylan was grabbing our right arms, with his legs out behind him. He was lying on a pile of broken branches that were being held by a slightly broken thicker branch.
I looked down and noticed we had only been about fifteen or twenty feet from hitting the ground.
I breathed a sigh of relief, closing my eyes to soak it all in.
I wasn't dead. Fang and Dylan weren't dead. And most important, my baby wasn't dead…
Once I opened my eyes up again, I saw that something was coming towards us.
"What is that!" I screamed as I squirmed around, trying to get out of the mess.
Fang saw it right as I had and took my arm from Dylan. He took me in his arms and fell gracefully to the ground.
Dylan wasn't as quick and turned to look behind him, at where the thing was, saying "wha-" right as the object exploded around him- where we all had been just seconds ago.
I saw that the object exploded into a huge net that quickly caught Dylan, and some branches that fell with him.
Fang put me down and took his wings out. He jumped up to Dylan, who was now struggling in the net, while he took something out of his pocket.
He hovered by the net and quickly cut it with the thing from his pocket- a knife, until there was a Dylan-sized hole in it.
"Quick, get out through here!" He ordered Dylan as he lifted up the net to open the hole.
As I saw Dylan jump down from the branch, followed by Fang, something was thrown over me from behind.
It was another net, and it was dragged backwards quickly, causing me to fall to the ground.
I let out a loud "Ooof-" as I hit the hard ground, which made Dylan and Fang look back and start racing to me.
I wriggled around until I was looking at the thing dragging me. I saw that it was yet another robot.
I also saw that behind him there were maybe fifteen or twenty others. They all looked like the robots Hans had when we had gone to rescue the flock, which made me suspect he was the one behind all of this.
"Fuck" I let out with a sigh. I was completely worn out. The adrenaline rush had ended and left me with a headache. Basically, I hurt all over. I didn't even want to try anymore.
My logic was that since Hans was behind this, that he would most likely want me alive, right?
Well, might as well not even put up a fight, so we won't get hurt than we have to.
With a sigh, I lay back down in the netting and turned my head back, trying to tell them to not fight. I even mouthed for them to wait and then follow me, but either didn't see me or just straight up ignored me. As soon as I mouthed it, they went ahead and charged to the robots.
I knew from that second that they were going to lose this battle.
Even if they could get me out of here, I had no doubt that more robots would just gang up on us. Plus, I knew very well I wouldn't be able to help; I had no energy at all to fight. Those dumb-asses…
Dylan charged for the robot holding the net that I was trapped in and managed to break its arms off.
Note to self: Han's stupid robots' body parts break easily.
He then proceeded to open the net up and grabbed my hand. I got up quickly and saw that a robot was about to hit Dylan's head from behind.
I acted so quick that I even surprised myself- I pushed Dylan shoulder hard, so he would move to the side and went down on all fours backwards. When my hands were supporting me from behind, I swept one of my legs sideways quickly and managed to kick the robots legs out from under it. It went down while its fist punched the air in front of it.
As it fell I tried to get up, ignoring my all-over body ache. I was running on fumes and knew it all too well.
"Max look out!" I heard Fang shout, as Dylan went off to fight and I put my hand on my knees to catch my breath.
I saw that a robot was running straight for me, only a few feet away. I knew I couldn't run in my state so I only managed to put my hands around my stomach right as it hit me.
The robot grabbed me tightly, right over my arms. It flung me over its shoulder with one arm and started sprinting over to the other robots. They all saw him and made way, until we were right in the middle and surrounded by the other robots on all sides.
He started to tie me up with the help of another robot and I did nothing to stop it. I had no fight left in me and I really didn't want to get bounced around or anything anymore.
I could see that all of the robots to the left, where Fang had been, stopped and looked around at each other. I was coming to the conclusion that he turned invisible, when he suddenly appeared right in front of a robot and kicked it in the chest, causing it to fall to the ground backwards. He smashed its head with his foot and the bot went limp right as he turned invisible again. The robots had been about to attack, until they weren't able to see him again and started to look around confusedly again.
That happened again and again so I looked over to see what Dylan was doing.
He was punching everything he saw. He roundhouse kicked a few robots when they got behind him, making holes in their metal covers.
As I looked on helplessly, the robot put me in another net, picked me up again and started to go up into the air.
It didn't have wings and I noticed that on the robot right in front of me- the one that had helped tie me up- that two vents had opened up on its back. There was something coming out of the vents, something that made the air around it start to move visibly (it looked hot).
I looked down and saw that there were only three robots left. One got taken care of by Fang, who pounced on it with both feet and was on him like he was surfing. He bent down and punched its head, which popped off. As it went limp, Fang unfurled his gigantic black wings and flew up to where I was.
As that happened, Dylan had gotten ahold of the two robots by him and banged their heads together so hard that their heads came off backwards and rolled on the floor. I noticed that the robot's (the one in fro at of me) arm had sort of rolled back partly to reveal a screen.
On that screen, I could see a face talking and the robot nodded to it. It then proceeded to fly to the robot holding me.
It flew by me with its arm extended to my face. I saw that Hans was the one on the screen.
"Max, tell Fang and Dylan to stop right now. It is a fruitless attempt, since I have hundreds more robots from where these came from and although this first batch it pretty disposable, the next are not" he tells me, "I suggest you stop Dylan and Fang now or I'm sorry to say, but they will get hurt, and then who will protect your flocks?" he adds evilly.
My eyes widen. He couldn't know where everybody was hiding, could he?
For once, I didn't take the risk and nodded.
The robot threw me over his shoulder again, making me flinch in pain, so that I'm facing the angry, oncoming Fang and Dylan.
"Stop!" I yell at them through the net that was almost cutting my face. They slow down a little from the tone of my voice and seem to be paying attention to me now.
"Hans has hundreds more robots and they're stronger than these! I promise I'll be OK, we all know Hans wants me alive so just forget about me! Go protect the others!" I say and hope that they'll listen.
Duh, of course they don't.
They seem to stop, but then a look overcomes Fang's face, like he remembered something and he races to me again. Dylan hovers for a few more wing strokes and then decides come too.
'I hate them… I really do…' is all I have time to think before the light from the moon is covered.
Robots, hundreds of them, are all I see when my robot drops me again.
I get really scared from the drop until I realize he was still holding the net and that I wouldn't be falling anytime soon.
The newbies are all in a loosely formed wall maybe a quarter of a mile across. These robots looked different though, they looked more like cyborgs than normal robots. They looked bigger too. Stronger.
I wriggled around in the net while I was all tide up, which is not easy let me tell you, so that I could see Fang and Dylan.
Their eyes were wide and they looked a little scared, an expression I don't ever recall seeing in either of their faces.
My heart rate started racing more than usual, I twisted and turned in my net in desperation as I tried to do something, anything to help.
"Leave! Don't try to rescue me! I can take care of myself and I'll come back as soon as I can! Just go!" I scream. Then I turn to the robot that was holding my net "Hey ugly! Let me talk to G."
It seemed unfazed at what I'd just called it and stretched its arm so that it was in front of my face. When it was close enough, the little screen opened up again and showed Hans.
"I know what you're going to ask, and yes- I'll call them off, if you come willingly and let me run a few tests on you. I promise that all of the tests I run won't do you any harm" he tells me sounding oh-so sincere.
Considering I didn't even have the strength or even will-power to fight right now, I decided to agree. I wasn't thrilled about the testing, but if it meant getting everyone out of danger- well then I'd do whatever.
"Alright, whatever. Just let them go and don't try to follow them" I say finally.
He nods, smiling and the screen goes blank. The robot then takes his arm away and flies a little bit faster.
I turn again and look at the guys. They were still in a little bit of shock while looking at the cyborgs. Fang looked like he was calculating something, but was getting nowhere; and Dylan looked super angry and like he just wanted to barrel into them all.
I finally get their attention and mouth 'go'. They look reluctant, but after a moment, they seem to realize that they wouldn't be able to win this one and slowly turn to the woods below.
I watch them until they disappear into the trees and hoped to whatever there is out there, that they won't follow.
I felt like crying now and curl up into a ball inside the net.
I was starving and exhausted, but sometime during the flight I fell asleep inside the uncomfortable net.
A.N- Hey guys, I'm going to take the poll down and put a second plot to this story. Hooray!
I draw btw, and I wanted to know what you guys would think of the idea of me drawing the flock and putting a link on my profile thing. Let me know in the reviews!
Love yall,
~L