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Chapter 16: Blocker returns
After finishing up on the rather humiliating conversation he had been having with a seemingly overly concerned Angela, Green had decided to just try and put it all out of his mind as he had then started working on other matters. Keeping in mind that Ketongu (AKA: The Toabot who had seemed to want to humiliate him to no end) was supposed to bring him on a meeting with the other Toabots, Green wanted to get as much done as he could before they had to leave. But then he had started to think back to how Ketongu had tried to help him out with his conversation from earlier. Now that he actually DID think of it, he guessed that in a weird way, it was more thoughtful than annoying. His mind had seemed to be at war with itself as he tried to keep his cool around a too-hot-to-handle Angela. He guessed he DID need some help making up his mind.
Now he was actually starting to feel pretty bad, for his old RIVAL of all people. Came his first high school prank, he and Ketongu had both seemed to get off on a pretty rough start, but as the years had progressed, a part of him had actually gotten to see a character of great concern for others in him. And now that he had decided to think more about THAT, he guessed he had actually deserved to get caught a few times. In at least a few of his pranks, a part of him would regret doing it afterwords. If he DID just so happen to regret a prank he would always apologize whenever he got the chance, but it still didn't change the fact that he did it. And Ketongu had known that as much as he did.
Thinking now of all the pros in getting embarrassed the way he did in front of his best friend, he guessed he really did owe Ketongu an apology. And maybe a thank you to go along with it. HECK, he might even ask Ketongu to do it again if it keeps him from being such a chicken. Which as much as he didn't want to admit in this case, he kind of was.
But as Green had continued to think of what to say to both of his friends later on today, also just so happening to be holding a large empty glass aquarium, he nearly jumped as his thoughts were then interrupted by a loud engine of some sort. Green had to be quick as he noticed the aquarium starting to slip from his hands and ended up getting a firm grip on it, then rolling his eyes as he turned his head, almost expecting to see Ketongu standing a few feet away. Perhaps he would've been trying to get back at him for earlier today? But no.
What he saw instead was what looked like a large, black armored vehicle. In a way it looked like a Bionicle-made muscle car, but he wasn't really all that sure as to what model it was. What he WAS sure of right now, was what his eyes were showing him. A black bionicle-made car driving maniacally around the large dirt road a few feet away from him. And by maniacally, he meant that whoever was driving it, was doing so like it had his name written all over it, whether anybody would agree with him or not. Green rolled his eyes again as he put the cage safely on the grassy area to his left and started to approach the vehicle.
"Excuse me sir"!, Green called out.
Right there, the black vehicle had stopped dead in its tracks, staying close to completely still as Green spoke again.
"We're closed"!, Green continued. "And as much as it really pains me to tell you, you need to leave"!
And no sooner than the second Green had finished that sentence, the car had started turning slowly towards him. Turning just enough of a distance for Green to see a hood with purple scratches on it. Wait a minute. PURPLE scratches. Somehow this had all started to seem very familiar to Green. And it was actually starting to frighten him a bit. Why in the heck did the hood of this car look so familiar to him?! It wasn't as if this thing was the Makutacon that Ketongu had beaten the crap out of just last... oh crap., Green thought.
Just as he had started to figure everything out, remembering just what had happened last night, Green started to tense up a bit, quietly hoping that this thing wasn't who he thought it was. Or at least that this thing wasn't one of the other Makutacons Ketongu had told him about. But then his fears were quickly confirmed when Green jumped to another roar from this things engine as the vehicle was now pointed straight at him. And what was all the more frightening was the fact that roar was sounded in a way that told him that this thing was really, REALLY TICKED OFF.
"Crap"., Green quietly told himself, quickly turning around and taking off running.
The black car immediately gave chase, speeding faster and faster towards the running matoran with each passing second. Being as scared as he already was, Green didn't even BOTHER looking back, instead picking up his pace as quickly as he could. After everything Ketongu had told him about the Makutacons, Green wasn't exactly willing to get too close to one anytime soon. Especially not when doing so now would come with the risk of becoming part of the dirt road beneath of him.
As Green had continued picking up his pace, trying now to run FASTER than his legs would normally allow him to, he decided that trying to use his head would more than likely be the best option in the situation he was currently in. And in deciding to use said mind, he tried as quickly as he could to do everything he could even THINK of doing. Whenever he passed an object, he pushed it behind himself. Whenever he found a path in the grass or through a shed, he rushed through it. HECK, he even tried running through rough areas in the grass. But no matter where he ran, no matter WHAT he ran through, he still heard the sound of an angry engine not too far behind him.
Please Lord!, Green prayed. PLEASE make him leave!
And as terrified as Green was, a question-like thought had started to plague his mind: Just HOW did I go from doing something as simple as putting away a cage, to something as horrible as trying to run for my life? And just WHAT did I do to tick this thing off? For goodness gracious sakes alive, he was supposed to be living the rest of the days God gave him to run a zoo. Did he REALLY need to be in a situation where he was RUNNING for his LIFE from one who could rightfully be assumed to be a crazed murderer?!
But as the knowledge of this place's interior structure faded slowly from his mind, slowly being replaced with a seemingly overwhelming fear, he had started running around into or through every random place he could find. And as much as he knew he would yell at himself for this later, he could NOT think any more straight then a human losing to an addiction. Only one thought kept him going. Only one thing of which he repeated to himself over and over again that kept enough fear in him to keep himself running: Just stay alive Green! Just try to stay alive! For the two other matoran who still care about you, just stay the crap alive!
But came a few hundred or so stay alive's later, Green had come to a complete stop, nearly screaming in a fearful rage. And the reason why he had even decided to stop in the first place was NOT because he couldn't hear that engines roar still a ways behind him. And he was by the way, so one could imagine how Green was still petrified. But what scared him most of all was where he had actually ended up after the few minutes he spent running for his life. For out of all the bad places in all the wrong times, he had just found himself standing in front of a set up titanium wall to an unfinished shed. Or in HIS case, a dead end.
Fudge!, Green thought, then looking around as carefully and quickly as he could, looking for a way out. But not two seconds later did Green figure out that from where he was currently standing, there would be no way out. No where else to run as the black armored car, now a pile of shifting pieces of black metal, came quickly towards him, then stopping in front of him in the form of that same Makutacon Ketongu had fought last night. The one Ketongu simply called: Blocker.
At THAT point, all Green could do was stand completely still as he looked fearfully up at the Toa-sized being that glared down at him through bright red eyes that gleamed from behind the purple pakari.
"You"., Green had actually managed to force out after a few seconds, pretending not to fully recognize or even be afraid of him.
As fearful as he was of whatever painful death this Makutacon could bring to him right now, now was the time to try and "carefully" concur his fear. Otherwise, what help was he gonna be to the other Toabots other than just an ordinary member of his own race? Something ,by the way, of which he did NOT want to be seen as. Especially not since these things had already been through enough hectic crap all thanks to the Turaga council. But at the same time, Green WAS just a matoran. And that would more than likely give this guy enough of a reason NOT to try and kill him, right?
But just as that thought had crossed his mind, Blocker reached into his back, then pulling out a chainsaw-like sword, and wielding in a not so friendly manner.
"Or not"!, Green thought.
Quickly, Blocker stomped a foot in front of the unsuspecting matoran, causing him to nearly fall back as Blocker then asked in a low/mechanical voice: "Where. is. The. Sphere"?
Green looked back up at him in a falsified curiosity, knowing full well what he was talking about, but completely unwilling to talk about the circular asteroid he had found with a Bioformer heck-bent of world destruction. Green would've even taken his act further by asking just what the heck he was talking about, if Blocker hadn't immediately and angrily embedded his sword into the part of the dirt floor that laid to his left. Blocker had interrogated more than enough Toabots to see the pretend in Greens face and at the moment he was NOT willing to play any games. The fear he immediately saw in Greens face after the sword warning, told him that THAT message was made clear.
Almost immediately afterwards, Blocker got up into Green's face and screamed: "WHERE IS THE FREAKING SPHERE"?!
"I don't have it"!, Green screamed back, this time on fearful instinct.
But Blocker didn't back away or retreat like Green expected he would. Instead, Blocker had just continued to glare down at the young matoran. SURELY this cursed bionicle was lying!
With that Toabot guarding him so carefully, he MUST have been! No matter how many times Green was going to deny knowing ANYTHING about the Sphere, there was no way he was going to believe him on his word anytime soon. But then there was the problem of getting the hidden answer out of him. But how was he going to do THAT if the interogatee, was in constant refusal? While as to others, that solution would be a little too difficult to come up with, Blocker ALWAYS had an answer in these kinds of situations: Torture.
Blocker quickly pulled his chain-sword from the ground, then activating it as he said: "Then it appears that you are of no more use to me".
Blocker raised his sword over his head then, keeping the blade running as fast as it would go as he prepared to swing. No, as much as Blocker REALLY wanted to, he wouldn't kill the matoran. At least not yet. He was hoping to at least chop off a limb or two, make Green suffer before he actually WOULD let his dark and death-bringing desires to take control. ANYTHING to just get SOMETHING out of him.
But before Blocker could even TRY to make that swing, a blast from a nearby cannon knocked him off of his feet and a few long feet away from the almost surprised matoran. Green quickly turned to his left side, seeing Ketongu walk slowly over to his right side, once again in that protective stance of his. Once Ketongu had reached said right side, his eyes quickly moved to the Makutacon as he let out a howl in pain, blood slowly leaking from his side. After a few passing seconds, Blocker quickly got back up, glaring at the Toabot that stood but a few feet away now, raising his chain-sword in a stance of self defense. Greens eyes shifted back to Ketongu quick enough for him to see him put his cannons together, which quickly shifted into a golden katanna.
"Green, run"!, Ketongu yelled as he continued slowly walking towards the battle ready Makutacon, holding his katanna up in a battle stance.
Green obeyed, quickly getting back up and running away, just as Ketongu had just told him. Never taking his eyes off of the Toabot in front of him, Blocker attached a piece of metal on the wound in his left side, which then expanded until it finally coated itself over the cannon wound. After this moment passed, both just stared at each other, taking a moment to better look over each other while the sun was still up. Both following a rule given to them by a glatorian ancestor: Study your opponent, find his weakness, and use it against him. But given the fact that these two had already had enough of a brawl to prove that these two were equally matched, all they could really do now was simply test each others limits.
A three second glare passed then before both immediately charged towards each other, more than prepared to bring in all the fight that they could. Upon getting close enough, Blocker reactivated his chain-sword and swung it in a right motion. Ketongu quickly dodged this, making a jump for the air and then offering a butterfly kick. The kick made a hard impact with Blockers face, nearly knocking him down. Instead, Blocker used the force given to him from said kick, and rolled in midair away from a katanna swing, narrowly dodging the blade. Immediately after dodging that, Blocker twirled himself again, landing on his feet and sending a quick fist at Ketongu's face.
Ketongu blocked the fist with his right hand, then raising his left elbow, and sending it into Blockers face, knocking him back again. Blocker landed on his feet with a back flip, then kneeing Ketongu in the gut as he had decided to come running at him. Ketongu let out a grunt, then forcing a fist forward, which made a painful impact with Blockers chest, causing him to stumble back. Seeing his chance, Ketongu immediately ran forward, shouldering Blocker hard enough to knock him further back. But as he was about to make a hard, face first impact with the dirt road, Blocker flipped himself again, landing on his feet in a crouched position.
Ketongu ran forward then, again swinging with the golden blade of his katanna. And Blocker waited for just the right moment before then rising up and swinging his chain-sword in the direction of Ketongus blade, activating his kanohii pakari. Both blades made impact, and the strength added to Blockers swing caused Ketongus sword bearing arm to fly back and nearly knock him down. Almost immediately, Blocker jumped forward, making a right swing with his reactivated blade at Ketongus chest armor. Ketongu let out a quick exclamation of pain as orange sparks flew up from a scratch that quickly formed on his chest and started to slowly leak blood.
Quickly deciding to take his mind off of the increasing pain in his wound, Ketongu placed his Katanna up and sideways as quickly as he could, blocking another chain-sword swing from Blocker. The very second their blades made yet another impact, Ketongu pushed forward the hard metal handle of his sword, hitting Blocker in the face with it. Blocker roared in pain as he was knocked back again, a short stream of blood flying from his mouth. And as Blocker landed on the dirt floor, then rolling to his feet, he turned back to Ketongu and threw what appeared to be a spinning star.
Ketongu quickly leaned back to his left side as the star quickly flew past him and hit the metal wall that was now behind him, making a beeping sound before then exploding. Ketongu quickly ducked and rolled forward, narrowly dodging the burning pieces of metal that came flying at him. Upon finishing his roll, Ketongu twirled back onto his feet, slicing another approaching shard of metal in half with his katanna. Upon finishing that, Ketongu quickly turned back to Blockers charging form, not having any time to stop the tackle that made impact with him and knocking him down.
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Meanwhile, Green had continued to run what he hoped would be farther and farther away from Ketongu and Blockers fight. For whatever reason, he had decided to take a second to look back behind himself and make sure that he would be far away enough to still have a chance of surviving his near-death escape. But the second he saw that wall explode and saw a burning piece of metal start to fly towards him, he turned back and ran even faster away, not having ANY intention of dying anytime soon. Especially not by impalement of something that was burning hot enough to glow.
But that wasn't the only thing he had instantly become frightened by. The very fact that he had just seen that even happen in the first place, was more than enough of a sight to prove to him that their fight was about to get increasingly more dangerous. And the more dangerous this fight was going to get, the closer it would be towards giving him a painful injury or death. And as worried for his friend as Green admittedly was, he had tried now to keep two facts true to mind: he would better serve his new friends alive, and Ketongu had already beaten the living crap out of this guy before. SURELY, Ketongu would be fine...right?
Suddenly, Green saw Angela come out of seemingly nowhere and he felt whatever part of his heart make him worry for people, put in a higher dose with a hint of fear. Screw ME., Green thought. What about HER? Sure, she'd probably find this action of randomness a little odd, but at least she'd still be alive.
Now, as if on instinct, Green ran faster towards her, then grabbing her and ducking into the grass as he heard a whoosh and a stab in the dirt behind himself, along with a sizzling and crackling sound. Green looked back behind his form in the grass, seeing the glowing and bubbling form of metal just a few inches away from them. Wait a minute... THEM. Crap, why did he just forget about Angela? Right after he had just saved her? Then giving himself a mental slap, he turned back to Angela who was looking up at him with a look of surprise and confusion. Green blushed then, immediately getting up off of her and silently praying that she wouldn't be angered enough by this action to attack him.
But Angela wasn't angry at him. Matter of fact she was very... flattered by this action. Or at least she was after she saw that piece of metal embed itself into the dirt road just a short distance away. But the fact that Green had even known that he needed to save her at this certain time was a bit questionable to her. And why had that wall even blown up in the first place? She had heard the explosion and saw green running to her just in time to know why Green had tackled her, but the one question that had still stuck to her mind was: What was going on?
"Wh-GREEN"?!, Angela exclaimed.
Green had just remained still, nervously unsure of what to do or say at the moment. One moment he was running away from a fight that would've more than likely killed him in an instance if he had stuck around, and the next he had been forced to tackle the Ga-matoran he cared for the most into a grassy area next to the dirt road. And as if having a hard fall wasn't enough pain to her, he had also landed on TOP of her. And as much as he was starting to miss the feeling of having her up against him (AGH, BAD thoughts, BAD!, Green thought), he could only IMAGINE how much THAT must've hurt.
Good gracious., Green thought. How much bad luck am I going to RUN INTO today?! But again, instinct kicked in and Green quickly leaned down, grabbing her around the waist as he spoke.
"Angela, getupIdonthavetimetoexplain!"
Now it was Angelas turn to be quiet. And that was for a COUPLE of reasons. First off, there was something in her that screamed: Don't RUIN the moment!, as Green had started now to pick her up off of the ground. But the second reason she was silent was because she was also very confused as to what Green had said. Angela had always known that Green would only speak this way if he was scared of something. One of many reasons why she HATED it when Green had to be afraid of something. But what else besides how she had just reacted, could've frightened Green THIS much?
But as Green had started running with her, back onto the dirt road, Angela stopped herself, pulling Green towards her enough to be facing her now with a look of fearful concern. But then, just as Angela was about to ask Green what was wrong with him, Green saw something yellow fly towards them and Green grabbed Angela again, this time trying to pull her down as he ducked out of the way. Ketongus flying form flew quickly over the crouched pain, then twirling in the air and landing on his feet and glaring ahead at a slowly approaching Blocker.
Quickly seeing both Green and Angela, Ketongu flipped in front of them, splitting his katanna into two knives of some sort and got into a protective stance. Blocker kept his slow pace, grinning wickedly as he separated his own sword into a set of sai's. Angela looked away from Green then, seeing Ketongu standing in front of them and preparing to fight against... whatever it was that was walking towards them.
"Ketongu"?, Angela asked.
Ketongu turned quickly back to her, then demanding: "Just run, now"! "I've got this"!
As he then saw Ketongu turn back to his opponent and charge, Green turned back around, nearly dragging Angela up off of her knees as he simultaneously managing to pull her up. Keeping a hold of her hand to make sure she was still behind him, he ran even quicker away than before as he immediately heard the clashing of sai's and knifes. Green even turned back around at one point, seeing Ketongu and Blocker both swing and spin their weapons at each other at incredible speeds. Angela saw this as well, deciding to quicken her pace as she turned back around. With each passing second, this fight was only getting more and more intense, and neither of them really wanted to be around during a fight as dangerous as that.
For what felt like hours then, Green and Angela had continued to run, hearing the fight get farther away one second only for it to be much closer the next. To say the least this was a bit irritating. Why couldn't they just continue their brawl in a single spot?! Surely it couldn't have been THAT hard. But then again, Blocker WAS the one who was currently trying to kill them anyhow. And it's not like Ketongu was just going to stand still while Blocker tried to keep up with them just to deliver a final blow.
Finally, Green had caught eyes upon a metal shed that, much to their luck, wasn't too far away. And from the looks of things, Ketongu and Blocker weren't close enough to see them if they'd even decided to run into said shed in the first place. Like we even have a choice in the FIRST place!, Green thought to himself, then turning fast towards the entrance and jumping inside. As he landed and then quickly got up from the concrete floor inside, he looked behind himself, making sure Angela was still with him before then slamming the door shut.
Angela looked up from the floor then, silently watching as Green took a few long breaths and a seemingly longer moment to regain his sanity. After said moment, Green then turned to Angela's curious form still on the floor. Green gave himself a mental slap then. For all he knew Angela was either freaked out by the fact that there were two Bioformers fighting outside, or irritated by the fact that Green hadn't even offered to help her up yet. Well what are you waiting for you stupid idiot?!, Green angrily thought to himself, then extending an arm and lending out a hand.
After gratefully taking it and being gently pulled to her feet, both looked to the metal wall in front of them, then leaning the sides of their heads to it and pressing their ears against it. Hopefully, if there was a victor to this fight, he would call something out? Notify them of who won, and in turn tell them their fate? But as of right now, all they could hear were the sounds of metal clashing and short screams of pain from either fighter. And from the sounds of things, it would be quite a while before they would know the answer to their current concerns.
Keeping that fact in mind, Green decided to take the time to look to her and say: "It's probably gonna be a while before Ketongu deals with him, but I PROMISE you, we're going to get out of this alive, ok"?
Angela quickly looked over at him with a face of mixed emotions then, getting into his face and asking: "Green, would please do me a favor and tell me what in the heck that was"?!
Green quickly raised a finger gently in front of her lips, shushing her as politely as his own voice would allow him to and said: "Angela, I need you to stay quiet, ok"? "And not because I want to live". "But because if I'm getting out of this alive, I need you alive with me". "OK"? "And I PROMISE to answer all questions later, but like I said, you and I both need to stay quiet". "If we could just do THAT for as long as possible, it would be very beneficial for the both of us". "And not at all am I saying this to sound mean, I just can't...", Green instantly stopped himself there, not wanting to finish the sentence at this point in time.
But Angela had already caught on.
Or at least that was what Green knew when she stepped just a bit closer, now inches away from his face as she asked him: "You can't what"?
Green couldn't hold it in anymore. Yeah, this was a VERY crappy time for him to be telling her this now, but he could NOT resist doing so at this point. Even now as his eyes tried to take in every little detail about her mask, he had seemed to have forgotten everything about what had just happened a few moments earlier. And the worse part was, he couldn't even help it. She was just too hot for him to even TRY to ignore. So for whatever reason now, he opened his mouth to answer.
"AGH"!, a voice screamed from outside, interrupting his sentence.
And from the way he had heard this screen, Green knew that whoever was screaming at all had just been thrown. Thrown towards their very direction! Instinct kicked in for yet the third time today as he then jumped forward, grabbing Angela and covering the back of her head as he gently tackled her back onto the ground, just in time to dodge a bright beam of light that came quickly inside, a shadow flying over them and hitting the metal wall to their right, then collapsing to the ground. Green waited a few seconds before then getting up, helping Angela up with him, and looking over at the metal body that laid silently still on the concrete floor, leaking blood onto it. And much to their relief it was Blocker who was lying still on the floor.
Both turned then to a sound of metal footsteps, seeing Ketongu walk inside and then look down at them with a widened blue eye before saying: "I told you two to RUN". "Not hide".
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(Sigh) Well, that was fun writing. Lol. Anyways, you like the story so far? Please leave a review or PM me to tell me what you think. And for the people in Israel who are still reading this, please know that I'm praying for you every day. Again, I thank you all for reading and please have a God-blessed day!
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