AN: Because I'm in a good mood, here's another chapter.
Chapter 3: Twin Menaces
I had just fallen asleep- maybe a minute ago, maybe an hour. But through the blackness of a dreamless sleep, I saw a red light. I slowly opened my eyes. A flash of red light bathed my room in crimson. I closed my eyes again. When I opened them, I saw an eye- no two eyes. They were coated in metal. Flashes of red and green light lit up the grounds around me. I began to close my eyes, but I suddenly felt an unbearably hot fire burning above me. I rolled out of bed, and walked up to the door. When I walked outside, I saw that there was a huge scorched spot on the roof of my house. I ever so slowly turned around. And I shamelessly cried out in fear- two huge eyes, connected by a sparking wire, were hovering over the village, one pelting the houses with lasers, the other summoning gouts of green flame. I drew my sword and flew up on top of guide's house, looking for where the twin menaces had gone. Suddenly, the Goblin Tinkerer's house was bathed in a flash of green flame, and the two eyes flew over the scorched shell. I rushed towards the house, and opened the charred door. The tinkerer and mechanic were both alive, and the inside of the house was surprisingly intact.
"Dryad! Get the townspeople to safety!" I shouted through the open door. The goblin suddenly shook his head.
"We'll fight this thing til' it sends us to the underworld!" He shouted, taking out a small pistol like thing. The mechanic nervously agreed, though she noticed she didn't have a weapon. I handed her my bow.
"Borrow this then. Let's kill this- these things!" I corrected myself.
"Alright guys! We will fight this thing until we send it back to where it came from, or we die trying! Let's show them what we're made of!" I almost said more, but a barrage of lazers hit the ground next to us, and we scattered. Explosive arrows, bullets, and arcane bolts flew towards the eyes, many hitting home. They barely seemed fazed.
"What does it take to kill this thing!?" The clothier growled, letting a burning skull fly from his hands. Since guide had never used the spellbook, I handed it over to the clothier- since it was rightfully his.
"I don't know!" I replied, deflecting a lazer bolt with my sword.
Eventually, the eye that shot fire began to spin, and it seemed to shed its skin. Underneath was a metal plated nightmare, with gaping jaws that spewed fire even more. When it charged at me, I swung my sword at it, which always seemed to do a bit of damage- even if it was just a metal plate knocked off, or a bolt unscrewed. In a matter of time, the fire spewing one began to malfunction, I having cut several of its wires with my sword. Dryad and Demolitionist took this as a chance to fire explosive arrows into some of the intact wires. Eventually, the whole thing powered off, and crashed to the ground. Several more pieces fell off, and it did not move again. Several people cheered. But the other thing was still completely intact. Several lasers flew, and the goblin was struck by two. He gave out a short cry and fell on his side. I growled and flew up to the laser spewing eye. I smashed it in the pupil with my sword. Once, twice. Then I fell, my boots running out of charge. I landed on my back. I groaned in pain, but pulled myself up. The remaining eye shed its damaged disguise as its brother had, but a robotic arm with a red lense on the end extended from the metal shell. Angered, it launched at least twenty lasers per second, scorching everything around it. I flew up and scored a few good hits before falling again, just enough to dislodge a plate. When I landed, it hit me with a few lasers- I couldn't count them before I was knocked unconscious.
"Player! Get up, now!" I heard a voice shout, though it was almost drowned out by fire. I managed to pull myself to my feet.
"We can't kill it!" I heard demolitionist shout, firing another explosive arrow at the eye. It missed anything important. I struggled to stay standing, the burning feeling of the lazers giving off a great amount of pain. I readied a grenade, and threw it at the eye. The explosion must have hit something important, because the lazers suddenly stopped firing. The robotic arm went limp and fell off. Enraged, the eye charged towards me. I rolled out of the way, but dryad and arms dealer were caught and thrown off their feet. I threw a grenade at the patch of wires where the arm and lense were. The explosion shook the being, and most of the top blew off in a fiery explosion. But the thing would not give in. Now spinning madly and making high pitched screeching noises, it made several attempts to squish the remaining villagers, but failed.
When it finally died, several minutes later, it simply exploded. It could not take any more hits. And I could barely stand anymore. What was left of my clothes was tattered and scorched, and my skin was burned in several places. I looked around me. Everyone seemed to have gotten back up, except goblin tinkerer. He was still laying on his side, completely limp. The mechanic was standing over him, her eyes brimming with tears. The nurse quickly rushed over and began examining him.
"Calm yourself Mechanic. He'll be fine." nurse said, wearing an enthusiastic grin.
"So... what in holy heck was that?" I asked, looking over at Dryad.