Outcasts
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Chapter 6: Rise of the Machine
Sheldon had been popular at school after his arrest. It was the bad boy factor that made him seem dangerous and exciting. That all lasted about five minutes as everyone remember who much a nerd Sheldon was when he went back to school. It took them a few days to get everything sorted but Sheldon had been cleared and put back on the grid.
Still some of the smarter people noticed that a few things were wrong. One of the more obvious cases was why would someone pick Sheldon as the target of frame job. Another one was what happened to all the money. There wasn't much done about that. The banks were insured so in the end no one lost money.
The problem was that someone had gained money. Normal people with such a win fall would go wild and buy everything they ever wanted. The person behind this situation was not normal. They hacked files and framed someone instead of just covering their trail. They had a dark motivation, one of revenge. This is what Misty had guess one but she couldn't imagine Sheldon doing anything that could upset anyone to these lengths. Still Misty had long since decided to protect Sheldon.
She just didn't know what she was dealing with. What the Hacker had been doing with the money was starting a business. In all honesty no one would guess that. The Hacker had stolen enough money to live out their days in leisure and still have enough to pass down to two whole generations without even investing.
The Hacker had started their own company to that developed technology. They already showed that they were smart but that was only a top of the ice burg. They had spent the money on facilities right out Tremorton and buying equipment which include robots that were sent to explore hostile barren planets. Honestly if anyone would look at their books they wouldn't have a clue what the Hacker was up to.
It took nearly a month and an enormous amount of money to get the first piece of their plan set up. In a large room stood a young man in his twenties. He had a very hipster look to him with a pair of thick glasses, dress jacket and tie. He was the one behind the whole mess. What he was looking at was a large metal ring connected to to machines. That was what he was working for. The machine started to whirl to life and suddenly a bright shimmering light filled the machine. The Hacker smiled pleased with himself and by his side one of the small exploration drones started to make its way up the ramp to the ring. He walked towards a nearby screen that received a signal from the drone. The drone drove into the swirl of light and vanished. After a moment the screen showed images.
"It worked." Was all he said.
It had been a month and things had started to get normal for Sheldon. Misty still felt uneasy. While Sheldon was at school she would hide out on the top of another roof and keep an eye on him and make sure nothing happened. it was pretty boring so she mostly ended up surfing the internet or reading a magazine through the day.
"What are you doing here?" A voice called out to her.
Misty already knew who was talking to her, "Hello Jen."
"Misty." The teenaged robot replied. "What are you doing here?"
"If you really must know I'm keeping an eye on Sheldon. Someone went after him a month ago so I decided it would be a good idea to make sure someone was here if they came back."
"That's thoughtful." Jenny said in an unamused tone. "But it's not needed I'm here."
"Are you always here? Sometimes you have to jet off to some other part of the world to deal with something. or sometimes you're not even on the planet. And your track record with Sheldon isn't spotless. He told me once that because of you he became and old man and then got turned into a baby and you sent him to live with pirates in space."
Jenny didn't have a retort for that since it was her own fault.
"I can't believe you care. You're the one that only helped and played the hero to make some money."
"This is different. Sheldon is a friend and I want to make sure he's safe."
"I can't believe that you'd say something like that."
"Well I did."
Jenny could tell that Misty was being a bit defensive though she still didn't understand why. As a matter a fact neither did Misty, not fully anyway.
Meanwhile both girls had a nice chat they both failed to notice that Sheldon was leaving school for the day. After a short walk he ended up with at the Wakeman house. He did the basic maintain around the house and at the various electronic things including his suit.
"That's interesting." Wakeman said as she looked over a science magazine. "Universal Technologies."
"What?" Sheldon asked her.
"No, nothing much mostly talking to myself. It's a company that started recently promising break through technologies. There has been nothing definitive just a lot plans and schematics. Still at is a very impressive technology for all sort of things. I never really expected these sort of things from him."
"You know the guy behind the company."
"Yes, he's the man inventing everything and running the company. I do know him, in fact-"
She didn't get a chance to finish the sentence as the entire house began to shake.
"What was that? An earthquake?" Sheldon asked.
"No, I've been through Earthquakes that was no earthquake."
Then a rumbling came down the hall and they turned to that direction only a closed standing between them and what was coming. Suddenly the door burst open. Neither one of them could have expected what had arrived but there it was Sheldon's Silver Shell suit standing before them.
"Is someone taking it for a joy ride again?" Wakeman asked confusion and scared.
"No." Sheldon gulped. "I changed the controls. They're isomorphic they only respond to my biology."
"Then whose-"
Wakeman was interrupted when the suit punched at her. Wakeman managed to to avoid it leaping out of her chair before it got smashed up.
"Mom?" Wakeman turned around to see the Jenny's sister and they all had their weapons trained on her and Sheldon.
Misty and Jenny were still talking,
Jenny told her, "Forgive me if I find it a little hard to trust you. Why should i just trust that you are just being nice to Sheldon."
"Mind you own business, Blue." Misty told her. "It doesn't matter. Just let me do it. I'm not hurting anyone so you don't have any reason to say boo."
"Huh?" Jenny raised her arm and it changed into her canon. The barrel glowed as it charged up and without hesitation a blast shot out right at Misty. Misty being well trained and being able to fly our of the blast in the nick of time.
"What was that for?!" Misty said turning into mist. "I disagree and you decided to vaporize me?!"
"It's not me!" Jenny yelled. "I swear. I can't control myself!" Jenny fired again at her.
Misty seeing no other option tried to get away from her. She flew away as fast as she was able. As she flew across the city she noticed something troubling, that every robot and machine were attacking people. It looked like a battlefield.
Misty only thought one thing, "Sheldon." She guessed Sheldon was in danger and she was right.
Author's notes: Sorry it's taken me so long to update. I'm trying to get past a writer's block. I've been trying to write some more original stuff too. Anyway the next arc is starting out, let me know what you guys think by leavig a review.
