Chapter 6.- The beginning of the fall.
Part 2.- G2 vs Karen Ryan.
As Gadget and Trenton started their fight, G2 and Ryan did too. The only difference was that Ryan had taken the first move, only to be evaded and countered with a backslam on the ground.
Ryan took some time to recover from that hit, giving G2 enough time to plan something.
Once Ryan was back on her feet, she activated the gatling guns, but unfortunately for her, G2 wasn't behind her anymore.
Instead, the cyborg woman stood right in front of her, so while Ryan shot her gatling guns, she grabbed the cop in a headlock and made her trip, slamming her face first on the ground.
Then G2 stood up and tried to slam her boot on Ryan's back but the latter rolled on the floor and then sweep-kicked the cyborg. G2 fell to the ground as Ryan stood up, then the officer grabbed the revived scientist by the ankle and slammed her hard on the ground.
However, as Ryan tried to slam her again, G2 kicked her shoulder, then she used her Extendo-Legs to propel herself away from the cop and send her to the ground, while the cyborg woman swirled in the air and landed in perfect combat stance.
Ryan grunted and stood up quickly, then she glared at G2.
- You're good, robot. - Ryan hissed. - But you stand no chance.
- Incorrect, according to the first three minutes of our combat, I have 67.89% chances of obtaining the victory at the end of this battle while you only have 20.78% chances of defeating me. - G2 said.
- Wait, that doesn't make sense! I'm not a genius but I know that there's still some unused percentage!
- You are correct, that 11.33% is to mark the possibility of a draw between us.
- There won't be a draw nor will I lose!
- Statistics does not lie, and I will not fail Dr... brother... Bradford...
Then G2 moaned in pain lightly as she put a hand over her head, and said opportunity was seized by Ryan, who rushed at the cyborg and started punching her hard in the face several times before she kicked her in the stomach and made her roll backwards.
G2 landed on her back, she panted a bit and tried to catch her breath, but unfortunately for her, Ryan had jumped and had landed hard on G2's abdomen, driving whatever little air she still had, out of her lungs. Then the cop stood on the ground and grabbed the panting cyborg by her hair, pulling her up to her face.
- I told you, you couldn't beat me... - Ryan said before G2 drove the air out of her lungs again with a hard punch.
After the punch, Ryan staggered backwards, then G2 sweep-kicked her and stood up using that impulse. However, there was a question troubling her mind.
"Why did I call Dr. Bradford my brother? What's happening with me?" G2 thought as she stood up and got in combat stance. "I can't let that affect me, I must win, for John and Nathan!"
- Nice trick, robot. - Ryan said as she stood up. - But you need much more than that to beat me.
- I am not a robot, I am a cyborg, and this is just the beginning of this battle...
Then G2 extended her arm and punched Ryan in the chest, denting the suit and making her stagger backwards. After that, the cyborg rushed at Ryan and rammed her shoulder in the cop's abdomen.
However, as G2 was about to punch her helmet to break it, Ryan stopped her fist and rammed her own fist in G2's stomach, driving the air out of her lungs. Then Ryan headbutted G2, not realizing that she had managed to crack her helmet a bit. Still, Ryan hit G2 on both sides of her head with the palms of her hands, stunning her and making it easier for her to push the cyborg off her.
- You really sure you're gonna beat me, walking trashcan? - Ryan mocked.
G2 stood up but she was met by a hard hit with the knee to her face, which sent her back to the ground, then she inadvertently rolled in the ground and evaded a stomp. G2 got up with a swirl and stood in combat stance, unfortunately she couldn't evade a punch to her left cheek, which was followed by another hit with the knee to the stomach. After that, Ryan sent G2 to the ground with a hard jab to the chin.
As soon as G2 fell on her back, her HUD alerted her that there were troubles inside her head.
*ALERT*
-MEMORY BANKS DAMAGED
-MAIN OBJECTIVE ALTERED
-INITIATING SELF-REPAIR SYSTEMS
-BEGINNING COUNTERATTACK PROGRAM
-PURGING MEMORY...
-No! Order denied! Saving new memory data...
G2 finally stood up, but definitely her mind had been completely altered thanks to all the damage that Ryan and her armor had dealt to her head.
- Nicely done, Karen, but you'll need more to defeat me! - G2 said.
- Good, now you don't sound as a robot anymore! - Ryan chuckled.
- I'm not a robot! I'm a person!
- You're a monster, Bradford, an abomination against nature! - Ryan said as she charged against G2.
The cop punched the cyborg woman thrice in the face, then she elbowed her and kicked her, sending her to the ground again and making her hat fall off her head.
Then, Ryan grabbed G2's head hard and pulled her up, then the cop used the tasers in her gauntlet and shocked her, making the cyborg woman scream in pain as 10,000 volts of energy ran throughout her body.
After 30 agonizing seconds, Ryan turned off her taser gauntlet and let go of G2, who slammed her face on the ground. The iron clad woman thought she had won, so she started walking away from the cyborg.
- Told you that I was gonna beat you, abomination. - Ryan chuckled as she walked away.
In that second, the cyborg woman shot her eyes open, the punches she had received and the massive electric shock that Ryan had given her, had awakened the parts of her brain that held her memories as a human. And along with a sudden adrenaline burst, G2 stood up, only this time, she was mad. Disobeying every single command in her mind about not taking the comment as something personal, she gritted her teeth and felt the rage build up till it exceeded her peak.
- I am not an abomination! My name is Brenda Geraldine Gadget! - G2 yelled.
Then the cyborg charged against Ryan, turned her to ram her fist in the cop's abdomen, blocked a kick from her, withstood a punch to her cheek, kneed the cop, hit her in the back with both hands, and finally grabbed her effortlessly to throw her several feet away.
Ryan rolled on the floor and slowly stood up, then she checked her armor and gasped once she noticed it was really damaged. The cop fell silent for a few seconds as G2 panted heavily and glared at her opponent. Then G2 started grimacing and twitching, as her memories flooded her mind.
MEMORY BANKS ALTERED...
ATTEMPTING TO CORRECT...
-CORRECTION FAILED
REWRITING PROTOCOLS...
-PROTOCOLS REWRITTEN
NEW IDENTITY TAG ACKNOWLEDGED
-IDENTITY TAG: BRENDA GERALDINE GADGET NÉE BRADFORD, A.K.A. G2
G2 roared a bit, then she panted heavily for a few seconds. The cyborg closed her eyes and sighed a bit, then she extended her arm to grab her fedora. She retracted it slowly, she dusted her fedora off and put it on as she raised her face in which she had a defiant smirk.
- I gotta thank you, Ryan, if I hadn't had this fight with you, I wouldn't have remembered who I really am. - G2 smirked. - I'm Brenda Gadget, I am G2.
- Yippie... Now I won't beat a mindless robot, I'll beat a scientist...
- Believe me, if you stood no chance against me when I was a robot, you're totally outmatched now.
- We'll see about that.
- No, I'm serious, my scans now say that my opportunities to win are 78.45% now. - G2 smirked.
- What?! - Ryan asked before something silenced her.
A sharp pain erupted from Ryan's abdomen, which forced the air out of her lungs violently and made her grip her aching stomach and fall on one knee as she panted heavily to recover the oxygen that she had lost. Ryan looked up at G2, who had a smirk and was retracting her Extendo-Arm.
- Told you so. - The cyborg said with a smirk as she retracted her arm.
Ryan roared and charged against G2, who was expecting that move from her.
The cyborg blocked and evaded each attack that Ryan threw at her, and she did so with a smirk as Ryan's left eye twitched in anger and she started gritting her teeth.
- Stop moving! - Ryan ordered.
- Yeah, sure! - G2 chuckled. - I will once you beat me!
- Then I will!
Ryan tried to punch G2, but she caught her fist and smirked before she headbutted the cop, destroying the glass helmet. Ryan stumbled backwards and gasped as she saw that her head was vulnerable.
Ryan rushed at G2, but the latter simply moved to the side and made her trip. The armored woman fell to the ground face first and groaned, then she rolled and sweep-kicked G2, seizing that she had her guard down.
As G2 fell, Ryan propelled herself up and tried to stomp on the cyborg woman's head, but the latter rolled out of the way and used her Extendo-Arms to propel herself up. Then, Ryan used her gatling guns against G2, trying to hit her, but she had forgotten that G2's outfit had already proven to be completely bulletproof.
Ryan was mad beyond reasoning, then she charged her repulsor rays and started shooting them almost aimlessly, trying to hit the swift woman.
G2 was having tons of fun. Sure, the suit could pack quite a punch, but she wasn't afraid of it, she was tough enough to withstand whatever Ryan threw at her. As she evaded Ryan's repulsor rays, she started checking the suit, looking for any weak spots to disable it as quickly as she could.
However, G2 also wanted to know if her husband was doing just as well as she was so she looked at the battle between her husband and Trenton, then the female cyborg she gasped loudly as she saw how much damage Gadget had taken during the brawl. And this proved to be a big mistake.
As soon as G2 was within her reach, Ryan seized her opponent's distraction to grab the cyborg's leg and slam her against the ground several times. Ryan smirked rather evilly and threw G2 away from her, making her fall face-first and lose her fedora again.
G2 gritted her teeth again and slammed her fists against the ground, then she stood up again and turned at the evilly grinning cop with a scowl.
- What's the matter, sweetheart? Am I too much for you to handle? Because I'm not even putting my whole efforts into this. - Ryan chuckled rather evilly.
- Shut up! You're putting your whole efforts into this and even so, you're only a match to a distracted me! - G2 snapped.
- Stop the fight! - Nathan claimed.
- Are you ready to...? - Sato tried to say with a smirk.
- Don't come up with that shit now, Sato! This is far more important to me than that stupid bet! And if keeping my sister and her husband away from danger means that I lose, I just have to say that my labs are a small price to pay for their safety! I don't care if I lose everything I have as long as I don't lose any of the people I care about! - Nathan yelled at Sato, making her back away. - Unlike you, I care about them! I bet if Trenton and Ryan were in Brenda and Gadget's places, you wouldn't even try to stop the fight!
G2 gritted her teeth and glared at her brother while she retrieved her hat again.
- Don't you dare to stop the fight yet, Nathan! - G2 and Gadget yelled from their respective places. - I can still fight!
- But, guys... - Nathan said in despair.
- No, you've never let us down, and neither we will. - The two cyborgs said.
With that said, G2 sighed, grabbed her fedora, dusted it off, put it on and stood in combat stance again.
- Let's end this, shall we? - G2 said.
- Fine with me... - Ryan hissed.
Both women roared and rushed at each other, Ryan threw three punches which G2 evaded rather easily, then the cyborg kneed the cop in the abdomen, denting the suit. Ryan punched the cyborg in the stomach and pushed her away, then she fired a few energy blasts at her opponent and hit her in the abdomen again. G2 was sent backwards, then she grunted, jumped back on her feet and lunged at Ryan using her Extendo-Legs to propel herself towards her.
G2 rammed her shoulder against Ryan's chest, making her fall to the ground and punched her opponent in the abdomen, driving the air out of her lungs. Then the cyborg got up and pulled Ryan up with her, then she started punching her power suit, breaking all of its plates. Ryan tried to shoot her repulsor beams at G2's face but the latter caught both of her hands and started to crush them with her bare hands, rendering her gauntlets useless.
Finally, G2 kicked Ryan's legs and made her fall to her knees, then she activated her taser and lightly touched the officer's forehead with it. Ryan cried in pain as a thousand volts ran through her body, then she fell to a side completely unconscious.
G2 panted and picked her opponent up, she threw her over her shoulder and walked back to the bottom of the cliff. Once she was there, she walked up to Sato with a glare on her face and Ryan's unconscious body still on her shoulder, then she dropped her in front of her brother's rival and said:
- I win...
Sato simply chuckled a bit and gestured G2 to see something behind her. G2 did as Sato had gestured and gasped as she saw Dean Trenton kicking her husband on a side of his head. As Gadget fell to a side, she rushed at him and pushed Trenton away as she analyzed Gadget's vital signs. She sighed in relief as she detected his heart beat and that he was still breathing. However, as she saw how much damage he had received during the fight, her worry returned.
Brenda cupped her unconscious husband's cheek as she wiped the trickle of blood that came out of his mouth, then she picked him up bridal style and walked up to her brother.
- Nathan, we have to patch him up. - G2 said.
- Brenda... Is that you...? - Nathan stammered.
- No time for that, Nate, we have to go.
- Well, that shows it, doesn't it? - Sato said. - My suits are superior.
Nathan stopped dead in his tracks, then he stormed towards Sato and clenched his fists, restraining his impulse to knock her out with a punch, even though he knew that if he tried that, she'd probably end up knocking him out instead.
- Are you gonna hit me? We both know I can beat you easily, so don't even try, unless you want to be publicly embarrassed even more. - Sato smirked.
- Listen to me, you miserable bitch... This stupid game has brought nothing but injuries to my sister and my brother in law, but if you wanna go to the results, check again, your prototype may have beaten Gadget but my sister beat your model 1. - Nathan snapped. - Brenda is far better than your stupid toys, and so is Gadget, so I won. The only good thing about all this is that you'll be my unpaid employee for a whole year...
- I wouldn't be so sure, Dr. Bradford. - Mayor Waters said.
- I agree, for me it was quite an even match, the only problem was the helmets of the suits. - Chief Quimby said.
- You got to be kidding me! - Nathan snapped angrily. - After all that Gadget and G2 went through, you still plan to call this a draw?!
- Precisely, but I have an arrangement that will make both of you happy. - Waters said dismissively. - You two will share the facilities of the Bradford Cybernetic Labs and the funds, both of your projects will have another chance to show which is superior. The challenge this time will be re-capture Doctor Claw, and whoever does it first, wins both the entire facilities and funding.
Inoue Sato and Nathan Bradford's jaws dropped as they heard Mayor Waters.
- Are you mad?! - Trenton snapped as he checked his girlfriend. - Gadget and his wife are crazy and are dangerous! They need to be stopped right now!
- Don't start arguing about who's dangerous, Trenton! Because you and Ryan were far more violent than me and Gadget! - G2 hissed. - You don't know anything about power because you got it without learning about responsability and humility!
- You were just a mindless robot a couple mins ago! You know nothing about those!
- Perhaps but I know much more than you do because I am a humble woman, I know the difference between what I can do and what I shouldn't do.
- G2, officer Trenton, stand back! - Quimby ordered.
Both G2 and Trenton gritted their teeth and glared daggers at each other while they carried the inconscious bodies of their partners.
Meanwhile, Inoue Sato and Nathan Bradford were growling and glaring daggers at each other. The game was on and it had been kicked up a notch.
Now it was personal.
