A/N: we are about to see a bit of the plot, but unfortunately it's still pitifully short. I have to work on that...
Chapter 6~
"I'm sorry, you want me to do what?" Rex found himself in the company of the leader once more, taken out of his tiny cell, (after having to eat that disgusting penguin mush, Blech) and now out in the open once more. The wind wasn't as sharp here. Now that Rex could see his surroundings, he saw that they were in a depression in the land, a valley that made this area slightly warmer than the rest of the arctic.
"You will repair your ship, and you will take us to a place more... More hospitable. A place where we won't have to scrounge for food through the Black Death and risk contamination. Where we can breed in peace and eat our fill."
Rex wasn't sure what the Black Death was, but he made a guess it meant oil. With more and more EVO's coming from the depths of the ocean, the oil rigs kept spilling their contents and polluting the water. Rex could understand how the penguins felt, but he had seen torn Providence uniforms as well, meaning that these creatures ate people as well as the fish and metal he'd seen them eat on before. That meant that if they were to go anywhere else in the world, they'd be putting humankind in danger. Rex couldn't allow that, never mind the fact he didn't know how to actually repair the ship. He had to think of some way to stall, to find a way to escape, too bad his nanites were in constant flux and hurt once again.
"So... If I find you another ship I can go?"
The leader would have raised an eyebrow if he had any. "What?"
"Re-pair. You want me to find a pair for it right? I think I can do that."
"Re... No! Repair! Repair!"
"Yeah yeah I got you, big guy! I can get you another one just like this no problem! All busted up and everything."
"Fix! You must fix-"
"I don't do drugs, and neither should you."
The penguin slapped a fin to his forehead in frustration, dragging it down his beak slowly, he would not allow this wingless runt to unsettle his plans. His eyes steeled, and he drew in close to the boy, neither losing eye contact. "You will reconstruct this ship into working order, or you will die trying. I don't care which comes first, really. Do I make myself clear."
Rex smiled mischievously. "Not even a little bit."
(~)
Six couldn't help but feel frustrated as he looked on the scene before him: Rex tied up talking to a penguin was weird, but the man couldn't say he was that surprised, not in their line of work. He wished his ward would stop talking, antagonizing the flightless bird would only-
*slap*
Six had to hold himself back from jumping in and slaughtering every one of the deformed creatures after the leader slapped the boy with a fin. It didn't matter that he knew from experience that the boy had taken a lot worse without even a scratch, it was the principle of the matter. To receive injury fighting an EVO was one thing, an honorable fight where both parties were at their best testing their strength, this was about as sporting as shooting a lion.(1)
The green suited man scowled as the penguins took the boy back to his makeshift cell. As they left, the leader told his minions to withhold food, and still Rex seemed relieved, making Six wonder what they had given the always hungry child to make him be glad for no food.
The ninja retreated to a more secure hidden location that allowed him to watch over the village of penguins, sacrificing the protection against the wind for a better view and higher ground. He had an escape to plan.
A/N:
(1) for those wondering about the lion thing, there was a hunter a while ago who posed for a picture in front of a male lion she'd killed. You know how lions sleep most of the day? How sporting is it to shoot a creature that was just lying around and not hurting anything? Sorry, that picture made me mad... Of course I don't know the circumstances, so it might have been a sporting chance for the lion, but still. Hunting for sport doesn't sit well with me.
I'm sorry this has taken awhile! And I'm also sorry I've forgotten my original purpose with this fic (to work on description of surroundings and other things) and have been giving bad chapters. Con crit is greatly appreciated! Love you all!
Updates may be slightly more frequent now that school is back, and by that I mean maybe one chapter every 3 weeks instead of once a month if. Ok so maybe expect is a strong word, but you try having physics, cal 3, history, polisci, and a chem lab in college. Not easy or fun. Except math, cuz that's awesome.
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Edit 12/29/16: minor typo fixing