The Inevitable: Friends of Revenge
By: Atomic Kokoro
Storyline
Sequel to "The Inevitable". Astro's killers break free from prision, and everyone, both friend and foe, ban together to take down the wanted criminals and return a little peace to the heart.
Before You Read
Since I wrote a sequel to "Slip and Fall", I thought, Why not do a sequal for "The Inevitable" while I'm at it? Did you know "The Inevitable" is my top viewed story on my account with 700 hits, followed by "The Blue Haired Angel and Incinerate Boy" with 488, and then "Karma" with 385? Wow!
Anyways, this story may be longer then the first one, I'm not sure though. It's just a sequel to it because people kept telling me they wanted a sequel.
So, here it is. "The Inevitable: Friends of Revenge".
Chapter 1
Aftermath
He sighed. Nothing was the same since that day. He twisted his pencil in a circle in the center of his blueprint. It had been pretty quiet. So quiet, it bugged him. Bothered him. Unsettled him.
There was a change in so many things; routins, personalities, even the list of people he saw everyday began to change. Less O'Sheay, more Atlas. Less Zoran, more Ken. It just bugged the heck out of him.
He pound his head against the desk. It was like he was the only person that hadn't changed, and it killed him on the inside. He leaned his head up and continued to draw. "C'mon, Reno," he hissed to himself quietly. "Pull yourself together."
As much as he tried, he didn't even know what he was trying to draw. Was it a dolphin? If he was, he better stop before he accidentally redrew the plans for Gideon. Was it a bird? Hm... a robot bird. Not a bad idea. Could be a nice pet for Zoran. Aw, crap. Was he drawing Houdinie? Or was it a dog? Better not be the same dog as Tenma's was.
He slammed his head against the desk again. What the heck was he even drawing? It made no sense! He quickly scribbled down whatever he planned to draw next. A cat? A horse? A cow? What the heck was it?
Then he paused.
He tilted his head. He twirled his pencil backwards to erase a line. What the heck? Did he serious just draw...?
His head slammed against the table. He really wondered where the heck a butterfly came from in his head. He growled in anger, ripped the paper into tiny little peices, whipped out another peice of paper, and began to draw again.
Maybe he had changed. Ever since Astro died, he had anger issues. Severe ones. And he couldn't concentrate, which didn't help the fact he had anger issues. Whenever he tried to draw plans for a robot, he always drew some sort of animal. That day he drew a butterfly. The day before it was a lion. Before that was a cow, then a horse, then a cat, then a crow, then some random monster...creature...animal thing he made up while he was thinking about random things.
He didn't stop to look at what he was drawing this time. He just began to think. He had seen Ken go to Zoran's room before. It was kind of odd to see Ken talking with and comforting Zoran, since the two hated each other before the grand event. Always. They never got along. Now they saw each other everyday like they were dating or something.
Reno snorted. Ken with Zoran? Really? That would be like Jerry Springer and Oprah getting together. Now, that was scary.
He never saw Ambercrombie or Alejo anymore. They wandered off together and made new friends, he guessed. It was quite true. He also caught Ken with them, too, but at least he still got to say hi to Ken.
And O'Sheay? Well, he never came out of his room. He was always doing something in his quarters, usually keeping everything in order. Only Miss. Yuko went in and out of the room. Even she was sad. She never said anything to anyone, and gosh knows if she even spoke to the doctor.
Atlas was somewhat different, too. He was the one that talked to Reno the most. Believe it or not, he thought to himself. Atlas often came in to ask a few things, usually in this order; "how's your day?", "what you drawing?", "what are you doing tomorrow?", "have you seen [insert name here]?", and whatever other questions he had to ask.
He never saw Zoran. And when she did pass by, she gave him a face and stomped off. She performed the same action to Atlas. Since they, too, were her brothers, she treated them with the same, if not less, respect with Astro. Although, before, she did ignore them a lot, but she didn't seem to mind Reno. In fact, before this all happened, she enjoyed his company. But now she hated him. And Atlas, too.
Gideon was still the same in some ways. He tried his hardest to avoid the topic of Astro, which Reno kinda appreciated. He didn't need to be reminded of watching Astro pass off to the other side. But Gideon didn't mind talking about it whenever Reno needed someone to talk to.
He had never seen Tenma in his life, or actually met him face-to-face, so he wouldn't have been able to tell if Tenma changed himself or not. He probably had, but Reno couldn't tell.
Abbie hadn't heard the news yet, but he did decide on his own he would be the one to tell her. He knew her best and vise versa. He felt bad for having to tell her, sometime in the near future, but it had to be done. Hannah hadn't been told, either, and that was yet another person he decided to tell on his own.
He scanned through everyone he met in his mind to tell if they had changed as well. There was the foes. They didn't seem to care all that much. Crime rate didn't budge, but catching the criminals was a bit tough. And he had no idea what was gonna happen if something like what happened at Robotonia was gonna happen again and Astro wasn't gonna be there to stop it. He figured Atlas would do something about it, but how was he to know?
Who else was he missing? Ah, yes. All the people who Astro helped, and Astro's teacher. Yeah, they were sad, too. But he hadn't really heard from them, so he assumed they returned to normal life. He had never really met Astro's teacher, since he was usually at the Ministry during school hours. But he heard from Ken she was a little sadder then usual. Apperently, she broke down at one point and had to go home early. She came back and she was much better.
He glanced at the picture he had drawn. He was surprised at how well his hand was when he wasn't paying attention to what he was doing. He was a little ticked off that it was a dog, but it looked a lot like a real dog. The breed was obviously a Golden Lab, or a large dog with short hair. It looked like a real dog. Maybe he could design robot pets for families that couldn't handle real pets.
Wait. Why would he do that? It wasn't fair to the animals to be replaced by robots. It was unfair to anything. Sure, robots could be their own person/animal, but they couldn't replace.
And that's what kept him from rebuilding Astro. Nothing could replace his dear friend.