Victory

"Comfortable, furry?" Zivix inquired, watching as Michael was bound to a flat surface in an X shape by Emerald.

"…"

"Silent treatment, hmm?" The alien scientist looked behind him, at Huma and Sludge, and nodded his head.

The cat nodded and raised his hand, blasting a small jet of flame at Sludge, burning him. The slime bellowed in pain and tried to move away, but Victim aimed his weapons at him, threatening to hurt him more if he moved too much.

"Stop!" Michael begged, and Zivix motioned for them to stop.

"You can understand me, yes?" Mike nodded in response. "I see. So it's still working. Time to begin the process now, no time to waste."

"Wait, what process? What are you going to do?" The Korat shouted as the table he was on lifted up, higher to the ceiling.

"I'm going to rip out the LEGACY Project from your cerebrum, I'm going to copy all the data inside of it, I'm going to destroy it, and then I'm going to let these fine gentlemen and women do whatever it is they want to do to you. Begin the process, Alinor!"

From an unseen vantage point, the assistant began the process by having wires and tubes slithering out of the ceiling and to Michael. Riefnd watched with horror, but was held back by Ruby.

"Ruby, be a dear and kill Riefnd while the process goes." Ruby nodded and grabbed the alien by his shoulder, before slamming his face into a wall, and then throwing him across the room.

As Riefnd was beaten to death, and Michael struggled, the strange wires attached themselves into Mike's body. A tube pushed itself into the cat's mouth, gagging and making him feel like he was about to throw up as the other tubes forced themselves into his ears and nostrils. A painful surge of electricity shot through his body and a muffled scream was heard as tears fell down from his eyes.

"Yashy? Come on, this isn't funny," Lucy declared, looking around.

Lucy, stop. Yashy is downstairs. I need you to focus and to help Michael and me.

"Okay, stop…Who are you? What are you? How did you get in my head? What does Mike have to do with this? Why is he in danger?"

As I stated, I am LEGACY. I am an organic computer, created by the Wise Ones to house the data of their entire race, history, linguistics, technology, medicine, and culture. I 'got into your head' by entering your house weeks ago and dropping a small bit of data into your mouth. I, that data, have been existing in your mind since then. Michael is the host of all my primary and secondary functions. He has been captured by the Soulless.

"…WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?"

Let me put this bluntly.

Suddenly Lucy's eyes began to feel odd; she moved her hands to rub them when she suddenly saw a quick slideshow of events. She saw Michael, she saw the Silver Sentinel, and she saw the Sentinel without his mask, revealing Mike's head. Then she saw the villains the Silver Sentinel had been fighting. Then strange, monsters that looked like someone had taken random sea animals and glued them together. Finally, she saw Michael, injured and near dying.

"…Mike's the Silver Sentinel? I knew!" She yelled.

…Will you help me save him?

"How? Do you even know where he is?"

Firstly, by letting me initiate Combat Mode and secondly, yes.

"Combat Mode?"

Yes. Initiating Combat Mode.

"What are you-?" Lucy was cut off as she felt her whole body tingle. She fell to her knees and shivered as golden ooze forced itself through her skin, covering her entire body. It encased her in it, trapping her, before it began to shift and change. When she could finally move she rose up and found herself looking through a small, thin, red line. She quickly ran over to her desk and opened it, taking out a mirror. She looked at herself and dropped it in shock.

She was wearing a golden armor, much like the Silver Sentinel's, except with a small, red visor on her helmet and padding on her shoulders, knees, and arms. She rose up and looked at her hands, slowly moving her fingers, before raising both of her legs, getting a feel for the suit.

"Wow."

Let's go. Taking automatic control.

"What? Whoa!" Lucy's body began to react on its own, opening up her window and forcing her to hop out of it. She was then lifted up by an invisible force and floated in the air.

We must reach Michael immediately. The suit is controlled by your mental thoughts. It will be better if you are the one in control, but I will take control if you need me to.

"Hold on, slow down, I don't know how to fly!" Lucy argued as she focused on staying afloat. LEGACY dropped control and the Khao Manee almost hit the ground, before floating back up.

We have no time to slow down. Tracing signal. Pinpointing location. Lucy saw a small arrow appear on her visor and it pointed the way, pointing to the right and into the forest outside the city. Michael is in pain. I can feel it. I will explain more on the way. Quickly.

"Come on, hurry up! Get him out of there!" Hubert ordered as his company's men began to cut through the diamonds to reach Titan. "Mr. Davis, how are you holding up?" The cat spoke into his cell phone and Davis replied over it with a simple answer.

"I'm trapped inside a robot suit covered in diamonds. You're an idiot if you think any answer I have is positive."

"Noted." The cat suddenly looked at his secretary who whispered into his ear. "What? What do you mean the Silver Sentinel was spotted in the western forest? We just had reports of him being captured… What do you mean photos of it are showing it NOT to be the Silver Sentinel…? Golden? What, another superhero? Superheroine? How can you tell if it's a girl?" Hebert questioned, before sighing. "I hate surprises…"

"Surprise. I just heard everything you said. Hubert, I've got a bad feeling about this. Hold on, I'm going to see if I can get out myself. Your men have weakened it enough."

"Everyone, step back!" The cat ordered, as the crystal prison shook and shattered, with the Bronze Titan rising up from it, damaged and looking like it was about to fall apart.

"I'm going after that golden Sentinel copy. Something doesn't seem right, and I think she has something to do with it."

"You can barely stand. Get out of the suit, Mr. Davis."

"Do you have a back up suit on hand?"

"No. We're still in the prepping stages of getting a back up suit completely welded toge-"

"Then I'm leaving." And with that the Bronze Titan began running off.

"Damn it. Knew I should have installed that auto shutdown," Hubert sighed. "Get the proper authorities on line! Tell them to get to the western forest, someone activate the tracer in the Titan's suit, we'll activate it to better find him.

Back with our hero of this story, Michael, we find him still connected to the machine and being electrocuted. On the other side of the room, Ruby was taking her sweet time beating Riefnd to death, throwing him around and smacking him down.

Suddenly a silver liquid began to fill the tubes and was pulled out of Michael and into the tubes. Finally the long process was over, and Michael's body went limp as the tubes pulled out of his mouth, nose, and ears and down to Zivix. The ground next to Zivix opened up and a pedestal rose out, with a glass bubble on top. The glass sphere opened and the tubes poured the silver liquid into it, before it closed.

"Finally. Alinor, begin the copying sequence! Once we have all the data, destroy LEGACY." The glass bubble suddenly sparked with strange electricity, before it shocked the slime. The surrounding computer screens began to show all sorts of data, showing everything LEGACY had.

"You may deal with the child however you want," Zivix announced, motioning towards the teenager.

Victim was the first to reach him, jumping up and landing on the metal table he was bound to. Mike looked at him with fear, blood dripping from his ears, nose, and mouth. The cyborg pulled back his hand, before an alarm was heard.

"Warning. Unknown flying object nearing ship at quickening speed."

There was a crash, and a golden figure broke through the wall and crashed onto the ground. You and Michael seem to have the same concept of what caution is.

The golden figure groaned and stood up, and everyone looked at her. She looked back, before putting her hands up and balling them into fists. "The hell you looking at?" She growled, before seeing Michael in the corner of her eye. She flew over, punching the shocked Victim away from him and looked at him. "Mike, are you okay?"

The Korat groaned and looked at her, confused and stunned. "What..? Lucy?" He mumbled, as his bonds suddenly flew off with a thought from Lucy. The golden girl was shocked by her power and didn't notice Huma flying at her, tackling her off of the table. Thankfully, Michael was already freed. He turned his head and saw LEGACY's data being copied into Zivix's computers, and while their minds were no longer linked, he could just tell the process was torturing the machine.

"Warning. Unknown object nearing ship at quickening speed on land."

There was another crash, knocking Michael down from the table and making him fall on the ground, hurting him more. Bronze Titan stood inside the ship, a hole behind him, and holes on his metal body, ready to fight despite his injuries.

"Alinor, remind me to upgrade the alarm systems," Zivix sighed, rubbing his head with his crab claw. "What are you all waiting for? Kill them all!" Ruby was suddenly attacked by Sludge, who without Huma was free to move. The stone covered girl tried to fight back, but her powers were useless against the slime creature. The bloody, bruised, and broken body of Riefnd would have smiled as he watched the slime attack and force the girl away from him.

"Thank you," he whispered, speaking in his foreign language.

Lucy blasted Huma away from her and looked at Titan in shock, before she was suddenly attacked by a whip. The whip hit her shoulder, damaging the armor, as nine more followed. Bronze Titan grabbed her leg and pulled her over to him, the whips slashing into the ground.

"This one is mine, go help-" Bronze Titan stopped as he was shocked to see a young, teenage boy standing up and looking at an alien creature. "Um…Go help that kid. You are on our side, aren't you?" Lucy simply nodded, before flying over to Mike as he glared at Zivix.

"The LEGACY Project is mine, furry."

"My name is Michael," the cat growled, his hands tightening into fists. He ran at Zivix and would have landed a punch at his face, but Emerald grabbed his hand and squeezed it, before pushing him back.

"Ah, ah, Sentinel. Let's see if you're so rebellious when I'm through with you. It's going to be horrible hurting your cute, little bo-ACK!" Emerald was suddenly attacked Lucy, who crashed them both into a wall, going right through the pedestal containing LEGACY and crashing into the wall."Who the hell are you?"

"Your worst nightmare, bitch," Lucy declared, before punching her face, her new telekinetic powers sending the green, stone villainess flying across the room.

"No!" Zivix shouted as he tried to grab the silver slime with his claws. The goop leapt into the air and landed on Michael's foot. The Korat's face remained an angry scowl as the slime melted into his skin and then began to push out from his pours, covering his body.

Combat Mode has been initiated.

"Huma! Attack!" Zivix ordered, already scurrying away on his four legs. Huma had finally recovered from Bronze Titan's attack and saw the Silver Sentinel standing within the large laboratory. The skeletal cat nodded and threw a fireball at him, who blocked it with a psychic wall. The hero saw the organizer of his troubles escape through a door, which sealed shut as soon as he entered it. He focused his attention at Huma, and it wasn't hard to see the look of anger on him, even with the green visor.

"Bring it."

Victim tackled Bronze Titan and the two fell through the hole he had made and crashed onto the forest floor outside of the ship. They tumbled around before Victim kicked the exo-suit off of him and stood. The two figures stood up and glared at each other, before charging at one another, trading punches with each other. It didn't take long to see that Victim had the edge, making even more dents and tears on the suit.

The cyborg stabbed his sharp fingers through the head of the suit and ripped it off, before throwing it aside. Without the head, Duncan no longer had any visuals on the screen he was looking at. That didn't matter for long though as Victim's fingers ripped into the chest plate and tore it off and smacked the barely standing suit down. By now, the Chief of Police was bleeding, bruised, and burned, and worst of all be he was watching Victim as he stepped over closer to his fallen body.

"You're really…starting to tick me off," Duncan groaned as he forced the body up on shaking legs. The cyborg cocked his head to the side, as if shocked to see he was still willing to fight, before he simply ran at him, hands raised. The Bronze Titan reacted as fast as its pilot could, grabbing the dog's arms. "Rot in Hell." The dog pulled his hands out of the suit's arms and pressed and opened a small glass box. He pressed his right hand against the red button under it, before the metal suit's back opened up, dropping him out of it. He quickly dashed away as the suit held Victim's arms and began to shake.

"Yes," Victim whispered, before the suit suddenly exploded, consuming him within a wave of fire, with shreds of metal mixed into it.

"Freaking wimp," Duncan chuckled, hiding behind a tree, before groaning as he held his ribs. "Damn, that stings…"

Back inside the ship, Lucy was fighting against Emerald, dodging her attacks and using her new powers to beat the stone girl. The villainess had fallen to her knees thanks to a good, strong punch to her gut. Lucy threw another punch, but it was interrupted by Emerald backhanding her with her larger hand.

Get up. Focus. Fight.

"Give me a break, this isn't easy. I have to hand it to Mike; this is harder than it looks." Lucy rolled out of the way of Emerald's foot and stood up, and went to her signature move. She slammed her leg against the older girl's groin, her telekinetic powers helping boost the attack.

"KYAAA!" Emerald shrieked with pain, her emerald covered crotch shattered, and dropping pieces of green stone down to the ground. "Ah…You...little…bitch!" She fell to her knees once more and felt the armored teen's hands grab her head and the last thing she saw was a knee slamming into her face, causing the stone to crack, before she hit the ground, out cold. Her sister's red body fell on top of her, and Lucy turned her head to see Sludge and Riefnd looking back at her.

"No one told me about you," the alien thought aloud.

Huma threw fireball after fireball at the Silver Sentinel, but the angry warrior blocked each attack. He suddenly found himself trapped in a ball, much like their first battle a few chapters ago. "Don't you ever learn, Sentinel?" He practically exploded with fire, his flames pounding against the bubble like a drum. This time though, Michael was angry and focused, and the shield held as all of the oxygen was quickly burned up. Huma suddenly stopped and began to cough, struggling to breath.

He fell to the ground and blacked out. The sphere prison evaporated and Sentinel walked over to the fallen villain. His hand burned hot as he placed it on his neck and returned him to normal.

"…"

Michael, my-

Save it…

…? The computers to the west of you could be used to reverse the nanite process. Michael turned his head and saw a computer console, as if waiting to be used.

"What about the Soulless?"

"WARNING. Self destruct sequence in five minutes," a computer's voice stated.

"…We should go," Riefnd advised.

Michael sighed, realizing that the alien scientist must have gotten away by now. He looked at his golden counterpart and wanted to ask what had happened but they were pressed for time. "Lucy, get Riefnd out of here. Sludge, over here, quickly," the silver superhero ordered, using his powers to bring Emerald, Huma, and Ruby's bodies over.

"Mike! What the hell are you doing?" Lucy questioned as her mask retracted into her suit, showing her face.

"Lucy, I know you have questions, I do two, but you gotta go, NOW!" The girl glared at him, before reluctantly nodding. She picked up the eldritch with her new powers, which resulted in him floating and spinning around a bit, and flew off with him following.

Michael quickly began typing away at the console and Sludge watched him turn his three old friends back to normal. Four needles suddenly descended from the ceiling and Sludge reacted with fear. "Don't worry; its okay. I know what I'm doing…I think."

Outside, in the forest, Lucy landed on the ground and saw Duncan nearby. He walked over and the three beings watched as smaller ships flew out of the bigger one. What followed was a massive explosion, pieces of debris going flying and blasts of flames shooting through the air.

"MIKE!" Lucy screamed; the show of fire and metal making her fear the worse. She began to run to it, temporarily forgetting her powers of flight as tears began to leak from her eyes.

"It's okay. I'm here." The Khao Manee stopped and looked up, seeing the armored body of her friend. The armored figure floated down, with the normal, unpowered versions of Rick and the others. He landed on the ground and Lucy embraced him, hugging him tightly. "I thought you were dead…"

"Oh Lucy…"

"Jerkface!" Lucy's hand smacked against Michael's helmeted head, making him step back and hold his head.

"Ow! What the hell?" The grey cat groaned. He glared at her, before he remembered he had a question for her. "Lucy, how the heck do you have that armor?"

I shall answer that.

The two saw the world melt around them and turned into darkness. LEGACY, looking like the Silver Sentinel, stood between the two unarmored cats. They looked at the armored figure as he stepped forward.

"I gave it to her. Many nights ago, I entered her home and put a couple of programs into her. A copy of my combat program, and a special detector for my distress signal. She was meant to be a rescuer. If we were ever in a situation and could not act to defend ourselves, then I was to activate her programming and have her save us."

"When were you going to tell me about this?" Michael yelled.

"Well if everything had gone as I believed, never."

"You endangered her life! Using me as a host is one thing, I accepted it, but you forced Lucy into this!"

"Sacrifices must be made to protect the Wise One's technology and culture."

"A culture of prejudice and slavery!" Michael roared.

"…Excuse me?"

"I know about the eldritch. I know how the Wise Ones treated them. I know everything."

"…You looked through my history banks."

"You've looked through mine plenty of times."

"Breaking mental connection." Lucy suddenly vanished and LEGACY looked at Michael. "Michael, you must understand-"

"I already understand, LEGACY. I saw everything. I saw your people treated them like trash! Killing them to set examples! Taking children away from mothers! How could you justify any of that?"

"…What do you intend to do now?"

"I don't know."

"Know this Michael, at anytime, I can force my control onto your body and force us both to leave."

"Now you're threatening me?"

"I will do whatever it takes to defend the legacy of my fathers and mothers."

"…Give me the chance to talk to Riefnd, let me see if I can find a middle ground."

"I will not negotiate with a Soulless!"

"I'm not asking you to! I'll do it. Just keep calm and don't try anything."

"…So be it. I place my trust on you, Michael."

"Wait. One more thing. If you ever threat one of my friends again, if you even think you can use them as pawns in your war, that any of them would make a good backup host or shield, or whatever you want to call them, then remember this. If I find you doing anything like this again, I will rip you out of me with my bare hands."

"I have never seen you so angry."

"You've never threatened my friends before."

END

For those wondering, when LEGACY was being forced out of Michael's body, their minds were temporarily fused completely together. That's how Michael knows all about the Wise One culture now. Also Lucy's superheroine persona will NOT be making many more appearances. More on that, next chapter.

So, I'm sorry I haven't updated lately. I have two afterschool classes and some Saturday school right now. VERY sorry. Hope you enjoyed this chapter, everyone.