Ooh, what great ideas are running through my head for this story... Yes! The Get Ed loving streak has returned! --Lol, ignore me, I'm wacky in the head. :P
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"This is the most boring job in the world..." Ed complained to himself as he continued to scrub down the current Riot Bot. He sighed, wiping his forehead, sitting back after he finished. He smiled, then looked down the line to see how many more were left. The smile left his face immediately and turned into a gawking frown. He was hardly half-way there. "Oh, what's the point?!"
Ed kicked the bucket of water by his feet, making it spill all over the floor.
"Oh, Edward, what was that noise?" Bedlum called from another room. Ed gasped and picked up the bucket.
"Nothing!"
"It better not be! You better get to work on those Riot Bots,"
"I'm on it."
Ed started to leave the room to fill up the bucket again when something caught his eye. "Huh?" He put down the now slightly-dented bucket and walked over to one of the Riot Bots. Z3R0. "Zero?" He said aloud, reading the name. The name struck him as familiar but he couldn't place it. Shrugging it off, he smirked and strolled around to the back, finding its switch and 'accidentally' turning it on. "Oops..."
Z3R0's eyes glowed and he looked down at Ed, smiling and instantly recognizing the young boy. The robot picked him up to see him face-to-face and gave him a bone-crushing hug.
But Ed took this as an attack and struggled to get free. He managed to loosen himself just enough to do a back flip off the robot after kicking the robot in the jaw. Z3R0 merely blinked, not comprehending this. It stared at Ed momentarily, wondering why he looked as if he were going to attack, then noticed that Ed had red-black hair and red eyes.
Z3R0 frowned, then sat down to tell the different-looking boy that he was safe.
Ed put his slammer away and walked up to the robot, completely unafraid. "You're cool-looking! I wonder…" He smiled to himself and glanced up at Z3R0. "Do you have a hose installed in you?"
Z3R0, completely understanding his words, nodded and held out his hands, palm-up. Water sprayed from them and blasted roughly at Ed. Ed sputtered, then shook himself remotely dry.
"I didn't mean spray me!" he yelled.
Z3R0 frowned and stopped the water as if to say 'sorry'.
Ed sighed and waved it off as no problem. He climbed onto the robot's back and smiled. "Alright! This is going to be much easier then! Zero, spray down those other Riot Bots," Z3R0 blinked, then instantly did so.
Ed flinched as every Riot Bot down the line fell over and crashed to the floor from the force of the blow. Sure, they were clean now, but possibly broken.
"Edward? What was that?" Bedlum called again, sounding closer.
"Nothing! Go away!" As if that didn't sound suspicious.
"I'm coming to check on you," Bedlum said in a dangerous voice.
Ed nervously looked back and fourth. He jumped down and tossed a wet rag to Z3R0. "See ya, Zero!" He ran directly pass Bedlum and quickly down the hallway, muttering as he passed by, "They're clean!"
Bedlum frowned and looked inside the Riot Bot room. His jaw dropped at the site of all the broken robots, then he growled. "Edward!!"
When Bedlum stormed out of the room Z3R0, who had acted as if he were deactivated, cautiously made his way out of the room to make sure Ed was safe.
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Ed panted as he grabbed his hover board quickly and left the tower, not even bothering to power-up. That was something Bedlum had always told him to do before he left the building; to power-up so it would be harder to recognize him, but he left that part out.
As he made his way down the street, he slowly started to relax. A smile slowly crept across his face. "That was fun!"
His watch beeped and he frowned, wondering if he should answer it or not. Unwillingly, a hologram of Bedlam showed up anyway and Ed gave him a shaky smile. Bedlum just glared at him.
"Uh, s-sorry about t-the Riot B-bots…" Ed stuttered. He was thoroughly afraid now. Not only had he possibly wrecked a whole line of good robots, he ran away from his punishment.
Bedlum started to grit his teeth, then smiled dangerously calm. "Oh, it's no problem, Edward,"
"Really?" Ed instantly perked up.
"Yes. And I would like you to pick up a package for me in Sector 9 right away. You'll know where to take it once you get it,"
"Okay! Bye!"
"Good-bye…" The image of Bedlum faded away into the small watch. Ed turned and sped off to Sector 9 with an almost nice smile on his warped features.
"You're just going to let him get away with it?" Cora asked astonished.
Bedlum smiled. "Of course not. Send Spiker to Sector 9…" With that, he walked away.
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"Hey, that weird symbol's moving again guys!" Loogie exclaimed, pointing to the screen. It had been hours since it last moved and everyone except Loogie had been napping on the couch. They instantly awoke and Burn walked up to the screen.
"He's heading to Sector 9. Let's power-up and head out guys," Burn ordered and they did what they were told. When everyone was ready, they hopped on their vehicles and took off.
Fizz shuddered. "Why does it have to be Sector 9?"
"You're not still scared of that place are you?" Deets asked.
"N-no…"
Deets rolled her eyes. "Whatever. Just think of the reason why we're going there,"
Fizz thought about them trying to convince Ed to remember them and shuddered again, frowning. She remembered the last time they tried that—and it didn't end very well. She just looked up at Deets. "Gee, thanks…"
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Z3R0 followed quickly behind his old friend to Sector 9. He could've sworn he saw something out of the corner of his robotical eye following Ed.
When Ed entered Sector 9, he instantly started to feel a sense of danger. The hair on his neck stood on end. But he continued on through, looking for anyone with a package to deliver him.
The instant he got to a certain part, however, he slowed to a stop. He was facing a run-down building that looked to have been made of metal. He felt a small connection to this place somehow but couldn't figure it out.
That's when his eyes flashed blue and images shot through his head.
The boy he saw yesterday with the blue-black hair, blue eyes, and a blue courier outfit was standing next to a girl with blonde hair and a pink courier's outfit. They were in some sort of dome. The girl was banging on the door, begging to be let out.
In the next scene, he and the girl were standing outside an unusually quiet party. They were talking and smiling with each other and he felt nervous. He was about to say something when he was interrupted by seeing a spy bot.
The same boy was sitting in a chair in a room of Belum's tower. Bedlum was standing next to him with a remote. He was strapped to the chair as he looked up and saw the same girl tied to a wall through plexiglass. Every time Bedlum would press the button, the girl would be electrocuted. He, in the image, struggled and yelled at him to stop. "Deets!!"
Ed snapped out of it when something hit him in the back of the head. He fell off his board and onto the ground. Turning, he rubbed his head and gasped.
"Who are you?" he asked.
The robot took a dangerous step forward. "My name is Spiker…"
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Heh heh, I wanted to find a scene where Ed and Deets were kissing, but I couldn't remember one where that happened. Well, I do kind of… But I don't exactly remember what happened… I remember when she kissed him on his cheek and he did some sort of back flip on his board or something. Oh well, I hope what I gave what alright anyway.