Just so you know, I'm not doing the static visions in any specific order.
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"Spuh-Spyker? What do you want?" Ed asked. His eyes returned to normal and the cloud fogging his mind faded. He shook his head, then looked back up at the robot and smirked. "Because I'm kinda busy here,"
"I am here to destroy you." Spyker responded.
"Pfft, I can take you easy!" Ed grabbed for his slammer only to find that it wasn't there. He spun around and spotted it a few yards away. It must've dropped when he fell. There was no way he'd make it to it in time.
"Not without your weapon,"
"I don't need it," His voice was tainted with so much certainty that he almost even convinced himself.
Spyker was unphased. "Let's see about that." He shot out at the boy with great speed, catching him off-guard. Ed barely managed to duck and roll just in time. Once on the ground, he swiped at the robot's feet which only made Spyker wobble a bit before turning around.
Ed did a back flip to distance himself from Spyker's deadly grip. Then, he turned and ran in hopes of getting his slammer.
The red-eyed boy jumped and skidded to his slammer. He just barely touched it when Spyker slammed his foot down on his hand. Ed yelled out in pain and pulled back his hand. Spyker kicked the slammer even further away and picked Ed up by his arm.
"Your demise is obvious," Spyker mused.
Ed merely used his other arm to swish it in front of his face. "Your breath stinks," Spyker scowled. "Oh yeah, you mind putting me down? My arm's starting to fall asleep,"
Before Spyker could react, Ed kicked him where his stomach would be and knocked him back, forcing him to drop him. Ed took this to his advantage and shot around and slammed his foot down on the back of the robot's back, knocking it down. He then brought his foot down again to attack, but Spyker grabbed it just before it hit and twisted it, sending Ed flying backwards.
Ed hit the ground hard and slowly stood, rubbing his head. Man, he's tough… He looked up at the robot coming after him. "But I'm tougher!" They hit each other head-on which sent Ed back to the ground again. Spyker only stumbled backwards again.
Z3R0 managed to finally make it to Sector 9. He had lost Ed a few ways back, but caught up quickly. He stomped through the wasteland after his friend.
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"Bedlam?" Cora started.
"Yes, Cora?" Bedlam asked.
"Won't Spyker destroy Ed completely? Ed isn't that strong without his friends' help or that slammer of his,"
"Trust me, Cora, with his new corrupted DNA, he is much stronger than before. He's smarter and stronger and able to take more attacks. But Spyker will be able to teach him a lesson,"
"Oh, I get it."
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"We're almost there, guys!" Burn told them.
"I wonder what Ed could be doing in Sector 9 anyway," Deets said.
"Who knows? All I know is that that place is creepy!" Fizz added.
"I hope he's okay,"
"Yeah, me too," Burn and Fizz said at the same time as the four of them continued on.
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Ed was panting hard. He glanced over at his slammer. If he got to it, he would have this fight in the bag. Unfortunately, Spyker was aware of this and every time Ed went for it, he would get to it faster and knock it away.
He needed a plan.
Ed looked at Spyker who seemed to be perfectly fine aside from a few wires hanging out. This was going well. Who is this guy anyway? And why is he fighting me? Ed frowned to himself. If he wants the package, he could have it already!
He straightened himself realizing that this was probably the entire reason he was fighting this guy. "Hey, if you want that package, you can have it. I've already gotten Bedlam up the ranks so one little package won't matter," He smirked. "Besides, I can probably just steal it back before you make it to the place,"
"I am not here to deliver a package. I'm here to destroy you," Spyker responded blandly.
"Why?"
"I was ordered to,"
"By who?"
"Mr. Bedlam."
"What?!" Ed was shocked. He knew his 'father' was harsh, but this? He actually sent a deadly robot after him? Just because he ran from some stupid punishment and knocked over some robots? This guy could kill him or at least do some serious damage! "Talk about a harsh punishment…" Ed mumbled.
"It's about to get even harsher…" Spyker started to charge after Ed again. Ed covered his face and braced himself for this head-on attack that he knew would hurt.
"Ed!!"
He looked up, slightly lowering his guard, and looked away. What he saw confused him. There were four couriers that he knew were from Dojo Deliveries running after him and calling his name. They were telling him to watch out, but their words were far from his mind. All he wanted to know now is why two of them were from his vision.
Spyker rammed into him, striking his stomach with his arm.
Ed skidded back and fell to his knees, holding his stomach and coughing.
"Ed!" The girl in pink reached him first. She kneeled down next to him and lifted up his chin to look into his pained eyes. "Are you okay?"
What a stupid question. Ed wanted to mock her about it and tell her that he was certainly not okay, but found the image in his head stopping him. "You're…Deets?"
"You remember me?" By now the others had gathered around him with shocked expressions on their faces. Not only because he remembered her name, but because of the way he looked. His form seemed totally different from before.
Ed shook his head and hesitantly stood, wincing in pain. "No. I mean…I saw you in my…vision. I called you Deets,"
"Oh…"
"Why are you Dojo couriers here anyway?"
"We're here to help you!" Burn informed him.
Loogie got in a fighting stance and looked around. "Yeah, so where are those monkies?" Ed just blinked and everyone groaned.
Burn grabbed Ed's wrist. "C'mon, Ed, we gotta get out of here before Spyker attacks again,"
Ed instantly pulled his wrist away and back up from the group. "I don't know how you know my name, why you're helping me, or how you know that robot. But I can handle this on my own, so go away."
"Well, his looks might've changed, but he's the same old Ed," Deets remarked with her arms crossed.
Spyker pulled out a small glass orb and looked at the four members of the Dojo. "Bedlam thought you might come here…" He tossed the orb and it broke in the middle of them, releasing a large bubble-like thing that entrapped them.
"What is this thing?" Burn growled.
"It's a hyper crystallized sphere. It's used as a containment unit for top-rank objects. It can't be broken from the inside or the outside," Fizz explained.
"…So how do we get out?"
"We need to get a shard of one of the pieces of the mini sphere that Spyker through. It's the only thing that can penetrate it,"
"And how do we do that?"
Fizz looked down at the few pieces of orb that lay mere feet away and frowned. "That I don't know…"
"Perfect!"
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Z3R0, if he could feel this emotion, is pretty ticked. He was completely lost in this stupid Sector 9 and couldn't find any signs of Ed or Spyker.
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Meanwhile, Ed turned his attention back to Spyker, caring less about the situation the other couriers were in. Spyker studied the position the boy was in. Ed was painfully trying to catch his breath, he stopped holding his stomach but Spyker knew that was the cause of his breathing troubles, and he had cuts and scrapes over him. On the other hand, Spyker only had a couple wires protruding from his form and one of the metal bars on his arm was out of place.
Ed was sure to be defeated with this next few shots.