New Kid On The Block
Chapter 10 – Team Player
Hey Guys! Wherever you are I hope you are doing ok and if you have endured my terrible writing all the way through until now then thank you so much! :) I really enjoyed writing this chapter because there is a HELL of a lot of action in it! So in this chapter, Blaze joins his teammates for a group training session. How will things go? Time to find out! Enjoy!
"Blaze, watch out!" shouted Ace from amidst the havoc across the room.
Blaze turned around just in time as a neuron blast buzzed straight towards him. He dropped to the ground just in time as it went flying overhead, barely missing his head.
"Thanks Ace" He shouted back after getting back to his feet but staying crouched.
The tiger looked up from his crouched position and scanned around for the source of the blast.
Bingo he said to himself as he locked on to a robot with its arm cannon outstretched and pointed straight at Blaze. The blue-clad loonatic poised himself ready for the robot who was surely about to fire a second blast. It did.
A bright orange blast erupted from the robot's arm cannon and darted towards the crouching Blaze. He waited until the last possible second and then launched himself into the air. With a spinning summersault, Blaze landed on the ground.
He stared at the robot and his eyes turned blue. He didn't like being shot at… He creased his face up in anger as he gathered up energy and crouched. He opened both of his hands slightly as little blue energy balls started to appear in them. The electro-gyro balls got bigger and soon, they were both the size of a large water melon. Blaze then brought both his hands together and the two crackling balls of energy combined to create a single massive gyro ball.
Blaze drew back his hands, planting his feet firmly on the ground and then with all of his might, he thrust forward releasing the enormous ball of cobalt blue electricity sending it blitzing towards the robot which had shot at him. The gyro ball left crackling streaks of electricity in its wake as it flew nearer and nearer to its target.
But, when it was only 10 metres away from completely obliterating the target, a group of bots obliviously ran into the path of the ball. It exploded as it impacted with one of the bots. The resulting explosion was massive. Robots that weren't destroyed by the initial explosion of energy were thrown in all directions, engulfed in blue electricity.
But annoyingly for Blaze, the explosion hadn't destroyed the bot he intended to destroy in the first place.
The robot fired another blast at the enraged Blaze who only just managed to dodge it. He was really angry now. His eyes turned blue again and he snarled as he took off and ran full sprint towards the robot.
It fired again. This time, Blaze conjured up another gyro ball and flung it to intercept the blast. The blasts collided with each other and exploded.
Blaze ducked, dodged and jumped as he ran, avoiding the continuous fire from the robot. Eventually, the bot stopped firing as it had to replace the energy crystal in its arm cannon. Blaze used this to his advantage and he thrust his arm towards the wall behind the bot. Blaze used his magnetic powers and one of the swords flew off of the rack on the wall and came spearing towards the back of the robot, with the tip of its blade facing forward.
The robot had reloaded and was getting ready to aim at the fast approaching Blaze when the sword gored his body from behind. It pierced all the way through the robots metal body slashing through wires and energy cells until it penetrated the thick metal plate of the robot's stomach and flew out of the other side. The sword had left a massive gaping hole in the bot's abdomen.
Blaze released his magnetic powers on the flying sword and caught it as it fell towards the ground. Blaze continued to run at the robot and finally finished the job as he did a small leap and slashed the robot's head off with the sword. The metal head rolled off of the shoulders of the robot as it fell to the ground and disappeared.
Piece of scrap metal He bitterly said to himself as his anger subsided.
The entire room was blazing with action. Slam, Rev and Duck were grouped in the middle of the room, completely surrounded but just about managing.
Duck rapidly threw his eggs at the oncoming bots trying to slow them down. Whenever a bot got too near, he would quack out of the way leaving the bot confused in his wake.
"Heads up Slam!" The mallard frantically pointed at a robot that was advancing on Slam.
Slam grabbed the massive metal fist that was hammering down on him and rugby tackled it to the ground before quickly getting to his feet as the waves of bots continued attacking.
Rev was on overwatch and kept a keen eye on his teammates and shouted warnings to them when a robot got too close. He also used his sonic speed to dart in between robots acting as a distraction and drawing their attention away from the other loonatics.
In the corner of the room, Ace and Lexi stood side by side, cornered. They took out some of the bots using their respective laser vision and brain blasts, but they kept coming closer and closer. Each bot that was destroyed was instantly replaced by another.
"Erm… Any ideas chief?" Lexi asked in a slightly worried tone as she continued firing her brain blasts.
"Still tinkin'" he replied in slight desperation. The situation seemed hopeless.
But then, from behind the bots, something leaped high into the air. It was Blaze.
He gymnastically summersaulted before landing right in front of the two bunnies.
"Hey guys! Looks like you need a hand!" he started before looking over his shoulder at the advancing robots. "Err hang on a sec." he continued before turning around to face the army of metal that continued to close in. He clenched his fists tightly as they started emitting electrical blue energy. His eyes turned blue as he powerfully slammed his fists into the ground creating a massive shockwave which flew forward, like a powerful wave crashing towards the shoreline. All of the robots were thrown backwards, completely immobilized by the massive wave of energy. Robots that got back up were destroyed when Blaze caused them to smash into each other with his magnetic powers. The last robot rushed at Blaze, which was a bad move.
Blaze used his magnetism to bring the bot flying towards him and as it came within range, Blaze leaped into the air delivering a 360 smash kick to the bot's metal jaw. The strength and power in Blaze's leg sent the stricken robot flying across the room and crashing into the training room wall. The bot disappeared as it collided with the wall.
Blaze breathed in and out deeply as he turned around to face his teammates.
Both of the bunnies looked at each other, and then back at their blue teammate, a look of disbelief on both their faces.
"Whoa, nice one Blaze. Tanks for de save." Ace commended as a look of normality returned to his face.
"Yeah that was awesome!" Lexi agreed as she nodded.
Blaze smiled in response to the praise as he continued to regain his breath. "No…Worries." He puffed in response.
Across the room, Slam had just finished off the last of the bots using his thunder mode and he, Rev and Duck were all spread out on the floor panting.
Ace, Lexi and Blaze all walked over to join their teammates.
"Nice job guys, dat was a tricky one…" Ace stated as he helped Duck up.
"Phew-you-got-that-right-chief! Tech-said-that-he-had-increased-the-intelligence-of-the-bots-but-i-didn't-think-he-would-make-them-this-hard!" Rev clarified as he was pulled up by Blaze.
Rev was right. The simulated bots were definitely smarter than usual. The loonatics were all relieved that they were up against simulated robots rather than the real thing.
"Oh well, at least they're actually a challenge now. Before you could probably hit them with a pillow and they would fall down!" Lexi joked. The others smiled at her comment.
"Hehe, slight exaggeration Lex, but not far off!" Ace replied with a chuckle as he winked at Lexi. She smiled back, but quickly had to turn away as she started blushing outrageously.
With training done, they all started for the door.What the loonatics didn't know was that the simulation was far from over…
Like a bolt of lightning striking unexpectedly, a horde of simulated robots appeared out of nowhere, surrounding the stunned loonatics, causing them to stop in their tracks.
They all stood in silence for a few moments before Blaze broke the silence. "O-kay then… I guess we aint done yet…" he said as he looked at the others.
"Oh c'mon! No fair!" Duck exclaimed with a look of helplessness. "I was so looking forward to a protein shake and a salad sandwich!"
"Chill out Duck, ya can eat once we've finished off dis lot." Ace said as he looked around and frowned as he saw that they were completely surrounded.
Slam looked down at his stomach as it grumbled. "Uj-oj" (Uh-oh) Slam chuckled nervously with a lost puppy look on his giant face.
Lexi smiled sympathetically at the Tasmanian Devil. "Don't worry big guy. This will be over in a flash." She assured as she patted him on the back.
"Okay guys, here's de plan. We need ta stay togeder dis time. If we split up, den it will take longer to take dem all out. So stick togeder, and watch our backs." Commanded Ace. It seemed like a good plan, let the enemy come to them, that way they wouldn't get split up.
The others all nodded and sprang into action. They all formed a circle with their backs to each other. This way they wouldn't get attacked from behind where they were most vulnerable. All they had to do now, was wait for the robots to make the first move.
After a few tense moments, the robots striked.
A large bot came rushing at Ace and swung its massive arm at the bunny. He effortlessly dodged it and quickly regained his balance. It was his turn now. Before you could blink, Ace had finished the robot off by tripping it up with a sweeping kick causing it to fall flat on its back, and then slamming his elbow down hard on the robot's face. The disabled bot disappeared.
Ace composed himself as he readied himself for the next bot which ran at him like a wild animal. Ace unsheathed his sword and with a single elegant swing, he sliced the metal bot in half. The two pieces fell to the ground before disappearing.
Ace put his sword away, thinking he had bought himself some time. But out of nowhere, a bot jumped at him. The startled Ace didn't have time to defend himself so he gave a quick blast of his laser vision, completely obliterating the bot in mid-air.
Next to Ace, Lexi fired a massive brain blast at a group of oncoming bots, destroying them instantly, but through the mass of black smoke from the blast charged more bots. Lexi quickly dispatched them all by dodging their swings and punches and then blasting them with the powerful energy which she shot from her ears.
Duck was accurately throwing his eggs at the waves of bots that ran at him. The accuracy and speed with which he threw his eggs meant that not a single bot got near him. Eventually, the bots resorted to trying to pick off Duck with their arm cannons. Even this didn't work though, because whenever one of the neuron blasts got too close, Duck would quickly quack out of the way. He was proving to be very tricky.
A particularly fast robot ran at Duck and managed to dodge all of the mallard's fiery eggs and before Duck could conjure up any more, the bot was upon him. It wrapped Duck in its arms and started to crush him painfully. But Duck wasn't fazed. He quacked out of the robot's iron grip and appeared behind it. He then shoved the bot with all his might sending it tumbling towards Blaze, who was waiting for it. Once it was within range, the tiger smashed his fist into the bot's chest sending it flying across the room, knocking over countless other bots in the process.
Slam was very tempted to just wreak havoc on the bots, but Ace had told him that they had to stay together. Just like the others, he was letting the mass of simulated robots come to him. He would either use his brute strength to deliver devastating punches to the bots sending them flying across the room and crashing into the robots behind them like dominoes, or he would toy with them and use a variety of wrestling moves to disable them.
Across the room, he saw that Rev had been surrounded and was in big trouble. Slam instinctively used his tornado maximizer and raced towards his teammate. Like a hungry predator he launched himself at the bots knocking them all over before finishing them off with his thunder mode.
"Cheers-Slam!" Rev gratefully said with a relieved sigh.
Rev was making the job much easier for his teammates. He was using his sonic speed to run round and round, darting in front of the charging bots to knock them off balance leaving them defenceless to the other loonatics. He was also constantly shouting warnings to his teammates. He was a big help.
Blaze was utterly destroying anything that came near him. With his fast and deadly fighting moves, and his powerful electro-gyro balls, any bot that came within range of him was dealt with easily. When trying to take Blaze on 1 on 1 obviously failed, the bots tried ganging up on him. But Blaze simply used his magnetism to smash them all into each other.
They kept on coming. Two bots ran at him at once and as they got close, Blaze flipped over them causing them to skid to a halt. But before they even looked round, Blaze had flung a gyro ball which exploded in their face with an electrical buzzing noise.
Blaze ran at an oncoming group of bots, completely forgetting Ace's orders to stay as a group. As the adrenaline flowed like a blazing wildfire through Blaze's body, he was totally focussed on destroying every last one of the bots. Dodging all the attempted blows and strikes from the bots, Blaze eventually found himself surrounded by them. But like a tornado, he leaped up and ferociously spin kicked the bots in their broad heads, knocking them in all directions.
Seeing that there were no more bots around him, The rush of adrenaline finally died down and Blaze realised how far he had stayed from his friends. He jogged back to his post to help his friends. Only a few bots remained now.
Ace looked over his shoulder to see Blaze coming towards him. "Dere ya are! I wondered where ye had got te." Ace exclaimed as he blocked a swinging kick from the bot he was fighting.
"Yeah! Got a bit carried away!" Blaze admitted as he turned so that he was back to back with his leader.
A few minutes later and there was only one bot left. It ran at the loonatics who now all stood in a line and simultaneously, Ace used his laser vision, Lexi used her brain blast, Blaze thrust a gyro ball, Duck threw an egg and Slam used his thunder mode.
There was a massive rainbow coloured explosion as the different coloured blasts of energy destroyed the last remaining robot leaving a thick black smoke.
The smoke finally cleared and the loonatics all stood in the middle of the massive training room.
They were all on guard in case another army of simulated robots appeared all around them. After about half a minute, they realised they had finally finished.
There was high five's and pats on the back all around as they congratulated each other on a good, but very tricky training session.
"Nice one guys." Ace said before quickly sniffing his armpit and wincing. "Right lets hit de showers, we stink!" he joked.
The others chuckled as they made their way towards the door of the training room.
About half an hour later, everyone had showered and got dressed and were now all sitting on the large circular couch, talking about the events of the training session.
"So how did you find your first training session Blaze?" asked Tech, who was now awake.
Blaze smiled as his captivating golden eyes twinkled. "Yeah it was great. I knew it was gunna be good, but it was even better." He replied. "And that training room is awesome Tech."
The coyote smugly grinned at Blaze's comment as he leaned back. "Of course it is. I invented it!" he joked.
The others all laughed at Tech's trademark saying.
Duck wasn't laughing though. "Oh come on its just a training room! Heck I coulda invented it!" he commented putting emphasis on the "I" as he shrugged his shoulders.
This caused the others to laugh even harder, leaving Duck frowning in annoyance.
The laughter eventually died down.
All of a sudden there was a massive growling sound. The others all looked at Slam, who was staring down at his stomach. He chuckled. "Fojdf?" he hopefully asked the others?
They all smiled and laughed.
"Haha, good idea Slam. Let's get some grub!" said Lexi enthusiastically as she bounded from her seat.
The others all agreed and got up from the couch to head to the kitchen.
But just as they had got up, the hologram table bleeped.
Everyone stared at the table tensely for what seemed like an age before Zadavia finally appeared. "Loonatics, we have a serious problem…"
Okay guys so there we go! I really enjoyed doing this chapter. Lots of action! So in the next chapter, we find out why Zadavia has paid a cyber-visit to the Loonatics. Any ideas? Haha, anyway hope you enjoyed this chapter and please gimme your feedback! :)
P.S. Sorry it took so long to get this chapter up. Will try my best to get chapter 11 up sooner! Thanx guys :)