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Chapter 6
The hot sun shined down at the rocky place with no animals and plants surrounding the land of rocks, pebbles, and tire tracks that was heading to another direction...
Enid was fidgeting her claws when she thought about her time when she had a fever a few nights ago. She never knew that this man was officially her partner. She did not think that she could make one sooner than had she thought. She took a glance at her partner with her robot eye attached to his left side. It was such a sad thing that he got it from the person he doesn't even know. The wind blew at Enid's face reminding the time when she and her master would run together with their equal speed on her daily training. She smiled to herself when she saw her master's face, but she frown as soon as his face became old and frail...
"Kaylenna."
"Yes?" Enid said without making a flinch.
"What are you going to do after this?"
"...Why are you asking such a peculiar question?" Enid looked at him and he stopped his car.
"My van needed to charge, so we need to waste time for it."
"Ah..."
Enid had thought one thing that will officially end the existence of Bolverk. She took out her purple knife and clenched on it, then she looked away from Avis.
"What are you thinking about?"
"Nothing."
"That was not a nothing Kaylenna, I can tell on your face that you're thinking of something reckless."
"My choice is not reckless, it is for the sake of Bolverk."
Enid clenched her hand and she felt the darkness from Avis' eyes. She did not care and let him stare.
"Kaylenna, there might be something that you want to do, why don't you just listen to yourself instead of listening orders from that old man?"
Enid raised her purple knife and have the blade be placed at one inch from Avis's lips. "One more word and I'll slice your tongue off."
"Really? I like to see you try princess, and didn't your master taught you to watch your pretty little mouth?"
"Were you ever taught to watch your mouth, monster?"
"Oh? Did I break a nerve, sorry kiddo, but that name is not going to get me anywhere."
"Shush!" Enid placed her hand on Avis' mouth. "Avis! Did you hear that?!"
"Hear what?" he muffled from Enid's palm, then the sound of crying was heard from the distance.
"Okay." Enid took out her revolver and nodded to her partner.
Avis started his engine again and slowly drove his way to the sound. Enid held her breath to put her finger on the trigger as the sound got closer and closer.
"Hic...sniff...so mean!" said the little girl's voice as Enid and Avis got off their car to approached at the little girl's back.
"It's you!" Avis said in surprised and the girl looked at Enid.
"Hic..."
Enid softly gasped when the little girl shown her face full of her tears. That face represented her from when she was a little girl herself. Spending her entire childhood in pain, she had to cry at every bloody way to endure from her wounds and her fatigues as well. Her master was impatience of her complaints and he would yell at her often. However, her master was kind and he had endured her childish acts since she was just a kid. Enid grew and so did her master, as they grew older, their bonds had grew stronger as well as their skills. This girl had none...
"Whatcha doing alone out here kiddo?" Avis tried to walk closer to her, but Enid stepped in front of Avis and raise her gun at her.
"You know, little girls these days does know how to deceive adults with their innocent personalities and looks. I say we should we kill her."
"Whoa! Whoa! Don't judge her just yet! She may be a little girl, but appearances don't matter!"
"I lived to kill anyone who goes in my way Avis, now move!"
"No!" Avis stood behind the little girl.
"Oh, for goodness sake! Just move it!" Enid screamed at him.
"What the hell is wrong with you ?! Have you ever killed a kid without ever knowing them? You know Kaylenna, there are some innocent people out there that you can't kill!"
"I killed a hundred of those people and I can kill you if you get in my way!" Enid pointed her revolver at Avis and her finger trembled from the trigger.
"So you still do not trust me huh? Such an utter dismay Kaylenna, you only trust your old master?!" Avis crossed his arms. "I bet he's saying that you're being a fucking idiot right now!"
"My master would never say that!" Enid yelled at him and walked closer to him to grabbed his shirt.
"Enough! Both of you!" said the little girl that was trying to push them away, but her strength were too weak to suppress their strength and they ignored her small body between them.
"I would of killed you anyway!" Enid yelled at his face.
"Why didn't you kill me from before? I was ready to die and yet you took me in, why is that Kaylenna?! You had your chance many times and you still haven't done it yet!"
"..." Enid breathed heavily to herself and let go off his shirt.
"You didn't want to be alone? Well I bet you needed a person to stay with you for a while so that you a can kill me once you have no used of me?"
"..." Enid turned away and crossed her arms.
"Oh, was I right? Cause you're a human and I'm a human too? I know that you kill human because you've been ordered to kill the ones that gets in your way."
Enid's anger well up in her head and she clenched on her gun. "I kill human because they sent my master in vanity."
"Really? So why do you call him master? That makes you his personal slave..."
She turned around to stomp on his chest. Her strength was strong enough to break his some of his ribs. Avis was grabbing her leg in pain, then Enid shown him her cold golden eyes that shined under at the sun's ray. Enid was breathing heavily to herself when she had to do it, he was getting out of hands with his words, and she readied her claws.
"Wrong, dead wrong."
"Enough!"
The little girl screamed and held her palms at Enid to bind her with her violet powers. Enid stood on there with her arms being tied up with the powers that were the same as her energy core that she had for years. She struggled to break free, but the energy powers were too strong to suppressed Enid's weak powers.
"Let go!" Enid said.
"I will never let go!" The little girl cried.
"For what purpose little girl? Why do you want to die for him?"
"Don't worry about me! What about you? What about your goal?"
Enid stopped struggling.
"You should start thinking about it, you shouldn't be so violence all the time. You also have a friend that is concern about you too." the girl looked at Avis.
"A friend..."
Enid looked down at Avis that was smiling at her on the ground and she sighed to herself. She had never experience that feeling that someone else other than her master was actually here for her. This person is willing to fulfill this mission that her master request her to do and she shook her head to that she unexpectedly made her own team of two right now. However...
"He insulted my master! What makes you think that he's a friend?"
"Don't you ever had a friend? Some friends can be mean to you just because they were frustrated about something that you did."
"..." Enid thought about her master's training that was strict and painful, but he was kind and he was like a father to her. His last few words on entrusting him with the skills from his former comrades.
Master? I can't do it!
Yes you can! You are not a baby anymore!
"Hey Kaylenna! You done spacing out?" Avis said and Enid looked at his new partner. Such a resemble of her master, his attitude, his words, and his strong courage.
"Ok, you can let me go now." Enid smiled at the little girl.
"...Are you sure that you're not going to hurt him anymore?" the little girl said, and Enid shook her head. The little girl released her while Enid stepped away from Avis, and then she turned to the girl.
"What were are doing out here?" Enid asked the little girl.
"Last night, my older sister were really mad when she was defeated by you, she blamed me for not letting you kill your partner and not hitting you as well, she beat me and abandoned me."
Enid examined the little girl and she noticed that her face was covered in bruises. She remembered how she would look that whenever master Xero trained her, all covered in wounds and bruises because he had Enid to fight him as well. It was extremely hard to even wound him, then she picked up the little girl and gave her a smile...
"What is your name?"
"Remila."
"Ok Remila, would you like rest with us?"
"Okay!"
"Avis, make a camp for us."
"Why don't you do it yourself since you injured me?!"
"Nope, I got to comfort this little girl." Enid smiled at her.
"Teehee!"
"Ugh, women." Avis stood up from the ground and grumbled to himself.
When the three people already set themselves an early camping site that was during the late afternoon. Remila fidgeted when she was sitting next to Enid that was sitting between Avis. There was an awkward silent moment when nobody was not saying anything.
Enid would talk to her master every day about his story and not even once she asked about herself. She just realized that, but she only remembered the time when her master told her his story every day...
"Kaylenna?" Remila tugged her shirt.
"Yes?"
"Can you tell me a bedtime story?"
"That early?"
"Gotta give the little girl a bedtime story," Avis said not looking at her when he was mad at her and his partner was mad at him as well.
"Hmph." Enid smiled with joy and decided to tell her a story that she cherished in her heart for her entire life.
"Once upon a time, there was ninja who was a part of a four team member called the Bolverk Squad. These four people fought together and he has bonded great friendship with them, but after a mission, one of the squad member died and three members had to move on... "
Enid continued her story to little Remi, Avis had to look at those sorrow eyes that Enid was making when she got to the part when her master had to kill his fellow partner and leader because of a virus and he lived on to train her. However, she smiled back when she talked about her master together. Avis smiled to himself when he saw Enid's smile again, it was a beautiful smile from the innocent-like girl in front of him. Then at the end of the story, Remila's eyelids grew heavy.
"Why did you tell me such a sad story ...?" Remila said and she went to sleep on Enid's lap.
"She fell asleep." Enid whispered to herself while she kept on smiling to the sleeping little girl.
"You seem kind of happy."
"...I was a child just like her, an abandoned child without any parents to depend on..."
"Heh... Now you told me about the Bolverk Squad in the MBORF, it was very interesting to hear that story from them. I would like to listen to that again and again..." Avis chuckled. "You know, I've studying them for five years and I would never thought I would hear this from the last link to the Bolverk Squad member herself! This is the best day of my life!"
"It was not a story. It was a true event."
"I know that, but it was amazing on how you described everything to this little girl."
"I was her age when my master told me his story." Enid lowered her eyes.
Avis moved next to Enid and he took a peek on the little girl sleeping on her lap.
"You sure know how to treat kids well."
"..." Enid blushed.
"It seems that I already learned a lot about the Bolverk Squad, based on the story you just told Remila, I had to listen to every single detail on how master Xero has treated you as a comrade. He seemed to really care about you."
"Yes."
Avis nodded, "so, what are you going to do after you the find the mastermind? "
"...I...I do not know." Enid stammered.
"Think about it, or else you will forever regret it."
"...There is one choice: I will kill myself...if I ever failed."
"Why is that?"
"..."
Avis sighed to himself. "I would like to learn a little bit about you, Kaylenna."
"... I...I have not told anyone about me before... However, my past is very brief."
"Come on Enid, I told you mine, so I know that you can trust me."
Enid sighed heavily and she took out a worn out photo from her pocket. "...Here."
Enid handed the photo to Avis and he made a loud gasp when he saw four people lined up in a photo shoot. He saw the text "Never Forget." and he seemed to recognized one of the person that was raising his middle finger.
"Holy shit! These are the Bolverk Squad before?!"
Enid nodded.
"Holy shit! This is awesome!"
"Yes, my master gave it to me before he died. I kept it ever since and I would stare at it for hours, thinking about his time with his friends up there," Enid look towards the orange sky with the puffy purple clouds floating around. "When my master was taking away the existence of the Bolverk Squad. He told me that he had such good friends, but they had taken themselves away by their actions. Years passed by, he was alone and he lived in the dark once again. All he can do is stare at this photo. One day, he found an abandoned baby that was crying for her dead mother after she was born. He felt the sympathy towards the newborn that was going to die and he took her in. He believed in her and he brought back a place where he can cast a ray of hope again."
"...So, you're saying that..."
"Yes, I was the baby that was rescued by Master Xero and he spent his entire life training me. I was always loyal to him. I wanted to die with him, but for his sole purpose. He ordered me to live on and put an end to the New World's Order."
Avis' chest tighten when he saw her hand on her chest and he looked away.
"If I ever see him again...I would say...thank you, I have thought of that for so long..."
Enid made a sad smile as Avis sighed to himself as he sat next to her. Then he felt the urge to hug her and so, he placed his hands on her small back and he tightly wrapped over her body.
"What the-?"
"I'm sorry that this has happened to you, this is all I can for you. There, there Kaylenna." he patted her back.
"I...I... Enid stammered a little bit when she was being wrapped in this strange warmth that she'd never felt before. Usually her master would give her a pat on the head to praise her. However, this here was not her master, her heart began to beat rapidly. Her head was placed by the chest that had something hard on the left side. He was right, everything on his left side was replaced by synthesis pieces.
Enid slowly placed her gloved hands on his chest and pushed him down to make a green shield to block an attack.
"What?" Avis was lying on the ground when he lifted his head to see those strange machines that were shaped as spider legs. The tall machines were stomping on each steps, having Enid to hear so clearly that something was coming towards them and she set her shield down.
"What is that?" Avis yelled.
"Hahaha!" a cackling laugh was heard when the twilight shined down on a woman that was having 4 spider-like machine legs that is carrying her far from the ground.
"Who are you?" Enid said.
"Hehehe...little girl and Avis! I am sent here to assassinate the man who betrayed him and you in custody! By the way, people call me: The Black Widow!"
"Okay Black Widow, how about we dance first-" Enid was interrupted when a violet barrier suddenly surrounded Remila that was still sleeping, Enid tried to get out by punching through the shield but she could not break her way through.
"Remila!"
Enid shook Remila's little body, but she was not waking up.
"Kaylenna!"
"Oh, its this girl! Finally! Now I can finally sleep well at nights since she is just a whiny little brat that likes to whimper a lot!"
"She is just a little girl, how can you say such harsh things to her?" Enid said.
"Hm, she is not a little girl! She acts like one and all, but she is actually the most oldest successful synthesis that actually survive by having the fake core in her body! Scientists were studying her powers after her death, they were some failures and so we have to kill them and she was the only successful test subject!"
Enid looked at the little girl that was sleeping below her, she caress her cheeks, then she looked at her partner.
"Avis, you are on your own for now, I will not assist you since I am trapped in this barrier, do not hold back on such a woman like her. Now then, show me your strength as cyborg engineer!"
"..." Avis made a smirk to himself when he use his robotic left eye to change his left arm to an appearance of a demonic like arm.
"Huh? You're going to fight me with that? Hahaha!" the Black Widow laughed, "hmm... you sure look kind of a nice man and all, but you're going to have to dance for me because I can...mmm...eat your flesh!"
"Ugh!" his face was full with disgust when that woman said that to him.
"That face full of terror and the sweet flesh, oh it just thrills me with excitement! Now then, dance for me and I will of think about IT."
"IT? I'm actually done with that a long time ago!" Avis use his right arm to hold a cube to press a button which turns into a giant handmade gatling gun.
Avis took out a bunch of cubes to lay them out quickly to make turrets instantly to try and shoot down the woman with black spider machines legs, but she was too fast for his bullets to hit her. He blocked her sharp legs with his left arm and use his other arm to punch down the leg, but he missed, then finally, her legs suddenly stab his chest ...
"No!" Enid screamed from the violet barrier and Remila woke up, then she looked at the scene and her eyes widen to see her partner falling on ground with blood coming out of his chest.
"Avis." Remila whimpered and Enid had to cover her eyes from the horrifying scene.
"You were the worst dancer in the world! You did not even move an inch for me see that slender body of yours! Oh well, what a waste of a handsome man anyway, I was going to eat you now, but I have to complete my mission now or else the boss will get mad."
As the Black widow walk towards the violet barrier and she raise one of her spider legs machine that strike the barrier and it shattered like glass.
"Ahhhh!" Remila screamed in fear when Enid looked at the woman's crimson eyes that lust for blood.
"You son of a bitch!" Enid raised her double blade and tried to strike her, but two of her legs stabbed her lower thighs and the other legs hit Enid's hand and her double blade flew away from Enid's range.
"Ah!" Enid screamed in pain when two of the machine legs are going in deep on her thighs. She can not get back from the ground and her double blade was not near from her reach.
"Enid!" Remila tried to help by trying to destroy the legs, but the woman grabbed a knife from her black bodysuit and stabbed her foot.
"Ow!"
"You don't how long I've been wanting to do that you little brat! You will be next once I'm finished with her!"
"No!"
Enid could not get up from the spider legs that was still impaled on her legs. This was the first time that she can not do anything for her friends and she is now stuck. she must accept her fate by getting her purple knife out of her weapon system.
"Now you will die!"
"Master...I'm so sorry." she whispered to herself.
Enid did not close her eyes when she was about to stab herself, but she stopped herself when one of the black widow's leg was grab by a bloody demonic-like left arm ...
"Huh?" Enid breathed heavily to herself when she saw the horrifying sight.
"What the-?" the black widow looked at the man with a bloody mouth. He also had spikes from both cheeks, Enid remembered this description that her master said to her, and she gasped with her eyes widen.
A man used his hand to crush one of the black widow's machine legs and she fell on her back. "Impossible! I stabbed his lungs!"
"That's not Avis..." Remila whispered to herself and Avis made a big roar.
"What is this energy reading?!" Enid stood up and ignored the huge pain from her wounded legs. She looked at her infected partner that was brutally beating and ripping off the installed legs out of the screaming woman to death. It was too horrible from the sight that was actually happening in front of Enid. It must be a virus that must of transferred by itself on being in contact by her, so she took off her gloves to look at her hands that has red patches all over.
She has to kill her partner, so she painfully walks towards to her double bladed sword to walk slowly to the beast that was still beating the woman. However, she was stopped by a tug from her laced boots and she looked down to see Remila that was shaking her head.
"Let me do it." Remila said.
"What? But-"
"I can help him with my powers, it's not going to actually free him, but it'll keep him stable."
"...Ok, I trust you." Enid backed up and watched the little girl breathing in and out.
"Here we go," she whispered to herself and concentrated on her powers on the infected Avis that was charging at her.
"Watch-!"
It was too late, Avis already grabbed the little girl's neck and lifted her in the air with his bloody hand and then, she released her powers to grab his chest. The purple electricity surrounded the two people, then after a few minutes, they both fell on the ground, not moving an inch.
Enid stood there, dazed on what just happened and she collapsed on the ground with her hands trembling and sweated all over from her body. Her legs hurts, her chest hurts, and tears fell from her eyes. Everywhere was too painful to bear, she thought she had gotten used to the pain, but this pain was different. She collapsed on the ground in shock and stare at nothing.