"Did we really have to go through all that, Chase?" asked Emmet, rubbing the back of his neck; where, if someone were to look closely, would see a tattoo that looked like the letters 'MB'. Wyldstyle had the same thing, though she had the advantage of having her hair to cover it up.
"And what's with these?" asked Wyldstyle, gesturing to the watch-sized devices on their wrists; they were pure black, with a soft red light going on and off every few seconds.
"I'm sorry about this, but this is just standard treatment; we're just making sure that we keep track of every Master Builder. And I can't make any exceptions," said Chase, trying to smooth things over with his friends as he met them outside of the room where they had been registered.
Though while this was going on, Laval had grown bored with the time it took for Emmet and Wyldstyle to get fully registered, and since he had saw that the security guards were distracted by something that was out of his line of sight, decided to look around.
So, he managed to slip away and saw Rose walk into one of the rooms that was behind a re-enforced door. Glancing around, he saw that no-one was watching him and quickly slipped inside since the door was still open.
"What on Chima?!"
Chase, Emmet and Wyldstyle, as well as most of the security guards present, turned to look at the door where the sudden, angered shout was coming from behind the re-enforced door. Instantly, the security guards moved in and a few were kicked out through the door, back into the others.
Chase, Emmet and Wyldstyle quickly walked over to the door just as the last security guard was kicked against the opposite wall.
And when they walked inside, the Master Builders had the shock of their lives. While Chase kept the same expression that he had previously.
Inside the room, aside from some of the guards that hadn't been knocked out trying to keep Laval under control, the room was filled with scientists working on both computers and lab tables. On one such table, there was a metal object; though what was most shocking was that it looked like the shape of Uni-Kitty.
However, this one lacked the colourful nature of Uni-Kitty; instead, this one's body was made up of nearly entirely gunmetal grey. The only areas that weren't gunmetal grey were, instead, filled in with a mix of black and dark red accents. The eyes were also replaced with a black visor, which was currently missing anything that looked like actual eyes; though that may have been because the readings connected to the robot, which was displayed on a couple of the nearby computers, wasn't currently on.
"What's all this?" asked Emmet, shock in his voice as he turned to look at Chase; the Agent side glanced at Emmet, before he saw that Laval and Wyldstyle were both glaring at him.
All of them were expecting an answer.
"This is…an Experiment. We've been experiment with residue energy that was left over after the Second Battle of Bricksburg; the energy that you, Emmet, put in all of us when you discovered that we needed to work together in order to defeat…him," said Chase, before he gestured to the side of his head.
Even though it was faint, Emmet could see, what appeared to be, a faded blue area of Chase's hair; Emmet glanced over his shoulder, looking at Wyldstyle's faint blue highlights on her hair and clothes in place of her previous hot pink highlights.
His gaze shifted to Laval, whose mane was faded in some areas which Emmet knew what where this energy had come from. He glanced to catch the side of his hair, which looked a bit faded.
He knew that what these all meant.
"But…what does this have to do with…that?" asked Emmet, pointing to the robot lying on the table.
Chase turned his gaze to the robot, and slowly limped towards the table; Emmet, Wyldstyle and Laval slowly following after him.
Chase set his hand on the table near the head of the robot, lightly touching the metal exoskeleton of the robot; the touch was almost…tender, and caring.
"We're trying to find a way to harness this energy; see if it can be used by more than one being at a time, beside those that have been already infused with this gift," said Chase, looking down at the robot as he spoke to Emmet.
"But…why do something that looks like Uni-Kitty?" asked Wyldstyle, her eyes burning holes into the back of Chase's head.
"Because we wanted to see if it affected anyone more so if they weren't the normal biological design," said Chase without a shift of tone as he spoke to Wyldstyle, still facing the dubbed 'Robo-Kitty'.
Before any more questions could be asked, and it looked as though Laval was about to ask another question, Rose walked up to Chase's side and said, "Sir, another couple of MB's have arrived. I was wondering if you wanted to assess them before they were registered."
"Yeah, send them in," said Chase, glancing up at Rose when she asked him this and added with a simple nod.
Rose nodded, before she approached the door and made a gesture outside the door. Moments later, a couple of armed security guards, complete with bulletproof vests and black caps, escorted a couple of figures. The best word to describe them would be…unique.
One of them was wearing a blue hoodie, with the hood down. Her trousers with a darker shade of blue, while her hoodie was shade of cyan. Her hair was the same colour as her hoodie, though this had green streaks going through it. She also had light blue eyes passing through her hair, which partly covered her eyes.
The other figure also had blue hair, though this one was short and didn't get in his eyes. He had a black shirt on with a red vest over that, complete with black sleeves, and had light grey trousers. He also had a dark tan bag at his side, hanging from his shoulder.
They both looked as though they were fed up with the security guards escorted them, though they knew better than to do anything other than they were told.
"And who might you two be?" asked Chase, turning around slowly to look at the new Master Builders, the hardened edge of an expression continuing to stay on his face as he spoke.
The two figures glanced at one another, the girl of them two folding her arms slowly and raising an eyebrow, expecting the guy to be the first to talk.
The guy rolled his eyes and, turned to look at Chase, said, "I'm Zeon; Master Builder."
"Yeah, I gathered that," said Chase, his tone continuing to stay the same throughout. "And what about you?" asked Chase, turning to look at the girl.
The girl puffed a bit of her hair out of her face, her arms still folded as she said, "Perri."
Chase glared hard at her for the tone she used, before he said, "I think you need to get registered; we'll have some guards escort you."
The armed guards behind them made a gesture for the two of them to get a move on; with a huff coming from an annoyed Perri, and another eye roll from Zeon at Perri's actions, the two Master Builders reluctantly headed with the guards to get registered, just as Emmet and Wyldstyle had been in previously.
Chase then turned back to look at Robo-Kitty as the scientists continued working on her. But before his thoughts could linger on the robot, a security guard approached Chase and muttered something to him, low enough so that Emmet, Laval and Wyldstyle couldn't hear him.
Before the guard walked away, he handed something to Chase that looked like a small phone. Chase lifted it to the side of his head and he muttered, "Talk to me."
He walked off, so the others couldn't hear him.
"Is anyone else getting a Frankenstein feel to this?" asked Wyldstyle under her breath, gesturing to the deactivated Robo-Kitty.
"Who's Frankenstein? Was he a monster?" asked Laval.
"No, he's the one that created the monster."
"But I thought Frankenstein was the monster? I mean, that's where his name's most famous from," said Emmet, turning to Wyldstyle.
"No, I'm pretty sure it's from the creator. Yeah, yeah, it's not the monster; defiantly the creator," said Wyldstyle, with a firm nod of the head.
While the three of them argued among themselves, Chase approached them again; the phone closed in his hand again as he spoke.
"We've got a problem," he said, gesturing for the three of them to follow him. They looked at one another before Emmet asked a question.
"What is it?"
Chase glanced over his shoulder, and simply said, "The Chaos Crystal of the Trinity has been found. We need to get it before we lose it. And, the more urgent matter, is that our sensors and cameras have picked up who has the Trinity."
"How is that possible? I thought you said we haven't had contact with the Power Miner Realm for years!" said Wyldstyle.
"Just because I said we haven't had contact with the world, doesn't mean we haven't," said Chase simply, gesturing to one of the screens as he connected his phone to the screen.
"Everyone has their secrets; that's something you all need to realise," said Chase, before he pressed 'PLAY' on the phone when prompted.
The screen came to life with what appeared to be the recording of a video camera, looking as though it was in a corner, judging from the angle. A figure slipped across the screen, barely giving it a chance to see.
But it was long enough for them watching the screen to know who it was.
"That's impossible," said Laval softly.
"He's dead…we…we saw it," said Wyldstyle, before she turned her gaze to Emmet; to see how he was coping.
Emmet was just looking at the screen as the clip repeated itself constantly, before it stopped on the exact screenshot that gave the most detail.
It stopped on the screenshot where the figure looked up at the camera as it passed it; a black hood over its head, but the dark red slit where the eyes should be could be seen in the recording. Despite it being a recording, everyone could feel the terror and chaos behind that dark red glow.
And in its hands, there was a dulled grey crystal.
"H…He's back…Anti-Builder…" whispered Emmet, his tone unable to be read.
I'll give a shout out to FourthMind for Zeon, and Butter4Evaz for Perri; as well as Littleaquagirl for Rose.
FourthMind - Well, that's probably going to happen.
wafflestheninja - Well, I might do it; not sure yet.
Littleaquagirl - You're welcome :)
Also, I've changed the picture of the fan fic; thoughts on the change? I thought it needed to have a more LEGO-theme to it.
Nf991, signing out.