Okay, my friends didn't like the names I gave them so from now on they are Riley, Annabel, Dionne, Damon, William, and Tiara.
Notice: I might not do it in this chapter, nut I will certainty do it in others. I am going to be using a lot of Doctor Who references.
Apologies to anyone with Lolita complexes.
Also, I'm sorry but this is just the second third of the second chapter, I will try to update every weekend if possible.
'Danny thinking'
'You'll see'
Titanium and Vanadium combine
or
Adorable tiny robot love!
(Go to your room!)
(Danny POV)
'Damn Titans.' Thought Danny as he opened up his shop.
'Pathetic little children that enjoy pretending to be heros, they don't even know the meaning of heroism.' He thought as he lifted the fifteen-pound divider to get behind the front counter.
'And Robin, thinking he could detain a law abiding citizen for an interrogation even after the police questioned me just because I was better than him. Pathetic.' Upon hearing these thoughts Archimedes floats over to Danny and lands on his shoulder, nuzzling Danny's head with his own.
'Calm down my friend, they are but mortals.' Thinks Archimedes to me.
'I know, I know. Sometimes I don't even know why I help these apes. They always seem to do more bad than good.'
'But then you meet an innocent lytling or a kind old man and forget about all of the disgusting examples of human ignorance.'
'True.'
I continue to get ready for the day and getting everything ready for Tia and Dylan to work alone, seeing as I will be in the Zone for the day catching up with old friends and checking various leads on the whereabouts of the Revolvers.
'Lets see, I'll be visiting Frostbite, I hear he's been looking for a good sparring session. And I'll visit Arcem Fantasma* to check on the state of the Zone. And Ghostwriter to get her book copied.'
He grabs the register drawer and goes down to the Lab in his home to place the drawer into the safe and grab the empty one to replace the old one. As he is walking out he stops at the door and looks back at his lab. The nine hundred square foot room had half-inch thick titanium walls, titanium tables and stools, large banks of computers, A ceiling with many starship models he made from scratch hanging from it, a large table in the middle of it with several half finishes projects laying on it in various states of assembly. And on one of the walls were many types and sizes of guns, bazookas, crossbows, swords, bo staves, the parts for a roman ballista, and extras of all the assassination equipment he needs. On the opposite wall is a collection of small but fast vehicles. A collapsible motorbike, a one-inch thick motorcycle, mini hovercraft, and his own take on the Uno electric unicycle, as well as the parts needed to fix the vehicles. On the wall next to the door is a collection of futuristic tools and spare parts from previous experiments. And on the final wall is the safe and the Ghost Portal, a dodecagon of titanium with closed anti-ghost doors with a small thumbprint scanner to the right of the doors.
He smiles fondly at all of the breakthroughs and discoveries he made in the room. He turns back and closes the door as the lights shut themselves off automatically.
Once he replaces the drawer in the register and leaves a note for Damon and Tiara about what to do and who to call.
Damon and Tiara arrive once he finishes with the note he goes out the door and down to the park. Once he is deep in the trees he teleported into his lab. Once he is there he opens the Portal and steps in.
(Go to your room!)
"Can someone get me a drink?" Called Danny now in his human form.
"Yes Great One. Of course." Said a young, yeti like creature, a Frozenite.
"Thank you, Frostling" Said Danny to the young Frozenite as it returned with a glass of cocoa.
"Oh how long it has been Great One, but longer for you, I assume." Says Frostbite, lying on his back across from Danny.
"Yes it has, fifteen years for me, what about you?"
"Three months. How can you stand it, Great One? Moving ahead so much faster than all of your friends."
"It takes some work to adapt to it, you never really get used to it."
"Then why do you do it, all of those missions for Lord Clockwork? Going in the past-"
"And orthogonal dimensions and different universes-"
"And orthogonal dimensions and different universes! Why do you go there and change the past, present, and future?"
"Because it keeps me busy, I also have had some wonderful vacations. And it isn't always killing and disasters. I'm always allowed to save some people and he keeps it balanced with saving lives and averting disasters."
"But-"
"It is fine Frostbite. Now if you'll excuse me I must away to Arcem Fantasma."
"Goodbye, Great One. You should come back sooner next time."
"I will, Frosty."
(I mean it.)
"And how fare the Elemental Lands?" Queries Danny.
"The Lands of the Far Frozen, Whispering Gales, Cyclonic Lands, Drakon Isles, and Hydrian Seas are all doing fine. Peace negotiations between the Asphodelian Plains and the Shadow Lands are running smoothly. The trade agreements between the Silicate Sands and Ferrous Palisades are wonderful as ever. And there has been small skirmishes between the Illuminated Pyres and Ethereal Forests with the Forests backed by Terran Marl." Says Skulker, standing before Danny in the Throne Room.**
"Good, perfect, of course, and that leaves them. What to do with those three. Have some Mistrals from the Whispering Gales and Wavelings from the Hydrian Seas from a barrier between the two for now, If the fighting does not calm down soon, call me again and I shall have it settled."
"And your Highness?"
"What? And don't call me that"
"I was wondering when we could get together for another night out with Johnny and Nikolai?"
"Johnny." Danny spat out.
"What is wrong, Whelp?"
"I fought a weakling named Johnny Rancid yesterday. He was threatening one of my new employees."
"Employees?"
"Yes. I got some new employees at the shop, Archimedes seems to approve of them."
"Oh, good for you. Maybe you can visit more often."
"I suppose I can."
"If there is nothing else, may I return to Ember? The baby has been getting restless."
"Of course. Here, a gift for the baby." Danny hands Skulker an ice crystal.
"Thank you my lord. I shall place it on the mobile Youngblood made."
"Go on, back to your loving family" Says Danny, a melancholy tone in his voice.
(I'm very, very angry with you.)
"It is complete Danny" Says Ghostwriter
"Thank you, my friend. What would I ever do without you?"
"Copy books on your own. Now about my payment."
"Yes, Ghostwriter?"
"I have begun to expand into the musical media and was wondering if you could assist me in my collections?"
"Of course. With all the help you've given me I will definitely help you with expanding your collections. What would you like?"
"I was hoping you could assist me with getting first editions of some vinyl records of Elvis, Rolling Stones, and the Beatles?"
"Of course. I will ask Old' Clocky to send me back so I can get them as soon as possible."
"Thank you my friend."
"You're welcome."
(I'm very, very cross!)
Danny arrives back home in his lab he teleports into an alley a few blocks from his store and walks back. Halfway there he sees the Titans fighting a . . . blue skinned magician?
'You see something new everyday.'
The magician runs towards the dump with a haggard group of titans following him.
'Hmm. This might be interesting to watch, judging by the state of those pathetic titans.'
Danny sprints to Turn The Page to drop off the book with Damon who was running the front counter with Tiara wandering the store.
Once the book was dropped off he ran down to the nearest alleyway and transformed into his ghost form.
(GO! TO! YOUR! ROOM!)
'Oh this is just too funny!' Thought Danny as he watched the titans fight off the blue magician, who he now knew as Mumbo Jumbo.
'What's up with Cyborg and that battery pack? After watching the titans fight for a few more minutes he sees Cyborg's battery cut off as he falls down a hole in the bottom of a garbage truck driven off by Mumbo.
'The Titans didn't even notice him screaming as his charge cut off. Better go see if the idiot needs any help again. Stupid little heroes'
Danny jumps down the hole to find Cyborg gone and himself surrounded by a massive group of robots both big and small.
'Reminds me of that time I visited those Chromaton and Tecmapath lytlings at the cross orphanage between the mountains of the Ferrous Palisades and the desert of the Silicate Sands.'
'Please come with us, mortal.' Chirped one of the smaller robots in a language of beeps, clicks, and servo groans.
'As if he can understand us.'Said a larger robot with an insulting tone to its chirps
'As you wish. Might I ask who you are taking me to?' I responded to the first robot, making the clicking and beeping sounds with my mouth and using a small servo given to me by the leaders of the Chromatons and Tecmapaths so I could more easily speak to them. The robots skittered back in surprise at hearing my correctly speak their language.
'You . . . You can understand us?' The first two robots asked as the rest chattered back and forth saying that I could understand them. I smiled at the amazed tone in their chirps and the higher sounds from their servo groans.
'Yes I can. Now, as you were directing?' I said. The robots directed me down a large tunnel with wires popping in and out of the walls at random intervals. The robots asked me how I knew their language. I figured that they wouldn't be able to tell anyone else so I told them almost everything. It felt amazing to get tell someone else about my life and the robots were ecstatic to hear that there were others of their kind, or at least like them.
After a long and slow walk we arrived in a room with Cyborg strapped down to a table asleep. He suddenly wakes up screaming and a humanoid form walked over to him.
"You were only dreaming, that will be changed once I remove your biological parts." I step foreword but before I can do anything a glowing white light comes from the inner left breast pocket. It's a call from Clockwork.
I pull it out and walk around a corner so the light doesn't catch anyone's attention. I click it open and a brilliantly pulsating white light glows from the clock face. My eyes glow softly pulsating in tandem with the fob watch.
'Do nothing, my son. Allow time to pass as it shall. You're involvement will not be needed until the change is complete.'
'But he-'
'All shall be fine my boy, all shall be fine.'
'As you wish, father.'
I snap the hunter-case fob watch closed and stuffed it back into the specialized pocket. As I walk out from the alcove I found I saw the humanoid look directly at me.
'I know you're there. I also know all about you.'
'Then know that if you tell anyone I will come down upon you with the force of a collapsing class O star.' I growl out with long and deep servo groans, sharp clicks, and pings as ominous as a ping on a submarine.
'I understand. I will keep your secret for you, my children have petitioned me to do as such. We all also petition you to allow us a short visit with these Chromatons and Tecmapaths.'
'I will allow a short visit with my people.'
'Thank you. There are two more things though.'
'And that is?'
'May I call you my friend?'
'Only if I you will allow have the same honor. And what I your other request?'
'Will you also assist me, my children, and my new friend Cyborg to escape my self imposed prison?'
'Anything for a friend.'
'My name is Fixit'
I teleport off to the entrance and form a set of stairs of scrap metal with ice holding it together. I back into a dark corner as the robots, Cyborg, and my new friend Fixit come into the room and use the stairs.
I teleport to another dark alcove above ground and take pride as my new friends come into the light for the first time in decades. As the robots walk away I see a lemur-sized robot, that looked to be a heterogeneous crossbreed of a Chromaton and a Tecmapath, being bullied by a few homogeneous Tecmapath like robots, a Chromopath. I step in to intervene.
'What are you doing over here?'
'N-n-nothing. Nothing is happening Benevolent One.'
'Little one, what is your name.'
'T1T ^U^^'
'Well, T1T ^U^^, come with me.'
'Why would you want me, I'm nothing. I'm built from the spare parts of beings made from spare parts.'
'Because you remind me of a Chromopath, A hybrid of the Chromoton and Techmapath races, a being from where the outer scrublands of the desert of the Silicate Sands fill the valleys of the foothills of the mountains of the Ferrous Palisades. They are beings comprised of the advanced intelligence of the Tecmapaths and the extreme strength and speed of the Chromatons. They are a perfect example of the Greek ideal of a sound mind and a sound body. They are the strongest of the strong and the wisest of the wise.'
'Wow. Do you really think that I'm like that.'
'Maybe not yet youngling, But you definitely have all the potential.'
'Thank you sir, I would definitely like to come with you'
'Hop in' I pull open a small pocket in my coat. T1T ^U^^ looks at it questioningly.
'Its one of the bigger-on-the-inside pockets.'
'Oh. Okay then.
(I'm really glad that worked.)
After little TIT ^1U^^ hopped into my pocket I teleported back to my lab to drop him off.
'Stay right here ill be back in a few minutes.'
'Okay.'
I change back to my human form and show him what I look like so he knows what to expect when I come back down. After he becomes accustomed to the difference I teleport back to the alley so as not to cause too much suspicion. I walk out of the alley and down to my shop. I walk in and greet Damon at the counter; he's busy helping a customer so I just walk past him without a greeting and get the same back. Once I am back downstairs I pick up TIT ^1U^^ and carry him on my hip into the lab and clear a space on the center table.
'Well TIT ^1U^^, can I call you Titan, how would you like me to fix you up.'
'Yes please sir. My joints are difficult to use.'
'Okay, this might not be fun at first. But I assure you that your repairs will be worth it. I'm going to upload you onto one of my old AI prototypes, Jumbo XVI. You alright with that?'
'Yes, it is fine with me. Thank you so much.'
'Here we go.'
I plug a cord from Jumbo into Titan and wait. After a few minutes I see Jumbo start moving. Its four spider-like legs twitch back and forth. Its upper body rotates side to side while its head starts looking around. Its two graspers start flexing about as well. I see him attempting to stand up so I pick him up by his waist and set him down so he was standing. I hear him attempting to speak but he can only groan his servos. I hand him a special clicker I made for communicating back when I was still working on making an AI for Vlad's home security system. After a few more minutes he suddenly stands up and starts walking about.
'It would seem that you found the navigation programming.'
'Yes. It was very kind of you to leave this information here for me.'
'Yeah. Jumbos X through XVI are the usual midways when I work on an AI's body.'
'I can see why, it is very enjoyable to use this body. Is there any way I can assist you in rebuilding my original body?'
'Sure. BUTLER and MAID usually would like to help me when u was working.'
'Who are they?'
'BUTLER was Vlad's security system and MAID was, well, the maid. Butler always loved Jumbo XII and MAID preferred the daintier Jumbo XV. Their over on the shelf behind you.'
Titan looks over at the shelf and I see the bimetal strips for emotions curl indicating infatuation when he sees the body for Jumbo XV. She has a body like a knee length dress with a small but visible bosom. Coming from beneath were long thin legs that divided to a pair of feet that divided into a long and sharp prongs, two medium and one long, the later of which pointing foreword. She has dainty arms with small but more advanced finger and thumb graspers, instead of the basic two-part claw common on most of the Jumbo generations. Her head is large with large eyes a small nose and mouth. She comes with a pair of wing like appendages on her back to act as solar panels as well as completing the pixie-like image intended for Jumbo XV.
'Like what you see?'
'Erm . . . Y-yes.'
'Would you like a playmate?'
'Yes please, she is very pretty.'
'Here, let me download NURSE. The two of you will get along perfectly.'
I download NURSE from my computer into Jumbo XV and set her down with Titan. The two instantly get along. They start playing around the lab. I open up a holographic screen to search through my lists of designs. After scrolling through them for a minute I find my collection of Jumbo XVI design alterations. I spread the designs around me in two ten-foot long screens separated by four feet with a slight curve with the center being eight feet apart. I spread the designs across the screen in front of me. Once the screen Is filled with the designs necessary I begin to duplicate the pieces to use on TIT ^1U^^'s new body, sliding them to the side with a quick swipe which launches them across to the screen behind me. Just before I turn around to the other screen a flying Titan in a Jumbo XVI suit hits me in the face.
'Whoa there Titan, you don't want to mess with me while I'm working on your new body. Why don't you ask NURSE to show you around the home.'
'Come with me Titan' says NURSE, her voice sounding like twinkling bells, panpipes, and a soft whistle. It set me back a month just to get that right, although the girls at the palisades and sands seemed very happy when I sent them the vocal update, and the men as well.
I begin to work on Titans new body. CARBON, the system AI, assisted by slightly changing the designs to fit the rest. After fifteen minutes of assembling I have the finished product. A robot about two and a half feet tall with a body similar to Jumbo XVI but much more advanced than the old model with a series of curves as hip, waist, neck, shoulder, and wrist joints with two spider-like feet with a large and a small point coming off of the ankles forming a two part and claw like foot. The hands were still claw like graspers but stronger and more prehensile and an adaptation allowing the larger upper claw half to separate into a full hand of four fingers with the smaller joint curling into a prehensile thumb. The head was large and shaped very much like a praying mantis sans the jaw with large. There were a series of colored circles within circles with straight lines bisecting them at any angle. His chest piece had a silver plaque stating TIT ^1U^^ in golden characters. He had a dark grey and gunmetal blue color scheme and blue eyes. Although he looks much like Jumbo XVI his body is now much more streamlined and lithe.
I stand up Titan on the middle table and walked out of the door to go and get Titan and NURSE and what do I find but the both of them sitting on my couch holding hands, and sharing on a special subwave network I developed for them to be able to communicate thoughts and emotions on a more private and personal level. I could tell by the way the bimetal strips on the both of them were curling they were both deeply infatuated.
'It would be a shame to have to separate them. Perhaps I should go back and . . . yes, that is perfect.'
I leave the adorable little robot couple to their thoughts and quietly head back to my workshop and get to work.
Am hour later I step back and wipe the sweat from my brow and admire my handiwork. I redesigned Jumbo XV for NURSE so I wouldn't have to break up the little couple. I didn't do much to the outside of her body except for some aesthetic changes in color and adding a system that releases excess energy as a soft glow emanating from her entire body as well as making her wing solar panels longer and fully collapsible as well as making them usable for actual flight by adding a series of magnetic repulsors at the tips of the wings, base of her feet, and her palms. Her color scheme was now pale 'skin' with black hair, a pale pink 'dress' with a green vine design curling about the hem and climbing up the sides to curl and climb about her bust with small pale flowers in pale shades of purple, red, blue, orange, pink, and yellow. Her feet and hands now had softer tips to them instead of the sharp points on the original model. I stand NURSE's new body next to Titans and covered both with the clothes I use when I want to feel dramatic.
I open the door and call out to the two AI's on my couch.
'TIT ^1U^^, NURSE, come in here you lovebirds.'
'Coming!' Two flustered voices call, not even denying that they were lovebirds.
The two robots rush in and stop at my feet waiting for me to pick them up and put them on the table.
'Why are their two objects?'
'You will see, my little friends.'
I uncover the first object revealing Titans new body. The both of them gasp and I see NURSE grab Titans hand. I smile as I plug Jumbo into Titan. A minute later I see Jumbo lock up and Titan start twitching. After a minute he started walking around and getting accustomed to his new, superior body. I hold out a mirror and watch as Titan admires his new body and paintjob while NURSE walks around admiring him as well. She looked a bit sad but I knew that would change soon.
'Goodbye T1T ^1U^^. I hope we cam see each other again.'
'No worries little one. If you would please look this way.'
I lift the other cloth with a flourish and reveal her new body to the both of them. NURSE looks up at me and hugs my arm in joy.
'May I have the honor?'
'Please!'
I plug NURSE into her new body and watch as Titan waits right by her side. After a minute her hands start twitching, along with her head. It takes her a lot less time to take control seeing as she was used to the general operating system of this adapted Jumbo XV. She begins to look at herself from her new perspective. She admires the way her hand looks and flexes. She looks down toward her bust and notices the vines curling to form what appears to be abstract lettering writing out what appears to be the word Vanadium, the element to the right of Titanium on the periodic table and named for the Scandinavian goddess of love and beauty, Vanadis.
'Vanadium, a fitting name for one such as yourself.' Says Titan, his decorations blushing a soft pink.
'Please, Titan, call me Vanadis.'
'Okay, Vanadis'
'Go on lovebirds, scat.' I shoo them out as I leave as well, CARBON shutting the lights off as we leave.
All of a sudden I hear a knocking at the front door.
(Those would have been terrible last words.)
I open the door to see Damon, Tiara, and an unknown woman in glasses who seems to be forty years of age. I walk out and close the door behind me. The second the door closes Archimedes flaps his way over to land on my shoulder.
"Excuse me, you wouldn't happen to be Daniel Masters?" Asks the woman.
"Yes, why do you ask?"
"Well, I am the head of science at Jump High. We had a professor set up to do a presentation on robotics and Artificial Intelligence but then Professor Sato had to leave for England because of a family matter. She said that you could fill in for her."
"When is this demonstration?"
"Three days. I'm sorry that it is all so sudden. But we are willing to pay you-"
"No need to pay me Miss . . ."
"MacMichaels. Joann MacMichaels."
"Well Joann I run a very profitable business and I would be doing my old professor a favor, not to mention I love to help inspire the youth of today."
"Thank you so much sir."
"Call me Danny. Would you like to meet two of my friends? I just finished their new bodies."
"Umm, sure?"
I pull out the special servomotor once again and open the door and call down to Titan and Vanadis.
'Titan! Vanadis! Stop making out and come up here and meet some people!'
'Coming Danny! Respond Vanadis and Titan simultaneously.
I turn back to the normal humans to see them staring at me questioningly.
"What was that?" All three ask at the same time.
"I'm still teaching Titan English so we still have to communicate this way."
"You invented a language for them?" Joann asks.
"No, they invented it themselves"
As I was about to respond I hear the door behind me creak open and I turn to watch as Titan ad Vanadis walk out shyly. Vanadis looks up and waves shyly at the small gathering of people.
"Oh my gosh she is so cute!" Cries Tiara as she picks Vanadis up and hugs her.
"Oh. My. Gosh. How did you do this? I didn't think that this was possible. What else do you have, if you don't mind me asking?" Questions Joann
"Well there's Jumbo I through XVI. Butler and Maid, the AI's I made for my father to help run and protect his home, as well as CARBON the security AI for the store. Titan is in a redesigned Jumbo XVI and Vanadis is in a redesigned Jumbo XV.
The small crowd is silent and Tiara starts carrying Vanadis in her left arm while petting her head with her right hand. While Joann is trying to form a coherent sentence I see Titan trying to climb um on the counter but he is failing miserably.
"Oi, CARBON, could you give Titan a lift up?"
"Of course sir." CARBON says in a British accent, which emanates from the entire store.
All of a sudden the floor beneath Titan lifts up to be level with the counter and Titan walks off onto the counter.
'What is happening Danny who are these people?' Asks Titan
'The young ones are two of my six employees and the older one if a teacher. I owe an old friend a favor and now I plan to teach a bit about AI's like you and Vanadis, with your permission of course.'
'It is fine with me.'
'And with me as well.' Says Vanadis, who seems to be very comfortable in the arms of Tiara.
The rest of the audience is looking confused by now at the previously unknown language.
"CARBON, could you translate for everyone else please?"
"Yes sir."
"Thank you."
"So how long will this demonstration be? And for Who?" I ask Joann
"Just a few hours. And its for all the advanced robotics students as well as a few major companies."
"And those would be?"
"Anybots, Boston Dynamics, Festo, White Box Robotics, Perrone Robotics, Wayne Enterprises, DALV Corporations, and Cyberdyne Incorporated***."
"Alright, I'll do it."
"Thank you, Daniel"
"Call me Danny"
And Scene!
fades to black
'Ello all. *fancy bow*
So how did you like this installment of To Raze and Raise? Aren't T1T ^1U^^ and Vanadium adorable? I had no idea the names would work out, i just chose a cool metal name. And how do you like the 'Elemental Lands' I made up? I love them.
*Arcem Fantasma: Citadel of the Phantom in Latin
** He made friends with most of his old enimies
***This is a real robotics company in Japan
Review Responses:
lunalovegood0628: Thanks so much, and I am feeling a bit better. Depends on the Doctor and occasionally the Companion. For the Ninth it was the two-part episode of The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances. For the Tenth and Rose it was The Christmas Invasion, with Martha it was The Shakespeare Code, Donna's was Silence In The Library and Forest Of The Dead. For the Eleventh it's a tie between A Good Man Goes To War and Dinosaurs In Space. By the way, what do we do about the things that aren't kestrels?
zoeshade: It might be a while, unless I get a good idea all of a sudden.
Jeanette9a: Thanks for worrying; I'm feeling a bit better like I told luna.
Lk6lu: It has been noted. You're in the lead.
Thank you to all others Who reviewed. *throws tiny boxes that poof into various treets and sweets*
