Chapter 2:
A/N: Hello everyone! If someone from the aot story finds this, just know that I cannot stick to a story. So I'm doing another. Sorry! Sachika Tsutano out, TURBO: Supersonic! *blasts off*
"Uncle Ferris! WHY does SHE have turbo energy?!" max was yelling in the comms room. A/N: The room where they normally meet up to discuss stuff.
"Yeah!" steel pushed in. "And why do we have another working ultralink in N-TEK?"
"I DON'T KNOW! SHE DOESN'T KNOW, THE LINK DOESN'T KNOW!" Forge yelled back. "Back off so we can figure out how to fix this mess for ONE SECOND!"
Berto pulled the ultralink, teen and commander apart. "Guys, calm down!" he said. "We tried hard to find anything we could, but we came up with less than an atom! I even tried scanning Pyxel's memories, but it nearly fried her!" he gave the link a sympathetic look as Steel floated angrily out of the room and down the hall towards the cells for answers.
"Why won't we ever get answers?!" he said, frustrated as he punched a wall.
"Calm down Steel, we will just ask her, maybe she was lying to Uncle Ferris."
"But what if she's not?! I'll see you at the cell." Steel said; as he shorted out almost all the trashcans along his path.
"Rock, paper scissors shoot!" Pyxel chanted, a fist appearing on her screen as Sachika pulled out a peace sign.
"Damn it! Best out of 50?"
"Oh, it. Is. ON!"
A soft knock on the door announced that they had a visitor.
"Quick, get on, hurry!" Sachika hurried Pyxel onto her collarbone, and as she linked up a helmet came over her head. "Hey, that's actually pretty cool!"
The guard showed the person inside, and Sachika looked up from her chest to see Max Steel standing in the doorway.
"close the door please would you?" he said, and the man nodded.
"oh, hello. Wasn't expecting a visitor here. Least of all you."
Steel popped off of his chest and rounded on Sachika. "Cut to the chase! What do you know about TURBO energy and Ultralinks?!"
"as much as that commander of yours told you just now."
Max sighed. "see Steel? They don't know anything. It's likely they won't stick around anyway."
"yeah, right, why should they?"
Pyxel argued to steel. "Well, the only person I trust right now is Sachika, and she seems to trust you N-TEK agents, so I am obliged to trust you as well! THAT is why we are hanging around N'Baro Aktsteel X377!"
Pyxel paused for a second and gasped. "How did I know that?!"
"most likely your programming miss Py'iexelian729NDA."
She shuddered inwardly. "weird…"
"hey Pyxel, come on. You can come off now!" Sachika commanded politely.
"fine, fine."
Detaching, she flew up beside Sachika's head.
"ta dah?"
She was a green, white and black link with a spike halfway up her forearms and a second set of arms that looked like pincers attached to her slightly pointed chin. Her head and eye were similar to steel, but a green triangle at the bottom, a smoother 'eyebrow' above her eye and a spherical black patch on the top of her head that looked like it had been soldiered on rectangular and forcibly shaped afterwards. And as she talked, rectangles showed at the bottom of her monitor.
"huh, so that's what you look like." Steel mused.
"don't even try to flirt with me ultraloser!"
"whoo, look who's talking!" Steel teased, making Pyxel start towards him angrily.
Sachika grabbed Pyxel and pushed her helmet close up to her eye.
"don't even think about attacking them. If you do, I will get you."
"you scare me."
An hour passed and the Ultralinks were still arguing when Forge burst in the door.
"hey, Max, Steel; Dredd has found Sachika's TURBO signature! Get going, stat!" Forge yelled as alarms sounded and the ground shook.
"got it."
Sachika stood up to try and leave too, but forge held out his arm.
"you two stay here!"
"well sorry! I don't see why me and Sachika can't go and fight too!"
"you can't be trusted, end of argument!" He turned and ran out; slamming the door and locking it as he exited.
Sachika turned around and looked through the small window at the top with Pyxel to see a large army of headless visor wearing robots with a few of them having necks too.
"Why didn't we get told about this..?" Sachika said quietly.
Before Pyxel could answer her, the door was blown off of its hinges and sent flying into the wall behind them and then falling on the bed. The smoke cleared and an imposing, red and black angular armoured figure could be seen.
"because N-TEK lies you young TURBO charged girl."
'he looks just like that villain in the image Shrine showed me…' Sachika thought.
{Who's shrine? And who's he?!}
"yeah, who are you?!"
"just call me Miles, now, let's get you out of this cell then. IF you join me that is…"
"yeah, sure. Trust the guy attacking several men and women to get to us." Pyxel said sarcastically.
Miles turned his head to Pyxel and laughed darkly. "AND a working Ultralink? Even better!"
Pyxel blanched and hid behind Sachika. {okay, we are NOT going with him.}
"Yeah, we are not going with you Mr. dark and creepy!"
"hmpf." Miles walked forwards slowly and threateningly. "well, so be it… I WILL JUST DRAIN YOUR TURBO ENERGY TILL YOU ARE A DRIED HUSK!"
His chest and mouth pieces opened, and his hands came forward. They glowed an evil red, and he began to draw TURBO energy out of her in torrents.
"AHHHGGG! GAH!" It felt as if her consciousness was being depleted and the adrenaline as well.
"SACHIKA! HANG ON, IV'E GOT A WAY TO HELP!" Pyxel fired some electricity from the tips of her pincer-like small arms to stun Miles, and took the opening to slam down onto Sachika's chest.
The same burst of energy she had felt before when she was going critical and when she Ultralinked with Pyxel appeared, and as the light faded, she saw she was still in base mode. But on closer inspection she saw she had glowing treads and a more streamlined shape for a runner.
"what did you do?!"
"hold on; I'm taking the controls!"
A feeling like numbness spread through her arms and legs; she couldn't move them herself. Her body began to run at Pyxel's command, at a speed a little faster than when she was trying to shake off the spider, but constant.
{I'm giving you controls! Head for the red dot on your hud!}
"I hope you know what you're doing!"
"left!"
They sped through the complex, and dodged several projectiles of negative TURBO energy.
"where are we going?!"
{a place to hide, why?}
"We should try and find Max or Forge! They could help!"
"fine… but if we end up fighting, I'm taking the wheel."
Sachika's HUD display changed to show her a blue dot: which she followed. Her world became that of kinetic vision and Pyxel yelling. (Left, right, right, right left.)
"sharp left here!" Pyxel said hurridly.
Sachika's feet almost went from underneath her as she skidded: making a beeline for the large hangar door. As dredd began to catch up, he started to toss smaller balls of negative energy.
"the damn guy won't quit!" Sachika said dodging a ball so close she felt the gust of hot air as it passed. She ducked under another and quickly jumped in a crouching position through the still opening door and was met with a laser filled battlefield.
{FORGE! DEAD AHEAD!}
"I see him!" she dodged ducked and weaved through the battle, taking down the occasional attacking bot. "FORGE! HEY, OVER HERE!"
He turned to see Sachika running for her life while switching to base mode towards him; Miles in tow.
"Dredd?! Sachika, what did you DO?" he yelled, taking aim over her shoulder.
"he wanted to suck us dry of TURBO energy!" Pyxel answered.
As they reached him, Dredd began to make a large ball of energy, with two twisting bands of diamond shaped pieces.
"Pyxel! What do I do?!"
Pyxel seemed to be thinking, then Sachika felt her come off.
"here we go, it's a new mode!" Re-engaging, the pulse came over them and left a heavy-looking armoured version of their base mode. Sachika noticed how strong it was and bent down to grab a large boulder to throw at the large energy bomb. she threw it hard, and it hit home. A flying white and blue suit saw the resulting explosion, and flew down to take on Dredd.
"you two, go help max! we will discuss this later!" Sachika nodded and charged off. Payback time.