The squad waited patiently for the android to return, as he was always prompt and kept his words...mostly.
"Guys, I think something happened to Max." Jackie said finally. The squad turned to her; most of them with a raised brow.
"You think?" Slyder chuckled. "Last time I checked, I thought you care less about him."
"I did." Then her gaze returned to his metal claw. "Then sometimes I think he has some ounce of humanity."
"Of course." Matt said. "He is me after all."
"Okay okay, as Digit sat on the table, "So this Max guy looks like Matt, but he tends to act a little shifty eh?"
"You can say that. But how much of an asshole he seems he's extremely reliable..." Slyder admitted. "But him being gone for this long is something not normal for him. Should we go out and find him."
"No." Inez said. "It's too risking for the five of us to go."
"So you're basically saying we should split up again?" Jackie raised a brow. "After all the work we've been through to get back together? Think about it Inez."
Inez took a step back, "I just think it's too obvious. Don't you think?"
"She's right." Matt glanced at the avian-hybrid. "Digit it's really hectic out there. According to Slyder, Hacker got his drones everywhere. And we don't have the manpower to hold them off."
"The invasion is in less than 24 hours. Though, whatever Hacker is doing now he's making sure nothing goes wrong."Slyder stepped in.
"OKAY GUYS!" Digit raised his voice and unconsciously started to levitate. He glanced back at his wings and then among the teenagers. "So everythin' is a bit mixed up in some stuff. But dontcha think you're overestimatin' Hacker just a bit? After all the times we kicked his butt, what makes you think he's all big and bad with an army?"
The squad went silent. They didn't want to burst Digit's bubble of how he was underestimating him. After all, things changed in the past four years.
"We need to find my father soon. He's another key factor into saving our worlds. He built Max, and knows something probably deeper and darker than Hacker." Matt clenched his hands.
"But for now we need to wait." Inez said. The squad silently waited at the garage, waiting for Max's return.
/
Dr. Alvin has his weapons on standby as he awaited for the great invasion to begin. As soon as Hacker is drowned with pride and oblivious to any intruders, he will unleash his first wave. By the second wave, Hacker should be dead.
Dr. Alvin paced his lab that was filled with flasks, chemicals, weaponry, and armor as well as large flat screens.
He called his two useless assistants, "Buzz! Delete!"
Within seconds, the two upgraded robots were standing straight. They were built more firmly and at a standard height of five feet. Sleek silver armor trimmed with cyan as thin, orange and black visors were replaced with their eyes.
"Y-yes sir?" As Buzz stammered. Dr. Alvin scowled as his failure to upgrade the two's IQs any higher.
"I need you two to focus on what I'm about to say. I haven't been sharing any news lately because I know you two will get a bit too anxious and break my concentration. But there will be an invasion in two days. And I need you two in your top shape then. That means no goofing off!" Dr. Alvin warn. The two robots yelped at his unexpected shouting.
"And to be sure of that, keep in mind of what your old...boss did to you." Dr. Alvin got personal, his cobalt eyes filled with pure glee. "He abandoned you. After all you done for him and care, in the end he showed no sort of compassion. Not like me. I gave you a new body. I took you in. I could almost call you...my sons."
The two bots got excited.
"Really sir? Dr. Alvin sir you really mean that?" Delete clenched his hands.
"Of course.I take pride in my creations." Dr. Alvin growled. The two robots ran up to him hugging his torso. Dr. Alvin, however, was merely cackling with evil; how easy he manipulated these two rustbuckets.
All too easy. Merely pawns in my plans.
/
Jenna's broomstick transported Max to her steel table where she cleared her alchemy works aside. Max groaned and winced as he slept. Jenna was careful not to touch him.
"Minions!" Wicked called her servants to help her. One was a wolf cub with a red ribbon tied around its neck. Another was a taller, slightly flawed-like mannequin with wide eyes. He was dressed in all brown with a fedora. And the last one was a slightly younger Frankenstein with grey and blue skin and a large bolt protruding through the temples of his head.
"William! Get my spellbound." She told the stitched mannequin. He bowed as he walked briskly out the room. She turned to the young Frankenstein.
"Arthur, prepare for my emergency operation." Jenna told him. He grunted as he went out the room through the other side. Meanwhile, Jenna the Wicked paced as she wonder how long it would be until she could help recover Max.
"I told you so. You shouldn't be playing with fire Max." She scowled the hibernating android as his toned chest heaved. Then she had a feeling that made the hairs stand on her neck. She hovered her hand over Max's body, scanning it with her magic. Then she saw something she didn't catch before: a package Max has in him.
"Where is it? Where is the open switch?" Jenna searched until she pressed a pressure point on his neck. His chest split in two and revealed the folder and package he obtained from the control center. Along with short circuits and a very faint core. Jenna glanced at the folders and the package briefly; curiosity almost having the best of her. She pressed the button again at his pressure point to close his chest.
"I'll look at those later." As she turned where her two minions returned with what she needed. Her pet wolf panted, waiting for her to give him an errand.
"Henry, can you fetch me that big 'ole battery I have in the basement? And William could you fetch those jacks I used to jump start that old generator? Arthur you'll stay and help me with the operation." Jenna cast a spell so that her outfit transformed into a surgeon's.
"Hang in there..." She said lowly.