Hi, just had a long night of meeting my students' parents. But I wanted to update this. Hope the pacing is right. I've been told that I tend to rush.
I do not own Generator Rex.
Aimi was getting drawn into the spinning blades fast. The walls did not provide enough friction for her to get a good enough grip to stop her movement. She stabbed her katana into the wall but just as she feared the thin vent walls were not strong enough to hold her steady. The sword wobbled and the vent wall started to give way. Aimi could see her sword starting to tear the wall like paper. She glanced back at the fan apprehensively. Then her sword gave way. She gave a cry as she flew towards the deadly fan. Suddenly, something passed her. She heard metal crunching and she immediately stopped moving. Aimi pushed herself up and looked. Six stood with his legs split, braced against the sides of a perpendicular vent. He had one of his blades in his hand. She looked behind her. His other blade was lodged in the fan. Aimi gulped when she realized how close she was to being diced.
"Thanks." She said to Six.
"Don't mention it." Six said as he crawled into the vent. "Shall we see what's on the other side?"
"Let's shall." Aimi grinned as she slid to the end. She looked at the mangled fan and yanked out Six's magna blade. "I gotta get me one of these, babies."
"They're one of a kind." Six answered as he accepted the blade from his sister.
"I figured." She sighed as she kicked the fan out of its base. The siblings peered out the newly formed hole.
Aimi gasped. Six merely raised an eyebrow. The room was cavernous but what really caught their attention were the blue lines that circumvented the whole room. Every few seconds a flash of light would travel through the lines. They traveled into a large monitor hanging from a thick metal arm in the ceiling. The monitor had a single red line across the screen. The kelp they had faced earlier covered the floor of the room. They waved ominously as if waiting for an unsuspecting prey to wander into their folds.
"Wow, fun room." Aimi commented. "Not nightmare inducing at all."
Six gave her a weary look from behind his shades. Then he scanned the room.
"Looks like this is the control room." He commented.
"What gave you the first clue?" Aimi asked sarcastically.
Six ignored her. "It looks like she's sending commands through those lines. If we sever them maybe we can stop those signals."
"So we just need to get past the killer kelp, maybe some more poisonous gas, and other assorted traps and take out a giant monitor?" Aimi observed. "Sure piece of cake."
"I'm open to suggestions." Six said dryly.
The monitor suddenly sprung alive. The single red line bubbled into a red eye.
"You have been most troublesome. But that will be rectified now." The squirming tentacles elongated and came after them.
"Scatter!" Six yelled.
Both he and Aimi jumped from the small opening. Six tucked into a ball and spun mid-air. Then he straightened like an arrow, pulling out his blades from his sleeves. He managed to impale one of the blades into the metal arm holding the monitor.
Aimi made a huge leap over the creeping kelp. Then hopping from strand to strand so quickly that the snake-like vines didn't get a chance to latch onto her. She reached the other side of the room. She grabbed onto a ledge and pulled herself onto a small balcony.
The tentacles changed directions and came after the two ninjas. Aimi got into a fighting stance. Six readied his free blade. They waited for the onslaught.
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Rex watched helpless as he saw smoke coming from Doc's plane. He had to do something but what? He watched as Aimi's men on deck load the cannons and fire at the planes overhead. But because of the planes' speed and agility the cannonballs were not making much of a difference. The best they were doing was keeping the planes from getting too close to the ship. Another plane flew by spraying the deck with bullets. Rex dove against the side of the ship and listen to the sound of the cannons being fired. A thought hit him as his back hit the rope ladder that had been hastily tossed to the side. He peered over the side. Aimi's bright yellow jet still sat in the water by the ship. Rex grabbed the rope ladder and repelled over the side hanging onto the end of it. He jerked to stop and bounced back twice before smacking against the side of the ship. Wincing in pain from the impact, he swung himself over to the plane. After getting into the cockpit he placed his hand on the computer in the plane. The control panel lit up and the plane started. He grinned. Now they were in business.
Holiday struggled to get her plane under control. With her wing damaged she was flying erratically. She saw the enemy plane come back. She knew she was in trouble. Then without warning the jet burst into flames. Shocked, Holiday looked over to see a bright yellow jet. As the yellow jet flew by she saw Rex at the controls. He gave her a salute and a wink before banking right to attack the other jets. How on earth was Rex flying the plane? She decided to ask questions later. Right now she had some jets to take down.
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Six and Aimi were hacking away at the boundless crop of kelp.
"Ugh, I'll never be able to eat miso soup again." Aimi commented as she sliced through another batch of kelp.
Six didn't bother answering. He was busy trying to fend off the obtrusive seaweed while trying to take out the metal arm holding up the monitor. When he realized he wasn't able to easily cut down the monitor he turned his attention to the blue lines that surrounded the room. If he can somehow disrupt the flow, perhaps he can stop ZAG-RS's control of the kelp. Then it occurred to him that the lights traveling through the lines were like how signals move around in the brain… electric signals… that can be disrupted by a magnetic field.
Six sliced through several more tentacles before he joined his swords together. He jammed the connected blades into the monitor. Electric sparks flew out from the monitor and seemed to spread through the whole room.
"What are you doing?" The female voice of ZAG-RS became distorted. "I must insist you stop."
Painful electric shocks pulsed through Six's body. He ignored it and continued jamming his blades into the monitor. Suddenly one of the vines wrapped around Six's waist and tried to yank him away. Before it could move, however, Aimi, who had somehow reached her brother, sliced it into ribbons.
"Whatever you're doing, it's working!" She yelled keeping the tendrils away with her katana.
Six gritted his teeth. Finally after a few more seconds the kelp stopped squirming and fell to the floor. The eye on the monitor started flickering and with a high pitch whine which sounded suspiciously like a scream the screen blew out. The blue lines disappeared and the room was plunged into darkness.
Sorry stopping here. Need to sleep. I hope to update soon.