The battle between Max Steel and Metal Elementor ended with the newest villain almost being melted down and so that was a win for us though I was completely unaware of the outcome being unconscious of course. Not like it's the first time it's happened.
"Is she going to be okay?" Berto asked Kat who was kneeling beside Jessie. Still unresponsive since Metal Elementor had struck her with his mace she now lay on a bed in the Medical Bay. After spending a few minutes examining me, checking my pulse and looking for any injuries, (though with my Base suit on 24/7 it must have been difficult) she stood and turned to Berto.
"I really don't know. I wouldn't be surprised if she has a concussion though we won't know until she wakes up." Kat told him and he sighed.
"I hope she's okay. She took the blow meant for me." Shock said hovering over his friend. As they watched over their friend Max Steel went looking for Metal Elementor and the other three Ultralinks. Spending the next three hours outside they looked in the city and the surrounding canyon but eventually they returned home when there was no sign of any of them. Once they got home they gave Berto a call to see how Jessie was. Walking outside the room Berto answered his phone.
"She's still unconscious. We don't know when she'll wake up." He told Max and Steel as soon as they asked. "I hope she's okay. She did get attacked by Ven Ghan then Metal Elementor."
"I should've protected her better." Shock said suddenly as he appeared in the hallway. "And after she told me I was her family too. I never knew she cared that much about me."
"It's not your fault Shock. She always wants to be the hero and we all know firsthand how stubborn she is." Berto said and everyone laughed at that. "She'll be alright." The moment the call ended Berto leaned against the wall, not really believing his own words. Sighing he returned to the room and his friend. As he did he saw Kat on her way out and he asked if he could stay.
"Of course Berto. Call me if there's any change." Kat said and once she left Berto pulled up a seat and sat beside her. As Shock hovered nearby Berto leaned over and stroked his friend's hair as she lay on her back but she didn't even respond and he sighed.
Why do you have to be so reckless, he thought to himself as he sat looking at her. After a little while Shock offered to keep an eye on Jessie and Berto thanked him, not wanting to admit that he was really tired. As he walked the short distance from the Medical Bay to his dorm he silently hoped Jessie would be okay. The next morning he was up early and as he was about to check up on her again when he almost walked into Commander Forge.
"Sorry Commander. I wasn't looking where I was going." He apologized looking embarrassed.
"No problem Berto. I was actually on my way to get you." He replied. Curious Berto followed Forge to the Com Room and there he found Kat, Jefferson, Max and Steel. "Now that we're all here…except for Jessie and Shock of course…I wanted to talk about these new Ultralinks. So far they've managed to escape every time and so I called this meeting to see if anyone has any ideas about capturing at least one of them."
"Maybe we should set a trap for them." Steel suggested and Max nodded.
"Okay what sort of trap should we set and what's the bait?" Forge asked and everyone brainstormed ideas. Soon they agreed that Copper Canyon was the best place to set a trap with no civilians being put in danger and a wide open space. The bait ended up being Max Steel as they knew that the Ultralinks wouldn't be able to resist a battle against their greatest enemy. As they went over the details of their plan Shock kept watch over his partner for any sign of recovery but so far she remained unresponsive and that worried him. When he brought up a visual of her vitals he couldn't find anything physically wrong with her and that stumped him. As the image vanished he thought he heard a noise and after hovering closer Shock realized that it was coming from Jessie.
"Jessie?" He said and as he watched her head moved slightly to the right as she groaned. Thinking she might wake up he kept watch but she only groaned again and then she went quiet. "Must be dreaming." Shock said to himself. As he continued to keep his eye on her, his friends were getting ready to set their trap. In the middle of nowhere Max Steel was walking around waiting for any sign of Makino's troops. But so far nothing was happening and he was complaining about being bored.
"Would you stop going on and on? You're giving me a headache." Steel said and Max pointed out that this is boring. "I know. You've said that for the last five minutes."
"Hey it is." Max shot back and they started to argue. Of course Prism, Blast and Chomp showed up and that shut them up. "Great! I was getting bored." Max said as he changed to Strength Mode and came after them.
"It's a trap!" Chomp said but his two comrades ignored him and started firing their weapons at Max Steel. Annoyed he went after Max Steel as well, sending his vines through the earth and wrapping them around his enemy. This proved to be a mistake when Max grabbed the vines and spun the Ultralink around and around before he let go. With a yell the Ultralink slammed into the other two and knocked them into the ground. As they went to stand up they found themselves surrounded by N-Tek agents. "Told you it was a trap." Chomp grumbled as they wondered what to do. Unfortunately backup arrived for them in the form of Metal Elementor and he immediately started knocking the agents left and right with his mace.
"Oh that's just great." Berto grumbled as he unleashed C.Y.T.R.O on him. Using a new weapon he'd created he knocked the Mega Elementor flying and it stood and let out an ear shattering roar. Furious it charged and they clashed. "This is for Jessie!" He shouted as he whaled on the creature and succeeded in stunning it as Max Steel looked on.
"Now that is impressive. Never knew he was that good." Steel commented as they watched on. "I guess we can't let him make us look bad. Come one." Together they went after the retreating Ultralinks as C.Y.T.R.O went toe to toe with the Metal Elementor. But as his friends looked on the Ultralink managed to slam Berto's robot into the ground and transforming his hand into a mace he ended the battle in seconds. Frustrated Berto let out a yell as he watched the battle from the sidelines again. In the end all four Ultralinks managed to escape when one of the alien ships appeared and used its tracking beam to suck them back into the ship before it speed away. "Oh man!"
"I second that. I can't believe they got away. I guess it's back to base." Max said as he changed to Flight mode. Arriving back at N-Tek Max and Steel rejoined Forge, Kat and Jefferson who looked angry that they're enemies had somehow escape again.
"It's my fault. I thought I had the Metal Elementor cornered and I got careless." Berto suddenly spoke up and everyone looked at him.
"It's not your fault Berto." Steel said. "I should have done more to stop them."
"It isn't anyone's fault. Let's just take a few minutes and think of something else to do." Forge said and they all nodded.
Deciding to go and check on his friend Berto walked towards the Medical Bay. As he did he wondered how she was and soon he received his answer when he walked in and found her still out cold on the bed.
"Any luck catching an Ultralink?" Shock asked as the scientist walked over and joined him beside the bed.
"No. I thought maybe we had a chance but that Metal Elementor's so powerful." Berto told him and they both looked a bit down. "Has Jessie spoken?" He asked and Shock told him that she'd moved a little and groaned but that was it.
"Maybe she was dreaming." Shock suggested and Berto nodded. As they watched Jessie she suddenly moved her head to the left this time and groaned, her eye flickering under her eyelids.
"Jessie can you hear us?" Berto asked but she went quiet again and he sighed to himself. "I wonder what she's dreaming about?" Watching closely Jessie moved her head from one side to the other as she started to mumble something. Curious Berto leaned over listening closely and, as he did, he heard her say something.
"Mmm…mom?" Jessie mumbled and Berto reached over to stroke her forehead.
"She's calling out for her mom. Poor girl." He said and Shock hovered over her looking down at her face. As they watched on she called out for her mom again and then Berto saw a tear run down her cheek. "She's crying." He said as Jessie's face crumpled. Feeling awful for her, they continued to watch over her until she started mumbling something.
"Dad…where are you?" Jessie said next and that confused both her friends. Staring at each other than her they waited for her to say something else but she went quiet again.
"Do you know who her dad is?" Shock asked Berto who shrugged and the Ultralink sighed. "All we know is that her mom was an agent and she worked at N-Tek. In the video file I remember that her mom said she never told Jessie who her father was and that he'd died when she was pretty young. I wish I knew more but my memories aren't clear either."
"Then we'll just have to keep searching. You know I've thought about something. If my suspicions are correct maybe her dad wasn't from Earth." Berto said and Shock stared at him. "Hey her mom did say she'd never believe who her father was so it's possible." He added as they both watched Jessie. As they did she started whimpering and as Berto leaned over her eyelids started to flicker before she slowly opened her eyes. "Jessie?" He whispered and she blinked confused until it finally dawned on her that it was her boyfriend looking down at her and she gave him a weak smile.
"Hey." I whispered and Shock flew over and hugged me. "Hi guys." I added wondering why my Ultralink had just hugged me. When he let go of me he hovered beside the bed as Berto stroked my forehead. "What happened?" I asked as Berto sat back on a chair.
"Metal Elementor's mace hit you instead of me. You've been out cold for hours and we were worried about you." Shock told me as I attempted to sit. Which I soon discovered was a huge mistake when I almost toppled off the bed. Grabbing my shoulders Berto helped back onto the bed.
"Take it easy. You're hurt." He said as I put my hand on my head feeling dizzy. "How do you feel?"
"Like I got punched by the Ultimate Elementor." I groaned and Berto actually chuckled. "Other than that I'm good." Sitting beside me Berto explained that while I was knocked out the rest of N-Tek tried, and failed, to capture an Ultralink. "Maybe next time we'll get them." I said and Berto raised an eyebrow at me. "Okay why are you looking at me like that?"
"I'm curious about something. Why were you dreaming about your mom and dad?" Shock asked suddenly and I stared at him, wide eyed. "You were talking in your sleep." He explained but I continued to stare at him and he rolled his eye.
"I'm not really sure what you mean. Did I really say something?" I asked and Berto nodded. Racking my brain I soon remembered something. "I do remember…a man with brown eyes like mine."
"Maybe that's your dad but how do you have memories when you were only young?" Berto asked me and I shrugged, just as puzzled as he was. "Do you remember anything else?" He said and I tried but that's all I knew. Noticing the sad expression on my face he reached over and squeezed my shoulder. "Don't let it get to you. You know we'll help in any way we can."
"Thanks guys. I really want to know who my dad was and maybe then I can find out why I have Turbo energy." I said as I put my hand over Berto's. Rolling his eye at us Shock hovered overhead.
"Are you sure you're okay? You did get hit pretty hard by Metal Elementor and shot twice by Ven Ghan." Shock pointed out and Berto's eyebrows shot up in surprise.
"You never told me he attacked you." Berto said and I sighed and asked Shock if he could explain.
"Before we got to battle Metal Elementor we were teleported away by Ven Ghan. He kept going on and on about me being Makino's soldier and that I needed to be 'brought to justice for helping Makino'. Jessie tried to explain that we were the good guys but he wouldn't listen and he tried to shoot me. Jessie ended up getting shot twice when she tried to convince him otherwise and if Max hadn't shown up…he might have succeeded in capturing me." Shock told Berto as I shook my head trying to clear it and finding that it only made the ache in my head worse. When I groaned, holding my head with both hands and closing my eyes against the pain, Berto looked at me.
"What's wrong?" He asked and I mumbled that my head hurt and he chuckled. Annoyed I opened an eye and stared at him. "Calm down. I'm not laughing at you."
"Then why'd you laugh? If you got shot and clobbered in a day you wouldn't be laughing." I grumbled as I opened my other eye and rubbed my forehead. "Owww." I added and even Shock chuckled. "And I saved you so you be quiet." Unable to help it they both cracked up laughing and I glared at them for a few seconds before I began to feel sleepy and I lied down. By the time they had stopped laughing at me I had already fallen asleep. Fortunately I didn't have any more dreams and nothing disturbed me so I slept peacefully for the next couple of hours. Okay I wish that's what happened but instead I was woken a very short time later by an alarm and I sat up so fast that I toppled off the bed. With a frustrated growl I stood and wandered into the hallway only to be almost knocked over by Max who didn't even noticed I was there and I frowned in his direction. Still pretty woozy I went looking for the cause of the alarm and found Forge, Kat and Jefferson in the Com Room. Curious I walked in and everyone turned when they heard my footsteps.
"When did you wake up?" Kat asked as they stared at me for a moment.
"A little while ago. Why's an alarm going off?" I asked as I walked over. As I did I heard Berto and as I turned around he came racing in. Giving me a quick glance, probably surprised I was awake, he hurried to the computer.
"There's a problem outside. One of the Ultralink's we tried to capture ended up being captured by Extroyer. And I think I know why. He's trying to create a new morph." Berto said as he typed away at the keyboard.
"Then we have to stop him. I already sent Max and Steel after him." Forge said and as I waited for him to ask Shock and I to help him my vision started to go blurry. As I put a hand on my forehead I saw Forge turn to me and start speaking but I couldn't understand because the alarm was making my head pound.
"Hey are you okay?" Berto asked me as I put my other hand against my head, gritting my teeth against the pain.
"Shut…it off." I growled as the alarm made my ears ring and the pain in my head grew worse with every ring. Finally I couldn't take it anymore. "Shut!It!Off!" I shouted suddenly as my eyes glowed green and I threw a blast of Turbo energy at the alarm above the computer. Everyone ducked as the alarm exploded, showering them with debris and when the noise died suddenly they all stared at me. "That's…much better." I sighed giving them a grin before my legs gave out and I hit the floor. As my vision faded I heard footsteps and I caught a glimpse of a set of black and white sneakers before I fainted.