"ARG!" EVE held her right arm close to her body.

"Eve is down!" Aya cried, "Any minute now, Author!"

"Ow..." EVE's HUD flashed OFFLINE at her. Her cannon was broken, which meant she could no longer fight. She tucked the useless appendage back into her body just as she dodged another blast.

"You all are so persistent! Aren't you!?" Forthright was laughing hysterically, "This is so much fun!"

"Battle isn't fun!" EVE screamed as the fight dragged on, "Why are you doing this anyway!?"

"Because!"

"No! Really!" EVE swerved to avoid more blasts coming her way, "You don't just start a war! It's extremely stupid to fight for no reason!" EVE spat the words, almost disgusted, "We fight for our home! Why do you fight!?"

Forthright grit her teeth in anger, "Why do I fight!? If you must know, I fight for my family!"

"What!?"

"I fight for my Grampapa!" she seethed, "I fight for his dying wish! He wanted humanity to survive! He gave me hope for a brighter future out in space! I fight because he would have wanted me to!"

EVE was so shocked she was almost hit again, "You're Grampapa!?"

"My great grandfather! He was one of the founding members of Buy n' Large and its subsidiaries! He led it in mankind's greatest mistake!" Forthright was losing her manic demeanor and slowly becoming sad, "He saw the Earth and told me he didn't want to have anything to do with it anymore! I watched him die as he told me to keep everyone away from it! I uploaded my consciousness to a computer so I could foresee humanity as the Axiom-!" she had to stop, "What's it to you anyway!?"

"That's surprising!" Ruby exclaimed as she fought, "I've never heard about this guy!"

"You..." EVE shook her head sharply, "You won't get away with this!"

"What makes you say that!? Being falsely diagnosed with Psychosis wasn't bad enough!? I'm fulfilling his dying wish if it kills me!"

No one could believe their ears.

"Look! We're here!" Leah hid behind some rocks, "Okay, I'm going to wirelessly hack that machine. Cover for me, Telly!"

"You got it!"

"Okay..." Leah opened the portable computer she stole from the Axiom's computer lab, "I just have to send a reprogrammable bio-friendly fatal kill code. It'll destroy the machine and melt itself from the inside out..."

Chibi understood none of that, but he gave a curt nod in response.

"Almost got it...aaand...send!" it beeped at her. She hit the keyboard several more times, and every time it beeped, "Ugh! It won't let me!"

"Oh no!" Telly cried.

"That means I have to hack it manually! And I only have seven minutes left!"

"Make it count!" Telly looked everywhere nervously.

"Okay...let's try this one more time..." Leah downloaded the kill code to her internal database, "Come at me!"

"Leah! Wait!"

It was too late, Leah was already almost there. She hovered to the back of the robot and pried the panel open again, seeing the repair from her previous damage. She inserted her finger, just to be shocked back.

Warning: battery power at critical low. Shutting down in two minutes.

"No!" Leah struggled with the wires for awhile, "I'm not letting you stop me!"

"Leah!?"

Crap. Rio found her out.

"What!? Is that a joke!?" EVE said incredulously.

"No! She's here!"

Warning: battery power at critical low. Shutting down in one minute.

She was almost out of time. One more wire, and the firewall blocking her was severed. She was then able to stick her finger in and upload the kill code. It would activate as soon as it met the core of the robot.

Warning: battery power at critical low. Shutting down in thirty seconds.

"What!?" Forthright screamed, "No! How is this possible!?"

Her monitor began to flicker as she panicked, messing with things until her display was bugging and morphing grotesquely. The robot finally keeled and came crashing to the ground.

"I'll come back! I'll always come back!" Forthright screamed evilly, "None of you are safe! No one will surpass my fury! Nothing I ever do goes to waste! I AM A GOD!"

With one final scream, she died.

Hard and cold and smoking.

"LEAH!"

Her vision blanked for a moment.

Warning: battery power at critical low. Shutting down in ten seconds.

"Leah! Are you okay!?" "What's going on!?" "Will she be alright!?" "Why did she leave!?" "Chibi! What were you thinking!?"

All the voices blurred together as Leah lost consciousness, her eyes glitching and her muscles pulsing.

Warning: battery power at critical low. Shutting down in three...two...one...