Family
Chapter 99 Machine War
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I do not own anything, expect the OCs. This is just a story for fun.
Lance, Henry, Susan, BMO, and Neptr traveled towards the MO factory to get help to battle Ultrabot and his forces.
At the Mo factory, William was helping some MOs move some heavy machinery. The android had been living in the factory for a couple of months and he had been enjoying his new home. All the MOs were friendly and William enjoyed their company. William worked on upgrading himself and figuring out what he wanted to do with his life. A few weeks ago a MO named AMO had gone rogue and had tried to take over the factory, but William stopped the evil MO and forced him to leave the factory. It was then that William figured out what he wanted to do with his life. He wanted to protect others and he finally began to understand the force that drove heroes he fought in the past. The heroes fought to protect others. William now wanted to be a hero.
The heroes reached the MO Factory and went inside looking for BMO and Neptr's strong friend. They asked a couple of MO's and they told the heroes where to go. Lance and the others eventually made their way to the room William happened to be. BMO and Neptr raced forward to greet their friend, but the others froze with looks of shock on their faces as they recognized the android. William starred at the heroes equally shocked. The android had planned to eventually reveal himself to the heroes and ask to join them, but now some of the heroes were in the factory. William began to try to say something to the heroes, but Lance quickly overcame his shock and fired a blast of lighting at William sending him crashing into a wall. Lance then sped forward as he pulled out his sword and grabbed William by the front of the skintight outfit he wore and pointed his sword at William's right eye.
"Give me one good reason, why I shouldn't destroy an evil murder machine like you." Hissed Lance as his blade crackled with electricity.
"Hello...Lance and company. It's...been awhile. I apologize for my previous actions against you and your allies." Said William.
"How did you end up here?" Asked Henry as he and Susan walked over to Lance to stare down at the android.
"The last time I encountered you, you severely damaged me and I was abandoned by my creator and master. I laid damage in some nearby woods and was waiting for my power to die down and cease functioning. However BMO and Neptr found me and with the help of a few others they took me to the MO factory to be repaired. They fixed and they allowed me to stay here. My time here has allowed me to reflect on my actions and think about what I should with my life. I ended up saving the MOs from a dangerous threat and I realized why you and your allies fight for. I wish to help protect people from the likes of my master and his allies. I know you hate me and wish to destroy me, but you came here asking for help and I wish to show you that I have changed and I want to fight alongside you." Said William.
Lance studied the android and then he glanced at his comrades. Henry and Susan looked unsure what to do, while BMO and Neptr looked at Lance with pleading eyes. The mutant turned back to William and sheathed his sword.
"Very well, we will allow you to fight alongside us, but mark my words William or whatever your calling yourself now, if I suspect any treachery from you, I will destroy you. Understand?" Said Lance.
"Understood. I'm looking forward to fighting alongside you." Said William as he stood up.
Henry decided to call Django and see how he was doing with getting help from the Boneyard Kingdom. Django said he and Skeleton Princess were getting the forces of the Boneyard Kingdom ready, but it would take them awhile to head to the Candy Kingdom. Henry told Django they would meet them near the Candy Kingdom to get the assault started. William walked out of the room and came back with a new giant high tech looking sword. Lance looked at his little group and decided they should head back to the Candy Kingdom to do some scouting. BMO and Neptr were left behind at the factory, while the others headed towards the Candy Kingdom. The two robots were disappointed about being left behind, but then Neptr got an idea and he whispered his plan to BMO who grinned at his friends plan.
Miles away at the junkyard, Ratteballs was entering a underground machine shop he had built to construct his special project. The project in question was forty gumball machine robots, who were currently in sleep mode. The robots were similar in design to Rattleballs, but they had a few white stripes on their sides. Rattlballs had programmed the robots to be skilled with swords and the ability to think like him. The warrior robot was going to present his new robots to Bubblegum and the Candy Kingdom after he convened Bubblegum not to destroy him. Now the Candy Kingdom was in danger and it needed help. Rattleballs activated the robots and stood before them.
"Troops the day to present ourselves to the Candy Kingdom has come, but not in the way you expect. At this current moment a large hostile force of robots have taken over the Candy Kingdom and knocked out Princess Bubblegum along with everybody else in the kingdom. This is a dark day and the Candy Kingdom needs our help. Today we will fight to defend our homeland!" Declared Ratteballs as he raised his sword up high.
The others robots raised their swords and let out a cheer as Ratteballs lead forces out of the machine shop and in the direction of the Candy Kingdom.
At the Candy Kingdom, Ultrabot was looking through Bubblegum's lab equipment. The evil robot was impressed at what he saw, for a organic creature, Bubblegum's intelligence was impressive. The two Gumball Guardians outside the castle were powerful weapons and they showed how good Bubblegum was at building defensive weapons, however Ultrabot had sent a little virus to the two robot Giants shutting them down, until he had a chance to reprogram them to serve him. Ultrabot went over to one of Bubblegum's computers and proceeded to hack it. The files Ultrabot read were quit interesting. There were files about Goliad and her psychic powers, files about robot made to resemble and act like Bubblegum and Braco, a file about super Candy People specifically made for combat that seemed to be in the works, and a file about a massive aerial weapon that seemed to be under construction in a secret location. Ultrabot then found some information about Bubblegum's sub lab and decided to see what was down there. The robot found the hidden entrance and went down. In the lab, Ultrabot found a large tank that contained a five year old Neddy. Neddy was still sleeping in the fetal position, but now he was wearing grey underwear.
"Another useless organic being. I don't understand why anyone would waste their time creating a child." Said Ultrabot as he left the sub lab and closed the secret entrance.
Ultrabot then went back to examining the lab. The robot was planning to use Bubblegum's lab to help him turn everybody in the Candy Kingdom into robots to serve him. Sylvester had done a similar process with Sleepy Sam and his comrades and Ultrabot knew what to do to make the process work. He should probably start with Bubblegum and the heroes he had encountered in the courtyard, they would make excellent servants. Ultrabot went about examining the lab seeing what tools would be the most useful to him.
Outside the Candy Kingdom, Ratteballs and his forces were watching the castle walls, to see if there were any sentries. There were only a half dozen Dreadbots guarding the walls. Apparently, Ultrabot didn't expect any trouble to show up soon and he was confident that his tower would repel any would be invaders, but what the evil robot didn't suspect was that a small army of fighting robots would be storming into the kingdom. Ratteballs lead his army around the walls away from the sentries. The robotic hero then pulled out a grappling hook with some rope and hooked it onto the wall above. After making sure it was secure the robots climbed up the rope and onto the walls. Rattleballs then snuck up on an unsuspecting Dreadbot and ran his sword through it's chest! The the Dreadbot made a crackling sound as it's power source was destroyed and it fell to the ground. One of the other sentries heard the dying sound of it's comrade and turned to see Rattleballs charging at him. The sentry raised it's blaster to fire, but Ratteballs was already on him. The sword fighting robot swung his sword and sliced the guard's blaster hand off before he swiped his head off making it fall to the ground. The third sentry saw Rattleballs and fired a laser blast at him. Rattleballs dodged the blast and hurled his sword at the Dreadbot piercing it in the head and destroyed it. There was a clanking sound and Rattleballs saw that his men had just finished taking care of the other three sentries. Rattleballs was fixing to congratulate his troops a job well done, but the gumball robots were spotted by a patrolling Dreadbot from below.
"Intruders!" Shouted the Dreadbot as it raised it's blaster and began firing, alerting all the other robots about the intruders.
More Dreadbot and Beetle Bots showed up to attack Rattleballs and his forces. Rattleballs picked up his sword as a couple of his troops were struck down by lasers.
"To battle men!" Roared Rattleballs as he leaped off the wall followed by his troops to fight the enemy.
Blades and lasers clashed as the two robot forces began to battle with one another. A Beetle Bot stabbed it's sharp legs into a gumball robot and ripped in half! Rattleballs avenged his fallen comrade by slicing the Beetle Bot's head off. The warrior looked around at the battle, though he knew his forces were tough, Rattleballs saw that were greatly outnumbered and they would soon be taken down. Rattleballs had to either take down the enemy leader or destroy the tower that was keeping every organic being in the Candy Kingdom unconscious. Rattleballs called his troops to him and they fought on towards the courtyard. The sounds of the fighting had eventually reached Ultrabot. The evil robot was slightly surprised to see a group of robots fighting his forces. Ultrabot left the lab and headed down towards the courtyard, he soon arrived and sent out a electrical command to all of his robots to stop attacking. Rattleballs faced Ultrabot with his sword ready to fight. Ultrabot scanned Rattleballs and recognized him as one of Bubblegum's earlier creations.
"Ah a gumball robot. You were one of Princess Bubblegum's early attempts to create a efficient peace keeping force, but apparently you all loved fighting to much, so she deemed you all a failure and had your kind destroyed. Tell me, why are you and these others attacking my forces?" Said Ultron.
"I simply wish to protect my kingdom and my creator." Said Rattleballs.
"Why would you want to protect her? If I'm not mistaken she deemed you and the rest of your kind as failures and try to have you destroyed. You obviously managed to gain a will of your own and you used it to escape. Your fellow gumball robots were destroyed, you should be angry at your creator and desire vengeance. Join me and together we will create a new world where our kind are in charge." Said Ultrabot.
"It's true that I gained free will and escaped my kinds destruction, but my sense of free will let me think of others point of view. Bubblegum was concerned for the wellbeing of her people, so I understand why she did what she did. I then studied myself and my kinds past behavior and realized that we were to blame for our destruction. For the next several years I meditated and study sword fighting. My desire to fight was gone and replaced with a desire to defend and to teach. In some ways I am grateful for Bubblegum for what she did. Bubblegum is my creator and no matter what happened in the past I will defend her and the Candy Kingdom from all threats! I will not join you!" Declared Rattleballs.
"You have sentenced, yourself to be destroyed. You will regret your compassion to your creator soon enough." Said Ultrabot as his right hand changed into a blaster and he fired at Rattleballs.
Rattleballs dodged to the side and the blast struck another gumball robot in the chest and destroyed it. The robots around the courtyard then began fighting each other again, as Rattleballs made his way towards Ultrabot. Ultrabot fired several blast at Rattleballs, who either dodged or deflected the shots with his sword, as he made his way to the evil robot. After a few minutes Rattleballs reached Ultrabot and swung his sword at him. The blade sliced Ultrabot's hand off forcing the robot to turn around and retreat to one of his trucks. Rattleballs was fixing to race after him, but a Beetle Bot got in the way and tried to stab him. Rattleballs managed to avoid the blow, stabbed the Beetle Bot in the chest, and kicked it away, before perusing Ultrabot. Ultrabot got inside the back of the truck and headed towards a large crate, he pushed a button on it. The crate opened up to reveal a massive grey twenty foot tall robot body, that didn't have a head. The body had two swords strapped to it's arms, six cannon attached to it's back and two jet engines on it's back as well.
"It's high time for an upgrade." Said Ultrabot.
The body reached down and picked Ultrabot up raising it to the top. A bunch of wires stuck out from the top and connected themselves to Ultrabot as they removed his arms and wheel leg. The body of Ultrabot was now serving as the head to the massive robot body. Rattleballs arrived at the truck, but before he could get inside the newly upgraded Ultrabot blast out and sent Rattleballs crashing to the ground. Rattleballs looked up at Ultrabot shocked. The evil robot grinned down at Rattleballs as it raised one of it's massive swords and swung it down at him. The robotic hero just barely managed to roll out of the way and leap to his feet ready to strike at the massive war machine, but despite it's massive size the robot moved with incredible speed and swatted Rattleballs with it's other hand and sent him crashing into one of the castle walls. The wall cracked under the impact and Rattleballs groaned. Ultrabot laughed as it bent over a little to point it's cannons at the down hero.
"You could have joined me, but instead you sided with the organics. Now you will die."
Rattleballs tried to get up as Ultrabot prepared to blast him.
Unbeknownst to any of the robots that were fighting, Lance and his group had shown up several minutes after the fight had started and had been watching the whole thing from one of the castle walls. The group of heroes weren't quit sure what was going and who Rattleballs was, so they decided to watch and see what happened, they soon realized Rattleballs and his forced seemed to be good guys and they quickly went in to provide assistance to them. William was in the process of destroying some Dreadbot with his sword, when he saw Ultrabot fixing to blast Rattleballs with his cannons. The android leaped in front of Rattleballs as Ultrabot fired several missiles from his cannons. William swung his sword creating a energy wave that slammed into the missiles and the two attacks canceled each other out with a bright explosion. Ultrabot starred at William as he scanned the android. The villain was surprised to see that William was an android.
"So another machine willing to fight for the organics. Your quit advance, I'll admit, but your a fool to pick a fight with me." Said Ultrabot.
"May I ask, who you are?" Asked William.
"I am Ultrabot, the greatest artificial intelligence program ever created and the future ruler of this planet." Said Ultrabot.
William couldn't help, but smirk at the robot. The android had been created by a advanced Intelligence program and this villain before him was just a cheap knockoff wannabe, with a huge ego. William had worked and feared Xana, because of his great intelligence and power. Ultrabot was intelligent and powerful, but Xana was a whole different level then Ultrabot.
"I don't know who you are, but your not the most dangerous AI in the world." Said William.
This angered Ultrabot and he charged forward and swung one of his blades at William, who blocked the attack with his sword. Ultrabot let out a metallic snarl as he swung his other blade at William. The android blocked the attack with his sword and this angered Ultrabot. The villain started swinging both his blades at incredible speed at William, who just managed to block them with his sword. William could tell that he was a little bit faster then Ultrabot, but the robot was much stronger then him and his strength, would eventual overwhelm him. Ultrabot swung both his blades down at William and the android managed to block them with his sword. William then removed his left hand from his sword handle and pointed it up at Ultrabot. There was a clicking sound and William's hand shifted to the side and a tiny laser blaster stuck out. The blaster fired and a beam of red energy shot out and sliced through some of the wires and cables that served as Ultrabot's neck. Ultrabot let out a metallic screech as his body backed away from William and spasmed a little. William leaped at Ultrabot with his sword, but Ultrabot swatted him away, with a huge metal fist. The android flew a few yards before crashing into the ground. Ultrabot's body began to stop spasming and the villain glared at William.
"That was a nice little truck you managed to pull with that hidden weapon of yours, but it failed to damage me severely and I won't fall for it or any other little tricks you have."
"Will just see about that. The victor has yet to be decided." Said William as he got up to fight.
"True, but I calculate there's a huge deciding factor in this fight. You see your trying to protect the people of this kingdom, while I on the other hand have no concern for them, what's so ever." Said Ultrabot as he turned to point his cannons at the unconscious forms of Finn and Phoebe a few hundred yards away.
The cannons fired and several missiles flew at the unconscious heroes! William had to act fast. The android dropped his sword to increase his speed and flew in front of Finn and Phoebe with his back facing the missiles. The miles slammed into William and exploded creating a cloud of smoke. When the smoke cleared William was still standing, but his body was greatly damaged. The robotic hero's clothes were reduced to rags, parts of his metal skeletal fame were exposed, his limbs were sparking, and the entire left side of face was greatly damaged. The fake skin on the left side William's face along with the hair on the the left side of his head was gone revealing a metal skull and circuitry underneath. William let out a metallic groan as he looked down at the people he saved and saw that they were unharmed by the attack. Ultrabot marched up to William and grabbed him by the back of his head. The villain carried William a few feet away from the heroes and then he smashed into the ground face first! Ultrabot let go of William and stared down at him.
"You should have let them die, you only bought them a few minutes and after I'm done destroying you I'm either going to kill them or simply turn them into robots to serve me. Either way you sacrifice will be in vain." Said Ultrabot as he raised his right foot to stomp on William's head.
There was a whistling sound and six small missiles flew in from above and slammed into Ultrabot knocking him away from William. The android looked up to see a large twelve foot tall metal finger descend from the sky and land a few feet away from him. The newcomer was an odd sight and appeared to be made out of various metal machines, it's left hand was shaped like an oven mitt, and on the back there were exhaust pipes. The left and right feet were a small tank and a toilet and a part of the right leg appears to be a tarnished trophy. It had stickers of a rainbow with clouds on its right arm, a peace symbol on the left shoulder, a unicorn on the back, a kitten on the front left thigh, and a shooting star on the inner left thigh. William looked at the figure's head and saw what appeared to be Neptr serving as a helmet, with BMO's face inside it.
"We're here to save the day!" Declared BMO.
"Thanks for the assistance." Said William as he staggered to his feet.
Ultrabot recovered from the attack and took in BMO and Neptr's robot suit. A hatch in the robot suit's shoulders opened and out flew several small missiles. Ultrabot charged forward and sliced the missiles to bits, before he reached the suit and sliced downwards cutting the machine's arms off. The villain prepared to smash BMO and Neptr, but Rattleballs charged in and leaped onto Ultrabot's back and stabbed into it with his sword. Ultrabot roared in anger as he reached back, grabbed Rattleballs, and tossed him away. The villain then turned back to BMO and Neptr and punched at them, but at the very last second, BMO hit an ejector button that ejected him and Neptr from the suit and escaped the attack. Ultrabot looked up to see BMO and Neptr fly into the air and a tiny parachute open up to safely lower them down.
"This is just getting annoying." Said Ultrabot as he looked to the side and saw William picking his sword up to fight.
The villain was preparing to fire his cannons at William, but a blast of water and electricity slammed into him and caused the robot to spark. Lance and Henry headed over to stand next to William and they both gave him a nod of approval for defending Rattleballs, Finn, and Phoebe. Ultrabot recovered and faced the trio prepared to fight. It was then they heard the sounds of an army approaching. Django and the Boneyard Kingdom's army had arrived! They broke down the castle gates and started to attack Ultrabot's forces. The villain realized his plans were ruined, but he still had one last truck of his sleeve.
"It appears I'm the one losing, however I'm not beaten just yet. Sometimes the only way to win is to clear the board completely." Said Ultrabot before he activated his jets and flew into the air.
"What's he doing?" Asked Henry.
"His going to bomb the entire Candy Kingdom with missiles!" Said William before he activated some hidden jets in his feet and took off after Ultrabot.
Lance and Henry used their powers to fly after William and Ultrabot. Ultrabot was a few hundred feet above the Candy Kingdom, when he stopped going up and pointed his cannons down and began firing waves of missiles at the kingdom. Henry and Lance quickly used their powers to deal with the missiles, while William flew up to Ultrabot and swung his sword at him. Ultrabot blocked William's swords with one of his blades and swung the other one at him. William leaped over the blade and stabbed his sword into Ultrabot's arm. The android then fired his hidden laser and severing several more of Ultrabot's neck wires and blasted a hole through his shoulder. Ultrabot screeched as he began to lose control of his jets. The two machines tumbled towards Ultrabot's tower below. William released his sword and slammed his right fist into Ultrabot's eye and shattered it to pieces as the two fighters smashed into the tower's energy shield and into the tower, destroying it. The tower crashed into the ground and William laid near a defeated Ultrabot, whose head was smashed to bits. The battle was over. The people in the Candy Kingdom began to wake up.
Ultrabot's body may have been destroyed, but his mind was still active. The robot had managed to send his mind into cyberspace a few seconds before his body had been destroyed. The physical avatar of Ultrabot's mind resembled a muscular bald man, with grey skin. The villain was trying to figure out how to get revenge on the heroes, when a tiny screen with Sylvester's face appeared in front of him.
"I see, you tried to betray me, by taking over a kingdom, and the heroes destroyed your body, just like I predicted. I'll admit your attempt at conquest was impressive, but the end results were the same as I predicted. I no longer have a use for you Ultrabot." Said Sylvester.
"Don't you dare talk down to me creator. Your a meat bag and my intelligence is far superior to yours! Those heroes only got lucky." Said Ultrabot.
"As much fun as it is to listen to you try and insult me, I have things to do. So I'll leave you in the capable hands of my masterpiece Xana." Said Sylvester as the screen vanished.
Ultrabot heard and noise and turned to see something that filled him with dread. It was Xana and the avatar he had was massive. It had the body of a man, but instead of legs it had wire like tentacles and instead of a face it only had a strange eye symbol. Xana reached down and picked up Ultrabot in one of it's massive hands. The hand then clenched around Ultrabot and began to squeeze. There was a scream from Ultrabot followed by a shattering sound as Ultrabot's very mind shattered to bits and was destroyed. Xana went on about his business.
Back at the Candy Kingdom, everybody was up and Lance and Henry were explaining what happened. Bubblegum went over to examine the body of Ultrabot and saw that the robot body was still in good condition and that she could use it for a defense project. Braco walked over to Bubblegum, followed by Ratteballs and a dozen other gumball robots who had survived the fight.
"Bubblegum, this is Rattleballs. I know his a type of robot you deemed extremely dangerous and needed to be destroyed, but he managed to gain free will and change. Rattleballs has no ill will towards you and, when he saw the Candy Kingdom in trouble, he and his forces came to help use. He wishes to serve you and protect our kingdom and I think he and his forces will make a nice addition to our forces." Said Braco.
Bubblegum thought this over and she agreed with Braco.
"Very well, you make a good point. Rattleballs you and whatever forces you have and build are welcomed in my kingdom. I deputize you as one of my military officers." Said Bubblegum.
"Thank you Princess Bubblegum and Braco. It is an honor to be back." Said Rattleballs.
Elsewhere, William was being thanked for helping stop Ultrabot. A bunch of the heroes were shocked that an old enemy was the one that saved them, but Lance and Henry explained what William told them and everybody was happy. Finn walked over to William.
"I heard you took a nasty blow to save me and Phoebe and I want to say thanks man. Your really a good guy and a hero." Said Finn with a smile.
William smiled back and thanked Finn. A couple hours later the Candy Kingdom was cleaned up and everybody returned to their homes. The day had been saved and the heroes got a couple of new allies.
To be continued.
