Megas WBM (War Battle Machine)

Disclaimer: I don't own Megas XLR franchise; it belongs to Cartoon Network and its creators. I do own the things I created; nuff said. (There is a tiny bit of bad language, but it's very minor)

Chapter 4; Junk Planet

Saturday August 7th 2004; 1:15 pm

It was at typical day in Jersey, Coop was working Megas through its paces, and Goat was helping Coop while Jamie sat in the passenger seat supervising the whole thing while Kiva was talking with Perseus concerning his progress on his mech while Alex was playing a game on his phone.

One bit of attention that had to be addressed was what to do with the two copy mechs that were found to be codenamed Avatar III and Avatar IV respectively. The thought of the Glorft mass-producing a mech like Megas caused Kiva to shudder in horror.

Everything was going fine until Coop cracked a key component of Megas; the photonic stabilizer while doing some bench presses with buses as weights.

Later…

"You broke the photonic stabilizer!?"

"It can be that bad right?"

Kiva glared at Coop and spoke, "Coop without one, Megas will explode and destroy everything in a 100 mile wide radius."

"That's almost or is the length of long island New York and I take the explosion would make the first atomic bomb look like a firecracker." Perseus replied calmly.

"No sweat, I can fix it..." Coop said nervously.

"Coop, you can't fix it. It needs to be replaced and how am I going to find something that is from the future in this time?" Kiva asked annoyed as hell.

Coop looked at Kiva and spoke, "Uh, wouldn't the squids have one? They're from the future too."

"They might, but stealing from the Glorft might be a bad idea..." Kiva said sternly.

It was then Jamie gave his idea to the group while they all stood near Kiva, "Hey Coop what about that planet we found?"

Coop thought of a random planet that had rad sports instead of the junk planet much to Perseus' annoyance.

"Those little guys are awesome!" Coop said.

Coop wasn't thinking about the Junk Planet, but rather he was thinking about the odd planet that Jamie and he had gone to not long after the whole copy Megas and copy Megas mark 2 fiascoes.

Perseus and Alex on the other hand used their robot to go to Hawaii to surf and visit Pearl Harbor. To Perseus, his robot was like owning a private jet and he loved it except dealing with government stuff and having limits on when he could use it as the possibility of the USMC using it for combat was very likely.

"No not that place, I'm talking about the junk planet." Jamie said.

This of course got Goat's attention at the mention of a junk planet because to him, he could find his own giant robot for himself and it wasn't long before he started to have fantasies about helping young women in various situations requiring a robot or wasting one in those said situations.

Kiva herself liked the idea of an intergalactic junk yard and made it clear, "If what you two are saying is true, then we can find parts to be modified to work for Megas and create spares for Perseus' robot as well. Plus you guys should tell me about this more often as the possibility of four Megas mechs would be a nightmare for the Glorft."

"Rock on for a road trip! Now then we need to get some snacks for the trip." Coop said as he walked away with Jamie in tow while mumbling about what types of snacks to get.

Perseus on the other hand was slightly nervous because this was the first time he would leave Earth and decided to talk to Kiva while he told Alex to go on ahead with the guys while Goat was nearby watching as Perseus spoke to Kiva.

"Hey Kiva can we talk?"

"Sure what is it?"

Goat walked up to Perseus and spoke, "I'm all ears man."

"I'm going to come along with you guys so Coop doesn't do anything stupid. Also, I'm a bit nervous about the trip a little bit because this will be the first time anyone in my family or Alex's family has left and gone beyond Earth so, I hope you make sure that Coop or Goat doesn't get us all in serious crap." Perseus said.

"Don't worry and besides, you're getting better at piloting the Megas Mark 2 with a bit of Coop's help along with your brother and mine as well. I'm pretty sure the S-Force left a training simulation program for you before they left." Kiva said.

Kiva and Alex caught up to Coop, Jamie, and Alex after their talk. Kiva then asked Coop if she could sit in the passenger seat of either Coop's or Perseus' cars, but Alex and Jamie beat her to it. Perseus offered to have Goat ride with him much to Goat's chagrin and Kiva's delight.

A bit while later…

The two robots landed on the so-called junk planet and at first it looked like as what it should be, a planet that had parts of various objects including ship parts that came from various factions.

Goat from the back seat of Perseus' car looked out the backseat window and tired to flirt with Kiva who directed her attention to seeing if the planet was okay for humans and to find a the photonic stabilizer for Megas and possibly a spare for Perseus' mech as well.

Alex noticed Goat's attempts and made his advice known, "Yo bro, she is so not dating you and she is not that into you."

"What makes you say that boy?" Goat asked in an annoyed tone.

"Well for one she's from the future and two she is not interested in you..." Perseus said sternly.

Afterwards, the two mechs went around locating the photonic stabilizer on the massive junk yard, but finding one was like looking a needle in a haystack, a very ridiculously large haystack, but just before either robot could move, a massive worm-like monster erupted from the ground.

"Aw come on! Can't we be attacked by a giant hot chick? It's always a monster!" Jamie shouted.

"Idiot, it's always about hot women with you..." Alex said from the Megas WBM.

Coop was just about to fight the giant worm when Kiva advised him against it because it would be bad for Megas because it would raise the reactor temperature. Coop being himself, tried to fight it anyway with Perseus helping him so he wouldn't blow up Megas.

Eventually the space worm swallowed the two mechs, but the two mechs were spited out for some reason confusing the Megas duo greatly to no end as normally, a space worm would've never spat them out.

It was then that a creature made its presence known, "Heh, heh, Sorry about that. Fred maybe a monster, but really is a sweet heart."

The creature then showed himself; a gray-like slug creature that wore an outfit a blacksmith would have; boots, gloves, a leather apron, and a pair of goggles. He was driving a construction-like machine and made his way to the two mechs.

"The name's V'arsin, but people just call me V'arsin. By the way, nice pair of robots you two got there..." V'arsin said as he looked at the two robots or mechs and their pilots.

V'arsin then asked if the duo were looking to sell the two mechs, but was interrupted by Kiva who asked if he had a photonic stabilizer or something similar to it. V'arsin responded that he might and asked the two mechs to follow him.

Inside the Megas WBM, Alex was having some concerns about the alien and made it clear to Goat and Perseus, "Uh, Perseus and Goat, something tells me that that V'arsin guy is hiding something and I don't like it."

"What are you talking about?" Goat asked.

"I mean the way he looked at our mechs tells me something is off about that guy..." Alex said seconds later.

Perseus said nothing as he piloted his robot to follow Megas and V'arsin, but had the same thought as well making him make a mental note to put a security system into the two Megas mechs they had once they were operational again.

Eventually the two mechs arrived at what appeared to be a smelting part of the junk planet. Once there, both groups got out of their mechs and made their way to a part of the yard to observe and while that was going on, V'arsin talked to the two groups.

"Yeah, I got life-forms coming in from all over. I run a pretty big salvage operation here."

"You wouldn't happen to have anything from the future like a thousand years would you?" Kiva asked.

"Well I don't know where it's from or who owned it or even where it is for that manner. So, you'll have to get a bit down and dirty to find what you're looking for and look around..." V'arsin said.

Jamie then complained about how this task would take forever, but was interrupted by an annoyed Perseus, "Do you want to head to the complaints department? Cause it's in that direction..."

The groups were then divided: Coop would be with Kiva, Perseus with Alex, and finally Goat with Jamie. Once the three groups went their separate ways with some caution due to the terrain V'arsin unknown to the six humans, pulled out a device that pointed at Megas WBM which turned up a weapon that V'arsin found interesting and then Megas itself which showed it had a time drive. For him, it meant his creation would be finished.

A bit while later found Coop searching the junk planet with Kiva in the backseat with her operating her holo-computer and Coop driving. Bored, Coop asked Kiva if they could find what they were looking for in this planet size haystack. Kiva responded by telling him that Photonic energy leaves a radiation residue that lasts for a very long time and assured him that they'll find one.

Meanwhile Goat and Jamie were looking around and found a random object that wasn't a phonetic stabilizer, but looked like a lamp. Perseus and Alex were also looking for the photonic stabilizer, but weren't having any luck themselves.

Unknown to everyone, some of the junk began to move ominously like it was alive, but some of the junk were actually crude robot drones and made their move first and foremost on Goat and Jamie.

"Uh, did you hear something?" Jamie said to Goat.

"No, was it you?" Goat replied nervously.

It was then that the comical duo turned around and freaked out naturally and then ran for their lives as if the hounds of hell were after them. While Goat and Jamie were running for their lives, Perseus and Alex met up with Kiva and Coop.

"Found anything yet?" Coop asked.

"We haven't found shit!" Alex shouted while Perseus just rolled his eyes.

Coop spoke up to defuse the situation, "Guys let's not fight and figure out how are we going to pay this V'arsin guy? Cause I didn't cash from my mom."

"I agree with Coop and also I didn't stop by the ATM before we left home..." Perseus said to everyone present.

After that said, the two mechs and their human crews continued on searching with Kiva sarcastically suggesting they swap Goat and Jamie for the parts which got her no reply from her friends.

Back with Goat and Jamie, the two were running and tried to hold a door to keep the zombie robots as for them it was straight out of a cheesy B-Horror movie only this time it was for real.

"Man why did I have to end up dying from zombie robots. I got better things to do!" Goat shouted.

"Like what?" Jamie asked which Goat replied to him that he'll think of something.

Afterwards, the zombie junk robots continued their pursuit of the two humans throughout the area the humans were traveling in as on the other hand Coop, Kiva, Perseus, and Alex, the four humans in the two mechs were still turning up nothing when out of nowhere, a crane smacked into Megas followed by its brother unit.

The two mechs landed in a pit with the crane machine piloted by V'arsin looking over them with sinister intentions which Perseus cursed to himself quietly for being right sometimes.

"Sorry about that, I was meaning to bash both of you two open, but this next one won't miss..." V'arsin replied with a sinister laugh.

V'arsin tried again to hit the two mechs, but they ducked out of the way in time and both began to pull on the arm of the crane though Coop was still pressing his luck with Megas due to its still damaged phonetic stabilizer. Both mechs pulled the arm off and looked up to see what the alien would do again.

"Coop, watch the temp!" Kiva shouted from her seat as she kept a close eye on the temperature of the reactor.

"Try this on for size buddy!" Perseus shouted as he pressed a button on the dash that caused the lower legs to reveal harpoon anti-ship missiles and shot at V'arsin to distract him, but that didn't bother the Junker alien.

"With your robot's time drive and your friend's anti-matter cannons, I'll be an unstoppable force. Then I can travel back in time to cause destruction all over again and I'll have two of everything so much that my collection will be legendary..." V'arsin said.

Kiva then decided to ask Coop about the guns on Perseus' robot "Coop, where did you get those cannons anyway?"

"Oh I just plucked them from an alien warlord's junked ship while Jamie and I were in space. Those things are awesome; too bad I couldn't get a set for Megas though. FWI Kiva, I didn't take them from the Glorft..." Coop said.

Kiva then directed her attention to V'arsin, "Hey junk freak our time drive is useless beyond repair thanks to Coop and the cannons are not for sale."

"Hey I said I was sorry Kiva, sheesh..." Coop said in an annoyed/apologetic tone.

"No matter, I can fix anything..." V'arsin replied in a dark voice.

V'arsin tired again to attack the robot duo, this time with junk robot drones, the duo fought off this onslaught though it was Perseus who did most of the fight as Coop was advised to keep the core stable lest that it explode.

It was when Coop threw a junk bot that it caused the ground to split spilling the green acid near them. Both the hero's and V'arsin got away from the acidic substance and once away, V'arsin gave the order for the zombie bots to capture Megas and its brother unit to him.

Meanwhile Jamie and Goat were making their way to the two mechs when Goat suggested a diversion to distract the zombie robots though the zombie robots ignored Goat forcing the Jersey junk dealer to find another idea.

Back with the two mechs, Jamie made his way to Megas and once inside, suggested leaving the planet, but was shot down by Perseus. Looking out the window of his car, Coop was deciding if he should attack or get pasted by the junk zombie robots. The choice was obvious; attack, but with Perseus helping.

"How much time does Megas have?" Coop asked once the zombie junk bots were decimated.

"We're almost out of time Coop. Wait a second, I'm picking up the part we need for Megas and its heading towards us..." Kiva said.

"Something tells me that isn't normal..." Alex said from Perseus' machine.

Then suddenly, the ground started to shake sending both robots on their rears as a large, unknown junk-like machine approached. It appeared to be about the size of both Coop and Perseus' mechs, but was a mish-mash of various metals and parts.

"Behold my greatest creation, the Franken! V'arsin shouted from the cockpit of his machine.

"Oh please I've seen better things come out of a high school shop class..." Coop said jokingly.

"Ya know, for a piece of scrap junk, I hate to admit it, but not too bad considering that it can move." Perseus said from his machine nervously.

V'arsin then demanded the time drive from Megas and the anti-mater cannons from the Megas WBM, but both pilots refused with an irate Perseus saying this to the junk owner in pissed off tone.

"How many times must well tell you idiot! It doesn't work anymore and you have an impossible chance of fixing it dirt bag."

The duo proceeded to fight back, but the Franken had thicker armor than Perseus' mech and eventually the two were knocked down and captured. A bit while later found V'arsin carrying the two mechs using his robot to his lab and putting the two on the table which resembled more of a conveyor belt than a table with the two mechs facing feet-to-feet.

Once secured, V'arsin proceeded to begin the process of extracting the two mechs while muttering, "Well, then let's have a look inside then, first I'll start with that blue one then, I'll proceed onto that black and silver one."

Just as a pair of saw blades that came out of an overhead-junk style Swiss army knife could reach Coop, a voice shouted out and it was none other than Goat getting everyone's attention.

"Hey lug nuts! Think you're the only one who knows how to operate a junk pile, well check out the firepower of Darling!"

Turns out what Goat was piloting was a pile of junk like V'arsin which didn't look too bad, but then the unit fell apart with the part containing Goat landed near V'arsin who thought it didn't look too bad.

This gave Perseus and Coop the chance to free their mechs using various weapons in Coop's case; a pair of arm blades while Perseus' robot; a pair of robot-sized chainsaws that sprung from the lower arms.

Once freed, Coop then fired the lower left arm with the blades still out at the chest part of the Franken and pulled out its photonic stabilizer and bringing it to him so he could fix his mech.

Perseus saw Coop tried to put in the new one in, but upon closer look he made a horrible conclusion that came too little, too late; the photonic stabilizer was slightly too big for the hole in Megas' chest and it shattered from being forced in.

"Coop that was the only photonic stabilizer around anywhere!" Kiva shouted as she saw the reactor temperature rise even higher.

V'arsin then tried to punch Coop again, but ended up hitting Perseus instead who then slammed into Coop knocking both mechs to the ground. This was the final straw that pushed the reactor temperature to its max to explode.

"Ah, crap we're dead!" Alex said from Perseus' mech who saw Megas started to crackle with energy from its damaged reactor.

"Core temp has peaked!" Kiva shouted who saw Megas' countdown timer to explode was ticking.

"Wait, hold on for one moment..." Coop said.

Coop then casually pressed a button that sent his seat downwards and a few seconds later, he came back up and the crazy thing was, the core was stabilized. Nearby, Perseus saw it and was puzzled just like Kiva, but it didn't matter as they still had to deal with the alien junk man and his mech.

Kiva looked puzzled at what just happened and spoke, "What? But how?"

"We can think about it later Kiva, but first we have to deal with this creep who sent a giant worm to eat us, chased Goat and Jamie around with zombie junk bots, and somehow, made Coop break a perfectly good photonic stabilizer, but the worst thing he tried to do was to rip open my own mech along Coop's mech." Perseus said from his mech via a communication link-line.

"Wow Perseus, I usually say a rant before pounding a bad guy, but I'll ignore it for today and let's throw this junk man into a hurt locker and slam the door shut!" Coop replied to Perseus' rant against V'arsin.

Perseus just rolled his eyes and said nothing then, both Coop and Perseus proceeded to bash the crap out of the alien Junker and his robot. Coop was dealing the physical bashing while Perseus dealt the gunfire to the alien junk mech. About two minutes later, the Franken was badly damaged mainly due to Coop and Perseus' handy work.

"And that is how you fix things old-school American style!" Coop shouted.

"Uh, hate to break up the celebration, but if we have that alien's photonic stabilizer, what is stabilizing that thing?" Jamie asked while pointing to the downed junk mech.

True to what Jamie said, the alien junk mech started to get ready to explode and that was enough to tell both robots and their humans to get the hell off the planet fast. before things went boom.

After locating Goat who asked if they could save Darling his crude mech which was shot down by everyone as they had to leave, the two mechs blasted off the junk planet with Goat riding with Perseus and Alex and far away from the impending explosion.

"Were not out of range yet!" Kiva said as she checked the distance needed for both mechs to clear the explosion.

Both Coop and Perseus weren't worried because they had confidence that they would make it. Back on the junk planet, the last thing V'arsin saw was the energy coming out of his wrecked junk mech before it blew up killing him and taking out the entire planet.

"Whoa, I thought the blast radius would be smaller...guess I need to take that when we fix the other two Megas mechs in our possession..." Alex said.

"Well, now you know." Perseus replied calmly.

While Goat was "Mourning" the loss of his hand made mech in Perseus' machine, Kiva in Coop's machine decided to ask Coop how he fixed the core as she'd never seen how Coop did it herself.

"Coop, how were you able to fix the core?"

"That's easy, when in doubt, duck it!"

Coop smiled as he later pulled out a roll of duck tape that he passed it to Kiva and the futuristic woman was amazed at how a roll of tape could actually fix something from the future.

Back in Perseus' mech, Alex and Perseus were getting annoyed with Goat's talk about him actually not wanting a robot and then trying to contact Kiva for personal reasons. Goat then wanted to ask Coop and Perseus if they could use the wreckage of the two copy Megas units to build him his mech, but Perseus shot that down with a glare.

Just then Coop contacted Perseus, "Hey you guys up for Pizza?"

"I'm game and let's head to Chicago, they got the best deep dish pizza in the country..." Alex said.

"Sure why not? Besides I'll be sit-"

Perseus glared at Goat and spoke, "I got some tape in the trunk dude, so shut it, dumbass."

Ignoring Perseus, Goat tried again to talk to Kiva via the communication device installed in Perseus car when Alex pulled him back and duct taped up so he wouldn't cause anymore mischief.

The two mechs headed to Chicago for some deep dish pizza and some sightseeing at Perseus' suggestion. Kiva thought Megas' core couldn't be fixed, guess she was proven wrong…..

A/N: The next Chapter will have our heroes dealing with a certain alien bounty hunter.

Read and tell me what you think about this chapter. Oh yeah, one last thing, no flames at all, if I see flames, consider them gone. Have a great day everyone and see ya later.