Frobo stood there, terrified. The funny thing about memory was that his was unlike organic ones..
One of the many of Polly's secrets he kept, was she used to have nightmares of the day when he was destroyed
It had been years since she had done that, time had healed that wound, she would have them at times, but she kept to her own bed.
Not him though.
He still remembered the moment he warped his armed around that giant's legs, his vow to protect the small polliwog and how in the next moment nothing.
The next thing he knew he was falling from a great height and Polly was in danger yet again.
A part of him was still terrified of that emptiness, that nothing, however Ten years later, he would have still chosen to protect her
Looking at Panda-tron right now he wondered if he was thinking the same.
"Run," said the remains of Panda-tron weakly to the two humans.
The two looked at him for a second a mixture of guilt and Fear on their faces before they ran.
The mover robot started to follow, but stopped, it raised its hand towards the small frog who was still valiantly attacking it, it grabbed Polly (Who was cursing it with every swear word she knew, Which was a lot) and flung her.
It was Frobo;s time to fear now, he changed towards her, but what hope did he have if he had no arms to catch her.
As if the frog answered his prayers Anne jumped caught Polly.
"Are you okay?" said the human.
Polly nodded.
When Frobo reached them he looked at the two of them, "any ideas?"
"We need to take that thing down," said Polly, "maybe we can blow it up."
"The ole stand by," said Frobo wistfully.
Polly nodded with a wide grin, "yep,"
"Yeah but I don't think we have enough boom shrooms to put that thing down." Said Anne.
Polly nodded, *Yeah It'd take like ten I only brought two."
Anne decided to ignore the fact that Polly carried explosives with her (Which wasn't that shocking), and turned to Frobo. "What about you Frobo? You got anything that could take ton of fun over there down?"
The robot was about to tell her no, however he analyzed his memories, he saw both times the large robot went down was because of Panda-trons punching him, the panda arms were big maybe he could use them, however looking back at the robot he saw they were down, possibly-
"Sa-" said the remains of Panda-trons.
Instantly the armless Frobo ran over to him, followed by his two biological relatives.
Getting a closer look at the robot he could see the full extent of the damage, the nearly spotless black and white metal casing was now covered in mud and dented, one of his adorable panda ears was lying on the mud, one of his eyes was completely shattered.
"Pl…pl…please… save the…" said the robot in an electronic groan.
Frobo still held a lot of anger towards the robot but even now he couldn't help but pity the robot, his first thoughts were still on protecting the ones he considered family.
He had to save them, no matter what.
"I need your arms," he hissed to Panda-tron.
"T…take them." Groaned the larger robot, "just… save…"
He didn't finish that sentence, Panda-trons working eye faded.
"I will," replied Frobo, who turned to Polly, "How long will it-"
"A while," said Polly concerned, "Those are some heavy arms, I can-."
"You're forgetting I'm here," said Anne looking at the frog.
The smaller frog looked at her adoptive sister and frowned, "it's still too heavy for just we'd need more people and-"
"What about me?" Said voice from being them, the three turned to see a large blue newt rushing up.
"Pearl," said Polly, unable to hide the slight joy in her voice, she shook her head and tried to sound serious, "what are you doing here?"
"I've been following you guys, what do you need me to do?"
Polly smiled, she pulled out her wrench, "let's get to work."
…
Max had never thought about the way people destroyed robots before, that's because he was not insane.
"GUYS CHECK THIS OUT!" shouted Lucian, Max turned and nodded, it was a small robot not that impressive, but the toad boy wanted everyone to notice his robot smashing ability, Which was okay, but not the best.
"DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE." shouted Nicole who was probably the most into this, to a terrifying degree, the small newt was using her legs to full advantage, He was starting to gain a healthy respect and fear for her.
"I knew this was a bad idea." said Marcy as she slammed her nicely decorated staff into a robot that was sneaking up on Nicole, Max had noticed that the frog girl seemed reluctant to do any smashing but was perfectly find smashing up robots if they came near Nicole, Lucian of himself when they were distracted, her swinging skills were also good, she did mention one of her mothers was a general.
He couldn't help but admit one thing it was fun to smash robots with them, heck this entire thing was slowly becoming the best day ever, getting involved in an insane scheme with these Amphibians might have been the best thing he had done this whole week.
So lost in having fun he almost didn't notice the robots had stopped moving.
"Um, Guys?" he said.
Marcy was the first to notice him and the lack of robot movement, "Thank goodness that's over."
"Awww," said Lucian disappointed.
"DDDDDIIIIIIEEEEEEEE" shouted Nicole who continued smashing away at the remains of the robot.
Max laughed, it was funny, had grown to care for the three Amphibians over the last few days, even Marcy despite her habit of being a bit of a narc
"MAX." said a voice from behind him, turned he saw Sprig and Ivy running towards him, the two frogs stopped in front of him, "Are you okay?"
The boy nodded, "Yeah I was just with my friends."
He mentally froze for a second, it was a slip of the tongue, but it was shocked how natural it felt.
Besides, he was more worried about the fact that Sprigs eyes were starting to sparkle in wonder.
"What's going on?" asked Max concerned.
"He does this when something sappy happens in front of him," said Ivy, "It's annoying but kind of adorable."
"How do you-" he started to ask.
"Oh like this," Ivy grabbed Sprig and shook him, "WAKE UPPPPP!"
After a second of shaking Sprig work from his happiness induced shock.
"Thanks Ivy," he said woozily.
Max and Lucian laughed, Marcy giggled, and Nicole continued to smash the robot she was smashing..
"RUN." shouted a voice behind the group who turned to see two human women running towards them.
"It's Jess and Ally." said Sprig.
"Who?" said Ivy.
"Jess and Ally, they're two humans we met on earth they built robots."
"Huh, Never told me about them," she said slightly irked,
"I barely spent any time with them, they were more of a Polly thing."
The two humans reached them and looked at them worried, "You have to run, we're being chased by a robot."
"But they've stopped," said Max looking around the area.
"Not this one it's been programmed by a virus to chase after us." replied Ally.
Lucian smiled, "Well, I guess we've got a new target to go after."
Nicole jumped next to him, "More Robots to destroy, "I'm in."
Marcy sighed, "I should have ignored that letter."
Sprig pulled out his catapult, "Don't worry girls, We'll keep you safe."
For one brief moment the former I.T Gals felt glad they had three helpers by their sides however that ended with a giant stomp.
The five Amphibians and human boy looked where the source of the stomp came from, Their eyes widened in surprise.
"Oh." said Lucian
"He's bigger than others." said Max.
Marcy gulped, "Maybe we should retreat and…"
"DDDDDIIIIIEEEEEE" shouted Nicole as she rushed towards the giant robot.
"NICOLE." yelled Max and the other Amphibians.
She hit the Robot with her table leg.
It broke.
She stood there for a second looking at her now broken table leg then looked up and saw the massive robot peering down at her.
"Ha," she laughed nervously, "Um…Sorry?"
The robot reached down and picked her up, she looked like a blueberry being held between a pair of fingers, it arched his arm back and then threw the small newt into the sky, she went flying until she was a small dot in the sky.
The robot then looked down at the organic lifeforms underneath him.
Max was the first to react.
"RUN!" he shouted.
Everyone took off in different direction, Sprig and Ivy jumped towards two of the stalls, using it as leverage they took off and landed on the robot's head, they started to punch it, kick it anything to try and damage its head.
Nothing happened.
The robot continued to walk int the direction of the organics.
Jess and Ally were more terrified than ever, not only had they seen their creation, their son die, but now a group of innocent children were in danger (they didn't know Max they could be forgiven for their mistake.)
Without warning Jess suddenly tripped over a small rock, and hit the ground, Ally was instantly by her side.
"Are you okay." she said terrified.
"I am we need to-"
A large shadow covered them both, they looked up and saw the robot's foot above them.
They held each other, expecting the worst.
Time slowed down, in a second the two women would be crushed, their son Issac would become an orphan again and be left alone in the world.
"HEY UGLY." shouted a hissing voice from behind them.
The robot stopped lowing its foot giving both women a chance to run, flying towards the robot was something blue and metal with large black and white arms.
Sprig and Ivy jumped as Frobo punched the giant robot down, it landed with a thud.
The newly rearmed robot landed in front of the downed robot and held out his hand.
*Plop* "-HHHHHHHH,"
A screaming Nicole landed in Frobo's hand, she kept screaming for a few good seconds before realizing that she was not falling anymore, looking around she saw that she was safely in the palm of a robot.
"Wow, a robot saved me, maybe my bigotry was wrong, I should rethink things."
"You probably should," said Frobo, "Now, get somewhere safe I'm about to go buck wild on this thing."
The young newt jumped out of his hands and ran to the safety of a nearby stall.
The robot started to stand again, Frobo leaped, the robot swatted at him, thankfully it missed him, Frobo landed on its chest.
Frobo slammed his fists into the robot's chest, this time it left a large dent.
It swatted again, this time it caught Frobo.
The blue robot landed in a stall which collapsed on impact.
"FROBO!" a voice shouted, The blue robot turned to see Polly running towards him.
"I'm fine muttered the robot standing, he turned and looked at the robot again.
"Not if you keep running into battle like that, we need to think about this."
"Any idea how we do that then?"
The mover robot started to stand.
"I might not know about robots, but I think the best part would be to go for the head," said Anne arriving.
"On it," said Polly, who jumped onto Frobo, then onto the giant robot's shoulders, she took out a wrench from her pocket..
"Of course," said Sprig looking at his sister from the ground, "she'll use that wrench to smash his head open."
"What, no, I tried that," Said Polly shaking her head, "I'm going to unscrew his head off."
"Oh," replied Sprig.
"Then when it's off I'll jump in and smash it."
"So I'm half right."
Polly rolled her eyes and started to unscrew the robot head, the robot noticing this started to raise its hand towards Polly.
Before he could grab the small frog Frobo jumped and punched the hand out of the way.
"Thanks Frobo," said Polly still unscrewing the robot's head bolts.
Before Frobo could respond the robot's other hand attempted to flick him off.
"Hey you." Said a voice.
The robot turned to look at the source.
Jess stood there looking brave, the robot started to stomp towards her.
"Hey don't bother, I'm here" came a voice from the other side of the robot.
It turned again to see Ally standing there.
For a moment the robot's programming was conflicted, not being able to decide which of the women to go after, its simple programming did not specify which of the two needed to be destroyed first.
This gave Polly enough time to finish unscrewing the bolts on the robot's head, she turned to Frobo, "NOW!"
The Frobo reached for the loosened head and started to lift, his arms groaned, but the head started to move, with one big crash it fell off and landed on the ground with a thud.
For a second everything seemed to be fine, Polly to Frobo, "did it work?"
Before the blue robot could say anything a fist slammed into him.
"FROBO!" Shouted Polly, before she could do anything the mover robot shook itself and Polly fell to the ground, the robot's foot rose again, about to crush Polly.
Anne ran, just before it reached her, she was just able to pull her out of the way.
"Polly, are you okay?"
The frog girl nodded, "Yeah it's just we need to destroy it on the inside."
Suddenly an idea entered Anne's head, "Polly how far can Frobo throw me?"
"Pretty high, Why?"
She whispered into Polly's ear.
"Oh," Polly smiled, "I love it."
On the other side of the field Frobo started to stand, he was damaged but no so bad, he looked at his new arms, they still worked thankfully.
"FROBO," shouted two voices in front of him, looking up from his arms he saw Anne and Polly running towards him.
"THROW ME," shouted Anne.
He didn't need to think twice; he locked his new fingers together and lowered his arms, When Anne reached him he flung both his arms and Anne into the air.
Flying above the robot she took aim and threw Polly at the hole where the robot's head used to be.
She threw Polly who went flying towards the hole all while screaming a war cry.
The robot tried to swat her, but it was too late, Polly landed in the hole.
The next few seconds were full of smashing, smoke and the insane laughter of a bloodthirsty frog.
In a second the robot started to fall, Polly rolled out, a smile on her face.
Everyone, human, robot, Amphibian ran towards her, "Polly, are you okay?" Asked Anne.
Polly sighed blissfully, "Yeah that was fun."
Anne shook her head smiling, same old Polly.
"We have to get to Panda-tron." said Jess worried.
Anne looked at the two worried, "I have bad news, he's-"
Polly threw up her hand, "Actually Anne I have a plan."
…
Panda-tron remembered dying, he remembered his sensors slowly shutting down, robbing him of sound and sight, his last few moments as he shit down was hope that his mother would be safe, and then nothing.
The next thing he knew he saw both his mother's faces in front of him, contained in a rectangle.
"PANDA!" Both women shouted together.
Panda-tron was shocked to see them, or be aware of anything.
"Mom's… how am I…"
"You should be glad that we could put you A.I anywhere,"said a voice off-screen.
The image on the moved downwards to see Polly standing there with a smile,
"Currently you're in Jess's phone, which is a little out there, but considering I took Anne phone apart and back together when she wasn't looking."
"You did what?" said Anne
"We'll talk about it later," said Polly quickly to her sister, then turned back to Panda-tron, "Also, I programmed your digital body to look like the only panda thing I could find on Anne's phone, sorry."
Panda-tron looked down, his body looked big and puffy, like a chibi anime character.
"Oh, my body?"
"Badly damaged," said Ally, I don't think we're going to repair it any time soon, but we can also build you a new body it'll be small and…"
"No," said Panda-tron.
"What?"
"I'm not going back." he said
His mothers looked worried.
"Panda please we're not angry we're just glad we didn't lose you and…"
"I know, but after everything I've done…I should delete myself."
"NO." both women shouted at once.
"Even if you messed up today we don't want you gone, We just… We need to talk about this more often."
"You're our son no matter what, we'll always want you."
Panda-tron looked at them, hearing that made him feel guiltier, "I have to go."
"You can't just go." said Jess shocked, "I mean after everything that happened… there's going to be questions, and you need to be punished."
"But Symbiosis, the A.I that tricked me, I know I have to make up for what I've done so let me track him down."
Before Jess and Ally could say anything Anne spoke up.
"Let him go."
…
The two women turned to her, "Anne what are you–"
"I know, I know but Trust me, the reason he did this was because you guys held him back, for good reason, but sometimes you need to face the fact that you can control the people you love, or interfere with their lives," her eyes darted over to Polly, "Trust me it's a lesson I need to learn a lot."
A small smile appeared on Polly's lips.
Jess and Ally looked at her then at their son, They had to admit that this might be the wrong thing to do, sending their son out into the world to find a dangerous A.I and stop him before he hurt others it was a risk.
But so was keeping him, so was letting him be a part of their family.
And it was one worth risking.
They smiled.
"You call us every day."
"And don't fall for any other evil tricks."
The small anime Panda on the screen nodded, "I will and trust me, I'll stop him before he hurts anyone else."
"We love you Panda-tron."
"I love yo to mom's."
He turned to Panda-tron, "Thank you for saving my family, After all I did…"
"It's fine, I would have done the same or my organics…that said I'm keeping the arms.
The panda-tron laughed, "Keep em."
The screen suddenly went black, after a few seconds the normal home screen returned, an image of Jess, Ally with their two sons.
…
"Well that was a weird day." said Anne throwing the remains of a drone into a bag, "at least it wasn't boring."
It was two hours since the former I.T Gals had left, a lot of the attendee of the fair were looking over the damage, some were even helping to clean up, Anne, Sprig Polly and Ivy had volunteered to stay and help, Max and his friend had snuck off, to Anne's annoyance.
"Yeah, Sorry we didn't get to have much of a girl's day out." said Polly, who was currently working on disassembling the mover robot.
"Eh, It's cool, And I'm sorry about Pearl, I shouldn't have interfered."
"You're right you shouldn't have."
Anne laughed, "So what do you like about Pearl?"
Polly dropped her wrench, "Oh, well, She's nice, sweet and kind, And there's the fact that one I saw her rip open a barrel with her bare hands."
Anne laughed, "You like her muscles, don't you?"
"Yeah, but I can't tell her that, she'll just think I'm shallow, I like her because she's sweet nice, and kicks butt," The young frog sighed, "It's just I can't say that to her face."
"Really?" said a sweet voice from behind Polly.
Polly jumped and turned to see a large newt girl standing behind her, she was carrying the remains of several robots in her arms..
"Pearl, I…"
"I'm glad you said it at last."
"Well I…What?"
"Polly, I like you too, and I don't think it's weird, though It would be nice if you stopped looking at my muscles while I talked."
The pink frog shock her head, "Sorry, it's just-"
"No it's cool, do you want to hang out one d-"
"YES!" blurted out Polly, she instantly covered her mouth before she said anything else.
"Okay then." said Peal chuckling she walked off with the pile of robots in her hands.
Anne walked up to her adopted sister, on her face was a look of terror, she turned to Anne, "Is that dress shop still open I need something," she glanced down at her overalls, "…anything nice to wear."
Placing her hand on Polly shoulder "We might just squeeze it in before we have to go back."
Polly smiled back, "Okay, but I don't want anything too girly."
"I promise." said Anne.
The two hugged, so much had changed between them and yet just as much stayed the same.
"Hey can I join in on this?" said Frobo placing a dozen drones on the ground."
"Sure." said Polly, "Just promise me that if you ever want to leave, you won't cause a robot uprising."
"No promises," said Frobo, "Though I would like my old arms back."
"Fair."
…
"Do you remember the last time we went out on a date that didn't almost end in disaster?"
Sprig laughed, "You'd be bored on a normal date."
Ivy chuckled, "Yeah.."
They continued to work a few seconds, "Hey Sprig."
"Yeah?"
"Why did you let Max just go off like that?"
Sprig froze and looked at her confused, "I wanted to just let him be with his friends, Is that a problem?"
"No," said Ivy unsure, "But what are we going to do if we ever have kids?"
The k word was the thing that made Sprig panic, He had no idea how to react to this, Being friendly to kids was easy, but the idea that he'd have to be a father in the future was still an alien one, part of himself blamed that on the idea that for the majority of his life he didn't know how to do that, not that he was lacking for parental figures in his life, Hop-Pop, , heck even Grime. But he could never imagine doing what they did.
"Umm…" said Sprig sweating, "I guess I'd-"
"Sprig." called a voice from his side, Sprig turned to see Anne running up to him, "Have you seen Max?"
"Not for a while, I think I saw him sneak off a while ago,"
Anne rolled her eyes, "Why didn't you stop him?"
Sprig shrugged.
"Okay well if you see him tell him to meet us by the wagon, Polly and I are going to go shopping for a dress."
"Polly in a dress, take a photo, I need to see that."
Anne glared at him, and walked off.
"Sprig," said Ivy.
The frog turned and looked at his girlfriend who was still waiting for his answer.
"Oh, um, Well Ivy, I don't know."
The yellow frog looked a little worried, "Well, we're going to have one eventually."
Sprig swallowed, he knew she had a point, but he was terrified of how to respond. It was like he was trapped, between a heron on one path, a pair of love doves on the other, all while being chased by a Scorpoleo.
He needed to say something anything so that Ivy wouldn't be worried.
"I know." he said feeling like a coward.
Ivy just looked at him and nodded, "Okay."
"Sorry," he quickly blurted out.
"It's fine," she responded a kind look in her eyes, "I just need to do some thinking, I should get home, my mom probably needs some help, losing time at the tea shop can get a little wild."
Sprig nodded, he kissed her, there was warmth there however there was fear for both of them, their conversation had opened a fear to a young couple, as let go and Sprig watched her walk, he gripped by a small fear that Ivy might want to go in a direction he was scared to go in, sighing he returned to picking up robot parts.
Ivy kept walking scared.
…
"CHEERS." said three voices.
Sneaking away from the cleanup was at least to three of the friends a good idea, Marcy felt a little guilty, but even she would admit a bottle of berry juice was a good way to end an evening.
"Welp can't lie today was pretty good," said Max.
"What was it the robot destroying?" asked Lucian, "I mean I know Nicole loved it."
"That was before I know that not all robots were bad," replied the young newt, "I was blind, but now I see."
"Too bad it came after we destroyed around one hundred robots," said Marcy.
"Change takes time." said Nicole.
"That doesn't make it sound better."
The group laughed, Max looked at them, he had to admit that he considered these Amphibians friends now, before he thought they were more people he had to spend time with, but now he could see the appeal.
"Hey did anyone see Montgomery?" asked Marcy, "I didn't see him run from the arena."
"I passed a when I got the drinks," said Nicole, "He's not having a good time."
…
One-eyed Wally played his accordion, after such a long chaotic day he hoped it would raise some spirits around town, he was just about to pass a tree when he heard the voice.
"You there poor frog."
Wally froze and looked up to see a well-dressed newt boy stuck in a tree, Wally inwardly laughed at the poor line the kid had said, "Ello, you need help of something?"
"Yes you stupid moron, get me a ladder or something, I climbed up here to get away from these drones,"
"What these dead things," said Wally knocking on over with his foot.
"Well they're dead now, but they weren't when I climbed up here idiot."
Even if he was in a good mood Wally was starting to dislike this kid, "Oh sorry about that, do you want me to help?"
"Finally," said the Newt boy, "he gets it."
"Okay," said Wally, who started to play his accordion.
"What are you doing?" shouted the Newt.
"Music will help keep you clam, Here a little ditty about always showing people respect even under trying times."
It was nightfall when they got Montgomery down, from that day on he had a lifelong hatred of Accordions.
…
Max couldn't help but see the smile on Marcy's face as Nicole told the group about Montgomery's enforced concert.
He would admit that seeing her smile was a lot better than seeing her annoyed at him, he'd have to admit she was brave in her own way, and her stick in the mud attitude seemed to be more based on looking after her friends.
It would be a shame to leave them all behind.
That's when an idea entered his head.
Who said he needed to leave them behind, maybe he could bring them together, they could be a group. He was clearly the brains of the group, Marcy seemed to be the heart, Lucian the musical and Nicole… Well she was crazy, but together they'd be unstoppable.
"Hey guys, What do you say we get out of here?"
"I do need to get home, it's getting late," said Marcy, looking at the sunset.
"Mom and Dad are making cricket pie today, after all that happened yesterday."
"My curfew is around six, Unless I'm with someone I have to back soon."
Max shock his head, "No I don't mean this place, I mean this town."
The three amphibians looked at him confused.
"What?" said Marcy.
"You know maybe we should leave town."
"What are you talking about?" said Nicole.
"I'm talking about adventures, the chance for us to go out there and make names for ourselves."
Max expected the Amphibians to side with him instantly however he was surprised to see they looked worried.
"Just leave?" said Nicole.
"My mom and Dad are still terrified about yesterday, I can't do that to them," said Lucian
"What are you even thinking?" said Marcy the angriest of all of them.
"No, I mean… We could do it?"
Marcy continued to glare at him, "What are you up to?"
"Well, I mean…." said Max hesitantly.
"You were willing to runaway with Lucian yesterday, You want money for some reason, you-" Marcy anger vanished, a look of worry appeared on her face, "You want to run away."
Max saw the look on all of them a look of worry, he needed to do something fast.
"Pfft," Max started to laugh, "You guys actually thought-"
"No," said Marcy sternly
"What?"
"No, you're not going to get out of this, Max can't just run."
Max looked at her, he had gotten to the use of the look of disgust from the frog he was shocked by the look of pity, oddly enough it was worse.
"Who says I can't," he said defiantly.
With that he ran away from three.
He ran and ran trying to avoid their shouts to come back, he didn't see how worried they were, all he knew is that when they told someone what happened, he'd be sent back home, then they'd find out about what had happened and what he had done, and they'd turn against him.
He fought back the tears in his eyes, He was stupid for even thinking they'd go with him.
"Max?" called a voice from a head, he looked up to see Anne driving Micro-Angelo, Polly and Sprig were sitting next to her, Frobo was in the wagon.
"Are you okay?" asked Anne.
Max turned around expecting to see the others behind him, to his relief they weren't "Um, Yeah, are we going now?"
"Well, that's why we're on the snail, You ready to go?"
"Sure," with that he climbed into the wagon, he took one last look at the town, Why didn't they follow him, and why was he disappointed.
…
Guardsman Oren wondered just who he had annoyed to get this assignment, guarding the gates of Newtopia at midnight, the time when no one came to the gates, of course there could be some sort of animal attack or some criminals but still even they were probably sleeping by now..
Sighing he closed his eyes.
"Excuse me," said a familiar voice from below.
Oren looked down to see a large blue face looking up at him, he knew the face instantly as the former king, a hundred things went off in his mind, should he warn the capital, should he confront him, should he take out his sword and attack him?
What he actually did was something shocking, he stayed clam and looked at the king.
"State your business here" he commanded.
"Well, me and my associate, the salamander next to me," he gestured towards a cloaked figure standing there, Oren could make out a brown and green annoyed looking at him annoyed. "Wish to investigate the ruins of my castle."
Oren swallowed, "Really, aren't you banned from that?"
"Yes, but I really need to investigate something, I just came here to inform the city about my actions."
"Why?" asked Oren.
"Well because I'm banned and-"
"No I mean why come and here and inform us, I mean Let's be honest you could be over there right now."
"Because he's a cretin." said the cloaked Salamander.
"Because I want to avoid any sort of panic, I mean there are a lot of security drones there and seeing the former evil king trying to break into a castle just outside new Newtopia would not be a good sign."
Oren looked down at him, that was a good reason, and the fact that he had come to the gates first made sense, "Stay there." he said.
He walked over, and he grabbed a small speaker and a small earpiece attached to the wall, he placed the earpiece on his head and spoke into the microphone.
"Em, King Andrias and a salamander are outside the city gates, They want to go to the castle.."
From the other side of the speaker there were sounds of chaos, shouting and words which cannot really be repeated in polite society, Oren however just stood there patiently waiting for orders.
In time, he got them, lowering his ear-piece and speaker he walked over to the window, "Hey um…There's like a battalion of guys coming for you, could you not fight them, please?"
Andrias nodded, "Certainly."
Oren nodded, "Thanks."
Five minutes later, three hundred guards, two huge beetles, a giant crossbow, a trained Scorioleo, one extremely nervous negotiator, and one senior citizen who wanted to see what all this commotion was about arrived to great the king.
Suffice to say they were not happy.
Oren however was happy, at least something happened tonight, and he got to live, not bad at all.