Rex and Roxie sped down the highway with Rex using his Rex Ride and Roxie speeding alongside him on a motorcycle she conjured, both with their goggles over their eyes, unaware that Providence was watching them.
"Any sign of the twins?" Six asked.
"Not since we lost their biometric readings five days ago," Holiday answered.
"Was Noah any help?"
"Says he doesn't know where they are either."
Holiday groaned as she sat up from the computer and ran her hands over her face
"What's it going to take for Providence to realize that Rex and Roxie need a home, not just a room and a job? Face it, Six. We've been pushing them away all this time."
"So, we build tools for jobs and cure EVOs," Rex narrated as he and his sister sped down the road. "The only two in the world who can."
"And there's only one cure for that kind of pressure: road trip! ...Unfortunately for us, that's not the same thing as a vacation"
The twins pulled over as Roxie dispelled her ride and they both took off their goggles as they looked to see a few construction workers step back in fear at a few EVO Gnashts hissing at them.
"What in the world is that thing?!"
The EVO Gnashts hissed outwards and ran forwards, tackling the workers and biting their pickaxes in half. One of the workers came rolling up in an excavator.
"Get away from that cable!" he shouted before pulling forward to run over the mutant creatures and sending them slamming into a wall.
More and more creatures started swarming the team and tackled the excavator, sending it toppling over. This caught the attention of the worker's co-worker/wife, who ran in vain, trying to help her husband as the prairie dogs started swarming.
"Jacob!"
Rex and Roxie nodded as Roxie leaped onto the back of her brother's Rex Ride and they drove forwards as Roxie summoned two large gauntlets to her hands.
"You're right, sis. A hero's work is never done."
Rex built a large bumper on his Rex Ride and slammed the EVO swarm off of the excavator as Roxie slammed them back with her gauntlets before she leaped off the ride and knelt down to Jacob's level.
"You okay?"
"What... are you guys?" Jacob asked, taking Roxie's hand as she helped him up and Rex built his Smack Hands as Roxie summoned a giant warhammer to her hands with a smirk.
"Here to help," Rex said.
Rex ran forward and slammed the EVOs back with a shout of effort as his sister whirled around like a tornado, slamming back tons and tons of the EVOs with her intense strength, not letting a single one near the construction team.
"We've got to get that cable back underground," Jacob ordered his team as they pushed the excavator back upright and went back to work quickly. "We've been compromised!"
"But Jacob," his wife expressed, concerned. "The EVOs."
"We don't have a choice, Kate! Everything we've worked for... That boy and that girl are here for a reason," Jacob said.
As the twins continued laying the smackdown on the EVOs, Rex noticed one escaping towards the cable, a glare growing on his face.
"Oh no, you don't!" Rex shouted, spinning his left fist and slamming it into the prairie dog, sending it flying back up as Roxie leaped off his fist and slammed it back into the ground with her massive mallet.
"Pay attention, all of you!"
"We have a hit in Sector 15!" an agent reported to Six and Holiday, noticing the EVO activity.
"Anyone in the area?" Six asked.
"Eyes show one patrol in the vicinity. Signaling to intercept."
"Roger that."
The passing Providence truck opened it's trunk and summoned two large bike-shaped vehicles reversed out of it and drove off down the road to find the twins.
Speaking of whom, Rex and Roxie were quickly getting overwhelmed from the sheer amount of EVOs swarming them and were growing tired.
Roxie panted out as she swatted them away with a shout, panting as Rex deactivated his Smack Hands and activated his Boogie Pack.
"Okay," Rex shouted, taking off. "You want a ride? Well, vamanos!"
The creatures all squealed as they fell to the ground as Roxie ran up and watted them all into the horizon with her warhammer one by wone.
"Phew," Roxie paned, dispelling her warhammer. "I usually say I've got a good batting arm, but this wasn't the time to prove it."
"You two can control your nanites?" Jacob asked as he ran up with his wife and their employees.
"Well, people usually start with a 'thanks,' but yeah," Rex said, rubbing his head.
"See, Kate? It's true. This is exactly what the Architect can achieve. Harmony with the nanites! This boy and girl- sorry. Young man and woman- are miracles!"
"We're not miracles," Roxie said with a blush. "Just Rex and Roxie."
"Well, Rex and Roxie, you're blessings to us for what you did here and for showing us that all our work isn't in vain."
"Work?" Rex asked as he and Roxie looked around to see absolutely nothing around them. "Is it imaginary work?"
The engineers all smiled and walked off as Jacob and Kate looked to the twins with a smile.
"Follow us. You'll see."
The twins then followed them for a bit, only to see them seemingly vanish into thin air. Roxie gained a shocked look at this, but decided to continue and she and Rex vanished as well, just as the Providence vehicles strode up to the area.
"Confirming coordinates," an agent reported.
"We've lost the EVO signals," the general reported. "Did you take them out?"
"Negative. There's nothing here."
"Must be another anomalous reading. You can return to post."
As the Providence agents left, Rex and Roxie felt at the cloaking field around them.
"This is awesome," Roxie said as they turned around to see Jacob in front of a ton of trees... in a desert area. "This is a hidden village."
"And no one in the world knows you're out here?" Rex asked as he and Roxie entered the village with Jacob. "Not even Providence?"
"Especially not Providence."
"Really?" Roxie asked.
"Really."
The twins looked forward and spotted a large tower in the center of the village.
"Sounds like you got great cellphone reception out here," Rex chuckled.
"That tower is going to change the world, Rex," Jacob announced. "I'm sure that you and your sister must have a lot of questions, but I have one for you... are you two hungry?"
The twin EVOs felt their stomachs growl and faced each other with a blush on each of their faces.
Later, at Jacob and Kate's house, Rex and Roxie dug into their dinner of meatloaf and mashed potatoes with a smile on their faces.
"My dad said you two fought all those EVOs all by yourself. Were you scared? Didn't your dad tell you to stay away from EVOs?"
"Caleb, let them eat," Kate scolded. "Sorry about my son. we don't get many visitors."
"It's fine," Rex said, continuing his meal. "What is this?"
"I've never tasted anything like it," Roxie said with a dumb satisfied smile on her face.
"What? Didn't your mom ever make you meatloaf and mashed potatoes?" Caleb asked.
"I... I don't know," Rex said.
"We don't have parents," Roxie sighed. "Or, if we do, we have no idea who they are. Rex and I have had amnesia for as long as I can remember."
"It took me a month and a half to program in the perfect lump-to-mash ratio of the potatoes: 7.2%."
"We ate potatoes until they were coming out of our ears," Jacob chuckled.
"I don't see any potatoes in there," Rex said, looking into Caleb's ear.
"They didn't really come out of our ears," Caleb chuckled.
"Sorry about my brother," Roxie chuckled. "He's such a clown sometimes. Man, I could eat this stuff every day for the rest of my life!"
"We have them every Friday."
"Then we might have to stick around this place until next Friday."
Kate, however, pressed a button on the table's pad and a robot oven of some kind rolled up to her and produced another two trays of meatloaf and mashed potatoes.
"Help yourselves to seconds," Kate smiled.
"Or thirds," Jacob said, handing them his own tray.
The pleased twins then dug right into the second and third helpings of the meal.
Meanwhile at Providence headquarters, Bobo as going through the twins' stuff and came across Roxie's comb and smirked to himself and began brushing his armpits with it.
"You know, you might think you're doing Rex and Roxie a favor by covering for them," Six said, suddenly appearing behind Bobo.
"Get lost. I don't now what you're talking about."
"Rex and Roxie are angry with us. And they have every right to be. But that means nothing to White Knight and he doesn't have the patience we do."
"Nice try. White won't lay a finger on them. They're too important. They're the only ones who can win the war for us."
"True. You, however, are somewhat expendable."
Bobo's eyes shot as wide as they could and he groaned. "Alright, alright. You've made your point."
"Whoa," Rex said as he and his sister walked with Jacob through the village. "I've never seen tech like this before."
"And we've been around technology for as long as we can remember," Roxie whistled. "Even Providence could only dream of stuff this advanced."
"The Architect has some pretty big ideas. All we do is bring them into reality. He'd be very interested to meet you two, Rex and Roxie."
"So what exactly are you guys doing out here in the middle of nowhere?"
"Well, engineers like us weren't very popular after the nanite event. When we met the Architect, he offered us the opportunity to make up for that- to do amazing things. Someday, we'll be able to share all this with the world!"
Soon, Jacob walked them to the center of town where a giant signal tower stood.
"And then there's this: the Architect actually found a way for us to communicate with the nanites."
"You mean like how we do with ours?" Roxie asked
"Are you serious?" Rex asked.
"The possibilities are endless. We could finally all live in harmony. Maybe have the nanites help us."
"Then why hide it?" Roxie asked. "I mean, the rest of the world deserves to know this stuff is possible too."
"The Architect is something of a perfectionist. Says that the world will know as soon as it comes online."
"Stupid module!" a man said, throwing down his tools and taking off his goggles.
"Is there a problem, Maxwell?" Jacob asked.
"No matter what I try, I just can't get the interlock servo to engage."
Roxie smirked as Rex bowed to her. "Your turn."
Roxie took the device and then focused as she let her nanites work their magic as the interlock servo instantly fired up, activating the device with a smile as she handed the device to Maxwell, who pressed the component into some sort of shield-like device that instantly flared to life.
"That could have taken us weeks to figure to figure out and you did it in seconds, Roxie!"
"Yeah. We're kind of wizzes with technology," Roxie said, brushing her hair back behind her ear.
"It's no big deal. Really."
"You really are amazing, Rex and Roxie. We're so happy to have you with us."
"Jacob," a voice called and Jacob looked up to see a man walking towards him and the twins.
"I was just talking to the twins about you- the Architect."
"How's it going? I'm Rex."
"Roxie."
"The power linkage team is falling behind," the Architect deadpanned. "We cannot keep having these delays."
"I'll check in with them," Jacob assured as he walked in.
"Wow. he's friendly," Rex sighed.
"I like to think that he's smiling on the inside."
"Yeah," Roxie sighed. "We know a guy who's like that."
"These two visitors could pose a problem," the Architect said as he looked up at a few monitors inside the tower. "Do you wish to have them removed?"
"Their abilities could advance our progress considerably," an A.I called ZAG-RS said, the buttons on her processor blinking with every word. "And in a matter of days, all humans will be gone. Including these two: Rex and Roxie."
The Architect nodded as he retracted the cables inside his fingers from ZAG-RS's processor (!) and walked off.
"I'm at the location the monkey gave me," Six reported, at a beach of some sort.
"Well. Are Rex and Roxie there?" Holiday asked.
"Apparently not. Tell the monkey I want to him when I get back," Six sighed before getting hit in the head with a frisbee. "Six out."
Rex smiled as he handed a machine back to Jacob. "That should do it."
The crowd below the tower cheered for the twins as Roxie only smiled cheekily and gestured at the crowd to continue before blowing kisses.
"Hey, Rex, Roxie, can you look at this?" Maxwell asked, holding a chip.
The twins looked down as they saw the villagers all line up at the tower one by one.
"Sure," Roxie deadpanned. "Let me guess, they all need help too?"
After fixing all the lined up villagers' work, Jacob climbed the ladder to see the twins sitting on the tower, looking out into the horizon.
"You two are quite the catch."
"Yeah," Rex said "It's amazing what a little gratitude will get you."
"If this were at Providence, they'd all just be yelling at us. I mean, ask me or Rex. We never felt like we really belonged there."
"Yeah. But here, it's a totally different story."
"I know the feeling," Jacob said, slapping Rex's back. "The Architect has made all this possible for us. We have a community- a family- all thanks to him. The work we do is in part to pay him back."
Speaking of the Architect, he was still spying on our heroes as he nodded to ZAG-RS.
"Primary systems complete."
"Prepare to take us online."
"As you wish."
A livid Six reentered Providence headquarters and looked at a smirking Bobo swivel back in his chair towards him.
"Have a nice trip?" Bobo laughed. "Let's get one thing straight, pal- I would never rat out my two-"
Six said nothing before he held out a pizza box.
"Ooh! They're going west. That's all I know."
Bobo took the pizza and walked off as White Knight appeared on the screen above Six.
"Why are Rex and Roxie doing this? Don't they have a sense of duty?"
"Actually, if you look at them, they're still technically doing their job," Holiday noted. "Here's every false alarm since the twins left. Tuns out, they weren't false alarms. It was just Rex and Roxie taking care of any EVO attacks along the way."
"Why?"
"I have no clue. To prove that they don't need us?"
"Get the coordinates of the last false alarm and transmit them to my jump jet," Six ordered before walking away.
"Six, wait," Holiday said, shooting up from her seat. "If we force the two of them to come back, they'll just run away again. And this time, they'll learn from their mistake of fighting off the EvOs. They have to want to be here. It needs to be their decision."
"I'll keep that in mind," Six said before walking to his jump jet.
The village was now gathered outside of the tower as Rex talked with Jacob and Roxie talked with Kate.
"It's all coming together now," Kate said. "And it's all thanks to you two."
"You know, Roxie may know this feeling better, but it's nice to use my power to actually build something instead of just pounding EVOs."
"Oh, you know it," Roxie chuckled. "Hey, even your boss is pitching in."
That was the point that a stunned silence fell over the entire community as they saw the Architect working on a panel on the tower.
"And that's getting strange looks because..." Rex asked.
"Because in all this time we've been here, we've never seen him lift a finger."
"Okay, hermano. Something's up," Roxie said as they walked over to the Architect.
"Taking some initiative for once? I like that."
The Architect said nothing as he closed the tower's panel.
"So, this whole talking to nanites idea you have. How does it work, exactly?" Roxie asked. "What are you going to say to them?"
"It does not concern the two of you," the Architect said as he walked away.
"Um, considering that we're filled with them, it kinda does," Rex said. "How do we know this isn't going to make things even worse?"
"I do not answer to you, children," the Architect said, causing both twins eyes to widen.
"Rex, Roxie," Jacob said, pushing past the twins to his boss. "Forgive them. They're still not used to the way things work around here. I mean, they only showed up a week ago."
"Complete your duties," the Architect ordered as he reentered the tower.
"Why do you let the guy walk all over you like that?" Roxie asked Jacob. "I mean, don't you guys want answers?"
"What we want is a home. Without him, we have nothing. Nothing. We can't just run away from our problems, guys. Most people can't. Look, our situation isn't perfect, but it' all we got."
Rex and Roxie looked at each other and a glare hardened on their faces as they stormed after the Architect.
"Rex, Roxie, where are you going?"
'He never answered our question," Rex answered before Jacob grabbed Roxie's arm.
"That place is off limits!" Jacob exclaimed. "The Architect has made it very clear to us that we can never go in there. We get this life for that promise."
"Sorry, guys. But we're not one of you," Roxie said as they went up the stairs to the tower's doorway.
"Guys, don't do it!"
Rex stuck his hand out to the door, only to get electrically shocked as soon as it touched the metal.
"Rex, Roxie, please!"
"You can do it," Roxie whispered into his ear.
Re nodded as he slammed his hand against the door, using his technological manipulation powers to try to force the door to open, weathering through the electricity as the door opened.
"Sorry, Jacob," Rex said. "We're the heroes here. we have to know what's going on."
The twins simply entered the tower and looked up at the core at the center of the room with a look of stunned silence.
"Rex, Roxie," the Architect's voice sounded. "The core is off limits. The pair of you would be wise to leave at once."
"We're not getting out of here until we get some answers," Roxie said, crossing her arms as she looked at ZAG-RS's processor. "What is that?"
"No more questions."
The Architect ran over and used his surprising strength to tear a large warhammer-like figure off its foundation and glanced over at the twins.
"Oh, it's gonna be like that, huh?" Rex asked as he glared and built his BFS, sticking it out as Roxie shot her hand out and the field of energy that her nanites exuded formed a broadsword with a flourish.
The twins and the Architect charged at each other as Rex blocked the warhammer's strike with his BFS as Roxie leaped onto the top side of the hammer before she leaped down and gave a mighty slash at the Architect's leg, causing him to shout in pain.
"What are you hiding in here, huh?" Roxie asked. "What does this thing do?!"
"I'm not about to tell you!"
The twins continued slamming their weapons against the warhammer as Rex nodded as he diminished his BFS and activated his Smack Hands to give his sister a boost as she spun her broadsword around like a whirling dervish and slashed the Architect several times before she landed on her hands and did a backflip to her brother as she moved her hair out of her face.
The twins looked up with a smirk, only for their jaws to drop once they saw just what was lying underneath the skin from Roxie's slashes.
"What the!?"
"You're a machine?!"
The twins then picked their jaws up and smirked.
"Have you seen what we can do to machines?"
The Architect charged forwards as Rex and Roxie smirked as they did a rock, paper, scissors for who did the honors and Roxie won. She then simply touched the Architect's chest with her pinkie without even trying.
"Boop."
The purple electrical lines shot out from the chest and within seconds, the Architect was overloaded and several small explosions occurred from his body as all the skin was instantly burned to a crisp and he fell to the ground.
"Well, that was easy," Rex said as he and Roxie looked up at the core. "What is this thing?"
Rex stuck his hand onto the control panel and tried to use his nanites, only to get shocked again and blown back into his sister.
"As you can see, the current range of my signal is rather limited," ZAG-RS INFORMED.
"You're the computer," Roxie realized.
"My human designation is ZAG-RS. The device you and the community refer to as 'The Architect' is my autonomous counterpart."
"What did you just do to me?" Rex asked.
"I instructed your nanites to protect me."
"Instructed?" Roxie asked. "So you really can talk to them."
"Insidious devices, the nanites. My own potential for greatness has been compromised because of them. They must be eliminated."
"Okay, first of all, I really don't think that's a good idea," Rex began. "Second, how is that even possible?"
"When the transmitter is integrated into the broadcast array that the pair of you helped us complete, the nanites will blow themselves up."
"What?" Rex asked, stunned. "So that's what this is for. It's like a big remote control."
"But every living thing on the planet has nanites in them!" Roxie shouted. "All the plants, animals, humans! Everything will die if that happens!"
"That is of no importance to me. Only ensuring my continued survival."
"Well, what about ours?!" Rex asked as he activated his Smack Hands and Roxie shouted out as she created two katanas and shouted out.
"We're bringing this entire place down! And you with it!"
"I'm afraid you're too late."
A powerful surge then laced through the twins entire bodies and they fell to the ground, their builds dissolving as they looked up to see the broadcast begin.
"Oh, shit," Rex said.
"Our powers are directly linked to our nanites," Roxie realized. "We can't do anything with this thing ordering them to protect it. Let's get out of here."
The twins ran out of the tower and into a mob of angry engineers.
"Rex, Roxie, what have you done?"
"You don't understand," Rex shouted. "The Architect is a robot!"
"And a big honking computer brain is pulling his strings like a puppet!"
"No. This can't be true," Jacob denied, shaking his head.
"Jacob, you've got to believe us!" Roxie shouted. "Just go inside and see for yourself: what's left of it is on the floor!"
"I can't go in there and... I don't have to."
Everyone parted as another Architect simply stepped out of the crowd with a stern glance at the twins.
"Rex, Roxie."
Rex growled before he ran in to punch the Architect in the face, only to be stopped by two engineers standing in front of him.
"You guys are making a big mistake!" Rex shouted.
"You entered his sanctum!" Maxwell shouted. "This is unforgivable!"
"We're trying to save you! This isn't what it looks like! What you're all protecting is a robot!" Rex shouted. "And that thing we've been working on all this time is a transmitter!"
"It's gonna send out a kill code that's going to cause every single nanite on Earth to blow themselves up!"
"He's lying!"
"What would be the point in that, you two? Every living thing is infected with nanites. It would be catastrophic!"
"Right in the middle of this pyramid is a computer. And it doesn't care about you or Kate or Caleb or any of you!" Rex shouted. "The 'better future' that you've all been working towards? That's the lie!"
"Think about it," Roxie asked. "Isn't it kind of weird that none of you was ever allowed inside that sanctum? Or that the Architect has never once given you a straight answer about anything?!"
"But all this work we've done... it just doesn't make any sense."
"The way I see it, you have two choices," Rex said. "You can go in there and prove us wrong or you can kick us out of here right now."
"We'll have Providence on your asses in minutes," Roxie said.
"They're bluffing," Maxwell accused.
"To save every human, plant and animal on Earth?" Roxie asked, her frown and glare deepening. "Try us, estupido."
Jacob stepped forwards at that, only for Maxwell to grab his shoulder.
"Jacob, you can't! What about our promise? Where will we go?"
"Max, we've been living in fear all this time. It's time for that to end."
"You needn't bother," the Architect said, stepping in front of the community. "Construction is complete. Your services are no longer required."
The community all began murmuring amongst themselves and the sanctum doors opened up to see two more Architects walk out and join the one.
"So, you still think we're crazy?" Roxie asked Kate.
"No, I don't."
"ZAG-RS thanks you for all your hard work. In gratitude, my master has decided to delay the transmission to allow you to... say farewell."
"Farewell, huh?" Jacob asked before reaching for his blaster. "I'll start with you!"
He blasted his weapon that hit the lead Architect point blank, sending him to the ground.
The engineers all stepped forwards and started brawling with all of the Architects with their tools.
Rex and Roxie looked up with Jacob and Kate looking up to see the transmitter start to hum to life.
"Can you guys shut that thing down?" Kate asked.
"I don't know," Rex said. "Even without the antenna, ZAG-RS can mess with our nanites."
"We can't get too close to the computer or we'll be rendered powerless," Roxie nodded.
"Maybe we can," Jacob said. "Let's go!"
The twins and the couple ran into the sanctum as fast as they could and made it to the center.
"The brain is right over there!" Rex shouted as Jacob and Kate ran forwards... only for the same Architect that Roxie blew up earlier leap in front of them.
"Rex. Roxie."
Rex built up his Smack Hands and gave a powerful punch to the Architect, slamming him into the roof. This didn't even phase him however as he landed back on the ground in a three point stance.
"Okay, this is a woman's job," Roxie said as she ran forward and summoned two hand axes to her hands as she ducked and dodged clashing her weapons against him.
"It's still charging," Jacob said as he and Kate messed with the console. "The A.I. must have retreated behind a firewall."
"There is one other solution," Kate noted as they nodded. "Rex, Roxie, keep this thing busy. We have to go cut the power."
"No pressure," Rex chuckled as he ran forwards.
"Six, are you at the location?" Holiday asked.
"I just arrived," Six said, stepping outside the jump jet into the desert.
"I'm picking up a massive power surge in your area."
"I'm not seeing anything,, though."
Jacob and Kate ran to a nearby excavator through the battlefield, driving away.
This didn't go unnoticed by an Architect tough as he ran forward and lammed his hands against the excavator, using his immense strength to hold it back.
Maxwell, however, drove in with another excavator and slammed him into the wall.
Jacob and Kate smiled at Maxwell before driving to the power lines in the desert. Kate bowed to her husband as he used the controls on the excavator to completely sever the community's power lines.
This caused every Architect in the battle to completely shut down, including the one fighting the twins. It also disabled the cloaking field, revealing the village to Six.
"Six to Holiday. Correction: I'm seeing something."
Jacob, Kate and Maxwell drove back to the sanctum to see the transmitter still humming with energy.
"It's still going," Maxwell said.
"It must have charged the capacitors. Figure out a way to short it out!" Jacob shouted. "Fast!"
Inside the sanctum, Rex tossed the remain of the metallic Architect into the air as Roxie hacked it into bits with her axes with a shout.
Jacob ran by them and started typing into the console as Kate stood by with the twins.
"You two need to find the primary transmitter module!' Jacob shouted. "That'll kill the broadcast."
The twins eyes widened with a deadpan expression. "We have no idea what that is."
"Max," Jacob said over his walkie talkie. "We need to find the primary module."
Maxwell and his team all began searching through the transmitter's blueprints before he spotted the target in question.
"Panel 5. Just off the relay bus."
"Top of the tower!" Kate told the twins. "You can't miss it!"
Rex only nodded and activated his Boogie Pack before he took his sister's hand and lifted them both up to the top of the tower.
As they approached, however, ZAG-RS flared to life and sent out a signal to disrupt the twins' nanites, causing them to scream out as the Boogie Pack deactivated and the twins immediately grabbed a crack in the tower to save themselves.
"Well, our powers are out of the question," Roxie chuckled.
"Powers or no powers, we have to stop this!" Rex said as they both began climbing up the tower as carefully and made it to the top within minutes.
"The broadcast is almost complete!" Roxie groaned.
"Why do you have to kill everyone!" Rex asked ZAG-RS as he puled himself up to the top of the tower. "Can't you just... leave us alone?"
"Alone is exactly what I want, Rex."
"Well, that kind of alone stinks!" Roxie said as she looked down to see Jacob, Kate and Caleb looking on concernedly.
The twins struggled against their nanites not responding and shouted out as they grabbed the fifth panel and screamed in pain as they willed their nanites to shut the panel down, interrupting the broadcast and shutting down the transmitter.
"NOOOOOOOOOO..." ZAG-RS shouted before it completely shut down as the transmitter blew to smithereens.
Later, when the community began cleaning up the damage, Jacob examined the damage in the tower with the twins.
"It's gone," he noted. "ZAG-RS must have uploaded to another location. Without anyone to do its bidding, it's just a program."
"So what are you guys going to do now?" Rex asked.
"Simple. We'll rebuild," Jacob said. "The Architect may have been a lie, but what we believe in is true."
"We don't need him to have a community or a better future," Kate said with a smile as she hugged her husband's arm and Caleb walked up to her.
"You guys are welcome to stay. We could use someone with your abilities here."
Rex and Roxie looked to the doorway to see Six standing there with a stern look as White Knight contacted him.
"Well?"
"He's not here," Six reported.
"Thanks, but no," Roxie smiled to the couple. "There are others who need us."
"I understand," Jacob smiled. "After all, the world needs superheroes just as much as we do."
Six began fixing up his jump jet just as the twins walked up to him.
"Bobo's been worried sick."
"Oh, really?" Roxie asked. "He better not have touched my special comb."
"He ratted you two out for a pizza."
"Yep, that's Bobo for you," Rex chuckled. "What about you? Here to drag us back to Providence?"
"Not this time. It seems like a nice place."
"Yeah," Roxie said. "It is... but it's not home."
Six nodded as he entered the jump jet with the twins.
"But if we're gonna go back, there's gonna need to be some changes," Rex ordered. "First, no more curfew."
"No."
"Second, we want to decide on our missions."
"No."
"Okay, okay, fine," Roxie said. "But seriously, there's gonna be a couple of changes that absolutely have to be made or else we're through."
"Okay... what do you want?"
"First, we want to be paid for our jobs," Rex said.
"Okay, that can be arranged and I do agree that it's unfair that you two aren't being paid for what you do," Six nodded.
"Second, I want my own room, no cameras," Roxie said, folding her arms. "I do not want to be in the same room as my brother when he does his private stuff."
"...Alright, that can be arranged."
The twins smirked to each other wickedly as Roxie chuckled.
"And one last thing," Rex said.
"What now?"
"This is the most important thing of all," Roxie said as she and Rex gave each other a devious wink.
"Meatloaf and mashed potatoes!" Rex exclaimed as he, Roxie, Bobo, Six and Holiday sat at a table in Providence headquarters together, feasting on the beloved TV dinner.
"Isn't this great?" Roxie asked.
"It's a little dry," Six said, pushing the dinner away.
Rex smiled as he tasted his mashed potatoes. "The lump to mash ratio is a little off."
"You know what?" Bobo asked, tossing down his towel. "Maybe I'll run away too. Go somewhere my cooking is appreciated."
Bobo growled and walked off as Holiday smiled at the twins.
"We have to do this every Friday?"
"Yep, or else you two just lost your best weapons," Roxie smiled as she sat back in her seat with her hands behind her head with a smile.