Chapter 18: The Heinous Hex (Part 1)
Just as the confrontation between SNT and this elite team was about to begin, both Void and SNT found themselves surrounded by D.R.A.C units who were attempting to corner them to a wall.
Both Void and SNT held hands and stood back-to-back, vowing to protect each other as the spider drones got closer.
"Dammit SNT, how many enemies have you met over the years?!!" Void shouted,
SNT turned her head towards the blue anti-virus and laughed nervously, "Just a few but we'll talk about that once we get out of here."
"Hello experiment... we meet again." Tarantula grinned
The purple-looking spider then raised his hand towards his new team that stood behind him, "So SNT... what do you think of my... Heinous Hex?!!"
Void quickly drew his sword and shouted, "Tarantula, what is the meaning of this?! Since when have you joined forces with Content Control?!"
The spider-bot couldn't help but snicker, "Content Control? Ha! Who said we were working for such incompetent fools like them?!!!"
Void then slowly lowered his sword and began to approach the group, "Wait a minute, wait just a minute... If none of you are working for Content Control, and this 8-legged arachnid has killed me twice, then why go after me and SNT?!!"
"Sorry, but that information is classified to that big head of yours!" Tarantula taunted.
"Why are you all doing this? What are you hoping to gain from this?!!" SNT yelled demanding answers.
The 8-legged drone laughed, "it's quite simple, we all share one simple desire."
But suddenly, everyone in the group took a deep breath and took up their fighting stances. They all shouted the same word in unison.
"REVENGE!!!" The group shouted in anger.
And with that, the battle began as almost all of the Heinous Hex charged towards the blue robot and the chimera, while Thunderwave took to the sky with Courtney and Saki hostage.
"SNT!!!! HELP!!!!" Catney cried out.
Without hesitation, SNT pulled out her wispon and opened fire on half the D.R.A.C units, while Void jumped in the air and slashed the other half of the spider drones to kingdom come.
With the mini drones out of the way, both Void and SNT stood side by side and aimed their weapons toward the group that was approaching them,
"Just don't complain after we kick your butt!" SNT sassed.
"Come at me then! I'm not afraid of you this time!!!" Void shouted.
Just then, SNT began to spin her tails as she took to the air. At the same time, Void jumped under her and grabbed onto her hand, as the pair began to approach the group.
SNT began to fly towards the 8-legged drone with her fist ready. She threw a swift punch at Tarantula's face. But the D.R.A.C unit felt no pain.
He then unleashed his claw and quickly grabbed the chimera. He then flipped her upside down and took out his other claw that was equipped with a syringe. He was preparing to infect SNT with a computer virus.
"AHHHHHHH!" SNT cried out,
But right before Tarantula can inject the chimera, Void quickly dashed towards the pair and stabbed the drone in the chest, releasing SNT from his grip.
As the chimera began to make her escape from the 8-legged drone, Void jumped onto one of the claws and began to slash Tarantula's face multiple times.
Realizing that the blue robot was standing on his claw, the purple robot stretched out its syringe and tried multiple times to stab the blue robot in hopes to infect him.
Luckily for Void, he was able to dodge and avoid every stab Tarantula attempted towards him.
The blue robot then threw his sword towards the drone like a boomerang, causing his blade to spin wildly and grind the drone's face.
"NYAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!" The 8-legged spider roared as he swung his claws wildly in pain. He then shut down his engines and landed abruptly on the ground.
But as Void was watching Tarantula attempt to recover from his injuries, little did he realize that another Heinous Hex member was boosting towards the anti-virus from behind.
It was Order, and he wasn't gonna let anyone stand in his way of getting his revenge on the chimera.
He elbowed Void's neck, and roundhouse kicked his head; sending him flailing down to the ground.
As Void began to fall onto the ground, the magma creature quickly delivered some punches and kicks before igniting Void with a flamethrower.
He then looked down and marveled over his temporary victory against the blue anti-virus. But little did he realize that SNT was boosting from under him.
She stretched out her leg and kicked Order onto his chin, causing the magma creature to let out a loud roar.
As the lava monster roared, he stretched out his hand and emitted another flame thrower towards the aqua chimera.
Both Void and SNT were down, but they're not out.
As Void reached for the chimera to bring her back to her feet, behind them were 2 hybrids charging toward them.
STAK quickly curled into a ball, while SOR took to the air and spawned a gatling gun and aimed it towards the pair.
As Void turned around to see what was happening, he quickly stepped in front of SNT and got pelted by lasers coming from SOR's gun.
At the same time, STAK bowled SNT over like a bowling pin.
SOR then landed on the floor and unleashed a nightmare orb to trap SNT in a bubble.
STAK then charged up his fists; and began to emit an electrical ball; ready to electrocute the helpless chimera.
"KAME HAME HAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" STAK yelled as he placed his hands on SNT's chest area and electrocuted her like a defibrillator electrocuting a heart.
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" The aqua chimera yelled,
The electricity was so great that it jolted SNT, causing her to fly towards a nearby wall.
Waiting for her by the wall was Infinite the jackal, and he was desperate to get a piece of the chimera after their last encounter.
But before Infinite could even attack the chimera, she used her upper body strength to jump into the air and stomp on Infinite, causing them both to land on the ground.
With Infinite incapacitated, SNT took to the air once again and turned her attention to the robot who was holding her friends hostage.
Atop the monastery, Thunderwave was looking down on SNT as she was flying towards her.
"SNT!!! HELP US!!!" Saki cried,
"SNT! BE CAREFUL!!" Catney shouted,
"LET MY FRIENDS GO!!! YOU BLUE TIN CAN!!!" SNT cried out as she grabbed onto one of Thunderwave's claws,
She then slid down onto Thunderwave's robot body and crossed her legs to hug Thunderwave as she let out a barrage of punches.
Funny enough, the crowd was cheering for SNT as the audience broke out into song,
"Standing here,
I realize
you were just like me
trying to make history.
But who's to judge,
the right from wrong?
When our guard is down
I think we'll both agree,
that violence
breeds violence!
Yet in the end
IT HAD TO BE THIS WAY!"
As the audience cheered on, SNT flew in front of Thunderwave and turned her attention to Order who was nearby.
"Hey ya hot head! Chaos is better than you!" SNT teased,
Upon hearing her words, Order was furious. He ignited himself like a fireball and boosted towards the chimera.
But the magma creature failed to realize that SOR was in the opposite direction, trying to boost towards SNT as well.
Just before impact, SNT turned around and noticed SOR was just on her tail.
The chimera smirked, as she jumped into the air causing both Order and SOR to collide with Thunderwave.
The force of the impact was so great that Thunderwave lost her balance and began to drop both girls from her grip.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Both Catney and Saki shouted in unison.
Realizing what had happened, SNT gasped as she jumped off one of Thunderwave's claws and began to fall.
Thunderwave was not happy at what just happened; as her armor changed color from blue to red, and her jet engines began to emit steam from behind her.
But unfortunately, the chimera was suddenly stuck between a rock and a hard place. She had to make a choice. She looked down at Catney, and then over to Saki.
"Oh no!!! What have I done?!!! Both girls are going to fall to their death, and it's all my fault!!! I have to choose who to save, and fast!!!" SNT pondered while panicking.
SNT then closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She began to fly towards Catney.
"Catney, hang on!!!" SNT cried,
Once the chimera reached her creator, she quickly removed Courtney's binds and held onto her as she flew them to the ground safely.
Unfortunately for Catney, it was a hard landing.
"Oww." The cat girl muttered.
Meanwhile, as Void got back to his feet, he looked up and quickly realized what was happening.
"Oh no, Saki!!!" Void yelled,
He quickly dashed towards her direction and got into position to catch her.
"AHHHHHH!!" Saki cried as she closed her eyes and fell to the ground. But Saki was expecting to fall onto the metal floor, not something soft.
She then opened her eyes and found herself lying down on top of Void who injured his back as he caught her from underneath.
"...Ouch." Void muttered in pain.
"J*s ch*t Void!!!" Saki shouted, "Are you alright?!!"
Realizing her predicament, Saki lifted her knee and slid her leg over; giving the robot some room to sit up.
Once Void sat up, she then leaned towards the robot, prompting him to untie her.
Void nodded and quickly reached for the girls' binds, and freed her before they brought each other back to their feet.
Saki then reached for the blue robot and gave him a hug, "Thank you for saving my a*! I owe you one!"
Void hugged back and blushed, "Remember what I said earlier Saki? As long as you and Catney helped me find SNT, I was gonna do everything in my power to protect the both of you; no matter what the cost. And a promise is a promise... as long as you can keep it."
Saki blushed back and embraced the blue robot while nuzzling his chest.
But all of a sudden, their hug was cut short when a powerful gravitational force separated the pair and lifted the blue robot off the ground and into the air.
Atop the bleachers stood Infinite who was controlling the gravity that Void was trapped in.
Once the jackal stopped controlling the gravity, he took up his fighting stance while Void was paralyzed in mid-air.
But right before he could boost towards the robot, SNT quickly flew towards Infinite as fast as she could,
Unfortunately for the chimera, she failed to realize that STAK was behind her; and armed with a hammer.
The male chimera slammed SNT with his Piko Piko hammer causing the aqua chimera to become incapacitated.
Infinite and STAK then gathered around the paralyzed robot and took out sunglasses, as Tarantula crawled towards the anti-virus and unleashed his laser eyes directly at Void.
Meanwhile, somewhere nearby; Order was slowly recovering from his injuries earlier.
As he slowly got back to his feet, SOR approached him and confronted him for his attack on her and Thunderwave earlier,
"Order? What the hell were you thinking?!" SOR growled, "You could have killed me and Thunderwave, you son of a b*h!!!"
Order was so furious, that his body began to emit a ring of flames around him, "If you don't want to die, then stay the hell out of my way!!!"
But SOR snapped back, "Well If you don't want to die, TRY NOT TO KILL YOUR TEAMMATES!!!!"
"FINE!! AS LONG AS I GET TO KILL SNT!!!" The magma creature roared.
As Order and SOR were arguing, the blue anti-virus was sent flying to the floor after suffering multiple blasts from Tarantula's laser eyes.
"VOID!!!" All 3 girls shouted in unison, as they ran towards the blue robot to help him back to his feet.
"Void!!! Are you okay?! Are you hurt?!" SNT asked.
Void held onto his arm as he struggled to stand up straight, "I'm alright, tis but a scratch. I'll be fine."
"A Scratch?! Void, you're hurt!!!" Saki shouted in frustration.
But suddenly, as the three girls were tending to the robot's wounds, all six members of the Heinous Hex began to surround our heroes.
"What's going on here?! Why are you all doing this?!!" SNT yelled,
"We already gave you the answer." The spider drone laughed, "You ruined our plans. You ruined our lives!!! You are the reason we all came together. And now we're gonna ruin yours. Isn't that fair... S.K.T?"
Striking a nerve, SNT slowly turned her attention towards Tarantula, "What did you just call me?!"
"Let me repeat that again, S.K.T." Tarantula mocked, "It's time for the whole world to know your secret!"
Void stepped forward and held onto the chimera to protect her, "What kind of secret?! SNT Would never hide anything from me! Right SNT?!!"
The arachnid smiled, "Are you sure about that? Why don't we tell the pipsqueak what he's been missing out on!"
"SNT!!! I will never forgive you after what you did to me since our last encounter!" Infinite shouted as he slowly approached our heroes.
"I was supposed to replace you, but you were too stubborn to let evolution happen!!" SOR chimed in.
"You had been a thorn on our side for far too long!" STAK yelled, "I knew you would betray doctor Eggman from the very beginning!!!"
"No matter how many times we tried to defeat you, you would always beat us back to oblivion!!!" SOR shouted.
SNT snarked, "Face it bootlegs! I'm better than you!"
But all of a sudden, the magma creature slowly began to approach the chimera.
"I will never forgive you for what you did to Alicia and Cream!!!" Order growled,
SNT looked at Order confused, "Alicia and Cream? What are you talking about?!"
"There is no lying now, you monster!!! I'll make you pay!!!" Order roared as a ring of flames began to emit around his body.
Tarantula smiled as he watched his team get closer and closer to the heroes, "You see SKT... you, my dear, are an experiment created by the one and only, doctor Ivo Eggman.
You were built to destroy Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends. But like all OCs... the created would always rebel against their creators."
Courtney gasped as she took a few steps back, "Did you just steal SNT's backstory?!!!"
"Yes... and the best part about all of this? Thunderwave is broadcasting this message on every channel, every radio station, and every WIFI network on the planet... including Content Control." Tarantula laughed.
SNT was in shock. "WAIT!!! WHAT?!!!"
Meanwhile, back on Angel Island, at Tails' house... Sonic and his friends were all watching Tails' computer monitor in horror as they just witnessed SNT's secret being broadcasted to the world.
"WHAT?!!" Sonic shouted looking mortified,
"SNT is..." Knuckles looked on at the monitor speechless.
"An Eggman experiment?!" Espio finished Knuckles' sentence in shock,
"But how did I jot see that?!" Tails asked while trying to piece everything together.
Shadow smirked, "Hmph, looks like we have much more in common than I thought."
But just then, Amy spawned her Piko Piko hammer and was ready to play baseball with Sonic and Shadow as the ball, "YOU GUYS WERE RIGHT THERE WHEN EGGMAN TOLD US!!!"
"UH OH!!! RUN!!!" Sonic shouted as everyone tried to run away from Amy's swinging hammer.
Back at the monastery of Sin Serials, SNT felt defeated.
She was down on her knees, and ready to cry.
But instead of crying, she lifted her head and gave the Heinous Hex a stern look,
"How dare you reveal my secrets to the world! HOW DARE YOU!!!" The chimera shouted,
"Cry all you want, abomination." SOR laughed, "By the end of this night, revenge will finally be ours!"
Upon hearing everything, Void let go of SNT and slowly began to approach the enemy team. "Alright you Heinous Hex, listen up! We don't need two SNT wannabes, two garbage excuses for robots, and two cringy edge lords to be taking sh*t that they don't understand!
All six of you are horrible! What has SNT ever done to deserve such animosity? Why waste your lives on ruining someone else's life when she hasn't done anything wrong to you?!!!!"
"Such touching words..." Tarantula grinned, "I almost want to cry."
"Wow, you SURE told us," STAK responded sarcastically.
"It won't matter in the end; you know what they always say?" Infinite laughed,
"You choose what path you wish to become. And we've already chosen our path!" SOR responded.
As the Heinous Hex continued to tease the chimera, Order looked on at SNT with rage in his eyes. He suddenly started getting flashbacks when Alicia and Cream were hurt at the Chao Garden.
"Grrrr... CREAM!!! ALICIA!!! NOOOOOO!!!" The magma creature roared as his memory began to haunt him once again. "LET'S KILL THEM!!!"
SNT curled into a ball and began to spin dash while Void drew his sword and dashed towards their opponents.
At the same time, Catney and Saki ran away and began to search for a place around the monastery to take cover.
As both Void and SNT quickly approached Order, the magma creature lifted his foot and stomped the ground, causing a rocky pillar to spawn from the ground, sending the chimera and the robot flying into the air.
As the pair were flying towards a nearby wall, Void quickly stretched out his arm in an attempt to grab SNT's hand,
The chimera tried to reach for the robot's hand, but their moment was immediately shattered when STAK jumped off the bleachers and gave them an elbow drop towards the metal floor.
STAK then grabbed the aqua chimera and held her hands behind her back to restrain her as the spider-looking drone crawled towards the blue robot and picked him up with one of his claws.
But Tarantula simply ignored his opponent's request and transformed his other claw into a Buzzsaw.
"Tarantula, let go of him!!!" SNT cried, "I'm the one you want!!!"
"DO IT!!!" STAK said with excitement, "Make his voice box squeak!!!"
As Tarantula turned on the Buzzsaw and slowly began to move it towards Void, the 8-legged arachnid laughed, "No system restore to save you now!"
"VOID!!!" SNT cried while struggling to get away from STAK's firm grip.
"Cry as much as you want experiment, the blueberry boy has encountered a problem and needs permission to crash!!!" Tarantula laughed, "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!"
But all of a sudden, in a split second; SNT stomped on STAK's foot and side kicked Tarantula in the gut, causing him to lose his balance; dropping Void in the process.
Luckily for the blue anti-virus, the chimera quickly caught the boy just in time before impact.
AS Void held onto the chimera for dear life, SNT took to the air and attempted to fly as far away from Tarantula as possible.
But little did she realize; Tarantula was preparing to fire another laser from his eyes.
As the 8-legged arachnid fired his laser, he was intercepted by an energy beam from the side.
It was the U.A.V ministers: Norton, ClamWin and Sophos.
The three ministers quickly ran to the pair's aid, and began to give Void a pollocking for not following a very important rule of becoming an anti-virus.
"Void ranger, are you mad?! It's too dangerous to fight these zero-day viruses by yourself!" Sophos shouted, "You were supposed to update your virus definitions to the latest version before going into battle."
"Well excuse us for being weak, we were doing just fine until that arachnid unleashed his buzz saws" SNT argued,
"No offence miss SNT, but we saw what was happening, and we knew you were both in trouble. If we hadn't intervened in time... you would have blue screened to your deaths in no time!" Minister Norton argued,
"Well excuse me, minister poor ton but you never taught us how to update anything anti-virus related!" SNT scolded in retaliation.
Sophos then looked on towards the other ministers in shock, "Is this true?!"
ClamWin bowed her head in shame, "Yes minister Sophos, unfortunately it is true."
Sophos then turned his attention towards the ministers and began to clear his throat, "Ahem! Rule number 1 that I always teach my anti-virus students back in my home town of Grand Britannia, ALWAYS update your virus definitions to the latest version before battle." Sophos said sternly; reminding the ministers that they themselves forgot one simple rule that their superiors once taught them.
"Do you wanna know why I left the U.A.V academy after it got destroyed?!" SNT asked, "It's because of the same problems that keep happening over and over again.
There was always something wrong with this world, and I've just about had it with everything and everyone trying to kill me!!!
I know I may be weak in the computer world as opposed to the real world, but at least I still have this blue anti-virus who still believes in me!" SNT shouted as she walked towards Void and held his hand.
"But what about the times when you fought Total AV aboard the space defense platform? What about the time when you helped each other during your exercise in the Tech Alps? And what about the many times you saved the blue anti-virus standing next to you?" ClamWin asked, attempting to convince SNT to return to the academy, "Do you have any idea how important you are to this blue boy's life? How much honor you could have been given to be recognized as Void's utility tool? After all, utility tools are THE PERFECT combination for any anti-virus."
But Void turned down ClamWin's attempt on the chimera's behalf, "Well, maybe you should tone down the bloodshed within the academy!!!
There's a reason why SNT left the academy in the first place, it's because of all this trauma your school had put us through. Every hour, of every minute, of every day."
Norton then closed his eyes and bowed his head in shame, "Hmmm, perhaps I was a bit too harsh on the both of you... and I am truly sorry...
But then again... none of us anti-viruses had it easy either. Even with our former mentors teaching us, we all had to endure the same hell we put you through. And for that, we truly apologize... but we cannot change our traditions of the U.A.V."
"But now it's too late!" SNT yelled, "My reputation is ruined, the entire universe knows me as an experiment created by Doctor Eggman!!! All because of these Heinous Hex bozos exposing me to the public!!! Do you really think I want any of this attention?!!! WELL, I DON'T THINK SO!!!
SNT then turned her attention towards the Heinous Hex, "And for anyone who wishes to judge me, let me defend myself by saying... It's true, I am an experiment created by Doctor Eggman, but that doesn't mean we are enemies! I have fought Eggman and his robots countless times! And I would never betray my friends! YOU HEAR ME?!!! MY FRIENDS MEAN EVERYTHING TO ME, AND I WON'T LET YOU TAKE THEM AWAY FROM ME!!!"
The chimera then heard a soft voice from behind.
"It's true..." Catney chimed in.
The chimera turned around and was surprised to see Catney and Saki approaching her,
"SNT... you and I have done so much together. We saved the world with an army of Sonic OCs, we fought the dark lord in the land of the Miis! And now here we are, fighting Content Control in a monastery to prevent them from censoring the world."
"The truth of the matter is, you're stronger than all of us combined, and I should know because I've been on all of your adventures with Courtney too." Saki chimed in, "So don't come crying to us that you're weak!!"
SNT nodded at the girls with determination, as she turned her attention towards Thunderwave, "Do you hear me Sonic? I may be an experiment created by Eggman, but that doesn't mean I'm evil!!! And if anyone chooses to judge me for who I am, then you're all nothing but a bunch of jerks!!!"
But little did SNT realize; as she was delivering her speech, Tarantula crawled to the top of the monastery and stood next to Thunderwave, "My dearest Thunderwave, did you catch all that?"
"..." Thunderwave responded with the sound of a radio frequency.
The 8-legged arachnid was impressed, "Ahh, so you did cut the broadcast as she was delivering her speech? Well done, Thunderwave, the nightmare armada would be so proud!"
Back at the bottom floor of the monastery, the chimera was then confronted by her enemies on the opposing team,
"Really? Well... what about the times when you didn't save the world?" STAK growled as he clenched his fists together, "Remember all those years ago when you fought and defeated us?!"
"All we ever wanted was for Eggman to be proud of us after everything we could have accomplished!!!" SOR shouted. "But you just had to nose your way into every predicament we were involved in!!!"
SNT raised her eyebrow looking confused, "How could I possibly do any of those things? Do I even know you?!"
"If only you hadn't interfered with the phantom ruby's power, then we could have built Eggman land! And no one, not even that blue blur would have been able to stop us!" Infinite remarked,
"Oh boo hoo! Cry me a river!" SNT snarked, "I wasn't gonna let you destroy any of my friends on Team 182!!! Never!!!"
Just then, Order slowly approached the chimera and emitted a small flame from his fist, "And even if you apologize, I will never forgive you for what you did to Alicia and Cream! NEVER!!!"
But just before Order could even attack the aqua chimera,
"OBJECTION!!!" Void interrupted,
"...What?!" Order asked looking confused,
The blue anti-virus then slowly walked up to Order and began to debunk his claim, "Order, I am terribly sorry, but I'm gonna have to refute your allegations. For you see, it is absolutely impossible for SNT to poison Alicia and Cream!"
Upon hearing the blue robot's words, Order took up his fighting stance, "What?! How can it be impossible?!! How can you possibly refute my accusations for such an unforgivable act!!!"
Void then gave the magma creature a stern look, "Simple... because I was with her the entire time, while you were going about your business. I never saw SNT once try to poison your friends!!! Is that enough proof for you? ... Order?"
Feeling confused, Order turned his attention towards the spider looking drone, "Tarantula... is this true?"
"Don't be ridiculous Order, of course SNT poisoned Alicia and Cream." The spider drone lied, "I saw her in the Chao Garden poisoning your friends with the syringe. After all, I would never tell a lie!"
"Don't listen to him Order! I don't have any syringes with me or any of us!!! I couldn't possibly poison any of your friends, even if I wanted to!!! He's lying!!!" SNT argued.
"Order order order... haven't you forgotten that she has the cure to help you save your friends from the OneHalf virus?" Tarantula grinned,
Shocked by the words he heard, Void slowly approached the 8-legged robot and asked him, "Wait a minute, how do you know about the OneHalf virus?"
"Haven't you forgotten that I too am a computer-controlled robot with as much knowledge than you'll ever imagine?" Tarantula laughed, "No? Then allow me to re-educate you.
OneHalf... a DOS-based polymorphic computer virus that infects the master boot record of the hard disk, and any file extensions. It encrypts half of the Hard disk, but then temporarily decrypts them when they are accessed. This lets the encryption continue further, making it harder to detect and destroy."
"Yes, and improperly removing the virus causes half of the hard drive to be destroyed! Yes, I know about the side effects of OneHalf, I studied the virus as a hobby, long before I joined the U.A.V academy." Void chimed in; finishing Tarantula's description. "Furthermore, I call bullsh*t about SNT having the cure for the OneHalf virus."
Sophos then stood next to the blue anti-virus and placed his hand on the robot's shoulder, "Void's right. Only anti-virus ministers have the authority to administer the cure to all victims infected by malware. And we do in fact have the cure for the OneHalf virus somewhere in our registry keys back at U.A.V headquarters."
"Plus, I was one of their teachers in the U.A.V academy. I was the minister who authorized their exams." ClamWin chimed in as she stood between both Void and Sophos, "And as far as I'm aware, SNT never took her second exam of virus detection and removal... that is, until now!"
Order then slowly turned his attention back towards Tarantula, "Tarantula... please... tell me these robots are lying!!!"
"But of course, they're lying." Tarantula laughed, "You mustn't forget... I was the one who offered to help you save Alicia and Cream. And in turn... you should put all of your trust in me! As all of your friends have done so as well."
But Order couldn't decide who to believe. He lowered his head, trying to hold back his anger towards the situation, "I... I'm not sure anymore... my instincts tell me that Tarantula is telling the truth... but my heart is telling me otherwise... Hmmm."
As Order was being thrown between a rock and a hard place, the 8-legged spider crawled towards our heroes and continued tormenting the chimera, "The point... experiment, is that you made our lives a living hell. And for that reason alone, YOU MUST PAY!!!"
Suddenly, Thunderwave jumped off the roof of the monastery and unleashed a gatling gun towards our heroes.
Luckily for both Catney and Saki, they managed to retreat from the hail of the robot's lasers. Unfortunately, Void, SNT and the 3 ministers took a direct hit from Thunderwave's surprise attack.
The three ministers tried their best to quickly return to their feet, only to be pelted once again by Thunderwave's lasers from her gatling gun.
The larger blue robot then lifted her leg and spun around like a ballerina, kicking each minister every time her foot approached their faces.
Thunderwave then took to the sky with her jetpacks as SNT slowly got back to her feet and began to chase after her. "Oh no you don't! Get back here!!!"
As all of this was happening, Void slowly returned to his feet and discovered the anti-virus ministers were down.
He quickly approached Sophos who was the closest minister to him,
Sophos slowly opened his eyes, looked on to Void and reached into his pocket to pull out a special looking sword that he kept in his armory. "Here, take this... it's my weapon of choice. And I'm now giving it... to you..."
Void slowly took the sword and hoisted it in his hand to inspect it. "Thank you minister Sophos. But does this sword have a name?"
"Yes... it is called the tears of steel." Sophos responded.
Void slowly looked carefully at his new sword. "Why is it called the tears of steel?"
"Because it's the tears... of what was left... of your mother." Sophos answered.
Void then looked down at his new sword, as he began to cry. "...Mother."
The blue anti-virus then started having a flashback to the last time he ever saw his mother alive.
"Tic tac toe, I win!" Shouted the boy who was very happy for winning the game.
Suddenly, both ClamWin and the boy heard a female voice from the distance, "Void Ranger honey, everyone back to class!" It was the boy's stepmother Jinx. Despite being a U.A.V programmer, she was also a part-time teacher for Robosoft elementary where she taught kindergarten.
"M-m-mother?" Void asked, looking worried.
Jinx approached the pair and picked up Void. She then held him in her arms,
Jinx and ClamWin then had a tense stare down towards each other.
"Umm, mother? Is everything okay?" The blue robot asked, Jinx chose to ignore her son's question and looked directly into the minister's eyes.
"Miss Jinx Ranger, nice to see you again." Said ClamWin looking at Jinx with a serious look on her face.
"Nice to see you as well Mistress ClamWin, I noticed you met my son Void Ranger, my adorable little teddy bear." Responded Jinx.
"Ah yes, the boy you adopted from Total AV's virus syndicate." ClamWin snarked.
"Yes, I still remember it like it was yesterday. There was a bidding war for him, but I adopted him first before those criminals did." Jinx said as she rocked Void in her arms to put him to sleep.
"Mother, what are you saying exactly?" Void asked as he was confused. He then slowly began to fall asleep.
But Jinx ignored his question once again and responded, "That's not important, what's important is that I love you. Now c'mon, let's go back inside. I'll see you around ClamWin?" Said Jinx as she waved to ClamWin and walked back inside the school with Void sleeping in her arms.
"Yes, I'll see you around Jinx." Responded ClamWin as she watched Jinx head back inside the school.
As Jinx walked back into the school, she once again began to cough. ClamWin looked back at the white robot as her face shifted from anger to concern. Upon witnessing what was happening, ClamWin began to realize. "Oh god, she's infected."
But before she can rush in to quarantine the robot, the doors shut behind Jinx and attempting to quarantine her was impossible.
And from that moment on, the blue robot's life would change forever.
Once the memory was over, Void looked at his new sword and began to cry.
"Thank you minister Sophos for preserving my mother's memory by any means necessary... I really do appreciate it." Void said as he bowed before the injured minister.
"No problem... tis an honor to serve you... my child." Sophos muttered, "Now get out there and show the world the true power that we anti-viruses possess."
Void then threw his old sword off to the side, and ran into battle with the tears of steel in hand.
As Void ran to catch up with SNT, STAK attempted to smash Void with his piko piko hammer,
But luckily for Void, he quickly sidestepped and locked his sword with STAK's hammer as they got into a tense stare down.
Both combatants then began to duel each other, sword versus hammer.
But suddenly, the dark aqua chimera placed his hammer on the floor like a pole and began to spin around his hammer, kicking Void multiple times in the process.
Eventually, the blue anti-virus had enough. He jumped into the air with his word in hand and stabbed the evil chimera with a downward stab.
He then lifted STAK with one hand like a baseball and batted the dark chimera towards Thunderwave's direction.
But as STAK flew towards the large blue robot, Thunderwave ignited her jetpack and flew into the air to avoid impact with STAK's body.
Eventually, STAK struck the wall that Thunderwave stood behind and was unable to move. "Owww... bummer..."
Meanwhile, Catney was running for her life as Infinite was chasing her.
Unfortunately for Catney, she wasn't fast enough to escape the jackal's grasp.
"Alright little kitty, I'll see you in hell!!!" Infinite chuckled.
"NOOOOOOO!!" The cat girl cried out,
"HEY A*HOLE!!!" Shouted Saki,
Infinite suddenly turned around to see Saki wearing a princess outfit, while carrying a machine gun in her arms,
"GRATATA B*H!!!" Saki shouted as she showered the jackal with a hail of bullets; causing Infinite to fly directly into the bleachers.
Once Infinite was K.Oed, Saki slowly walked towards her sister and picked her up.
She then spawned angel wings from her dress and flew into the air to make her escape.
Meanwhile, SNT was looking left to right to see both SOR and Tarantula coming straight for her,
Without a split second, she jumped into the air and managed to avoid her combatants from colliding with her. She then looked down and saw both SOR and Tarantula colliding with each other instead,
But as she was airborne; as she spun her tails in an attempt to fly away from her enemies, she was suddenly intercepted by a speeding fireball.
It was Order, and he still had a bone to pick with the chimera. He quickly grabbed SNT by the throat and slammed her into a wall. He then picked her up and body slammed her onto the metal floor.
"SNT! Hold on! I'm on my way!!!" Void shouted as he tried to reach his beloved chimera,
But Order quickly charged up a fireball and blasted Void back with a flamethrower, a few feet away.
With the anti-virus out of the way, the magma creature then turned his attention towards the chimera. He hoisted his hand towards SNT's face, as his hand began to suck away her oxygen.
"AHHHHHHH!!!" The poor chimera cried as her face began to turn blue.
"Enjoy your last gasp of air... SNT..." Order chuckled as he watched the chimera suffocate.