Next chapter features a rumble ^0^ Now I had had an idea about this fight for awhile before I finished it and thought the idea of using the song “Put On Your Sunday Clothes” would be emphasised more thanks to it. How? You’ll see ^-
OH! And anybody who’s played Kingdom Hearts 2 and knows about Reaction Commands will get the fight portion with it ^- Enjoy.
Chapter 5 Robot Repair Ward
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The party followed Wall-e and Eve’s hovering stretcher with one of their own, passing through the brightly colored hallways of the ship. They seemed to be in a section of the ship populated by robots, as no human was seen nearby. Although it wouldn’t occur to anyone else, made the area somewhat dangerous…
Sean kept his eyes on the transport ahead of them, Vee observing the few but various robots buzzing around, along with Randall. “Wow…there’s so many of them…” Vee said, resisting the urge to observe one at a far less speed. He looked over at Randall, who was a bit awkward with the little space on the stretcher. “Why aren’t YOU interested? Your suppose to be the technical guy…”.
Randall blinked, noticing Sean looked back at the comment. He sighed, looking away. “I’ve invented here and there in my spare time…but I admit I never made things like this” he said, gesturing to the robots going leftward along the travel line. He folded his arms, all four. “When I make one…I’ll be interested”. Vee was about to ask for some clariffication on the matter, but Sean waved a hand. They were coming up to the ward.
They turned a corner, slowing along with Wall-e and Eve’s stretcher. They came to a wide blue door with a white mark. “Uhh…anyone know how to read Japanese?” Sean asked, looking back. Randall shrugged, but Vee rose his hand. Four lights above the door shinned green, and a ding later, the doors slid open to reveal an oval opening. In a row along the left and right were what looked like holding cages, black floor panels that had the blue forcefields around, holding in several types of…well for lack of a better term…“sick” robots. Ranging from jumping, large fisted bots, to spitting grooming machines. Ahead, something was observing Eve and Wall-e. Eve was lifted up and drawn further in, Wall-e avoiding the initative treatement, rolled off to the side and started in. When the party’s stretcher approached, the oval section must have noted them being non-mechanical, and it let them off without the robo-treatment, the doors closing behind them.
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It looked like the Ward had it’s hands full. Nearly every containment unit occupied some malfunctioning robot. Randall pushed some floating pink robot out of his face, which then proceeded to assault Vee with lipstick and powder, needless to say Vee intentionally wacked the robot back, though it seemed unhurt as he dusted the powder off. The three moved off to the side, watching as Wall-e, who was less than fortunate with the beauty making machine, being carried off by a claw and putting him in an empty containment unit, the forcefield walls coming up. They quickly moved to the other side when some tennis robot was lobbing balls at them. Eve, meanwhile, was being transported to the back of the room, which opened up into another, circular room that seemed to contain the repair area.
“Guess we just wait huh?” Randall said, folding his arms, and leaning against the wall.
“Guess so…” Sean replied, looking over the robots. Strangely enough, it was quite weird that they all seemed like patients in a waiting room, which they were, but in the common sense. But in that sense, Sean found himself smiling that they all seemed to have more personality, though Wall-e seemed to have more.
“Put on your sunday clothes there’s lots of world out there!”
The sound of music, not the movie, started playing from somewhere, calling everyone’s attention. “There!” Vee pointed. Wall-e, out of a containment unit, was rolling to the back, and crashed through the doors as if they were paper.
“What is he doing!?” Randall yelled, surprising Sean and Vee, but unsure why. “HIT THE DECK!”. Within the short time, something shot out from the repair section, a white and very light blue plasma clip. Time seemed to slow. Sean sprang forward, getting low as the clip went over him. Randall grabbed Vee, surprisingly, getting low, grabbing Sean, and skitting them all as far from where the clip was going.
Sure enough, the shot hit a mark, some mechanical system, causing sparks and a bright flash to engulf all eyes, normal and mechanical alike, to blink. Thankfully, the impact was less explosive than they thought, guessing something from the ship lowered it’s effectiveness.
Sean looked back first, the blast had only blew a hole in some mechanical system. “Vee? You ok?” he said, looking back. Vee nodded, getting out from one of Randall’s arms. “Ran?” he immediately said after confirming. Randall murmured something in his throat, looking up and directing his glance at Wall-e, the robot’s goggle eyes lowered and one of his mechanical hands reaching to stop the music that had played. Needless to say, Eve did the job for him.
“WALL-E!” she yelled.
Sean looked back. Seemed the little box the plasma burst destroyed was more than it seemed. Suddenly, the mechanical arms in the ceiling went limp. And then…the doors opened. He didn’t expect to see anything at all outside…but he was wrong.
The doors slid open, and as the dark parted, it revealed several blue tinted, red-eyed Unbirth. Some were looking back, but turned when the light changed an the sounds and “wrrs” from the robots alerted them. “Oh…crud…” Sean mouthed. The forcefields holding the robots also fell…and the robots fell victim as well. As the three got to their feet, several Unbirth took the offensive, jumping at the robots and integrating themselves into their malfunctioning circuits.
Sean called the Keyblade, Wall-e and Eve coming up near them. Eve pulled her plasma cannon arm back, scolding Wall-e once to alert it was his mistake. With five against…several. “LET THEM GO!”
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It took time for the Unbirths to integrate into the machines, and some remained in their pure state, and that’s who they went after first. Three of the charged forward, and Sean, Vee, and Randall met for their match…that is before a plasma bullet shot out, obliterating the middle one. Sean glanced back, Eve’s plasma cannon on and open, she gave a confirmative nod that she had them covered.
With a relived sigh that Eve knew they weren’t a theat, but the Unbirth were, he tagged the first Unbirth with the tip of the Keyblade, juggling it in the air as Randall leaped, grabbing it with all four hands and slamming it down as Vee bashed a fist into the other one. One sprinted past them, but Eve bulls-eyed it.
Four more charged. One did a swift side-to-side swipe as it approached, slicing Sean’s leg, another one copying the motion and getting Vee’s arm. One aimed to stab at Randall at the spine, but Eve pinned it, but she quickly tried to aim at the one that attacked Vee, which had passed him and aiming for him. Wall-e noticed immediately, parting his eyes to shoot out his cutting laser. It partially damaged it, but it distracted the Unbirth enough for Eve to zap it.
Sean twisted around, slamming the Keyblade into his attacker, and dug in his pocket with another hand. “Vee!”. In the twist, he tossed a bluish Potion in his direction, Vee grabbing and downing it in split seconds. Vee returned the favor, dashing forward and slide-kicking the Unbirth into oblivion. Randall was dodging the last one, on his hind legs, the Unbirth’s dagger arms swiping wind as fast as Randall moved. Looking for an opening, the Unbirth thrusted forward with both arms. Randall quickly swirved back, then forward, grabbing the Unbirth with all arms, and then rolling, the Unbirth going with him. He threw it up and backflipped, his tail smashing into the blue soul stealer, sending it backward and into the waiting bat-style swing of the Keyblade, obliterating it.
“That’s those…” Sean whispered, looking at the malfunctioning robots. But they weren’t malfuctioning anymore. Every light source on them, and their mechanical eyes surged from blue and yellow to an eriee red. The party regrouped, watching as the gallery of robots started toward them. Eve kept her cannon trained on the nearest ones, but refrained herself from firing, Wall-e slightly trembling beside her as they all backed away slowly.
“WHY are we retreating again?” Vee asked, fists raised.
“It’s…” Sean started, Keyblade up. “It’s not their fault…”. He shook his head. He looked at Randall who grimaced, but nodded. It wasn’t their fault they were infected.
Eve was probably having similiar thoughts, as her arm tented to sway. She sensed something close to her, way closer than she expected, and quickly backed away, gun trained.
“We’re gonna find aventure in the evening air!”. Wall-e had attempted to get closer to her, though in effect spooked her. Of course he didn’t expect her to move away so fast, making him fall on his front, triggering his recorder.
“Wall-e…” Eve mumbled in annoyance, but it quickly switched when she looked back at the enemy. Sean, Randall, and Vee were equally baffeled.
“Girls in white in a perfumed night, where the lights are bright as the stars!”. As the recorded song echoed in the repair ward, something rather peculiar happened. All of the robots stopped, as if entranced by the song, though they heard it only once before, when Wall-e escaped his containment unit. As they stared, almost listening to the song as if they had been opera lovers since creation, small ticks and twitches in connected parts an servos occured. And almost all at once, the Unbirth were pushed out of each one in a bright flash, falling to the floor, the malfunctioned robots returning to normal…well normal when it came to their reason for being in the ward at the time.
“The song…the song!” Sean yelled. He looked back at Wall-e, who had stopped the recording, feeling that it may have caused trouble, despite it doing quite the opposite.
“The song pops them out?” Vee asked, watching as the doors to the ward closed.
“Take it this way…” Randall started, readied. “Won’t have any concience problems now”
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The malfunctioned robots scattered, probably at both the excitement of freedom and the confusion of what they had recently been under. But the Unbirth were up again, several spranging. “WALL-E!”. Sean skitted back, switching on Wall-e’s recorder, the song beginning to play. Like being next to a huge swinging bell as it clanged, the Unbirth soon shot away like fire-works, Randall and Vee springing to action as Eve thrusted forward. Randall paused when he realized she was just as fast as him. Arms spread, Eve went into a forward spiral, like the spinnel of a fan, slashing two Unbirth and throwing them against the walls. Randall came up on the left kicking the one she attacked, and stretching to barely strike another one nearby. Vee went for the other one, going fast enough to wall-walk briefly before flip kicking the Unbirth into the ceiling.
Wall-e was going to follow Eve, but two Unbirth had reclaimed two of the robots, some vaccum-looking machine and the tennis-ball thrower, and they were QUITE interested in him. The tennis robot fired…but it didn’t fire tennis balls…if fired a black and red flame ball. Wall-e effectibly gasped, compacting, even when Sean swung the Keyblade, catching the ball on the Keyblade’s head, swatting it backward and into the vaccum-robot…who abruptly spat it back. “DANG!”. He swung again, a little high, making the ball smash into the ceiling. The tennis robot continued to spat out ball after ball, Sean deflecting what he could away from Wall-e.
A few balls got past him, breaking the glass of the repair area, and some bounced along the walls. One got him in the back and the leg, making him kneel down. “WALL-E! I COULD USE A LITTLE HELP!”. Wall-e peeked out from his confined space, then noticing the danger, quickly pulled out his arms. Sean swat back the next ball, grabbing Wall-e and dodging to the side, tapping his play button, the Unbirth popping out. Eve had heard Wall-e earlier, how could she not, and let loose with a plasma blast, hitting the tennis-robot possessor. She aimed for the second, but had to dodge when a large handed robot aimed to strike her, the initials HAN-S written on it. It posed to strike again, that is before Vee came up between them, locking hands with the robot’s. He planted his clawed feet as well as he could, growling as he entered a test of pushing strength with it. Eve was at first facinated that despite both of them being the same size, that this blue-lizard-like creature was just as strong as a machine designed for strength.
Randall, meanwhile, had been dodging the recently re-possessed grooming robot, along with another one that strangely looked like an umbrella. “Just a trimmmmm?” the grooming robot said in a raspy mechanical voice, but using it’s sharp impliments out of programing to cause harm. The umbrella accompanied it, cclosing and popping up…but in all fairness it was more an annoyance and a distraction than actual harm.
“I COULD USE A LITTLE HELP HERE” Randall yelled, ducking his head as the groomer nearly cut one of his fronds off with a pair of scissors. He immdiately sucked in and land back as the umbrella opened up. Ok…maybe it could cause quite a cut…
“One…second!” Vee grumbled. He dug his foot claws into the ground and then pushed forward. The machine, or the Unbirth, was surprised, and pushed forward. “Bingo!”. Vee use the force as momentum, pushing his hands forward to grab it’s arms, and twisted around in an arm drag, and tossed the HAN-S. It smacked into the two robots attacking Randall, smacking all three against the wall. Vee grimaced slightly…there was always going to be some collatoreal damage. Sean and Wall-e quickly came up, the song popping out the three Unbirth from the machines. Needless to say they were all dazed, and with little effort were taken down…
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What happened next was quite surprising. After the malfunctioning robots recovered, they immediately crowded around Wall-e. They were in quite the opposite mood, grabbing him and heaving him up like the lead scorer at a sporting event. And without warning, they started piling out of the ward.
“Wha…HEY! Where they going?” Sean shouted. No sooner had the robots made it through the exit door than did alarms start sounding. And when that started happening, Eve started after them. Sean held out a hand to stop her, but she was already out. “Dang it…her too…”
“I think we should get out of here…” Randall mumbled, looking over the room that was now in shambles. “Cause I’m not getting stuck with the bill here…”
Sean helped Vee to his feet, the little test with the HAN-S taken out on him. “Good idea…those alarms won’t do us good either…come on…”. Sean and Randall started for the door, pausing to see if any security, at all, was coming. Looking down, and back, Sean saw Vee was in the opposite direction. “Vee…THIS WAY…”
“Give me a minute!” he shouted back, having disappared behind the glass wall, he returned a minute later as promise, coming over to them, something in his hand.
“What’s that?”. Vee held it up. It was a thin piece of hardware with a screen and several switches, something red marked on the screen.
“They put something on uhh…Eve…and the rest of those robots…I figure with this we can track’em…this one’s set to her…”.
Sean chuckled. “Brilliant Vee…brilliant”
Vee grinned, looking to Randall for some compliment. The lizard monster simply shrugged. “Good thinking hard head…” he said, walking off, Vee muttering that if he wasn’t tired he’d give him quite a smack on the head.
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However three others are. And no, for some of you KH buffs, not Terra, Ven, or Aqua…though they may come in later.
