The Explosive Robot

Chapter 6: Happenings

Jessie nearly got slammed in the face by the door as she unlocked it and Colt came running right out of the room.

'Thanks a lot, Jess.'

'No biggie!' Jessie's voice sounded cheerful despite knowing very well about what's going to happen next. 'So what's the plan on fighting back against Tick?'

'I don't really know. Just gotta find a way to destroy him once and for all. Unless it's all just caused by a stupid glitch in his system that could be easily ridden of- yikes, you weren't joking about those bolt cutters, huh?' 

Jessie nodded her head and kicked the remains of the broken chain away. 'Penny and I had finished making the translators, along with a few other copies that some of us can take. Anyway, where in the world is-' 

A loud bang came from someone slamming the front door open, and hurried footsteps can be heard as someone rushed up the stairs and gasped. 

'Tick destroyed the Diner!' Bibi gasped as she tried to catch her breath. 'All of it is destroyed- Bull, Penny and Crow failed to destroy him-' 

'Hold up. Tick did what now?!' 

'He destroyed the Diner,' Bibi replied. 'Bombed it. Reduced it to ruins. Suppose he was coming after me, saw those three in the way, and proceeded to throw his bombs all over the place.' 

'And Bull died in the brawl?' 

'Yeah. I believe he'd just respawned when I was on my way back from Retropolis.' 

Colt took a sharp breath. 'Do you think he believes the whole "This bomber robot is trying to kill both of us and we don't really know why" thing?' 

'Maybe. Maybe not. I don't really- HEY! What in the-' 

Bibi rubbed the part of her head where the unknown thing had crashed onto her. She turned around to look at it and realised that it was Mr. Bat. 

'How the-' 

Bull was seen standing just a few steps away, his eyes dark and glaring right at them. 

'Prepare for war.' He murmured in his deep voice, and he walked away without another word. 

Bibi picked up the metal weapon and looked at Colt and Jessie. 

'Well, I guess he believes us now.' 

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The annoying pest managed to get me off her trail...... But this wouldn't last for long......

Tick babbled softly to himself as he waddled around in the abandoned mineshaft. There were some machines strewn around, the majority of them being like control panels. The buttons on this one flashed a deathly red glow. The screen of this other one displayed line after line of statistics. 

A muffled, robotic voice sounded from somewhere in the corner of the small mineshaft-room. Tick bounced right over to the device and babbled another line of words. 

What is it? 

'Ready for destruction.' The robotic voice on the other end of the device replied. 

Tick smiled another crazy smile as his eyes turned green from glee. Commence the attack. Wipe them out. As long as those two Brawlers die, I'd be glad enough. Though she had mentioned that the more Brawlers gone, the better. 

'Understood.' The voice replied, and then it was replaced with static. 

Tick sat down on the floor, his smile never fading away.