Chapter VII

The room was dark aside from the glow of the green capsules, and the stark white fuzz of the many computer screens.

The video appeared on the screen once again, playing slowly as the clawed handheld control of the buttons the screen was full of blues, and white as the bot's camera picked up footage of a girl.

She was running, extremely fast for a human. She was shouting, and hollering, calling more bots to her location. She made a sharp turn, and the bot spun out of control for only a second before it got its footing again.

The man watching tightened his grip and snarled.

Pathetic, the bots could not overtake a girl who was all alone. The only weapon she had had was a tree branch she used to distract the bots from the others she traveled with, but that was gone now.

Lunging forward the bot nearly caught up with her.

She was standing on a cliff, high above what was an icy cold river that frothed bellow. She glanced back seeing the other bots converging. She ran back towards the bots, then turned back to the cliff spaying snow with her boots, she ran, and jumped.

Her body flew through the air, as she landed on the other side. She had taken the cliff to her gut and pulled herself up. She lay in the snow for only a moment before recovering and standing again. She turned to face the bots, and saluted cheekily, turned, and walked away.

Rewinding the video as if for the thirteenth time, he paused on her face it was mostly obscured by the poor quality of the camera, but it was enough to see her face.

Round, and soft looking, but at the same time she looked sickly pale. Her bright blue eyes shocked the camera, and she held such defiance in the way she walked and stared.

The bot's camera turned off, and he roared in anger.

How had she escaped his notice so long? They had lived under his nose while he searched for them.

He roared, and swiped his hand across the desk, sending parts of machinery every which way. They clattered around his feet, and he braced himself against the table, taking deep calming breaths.

He smoothed back his short navy blue hair, and Imp; the small creature with voice mimicking abilities clambered down, and opened his mouth, spitting out a stream of shouts, and taunts, identical to the ones the girl said on the video.

He halfheartedly tossed a tool, he did not care which, at Imp. The creature dodged it easily, and chittered, scrambling around the lab.

Lord Hordak had been studying wolf like creatures for a while. They had immense intelligence, not to mention the razor-sharp fangs, and claws. He had seen the destruction of only one city, even though he had conquered many.

Sliding his hand over the buttons, he searched his bot cam videos. He had seen this kind of retaliation before, but he could not put a finger on it. Pulling up the video of the girl he searched of the other wolf encounter.

A boy with snowy skin smudged with dirt, and blood was herding a group of others away from the chaos of the bots. The bots converged on them, and the boy who had the pure white hair, and skin, pushed his siblings away, and waved franticly getting the bots attention.

He started running as fast as he could, but he was hurt, and obviously did not care if he made it out alive. No sooner than the boy had distracted as many bots as he could he lead them into a trap, leaping over a ravine, but he did not make it over, and fell into the depths.

Redirecting, the bot recording the scene, turned capturing a final shot of the small group running off. The blue eyes matching the ones of the second video. It was the girl. Her, and her family, the ones who escaped, he would get them back...

Lord Hordak, leader of The Horde was watching her...