Steampunkified
In the monster dimension, a week later, Pure sent the parts needed through and they were being delivered, once the parts were delivered for the western team they went on their way from the Bear Caves. Once they got the compact water synthesizer they got directions to the steam punker. They were walking until they reached a place that was a hot spring. They saw pipes outside and steam was rising in the air, it was evening when they got there
Nick: This must be the place.
Penny: Yeah, this has steam punker written all over it.
Siri: Let's split up and see if we can find them.
Everyone split up into teams of two, they looked around the hot spring until Siri and Wilco came to a cave.
Wilco: Everyone, over here!
Everyone came to the cave and a lot of pipes were going into the cave. Nick took out his pickaxe and tomahawk.
Nick: Be on guard.
Everyone took out their weapons and was at the ready. Troy moved first with everyone else behind him. Cinde stayed outside and was guarding. They worked their way in and they saw steam coming from the pipes, soon enough they came across a cave where a lot of steam punk weapons, armor and gear were there.
Nick: -whistles- True steam punker.
Cyber: This is a lot of weapons for just one steam punker.
Siri: What were they building?
Wilco: Or rather, who were they building for?
Unknown to them there was someone else with them inside the caves, hiding in the shadows. Penny was getting close to the person. The person grabbed Penny out of the shadows.
Penny: Everyone, help!
Everyone was trying to go for a clean shot but they couldn't get anything, Nick threw his tomahawk past them and made it come back to him but it missed when dodged last second, the person spawned wings and bolted it out of the tunnel with Penny. Everyone tried to get a shot but the person was dodging all shots they made.
Nick: Cinde!!
Cinde heard the echo in the cave and came close to it. She breathed fire at the entrance to block it but it turned its back to the flames with it almost touching the ceiling. It barely made it out and was going into the forest. Cinde snuffed out the fire with her hand and everyone came out. Wilco switched to wolf form and Cinde switched to dragon form. Wilco took off and everyone else got on, Wilco was tracking them and Penny was trying to get loose but it was not working.
Siri: What was that thing!?
Cyber: Whatever it was, it wasn't a Frankenstein!
Nick: Punch it Cinde!
Cinde was trying to gun it and Wilco was trying to catch up and take it down but it was too fast. Penny was trying to do a spell but it was using one of its hands to hold hers to prevent her. They were approaching a mountain and they were headed right into it with the sun setting. Wilco saw them go into a cave, Wilco howled and that told Cinde where to land. Cinde landed and everyone got off.
Nick: Make a perimeter of fire around the mountain, don't let them escape.
Cinde went straight around the mountain and made a ring of fire around it. She found several other cave entrances and sealed them with fire but not the one at team was at. Cinde came back, touched down and transformed back.
Cinde: It's all blocked up; I even checked the surrounding area, nothing.
Nick: Its night, which means they have the advantage, Wilco, do you still have oil for your fire arrows?
Wilco: Yeah, what do you need it for?
Nick: We don't have our mage so we need to improvise.
Wilco handed Nick the oil and he put it on his pickaxe and tomahawk. He lifted it up to Cinde and she lit them on fire, only the metal parts. Everyone else put some oil on their weapons and Cinde lit them on fire. They went inside and Cinde went into dragon mode and kept the breath in her mouth to illuminate the way since the cave was big enough for her to fit through, Wilco went on top of Cinde on her nose to get overhead shots. They all walked together slowly to watch each other's backs.
Nick: Anyone getting that sense that someone is watching you?
Troy: I am not picking up anything on my sensors.
Wilco: We may not see them but I can hear them, I can hear heartbeats.
Nick threw his tomahawk in front of them and it was all clear to move up. Wilco used his magic bow to light up the way so that they won't run low on oil. They made their way to a massive opening and they found Penny on the floor.
Cyber: Penny!
Voice: There they are my lord; they were the ones at the steam punk's home.
The whole team was looking around but couldn't find anyone. Cinde breathed fire near them and they were surrounded by people, not just any people bat people, they were screeching when Cinde threw the flames down.
Voice: What were you doing at the steam punk's home?
Troy: Identify yourself!
Voice: I am the Bat King, ruler of these mountains; you were going to kill the steam punker.
Nick: Whatever information you got is false, we came here for the steam punker's assistance.
Voice: Prove it.
Nick went into his bag and took out the scroll stating that they were with the council. The Bat King came down and came in front of Nick.
Bat King: Open it.
Nick opened the scroll and the Bat King read it.
Bat King: They are telling the truth, they are with the council.
Just then Penny woke up and she was in pain.
Nick: Penny!
Everyone came to Penny and she was holding her neck.
Nick: Penny, let me see.
Penny was able to move her neck a little bit and there were two fang marks in her neck.
Wilco: She has been bitten!
Bat King: You idiot, you are supposed to bring them here unharmed!
Penny: -grunting- It feels so cold.
Wilco: She hasn't bled much and no arteries have been hit.
Nick: Please god, do not tell me.
Cyber: What?
Nick opened her mouth and different teeth were forming.
Nick: Aw nuts, do you have some sort of poison to control enemies?
Bat King: No, we don't.
Nick: Where is the one that took Penny!?
Bat King: Come forward now!
The bat that took Penny came forward.
Nick: Open your mouth.
Bat King: Do it.
The bat opened his mouth and there was blood coming from his mouth and it was not hers.
Nick: His blood got into her body.
Cyber: What is happening to her?
Nick: Please tell me my guess is wrong.
Siri: And your guess would be?
Nick: Their blood is making her a vampire.
Cinde: A what?
Nick: They are make-believe on our dimension but she is turning into one of the definitions of it.
Wilco: How do you know?
Nick: Skin turning pale, her feeling of coldness, her teeth changing, wait, Penny, open your eyes.
Penny opened her eyes and they were turning red.
Nick: Crap that proves it.
Cyber: Is there any way to reverse it?
Nick: Unfortunately, no. She will burn in the sun and be harmful to certain things, unless...
Cinde: Unless what?
Nick: I heard about this part but I hardly ever know about it, if she gets royal vampire blood it might remove some of those cons but there is no one of that type yet.
While they were talking Penny got up and was hearing the heartbeat coming from Nick.
Cyber: Nick.
Nick turned around and saw Penny up; she was breathing heavy and looking hungry.
Wilco: That is not good right?
Nick: Nope, she needs blood.
The Bat King came in front of Nick; he walked towards her and stopped.
Bat King: Come, my dear.
Voice: My King!
Bat King: Silence! I will fix this, no one will ever harm anyone without my permission, do you understand me!?
Everyone remained silent.
Bat King: Now, come.
Penny came to the Bat King and he leaned his head to the side. Penny smelled him and sunk her teeth into him and started to feed. Her first taste of blood was satisfying to her but it was kind of gross to her at the same time. Once she came back to her senses she stopped feeding instantly. She looked at her hands and they were pale, she felt the blood on her face. She wiped it off and realized what it was.
Penny: What happened to me, why is there blood on my face, why do I look so pale?
Nick: Uh Penny, this may be hard to explain but... You... are....
Penny: I'm a what!?
Nick: You're a vampire.
Penny: What!?!?
Penny casted a spell that gave off a mirror image of herself, she looked at herself and she saw the blood, her fangs, her skin and her eyes.
Penny: How did this happen to me?
Cyber: The bat that had you bit you and his blood was in his mouth.
Penny: Because I hit him in the mouth.
Cyber: The blood must have gotten into yours.
Penny: My magic must have transformed me when the blood was in my system, ugh, I don't feel so good.
Nick: Easy, you tasted blood for the first time.
Penny: Whose?
Everyone looked at the Bat King.
Bat King: It is alright, I took the responsibility of satisfying your thirst and my subject will be punished for his disobedience.
Penny: Uh, I don't know how to explain this but I am sort of feeling hungry again.
Nick: But you need to control your thirst and we need to see if you are either resistant to the sun or you burn under it.
Penny: I'll try but we need to see if I am even resist the sun, or I might have to have to wear long clothing.
Bat King: Come.
Penny went to the Bat King but she was more conscious about what she was doing, she carefully stuck her fangs back in and continued feeding. The Bat King kneeled down and so did Penny.
Bat King: That's it, drink your fill.
Troy: While she is doing that, could you tell us where the steam punker is?
Bat King: Steam!
Someone came out of the shadows it was a white Siberian tiger, they had on Steam punk clothing and had Steam punk gauntlets.
Steam: You called?
Cyber: Wow.
Bat King: They need some assistance.
Steam came to the team.
Steam: What do you all need?
Siri: I need your help to turn me into part Steam punk.
Steam: Beg your pardon?
Siri: I am actually a robot but I need your help to work better.
Steam: Uh, ok, let's head back to my workshop and see what I can do.
Nick: Cyber, Troy, head back with Steam and Siri so she could get some assistance, we will stay here with Penny and sort things out here.
Everyone split up from there; soon enough after everyone split up Penny stopped feeding. She lifts up her head and licks the wound clean.
Penny: Thank you.
Bat King: You're welcome.
Penny took a piece of cloth and bandaged up his neck.
Penny: I'm sorry if I took too much.
Bat King: The children usually eat way more than adults, so it is obvious you would be too, come with me, we are going to my city.
The Bat King stood up and reached out his hand, Penny used her hand and grabbed it. He pulled her up and the bats all went deeper into the cave. They relit their weapons and went down the tunnel. After a while of walking they came to a city, it was a cave filled with holes and homes.
Bat King: Sorry for the lack of light, we use our hearing to get around better.
Penny: Sonar.
Bat King: Prepare a potion for Penny and supplies for her travel.
Bat: Right away your majesty.
While they were going through the city Steam, Siri, Troy and Cyber got back to the Steam punk cave.
Steam: Ok, let me get this straight, you all are robots from another dimension and you need my help, even you are way more advanced than what I can build and you want me to build you a steam punk body?
Siri: Correct.
Steam: Well, it's not like I was on the idea of making a body fully running on steam but why come to me if you are so advanced, you could solve this problem on your own.
Siri: I was sent here to help this dimension from this Frankenstein threat.
Steam: I'm not so sure I can do this.
Siri: Can you please try; my associates will guide you through.
Steam thinks about it.
Steam: Come with me.
They follow Steam down a tunnel, she turns a pipe and it moves a set of rocks. She goes inside and the follow her, she uses her claws and moves them quickly to create a spark and light a torch. Once she lit it she took it up and there were body parts, there was an entire workshop to build them.
Steam: All right, if you want me to do this tell me what I'm working with and what I need to build.
Siri went to the table and laid down; she turned off her sensors and opened her chassis, Steam came over and it was a marvel to behold for Steam.
Steam: Wow!
Troy: Calm down, we will tell you what needs changing, ok Siri, shut down and we will take over.
Siri shut down her systems and Troy pulled out her hard drive gently and set it aside.
Cyber: All right Steam, your turn to shine.
Steam breathed in and out, with the help of Cyber and Troy all three of them worked together to Steam punk Siri. Meanwhile the rest of the team was exploring the city and then they came to the palace.
Bat King: Ok Penny, you need to drink this.
The Bat King gives her a potion.
Penny: What kind of potion is this?
Bat King: We use it to curb most of our thirst for blood.
Penny opens the potion and starts to drink it; once she finished it she caught her breath.
Bat King: The taste takes a while to acquire but it will keep your thirst from taking you over but you still need blood to keep you going.
A bat brings a canteen filled with blood from animals. She takes it and switches out her canteen for water. Penny also gets a bag filled with herbs and a copy of the recipe to make the potion in case she needed it.
Nick: We should stay here for the night, it's already late and we might need to guard here for the night.
Bat King: Actually, night time is our time, we are most active in the night and we have been getting equipment and weapons.
Wilco: But still, one of us should keep watch with you all, I'll go since both of us are more into the night but I'll need a lift up the mountain.
Bat: I'll take you.
Bat King: Remember, no one is to be hurt.
The bat took flight and picked up Wilco; both of them went out of the caves to the top of the mountain. The bat put Wilco down safely; Wilco stood guard with the bats that were out there. Back in the Steam punk cave, Troy, Cyber and Steam were working on Siri. Steam was a little nervous about assembling it correctly. Cyber learned that talking would calm people down so he would that.
Cyber: How did you learn to do all of this?
Steam: Huh?
Cyber: How did you learn how to do Steam punk stuff?
Steam: I learned it myself, since no one really goes after technology I decided to leave my village and learn on my own. I left a note to my chief and he understood, he knew I was a curious cat and would go poking around sooner or later so at night when I was leaving he came to me and gave directions to this hot spring where I can continue my work, he let me go with some metals and supplies to start. It was trial and error for me at first but I got the concept soon enough but I was running out of materials.
Troy: So how did you get more?
Steam: There was a time when bandits were attacking my village. I built a hammer, armor and a modified crossbow. I went straight to the village to see it was being looted, I knew I had to do something so I used my crossbow first. I didn't have enough metal to make ammo but I picked up some stones first. I loaded them in and fired. I had to get used to the blowback from the crossbow but the shot worked. I took a few shots to knock down as much as I could but I ran out of gunpowder.
Cyber: Wait a minute, how did you get gunpowder?
Steam: Got a small amount when I left the village.
Cyber: Continue.
Steam: After I ran out, I ran down to the village and was using my claws and the hammer to push them back and make them drop the loot, even though they had artifacts I was able to knock them out of their hands. I got damaged too but the steam punk armor provided me with enough to drive them away. After the village was secure and the guards were coming I disappeared back here, I thought I would be banished from the kingdom and didn't go back. After a few days I heard someone coming, I readied my hammer and got ready for what was ahead. I peeped out and there was two wagons filled with metal, supplies, gunpowder and a note.
Troy: What did the note read?
Steam: To keep at it and to help out with defenses and weapons, when I got that I was inspired to make more. After that I made more steam punk weapons, armor and accessories, some things actually worked and provided warmth to some houses in the village. Once I got better I got the name Steam from doing the Steam punking so well, when the council got wind of me they left me alone and I help surrounding territories but for people that got their arm or leg cut off I can't replace, I have been working on it but no luck so far.
Troy: What if we gave you a little help with that?
Steam: How?
Cyber: How about we make you a deal, you make our teammate the best you can make it and we will help you with the mechanization of others to help them.
Steam: All right, deal.
Cyber: Deal, let's get back to upgrading.
Steam was calmer now and she was able to continue working on Siri. Meanwhile in the Bat Caves, everyone else was asleep except Penny, who was taking a walk, looking around; she saw families together, people chatting and children flying. After her walk she went back to the palace where she wasn't sleepy at all. The Bat King saw her and came to her.
Bat King: Having trouble sleeping?
Penny: I knew I would be since this transformation happened to me, thought going out to take a walk would make me sleepy but it didn't work.
Bat King: You just need the correct setting to sleep, come with me.
Penny went with the Bat King and he went into a room that was dark with a little light.
Bat King: You can sleep here for to regain yourself.
Penny: Thank you but why are you helping me?
Bat King: Two things, one I don't want to incur the council's wrath for not helping you after my subject caused this and you are such a beautiful in my eyes, I would hate for that to go to waste.
Penny: You know you would have to wait till we sort all of this to have a shot.
Bat King: No promises.
Penny: Very funny but why are you interested in me rather than taking a shot at someone else?
Bat King: Do you know someone else that has a chance to be transformed like you?
Pure: Uh... you have me there on that one but let me get this quest done before I give you a shot.
Bat King: All right.
Penny goes into the room.
Bat King: Would you like a little snack before bed?
Penny: Haven't I drained you enough?
Bat King: I like a lady who can drain me dry but I am wondering if I can tap you.
Penny: Well, it's only fair.
The Bat King grabbed Penny and he flew up to a pole that was there and both of them hung upside-down.
Penny: Before both of us start to feed, may I ask your name?
Bat King: It's Keir.
Penny: Well Keir, thank you for my well-being.
Keir: You're welcome.
Penny: Um, you go first.
Keir went to her neck and started to feed, she felt a sharp pain but it went away fast soon enough Penny removed the bandage and saw the fang marks she made from before and started to feed as well. After ten minutes both of them stopped and caught their breath.
Keir: That was enjoyable.
Penny: Yes it was.
Penny patched up their wounds and Keir turned her around and made her comfortable, he wrapped his wings around the both of them, Penny started to fall asleep soon after that, Keir rocked a little bit and he fell asleep too. Penny was the first vampire to ever truly exist and she was getting the best help to keep it in check. Siri was being Steam punked to be a better assassin. Looks like some things can go your way and some things can't but all you can do is roll with the punches.
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