Chapter 6: Giant, Talking, Fighting Robots

While the battle was happening, the three humans were left to stand at the sidelines, albeit a bit further back due to (Name) moving them into a safer spot as the younger boy stutters out a question.

"W-What are they?"

"Talking cars that turn into robots. Or the other way around," Jack answers warily, unsure of his answer.

That's when the younger boy then looked up at (Name), slightly hoping for a better explanation. "Do...you know?"

But all he got in response was a shake of a head, showing that the (hair color)-colored hair teen also didn't know the answer to that question as they silently continued to watch the fight, seeing the female robot successfully knock down one of the "Cons" before going over to repeatedly punch the other one in a senseless-like manner.

"This. Is. For. Cliff!" she growls out in between punches, before giving a final hard blow to the Cons' face as she continues to look at it in pure hate.

But her punches weren't proven fatal enough to take down the larger robot as the Con turned his head to look back at the female robot, his red eye glowing brightly.

This rendered the female robot into slowly backing up in slight shock once she saw the Cons' twin get back up from being knocked down earlier, standing up to it's full height before the twins brought out their guns and began rapidly firing at the female robot, forcing her to back flip multiple times in order to evade the oncoming laser-beams.

But unfortunately, one of the laser-beams had managed to struck her square in the chest, causing for her to be blown back a few feet further from where she was supposed to land as her robotic body lands and skids across the pavement.

"Gah!"

The two boys were shocked when they saw this, and were now even more worried about what would happen to them once this battle comes to an end.

(Name), however, didn't react to this like the boys had--as her half-covered face only remained expressionless to the whole ordeal--but she did continued to keep a calm demeanor and stand in front of the boys in a defensive-like stance, watching as the Cons began to slowly advance on the fallen female robot.

But before the Cons could get to where the female robot was, the sounds of an engine was then heard revving loudly above them, making the three humans look up towards the highway bridge as a familiar (not to the 12-year-old/unless you count his toy car) black and yellow sports car jumped off of the ledge, leaving for them (except you) to watch in shock as it also transforms into a large robot before managing to land on top of one of the Cons in advance.

"Oh great, another one," Jack says while backing up a little. "Hopefully it's another good guy and not a bad guy."

And his hopes were proven correct as the three humans watched the black and yellow robot immediately punch the other Con in its metallic face, successfully knocking it back and away from the female robot before knocking down the Con he had previously landed on with the same move.

"Um...H-How did you know that it wasn't going to be another bad guy?" the younger boy asks while looking at the older boy in slight awe.

"I-I didn't. I just hoped that it was a good guy," Jack answers as he looked down at his hands in slight amazement. "I actually can't believe that it actually worked this time..."

That's when a loud, metal-like "thud" was heard from in front of them, interrupting the two boys from their talking as they watch the black and yellow robot stomp on the second Cons' face with its foot, with (Name) only observing the newer robots' features since she didn't participated in the two boy's short conversation.

Their appearance slightly matched the body build of the Cons'--showing to (Name) that they were also identified as a male--but his stature was slightly shorter in height and he had a more younger exterior than they do. He also had the same human-like appearance like the others, with the "no nose" and everything, but only had four-finger appendages instead of five like the female's or three like the male's. He seemed to have no mouth though, but it did put into question that the speaker piece/half mask was either a cover up to where is mouth would've originally been, or that he was just "created" to be that way. His body armor also matched his disguised mode--black and yellow--but added with some silver/dark gray as it's skin color, and the also added feature of door-like wings on his back, making him look like as if he was representing a "bumblebee" of some sorts. Lastly, his eyes were the same glowing sky blue eyes and black-colored scleras like the female's, but they were much more rounder and didn't have the pink rings like she does.

That's all (Name) could note down on what she'd observed until she heard a low groan coming from her left, making her slightly turn her head over into the direction of where it came from as she sees the female robot from earlier slowly get back up.

"*groans* Skraggin' Cons," the female robot muttered, fully getting back up from the rough fall as she began walking back over to where the fight was being held. "Lets just get this done and over with."

Confirming that the female robot was fine, (Name) then turned her head back to continue watching the fight before her, not wanting to miss a single detail of this event.

While the female robot was walking over, the black and yellow robot--thinking that the Con that he had stomped on had been successfully put down--began to back away from it, not noticing that the younger boy's toy car was laying behind him until he had accidentally stepped on the equally black and yellow toy car with a small "crunch".

Once hearing the strange sound, everyone (both humans and "good" robots--with the exception of you being emotionless) immediately began to wonder what it was as the black and yellow robot looked down and lifted up his foot, seeing nothing but a bunch of broken pieces of one of the three humans most likely precious items as the female robot face-palm, seeing what her comrade had just unintentionally stepped on.

"You've got to be kidding me," she says.

After seeing what he had done, the black and yellow robot then looked over at the three humans with an apologetic look.

"Oops...s-rry...-out...th-t," he "says".

Although the words that he tried to speak out sounded distorted and slightly unclear, (Name) had managed to understand on what he had said, since to her it sounded like the telegraph-version of Morse Code; just a little broken up and mixed in with beeps, whirls, and clicks.

But it seemed like she wasn't the only whom understood the black and yellow robot as the younger boy responded almost immediately to the apology.

"No problem. Really."

This, however, made everyone look down at him in slight shock and confusion (with yours being emotionless with a slight hint of curiosity), wondering if he actually did understood what the black and yellow robot was actually saying.

But the small conversation was quickly cut short as the black and yellow robot was then suddenly blasted away by one of the Cons' hand-guns, making the three humans back away once more as the female robot growled lowly.

"Scrap!--" the female robot begins to say, about to head on over to where her comrade had fallen before being knocked back by the other Con once again. "Gah!"

While the other Con that had pushed back the female robot was fighting against her, the Con that had laser-beamed the black and yellow robot from earlier began walking over to where the mentioned robot laying, immediately raising his foot up to stomp on the fallen robot's face once the Con saw him trying to get back up to go help his struggling comrade.

This made the younger boy immediately frowned at the sight, suddenly building up the courage to take a step forward as he shouted out at the Con that was about to blast the black and yellow robot's head with its hand-gun.

"Leave him alone!!"

But it was then that he began to immediately regret his decision as the two Cons--after giving a short glance towards the three humans--began to point their hand-guns at them, rendering him to back up in slight fear. "Please?"

This, however, made (Name) shut her eye(s) and slowly bring her dominant hand up towards her half-covered face, showing that she was "face-palming" at the mistake that the younger boy had just created amongst themselves as Jack steps forward and kneels down to grasp onto the younger boy's shoulder.

"Bad call, kid," he says.

Then--after a brief moment of silence--one of the Cons put away their hand-gun and started walking over towards their direction, making (Name) quickly go over to gently grab onto each of the two boys' shoulders as they all began to back up towards the wall, with the Con slowly advancing on them.

"Uh...H-Hey kid, by any chance, do you know how to get out of here?" Jack asks nervously.

"Y-Yeah," the younger boy answers with equal nervousness. "I-It's over to the r-right of us in that p-passageway. Th-That's how I got down here."

Jack and (Name) then quickly glance over to their right, immediately seeing the open passageway as Jack continues.

"Okay, on the count of three, we're all gonna start running. Ready?"

The younger boy hums a "yes" while (Name) nods her head.

"Alright, in one....two....THREE! GO!!!"

Then they all began running off towards the right, with the Con pausing in his step as he watches the three humans run into the direction of where the mentioned passageway was before immediately following after them, his red eye glowing slightly at the sight.

But unbeknownst to the Con and the two boys, (Name) had already had a different plan set in mind.

And it first involved with splitting up.

Once the two boys had turn the corner and had ran into the passage way, (Name) only continued to run forward, where she soon started to lightly jog as she looked back at the Con that was following after her and the two boys.

Seeing that the Con had decided to turn its sights onto her, she then stops in her tracks, turning around fully to look up at the Con with her usual emotionless expression as the Con went up to where she stood, seemingly looking down at her with a slightly confused, yet menacing expression.

However, this seemed to have caught the attention of the two boys once they saw that the (hair color)-colored hair teen wasn't following them anymore as they looked back at the entrance to see the scene before them.

"Dude, what are you doing?! Why aren't you running away?!" Jack shouts into (Name)'s direction, showing that he was afraid of what might happen to the (hair color)-colored hair teen that he just met as the younger boy shows the same reaction.

This, however, made the Con turn its attention towards where the two boys stood, leaving for (Name) to quickly look around at the cemented-ground as she grabbed a decent-sized rock and chucked it directly at the Con, successfully hitting it on the side of its metal head afterwards.

*BANG!*

Immediately, everything became silent after that, with the two boys watching in horror and the three other robots looking over from afar in shock at what just happened as the Con that was hit by the rock slowly turned its head back to look down at the (hair color)-colored hair teen.

By this time, (Name) had already had another rock in her possession, her dominant hand tossing it lightly up in the air and catching it back into her palm as she calmly pulled out her skateboard from the slot on her backpack with her non-dominant one before setting it down onto the cemented-ground, with everyone steadily watching her every move.

Once doing so, she then placed her dominant foot upon its surface, getting herself ready as she pulled her dominant arm back, the move immediately alerting the two boys and the two good robots into knowing on what she was about to do.

"No don't--!"

But it was too late for the female robot to stop her as (Name) threw the other rock at the Cons' metal face once more, successfully hitting near the area of where the center of its eye was as she watched it cracked on impact, creating a large jagged line to go up and down its glass covering.

Angered by the sudden attack, the Con then pulled out its hand-guns and began chasing after the (hair color)-colored hair teen, whom immediately began speeding off on her skateboard while seemingly dodging the Cons' incoming lazer-beams and having more rocks to continuously throw into the Cons' direction.

"W-What?! Are they nuts?!" Jack says in shock, not believing in what he was seeing as he gawked at his acquaintance's boldness.

"N-No...I-I think they're trying to distract the robot in order to help us escape," the younger boy says, watching the (hair color)-colored hair teen in slight awe and admiration as he looked up at the older boy. "Maybe we should help them?"

"Oh no. Nuh-uh. No way. Look, you have a good heart kid, and I respect that. But I am not going to risk my life nor yours by getting ourselves into a giant robot battle that is not even ours to fight in to begin with."

"But--"

"No means no, kid. Look, if you say that "they" are purposefully distracting that evil-looking robot into try and help us escape, then we should take that opportunity right now into getting the heck out of here before "they" even regret on even trying to help us in the first place. Plus, if they get into a sticky situation with the evil-looking robot, then I bet that the good guy-robots will come and save them before anything happens. Am I right?"

The younger boy then looks down, thinking over the multiple scenarios that could happen in this situation before sighing quietly, nodding his head in agreement with the older boy. 

"Good. Now, do you know which direction is the quickest way out of here?" Jack asks, grabbing onto the younger boy's shoulders as he lead him towards the end of the seemingly large passageway.

The young boy, although disappointed at the older one's cowardice, pointed towards the drainage pipe that was presented in front of them, a small frown plastered on his face. "This drainage pipe should do it. It's the quickest way to get to the other side and into town, and it'll be to small for the bad robots to fit through."

"Great. Now lets get on out of here before the bad robots find out that we're gone."

And so they went into the drainage pipe, with Jack "guiding" the younger boy to keep on walking while the younger boy looked back over his shoulder every now and then with slight guilt.

"Thank you..." he whispers quietly as he and the older boy disappear into the drainage pipe.

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