Rage Against The Machines
As Isabella defeated Mezu, the other heroes were also wrapping up their fights.
The American Dream punches one last group of henchmen and puts his hands on his hips. “...And that’s the last of them!”
The heroes group up so that they can get ready for the next phase of their plan.
“...Alright…Let’s split up into groups…” Isabella says with shaky breath. She was still quite tired and very injured from her earlier fights. “...Andy…do you still have the EMP?”
“Yes ma’am!” He says with an enthusiastic salute.
“...Alright, you get as close to the center of the building as you can and flip the switch. Spyke and Rick are together as are me and Visi-Goth. Mr. Dream, go beat up Midas.”
“I thought that you said violence wasn’t the answer?” The American Dream says with a smug smile.
“...That was before they pissed me off…give them hell…”
“With pleasure!” He says with a devious grin before turning away and walking towards the building.
“...Students…” Isabella says as she turns towards the kids. “...Go back to SUPER.”
“...Wait, but we can help…” Maka responds.
“Nope. This is non-negotiable.” Isabella points her cane towards Spyke. “Make sure they get back to school safely.”
Urchin nods and walks towards the kids.
“Follow me, I’ll escort you back…” He begins to explain before he is suddenly interrupted by a loud buzzing sound.
The heroes turn to see what made the noise.
Yoh, still unable to stand from his injuries, had a remote in his hand with a big red button on it.
“…You guys are so screwed…” He says before passing out again. He drops the remote as it clatters against the ground.
The heroes suddenly hear a large creaking sound.
They turn again to look towards the source of this sound.
It was coming from a nearby building that has a giant metal garage door that is slowly cranking open. It didn’t seem to be attached to the rest of the hideout though because this building was behind them towards where they originally walked into the hideout.
For a moment all they could see was darkness as the heroes peered into the inky blackness of the garage, but that was soon interrupted by a glowing red light.
The sound of turning gears and steam started emanating from the source of the light. This was followed by a series of clunking sounds that seemed to match the pattern of footsteps.
A large figure emerges from the shadows.
“...What…the hell is that?” Love says as she looks at the thing in terror.
The ‘thing’ she was looking at turned out to be some sort of giant robot. It was about ten feet tall and was wearing a long brown trench coat and a fedora on the top of its metallic head.
The machine raised its arms as it started making a whirring sound.
Suddenly a barrage of bullets flies towards the group.
Takeru jumps towards the front of the group and uses his sword to deflect all of the bullets.
“Eat this, metalhead!” Takeru yells as he sends a green shockwave towards the robot.
This causes the machine to fly backwards and crash against the ground.
“Is that all you got?” Takeru asks smugly before he quickly gets an answer.
About a dozen or so more sets of glowing red eyes emerge from the shadows.
“...Everyone!” Isabella yells. “Get out of the way! NOW!”
She quickly raises another barrier as thousands of bullets fly towards her.
“...But…” Love stutters out. “...I…I thought you told us to go home?”
“No time! Follow the heroes inside!”
Love doesn’t take the time to respond. She just listened to the order as her and all of the others ran into the hideout.
As the heroes catch their breath Urchin walks to the front of the pack and faces the others.
“Alright. It looks like we can’t actually send all of you kids back to SUPER until Miss IQ clears the entrance. In the meantime we will try to keep you safe as we continue the mission.”
Violet raises her hand.
“I’m sorry sir, but isn’t that too dangerous for us?”
“...We don’t have any better options right now…” Urchin responds with crossed arms. “This place is crawling with guards. Nowhere in this building is currently safe. The best we can do is have you follow us so that we can try to keep you all safe in the meantime.”
Urchin looks out at the group.
“Any more questions before we continue?”
“Let’s go kick some ass!” Maka yells in response.
Urchin sighs as he pinches the bridge of his nose.
“...Alright…Violet and Takeru are going with Visi-Goth, Candi and Ash are with me and Rick, and Andy will take Love and Maka with him. Does that sound good to all of you?”
“Absolutely!” Andy says with a huge grin on his face.
“Let’s go blow their sorry asses to the kingdom come!” Rick shouts as he exhales another puff of smoke.
“...Ugh…Let’s get this over with…” Visi-Goth wines.
Aside from Maka, the rest of the students weren’t nearly as enthusiastic as most of the heroes were.
Love was beginning to shake again.
“...Hey…” Violet put her hand onto Love’s shoulder with a small smile on her face. “...It’s going to be alright…”
Love exhales and gives her a small nod.
“...Alright, let’s go…” Urchin says as he turns to walk further into the hideout as everyone else splinters off into their assigned teams.
*Ding*
The American Dream leaves an elevator that just opened up on the top floor of the building.
“...Alright…if I remember correctly his office should be…that way!”
He walks in the direction that he pointed towards until he finds himself in front of a door.
There was a golden plaque on it that read ‘Maximillian Midas, CEO of Midas Machines’.
Mr. Dream knocks on the door.
He hears footsteps from inside the room that quickly approach the door.
The door swings open.
“Hey, long time no see!” The American Dream says enthusiastically.
The man standing on the other side of the doorway had spiky golden hair, a black sleeveless suit jacket with a striped golden undershirt, and black slacks.
“I’m glad that you could make it to the meeting…brother.”