A Different Point Of View

[levy120]

But... if you take them out, how are XR and Mira supposed to become... normal again? oo"

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One word. Embar.

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Mostly villain stuff. Heh, heh, heh. Please don't kill me. I'm taking out Ruby and Orm and bringing in four new OC's!


Nos-4-A2 had, had it! Those accursed Space Rangers! Along with that strange feline and that ‘dragon’ thing. They had just disappeared into that light and were gone! He gritted his fangs; he was not in a good mood at all! It was that dragons fault! How dare he act so cocky towards him? HIM! One of the most respected villains in the galaxy. He left the ship in a huff, but heard engines once again, and turned around. Oh great, just what I don’t need. It was Zurg and a platoon of Hornets. Nos just glared at them, Zurg apparently didn’t catch that he wanted to be alone and jetted right up to him. “So did you destroy Lightyear?” He asked excitedly. Nos scowled.

“Does it look like I did?” He said, pointing to his face. He really was in no mood to deal with this now. Zurg frowned once he got the message.

“Oh, well… You’ll have plenty of opportunities later I guess.” He cleared his throat. “Uh excuse me, CURSE YOU BUZZ LIGHTYEAR!!!” He yelled to nothing in particular. Nos sighed; this is the man who created him? Sweet mother of Venus. “Okay, now that I’ve got that out of my system, come along Nossy, its time to go home…” He said. The ‘Nossy’ thing was only one of the things that caught his attention.

“What?” Nos asked the man as though he were crazy. Zurg turned around.

“We’re going home, well not just yet, in a few minutes, there’s something I need to pick up first.” Nos scowled again, but then smiled evilly as he crossed his arms.

“There is no way I’m going back with you! Now that you’ve rebuilt me there’s no reason too.” Zurg smiled evilly as well. Nos raised a brow. “Your smiling, you’re not supposed to be smiling.” He said. Zurg pulled out a remote control and pushed the big red button on it. Nos-4-A2 felt a stinging pain in his head, it was small at first, but it grew from a small annoyance to outright pain. He held his head as Zurg laughed evilly. “What…. Did you…… do?” He asked weakly, the pain become more intense by the minute.

“Well, Nos, the thing is, like all people, I do learn. It just takes a couple tries. I knew you would just leave and or betray me again if I rebuilt you, then I came up with a devilishly evil plan. I had the grubs put a small device in your head; it’s kinda like a techno-tick but better! You see if you ever try to betray me, leave without my say so, or I just feel like it I can activate it. Pretty evil, huh?” He said leaning a little to get in Nos’ face. Zurg pushed the button and the pain left. Nos straightened up, about to say something rather nasty to his ‘father’, but thought better of it. He didn’t want to have that pain again. Nos just scowled. “Well, this time I have a Plan B!” Nos raised a brow again, he never knew Zurg to actually have a backup plan. “And for it I will need you, Nos.” Nos’ scowl deepened. He eyed the control and how close Zurg’s finger was to it; he gulped down his pride and managed to choke out a question.

“What do you wish?” Oh, today was defiantly not his day.

Everyone in the room was covering there ears, Mira and XR were still yelling out in surprise. Ruby was actually hitting her head against the wall. But something tells me that won’t help much. Orm finally sighed and grabbed them both and held them in the air. “Will you two stop that? You’ve been doing that for the past twenty minutes! We get it! It’s surprising! Now stop! You’re giving everyone a headache, and Ruby probably has a migraine by now.” He nearly shouted at the two. They looked pretty much the same, besides the fact Mira’s eyes were yellow and instead of blue and XR’s eyes were now blue instead of the normal yellow. He put them both down on the ground again. Mira, now in XR’s body crossed her arms.

“How did this happen?” She asked her voice with a slight metallic sound to it. She threw her arms out while she said it. Orm sighed again.

“This is why I told you not to touch anyone.” He said matter of factly. “You switch minds. Happened to me and my twin brother once… Oh how we messed with our parents after that.” He said with a chuckle, then caught himself and got serious again. “I only know of two people who would actually help you, and one happens to be at a sorcerer’s convention this week and the other never leaves the temple. Ever.” He said. Mira and XR looked at each other in disdain.

“So what, we’re stuck like this?” XR asked, he seemed outraged. Orm nodded. “Why don’t you do something then?” He asked. Orm gave him a look as though he were crazy.

“I’m a warrior! Not a sorcerer! I only know basic stuff!” He said to them. XR crossed his arms, then started to sink into the floor.

“Ah! HELP! HELP! THE FLOOR IS EATING ME!” He exclaimed as he continued to sink into the ground, Booster and Orm grabbed both of his arms and pulled him back up. XR sighed with relief. “Thanks guys. Mira, your powers are crazy!” He said to her. Mira rolled her eyes.

“Come on, it is not that hard.” She said to him. XR leaned down to get in what used to be his face.

“I’d like to see how you control all my stuff.” He said as he straightened up and put his hands on his hips.

“Oh it can’t be that difficult if you can do it.” Mira snapped at him.

“Ouch, no that hurt.” XR wined. “Try and get one of your guns out.” He said. Mira looked at him blankly.

“Oh… Oh, yeah, of course.” XR smirked, Mira was obviously confused. Orm sighed.

“This could take awhile…”

Nos had listened to what he was supposed to do, it seemed simple enough. A simple kidnapping. “I know what your thinking, Nos. It’s just a simple kidnapping…” Hm, strange, that was what he was thinking. “…But it’s who you’re supposed to kidnap that you need to worry about. From what I’ve heard, this person is supposed to be very tricky. That’s why I’ve decided to send you, everyone else is incompetent.” He had to grin at that, Warp Darkmatter was only a few feet away and had heard everything.

“HEY! What about me?” Warp whined, putting his robotic hand to his chest. “I’m competent.” Zurg seemed to pay little attention.

“Right, right. You and some Hornets will await Nos and the target outside the ship. You’ll be put in charge of getting em’ here! Understood?” He asked, they both nodded. “Good.” He turned his chair to a row of screens. “Grubs! Is the ship in sight yet?” He yelled down at the poor little guys. They nodded yes frantically.

“Yes my evil emperor!” They said quickly at the same time. They turned on the screens to show a ship that vaguely resembled Boba Fetts. It was half black while the over half was grey. Zurg waved his hand at the screen.

“That is your target, Nos. Now, get going.” He said. Nos turned around to go, when he went by Warp, the man smirked.

“Think you can handle it?” He asked, Nos smiled evilly at him.

“Of course, I am Nos-4-A2.” He said as he left the ship for his prey. Warp turned back to Zurg.

“So, who is this guy, Zurg? How’s he so important?” He asked, the evil emperor chuckled.

“This person goes by the name of Dark Gemini. Dark Gemini is a master thief! Can even kidnap people and not get caught. Oh, and another thing, Warp.” Zurg said. Warp had been leaving the room when Zurg said that. He turned around.

“Yes, my evil emperor?” He asked.

“Dark Gemini is a woman.” He told him with a smirk. Warp had called the soon to be kidnapped ‘he’. Warp’s eyes widened for a second. “Just didn’t want you to make that mistake in front of Ms. Gemini, that would’ve been awkward.” He said, he clearly enjoying the fact he embarrassed him.

“Uh... yeah, thanks for the heads up.” He said as he activated his jet pack and flew out of there.

She awoke from her nap with a start. “That alarm was a little loud for me…” She said as she wiped the sleep from her eyes. She looked at the control concil. “Oh, I see it’s the perimeter alarm. Alright that explains it.” She said calmly. A door to the cot pit opened to a rather slim and short robot, he had a big wheel for his ‘legs’, he had eyes like XR except they were black and had a dark violet pupil. He rolled in, in a panic.

“Mistress! Mistress! The ship has detected a large, purple vessel nearby! What should we do, mistress?” He asked. She yawned, got up from her chair and stretched.

“See what they want. CB, can you please get my mask for me?” She asked. He furrowed his brow.

“Why can’t you do it?” He asked forcefully.

“Because it’s right next to you…” She said pointing to it. He looked at it.

“Oh… So it is….” He grabbed the mask and wheeled towards his master, he held it out. “But I’m only doing this cause I wanna, okay?” He said. Dark Gemini smiled as she took her mask and put it on her face.

“I know. Thank you of course.” She grabbed her trench coat that was hanging on the back of her chair; it was black on the right side, with grey accents and grey on the left side with black accents. She sat back down. “Let’s see if I can talk to them.” She said, but before she could touch the controls all the lights went off and everything stopped. It seemed as though the only things working were the gravity system and the life support. “Of course…” The robots eyes became fully violet, he saluted.

“Allow me to check the power cells, mistress!” His eyes went back to normal; he whacked his head a few times. “Darn that loyalty chip!” He exclaimed, continuing to whack his head. She kneeled down and put a hand on his shoulder.

“Would you please?” She asked gently. He sighed.

“Fine, I’ll go. I’ll go.” He said as he rolled off, towards the engine room. She looked after him a moment, then looked out the window to see if she could see the ship. It took a few minutes but she finally heard from him. “C-Bot here, mistress. This is strange…” He said over the radio, the had an old fashioned walkie-talkie like thing.

“What is it?” She asked him. Right now he was probably rubbing the back of his head.

“Two, small holes in the concil. Not even an inch in diameter…” He said. My, were did that sound familiar. The person who inspired her to take on her career. “I know what you’re thinking, mistress… It’s impossible…” He said. She shook her head with a chuckle.

“Now after all the time we’ve spent together you still say things are impossible?” She asked amusement clear in her voice.

“Yeah, yeah, it’s not impossible, just improbable. Stop pulling that one on me!” He exclaimed. “Hey, wait what the heck is that? Hey! Hey you keep away from me you creep! Stay away!” She looked at the walkie-talkie in surprise.

“CB? Are you okay? This better not be another joke?” She knew it wasn’t a joke when she heard him drop his walkie-talkie and his scream of pain that followed. “CB!” She ran down the hall as fast as she could. Craters! Why did she have to send him down there by himself? Her over robots weren’t where they were supposed to be. They probably heard CB scream and went to check on him. Double craters. Those three were so close, like triplets really. She finally made it to the room. She saw several silhouettes, two lying on the ground limply. The third, a much larger figure compared to the little bots. The fourth, her hypochondriac robot nicknamed Worry; he was being held up by the larger figure. She heard him moan in pain.

“I’ve… defiantly got… a virus….. now….” She heard him moan. She pulled her twin lasers out from her belt, and aimed them at the larger silhouette

“Let go of my robot.” She said in a calm yet menacing voice. “Or else.” He looked up from his prey, brought his fangs out of him as well, and dropped him on the floor. He floated menacingly towards her. Floated? Oh she knew who this was, alright.

“Rise little ones, aid your master.” The large shadow said in a cold, smooth voice. The three figures that she knew to be her robots rose from the ground. Their eyes were glowing red, and she saw two small, blinking holes on each of their necks.

“I serve my dark master…” They said in one voice. She groaned. Great, her robots were against her now. What a day.

After the LGM’s got Ruby an ice pack for her head, she and Orm were leaving for home. Buzz shook Orms hand. “Glad you were able to come and help.” He said.

“Of course, I live for this! And don’t worry about your friends; we’ll get them fixed up as soon as possible.” He said, Ruby walked up to them.

“Yeah, don’t worry, we know people.” She said. Orm said a spell of some sort and a portal opened. Booster waved goodbye. They both waved back. “Hey, if we all live to see ten years from now or someone causes some sort of inter-universal problem, then we’ll see each other again.” She said, then they both walked into the portal and were gone. The portal collapsed in on itself. Booster wiped a tear from his eye.

“Those guys were great. I hope we don’t have anything bad like she said.” Booster said. Buzz nodded.

“I doubt anything that big will happen.” He said. Mira groaned, she still had not been able to bring about his guns. Though she had gotten out a twelve man canoe, a safe, some gum, a Victoria’s Circuits magazine, and some mints. But no guns. Darn! This was harder then she had thought it would be. She didn’t even know how he fit a twelve man canoe in him! XR was hunched over laughing after seeing her pull out everything but the kitchen sink… or the guns. No, scratch that, everything but the guns now… XR was really losing it. Buzz, Booster, Commander Nebula, and the LGM’s looked at the pile of stuff.

“Uh, XR… Why did you have a sink?” Booster asked.

“I… don’t… know!” He said between laughs. Nebula put his head in his hand and shook his head.

“Sweet mother of Venus, they better have that guy here soon!” He exclaimed.

She did the only thing she could do, and that was run. She couldn’t hurt her robots. Even if they had the intention of hurting her, they didn’t mean it. She heard maniacal laughter, it was chilling. But she just tried to keep ahead of them, her bots weren’t really fast. But the fourth person was different, he caught up quickly. She screeched to a halt and ran another way, trying to lure him away from her robots. She saw him gliding next to her suddenly. Craters. He stopped and turned around to face her. She looked him in his glowing red eyes. “Nos-4-A2, I never thought I’d have the pleasure of meeting you. Especially after you were blown up…” She said to him. He chuckled as he moved closer to her.

“Here Zurg said this was going to be hard…” He said as he continued to move towards her, she kept on moving back. “Come now, my dear, you should know you cannot escape Nos-4-A2…” He said smoothly. She was now backed against the wall. She smirked under her mask. That was another thing about having a full face mask. No one could see your expression and guess what you were thinking. She smacked a panel on the wall and lasers came out of the wall and pointed at him. Nos looked up at the lasers in surprise, he hadn’t expected this. It had been easy so far, he looked at her masked face, her eyes held a smile that he hadn’t, but should have noticed. He scowled at her, the lasers started to shoot off at him, they went separate ways to avoid being hit. He had gone and down towards a dead end. How quaint. He looked down the hall, she was standing at the entrance, she waved at him and then threw something to the ground. It erupted in a plum of smoke, and she was gone. How strange, but he concentrated on dodging the lasers and chased after her. He looked to his right and left. She was no where to be seen. Tricky, he noted. The three little robots he had taken control of rolled up to him.

“What do you wish, my dark master?” The female robot asked.

“You go down to the left!” He pointed at the most humanoid of the robots, the last one he had drained who had kept on blabbing about getting a virus. “You go down there!” He pointed to the right. He turned to the third, the first he had drained. “And you find something for me to drain. Oh, and if you see her, I’ll know.” He said. C-Bot saluted and rolled off. He went down the same way as the female bot that went by the name Q-T.

He went through a door and found the women, checking the machinery, it appeared she didn’t’ know he had entered. He called out to his master mentally, and slowly rolled out towards her. Part of his mind was screaming at him, not to do this. Not to go against the mistress, but he couldn’t exactly go against his dark master either. Shut up! The organic is nothing; the only thing that matters is the dark master and his goal. No! That’s not right, who cared for you? Who objected when her father decided to put a loyalty chip in his head? Oh, he was so torn.

“GAH!!!!” He yelled out in frustration, alerting her to his presence. He looked up at her; she kneeled down and put a hand on his shoulder. “I… don’t…know…” He whispered. The door was flung open, and there was his dark master. The organic furrowed her brow at him and stood up.

“Good job little one.” Nos said as the other two robots came in through the door. She grabbed her lasers and aimed them at him. “Like I said my dear, you cannot escape from me.” He said with an evil smirk. CB rolled out of the way, darn his mind; he wasn’t sure who to work for… Nos threw some energy blasts at Dark Gemini, but she dodged them, said blasts hit a control concil, that certain one happened to be what kept the gravity the way it was. The robots and the one organic floated in the air, this distracted said organic and she lost her lasers. She looked at her empty hands and looked up from them to find Nos was mere inches from her.

“Oh, craters…” She said as she tried to back up in the lack of gravity. He just grinned and grabbed her wrists, rather tightly she noted. Well this wasn’t good… About five yellow and black robots flew in along with a man with a jetpack. “Friends of yours I presume?” She asked him. He scowled.

“Not even close.” He said, he turned to the man. “About time you got here, Warp. She was a bit tricky to catch…” He said as she struggled some more, he held her wrists with one hand and put his arm around her waist so she couldn’t move as much. She pushed against his chest, trying to get away. His grip was really beginning to hurt… Warp smirked.

“Having fun there, Nos?” He asked mockingly. Nos scowled even more, tightening his grip on the woman.

“Uh, excuse me… You’re crushing my ribcage and my wrists; can you please lessen your grip?” She said in a somewhat pained tone. He looked down at her and lightened his grip on her. “Thank you.” He, Warp, and even the Hornets looked at her strangely.

“How can you be this calm?” Warp asked, scratching his head with his robotic hand.

“Well, one I’ve been double-crossed a lot, and it usually happens sorta like this. Well besides having my robots turn on me, that is new. Oh! And two, I have another plan.” She said, then slammed her feet against Nos’ stomach, activating the rockets in her boots and she shot out of the room. Though the force of it sent CB hurtling into a charger, it strapped him in securely and shut him down. The bad guys followed after her.

Zurg tapped the arm of his chair impatiently. A few Grubs were trying to keep him calm. “My evil emperor! I’m sure they’ll be back soon…” One rather brave Grub said. Zurg scowled, he reached to a control, activated a laser, had it aimed at said Grub and was about to fire it when the door opened. A rather ticked off looking Warp and somewhat annoyed Nos came in, followed by several Hornets who had their prisoner in hand. But stripped of her trench coat, hat, belt, and boots. She looked to Warp.

“Was it really necessary to take my hat?” She asked with questioning eyes. Warp smirk and twirled the hat on his finger.

“No, I just thought it’d upset you.” He said. The Hornets took her to the foot of the stairs and set her down. Zurg leaned forward in his seat.

“So you’re the Dark Gemini I’ve heard about, I haven’t heard that much about you, but I’ve still heard of you…” He said.

“Okay, you wake me from my nap, you invade my ship, you attack my robots, and you kidnap me. Now what?” She asked with an eyebrow raised.
Zurg then had a confused look on his face; he put a finger to his mouth.

“Actually, I didn't think I'd get this far…” He said. Warp, Nos and Dark Gemini looked at each other a moment, DG just shook her head.

“My fate is in the hands a crazy person wearing purple…” She said with a sigh.

“HEY! That’s evil emperor crazy person wearing purple… Hey wait, that wasn’t any better…” He said. Nos sighed and shook his head. “I bet your wondering why I kidnapped you, aren’t you.” He asked.

“Well of course. Why wouldn’t I be?” She said with a shrug. He cleared his throat.

“I want you to help me capture Team Lightyear, and bring them back here so I can DESTROY THEM!!!!!” He exclaimed. She blinked.

“You think I’m that good?” She asked with an eye brow raised. He started laughing.

“Well you won’t be doing it alone! You’ll have a partner!” He exclaimed. “Bet your wondering who it is, aren’t you?” She nodded. “Well it’s the energy vampire who captured you in the first place!” He exclaimed motioning to Nos with his hand. Nos furrowed his brow. He hadn’t been told of this. Darn Zurg for leaving him out of the loop… The captive looked back at him, she was as surprised as he was. He shrugged and she turned back to Zurg.

“I am being paid, right?” She asked. Zurg started laughing, then he stopped when he realized something.

“Oh! You were being serious?” He asked. She nodded. “Oh… well sure I guess…” He said, rubbing the back of his head. DG furrowed her brow.

“You do know of course, that I count not getting paid as double-crossing, and I don’t like getting double-crossed. In fact I always get my revenge, do you really want to take that chance, sir?” She asked. Zurg shook his head and scowled. He leaned his head against his fist.

“Okay, how much do you want?” He asked. She smirked under her mask. Perhaps today was okay after all.

[BandGeek727]

"everything but the kitchen sink" XD Classic! I'm loving the switch so far.

Tricky of Zurg, planting that device in NOS. I almost felt sorry for him... almost.

Dark Gemini is an intriguing character. And her little bots sound cute. ^_^ I liked Orm, too; he was cool.

You've got my attention; can't wait to see where you take it!

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“HEY! That’s evil emperor crazy person wearing purple… Hey wait, that wasn’t any better…” He said. Nos sighed and shook his head. “I bet your wondering why I kidnapped you, aren’t you.” He asked.

XDDDDDDDDD That sounds so like him! I love it! DG is so cunning! Master Thief that could rival the Grey Fox himself! Everything seems so spot-on! NOS, whiny Warp, Idiotic Zurg....hornets. I love it again!

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Glad you like! I thought those lines were Zurgish. Uh, who's the grey fox?

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The Grey Fox? The only thief to steal the Elder Scroll from right under the Elder Library's nose! Legend in his own right. Tricky fellow, but he has his honor. Like Robin Hood, he protected the poor and weak, and stole only from the rich and unjust. Could jump really high too...must be the cowl.

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Thanks for clearing that up! Wow, having one of my characters looked upon like that is nice! Yay! People like her! They really like her!

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DG reminds me of him in more ways than one....doesn't lose face, clever and cunning, and doesn't kill on the job. At least I think? I like your character. A suave, elusive villain. Heh, I thought the same way you did. People like my character? What? Crazy world we live in...

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Yeah, and don't worry she doesn't kill. Well it looks like I inadvertantly based my character off of someones. Oops. Well they can't blame me for that... I had no idea he even existed.

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Oh don't worry about that! The Grey Fox is also very different! It's common for master thieves to uphold certain characteristics such as never spill blood or to control one's emotions, although I'd say that's more of DG herself. Yours is still unique in her own right.

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Yay again! I'm not a complete rip-off artist!

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Oh man....I hope I didn't rip-off of someone, now that you mention it. You never know with sue-happy legal lovers out there

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So true.......

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“Okay… let’s try this again…” Commander Nebula said, leaning his head against his fist. Booster and Buzz were standing behind him. Mira and XR were in the Science Bay, trying, on their own, to master each others abilities. So far it hadn’t been going to well… at all… what so ever. So far Mira had accidentally fried a team of LGM’s, XR had almost ghosted completely out of Star Command, and both had rather upset the Commander. XR walked over to a desk and tried to lean against it.

“Oh come one pops we’ve been doing this for…” He started as his hand started to ghost through the desk. “Gah!” It seemed only his arm ghosted its way through the desk since he whacked his head on the it and fell back down on the ground with an ‘oof’. XR rubbed his head. “Okay… that didn’t exactly go as well as planned…” He muttered. Mira rolled her eyes.

“I think I’ve almost got the guns out!” She said, then out popped that red tropical shirt seen on XR at times. Mira sighed as she picked up said shirt and looked at it. She looked to everyone else with an awkward smile. “Ah heh, false alarm…” She said as she stuffed it back into her chest cavity. She turned to the LGM’s. “How can you guys fit some much stuff in here?” She asked. XR had gotten up and stood beside her, still rubbing his head.

“Ya know, I’ve always wondered that too. How is that?” He asked. The brainswitcheys gave the little green guys an expecting look. The LGM’s kept on looking away and muttering things like ‘well’, ‘hard to explain’ and such like it.

“Ah… Look! It’s Buzz!” One of the LGM’s, the ‘free-thinker’ yelled. They all ‘oooohhed’ at the same time and ran over to him. Mira and XR looked at each other with raised brows.

“That actually went better then I expected.” XR said, folding his arms. Mira rolled her eyes again.

“Rangers!” The Commander nearly shouted to get their attention. They both turned to him and saluted. “Until you get back to normal… I don’t think you two should be one any missions.” He said, hesitantly. Although the two of them should have seen this coming, both their jaws dropped.

“But Commander…!”

“But dad…!”

“No buts from either of you!” Nebula said, walking in front of them with his arms folded behind his back. “I also don’t think you two should be split up either.” He said. XR smiled and threw his arms up.

“Wahoo! Does this mean we can have a slumber party?” He asked. Mira shook her head.

“XR…” She said warningly. XR just waved his hand at her.

“Ah come on! It’ll be fun! We can tell ghost stories! No vampires. Watch a scary movie! No vampires. And have a whole bunch of pillow fights! That’d be fun!” He said it excitedly, well except when he said something about the vampires; he’d bring his voice back to normal for that one. He looked down to Mira with an excited look. Mira sighed in defeat. He’d just keep badgering on about it till he got what he wanted.

“Fine. But no pillow fights.” She said.

“Ah!” The robot said disappointed. “How about just one?” He asked, Mira glared up at him but sighed again.

“Just one. But if you ruin any of my pillows…” She started but was interrupted by another ‘Wahoo!’ She shook her head. What had she just agreed to?

Zurg was sitting in his throne, muttering about how expensive his latest hired hand was, and was leaning his head against his fist. Warp walked up to him with a confused look. “Uh… My evil emperor?” He asked. Zurg was so lost in his complaining that Darkmatters voice scared him and made him fall right out of his seat.

“What is it, Warp? I’m a very busy evil emperor!” He grumbled as he stood up and dusted himself off. Warp looked rather nervous.

“Well, uh, remember when you made Nos and DG team up?” He asked. Zurg was totally clueless.

“Yes. One of my more brilliant evil ideas’ if I do say so myself. Nos the cruel and powerful energy vampire, and Dark Gemini the master thief. A pretty good team, huh?” He asked, raising a brow. Warp cleared his throat.

“Well… Not really…” Zurg raised his brows, then narrowed his eyes at him.

“What do you mean?” He asked dangerously. Warp pulled at his collar.

“Well… They don’t really get along all that well.” He said. Just then the door to the room opened and in came both the vampire and thief. Arguing, politely, but arguing none the less. Nos floated up to Zurg quickly.

“I cannot work with this woman!” He said, pointing at her as she came up beside him. She narrowed her eyes at him and put her hands on her hips.

“Uh… Why?” Zurg asked.

“Because I want him to treat me as an equal. We’re partners, not master and minion.” Dark Gemini said glaring at the vamp who just glared back. Zurg looked at them both with wide eyes. He hadn’t expected this. Nos grabbed his ‘partners’ chin, rather tightly she again noticed, and held her face in place.

“Because I am Nos-4-A2. I am superior.” He said in a menacingly calm voice.

“I’m quite sorry but is that why you’ve failed at the hands of Space Rangers in the past?” She asked. Zurg winced, ouch, that had to hurt Nos’ ego. They just continued to glare at each other. “Also, could you let go? I’d rather not have my jaw broken if I had a choice.” She said. Nos narrowed his normal eye at her, tightened his grip for a moment, then let go. They both crossed their arms and turned away from each other. Zurg blinked. He had never had employee’s who had gotten this much on each others nerves. She turned her head to look at Nos a moment. “Thank you.” She said, then turned her head away from him again. Zurg cleared his throat, hoping to dispel the sudden awkward silence.

“Can’t you two just get along?” He asked, holding his hands out in front of him, palms up and a nervous smile on his ‘face’. Nos turned to face his ‘father’.

“Most likely not.” He said with a scowl. Warp whistled.

“Geesh, you guys act like an old married couple.” Warp said. Nos and DG gave him a skeptical look, then they looked at each other and started laughing. “Uh, something I say?” He asked, scratching his head. The two stopped laughing and turned to face him.

“If I am correct, most of the time with marriage there has to be some sort of attraction to begin with.” Nos said. “There is none.” He said. “Perhaps a tad bit of respect, not many people so much as look me in the eye.” He continued, a small smirk on his face.

“Afraid of what they might see, perhaps.” DG shrugged as she said this. “The eyes are the window to the soul, you know.” She said. Zurg didn’t really get what the young woman had said but nodded none the less.

“Well since you two respect each other, why can’t you two just get along?” Zurg asked once again.

“Because it beneath me!” Nos said, he and the woman glared at each other again and turned away. Zurg sighed. This was going to be a long day.

Buzz smiled as a crew of fellow Space Rangers brought 42 back to the base. “Good to see its back.” He said, as Nebula walked over to him and stood next to him.

“Gonna have’ta get that no good energy vampires control broken before you get in that thing, ranger.” The commander said. Buzz saluted. “There’s one other thing I’d like ya to see, son.” He said. “Follow me.” And he walked off; Buzz did as he was told. They came to another hangar; inside there was a strange looking black and grey ship.

“Sir, whose is it?” Buzz asked.

“We don’t know! We scanned the ship and didn’t find any sentiate life forms.” Commander Nebula said. Buzz nodded.

“How strange.” The captain said to himself.

“Nebula!” The LGM’s yelled in one voice. “We found something.” They said they carried out a charger with a robot in it; they also carried out two more. Buzz and Nebula looked at each other a moment, then turned there attention back to the LGM’s. The robot in the charger had goggle eyes like XR, but was slimmer and purple and had a wheel for feet. Another one was grey and green; it had one big eye, and had a duffle bag hanging from its shoulder. It looked kinda like a turtle. The third was mostly pink colors, had a screen for its eyes in the shape of sunglasses, and had what looked like pig tails protruding from its head, it was also missing its arms and legs. Buzz walked up to the charger and checked the energy level on the purple bot. It was fully charged. He flipped a switch on the charger.

“Let’s see if he can tell us a bit about the ship and is owner.” Buzz said as he turned to Commander Nebula who nodded in response. The little bots eyes lit up, they were black with a violet pupil, the charger released the poor little guy. He rolled out of the charger, holding his head.

“Ow… What hit me? Did I have another party? No, if that was the case I’d be lying in a puddle of oil and oil cans…” He muttered. The captain and commander looked at each other then back at the robot. The bot looked around wildly. “Hey! Hey, where am I?” He asked in a panicked state. Buzz kneeled down and put a hand on the robots shoulder.

“Easy now, your safe. This is Star Command.” Buzz told the little guy. The robot looked down at the hand on his shoulder and suddenly everything became clear. The giant purple vessel, losing power, checking the engine, that… Thing! Betraying the mistress. His pupils dilated as the memories flashed back to him. He shook his head and looked at the man. “So, what’s your name?” The man asked. The little bot gulped.

“I go by C-Bot, dude.” He said. Buzz raised a brow. “What? Never heard surfer lingo?” He asked, putting his hands on his hips. Then something else came to mind. “Hey where are my brother and sister?!” He asked. He looked around again and found them lying on the ground, he rolled over to them and pulled them back to the charger. Nebula gave CB a strange look.

“Brother? Sister? What are you talkin’ ‘bout?” He asked. C-Bot turned around to look at him and furrowed his brow.

“We were all made by the same person. So therefore we are siblings. Also, don’t you dare tell them I was concerned! I’m the oldest! I’m supposed to look like I couldn’t care less! Okay?” He asked. Buzz raised a brow.

“Uh, sure, C-Bot.” He said with a shrug and awkward smile. CB still had his brow furrowed and nodded. He turned back to his ‘siblings’ and hooked them up to it. “Okay, we know who you are. What are they called?” Buzz asked. CB motioned to the grey and green one.

“This is my little bro, Worry.” He told them and then motioned to the pink one. “And this is my little sis, Q-T.” He said. They both nodded.

“So where’s your owner?” Nebula asked. C-Bots pupils dilated again, he looked down at his wheel.

“I… I don’t know…” He said quietly. The two space rangers looked at one another.

“Well… Can you tell us who your owner is?” Buzz asked. C-Bots eyes became fully violet and he saluted.

“That information is restricted, sir!” He said. He shook his head and his eyes went back to normal. “Sorry, but the loyalty chip decides on what I can tell you, and you don’t get to know.” He said. I’m actually glad I have this thing now; I may have accidentally let it slip. CB thought and held back an evil grin.

Sorry about it being late and short. I blame the vacation. Well here it is. Nos and DG aren't exactly getting along at the moment. Heh heh heh.