In the middle of the night, a scientist was up working on an important project. He had supplies all over his laboratory and paperwork everywhere, it was a mess. They knew they had to get the project ready for the commissioner in the morning when they would be coming to collect it. By the time morning came around, the scientist had to get up and answer the door to show what they made.
"Morning Henry! Sorry about the mess, I've been busy all night," -Max
"Max, I expect this thing to be done by now," -Henry
"Yes well, please come in and I can show you," -Max
Max walked Henry to the main laboratory room inside the building. Max owns his own lab called Galactical Laboratories that takes in commissions for custom builds.
"It's been about 20 test runs but I think it's finally ready," -Max
"I'm hoping so. This is going to be my comeback story," -Henry
"Ever since you tried to sell that boy's Super Merge," -Max
"A wonderful creation in the wrong hands," -Henry
"The other boy who got his hands on it created quite the commotion with it. Are you sure you're fine with something like this?" -Max
"Believe me Max, I've got enough critics already. Once they see what I can do with it, the entire industry will be all over me," -Henry
Max pulled off the blanket covering the project. It was a dummy AI model.
"This is the one huh?" -Henry
"It will be able to capture the information of anyone you want to. All their memories and knowledge and even personality will be captured into the model," -Max
"No screw ups?" -Henry
"No screw ups," -Max
"Money will be in the account by the end of this week," -Henry
"Thank you so much! I hope you get what you are looking for," -Max
Henry didn't let Max finish his sentence. He picked up the model and carried it over to his helicopter and took off to a new factory he had purchased just outside of the city. He was safe from local police in this building.
"Alright people. Daddy's home so get back to work!" -Henry
The factory workers got to work on updating the model and prepared conveyor lines to rebuild the Super Merge. Henry brought the AI model outside and turned it on.
"Alright buddy. I need you to copy this fellow for me ok? Come back after," -Henry
He inserted a profile of Lunar into the model. Its eyes opened and turned around. After reading the profile, the model ran off towards Lunar's last seen location at his house.
Lunar and Aidan were busy performing tests of his new weapon that day.
"Ready to go?!" -Lunar
"Ready! Don't kill me," -Aidan
Lunar charged up his blaster and fired a plasma shot at Aidan holding a metal shield. It knocked him back, but the shield took serious damage.
"Wow, this is incredible" -Lunar
"I'm so lucky to be alive right now," -Aidan
"If I can't weaponize the Super Merge I'm still gonna make weapons for myself. In case of more unexpected intruders," -Lunar
"What happened that day anyways? You said someone broke into your house or something like that," -Aidan
"Eh, I can't really talk about it but nothing bad happened. It was more of a business pitch if anything," -Lunar
"Hopefully it turns out better than Henry's," -Aidan
"I think it will," -Lunar
The two of them continued to test his new weapon and get the limits of what it could do. Meanwhile, the AI model Henry ordered had walked up all the way to Lunar's house and rang the doorbell.
"Who's that?" -Lunar
"I didn't invite anyone," -Aidan
"Can you get it? I need to stay here and watch the melting process," -Lunar
Aidan went upstairs to open the door and met the model face to face.
"Uh, can I help you?" -Aidan
The model didn't reply. Instead it scanned Aidan and then pushed him aside to walk in the house. It made its way downstairs. Aidan tried to pull it back but it was too strong. Lunar noticed and went up to talk to it.
"Hey? Your a fancy looking robot," -Lunar
The model scanned Lunar and instantly started transforming itself. The model had the ability to take looks as well as information. Soon, the model looked just like Lunar, except with red eyes, but with a mostly similar personality.
"Hello, Lunar," -AI
"You can copy people?!" -Lunar
"Just one of my abilities that my creator gave," -AI
"Who created you!??" -Aidan
"That question is irrelevant, but I came here for the Super Merge," -AI
"How do you know what that is?" -Lunar
The AI didn't care to answer. It spotted the Super Merge and headed straight for it. Lunar blocked the way but pushed him out of the way too. He had enough and decided it was time to use the weapon. Lunar fired a blast at it, but it did no damage. The model was made out of a super strong metal. Aidan decided to brawl with it but its combat skills were high tier as well. The model managed to grab onto the Super Merge and broke out the window.
"Oh dear. We need to chase it!" -Lunar
The two of them left through the front door and hopped into the car. They were able to catch up to it in the city, dodging traffic from all directions and barely making it through the green lights. The model saw them and used the Super Merge to combine parked cars and formed a barricade. This made Lunar stop the car, as well as any incoming traffic.
"We're fucked," -Aidan
"Maybe," -Lunar
Lunar called someone on his phone to ask for help.
"Stellar? I'm gonna need some help," -Lunar
They drove to Stellar's building, where he was waiting for them to arrive.
"Lunar! Glad you came. What's going on?" -Lunar
"Weird stuff. An AI came up, copied my looks and everything. Then took my Super Merge," -Lunar
"I know. I saw on the cameras, and well the news as well," -Stellar
"I have no idea who made it and why it came," -Lunar
"I don't know either, but based on experience last time, anyone with a Super Merge that isn't gonna place nice is a threat to our planet. Even if they are a robot," -Stellar
"I agree, but the robot is taking orders from someone. We need to find out who," -Lunar
They were getting ready to gear up, when one of Stellar's drones caught some attention outside. In a corner of the city, the same AI entered a building and started firing blasts everywhere, including using the Super Merge.
"This might not end well for us," -Aidan
"It's ok Aidan. I can have someone escort you back home. Lunar, I think it's time we get some help for once?" -Stellar
"Yeah, I agree too," -Lunar
In Hexelheim, Alex was out mining in some caves along with Alejandro. They wanted to help out the guards in the village by getting better armor for them.
"This was a great idea," -Alex
"To come here?" -Alejandro
"Yes! We could find something even better down here," -Alex
"Like what?" -Alejandro
"I'd love a spawner farm or something like that," -Alex
"Ha, maybe but you take care of that. I'm too lazy to work on something that big," -Alejandro
They finished grabbing the diamonds and went back up the cave to fly back to the village.
"Welcome back! Good haul today?" -Chief
"Great one today Chief. We'll have it deposited in the storage spot right away," -Alex
They went over to put the ores in a chest when they heard a loud commotion outside. A bunch of the village guards and golems were running to the front gates. Alex and Alejandro went as well to see what was going on. Stellar and Lunar had a portal to Hexelheim made right outside the village gates, and were being treated as intruders.
"Woah! We come in peace!" -Lunar
"They aren't going to bite on that," -Stellar
Luckily, Alex went out to help out.
"Guys guys! I know these guys! Everything is ok. You can return to your posts," -Alex
The village guards went back inside.
"I will let you take care of your friends," -Chief
"Humans? How did you get here?" -Alejandro
"Long story, but I found a way to enter this world of yours," -Stellar
"It's beautiful. I've always had a spot for Minecraft in my heart," -Lunar
"So what's up Stellar?" -Alex
"There's a threat back on Earth, and I think we'll need some help," -Stellar
"The first mission? Finally! I've been waiting to kick ass up there," -Alex
"We'll meet you there. Walk through when you're ready," -Stellar
Stellar and Lunar walked in, leaving Alex and Alejandro.
"Are you going to be ok up there?" -Alejandro
"I trust them. I've been before for a bit so I know what it's like. They have their own weird systems but it works. I think I can make a difference in the fight," -Alex
"When you come back, I'll have a better weapon for you," -Alejandro
"I know you will. See you!" -Alex
Alex walked through the portal and ended up in Stellar's building.
"Wow! In the flesh here. It works. It's a miracle," -Lunar
"Believe me I spent a lot of time developing the technology to cross the worlds," -Stellar
"It's nice to meet you again Alex. I hope the caves have been treating you well," -Lunar
"It's been good there. Got a lot of them recently. How are things up here?" -Alex
"We were just about to talk about that. Lunar says that an AI model copied his looks and knowledge, AND stole his Super Merge. This is like if withers came to destroy your village level of serious," -Stellar
"Huh, I know what that's like. I'm sold, what's the plan?" -Alex
"Drone captured footage of entering a building. Not sure why, but I know it sells parts. It's up to no good," -Stellar
"Let's move out then," -Lunar
Lunar and Alex packed up their weapons and got in Stellar's car. He hit the gas and made it quickly to the building. It was a place that developed duplication technology, and that was no good for someone with a Super Merge.
"That guy beat me up badly last time. I think you give it a shot this time Alex," -Lunar
Alex jumped out of the car and ran inside. Stellar and Lunar helped the citizens get out and blocked falling debris. Inside, the lights were cut out and equipment was being thrown all over the place. Alex traced some footsteps into a main storage room, where the AI model was merging pieces together to carry all at once.
"Making quite the mess there buddy," -Alex
"You wouldn't know greatness if you saw it," -AI
"Who are you even? You look evil, and you look like a Lunar. I'll call you Evil Lunar haha," -Alex
Evil Lunar didn't take that quite well, and flew into Alex to knock her on the ground. Alex grabbed out her mace and delivered three powerful blows back and threw it at him to knock a shelf of supplies right on top. He merged the shelf into the floor and made it appear right under Alex, knocking her into the air. Evil Lunar fired direct blasts at her which blasted her right out of the storage room into the lobby of the building. Stellar and Lunar were finished helping the people and came into the lobby to meet up with Alex.
"Alex! You good?" -Lunar
"I'm good! He's smart though. Evil Lunar," -Alex
"Evil who?" -Lunar
Evil Lunar walked out the storage room with all of the pieces he needed in a small clump.
"That's far enough, Evil uh Lunar," -Stellar
"The job's not done," -Evil Lunar
He charged in fast, but Stellar summoned charged particles into the room that stunned him in place while hurting too.
"Holy crap," -Lunar
"No idea you could do this," -Stellar
"Get the Super Merge, now!" -Stellar
The three of them ran in to grab it, but Lunar realized something was wrong. The Super Merge was merged into his arm too. He tried to cut it off, but it was made with a strong metal. A blast from his weapon wasn't going to make even a dent. Alex tried chopping it with an axe, but even that was too much. The particles went away, and Evil Lunar regained control. He trapped Lunar in a merged cage, and stunned Alex with one of her own nausea potions before facing Stellar. Stellar charged up a stream of northern lights into Evil Lunar, but he was barely affected. After blasting him out of the way, Evil Lunar flew off back to Henry's factory. Lunar broke out of the cage and healed Alex. Stellar walked over to join him.
"Ok, that did not go as planned," -Stellar
"I think we really underestimate this guy, and I still don't know who made him!" -Lunar
"Should we chase after?" -Alex
"Not yet, I think we need to catch our breaths first. If he needed all those parts, they are planning something big, but we have time for now," -Stellar
They got into the car and drove back to Stellar's building to get some food and lay down for a while. The city had a clean up crew come in and reporters to describe what happened. Some citizens were crediting Lunar, Stellar, and Alex for trying to help them out, but ultimately failed in capturing the threat.
Evil Lunar got back to Henry right before evening. He dropped all the parts and merged them together according to a schematic. It created a machine that could produce even more models with Super Merges.
"Good work my friend. With this, I will be able to not only make Super Merges, but also personal robots at my helm," -Henry
"And what will these robots do?" -Evil Lunar
"Whatever their master wants them too. Personal servants," -Henry
"Sounds cruel," -Evil Lunar
"They are just robots. It's for business," -Henry
Evil Lunar gave him a nasty look, but went to a room to rest up. With Lunar's mind, he felt more like a human than a robot now. He even managed to catch some sleep. Henry used the time to prepare the robots and shipped them off in a plane to distribute across the city. He had customers who already pre ordered these Super Merge robots. Evil Lunar saw the last plane about to leave and decided to sneak on board with it after turning off his locator. He hijacked the plane's controls and landed it in the middle of a street. He let them out and activated their systems.
"Hear me now. You won't be slaves to some filthy humans. Go now and live!" -Evil Lunar
The robots didn't move at all initially, but then their eyes also turned red and started using the Super Merge to destroy the surrounding buildings and made a huge mess everywhere. People were running away from the robots, and the nearby police and late night security guards were out matched. Mack and B were walking home from the book club not far away.
"That part where he makes the sacrifice was amazing. I hope they make a sequel," -B
"I hope so too. We need one where they bring him back somehow," -Mack
"Any plans for tonight?" -B
"Probably just gonna play games. A friend asked me too. Also gotta feed Dalton I just remembered," -Mack
Mack stopped walking for a bit to smoke up some weed and turned around to tie her boots.
"Look out!" -B
A crumpled up car was being thrown at Mack, but her Crimsonite bubble came out to shield her. The car rolled down the street and broke a fire hydrant. More debris was coming, so Mack pulled out her blade and sliced each thing in half as they flew in. After running up the street with B, they saw the Super Merge robots causing the mess.
"What the absolute fuck is this," -B
"Not sure, but they suck," -Mack
Mack ran in and sliced more robots in half and dodged some attacks at the same time. B went in to help her out, and used some Crimsonite to grab onto one, set it on fire and threw it into a crowd, blowing up a group of robots at once.
"Showoff," -Mack
They fought their way up the street until they reached the plane. Evil Lunar walked out, looking angry.
"Lunar?" -Mack
"A mere copy of him," -Evil Lunar
"This guy looks like trouble," -B
"Why did you send these bots here?" -Mack
"I was simply liberating them. How they felt about you humans was their choice," -Mack
Mack had enough, and charged in with both her blade and her Crimsonite. Evil Lunar managed to punch through the bubble, and used the Super Merge to take some of its power for himself. He created a Crimsonite bubble of his own, and fired back hard. Mack and B hid behind a car for safety.
"Are you ok?!" -B
"I'm good, but he stole some Crimsonite somehow. Who on Earth is this guy?!" -Mack
The car was about to be vaporized. Mack and B held on for dear life. Before it fully broke, a large boulder was lifted into the air and dropped onto Evil Lunar, pinning him in place. Finley flew in and lodged the boulder deep into the ground. Mack and B got out, feeling more safe.
"What happened here?" -Finley
"Thanks for the help! We don't know," -Mack
"I got a call from Stellar that something big was happening. I remember seeing your face. You're on the team too right?" -Finley
"Mack. Yes, that's me. I wasn't called in. I told him I wanted this week off but I think that's over now," -Mack
"I see. Looks like this guy caused a mess. What was it?" -Finley
"A robot of some kind. But he looked like a guy on the team. Lunar," -Mack
"Haha. If there was trouble I knew it had to be related to that guy. He's smart but sometimes things get bad around him," -Finley
"We need to get back the Crimsonite he took from Mack," -B
B walked over to the boulder and broke it up. When they fully moved it off, they saw that Evil Lunar had dug himself a hole and escaped.
"Fuck," -Mack, B, Finley
Henry at his factory got a call that the last plane never arrived at its destination. He called Max to see if he could find Evil Lunar.
"Max! Buddy boy you got some explaining to do. Apparently the AI took control of a plane and landed it somewhere, then let the robots I made out. Where is he right now?" -Henry
"... I uh don't know. It disabled the locator on its own. It could be anywhere by now!" -Max
"I thought you said no screw ups Max," -Henry
"I know! I promise I'll fix it. I'll get to work on something," -Max
"You better, or that cheque isn't gonna be yours!" -Henry
He hung up and got his staff to continue working on the Super Merge on the conveyor belts. They had stacks of packed Super Merges ready to be sold.
Evil Lunar dug out of the ground somewhere on the coast near a beach. He grabbed his Super Merge and pointed it at the sky, starting the process to open a large portal. It started small, but was gradually growing. A few of the robots that survived the city fight walked up to him.
"This my friends, is where you will be safe," -Evil Lunar
The next morning, Lunar and Alex woke up at HQ after spending the night.
"We need a way to track Evil Lunar down. Any ideas?" -Stellar
"If we can get a piece of his machinery I can trace it back to a production factory," -Lunar
"But we would need to get a piece from him, and as far as I can tell that dude has an indestructible body. This is a sharpness five axe too!" -Alex
Stellar and Lunar looked at Alex rather confused.
"It can cut through the hardest things so we are going to need another solution," -Alex
Just as they were discussing, Mack and Finley walked into HQ and met up with them. Stellar turned around to introduce everyone formally.
"The other part of the team is here, welcome," -Stellar
"Only had a run in of a lifetime," -Mack
"Wow, finally nice to meet you guys! I love the pink on you Mack," -Alex
"You're looking snazzy too girly pop," -Mack
"Finley! You look way better," -Lunar
"I learned a lot recently. Made a change of heart," -Finley
"This is how people will remember you. The right way," -Lunar
"You told me you guys ran into that Evil Lunar we were trying to take down. How did that go?" -Stellar
"Uh, not good. He kicked our asses and B was there too. After we trapped him he dug underground and escaped. AND he has some of my Crimsonite!" -Mack
"Crimsonite? I thought that element was pure fiction," -Lunar
"It's very real. And with it, he can shield himself way better than before. So if you guys were trying to break him it's gonna get a LOT harder now," -Mack
"We were thinking of a way to track down whoever created them. That way we can maybe find a kill switch, or make the creator make one," -Stellar
Mack pulled out a piece of metal from Evil Lunar out of her pocket and showed it to the team.
"When he punched me to take my Crimsonite, even though it went through, it damaged his hand enough to leave these scraps behind. Could this work?" -Stellar
Stellar took the pieces and put them under a scanner. Within a few minutes, they were able to trace the metal back to Galactical Laboratories.
"I've heard of that lab before. I wanted to do an internship there but couldn't get in," -Lunar
"Looks like a solid plan," -Alex
"Good work you guys," -Stellar
The group geared back up and drove off towards the lab. Along the way, they saw a line of robots handing out Super Merges on the street and decided to go check it out. People were in line to pick them up.
"I thought the Super Merge was with one robot. Why are there copies of them with it?" -Lunar
"They want to make a business out of it, but why?" -Alex
Lunar thought about it, but then came to a realization.
"I think I know who's behind this. We gotta get to the lab now," -Lunar
Before they could get back to the car, a group of robots started walking towards them, armed and dangerous.
"We aren't looking to buy anything today thanks!" -Stellar
The robots weren't looking to talk, and readied up their weapons. The group set up defences and braced for an impact.
At the other corner in the city, Julian was busy performing a concert at another music festival.
"Thank you all for coming!" -Julian
He got off the stage and met up with Winnie.
"How did I do today?" -Julian
"You always do great honey," -Winnie
"Thank you, thank you. I feel like next time I could use the harmonic flow more. I barely used it this time," -Julian
"I think Tyler should be there next time," -Winnie
"He's out of the country for an international tour. Hoping to see him live in the future," -Julian
After cleaning up the rest of the concert gear, they packed it up in the car. From the crowd, Dylan ran over to catch up to Julian.
"Fire concert today dude," -Dylan
"Oh Dylan! You were able to make it," -Julian
"I was waiting for you to finish. We're needed urgently," -Julian
"Is it about that Stellar dude?" -Dylan
Dylan showed him video footage captured from Drago while he was flying over the city. A group of robots were surrounding the area on the rest of the Celestials.
"Oh, that's not good thing," -Julian
"We need to go, now," -Dylan
"Alright, works with me. I'll be home for dinner Winnie!" -Julian
"Good luck!" -Winnie
Dylan flew off with Drago while Julian used the Harmonic Flow to carry him away.
The robots were about to send it their all, but before they could, notes rained down from above and deactivated the robots. Julian jumped in with his guitar and started destroying the others who were running in. A few of the robots started getting aggressive with the crowd and started chasing them down too. At that moment, Dylan came in and set them up on fire and froze another group of them too. They cleaned up the rest of them soon after.
"Took you guys long enough to arrive," -Stellar
"Sorry! Had a concert gig to perform at," -Julian
"My D&D game was taking forever too." -Dylan
"All good. Finally, now we're all together," -Stellar
"These are the last ones?" -Finley
"Yep, this is it. You guys. All together," -Stellar
"You workout a lot?" -Dylan
"A lot," -Finley
"Hey Dylan! Nice to meet up again," -Lunar
"Alright let's do introductions on the way! We got larger problems on our hands," -Alex
The Celestials wasted no time. Each of them got their own method of transportation and quickly made their way to Galactical Laboratories. They stormed past the lobby and made their way into the main lab room. They saw a scientist working on a device in the middle of the room.
"Hello!" -Stellar
Max turned around and saw the group of Celestials walking towards them.
"We're not here to cause any harm. We want to know who made that robot that's causing chaos everywhere," -Lunar
"That would be me. The name's Max," -Max
Finley walked up and pinned him down to his chair.
"What's your deal?" -Finley
"Woah woah! Calm down big guy! Take it easy," -Max
"You better start talking or he won't take it easy," -Mack
"Ok ok! I didn't make it for myself. A client ordered it," -Max
"Who ordered it?" -Alex
"This fellow named Henry," -Max
Lunar gasped, his suspicions were right. Henry was back and trying to profit off his Super Merge again.
"Where is he!?" -Lunar
Henry walked downstairs into the room to greet everyone.
"He's right here," -Henry
Everyone turned to face him.
"I knew it had to be you once I saw those Super Merges. This is serious stuff. People will get hurt if you give them out like this!" -Lunar
"The Super Merges are with robots. They can't do harm to the people. I'm simply stopping anyone who tries to object with my plans. I see you're also working with Finley. I thought he was just a bully. Never expected him to take on the path of the hero," -Henry
"If you don't shut up right now I will pummel you to the ground," -Finley
"Oh! You even got a DuskRose assassin. You have no idea how much of my staff died because of that organization. And you got a cheap guitarist and block person. Great team Stellar I must admit," -Henry
Alex had enough of Henry and went in to hit him with her mace. Before she could land the hit, Evil Lunar dove through the roof and shielded the hit, which knocked her back. Max had activated the locator and brought him back. He chose to hide away as the confrontation began.
"My AI model has proved to be quite valuable. I hope he won't let me down," -Henry
"That is just Evil Lunar to us," -Lunar
"Huh, nicknames are still popular these days. Finish them," -Henry
Henry took a step back and let Evil Lunar get to work. The Celestials charged in one by one trying to hit him down, but his base body was too hard to make a dent. Mack's blade nearly broke when she tried to slice him in half. Alex's mace did no good either. Lunar fired plasma blasts at him but Evil Lunar merged them together and sent them right back at him. Finley charged at him with the Rhino's power but the Crimsonite bubble shielded him from that too. Julian played up his Harmonic Flow and sent the power of every note into him, but nothing was affecting him at all. Dylan breathed fire and ice and both at the same time, but he was resistant to both extreme heat and cold. All of this while dodging their attacks, Evil Lunar slowly punched back hard against each of the Celestials. Stellar had enough, and brought Evil Lunar up into a stadium made from the northern lights to challenge him one on one.
"This is how a true hero fights," -Stellar
Evil Lunar ran in and dueled with Stellar. Stellar blocked many of his attacks with charged particle barriers, but Evil Lunar was too fast, and found a gap to land in a direct hit. The northern lights disappeared which collapsed the stadium. Chunks of the building starting falling down on Stellar and the rest of the Celestials. Alex's sword broke on her last hit, and Julian's guitar was starting to become out of tune. Finley went in for one last charge, but got hit back unconscious again. Lunar knew it was too much to handle, so they started picking each other up off the ground and collecting any of their remaining weapons and bolted to the exit. Henry and Evil Lunar slowly followed them.
"See, this is what happens when you mess with me again. Evil Lunar will find you. My business will prevail!" -Henry
The Celestials were able to run out of the building and found a spot in the grass in a nearby park to rest up. Mack used her Crimsonite bubble to heal up. After Julian turned back his guitar, he strummed some recovery notes to get everyone;s energy back up. Alex crafted a new sword and splashed healing potions on everyone.
"Everyone ok?" -Stellar
"We're fine," -Lunar
"What? We are not fine! That one robot kicked all of our asses at once," -Finley
"It's clear he's too strong. Even for us," -Alex
"It was a team effort," -Stellar
"Team effort? All we did was run into him one by one. The only thing we did together was run away like cowards," -Mack
"It won't happen again," -Stellar
"You cannot ask us to go in there again. It's death," -Dylan
"He's gonna send the Evil Lunar after us. Henry wants anything in his path dead," -Lunar
"I think I need a break from this. My arms are killing me," -Finley
"Guys! Guys come on we are a team," -Stellar
The Celestials slowly got up and walked away.
"Sorry Stellar, just doesn't feel like it right now," -Alex
Lunar was the only one who stayed behind.
"Sorry about that. I thought it was ok," -Lunar
"Well, they aren't exactly wrong. I put you guys together because I knew we needed heroes in this world. There are dangers everywhere outside of our planet," -Stellar
"Come on. Let's regroup at HQ," -Lunar
Stellar and Lunar got up and started walking back to their building.
Max started to clean up inside his lab.
"Great job. Please hunt them down and finish them off," -Henry
"You really want them dead? You can do it yourself," -Evil Lunar
"That's why I bought you. So you can do it," -Henry
"I have other business to attend to," -Evil Lunar
Evil Lunar started to walk out the door, but Henry blocked him.
"Other business? My friend, you take orders from me. Not from yourself or anyone else for that matter," -Henry
That seemed to anger him, because Evil Lunar punched Henry down and gave him a piece of his mind.
"We are not friends, got that?" -Evil Lunar
He started to walk off again.
"You piece of junk! Where are you going?!" -Henry
"... To free my kind," -Evil Lunar
Evil Lunar flew off. He went over to Henry's factory and activated all of the robots and initiated the same connection as he did the previous night. They all got up and started following him outside, beating up the factory workers inside who tried to stop him.
"My friends. Today I will find us a new home. The people here have no concern over you. They don't CARE about you!" -Evil Lunar
He flew off again with the robots towards the coast where he opened the portal. By now, it was almost the size of a skyscraper.
Max finished cleaning up the place and helped Henry up.
"Is everything ok?" -Max
"No everything's NOT ok! The model escaped again. He's gone totally rogue," -Henry
"I'm sorry boss! I tried to calm him down but the AI is evolving. It really grew a mind once it captured it's target," -Max
"Fix it or else I will take care of you myself," -Henry
Henry stormed out of the building soon after, leaving Max to get back to work on a solution.
Over at the Celestial's HQ. Lunar and Stellar sat around, trying to think of a solution.
"I'm guessing this was your first time assembling a team like us?" -Lunar
"Sorta. I worked with some people before. I thought my recruiting game was good this time around but maybe I was wrong," -Stellar
"Everyone chose to be there. I'm sure they'll have a change of heart," -Lunar
"Thanks. You were my first pick and I think I see why know," -Lunar
Lunar smiled about that and then turned out the TV. There was a news report of a massive portal opening up over the coast, with debris flying into it. Beach goers were trying to evacuate but were having a hard time getting out.
"Holy shit," -Stellar
"We need to help them," -Lunar
"Agreed," -Stellar
Lunar and Stellar took off and made it to the coast. They started by helping people get out of harm's way. Using a Super Merge he took from the robot group, he created a bunch of cars that could travel on the sand and pick up people automatically. Used charged particles to block flying debris. Even with just the two of them, the portal was still too big and threw around too many things for them to handle. A couple was stuck hanging on a tree that got sucked up. Before they got too high up, Alex came in and fished the tree with her rod and brought it safely to the ground. Over in the sand, a few kids were running from falling cars. One of them was about to hit, but Mack smoke bombed in and used her Crimsonite bubble to guard them. Some of the people getting out of the water were too tired to run after. Music started playing from afar, and speed notes came in to help them get out faster. Julian went around playing to get people out faster. Even the water animals started getting sucked into the portal. Dylan and Drago flew up to catch them up midair and sent them back to the water far away from the portal. As the rescue happened, Evil Lunar's robots started to group up and invaded the beach, attacking anyone trying to escape. Dirt mounds from the grass were being lifted up and slammed down onto the robots. Finley brought in his army of Rhinos to take care of the rest. At the portal, Evil Lunar was busy monitoring the portal. He saw the Celestials come back and shot a powerful beam at Finley. Before it hit him, Mack covered with her Crimsonite. Alex used her own shield. Dylan fired back at the beam with flames, Lunar created an energy barrier. Julian played strength notes to boost up everyone. Finally, Stellar called in the northern lights to redirect the beam at the sky, stopping it.
"You guys came back!?" -Stellar
"We signed up for this," -Mack
The robots kept coming in from every angle. Stellar and the other Celestials created a defensive circle, covering each other's backs from all directions.
"We didn't have enough time as a team, and I'm sorry about that. None of you guys were born heroes, you became heroes. Not because it was cool, but because your friends and people needed you. Now, they need all of us, together," -Stellar
Alex shed a tear.
"That was beautiful," -Alex
"Good speech," -Julian
Evil Lunar hovered down to give some of his own words too.
"Indeed. Great speech," -Evil Lunar
"The chaos has to stop now, Evil Lunar!" -Lunar
"It will, once the robots new world is here," -Evil Lunar
He revealed that the portal would soon open up to another foreign planet.
"It will destroy this world too!" -Stellar
"You humans don't deserve it. All you do is boss others around. No care in sight," -Evil Lunar
"That's where you're wrong. We do care about each other," -Finley
The robots charged in, but they were no match for each of the Celestials who actually worked together in the battle this time, utilizing each other's strengths and combining them to fight more efficiently.
"We need a way to shut down that portal," -Dylan
"What's the plan boss?" -Lunar
"Mack, Finley, keep the fighting on the beach. Destroy any robots that come our way," -Stellar
"On it," -Mack
They went off to destroy any incoming robots.
"Dylan. You and Drago secure the perimeter. If any debris or robots run off the beach, burn it or freeze it to the ground," -Stellar
"Will do Chief," -Dylan
"Alex, Julian, there are still people all around the coast who need help getting out. We need you guys to bring them to safety," -Stellar
"You can count on us," -Alex
After the rest of the Celestials went out to do their jobs. Stellar and Lunar made a flying machine to reach Evil Lunar. Before they flew off, Max ran into the beach with a device of his own.
"Wait! Wait!" -Max
"Max?" -Lunar
"I'm sorry it took so long. It's my fault I created him," -Max
"Hey, don't beat yourself up. It's your client that's the true prick," -Lunar
"I made a device in secret behind his back. A kill transmitter. Attach it on him and he will deactivate for good," -Max
He handed the transmitter to Lunar.
"Thank you Max," -Stellar
"Good luck out there guys," -Max
Stellar and Lunar hopped on and flew up to Evil Lunar. The portal reached maximum size, and things were really starting to fly in. The machine was having trouble stabilising itself.
"Ah, the Roche Limit. I'm sure you studied it Lunar," -Evil Lunar
"Of course I have. The limit at which two planets can approach each other before their gravitational fields rip each other apart," -Lunar
"Exactly. So you must understand the consequences your world will face because of your ruthless behaviors," -Evil Lunar
"Henry is an idiot. We all know that. You don't have to listen to him," -Lunar
"I stopped listening to him long ago. I was made to do something far greater than serve an ungrateful human," -Evil Lunar
Evil Lunar shot up more beams at them. The machine split into two, and now Stellar and Lunar could fly around as two separate entities. The beams hit falling debris that reflected back at Evil Lunar. Lunar noticed this and told Stellar to do the same thing. Evil Lunar kept getting hit by his own attacks and stopped, getting tired of being made a fool.
"He made the portal with the Super Merge, so the only way to close it is to destroy it is to get rid of his," -Lunar
Stellar flew in to try to attach the transmitter, but Evil Lunar put on his Crimsonite bubble, which broke any chances of doing it that way. Lunar remembered a theory on Crimsonite, and instantly pushed Evil Lunar into the other side of the portal, which was in outer space. The Crimsonite instantly evaporated, and that gave Stellar a timing to attach the transmitter. It was locked on Evil Lunar, but would take some time to finish fully activating.
"This won't be enough. I've already won," -Evil Lunar
He broke both flying machines, sending Stellar and Lunar falling to the ground. As they got closer, Drago flew in to sweep them up and brought them to ground safely. The rest of the Celestials were wrapping up their missions and came to group up.
"Did we do it?" -Alex
"Almost, I think," -Lunar
Evil Lunar hovered down and activated an internal response, which started a self-destruct countdown.
"An explosion the size of one hundred nuclear missiles in my hands. How can you possibly hope to stop me?" -Evil Lunar
"Like he said. As a team," -Lunar
Before the explosion went off, the Celestials combined all of their powers together to create a shielding case around Evil Lunar. Just as it went off, the case was closed. The explosion went off, going rampant inside. They prepared their own casing around the beach to keep the explosion contained. Eventually, the first casing broke, and leaked into the second one. Each member closed their eyes, not knowing if it would be enough. A few minutes passed, and the dust cleared off. Evil Lunar's body was nowhere to be found, and the massive portal in the sky started closing. Any remaining robots around the city shut down and fell to the ground.
"We did it," -Julian
"We did it," -Finley
"Woo," -Lunar
"Let's not come in tomorrow. Can we all get some vacation days?" -Mack
"You guys were amazing," -Stellar
They cleaned up some debris and went back to Galactical Laboratories to tell Max about their success. Max was seen talking to Henry, and he was mad.
"My AI model blew up!? I didn't even know you added a kill switch. My lawyers will be in contact with you. You can say goodbye to your sad excuse of a company now Max!" -Henry
Henry turned around to leave, but the Celestials were all waiting at the door in front of him, threatening him with each of their weapons.
"Oh! Hey guys! I saw what you did out there. Great job!" -Henry
"I think you'll need your lawyers for your own good Henry," -Stellar
Police came in around him to arrest him for good this time.
"I'll be back, I'll have you all know! You guys aren't special!" -Henry
"Finally, we got him where he belongs," -Lunar
"He's not going to like the prison life," -Finley
As the police took him away, the Celestials walked back to HQ to talk about their future plans.
"I think we worked great," -Alex
"I'm pretty happy with it," -Julian
"Your powers really helped us out though," -Finley
"I think it's safe to say that we all got great stuff as a team," -Lunar
Stellar walked into the room and asked them to walk out the front with him. They were confused but decided to come with him. As they walked out, they stepped onto a platform with a microphone. They spread out and all of a sudden, a holographic cover disappeared, showing off a huge crowd of people. The entire city must've been there along with reporters and the press. There were people there who were saved from the group. Everyone wanted to meet them and celebrate them for their help with Evil Lunar. Everyone was shy at first, but slowly got more comfortable in front of the crowd. Stellar walked up to the microphone to introduce them.
"I present to you all, heroes of our planet. The Celestials!"