Once Morgan explained how to deactivate the robots and return them into coins, they all did so. However it didn't quite go as planned..
The four robots turned off, but they didn't return to coins. They were just smaller, maybe the size of action figures. Once that happened, they all grouped up on yet another rooftop, since it felt safer than the street after everything that'd happened.
Uncle: Another thing that shouldn't happen.
Morgan: Strange..
Mix: Is it a bad thing?
Morgan: No, I'm sure they'll re-activate when we need them. It's just a little different. Could be because they're in a different world.
Uncle: Is that what we're calling the ice dragon not being a dragon, too?
Morgan: Actually not quite. I think because Mix isn't connected to Matt yet, it turned into someone different for him.
Mix: So I didn't mess it up..?
Morgan: Not at all. You managed to fight in it, so I'd call it a success.
Ty: It was actually really fun!
Mix: I guess it was. More freaky though than anything..
Morgan: Both of those are fair.. Anyway, I'm glad we successfully used them at least. If we hadn't, who knows what would've happened.
Uncle: I would've had to fight them on my own.
Ty: Like you could fight a building sized monster?
Uncle: Yes, I can. I'm the only one here with experience doing it.
Mix thinking: What kind of stuff have these Guardian people been through before.. they have such amazing abilities and tools, and have probably been through so much... They must all be really amazing.
Ty: Sure you do. Oh hey, what exactly are these things called?
He held out his robot lion in his hand, now the size of an action figure.
Ty: I'm sure they have names, right?
Morgan: Yeah, they do. They're the mechs we use in our real world when giant enemies attack, so we don't call them robots. My Uncle's is called the serpent mech. Ty, yours is the lion mech. The one I used today belong to our friend Amber. It's the phoenix mech. And Mix's was.. supposed to be the ice dragon mech, but is now the frozen soldier.
Ty: If that one belongs to your friend, then do you not have one?
Morgan: No, I do. It's the elemental dragon mech. It's similar to what Mix's should have been, but we needed the phoenix more than my dragon. Since I designed and built all of them, I knew how to pilot it.
Mix: How many are there?
Morgan: Ten in total. We don't have enough people to pilot that many though.
Ty: So does the girl from earlier, Tina, have one?
Tina: Yes, I do.
She was landing on the rooftop, her metal wings retracting as she did.
Tina: However I don't have enough experience yet to pilot it masterfully. Thus I am not ready to use it in combat.
Mix thinking: She talks really weird.. It's like she doesn't have emotions or something.
Mix: Where are Misaka and Shirai?
Tina: They said they were headed for UA, and that they would get Shirai healed there. I take it that place is a medical facility?
Ty: No, it's our high school. They can get her patched up in minutes there though.
Mix: Yeah..
He turned away from the group and looked out at the city, which was.. not in great shape.
Mix: Wish everything could be that way.
The three building-sized Terrors had smashed at least a dozen buildings. Not to mention collateral damage from when they battled them in the mechs, and the normal sized Terrors that flooded the city. On top of that there was also.. that.
When Milim was fighting Ty underground, she used an ability called "Drago Nova". A massive energy beam that destroyed at least fifteen percent of the entire city in its massive path of destruction. There was no telling how many people had died...
Morgan: Yeah.. I do too.. but we can't stop and sulk about that right now. We need to stay focused.
Mix: On what exactly?
He turned again to face the group once more.
Morgan: EM and Milim aren't gone, just retreated. Life can return to normal to some extent, but they will be back. We need to be ready for them.
Uncle: That means I'll be teaching the both of you as much as you can take from here on out.
Ty: Us?
He pointed to himself and Mix.
Uncle: Yes you two, who else? You need to know what your mechs are capable of before they're needed again. If a larger threat showed up right now, neither of you would know how to use the merging technique.
Mix: Merging technique?
Uncle: Exactly. So get ready to be whipped into fighting shape.
Mix: *sigh* Well this should be interesting..
