The Rehabilitation of a Reploid

File #11-Bubble Crab

SUBJECT: BUBBLE CRAB

POSITION: NAVAL INFANTRY, 6TH NAVAL UNIT

HEIGHT: 180 CM (5'11")

WEIGHT: 140 KG (309 LBS)

POWER: 6000 RP

SPEED: 4800 RP

SPECIAL WEAPON: BUBBLE SPLASH

STATUS: KIA

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"You catch anything there, Crabby?"

The voice of the heckling demon annoyed Crab. He knew the answer was "no" but still...

Crab couldn't believe he'd fallen so far...

Once he'd been a proud and...well maybe not respected but still fairly well-known soldier as part of the Maverick Hunters...

And now...now he was sitting on the docks fishing up whatever meager catch he could get to make any kind of money...

So far he'd caught like two minnows and an old shoe...

Not his greatest day...

Especially not with these two dumbasses heckling him...

The two demons left, laughing out loud....

Could this day get any worse?

The sudden thunderclap signified the acid rain coming on...

Crab sighed, flipping up the umbrella...

It was thankfully reinforced to avoid Acid Rain but...

This would make catching anything harder...

But then suddenly he got a bite...

A big one too!

He reeled it in, hoping to get something huge...

And he did....

But he scowled when he saw what he had on his line...

Wheel Gator....

"Oh heeeey Crab...."

Crab looked at him...

"Uhh...can you do me a favor and reel me in?"

Crab took one look at him and just...

Tossed the rod away as he went back to shore...

"Crab...Crab....CRAB!"

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Crab opened the door to his shack, putting his hat and coat away...

He sighed...

Not enough...none of this was enough...

He needed more money...

He let out another long sigh...

Maybe...maybe he should do another heist...

He'd done a few before he joined the Hunters...

But....but was there somewhere to commit such a heist?

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It actually shocked Crab how easy it had been...

Sitting right there in the center of this weird place he'd ended up, in shiny gold letters

"THE BANK OF LUCIFER"

The second he saw that he knew he had to rob the place...

Greed. A vice he was never able to get over...

It hadn't made him popular with the other hunters but that didn't matter now...

Now that he seemed to be alone...

In the dead of night he made his move...

Slipping into the Bank through a back entrance...

Using the keycard of a guard he'd managed to knock out earlier...

The security was what he expected. A few of those dog-creatures guarding the main vault, a security passcode on the outside, and one of those stupid laser hallways on the interior...

The guards were easily distracted, the passcode was easy enough to hack, and the hallway..

Well his Crab Drones made good distractions for that...

Crab made it into the vault...

The sight of all that money nearly made Crab cry..

Golden Coins, Bags of Money....

He couldn't help himself as he began to swim around in it...

Oh it felt so good to be rich...

He wasn't rich yet though...

He had to get this stuff outta there...

He was so excited about all the money that he didn't notice the cameras...

The nightguard sighed at the sight of what was going on in the vault...

"This is Jacob...There's a Crab Demon swimming around in Lucifer's personal vault..."

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"There I am! There I am on TV!"

From the other cell, Crab could hear the Chameleon going on about how he was on TV...

He didn't care. He didn't understand why this Chameleon cared about being on TV so bad...

He sat on the not at all comfortable bed...

Oh well...it's not like this could get any worse...

"Gator, new guy in that cell!"

Wait...

Crab turned to look up to see...

Wheel Gator...wearing a guard uniform and holding a giant baton...

And grinning at him menacingly....

"Well Well Well..look who came BACK"

Crab only had a single word upon seeing his old rival...

"Help..."