When the ocean meets fire

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Wow, I can't believe I've got another chapter out so fast! And okay...so the last one wasn't the penultimate one- I THINK this one is. Think...

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“No.” Mierda, she’d forgotten to take the lip gloss off. As soon as she’d walked into the hall and saw the people near her stare with wonder that was nothing to do with the fact that she was late, she remembered the fact that February had managed to get some makeup on her face before she could escape. She’d ducked under a stairwell and used one of the fake windows as a makeshift mirror to scrub the worst of it off but she obviously hadn’t done a very good job. Luckily Up had been sitting such a long way away from the doors so he didn’t see what February had originally managed to do to her face.

However now, Up was looking at her with a ‘yeah, right’ face, and she wondered if she should tell him what torture she’d been put under before she’d burst through the doors to the main hall. Pride taking over, she raised her eyebrows at him and faced forward, and soon Up followed her.

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“And now, to present six awards for an outstanding team, who have recently returned from a very successful mission,” the strange-voiced man at the podium practically sang into his microphone, “a man whose intellect and bravery has led us through service to the galaxy for the last two years, and has saved many lives,” Up felt eyes on him for some reason. Who was he talking about? Who was the man giving them their awards? “The head of the whole Galactic League: Dr. Space-Claw, ladies and gentlemen!” Hoards of applause erupted from the audience, and Up found himself clapping along with them. He looked over at Taz- they’d been told he was always away on missions; meeting with the monarchy of other planets, solving peace issues on warring leagues. He never thought he’d meet the man who turned him into a half-robot, or ‘saved his life’ as ignorant people said, and now he was going to be accepting an award from him. He was probably taken advantage of whilst visiting his late son’s grave, though Up didn’t imagine that the man was that sentimental-

A low, whirring sound filled the hall, and Taz leapt up beside him, loudly cursing about forgetting her zapper. Up stopped her before she went too far though, as he saw that it wasn’t in fact robots entering the stage, but a...man. Or at least he thought it was a man: the figure walked in such a mechanical way that Up couldn’t quite be sure that it wasn’t a type of robot he and Taz hadn’t encountered yet. Nevertheless he sat Taz back down with him and looked up at the man who had supposedly given him the surgery that had allowed him to live. He had to give at least some credit to the ‘doctor’ though- he was the head of the whole Galactic League.

It wasn’t until he started speaking that Up actually realised who he was.

“Ladies and gentlemen, loyal robots and bug, thank you for your warm welcome home,” Dr Space-Claw’s voice rang out through the hall. Up’s blood ran cold-

“To Bug Bugson, the new ambassador for Bug World, to February Beatty, for- ” the voice-

“But the real thanks today go to a team of rangers-” it was the voice he’d heard talking to Chloe-

“To Tootsie Noodles, for seeing love when there was nothing but hate-” the voice that had told her all the other influential commanders in the GLEE had been assassinated-