Revenge of the Juice (Book 2 of End Robot's Reign Series)

Clones? Maybe. (Parker's POV)

I look into Tybzi's eyes and see the apprehensiveness in his eyes. "What's wrong?" I ask.

"I just- cloning herself has to take longer than ten years right?" Tybzi asks.

"No not necessarily.If she already had a lead on how to do the cloning she could've built the machine in months. The only hard part would be making the machine not overheat from all of the mass production of the clones," I say calmly.

Flame speaks, "Wait, Ryan, when we first met didn't you say something about cloning or something?"

Dolphin nods remembering his words, "Yeah, we had to get Dul's DNA so that we could make a good clone and then kill her. Do you have any other ideas?" 

"Maybe we could clone ourselves and overpower the Dul clones,"  Flame says smirking.

"Wait, what if Dul makes Graser get cloned, too?" Grape asks.

"Shit," I say, "we'd be so screwed then."

"Tell me about it," Flame scoffs.

"Well," Rusher says, "we need to get a move on people I'm not going to sit around all fucking day and wait for your lazy asses to get the fuck up we've got time ticking and you fucking know it's not on our sides."

Wait, time, time, time. "Guys everyone hold on to me. Nothing naughty though you rascals!" I say laughing and everyone grabs onto a part of me. I close my eyes and visualize a ticking clock. tick tock. With the longer I do this the ticking becomes slower and slower until there's finally a tick without its tock. I slowly open my eyes and see Tyzbi and H holding onto my arms. I move my head and the fingernails that were once there have removed themselves.

"What did you do?" Dolphin asks me shocked.

"Time: something you never thought you could manipulate. I simply stopped it and now we can work on this contraption of ours," I say calmly my tone still affected by the rushed meditation state that I was in.

"You're brilliant, Parker!" H exclaims standing up.

"Agreed," Flame says standing next to H putting her arm around his shoulder.

"So, we could lead you guys to our lair, 'cause that's where the machine is," Dolphin says slipping on his slides.

"Or we could bond and make another one," Tybzi says.

"No. We're too lazy for that," Rusher says and heads out the door. I get up and walk into the warm summer air. There's a slight breeze tonight and it's probably going to thunderstorm tomorrow. I slide my body into the blue convertible that's able to seat five people. Grape, Straub, Tybzi, and Bayani get into Bayani's Camry. I see Flame approach Dolphin with a set of keys. This must be her car.

"You even put a scratch on my baby I'll fucking kill you. Got it?" Flame says as she hands over the keys.

Dolphin nods his eyes wide, "Yeah, I got it." He gets into the driver's seat and the engine rumbles to life. His left hand on the wheel, he puts the car in reverse leading us to the gravel road. He puts his foot on the gas and moves the stick so that he'll go forward. Flame is sitting in the passenger's seat and she pulls out her phone from her back pocket and goes into the glove compartment pulling out a pair of ear buds. Guess we won't be talking to her for the duration of this trip.

"How long until we get there?" H asks the air.

"About thirty minutes with this traffic. If it gets bad it'll be like forty. We really wanted a place that no one would find, you know?" Rusher says and leans back in his seat that's next to H. H is in the middle and thankfully I have a window seat. I slide my body down a little and close my eyes leaving my brain to daydream.

I open my eyes to H shaking my shoulder. I must've fallen asleep on accident. Getting out of the car, I see the silver walls of the inside of Rusher and Dolphin's base. "Wow, I say amazed by their work. 

"I know right. C'mon the others are only a little bit ahead. They're getting a tour of the place. I'm sure we'll find them. Let's go," H says and we walk down the hallway and a door catches his eye. I read the sign that's labelling the door.

"Cloning room?" I read.

"They probably went in here," H says and tries to open the door unsuccessfully. "What the hell? How do we get in there?"

I notice the scanner on the wall and place my palm onto the scanner. A microphone pops out of the wall and I hear, "State name please."

"Parker Games," I say and the door slides open.

"Access granted please enter within five seconds," the computerized voice says and I pull H through the door with me and I see a hollowed out tube with a glass door on the front.

"This looks amazing, wow," H exclaims and I see Flame nudging us to come over with the rest of the group. Dolphin is in the middle of speaking on how it works and I walk over to them.

Dolphin finishes and holds his hand out to Flame. She is guided to the tube onto the left and Rusher gives us a head piece personalized for our taste. Mine is a simple black with white lenses to shield our eyes from the sun during battle. I put it on adjusting it to fit bringing the mouth piece in front of my mouth and plugging the ear piece into my right ear and I see the others doing the same thing.

Rusher gives Flame one and Dolphin waits to turn on the cloning machine until she's done adjusting it nodding indicating that she's ready. Dolphin taps the screen and soon she's captured by a white light and within seconds Flame drops to the floor exhausted Three copies of herself are inside the tube on the left. We clap our hands at the scientific discovery.

"The only downside is that it's very draining on the body. Rush, bring her to her room, please," Dolphin says as the glass door on the left opening Rusher carrying Flame bridal style to her room. I notice the clones disappear out of the glass container and a light turns on, on the wall to my left. The room is marked, 'Flame Clones'.

"Who's next in line?" Dolphin asked a smile on his face; his hand held out in front of him palms up ready to guide someone to clones of themselves.