Victors

Chapter 6

Choco's POV

I slowly opened my eyes and freaked out for a split second because I forgot where I was. But I remembered, and calmed myself. I sat up and looked around.

After Hood told us he'd help us take down Todd, we decided to go to sleep, since it was, like, two in the morning. Hood was currently sleeping on his bed, and the four of us occupied different corners of the room. Hood didn't have any blankets or anything in his strangely empty house, so we had to sleep on the cold, hard ground.

Everyone else was still asleep. I looked down at my watch to see it was only six in the morning. I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep any longer, so I stood up and stretched.

Cook crossed my mind. I had no idea what Todd wanted with him, but I knew in my gut it wasn't good. We had to rescue my brother and Rebel, and also kill Todd. But how could we do that when he had that giant Roll bot?

I turned around to see Hood sitting up in bed, staring at me. At least, I assumed he was. His hood was still up (did he wear that while he slept?), so I couldn't see his eyes. But he was facing my direction.

"You're creepy," I said.

Hood didn't respond.

"What do you have to offer us that can take down Todd?" I asked. "Because so far all you've shown us is that you live in an empty room and barely talk."

"I have insider information," Hood answered after a moment's silence.

"Such as?" I asked.

"I cannot tell you right now," Hood replied simply.

"Then you're useless to us," I said. "Thank you for the place to sleep, but I'm out now."

Without concern for my sleeping allies, I stalked towards the door, fully intending on leaving. But Hood's words stopped me.

"I wouldn't go out that door if I were you."

I hesitated. He sounded convincing, but everything he said sounded convincing, because he was creepy. I decided to ignore him and opened the metal door.

As soon as I stepped outside, a Radish bot happened to be hovering by the alleyway that Hood's dwelling was in. It turned its head to look at me.

A giant blast of energy flew past me and exploded on the bot, blowing it up. I felt a hand grab me and pull me inside. The door slammed shut.

I was still processing, it all happened so fast. When I collected my thoughts, I looked at Hood, who was holding a huge cannon-looking thing. That must've been where the blast came from. The others were stirring from the commotion, but I ignored them.

"Where were you keeping that cannon this whole time?" I asked. "There is literally nowhere in this empty room where it could've been hidden."

"Never walk outside without checking to see if there are bots," Hood said, ignoring my question.

"How am I supposed to do that?" I asked. "There aren't any windows!"

"What's going on?" Glitch asked from the floor.

"She almost got all of us killed," Hood said.

"What?!" Leo exclaimed.

"I did not!" I shouted in protest.

"Everyone calm down," Naomi spoke up. "We can't be arguing like this all the time. We need to work together if we want to take down Todd."