Incredible Spider

Chapter 14: Omnidroid

Mr. Incredible and I were being placed into our air drop pods to make our way to the island. Mr. Incredible initially got stuck due to his gut grtting caught on the upper rim of his pod. Meanwhile, I slinked into my pod no problem.

"I've got to warn you two. It's a learning robot. The longer you fight it, the more it gains knowledge about how to beat you two," Mirage forewarned.

"Shut it down," Mr. Incredible stated.

"Do it fast," I added.

"Don't destroy it," We said at the same time.

"And don't die," Mirage finished.

"Great. Thanks," Mr. Incredible said smugly as he was launched down to the island. My pod was getting loaded up next.

"Wait we could die from this?" I asked in concern. I didn't get an answer as I was jettisoned out of the jet from a good 5000 feet in the air. What didn't help was that I felt the stupid pod's rocket booster fling me down faster. At this point, I'm giving mental prayers to whatever higher power is up there; hoping to actually make it home to Aunt May.

When I felt the pod slow down and heard its booster becoming like helicopter blades, I sighed in relief. Once I felt the pod touch down on solid ground? I was practically singing hallelujah. I kicked the door off and shakily crawled out of my pod onto the solid grassy ground. I saw Mr. Incredible's pod shaking and swaying as I guess he was trying to get out

"You uh....need help?" I asked, slightly chuckling at the situation.

"No no. I got this!" Mr. Incredible denied as he promptly burst his pod apart, freeing himself.

"They don't make air drop pods like they used to anymore," Mr. Incredible stated.

"I think the drop pods are the same. I think it's you who's changed," I chuckled.

"I mean I have eaten a lot more since the glory days," Mr. Incredible defended.

"So let this be an exercise," I joked as my spider-sense started going off like crazy.

"The robot knows we're here," I said grimly as the sound of metallic clanging and trees crunching only confirmed my suspicion. Then the realization came to me that I might actually be at risl of dying.

"We need to run...." I said softly.

"I thought we need to fight it-"

"We need to RUN!" I shouted in terror as the robot burst out of the rain forest, it's blue visor of an eye staring down at us. I turned around and tried to bolt away, but Mr. Incredible stopped me.

"We're supers. This is our mission," He stated sternly. After he felt that I was shaking, he decided to approach this differently.

"You'll be alright kid. Trust me," He calmed. I gave him a brief nod and got ready to run towards the robot. Despite my better judgement, of course. The robot had its head moving to follow my movements, only to snap its head to follow Mr. Incredible as he jumped up to land a solid hit on it. The Omnidroid swung one of its clawed arms up and spiked Mr. Incredible down to the ground. I shot a webline that attached itself to the Omnidroid and swung myself around kick it in the back of the head. The Omnidroid seemed like it needed to make minor adjustments as it swung its arm around to try and hit me. I jumped put of the way and once the claw made contact with the robot, I webbed it down so it couldn't move that arm.

"Nice one. Think you could do that to all the other arms?" Mr. Incredible asked.

"Depends. Can you get it to keep smacking you around?" I asked back.

"I could try," Mr. Incredible chuckled as he ran up to the Omnidroid, expecting another arm to swing. However, the arm that was already trapped moved up and ripped through my webbing and smacked Mr. Incredible down.

"Oooooh.....noooooo webs are not going to cut it!" I realized as I webbed Mr. Incredible to me and we both started running through the forest. I was well shead of Mr. Incredible as the Omnidroid turned into a ball and started rolling at us.

"Oh come on!" I shouted in anger as I started swinging from tree to tree. I hit a stonr wall and realized I was at the base of a mountain. Then I had an interesting thought.

What if I force the robot into the lava of this mountain? That thought stopped short as Mr. Incredible shoved me out of the way as the rolling robot broke through the mountain and fell into red hot lava.

"Did....did we win?" I asked shakily.

"Maybe?" Mr. Incredible answered in an unsure manner. I then used my super hearing, slowly hearing some....metallic whirring.

"Son of a...the robot is still active!" I whinef as I got back up and jumped down into the mountain, I landed on a portipn of rock that wasn't affected by the lava and I just was silent and listened to where I could hear the robot.

"Anything?" Mr. Incredible asked as I heard the robot directly underneath Mr. Incredible.

"Move!" I warned as I dropkicked him out of the way and jumps out of the way as the robot, now red hot from swimming in lava bursts out from under the rocks and claw itself onto the rocks. I tried to shoot a web but my web shooters were empty.

"Empty?! Come on!" I quickly took out the now empty web cartridges and tossed them into the air. I put my hands down past my waist and moved both my hands straight up, catching two full web cartridges loading them into my webshooters. Then I caught the two empty ones and clicked them onto my belt. The robot swung an arm around to hit Mr. Incredible, but I shot a web to snag the arm and pull it back.

"Hold it there so I can find I weakness!" Mr. Incredible shouted as he tried to examine the robot.

"Easier! Said! Than! Done!" I said under strained breaths, because this stupid robot was stupid strong! I pulled further on the web on the Omnidroid's arm. Then a thought occurred to me.

"If we can't damage it, make it damage itself!" I shouted to Mr. Incredible as I jumped up swinging the webline up at swinging it down, embedding the claw of the robot's metal shell.

"Nice one!" Mr. Incredible complimented as he jumped onto the robot and as the robot swung its arm around to hit Mr. Incredible, Mr. Incredible jumped out of the way making the robot dig its claw into its own body again.

"I'll make it go for its CPU!" I shouted as I crawled into the hole the robots made in itself and just sort of waited for the robot to swing. The Omnidroid's claw arm dug into the circuitry of the robot and I moved behind the CPU, forcing the robot to rip its own brain out. I crawled out of the other hole the robot made in itself and I collapsed tonthe ground in exhaustion.

"You have a cut in your suit," Mr. Incredible pointed.

"So do you, and my suit is spandex. What's your excuse?" I pointed out.