Lost Star

4.

He audibly swallowed and seemed reluctant. Still, leaves flew at me. Weaving my lazer like a sword, I easily cut through each of them.

"I will give you a chance, robot master, to leave or explain yourself clearly. It will be my decision whether you leave unscathed, or not."

He flinched and rubbed his arm.

"I-I...can't, my programming doesn't allow me."

My eyes softened. I looked at the ceiling. I sent a wave of sound at him, pushing him towards the entrance. He let out a yelp but before he could get back up, I sent a wave at the ceiling, provoking a part of it to cave in. It may have seemed like I had gotten crushed.

"N-No!" I heard him yell

He sounded...surprisingly desperate. Perhaps he was scared of Wily's reaction to losing me. I stood still, hearing him pass back and forth in front of the barrier. After a while, he sighed and mumbled something incomprehensible to my ears, before I heard his footsteps exit my cave. I clicked a few things on the inside of my communicator, and soon, Thomas' voice came through.

"Star, come in. What's wrong?"He asked

"It would seem the time has come for the blue bomber to wear his armour once again."

He sighed.

"We figured, Albert has sent one of them to lure Rock out."

I grunted and my tool hand switched to my bomb ability, courtesy of Thomas and Bomb man.

"I'll be right there, I had a small encounter with an enemy. I must say, implementing a copy chip to my body was a brilliant idea of yours."

He chuckled. He saluted me and I tossed the bomb. It exploded, forming a hole wide enough for me to crawl through. As soon as I was outside, I teleported back to the lab, to land right beside Rock. He squealed in fright at my sudden appearance, but soon rushed up to me and hugged me tight.

Just a few seconds later, we were in a park. We ran forward, attacking the robots coming at us. I mostly used the synthetic trees and my magnetic soles to bounce around, dodging and covering Rock. I sent my waves to look ahead, and that is when I realised, we would be facing the master who attacked me. I landed next to Rock, holding him before he could get in.

"Will you leave this one to me?" I asked

He nodded and stood behind me. I stepped in, the robot master turning to face me. He froze, eyes widening and cheeks turning pink. Then, my lights turned red, and his face paled drastically.

"You may have left without a scratch before, but, as I told you before..."

Fire danced around my hands.

"You never were the hunter."

He seemed to reluctantly let his leaves fly. Before he could react, my price jack cables connected to my ankles and I leaped at him. He yelped as I landed on top of him. A horrified expression stretched his features once he realised that fire was eating at his chest.

"It was nice to see you again, however, I will cut this reunion short."

He couldn't even yell that he died by my hand, head burnt to a crisp. I stood straight on his fallen carcass as Rock walked closer.

"Did you hang out with Fire man, today?" He questioned

I hummed and crouched to copy the leaf shield. I flinched as a searing pain traversed my arm like an electric shock. I pulled away and glanced at Rock, who copied my sudden jolt after copying. We looked around, until we found a way towards the next robot master.

Water...great. As a mining robot, underwater exploring has been a problem to me. It makes me slow, and doesn't allow me the use of my lazer cutter.

"I hate water." I sighed out

Rock chuckled. We ran through the enemies, using of our new found power to go much faster. I couldn't rely on my electricity as Rock would suffer from the hit as well. It soon came to fully underwater exploration, bubbles escaping my mouth as I talked with Rock. He seemed amused by it. I started to hear someone's monolog as we swam closer to the end of the tunnel. Rock was the one to interrupt him, and the robot master didn't seem to appreciate it. He attacked us, with a bubble made out of acid. I barely dodged to the side and so did Rock, but he was faster to attack, and his own leaves reduced the amphibious robot to pieces. However, the cannon was dripping with acid that still ate at our armour. I let out a hiss in pain as I grabbed one of the pieces that had fallen faster. That same jolt from the previous master traveled up my arm and to my head, making me freeze and grab at the latter. A strident scream escaped from me, muffled by the water. It hurt, it hurt so much. I hit my head against the ground repeatedly, feeling something crack to pieces. I clawed at my face, barely feeling it over the pain. I slowly seemed to lose feeling of my body, freezing up in the cold water. I looked around. Rock had left me behind, probably thinking I would join him later. My eyes darted to a vibration that bothered the water near me. A robot master, another one. Red with V-shaped golden pieces decoraring him. He grabbed me by the waist, offering a smirk to me. My price jacks connected to my ankles and I kicked him in the chest, sending him in a wall. I sent another wave and leaped up, passing the water edge. As soon as a signal passed through, I teleported to the lab, landing on my side. My widened and crazed eyes snapped to Blues and Auto as they rushed to me.

"Out! Out! Let me out!"

Blues quickly opened the metal plate of my body's chest and I bounced out in my soul form.