Tuesday, August 31, 2010

TS1 and the Planet of Robots, Part 3

The robots continue to chant "Organics!" as they creep closer and closer.

"Stay back!" Y'Tar shouts.

*CLANK* He punches a robot in the head, and it stumbles back.

*POOSH* An airgun fires and a net flies through the air.

"Brother!" V'Mar and V'Bar shout as the net falls on them.

Y'Tar's sisters fall over under the weight of the net, and a rope reels it in. Y'Tar follows the rope with his eyes and sees a giant robot that has a spool for a torso. The spool is spinning, wrapping the rope around itself, thereby pulling Y'Tar's sisters along the ground.

Y'Tar rushes at the Spool-Bot, but is tackled by two generic, cubic robots with claw-hands.

"V'Mar!" he screams. "V'Bar!"

Y'Tar sees his sisters struggle to get out of the net, but to no use.

Verde charges forward, her sharp heels clicking against the ground with each step. She jumps into the air, and aims a kick at the Spool-Bot.

*SNIK SNAP* Her sharp heels stab and cut the rope, and Y'Tar's sisters are no longer dragged along the ground.

"Ow...!" V'Bar whines. "I think I got some kind of friction burn from the gravel!"

Ruby hurries to the net, and pulls at the opening at the bottom.

"It won't budge!" she cries. "They're locked together by a powerful magnet!"

*POOSH* Another net is fired, and it wraps Ruby up in its powerful string and locking magnets.

A second Spool-Bot reels in Ruby's net, but at a much faster pace than the first. It seems the robots have learned not to be so slack with The Sinful Ones.

Y'Tar finally forces the claw-hand robots away when another class of robots snatch up Verde in giant cuffs. Their large cuff-hands clamp around Verde's thighs and upper arms, folding her up so that her knees touch her shoulders.

"Verde!" he shouts as she runs in her direction. But as he moves to help the green-haired girl, a big, broad robot scoops up his sisters with a big shovel and dumps them into the truck bed of another robot.

Y'Tar freezes as he is split between helping all four of his teammates. If he goes to help one, the other three will be taken away by the robots, and he can't let any of them be sacrificed for the sake of one.

As he becomes panicked and frustrated, a metal claw smacks him in the head, and he falls to his knees. Before losing consciousness, he can hear the voices of Ruby, Verde, and his sisters scream his name.

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