So, remember how Sector W7's first level in Pirate Wars was a One Piece setting? Well, guess what'll be the first level in Mechanos!
Mechanos was mostly gray from the atmosphere and had a metal red ring around it, bent at various angles. "Ya know, this planet was already around in the first universe." Bender said. "But its evolution happened too fast for Neb and Vweeb to handle! Hehehehehe!"
"Actually," Vweeb smirked, resting on Jerome's hair, "a science group learned that time distortions were very heavy in that area, so they left various dinosaur and humanoid robots there to see how quickly they would 'evolve' in time and eventually burn out."
"It was all because God Dialga saw robots as the superior beings! But now that we don't have to worry about time rifts, we get to see Mechanos in its full glory!"
"Wait a sec." Apis replied from the R.O.C.K.E.T.-T.R.A.I.N.. "How can robots 'evolve'?"
"You'd be surprised, little cooking buddy. Robots possess certain circuitry that allow them to merge internal parts with each other, allowing them to produce baby droids! Then, as the babies acquire more data, their internal hard-drive needs to update to a larger body, going from adolescence to adulthood! And their younger bodies get recycled into soup cans. And that's evolution, baby!"
"Wow! I never knew!"
"It honestly sounds a little too bizarre." Artie Gilligan replied.
"Are you kidding?!" Kazuichi smirked, his tongue hanging out from excitement. "Robot intercourse sounds totally revolutionary! We oughta find Mechamaru a mate! Maybe K1-B0!"
"Absolutely not!" K1-B0 panicked.
"Raleigh was sure upset he couldn't come." Haylee sighed. "But the Mobius mission is impor…wait… WHEN DID YOU THREE GET HERE?!" She just realized another ship was following them, Kazuichi, K1-B0, and Miu Iruma onboard it.
"A little 'bug' told me you guys were going to the robot planet!" Kazuichi answered. "And no way we were gonna miss that!"
"So, robot sex is REAL, huh?!" Miu swayed, a waterfall of sweat down her red face. "That's so hot, I just wanna-"
Miu's dialogue was censored for obscenity. She, Kazuichi, and K1-B0 were banned for the rest of the story. "WHY US?!?" the boys cried.
The operatives wanted to vomit after hearing that. This trip was already ruined. "Welp, it's too bad we'll never see them again!" Vweeb chirped. "So, uh, which spot should we land?"
"I think we shall first visit the Cybertron Junklands." Jerome answered. "I'm sure that will be up you guys' alley. Sector W7, why don't you investigate Egghead Land? I'll send you coordinates."
"That name sounds like an Eggman territory if I ever heard one." Aeincha said worriedly.
"Actually, it's a theme park. Misleading, but unaffiliated. I thought you'd might enjoy it."
"Why do they get the fun place?!" Artie asked.
"'Cause Jerome's bein' nice to his girlfriend." Harry smirked.
"AHEM, I don't know what you mean." Jerome huffed and flushed.
"Hmhmhm!" April giggled.
The R.O.C.K.E.T.-T.R.A.I.N. descended close to the targeted coordinates. There was plenty of room in a massive parking lot to park the train. Judging by the amount of cars, this park must've been pretty popular. The girls and Miguel could see a huge, broken egg on what seemed like a cloud elevated in the sky, while the park was mostly behind a wall. They crossed the lot and entered the front gate. "WHOOOOAAAA!"
There was a merry-go-round on a rocketship that lifted up and down, over and over. A tube elevated over the park, where goers could slide all around on an aerial tour. A building with a game giant controller, likely an arcade. A mechanaquarium for robotic fish. And, as expected, robot parents and children in every corner. "This place is… SO MECHANICAAAAAAL!" the friends sang.
"Look at all the MACHIIIIINES!" Chimney screamed through her teeth.
"I've never seen so much METAAAAAL!" Mary danced.
"AAAAHH! Is that King K. Rool?!" Mocha panicked.
A giant, obese crocodile with a banana through his head loomed imposingly above the park. He glared fang-to-fang with a giant, gorilla-like robot. They exchanged fists in a battle that would quake the world… if they had actual depth to them. "I don't feel any presence from them. They're just holograms." Aisa said.
"Oh, thank goodness." Miguel sighed. "I was about to have a heart attack."
Behind the gorilla-bot, another giant robot with a red, sharp-shouldered body, thick black gauntlets, and a silver head with a grit frown approached the main street. "And that one feels real." Aisa said. "Is he an attraction? He sure looks too big to be a customer."
"NO!" Miguel gasped. "That's Giant Robot Sanchez! He attacks Miracle City sometimes!"
"Then, it's a villain?!"
The giant robot threatened to crush the gorilla's hologram projector. A green laser blasted him in the eyes, stopping him. An orange-haired robot would fly around and shoot more, Sanchez trying to swat her like a fly. "April!" Mary pointed. "That's Penny! I'm sure that was Penny!"
"Wow! We were right to come here, weren't we? Let's go meet her!"
"We're still gonna see the sights, aren't we?!" Chimney asked.
"We gotta enjoy ourselves while we're here!" (Play "Welcome to Wondaria" from Kirby Forgotten Land!)
Invasion 4: Mechanos
Mission: Meet up with the local KND and capture Mom!
Act 1: Egghead Land
Mary led the charge, arms wide in excitement, and ran to a road with a zigzaggy, fenced line. Several families of robots were "running" (on single wheels) down the exit lane and back again, electrified as they were panicking. Mary waited for the robots to pass as she jumped the fences. Near the spinning oil drums ride, thin robots with long heads called Clankers were trying to shoot at them, so Mary used Yellow Crayons to electrify the old-looking mechs. The electrocution merely stunned the droids instead of shorting them out, but they seemed to go down for good when Miguel struck them with Music Notes. "There was some kind of dark Music Chi hovering over those robots."
"Their design looks a little familiar." April noticed. The friends began to jump the oil drums, spinning and orbiting round platforms. They would jump to other sets of drums, except some of them were on fire. Chimney shot water at them from her bottles to make them safe for jumping. Past the drums, there was an "oil park" where children excitedly skied around a field of oil.
"Oi, this is gonna mess up my sandals." Chimney said. "And I bet Aisa and Mocha wish they brought… Wait, where is Mochan?!"
"I saw her take the main road since this area was too narrow for her." Aeincha replied.
"This stuff's too slippery to walk on." April said. "But look at those bare patches. If we get a running start, we can slide smoothly to those spots!"
"Miguel, protect my feet!" Aisa glomped her boyfriend's back. ("Ay-ay-ay…") They would do as April suggested and run-slide across the oil to the closest bare patch. For the second patch, they would time it between when some kids slid past. The third patch had a glass barrier blocking it, but a rotating area to its right. They had to slide toward the rotating area, which would conveniently spin to direct them onto the dry patch. From here, they could exit the oil park to an outdoor restaurant… but there was also a mini-maze with several rotating platforms they would have to ski in one go, and the correct route would earn them a Riddler Trophy. …April decided to attempt it. For each failure, a floating cannon would shoot her back to the start, but she eventually collected the trophy.
"April, why is their food all wavy?" Mary pointed at the various meals at the tables, ranging from hamburgers to colorful smoothies, as the customers "ate" them with delight.
"They're holograms, too." Apis noticed. "Maybe it's designed to register some kind of superficial taste within the robots?"
"And it's probably tastier than your cookin'!" Chimney snapped. "Ah ha ha ha!" Apis shot her best friend a glare.
They didn't wanna stare at the holo-food too long or it would make them hungry. However, they did see a Riddler Trophy blended in with holo-spinach. April also found a digital magazine depicting C-3PO and R2-D2, Galaxia's most popular robot comedy duo. The kids ran past the "food" stall and ran up its serving treadmill (which only carried the holo projectors), crossing an electric floor. The treadmills would naturally run against their direction, making it tricky to jump to other segmented treadmills. Once past, the group could board an up-and-down merry-go-rocket! At the apex of its rise, they could jump to a ring of ropes, originating from a similar ride on a next-door tower. As they swung circles on these ropes, they would have to let go in the direction of a midair path, the momentum sending them across!
As the friends traveled up the sloped, suspended path, they had an amazing view of the gorilla-bot battling Banana Rool! A Barrier Droid stopped their enjoyment of the show, the robot shooting lasers from behind its shield. April simply splashed paint over the shield, forcing the confused mech to drop it and for Chimney to kick it off. The path would grow wider as they carefully maneuvered around robot civilians, who were staring at a large display in a glass bubble: it looked like an average human house with a yard. A cardboard dad was "mowing" the yard and a cardboard boy was "throwing" a Frisbee at a wooden dog. "So, humans have ta cut that green stuff all the time?" a boybot asked.
"Do all humans have to do that?" a woman asked.
"Hey, there're some humans now!" a man pointed. "Let's ask them!"
"Oi, you better not go puttin' US in a fishbowl!" Chimney shouted.
"AAAH! HE'S GOT MY CHILD!" a woman screamed—there was suddenly panic as the crowd cleared the way to a brown, big-eyed robot, holding a laser knife to a kid's neck.
"A crook?!" Miguel gasped, his friends horrified.
"They ain't no everyday humans! They's Sector W7! The Brotherhood's archenemies!"
"Y-You're Roberto! The Insane Mainframe!" a manbot recognized.
"And they're a KND sector?! Please, save my son!"
"NAH-AH-UH!" Roberto shouted. "Y'all don't make another move! Look, I don't wanna hurt you kids, really." He spoke in a 'friendlier' tone. "I just wanna be friends. Why do the KND and BOE always gotta be fightin'? Let's hold hands and make friends. BE MY FRIEND OR THE KID GETS IT!"
"O-Okay, okay!" The ops raised hands. "We'll be your friends! …Aeincha, go." Apis whispered.
The Lilliputian began to sneak her way past the crowd of metal feet. "There are two things you better give me to prove y'all are friends! First, Ah want the keys to that fancy train Ah know you got! Then, I want 800 pounds worth of silver! The kind of silver you can make stabbin' knives with! Third, I want a map of all the best pig farms in the Nintendia Galaxy!"
"But that's three things." Aisa said.
"DAMMIT, I'M SENSITIVE ABOUT MY DYSFUNCTIONAL MATHEMATICAL PROCESSOR! I'LL STAB Hiiii…" But Roberto shut down. Aeincha had picked open a hatch on his back, sticking her scissors through a crack within it. A few dicing of the wires defeated the crook.
"AEINCHAAAAA!" Chimney ran up and threw the Lilliputian in celebration, the crowd cheering their heroes!
"Hahaha! I guess I could go for a minors in engineering!"
To show their gratitude, some of the robots activated their rockets to become a platform bridge toward an upper level of the park. They saw people riding some mini rockets around a central pillar, other people playing a "Test-Your-Strength" game with a 30-story pillar, and a bumper car section. "Huh?" Apis saw an upset robot goose sitting in a pond. "What's wrong, little goose? …Oh, my telepathy doesn't work for you."
"Hey, guys!" The group looked ahead left and saw Mocha approaching. "Sorry I ran off without you! There're a lot of rogue robots in the park. They're all broken-looking, too."
"I think I remember those designs now!" April said. "Those robots were the old Battle Droids from the Star Wars! That magazine I just saw made me think of it."
"So, are they just old remnants?" Miguel asked. "Why are they even here?"
"GUYS, COME LOOK!" Mary had run ahead, climbing a statue made of a cluster of rockets. The others caught up, concerned for her safety, but from the top, she raised a small robo-goose in her hands. "It's a baby goose! Maybe the mama lost them!"
"Good thinking, Mary!" Apis beamed. "But get down before you hurt yourself!"
The goose would politely waddle after Mary as they split up to search. Aisa dodged her way through the bumper cars to find the next baby. Chimney saw the next goose just beneath the lowest apex of one of the whirling rockets. She crawled to safely retrieve it. Mocha saw the Test-Your-Strength and decided to try it: she didn't use the hammer and simply STOMPED on the switch, sending the weight skyrocketing as it shattered the bell on top! The baby goose fell off the bell and in her hair. They returned the four geese to their mother, who was joyous as they resumed their programming of swimming around the pond! However, she also spat a card key that April took. "They're so cute, April!!" Mary cooed.
"They're just programmed, Mary." Apis said. "It's not the same as watching real geese."
"Awww…" Mary's enjoyment was shot down.
"But then why did they wander away from the pond to begin with?" April inquired. "I think these machines might possess a little soul in them."
"Yeah! You're right!"
"That is true, I guess." Apis smiled.
The card key opened a gate to the right of this area. This would lead to a wide track where giant parade robots would zoom up. Mocha took the lead and used colossal strength to punch each parade-bot back, exploding against ones behind it. At the end of this path, the road would curve left, right and slope up, and right again, but four parade-bots came down, linked like a train. Mocha pressed her hands against the front one and pushed them all the way back up the path. She pushed them past the entrance to the next area, letting her friends run in first before she followed.
A long track would lead to a huge gate, a massive cloud behind it with a building atop it. An even longer train of parade-bots charged out. Though Mocha was able to hold them back, she couldn't actually push them back. Chimney climbed her back and jumped her way up the parade. The part-mermaid flipped a lever at the end. The parade about-faced and charged to crash through the gate. The ops could all pass through without trouble: beyond the gate was an escalator leading to a cloud with a cracked egg building on top. "Is that a Sky Island?!" Aisa exclaimed.
The group rushed to the edge beside the escalator. The clouds seemed to be rising from a smokestack. "It's an artificial Sky Island!" Apis observed. "I don't believe it!"
"And there's Penny!" Mary pointed left, enthralled as Penny sliced off Sanchez's right arm with her swords. She then flew to his nose and blew a blast of Ice Breath from her air conditioned lungs. Robot Sanchez beeped like, "Ah, ah, ah" and blew out a sneeze of oil.
"Come on, Mocha, let's check out the cloud!" Aisa excitedly ran up the escalator, dragging Miguel with her. Mocha giggled and followed after, thankful the stairs supported her weight. (End song.)
Penny took advantage of Sanchez's instability during his sneeze to ram the giant's leg and topple him. Penny flew above the robot's head and spun her blades like a fan in front of her. She fired a powerful green laser, amplified through the center of their hilts, and burned a hole into Sanchez's mind. His consciousness malfunctioning, Sanchez pulled up an image of his family in his mind. …Sanchez leaked a windshield washer tear before shutting down.
Penny released a sigh of relief, looking into the park and spotting Pino's tiny frame. "All robots have been successfully evacuated from this district, Penny!"
"Great job, Pino! Now, we better fly up and assist-"
"Penny! Pennyyyyyyy!"
Penny's emerald eyes faced skyward and shone, seeing a familiar green-dressed child. The girl she met on Heroes Day… the Imaginary Creation who wanted to be free as a real girl. "…Sal."
"Huh?"
"U!" Penny's rockets ignited.
"Uh-oh! Penny, wait-"
"TATIOOOOONNNS!" Penny launched toward the edge of the platform, squeezing Mary in an almost deathly grip.
"Pe'y… et's ed eh ee you! (It's good to see you!) Pehs… et oh meh… (Please let go me.)"
Mary fell over, partially deflated like a tube of paint as Penny looked down in guilt. "HUUUUFF!" But she breathed back to life and bent up. "I'm so glad to see you, Penny! Thanks to this war happening, I got a chance to come to your homeworld! I mean, I'm not glad the war is happening, but…"
"It's okay, Mary! I'm delighted to see you, too! Are you all here to assist us?"
"It looks like we are." April smiled. "Why are Brotherhood robots attacking the park? And why are those old droids here?"
"We flew here to assist Sector Vega, and we're on the verge of victory. As for those droids, I think they were resurrected by Sartana's chi."
"Sartana de los Muertos?" Miguel asked.
"I'll explain more later. For now I'd like to check on-" There was a thundering crash from atop the cloud island. "Atlas!"
…
"Man, are you feeling this?!" Aisa was ecstatic as she bounced around the cloud's surface, squeezing it with fingers and toes. "It's squishier than normal Island Cloud! It feels more like Sea Cloud that's been solidified."
"Yeah, I can barely stand on it!" Miguel moaned, wobbling as Mocha's steps rippled the surface like waves.
"Man, I hope I don't fall through! I wonder what's in this building-"
"AAAAAAAGH!" A muscular robot was blasted through the egg's wall, colliding with the Island Cloud and bouncing the kids with an intense wave. "How dare you punch the great Atlas?!" The gold and red robot was upgraded with a samurai helmet and energy cords coursing through his arms, ending at his knuckles.
"Atlas?! That's another villain!" Mocha remembered.
"HRAAAAAHHH!" A much larger figure flew out of the egg with a jetpack: it was a girl the size of Mocha! Her hair was divided in black and white, with long curly bangs hanging down the front sides. She had sheep-like ears, a fluffy tail, and dark boots that matched her dress, which had an arrow running down it. "Destroying our park, trashing our creator's lab, and worst of all, claiming my name as your own?!"
"I've done no such thing! YOU'RE the one who dares defile the glory of Atlas!" Atlas argued.
"There's only room on this cloud for ONE Atlas, and that's ME!" The giant leapt to clap Atlas between her gloved hands, the golden robot hardening himself with nanomachines to push back.
"Wait, so they're both named Atlas?" Mocha asked. "Ugh, I hate when this happens."
Man-Atlas leapt to hammer-slam Girl-Atlas' (from One Piece) head, the giant blocking him with one fist and swinging the other to hit him, but Man-Atlas swung his foot to counter that and kick away. Man-Atlas aimed his fists to shoot and retract repeatedly, pummeling Girl-Atlas with a punching storm. Girl-Atlas aimed palms forward and shot Light Spheres to damage Man-Atlas during this onslaught. Man-Atlas hardened his whole torso before launching at the giant, Girl planting her palms against to push back, but Man-Atlas persevered and brought her closer to the cloud's edge. "HIYAH!" But Mocha slammed her own hammer punch on his back, the force pressing him deep into the cloud. Girl-Atlas slid down after him, and Mocha followed suit, their combined weight causing them to pierce the cloud and plummet to the park!
The giants dented a crater, garnering attention from the park-goers. Man-Atlas blasted both off, leaping onto Mocha to pummel her face with hardened fists. "A mere oversized human has no place challenging Atlas!"
Mocha smirked, her Haki withstanding the worst of his power. "Is this fake Haki supposed to scare me?"
Girl-Atlas punched the villain off, denting his hip. As the robo-citizens cheered the park's hero, Man-Atlas rose up in anger. "I'll show YOU what's fake!" Man-Atlas channeled most of the nanomachines around his fist, amplified by the energy coursing through. He leapt at Mocha with relentless power, but the Amazon only smirked and channeled intense Haki to her fist. Man-Atlas' arm shattered upon contact with it. "NO!! I just got these upgrades this morning! How did a primitive human destroy them?! AUGH!"
Girl-Atlas clapped him from behind, pressing her hands as tight as possible against the villain's resistance. "It doesn't matter if it's a new toy or not." Mocha planted her hands to the back of Girl-Atlas', pressing them to enhance the pressure. "Toys are fragile… in the hands of reckless children!"
"NOOOOOOO…" The space between their hands completely sealed, crunching the villain, bending him, molding him into a misshapen ball. From that moment, there was only one Atlas in this park. The arrogant robot, proud of his strength, no longer had rights to that name, nor the functionality to own it.
"Heeheehee!" Mocha grinned, raising a hand. "Nice to meet a fellow giant warrior! Put 'er there-" Atlas SOCKED her in the stomach, crashing Mocha into the wall of a building.
"I didn't ask you to help me! He was MY opponent!" Atlas launched to continue the assault, Mocha countering her fists.
"I just wanted to help! We're KND ops from Earth, we came here to help you guys!"
"Well, now I feel unsatisfied!" Atlas kicked Mocha's legs and toppled her. "I need someone to FIGHT!" She leapt to crush the Amazon, but Mocha sprung back up and grabbed her, landing and wrestling Atlas on the ground.
"Atlas!" Watching the exchange, Pino hurried as fast as her little legs could.
"Hnhnhn!" Mocha snickered, pinning Atlas down and tying her arms behind her. "Artificial strength is no match to pure sweat and training!"
"Hey! Please stop hurting my friend!"
"Who said that?" Mocha looked around. She needed her earpiece to register the minute voice, so was it a tiny person like Aeincha? …She saw a very small robot running from in front of Atlas, though only as small as a toddler and not Lilliputian.
"Atlas, this girl only wanted to be friends. If you apologize, maybe she'll get off."
"No! I can beat her! I…"
"Alright, how about I surrender?" Mocha released her grip and got off. "You win. Happy now?"
"…Hmph!" Atlas puffed her inflatable cheeks.
"Teehee! Now you can be friends!" Pino cheered.
"Whatever." Atlas gently picked Pino up in her fingers, standing. "I need to check up on the lab." Her jetpacks ignited.
"Hey, let me come," Mocha grabbed Atlas' back, "TOOOOOO!" and was whisked off to the sky!
They flew around the edge of the Island Cloud to land back on top, meeting the rest of W7 and Penny. "Atlas! Great job defeating that villain!" Penny flew to her eye-level and raised a hand.
"You did great beating that giant, too, Penny!" Atlas cheered up and high-fived (high-palmed) Penny.
"OI, you guys got your own giant, too!" Chimney cheered, running up to Atlas' boots in awe.
"Yeah, but Atlas isn't in our sector." Pino jumped down beside Chimney. "She's Sector Vega, and we're Sector Prime. Oh!" She noticed Aeincha. "Who's that little human?"
"I'm Aeincha!" Aeincha landed by Chimney's feet, approaching the taller robot. "I'm Lilliputian, a little human!"
"Wow! I thought only robots came in multiple sizes!"
"Then I guess we're more alike than we realized!"
"Hahahaha!" Both giggled as Pino picked the tiny up. "Aeincha? That's sort of like what Arale says. N'cha!"
"Who's Arale?"
"Another one in our sector. But, she's somewhere else right now."
"A couple days ago, the robots in Dr. Eggman's territory suddenly went berserk." Penny explained. "They started waging war against Mom's territory, and the war began to spread to other regions. Several Brotherhood of Evil agents are aiding Eggman's army as well."
"But it isn't just each other they're fighting." Atlas continued. "Both armies were already attacking KND bases. They're practically fighting over them."
"All thanks to those Disneybots they're forcing our creators to build." Pino frowned.
"The Disneybots?" Apis asked. "You mean those robots of child Disney heroes? I heard they were on Mira, fighting Eggman's robots there, too."
"Our creators worked for MomCorp." Penny began. "One day, they were ordered to be separated to different factories to help construct them. We were promised they wouldn't be used against the KND, but that was before this 'war' started."
"So, you guys already know what's going on?" April asked.
"We saw the Galactic Council broadcast, yes." Pino answered. "We saw your battle with Hancock as well, Mocha."
"Haha! We sure embarrassed ourselves, huh? But that's basically why we're here. We need to stop all the Corporate Presidents and Bowser's warlords to win this war."
"Then let us accompany you!" Penny cheered. "They're our friends to rescue, too! And I'm sure you'll need guides around the planet."
"They'll need more than guides to survive on this planet." A nasally voice said.
"Dr. Egghead!" Atlas beamed, facing the egg's entrance.
The outsiders were in wonder as the head scientist of the park stepped out. He was a skinny man with green goggles and a sock on his head, and his nerves seemed a bit jittery. "Greetings! My name is Edward, but you can call me Edd! As the founder of this park, some have come to know me as Dr. Egghead… unfortunately, that's caused lots of confusion and mis-happenings regarding a scientist with a similar name."
"Dr. Egghead created each of us in Sector Vega!" Atlas said.
"Initially to be the park's guardians and workers, but the decision to join the KND was all theirs. But I admit I might have subconsciously edged them in that direction. I've always followed the KND's exploits. I grew up in a humble cul-de-sac on Earth, and through the misadventures of fate, I wound up assisting the KND on an important quest. On that quest, I experienced lots of technology and wonders I never would've seen if I stayed home! I decided to improve my skills and knowledge, and that would soon lead to the wonderland you see here! I even managed to craft my own artificial Island Cloud! Using the air system I've installed around the park, I've been able to modify the density of pyrobloin and moisture in the condensation nuclei, I can recreate them!"
"We didn't understand any of that!" the Earthlings chorused.
"Ahem, at any rate, although I'm not affiliated with MomCorp, my children feared they may try to abduct me. That certainly seems true for the Brotherhood… perhaps they're angry that I froze them solid 24 years ago. If you're going to save Mechanos, I would like to provide inventions that may coincide well with your natural abilities."
"Okay, but shoes are off the table." Aisa stated. "If you wanna fix me with some mechanical arrows, I'm fine with that."
"Er, okay… but I should warn you Mechanos' surface is often quite cold. I would like to make a request to you girls after you leave: north of here is a town called Rush Valley. My son is there, you see—biological son, that is—and I would like you to check up on him. His name is Edward Elric, Jr.! Just as well, that town has a restaurant of human food if you need to replenish yourselves."
"We brought our own food, but you can never be too careful." Apis agreed.
"What would you like us to do, Papa?" Atlas asked.
"Actually, Atlas, I'd be delighted if you could go with them. Not just to Rush Valley, but on their mission. I'll be safe with the other operatives here."
"You mean I have to keep traveling with this monkey?" Mocha shot her a glare.
"Now, now, Atlas, these children have flown all the way here to help our planet. In that circumstance, it certainly won't pay to be rude. Plus, there's a lot you can learn from our giant warrior that simple coding can't teach you."
"Aw, fine…" She folded her arms and puffed cheeks in protest.
"Now, shall we have at those upgrades?" April winked. "Since my paint doesn't work well against robots, I have an idea in mind."
Cybertron Junklands
The landscape was ugly as a graveyard with no burial soil. That's how Team Jerome analyzed the Junklands, piled with bodies of giant, dead robots for miles. "Look at this place!" Artie cringed in repulse. "How could they let so many good robots go to waste?!"
"Attention aircraft! This is a no-fly zone!" A pair of security ships stopped in front of them. "From here, you can only proceed by foot or by vehicle!"
"But we are in a vehicle." Jerome answered.
"Does not compute! Does not compute!!" The right ship exploded.
"Paradox analyzed." The left one said. "Directive updated: you can only proceed by foot or by land-based vehicle."
"Yeah, yeah." Jerome flew to a nearby parking area. Fortunately, the Gilligans had their own giant mech prepared: a Gilligan Buster mk. II! But Jerome and Bender had no problem walking on their own, and Vweeb didn't mind Jerome's cozy hair.
The six crossed a mostly-clear road to a long building with several flags along its roof and garages on its front. They could hear a lot of crashing, gunfire, and explosions beyond it. They stepped aside, hearing a car driving up from behind. It looked like an ordinary, shiny red hotrod. The car parked beside them. The window rolled down as an obese, tan-skinned man with blonde hair, small beard, and a ripped red vest smiled at them coolly. "Hey, shouldn't you kids be in school?"
"We're on official KND business. We're searching for excessive villain activity."
"Sure you are. Haha, I'm just kidding. I cut school all the time. But it looks like you're here for the Monster Mech rally. You're pretty bold goin' in with little mechs like that."
"Little mech?!" Bender glared. "Well, bite my shiny little ass!"
"There's a Monster Mech rally?!" Artie lit up.
"Yeah. I dunno about you boys, but the chick'll fit in just fine." He eyed Haylee. "The guys dig girls with big thighs. The khakis really show 'em off."
"Okaaaaay, well, closing the mech now." Haylee closed her section of the Buster.
"And you plan on entering this rally with a car?" Harry inquired.
"Hahahahaha! Friends, you're looking at the one and only Harold Cooplowski. Why don't ya follow me to my office and see what this Cuma's packing?"
The ops followed Coop to the garage building. He entered a shutter designated for him, and his car seemed to park on the torso of a giant blue robot with painted flames. The car attached itself and acted as the robot's head. "Alright, Megas, let's show these newbs the ropes!"
The opposite shutter opened, allowing the robot to march into the battleground. Numerous giant mechs were in battle with each other… though it seemed all the distinct ones were only fighting robots of the same silver, can-shaped design with flexible arms (almost looking like Bender). "WOOHOO! Look at all the big bots! CRUSH those humans!" Bender cheered.
"This place is AMAZING!" Artie screamed. "W7 can have fun at their theme park, this is where WE belong, baby! LET'S SMAAAAASH!" They took flight and SLAMMED one of the remote bots in its metal skull!
"Hey, Jerome!" Vweeb looked through a pair of binoculars. "I see a smaller robot fighting that gold one! …Wait! This thing's reading her as Numbuh XJ-9! She's part of the KND!"
"We've picked wisely, I see. Bender, let's…Bender?"
"LOOK OUT, MONSTER MECHS!" Bender dove bravely to the field's surface. "Bender the Offender is BAAAACK!"
"Let's tell Nebula he died in battle." Vweeb said.
"I think he's about to." (Play "Chicks Dig Giant Robots" from Megas XLR!)
Act 2: Cybertron Junklands
Jerome and Vweeb dropped down after Bender, charging over the field of fallen giants. They stayed clear of the brawling titans, enticed by the epic scale. They were too enthralled to notice the small Decepticon zombies rise from the rubble, turning into broken-down cars that tried to ram the kids. Bender's fists and Jerome's S.H.O.O.T.E.R. were enough to scrap the scrap. They entered a canyon with a robot's dead body leaning against the end wall. Several Decepticons would morph into broken bombs, and Jerome feared getting close to the volatile mechs. Instead, he threw B.O.O.M.E.R.s through portals to explode the bombs from afar. He then formed a Grav-Path up the robot's body, the two walking up.
"I think I heard about this place in a history book." Jerome said. "About 200 years after Mechanos was founded, two races of giant robots waged war here to decide whether to exterminate humanity or not. The Autobots were in favor of humanity and the Decepticons were against."
"Dude, I think everyone read that textbook." Vweeb remarked.
"In the end, both races wound up exterminating the other."
"Aw, man." Bender frowned.
The group would have to platform across a line of Transformers' heads. Bender stretched his arms to pull the first one toward them, and they would ride it as it swayed in the direction of the next. That Transformer would fall to the next, and they would all fall with increasing speed as the duo jumped quickly. They ran to an open area where one of the Tobeybots loomed. They dodged its first stomp as Jerome threw N.I.N.S.T.A.R.s through portals, slicing its flexible limbs in various places. Vweeb rode on one of the shurikens, landing on the arm to crawl into the opening. The Kateenian tore his way through the wiring, first making that arm snap off, and later making the giant malfunction. Bender stretched his arms to grab the top and bottom of the giant's torso, bending it at the spine.
The trio proceeded down a suspended path between several pairs of brawling titans. A piloted mech came toppling their way, crushing a chunk of the path ahead before standing up. Bender stretched to become his own bridge across, Jerome accepting his service. Another mech threatened to fall on them, so Jerome stuck his hands through a portal to enlarge them, suspending the giant until the pilot could get it up. They couldn't make it a few more steps before a Tobeybot was hurdled their way, but luckily, the Gilligans flew to punch it off course. "You owe us!" Artie yelped.
They crossed into a wider path filled with molten holes, and spinning red robots called Topmen swerving around. Jerome thought it fitting to send tops from the T.O.P.M.A.N., watching hilariously as the cluster of tops bounced each other around and into the holes. Though, they needed to keep a green Springtop alive to recover a floating Riddler Trophy. At the end of this road, a large Topmaniac burst from the scrap. It lunged at the ops with electric blades, destroying Jerome's T.O.P.M.A.N.s. The Zathurian evasively warped, and when the Topmaniac came for Bender, the bender planted his arms to the floor in a tent shape and stretched up. The Topmaniac stopped directly between the arms, giving Bender the chance to smash down atop it. The Topmaniac was stunned as Jerome trapped it in a Space Block and burst it. The robot refused to die to this and charged at Jerome again. He made more Blocks to make Topmaniac bounce around in confusion, and Bender was able to deal another Ground Pound, crushing it for good.
The three closed in on the giant golden Tobeybot. They could grind a rail over a fiery abyss, but ominous, fish-shaped shadows loomed within it. "AAAH!" A giant skele-fishbot shot up an chomped the rail ahead! The part behind them snapped as it swung the rail piece around, but they leapt in the direction of another rail and successfully landed. Another fishbot emerged from ahead and chomped up the rail, but they could leap off to another on the left. For the next portion, multiple arches of small fish jumped over the rail, requiring them to either duck or leap, and Bender's antenna was eaten. "EEK! My manbothood!"
They grinded toward a zone with several elevated, spinning saws. Fishbots would leap and use their tails to bat the rails to random directions, the ops thinking fast to jump over saws, duck them, or jump left or right to other rails. Even Vweeb was distraught as parts of Jerome's fluffy hair were cut off. Regardless, they were able to safely make it to the end. They cautiously approached Jenny's brawl with the golden robot. (End song.)
The giant swung its arm above and smacked Jenny to the ground. It repeatedly tried to stomp the operative, Jenny withstanding with shield arms. "What's wrong, XJ-9? The pressure too much?" The robot's pilot was Tobey, a skinny, blonde boy with glasses, orange vest over a blue shirt, red bowtie, and brown shorts. "It's only a matter of time until you join this ocean of scrap!"
Jenny kicked her feet up against the robot's sole, the legs becoming a drill to burrow through it. Jenny smirked as she began to make progress. "Don't worry, fair maidenbot!" Bender declared, stretching his legs to the height of the giant's knee. "I'LL save thee!" He swung himself in circles before ramming the knee, flinging its leg leftward.
"WAAAAH!" Jenny went flying from the motion. She rose from the pile, pulling an Autobot's head off her pigtail, and glared at the bender.
Tobey grabbed Bender's stretched legs and used his other hand to pull Bender's body back like a slingshot, aimed at Jerome. Bender detached the legs and grabbed the fingers clutching him, bending them backward to escape. As he fell, Bender grabbed the edge of the giant's waist, reaching another arm underneath to stretch behind the giant. It reached all the way to the robot's antenna, mustering his immense strength to bend the titan from this angle. Tobey jiggled his controls to shake Bender off. His severed legs bounced back to their master, allowing him to reattach. "Hey!" Jenny landed beside him. "You totally messed up my plan!"
"All I saw was you getting your butt stomped, and since the Great Bender is chivalrous, I wanted to help."
"I was drilling up his leg when he thought he had me! Now I might never get a second chance!"
"What are you two bickering about?!" Tobey slammed a hand down, the robots dodging separately. Jenny stretched and wrapped an arm Tobey's arm, stretching the other to wrap a Transformer's torso to stabilize herself.
"Hah! You need to hold yourself in place?" Bender wrapped his own arm around the same arm. "I can rip his arm off with one arm behind my back!"
"This isn't a contest, you dolt! What are you, 4?"
"I'm 8 years old and growing, baby!"
"Well, I'm only six, and I got a better hold on this situation than—YOOOOUUU!" Tobey spun, yanking Jenny's arm off, and spun Bender with him as he slammed into Jenny, his own arm breaking off. "UGH!" She pushed the older robot off. "Just stay outta my way! You won't do much with one arm."
"You're missing one, too!"
"Not if I do this." The arm wrapped around Tobey broke into pieces that reformed on Jenny. "I'm built with 80% nanomachines."
"Yeah, well I'm 40% nanomachines. And I've gotten out of worse scraps than this."
Jenny stuck her face into Bender's. "Then maybe we'll settle this after we deal with him!"
"Maybe we will!"
"Hmph!"
"Hmph!"
"Hmph!"
"Hmph!"
"Hmph!"
"Hmph!"
"HMPH!!" Tobey tried to stomp them. Jenny, seeing the dented spot where Bender whacked his leg, sliced her chainsaw hand and sawed the leg off. As Tobey hopped around on the other leg, Bender stretched his last arm to the giant's antenna and launched himself up. The momentum caused Tobey to fall backward, but Bender swiftly wrapped legs around the robot's head. He stretched his arm to grab Jenny's, the girl pulling him against the giant's falling trajectory, causing Bender to tear the head off. Tobey's cockpit was exposed underneath, the boy genius bouncing off from the titan's collapse and painfully bumping into some scrap bodies.
"Ohhhh…man, Jack Spicer's going to have a laughing fit when he hears of this. Ack!" Jenny grabbed and lifted him by the collar. Tobey grabbed his remote, intending to direct the other Tobeypots their direction, but Jenny quickly grabbed the remote and crushed it. "CURSE YOU!!"
"Hey, watch that mouth of yours, young man." Vweeb smirked, jumping on Jenny's shoulders and crossing her arm. "We need to turn your volume down if you're gonna talk like that." He aimed his shrink ray and held it long enough until Tobey was an inch tall.
The tiny boy dropped on the ground, confused by his surroundings… and to his horror, Jenny's foot loomed above him. "Time for some payback~"
"AH!!" Tobey reflexively dodged the stomp. He frantically skittered under the mountains of scrap, lost among its depths.
"He'll resize eventually. Should we dig him up?" Vweeb asked.
"Nah, let him enjoy his hidey-hole."
"According to the database," Jerome studied, "that was Tobey McCallister, a villain from Fair City, Superbia. He's one of many archenemies of the Vocabulary Hero, Wordgirl."
"'Guess the Brotherhood will take anyone these days." Jenny narrowed her eyes wryly. "Anyway, I appreciate the help… some of it." She glanced at Bender. "I'm Jenny. And…" She smiled at the Kateenian on the back of her hand, "you guys are Vweeb and Jerome from GKND! I bet you're here to help us, huh?"
"Well, if a cute young robot needs help, who are we to turn her down?" Vweeb said.
"Hehehe!" Jenny giggled in adoration.
The Gilligan Buster landed nearby, the pilots stepping off. "All those robots suddenly shut off." Haylee said.
"Tobey's robots were grabbing a bunch of the dead Transformers and carrying them away. Then they started fighting the Monster Mechers. I'm worried if they were carrying them for that Sartana woman…"
"You'll have to fill us in on our way back to ship." Jerome replied.
"Aw, can't we stay a little longer?" Artie asked. "I totally wanna trash Coop's ride!"
"Hey, newbies!" Megas walked up, carrying a dead Tobeybot with red spray paint around its mouth and a blonde wig on its head. "You jealous of my new girlfriend? Mmmmmmmwah!" Coop tipped the Tobeybot's mouth to his car.
"…I wanna trash him even more now." Haylee said.
"Permission granted." Jerome approved.
MomCorp H.Q.
"Mother." Mom's eldest, black-haired son, Walt stepped into her office. "Senator Armstrong is here. Shall I send him in?"
"About time the old borg showed up. Go ahead, Walter. Here's a cookie."
"Mmmm, peanut-butter with M&M's." Walt munched the cookie with delight as he stepped out.
A large man with smooth black hair, rectangular glasses, and a gray, striped suit with a gold tie stepped in, his smile jovial as he raised a cigar in his fingers. "Howdy, Madame President! How's business? I hear you're in quite a pickle with them Eggmen folk."
"My old rival met with a tragic demise and his robots need someone to lash their anger on."
"Heh heh, good on them! Loyal to the very end! But is that real loyalty, or is it all programming? I wonder." Armstrong (from Metal Gear Rising) inhaled a smoke and blew out. "Ya made some damn fine progress with them Disneybots. The boys upstairs love 'em. But I hope you found time to work on them nanomachine upgrades."
"Well, of course. I have the updated models right here." A vial rose from Mom's desk, containing black particles.
Armstrong took the vial firmly, pulled the cork off, and gulped them up. "HO HO, MAMA!" He was ecstatic as his fists hardened a shiny black with pronounced, white boney knuckles. "Just feel that metal, baby! If only Eggman saw potential like this, maybe he wouldn't have bit it!"
"The old yolk was too obsessed with god power to think about focusing smaller."
"And someday, these bad boys will be all over Galaxia's army! There won't be any need for Kids Next Door, ain't no need to worry about no pirates, Bowser, or nothin', when nanomachines are buffin' up soldiers one hundredfold. And if any of them try to go ballistic, ain't nothin' an emergency shutdown program can't fix."
"That's only if the council approves of modifying soldiers into cyborgs."
"Bah, with the way things are now, we're gonna need a new council. With the kind of war we're bein' thrust into, they're gonna get desperate. Desperate for stronger soldiers, stronger weapons! You know, Chancellor Phyronix ain't lookin' hot in the public's eyes right now. Callin' him indecisive, easily swayed, spoutin' all that support over the KND only to suddenly change his mind. They're gonna need a new chancellor soon… and guess who's gunning for that seat?" He smirked ambitiously.
"Mommy!" Mom's dark-blonde middle child, Larry walked in. "Our satellite drones saw the KND in Egghead Land and Cybertron!"
"Well, of COURSE they are, ya 0.1% shareholding ignoramus!" Mom stomped up and smacked him.
"Ahhh!" Larry cried. "I-I meant the Earth and GKND! They just showed up, a-and Bender's with them, too."
A monitor lowered from the ceiling, displaying feed from the satellites. She saw brief clips of Mocha and Atlas fighting Former Atlas, and Jenny and Benny fighting Tobey. "Hn! It's Nebula's useless brother… and that's the wretched Amazon girl!"
"The one who trounced Hancock?" Armstrong tapped cigar buds in an ashtray on Mom's desk. "Heh…this is good timing. These nanomachines need a worthy test. Johnny," he began to leave, "take me to Egghead Land! I'm about to show the universe the future of martial arts!"