Covie healed the survivor's injuries and gave him some nutrient capsules and water for him.
Rhea blocked the shaft with rocks and boulders to prevent virus lifeforms from coming out from it.
"But there is one problem. Where should this guy stay? He can't just follow with us in every mission right? He needs a place to rest." Said Covie.
Johnson thought for a while.
"Just adjust the moon hut's room count, change the dimensional switch to make it bigger to have more rooms."
"Oh, ok. But when the moon hut is kept, the space disappears, and he will be ejected out from the hut. "
"....is there a trolley in the hut by any chance?"
"Nope, the trolley is in the hut at Albur's house."
"Xxxxx"
Albur heard the word 'Albur's house' and thought of an idea.
"Wait yeah, this is Xectar City, butterfly street must be here too! That way we could find my house nearby!"
"Bucko, our mission is to destroy all cores as soon as possible, who had time to take a detour to your house to get a trolley?"
"Well then how are the survivors gonna stay?"
Johnson went silent for a second.
"Then I will have to make a trolley myself."
"How?"
Johnson scoffed as he took out his special wrench.
"You forgot this bad boy?"
Albur remembered the special wrench Johnson carried around.
"Oh! This thing!"
"This thing helped me a lot, its originally my sister's. After her death I took this with the hologram device and not let my parents sell them. "
"Huh, you have a family. How sweet."
Rhea mocked Johnson.
"Well at least I have a surname. Unlike you."
"Whatever you say."
The crew sat down and rest while Johnson worked on the trolley. Rhea is standing next to the survivor, with a serious face.
"Sir, may I ask what is your name?"
"Oh....its Joe, Joe Hendick."
"How long have you been trapped down here?"
"I don't know, like... a day and a half?"
"Why are you here though? The government had given evacuate protocols."
"I....am about to escape. But my friend that is evacuating with me earlier was high. I tried to pull him to the evacuation center but he just kept fighting with me. And when the purple substances devoured us.....we are trapped in the stadium with limited food and water. And the virus lifeforms chased us down. We found the underground basement and that shaft that led us to safety, that.....did not....last..."
The survivor started breaking. Rhea looked at Albur and Mysty, with a 'help me' face.
Mysty looked at Albur, who shrugged. Mysty walked over to the survivor.
"Sir? You alright?"
"Nothing....I'm just...my friend....." he sobbed and sniffed.
Mysty patted his shoulder.
"I'm so sorry."
Rhea shook her head. She then turned to Johnson.
"Square head! Is the trolley almost done?"
"Wait! I'm adding final touches."
After a few minutes, Johnson finished building the trolley he built from parts he found in the stadium. The trolley is very simple but is enough to carry the moon hut while set up.
"Not bad, square head, you are pretty talented after all."
"Talented in beating you. "
"I doubt that."
Covie adjusted the room size and let the survivor enter the hut, making him have somewhere safe to stay.
"Alright humans, time to move on."
Rhea took out the energy detector. The detector showed the next core is located 43 kilometres from their current location.
"Let's go."
The crew exited the stadium to the parking lot, and prepared to walk to the next core.
But then, 5 claps echoed across the stadium parking lot. The crew heard that, and became alert. Then, footsteps stepping on cobblestone echoed. It came from the inside of the stadium.
The crew looked towards the direction.
Two familiar figures marched out of the stadium. One carrying a camera, while another carrying a staff. They are none other than Wilton and Cluster.
"Cluster...."
"Wilton?"
"Protect the moon hut!"
The crew raised their weapons and aimed at both of them.
Wilton pressed a button on the camera and opened the cover.
Cluster chuckled as he took a few steps forward, the sound of his staff hiting the ground and each step he took echoed through the whole area.
"Humans, robots. Your performance is very impressive. I am so glad I have you all as my fellow performers. I want to have some...training tapes. And you all will be my first batch of clowns."
Johnson fired his minigun at Cluster. Cluster raised his staff, the gem glowed. The bullets penetrated his body, he took no damage.
"What the..."
Wilton backed away while adjusting the camera's focus.
Albur fired a Disabling Shot at him. Cluster simply teleported away to dodge the bullet, he teleported to behind Mysty. Mysty quickly turned around and fired her pistols but he teleported away again. Rhea quickly turn her battle bot back to normal size and hopped into it. She fired homing missiles at Cluster, but he kept teleporting around. The missiles eventually lose power and fell onto the ground.
"Oh, clowns, don't disrespect your ringmaster."
"Just shut up and taste bullets!"
Albur fired a Virus Corruption at Cluster. This time he used his staff and stopped the bullet before it reached it. He then turned the bullets flying direction at Albur and removed the freeze magic. Albur ducked to dodge the bullet. Rhea activated the flash bomb and aimed at Cluster, but when the flash bomb exploded, Cluster performed a spell on the device, the blinding lights was compressed and turned into a bouquet of withered flowers.
Cluster backed away and tidied his clothing.
"Try harder, and remember to smile.....clowns don't frown."
Albur stared at Havoc, wondering if he should use his powers now. But he had already wasted one, so he decided not to use it again.
Rhea fired her fist, it flew towards Cluster. Cluster smiled as he spun his staff.
Cluster then fired a dark green beam at the fist, it stopped its movement. But then, it turned around, and flew towards Rhea.
"Recall! Recall! Fist fire mode! I command to Recall!" Rhea sent multiple system commands to the fist .
The Fist ignored the commands, Rhea quickly dodged it. But the fist switched directions and continued flying towards her and fired rockets at her. Rhea had no other way other than forcefully cut the rockets of the fist, making it stop.
"Bravo! Bravo!" Cluster applauded.
Johnson grunted in fury and charged energy bullets at his claw and fired them at Cluster. Cluster fired the same dark green beam at the energy bullets that made them turn around and attack Johnson. He vanished into the digital world to dodge them.
Mysty fired Concentration Blast at Cluster, it penetrated his body again. But just then, Cluster noticed his staff is glowing faint red. He thought of something.
"Fellow audiences, I'm sorry for the sudden maintenance break, the next act will be here very soon!"
Albur charged Hyper Blast and fired at Cluster. Cluster dodged it and raised his staff. The staff glowed a bright purple light.
"Lights!!!! Camera!!!! THUNDER!!!!!"
The staff unleashed numerous purple lightning. The lightning struck the ground near the crew, and some fired at the stadium. Explosions occurred afterwards, sending the crew flying.
The gem on the staff then glowed a bright red light, the dark green glow on Rhea's fist vanished and the withered flower bouquet turned back into a blinding light that unleashed behind Cluster.
"That's it of Act 2! Thank you for watching our show!" Cluster bowed.
Johnson quickly get up and activated the wheels under his feet and ran towards Cluster while charging his robot claw. But when he got to Cluster, he vanished, not a single trace of him is left. Wilton slowly retreated and vanished.
"Argh! God xxxx it!"
Johnson smashed his minigun on the ground.
Rhea exited her giant battle bot body and checked whether she have any injuries. Albur helped Mysty up. Covie repaired herself before healing everyone and fixing the battle bot.
Rhea picked up the fist of her battle bot and attached it back onto it.
"He got away....." murmured Johnson in anger.
"Why didn't he kill us though? That lightning could've vaporised us." Asked Albur.
"You want to get killed?"
"Of course I don't. I'm just curious, he had the capability to, and he chose not to."
"Well then he is dumb like you."
Albur glared at Johnson.
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