Outside Help

JumpStart:

"No. No. No. No. No! Ahh!"

I scream as I stomp my fists against the table.

"Where is that program? Where is it? I swear, I search this whole computer, but I can't find it! What if Silent is right? What if the water destroys it? If the water did destroy the program, then does that means the end for my friends? QuickShot. Ms. Justice. SpeedBlade. No! I won't give up! I can't. They're depending on me! I have to find it! And if I can't, then I will make one myself! Hopefully, I find it."

I restart the search, going through every single folder once more.

QuickShot:

Pulling back the bowstring, I close one eye and aim at the target.

"Dr. Cho," I shout, Dr. Cho turning toward me. "Watch out."

I let go of the bowstring and watch as my arrows fly toward Dr. Cho. Seeing this, she quickly hides behind the chair. The arrows hit the chair and stick to it.

"You miss," Dr. Cho shouts, "Shouldn't have given me a warning."

"No," I say, dropping to my knee. Still feeling weak from using my power, I still have enough strength left over to shoot some arrows. "I didn't miss."

The arrows that stick to Silent's throne start to beep and flash red. The beeping and flashing get faster with every second. Dr. Cho realizes what the arrows are but before she could use her power to deactivate them, they explode, knocking both the throne and Dr. Cho to the ground.

The sound of her and the throne falling, it's followed by the sound of a robot winding down.

"The armor," Silent says, grabbing all our attention. "It's not moving!"

"Dr. Cho," Ms. Justice says. "She's the driver! The pilot! Without her, or you, there's no one controlling it."

We all look at the Iron Fist Armor as both its arms fall to the ground before the upper half leans down.

"Did we do it," SpeedBlade asks. "Did we defeat the armor?"

"Not exactly," I answer. "We defeated Dr. Cho but the armor is still standing. Sort of."

Silent runs up to the armor and jumps onto it. He climbs up the chest and to the head, where it looks like he's trying to open.

"What are you doing," Ms. Justice yells.

"I'm trying to open the armor so I can take control of it," Silent answers while trying to pry open the head with his bare hands.

"Why," I ask. "So you can be stuck inside again?"

Silent doesn't answer me. He keeps clawing at the head, trying to open the armor. However, he lost his chance when the Iron Fist armor rises its head.

"It will take more than some arrows to defeat me," Dr. Cho yells as she raises from beneath the fallen throne. Her hair is covered in dust and messy. Her lab coat is torn and damaged. She had a few bruises on her face. Despite all of this, her eyes are still glowing.

Silent:

The armor coming back to life, I realize my plan to take back the armor is futile. Instead, I look down at the sword still on the armor's wrist.

Climbing back down, I raise my foot and stomp it against the sword's handle. I do this over and over again until the sword finally comes off. It falls to the ground.

"Your sword," I yell, "Get it!"

SpeedBlade nods his head and runs. He uses his super speed to grab his sword and runs back even before Dr. Cho realizes what I did.

Watching as the red knight runs back, I turn back and come face-to-face with a blowtorch. The blowtorch coming on, it burns my face.

Watcher:

I wave my hand and summon a magical window to watch the fight. As the window materializes, I see Silent getting burned by a blowtorch on the Iron Fist Armor.

He screams as he falls, holding his face while rolling away. While on the ground, Dr. Cho uses her power to order the Iron Fist to pick Silent up. She starts to crush him, Silent screaming even louder.

"Silent," Ms. Justice yells, running up to the armor. She winds up and throws her shield but the armor slaps it away. The shield falls far from the fight.

"SpeedBlade," QuickShot shouts, pointing at Dr. Cho. "The armor is too strong! Change plan!"

SpeedBlade, now armed with his sword, sees what's QuickShot means. He runs toward Dr. Cho but she won't fall for the same trick twice.

Waiting until SpeedBlade is in position, she looks up at the monitors on the fall. With a simple gaze, she causes all the monitors to explode. They fall from the walls and onto SpeedBlade.

While SpeedBlade is buried under a pile of burning monitors, she turns toward QuickShot as she prepares more arrows.

"Let's see how you like it," Dr. Cho says. Her eyes glow and the explosive arrow in the QuickShot's bow explodes. It explodes and knocks an already exhausted QuickShot to the ground.

"Pathetic," Dr. Cho says as she smiles. "All of you have lost."

Dr. Cho's smile grows for a few seconds before it disappears. I hear yelling and look to find the source. There, jumping through the smoke is SpeedBlade!

He lands on the floor and runs toward Dr. Cho.

"Impossible," Dr. Cho says, stepping back. She looks up and causes another monitor to fall toward SpeedBlade. However, SpeedBlade doesn't stop. He doesn't even slow down. Instead, he jumps and slices the monitor in half.

With a clean cut from corner to corner, he jumps right through the two halves of the monitor before landing on the floor and running. Before Dr. Cho could do anything, SpeedBlade runs right into her.

He shoulder charges her and I can see the breath begin knocked out of her as she falls and skids along the ground.

"How," she cries as she pushes herself up. "How could you have survived that?"

"It is because you hurt my friends," SpeedBlade answers, raising his sword. "I will not let you hurt them!"

"So you understand," Dr. Cho says. "You understand, don't you? I hurt your friends, so you want revenge! Well, those pathetic bastards destroy my friends! So I want revenge as well!"

SpeedBlade stops when he hears this. He stops walking and looks into space.

"SpeedBlade," I say, "What are you thinking?"

I watch as SpeedBlade looks between Dr. Cho and her friends.

"You are right," he says, turning back to Dr. Cho. "You are right."

I couldn't believe what I'm hearing.

"What is SpeedBlade saying?"

"You are right," SpeedBlade says, "But you are wrong as well. Those people who hurt your machine friends did something horrible to you, but they do not deserve to be destroyed. And as for my friends, I can still save them!"

SpeedBlade screams as he charges toward Dr. Cho. Crawling on the ground. Dr. Cho can't get away far enough. Instead, she uses her power to order the Iron First armor to drop Silent.

The armor turns around and fires a bunch of mini rockets at SpeedBlade.

Hearing the rockets as they approach him, he turns and runs away. The rockets follow him as he runs, slowly catching up to him.

"This is bad. I must help."

I raise my hand and hold it over the window. With my hand glowing with mystic energy, I pull one rocket into another. The two rockets explode, the impact causing the other rockets to explode as well.

SpeedBlade escaping the blast zone, he turns and skids to a stop.

"What happened," Dr. Cho yells, pushing herself up. "Nevermind!"

The Iron Fist armor running now stands in between Dr. Cho and SpeedBlade.

While SpeedBlade charges toward the armor, I swing my hand and make the window shows me something else. In the window, I see JumpStart the elf still typing around on the computer. He still hadn't found the shut-off program.

"No, no, no," he goes on. "Not here. Not there. Is this it? No, it's not."

Once more, I swing my hand.

I smile when I hear JumpStart screaming.

"Yes! Finally! I've found the program!"