Chapter 3 Nigiel Keth

"Okay so were going up against 21 robots, 5 of them have swords and shields, another 5 have crossbows and bows, other 5 have snipers, and the last of the 5 have giant shields along with heavy armor on. And the last robot is still on the flying ship looking down on us, like literally, I'm making eye contact with the guy right now in this hiding place, So he's most likely the boss. I would say that he told the other bots our position but all the other bots are on the other side of the trash hole looking for us so I guess he didn't, now any Idea's my friend," I informed Roby as I continued looking through the peak hole in one of our hiding places that we built for hide and seek a year ago. Who knew something like this would come in handy in this situation. 

Roby was tapping his head trying to think but couldn't come up with anything and started folding up into its sleep mode out of fear. I stopped him from doing that and looked back out the hole to see if the main robot was still looking at us, and as you expected I was still making eye contact with this guy, the only difference is that he is sitting down in a chair while looking at me. 

"Okay, so maybe if we continue hiding from the other bots, the main bot will call his crew back to the ship and they will leave," I said to Roby trying to reassure him. 

"If I don't see a fight in 20 minutes from now, I'll be giving away your locations nonstop," The robot yelled through the speakers of his ship. 

"Never mind," I said while dropping to the floor and letting out a chuckle. I Honestly want to curle up in a ball and cry, But I can't, freedom is so close in our grasps. The path out of the trash hole is open to us now, what if we can't make out today, all we need to do is build a tall escalator or something to lift us out of here, and that would only take a month with Roby's 1/10 chance. 

I took a deep breath in and began thinking, after 30 seconds of thinking I finally had an idea, it was a horrible idea, one with many flaws, but it was the only one I could come up with. I unlocked the undercover fridge we were hiding in and peaked out to make sure we were in the clear, and signaled Roby to come with me, He did follow me, but he was still shaking while flaking his way to me. I grabbed Roby in and ran silently to the left side of trash hole, I ran for a short time while looking around at my surroundings to make sure we weren't seen. After a minute of running, I finally made it to the destination i was headed to and put Roby down slowly. 

The only plan I can think of now is fighting them one on one while using the terrain to our advantage, they are not used to all the non-stable ground in this place and there's a bunch of covers that I can use to defend against the long-ranged weapons. I then made my way to a large box that was surrounded by other trash and opened it, and suddenly feeling a mix of relief and dread all at the same time, I then grabbed the items that were in the large box and held them out to Examine them. 

The first item would be a steel shovel that I hit a cement floor and cracked it, so I have this thing as a weapons grade, The second Item I have is a crossbow with 6 bolts on Its quiver, The final Item is the Item that means the most to me so much so that I don't carry on my person due to fear of misplacing it, The Final item was a silver cross that was also a hidden dagger. 

The Cross was stained with blood despite me never using it for fighting with it until now, But the weird thing is that the blood seems to be part of the Crosses design, the cross also has two silver Snakes wringing around the crosses' daggers sheath. The reason why this dagger means so much to me is that fact that it proves someone in the world cared for me, the reason why I know this is because there is a message carved in the back of the cross, The Message said this. 

 You are my entire world and whenever you are lost look at this cross, my faith in you is forever my Babyboy. Signed by Your Mom. 

It doesn't say my mother's actual name, that's all It says, this dagger was with me the moment I fell down here in this trash hole. I equipped the dagger on the hip of my suit, then handed Roby the crossbow with the 6 bolts in the quiver and finally lifted the steel shovel and gave it a light swing, trying to get a feel of it. 

After we got done armoring up, we made our way to a nearby tall trash pile to scope out the robots and come up with a strategy. As soon as I looked at the hit squad, I instantly had an idea on how to deal with them. That was because their formation was all over the place with no real strategy, the ranged units for some reason was on the ground instead of the high ground, while most of the close ranged units were spread out all across the trash hole, So I'll just aim for the enemy the furthest from the group and pick them off one by one. 

I sneaked around the trash hills that were separating us and the somewhat organized groups of robots and made my way towards the robot that was the furthest from the group. I continued sneaking around the piles until I was able to see the stray enemy robot that was searching the inside of fridge to see if that was where I was hiding, the robot was the of sniper of the group of robots, so it would best if I take him out quick before it even bets to shoot because the noise will signal the rest of the robots. 

Roby aimed his crossbow at him but waved my hand at him, telling him to stand by as he held my cross in my hand and unsheathed it to reveal its blade. I slowly sneaked to the unaware robot with my dagger ready to go for it, after a couple of moments of sneaking I was finally directly behind, I lifted up my dagger and while it was distracted and stabbed it into its neck. The dagger pierced its neck and managed to damage a lot of critical wiring that is in its neck, but the thing is, is that it made the robot start glitching out and made it start rapidly firing its sniper rifle at the ground. The shots were so loud that it had my ears ringing, I cupped my hands over my ears to block the noise until the robot's weapon was out of rounds, After the robots last round was shot it collapsed on the ground, and I then started running only for me to hear the last thing I'd want to here today. 

"Oof that's just bad luck; Let's hope you don't fight as bad as you kid" The main robot yelled from his speaker on his ship. The moment he got done saying that a riot shield robot started charging me after it had appeared running over the, I readied my shovel to aim at its chest as it continued running at me, As the robot ran closer to me, is when its leg sink into the trash hill as he was running in and fell down. 

I then swung my shovel with all my might as the robot fell towards me and managed to hit its head Which caused its head to snap back and made the robot drop its shield while it got up to fix its head. I was going to go for another until I saw another robot make it up the stairs, this one had a cross bow which the robot aimed at me as soon as it saw me. 

I quickly lunged for the riot shield the robot dropped and quickly put it, and It was just in time to because once I brought it up a managed to hit the shield then ricocheted off it and hit the ground. The robot who I hit with the shovel managed to fix its head and once it did, I charged at me, ready to attack. Then, out of nowhere, a loud bang went off and shot the back of the robot's head. I was shocked for a moment, and then I looked up to figure out what shot the robot. 

I managed to spot 2 more rifle bots that were walking while shooting at me, not even caring of their teammate they just shot. As they continued putting pressure on me with their fire power, I decided to charge in with the shield in front of me towards the robots. The robots continued shooting at me despite me running full speed at them with a riot shield, I crashed into both trying to knock both off their feet, but what instead happened was me being put to a dead stop as I hit them. I recovered, and quickly stepped back to see why I couldn't knock these 2 over, I then found the reason why I couldn't overpower them as soon as I got a good look at them. 

The reason why I was put to a dead stop was because these robots were a whole 2 feet taller than me, they were also heavily armored too with some sort of vests (most likely in case any of them try and team kill again). 

The robots aimed their rifles at me again, I was going to back step to gain some distance from them but then I had an Idea, I began walking towards them while my shield was still up. The robots then opened fire again without changing their strategy even though they saw the bullets Ricochet off the shield, I continued pushing through as they continued to fire their weapons at me, then it happened. The robots continued to shoot at the shield robots which caused their bullets to ricochet again but this time some of them ricocheted back at them and were hitting them all over as they were continuing to fire, that was the moment that I realized this fight was going to be easy. 

The reason why these guys are team killing without any remorse and don't seem to second guess their tactics or actions. That reason is because they don't have a conscious, unlike Roby who can think for himself and can come up with Ideas, these guys are just doing what they were programed to do and nothing more, Thats why they aren't able to feel remorse, why they aren't changing their tactics, and also why I'm not dead yet, so all I need to do is use their programming against them. 

That was until I felt a bolt hit me in my back, I stumbled forward and fell on my face on the trash filled ground, I then looked back and saw the original robot with the crossbow who was standing there while reloading its weapon. I touched my back to check if there was any blood only to get a sigh of relief, The wendigo suit managed to stop the crossbow from hit's my body due to It being built like a Kevlar vest, But somehow more flexible. I got back up and was about to retrieve the shield I dropped, but then I heard heavy footsteps gaining close behind me, I spun around quickly to spot what was coming at only for a medium shield to meet my face. I Fell on the ground to the force of the hit; I attempted to get back up only for the robot to stomp on my chest to keep me in place while readying it's sword to finish me off, I grabbed my cross and was ready to see if I could deflect the sword only for a bolt to go through the robots head, as the robot fell down fell backwards I looked around to see who shot the bolt. I looked at the crossbow robot to see if he did it only to see it still reloading its crossbow, Thats when I spotted Roby with his crossbow posted up on the fridge as he gave me his best thumbs up despite him only having 3 fingers. 

I smiled at him; I know my smile looks horrifying because of my mask replicating my facial features But I couldn't help is, I then got up and grabbed the sword while looking at the crossbow robot as it finally got done reloading, I then tried to lift the crossbow up to shoot me again, But this time I cranked the sword up and threw it at It as hard as I could at the it. I managed to hit its Crossbow out of its hands, causing it to miss it's shot, and before it could pick it back up, I managed to tackle it to the ground.... Barely. The only reason the tackle worked was because the robot had a smaller build compared to the other robots, After I rushed it to the ground, I grabbed my cross, unsheathe its blade, and stabbed it in its head. 

I then stood up and put my hands on my knees as I began breathing in heavy due to the fight that just happened, after a couple of seconds of me regaining my breath, I then heard heavy footsteps approaching me coming over the trash hill. I then decided to make a run for it again because there was no way I could win with me being outnumbered and on flat trash hole ground; I managed to make it a full 20 feet before I got shot in my back. I fell down the trash hill for a second and then got back up slowly only for a bullet hit me in my back, but this time I didn't tumble down, I continued running down the back while feeling my back to check if any of their shots went through the suit only to feel relief that none had pierced my skin. 

I decided to run to the north side of the trash hole for cover, I usually avoid the north side of the trash hole, entirely because that's where the trash usually falls from, and free-falling trash is a one-way ticket to heaven if it lands on your head. Before I even made it to north side of the wall, A sword and shield robot came out of knower and shield crashed me tackled me to the ground, I got up as fast as I could and pulled out my shovel that was strapped onto my back to defend myself. 

The Robot swung its sword at my head, trying to get this fight over quickly but I managed to duck under its slash and swung my shovel at its chest. I hit it, but it didn't do any damage because of its armor, The robot swung low this time which made me go for a block, good news is that I managed to block its sword, bad news is that a sniper round hit me in my chest which made me tumble back. I landed back first on to a pile of trash near the trash holes wall and tried to recover only for the sword and shield bot to plant its feet on my chest, causing my body to slightly sink into the trash I was under. The sniper robot then ran towards me, for some reason it was running towards me like it couldn't see me, man is these some terribly designed robots. The sword and shield robot then lifted its sword in the air getting ready to finish me off, I quickly reached around trying to find an item that could help, but before I could find an item, the wall I was near exploded right beside. 

The explosion actually didn't affect me that much due to the robot being on top of me, But the explosion did cause the robots to get launched across the trash hole and made them break apart as they hit the ground. I slowly got up while holding my ears due to the sound of the explosion and began looking at the now hole that was created in the wall due to the explosion. 

"Okay, maybe I used too much gunpowder for this mixture," A voice said inside the smoke near the wall. I instantly froze and stapled my eyes on the smoke, I then heard footsteps slowly approach, I lifted my shovel, readying for another attack from enemy only to come face to face with a white human sized owl monster with a big gag on its hip. We both locked eyes for a while, due to us both being strangers and not knowing each other, I then made the decision to try to make a peaceful and calm first impression. 

"Hello Owl," I said in the nicest tone I could muster, then an electric bang filled the entire trash hole. After the bang happened A plasma net flew over Our head and covered the hole that was blown up trapping us both in this place now. 

"Player 3 has been entered, increasing difficulty by 25%," The main robot on the ship announced. And after he announced that 1 more Bot was dropped from the ship, I couldn't see what type of robot it was, all I could see is that the robot was big, I looked back at the Owl who was looking back the now sealed off hole she made, then she looked back at me with somewhat confusion, and then she finally spoke. 

"What did I just walk in on," She asked me while reaching in her bag. I looked back at the ship that was still in the air along with the broken robots that were destroyed due to the explosion, I then spotted the sniper rifle that was used to shoot me to the ground and picked up and held it out for the owl. 

"A Megalomaniac," I said with a slight joy in my voice. How could I not be a little happy, when freedom from this place is so close, just a little more work.