***I've made a serious rooky mistake and I'm kicking myself right now as hard as I can! Many of you have pointed out that the story line is confusing and I couldn't figure out why...until I reread my stories (something I know I should have done in the first place...lesson SO learned). There are numerous inconsistencies in story line and time line so I'm including a brief summary of previous chapters with all incongruences ironed out. This summary will be what the rest of this story leads off from and I will always remember to check my own facts before writing them.
Please forgive, readers!
Secret_Reader***
There is a nonconsent/reluctance scene within this chapter so feel to skip if it's not your cup of tea. It's necessary for character development and is certainly nothing graphic.
Enjoy
SUMMARY:
In the 1970s the Corps was founded by Giovanni, Wraith, Engineer, the now-dead Top-Shot and the evil Slade. It was used by the government as a form of law enforcement until Slade lead a faction of the group in a civil war against the other members.
The civil war was over whether the super humans should be the rulers over the normal humans. Slade believed they should, but Giovanni did not. The war was destructive and a number of people died and a lot a property was destroyed. The government ordered the Corps to disband and Giovanni moved any remaining members into hiding by constructing a new base in 1986.
Slade was defeated and the Corps was left in peace. Giovanni and Wraith continued to search for new members, and added a few over the years including Brick. A few years before this story, Engineer went insane after reading an article about combining man and machine and becoming obsessed over the idea. Giovanni kicked him out of the Corps and wiped his memory of secret information.
Trapjaw had teamed up with the businessman Sydney to take over the world and they picked up Engineer in order for him to build his machines and help them succeed. After many trials, Engineer was able to successfully merge Rob's brain into a Machine's.
Nurse Sweet was a mole for the Corps and took Rob to Giovanni where he trained over the period of a month. During this time Engineer built a mass production facility in the basement of Ark Chemicals, a subsidiary of Sydney Enterprises. Sydney supplied the money and materials, and Trapjaw oversaw the process. Once the facility was complete, Engineer manufactured ten Bio-B0ts to resemble his prototype, Bio-B0t On3 which he had built soon after Rob.
Trapjaw sent five of these to attack the Corps while he replaced Sydney with M1mic, thus putting Trapjaw in complete control.
The attack failed and Engineer came up with a plan to improve the Bio-B0ts. Meanwhile, Rob was tasked with figuring out what the Bio-B0ts were and how to defeat them.
Thank you for reading this. Hopefully I won't have to make another one!
CHAPTER SIX
Rob furrowed his brow as he looked down at the headless robot. It had been almost two hours since the attack and Rob had been studying the robot for an hour and a half with Nurse Sweet and Hax. His two companions had long since given up on gleaning any useful information from the remains, but Rob knew there was definitely something there that they could use in the event of another attack. The problem was that his brain could not piece together a whole enough idea to be of any use.
"AH!" he yelled in frustration and threw his hands up in defeat.
"Given up?" Hax said from his perch on the twin examining table.
"I just can't piece together my thoughts." Rob explained, "It's like I have a book in front of me with all the answers, but half the pages are torn out in random order."
"Hmmm..." Hax said as he jumped off the examining table, "Books..."
"What about them?" Nurse Sweet droned from where she was lying on the floor with her eyes closed.
"Rob, Giovanni had mentioned that you read a lot of books. He said that's why you should be of some help." Hax said, and although Rob could not see them through his whited-out glasses, he knew Hax's eyes were narrowed in thought.
"Yeh, well a whole lot of good that's doing." Rob said, not sure where Hax was going with this.
"But it IS doing a whole lot of good! The only problem is your knowledge is incomplete...you haven't read enough to have a complete grasp of the situation. In other words you're the equivalent of a person with a basic degree in, well, everything. What you NEED to be is the equivalent of a PhD in everything." Hax was pacing the room now and talking rapidly...and frankly not making a whole lot of sense.
"Try again." Rob said, "This time, be a little less cryptic."
Hax stopped pacing and stood directly in front of Rob and looked up into his eyes, "Right now you're a really, really smart person because of all the books you've read and your ability to store vast amounts of knowledge. What you can, and MUST, be is the most amazing genius this world has ever seen!"
"I'm going to need a lot more time...and a ton more books...for that to happen; but nice try." Rob said semi-sarcastically.
"No you won't and no you don't." Hax said with a little smile.
Nurse Sweet got off the floor in a hurry, "Hax...you're a genius!"
This was the most excited Rob had ever seen Nurse Sweet and was getting a little annoyed that he was being left out of the loop.
"Someone better explain to me what you're talking about." Rob demanded.
"The Mainframe! We can hook you up and download its contents into your brain!" Hax said excitedly.
"Pardon?" Rob said, still confused.
"We don't have time for this...come with us, Rob." Nurse Sweet said and grabbed Rob's hand and led him through the door of the room.
She turned left and opened the door directly next to the one they had just come through. The three of them went through and into a room with a single column ten feet in diameter in the middle of the room. A single cable led from the column to a computer monitor on a small desk with a printer situated next to it.