Chapter 18: Captured

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It was dark, pitch black dark. There's nothing see but only the darkness. Jenny begins to open her eyes to create light. She slowly gains consciousness looking around to see her damaged body lying down in a metal room. She search around the surrounds dazed and confused. She slowly got up, but her legs trembled and she fell to her knees.

"W-Where am I?" she whispered to herself. "Where's everyone else?"

She looks up to see a beam shine to her. She covered her eyes from it, but she saw the light scanning her. She then got up to her feet feeling a bit weaken.

"Hey, l-let me out!" she shouted as she try summoning a weapon, but she couldn't.

What she got instead was shock and electricity running over her body. She drops to the floor and look at herself once more. She scans her body and was surprised to see every weapon she has in her has been taken away. She was starting to lose hope as the beam finished scanning her.

"XJ-9, good condition," the voice from the room spoke. "Can't use weapons, weapons were taken for the New Cluster."

"N-no, it can't be!" she stated. "They never got close to get my mother's technology!"

She looks around to see no escape routine presented to her at the moment. No door, no bars, no window, and no other opening to escape. She then sat down and starts to think of other ways to get out and get her weapons back. She was going to protect the Earth, but she's weakened and is trapped in the room.

"I can't believe this! They took me to their ship, had my weaponry taken away, and I'm too low on energy to do anything! I hope everyone can figure out a way to stop them."

Henry...

Henry...

Wake up...

You need to protect those you love Henry...

Wake up and fight Henry!

Henry opens his eyes and slowly focuses on his surroundings. From there he see himself only wearing black shorts and little beetle droids in front of him carrying medical tools. The cyborg also saw his left arm and right leg exposed with no skin to cover it, and he too was damage by spotting the bruises, stacked marks, and some bandages wrapped around his body. He then shoots up to his feet to defend himself and the droids look at each other confused before they realize it was another fighting defense. Henry kicked one droid away and punched the other one away. One droid hold a torch and aimed to Henry. He moved to the side as the flames emerged. Henry looks at the damage and quickly saw an exit. He begin to sprint away seeing other alien technology around and other droids now alerted of the cyborg running by them.

He has no idea how he would be in an alien ship, let alone fighting aliens. One day he was leaving Russia as a super cyborg, and now he's with alien beetles. He continues running knowing there's a crowd of droids chasing after him. He turns right to see a large compound of ships, beetle droid troops, and opening shown they were located in space hovering earth. The cyborg couldn't believe he was seeing them getting ready to strike again.

"Beep... Beep... Beep... The cyborg has escape!"

Every single droid look to see the cyborg before the cyborg quickly turn around and begin to run once more. Henry couldn't believe he was being chase again, and to think he would try to have a simple normal. Not everyone can have a simple life. As he run around the mother board ship, and was quickly shot with a beam, which made his body feel heavy to move forward. He slammed hard to the floor. He looks up from the floor to see Krakus holding a little blaster shaped pistol that looks blue like Jenny's weaponry.

"Who knew XJ-9 would have this valuable weaponry in her system?" said Krakus. "And now we have this jumpy fellow cyborg with great reflexes, but isn't as superior as XJ-9 in technology."

Henry groans as he felt the droids carry him like a statue. He looks around to see himself in an orange metal hallway.

"If you are wondering what we did to you before he woke up, we didn't do nothing. All we got was basic data about yourself and robotic parts," Krakus explained as they stopped to the cell. "Since you didn't behave well and almost had Queen Vexus disturb by your stupidity, I'll put in the cell. The beam doesn't last long, and we won't want to play cat a mouse with you."

The door open and Henry was thrown in the darkness. Henry was falling to the ground was he landed on metal. He looks up in aching pain to see the door close shut. Henry search around to see only pitch black. He held his dragon tattooed right hand to his chest to feel his heart beating feeling the beams effect gone. He beginning to feel fear, the one emotion he has experience with in his whole life. Fear.

The light suddenly turn on, and Henry was took back to see humans on the walls in chains. Henry observes them seeing them in torn and damaged black military gear with a symbol on their shoulder. The symbol... it looks familiar to Henry. The humans look at the cyborg and they were not expecting to see him.

"Look, it's him!" spoke one of the humans. "It's the cyborg!"

"Oh this is just great! One moment you have to fight robotic bugs and now we are in chains with this freak in front of us!" complained the other human, making Henry mad.

"Silence! All of you shut up right now. I can't believe you were trained to be mercenaries to retrieve this man in front of us," said the command, which is also in chains.

Henry looked confuse at what he heard. They called him a freak, mentioning they were supposed to retrieve him like some kind of package, and the symbol was bothering him. Henry scan then again before it hit him, they were part of Akan's henchmen. Henry glares at them as he crackles his knuckles.

"Oh no, going to end us! This is the end!" panicked one of the mercenaries.

"Hold on, I haven't got the chance to retire!" said the other mercenary as Henry was ready to beat them up.

"Quiet it, we have bigger problem than this!" shouted the commander. "Those alien droids are going to take over the world!"

Henry stopped what he was doing and looked worried. The beetle aliens were attacking a small city, and they were also planning to attack the rest of the world. If they manage to know a bit about Henry's abilities as a cyborg, the aliens would have used them to tell them where the main is source of the power has come from. Henry turns to the command, hoping they didn't tell them about the technology they have back in Russia.

"Sorry to say this, but they are going to go to Russia later to retrieve the same technology used to build you," said the commander in a disappointed tone.

Henry clenched his hands and begins to hit the metal walls in frustration. Each punch made a dent deep enough to show the raw force of Henry's anger set in. He stop and look down sadden. If aliens have found something in his data, then there's been a chance they could track the technology they were looking for to attack once again. Imagining the world taken over by aliens using human's technology to make a teenage superhero robot and a half human, half robot action hero. Henry hope there was a way to escape and protect those who need to be protected.

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