"Well." Visionary stated as the group pulled up in front of Enty's workshed. " We're here."
"Yes. We are." Lisa agreed.
Yo looked at his/her teammates with a slight feeling of confusion, as they continued not getting out of the car.
"Yo is thinking to be seeing the surprise that Enty is for to be having for us we need to be going to it."
Rabito thumped his head on the roof of the car in agreement. Small cars were not made for lopsided thought-bunnies to bounce around in, but he certainly wasn't letting that put him off.
"Well dear, that's just it." Cheryl tried to explain to the increasingly agitated Yo. "By not going in we're also in effect not being blown up."
"Or burnt" added Fleabot.
"Or welded to the carpet." Included Visz, the scent of caramelised slippers still lingering in his working nostril.
"So you see, Yo..we just want to take our time, that's all."
"July sounds safe." Visz mumbled under his breath.
"Well Yo is going! Surprises are happy fun time, and Enty is a friend of very very much being!" Yo giggled as he/she bounded out the side window, Rabito loping close behind."
"I'll get the first aid kit." Cheryl advised as the remaining quartet disembarked from the car.
To say that Enty was thriving in his new workspace was an understatement. The interior was awash with sparks cascading down a jungle of twisted wiring and groaning metal. A high-pitched whine was being complimented by a deep rumbling that resonated like a mouth full of tin foil. In the midst of it all was the master architect himself, like a cherub at play? albeit a mechanically enhanced cherub with a fondness for high explosives. Several flashing red lights sparked to life as the team drew nearer. Sirens blared, and Enty looked up from his work just in time to see his friends in their common "duck and cover because we are going to die" poses.
"GUYS!" he yelled over the machinery blaring in the background.
Having never had visitors before he had not realised how talking in such an environment was an impossibility. He flicked two switches on his gauntlet and his machines obeyed they master, winding down to thunderous silence.
"Guys?" Enty repeated.
"..where's the Earth-shattering Kaboom?" Fleabot questioned, dusting himself off.
"Kaboo.?.oh, right. The klaxons and lights. That's just the kettle boiling. Who wants coffee?
After everyone's pulses had regained their normal tempo, (with the exception of Fleabot, naturally) Enty began to divulge his surprise.
"I've been on it for months. I've had a few setbacks and a few disappointments, but it's finally done. I couldn't be prouder. It's one of my best." Enty explained.
"One of your best...what...exactly?" Visz enquired, suddenly afraid of the kitchen they were sitting in.
"You'll have to see for yourself. Come on." Enty teased, bounding out the door in a Yo-like manner.
"Cheryl?" Lisa said.
"Got it." Replied Cheryl, patting the first aid kit under her arm as they followed Enty.
They team was lead into a closed off area adjoining the main warehouse. After passing through a series of chained gates and hidden passages they arrived in a large room. Fluorescent lights hummed around the edges, their light unable to penetrate the heavy darkness at the room's centre. Enty pulled a lever on the wall as overhead lighting flickered to life illuminating a canvas draped over something about the size of an upended delivery truck. It moved.
"There he is." Enty beamed. "Yo, can you give me a hand uncovering him?"
"Yo is liking presents! Yes Enty! Yo can!" Yo squealed as he/she leapt over and began tugging on a corner of the canvas with Enty.
Dust fell, as did the canvas, to reveal a distinctly humanoid shape that stood about 10 feet tall and 6 feet across.
"You've welded toasters to the Hulk?" Visz asked. Enty just smiled as two blue lights in the creation's head blinked on. Hydraulics moaned as two horns protruded from it's skull.
"No. He welded toasters to Satan." Fleabot corrected.
Like a waking behemoth it stretched its arms high above its head, while steam burst periodically from crevices in its torso. It stood. It stared at Lisa, Cheryl, Visionary, Yo, Rabito and Fleabot, who were staring alternatively at the creation, Enty and the exit. The creation lumbered over to the exit, blocking their path. Then, it spoke with a rusty metallic groan.
"Heilsa, mine friends."
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"Holy crap." Fleabot exclaimed for the sixteenth time as they regrouped outside.
"I should explain." Enty reasoned. "You see, Donar felt guilty about the whole 'running off to be King of Ausgard' thing, so he called me to see if I had any ideas.
I went up there for a week or two, and we threw some concepts around, you know, as in he actually threw them to see if they'd break, and we ended up with this fine creation next to you. He's Donar until Donar comes back. Basically."
"Holy crap." Fleabot retorted again.
"There's no way he's going to fit in the car." Lisa pointed out. "Normally I'd be fine with an Ausgardian pressed up against me but..come on.."
"So we have a cyborg Donar?" Visz questioned.
"Well, no. His working name is the Donar-Modelled Droid, or D.M.D. for short. And technically speaking I'm more cyborg than he is. Cyborgs have cybernetics and organic matter, whereas he only has.."
"You're missing my point here." Visz interrupted quite emphatically. "Have we learnt nothing from modern cinema? You make a robot or a thinking computer of any kind and it will ultimately attempt to destroy all mankind. 'Terminator'. 'Westworld'. 'Wargames'. '2001'. Name me one film where the robot didn't end up covered in innocent human blood."
"'Short Circuit'. And 'Short Circuit II'." Lisa interjected.
"HA! See, you'd think so, but then Johnny 5 shows up in 'Deadly Friend' with some table saw attachments and yellow plastic doodads and BAM! Dead teenagers."
"How about you, fake man." Fleabot probed.
"I'm real dammit!" Visz clichéd.
"What about 'Robocop'?" Cheryl suggested.
"He doesn't count." Visz protested. "He was human first."
"Bishop from thine 'Aliens' " The creation suggested.
Visz, dumbfounded, spun on his heel as the D.M.D. continued to speak "He art a synthetic life formeth. Verily didst he saveth noble Ripley andst Newt from the Alien Queen's wrath."
"He has Donar's memories." Enty advised. "There's an Ausgardian artefact that Donar gave me in there amongst all the wiring and gears that makes it impossible for him to harm an innocent human, or by his actions or inactions allow one to come to harm. Of course, he will be using Donar's definition of 'innocent' however, so he'll pummel whoever he damn well pleases if he feels they deserve it."
"I can't believe I forgot Bishop." Visz lamented. " Mind you, Ash was a total ass in the first movie."
"Trueth, but young Call didst redeemeth synthetics verily in Alien:Resurrection." D.M.D. pointed out. "At leasteth until that whole shoplifting thingeth."
"Ok, so you're all cool with this?" Enty asked as the team piled back into the car, limbs intact.
"Yup. We'll meet you both back at home." Lisa confirmed.
"That's gotta be a first." Cheryl observed, tossing the first aid kit back into the glovebox. "We didn't need this."
"We'll meet at home." Enty continued. "Then we can begin field testing."
Cheryl opened up the glovebox and retrieved the previously discarded kit. "Spoke too soon."
