“DM, Oz, it’s done, Bob is done!”
“Woman what are you screaming about, it’s…3:00 in the morning you should be sleeping.”
“Sorry Oz, but I’ve been up all night working on Bob, and now he’s done.”
“Good, great, now just go to bed. We can look at him in the morning.”
“Fine be that way.”
“Fine, I will.”
“Alright Doc let’s do this. Doc? Where’d you go Doc? Oh, hell no!”
As Chim-Panzy searches the lab he finds that his partner has left with all of his personal data and equipment. The lab is nearly bear. The serum is untouched but Chim finds that the safe has been opened.
“That son of a bitch! I’ve been robbed! What the hell is this…a note? ‘Dear Mr. Chim-Panzy. I am sorry that I have left without notice but my research calls. I do hope that the $25,000 will be enough to finish your project. I pray that we will have the opportunity to work together again on more honest terms. Best of luck Dr. Kevin Master.’ That son of a bitch!”
“Wake up you useless monkey.”
“Sarah…Five more minutes.”
“Um…no get up.”
Sarah grabs underneath Drunken Monkey and rolls him off the bed. She then proceeds down the hallway to Oz’s room and decides to not to waste any time, and just rolls him out of bed without warning. She then orders the two of them to follow her to the garage to be introduced to Bob.
Bob has taken over two months of Sarah’s free time to build. More of a mechanical armor than a straight up robot, Bob is 30 feet high, and armed with many non-lethal weapons. Bob has grenade launchers in his wrists, these launchers fire Sarah’s homemade grenades, as well as teargas, pepper spray, and bean bag rounds. The mech has been designed to travel up to 60 miles per hour and has jump jets to make short controlled flights. The jump jets are placed in the calves and in a jetpack on the back of the mech. The pilot sits in the chest, entering from the hatch on front of the mech. Bob is heavily armored, and does not have an ejection system, as there was no feasible way to install such a mechanism. Regardless of any shortcomings that Bob may have, he truly is a work of art that only Sarah could have built.
“You know he really looks like he’s done now, and I have to say, he looks pretty freaking sweet.”
“Thanks Oz. What do you think DM?”
“I agree with the cat.”
“I want to take him for a test run but I’ll have to wait, I don’t think Chief Daniels will like me taking a giant mech on a run through the city.”
“Right, well let’s get breakfast, and I need more Jack.”
Chim has readied his serum for distribution. As he is packaging the last of the mushrooms, he hears from the radio that there will be a mushroom festival held at the City County Fairgrounds that weekend. He immediately stops and begins to prepare a stand to sell his serum loaded shiitake mushrooms fresh at the festival. He dons a fire victim, midget look and sets out to secure a place to sell his produce at the festival.
“Ah, Sunday, time to kick it back and take it easy DM.”
“Damn right Oz.”
“See if there’s anything good on TV.”
“Sure I’ll- Oh, hell no! Do not tell me that’s the alarm!”
“Sarah tell me we’re hearing things.”
“Sorry boys, it’s Daniels, says the shroom fest has gone awry.”
“Dammit! Let’s go Oz.”
“Want me to come?”
“No, not yet, just watch the news stations; we’ll call if we need you.”
“Alright, you two be careful.”
“There has to be a way to teach you how to fly I’m getting sick of giving you piggyback rides.”
“Oh shut up and watch where you’re going.”
“Do you see anything; you’ve got better eyes than I do?”
“Nope, nothing yet.”
As our heroes approach the fairground they see people running around tearing the stands and tents to pieces. DM lands near the main entrance. Our heroes take a minute to take in all of the violence that is happening. Oz sees a frightened kid hiding behind a large tree and goes over to ask what happened to the festival.
“I don’t know, I heard this loud ringing, buzzing noise and then a bunch of people just went wacko.”
“Thanks kid, just stay here until the police arrive. DM let’s see what the hell is really going on.”
The two heroes head further into the frayed festival tents. They see a group of kids tearing apart vendor stands and try to question them on the situation at hand, the kids turn on them and attack. Oz leaps into action and delivers a blow to each of the four kids knocking then unconscious.
“They seemed like…well like zombies. They looked like they had “controlled” in their eyes. Something is happening DM.”
“See, dammit I told you. Let’s keep checking the place out, maybe that ringing that the kid mentioned has something to do with it.”
Oz and DM continue to explore the festival grounds. The make it to the vendor area, only after fighting of more zombified people. Oz spots Chim-Panzy giving orders.
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