I Became A Mecha Knight With A System

Chapter 11:

My dad had a project so he would be out for a wek, I didn't enjoy the look of things after three days, Beck expected me to stand up to Aunt Deirdre to leave and he kept bugging me. He had a hard time communicating his needs so I ended up doing all the talking. "Beck, you can't just tell her to leave, it's wrong."

I was starting to worry about dad not coming home, there hasn't been any calls every five minutes or messages, I was getting a sick feeling in my stomach. Maybe the project had been further delayed.

"Where are you?" I called, Mort's family were leaving for Cancun and Beck signed up late for summer camp, so he was staying at home.

THIS NUMBER DOES NOT EXIST

1 week pushing, I never expected things to get gloomier from there. I called his other friends were starting to show up at our house, even his colleagues who made the trip with him. The project had been finalized.

"Maybe he got lost," Lois sniffed.

She hadn't been sleeping in since the fifth day and I noticed that she was gradually getting paler. She coughed and I placed a hand on her forehead. She was getting sick.

I called a doctor and the cops afterwards and they said that were doing what they can. I didn't understand why dad would stay away for that long.

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I left Lois' side, she wasn't getting any better, she had a high fever and the only reason why she slept, was because she was too exhausted to open her eyes. I brushed her hair out of her face, she looked flushed.

Beck was becoming too quiet... even for me.

I don't know how Zed would take it but I figured I would find a thing or two using his navigation system. I didn't want to bother him and I didn't want to toy with the Morphin Suit either.

I arrived at his doorpost "Hey Zed? Frank?" I knocked.

The mobile home was quiet and empty as a cellar. I gasped at the hunk of machinery barking at me and nudged it down, it recovered, shaking its head and I stopped when it scanned me. "Hey!"

"DR7XY8, male," It projected its voice.

The mechanical guard dog slowed down and hunkered in submission. I stepped away from it and dulled. sighing. "Frank?"

Zed wasn't home.

I turned when I heard footsteps and he stepped inside in a brown cargo vest and jeans. He wore a fisherman's hat holding a grocery bag and a milk gallon in his other hand. "You like my new guard dog?"

He entered and I set my hand on the wall.

Zed looked cautious and he dropped his groceries and set me down on a chair.

"Zed...the dog's...fine. I need help," I said.

'I knew this would happen', He pulled out something from his pocket.

'Wait, I heard that' I thought and he nodded.

'No way, you had to intrude into my thoughts didn't you?' I sat upright.

'This dog will help you track down your father and every other missing persons on the grid, but are you willing to take that risk?'

'He's gone missing, of course I would,' I said frowning and Zed nodded. I felt like he knew more than he was willing to share with me.

"I'll keep watch,"

"Don't forget, Lois is sick," I said strapping it on. Eager to leave with Guard Dog.

"Gotcha, wait...Dexter." He said and left.

I followed the guard dog as it morphed and it scooted across the street. I climbed on to the Volkswagon Bug_which was now a Gee-wagon_and he put on his goggles. He twitched like someone with Parkinson's.

Blue light spread through his lenses and I watched him dip his hand into the motorized rift that opened itself in the steering wheel column and the windshield flared giving a location of where Guard dog was. "Don't go too far,"

"Can't we go any faster?"

"I'm sorry, I haven't really gone on long trips with the heart," He snickered.

My eyes widened "Long?"

I lurched when the wagon zoomed through the block and took a sharp right turn and kept going.

"I've set it to follow Guard dog's directions, we're gonna be in for a bumpy ride,"

"Could alien tech be any more complicated?" I asked and grit my teeth at the clutch.

We stopped in the middle of nowhere and the Guard dog turned to us.

"This is where he thinks he is," He slammed the door shut. "Guard dog is never wrong,"

I looked around the trees and the empty freeway in-between. Then I glanced at a phone. "That's my dad's phone." I gripped the red melted phone and I gazed at a condor flying over us and the suit came on. "What the? Ash scan for any mountains," I said.

[ ...scanning in progress, mountains undetected ]

"Follow that vulture," Zed tapped a core on himself. The heart morphed into a miniature plane.

I activated my thrusters. "Camouflage. Stealth mode," I flew up and paused looking about and my suit adapted to the changes like a mirror. I saw the condor fly upwards and I followed it reaching out. I noticed a ripple in the walls, it strained my eyes a bit and the condor that looked bigger was flying right at it.. [ Cloaking device activated ] My suit reflected the dark ship outlined by strange orange lights. Like a plane, the condor landed on a platform and I froze at the two Klozar troopers in brown uniforms emerging from an open door to stand by the condor.

The ship was warping with my signal and I could no longer reach Zed. The tall shrubs were as tall as obelisks, the leaves wafted in the breeze and I breathed out cold air exploring the insides

I watched one raise a wrist and a cavity from it opened connecting a cord to the side of the condor. I paused at the Klozars marching past me with rifles and My visual receptors focused on the details on the monitor.

[ D******d completed ]

I stepped back. The Klozandroids detected my signal.

"Intruder alert." The alarms went off and their rifles clicked turning on me. [ Oh shit ]

"Finish him." I got the coordinates to the inner sanctum where I could find them and raced through the maze. Death rays emerged from the walls with motion sensors. I took out two of them and backkicked another into the servers. My suit mellowed down to a less robotic appearance with a mask. I peeked in and saw a chair where a man sat. His red eyes narrowed and I stayed back gasping after the flash of light.

[Rescue 15 people ]