TAPAS Character Cafe

[Rodimus13]

(Ok, for the record Build-a doesn't have antenna tho, she has a welders mask on top of her head she calls a bonnet)

Build-a sighed and got to work on finishing up the charging station. While it looked efficient, some parts didn't look needed directly- but were part of her systems recognition system for this type of machine. "So basically, you are holding me hostage right? You're lucky Red and Blue aren't here... they'd be melting the walls of this place. Back home this would count as major contract violations. You haven't purchased me, you basically stole me... according to my own program I don't have to do anything for you."

She looked up. "So... give me some proof of what you say. How do I know you aren't the ones causing trouble or being misled?"

Build-a pulled down her bonnet to continue saudering things in place with her welder. She was starting to wish she had just agreed to make the dang bathrooms in the factory rather than argue with Query over it. (side note, this would be incredibly bright if you haven't used welders tools before. Like looking into the sun bright. You can sunburn your eyeballs looking at welding torches directly when lit)

[aqua03]

Dr. Goatmilk put on her own safety goggles to protect from the blinding light of Build-a's welding torch as she sat in front of her super computer, "Despite what you may have heard, the space time continuum was never in trouble of collapsing even with all the strange anomalies going on. It was all just a lie to get you to do the bidding of her." She said as she brought up a picture of a familiar face on her screen, "Serena Starwind, She's the real mastermind behind everything!" She said as she brought up an image of the large cat-like being in a superhero suit that attacked Build-a and Yvonne earlier. "Did you honestly buy into her story of being the 'Alternate Future Daughter' of two beings who just randomly met for the first time today?" She scoffed, "Get real. If she was anymore full of hot air, she'd be a parade balloon. She actually is a feared galactic conquerer on her own time period, the one I'm from." She said as she pulled up multiple photos and videos of Serena Starwind destroying, razing, and conquering various planets. "She went back in time recently in a bid to start her empire early, but I followed her, taking along some gadgets and weapons to help even the odds. That is, at least until she damaged my time machine and stranded me here and stole some of my weapons, which is how those robbers got their hands on them." Dr. Goatmilk sighed, "Serena always felt the need to play the hero." Dr. Goatmilk then got up from her chair and discreetly hit another button on the weather machine, now making the storm outside get even wilder as she approached Build-a. "Now, the reason I brought you here is that I need you to help me build one of these." She said as she showed Build-a the super suit. "I figured that the best way to stop Serena is give her a taste of her own medicine by fighting her on an even footing. But even then, that wouldn't be enough. I'm gonna need you to also modify so it can copy the powers of those in the radius. I figured that if I could not just have the same powers as Serena, but also the powers of all the powerful entities in the area, I could finally overpower her and stop her reign of terror once and for all!" She said proudly, "So, what do you say? Wanna save the future?" She asked Build-a with a smile.

@Chita Back at the plot of land, the heroes were still struggling with how to stop the storm, now worsened even further by the arrival of two more tornadoes, a bombardment of large hail, and snow, seemingly worsened by some of the remaining wild magic left in the area by Morgan La Faye. Serena was more focused on keeping the robbers from being sucked in, but she gave a few token puffs of super breath to slow the tornadoes' descent and weaken them a bit. She namely wanted to use this opportunity to see if her Flare could handle her first real challenge with her new powers. Meanwhile, Takeru was using his ice powers and his Wild Wires to help hold things down along with freezing the dirt plot so they wouldn't get stuck in the mud. Elsewhere, the male Flare was using his forcefield powers to try to provide some form of protection from the storm to mixed results. He normally never had to expand one of his shields out so far before and the bigger he made them, the weaker they'd become, especially without the near constant supply of magical energy he'd have back at home. In the small window of time he had between needing to reenforce his barrier, Flare trudged over to Shade to ask him some questions about his friend, "So, this Other Flare character..." Flare said, "Did she always have the ability to blow gusts of wind like that? Or is that something new?" He asked Shade, trying to sound casual in this dire situation.

In another part of town, Boreas exited an ice cream parlor with a large stacked cone of nearly every flavor they had when he saw the chaos outside. "Boreas sighed and shook his wooly head. "Can't leave these people alone for one second." He said annoyed as he flew into the heart of the storm to stop it, careful not to spill a drop of his ice cream.

[Rodimus13]

Build-a was not convinced. This Doctor was claiming that the other one was telling stories, and it was true that no-one had provided any real evidence. In her time such videos could easily be falsely created with it being difficult to tell truth from fiction.

There was one thing... a feeling, that dream voice kept nagging in the back of her head.

Serena had responded immediately to her mother's scolding- she felt it ring in her head. She held her head a moment, as if in pain. It passed quickly and she returned to her work, processing this. You would only respond that fast to being scolded if you recognized someone as an authority figure. A mother was such a figure from the things she had read trying to understand humans. This meant that Serena recognized Selena as an authority figure even in the middle of a full rage- when (as Blue had told her once) if someone was lying they were likely to forget their story and do the wrong thing. It was why Blue and Red countries did not want thinking bots... they tended to feel too.

Could she do what this doctor asked? Possibly. Copying was easy, altering was more difficult for a build bot- even if she had a knack for inventing things.

But there was an easy way out. Query had taught her how Grey had stayed out of the war except for making the bots and such. She had taught her the contracts and deals made.

"I'm afraid I already took payment for creation of the suits for Serena. While I am happy to help you get suits made as well for similar payment, you must understand that as the Grey side supervisor I am not allowed to offer products to one side that are not also offered to another in any conflict without risking causing the fall of grey side. Any attempt to force me to do otherwise will put you into default and all technology will go to the opposing side as a penalty on to your side."

Build-a finished her work and flipped up the bonnet. "I require 4 hours of charge time before I can do anything else. If you are unhappy with these terms- feel free to find a Grey side human to negotiate contracts." She stepped into the charging station after setting it up and finally felt the sweet flow of power going into her frame.

[aqua03]

Dr. Goatmilk groaned and slumped in her chair. "Figures. It's never as easy as they make it look." She said to herself exasperatedly. "Fine, take as much time as you want to recharge! I'll think about your offer." She said to Build-a calmly as she turned back to her super computer and began to rethink her plan. "I finally kidnap a robot from the future and it's one that literally thinks in black and white, just my luck. What is she even talking about, anyways? Red side, blue side, grey side, contract negotiating, technology penalties, is she fighting a war? Or playing sports?" She thought to herself as she drummed her hooves on her desk. Just then, an idea hatched inside her head on just how she could get want she wanted and help defeat and humiliate her enemies as well. She chuckled evilly to herself, "Now that's the delightfully devilish genius I'd expect from you!" She said quietly to herself so Build-a couldn't hear.

She got up from her chair and walked over to Build-a and her charging station, a slight spring in her step. "Well, I've thought about your offer and I fully agree to it! How much did that Selena girl pay you for her suits? I'll pay similarly. No more, no less." She said as she got her money out. "You build as many of those super suits for whoever you want as long as you make mine, okay?" She said excitedly, knowing that after Build-a has built the suits for her enemies, she would secretly install a kill switch on just Selena's suits behind Build-a's back so that when the battle finally comes, she'd leave the heroes wearing the new suits completely powerless, allowing her to be the only one to have such great power in the end.

[Rodimus13]

Build-a was almost done charging, but didn't let the doctor know this. She had viewed enough dollar amounts to determine how much she had charged by value of parts. "$853.23. Deducting the current rate for your electricity, that leaves $694.53."

She folded her arms. "Now, I will need to build everything in a natural territory to ensure no one may interfere with the building process and...."

Build-a paused. "Oh! That'll be taken care of.... I must not have detected them sooner because this world's wi fi is so spotty...."

She suddenly sang out "Ping-a-ling-aling! Hear your sound like a ring... time to get to work my team!"

On the screen behind the doctor... there were now at least a dozen little yellow robots wearing little yellow skirts with letters C to N on their fronts marching right towards where the cafe once stood.

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Near the mess of the tornados. All the build bots sang out. "Ping-a-ling-aling! Hear your sound like a ring... time to get to work team!"

Their eyes glowed orange. They all spoke in unison. "Emergency! Emergency! Lifeforms in danger due to lack of shelter. Lets all fix this before it gets belter skelter!"

Moving quickly with no wasted movement, the bots all began to build, half an emergency shelter that could house the poor exposed cafe workers. The other half a device of some sort. "Order up! Get the sun up!"

The build bots stoped and turned the device and fired at one tornado, causing it to disappear.

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Build-a looked to the screen. "... they only have about 2 shots left. I really hope the weather clears up... making those suits I'll really need their help."

(these build bots all look like build-a but have a skirt on them. They work as a hive mind and have that thousand yard stare thing going)

[aqua03]

"Where'd the other robots come from?" Flare asked in confusion and the small robots building a shelter and weapons, but was happy that they had at least one less tornado to take care of, now they only had four more to dispel along with the rest of the storm. Flare decided to take command of the small ragtag group of heroes in the remains of the cafe and began to bark orders to them, "Alpha Alpaca, get anyone you can find into that shelter the robots built and then go see if you can find that big white alpaca that flew off before this storm hit! Other Flare, see if you can use those new powers of yours to stop more of these cyclones! Takeru, summon Ymir and begin looking for Selena and that kid she had with her, she might have some clues to what's going on! Serena, drop those criminals off at the police station and then go see if you can help Other Flare with clearing the weather! Shade, answer my question about Other Flare and her powers, then see if you can use any fancy magic you have to see if you can discover what's causing this! Magic kids, help Shade!"

Instantly, the group sprung into action. Serena puffed out her chest and looked annoyed, "We normally do not take any orders from anybody, We are usually the one giving orders to people like you, But we will make an exception this time." She said as she scooped up the criminals and sped off in a rush of wind towards the police station. "Way ahead of you, buddy." Alpha said as he began rising around as a bolt of yellow and blue lightning, quickly scooping up everyone he could find and putting them in the shelter, including Keth and the frozen statue of Refn. "Stay put, we'll be back as soon as the weather clears up!" He said with a reassuring smile before flying off in another direction, "Now to find out what trouble Boreas and his bad attitude have gotten himself into." He said to himself. "Way ahead of you." Takeru said as he began to glow and icy blue as a a large, mechanical, armored white tiger with a blue scarf appeared behind him. Takeru quickly mounted the beast and gave it orders, "Ymir, think you can find where Selena ran off to?" He asked. Ymir sniffed the air and ground a few times, "Yes, I think I've got the scent." Ymir said as the two bolted off in another direction towards the junkyard.

Back at her lab, Dr. Goatmilk saw the group of yellow robots clear up one of her tornadoes and build a shelter all to a catchy tune. "Cute." She said flatly before turning to Build-a and asking, "Those things friends of yours? Nice Anti-Storm cannon they've got by the way. How's that thing function? I've always loved a good weather machine myself, so much so I built one for my own personal use. It's a real blast to use!" She then began counting out the money for suits. "Thank goodness I hit up the ATM before traveling here." She said to herself, "Is this enough?" She asked as she put the last of the money on table in front of Build-a. "Also, you say you want to work in neutral territory when you work on the suits. Think I could take you to the park or forest after the storm has cleared up to build them?" She asked accommodatingly.

[Rodimus13]

(Whats funny is I meant to type neutral not natural and you did the reverse)

Build-a took the money and put it away. A plan was forming in her mind. "A weather machine you said? Well it would sure be a sign of good will and further proof you were the good guy if you could make your weather machine work it's magic to cancel out the storm! As far as how that works, that's proprietary information, copyright laws and all...."

"I just need a bit more time to charge, but my fellow build bots will be able to help me build the suits much faster once the weather is cleared up. We could reduce the time down to a mere 1/8 of the projected time table for me to build them." She smiled, one thing Red had taught her... those trying to lie can be forced into certain action to try and prove their lie as truth when they want something badly enough..

[alliascompany]

"Magic kids? Are they talking about us?" said Flor. Morgan shrugged, twirling her wand.
"Okay, what exactly do you need?" Morgan asked Flare and Shade.

[aqua03]

Dr. Goatmilk began to look somewhat nervous as she tried to think of a response, "Well, you see, I'd love to, but it's a bit on the fritz right now and could just make things worse! It's a really old model and sometimes goes a bit nuts!" She lied as she discreetly kicked her machine, sending it into overdrive. "Now, about this 'Neutral territory' you speak of, what type of location might that be?" She said, wondering if the robot is beginning to catch on to her schemes...

@alliascompany Back at the coffee shop, the storm somehow got even worse as the group was all going in their different directions. Flare yelled over the storm at the two kids, "I need you two to work with Shade to see if you three can use your magic to see if you can detect the possible cause of this storm and where said source might be located!" He yelled just before getting decked in the face by a load of wet, slushy snow.

Takeru found Yvonne and Selena at the junkyard and quickly ordered them to hop on Ymir. "Oooh, we gonna form Voltron?" Yvonne asked excitedly as he got on the beat's back, quickly to find himself trapped down by Takeru's Wild Wires so he wouldn't be blown away as Ymir sped off back to the cafe. "What on Anticthon is he talking about?" Takeru asked Selena in response to Yvonne's question about Ymir. Selena sighed, "We really do not know what his thing is, he has been talking about such nonsense ever since we have been interacting." Ymir quickly swerved out of the way of a car that was flung by one of the tornados, "So, do you know anything about what might be going on?" Takeru asked the two. "Yeah, Build-a got robonapped by some guy in green armor that looks a lot like yours!" Yvonne said. Selena looked somewhat sad, "Yes, Zephyr is here, and he unfortunately seems to be woking against us for his own plans this time around." Takeru's eyes narrows. "Of course. I knew he couldn't trusted. Why Queen Windetta is so chummy with him, I'll never know." Takeru said with contempt as Ymir leapt over a chuck of rubble in the road.

[alliascompany]

"You got it!" Morgan yelled. She turned to Flor. "Do you think you can sense what's going on?"

Flor shrugged, trying to hold onto her glasses. "I can try!"

She sat down cross-legged and began to meditate. "... this storm is weird. I'm pretty sure it's not natural, but... I don't sense a lot of magic either, other than the residual energy from the sorceress' spell."
"Then what's causing it if not magic??"

Flor covered her ears as she started hearing voices.. Rainman, rainman, rainman.

In the distance, one of the tornados dispersed into separate full force gale winds before disappearing. As it did, a figure was sent flying into the sky and crash landed in front of the coffee shop. A young man with blue hair and a thundercloud tattoo stood up.

"No way this is all my fault," he groaned.

[Rodimus13]

At the cafe, the build bots hit the two worst bits of the storm and then began to quickly form a group. All of them popped their wheels out of the bottoms of their feet and used their joint mass to ensure they could not easily be lifted up, and stuck together. "Build bot leader detected. Location determined! Build bot team in need of security escort to retrieve build bot leader."

They quickly scanned for "safe face" ID. Yvonne's face was spotted and they worked their way over to him. Again, all as one a dozen voices called out. "We require escort to Build-a, Build bot leader. We require escort. General location determined. Build orders given!"

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Build-a looked thoughtful. "Well the cafe would have been perfect since none of them own that location and you could sit there and watch as well. But I suppose we can find another location. It looks like my team has activated regrouping protocols and will be meeting with me at the last location they detected me at to receive orders and supplies since the cafe area isn't safe at all."

[aqua03]

Yvonne stared at the what was left of the coffee shop in disbelief before shaking his head, "Nope, I don't wanna know." He said as leapt off of Ymir and ran to the approaching robots. "I have no idea who any of you guys are, but if you're friends of Build-a, then you're fiends of mine." Yvonne said excitedly as he struck a pose and pointed in a random direction, "ONWARDS, BUILD BOTS! TO SAVE YOUR FRIENDS!" He yelled over the winds as he began running in a random direction before returning to the robots, "Um, do you know where she is? Because I sure don't..." he asked sheepishly.

@chita "How are you holding up, Other Flare? Not running out hot air yet, are we?" Flare asked the other Flare as he ran by to go greet Takeru and Selena, using his forcefield powers to block a nearby car from hitting them. "So, what's going on?" Flare asked the two as the both got off of Ymir. "We do not know, but Zephyr is involved." Selena said, somewhat angrily. "Why am I not surprised?" Flare said with a sigh as he shook his head. "Anyways, I'm gonna need you to help Other Flare with stopping this storm! Takeru, you and Ymir follow that kid and his robots, he seems like the type of guy who'll find a way to screw things up for everyone." Both nodded as Takeru took off on Ymir's back and Selena quickly donned her own armor and rushed to go help the other Flare. Meanwhile, Flare's own armor glow reddish orange as a large mechanical dragon in knight's armor wielding a massive sword appeared in front of him. "You called, Master Flare?" The dragon said in a calm manner. "One: don't call me Master. Two: Yeah, I'm gonna need your help smashing up anything that gets tossed our way while you look for more people to bring to the shelter. Got it, Bahamut?" Flare said. Bahamut nodded before turning to face a flying semi-truck, his stoic expression now changed to an animalistic ferocity as he slashed it in half his massive sword and unleashing a beastly roar, as if daring the storm to being it on.

"So, how dost thou like the new powers our alternate future daughter gave you?" Selena asked the other Flare as she approached.

Back at the lab, Dr. Goatmilk looked at the screen with glee as she saw the rest of the robots headed towards her. "Excellent!" She said excitedly, "My plans will be a lot easier with the rest of these robots being polite enough to just deliver themselves to my front doorstep." She said quietly to herself. Her joy was soon replaced by disbelief and anger when she saw Yvonne among them, holding up his phone blaring QUEEN songs as loud as he could to try and make it seem like he was leading a heroic charge. "Who's that kid and why's he with your friends?" She asked Build-a as she pointed to Yvonne on the screen.

[Chita]

Shade looked down to the other Flare with annoyed confussion. "Of course not, at least I think so" he hesitated, trying to keep standing with all the wind that made him tumble "It must be that strange suit that she's wearing..." he stopped "wait, you'd better not use that against her, or we'll have a problem here" he said with an icy gaze.
Then he turned to Flor and Morgan "I don't know, what can you do with that magic of yours?" The hurricane was blowing stronger and he couldn't help but look at Flare with a worried face, she was now flying around the storm trying to find a way to stop it, he suddenly remembered that he was speaking with the girls "Just try to stop things blowing of and keep the people safe on the ground, when you're done we should find what do this come from".

Flare leapt to the skies, leaving a pretty confused male Flare behind. The wind on the ground was strong but man, up there was simply terrifying. The first turbulence made her tumble and twirl up and down, left and right for what is seemed an eternity. She used all the strenght she could to stabilize herself.
"Uff... Now.. let see what we can do" she said panting after the exhaustive flight. "Well, maybe we can fight fire with fire, I guess?" She took all the air that she could and blew it against the tornado. It seemed that this move worked cause for a few seconds it turned slowlier, but it was just an ilussion , after that the wind gained more power, making the girl tumble once more.

"Can you stop being so reckless?" Shade asked Flare, holdimh her back before she was thrown inside the vortex, he had dealt with hurricanes before and it never was a pleasant experience. The warm humidity and the heat coming from the storm didn't help either...
"Aw, shut up" she started complaning.
"Wait" he interrupted her, suddenly he had an idea. The aster looked at the ciclon, it could work but it was going too fast, maybe if the wind ceased for a few seconds... "Listen, when I give you a signal try to draw all the heat you can from the storm and blow that cold breath you have now".

"What ar–?"

"Just do it!" He shouted through the wind, darting towards the alpacas. "I know you don't trust me, but I need your help to stop this. I'll stop the storm for a moment, when it starts again try to blow it down. I'll only be able to do it once so don't mess it up".
"You" he said to the rest of the squad (Flor, Morgan, Flare and Takeru), once he was on the ground again "if you can help to cool it down or use something yo fight back the wind use it now"

After he had delivered the orders the aster walked camly towards the eye of the storm until he was just a few meters from it. Three bright magic circles appeared in a breath, two in his hands and one gigantic one below the vortex of the tornado. All his magic to seal things came from his willpower, now It was time to ser if his will was able to hold a storm.
He smile with defiance and close his fists, closing the circles at the same time. For a moment he felt nothing, then the drain of his magic hit him like a train, it was going to be a hard task. Slowly st first, but then faster and faster, the hurricane was being covered in crystal, until it was freezed into a massive chunck of translucid stone. A stone that was cracking so hard that wouldn't last long.

"NOW!!" Shade shouted as loud as he could, before he fell to the floor, weak enough to not be able to keep standing.
It was up to the others to finish the job.

(SORRYYY, I took so long to write this so I didn't notice any of you kept going on... Hope this still makes sense . Also nice Voltron referencie is nice aqua XD)

[aqua03]

The recently returned Alpha Alpaca, Boreas, and Serena all nodded in agreement at Shade's request and the three got into position surrounding the cyclones, drawing in as much air as they could into their massive lungs, hoping to rob the storm of at least some of its power. Back on the ground, Flare quickly called Takeru and Selena back and told them Shade's plan. Takeru fired Flare a look through his helmet's opaque visor that definitely said, "You're absolutely nuts, but I feel I have no other option." Meanwhile, Flare and the others got into position around the base of the the cyclone as well, Takeru and Ymir producing Wild Wires to keep everyone tethered down and Flare producing a force field to keep them protected from debris.

At Shade's signal, the plan sprung into action. Flare and Bahamut began trying their best to absorb some of the storm's heat to help Other Flare and give themselves a much needed recharge due to the lack of natural magical energy in this world. "Ymir, release all limiters and activate Burst Mode!" Takeru ordered Ymir, who smiled. "Was hoping you'd say that!" Ymir said excitedly as he turned back to energy and returned to Takeru's armor, causing it to become supercharged and glow brightly, Selena ordered her armor to do the same as she started to glow. Instantly, a massive burst of pure frigid energy rushed from each part of Takeru's armor and into the heart of the storm with Selena's armor doing the same, but hers being pure storm energy.

In the sky, the alpaca and Serena all puckered their lips and blew as hard as they could with the full force of their atomic freeze breath, Serena motioning Other Flare to do the same. Their combined efforts seemed to be working as the storm seemed to calm slightly.

@Rodimus13 Back in her base, Dr. Goatmilk clutched her screen with restrained rage, "NO!" She said through gritted teeth before turning to Build-a and laughing nervously, "It's clear that that professional windbag Serena Starwind is trying to trick her friends into making the storm worse!" She said, string to sound concerned for the others on the screen. "Think you could start building the suits here? Because it's clear that Serena is starting to throw her plans into high gear! We probably can't wait for very much longer!" She said, trying to hurry Build-a along as she then called to Zephyr. "What's up?" He said happily as he sipped some tea, Dr. Goatmilk walked over to him and whispered into his ear, "I need you to get out there and stop them from stopping our storm! Got it?" She said before walking back to Build-a. Zephyr saluted with a smile. "Got it!" He said as he flew back out of his chute in another gust of wind.

Back at the shop, everything seemed to be going well until a large buck of Shade's crystal that was loosed in the storm winds and slammed right into the three Dragoons, the surprise breaking Flare's forcefield and causing their elemental energies to go wild. Bahamut was reabsorbed into Flare's armor as he accidentally unleashed all the heat he was helping Other Flare absorb back into the storm, making it flare (heh) back up again as Takeru's rampant ice energy manifested into a small blizzard around the base of the cyclone and Selena's water energy only fueled the storm further. The there tumbled down the street, their armors deactivated from the impact and power drainage as Flare and Takeru were knocked unconscious by thee impact and Selena was just barely hanging on, both figuratively and literally as she grabbed a lamppost to avoid being blown away in the gales as she grabbed Flare and Takeru by the Wild Wires still dangling from their armor.

Meanwhile, unbeknownst to all of them, Zephyr had hid himself in the clouds and was using his own wind powers in an attempt to intensify the storm even more. He pursed his fluffy lips and began to blow a strong and hot wind directly into the heart of it as he also fired twin mini electric cyclones out of his paws as well.

[Rodimus13]

(sorry had to stop laughing long enough at the image to be able to write this, Hubby did not help as he kept laughing too)

Build-a looked to the "good" doctor and sighed. "It's bad for me to leave the charging station unless needed. I might go out sooner than planned. Plus, I really need my team."

She looked at the screen. "Oh! It looks like it's Yvonne! He's been really nice- if weird- to me. I mean, he obviously doesn't know much abut robots but kept trying to find the things I needed to charge. He even negotiated my payment as well! It was quite nice of him really. He must have been worried the Build bots would get nervous. I mean... this world is very different."

In her mind she was cheering. She knew projecting her friend's face would cause the build bots to recognize him. Once they pinged her they knew where she was. They just didn't understand the severity of the situation. She couldn't make them understand either without them going into destroy mode. Plus, she knew even if he did something silly- those heroes seemed the type to make sure someone followed him. She was nervous she didn't see them- but was sure they were there.

"Any case I can't build yet anyway. I told you Grey side must remain neutral in these matters and must build in a proper location. But don't worry, I should be done charging by the time they get here." She smiled warmly. Something Query taught her- it is annoying as slag to be told by a smiling face you had to hurry up and wait.

[alliascompany]

Flor wrapped plants around Selena and her friends to keep them from being blown away.

"Guys, I don't think it's working," said Morgan. She shot a beam of ice into storm.

Meanwhile, the guy from earlier shook himself off, adjusting to the situation. Rainy put up a finger in the air.

"One of these winds aren't like the others," he said. He cracked his knuckles and called down on a cloud. He got on and flew up into the sky, following the stream of hot air.

[aqua03]

"Right." Dr. Goatmilk said flatly, trying to contain her growing annoyance with the robot. She then turned back to her screen and watched Yvonne advancing with his odd squadron, hatching a plan in her head on how to deal with him. "A friend of yours, eh?" She said as she stroked in her chin in thought as she helped herself to some popcorn her computer produced for her. "Well, if he's such a good friend, then we should definitely give him a warm welcome, shall we?" She said happily to Build-a as she pressed a button on her computer.

Back outside, Yvonne stopped with his robots as he looked around as he looked around to see where the entrance to where Build-a was. "According to what you guys are saying, she should be right around here somewhere... Now the question is where is she?" He said as he looked around what looked like an empty construction site filled with the metallic skeleton of a building. Suddenly, the ground rumbled as Yvonne looked around in a panic, "Great! I didn't that there was an earthquake today as well!" He said worriedly. Suddenly, the group was face to face with a hulking robot that looked like a penguin in an armored tuxedo. "Um, did Build-a gain some wight since she was robonapped, or did she do that thing they do in comic books and anime where the robot just plugs itself into different bodies depending on the situation?" Yvonne asked the build bots as he stared at the approaching robot. The robot pointed a blaster arm at the group and asked in a cold, deep voice that barely had any emotion in it, "INTRUDER. STATE YOUR NAME AND BUSINESS." Yvonne looked around in thought before looking back at the robot with a nervous grin, "Uh... Robot Rescue PowWow?" He said with an anxious giggle.

@alliascompany Back on his cloudy perch, Zephyr had cupped his paws around his mouth to focus his gusty blast of sweltering ionized wind even more when his sharp sense of smell sensed someone coming for him. He stopped blowing long enough to get his tea seat ready for company before getting right back into puffing up a storm.

[alliascompany]

Rainy soon spotted Zephyr. He approached him cautiously, giving a suspicious glance at the tea set. He wasn't sure what he was dealing with, but reasoned it'd be best to err on the side of caution.

"Hey! Are you the one with all the hot air?" he asked humorously.

[Rodimus13]

The build bots looked up at the giant penguin and showed no fear or joy. They simply looked. They were close enough now to receive orders directly from Build-a herself. "Build bot crew 005 reporting for work order. Escort present to allow for needed agent in local area. You are to allow build bot crew in with agent unharmed or we will be unable to do work order."

Build-a, inside, looked at the doctor. "That's a bit rude, bringing out the giant metal robot like that and threatening someone I told you was a friend. He's just a normal person... I think anyway."

[aqua03]

"Oh, don't worry! That's just my butler Johnny Pop! He's just a bit over protective, he's not that bad when you get to know him." She said dismissively as she ordered Johnny Pop to bring the group in from the storm. Johnny Pop deactivated its weapons and motioned the group to following through what looked like an invisible door in the hollow metallic structure of the in progress building. "Huh, invisible business center. Nice." Yvonne said as he looked around the surprisingly clean lobby before getting distracted by the refreshment center, happy to finally be out of the storm. Johnny Pop pointed at Yvonne, "NO UNKNOWN ENTITIES ALLOWED WITHIN PRIVATE AREAS UNLESS VERIFIED BY THE MASTER." He said as he lead the rest of the build bots away down a hallway to Dr. Goatmilk's lab. Yvonne just shrugged and helped himself to more free cookies, happy that he was now at least somewhere safe and close to getting his friend back.

@alliascompany Zephyr stopped blowing and sat up on his own cloud, trying to play innocent, "I might be, why do you want to know?" He said inquisitively before offering Rainy some tea, "Tea?" He asked before starting to whistle, blowing more warm and humid wind as he did so.