T'bok has a quest (complete)

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Incoming message from T’bok. Tara appeared next to Drexx, they were in his lab. The android was working on repairs after the extensive damage he had suffered at the hands of Hogg. His body still wasn’t a hundred percent, and it had been a week since the trio had made their way back to Drexx house in the Yunzabit heights.

“Put it on the screen.” Drexx turned away from his open arm, it laying on a workbench in-front of him, disconnected from his body to face the rear wall. The entire wall lit up revealing his anthropomorphic gorilla friend’s face.

“Drexx, it’s good to see you alive and well.”

“And you as well friend. How is the encampment holding up?” Drexx had been curious as to the fate of the Anthropomorphs. There had been a few hold-outs who still supported Hogg, even though the tyrant was dead. They considered him a Martyr. By the change on the face of the gorilla Drexx assumed that whatever news he had wasn’t good.

“That’s what I’m calling about. We’re at an impasse here. We’ve tried negotiating, we’ve offered them food and money to leave, neither side seems to be able to agree on a way to settle the matter… and now they’ve resorted to violence. They’ve held themselves up in a position north from you and have been making raiding runs on our encampment… so far they’ve killed thirteen.”

Drexx grimaced at the news, innocents being killed always hit Drexx strongly his programming making it impossible to ignore.

“We need your help again.” T’bok said matter-of-factly. Drexx supposed he didn’t have a choice, his programming and his friendship with T’bok making it impossible for him to refuse. He picked up his arm and connected it back to his left shoulder.

“We’ll pay you.” T’Bok offered almost pleading, taking the android’s silence as a refusal. Drexx shook his head. He didn’t need his friend’s money in order to help him.

“You’re my friend T’bok. You don’t have to pay me for me to help you.”

“Please. It is customary among my people.” Drexx shrugged, he wasn’t going to fight the customs of the Anthropomorphs.

“What do I need to do?” Drexx asked, working his left arm in circles. It still wasn’t one hundred percent, but it would do. T’bok explained that the rebel’s camp was north of his house, tucked into a systems of caverns. The leader of the rebels was an anthropomorphic skunk by the name of Lepeux. He had led the rebels to the cave, and for a while things seemed peaceful. Then something happened. Something in the cave changed Lepeux. He had begun making vicious attack upon T’boks people.

Drexx exited his home and lifted up into the air, rocketing towards the coordinates his gorilla friend had given him. He touched down lightly outside the mouth of a very large cave. Covering the entrance were signs, reading “beware” “keep out” and “death upon entry”. A few skeletons around the cavern showed that the signs were indeed serious.

“Some welcome…” The android muttered and began to make his way into the cave. The darkness didn’t affect his eyesight, being an android had its perks. The walls of the cave were clammy and slick with moisture, Drexx kept a hand on the wall at all times, trying to sense vibrations in it if someone were to approach. After a while he came to a large cavern, a single hole in the ceiling letting light in. The light trickled down upon a throne, where an impossibly large skunk sat, his body more covered with muscle than Drexx would have suspected of an anthropomorphic skunk.

Around him stood a large mole and a large ant-eater, other Anthropomorphs scurried around, but Drexx could only hear them, his focus intent of Lepeux. The skunk looked up and saw him, a smile crossing his face.

“Greetingz! Bonjour and bienvenue. You must be T’bok’z friend. He zaid he’d zend toi. Je suis desole for our appearance. We’re in the process of cleaning.” He waved his hand and a body was flung down the hallway Drexx had just stepped out of, clearly one of T’bok’s villagers.

“I’ve come to tell you to stop your raids on the village, there’s no reason for it Lepeux.”

The skunk chuckled, and with his laughter came laughter from the others. It spread out in a ripple effect until it was all around him. He raised a fist and it died down. The others appeared to follow his every command.

“Je suis desole, mon ami, you have me at a disadvantage. I’m afraid you know of me but I don’t of you.”

“My name is Drexx.” As soon as his name escaped his lips, a murmur ran through the cavern. They knew of him. They knew of him very well. They had been there when this one had disposed of Hogg, he and his green friend, and the rest of the traitorous defilers. Hogg had been like unto a god to those in the caverns.

“Drexx… yes I know all too well of you.” He stroked his chin, little white furs hanging off of it, he tugged at these, and twirled them in frustration. He set his jaw and raised his arm.

“Je suis desole, mon ami. But I cannot let you leave here alive.” He dropped his arm, the action reminding him of what Hogg had done in the arena to signify the start of a fight. From above he heard a massive beating of wings.

The anthropomorphic bat tackled Drexx, the duo flying down the hallway and out into the night sky. Drexx hadn’t realized night had fallen. They were in the bat’s domain now.

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They flew upward in a spiral, the bats clawed feet digging into the android’s shoulders. Drexx gripped his legs and swung upwards in an arc, kicking the bat in the face. His right foot released the android’s shoulder, the left held fast however. Too fast it would appear, the arm completely detached from Drexx’s shoulder, it still wounded from his battles with Hogg. Drexx fell through the air, arm flailing. He wasn’t sure of how far up they were, and so was surprised when he smacked hard into the ground.

A loud sonic blast smacked into Drexx, forcing him further into the ground. The bat landed on him and swiped him with clawed hands. Drexx arm was still somewhere in the forest surrounding the cave, he could feel it but he wasn’t sure from where, and it was hard to concentrate with a giant man-bat attacking him.

The bat clawed into Drexx’s shoulder lifting him off the ground and into the air once more. Drexx looked up at the creature and launched eye-beams at him, but the creature ducked his head back and threw the android face-first into a tree. Claws ripped and tore at Drexx’s back, tearing away his clothing and digging into his flesh. He cried out and flipped around, the claws tearing at his front. Drexx’s uni-beam port opened up and the blast rocketed the bat away.

Drexx fell from the tree onto his hand and knees, panting and bleeding. He had no clue where the bat was, or if it was still alive. He tried scanning for it, but found nothing. Perhaps it too had a way to mask its power level.

A screech rocketed through the trees towards Drexx. He dodged out of the way and it roared past him, the sound fading away as the blast got further and further. The Bat was capable of incredible sonar attacks. What else was he capable of?

Drexx drew the gun of Black Midas from its holster and aimed it towards where the sonic blast had come from, but another one rocketed towards him from a different direction. The android was barely able to dodge the attack, an x forming in the downed trees around him. The Bat was sneaky.

Drexx turned to face the other blast, then whipped around and fired a shot through the trees. He had derived an algorithm from the positioning of the previous sonic blasts and the most likely occurrence of the next blast. A cry sounded out from the direction of his shot. Drexx walked over and found the bat, a hole in its side.
He found his arm clutched in the bats hand. What had he been planning on doing with it? Drexx retrieved it and stuck it back in the socket, fixing it to his shoulder. He worked it back and forth and made sure it was secure. With that he made his way back into the cave.

Lepeux’s eyebrow raised as the android walked back in defiantly, the cuts on his body already beginning to close. The skunk was clearly surprised to see him alive.

“I zuppose I shouldn’t be too zurprised, you were one half of the duo that killed monsieur Hogg. Well which one of you would like to be next?”

The ant-eater stepped forward and the Skunk smiled. He waved his hand lazily and the ant-eater charged at Drexx. Uphill. Drexx booted him back down the ridge, and slowly descended towards the trio. The mole too made his way at the android, but with a vicious back-hand smacked him away.

“Enough games Lepeux. We end this now.”

The skunk smiled and laughed, sitting up in his chair.

“You honeztly think that’z it?” He rang a bell, its tiny ringing filling the cavern. A rumbling filled the cavern, and from nowhere a giant worm appeared. With its arrival Lepeux giggled.

“Crap.”

The worm drove its mouth onto the android, swallowing him and dragging him through the ground. Drexx was tired of the dragging.

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The strength of the worm was immense, the weight of it even more so. Drexx struggled against its jaw but it held fast. Suddenly the ground gave way beneath them and they were free falling. There was no way they could have reached the core yet. Not according to the android’s calculations at least.

Drexx crashed into water like a drop of rain falling onto concrete. And still they dove deeper, the water seeming to have no effect on the worm. Then the worm released him. He didn’t know how deep they were, the intense pressure indicating that they were deep indeed. It was negatively effecting the android’s scanners.

He spun around in the dark water, unable to see more than a few feet in any direction. The worm seemed to have vanished. It’s massive bulk nowhere to be found. The android began to swim towards the surface or at least in the direction he thought the surface was in. but like a freight train crashing into a car on the tracks the worm smashed into the android from the side.

He spun and lost track of direction, the pressure effecting his scanners and internal compass. Not for the first time he was thankful of being an android and not having to breath.

“You think us so low…? You know nothing of us android!” A deep grumbling voice came from behind him. Drexx turned to face the giant worm, a many toothed grin on his face. His eyes were like fire, illuminating the water.

“Hogg gave us glory. He gave us purpose. We are a weak people under your gorilla. Peace. Bah!” The worm spat in the water, a glob of phlegm floated past the android. “Peace is a myth. There is only ever war. You claim to be a protector but how can you protect people from the inevitable.”

Drexx was taken aback. The worm laughed, bubbles created from it floated downwards, revealing the direction of the surface. He flew upward quickly bukujutsu powering his rapid ascent. The worm gave chase, he too moving at rapid speeds. He was fast but Drexx was faster.

He cleared the water and spun in the air shifting momentum back towards the worm, unleashing his khopesh and diving down the worm’s gullet, slicing and slashing, bursting out of its rear covered in blood and guts and dirt. He dove back into the water in an arc, avoiding the worm’s carcass and cleaning himself off. He heard a wheeze behind him, and turned to face the dying worm.

“Good luck protector…” it said with a chuckle, and then a wheeze, then its fire faded from its eyes. Drexx flew back up to Lepeux’s chamber. He was ready to finish this ordeal once and for all.

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Once again Lepeux was surprised to see the android. He had no doubt expected the worm to finish off the android. His men scurried behind his throne, not wanting the face the wrath of the android. Drexx was dripping wet, and he looked very much pissed off. The skunk stood and stretched, chuckling and shaking his finger at the android.

“Tu est très fort. Mon ami I did not believe the rumors when I had firzt heard zem.” He finished his stretching and slowly walked towards the android. They both knew what was about to occur, and had little need for words. Lepeux came at him quickly, throwing a right that the android easily dodged, and then a left. Drexx ducked under and pushed Lepeux, who stumbled forward, ending up on his hands and knees.

“bâtard” The skunk turn and leered at Drexx, who walked forward and booted him in the side, knocking him over. He let out a wheeze and spat at Drexx’s shoes. For a muscle bound being he wasn’t all that strong, or at least was hiding it very well. Things seemed to be going entirely Drexx’s way, sure he had the run in with the bat and the worm but he had handled those problems with relative ease. Then came the smell.

The android hadn’t noticed it at first, but there it was. It was invasive, filling up Drexx’s olfactory sensors and shorting them out. He reared back, the pain of it sudden and immense. He had never had something completely destroy one of his sensors like that, and the shock of it was as intese as the pain. The skunk took advantage and kicked out taking Drexx’s legs out from under him.

“I waz wondering whether or not zat would work… you are an android after all.” He was quick to his feet, scurrying like a rodent. He booted Drexx in the side, returning the favor from the android’s attack earlier. Then he noticed it, the android’s arm hanging loosely from its socket. It was too good to be true. He grabbed it and planted a foot along Drexx’s ribs, and the android tried to fight back, but the arm came off as easily as one plucks a flower from the ground.

“What a neat way to die, ne conviendriez-vous pas*?” (*Wouldn’t you agree?) He smacked Drexx across the face with his own arm, the force of it much greater than had the skunk hit him alone. Blood filled the android’s mouth and he spat in out in a huge glob, it running down his chin, dripping onto the floor.

“You bleed? Bein! Thiz will be much more fun.” another clubbing blow by his own hand. Drexx rolled to the side and staggered his way to his feet, punch drunk from only a few blows of his own hand. His systems still screaming from the broken olfactory sensor. He lowered himself into a fighting stance, but it was awkward without his other arm.

“Don’t think I’m beaten so easily Lepeux.” Drexx released his khopesh and shield, and swore when he remembered his shield was attached to the other arm. Lepeux looked down at it and smiled, now having something to defend himself against the khopesh with. Drexx charged, and with a loud clang his own sword met his own shield. It was an unnerving experience.

They battled for some time, The Perfect Protector striking with the khopesh, Lepeux blocking with Drexx’s shielded arm, every once in a while throwing swears in French at the android. It seemed like the he would never be able to get the advantage with the arm in the hands of the skunk. He deactivated his shield, and sliced with the khopesh, only to have Lepeux block with the arm anyway. Drexx let out a howl of pain as it bit deeply into his flesh. His pain receptors were still working nicely on the detached arm it would seem.

“You cannot win android. You’ve bested yourzelf.” Drexx roared in defiance, only to be backhanded with his own arm. “Ah ah ah temper temper.”

This was beyond frustrating. Then an idea struck the android like a bolt of lightning. He activated his silver shield, and just like he thought the material covered the skunk as well. The skunk began to panic, then he realized it was beneficial.

“You cannot beat me.” He boasted. Drexx smiled, and the skunk’s confidence wavered. Drexx drew his gun from his holster with a flourish and shot a single shot at the skunk. He exploded with tremendous force, skunk chunks flying all about the cavern and filling it with that horrible odor. The remaining rebels took one look and one sniff and ran out of there. His arm landed next to him, smoking. The android sighed and picked it up with his good hand. He staggered out of the cave into the night air.

He flipped open a panel on the detached arm and a holographic image of T’bok appeared. The gorilla was smiling, and then he saw the condition of the android.

“Drexx, did you win?”

“If you can call it that. The rebels are dispersed and Lepeux is dead.”

“I’m transferring Zeni over to you now. I knew my people could count on you Drexx.”

“What are friends for?” The android answered and the shut the panel. He desperately needed a bath.

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Zeni please

[Geurin]

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