Team Alphanumeric
Circling the Wagons
Team Alphanumeric
Circling the Wagons
by SSj04 Mewtwo
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Reviewer Responses
MaxJ1800: Ok, that'll be dealt with in this chapter. Poor Gladiator is right. I'm not going to let the Lexicon war machine come down on Earth. Besides, Decimal wouldn't just sit back and let Lexicon destroy their other X weapon. Agreed, I'll try not to make her an evil duplicate of Becky if I do use X³. The Root has other options. I think I'll go the Superman route. I don't think Becky & Tim could protect the city, go to school, and deal with a super powered child. And, I'll probably let it be a girl. Yep, probably a space suit. Probably never find out how she was before she discovered her other powers. Let me know about this one.
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"Gladiator, I've isolated and identified that signal in orbit of the planet. It's a Lexiconian ship, stealth class." IQ reports.
"We've got no choice. Transport back up to the fighters in orbit and we shall destroy it." Gladiator and the entirety of the guard vanish.
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"I can't believe this! they've been watching me even after we got rid of weapon X²! I can't take this! My mother, the Predicate Guard...,I'm not made of glass!" Becky fumes in her room.
"Don't worry, we'll find them and you can have a long talk with them." Tim placates. "Huggy, go find them." he quietly says to the monkey.
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"We're....,attack...,Predicate Guard...," the garbled transmission cuts off abruptly. The warlords look at each other realizing what this transmission meant.
"How long until the special forces get to Earth?" the third warlord asks.
"Twelve standard Earth hours." the fourth answers.
"Are we still going to do this plan?" the second asks.
"There's a Decimalian fleet sitting just two parsecs away from the planet! If we send a fleet to destroy the planet, the Decimalians will get curious and there'll be a fire fight in that solar system!" the first shouts.
"So?" the second asks.
"So? So! We've been on the defensive for almost 16 cycles now! If we don't turn this war around then we'll end up like the royals!" the first rants.
"We have another problem. The spy craft had taken scans of the princess's vitals...,she's having a girl." the fifth interjects.
"Have a fleet on stand by to engage that Decimalian fleet. They'll need to be gotten out of the way before we decide to conquer Earth." the first says.
"Conquer?!" the others shouts.
"Yes, conquer. These humans are almost like us and the Decimalians. They could be turned into a slave class for our purposes. six and a half billion slaves would help the war effort greatly." the first says smiling.
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"Then it is decided. Begin work on the X³ project. Make sure that she's completely loyal to our cause, and that her primary goal is to keep that loose canon X² under control." the head of the Root states.
"There's a problem. A Lexicon fleet is within striking distance of the fleet that is near Earth. Lexicon maybe getting ready to make their move soon. The admiralty is quite concerned about what Lexicon might want the Earth for." one of the subcommanders states.
"The Earth...,six and a half billion people. Weak gravity, yellow star, and two other planets that could be terraformed. Let the admiralty know of these facts. That solar system must be under the flag of our planet."
"And the princess?" a second asks.
"The weapons will take care of them and the Predicate Guard." the leader states smirking.
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One angry monkey greets the Guard as the transporter beam deposits them back onto Earth. Huggy makes an indignant cry and the guard collectively winces. Their princess wasn't happy. And an unhappy, pregnant princess was the worst thing in the galaxy.
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"I'm a super hero...,not a pane of glass!" Becky shouts at Gladiator. "I might be pregnant, but I could still knock every one of your blocks off! Stop baby sitting me!" she continues and the entire guard became quite nervous. She then stops her tirade hearing the distinct sounds of The Whammer and MinusMan taking advantage of the destruction wrought by Tobey.
"Tim! Let's go!" Becky shouts. Not protesting this time, Tim takes to the skies.
"Hold it! Predicate Guard, under orders by the High Command of Lexicon, the Special Forces place you under arrest!" a male Lexiconian states as a group of Lexiconian soldiers surround the guard.
"Arrest this!" Sniper shouts and starts blasting. A fire fight begins in the empty field they had been in.
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"Whaaaahhhaaahhhaahhaaahaammer!" The Whammer shouts as WordGirl spins him around and around and then throws him. The Whammer wouldn't be able to feel the pain the fall would have caused because a reflected blast from MinusMan takes his partner out thanks to MathWiz. Soon, the cops show up and hall away the criminals. The two take off not knowing that the guard and the special forces were locked in mortal combat.
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"What am I going to do with her?" Sally asks Clair as the two sit at the kitchen table drinking coffee that night.
"It's in our children's nature to go be heroes. I've setup an interview with the paper with a reporter I trust. I think that Team Alphanumeric should give a private Q&A session. Public opinion has been waning since speculation of WordGirl's pregnancy has been leaked."
"And TJ isn't helping any either."
"Tomorrow afternoon they'll give the interview, and it'll then be printed in the following day's paper."
"I still wish I could find a way for her to realize that her child needs to come first."
"Let the baby come out of her body. She knows it's there, but she believes her body to be indestructible. Let the child see the light of day and then maybe she'll act more motherly." Clair replies.
"How did you find him?"
"Tim? I heard a crash outside while I was going over my case work. I found a strange pod with this cute boy in it. I knew that he wasn't normal, but I made damn sure that the government couldn't touch him."
"Couldn't the government...,"
"By law, he's my son. Unless I'm declared an unfit parent, the government can't touch me or Tim."
"I guess that I'm lucky we found her the way we did then."
"Don't worry, this phase will be over and Becky will have to deal with her child on the outside." Clair says smirking.