[Coba] by Silvershot - Blue Strokes

“sir we're here.” Says a man with a striped uniform in an awkward pose as the sounds of the engine change the motion slowly comes to a halt.

Two lines of people with matching uniforms are formed as they hurriedly create a path with the lines facing each other with their feet closed and hands to the side while a doorway slowly opens up at the end.

A young boy patched in black clothes steps forward along with a unique metal floating creature that seems lifelike and the man in a striped uniform strides to the end with the man in front and the boy lagging behind.

A bright light hits them as the sun opens its eyes they're met with three fleets of small robots with one person in front of each fleet armed and presenting themselves, “Welcome back sir!” they shout in synchronization while banging their feet to the ground as if in the military.

“Wow! All this just for us! Isn’t this amazing Coba?” the floating robot shouted gleefully, but Coba kept moving forward without saying anything.

“It’s good to see that you arrived safely, sir.” One of the fleet leaders mentions while bowing her head, but Coba kept in motion.

“I'm so sorry, he’s just at that age, so please forgive him, I’ll be sure to give him a good whooping when he gets home!” the floating robot bows to the woman and pleads.

“Coba, wait up!” the robot shouts as it zits away.

“So that’s the robot I’ve been hearing so much about.” The woman looks on and gives a weird smile.

Coba comes to a halt when he’s hit with a chant from a crowd of people blocked by a fence that almost looks like it’s about to give.

“Coba! We love you!” someone shouts

“Wow, it’s really him!” someone else shouts

Coba looks over at them and folds his hands tightly as he recognizes some of the faces, some grueling memories come back to him of when he was younger, one of the faces from the crowd loading him with kicks on the ground in a classroom while laughing, another face bashing his lunch, and a group of girls laughing at him while someone presses his face onto his desk.

Coba bears his fist tighter as they cheer his name then blatantly opens them and kept going, he finally arrived at a room with the floating robot.

“The room as you requested, Master Coba.” A tall man dressed in black and blue downed on one knee says.

“What, you don’t have to kneel to him.” the floating robot says

“Master Zilch, the cable as you requested is in the back” 

“Oh, wow really, I almost forgot about that.” Zilch flies away.

“Did you do as I asked?” Coba questions breaking the silence.

“I’m sorry master, we weren't able to find who sent that mail.” He said in an apologetic tone lowering his head.

“And what about mother?”

“I’m so sorry master, There still haven’t been any updates.” He lowered his head even more.

“I see, the mail said to meet at 9:00 pm in the old church.”

“you still plan on going, master.”

“of course” Coba responded.

“You have relatives in this area, right sir, why don’t you-“the man gets cut off.

“Dalton, you should go back to your post and keep me updated.” he said coldly.

“S-Should we prepare a fleet just in case?” Dalton asks looking a bit shocked.

“That’s not necessary.” Coba responded before leaving the room.

Dalton drops himself in a chair as the door shuts, “Whew, since when did he get angry, that kid is still a mystery to me.” He looks up while lighting a cigar.

Zilch comes flying in from the back, “Huh, where’s Coba?” he asks.

“Master left already.” 

“What, how could he leave without me!” Zilch leaves the room.

At 8:59 pm Coba arrived at a dusty old church, the inside looking like it was a thousand years old with a small beam of moonlight piercing through the holes in the ceiling.

“You arrived on time.”

“Are you the one that sent me that mail?”

“Yes”

“What’s the mission then.”

“What, you don’t even wanna know who I am?”

“Doesn’t matter, don’t care.”

“Really, what about now?” the man steps into the moonlight revealing himself with his afro hair bursting out from under his cape.

Coba’s face changes immediately, “Dad?” he mutters.

“Your brother and sister have been worried about you, I’ve been worried, you should come back to us son.” The man spouts.

“I’ll come home when I complete my mission”

“That's what you’ve been saying for over a year now”

“you don’t get it, you never have and never will, you just give up and accept whatever outcome is given to you,” Coba clenches his fist tightly, “You’re the reason I just accepted being bullied and never fought back, I-I hate you!” Coba shouts in anger and glances at his father and is soon showered in regret after letting his words out.

“I know, that’s why I’m trying to change and I’m going to make things right starting with you!” 

“And what about mom?” Coba questions intently 

The sheer tension in the atmosphere rises in silence.

“Your mother is dead.” The man responds but as if he was asking.

“You were there, you saw everything, and you plan on wasting your life away!” Coba’s dad raises his voice and starts walking toward him.

“My life was already over.” Coba takes off his black jersey and rips his tank top vest off.

“What?” his father halts in disbelief.

Coba’s chest opens up like a door to a microwave with bright blue light gleaming from his chest, a blue diamond-shaped jewel glowing in harmony floating in his chest.

Coba’s father looks like he’s seen the devil and the disgusted look on his face envelopes him.

“Abomination!, What have you done.” He steps back as he throws insults.

“It’s not as bad as it looks, with this I can bring mom back.”

“You’re not my son, you’re one of them, you're a demon, you’re not even human!”

With every word, Coba is hit to the brink of tears as he lowers his head and covers himself up but somehow abides his tears from coming.

Boom!

An explosion came from out of nowhere crashing what was left of the ceiling.

“Coba!” Zilch shouts.

“Hey let me go.” Zilch whimpers as he’s held captive by the woman from before.

“why are doing this, aren’t you one of Coba’s fleet leaders?” Zilch questions as he struggles to escape.

The woman starts pulling her face as it begins peeling off a plastic-like material comes off that glitches hectically as her true face is revealed, “Haha, that was too easy, I thought your boss was a young prodigy, an A ranker, haha, more like a worthless wannabe.” The woman shouts narcissistically as she flies over the crushed church on an aircraft hoverboard and a fleet of robots follows her lead causing a ruckus in the town dropping balls with green light seeping through the cracks and getting brighter before they explode.

Fwooom

A blue trace of light is left behind as Coba flies up out of the wreckage, holding his dad with his left hand and his feet changed to boosters exhausting an intense blue energy.

“What he survived that, no matter ill just-“ the woman says.

“Coba!, over here! this lady pretended to be one of the fleet leaders and took me, hostage.” Zilch shouts.

Coba looks around at the ground below him and goes to a clear area to drop his father off.

“Sorry, they're only here for me, that’s why I haven’t come here because-” Coba gets in an apologetic tone as he scratches his head, but gets cut off.

“You’re an abomination!” his dad slanders.

“I get that you’re surprised but-“ Coba tries to speak to him stretching his hands out.

“leave now and never return!” His dad shouts even louder, “you’re a disgrace!, you’re the one that should’ve died instead of your mother!”

Coba freezes for a second and stands in place with no words to say as his mouth twitches.

He takes off in n instant flying into the sky above the clouds he keeps going higher with no intention of stopping as the rain slowly begins to fall he stops and starts banging his hand against his chest harder and harder with every strike as the sound of an empty shell is perceived.

Meanwhile.

Dalton and a division of robots begin to attack and slowly bring down the enemy as laser beams of different sizes and colors are exchanged on each side.

Chaos rises even more as the houses burn down and the villagers run in each direction trying to save themselves.

“Ahhh, Cob save us!” a little girl cries out.

Dalton meets up with the woman that captured Zilch.

“Master Zilch, Where’s Master Coba?” Dalton asks.

“I don’t know and I don’t care, that bastard practically gave me to them and left me here to die.”

“Hmm, you really are quite the specimen, forget the kid, I think we got something even better, A robot with feelings.” The woman mutters in amazement.

“Ahhh, hurry up and save me!” Zilch cries out.

Dalton goes one on one with the woman getting close to her with his jetpack and exchanging blows with a laser blade and firing shots when the distance gets between them, but she gains the upper hand and knocks him to the ground easily.

“Is that all you got? I’m disappo-” the woman gets cut short as a blue beam of light soars by making a full impact with her.

Fwooom, boom!

She’s sent flying to the ground hitting it like a falling star s Coba floats above them gleaming down he sends another set of attacks ending her robots in one fell swoop.

“You jerk, what took you so long?” Zilch smiles in relief.

The next day some of the robots have already started on repairs for the town fixing the homes roads and public areas, in the end, the place looked even better than it did before, and the people that were hurt had their wounds attended to.

“Prepare the ship” Coba sanctioned.

“What where are we going?” Dalton asked.

“This was a mistake, we shouldn’t have come here, we're continuing our search.”

“But, the only place we haven’t searched is-”

“Yes, we're going to Cyclops,” Coba says.

“What’s Cyclops?” Zilch asks.

“It’s one place you don’t want to go, it’s home for all Cyborgs, and the technology there is incredibly advanced, there's only one way to get in and that's by a very expensive ticket which is why you were trying to do only big rewarding missions lately,” Dalton states with a worried look on his face, “But we don’t have enough credit yet not even half of what's needed.” He states.

“We don’t need it anymore,” Coba mentions with a smirk, “cause we're sneaking in, now let's go!”