Peggy jumped over the fallen invaders and hurried to free her friends.
As calm as if nothing was going on around her, Knuckles snapped her emptied crossbow on her belt. She continued foreward into the room, pulling a new cylinder from her belt to replace the empty one in her revolver.
The cyborg took that moment to lunge at the girl, but Perfect Tommy stepped between them and emptied his weapon into its chest.
The cyborg stopped. It looked down at its chest and rubbed at the holes. Then it grinned up again. "Gee, that hurt my feelings." it coed. "After all, I am you."
"Like hell!" Tommy growled, dropping the emptie gun and raising the shot gun.
the cyborg stepped foreward, catching Tommy before he could bring the weapon up.
"Stay out of its reach!" Knuckles yelled, but it was too late.
The steel grip wrapped around Perfect Tommy's throat and lifted him up off of the ground. "Arn't you supposed to be dead?" the cyborg wondered. It grabbed the shotgun and twitsed it out of the Cavaliers quickly numbing fingers of the
Knuckles twisted around the cyborg and shoved her revolver into its back, but an invader grabbed her from behind and dragged her back. "Crap!" she snapped, before kicking back, smashing her heal against his knee.
The man fell back, but didn't lose his hold, and carried her back on top of him.
Knuckles gun skidded across the floor and out of reach. "Crap!' she repeated. She slammed her elbow back, heard the man exhale sharply in her ear, but he still didn't release her.
The invader yelled for help from his comrads, wrapping his legs around her..
Who came was Rawhide. The big cowboy grabbed the invaders arms and pried them apart. "Fight it, girl!" he encouraged.
"No shit? You think?" Knuckles snapped. She rolled free until only a foot was left trapped. "Back!" she warned Rawhide, who leaned away just in time to miss her free foot as it kicked up and slammed down on the invader's head.
He fought no more.
Rawhide spun about as jessie rolled to her feet. Another invader was charging him. Rawide estended his fist, letting the man run right into it. He quickly glaned around, taking stock of their condition.
Reno, Pecos, and Big Norse were freed now, and were rolling around on the floor with four of the invaders. Peggy and Mrs Johnson were dragging the still unconciouse Pinky out of harms way And Buckaroo Banzai was boxing it out with three more invaders, one of which was also fighting off Oddity.
Rawhide hurried to help Buckaroo.
Knuckles attacked the cyborg from behind, slamming into it with her shoulder.
It stumbled foreward, then spun about, swinging the back of its steel hand at the girl's head.
Knuckles brought her arm up, blocking the blow. She ducked under the arm, then slammed up into the robotic arm holding Tommy with a thick short sword she had pulled out from somewhere.
Already damaged by the dog attacked, the arm jerked open, dropping Perfect Tommy to the ground, gasping for breath.
The girl dropped to the floor beside her fallen friend and kicked up at the thing's chest, hoping to force it away from them.
But the cyborg grabbed her ankle just before she hit. Swinging her around, it sent her skidding across the floor to slam into chairs and tables. It shoved a finger in her direction. "One kill at a time. Be patient, I'll get to you." Then it turned back to Perfect Tommy.
Struggling to force air into his lungs, Tommy dragged himself to his fallen gun that laid just at the edge of his fuzzy vision.
"Where the hell do you think you're going?" the cyborg roared, slamming its heavy foot down on the back of Tommy's knee.
Perfect Tommy cried out as his knee snapped. Pain drew darkness down around his already shattered conciousness. He dropped his forehead to the cool floor, fighting to stay aware. Gritting his teeth, he clenched his hands in tight fists.
The big steel hand grabbed him again and dragged him up onto his knees, facing away frow him.
Perfect Tommy slammed back with his fists, but there was little strength left to him.
The cyborg laughed at him and shook him violently. Placing its hands on either side of his head. "Say night-nite." it advised, slowly turned his head with the intent of, right out, twisting his head off.
"Go to hell!" Perfect Tommy managed to growl.
"Stop!" Buckaroo yelled.
The cyborg glanced over its shoulder. "Make me." it teased.
"I intend to." was Buckaroo's answer. With all his might, Buckaroo Banzai slammed Knuckles' sword deep into the cyborg's back.
Sparks flew, catching the cyborg's clothes on fire. It stumbled foreward, dragging Tommy with it. Damaged, it jerked uncontrolably, but it didn't let its victem go. "Damn it all, I will kill one of you!" it swore.
"Duck!" Knuckles yelled.
Buckaroo dropped to the ground as the girl swung with the butt of the shot gun. Swinging it like a bat, she hammered the sword deeper.
"Will... kill... " the cyborg stammered.
Buckaroo rose up again, grabbing the sword and twisting it. The fire licked at his hands, but he wasn't going to let this thing win.
The machine jerked, its grip finally loosing its strength, dropping Perfect Tommy to the floor. Even as power drained away, the thing raised a foot, determined to kill its victem one way or another. It froze, dead, the heavy limb hanging over Perfect Tommy's back.
Buckaroo continued to twist his weapon, until Knuckles touched his arm. "It's dead." she told him, then, to demonstrate, pushed the cyborg until it fell.
The room was silent. The Cavaliers had finished off what was left of the bad guys, and now, stood around, a mixture of relief and shock twisting in thier guts.
