Flapjack growled.  “You can’t treat Master Yuki like that!” 
He ducked when a piece of torn off trim was thrown at him by the
Destruct-O-Bot.
Yuki mumbled as she quickly drew her connection cord and launched
herself at the ‘bot, hoping to hook up to it and shut down its computer
brain.  She grabbed on tight around the neck of the tall female
robot form with solid metallic fake hair, as it tried to throw her
off.  “What the hell...?”  she exclaimed.  It lacked any
interface ports.  Whoever designed her anticipated Yuki’s
interference.
was fast.  Very fast.  At just the right moment, it grabbed
Hatman around the throat with a huge hand, snatching off his cap with
the other, leaving him defenseless and choking, before dropping him to
the floor.
bright blinding flash of blue laser drastically heated the room as it
crossed through, causing Yuki to turn away suddenly, and Hatman to
cringe, feeling as if the skin on his right side was being burned while
he gasped, trying to catch his breath.  The sudden heat hit the
Destruct-O-Bot like an explosion, smashing part of the doorway as the
robot was tossed out onto the front steps.
ignored Yuki.  She blasted the Destruct-O-Bot with her lasers
again, hitting it with another explosion of heat, this time sending it
tumbling out of sight to the bottom of the stairway.
was an head-splitting high pitched noise.  Anna covered her ears
first, having the most sensitive hearing of anyone present.  Then
Yuki did, and then Hatman.  The Destruct-O-Bot began to stand
again.
cannot beat me.”  it said as it continued generating the
noise.  “I am programmed with multiple ways to defeat each of
you.  I have considered every scenario.  And...there is more
than one of me.”
yeah?”  Hallie announced as she appeared in the doorway of the
mansion, ignoring the high-pitched sound assault.  “Well let’s see
how you stand up to me, miss delusion of grandeur.”
green avatar smirked.  “I keep a virus in my files, just in
case.”  she explained.  “Soon as I found out this thing was
using a wireless connection I triggered the virus she got along with
the files.”  She sighed as she looked at the motionless
robot.  “She’s still actively trying to delete it.  It’s only
a matter of time before she regains motor control.”
it.”  Yuki said.  She grabbed both of the robot’s arms and
began dragging it inside.  It proved a lot heavier than she
thought.
will assist you.”  Anna offered.  She grabbed the feet of the
robot and lifted, so it was being carried instead of dragged.
few minutes later they carried the Destruct-O-Bot into the basement of
the Lair Mansion, and carefully put it in one of the vaults.  As
soon as the door for it was latched shut, Yuki turned and headed back
up.  Anna was still staring at the door.
could have been me in there.”  Anna whispered.  “I could have
been judged too dangerous...and locked in there, alone.  Scared
and alone.”
Yuki gently gripped her shoulder to get her to turn around.  The
android faced her, but looked at the floor.  “If anyone would dare
even suggest that?  They would be forced to lock me in there with
you.  And I wouldn’t make it easy for them either.”
different from the Destruct-O-Bot, Anna.”  Yuki pointed out. 
“Right now she’s in there thinking nonstop about how to get out and
kill us.  You...get depressed, worried, sad.  Like me. 
It would be too cruel to lock you in a room like that.”
paused, and her smile disappeared as she looked at Anna again. 
“Then I hope whatever god looks after the undiscovered souls of robots
will forgive us.”
wasn’t more than a half hour before Hallie reported that the
Destruct-O-Bot downstairs was trying to get out.  Yuki and Hatman
met again in his office, with Anna trailing along, to discuss what was
foremost on her mind - the Destruct-O-Bot’s claim that there was more
than one of her.
ten minutes after that meeting began, Hallie detected the
Destruct-O-Bot downstairs communicating with another like it.  The
other was in Gothametropolis.
Hatman replied with a smirk.  Sometimes he really liked working
with Yuki.  He pulled out his Rockets cap.  “I’ll fly over
there and scout ahead, and I’ll stay in touch with Hallie.  We’re
going to do this very carefully and precisely.”
bike’s too slow for this one.”  Yuki added.  “We’re going to
take the Lairjet.  Anna, you know how to fly, don’t you?”
earned your wings when you kept that ‘bot off of Hatty.”  Yuki
informed her.  “Besides, there’s nothing dangerous about piloting
a plane.  Unless Al B Harper is on it.”
proved to be a quite competent pilot of the Lairjet, having flown
simulated jets of similar construction at SPUD.  She was able to
read all the instruments and understand them.  And she made a much
smoother takeoff than Yuki usually did, but that was more an issue of
impatience on Yuki’s part.
was fifteen minutes into the flight when Anna realized something was
wrong.  Being trained on military hardware, she recognized the
source of the signal she heard, and the console device emitting
it.  “We’re being followed.  Something is in the air behind
us.”
probably just Hatty.”  Yuki said.  But then she unbuckled her
belt and took a closer look at the radar...the object was much larger
than Hatman.  “Those Destruct-O-Bots can’t fly, can they?”
maneuvers!”  Yuki barked an order quickly, interrupting
Anna.  She contemplated taking over the flight controls, but
instead barely held on as she was tossed toward the ceiling for a
moment when Anna began a rapid and violent descent.  She quickly
buckled herself into the co-pilot’s seat.
in time, too.  Anna began a stomach-churning barrel roll as she
descended, and then just as violently pulled up and fully opened the
throttle.  “There’s Hat!”  Yuki pointed to him as he whizzed
by.
had a horrifying thought.  Hatman was badly outclassed out there
by himself.  “Take the controls.”  she said suddenly. 
“I’m going outside.”
what the hell...?  How can you go outside?”  Yuki asked as
she rushed to switch on the auto-pilot.  Anna had already left her
seat, and since Yuki forgot she was buckled in, she was too slow to
stop the android.
in my feet and hands.”  Anna quickly replied.  She opened the
door, and blast of powerful wind filled the aircraft, blowing her deep
blue hair around rapidly.  Yuki tried to follow, but didn’t have
time to even object before Anna left.
need to get magnetic feet.”  Yuki mumbled to herself as she shut
the door to stop the wind.  She listened carefully, and could hear
clicking across the hull of the aircraft, moving toward the
front.  She leaned forward to look up...and couldn’t see much,
except she saw Hatman whiz by again.
Yuki was alarmed to realize that the Destruct-O-Bot was chasing
Hatman.  It apparently figured out that the capped crusader wasn’t
armed, and couldn’t switch caps while airborne for risk of falling.
blue burst of light lit up the skies, hitting one of the
Destruct-O-Bot’s rockets and sending it spinning out of control. 
Anna was acting as a precise targeted weapon for the Lairjet - it also
had missiles, but there was too much risk of an explosion from one
harming Hatman as long as the Destruct-O-Bot followed him so close...or
possibly the Lairjet itself.
the Destruct-O-Bot fell and fought to regain control, Anna realized
that Hatman was dazed, and struggling to maintain control
himself.  She waited until he got close, and felt grateful that
Yuki could tell what she meant to do, and steered the Lairjet toward
him.  She snatched him out of the air, feeling her titanium alloy
skeleton strain under the inertia, and she pulled his cap off to stop
the rocket effect.
momentum knocked her magnetics off of the hull.  She tumbled,
gripping him tightly with her left arm.  Anna and Hatman both
skidded across the hull like a stone on a pond, until she reached out
and slapped her right hand to the surface of the aircraft, sticking it
with magnetics, and then her left foot, so it looked like she was
hugging the plane.
quickly set the auto-pilot and raced to the rear aircraft door. 
She pulled it open, and hung on tight to a loop above the door to keep
from being sucked out...and then she reached up with her other arm to
pull Hatman inside.  He collapsed to the floor, out of
breath.  Yuki then aided Anna inside, but it seemed like she
didn’t really need it.  She then slammed the door shut.  Anna
quickly returned to the cockpit.
the missiles, Anna.”  Yuki called after her.  “No more going
outside.”  She kneeled next to Hatman.  “That goes for you
too,”  she said as she helped him to his feet.
okay now.”  Hat said, still trying to catch his breath.  “She
hit me once, knocked the wind out of me.  Those Destruct-O-Bots
hit hard.”  He looked toward the cockpit and added, “Anna did
good.”
turned around for a moment to smile at Hatman, taking a momentary break
from trying to lock on to the spinning Destruct-O-Bot to target. 
It was jamming the radar, so it had to be targeted manually.
alarm went off in the aircraft, indicating that it had been locked on
as a target.  Just as Anna opened her mouth to say something, she
collapsed out of the pilot’s chair.