Big guy and rusty the boy robot #37: Nightmare.

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Previously on Big guy and rusty the boy robot...

The front security guard looks up at the latest visitor and gasps then salutes.

"Welcome home sir." The officer says.

He leads the visitor to the elevator and the visitor rides it up to the main lab. The visitor steps out and all the scientists that see him gasp. Dr. Slate turns around and gasps then runs into the visitor's arms.

"Dwayne!" Dr. Slate yells.

And now the continuation.

Dr. Slate pulls back and looks confused.

"What's wrong?" Dr. Slate asks.

"I don't really remember much. Something about you clicks in my head but I can't be sure." Dwayne says.

Dr. Slate puts her hands to her mouth.

"Amnesia!" Dr. Slate gasps.

"I guess. The last thing I remember is walking into town and not knowing who I was or why. The only thing that I could remember was the name quarks." Dwayne says.

"Well you are home now. I will help you remember." Dr. Slate says.

"Just one thing first." Dwayne says.

"Anything." Dr. Slate says.

"Who are you?" Dwayne asks.

Dr. Slate sighs and explains everything. Later on after he is all cleaned up and his wounds are bandaged he is lead into the communications room.

"It's time for them to finally know you are back." Dr. Slate says.

The screen comes to life and Thorton appears. He looks and can't believe whom he sees.

"Lt. Hunter?" Thorton says.

"Yeah I guess." Dwayne says.

"I'm sorry general but he has amnesia. We are working on getting his memories back." Dr. Slate says.

"My god. We thought you were dead." Thorton says.

"Dead?" Dwayne asks.

Suddenly images flood his head. Images of him piloting a big robot. Images of it blowing up around him and feeling nothing. He suddenly starts having a seizure. Dr. Slate yells for a medic who rushes Dwayne to the infirmary.

"What's wrong?" Dr. Slate asks.

But Dwayne doesn't answer cause he is asleep.

"Let him rest. Maybe this is his brain's way to cope with all this new but old information." A doctor says.

Dr. Slate nods her head and a tear falls from her left eye.

"I just got you back Dwayne. Don't leave me again." Dr. Slate says.

She holds one of Dwayne's hands. Meanwhile in his head a war is being fought. A war of images both good and bad. He sees pictures of him and that woman that knows him but he doesn't know her interacting and having a fun time. But then he also sees images of him fighting against terrible monsters and strange looking humans. Dwayne finally finds himself floating in a white void. He finds himself unable to move at all.

"Who am I? Why do I exist?" Dwayne asks.

"You are Dwayne Hunter. You exist cause fate decreed that you exist. Just like all life forms on this plain." A voice responds.

"Why do I continue to exist?" Dwayne asks.

The image of the robot exploding around him and feeling nothing repeats.

"Why do I exist when I died in that robot?" Dwayne asks.

The woman he doesn't know appears.

"Because people need you. Your time was not up yet." The voice responds.

"No. I died. People are supposed to stay dead!" Dwayne yells.

Suddenly Dwayne goes into convulsions again, worse than before. Dr. Slate yells for the doctor. The doctor sets up more equipment. The heart beat monitor goes flat line.

"DWAYNE!" Dr. Slate screams.

The doctor is able to bring the heartbeat back but frowns when she looks at the brain monitor.

"I'm sorry but that's all I can do for him. He appears to be in a comatose state. All we can do is wait and hope." The doctor says.

"What can I do? There has to be something I can do!" Dr. Slate asks.

"Well no matter how far advanced medical science goes, we still recommend talking to comatose victims." The doctor responds.

The doctor leaves and Dr. Slate starts crying.

"What is going on inside there?" Dr. Slate asks in tears.

Dwayne maybe nearly brain dead but a lot of stuff is going on in there. Tormented images flash through his subconscious.

"Why do I continue to exist? TELL ME!" Dwayne asks.

"You are on a path. The path started 10 years ago." The voice responds.

The white goes away and Dwayne finds himself in a military base. He looks down and notices he isn't a lieutenant anymore. He doesn't seem to have a rank yet. If he does then he isn't wearing it. Suddenly a man gets in his face.

"Tell my why you should be the pilot to the experimental new robotic suit. If you can tell me without using the word e then you win." A sergeant says.

"I don't know why I am even here." Dwayne says confused.

The sergeant whips him his whip.

"I will give you one last chance. TELL ME WHY YOU SHOULD BE THE PILOT!" The sergeant yells.

"Uh I am a good pilot. I am trustworthy." Dwayne says.

"Nice try." The sergeant says.

"But I didn't say.." Dwayne says.

The sergeant shoves Dwayne to the ground.

"You will." The sergeant says.

He smashes his foot down on Dwayne's back.

"Aiyeeeeee!!!!" Dwayne screams in pain.

Later on Dwayne is nursing his back.

"That never happened." Dwayne says.

"Of course it didn't. You are seeing a replay of an event through your own feelings and memories. You felt you didn't deserve such an honor did you?" The voice asks.

Dwayne looks down.

"No." Dwayne asks.

"Why is that?" The voice asks.

Suddenly Dwayne is a small kid and a big man is standing over him with a belt.

"Did you clean your room like I told you too?" The man asks.

"I didn't have enough time. I did a lot of it." Dwayne asks.

The man belts Dwayne over and over.

"Not good enough. When I tell you to do something you will do it!" The man yells.

Then Dwayne becomes a bigger but still younger man. He brings in a letter from the military. The man takes it and frowns.

"You in the military? You know they don't take wusses like you." The man says.

"Who is this man?" The voice asks.

"Leave me alone dad. I am going to go whether you want me to or not." Dwayne says.

Dwayne's dad rips up the acceptance.

"Not if I have anything to do about it. I used to be in the military and I still have pull there. I will never let a wuss like you ruin the military's reputation." Dwayne's father says.

"Do what you want? I'm out of here." Dwayne says.

Dwayne walks out.

"You walk out and you never come back. You will regret this!" Dwayne's father yells.

Dwayne leaves and doesn't come back.

"My path began there?" Dwayne asks.

"No but it lead to the beginning. You're path began when you first entered the bgy-10." The voice says.

Dwayne shakes his head.

"No it's the bgy-11. I got that from the beginning." Dwayne says.

Dwayne finds himself in front of a big imposing white robot.

"You are in the presence of the bgy-10. The first fully piloted fighting robot. After 9 incarnations of failed A.I's we finally gave up and made one that has both pilot able mode and A.I. mode." A general says.

Dwayne looks at it.

"That's not the big guy." Dwayne says.

"What?" The general asks.

"Uh nothing sir. Just thinking about how it will be like to pilot this." Dwayne responds.

"You will son. Tomorrow you are going to be called into battle for the first time. Course it will be simulated but I hear from people that take the test, it's pretty damn real." The general says.

That night Dwayne has trouble sleeping. Suddenly in his sleep he gets visions of his death again.

"Why do I keep seeing my death? Even now in my past?" Dwayne asks.

"Because you can't let go of it. As long as you keep attached to it you will never go on." The voice responds.

Dwayne squints at something. In another flash he sees a plan firing a missile at his back.

"No I am supposed to see something in this. That must be the reason." Dwayne says.

But it disappears and Dwayne wakes up the next morning. The test goes great and Dwayne finds that he feels very natural at the controls, as if they were made for him. He goes into the mess hall and meets a bunch of other officers. Some men and some women. The general smiles and walks up to Dwayne.

"I am proud to introduce the first pilot to ever pilot a fighting robot." The general says.

Everybody claps and smiles.

"Tomorrow is the real thing people. We are sending you on a mission to scout the enemy's borders to make sure they aren't doing anything wrong." The general says.

Dwayne meets the others that will fly with him and they have some drinks. That night Dwayne has the same flashes.

"This again. Why can't I see who's in that plane?" Dwayne asks.

"Maybe cause you don't want to. Cause the person in that plane is your executioner. Your grim reaper." The voice responds.

Dwayne looks again but the figure is still blurred. He finally gives up and in a few hours a siren wakes him.

"Alert all pilots report to the launch bay immediately!" A voice calls out.

Dwayne gets up groggily and gets in his pilot suit. He heads for the plane area when he remembers that he is a special pilot. He goes to the hanger and gets docked with the bgy-10.

"Good luck soldier. We will brief you when you are airborne." The general says.

Dwayne salutes and he flies out into the air. He watches at the other jets take off.

"Okay here's the situation. The enemy has broken the treaty and has crossed the borders. You are to demand that they retreat or you will force them back." The captain says.

"Something is fishy here. If they think that they could talk them into going back to their side they wouldn't be sending so much firepower." A pilot says.

"Cut the radio chatter. We do the mission as we are instructed to do so." Dwayne warns.

"Old do the mission and never question it Dwayne huh? Great." Another pilot mutters.

"Radio silence now!" Dwayne yells.

The other pilots don't say a word. After a hour flight they see bogeys.

"Bogey's at 3 o'clock. I am picking up on air." A pilot says.

"Affirmative. Making radio contact." Dwayne says.

"This is Dwayne of the U.S.S. air force. You have violated the treaty. If you do not return to your side of the boarder we have been ordered to use whatever force is necessary." Dwayne says.

Nothing.

Dwayne starts to repeat the message when suddenly one of the planes just blows up and all Dwayne hears is a scream.

"Harlow!" A pilot yells.

"What the hell was that? I didn't pick up any weapon." Another pilot says.

Suddenly another plane explodes.

"I repeat. This is Dwayne of the U.S.S. air force. You have violated the treaty. If you do not return to your side of the boarder we have been ordered to use whatever force is necessary!" Dwayne yells.

A response is finally reached. Two words.

"Eat shit!" A voice says.

Suddenly Dwayne picks up a ray coming from one of the ships. The ray hits one of the planes and it blows up like the others.

"What the hell? They have some kind of a laser-guided weapon. Or the laser is the weapon!" Dwayne yells.

The laser suddenly moves towards Dwayne and the bgy-10.

"Crap evasive maneuvers!" Dwayne yells.

The bgy-10 does a barrel roll and is barely able to dodge the laser. Instead it hits a plane that was behind him. Dwayne watches in horror as each of the remaining planes is destroyed.

"I am a BGY robot with special weapons. If you do not stop then I will be forced to use them." Dwayne asks.

"You mean those piece of shit things with crappy A.I's? I'm so scared." A voice says sarcastically.

Dwayne jams on the controls to avoid and another laser. Dwayne finally flies the bgy-10 forward and trains the weapons on the targets.

"Fire!" Dwayne yells.

A bunch of missiles fire out and strike down a few ships. He fires more missiles and takes down the other ships, leaving the main vessel behind.

"We surrender." A voice says.

Dwayne punches it forward.

"I should of known it was a trap. I had lots of training. Why didn't I see it?" Dwayne asks.

When the bgy-10 gets close suddenly the front of the vessel opens up. A huge cannon comes out and blasts out a huge energy wave. When it hits the bgy-10 all the systems shut down.

"What the hell?" Dwayne asks.

He watches the water as the bgy-10 crashes into the ocean. Then it starts sinking. Dwayne tugs at his restraints but they won't budge. Dwayne pounds on the console.

"Come on you piece of..." Dwayne says.

Suddenly the restraints are released. Dwayne hits the button to eject and water starts flooding in. Dwayne holds his breath and swims to the surface.

"I just floated there. After awhile I couldn't feel anything. If it wasn't for my special outfit I would of died in the cold sea." Dwayne says.

"How long were you out there?" The voice asks.

"I don't know. It seemed like forever but it could have been mere hours." Dwayne responds.

He looks around and sees that the enemy vessel is nowhere in sight. Probably left him for dead. Finally when he is ready to give up a ship finds him and brings him on board. Eventually he makes it back to base. He is reprimanded for losing the BGY and his wingman. But when it's revealed that an new unknown weapon was used he was pardoned.

"This is when my path started?" Dwayne asked.

"No." The voice says.

Dwayne is called to a special military base for a special assignment. He meets a general.

"Hi I'm General Thorton. I heard of your piloting skills and they are needed." Thorton says.

"Then you must of heard of the incident a year ago sir." Dwayne says.

"Yes I have but I also heard that you did all you could." Thorton says.

"What is this special assignment sir?" Dwayne asks.

Thorton motions to someone and they pull the cloth off of a big object. Suddenly memories flood Dwayne's visions when he sees another BGY.

"This is the newly created bgy-11. It needs a pilot boy." Thorton responds.

"Sir permission to speak freely." Dwayne says.

"If it's to explain why you shouldn't pilot this then permission denied." Thorton says.

Dwayne goes to bed thinking about what he is about to get himself into. The next morning he goes back to Thorton.

"Sir Commander Dwayne would be proud to pilot the bgy-11." Dwayne says.

Epilogue...

"And so your path begins. The path that would put you in the position to save many lives." The voice says.

"But not my own." Dwayne says.

Once again the visions of his death flash behind his eyes and finally the pilot of the other plane becomes clear.

"So she's the one that killed me." Dwayne says.

"Yes and now you must kill her." The new voice says.

Dwayne turns his head and gasps at what he sees.

"Poindexter?!" Dwayne says.

Everything goes black and then Dwayne finds himself strapped to a chair with electrodes on his forehead.

"Welcome to hell." Poindexter says laughing insanely.

To be continued...

Only one more episode left before the season finale. How will it end?