I Am Mech: A Mecha Space Opera Adventure (Metal Fury Book 1) by Jonathan Yanez & Stevie Collier

Author:Jonathan Yanez & Stevie Collier [Yanez, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Archimedes Books
Published: 2020-04-12T22:00:00+00:00

19

Saber Training

“You sure you want to do this?” Glint asked. He stood across their homemade battlefield atop one of the stumps they cut using the Arilion power.

“I’m more than sure,” Jack answered. He too stood on a log, one much smaller as he tried to keep from falling off. However, as soon as his body felt the lack of balance, the MO-Bot’s tail extended from his lower back and helped tremendously, almost to the point to which Jack had little effort in standing tall.

“Well,” Glint continued, “I have to warn you that what we are about to do is very difficult and could end up with you having a heart attack.”

“You sound like a medication commercial,” Jack said with a smirk. “You know, when at the end, it says the medication will cure your stomach ache but give you swelling eyes, bloated fingers, ingrown toenails, and bad breath with a small possibility of a stroke?”

Glint blinked a few times. “You watch too much TV. Speaking of which, you’ve seen Star Wars, I assume?”

“Who hasn’t?!” Jack exclaimed. “I’ve seen all thirty-nine movies! My favorite scene is when Darth Maul comes back to life and marries Han Solo’s long lost great, great, great grandchild!”

Glint grabbed his face. “Please… let’s never, ever discuss the Star Wars sequels.” He turned and spat. “Now, where was I? Oh yes! Throw out any ideas you have about lightsabers, Conan the Barbarian, Zorro, Lord of the Rings; all of that nonsense. None of that is how you fight with a real sword.”

“I know how to fight with a real sword,” Jack said. “It’s part of Mech Ops training. One of the fundamentals.”

“Oh?” Glint raised a stick and pointed it at Jack. “Then prove it to me, young one.”

Jack raised an eyebrow. “I… don’t want to hurt you.”

Glint gave a roguish smile. “If you go easy on me, I’ll kill you in your sleep.”

“Jeez, dark much?” Jack asked. “Fine.” He imagined a three-foot-long sword; a classic one you might see in a fantasy novel. He then dulled the edges and waited for the purple energy to change into that of regular iron. “Ready?”

“I’ve been ready,” Glint said.

Jack ran across the field, jumping from tree stump to tree stump, his tail whipping left and right as he crossed the clearing with incredible speed. Somehow, with the fusion of him and the MO-Bot, he gained immense amounts of stamina and strength.

Maybe I should have become half-robot a long time ago.

He met Glint three-quarters of the way to where the old man had been standing. Jack raised his sword to bring it at a diagonal sweep, aiming at Glint’s shoulder. He put speed behind the sword and prepared to pull back at the last second in order to not break the man’s collar bone.

Halfway through this thought, Glint ducked, spun, and swept Jack off his feet. Tail or no tail, there was no saving Jack from the embarrassing yet painful busting of his backside in the grass. He felt something bludgeon his lower back.

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