ELDT 2 - chapter 9 - Seeking potential

Later that day, the car arrived at the detectives' house with Crashman dramaticly getting out of the car, gasping for air as he walked towards the door. "AIR! LET ME BREATHE! CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!"

Aggitated, Elec opened the back of the car with Shadowman getting out unoticed. "Oh shut up. You've had the window opened the entire trip." He said.

"Wasn't enough to withstand that terrible smell killing my scent circuitry." Crash replied, leaning agains their house.

"Still don't know where that smell came from?" Alisa asked, being the only one to tolerate this. But the memory was gone. Elec had no idea that this smell was from the sewers he ventured in a few minutes ago. "Still nothing. But that's not important right now." Crash dramaticly escaped towards the kitchen as soon as the door opened.

"What's important right now is that you should take a shower!" He said, with Emily following him. "I'm gonna practice some balancing on my blade." Shadow interupted.

"Well, I guess your jacket along with Emilies' dress needs to be washed." Alisa said. "Alright." Elec replied, unloading his pockets before it went in the washing machiene. "I'll be upstairs taking a-" But his sentence was stopped when he suddenly felt a piece of paper. He looked at it and saw that it was a profile of himself. He paused, staring at the document with Alisa peeking next to him.

"Uh....guys?" He said, still  glancing at the paper with his eyes widened. The team gathered behind him with Crash having a towl wrapped around his nose. "Where did this come from?"

"Your pocket?" Crash asked.  He gave him an irritated look along with Shadow. "What? You're the detective!"

"What? What is it?" Emily asked.

"It's a profile. Of me." Elec replied. "But...how? The scientist who discovered you couldn't find something like this of you at all." Alisa stated.

"It's also one of your great misteries." Said Crashman. "But only the person who build you keeps a profile. And that must mean-"

"Whily." Elec interupted.

"How?" Shadow asked. "He's in a highly secured cell where not even I can get out. If he's the one who owned it, then wouldn't the people who searched him give it to you?"

The robot paused for a few moments, not knowing what he had to say. "Whever it came from, I'm not gonna loose it." He replied. "This will go inside my highly secured box underneeth the bed. No one can open it, unless they have the code."

"Good plan. But first, try to find any fingerprints on it. Maybe someone gave it to you unoticed." Crash suggested. "Second, can you please let me breathe?" He said, refering to the smell he bared. "No problem. Shadow, keep an eye on this. I'll be back." He said, walking upstairs after giving him the document.

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After the robot got clean and his jacket was in the washer, he was in the living room looking at the document to see if there were any fingeroprints. The others were upstairs, cleaning up a bit. But there was no trace of a human fingerprint. Angered, Elec growled a bit while putting away the investigation tools. Shadowman, who was standing on his blade with one leg, noticed the frustration on his face.

"...What if you confront Whily about this?"

"That won't do anything." he replied. "The man is a confused, determent phsycopath with an IQ of 100. And besides...what does he know about documents that misteriously pop out of nowhere?"

The ninja, got off his blade and sat down next to Elec, reading the paper. "Then the only clue I've got is that our suspects are behind this."

"How? How do these metalic freakcs know about my missing profile when I was built three years ago?" He asked.

"It means they must be linked to the Whily." He replied, pointing at the different handwritting on the second page.

"But Whily's lab was discovered when we finally confronted him. There was no trace of a dracula robot or a blue print for a theme park!"

This left them silent for a bit. Not knowing any more clues. Elec's hand supported his tired head, looking down a bit with his eyes halfway open.

"It's never been this fast that I've hit a dead end." He stated. "If only Thomas were still here...then maybe I could still find an anwser."

"Thomas?" Shadowman asked.

"He was a friend of Whily. Even though I never got the chance to see him alive...I have this feeling that...I've known him all my life."

"...Atleast you knew yours." Shadow stated. Looking down a bit. He kept his calm expression, but in his eyes, there was a small spark of sadness. Elec looked to him, feeling that he had a sob story as well.

"You see...we were all made to have a purpose and to do what we are made to do. But...I never knew what my destiny was. I am a calm, thoughtfull ninja based robot who has incredible fighting and stealth skills and I could slice an insenct with the tip of my Shadowblade without even looking. ...But...when I opened my eyes for the first time...all I saw were the people who wanted to controll me. When I was recovered, there was no name written underneeth my back to see who I belonged to. There were no clues....and no trace. And I think that...the one who made me...didn't want to believe in me. I think that...he decided to leave me behind. Like a failed experiment." He explained. This story touched Elec's heart; now he knew why this misterious partner acted so distent.

"I'm sorry. Whatever his reason might've been, you shouldn't hold on to it. I and the others can relate. Quickman was just a tool for revenge since the beginning , Crashman's creator left him, and Alisa's got killed. But this doesn't mean you have no honor. you need to move forward and earn it."

He laid his hand on his shoulder; the ninja looked at him with unsure eyes. "Who knows, maybe you'll find your purpose after we finish the investigation."

The robot said nothing as he looked down at the document; then smiled and took a quick glance at Elec. "I'll think about that." He stood up, getting back on his blade, while Elec read the part that caught his attention the most. His unique circuitry will overtime evolve not only to the point of greater inteligence but power as well. The generator will adapt and form a more powerfull flow of electrons giving more AMPS and WATTS when reaching its full potential.

Danger level: EXTREMELY DANGEROUS