Waking Up

Crimebot burst awake. "-p!" he shouted, finishing a thought he had hours ago. He quickly surveyed the room, and despite there being no light he was able to see thanks to his visor's low-light sensors. Ross was hunched about against the wall across from him, but otherwise the room was empty. There didn't seem to be any way out, except a big heavy looking door. Looking down at his foot, he saw it was handcuffed to a pipe on the wall. Next to him on the ground lay a saw of some sort.

Pondering just what this all meant, he quickly snapped the handcuffs in twain and then walked over to Ross and helped him up, snapping a similar set of handcuffs that lay at his feet. "Wh- where am I?" Ross muttered, still woozy from the blow to his head. Crimebot bleeped unhappily.
"I don't know," he said, "But there is only one way to find out!" Leaping over to the wall, he started smashing on it with his metal fists until it crumbled under his mighty flurry of blows. Behind the wall was a small room, and Crimebot kept smashing until he was through to it.
"Couldn't we have just used the door?" Ross asked.
"No, it was booby trapped. It was covered in sensors, I detected them with my x-ray vision," Crimebot explained, "Probably set to blow the minute we tried to open it," he finished.
"YOU HAVE X-RAY VISION?" Ross yelled, covering his chest and groin with his hands. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"It doesn't work on clothes, only metal and stone and some kinds of wood," Crimebot quickly told Ross, which put him at ease. Of course Crimebot was lying and could see through clothes, but he would never do that to Ross.

Entering the small room, they were surprised to find it was some sort of cell. In the cot on the fall side of the small room, which was only about a foot away, lay none other than Zero Caspian. Shaking some life into him, Ross was suddenly struck in the face by Zero, who quickly apologized as he realised what was going on. "Sorry chum, thought you were one of the surly blokes who disabled me. You're lucky I'm so groggy, or I wouldn't have missed severing your aorta with that chop," Zero said sleepily.
"That's ok," Ross said, coughing up a little blood, "I would have done-" he continued, coughing again, "-the same if I were you," he finished, coughing up even more blood.

Crimebot smashed down the prison door and quickly broke the lone sleeping guard's next. "I guess he won't ever wake up!" laughed Crimebot, though Zero and Ross just sort of stood there with grim expressions on their faces. Crimebot stopped laughing and mumbled, "Well I thought it was funny," under his breath.

Navigating through a few corridors, they found some stairs leading up and to the outside. Just as they reached the top, they heard voices from all sides. "There they are!" yelled one,
"Hey let's get him!" yelled another,
"Where are my keys!" yelled a third, and so on, and so forth.

The situation looked bad. They were surrounded and outnumbered probably at least 100:1 by Ross' godawful reckoning. Just then, a taxi came screeching to a halt in front of them. The driver leaned his head out the window and yelled "Hey mon, get in de' car, quick as a rabbit now!"

Of course! Thought Crimebot. He was still wearing his disguise! The friendly rasta who was driving the taxi yelled back over the blaring reggae music, "Where to, mon?" before peeling out in a random direction. "You boys got yourself in a lotta troubles back der, mon!" he said casually, "Good ting I was 'round to save ya!" he continued, "But who dat batty boy who yous got wit you?" he asked, finally.

Crimebot took the lead, activating his vocal modulation chip to sound more like the man driving the cab. "We was just trying to find dis man, he owes me some money, don't cha know," said Crimebot, his cliched accent fitting perfectly. "You can let us out wherever, mon," he finished.
"Ehhh no problem brudda, I got cha back all de time!" the rasta driver said, slowing down to let them out. As Crimebot and Ross and Zero exited the cab, the driver said "Don' forget to keep it real, mon!" and then drove off at a breakneck speed.

Taking off their disguises, Ross and Crimebot looked around where they had been dropped off. The Darkwinterknight train terminal. Zero Caspian exclaimed "Perfect!" as he saw the 7:00 express to Omegalopolis pull in. Crimebot and Ross looked confused. "When I was asking around, I learned that the mysterious chopper had flown over the crime district towards Omegalopolis. That's when those thugs ganged up on me and took me prisoner," Zero exclaimed quickly, hopping aboard the train. Ross and Crimebot jumped on the train with him.

Little did they know that danger was one step ahead of them...