R - Tran fired a high intensity heat ray from his left hand. Darmo countered it instantly with a freeze ray. The two beams met in mid air. Molecules nearest Darmo's beam froze up and fell to the carpet in a beautiful, tiny snow, while the very air nearest R - Tran's beam fried and carbonized and fell to the carpet, making it dirty.
For long moments, neither beam moved.... then, Darmo's beam began to move slowly toward R - Tran.. until finally, R - Tran was completely encased in a block of ice.
None of those in the room had yet taken the opportunity to leave. They had just stood there, dumbstruck, like deer
caught in the headlights of an oncoming car on a country road late at night.
Russ was the first to move. He ran to Barbra's shed and grabbed an axe.
" I'll teach that son of a bitch who's the boss around here!" he shouted, as R - Tran used his warming circuits to melt the ice coating that Darmo had surrounded him with.
" NO! You, Carol and her mother must leave immediately!", Darmo implored of the angry human.
" Up yours, robot! I take orders from no one, expecially not from a walking, talking erector set!"
Darmo started to walk towards Russ, to get him out of harm's way. Darmo knew the man was bad as far as humans go; however, his programming told him all life was precious.
Before he could grab Russ, R - Tran had finally freed himself, and pointed his right hand towards the angry human with the axe in his hand.... and disintegrated him instantly. The axe was all that remained. It fell to the floor with a clanging sound.
The two women gasped. They just stood there, paralyzed
with fear.. until Carol regained her composure and started
pushing her mother, Barbra towards the door.
Darmo kept himself between the women and R - Tran, until they were both safely out of the house.
" If you want me, you must catch me, first!" Darmo shouted, as he flew at high velocity right through the hole that R - Tran had created in the roof of the house when he'd entered.
" Coward! Running will not help you!" R - Tran shouted, as he flew quickly through the hole in the roof in pursuit of the runaway robot.
Darmo was not afraid. Fear was not an emotion that he possessed. He was interested in taking R - Tran as far away from the humans as possible. He did not want to see more humans hurt or killed because of his flight to Earth.
Darmo flew at about 150 mph, skillfully dodging R - Tran's heat blasts. He led the murderous robot back to the empty cornfield. The two automatons flew high across the twilight skies. A casual observer would have thought they were a pair of shooting stars.
Not far away, Carol, had taken her mother, Barbra, back to the office building where she had been using the office.
She asked the man at the desk, Leron, to allow her mother to stay there with him. Carol had urged her mother NOT to call the police on this matter - she knew they could not help, and would most likely only would have served as target practice for R - Tran, anyway. She seriously doubted that the army could stop him, either. If Darmo could not stop R - Tran, what chance would humans with guns have?
Darmo landed in the huge, darkened cornfield. There was no light from the moon out tonight as it was past the final quarter of it's monthly cycle. It was very dark. Above the two combatants was a star filled sky.. a star gazer's dream come true. Darmo's infrared vision enabled him to see almost as well as if it had been noon on a sunny day. R- Tran, too, had this ability.
R - Tran did not speak, but merely fired his disintegrator beam at the silver robot, who put up a force field. This would eat up Darmo's energy quicker than anything else he could do, but he had no choice. That was when he allowed a small hole in it to be able to launch a missle from his chest at R - Tran, who fired his beam at it and destroyed it before it could hit him. This was what Darmo had wanted, for the missle had sharp, diamond hard slivers in it which penetrated R - Tran's thick green metal skin like heated knives thrown at a large stick of butter. It hurt the fierce robot.
" That.. was a mistake! "R - Tran shouted as he raised both hands and fired twin disintegrator beams at Darmo.
They struck his force field, which held, but would not stay intact for more than a few more minutes. Darmo expanded it so that it pushed the killer robot slowly back.
This was when Darmo noticed the headlights of a car approaching. His telescopic vision revealed it to be Carol. He did not want her here. He cared about her, and did not wish her to be harmed. He knew he would have to finish this fight quickly.
He battered the robot with his force field, which he now used as a powerful battering ram. R - Tran showed visible damage... if only he could destroy his motivator unit, located on his chest, that would be the end of R - Tran.
That was when R - Tran took a diamond hard buzz saw from his shoulder compartment and threw it at Darmo.
It had quickly expanded to the size and shape of a frisbee, and was green like R - Tran. It moved almost faster than the eye could see, and it cut Darmo's right arm off just below the elbow. The arm fell to the ground. Sparks flew out of where it had been cut off. The fingers twitched for a few moments, then were still.
Darmo was equipped with pain circuits. This was to let him know when he was injured, and to be able to respond accordingly. He grunted in pain, and responded with a deadly silver frisbee of his own. It stuck R - Tran in the chest, right in his chest plate, but stopped just a half inch short of destroying him.
" You fool! You missed my motivator unit.. but my next shot won't miss yours!"
R - Tran raised his right hand, which formed a cannon, and hit Darmo square in the chest.
Darmo reeled in apparent agony, and then, in a rather intense show of fireworks, exploded into hundreds of pieces.
Carol had run out of her car through the darkened cornfield, almost tripping over the freshly plowed renmnants of six foot tall corn stalks and was close enough to watch Darmo die.
" Darmo!!! Nooooooooo!!!!" She screamed, not really caring if R - Tran killed her next.
R - Tran ignored the frantic woman running towards her.
His mission accomplished, he turned around and prepared to contact his superiors and inform them that he had succeeded in destroying Darmo.
