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Meeting Her Part 10

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 I rested up for a few weeks and then one day Mr. Walter walked up to Anna and I as were sitting outside in the morning sunrise.
 "It's time, Spine."  He said.  In his hand he had a very weird mechanism that looked like a toaster.
 "Is that-"
 "Jenny, yes. I, uh, modified her, but don't tell Rabbit, he'll be upset."  Mr. Walter placed Jenny down into the grass and pushed down on her handle.  He took three brisk steps back and stopped about 8 feet away from her.  She started to rattle and smoke and Anna hid behind me as it started making a grinding noise of gears.
 "What is that?"  Anna whispered to me.
 "It's a toaster" I told her.
 "What's a toaster?  I've never heard of them."
 "It toasts bread."  I said smiling.  Of course she's never heard of it, stupid me, it probably hasn't been invented yet outside of the manor.  My smile quickly faded away when an elephant started to form from the toaster.  It grew very rapidly and Mr. Walter took another two steps back.  When the elephant had finally finished growing, it was an astounding 75 foot clockwork elephant.  I stood up and my spines popped up almost hitting Anna but she backed up when I stood up.
 "Anna, I'm so sorry." I started to say as I turned towards her and in doing so, my spines knocked over a few potted plants.
 "No, it's good Spine!"  Mr. Walter said.  
 "It is?" I said turning back towards him and Anna had to duck to miss my spines.
 "Yes!" Mr. Walter said with a slight chuckle that made him seem like a mad man.  "I was actually hoping it would be the response that would come from you when you saw this elephant.  Your spines area defense mechanism.  They hold your falchions, but I can fix it to have what ever weapon you wish to have back there."
 "But, I don't want to be like this...HOW DO I GET RID OF THEM!"  I tried pushing the spines back down but they wouldn't go.
 "You must defeat the threat."  Mr. Walter said.
 "What threat?"  I looked around and didn't see anyone or anything attacking us.  Mr. Walter pointed to the elephant.  "That...THAT is my enemy?  It's literally just a jacked up toaster.  Why do I see it as an enemy?"
 "Well...I maaaaaaay have done something to you while you were in hibernation."  Mr. Walter said twiddling his foot.
 "What...did you do..."
 "Well...I honestly didn't know you could create spines without me commanding, so when I saw you fight a few months back, I decided to, well..."
 "Yes?"
 "Improve...your defense mechanism."  I looked at him with an angry face.  "But not by much!"
 "How much?"
 "....200 fold..."  He said as he hid behind the Jenny elephant.
 "2....200 fold..."  I was angry, no, beyond that, I was down right upset and mad.  I hated what I did to those people, and now Mr. Walter wanted to up the power by 200!    "Just...just destroy the elephant, and your spines will go away.  I promise."  He said stepping around from the back of it.
 "Okay, and how do I do that?"
 "They have two weak spots, the eyes, and the belly.  You can choose either one.  With the eyes, if you take out both, the robot will be unable to function because that's where it's core is; right behind the eyes."
 "And what about the belly?"
 "Well that's simple." Mr. Walter waited for me to reply.  "Really? You don't know?"  I didn't say anything.  "If you slice from between the two front legs, all the way to the back, the whole circuity of the thing will just fall out of it, causing to to collapse."
 "That makes sense."  Anna said.  I turned to her and watched as she dodged my spines a third time.  
 "How would you know about this?"  I said looking at her confused.
 "Are you forgetting that she loves clockwork, Spine?"  
 "No...." I said looking down.
 "YOU DID!" she said with a half smile as she lightly punched me in the shoulder.
 "Alright, I did forget, but I'm going to get rid of this elephant so I don't have my spines sticking out and knocking over stuff.  You might wanna back up."  Anna took a step back from me.  I reached behind me and grabbed the top two spines and pulled out my falchions.  I flicked my wrists and they extended out.  I ran up to the elephant, jumped, and landed both my swords into each eye of the elephant.  The elephant's knees buckled and it quickly transformed back to Jenny the toaster; with my falchions sticking out of the toaster.  I reached down to grab them and pulled them both out with some force.  I spun them around in my hand, flicked my wrists up, and sheathed them into my back.  My spines receded into my back.  "So how do you know this is how the elephants work?"
 "I was actually the one who built the elephants...but they were stolen from me and corrupted.  Every time you see a clockwork elephant like this, your defense will go into overdrive.  You're the only one who has this special effect, so use it wisely.  As for you Anna," Mr. Walter walked over to her and pulled out a small knife.  "This will be your main weapon that I'll be training you on." handed it to her.  When she touched it, the knife transformed into a katana.  
 "Woah!"  Anna said.
 "It's programmed so that it it only transforms when you hold it.  We start our training tomorrow, Anna.  Spine, I'm going to work on Jenny so that she will be more difficult for you to battle against.  Good luck, everyone."  Mr. Walter picked up Jenny and ran into the house.
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