JumpStart Advanced: Armour Superiority Chapter 10: Armoured and Ready!, a jumpstart fanfic

Chapter 10: Armoured and Ready!

Previously, Hopsalot succeeded in the extraction and Dr O once again lost to him. What happens next? So far, he's almost complete in acquiring the pieces of armour. So, sit back and read!

"I don't believe it..." Hopsalot started out. Right in front of him, all the pieces of armour he and his friends had collected are all ready to be assembled and they are in position. As he gazed upon it, Frankie, CJ and Edison showed up. "So...all arranged and ready to be assembled right?"

"You said it Frankie!" As they continue to gaze upon it, CJ suddenly recalled something. "Guys, how many pieces of armour did the schematics show?"

"8 of them. Why do you ask?"

"Apparently, we visited 7 locations and extracted the pieces of armour but one remains undiscovered. In other words, the last piece of armour is nowhere to be located since it was not revealed where it was sealed." CJ's words were true as all were speechless. "Oh no..." Hopsalot felt down and sighed. "Now what am I gonna do? I wasn't expecting this to happen." All were worried as Hopsalot walked around in circles wondering what to do when they heard a tapping sound. "Where is it coming from?"

"Well, go and check around Edison!" CJ ordered as the firefly flew around and heard the tapping sound and it's coming from the window. He flew to it and, "Uh guys. There is an egret tapping the window with it's beak."

"Egret? That's Einstein! My grandfather's pet who delivers mail. I wonder why he's here..." Hopsalot opened the window and Einstein dropped a box right in front of him and flew off instantly. "Well that was fast." said Frankie. He then noticed something. "There's a note attached on top of the box." Hopsalot took the note off the box and read it.

Dear Hopsalot
I believe you left this behind the last time you paid me a visit. May it be useful to you

SincerelyYour grandpa

(And writing simple letters is a bit tedious in which to remember the format in letter writing)

"What does it say?" asked Frankie. "This was a mistake. I never left anything behind when I last visited my grandpa." He explained to Frankie as, "Oh well, I'll just open it." He opened the box and gasped. Inside is...

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"The last piece of armour! The Tech Belt!" Exactly. A blue coloured utility belt was inside the box. "And it was medium-sized box." CJ described the size. "Yeah...now I see, when I visited my grandpa and came across the blueprints kept in this box. I never noticed that one of the pieces of armour was inside the box! How come he didn't tell me earlier?"

"Well, you may not know but one thing's for sure, you got all the 8 pieces of armour and you can begin the assembly." said Frankie. "Yeah! Let's hop to it!" So they gathered before the pieces of armour as Hopsalot took the Tech Belt and placed it on the pile on the table. "So based on the blueprints..." Hopsalot took it out and studied the schematics. "Hmmm...let's start with the belt." He went to grab it when he pressed onto a circular button on the belt. "Uh...What did you just do?" asked CJ. "Uh...I just wanted to grab the belt and...pressed onto something..." Hopsalot replied stammering a bit when the belt began to activate itself and, "It's releasing electromagnetic rays!" He exclaimed as the rays touched the other pieces of armour and they began attaching onto each other. "It's like as if they are magnetized!" Hopsalot exclaimed as the pieces of armour are finally pieced together into one, ultimate, armoured...

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Battlesuit. Then, it began to glow and, "VMMM!"

"AH! Some flash it emitted!" Edison exclaimed covering his eyes. As the flash ended, all looked at the table to see only...

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The Tech Belt. "What just happened? Where are the other pieces of armour?" asked Frankie. "Seems like the assembly was a failure I guess." CJ whispered to Frankie as Hopsalot looked at the Tech Belt. "I don't understand...what just happened? How come it has become like this?" As many questions filled his head, he shrugged and took the belt and wore it around his waist. "Fits me well..." he thought.

All of a sudden, a rumbling sound was heard as it shook the place. Then, something broke through a wall and, "PWANG!"

"Incoming grappling claw!" Edison yelled as it grabbed him, CJ and Frankie. It then disappeared as, "What was that and where did it come from!?" Hopsalot got out of the house and saw tracks let behind. "Good. I can follow the trail and see where my friends are and who captured them." He then followed the trail.

Later...

Entering the grassy meadows, Hopsalot came across a giant tank that resembles a snail. "Oh no. Only one person could do this to my friends." He then saw a cage hanged by a chain attached to the left side of the tank. "Guys!" He called out. Inside the cage, Frankie, CJ and Edison heard him and, "Hey Hopsalot! Get us out of here!"

"Uh, okay, I'll try to-" Just then, a hatch opened up and, "Greetings." Instantly, Dr O and Stanley who was drinking a cup of coffee appeared and turned their attention to Hopsalot. "So, you've come to save your friends. How amusing. But I can release them if you can just do me a single favour."

"Oh yeah? What is it?"

"You have all the pieces right? Give them to me and I'll let them go."

"And why do you want it so badly?"

"That is not your concern! Just give it to me if you care about your friends more than those pieces of armour!" Hopsalot now is in thoughts as he pondered on what he cares most. His friends or the armour?

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"You know something Dr O."

"Well finally you spoke. Made up your mind?"

"Yes. I was excited to acquire the armour thanks to my friends whom I care more than it in many ways like for instance, saving them from the hands of a slimy slug like you!"

Spitting his coffee, "Boss. He's not giving in."

"I know. Shoot him!" Stanley obeyed and took out a soft ball and threw it at Hopsalot which landed on the circular button on his Tech Belt. "Not the ball! The gun! USE THE GUN!"

"Oh right. Sorry boss. Been playing ball with Sherwin and Stanton and-"

"JUST DO AS I SAY!" Immediately, Stanley drew out his assault rifle but before he could fire, "WHY AREN'T YOU SHOOTING HIM!?"

"Boss. Look." Dr O looked at the direction Stanley is pointing at and gasped. Those in the cage gasped too.

As for Hopsalot, "Why are you all staring at me." He then felt something. He look down to see the Tech Belt resonating. For some reason, a hit on the circular button triggered the belt because all of a sudden, the belt glowed and vibrated and then, something is animating around his entire body. All gasped as the animating took place around first, his legs as forming around them are the Left and Right Booster Legs! Next, the arms as forming around them is on the left, the Left Buster Arm and attached onto the left side of the elbow is the Advanced Energy Shield Projector and on his right, the Right Buster Arm . Hopsalot watched in surprise as forming around his body is the Active Body Guard and finally, he felt something forming around his head and it was the Iron Armour Helmet as it covered his ears with armour and as it goes on, the weapon systems and special features are all activated and ready. It is complete.

Looking through the helmet. "Awesome! I'm wearing the armour! This is so cool!" He exclaimed via a transmitter on the helmet as all heard it. "Hey! The armour fits him well!" CJ exclaimed. As for Dr O, he was full of rage as he boiled in anger. "You tricked me! You lied to me!" He shouted. "Nope. It was an unexpected twist that made me into this and the first thing I need to do is..." He then pointed the quadruple laser cannon and, "BDOW!" Laser shots were fired and they hit the chain that held the others captive and it went down.

"BAM!"

"Yeah! We're free!" Frankie cheered as the cage broke apart and he, CJ and Edison went to Hopsalot. "Thanks for the rescue!" CJ thanked him. "No sweat. I really like this armoured battlesuit if you ask me."

"Well if you ask me, if I can't have the armour, then no one not even a dumb rabbit like you will have it! Stanley! Prepare for battle! Tell the boys the command!" Obeying Dr O's command, Stanley relayed it and he and the snail got back into the tank. There, all the henchmen are in position maintaining controls and weapon systems. "ATTACK!" Dr O shouted as the giant snail tank was powered up and rumbled towards the all stars.

Now for the all-stars, "Look out!" Frankie shouted as Hopsalot grabbed him and CJ and activated the booster legs that enabled him flight! As he carried the duo and since Edison can fly, he placed them on a safe spot. "Stay here while I take care of Dr O." He then flew to engage.

Landing in front of the tank that came to a halt, Hopsalot fired more lasers but they were deflected. Through the helmet, Hopsalot did a scan on the tank. "Heavily armoured and armed with multiple weapon systems and a shield generator." Yep, through his vision, data was encrypted showing him the tank's armaments. Then, the tank opened 2 minigun cannons on both sides of the shell and opened fired! Fortunately, Hopsalot used the Advanced Energy Shield Projector and blocked all the shots. He then fired lasers at the weapons while blocking the attacks and, "BDEW! BDEW!" However, "Ha! He can't penetrate my toy!" Dr O laughed from inside the tank. Hopsalot looked around, "Where's the source of this shield?" He then saw the feelers of the snail tank. "I wonder..." He then activated the twin grappling hook shooters and 2 cone-shaped hooks grappled onto the tank and he entered inside the shield. He landed on the shell and used the spiked boots to grip onto it and reeled back the hooks and fired them again onto the head of the snail. He then grappled onto it and, "Well, here goes nothing." He grabbed both feelers and using his strength, he broke them off the tank.

Inside, "Boss! He disabled our shield generator!" Sanford reported. "What? Don't just sit there idle! Use all the weapons! Eradicate the battle armour!" Dr O shouted as outside, the tank fired it's minigun cannons but without the shield, it can get destroyed and that's what Hopsalot did! He fired 2 rockets from his triple rocket launcher and each rocket blasted the weapons. "Direct hit!" He cheered as the sides opened up a row of 5 twin barrelled turrets and they opened fired! "Better attack from above." He thought as he flew up but the turrets had locked onto him and fired on the move as he flew around. "They're closing on me!" Through the vision, scans shows a lot of gunfire locking onto him when, "TING! TING! TING!"

"I've been hit!" He realized as he crashed onto the ground. "Ouch." said Edison from a distance. Fortunately, the armour has high durability as Hopsalot stood up and watched as the row of turrets on the left side of the tank took aim at him. "Not gonna happen." He fired his triple disc launcher and 3 arcing discs were launched as they arced towards their targets and, "CHUK! CHUK! CHUK!"

"IOOM!" A massive explosion damaged the left side of the tank. In response, on top of the tank, a large missile turret opened up. "Whoa! It stacked up to 36 missiles!" Hopsalot noticed as they took aim and, "IOW! IOW! IOW!" Missiles were fired as Hopsalot took flight and flew around to avoid them and shoot some of them causing them to detonate in mid-air. He then flew past the head of the snail tank when it's eyes glowed red and, "VEEOW! VEEOW!"

"Optic blasts from the eyes?!" Hopsalot exclaimed in shock as he looked to the front and to his horror, 3 rockets were speeding towards him. Quickly, he activated his shield blocking them and then used it again at more rockets that were about to hit him at the back. Explosions took place as Hopsalot fended off the attacks when, "VEEOW!"

"AGH!" He was hit again and crashed onto the ground. Then, the row of turrets on the right side prepare to fire but, "Chew on this!" He launched more discs and, "IOOM!"

Inside, "Boss. Both rows of turrets have been reduced to scrap!" Stefano reported. "No matter! Cannons away!" Dr O ordered as he laughed menacingly. "Soon, defeat will befall on him!"

Outside, Hopsalot watched as both sides of the shell opened up multiple holes. Then, cannons emerged and, "BOOM!"

From a distance, "Too much explosions!" Frankie exclaimed. "How did Dr O get all these weaponry and stuff?" asked CJ. "Well, he sure knows how to get his hands dirty on all these stuff partner." Edison told him.

Back there, Hopsalot flew around as cannon fire was all over the area. He fired some lasers managing to destroy some of the cannon turrets but there are still more to destroy and the large, missile turret on top of the tank continued to launch missiles endlessly. "I better first take it out before the pressure around me increases." So Hopsalot flew to it and the weapon fired a barrage. "Incoming!" He noticed. So he launched a wave of discs and as they approach the barrage, the disc released an electrical surge and the missiles stopped and landed on the ground deactivated. "Okay. Now I can remove it without a problem." he landed on the tank and punched the missile turret destroying it.

Noticing it from the monitor. "Not good! The rabbit got rid of the missile turret!" Sanchez reported. "Use all the weapons! Eradicate him!" Dr O shouted as all the henchmen got to work.

Soon enough, Hopsalot flew around and already, "So far, half of the cannon turrets are down and, wait, what's that?" Through the helmet, data revealed something to him as scans via analysis showed it to him. "It appears there is a power source emitting from the back of the tank. It must be then one that powers it and it's weapon systems. If I can take it out, it'll ultimately be destroyed." So he flew around to the back of the tank when suddenly, hols opened up and claws sprang out! Quickly, Hopsalot flew to avoid their grip but one managed to grab him and, "BZZZZZZZK!"

"AAHHHH! Systems down!" He then crashed onto the ground powered down. "Ugh...need to initiate repair protocols..." The snail tank rumbled towards him. "Crush him! Crush him and the armour!" Dr O cheered madly as the tank rumbled towards him. Getting up, Hopsalot jumped out of the way in the nick of time as the tank passed by. "All red..." He noticed inside the armour. Then, "It's blue! Yes! Repair protocols complete!" He took flight and flew around faster avoiding the claws and this time, used all his weapon systems to engage them.

Soon enough, "Boss. He took out the electric claws!" Spencer reported. "Never mind! Use the grenade launchers!" Dr O ordered as some of his henchmen got to work.

After removing some more cannon turrets and avoiding their fire, Hopsalot looked up and on top of the tank, 4 twin grenade launchers were activated and they began launching grenades all over the area. He flew to deflect them with punches, kicks and his energy shield back at the tank. They exploded splitting into 4 miniature ones. "Cluster grenade launchers..." An idea struck him as he began deflecting some of the grenades onto the tank. More explosions took place and one of the grenades hit the eyes of the snail tank.

"Not good boss! He wrecked the optic systems!" Sherwin reported. "Drat! He's ruining the tank! Anymore weapon systems!?" Dr O demanded to know. "Uh, we still have the grenade launchers and several cannon turrets active. The rest are all blasted into pieces." Seymour reported. "Do we have anymore weapons still inactive yet!?" Dr O demanded to know. "Well boss. We still have 2 weapon systems inactive." Stanley reported. "Excellent. Activate them all. NOW!"

While Hopsalot flew around deflecting clusters of grenades, he approached the front and to his surprise, the mouth of the tank opened up and a huge bursts of burning flame burst out! It struck Hopsalot hard as the flames spewed onto him. Hopsalot endured as via his helmet, it shows warnings of intense heat but he's able to resist the attack thanks to the high durability of the armour which can withstand any kind of attack. As he endured, holes opened up on the front body of the tank and, "PWANG!"

"POW!" A punch sent Hopsalot flying and he crashed onto the ground again. Then, "POW!" Another one smashed him down and then, a barrage of punching took place beating the armoured rabbit down.

Seeing this through the monitor, "Ha! Ha! Ha! He's no match for those boxing glove spring strikers! Ha! I can't wait to destroy the armour!" Dr O laughed and then, "Finish this at once!"

Back there, a damaged, armoured Hopsalot tried to get up but all the brutal punching sure damaged some of his systems. "Can't move..." He watched as the snail tank readied it's remaining weapons at him. "No...I will not give up that easily. I will fight on to the very end! Yes! Just like when Casey faced Ratso, he fought without throwing in the towel despite Ratso' overwhelming power!" He then stood up with strength. "The battle armour is a specialty. My great-great-great grandfather invented it. Though he was gone for no reason, his work still lives and I wear it to honour him for it was destined to be mine. I will not let his work go to waste!"

From the monitor, "Hmmm...he's tough. I can give him that but he's losing sufficient power in his armour." Dr O thought as, "Deliver the final strike." So the tank got ready as the boxing glove spring strikers sprang to attack. Hopsalot watched as they went closer to him. He then used the last of his strength to, "POW!"

"Yes! He's been smashed!" Dr O cheered. Then, "Uh boss? Look..." Stanley reported. He looked and, "WHAT?!"

Outside, as the smoke cleared, "What just happened?" asked CJ. "Look! He's still standing!" Frankie exclaimed as it revealed that Hopsalot managed to block all the boxing attacks with his fists. Then, "Now let's 'spring' into action!" He grabbed onto the boxing gloves and ripped their springs off! "Oh no! Quick! Take him down! TAKE HIM DOWN!" Dr O shrieked as the remaining cannon turrets, the 4 twin grenade launchers and the mouth, spewing flamer opened fired but Hopsalot now restored to full strength boosted up and flew up delivering a powerful punch that destroyed the mouth! "My willpower sure boosted me! Now let's finish this!" He flew behind the tank as grenades were thrown around. He deflected more grenades onto the back of the tank and already, the rear is taking critical damage.

Inside the tank, alarms are ringing and glowing red. "What is going on!?" Dr O demanded. "The rabbit is flanking us hard! He's reduced our rear armour to 30%! Now 20%! And now it's 10%!" Shammus reported while panicking. "Impossible! What is he up to!?" Dr O shouted. Then, he gasped in horror. "Uh...you okay boss?" asked Shannon. "What's the next order! Say something!" Sneedly panicked as all the henchmen are working on the controls hysterically.

Back there, "IOOM!"

"There's the power source!" Right in front of Hopsalot is a power engine that is operating in good condition. "One shot will od the trick. Unleash all weapon systems!" Hopsalot got them all ready and opened fired! Lasers, grappling hooks, arcing discs and rockets all struck the engine and it began to sputter and go out of control. "Gotta fly!" He flew up in the air just in time the power engine overheated and...

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"IOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"

"I think I saw 21 people flying out of the area." Frankie exclaimed as they indeed saw it and as they blasted out in the air, "I believe I can fly! I believe I can touch the-"

"SHUT UP SANDERS!" Then, they disappeared in the sky.

Now that it's over, Frankie, CJ and Edison went to the wreckage and saw pieces of metal reduced to scrap and circuits broken. But where's Hopsalot? This question appeared in their mind when they heard a boosting sound and behind them, they turned to see him in his battle armour landing down. "Nice job." Frankie told him. "Yeah, defeating Dr O when he made a one, final, desperate attempt to somehow instead of claiming the armour, he wants to destroy it." said CJ. "Yeah, well. It's over at least for now, Dr O may return and use his schemes again." said Hopsalot. "Don't worry, when he comes, you have that battle armour to fend him off Hops."

"Right Edison and, I have come up with a codename that will suit me well when I wear this armour."

"And what is the codename?"

"Every time I wear the armour Frankie, I will call myself...

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"Iron Rabbit."

"What? Thay's pretty lame."

"No it's not CJ. If you read the comics, you'll see some reference."

"Oh...now I know what you're talking about Frankie." After some talking, they looked at the ground which was covered in potholes from the many explosions that took place during the battle. "Boy, that's a lot of potholes." said Edison. "Yeah. But we'll put them back in their greenery state and, I think I'm gonna wear this belt as part of my casual attire." said Hopsalot as he pressed the circular button on the belt and the armour he's wearing began animating and soon enough, the animating entered the belt and Hopslaot is now in his casual attire. "C'mon let's head back to the village and get some gardening tools to restore the potholes." All agreed and followed him back and after sometime, returned and they did restore them back.

Some time later...

It's been 2 weeks since the battle and it cuts to Hopsalot experimenting on a new invention when a roaring sound took place. "Huh?" Removing his lab coat, he went out to see Edison fly past him but he flew back to meet him. "A rock golem entered our village!"

"What? Since when?"

"Since right now! Gotta fly!"

"Wait, what else?"

"Oh, the Elemental Ninja's fighting it!" Edison then flew off as Hopsalot was in thought for a moment. Then, he looked down at the Tech Belt he's wearing and smiled.

Soon enough...

Outisde the Frog Manor, the rock golem which a giant made out of rocks can be seen throwing rocks at the Elemental Ninja(who's secret identity is Casey)who's seen firing electric blasts from his arms and tail. he then formed an icicle spear and threw it at the rock golem's left arm which encased it in ice but using it's other arm, it smashed the ice freeing it's left arm. "He's one tough, rocky creature." The Elemental Ninja thought as it formed a boulder and prepared to hurl it at him when, "VEEOW!"

"KSH!" A quadruple laser blast shattered the boulder into pieces starling it as the Elemental Ninja turned to see...

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"Hopsalot? Is that you?"

"You're correct!" The blue armoured rabbit flew down beside him. "Nice suit of armour."

"Thanks! When I wear this armour, I'm known as Iron Rabbit!"

"Cool name! It fits you well!"

"Thanks!" Then, the rock golem roared and prepared to charge. Seeing this, "Ready Iron Rabbit?"

"Ready as ever Elemental Ninja!" Both got ready as the Elemental ninja powered up some fire and ice on both of his fists while Iron Rabbit got his weapon systems ready. As both sides stared at each other, the rock golem's red eyes focused on both heroes and charged. Seeing this, the Elemental Ninja powered up and charged with lightning streaks around his legs while Iron Rabbit took flight in mid-air and charged. Both sides went closer as they charged and once they are near, "TOGETHER!" Both heroes shouted as their fists and the rock golem's fist prepare to collide and the whole scene was pictured well.

THE END

Alright! 2 out of 8 became heroes! And Hopsalot successfully completed the armour assembly and became known as Iron Rabbit and defeated Dr O and his army! So, which all-star will be the next to become a hero? Find out in the next story!