Real Steel Page #3

He can take any bot in this place.

You know it.

You can have any undercard you want.

Five thousand guaranteed.

A thousand every round

your bot survives.

Fight till the death!

No. Give me the main event.

- Come on.

- This is Noisy Boy.

An original Tak Mashido bot.

He was a World Robot League boxer.

Come on!

You want to fight Midas?

Fifty thousand guaranteed,

winner takes all.

Fifty? Really, 50? Now you're talking.

Listen, listen. No, look.

- Listen!

- Give me a sec.

We should take an undercard fight,

make a little cash and get out of here!

First, there is no "we."

Second, he's going to crush Midas,

and I'm going to make real cash!

We'll take Midas!

Tonight, our main event

features the gold-blooded killer!

This pimped-out punk

is programmed for pain!

I give to you the mighty Midas!

Against a bot

who ran with the big boys in the WRB!

He's been on an exile tour overseas,

but now he's back home,

and he's ready to make some noise!

Take your first look in a long time

at Noisy Boy!

Crash Palace,

who's ready for some destruction?!

Let's make some money! Come on!

We have Midas against Noisy Boy.

Noisy Boy against Midas.

You've been waiting all night

for this matchup, Crash Palace!

Scimitar right!

Did you see that?

Easy money, easy money all night.

All night long!

Come on! It's not over yet. Let's go!

Skull salvo! Firefight!

- Yeah! Go, Noisy!

- Undercard, huh?

Shockfist!

Get in there. Shogun Trinity!

Let's finish him. Gravity Slam, Uptown!

This son-of-a-b*tch is crazy!

Full Metal Feud! Bring it!

Southpaw! Pain Revolution!

I got something for you.

Don't you run from me!

You can't run from me!

Get up!

That's illegal!

This is the underworld.

There are no rules!

Now we're seeing the Midas touch.

No. Hands up!

Get back in that corner, b*tch,

and take this whooping like a man!

He's getting killed in there!

It's a headset! You talk into it

and you tell him what to do!

Panic Shield!

That's it. One-Two Overlord!

No, no. Shatter Punch!

- Five Recall!

- Get some!

Jab, jab!

Right roundhouse!

Did he just spit his juice

in Midas's face?

No, you did not spit in Midas's face!

It's party time now, Crash Palace!

Use your left!

Noisy's trying to do something

with his one arm!

But Midas pins him,

and Daddy goes to work!

No, no! Get up!

Get some!

Move! Get out of the corner!

Midas! Midas! Midas!

Somebody's ready

to serve up a decappuccino!

I got something for you! You ready?

Good night! That's a home run for Midas.

And so long to Noisy Boy.

That sucked. You hungry?

I saved what's left

of Noisy's voice recognition board.

Other than that, he's trash.

I got to get a new robot together.

I need to find a mainframe. What?

- I hate hamburgers.

- What kid hates burgers?

Fine. More for me. Here, drink this.

You never should have taken that fight.

Really? Really? Thanks, genius.

Do you even think about the stuff you do

before you do it?

You had no idea how to fight that fight.

Those combination codes, you didn't

know what half of them even meant.

You threw them in there cocky

and half-assed.

- You never gave him a chance.

- He wasn't that good.

Noisy Boy was a great robot.

Was. Was a great robot

back in the League, back in the day.

But look around you. This place is

where once great robots go to die.

So throw him away.

That's what you do, right?

Anything you don't need you throw away.

Wow.

It's been a long night.

If you want to sleep indoors tonight,

shut up and get in the truck.

Don't look at me like that way.

Get in the truck!

They gave me 400 for his head.

You stay put.

I'm going to look for parts.

I'm coming with you.

That drink has my heart pounding.

If I sit in this truck by myself,

my head will explode.

Whatever. Just keep up.

Crap.

Stay back.

All right, keep up.

These searchlights are automated,

but you got to time them right,

so stay close.

It's all right.

Come on, come on.

- We're going to get caught.

- Come on.

Easy, easy. Easy, easy.

Quick, quick. Down in here! Go, go, go!

Robots are on the east side.

We got to be quick in here.

Once we're through here,

there's no more searchlights. Quick! Go!

- Here it is.

- What are we looking for?

Anything I could use

to put a fighting bot together.

- Hey, look.

- What?

It's so small.

Yeah. That's before your time.

That's a Generation One,

the very first fighting bot.

They wanted them to look like us.

The more human, the better.

Crazy how quick everything changed.

Put that in the cart.

- What changed?

- A good question. Human boxing.

- It just faded.

- Why?

Because the money moved on.

People wanted more carnage, more show.

You had the whole Brazilian underground,

the Gracies, the Machados,

jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai,

and a thousand styles in between.

Full-on ground-and-pound.

- Look at this.

- What's that?

I don't know.

Not bad. Good spot.

You still had human fighters,

human bodies,

so you couldn't give the people

what they really wanted:

True, no-holds-barred violence.

The next logical step,

get the humans out of there

and let the machines kill each other.

Do you miss it?

- Boxing. Do you miss it?

- Careful.

What? I want to know.

Careful, you're on a cliff.

That's a long way down.

If you fell, you'd definitely...

Charlie, help me!

Charlie!

- Charlie!

- Max! Max!

Max!

- Try not to move!

- I'm on some sort of robot arm.

Wait! Just easy, easy.

Give me your hand. Nice and easy.

Very slowly. Good. Don't look down.

Look at me. Look at me.

That's it! I've got you!

You don't have to be scared. I got you!

- It's so far!

- It's OK. I got you.

Give me your other hand. Nice and slow.

Just give me your other hand very

slowly. Reach back. Come on. Reach!

Look at me.

We're going to do this together.

You and me. Just look at me. That's it.

One... two... three!

That's it. I got you!

I got you. I got you. I got you.

You're safe. You're safe.

All right, I got you.

- You all right?

- Yeah.

Come here. Easy. Easy.

You all right?

- You all right?

- Yeah.

I told you it was dangerous.

Careful. We're still on the edge here.

Charlie, I think

there's a whole robot in there.

So what? Let's go. Come on.

I'm taking him with me.

He saved my life.

He did not save your life.

I saved your life. Let's go.

Just bring the cart to the edge.

I'll use the winch to get him out.

You want that piece of junk? You get

the cart yourself. I'm through here.

This is what's left of Noisy Boy?

That's it.

His head does make a nice addition

to the front of the Crash Palace.

- It's not funny.

- Let's get a robot, you and me.

Good idea. You're broke.

I'm almost there myself.

- You destroyed the best shot you had.

- We'll put one together.

You're brilliant at this.

There's good stuff here.

- There's nothing here.

- There is. Look.

All your junk is... it's junk.

You're not even in the game anymore.

- It's all garbage.

- I heard you. It's garbage.

Don't get loud with me.

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