Capítulo 4: Corporate Collaboration
X re-entered the laboratory, having just crushed Riley's head under his mechanical heel. Blood staining the metal plates upon the robotic foot. He went up to his dock and Tara approached, going to wipe off the foot.
Tara: "Disgusting...there's still brain matter on your foot..."
X: "Termination of intruders is not often a clean process, Tara Lezen. I serve the purpose of cleansing Neo City of any opposition to the safety and benefit of Zeoman Enterprises-"
Tara: "I know X, I built parts of you. But sometimes I wish the company programmed you to be more sympathetic..."
X: "That would be inefficient. Kill them, crush their craniums, blow their cerebrums out of said craniums. That is my purpose."
Tara sighed and clicked a button on her wrist, gathering cleaning constructs, helping to fix X up to perfect form. Shortly after, a man in a suit walked in the room. He was very tidy, well kept. Clearly of great importance within the company, for which he wore the badge of employment. X scanned over the man, identifying him.
X: "Head Chairman Colt Burmann, why are you in the laboratory. Your business is meant upstairs, in the executive board of Zeoman Enterprises."
Colt: "Well, that's because the CEO wants you to collaborate with N-0889. Found a case about several warehouses where we store our technology raided, by the same gang you reported having infiltrated. The building."
X: "But I terminated Riley-"
Colt: "Judging by the timing, it was a distraction they hoped would both get them files, and distract you. Though it only succeeded in the latter. Get going now, bot."
X: "Affirmative. Readying to ally with Zeoman Enterprises Nano Construct Serial Designation N-0889 on a deployment."
With that, X removed himself from the dock and downloaded a location, the site of the mission the company had set for him. He left the laboratory and exited the Zeoman building, walking down the streets of Neo City, that were illuminated by the neon signs and holographic projections, mostly for marketing and announcements.
People cleared from the streets as X walked, the general public not wishing to get in his way and the gangsters hiding amongst the crowd not wanting X to register them within his databases. The stomps of X's mechanical body sounded even in the cold rain pouring into Neo City.
After around an hour, he arrived at the site designated and waited. Before long, a tiny orb with a glowing red lense was dropped in by a Zeoman Enterprises aircraft. Quickly, nanometal began to swirl around the orb and transformed into a large bulky form. Fourteen feet in height with an extremely wide and bulked frame. This was the Zeoman Enterprises Nano Construct Serial Designation N-0889.
N-0889: "Zeoman Enterprises Combatant Construct Serial Designation X-1288, I see you have arrived on the mission sight alongside myself."
X: "Affirmative. So, are we to begin the termination."
N-0889: "Affirmative X-1288. We are to storm in and kill them all. The technology they have stolen is not only expensive, but also are important company tools."
X: "Indeed. Today we exterminate the gang Riley Fluze led before I crushed his skull. We remove the Cypher Gators from the streets of Neo City."
N-0889 began moving towards the large storehouse nearby, what drones determined was the Cypher Gator hideout. X walked alongside N-0889, though faster due to the lighter frame in comparison to the body N-0889 had his nanometal shell form. N-0889 raised his left arm, forming a rail gun. Firing it into the storehouse door.
Immediately, gunfire aimed at the two Constructs. The Cypher Gators quickly attacking. X swiftly launched himself into the storehouse, landing on a Cypher Gator and crushing him. Another Cypher Gator yelled out.
Cypher Gator: "Shit! It's X!"
At the yell, many Cypher Gators had visible fear after it became clear one of the two Constructs was X himself. Suddenly, a woman appeared and shot X several times with a heavily modded revolver, doing not significant damage. X scanned her with his optics, identifying her.
X: "Sal Fluze, spouse and co-leader of the Cypher Gators. Your husband has been terminated. You will be next."
Sal: "Bastard bot! I'll dismantle you for Riley! Cypher Gators, get the bot!"
Many Cypher Gators fired on X, a few foolish enough got in close, either getting shredded by their own comrades fire, or torn apart by X. A missile made of nanometal launched into the storehouse, wiping out the Cypher Gators to X's left. After the detonation, the nanometal that remained of the missile returned to N-0889 which had made his way inside.
N-0889: "X-1288, deal with Sal Fluze. I shall exterminate the rest."
N-0889 morphed his body to be firmly planted into the ground, then transforming his arms and chest into miniguns. As X ran for Sal, N-0889 fired a mass amount of bullets into the Cypher Gators, wiping through even ones with cybernetics easily. Blood splattered upon other Cypher Gators, before those Cypher Gators to met the end via the nanometal monstrosity.
X ran after Sal through the store house, Sal utilizing tight squeezes to temporarily get away. However, X was never far behind. Eventually X caught up, but in his optics was a child, one registered in his databases as well.
X: "Mollie Fluze. Child of Sal and Riley Fluze. Why would you lead me here. It is extremely foolish."
Instead of a response, Sal clicked a button on her wrist watch, detonation multiple explosives directly around X. But X simply walked through, reaching for Sal and grabbing her by the head.
X: "Termination successful."
With swift power, Sal's head popped like a balloon. Directly in front of Mollie. Mollie let out a cry, grief striking as she watched her mother die.
Mollie: "Mama!"
X was ready to kill, however once he saw her reaction, his rough emotion chip sparked with something other than subservience. X looked down on Mollie and was prepared to leave, but a small missile from a railgun pierced through the child. And upon looking up, there stood N-0889.
N-0889: "Were your optics glitched. Why did you hesitate."
X: "Children are not threats N-0889."
N-0889: "No, but one raised in these ways will only grow to replace what once was. Now, the mission is over. Return to the Zeoman Enterprises building. I will investigate the site."
X hesitated, not immediately responded. However, X would begin leaving.
X: "Affirmative."
X walked back to the Zeoman Enterprises building, for the first time, questioning himself and the rudimentary emotion chip within him.
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