7 Road Kill
2034
Several of the mercenaries hop out of the back of the front truck. A bazooka is pulled out and aimed toward the shadows in the sky. Vanessa and the men hop out of the back and crawl underneath the truck. Sia begins to follow before she spots the shadows in the sky and lowers her goggles to get a better look.
The discharge of a weapon near her right shoulder makes her stumble forward and fall to her knees.
"Princess, get down here," Vanessa hisses at her.
She ignores the woman and looks at the first truck. Two men are trying to remove the tire. She puts her goggles back on and starts over to them in a crouched position.
"Aaay, Princess, get back here!"
When she gets over to the front of the stranded vehicle she tugs on the animal corpse with her gloved hands. The men continue to pry off the lugnuts. After dragging the deformed corpse off to the side, she jogs back and asks one of the men where the spare tire is.
One of them signals at the back of the vehicle and yells, "Underneath!"
He hops up from unscrewing lug nuts and runs to lower the spare tire from the tire mount. The mercenaries have stopped firing at the flying beasts, but they are patrolling the caravan checking for any more incoming predators.
Sia struggles to pull the tire from underneath, but after getting it out she rolls it over to the two men. Smiling in triumph, she settles the tire down near them, nods, and runs back to the vehicle she was primarily riding in.
'Had to get back some of my honor. Can't let them think I'm some unhelpful damsel in—-'
Sia is snatched and dragged right off the ground.
Eli squints at the bird corpses in the distance before ordering everyone back into their vehicles. Something moves in his peripheral vision and he jumps to action. He pulls up his weapon to aim at the large rodent running up to their vehicles, but it's too late.
"LOOK OUT!"
Sia's head bobs around as her waist is held up to the rodents' chest. It escapes the caravan and scurries toward a cluster of dilapidated buildings. She is dangling upside down, with her back to the rodents abdomen, and its' legs can be seen on either side of her.
VISUAL IMAGES ACCESSED
CRUSHING PRESSURE DETECTED ALONG PELVIC GIRDLE AND LUMBAR VERTEBRAE
STRAIN INCREASING IN CERVICAL VERTEBRAE
DISABLED PHYSICAL CONDITION
SUBJECT 001 DEFINE STATUS
"I'm going to die! HELP!!"
SYNTHETIC INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPER PRIORITY #1: ENSURE SUBJECT 001 STATUS REMAIN STABLE UNLESS COMMANDED OTHERWISE
NANO INFIRMARY PROTOCOL INITIATED
tRainQuilT646 RUNNING
SYNTHETIC INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPER PRIORITY #2: ENHANCE SUBJECT 001 BODY
Sia's body becomes limp and her arms slacken in the air. The Synthetic Intelligence Developer overrides her consciousness and lifts the body so it folds in half. That gives it the position it needs to have access to the rodents' hand that is grasping Sia's waist. It tenses the muscles in Sia's left arm and positions her fingers into a spear before striking at the animal. The rodent cries out in shock, drops Sia's body, and before it can turn back to pick her back up two shots ring out.
A bullet splits the squirrels tail and embeds itself into its shoulder before another pierces its head. It collapses a few feet from Sia. Sia's body lay still for several moments before she gasps for air and rolls onto her side. The injuries from the fall are quickly healing, and as Sia lifts herself off the ground she sees the skin on her fingers knitting back together.
"No...no...no. Stop!" she frantically hisses at her hand.
'Stop healing these!'
NANO INFIRMARY PROTOCOL TERMINATED
She examines her hands and sees tiny scrapes along her knuckles. Her jumpsuit is torn and dusty, but overall, she is alright. The cut along her head is not bleeding as much as head wounds usually do, so she smears the blood from her arm along her forehead before turning toward the figures running in her direction. It didn't take her far from the makeshift road, but the rubble and tight spaces between the buildings make it hard for the vehicles to drive in her direction.
Looking back at the freakishly large squirrel, she shutters. She picks up a rock and tosses it at the dead creature. It twitches, and she squeaks before hobbling away. She limps toward her rescuers at a slow pace.
"Back to square one."
~~~~~~~~~~~
2035
Sid is fixing his pants when he hears footsteps thunder behind him and a snarl. He takes a step forward and looks behind him before he is pushed up against a tree.
"Ha ha ha. Finally found you," a panting voice whispers behind him.
The hairs on Sid's arms raise as he recognizes the Savage leader's voice. The crazed man pulls out a blade and holds the tip to Sid's scalp.
"I finaaaally fouuuund you," the deranged voice repeats in a singsong voice.
The sharp edge activates Sid's survival protocols.
J44S2v1V4l.Stay ENABLED
tRainQuilT646 RUNNING
Sid grasps the tree and kicks back into the Savage's torso. The leader grunts and takes a step back. The knife point vanishes and Sid turns, grabs the knife-wielding wrist, and twists it. The knife is dropped. Sid twists the man's arm. The Savage spins and is kicked in the back face first into a tree.
Growling, he dodges as Sid sends out the second kick.
Crunch.
Bark falls to the ground as the heavy kick collides with the tree.
The Savage shakes his head and grins to show off his bloody, sharp teeth. Sid holds his fists up and steps toward the deranged man. The Savage backs away from the tree and waits for Sid to get within reach. Sid punches left, right, left, right, but the Savage is just as quick and dodges each punch.
"Kraaaaa!"
The Savage screams as he wildly kicks up his leg at Sid's face. Sid leans back and feels the wind from the kick pass by his face. The Savage swiftly lifts his leg again high, then drops it vertically down where Sid was standing. Sid spins off to the side and elbows the other man in the head.
Crack.
Bone meets bone, and the hit makes the Savage stumble off to the side holding his head.
"AAAAAAAAAAH!" Another Savage comes running and leaps onto Sid's back.
Sid backs into a tree. He slams the body into the tree one, two, three times, before their grip around his neck slackens. When they release their grip, he can see in his peripheral that the Leader is done recuperating and is charging for him with his knife in hand. Sid turns his back on the leader, grabs the neck of the interloper and turns the body into the knife's path.
The person cries out as the blade is sheathed into their back. Sid pushes the person's body into the Leader to gain more space. The Savage backs up, tosses the corpse to the ground, and grabs the gun from the waistband of their jeans.
Bang!
The Savage leader fires at Sid and grazes his arm. Sid grasps the wounded limb and runs for cover.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Bark flies as the bullets miss their target and bury into the trees around them. Sid's enhanced leg speed can only last for a short amount of time, and his enhanced ears hear gunfire and screams farther out. His olfactory senses are registering smoke and blood. If he could see beyond the leaves above he is sure that dark clouds of smoke would be seen high up in the sky.
Stopping his run to change direction, he runs farther into cover, and along the perimeter of the Leader in order to get behind the deviant.
"Don't hide from me! Sid!" a rageful voice shrieks.
Sid runs full speed and executes a flying knee strike into the Savages spine.
"Agh!"
Bang!
The leader's hand pulls the trigger of his gun and shoots into the trees. Sid stomps a foot into the man's shoulder, grabs his forearm, and twists.
"AAAAAAAAH!"
The Savage Leader drops the gun, but they are interrupted again, this time by a machete-wielding savage. Sid drops the dislocated arm and backs away from the blade being waved in the air. He waits for the crazy to lift their arm high before executing a power angle kick into their side. The whip-like kick slams the Savage off to the side. The pain makes them drop their machete and grip their side in agony.
Sid uses that moment to charge toward the injured opponent. The minion sees this and raises up to defend himself, but Sid has already executed a flying knee into his chest. The force pushes them up in the air into a tree.
"Raaaah!"
Bang!
Sid's enhanced hearing picks up the movements of the Savage leader as he pulls the trigger once again. With his dominant arm dislocated, his aim is way off. Sid's system was already prepared for this and dodges the bullet.
'I need to find the others,' Sid thinks, before turning to a tree and scaling up it.
Bang!
Another bullet is fed into the tree. Sid uses the height he has acquired to figure out if he can see any signs of the others. A bit of smoke can be seen through gaps in the canopy, but the tree crowns are too thick to see much more than that. Sid looks down at the man that is aiming a gun at him. The Savage leader pulls the trigger and hears a click. Sid drops down on the frustrated man who is cursing and clicking the empty gun.
Sid's large body hits the preoccupied menace legs first.
"Umph." The leader crashes onto his side, and elbows at the weight on him.
Sid pushes down on the man's head and grunts at the elbow that hits his cheek.
"Stop struggling, you annoying..." Sid mutters as he gets the miscreant into a headlock and holds on tight.
Squeezing tightly, he pulls back with one arm and holds the man's head forward with the other arm.
The struggling man swings his long limbs and uses his legs underneath himself to propel his head upwards into Sid's nose. Sid groans from the initial pain but can already feel the wound healing as small drops of blood drip onto his lip. He doesn't release the hold until the Savage is unmoving and clearly unconscious.
"That's what you get when you attack someone while they're pissing. Inconsiderate weasel."
"Siiiiiiiid!"
Sid unwraps himself from the Savage as he hears several figures rushing through the woods calling his name.
"Brother!"
"Sid!"
Several of the mercenaries hop out of the back of the front truck. A bazooka is pulled out and aimed toward the shadows in the sky. Vanessa and the men hop out of the back and crawl underneath the truck. Sia begins to follow before she spots the shadows in the sky and lowers her goggles to get a better look.
The discharge of a weapon near her right shoulder makes her stumble forward and fall to her knees.
"Princess, get down here," Vanessa hisses at her.
She ignores the woman and looks at the first truck. Two men are trying to remove the tire. She puts her goggles back on and starts over to them in a crouched position.
"Aaay, Princess, get back here!"
When she gets over to the front of the stranded vehicle she tugs on the animal corpse with her gloved hands. The men continue to pry off the lugnuts. After dragging the deformed corpse off to the side, she jogs back and asks one of the men where the spare tire is.
One of them signals at the back of the vehicle and yells, "Underneath!"
He hops up from unscrewing lug nuts and runs to lower the spare tire from the tire mount. The mercenaries have stopped firing at the flying beasts, but they are patrolling the caravan checking for any more incoming predators.
Sia struggles to pull the tire from underneath, but after getting it out she rolls it over to the two men. Smiling in triumph, she settles the tire down near them, nods, and runs back to the vehicle she was primarily riding in.
'Had to get back some of my honor. Can't let them think I'm some unhelpful damsel in—-'
Sia is snatched and dragged right off the ground.
Eli squints at the bird corpses in the distance before ordering everyone back into their vehicles. Something moves in his peripheral vision and he jumps to action. He pulls up his weapon to aim at the large rodent running up to their vehicles, but it's too late.
"LOOK OUT!"
Sia's head bobs around as her waist is held up to the rodents' chest. It escapes the caravan and scurries toward a cluster of dilapidated buildings. She is dangling upside down, with her back to the rodents abdomen, and its' legs can be seen on either side of her.
VISUAL IMAGES ACCESSED
CRUSHING PRESSURE DETECTED ALONG PELVIC GIRDLE AND LUMBAR VERTEBRAE
STRAIN INCREASING IN CERVICAL VERTEBRAE
DISABLED PHYSICAL CONDITION
SUBJECT 001 DEFINE STATUS
"I'm going to die! HELP!!"
SYNTHETIC INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPER PRIORITY #1: ENSURE SUBJECT 001 STATUS REMAIN STABLE UNLESS COMMANDED OTHERWISE
NANO INFIRMARY PROTOCOL INITIATED
tRainQuilT646 RUNNING
SYNTHETIC INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPER PRIORITY #2: ENHANCE SUBJECT 001 BODY
Sia's body becomes limp and her arms slacken in the air. The Synthetic Intelligence Developer overrides her consciousness and lifts the body so it folds in half. That gives it the position it needs to have access to the rodents' hand that is grasping Sia's waist. It tenses the muscles in Sia's left arm and positions her fingers into a spear before striking at the animal. The rodent cries out in shock, drops Sia's body, and before it can turn back to pick her back up two shots ring out.
A bullet splits the squirrels tail and embeds itself into its shoulder before another pierces its head. It collapses a few feet from Sia. Sia's body lay still for several moments before she gasps for air and rolls onto her side. The injuries from the fall are quickly healing, and as Sia lifts herself off the ground she sees the skin on her fingers knitting back together.
"No...no...no. Stop!" she frantically hisses at her hand.
'Stop healing these!'
NANO INFIRMARY PROTOCOL TERMINATED
She examines her hands and sees tiny scrapes along her knuckles. Her jumpsuit is torn and dusty, but overall, she is alright. The cut along her head is not bleeding as much as head wounds usually do, so she smears the blood from her arm along her forehead before turning toward the figures running in her direction. It didn't take her far from the makeshift road, but the rubble and tight spaces between the buildings make it hard for the vehicles to drive in her direction.
Looking back at the freakishly large squirrel, she shutters. She picks up a rock and tosses it at the dead creature. It twitches, and she squeaks before hobbling away. She limps toward her rescuers at a slow pace.
"Back to square one."
~~~~~~~~~~~
2035
Sid is fixing his pants when he hears footsteps thunder behind him and a snarl. He takes a step forward and looks behind him before he is pushed up against a tree.
"Ha ha ha. Finally found you," a panting voice whispers behind him.
The hairs on Sid's arms raise as he recognizes the Savage leader's voice. The crazed man pulls out a blade and holds the tip to Sid's scalp.
"I finaaaally fouuuund you," the deranged voice repeats in a singsong voice.
The sharp edge activates Sid's survival protocols.
J44S2v1V4l.Stay ENABLED
tRainQuilT646 RUNNING
Sid grasps the tree and kicks back into the Savage's torso. The leader grunts and takes a step back. The knife point vanishes and Sid turns, grabs the knife-wielding wrist, and twists it. The knife is dropped. Sid twists the man's arm. The Savage spins and is kicked in the back face first into a tree.
Growling, he dodges as Sid sends out the second kick.
Crunch.
Bark falls to the ground as the heavy kick collides with the tree.
The Savage shakes his head and grins to show off his bloody, sharp teeth. Sid holds his fists up and steps toward the deranged man. The Savage backs away from the tree and waits for Sid to get within reach. Sid punches left, right, left, right, but the Savage is just as quick and dodges each punch.
"Kraaaaa!"
The Savage screams as he wildly kicks up his leg at Sid's face. Sid leans back and feels the wind from the kick pass by his face. The Savage swiftly lifts his leg again high, then drops it vertically down where Sid was standing. Sid spins off to the side and elbows the other man in the head.
Crack.
Bone meets bone, and the hit makes the Savage stumble off to the side holding his head.
"AAAAAAAAAAH!" Another Savage comes running and leaps onto Sid's back.
Sid backs into a tree. He slams the body into the tree one, two, three times, before their grip around his neck slackens. When they release their grip, he can see in his peripheral that the Leader is done recuperating and is charging for him with his knife in hand. Sid turns his back on the leader, grabs the neck of the interloper and turns the body into the knife's path.
The person cries out as the blade is sheathed into their back. Sid pushes the person's body into the Leader to gain more space. The Savage backs up, tosses the corpse to the ground, and grabs the gun from the waistband of their jeans.
Bang!
The Savage leader fires at Sid and grazes his arm. Sid grasps the wounded limb and runs for cover.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Bark flies as the bullets miss their target and bury into the trees around them. Sid's enhanced leg speed can only last for a short amount of time, and his enhanced ears hear gunfire and screams farther out. His olfactory senses are registering smoke and blood. If he could see beyond the leaves above he is sure that dark clouds of smoke would be seen high up in the sky.
Stopping his run to change direction, he runs farther into cover, and along the perimeter of the Leader in order to get behind the deviant.
"Don't hide from me! Sid!" a rageful voice shrieks.
Sid runs full speed and executes a flying knee strike into the Savages spine.
"Agh!"
Bang!
The leader's hand pulls the trigger of his gun and shoots into the trees. Sid stomps a foot into the man's shoulder, grabs his forearm, and twists.
"AAAAAAAAH!"
The Savage Leader drops the gun, but they are interrupted again, this time by a machete-wielding savage. Sid drops the dislocated arm and backs away from the blade being waved in the air. He waits for the crazy to lift their arm high before executing a power angle kick into their side. The whip-like kick slams the Savage off to the side. The pain makes them drop their machete and grip their side in agony.
Sid uses that moment to charge toward the injured opponent. The minion sees this and raises up to defend himself, but Sid has already executed a flying knee into his chest. The force pushes them up in the air into a tree.
"Raaaah!"
Bang!
Sid's enhanced hearing picks up the movements of the Savage leader as he pulls the trigger once again. With his dominant arm dislocated, his aim is way off. Sid's system was already prepared for this and dodges the bullet.
'I need to find the others,' Sid thinks, before turning to a tree and scaling up it.
Bang!
Another bullet is fed into the tree. Sid uses the height he has acquired to figure out if he can see any signs of the others. A bit of smoke can be seen through gaps in the canopy, but the tree crowns are too thick to see much more than that. Sid looks down at the man that is aiming a gun at him. The Savage leader pulls the trigger and hears a click. Sid drops down on the frustrated man who is cursing and clicking the empty gun.
Sid's large body hits the preoccupied menace legs first.
"Umph." The leader crashes onto his side, and elbows at the weight on him.
Sid pushes down on the man's head and grunts at the elbow that hits his cheek.
"Stop struggling, you annoying..." Sid mutters as he gets the miscreant into a headlock and holds on tight.
Squeezing tightly, he pulls back with one arm and holds the man's head forward with the other arm.
The struggling man swings his long limbs and uses his legs underneath himself to propel his head upwards into Sid's nose. Sid groans from the initial pain but can already feel the wound healing as small drops of blood drip onto his lip. He doesn't release the hold until the Savage is unmoving and clearly unconscious.
"That's what you get when you attack someone while they're pissing. Inconsiderate weasel."
"Siiiiiiiid!"
Sid unwraps himself from the Savage as he hears several figures rushing through the woods calling his name.
"Brother!"
"Sid!"
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