Battery Death in..
6D:5H:6M
Night has fallen on the city...
10XT's biosphere skin has been removed,to allow him to blend in with the dark sky. As he lept from rooftop to rooftop,he was navigating a GPS to lead him to Frosteaves Construction Co.
Upon arriving he begins to observe the building.
For a construction building,armed guards seemed to be teeming at the corners. He zooms in on the front door.
He sends out a quick scan..
>>Scanning Environment....
(12 Hostiles located)
(6:Outdoors:Rooftop and Street level:4:Indoors)
(4:Lighly Armed:Roof)
(2:Heavily armed:Front door)
"So walking in the front door is out of the question.." 10XT mutters.
Looking higher he finds that the roof guarded
but was unlit.
He jumps across the gap to a neighboring building..
And quietly he lands in the shadowy area just as a unit passes. Quietly he snags the autonomous guard,driving a bioknife into the neck to prevent the robot from notifying it's allies.
10XT moved silently,from cover to cover as he stalked the remaining 3 guards.
He paused,right as a guard did on the opposite side of the cover. He repeats the process with this one as well.
>>Two down....Two to go...
Using the cover of darkness he eliminates the remaining two. Once he got the door open,he began to search the building,floor by floor to find each and every room empty.
He started looking for the Foreman's office.
The center of the building was vacant...and dark...
Something felt off..
The open floor below was too dark to see into.
10XT turns on the lights to reveal a large,quadropedal spider tank,seemingly unarmed. It distinctly resembled a eyeless,hairless tarantula.
"You've gotta be fucking kidding.." 10XT mutters.
For the moment he resumes searching.
He comes to the only office with light.
10XT peers inside to see a man connected to hundreds,if not thousands of wires. A quick test of the door indicated it was locked.
He scans the operator who seemed to be almost blindly typing away.
[ Scanning.....]
[Security I.C.E. Detected!]
[Decrypting....]
Before 10XT could move and wait for the decryption,a rope-like arm grapples him from behind,dragging him down onto the floor with the Spider Tank.
"Welcome to Frosteves Construction Co. Im glad you could drop in!" Someone said over the intercom.
The Arena lights up to reveal more of the spider tank. Clearly it was still under assembly,its weapons were missing. The machine powers up with a low growl as it lumbered with heavy steps to face its opponent.
"As you can see we aren't just a construction Corporation. Here at the Frosteve's Construction company,we also fashion weapons and vehicles for the FCPD. You wont live long enough to tell the tale,however. You'll be the first to test fight the Tyrantula.." The voice returns,as the Spider Tank adjusts to charge the Augmentee.
The machine snarls and quickly lunges at it's new target,as 10XT rolls out of the way,narrowly as he starts running for a door.
A Machine linked into a hydraulic exoskeleton steps in the way of the fleeing posthuman,only for him to narrowly slide under and ram into the next room.
Since niether of the machines could give chase,they waited for 10XT to come back out.
The office room seemed to be a dead end...
"Fuck me...Now how would someone like me get out of here and deal with those enemies outside..? Think...think...Ah!" 10XT dawns.
(Scanning for exits....)
(2 found!)
(1:Occupied by 2 Heavy Cybernetic Hostiles)
(2:Unoccupied,vent,back wall left corner,may lead to the roof or to another office)
10XT looks at the door he came in,gathering his options. Before he leaves the room,he searches,not finding much,until he stumbles upon a hand cannon.
As he picks it up his body scans it.
(Scanning Weapon.....)
{SHOCK AND AWE}
{Hand-Cannon}
{6 Rounds || 3 chambers loaded}
{//REQUIRES SPECIALIZED AMMUNITION\\}
"Well it's better than nothing.." 10XT mutters as he settles the revolver to an internal weapon holster. He cuts a final look at the door before pulling open the vent his system deemed accessible.
"You know ..there are reasons why people are looking for posthumans like you. Part of it is a form of immortality..."
The hydraulic machine stops in front of where the vent would be.
"For others...its a price on your head..."
"For me,It's your design. I cant wait to tear into your body,see what marvels of technology Grayson had achieved."
The Hydraulic frame moves on,allowing 10XT to sneak out onto the balcony. At entryways and occasionally out in the open,cameras with powerful search lights were scanning about.
"Ooo it excites me knowing you're here now,ESPECIALLY since I have control of the whole building. So come out,little insect. I promise it will be fast!~"
Grayson sneaks out onto a catwalk over the staging area.
A light shines on him. "THERE YOU ARE!!"
The manipulation arms deploy from the spider tank,forcing 10XT out into the arena.
"Fuck- Fuck-"
As 10XT ducked and dodged through missed grabs and charges,he began to scan the environment for a way out.
>>(1) EXIT FOUND:WEAKNESS IN WALL<<
He was given an emergency guideline,and with that,he flees the scene,following the line into a series of offices,while being chased by the tank. As 10XT thundered through he was told to bear straight ahead and brace for impact.
He rams through the wall,finding he had broken out onto the roof of a building. 10XT now had more room to move,but before he thought he could catch a break,the Tank reared its ugly head,crashing through the wall,"I COMING FOR YOU,INSECT!!"
10XT begins to put distance between himself and the tank,which had a terrifying amount of agility for it's size.
He reaches a huge drop.
"Shit..."
The thunder of the tank helped 10XT make a decision. He lept for it...
Somewhere down below,a human on a cybernetic leopard was running down that exact street,for a dark blue blur to land in front of him,damaging the concrete and leaping into a full blown sprint.
The Human stops,looking on in bewilderment,then the spider tank drops near him as well in a similar fashion and following the path of 10XT. The Human gets his panther moving,following the path of the tank,which had disappeared around a corner.
By the time the human had arrived,the tank was down. Upon closer inspection,there was little damage to the rest of the body,but a gaping hole sat between the large machine's optics,showing a cybernetic brain that had been crushed with a single bare hand.
"What the fuck was that..?" The Human questions.
>>>Back at Sapphire's Apartment<<<
OWW!" 10XT yelps.
"Oh shut up you big baby it's just a plate realignment. Going against a spider tank? Running through a wall? You haven't even been alive 1 day and you've already killed something twice your size. This should be nothing more than pulling on skin." Sapphire said as she freed jammed armor plates.
"How about YOU get surprise attacked by a Tyrantula? let's see how long that fight lasts." 10XT grunts through another plate adjustment.
"Tyrantula? You mean the MA34 Abrahms Armored CyberTank?" Sapphire asked.
"Precisely. Tyrantula seems to fit better." 10XT said.
"Other than jammed plates and a couple of minor dents,you'll live. Though you should definitely consider a stealth suite."
"I'll keep that in note." Grayson said.
A knock emits from the front door. Sapphire tends to the door,and finds a Frosteves Construction Inspector at the door.