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Chapter 3 - Intrusion

X entered the room from which he was receiving the readings, and in it guns were immediately trained on him. A man stood in the center of the room, a smug smirk on his face. X looked around the room and then at the man in the middle.

X: "Ah. Riley Fluze. You have been an extensive thorn to the biological security team of Zeoman Enterprises."

Riley: "Oh please, ya hunk o' junk. You listen 'ere, we're takin' these documents from Zeoman Enterprises an' you ain't gon' stop us."

X: "You are no Synthetic Lion. Yet you speak as if you are. A lowlife in an unimportant gang is not worth the effort of the most advanced Combatant Construct."

Riley picked up some documents that were in the room he ransacked on this top, corporate level of the Zeoman Enterprises building. He waved them in front of X's optics. He stepped near the large window that made up a wall of the office.

Riley: "Fire on 'im boys."

The men and women who had guns on X moved their fingers to pull the triggers, however immediately a two missile launchers popped up from X's shoulders, one on each. In them were a total of 12 anti-tank missiles, easily able to tear apart humans.

Riley: "Ah shit-"

The missiles fired, killing everyone in the room except for Riley, who was blasted out of the window. As he fell he smirked and tore off the jacket he was wearing, in his armpits cybernetic implants that added wings of synthetic mesh that functioned like sugar glider wings.

Riley: "Stupid bot. Lit himself an' my gang up, but ain't even saved the documents I was stealin'."

Riley laughed to himself, thinking he was invincible in this moment. That was until a bullet pierced through the mesh of his wings, then another, and another. He looked behind him, back up at the window he fell from and saw X descending after him, the robot plummeting towards him in the air.

X eventually got close enough and grabbed Riley by the back of the neck, preparing to snap it. However, Riley managed to flip around. Maneuvering to stand on X's chest as X took the brunt of the fall. They crashed into the street, leaving a mini crater in the metallic roads.

Riley quickly ran out once he recuperated and several more men and women from his gang were waiting on him in case things went south. X jumped out and almost began running after Riley, but was met with a storm of bullets firing into his Neo-Metal body. One woman stood beside Riley with a missile launcher and fired a missile straight into X.

There was a massive explosion followed by a cloud of dust. The men and women stood there, smirks and smiles on their faces thinking they destroyed X. Riley stood up straight and waved the documents at the cloud, as if taunting X's thought to be destroyed body.

Riley: "Tha's what a dumb bucket o' bolts like yourself gets when he messes with the best gang in Neo City!"

Riley had begun laughing, however that was cut short when the head of the woman with the missile launcher exploded like a popped balloon. Riley's eyes widened and he quickly looked to the woman, however then another head popped, then another, then two more. Eventually the entire group except for Riley had died, once again and in just a few minutes, Riley had his squad wiped.

When the cloud cleared, X stood there, mostly undamaged other than cracks in his glass faceplate. Both of his forearms aimed up, a cannon coming from each. The cannons went back into his forearms and he walked towards Riley.

X: "Again a criminal and opposition to Zeoman Enterprises attempts to destroy me. And again they fail."

Riley: "You're a tough bucket o' bolts I give you that."

Riley tried to sneak the documents into his pants, however X released one of his forearm cannons and shot a hole through the documents. Riley gritted his teeth and threw them out.

Riley: "You's a shitty damn robot if ever I knew one."

Riley then activated another cybernetic implant, attached to both of his cybernetic arms were tubes that began pumping an experimental drug known as Alpha Muscle through his veins. X tilted his head, however ultimately refrained from withdrawing a weapon.

X: "An Alpha Drug Booster implant. One of the first cybernetics and a rudimentary one at that."

Riley: "I don't want no guns for this! You's gonna fight fist to fist, you got that bucket o' bolts?"

X: "An illogical thought process even for the Alpha Muscle in your circulatory system. However, I accept."

Riley smirked. Alpha Muscle beefed up the body and essentially added a sense of advanced adrenaline to the body. Riley had immense faith, Alpha Muscle had never failed the man before in a fight. So, Riley threw a punch at X's stomach, however the robot did not flinch.

Riley felt a pain in his hand from the punch, a fist collision with Neo-Metal not being a pleasant feeling. X continued looking down at Riley.

X: "Is that all."

Riley: "Y-you goddam-"

A metallic fist immediately crashed into the jaws of Riley. The man reeled back from the punch. He jumped back at X, trying to punch him again, however X simply grabbed his arm and ripped it off.

Riley: "ARGGH!!! YOU BASTARD-"

X: "You challenged me to the fist fight. The drawbacks are on your foolish human mind."

X then tore off Riley's other arm, then kicked him in the chest, leaving him on the ground, bleeding. X walked to him, standing over Riley.

Riley: "I...I 'ave a family...lemme go-"

X: "That data is irrelevant. You chose to intrude on Zeoman Enterprises property. Now you die."

X raised a foot and crushed Riley's head under it, his brains splattering onto the street. X proceeded to contact a cleanup crew of Zeoman Enterprises, to get rid of the body. He turned from the body, walking back to the Zeoman Enterprises building.