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.“Don’t be afraid.I won’t hurt you.I’m not capable of doing such a thing.My name is Cy, what’s yours?”“Clio.”“Pleased to meet you, Clio.”Clio didn’t answer as she looked down at Russ’s body.“I’m sorry,” Cy said as he acknowledged the old man’s body.“Was he your father?”“No… Russ was my friend.”“Did you do that?” Cy asked, nodding toward the monster, noticing the birthday cake candle dwindling down.“Yes.I killed him,” Clio answered.“You’re a very brave girl,” Cy affirmed.“Will you allow me to help you?”Looking at Cy as her subconscious mind tried to figure out the mystery in his eyes, the young girl nodded her head yes.She felt a warm calming sensation flow over her body as she began to fully trust the cyborg.Cy walked over to Russ and scooped him up.As the cyborg walked over to a loveseat, the old man’s head draped down, and Cy gently placed his body on its cushions.“Let’s get this filthy thing out of here shall we?” Cy suggested, staring at the dead creature in the hallway.“Yes,” Clio firmly answered, holding her nose.After walking to the beast, Cy squatted and grabbed it by both ankles.Clio opened the door for Cy and watched him drag it out, its head bouncing in a sickening thud as it went through the doorway.Cy dragged the smelly creature off the front steps and continued across the yard with the dead mutant.He towed the nasty ass thing until he disappeared inside the woods.As the cyborg appeared from the tree line, Clio noticed the blood trail on the wood below her feet.Cy had finished hauling and dumping the body and came out empty handed.Moving with a distinct grace, light yet powerful, the cyborg returned and walked up the front porch.“I know this is hard but we’ll need to bury him,” Cy stated as he looked at the old man on the loveseat.“I know,” Clio responded.“Where would you like to do it?” Cy asked.Clio shrugged her shoulders.“In the back yard… I guess.”“Very well.” Cy picked up Russ’s body and went out the front, kicking the screen door open.As it swung back creaking, Clio caught it and slipped by following behind.He’s so gentle… how can he be that strong? She watched Cy carry Russ along the side of the house, as if he was holding something precious, noticing that he was doing it with care.“I’ll look for a shovel,” Clio said as she walked ahead, moving toward a shed in the backyard.Wondering what was off about him, the girl entered the shed and rummaged through it, her mind racing; this handsome young man was mesmerizing to her.Something was very curious indeed.She felt her body tingle at the very thought of seeing him again.Walking through trapped musty air, Clio came out of the wooden structure delighted.Then the reality of the cyborg holding her dead friend ripped her heart out.Cy was kneeling to rest the old man on the ground as Clio walked closer holding a shovel by her side.“Found this.”“Thank you,” Cy gently responded as she handed it to him.He began to dig near the edge of the woods.Watching him dig, Clio had a thousand questions racing through her mind.Lady sniffed Russ and barked.She whined making his lifeless body move, nosing against him.“Why did you say you’re not human?” Clio asked.“Not fully human,” Cy answered as he used his uninjured foot to strike the shovel.“What does that mean?”“I’m a cyborg.”“A cyborg?” Clio asked, scrunching her face.“Yes Clio.I’m part human and part machine.”“Um… ok.”“I’m a man though,” Cy said in a fake voice, smiling.His joke was a bit off but Clio understood he was making one.“I’m just a regular girl.”“I guessed that,” Cy answered, looking at Clio who appeared embarrassed from the comment.The obvious girl remark just came out of her mouth without thinking.But then again, if this cyborg was telling the truth, maybe regular people weren’t so obvious anymore.“Are there more like you?” Clio asked, accepting the conversation as well as whom… or what he said he was.“No.Dr.Marcus has only made me… so far anyway.”“Who’s Dr.Marcus?”“He’s the man that created me.I think you’ll get to meet him soon.” Cy realized that he wasn’t going to make it home on time.He knew that this lone little girl was too important to be left by herself, stranded.“Where did you come from?” Clio asked.“Charlotte North Carolina.DARPA office.”“What’s that?”“Dr.Marcus and I traveled there from our home in Alexandria Virginia yesterday.The facility is most excellent.Dr.Marcus will be able to build more like me there.”“Oh…”“Where are you from?” Cy asked.“RMB Jackson.”“How interesting.That’s where I was heading when I found you here,” Cy announced.“Why were you going there?”“To check for survivors.”“Don’t bother…” Clio said, kicking some of the dirt back in the hole being dug.Cy stopped digging and looked at Clio.“Please forgive me for asking this Clio, but why?”“Gone… there’s nothing there… Everyone’s gone or dead.”“There are no survivors?” Cy gently asked.“Just me… and maybe some others.”“Others?” Cy asked as he began digging again.“Russ and I went there and… this old woman told us they took people.”“The Ker took people?” Cy asked.“Yes.”“Dr.Pavlov,” Cy stated, digging harder.“Who’s that?” Clio asked.“The man who started all this,” Cy answered as he looked around at the world.“You know him?” Clio asked.“Where is he?”“My master knew him.They worked together before the war started.”“Where does he… I mean… do you know where he took my mother?”“Was your mother one of the one’s that were taken from the RMB?”“I don’t know,” Clio responded.“I think so… I know she’s alive though… I can feel it.”“He’s in the state of Georgia somewhere… I believe.”“How do you know that?” Clio asked.“It’s where he’s lived all his life.His factory in Savannah was destroyed but he’s there in Atlanta somewhere.Dr.Marcus thinks the same thing…”Chapter 50 - My Old Friend“I told God to protect me from my enemiesand I started losing friends.”-UnknownAtlanta:Dr.Pressfield was nauseous when the vehicle finally stopped.He’d been bounced around for the last several hours without a break.Waiting, the back door suddenly flung open and Marcus tensed, anticipating the bots would appear at any second and drag him out.“Marcus, my old friend,” Dr.Pavlov greeted after popping his head inside the back of the Hum-Z.“Dr.Pavlov,” Marcus stated calmly.Dr.Pavlov’s head disappeared as one of the Sentinel bots leaned inside the back, waving like a traffic cop, ordering him out with a hand gesture.Grabbing Marcus by the arm, it launched him out, hitting the ground hard and rolling.Disoriented, Marcus was grabbed again and being dragged by two Sentinels as they followed behind Dr.Pavlov.Seth Pavlov turned around and looked at Marcus.“The old CDC,” he said as Marcus raised his head.“My new home… Come on in and I’ll show you around.”Dr.Pressfield knew this was probably going to be his last stop.Pavlov always seemed a bit off, but now, now he had a deranged look in his eyes.The bots drug him inside the building as he noticed the makeshift factory.“Seat him over there,” Dr.Pavlov ordered [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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