"Aren't you worried about Von Bach?" Xanthiana had been driving down the road for about an hour before the AI spoke, she hadn't seen anyone following them yet, but got the feeling she wouldn't see them so much as run into them.
"No because clearly something has gone catastrophically wrong with their operation."
"Why do you say that? I haven't gotten any alert or otherwise notice things have gotten worse."
"Elly if things were ok they'd have recalled me by now, I'm still their employee, I'm still in the area, if they were doing fine I'd be right out in front sitting next to some dumb piece of technology while bandits took pot shots at it, but things have not gone ok, things have clearly gone to shit and we're just moments away from being drug back into it on top of all the other SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!" Xanthiana slammed on the breaks as a huge cloaked figure was sitting front and center in the road. The challenger slid sideways and came to a stop ten feet from the figure. She couldn't tell much about what the creature was, it was taller than a sensoth, but not big enough to be a Volge unless they had baby Volge's a thought too terrifying for Xanthiana to process.
"Extensive cybernetic modifications, present, processing information." The Cloaked figure stood up, the cloak fell away and a rather large looking drill emerged, "Files confirm he's a 99'er BACK UP!!!" Elly's voice confirmed something was wrong, the machines voice in her head practically screaming. Xanthiana threw the car in reverse and tried to back up, where she slammed into another one of the metal monstrosities.
"What the hell are these things?"
"Cybenetice miners known for dragging people off to become a part of their collective, I'd recommend evacuating the area as soon as possible."
"And lose my car, to hell with that idea." Xanthiana grabbed her rifle and exited her car. The 99'ers were about eight feet tall and both had fairly large drills, but no other weapon she could see. She had one in front of her and one holding the car in, so the priority was still to the loose combatant. She opened fire on him but his armor plating seemed to shrug off the bullets. With a deceptive speed the 99'er closed the distance and punched her hard with its cybernetic arm, her eyes swam with the impact and her rifle clattered away underneath the car. She was actually knocked far enough back that she almost got impaled by the other 99'er behind her. He casually tossed the rear end of her car out of her way and lunged with his drill.
Time seemed to slow down, Xanthiana could see the drill coming to pierce her insides, she could even make out a small piece of rust near the tip, she wondered briefly if that was blood from someone else. And then her survival instict cut in, aided by Elly boosting her adrenaline she dodged the drill lunge and the 99'ers impaled each other. Xanthiana would have laughed if not for the danger of the situation. She snagged her discarded rifle thanks to the 99'er moving her car and took aim behind one of the beasts, she could make out a part that wasn't cybernetic and fired point blank, the bullets ripped through something important and the creature slumped forward burying its drill deeper into its companion. She didn't wait to see if either was truly dead, instead she got in and drove off at top speed.
"Xan I don't believe this is safe you took a hard blow to the head." Her eyes were watering, but she didn't feel that bad.
"You can monitor.." And she lost her train of thought as the world spun in place and she passed out, her last thought before the crash was about how she had just gotten the car running the way she liked it.
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