Nanobotic Nightmare

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When she awoke she found herself next to the wall of a huge building.
It felt as though someone was trying to pull her brains out through
her temple and there was a tinny taste in her mouth. Getting up she
steadied herself on the wall and walked along it around the next
corner. At the far end stood Keats backing away quickly.
"Hey John." She said slightly fuzzy from her black out still.
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'Ahhhh!! not so load... wait! how can you subvocalise, i didnt know
you had nanos!'
'I spoke through the nanos? Severn gave em to me a minute ago...'
'And you can already use them? how... odd.... GET DOWN!'
The slight sound like someone sucking in through pursed lips was
heard again, the corner of the building dissapeard in a instantanious
scattering of Particles. Amber's head swam as the shockwave hit her.
"Heh heh heh, cool. Lets do it again." She murmered
'No.. not cool, were pinned down by a load of psycohtic robots who
are hell bent in harvesting my organs to revive their dead creator,
who by the way, The Gun(TM) probably had some roll in, they have a
gun that could easily turn the Dwarf into a haze of alpha rad-
particles and my hands bleeding again. So not cool. anyway, how are
you?'
John was flusterd, his Int-Armour was appluing vast amounts of
morphine to compensate for his hand injurie.
"I feel sick" Amber said, although she couldn't be sure if it was
through the nanos or not.
'Right, look, we gotta get out of here. Jacks alive, somewhere, i
think, but they easily out number us and one moravec has a shield
that stopped one of Jacks charges. The sickness will subside, your
body just has to realise that its not an invading organism'
"Cool." Amber said begining to look slightly flushed.
The flu was setting on quite fast. She reached into a pocket and
pulled out one of the EMP grenades her Dad had given her
"This help?" She said holding it out to John
'Nice one....' Keats nodded in satisfaction. 'I doubt it will get by
that shield, but, at least itl clear out a chunk of the others, id
throw it, but, i ahhh, was never to good in that department'
"You think, i'm in any fit state? The only think i'm gonna be
throwing soon is vomit." She said.
He took the grenade in his hand, bounced it in his hand for a moment,
glanced around the corner of the building, and threw it in the
general direction of the masses. A few slug shots ricochetted around,
but these were utility, not warbots. The grenades arc in the sky was
shaky, and it landed a few meters infront of the main body. The EMP
blast rippled out, several of the bots just ceased funcioning, others
went crazy before falling over and exploding.
'RUN!!!'
Amber dragged her feet after Keats as fast as she could, trying to
ignor the sickness she felt. Keats risked a glance towards the enemy,
hed been standing in a dead end and now was making a break for a door
about 50 meters away, they were mulling around in general confusion,
except one, that was following them... Amber also glanced back and
saw the robot with the shield following them. All she could do was
follw Keats, this was his world, she was only here for backup,
although feeling ill she couldn't do that really either.
"So much use i'm turning out to be." She mumbled
Keats threw himself against the door, if it was locked before, it
wasnt now. He stumbled backup, and helped Amber in, as he did, he
nticed the heavyily armed bot stop for a moment and turn round,
'Right, we need to find someway of taking that one out! Its either
gone to get friends, or it has to recharge. Im hoping the latter'
"urm...." Amber thought for a moment
"How about GUNK?" She asked. Keats mused this for a while.
'It might work, but, that shield seems to stop everything, i saw
masonary simply slide off it. It probably uses some kind of
Frictionless force field... man, i wish i coul dget my hands on the
tech for that...' Amber cocked her head towards him. 'Ah, sorry, bit
excited, no, GUNK would be effective against the others tho...'
"I dunno then." Said Amber sitting down on the floor feeling rather
dizzy after running.
Keats looked at Amber, a flash of worry came over him. He thought for
a while, and smiled.
'You know... i have an idea... its a long shot, but i bet it would
work....'
"Whu? does it involve my moving? because right now i'm not sure thats
a good thing." She said.
'Well, yeah, probably, you see, ive never seen a gun like that, ever,
and believe me, after sharing a room with Jack, you learn about
weapons. And fast. So, it was probably developed here, so, unless
they destroyed the orginal, its still here, all we have to do is find
it, make sure it works, find out how to use it, and lure them into
its firing range. Simple' He knew he sounded stupid as he said it.
"What if that IS the original?" Amber said, wishing the 'invading
organizms would just go away.
'Then were screwed'
"Oh good. I'm gonna die." Amber said, vomiting on the floor.
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