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She took one of the glasses sipped a bit from it and made a face. “A local brewed spirit but not anywhere as good as the scotch on earth. “
“Girl you are waiting my time and my patience just ran out. “
“Ok ok. Now to business. “ she dropped the drink and crossed her hands on her knees having very long well kept manicured nails. “I’m Jade and I work for the Earth watch Intelligence Agency the intelligence branch of the Colonial Security and Control. That is a fact I want only you to be aware of in the whole of Nuterra. Hope you can keep a secret? “ she took up her glass cup again and sip again.
Marvel took a long time going through all these in his mind. No wonder she knows so much, she is a stinking spy. Why is earth suddenly showing more than the normal casual interest normally shown on all the corporate organizations controlling the colonies on Nuterra? Well with what he have just witnessed, it shouldn’t be much of a question. But how will earth have gotten to know about what is happening so fast to already have an agent on ground investigating.
“What does earth want? “
“There have been some concerns about certain rumors of an illegal stuff going on among the big corporations on Nuterra. “she stopped a bit when he saw Marvel looking around with worries on his face. “Don’t worry, no one can eavesdrop on us. If the surrounding noise don’t fool with their sensors, I have this.” She brought out a small black box, that she covered completely with her palm. The box blinks with a red, blue and green light. “It’s a listening device scrambler. So we are covered. “

“Why am I here? “ Marvel asked, allowing just a bit of irritation and impatience creep into his voice.
As a reply, woman circled him with her slender hands, pulled closer and brushed her lip lightly across his cheeks. “We have an image to put up before everyone her, we are a couple on our first romantic date. I know my presence disgust you, but you just have to t your revulsion and let me enjoy my self around you. “ Giggling with the feminine charm she added. “More like a girl having her way for the first time with her crush. “
“I don’t care what your personal games are, if you are wasting my time, I’d make you regret everything you just did. “ Marvel disentangled her hands from around him.
“You aren’t fun, do you know that. “
“If you are just realizing that, then you didn’t do enough of your homework about me. “
“Well I was told to expect something similar to this from you, as much as it saddens me, I’m not disappointed. “
“Told by who? “ Marvel asked her.
“By your former psychiatrist. An unhappy woman. She said you are rude, rash, unfriendly, a sociopath, a loner, incapable of the least of human empathy, uncaring, selfish, self centered, ego centric and a potential human time bomb. “ She laughed loudly which brought some angry stares from other patrons in the small bar. “Should I say more? “
“How the hell did you know all this? “
“The how is not important, just that I know. “ She deal the order button on the table. “Will you like something to drink? “
Without waiting for his reply she ordered two glasses of drink. Two slot opened before the table and glass cup came up through them filed to half with amber coloured liquid.

At the hotel’s lobby, Marvel was directed to a lift in which he punched in the 105th floor as he got in. A low whine accompany the lift as it moved in about a minute, the door open ushering him into a small bar. The place was crowded but looked more like a private party than a bar. Most of the people here were more on the elderly side, in twos and threes, well dressed and all speaking in low tones except on one or two occasions of loud polite giggles. Marvel looked totally out of place. His combat amour wear is covered by his customary grey look coat he took grom the flyer. Still he stuck out like a sore thumb. Few people looked his way and those that did paid him scant attention.
He noticed an empty table just for two. A holo word displayed on the table saying “reserved for M.A.”,guess that is where the female voice wanted him to wait for her.
“Will you want something to drink while you wait for your guest? “ the table asked him as he sat down and the table have cleared him to be the right person the table reservation was made for.
“No thank you I’m fine. “ He replied the table.
“Marvel relax, you’re way too tensed. “ said someone behind him. Turning just a bit, he saw a lady standing and giving him a kind of look he finds very difficult interpreting. She was putting on a tight body fitting off shoulder lilac gown that clung alluringly to her body. The plaslinen material stopped just half way down her thighs. Her full dark coloured hair spread like a black halo behind her oval face, giving the olive coloured skin full prominence. Her lips shaped in a kind of amused smile, her eyes, dark and fierce looked at the bounty hunter, probing, questing and assessing. She came over, moved the second chair from its position of staying before Marvel to his side. She sat down by him and crossed her legs by the knee allowing the perfect curves of her thigh and knee display for his guest’s pleasure. Marvel saw none of these. Marvel have stopped being captivated by female beauty long ago. When you have been a bounty hunter as long as he is, beauty will always mean hiding a beast underneath.

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The air car landed at the parking space of Leon-Kane hotels in the ever busy pleasure area of New Haven. When Marvel noticed where the car had brought him to he wasn’t happy, New Haven is the one place he shouldn’t be seen in at the moment too close to his enemies. Still he kept calm, hoping that what ever brought him here was worth it. The building of the hotel was a long well designed tower of real glass, aluminum and duracrete. The parking lot was filled with lots of exotic cars, small pleasure boats and mini sky cruiser.
“This is the stop Marvel, I will be meeting you at the bar on the 105 floor. “ announced the female voice through the dashboard.
“And how will I know you when I see you? “
“Trust me you will, I have that effect on people. “
Marvel hesitated a bit before stepping out of the air cab. “Don’t worry the cab is instructed to wait for you till you get back. “ The female voice said again.
The air around the hotel was relatively cool but astir with the excitement of the multitude trooping in to the hotel. All well placed people, rich business merchants and top corporate executives on their way to skim as much pleasures as can be gotten with money. It was already early night here in New Haven, the huge glow of Proxima 5 dominating almost one third of the heavens given the night sky a purplish hue that dimmed the tiny glow of the million star lights. Other very tall buildings dominated this part of the city with thousands of lights winking from them and an occasional air car drive lights passing over head or coming down for a landing. At the entrance to the hotel, Marvel was frisked and cleared. He left his guns back at the air car as per the advice of the female voice. There is no way he will be able to get into the hotel armed. Still the bounty hunter wasn’t too worried because the whole thing didn’t feel like a trap, this place is too public for such a set up.

dominicnuel:
if there is a way u can upload by the minutes do dis ur story jus keep me inside since morning.

Oh I'm sorry, would really have love to do that, but work is keeping me tied and low battery isnt helping matters.
Will try and send more some updates later today.

“Well Marvel something serious is going down and I need to see you one on one to bring you up to speed. A lot is happening that you are totally unaware of. “
“Sorry girl not my problem. You want to share a confession how you were ravaged when been deflowered, go see a shrink or a priest. “ Marvel stood from the back seat he was sitting, pulling out his vibro blade, squeezing through the confining space of the air car to the dashboard of the front seat. “Since you refuse to relinquish your control over this car, I will have to do a manual override. “
“I wouldn’t advice that sir. The external control have an anti tamper agent that will crash the car if any forced overriding is attempted. “ The cab’s voice came on again.
“Well we will have to see about that. “ Marvel said as he activated the vibro blade. The serrated edge of the blade moved at a fast speed giving off a faint hum, this is where the vibro blade got its name. The micro serrated edges moving at that speed can cut through most things wood, flesh, bones and some uncoated metals.
“Don’t be stupid Marvel, any attempt to wrest control will only plunge the car, and at 15000 feet, I doubt you will survive the crash. “ The female voice came on again.
The bounty hunter ignored her, already cutting open a part of the dashboard cover and exposing the wiring and micro circuitry within.
“Please don’t do this Marvel. What I want to see you for is important. “ As Marvel continued to ignore her intent on his work, she added. “Ok you leave me no choice but to go this way. I saw your battle with the cyborg and your escape too. “
What she said jarred Marvel to a stop. “What did you just say? “
“I meant what I said, we really need to talk. “ answered the female voice.
Marvel deactivated the vibro blade and sat back down. “Ok, let me see what you have to say. If I’m not impressed, you will go down hard for wasting my time. “

Marvel sat up straight shocked that the air car stopped talking at the middle of its favorite word. He was sure it had nothing to do with what he just said. And the sound coming from the dashboard was squeaky as if the car’s auto control have been sorted.
“Hey metro cab what is the problem? “
No reply came for several seconds but while he was deciding on what to do next the voice came again. “Sorry to inform you sir, I am no longer in control of this vehicle. “
“What did you mean by that? “ Marvel queried. “Do you mean we are about to crash. “
“Far from that sir. An external force have taken control of the movement of this vehicle, and previously programed destination have changed and a new place imputed. “
“What the hell are you babbling about? “
“Don’t get too alarmed Marvel. I am the one that took over the control of the cab. I think I can explain better than the car’s minimal auto drive control. “ said a voice that sounded like a female from the voice grail on the dashboard.
“Who the hell are you? “
“That information can wait till later. “ replied the voice. “I need to see you but you’re a hard man to get Marvel, hence going through this unorthodox method. To guarantee your attention and confidentiality. “
“This have got to be a sick joke. And trust me no one who have met me will tell you that I’m big on levity and theatrics. “ Marvel fumed and was beginning to get miffed. “I guess you don’t know me or you wouldn’t have tried to pull this shit on me. “
“On the contrary Marvel, I have had my eyes on you for a long time. Might even say I’m actually fascinated by you. “
“A fascination that will get you killed soon enough if you don’t stop holding this car. “

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Few hours later Marvel took an auto cab. He dropped the flyer at a designated point, put it on auto pilot retrieval mode direct line to Hardwire’s hidden site. He didn’t want to move the flyer into town, it will draw much attention to him and presently no space to park at his place. Imra is not used to much flyers unless the few ones that carry top corporate executives when on inspection tours or holidaying at the few resorts available at the small town. The auto air cab is a self driving modern day care with medium range speed. Moreover his air car is destroyed, so no car to take him home. Hence the rental.
“Can I play you some cool music to calm you sir? “ a voice came from the speaker grail on the dash bored. “From my readings you appeared tired and tensed up. “
Before Marvel could reply, a high pitching whine in a sad caricature of a symphony sounded from the speaker grails. Marvel is never a fan of music, but this one is outright torture. “Please just stop the song. I need some peace and quiet. “
“Sir at Metro Terra air cab services, we pride ourselves in customers satisfaction. “ the voice said again after the song went off. “Can I offer you our daily life news services, just 10 credit for the day. “
“No, I’m not in the mood for any news now thank you. “
“Ok sir, what about our multiple and reliable advertisement, the line up is smart to only select what you need or the daily weather sat broadcast?“ the car offered again.
“No. “ Marvel almost screamed in frustration. That is why he hates public rented cabs.
“Well we aim to offer satisfactory service. But do you think you may like to…”
“No please I don’t need any of your satisfactory services, just be quiet, drive to the given address and inform me when you get there. “
“Thank you sir, we only aim to provide satis… buzz..beep….beep..”

Ok guys thanks for dropping in. Let me drop one more update before work takes over.

As Marvel watched from the cockpit, the cyborg hands have morphed already into twin micro plasma cannon on both arms. It stood rigid, didn’t fire, the head moving from side to side as if in denial of an argument. Marvel watched as the head twisted back suddenly and the mouth opened in a shape of a wide scream that was silent from where he is observing. The arms changed back into hands and held the part metal head. Marvel can imagine the cyborg screaming about the pains. Well to Marvel it wasn’t pity that stayed his hand from firing, just that it seem there are just too many things happening he felt needed to be sort through. Later the cyborg seem to get a hold of himself, stood and looked at the hovering flyer then turned his back and walked towards the building, jumping in through the hole on the roof.
Marvel pulled his thumb away from the firing button, engaged the thrusters of the flyer and climbed into the sky. Its time he got answers, but first, he needs to rest and recuperate.

Marvel moved the flyer closer to the metal heaps that filled the junk yard. He brought the face of the flyer into alignment with the single building that had served at a particular time in the past as a repair shop, a small metal recycling plant and spare part store. He couldn’t see much through the canopy of the flyer from the hole on the roof of the building, but when he engaged the x-ray and thermal imaging, the cyborg appeared as a mixture of red, orang, green and yellow colour. As Marvel watched, the image on the thermal imaging screen jumped through the open hole of the low roof and landed amidst a junk heap scattering the metal scraps about. Marvel engaged his targeting bringing the cyborg into the center of his cross hairs. He took a look through the cam for actual display as well as the targeting screen. The cyborg took two steps forward, lifted his arms that were already beginning to morph in to guns. Marvel thumb hovered over the fire button but something held him back. The image of the tortured cyborg, screaming always of pains. What could all that be about? Also the claims of him being Dr. Bryant and that Dr. Guthrie is alive and in hiding? What does he mean by an Ion Crystal and that he wasn’t really in the asteroid B512, contrary to what Nicolas have made him believe. Well lots of things are odd about this whole thing. Well be intends to find out and who ever is screwing with him will wished they never met him. Marvel decided to hold on a bit before firing. Anyway the flyer is armored and sturdy enough to take any initial salvos from the cyborg. The next events are going to happen by the next move the cyborg will make.

bqlekan:
Finally, apollux and marvel are both released from their cell.
I don't think marvel will destroy the cyborg. Atleast the cyborg has informations that might be useful to marvel if he is to go after the corporations. I see marvel and the cyborg forming a formidable team. More grease to your elbow man..

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Abi o.
U r correct, but considering the past they share(they have tried killing each other), that will be an uneasy Alliance. And a secret player u know is yet openly deal his hand. A new character just entered, she will play a minor role.
Hey I challenge u to guess where all these are heading to

Immediately there was an explosion from the roof of the place, as the cyborg turned to observe, heavy bolts struck him pushing through the duracrete debris raining down from the roof. The energy bolts struck the cyborg lifting him high and smashing him through the wall. One of the bolts struck a power junction and the lights went off and the stasis field winked out.
Marvel tried moving his hands and noticed it responded. Well time to move. Marvel ran close to the new hole created from the roof. Energy bolts continued to smash on the cyborg, the walls around the cyborg collapsed on him.
As soon as there was a respite on the firing from the newly created hole, Marvel jumped up, his hands holding the edges and vaults over. His suspicion about the building was not very accurate. The place was not actually a tunnel but an abandoned building. No wonder when the light went out, the place didn’t turn dark, weak light came in. Now he knew the soirce of the light to be the waning evening sunlight. Well as soon as Marvel came out from the hole he noticed the building was half buried in old battered vehicles. When he looked around, he discovered he was in an abandoned junk yard and hovering before him was a beautiful sight, the MAX 2 flyer. A slick triangular black shape. Delta wings fully extended backwards and twin mini cannons protruding from the front. The flyer came close to a landing but just stayed two meters above the ground on it anti gravity propulsion. Marvel ran straight for the opening ramp. As he got in, he went for the cockpit and sat on the pilot seat.
A tiny holo image of Hardwire on the display screen smiled. “Delivered as requested. Thanks for using Hardwire express delivery service. “ the image gave a fake salute with two fingers on his forehead. Marvel disengage the remote pilot setting and engaged the manual setting. The controls on the flyer is different from the air car, here he have more options, more sensors and fire power to choose from. The MAX 2 flyer have an upgraded engine above what the regular flyer possess. The MAX 2 original engine have been replaced with a Lancer class space craft. The flyer was now given a sub-light speed Nova class 4 engine. The flyer is cable of intra system travel. Now Marvel have in his hand the key to finally turn the biomechanical hybrid to full scrap.

“It all started with a discovery that was made. A wreckage, none of the people that discovered it knew what it was and none of them are alive now to tell what they saw. All the people involved, about forty space/asteroids miners, all died of various accidents within two weeks after the discovery. “ The cyborg paced slowly, his foot making heavy sound on the duracrete floor of the place. Marvel just noticed the place have no windows and the air is damp. “An object was retrieved from the strange wreckage and given to me for study and find out what it is and capable of doing. “
In spite of himself, the bounty hunter noticed he was a little interested in the story.
“See the truth is I was never at the facility located on the asteroid B512, that facility was deliberately destroyed and all the innocent workers killed just to keep the detail of what happened to me hidden. Where I worked was much further than that. It was an abandoned asteroid mine, far away from Nuterra's orbit, an isolated place where I can perform my experiments without anyone snooping in. I had only one other person with me and that was Dr. Guthrie, he was quite helpful because of his knowledge in robotics and cybernetics. He was a foremost scientist in the field of biomectic and neural interface. “
Now the bounty hunter was interested. “You never did tell me about the Ion Crystal. “
"The Ion Crystal is the greatest discovery of all of human history. “ the cyborg looked up, his single eyes looked but seem to be seeing things beyond the surrounding. “A power source, stable, clean and generating infinite amounts of energy. “
Suddenly the bounty hunter’s wrist com glowed and a text appeared on the tiny holo display. “I’m here. Get ready to duck “ Marvel lost all interest in whatever the cyborg was saying.

“Now because of my stubbornness all these have happened and worse is going to happen. Soon millions of people will be in position to die and nothing will be able to stop it. All because of my stupid pig headedness. Arrhgghh. The pains” Again the cyborg cried holding his head and twisting from side to side.
The bounty hunter tried to make sense of what the cyborg was spewing out, try as he may, nothing was making any meaning to him. As soon as the cyborg stopped screaming about the pain he asked him. “ What is going to kill millions of people? “
“The mega corporations. Can’t you see, that is their big secret. It’s what they wanted to hide, that is why they killed me…..No…No…No…they didn’t kill me. I’m still alive. I’m not dead. Arrehggg the pain… pain… “ the cyborg howled in tortured scream.
Damn he look quiet pitiful, but seeing him in action, you’ll never believe he can be this vulnerable.
“Can’t you see…. Don’t you get it? “ the cyborg asked and came forward as if to hold Marvel on his shoulders and jerk his words into him but the stasis field prevented it. “Do you even know why they sent you after me? Yes I knew they sent you to kill me. But do you know why? Have you wondered why they didn’t do this dirty job themselves and they sent you instead? “
“Because I’m expandable? I’m good at what I do? “
“Noooooo “shrieked the cyborg. “It’s because they don’t want to expose themselves. If you succeed in killing me, they will come after you too to eliminate you also to keep their secret. “
“And what is the secret? “ Marvel put in just to prolong the conversation and keep the cyborg distracted. Nit as if Marvel believes any of the trash coming out of the hybrid. But keeping him occupied is to his advantage.
The question seems to calm the distraught cyborg and he replied after a minute. “ It all centered around an object I christened The Ion Crystal. “
“And will you care to tell me what is an Ion Crystal? “

Lol finally, seem the ban have been lifted. Ha i can't really say what happened o. Make I update small in case before the spam bot attacks again

bqlekan:
Now I'm having a weird feeling here, but I will let it pass.. the corporation should have known better than to piss marvel off. Now they have three problems at hand now, Marvel, earth and the cyborg. No corporation can win a war on three fronts.
And I want to see hardwire's reinforcements for marvel. Also, how will marvel get out of this trap?

Trust me the corporations can. They are many, have money and fight dirty. But for now they can't go on an all out war against earth, they don't have the military capacity (besides earth watches them like a hawk.)
The cyborg was a mistake that blew up on their face and they are trying to hide.
Marvel is just a disposable tool thrown in the mix. But their greatest mistake is underestimating Marvel. The bounty hunter is way more tenacious and dangerous than the cyborg

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Some distance from the facility at Twinpeaks Mountain just beyond the passive sensor range of the cyborg, an air car hovers about 20000 feet above the canopies of the green leaves of the jungle trees. The air car remained in a stationary hover mood. It is coated with sonar/radar absorbing paints. Its color is a mixture of white and blue, a perfect camouflage for the air car. It had just one occupant on the pilot seat. The driver of the car had on a hyper magnification electro-binocular. It’s range of view powerful enough to have captured all the action that took place in the facility.
When the air car driver was satisfied, the electro-binocular came down and the face of the driver was shown as a woman. The female have the young athletic look of someone in her mid twenties. A sharp jaw oval face with cascading rich dark hair. Bright intelligent eyes under thin long eye lashes. Short but full bloom pink lips with just a tiny dot below her lip a little close to the right side of her cheek. Most of her olive coloured well formed skin is covered in full body fitting neo leather jumpsuit in shinny black.
She touched a micro comm unit that have been surgically grafted behind her ears. She activated the just one way single channel high encrypted comm link to earth. “Target acquired. Moving to stage two from passive surveillance to active one. Jade out. “

bqlekan:
Oh! marvel captured.. This is serious
Nice update

Yes o. It's quite clear that Marvel is out classed. He had no prior knowledge of what he will face and was ill equipped for it(trust me some one is going to pay for that over sight). Well just before I close this scene I will throw in a tiny juicy detail.....

Marvel jumped and the tree exploded behind him smiting his back with pieces of shattered burning brands. Harmless actually to him because of the protection of his body armour. But that wasn’t the only thing that hit him. Multiple lazer bolts hit his body and turned what would have been a perfect landing for him into an awkward painful tumble to the jungle floor. His heat sink control device winked red, sorted out and died. He felt the shock of the fall despite the protection of the amour. Pains like jolts of electric current ran through his body. He gritted his teeth again the scream of pain that would have escaped his lips. For few seconds he couldn’t move any part of his body, the shock from the fall have frozen them stiff. If not for his armour, he wpuld have been dead. Yet the armour have a limit to the amount of shock it can absorb. His limbs might be frozen for the moment but his eyes and ears worked just fine. He heard the heavy thuds of the cyborg steps heading his way. He turned his head and saw the black metallic hybrid coming. Anger flamed through Marvel’s heart mix with frustration that the shock have temporarily tied his limbs from action. The cyborg came closer and Marvel could see the malice exuding from the metal man but a little change seems to come over the human part of his face. An appearance of shock, confusion, fear and uncertainty all mixed up, later it settled for a determined look. As Marvel watched the cyborg pointed at him, his fingers were back from the shape of the gun, a single finger with a round hole held his gaze and before he could think further, a green beam shot from the finger and struck the bounty hunter. He felt his body stiffened and his eyes dropped into darkness.

Marvel watched impressed as the cyborg staggered under the backlash of heavy duty cannon high impact shells from the twin tri barrel mini chain. Within just three seconds more than a thousand rounds of shells were released in a five foot area, that is how accurate the twin mini guns are. He saw blue flashes on the cyborg showing energy shield. Later the shield must have collapse under the onslaught, because now the shells where hitting the metal body with out any flash showing. Marvel noticed something that cut off any joy the accomplishment would have given him. The fused back pack of the cyborg seem to open and a metal tube lifts up from it. Before Marvel could channel the fire to the new threat, an energy beam in the shape of electrically discharged lightning shot from one end of the tube and stroke the air car in a blink. The first thing Marvel noticed was the remote feed from the car blinked out. He looked up to see the car just hanging on the air. The cyborg stood up with slow jerky movements, it lifted up one of the arm, and from the morphed hand bolts of lazer flew from it and hit the car. The car armour shieldng help for a bit. The cyborg lifted the second hand that had formed into a mini canon tube, it shoot huge plasma blast at the air car. Marvel watched in silent disbelief as the car glowed red hot after absorbing five seconds of concentrated plasma fire and blew into several pieces. Secondary explosion trail the car’s destruction as the stored magazines in it took that time to ignite.
Now Marvel was angry, he had formed a special attachment to that car. It is dangerous in his line of to form such but Marvel stopped caring long ago. That car had pulled him out of many tight situations in the past. Marvel quickly punched in an emergency panic call in burst mode to Hardwire. All he said was, “Send the MAX 2 flyer, lock it to my body signature. “
The cyborg head turn swiftly and face the trees, his eyes probing at the general direction of the tree in which Marvel was hiding. Damn, he must have sniffed out the burst transmission. As Marvel prepared to jump, the cyborg lifted up his two hands at his direction, both hands morphed into guns. One is a quad barrel lazer blaster, the second is a micro plasma cannon.

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Marvel sprinted through the smashed doorway and the compound out of the facility, past the clearing into the heavy woods of the surrounding jungle. He needed a little space to rest and figure out how to deal with the cyborg. It’s quite obvious he is ill equipped to handle this at the moment. And something stubbornly nagged at his mind. He couldn’t shake the feeling that the people who gave him this job knew what he was going to face but refused to pass the full information to him. That seem like a deliberate sabotage for him to fail. Now why give him the job if they wanted him to fail? This is not the time to deal with this. Let him just survive this encounter and face the likely back stabbers later. Working on the wrist com, Marvel activated the auto pilot on his air car. He went into the forest to make sure he is well hidden and the trees will interrupt the scanning ability of the cyborg. Getting behind a tree, he slung the TEC5 on his back, climbed the tree and looked into the clearing searching for the cyborg. He saw him just coming out from the torn gate of the facility into the clearing. From his height atop the tree, he was certain he can’t be seen, the leaves and branches kept him well covered.
Working on the remote pilot on his wrist com he moved the air car up from where it was packed directed it to the place the cyborg was standing. He was sure the biomechanical creature was scanning unsuccessfully for him. As he looked on at the cyborg, the cyborg turned its head sharply behind him as if it heard something. Definitely that most be him picking up the low whine of the air car engine. Marvel looked at the target acquisition display from the air car through the holo display of his wrist com. The cross hairs centered on the cyborg. He brought up the firing key, selected the tri barrel mini chain guns under the car and he fired.

The bounty hunter jumped over the hole to the other end a bit curious about what the cyborg was after. In a room that appears like the place the cyborg would have been, he saw massive data consoles, what can process heavy data sequence at FTL(faster than light speed). But all of them have been broken, smashed, torn down with several cables dangling and releasing electrical sparks. Here Marvel still saw several dead bodies of white clad lightly armed tech personnel. The evidence before his eyes seems the cyborg is not just interested in just data theft alone but destruction of the sensitive data storage equipment. Well non of his business, he job here is done.
Marvel stopped dead on his track as he crossed from the stairs around the floor where the cyborg crashed in, when the familiar whine of servo motors pulled his attention. The cyborg hand rose up from the debris of duracrete, already morphed into the quad barrel lazer gun. It pointed to the bounty hunter and before he could react, the gun spit flame. Marvel was knocked off his feet as the lazer bolts hit him. His heat sink tech absorbed the lazer heat, but the kinetic punch of the bolt still kicked him hard. The wire mesh under his body armour protected him and keeping his bones from turning to powder. Marvel slammed loudly on his back, but despite the shock of the fall, his hand did not drop the TEC 5. As the dust starts to clear, the cyborg rose from the debris its dark metal body exuding total malignancy and menace. Marvel cleared his eyes through the dust layers settling down on his face, he moved the gun again towards the rising image of the cyborg and pulled the trigger. He allowed three rockets to launch at the direction. The explosion knocked the cyborg back wards and crashed through the wall which knocked him into the lobby. As soon as Marvel got up, he run through the newly created hold in to the lobby and jumped just in time to avoid the grasping hand of the cyborg. He gave some distance between himself and the cyborg. As the cyborg reared up, Marvel hit him with three rockets again. This time the explosions smashed the cyborg through the wall and outside into the surrounding of the facility.

. Tapping on this wrist come, he directed the mini drone from outside. He waited a while for the drone to be in position, while the fire continued hitting the walls outside the room his is holding up. The heat increased more, the door caught fire and was blasted away. Soon the drone was in position. From the target acquisition display being fed into the holo display, he saw that the drone was behind the cyborg. He gave the command to fire. From the display he saw twin lazer beams strinking behind the cyborg. The beams struck a particular back park that is fused with the body of the cyborg. As soon as he saw the cyborg’s face turn to face the drone, he gave the order for the drone to move away at top speed. At the same time he moved back into the corridor because all firing stopped as soon as the cyborg attention was distracted.
He brought up the muzzle of the TEC 5 rocket launcher, he waited for the cyborg to look back at his direction. Which predictably the cyborg did. Marvel looked into the dead single eye of the cyborg and pulled the trigger.
“Suck that in dead meat. “ Marvel watched the trail of the rocket launched as it moved on target. There was a loud explosion, the cyborg was knocked off his feet backwards. It landed heavily on its back. “Guess you must have felt that. “
Servo motor whined loudly as the cyborg moved slowly, first the head and torso moved up as if it was remotely controlled. The smoke and fire from the explosion still swirl around him. As Marvel watched in fascination and bewilderment, the cyborg stood on its feet as if nothing happened.
“Okey I guess that was to show me you are a big boy and can probably take all the heat I can throw at you. “ Marvel fingered the settings on the TEC 5, switching the firing control to auto shot. He noticed that the cyborg hands where both morphing into a shape looking like another quad barrel guns. He didn’t waste time, he press the trigger and held it down as rockets upon rockets left the TEC 5 muzzle tube striking at the cyborg. Explosions after explosions followed. Eleven rockets where concentrated around the biomechanical hybrid. The fire and smoke from the multiple explosions didn’t let Marvel see how much damage he was causing but at a point Marvel heard a loud crack sound and a heavy thud as if the floor caved in.
Marvel pulled off the spent circular magazine of the rocket launcher and fed the spare one into it before moving on. As the fire and smoke cleared, he could see a big hole at the floor were the cyborg was standing, the explosion must have blown the floor off him and it caved in. Most of the walls behind the cyborg before are gone, in its place is a gapping hole, a testimony to the firing prowess of the TEC5. Well Marvel decided to check if his attack have the same effect on his main target. He moved to the gapping hole before him and looked down, he saw that the cyborg was buried under heavy chunks of duracrete.

bqlekan:
Wow! Now this is getting more interesting... So who created the cyborg? Is he earth's property, created to watch over the corporations? Why is he on a killing spree? Update biko

Don't worry most of ur questions will be answered very soon. I think u will enjoy d twist . The plot is so simple yet interesting.... Too many intrigues..... Oh and else I forget I'm about to introduce a new character, u guys will love

bqlekan:
Great story so far. I think the corporations designed the killer cyborg. As he will be instrumental in their independence from earth government. Marvel (being the best bounty hunter) is being used to test the effectiveness of this killer cyborg. And I don't think Marvel is a normal being, the way he thinks and dodges attacks are just too good. He must be on some sort of an upgrade.

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Charijee Jeffreyjamez,

Good predictions.... But not very accurate. The corporations didn't create d cyborg. In fact d cyborg was the problem d corporations forsee will distrust their plans(refer to the 1st conversation btw Nicolas and Dalmar). It was wat Marvel was hired to deal with (though that piece of info was hidden from the bounty hunter and was Marvel pissed). Trust me u haven't seen Marvel pissed before, but he will be after this encounter and he will be a total badass.
1 promise I will give to all my readers, u wont accurately predict d plot of dis story. Also u won't understand it all at 1st reading, during a 2nd reading, most of d hidden sub plots will be clearer. I'm having fun doing this, hope u guys r too

The sight was something he never believed possible. The attacker was walking down the corridor towards him and yet Marvel couldn’t fire as he looked at what is coming. The attacker is completely encased in a black metal. Not actually encased, more like he was made of the metal. The only part that still have the human part was some areas of the head. The back of the head, the skull and one eyes were covered by the black metal. Just one eye, the nose and mouth were organic. Torso, arms legs gleamed dully from the black metal they were made from. Marvel mind raced to get the name for what he is seeing now, yes that is it. This is a cyborg. A cybernetic organism a fussing of organic and biomechatronic parts working together in a symmetry that amazed even the bounty hunter. Though theories of the possibility of a full cyborg functioning have been in the works for a while, but the tremendous amount of energy it will take to make it work is not worth whatever gains will come out of it. Or that is what the mega corporations have led people to believe. And anyway the earth is government have made building of a cyborg illegal. But here is a living fully functioning cyborg.
The metal eyes shone red as it targeted Marvel and the single human eye glared fiercely at him. While Marvel watched, one hand was lifted, the hand ended in the shape of a wide muzzle that a wisp of smoke came out from. That should be where the rocket projectile he just fired came from. Before Marvel’s eyes, the muzzle reformed and morphed into a metallic fingers. Now the second hand started to morph from the fingers into something that is beginning to look like a Canon. Marvel didn’t wait for the change to complete before pulling the trigger. Heavy armour piercing bullets spew from the muzzle of the MAC penetrator. Huge chunks of duracrete were chewed up from the walls and floors. The bullets hit the cyborg but bounced off the metallic body. Some tiny blue flashes appear at the point of impacts of the bullets hitting the metal body. Not a single dent was made on the cyborg.
Damn, does that mean this monster have an energy shield. He didn’t wait for the answer to that question himself, with a quick somersault, he dove into an open door. The cyborg’s hand already complete its change from metal fingers into a quad barrel lazer blaster. The lazer bolts blew through the corridor, drill large holes at the place Marvel was standing before. The temperature within the enclosed place rose considerably as the amount of bolts intensified. Marvel pulled the TEC 5 rocket launcher from his back where he hung it before and powered it. He slung the MAC penetrator on his back. It is way too inadequate for this engagement. But Marvel dare not move to the corridor now, the shooting is just heavy and relentless.

At the entrance to the building, the heavy armoured door have been pulled off. Few bodies were laying on the floor. Marvel studied the torn door, and realized it must have taken a massive force to have effectively caused this level of damage. What really is he up against this time. As he got in, he saw a lobby with several overturned furniture that have obviously been used as shield to fire from. Scorched marks of lazer fire and bullets holes shows everywhere on the damaged walls and pillars of the building. A lift door stood hanging, the number display on it was showing an error message. Clearly it have been damaged, so he won’t be able to head that way. He turned around and noticed stairs leading up and from the area the last explosion he witnessed, the target is on one of the top floors. Marvel took careful steps towards that area. The extensive damages done to this area continue to show, damaged walls, broken doors, dead bodies and discarded weapons. The stairs just ahead lead him into a corridor that is in semi darkness with most of the light fixtures damaged. Here the dead bodies weren’t just of Mantis troops, but technicians too in white lab coats too. Most of them were still holding their lazer pistols on death frozen fingers. Holes caused by both bullets and lazer bolts marked the littered corpse. Heavy sounds of foot steps was coming from the end of corridor. Marvel checked again to make sure the MAC penetrator light is green, indicating a loaded gun and ready to fire. He slid his finger gently through the trigger guard and got ready. He took a deep breath and prepare for his move. He jumped into the corridor and slide down. And that wasn’t too soon, as two propelled rocket grenade passed over his head and exploded somewhere behind him down the other end of the corridor. Marvel lifted up his gun to reply in kind with his gun and he froze for a second.

He made an inventory of what he is taking with him. The NAX gauge and M2000 pistols were in their customary place. But he had replaced the FTL stinger with its more powerful model, the FTL MAC penetrator. It fires only depleted uranium core armour piercing HE bullets. Its bigger, bulkier and heavier than the stinger, but it carries ten times its penetrating power. The MAC penetrator have no attached grenade launcher under its muzzle, it doesn’t need to. Its HE rounds are as devastating as a grenade launched from a tube. To cover for that, he is carrying along a short barreled multi feed circle rocket launcher, the TEC 5. It have very effective field success rate of 80% of stopping heavily armored air tank. The circle feed for the TEC 5 already have a full magazine of twelve rounds and an extra back up in the combat back park with him. Well time to move. He powered on his wrist com, activated his mini drone to go ahead of him and map out a path for him then set his air car on remote piloting mode.
Marvel came out of the jungle into a large cleared area. Heavy wall have been built around the facility some meters away from the clearing on all side around the complex. He checked the images been supplied by the mini drone. A Mantis squad post is just by the side of the gate leading into the place. Marvel couldn’t really detect much about the post now because it has been destroyed. It lay in rubbles blazing with fire. Marvel moved towards the massive metal gates about six meters high. One part of the gate have been blown to scrap and the other is twisted beyond recognition. Bullets and lazer holes decorated the walls. When he got through the gate, the Mantis post is by the right side of the compound, burning furiously. By the left is a debris, with shattered parts of what looks like a gun craft, another burning heap seems to be a hover armored craft. Dead bodies in black amour and dark visor helmets of Mantis police on the floor at regular intervals.
Damn, a furious fight had taken place here and his missed it. These are signs of fresh attacks, so it’s possible the attacker is still here. Four smooth wall metallic silver colored buildings where all that are in the facility, with a wide packing space. Well arranged trees and trimmed grasses all now burning brightly. A slow blinking from his wrist com drew Marvel’s attention. The attacker is in one of the tall metallic buildings just before him. As Marvel headed towards that direction, a massive explosion blew out from the top area of the building. Pieces of duracrete, metals and glass were scattered wide from the place as blossomed away from the new hole created. Marvel hastened his movements.