“Hello to you
too Sentinel,” replies Oakley, “I came as soon as I received your message about
killer alien robots. I assume this wreckage is what is left of them?”
“You would be
correct,” I say, “If you don’t mind, Narszara and I are going to take the
remains of the big guy so I can study them. You can keep the stuff from the
smaller guys.”
“I’m not sure
how that fits into the law about collecting evidence,” says Oakley with a
shrug, “But I know that all of this way beyond me and my people. We always
relied on folks like to deal with abnormal stuff.”
“I assume you
won’t mind if I fill a police form later?” I politely inquire, knowing the
answer will be yes as always.
“Of course,”
answers Oakley with a wave of his hand, “You’ve done this enough times to know
the drill. Beside, I’m hoping you deal with this as quickly as possible. While
attacks like this are good PR is fended off with nobody hurt and minimal
collateral damage, the longer they drag on, the more likely things are going to
go sour.”
“No need to
tell me about it,” I say, “Anyhow, I should get going before Narszara and I get
swamped by the press.”
“Good idea,”
agrees Oakley, “I’ll keep them off your backs. Or I’ll try to anyway.”
“Narszara,” I
say privately over our League communicators, “Grab the body. I’ll carry the arms.”
Narszara
complies as she hefts the Machine’s remains up and holds it over her shoulder.
As the gathered media bombards us with questions, I pick up one of the
Machine’s arms in each hand. Ignoring the
reporters, I ignite my rocket pack and fly into the air.
“Warden,” I
say as I call my aunt and she answers, “Narszara and I are on our way now.”
I end the call
and look behind me. Narszara is trailing behind me. While the Machine isn’t
slowing her down, Narszara’s flight is naturally slower than that of the
Sentinel armour.
“Narszara,” I
say as we fly in silence, “Why didn’t you tell me you could shapeshift into a
dragon?”
“I never came
up milord,” replies Narszara.
“Never seemed
important at all?” I continue to press her.
“It is an
ability I have had all my life and is extremely common amongst my people,”
answers Narszara, “It did not seem to be of major significance at any point. It
still does not seem to be overly important Verigar.”
“To public and
authorities it will be,” I tell her, “It’s a powerful and overt ability. The
potential dangers will worry people, especially since they know little about
you.”
“I do not care
that others worry about me being normal,” says Narszara.
We fall silent
again and I go back to my old fall by for when I have to do long flights,
thinking about technical problems.
It occurs to
me that each time I fought the Machine, I’ve been forced to rely on the more
powerful heavy hitters that are Sam and Narszara.
Despite my
upgrades to the Sentinel armour, I’ve been growing weaker against the Machine
as it continues to upgrade itself while I have only made minor improvements.
If Narszara
hadn’t shown up in the nick of time, I would have probably been killed or
maimed. When we first encountered the Machine, the majority of the League would
have been killed if it weren’t for Sam. And when I encountered the Machine for
the second time on Spartan’s carrier, I would have also died if Sam hadn’t
saved me. I would have also fallen in battle before Sam arrived if it weren’t
for Darrac or Spartan.
Oh Darrac.
He’s probably still waiting.
“Janelle?” I
call.
“Yes?” replies
the AI
“Is Darrac
still there?” I inquire in an innocent enough voice.
“Yes,” says
Janelle, “I’m assuming you won’t be coming to deal with him anytime soon?”
“Not right
now,” I admit, “I got other things to do right now,”
“I’ll inform
Darrac,” says Janelle, “He’s willing to wait until you’re free.”
“Let him wait
in the base if he wants,” I say.
“I’ll extend
your offer to him then,” replies Janelle.
That’s that
sorted. But I still need to figure out the latest upgrade the Sentinel armour.
Granddad was
always continuously upgrading the Sentinel armour. He never wanted to end up stagnant
or outdated, especially when it counted.
Right now, I
got several upgrades I have yet to implement. The rocket boots, grappling
lines, the magnetic boots and gauntlets. All major upgrades that I come up
with, but the Sentinel armour is currently lacking.
Normally I
would just add those upgrades to the current set of Sentinel armour, but I’m
almost finished putting together a spare set of the Sentinel Mk VII armour.
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