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Underground eXperts United
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[ Headhunter ] [ By The GNN ]
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"HEADHUNTER"
by THE GNN/DualCrew/uXu
"I am looking for this man..."
(242)
Got him! Through his Leupold2 scope, Salvador saw the guard twist and
fall to the ground. No time to be wasted! He quickly jumped down from
the roof and looked around. The house he had been using for sniping must
be destroyed at once. He had left enough smell to activate the killer
instincts of the dog squad when they arrived.
A Flame Grenade burned the house down in four minutes, but Salvador had
left the area before it even detonated.
He checked the map again. The combat zone had only one big obstacle
left to be conquered - the main building.
- No problems, his electronic brain realized.
Commander IA Stash had checked Salvador's battery and re-armed his
equipment. Mission orders was programmed into his metal mind during the
short flight in the rocket glider between the starship Work01 and the
target planet.
Nothing new. They had located the Man. Van Heroos had once again
tried to hide the Man from the rest of the kings at a lonely planet far
away. IA Stash even smiled with his white lips when he discovered that
Work01 was the first ship to arrive. This time, the Man would be his. A
single Headhunter would do the work for him without problem.
Weapons - Check. Wounds - Check (negative). He was ready for the big
fight. The building had a only a few guards, Van Heroos probably trusted
the ones who worked in the terrain outside to take care of intruders. He
was wrong. Headhunter Salvador had killed most of them. Robots, all of
them. Six grenades and the lasergun. Attack!
- He is doing just fine. Commander Stash watched the screen that
showed the area around the main building. There was no massacre - not
when the only loss was metallic machines who fought each other. If there
had been humans, there had been less enjoyable. Salvador penetrated the
tiny defenses with his weapons. Soon, he would reach the inside of the
building. Then it would be almost over.
Left. Sharp turn to right. He destroyed yet another guard, saw
the chance and leaped right through a window and into the building. They
expected him. But he knew they would. The electronic stunner never got
the chance to terminate his neurological parts. A shot killed the gunner
and a grenade blew the entire stunner to trash. He laughed (only to pump
up the oil pressure).
The Man was located in the basement according to his sensors. Another
grenade opened up the floor and sent him flying to the bottom.
Left - No, right! The last guard followed his pre-programmed movement
for two seconds before Salvador blew his microchips over the floor.
The Man sat on a chair in front of a computer inside a small room when
Salvador entered. Salvador said: - Are you the Man?
- Of course, the woman answered.
- Follow me.
IA Stash walked around the woman as if she had been an animal at the
zoo. She yawned and asked: - Finished? I would like to know what I am
supposed to do on this ship.
IA Stash chuckled and whispered something to himself. - Well! Finally
the Man is in my hands! You will never leave me, that's for sure!
- We'll see about that. Van Heroos said that too. And everyone
before him too...
She was taken to yet another computer. This one actually had some new
software to offer. - Quite nice. I think I will enjoy my short moment
in your service. Now, what's the problem?
Her voice sounded ironic. IA Stash decided to control himself. He had
searched for the Man for a very long time. Just because there were
hundreds of other people that wanted her it did not mean that they would
beat him! Two weeks later, he knew that he was wrong. But that was
still an unknown future to him.
- We have a failure in our shield system due to a computer error. His
voice got harder: - Fix it!
- Right on. Now leave me alone, jerk!
She began to examine the code. Hero or not, she was wanted by
everyone. It was hard, but one day she would eventually learn to live
with the fact of being the last programmer in the universe.
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