It was daytime in the badlands. The weather was bursting hot, something nearly unbearable to humans but unnoticable to many cyborgs and all robots. As always there was a rumbling in the distance, the scrap was piled up knee-deep and small robot animals wandered through the scrap. In the midst of it all was a mighty defunct war machine and near it was a cyborgs removing parts from it. It was a female cyborg known as Rina Askaria, a salvager of Steeltown. Her current form had basic humanoid features, but other than a human face and hair little looked human about her. After an accident in the war her irrepairable human body was replaced by that of a human sized war machine. Her skull had been replaced too with one made of titanium alloy. Basically the only things human about her was her consciousness and her brain. But even her brain is heavily modded with additional computing hardware and gadgets.

She heared a rustling in the scrap and her head turned to face the direction where the sound came front. She saw a soldier alone. It was very dangerous for soldiers to be in the badlands as they werent welcome and were normally killed on sight. Rina smiled and said: "Well, well. Another soldier to tear up." The soldier in fear began to shoot at her with a simple rifle not powerful enough to even dent 9 mm of armour. Noticing it was useless, the soldier began to run but Rina quickly caught up and brutally swatted him in the side making him fly a couple meters. She then walked over to him and picked him up by his face. She let out a slightly metallic giggle. A rotary saw came out of her other hand and she said: "Now what should I amputate first?" She then cut off his left arm and slowly continued with the other limbs, even just easily tearing off his right arm. Rina seemed like a psychotic and sadistic machine that saw no worth in human life as she enjoyed herself while the man screamed in agony. She then ended his life by finally tearing his head off. She stashed the soldiers rifle and any metallic items that were on him and then began to hover with the help of her thrusters at a good speed back towards Steeltown.

Finally there she headed over to her bunker like house and put the salvaged items into a box. She then cleaned the blood off of her blue and white colored metal body. It had been colored since a silvery colored looked to old and boring for her taste.

Aximili couldn't be seen. the sun was blazing hot, and there were, gratefully, no evil cyborgs or robots around here. he looked up into the sun, and say that it was about noon. he smiled. Aximili wasn't a daytime person, but he could survive the heat. he was thinking profusely, picking up any good scrap metal from the Badlands, looking out for robots. Aximili didn't want to tangle with one of those. his metal armor clanged lightly against each other as he found a generator, in mid-condition. he smiled, but as he saw where he was at, he beamed. there were about 10 other generators here! and bunches of good scrap he could sell! he collected as much as he could, and then when he was full, walked back to the shop on the edge of the Badlands.

As aximili got back to his hut-in-a-hole (shop) he say a customer outside, looking around nervously, and aximili greeted him. the stranger jumped, and, to his amusement, calmed down after he say Aximili. e knew this customer. he came every monday to pick up some accessories he made from the scarp, and maybe a gun or 2 from the generators. but really, all be mostly bought was the good scrap he brought back from the badlands. Aximili was the only one known to go that deep into the badlands to retrieve the good scrap and generators from the depths within.

as the customer filled his lot, Aximili added up the total, got paid, and waved goodbye to the customer. as the stranger shrank away, he got busy doing his work, purifying the scrap he collected, dipping it in different colors, adding energy to creations he made, and creating new things. he was busy making a new gun when he heard footsteps up to his hut-in-a-hole. he looked out, and say 3 armed men coming towards the shack.
Aximili didn't like this, not one bit, so he grabbed his plasma powered pistol, and hoped for the best. the armed men came up to his shack, greeted him, and looked around. they didn't seem to be interested in anything, but the one on the right kept eying his scrap pile of pure scrap. he pointed that out to the man, and the armed man looked at him, deep into his soul, he looked, until Aximili couldn't take it any longer, and looked away. the 3 armed men looked just about done, when the middle one pointed to a plasma powered sniper-one of his best creations, but aximili didn't really care for snipers. "how much for the sniper" the man asked, and Aximili said the price. the man smiled and, holding his gun in his right hand, pointed to the sniper, and bought it. just as elfangor took it down, the man in the middle pointed his gun at Aximili's head, and smiled.
"you really didn't think i was gonna pay for that there sniper were ya? that thing is too good to be in a crappy shack like this." aximili stared wide eyed at the man in the middle, and the mad asked for more stuff in the back. an idea struck Aximili then, he found his shotgun, and, swinging out of the doorway, pointed it at the 3 men, and fired. the blast was near quiet, as Aximili had programmed it, and all 3 went down. he smiled, and took their guns, armor, and clothes, and put them in back. as he was picking the corpses, he found an ID from the middle one. "Bad-Bandits" was his name, and aximili laughed out loud. bandits! Aximili has been robbed before, or at least been close to robbery, before he killed them. this was the 5th one this month. you needed to have guts to live out here in an unforgiving environment.

just as Aximili was about to hide the bodies, his owl flew up and perched itself on the counter, with 2 mice in its beak. aximili smiled, and petted the strange bird, from the forest he used to live in. it followed him everywhere. the sun was nearly down, and he closed up shop, and put the dirt cloak over his hut-in-a-hole, and went to bed.

Milo was smoking a Cuban cigar as he worked on his best mech replacing the power core for a stronger on, that mech was his pride and honor and wouldn't let any bad parts in, he then hear his shop bell ring "be there in a minute" he said with the sugar in his mouth and place the core in the right position and bolted it he then walk out his mech and slide down the ladder and saw the costumer "ah mister Gilo, your mech is finished and done with the maintenance let me get it for you" he told him and walk away, he came by a small crate lifter and toke place in it and turn it on "purring like a kitten" he said and start walking, if he was in his own mech then the lifter was literally a fly, he got out of his shop and place it in front where mister Gilo was waiting.

He kept the lifter on and got out "well I couldn't be more happy with you Gilo, didn't need to do a thing, well have a good use and a nice year with it" he said and enter his shop again and finished his work with his mech

After a night of working on some gadgets and a part to upgrade herself with, Rina went to a room where she removed her head and attached it to a robotic arm. She now had control over many devices in the room. Robotic arms from everywhere started to work on the body to insert the upgrade. It was just a matter of a couple minutes, then the headless body stood up and came back to reclaim the head from the robotic arm. Rina then transformed into human form and she tied a ribbon in her hair and put on a short red skirt as well as short sleeved button down shirt with a red tie. She put on a simple black choker and pulled on a dark suit jacket. She went to get something special. She had found a large plasma generator for Milo and a good lump of high quality metal for Aximili. She took human form since it would be more pleaant for Aximili. Her first stop was Milos place. She knocked at where he lived. She hoped that Aximili would come into town soon, so that she wouldnt have to walk or run all the way over there.

Milo open the door still smoking his cigar but put it out for her "Rina sweet come in" he said and let her in and grab a bar of chocolate knowing she liked it "so what brings you here so late?" he asked and set some tea for himself and sit down watching her "I heard Aximili's place was tried to be raided again but he showed them" he said and took a sip from his tea when a small cricket like robot jump on his lap he smiled and pet it "you remember BUG do you?"

Aximili woke up with a start, like a robot on reboot. he got up, put on his clothes and armor, and decided to go into town. he needed goods and food. and, it was sunday. but then, he remembered, Rina was coming today. "damn it" he said out loud, but went into town anyways. he also heard of another scavenger, or scrapper, he cant remember, named Milo. so Aximili took some of his low grade scrap, and when he was about to leave, when his owl flew onto his arm. he smiled and patted his head, and took out a piece of rat to feed him. the own hooted happily, and nibbled it. as he approached milos place, Aximili saw the door open, and got worried. he took out his plasma powered pistol, and cautiously approached the door, but just as he was about to get there, he heard gears clinking together, and instinctively turned around, and saw 10 soldiers behind him. "OH SHIT!" Aximili roared, and bolted behind a pile of useless scrap in milos yard, and took out his shotgun instead. " where the hell did THEY come from?" wondered aximili, and saw milo looking at him through the window and, to his surprise, Rina. he stared at milo and rita and beckoned them over here to help him kill the soldiers. his owl flew off his arm and into the house, and set itself on the couch. and he leaned out from the pile of scrap, and fired a burst. the soldiers saw him, and they all started shouting orders. this wasn't going to be an easy fight.

As Milo let Rina in she pulled out the large plasma generator. "You might want this. It is rare to come across one of these in perfect condition. You could use these on the mechs." She said. Rina got a chocolate bar from him to which she said: "Tasty." Suddenly there was all this commotion outside and Aximili fighting soldiers caught her eye. "When will they ever acknowledge that this is our territory now?" She said and went outside. As she went out, she had her assault rifle in one hand and her other turned into a gatling gun like machine gun. "Time to give you some hell!" Rina said and started shooting. She took out a couple soldiers but the last two or three went into hiding. So Rina hid against a wall and listened to where the sounds were coming from. One of them she had found and snuck up from behind ripping his head off, throwing it over scrap. It landed near another soldier who now really feared for his life.

Milo heard Aximili's scream and stood up and walk to the window and smirk widely "target practices, be right back Rina" he said and walk to his mech and got in, he then started it up and stood up and the roof had opened up and look towards Milo "so which of you shooting dummies want to go first?" he asked with a bit of an evil snicker and warmed the weapons up to be fired off

Aximili smiled as the 2 came out, and said "thanks for the help" as rita took down multiple enemies. but when they went into hiding, he sought them out. he found the first one, and whacked him over the head with his shotgun with a tazer on the butt, he programmed it so it couldn't shock him. the soldier grunted as it died, and aximili took the soldiers gun, and examined it. he got wide eyed as he saw the insignia on the gun. a movement behind him, and he turned as another soldier came out, and aximili fired his shotgun. the soldier thumped to the ground without a sound, and just as he was going to go back to the house, he felt a rap on his back, and whirled around to knock a soldier unconscious, hitting him in the face. he took all their guns, clothes, and ammo, and took the last soldier inside to question him. he saw rita, and said with a grunt, "this one, OOF. is going in, UNGH for quESTIONING" he said as the soldiers weight made him pant for breath.

when Aximili got into the house, he put the soldier down, got some duct tape, and taped him to the floor. he was almost done when me saw milo coming through the door. "hello there, milo. this little trouble maker, we will question him. oh, and you guys.." Aximili holds up the gun with the weird insignia on it. "does this look familiar, because it looks like the Battle Bot symbol." he looked worried. "i think, they might be teaming up.
oh, and milo," said Aximili, handing him the bag of useless scrap, "i have no use for this. please take it, i know you can make use of it"

Milo smiled widely and toke the bag "why won't you ask me to build you your own mech? the amount of scrap and electronics you brought me you could have one like mine" he said and toke some scrap and his blowtorch "let's see" he said and turn on the blowtorch

"well, thats why it brought it to you. its too low grade for me to purify it, and that generator could be of use in making a new thing. and i dont need a mech. i need to stay low and silent when im in the Badlands. scavenging for good scrap and generators." Aximili said with a raspy voice, and took a swig of water from his waterskin, and watched milo Expertly use his blowtorch on the scrap. as he was watching him, he heard the man on the ground arousing, and Aximili told milo to cut off the blowtorch. "we need to get more info out of him ,and where he got that gun." aximili purred as the man panicked and cried out. "so, your awake" Aximili said as he duct taped the mans mouth. "its nice to see you. well, not really, for trespassing onto our land." Aximili grumbled, and slapped the man on the face. "you look like a man of many sources, and i want to ask you, what is your name?" Aximili took the duct tape off the soldiers mouth, but the soldier held his tongue. after 5 seconds of no response, he whistled for his owl. "not cooperating, eh? well i have more than one way to make a man BREAK" Aximili roared, and the man cringed, but still didn't speak. Aximili sighed, and left him there for a few minutes

In those few minutes, he went over to milo, and asked him what he was making. after he told him what he was conjuring up, he nodded and went back to the soldier on the floor, looking too comfortable. Aximili took out his tazer, and, with a jerk, hit the man in the shoulder with it, holding it there for 3 seconds or so. he heard the mans bloodcurdling scream, and smiled. "well, do you want to talk now?" he smiled as the man started to stutter, "m-m-m-my my name is-ss-s uhh.... leroy.." Aximili frowned at the mans speech. "good start. now, who do you work for?" the man held his tongue once again, and he frowned even more. "now come on. i dont want to hurt ya! just give me my answers, and you can be on your way." Aximili tazed the man again for a brief second, and bent down close to his face. "now. tell me or i will have to go to EXTREME MEASURES!!" aximili threatened, and the man fumbled for an answer " I SERVE MR.GEORGE!!! PLEASE DONT HURT ME!!" the soldier cried. Aximili smiled. this one couldn't be more over 21. but, he wasn't done with him yet. he picked up the rifle, and showed him the insignia. "now tell me this, where did you get this rifle from? tell me, and i wont kill you slowly." the man spoke out clear this time "you will never get THAT out of me. i swore on oath to protect the identity of that company." the man smirked, and aximili stood up and said, "very well. RINA! you do whatever you want with him. oh, and dont be gentle, please?" aximili smirked as rita got up and picked up the man.

milo toke some old and very low quality scrap and throw them in the melter and heat the pot up once it was liquid he pore it in a few teeth of a tree saw and pot them on a round disk "don't kill him yet Rina i want to test a new 'toy' of mine" he said as he was welding the teeth on the circle, eh then came back with a helmet with a bunch of wires and tree needles "well let's see if we can make this so called 'soldier' into a 'info spitting monkey'" he said with a smirk and put the helmet on the head

(You keep writing Rita although her name is Rina)

"Anyways I got some high quality metal for you, Aximili. It should be helpful to you. I would just like to have some chromium hyperconductors for it." Rina said. Then Aximili asked her to go torture the prisoner. A twisted smile came upon Rinas face and again her hand turned into a rotary saw. "You better talk otherwise I will cut you to pieces slowly and painfully. You might have seen what I am capable of as I tore your fellow soldiers head off." She said to him and showed him the head, then slicing it in half. "Why dont we start by forcing you to eat his brain. And you still wont chirp I will love to induce a lot of pain." She then grabbed his mouth and forced it open. It hurt a lot for the soldier as he could feel the metal under her skin and the seemingly inhuman force she had. Rina grabbed a piece of brain and shoved it in his mouth, then closing it and forcing him to chew. "Now how does the bloody meat of your friend taste?" Rina said and a sinister smile.

"well, ill be on my way then" Aximili said after Rina handed him the high quality scrap, and giving her some CH, it was worth it, though, he could finish one of his biggest creations with this scrap. he took all the guns and knives from the soldiers, to sell at the shop, and left the house saying, "sorry i couldn't stay long, i have to get back to my shop. oh, but wait! Rina. tomorrow, i want you to program something into my metallic right arm, could you tomorrow?". as he left the building, his owl flew out and perched itself on Aximili's shoulder, and he smiled.

back at the shop, he uncovered it with the magical dirt blanket, and started to get to work. he set the soldiers weapons on the counter, and started working on his final project, a Plasma launcher, it would be able to pierce through 12cm armor, and kill a man instantly, and explode on contact with human skin, not only that, it was attracted towards a robots electrical field, and took energy out of the generators in them, and make the explosion larger, but had less of an effect on a cyborg, since they were both metal and skin, so the plasma rocket would get confused. as he connected the high quality scrap to make a trigger, and Pro sights, he heard the ringing of a bell, and many men talking. he went out of his workshop and way 3 men standing there, couldn't have been over 25, and they looked at Aximili, and the middle one said, "hi, we are all looking for simple guns, no special plasma crap, just some normal guns, like the ones you got here," he pointed to the 3 rifles he picked up from the soldiers, and Aximili said, "sorry those aren't for sale, im going to experiment on them, but i do have 3 normal pistols that are on sale. "Aximili brought out the 3 pistols, and the men nodded, and said "we'll take em." after payment, the 3 men walked off after buying 3 plasma knives each. Aximili warned them not to fire off within 50 feet of his store, or he would have to shoot em. then, aximili started on the plasma launcher again, and, after the finishing touches were added, it was finished! he was about to add paint to it when he heard a loud, "THUMP. THUMP. SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE....." and aximili wondered what it was, so he entered his scrap tower, and, to his dismay, a Megabot was coming straight for his hut, and it had the Battlebot symbol on its chest. Aximili got wide eyed and he ran down in search of something that could fend it off, it was about half a mile away, he could try to snipe it, so he grabbed the sniper off the rack, which could pierce 24cm armor plating, and then he thought better, and also brought up the plasma launcher. he was frightened though, and he started off with the Sniper. he fired 5 shots into the head, and that slowed it down a little bit, but it kept on coming. so, he looked at the plasma launcher. what better time to test it, than now? hew picked it up, it was a little heavy, but he could manage, and aimed down the Pro sights. he was thankful he added in Generator seeking, or else he would have missed, and shot the Megabot.
the sound from the Plasma launcher was so loud, that aximili dropped it, and covered his ears. everyone within 2 miles could have heard that. he noted to himself, "make sound less deafening" and watched in fascination as the bot slowed down, and burst in half from the consumption of the Generation in the body. Aximili cheered, it worked though!

Milo was in his mech and literary jumped out the cockpit and grab aximili by his shirt "HAVE YOU GONE NUTS THIS TIME!! WHO KNOW WHAT THAT SOUND COULD ATTRACT AND THE EXPOLOSION!! JEZUS!!" he said and dropped him to the floor "easy milo he just was exited to test his new 'toy'" he told himself and then watched back to Aximili "if you thought one mega bot was bad how many do you think that sound and energy burst would attract the town and your house are now in danger, so we have two options here fight to the death and destroy your new 'toy' or we fend them of and improve that thing a LOT" he siad and pointed to him "and next time test! somewhere safe and far from the town!" he said and sit down on the chair

Sand fell through his fingers, creating a small...serene sort of sand waterfall to the ground. As Alex's hand emptied he wiped it off slowly, taking care to get it all off before standing. He walked steadily forward, along the ruins of what must have at one time been a road. Old vehicles and small piles of scrap metal littered the decayed environment around, Alex barely spared them a glance. Odds are anything useful had been taken long ago. Stopping he could see the makings of a town in the distance, it was far enough to be a mirage but Alex knew better. Steeltown, the only place remotely close to a home. He wondered if anyone he knew was still alive. His thought were interrupted as something fell from a scrap pile nearby, Alex twisted around quickly with his right arm shifting into cannon form, and humming quietly as a purple light charged from within.

His breathing normalized when he saw it was just a heavily mutilated body. Approaching it carefully, Alex kneeled down and examined it. Male, some reminisce of Armour remained, but it was covered in fresh blood. Its limbs had been removed, most had been cut off by a sharp blade, but one; his arm, was much more of a jagged tear along the flesh. Suggesting it had been literally ripped off. The sight was almost sickening. Alex stood and glanced around, with how fresh the blood was whoever did this may well be around still. That, or heading towards the only inhabitable area within a hundred miles. Either way Alex did not like the thought of running into it. He pushed the body back into the scrap pile, then turned to see a large, burly man pointing a weapon at him. The man was clearly a bandit, dressed in torn garments painted a crude blood red. His gun was 34. magnum, old but effective none the less. "Now hold on partner, no need to do something regrettable." He said in a smooth voice while slowly spreading his hands out widely.

"You Killed Him! The man yelled in a hoarse voice. His finger tightened on the trigger before Alex could explain, the shot resounded for what was likely miles as the bullet flew into Alex's right shoulder. The force of the bullet spun him around, but the momentum was to his advantage, as he came back around with his arm humming loudly and fired a large purple sphere strait into the mans chest. Effectively ripping him in half and sending his halves into two different directions. Alex picked up the 34. from where it landed and threw it in the small backpack over his left shoulder, then grunted as his right arm surged with pain and an emergency alarm flashed in his left eye. It quickly drew up the damage assessment, the bullet had hit his third triceptor cord. Severing the energy connecter there and cutting off the flow of plasmid. His shot had drained his only reserves. A small timer started counting down in the corner of his eye; 5:00.00 hours until Energy overload. The damage was too much for Alex to repair, he would have to hope someone in town could operate. He turned in the direction of Steeltown and steadily began heading towards it, holding his right arm as it hung lazily at his side.

"HEYHEYHEY MILO! CALM DOWN!" Aximili said. "it was headed straight towards me!! my sniper didn't work, only slowed it down. oh god!!! i bet i can get power for weeks from that generator in that beast!" and before Milo could object, aximili ran into the Badlands, taking milos torch from his tool belt, and cutting out the huge generator out of the beast of a robot, and got another crazy idea, "a huge turret in my scrap tower!!!!" Aximili said out loud, and took his pickup to carry the good scrap back to his fort, and he saw milo in the tower, a wide eyed expression, gaping jaw look. aximili first of all took measures of the mammoth generator. it was 6 by 4 ft, perfect size for his tower. he kicked milo out for he was in the way, and told him to manage the shop. "oh, and heres a few mice to feed my owl. please do that, he might get cranky otherwise and rip your eyes out."
and he didn't wait for milo to reply, for aximili was already putting the barrel on the generators power front, and on the rotating platform.

by the time he almost had all the wiring done, it was about noon when he noticed movement in the desert. and then a flash from something, a gun probably, and Aximili got out his sniper and aimed down the sights at where the shot came from. Aximili saw, through the scope, a man walking away from 2 dead bodies, and he had a super technical metal arm! though it looked damaged. Aximili got an idea. he balled up a note and, so it wouldn't hurt the man out there, cased it in rubber. the note said:

dear stranger out there,
this is a friendly note, and i see you are damaged. i would be obliged to fix up your arm for you.
your loner neighborhood scavenger,
Aximili

after he shot the note, he finished up with his mega turret, and he realized, with increasing surprise, that he finished it in 1 day! thats amazing! all he needed to do was decrease the sound discharge on his Plasma launcher. so he went into his shop, and saw milo trading some knives for a gun that needed to be fixed with a boy that looked 17. Aximili finished the sound discharge, and asked milo, when the customer was gone, "where can i test this? im not sure the sound has decreased, but i'm definite its a significate decrease in sound." after he asked that, he wondered, where did Rina go??

milo grab Aximili by his ear "look your young and wanting to try thing but i have one golden rule about my tools, NEVER EVER TOUCH THEM!! and never leave me with that dam owl of yours he keeps glaring at me even when i feed it on time" he said an watch the owl who was glaring at him "what did i wrong to you!?" he yells to it and let aximili go now get your launcher and follow me to my mech it's big enough for your gun, you and me" he said and grab a cuban cigar out of his pocket "do you mind?"

Calypso was quickly hovering across the wasteland when she saw a small metallic glint in the corner of her eye. "That must be the town that I was informed of. Name: Steeltown. Population: Around 2500. I should be safe there."

She picked up the pace, now skating inches above the sand at the rate of a human sprint. When she wasn't paying attention, she tripped over a dead body, mutilated and looted. She stopped and began to analyze it.

" [Begin Death Report]
Name: Unknown
Age: Appears Middle-aged
Signs of conflict: Massive
Description of Corpse: Victim was blown apart by something of an explosive nature, likely something related to plasma. There are no weapons on what looks to be a bandit, so it was likely looted.
Location of assailant: There are Footprints leading towards Steeltown. I will now follow them.
[End Death Report]"

She Returned to hovering, again skating at the rate of a human sprint. The only noise made was a faint humming from the propulsion jets. She was quickly gaining on what she suspected to be the killer of the bandit, who also appeared to be injured.

Aximili was suddenly aware of more movement out in the desert. he looked thought the sniper scope again, and saw another figure near where he saw a hovering figure looking over it, and it looked like it was getting a synopsis of it. "wait milo, AHH!" Aximili yelped as the man grabbed his ear. "what are you talking about, im 35! i've lived on the edge of these badlands for 10 years now! i aint your younger!" he ripped out of Milos grip. "anyways, look through the scope, theres something interesting out there" as milo looks through the scope, Aximili gets his Custom pick up, and gathers more scrap from the Megabot that he demolished. he suddenly thought of another idea, he could make his pickup voice controlled with the bots head chip! as he got back, he asked milo what he thought he saw through the scope as he started customizing his pickup truck

Alex was halfway to the city when something struck him dead in the chest, knocking him back a few steps. Quickly his systems assessed that no damage was caused. What the hell? Crouching he ran one hand over the sand, until it came upon something black and rubber like. Carefully Alex lifted it out of the sand and examined what appeared to be some kind of bullet, a small incision down the middle suggested it could be taken apart. He had to resort to his teeth to do so, afterwords he revealed a small message. Someone from Steeltown offering to repair him. "Like hell, I'm really going to let someone random work on me." The timer flashed in his eye again; 4:30:28 Alex muttered a curse to himself and resumed walking, however a faint hum once again distracted him. He turned on his heel, now more than a little annoyed at so many delays and barely managed to bring his right hand up. It was useless as a weapon, but odds are whoever was following him wouldn't realize it, and if they did...His other hand hung loosely at his waste, where just under his duster was a large, fully loaded Commando AS75 triple barrel sawed off shotgun.

When his eyes focused on the subject, he discovered that it was a she, and she was a cyborg. "Small world" He muttered under his breath. She was exquisitely built, with some kind of gliders as well. She was moving fast, but was most likely able to slow down, her implants were rather apparent. However the real threat was whatever he couldn't see, almost all cyborgs had hidden weapons and he doubted she was any different. If this came to blows, he was not so sure he would walk away alive. Not in his current state."I'd stop if I were you friend." He called out in a sturdy voice. Then indicated his arm to show he was...well... armed.

Rina ended up killing the prisoner since he wouldn't talk. As Aximili left she thought about the hyperconductors and that he hadnt answered her about them. She walked out of the house and over to her project that she needed the hyperconductors for. It was covered under a large sheet and was the size of a large building. It was guarded by a robot dog and a cyborg dog. As she came, both ran up to her showing signs of happiness. "There there. You two are good boys." Rina said. There was a corpse next to the dogs. Looked like a bandit. He was torn apart and had many wounds. Rina detached the robot dogs head and gave the robot dogs processing unit an upgrade as well as its body for better energy efficiency. The robot dog had fur and underneath was metal only. The cyborg dog was similar but like Rina it still had an organic brain and thanks to modifications it was able to talk and alarm Rina per radio signal if they were overwhelmed. "Miss Rina, when will you play with us again?" The cyborg dog said in a metallic male voice with a british accent. Then Rina answered: "Soon enough. I just need to finish this thing and then I will be able to play." The dog tilted its head and said: "Okay but please dont let us wait too long."

Rina then headed over to Aximilis. She used the thrusters in her back to get there. She diverted more power into them to increase her speed. It wasnt long until she was there. She noticed that he had taken out a large machine. And now Aximili seemed to be arguing with Milo or fighting with him. "Cut it out you two! Aximili like I said before, I need chromium hyperconductors to be able to finish my artillery cannon. It will be able to fend off enemies who are even just at the border. That is 400 miles (about 640 km) away. Since plasma nearly weighs nothing, I am using shells that turn into burning hot projectiles because of the air friction and the speed. I would like to get done today. My dogs are waiting for me to play with them." Rina said. "But if you desire cybernetic parts or if customers of yours need any, tell me. I would just like to have titanium, adamant or chromium in exchange. Cale might be good in cybernetics and installing them but half of the parts he uses, mostly the more advanced parts, he gets from me. I have probably the most advanced combat and enhancement upgrades in Steeltown, therefore Cale makes stable basic parts and medical implants and you make some parts too dont you?"

Calypso heeded the injured man's warning, and slowed to a halt in front of him. " That arm of yours, it must be the weapon that killed the bandit back there. " The robotic semi-monotony in her voice indicated that she was definitely heavily modified, but still partially human. "I thank you. I have a grudge against bandits, so to speak. Is your arm injured? I Can probably help you get to Steeltown." She looked towards the town. "Is Steeltown far from here? The programming for me to judge exact distances is corrupted, so I can't tell from here.

Alex was, surprised by the kindness of her. Not an abundant trait in the wastelands. Slowly he lowered his arm, letting it hang once again at his side, then glanced at the still far off city over his shoulder. "Nearly another hour's walk. Sorry a bout the, warning. One can't be too trusting out here." Turning back to her he had a chance to examine her modifications more thoroughly. She was built for speed, much like himself. What Armour she did have had trace elements of zeronium in it, if his scanner was working correctly. However some of the implants seemed a little more crude than others, but not many. Someone had put a lot of time and effort into her.

Another surge of pain shot through his shoulder, his system reported that the backed up plasmid had now corrupted another triceptor. Increasing his overall damage considerably, and decreasing his lifeline. 2:16:97 Left before system overload. Please repair. Please repair. Please repair. His HUD alarmed him. Looking back to the new arrival he weighed his options. He could try walking, but if his third cord got corrupted, even a salveger would have a hard time repairing it. On the other hand, he did not like the thought of trusting strangers. What choice do you have?
He grimly thought to himself. "I could gladly accept your offer. Can you handle the extra weight though?"

"Though I myself can probably not carry you easily, my propulsion jets could carry you and the dead bandit over there". Calypso scooped up the injured man, and skated off, now inhibited to the rate of a quick jog. She looked down to the man she was now carrying. "My name is Calypso. My programming is incomplete, so I didn't lose all of my human mannerisms. Heavily armed bandits raided the laboratory I was kept in, so I became a traveling artificial life-form". She was quickly reaching Steeltown, and she was only around 100 yards away. " We are almost at the town. Do you want me to help you get there?"