All I could think of, while the drones were still marching up the steps Was "I really wish I had a grenade right now." When the second group reached the top of the stairs, my sword swung in an arc cutting the first two in half. Then shoved the other two back down the steps. When the third group got near the top. They stopped and waited for more drones. "Great, now they're learning." Their shock batons were sticking out between their shields, so I couldn't just run out and tackle them like before. Not if I wanted them to know I couldn't be shocked.

Time was at a standstill while I tried to think over the situation. If I retreat, I'm only delaying the problem if I charge them. They might figure out that I'm immune to the shock batons. Right now my most significant advantage is that there caring around heavy shields that I can cut through with these. They dropped to those and just ran at me with conventional weapons they be able to take me down.

Getting frustrated I said, "Oh great, I suck at strategizing." Running forward I reached down with my shield arm and pulled out my pistol, and the shield was now loosely dangling on my arm by one of its straps. Then I reversed my sword grip and grabbed the shield with my sword hand to hold it in place, using it as a ram. Sprinting, I ran into the Droid Shield wall causing it to buckle. As their Shields parted from the impact, I leaped forward entering the center of their group. One of the drones grabbed my shield, smiling, I said:"you can keep that, I'm done with it now." Letting go of the shield I pulled my gun arm out. I raised the gun while shooting into the unshielded drones. The first one lost its camera, the one next to it ended up with a hole in its battery. Another was trying to put its shield back in place. But I hit it in the shoulder destroying it shield arm.

Several of them drop their shields to tackle me. Time slowed while I looked at them. "That was dumb, Just so dumb. You had a bulletproof shield." Time resumed they were still in midair when I put a round through each one of their chests. One of the bodies flew over my head when I ducked and hit her unit just behind me. The other two fell to the ground, breaking into pieces. Quickly swinging my sword at another one that had been using its shield to protect itself. I was still cutting through it when a second one hit me in my side with the stun baton.

The whole room froze, but this time it wasn't because of my processor speeding up. The last of the units were staring at my side watching the arcs go around the staff. They were still staring at me when I said. "Yeah, maybe it's out of batteries?" They weren't buying it. The rest of them dropped their stun batons and charged at me. I shot another two in their cameras parts scattering is the rest finally reached me. Right before they could grab hold, my sword came up cutting two of them, starting at the hip of the first and ending at the shoulder of the second.

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there were only two left now."So do you guys want to talk this out, or just go back to fighting? Because I'm getting tired of this whole run-up and murder people kind of thing." the last two drones looked at each other from behind their shields. Then they looked back and charged. I let out a sigh "I'm never going to have a polite conversation with my kind. Like, Mike, how was your day. Oh, it was great I just spent the whole day obeying are human overlords. Nop, it's just stab stab stab."

My sword went through the last two cutting them neatly in half. After the pieces settled around my feet, I looked around."I think they're going to need way more cleaning drones" I turned and started going down the steps to see where those drones had come from. There is a simple maintenance hatch meant for drone use only. In other words, it usually let out into open space. The door would only open if it scanned a barcode. I had to go back to all the drones and pull off one of the arms. On the outside of the arm was the barcode I needed so I pulled off the piece of armor and took it with me.

When I reach the door, I held the barcode underneath the scanner. I heard a beep tone, and then the door opened up. It led onto a long narrow corridor. I began walking down it noticing there were pipes and conduits all along the side. When I got to the end, I came across a sizeable train station. "This is a train station. It was only supposed to be built after the city was finished. So how did this get inside the ship."

Walking over to the edge of the platform and looking to the right. I quickly pulled my head back as a train passed in front of me, narrowly missing my head. After a few seconds, the train stopped. Most of it was flat platforms with boxes and shipping containers piled on top. One of them was a passenger car. As I watched a woman with three cleaning drones walked out. It looked to be an infiltrator because her fake skin was peeling off of her metal frame. She was wearing a gray uniform meant for the engineers.

Her hands and head were the only things exposed. She was wearing thick leather gloves. Her face had was the only place that had skin left, and it had turned gray from age. Most of the back left portion of her metal skull was still visible. I watched her as she tried to give orders to the drones. "Look. I need you to stop building and lead me to the command deck." She angrily stomped her foot as drones continued on their business without acknowledging her.

The cleaner drones quickly went by me and into the hallway, I had just left. She looked up at me for the first time, flinched and spoke in a nervous voice. "ow shit, hey, I know what you're thinking, I look like some kind of monster, but please don't kill me" smiling I said. "I'm more worried about you attacking me." She now had a shocked expression on her face when she spoke again. "holy shit, YOU SPEAK ENGLISH!"