After scooping what remained of Charlie’s body out of his walker, we made our way back to the Arcology.

The traverse back wasn’t much different from departure and it was not long until we were passing through the familiar steel hangar gates again.

The fact that Charlie died is not a big deal, Aaron seemed upset and the Twins seemed a tad more quiet. But Honestly, sometimes Weapons break when used, they should just get over it.

That being said, Alicia was surprisingly ok. Good. I might be able to make a good squadmate out of her yet.

After leaving the Walkers in the hangar for maintenance, we took an elevator to the main floor and turned in the skirmish for a reward. And since there were 2 of us, (Alicia doesn't know how to handle money yet,) I am going manage our money. 2 times 185 equals 370. Its nice to actually have some coin…

Well, it would be, but according to my balance 300 credits was instantly deducted for the repairs…

This is unfair… I knew the maintainance would go up in price with a new Walker but still…

… I am also starting to strongly suspect that the 1500 I got from selling that drone was grossly under the going rate…

...sigh, why am I so bullied?...

That being said the 70% discount made it worthwhile enough I suppose. Besides, now that I have Alicia, I get double the earnings.

Oh.

...The maintenance for this time was only 120, the rest was because Lee left an open bill on my account…

I did say that I would pay back but still…

….All that money… Gone… *snifle*

Welp. Whatever.

I have to say, Alicia did splendid this time, she shot at the enemies when told, she shot accurately and she didn't start making unnecessary racket when one of the other Weapons broke. So, I think giving her a reward is in order.

So, I promised to treat her with a meal of her choice. As such we headed to a local eatery.

*Pov: Adam rorke*

That day we learned where the damn giants of our realm roam.

We had just arrived back to Aurora and cashed in our paychecks for the successful job. I thought I should let the boys unwind, so I had taken them to a local Bar. All was fine and dandy there. Hell we stayed till they had to kick us out, so ‘course we began searching for a new bar to get more wasted.

As I was guiding my horde of wasted apes to another bar, 2 of them that always been a bit sleazy, Jackson and Fernando started harassing a little kid of all things. She had just come out of a restaurant with her bigger sister, and had ran ahead along the road cheerfully as jackson and Fernando noticed her, so she was all alone with them.

Watching it left a bad taste in my mouth and technically they are in my care, so I was about to go yell at the idiots, but her sister had gotten there first.

I think everything would have gone well if that one sentence was not muttered.

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“Oh~*hic* Thre comes your slut *Hic* sistrre, does she wat to join innn on the fun too? Hehe *hic* hehehe~ we have plenty to-*hic* plenty to spare you know? Wold you like a taste?”

Jackson said as he turned to look at the sister lewdly, attempting to cop a feel. Without even really looking at her.

I think it was at this moment that Jackson knew. He fucked up.

The next thing I heard was that sickening sound…

*Crunch* *splurt*

As that same sister grabbed his windpipe, at the Adam's apple. And crushed it.

Fucking, crushed it.

As she let his unconscious (and unbreathing) body fall to the floor, she turned her eyes towards Fernando, who still had his fat arm on the little girls breast. He was totally frozen, like a deer in headlights.

And I can't fucking blame him, because as she turned towards Fernando, I saw her Eyes.

Cold, cold fucking eyes. Like a goddamn glacier.

I have seen those eyes before, in the head of every Old Beast I have slain. Just seeing them my gut would scream it to me. There was no hint of mercy in those eyes...

But more importantly, I knew that face. That is the goddamn madman pilot from a few days ago.

Before Fernando or I could even recover enough to react, she grabbed his arm and twisted it, forcing it to point towards his stomach.

A chilling voice every fucking bit as terrifying as her eyes resounded. Quiet, low and almost growling in nature.

“...Don't ruin her day.” As she (he?) began to push his arm with great strength.

Sickening screams came out of Fernando’s mouth as she literally tried to shove his own arm through his stomach, SLOWLY... and It sure as fucking hell was working based on the sickening sound. I recovered from my stupor and bolted forward to save him from this… Monster just as his arm broke the skin and was about to start slowly plunging right through his gut.

But then, as I was rushing towards him, a scream resounded.

“NOO!!”

The little girl grabbed that monster at the waist … And hugged it.

“...I am alright… ...So you dont have hurt them anymore, ok?” She spoke, almost pleading.

That… Fucking beast did nothing for a few seconds, as if thinking if it should keep going, then it gave me a look, as if saying “If you Fucking mess with my Goddamn sister Ever again, You are dead.” And then let Fernando go,

It then turned its back on me and checked its sister, as if ensuring she was alright.

Some people dressed in black suits came over from the crowd and spoke a little with it. Then the Beast and the girl walked away,

The Black suited people cleaned the already dead Jackson up like some trash and gave Fernando and us a warning, informing us that ‘if we by some chance remember what happened here we would not live long enough to talk about it.’

...So just like that.

Jackson is gone. And I can't even bring his body home or tell his fucking wife how he died.

*Pov: Mc*

Sigh, the meal was so tasty. And I am pretty sure Alicia enjoyed it too, based on how she kept smiling and chatting through it.

After eating I decided we should head back to the residential area to get Alicia a room next to mine from the money we gained as a way to show that she did good.

And that she should keep on being loyal.

But then things went downhill,

Alicia had skipped ahead after we got out of the restaurant (she is finally starting to come out of her shell even in public I think.) When she started getting harassed in public

This would definitely ruin Alicia’s day and thus reduce my loyalty-points, so I hurried over to stop the pervs.

As I got closer though one of them tried to mock how feminine I looked, so I grabbed it at the windpipe as to make it unable to talk and incapacitate it temporarily, I think I drew a little blood though. But whatever, It is thrash after all.

The other one was outright molesting Alicia, even while I incapacitated its friend so I decided to teach it a lesson as to make sure it would never harass my property again.

As I was about fully enact my lesson tough alicia stopped me.

After some thinking I realized that I am probably showing my… less desirable side, so I let the trash go.

Luckily there were a some people that I knew from the A&A Corps offices nearby who promised to help the two injured, so I decided to leave it to to them as I lead Alicia home, making sure she was alright and not traumatized by their harassment to best of my ability.