"What was that voice?" asked Stefan in his mind.
The entire army of robots suddenly jumps off their conveyor belts and proceeds to rush Stefan.
"Enemy count: overwhelming. Solution: escape." said the same robotic female voice he heard before.
Stefan runs outside and slams the door then flips the lock. Just in that moment, several thuds crash into the wall and door. Stefan uses that to his advantage and runs away, hiding behind a building of flats. The door breaks down and the robots break free. Stefan tries to catch his breath, thinking that he's safe now. The cat dials Stefan again.
"What did you do this time?!" said the cat.
"I found Andrew. Can you send Rares here?"
"I would, if I had any juice left! Find a generator quicker."
Suddenly, he hears stomps approaching his location.
"Gotta go, cya." said Stefan before closing the call.
2 robotic exoskeletons find him, they're basic. Painted in black, they look like a simple smack of a hammer can knock them down. Stefan takes no chance and proceeds to punch one of the two with his left arm right in the head, knocking it down and creating a visible dent. The other one tried punching Stefan.
"Shock down"
Stefan didn't really know what this meant, but he took the guess, aimed his left arm at the ground, clenched his fist hard. The cobalt plates moved back and revealed a more simple shell for his hand. Electricity can be seen around it, then, in less than a blink of an eye, an electric shockwave blasts into the ground, pushing Stefan away a few meters but destroying the robot. Stefan squeals as he falls on his back. He quickly gets up then he gets a call once more.
"What did you do? Your energy levels decreased by 20% once more." said the cat.
"Do I have a combat assistant? I hear a lady guiding me on what to do."
The cat sighs before speaking again.
"Yes, it's obvious. However, it's not quick enough to take care of things that go over 90 kilometers per hour."
"Whoa, that's so cool! Yeah, she told me to shoot a shockwave."
"Yeah, ahem, listen. You should save up that electricity. You have 5 shots in total, you already used up 2. You have 3 more. Who are you even fighting?"
"I'm fighting robots. Andrew apparently has a robot factory."
"That damn brat… Alright, listen up, rip the heads of the robots and bring them to me. They surely have their combat data stored in their heads, as well as useful materials. To compensate for this chore, I will upgrade your suit with whatever I find from the robots. Fair enough?"
"Fair enough. Roger."
"What was that? Heh, "roger"". said the cat before closing the call.
Stefan looks around him for anything to put the heads of the robots in. He eventually finds a garbage can. He goes over to it and spills the garbage from it, goes at the robots with it, rips their heads off and places them in the can.
"This should fit around 10 of them, I hope it's enough." said Stefan to himself.
He peeks into the streets to check whether or not there's robots nearby.
"Analysis report: no sign of enemy nearby."
"I'll need to get used to her, do I." said Stefan in his mind.
He walks on the street, but something feels off. It's as if everyone evaporated, as if the city suddenly turned into a ghost town. Stefan decides not to question it too much and continues to walk. His goal right now is to find an electronics store, since that's the only place where he would be able to find an electricity generator.
"I don't understand what's the deal with this city, everyone's a cyborg but there's no electronic stores around here…" said Stefan to himself with disappointment.
Stefan suddenly sees a drone fly right above him. Suddenly, the drone drops a small grenade. Stefan caught it in the garbage bin then kicks the bin away, blowing it into pieces as well as the heads inside it. Stefan tried to think of a way to take it down before it alerts everyone else of his location. He looks around the ground, finds a pebble and decides to throw it at the drone. The little rock does no damage to the drone, however, once touched, the drone sends out an insanely loud alarm sound together with flashing red lights. Stefan decides to take drastic measures. He goes up to a car and rips off it's door with a bit of struggle then throws it at the drone, destroying it at once, followed by it crashing into a block of flats which explodes on impact. Stefan thinks about driving the car to a store, but then he realizes that he doesn't know anything about a car. However, the car had a tablet. Stefan gets inside the car and presses all the buttons on it until it opens, revealing a GPS map. Stefan is clearly surprised by this. He moves his finger across the tablet, moving the map at the same time under his touch. He pinched the screen and he was extremely surprised when he saw the map zoom out. With a sweet smile on his face he continues to look for any place that was marked with a shopping sign. It doesn't take him long until he eventually finds one. He pressed on it and it shows the road you're supposed to take.
Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.
"Left, right, pass 1 then left again, go go go until roundabout then left again, then right and the shop should be there." said Stefan, trying to memorize the road.
Stefan gets out of the car and starts walking. He takes the first left, then he sees something that shocks him a little. A gigantic robotic spider could be seen activating in a zone which seemed to be exactly where the electronics store was located. Stefan is scared as he watches the spider activate, but he suddenly changes attitude, trying to gather himself up.
"They're just scrap metal. They can't do anything to a state of the art cyborg unit like me." said Stefan to himself confidently as he kept walking.
Stefan just realized that the streets were surprisingly sparkling clean, no sign of garbage anywhere. He feels bad thinking at the car he just destroyed. He takes the right corner and he sees robots forming some sort of border, as if they tried to cover the zone in a square. The robots were more armored than the previous ones he fought before. They actually were humanoid and were plated with steel. However they seemed sluggish. There were 9 in total. Stefan decides to straight up go and destroy them. He walks right in the middle of the street towards them. The robots instantly notice him and turn around to approach him, walking slowly. Stefan is relieved seeing how pathetic they are, but suddenly, a bullet hits his cyborg head, ricocheting into the ground and damaging his head slightly.
"Ugh, what?" said Stefan to himself, confused.
He realized that he was a sitting duck if he were to stand there, so he decided to finish them quickly. Stefan quickly rushes the first robot, with a fearless expression he clenches his teeth and throws a punch with his left arm. Surprisingly, the robot catches his arm right before it would hit its head and is powerful enough to stagger Stefan. The other robots quickly approach Stefan. He finds no escape solution other than using an electric shockwave. Stefan uses it and completely destroys the robot. The next one approaches him. He decides to strike low, then proceeds to swiping it in the knee, successfully making it fall down. Stefan proceeds to stomp it to the ground and pluck its leg out. The robot tries to crush his leg, but Stefan smashes its head with the leg before allowing it to do so.
"Duck."
Stefan quickly ducks, another bullet is shot and barely touches his hair, not causing any damage whatsoever. Stefan rushes the next robot, swinging the leg at it and knocking it down as well. He doesn't spend time destroying it, instead he rushes past the remaining ones and passes through the plastic road blockers placed by the robots. As Stefan started sprinting he realized that his running capabilities have improved severely, being able to far exceed his past stamina and top speed using electricity to overclock his legs.
"Pass 1, then turn left." said Stefan in his mind.
Stefan passes one intersection, then at the following one he grips onto the ground with his left arm and swiftly drifts left, not losing any speed.
"Now go go go until the roundabout…"
Several robots were randomly placed on the street to guard for Stefan. They instantly notice him and attempt to attack him. An exoskeleton swiftly launches a punch at Stefan, but misses due to him sliding right beneath him. Stefan quickly proceeds to get up and in a hasty manner he continues running. Every other robot had their own attempt at trying to just approach Stefan, however he just zoomed past them. The cat dials Stefan once more, he picks up quickly.
"Yeah, what's up?" asked Stefan.
"You're using up your battery. You used another shockwave and now the amount of energy you've spent running has already almost drained as much as one shockwave. I'm warning you, if you run out of electricity, your armor will fully weaken. You'll be a clean one shot for them. Spend it wisely." said the cat before closing the call.
Stefan continues sprinting until he finally reaches the roundabout.
"Left!" said Stefan to himself.
Bushes were planted around the roundabout, Stefan simply jumps over them using a weaker electric shock, then once he falls down he balances himself and proceeds to start running again. More robots scout the zone, not realizing Stefan is right behind them. He takes this to his advantage and proceeds to dash, jump and kick an armored robot to the ground, then proceeds to stand on top of it and rip its head off. With slight struggle and a grunt, Stefan plucks its head off.
"Cat said he wants their heads, so I'll give him their heads." said Stefan to himself.
The other robots instantly notice Stefan. They instantly try to catch him. Stefan vaults over one robot's head and is able to get out of their combat range efficiently. Stefan finally reached the last intersection.
"Right!" said Stefan before slowing down to be able to take the corner.
At the exact moment he turns the corner he is instantly punched in the face by an armored robot. Stefan falls staggered for a brief moment, but comes back to his senses quickly. He notices that the giant spider he’s seen before has noticed him so he knows that he must find a way to get to that shop faster. The robot seemed like it would not allow Stefan to pass by, and he did not have enough momentum to be able to enable the electric sprint, so his only solution was to use another shockwave. Stefan throws a punch with his left arm and so does the robot, clashing against each other. Stefan activates the shockwave and instantly blows it away, using the last part of electricity from his body. Stefan suddenly feels extremely heavy and he can barely keep his left arm up. He sees a small glowing tube, glowing with a blue hue. He went over to it and slowly gripped onto it with his left arm. Suddenly, he feels light again and he can move freely once more. The tube’s color fades away. Stefan crushes it then throws it away. Stefan starts sprinting once more. The spider locks the target onto him. With its gigantic legs, it kicks a building of flats down. Stefan sees this and tries to run faster. The building falls onto him. Stefan goes right through an open window. He shoulder bashes through the apartment walls and punches through the final wall to get out of it. The spider notices that he’s still alive. Several machine guns get out of it and aim towards Stefan then start shooting. Stefan runs as fast as he can until he finally finds the electronics store. He jumps and tries to kick through the windows of the store, but instead of breaking through the glass as whole, his body gets stuck into the glass with his leg penetrating it. The guns of the spider run out of ammo and started the reloading procedure. Stefan takes quick notice of this and struggles his hardest to pluck it out. The spider launches a series of mini missiles which all spread around the zone, Several of them hitting around Stefan and shooting shrapnel into his body, however helping him get out of the shop’s window. With his leg injured, he tries his quickest to find an electricity generator. To his surprise, despite the shop being closed, an armored robot was there as a cashier. Stefan, already fed up with the calamity he currently takes part of, punches it straight in the face with a shockwave, blowing its head off its body. Stefan eventually finds an electricity generator. He plucks out the head of the neutralized robot then goes over to the generator. The spider stomps right in the middle of the shop. Stefan is spooked by its sudden appearance, but it doesn’t take him long to finally get to his senses and punch the generator as hard as he could, opening a portal that instantly sucked him into it together with the 2 heads he carried. He is able to escape right before the spider would stomp once more, this time right on the spot he was located at.