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I had ultimately made the decision to put us in harm's way. it might come at a price, or it might work out triumphantly.

All we could do was try— and fight for our lives.

I focused on the biggest bot because I didn't want Nix or Carmela to have to face him. I would take him all by myself, or at least give it my best effort to try and take him down.

I tried not to think about all his robotically enhanced muscular arms or the fact that he had sharpened weapons at the tips of all his hands. I tried not to focus on the fact that this thing could probably crush my skull in one fell swoop.

If I believed I could win against him, then maybe it was possible in the end.

I pulled out all the courage that I could, that lived deep inside me, in order to get the job done right on the first try.

It wasn't like I was going to immediately wipe the fucker from the map. I was going to have to work for this one.

Right when I reached it, however, I glanced to my side and noticed that Carmela was frantically trying to disable the other two— not only one at a time, but at thesametime. She was a next level badass. Her small frame didn't stop her. She was feisty and quick.

These bots were significantly larger than she was. I couldn't focus on killing the biggest bot because I was too immersed in how Carmela was fairing with the other two. Nix was sweeping in behind her to give her assistance.

She put herself on the line. I would be lying if I said this didn't impress me, but I was a nervous wreck about her safety, too.

The biggest bot began to swipe at me. I had to give it my attention or it was going to knock me unconscious in two seconds.

I tried to shoot it with my ray gun but even for its gigantic size, it was still able to dodge the slices of my razor shots and moved relatively fast to avoid me.

It tried to jab me with one of its sharpest, knife-looking weapons. I ducked at the very last second to avoid it. Carmela's hands were shaking beside me as she weaved and maneuvered around the massive beasts.

Her petite size ironically worked in her favor. I was worried for a second that they were going to step on her and squash her like a bug, but she was so much smaller than them that she was able to get around them quickly without them being able to know where she shuffled next.

She went behind them.

I held my breath and waited, hoping with every ounce of optimism I had within myself that she would successfully be able to disable them before Jun noticed and got to her first.

ChapterFifteen

CARMELA

All hell had broken loose in the corridor. The huge killbots towered over me. Their eyes were covered with visors, but I could feel the weight of their sinister stares on me as I attempted to squirm around them and disable them.

It was no easy accomplishment. They were so big that I could barely reach their control boards on their backs.

I had to jump a little, but I managed to get one open. Meanwhile, Nix was trying to cover for me as I worked to disable the panel. It was hard to navigate the wires. They were extremely complicated, and all interconnected.

If I pressed the wrong button or unhooked the wrong wire, then I might inadvertently cause them to spontaneously explode. I had to be extremely careful. Also, the settings were in a language I didn't understand.

I kept glancing over my shoulder to make sure Cyburn wasn't being beaten to a pulp. He was having to fight off the biggest killbot of all three. The beast had huge weapons attached to the ends of its arms and it kept trying to slice and jab at Cyburn.

Every time I saw that killbot swing its arm in Cyburn's direction, I held my breath and stiffened, wincing anxiously until I confirmed that Cyburn had been able to duck out of the way in time.

The last thinganyof us wanted was to experience a knife through the temple, or the stomach, or the heart. All it took was one wrong move. Fighting with these killer robots became like a synchronized dance. One of them came excruciatingly close— so close— in fact, to digging it's sharpened blade into the side of Cyborn's torso that I actually screamed.

"Focus," Nix pressed me urgently. "We can't get to Jun until we take out the killbots first."

I glanced at him, realizing with a bit of horror and embarrassment that the killbot that I had been trying to disable had moved away from me.

I was worried about whether we were going to get out of this alive, regardless of whether we could evengetto Jun.

He was heavily guarded and there were only three of us. If only we could reach the rest of Cyburn's team. Of course, he hadn't radioed them yet to tell them to call it off— because the parlay was over before it had even begun.

We had expected this anyway, because none of us had trusted Jun or taken his word for it. Cyburn had been smart about his apprehension toward Jun. The inevitable fight trudged on, and we did our best to stay on top.

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