Droid Hunter - Prologue

[ButchyBoy]

While I have written out most of this story, many of the ideas and twists in the plot have come from Taryn. I could not have done this without her.

Droid Hunter - Prologue
By
ButchyBoy


It was a cold rather bleak winter day on the south side of Old Chicago. The snow on the ground had long turned to slush. Harry Lang, a tall, rather stocky fellow had trouble keeping his footing outside what was supposed to be an abandoned where house. Harry was a private investigator and head of the fast becoming famous New Hope Detective Agency. As Harry got closer to an entrance, the noise inside told him this place was far from abandoned, yet whoever was here didn’t seem to be worried about security. There were no guards out front, and no lock on the door. Harry carefully went in, gun drawn. The inside was a bit dimly-lit but he could see well enough. He crept closer to the source of the noise. What he saw next ran chills through him. “Oh my God”, he exclaimed as quietly as he could manage. “Oh Cri--” Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain from behind, and it was the last thing he would remember for a while.

Meanwhile, across town, a young woman was returning home to an apartment she shared with her husband. Except, this “woman” was a very human-looking android. She appeared to be nineteen or perhaps twenty years of age, rather short, with the body of a gymnast. She was dressed in a rather cute-looking pair of overalls and a frilly white t-shirt. Her long blonde hair was tied up in two tight pigtails, just the way she liked it. Once upon, she was known as Daddy’s Girl Model 2QXR3, and given the name of “Cricket”, so as to blend in better with the society of 2022.

However, it was “Mrs. Lang” that was scrawled on a rather plain looking envelope that she found on top an untouched TV in an otherwise ransacked and vandalized apartment. She ripped it open and found a picture of Harry. He looked badly beaten. Touching the picture had triggered some sort of voice card embedded inside. The voice was male and sinister sounding.

“Save him…..if you can!”
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Yes kids, Cricket is back and Harry is too. The fiesty little robot girl is forced to take part in a very deadly reality TV game show. 8 female androids (Cricket included), have been taken from their owners, and pitted together in a game of survival against the seemingly unstoppable Hugo the Driod Hunter. The way the game is played, only one is supposed to survive at the end. But Cricket has other plans to play the game her way. Oh did I mention Harry's life was at stake as well. But if you think you know how this story will end.....think again. It's an exciting adventure that will change Cricket and Harry forever.

Keep it tuned right here for installments of "Droid Hunter"