Droid Hunter - Chapter 6

[ButchyBoy]

The metallic hornets continued to hover above, their buzzing becoming louder and louder each second. A few of the eight robot girls below began to show true fear and panic in their faces.

“Like, why do they just hang there buzzing?” asked Mel.

“Yeah, it’s like they’re like…waiting for us to run or something” added the blonde’s twin, Kel.

Cricket stared up at the faux insects. “Like the man said, it’s a TV show” she stated. “We run. That’s their cue to move and attack.”

Just then, the hornets began to move fast down toward the girls. Now, Cricket began to feel what could be described as fear, running through her circuits.

“Or I could be wrong.”

“Run!” Wendy cried. They all began to scatter in different directions, and the hornets in turn divided themselves up in smaller groups going after them. Cricket was still determined to keep them together in some form. She called after two of the android girls.

“Wendy, Jenny……try and keep all six of you together as best you can. Keep running in that direction.” Cricket pointed her right arm west as she spoke. “Gia and I will try and draw them away.”

“We will?” the tall bodyguard droid asked as she and Cricket ran in the opposite direction of the others.

“Yes” Cricket answered. “Look 50 meters straight ahead of us. See those bushes?”

“Yes but…” Gia then narrowed her vision to spot what Cricket had. They was some green colored, heavy-duty netting draped across those bushes ahead of them. Without saying a word, Cricket and Gia grabbed the netting as they ran by. They then ducked down out of sight of the hornets. The group of metal monsters on Cricket and Gia’s trail used their infra red sensors to find them. But just as they were about to sting the girls, they both sprang up, netting firmly in hand. They trapped the hornets as they flew right into the net. With the little beasts now so close together, they had no choice but to sting each other.

As the robot hornets were shorting themselves out, a massive electrical charge was building inside the net. Thinking quickly, Cricket grabbed the net, and using all her strength swung it round and round three times over her head, giving her enough momentum to fling the net full of hornets high into the air, where they exploded out of harm’s way. All of this had taken place within the span of less than a minute. For the first time, Gia was genuinely impressed with Cricket.

“Nice work there short stuff” Gia said, nodding with approval. Normally, the little robot detective would have been ecstatic with that kind of praise. But now, she had no time for it.

“Thanks, but we still have to save the others. I detected three other nets on the bushes around us. Find them, grab them, and please follow me.”

This take charge, no-nonsense attitude of Cricket’s in this situation had Gia stunned for a moment.

“This is a Daddy’s Girl?” she said to herself.

“Hurry!” Cricket cried back as she ran at near lighting speed to where the other hornets were attacking the six remaining fembots of the party. Gia herself wasted no time in locating the three other nets and using her own super speed to catch up with Cricket. The first ones both of them spotted were the twins.

They were both huddled together on the ground, shooing away hornets. Every now and then, a hornet would sting one of them one the backside, but the charge was mild. Clearly, Sterling had programmed these things to wear an android down, before they would move in for the kill. Gia wasn’t about to give them that chance. She whistled after them, getting their attention.

“Hey boys, come and get some real juice” the bodyguard android said, rather seductively. The hornets could clearly see what Gia meant. She was much stronger than both the twins combined, and had much more energy to feed off on. They quickly took the bait, buzzing after her.

The group of hornets after Gia sent a signal to the others, and very soon, all the metal yellow and black insects were after her. They seemed to take no notice of little Cricket, who netted the back end of the swarm. She trapped several of them in close quarters, forcing them to sting each other. As the charge was building, the little blonde robot once more tossed a hornet filled net high into the air, making for a nice fireworks show.

When the collective hive mind realized they had less of their brothers, and why, they quickly turned and went after Cricket! This suited Gia just fine. Now it was her turn to net the tail end of the swarm. Once they were disposed of, both girls used the last net to bag the remaining hornets, and send them off to their fiery end.

Cricket then scanned the area, and much to her delight, found all six girls grouped together in a clearing, just past the trees in front of her and Gia. It was Wendy who greeted them both, giving Cricket a mock salute.

“Daddy’s Girl model Wendy reporting for duty, ma’am. All girlbots present and accounted for, ma’am” she said with a grin. Cricket couldn’t be happier.

“Wendy, that’s great. You and Jenny had no problems then?”

“Nope” Jenny said. “It was really amazing. After you and Gia drew the hornets away, Wendy…..just seemed to know where to find the twins, and Lilly, and Sammie.”

“Is everyone ok?” Cricket asked. They all nodded in the affirmative.

“I’m not surprised. That was way too easy” Gia noted. Cricket agreed.

“Yes, you’re right. Sterling wanted to test us, see how good were really are.”

“And he got us to waste 30 minutes of our head start” Gia said. To that, Cricket didn’t agree.

“Not exactly. You see, when the hornets attacked, those nets were behind us, back the way we came. I directed Wendy and Jenny to keep running this way….toward to where we’ve calculated the exit off this crazy set is. So if anything, we’re ahead of the game, not running behind it.”

Gia smiled at this. She was beginning to like and respect this little android more and more. As they gathered together and resumed their hike, Cricket looked up to where she knew a camera had been placed and looked right into it. She knew Stan Sterling was watching. She smirked, and tapped an index finger on her left temple. The game show host, who was watching on a monitor, just smirked back.

“I’m just getting warmed up sweetheart.”
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Next: One Shall Fall

[DollSpace]

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