Just as Brett was going to get on, he stopped and said "You go on ahead. I see something that I want." he then walked off. I just looked at Paul. "You should take them to the town. Brett and I will catch up with you later." I said. If we were quick, it would be fine. He just rolled his eyes and closed to door before driving off. There was nothing more to say. Brett was just doing his own thing. Everyone left my party as I was now on my own. I followed Brett down the block where he was talking to a male cyborg. It was totally something he would do. The cyborg was blond with light green eyes. He was looking from side to side. It was clear that he wanted to move on his 2 other cyborg friends. One of them had light brown hair and blue eyes. The other had black hair and dark brown eyes. They all had the average height. The blond and brunette had athletic builds. The black haired cyborg had an average build. All 3 of them looked like they were stuck and had no clue what to do. "We are not interested. We don't want any trouble." Brett said "Hey, don't worry. You three can come with me. I will protect you."
I shook my head and said "Let's start from the top. What are your names, guys?" They were all looking nervous. I was pretty sure that they had not thought of any names for themselves. They were probably too low status and a normal person on the street would normally ignore them. "How about we give you guys some names? That would be a start." I prompted. The blond nodded. I called the blond one Chester. Brett called the black haired one Mack on a whim. The brunette I named Kim. All 3 of the male cyborgs were wearing raggedy clothes as well. They looked at each other and nodded. I asked what their PEP numbers were. They sighed and gave in to the very small request. The cyborgs were totally on the back foot. It was not something that they actually knew how to handle. Chester was PEP-08621. Kim was PEP-08862 and the cyborg now known as Mack was PEP-08553. "Come with us and we'll help you guys out." Brett said. Mack shook his head. "We can't. We have something we need to do right now." "Oh. That's fine. We can help." I replied. They balked. Brett just nodded.
Kim approached us and rolled his shoulders to try and intimidate us. He had obviously had enough. Neither of us were scared. Kim said "Listen. We don't want to cause any problems with you. Let us go already. You can't come with us." "Okay. Do you have a phone or something to get in touch?" Bret asked. None of them did. To be fair, I thought it was a bit much to expect for these guys. Neither of us had a phone to contact them either. They gave us nervous looks as they began to hurry off. We followed them until they made it to an apartment building. They made their way around the building and sneaked in a back door. Brett and I nodded to each other and went in the door as well. The cyborgs walked up the stairs and made it to the 7th floor before leaving the stairwell. We were not far behind them. It was pretty dicey on the stairs for me though. The people that the cyborgs were targeting were right in the open and they charged. We watched as they beat up the goons. The cyborgs were indeed super strong and killed them all easily. It was then the armed goons at the end of the hall came out.
The cyborgs were pinned down. They were not getting through the hail of bullets. It was time for us to step in. I stood in the hallway and threw my javelins at the 3 goons that I could see. I skewered them. The cyborgs looked at us. "What are you doing here!? This is our task!" Mack hissed at us. "It doesn't matter! Focus on the objective for now." Kim stated. Looking at them, I asked what their objective was. They looked like they were going to keep quiet. "C'mon. Obviously, we're helping you guys! Just tell us already so we can go and handle this." Brett complained. "Fine. There is a captured PEP unit in here. We are here to extract him before he is forced to give up any valuable information to the reprogrammers." That seemed easy enough. We let them lead the way. When we got to the corpses of the goons, the cyborgs took the guns for themselves. They got to the end of the hallway and 4 more armed goons came out. They got shot up a bit, but they were able to take them down. The PEP units bled blue. Kim looked at us and said "Stay here." They went to a locked door. Chester kicked it down.
