Looking at that, I was pissed. "Did anyone know he could do that!?" I demanded. No one seemed to know. "Fuck! He could have got us all out of here before." I snapped out loud. "Pretty selfish for one of the so-called Advocate factions on the continent." I shrugged. "These AEP units were only born a few months ago. They have all the emotional and social maturity of a toddler." That made the enemy AEP units angry. "We're much better than human toddlers. They can barely even walk!" 10-002 said indignantly. "Not by much." Lady Fingers said as she maneuvered her way to the back of 10-002 and blasted him in the back of the knee with her shotgun. It warped the nanites in the region and he was hobbled. A kick to the damaged area knocked him to the ground. "I'll kill you!" he said as another toxic loud spewed from his ass. "Looks like I came prepared." she said as she equipped a gas mask. That was pretty handy. It was not long before the nanites began to reform, but she got some serious shots in. 11-003 was shooting lightning out of his palms. The randoms were both killed by 10-001.
My guess was that they would not be coming back to finish the fight. The suited man and the Player who stole the laptop were still there at the table. Lady Fingers was not outright dead, but the toxicity of the green gas was way stronger than what her mas was meant to deal with. She was coughing and slowed down quite a bit. 10-002 smiled and said "It sucks having squishy, vulnerable organs." She was still able to duck and roll from under the swipe of his limb blade though. We were going to need to kill one of them before we could take back the initiative in the fight. Our bard were keeping us up and debuffing the enemies, but Jesse was not helping much from outside the room. 10-001 saw the man in the suit and began walking over to them. "I haven't forgot about you. Give me that laptop." he said, looking at the Player. The man smirked and pointed a large black remote at him. "Let's see if it works on you, shall we?" he said and pushed a button. 10-001 instantly bent over. "Wh-what!? I caan't move!" he yelled in terror. "So it does work on him. Let's try the other one." he said.
Now pointing it to 10-002, he pushed the button. Now it was his turn to bow. "Damnit! Stop that! It's cheating and you know it!" he screamed. "Yes. Definitely childlike." he said looking at me as he lowered the remote. 10-001 got up and ran towards them. The Player just launched forward and pointed a remote of his own. "Looks like it only effects one at a time." he said towards the man in the suit. "R&D has got to step their game up if we want to take the fight to them. A single operative should be able to fully disable a whole squad of them." he said with a pleased smile. 08-001 abandoned us and ran towards the pair. The suited man pointed at him and he was forced to take a bow. 10-002 was freed, but he had Lady Fingers right on him. He could not engage them. "This begs the question then. Why did it not work on any of the others?" the man asked. I said "Because it was our laptop that your bodyguard stole. Obviously we are part of a vassal clan to Heat Clan. We would warn them of a hack. Heat and Radioactive are in the same faction. My clan was allied with Void and Lightning Clans."
Obviously was not really the right word for it. It was a big undertaking and there was little way to know if Lightning and Sonic Clans would take the threat seriously. It was great that they did. "Hmm. So only the Conqueror faction has AEP units to hack." I shook my head. "Not necessarily." The man frowned and then gestured for me to explain. "My clan is allied with a vassal of Pierce Clan. We told them as they had some. They probably told Pierce Clan about it." I said after clearing my throat. "Why are you helping factions that want to kill us!?" he snapped. "Well, all 13 hubs have their own agendas and philosophies when they hand down missions. It just works out that they boil down to 3 easy to respect factions: allyship, domination or exploitation. As far as I know, they are simply cyborg supremacists." I sighed. "Like that's any better for us humans." Lady Fingers scoffed out loud. "So basically, we just have to hit the Conqueror faction hubs one by one and tell them to fuck off or die." the thief said. I nodded in agreement. "The other hubs would probably be easier to negotiate with." I said.
