Nancy nodded in agreement. I shrugged "Not my problem. I sub contracted the job to them. Promised I get their own clan off the ground. Unless you guys are planning to kill or arrest them as soon as they step off the property. I gave them guns, but I bet you came prepared for that." They flinched as they looked at Stretch and Sky staring at us. "No. We were not interested in a shoot out today. I seem to have left my body armor at home." a displeased Marion said. "You were going to try to arrest them!?" Nancy asked. Marion shrugged. "They are so green, we could trick them into walking into a detainment cell." he said. I thought that it might actually work for him depending on the unit. In any case, I said "So we good or are we destined to be enemies. I will remind you I changed the directive from kill you all to just get you to move on. They will demand I send more PEA units of mine to kill you." Terrance leaned towards me. "Is that a threat, Brianne?" he asked. I shrugged. "Those are the orders from up top. If I wanted to follow them, you'd be dead by now. It was given out 3 days ago."
That gave them pause. Marion groaned. "What's wrong?" his cousin asked. "Beau is not going to let this fucking go!" he said. Beau Kilroy was on the list in the binder. It seemed like he was a honest man. Or at the very least, obsessed enough with finding and killing cyborgs that he would not bend or break. "No. He's not. He's going to try to arrest all of you." I just got a smile on my face. "Looks like you better go over his head or shut him up. I won't do it, but there will be squads full of green haired cyborgs lining up to kill you guys if you keep snooping around. I even gave you the full story. If that isn't enough nothing will. How was I supposed to know that AEP units are living bombs!?" I said. "Even if we move on, you're not just going to be let go. We'll keep in touch." Terrance said. "I have lines I won't cross. No deets on Researcher faction business. But if the Conquerors start acting up, I'll look into it for you." The 3 investigators looked at each other. Terrance sighed. "Fine. It seems that Conqueror faction clans have a habit of cyborgs going rouge anyway. That will be a handful on its own."
With that, they left. Stretch and Sky came and asked if they were good. "Let's go walk for an hour. They are the prime investigators Cold Clan made a whole document on. That means they are either super good at their work, or very diligent to the point they keep digging no matter what Cold Clan put up to stop them. Why do you think they wanted them all dead?" I said. They looked at the targets as they got in their cars and left. "We'll go to the park first. We can see if they bugged us." They nodded in agreement. We walked over there and found a secluded area. They checked me first. Surprise surprise, they did bug me. It was small and fixed to my pants leg. I did remember one of them brushing their feet against me. We found them on Sky and Stretch too. We destroyed them immediately. "What did I say? They are really good at their job." I said. "Do you think they will be back?" Sky asked me. "They told me they would. Whether they will be hostile when they do is the big question." I then smiled warmly. "Congrats. You did it. You get a clan of your own." I told them happily. They cheered.
