We Are Humans

Chapter 8 Your New Home

"Flutter! Flutter!" birds dart to the sky, flapping their wings elegantly as they soar through the air, high above the ground. Down below, a group gathers around a rusted truck turned upside down. "Clunk! Ching! Ping!", chunks of metal, bolts and screws drop out of the overturned truck's engine hood.

Zaine: "You find anything useful Fe?"

Zaine shouts from the sidelines as he holds the two captives by their rope, Cu holding Axel in his arms as he feeds him some of Zaine's milk R3d sneaked from his bag and Fe of course digging away at the truck's engine for parts. "POP!"

Judy: "No way she can find a defilber...ator? Screw it I can't pronounce that, whatever Big C said, no way she will find it on the first vehicle she decided to check.

Fe: "Oh I already found that Judy, I also found another one of the needed parts to fix the car! This truck is an old cargo hovercraft used to carry large numbers of steel across sea and land at low altitudes so of course, it would still have a few functioning parts dues to the importance of the cargo, this vehicle was made with highly reliable and durable parts, built to sustain themself and last for years to ensure no loss of cargo due to mechanical failure of the vehicle"

Judy: "Are you kidding me?"

Big C: "Now just a few more parts and we can head back to the vehicle"

Fe: "I scanned two more cargo trucks down the street, we can check them and some other vehicles in that area"

They all then head down the street and searched the two trucks in the area, retrieving the other parts and discovering bits of goods and ammunition in them packaged away in heavily sealed steel crates.

Zaine: "I thought you said they carried large amounts of steel? There's food in these crates, I mean I'm not complaining cause I'm starving. Shit's expired but I've survived expired can food before."

Fe: "I mean that's all I've ever seen these trucks carry into the city many years ago."

Cu: "That may be because that's all The Primordial used them for at the time"

Zaine: "And there's ammunition in this other one, I wonder how long these trucks have been resting here and how comes no one else came across them yet...Bot or human."

R3D: "Bree Ooop"

Zaine: "We should definitely take as much of this ammunition as we can possibly travel with, we don't have the weapons now for them but assuming we do find some or meet a trader, they can come in handy. Sadly none of this ammunition is made for my long rifle, my revolver sure, but thanks to that stupid bot over there, I'm not in possession of that anymore!"

Big C: "No regrets"

Big C sticks his metallic middle fingers up at Zaine, and Zaine returns the gesture. Fe and Cu lug most of the heavy crates of goods and a little ammunition along as they travel back to the car while Zaine held baby Axel who is fast asleep, with the two bounty hunters walking along in front of him. Judy had one of the parts to fix the vehicle while Big C had the rest along with a large crate from the cargo truck.

After a few hours, they finally arrive back at the vehicle. Found in a much worst state than they had left it. With the entire exterior stripped of his metal-covered body, leaving only the exoskeleton of the vehicle, lights and cameras removed and propped up onto some large boulders.

Zaine: "Are you freaking kidding me?"

Fe: "Oh my..."

Cu: "Well this isn't shocking"

R3D: "Bree Oop"

Zaine: "I know I should've left someone behind to watch the damn car"

Big C: "No need to be concerned, they only stripped the vehicle of its shell. We can easily use scraps of metal from the cars around us to repair it. The most important parts are still intact, the machines that did this clearly weren't very intelligent and just wanted the shiny or solid sheets of metal from the vehicle"