Dangerous by Default

59. The noise

The rest of the room went still as Decipiens awkwardly guided the giant multiarmed machine to the operating table. In just a few short seconds, a mass of powerful circuitry loomed menacingly over Ami's naked body as Godefrida stepped to the backside of the bot to man it's control panel. A panel that consisted of a human head sized screen that displayed Ami's abdomen and a multitude of complex buttons that closely resembled an arcade game.

"Don't you dare fuck this up." slipped from her mouth. White Wing sucked in all the air from the room. Her entire body rigid, prepared for the worst.

Decipiens gave Godefrida a nervous thumbs up and just like that the bot came to life. The scene that was carefully set was nothing short of disturbing, and she loved it. All whirling and eager limbs, the surgical bot looked like it was better suited for the torture room in the sewers, instead of gearing up to perform the biggest medical breakthrough of their time. This was it. You're finally getting what you always wanted, Mimi.

Carefully, one of the bots' many arms unsheathed what White Wing recognized as an ultrasonic energy instrument. From what Ami had explained to them, this was how the bot made its almost effortless incisions. The future didn't have a need for knives, apparently. Moving with a balletic precision, the tool positioned itself mere inches away from Ami's exposed pelvis. A ominous clicking sound began to fill the outside hallway.

"Uhhh heya boss, what's that noise? Want me to check it out?" Senegalanesis asked nervously.

"Oh shut up, cowboy. It's probably coming from an outside powersource." White Wing was barely able to tear her eyes away from the start of the incision to notice a twitch from the womb on the nearby table. The clicking sound got louder, sounded closer. But... She did a double take. The womb...the womb was alive!

In the flash of a second, the ultrasonic instrument was knocked away by a blur of smaller robotic limbs. The outside clicking had become deafening just as the surgical arm was suddenly swung around uncontrollably. Before anyone could react Decipiens howled out in agonizing pain. The surgical bot had slashed a large hole in the side of his cheek with a reckless force that knocked him to the floor. But how?

The womb looked to have unfurled to reveal a dog like form, crouched protectively over Ami with a surprising aggression.

"They fucking switched it out. That's not the womb, it's one of they're stupid little robo-bitches!" White Wing shrieked. "What are you standing around for?! Do something!"

Before any of her minions could jump to action, a familiar voice came from the open doorway, and just like that, the ever growing clicking sound came to a halt.

"Oh goooorg! You must be sooo embarrassed, don't you know how to work that thing?" Mina chirped tauntingly, side by side with Caine. "Any hows, we're here for Ami. If you don't mind, we're just gunna pop in and out while my little friends ATTACK!"

Looking from the bot over Ami's body and back to the doorway, White Wing's hesitation got the best of her. Mina smirked. Assholes!

With the motion of commanding officers, Mina and Caine moved aside to make way for the source of the pounding clicking noise that now shook the lab. Robotic feet possessing a frightening precision. To their horror, hordes of metallic bodies that strongly resembled the one crouched on the operating table poured into the room; and in an instant the cote, along with White Wing, were swallowed up in a mass of slashing arms.