War Of Change

Things Don't Always Go The Way We Want Them

A week later Irina gets a call from her old friend Will. 

"Hallo!"

"Hey Hornet."

"Will mah man! Hows yous doin'?"

"I'm good. I got that transfer for you."

"...."

"Your going into my division in two weeks."

"Wahoo! Wait.. But I have three months leave!"

"Fine I'll give you another four weeks until you have to report in."

"Danke Will! Oh tell mah bitch he owes meh money."

Falling back onto her bed Irina off lines her organic systems and goes fully android for an hour. Her human aspects dissolve into the air and her true android form shines in the dim lighting of the hotel room. She looks she's wearing the female version of an engineer suite from Dead Space. Her optics are the same color as her eyes when she's organic. 

When her helmet is off a yellow visor covers her optics and most of her face and bronze wire-like hairs extend from her helm. The wires are sensitive like door wings, they can receive data about the world around her and alert her of danger. 

She activates her anti-gravity mod and walks on the ceiling and tests her other mods, phase shifting, invisibility, and rollerblades. Looking out the window she sees a black and yellow 2006 Chevy Camaro drive by and she instantly thinks of Bee. Activating her organic side again she goes outside and rollerblades to the mall. 

Sitting down in the food court Irina spots Bee sitting with two other teenagers. Pulling out her phone she scrolls through her contacts until she finds one marked as Black & Yellow and presses call. She hears her ringtone from across the food court and Bee blushes. 

"Hey Ben. Can you get me a whole box of meat lovers pizza and two McDonalds Big Macs and a large mango smoothie from Jambajuice?"

She laughs as Bee looks at his phone confused. 

"I take your silence as Yes Irina I will get you your food for you and bring it to you. I'm at the table by the main water fountain about 30 feet away from you."

Bee looks right at her with an unreadable expression as she waves at him with a smile on her face. 

Several minutes the blond drops a tray full of food in front of her and pulls out the chair across from her and sits. "Was denn?" Irina asks as she devours the pizza as Bee looks at her. I've never seen a femme eat so much at once. Her translating program kicks in at the unfamiliar word and she grins before looking Bee in the eyes... Well her visor does. 

"So ya ah Frenchie. I actually placed you as British. But hey I can't say anything, I'm a German with a Chicago accent. Funny right?" Bee looks at her weirdly then smiles and shakes his head. Your so weird. He tells her while plucking a fry from her grasp. "But you know you love me." She shoots back before inhaling her burgers. 

The pair finish off the food and walk around the mall. They wander into the less crowed part of the mall where Irina sits in front of an empty storefront. "Hey Ben can I ask you something?" She asks quietly with great uncertainty. Yeah, what is it?

"What if I wasn't normal....what if I wasn't human.....what would you say if I told you I was at least 101 years old?"

Your normal?

"I'm serious Ben."

Okay, okay fine. I really wouldn't care. Your a nice person and if you were 101 years old then damn you look good. Why are you asking this Irina?

"No reason. Your adorable you know that."

I am not adorable! 

"Yes you are. You are my adorable little Bee."

Hey! 

Red alerts flash on her visor of an unidentified air craft several minutes away from the mall and closing in. She jumps to her feet and takes off running towards the food court, dragging Ben along. "Ben do you know where your friends are?" She asks him while anxiously looking around for his friends. Ben shrugs and Irina growls in frustration. 

Hacking into Ben's friend's phones she traces their location to Journeys and she runs in the store and drags the two out. "Ben take your friends home now. Don't question just do. Things are about to get real messy soon." Her visor pings again and Irina jumps on a table just as Ben and his friends are running to their car. 

Pulling out a .40 caliber handgun and starts shooting the ceiling while screaming for everyone to evacuate the mall. She runs and pulls the fire alarm while checking her visor. She offlines her organic systems and allows her android side to take full control. Her helm wires flare out in warning as the blip grows closer. Suddenly half of the mall collapses and she whips around, guns out and armor flared out. Red optics shine in her direction and she begins shooting.