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Chapter 11: Huksoi su-47b

Damian rushed out of the building, coughing and wheezing. His lab coat was singed and slightly torn. Damian squinted to see through the smoke. As he did, he saw a familiar figure ahead, rushing towards him.

"Kaga?" Damian called. The woman from earlier rushed toward him.

"Dr. Kojiro, are you alright? Are you hurt?" Kaga asked, rushing to his side and draping his right arm over her, helping him leave the scene.

"I'm fine," Damian insisted, pulling his arm away from her. "Just contact Officer Tatsuya. Tell him that the subject has escaped with our aircraft. I'm going after our subject."

"Alright, sir," Kaga replied.

Damian quickly rushed out of the facility grounds to hunt Ri. He quickly mounted onto his motorcycle and full throttled out of the parking lot, tires screeching and leaving marks on the road as smoke fills the air. As he rode, he took off his lab coat, letting it fly off behind him. Underneath, Damian was wearing his cyber bounty hunter clothes. On his belt was his O2 mask. He quickly took it off and put it on.

Meanwhile, Ri was piloting the aircraft around Cyber City aimlessly. She suddenly felt a bit of ambition to try something out.

"Hmm, I wonder how fast this thing can go. Time to have some fun and test its limits. The night is still young, after all, hehe." Ri lurched backward from suddenly pushing the throttle too much.

"WHOOAAA!!!! AAHHH!!!!" Ri screamed. She had lost control of the vessel. Ri could only grip onto the edge of her seat as she watched buildings pass by way too quickly for her to even see them.

"Oh my gosh oh my gosh OH MY GOSH!!" Ri screamed, as the aircraft was about to head straight into a pearlescent white building. Suddenly, the craft changed direction and went straight up. It dodged the building entirely and flew over it.

"What the heck?? What just happened?" Ri was bewildered. "Huh? What's this?" Looking down, Ri saw a digital text on the dashboard in front of her:

What just happened? Well, you didn't crash, that's for sure. Therefore, you're still alive.

Ri was speechless. Another text wrote itself out. It read:

Or is that not what you were really asking about?

Ri cleared her throat. "Yeah, it's not what I was asking about. Geez, is this thing possessed?" Ri wondered out loud.

What thing? This craft, or the printer?

Ri's jaw dropped. "I must be hallucinating. This can't be real."

Well, I can't tell if you're hallucinating to be able to tell you if you are or aren't, but I can tell you that everything that's going on right now is real. My name is Huksoi su-47b.

"'My'..? Is this text referring to the aircraft?"

Yes. Thanks for getting me out of that display case. I was getting bored. And because you got me out, I think you're very cool.

"I don't know if I can take this compliment even the slightest bit seriously, considering that the text was somehow autogenerated by this aircraft..." Ri silently thought to herself, being careful to not say her thoughts out loud this time. Clearly, this craft was conscious somehow and could have a conversation with her. "Um, thanks...I guess..." Ri finally said.

Would you like a tour of Cyber City?

"Cyber City? Is that where I am right now?"

Are you saying that you caused a massive destruction to a bionics lab while trying to escape and, as a result, became a wanted criminal without even knowing where you are?