[THE LATTER ONES] A Murder Drones Story

Chapter 2: Tension

Explosions, gunfire, and clashes of swords echoed again and again, the confrontation between N and J became more violent. The water was dyed black due to the loss of oil from both Dissasembly Drones.
N had the advantage of both arms, so he used two swords and attacked twice at once, forcing J to stay on the defensive. N launched an attack at a violent speed, J dodged it but still N managed to superficially cut the left side of her chest.
Knowing she would have no advantage, J used her thrusters on her feet to retreat and replaced her sword with the Photon Cannon. Aiming with maximum precision, she fired. N reacted by deploying his own cannon and fired as well. Both lasers slammed into each other, each photon extinguished on impact with the other at incredible speeds, and more and more photons shot out and collided with each other, generating multiple explosions at the rendezvous point, so that finally, everything exploded in one big explosion.

On J's ship, a great tremor was felt, and both V and Uzi knew that it was coming from far away, and that it was J and N.
"Damn! Are they fighting?" V wondered.
"I've already got everything stored and sent to the base! And if N is fighting we'd better help him!" Uzi proposed.
"I agree, let's go!"
V and Uzi deployed their wings and flew in the direction to N and J, Uzi followed V as she had the technology to track her squadron mate, a novelty that Uzi did not possess.
"They're pretty far away, about 300 kilometres" V exclaimed.
"Well, we'll have to travel at maximum speed! Mach 1!"
With that said, both V and Uzi accelerated their speeds... V's calculations were increasing, and were showing on his visor:

SPEED: 92 METERS PER SECOND... 256 METERS PER SECOND... 343 METERS PER SECOND...

The speed remained at 343 and 342 meters per second, and did not increase any further, that was the speed limit of the Dissasembly Drones and the limit that Uzi knew. If a dissasembly drone went beyond Mach 1, it would be dangerous to them, since that would waste a lot of oil. Only a few are capable of flying beyond Mach 1, but no one is know capable of flying at speeds up to Mach 2.
When V's visor marked the remaining 300,000 meters, he immediately made some calculations, the distance divided in speed to obtain the time it would take to get to where N. That is: 300,000 divided in 343, the result was 874.64 seconds and that translated into a little less than 15 minutes.
"We'll be there in about 15 minutes at this rate!" V reported, clearly nervous.
"That's all there is to it!" she thought, 'Please N, hang in there!
Halfway through, V was about to warn J that they were close and to be prepared for anything, but a light interrupted her, it wasn't yellow, it was white, and there were other flashing red lights as well, these lights were falling at high speed.
"That's a ship" V acknowledged.
"Those lights, is it one of your model?" Uzi asked, puzzled.
"No, the lights on our ship are yellow, but that one.... It must be the MIR15!" She explained.

When the explosion dissipated, only earth remained, the river water had evaporated, and the trees had collapsed to the ground. The shockwave had sent N flying, and he tried to stand up but he could barely get to his knees, he was very tired, and with many wounds so that sparks were flying from his body full of mechanisms and electronic systems... he had never fought with such use of strength and energy, he looked around, there was nothing else but him in agony.
<<This is it... I can't go on...>> N thought, and fell to the ground, about to go into sleep mode due to the excessive use of his energy. He looked at the ground, saw multiple drops of oil falling to the ground and flowing down his conical arms, a reminder that he was only an artificial being, and that if he died, there would be no other world for him, only nothingness itself awaited him.
"Oh... N, always such a wimp..." said a voice that N immediately recognised.
"How is it possible that you are still...?!"
J stamped his foot on N's wounded body, she was just as bad, but she still had enough energy left to keep going for at least a minute, and this novelty was to her advantage.
N screamed in pain at the metallic stomp from J because of how badly he was hurt.
"I warned you not to interfere, and you didn't listen!"
"I... tried... I tried to... make you... change your mind..." N replied, between gnashing of teeth and severe loss of oil.
"Well, you shouldn't have done it.... Now you'll know what the consequences are!" J exclaimed, and unfurled her sword, intending to embed it directly into N's core and kill him.
"J!" a voice shouted, J recognized it perfectly, the other two had arrived.
"You wretched wretch!" Uzi immediately used his Solver and lifted her up, she clenched her fist, and the solver began to crush J.
"You will die for daring to kill N!" Uzi exclaimed, and clenched her fist harder, causing even more pain in J, accelerating the oil spill and causing several fractures in her metallic body.
But then, a projectile sliced through both his hands, and J let go, only to be grabbed by someone in mid-fall.
"And who the hell...!?" Uzi was interrupted by the sight of a helmet with a visor, and shiny white armor, and wings with metal feathers on the back. Uzi didn't know who it was, but it was clearly not another Disassembly Drone.
"So you... Are you her?" the stranger asked, whose face could not be seen thanks to a visor strapped to his helmet.
"Who?"
The stranger stared at her for a few moments, but he noticed a missile approaching and instantly dodged it... and looked at V, she had shot at him.
"Don't be so disrespectful!" he scolded, and then vanished along with J...
"Wait!" Uzi spread her wings as she regenerated her hands.
"Don't go...!" N begged.
V helped N, and put her hand inside N's mouth, and spread the saliva on N's visor and the superficial fractures, which were the only ones that could be repaired with saliva.
"N... told you she was a traitor... Now you know?"
"More or... Less," N responded, before collapsing to the ground, his visor displaying the overheat warning.
<<Oh, fuck! >> V then reached for something in his jacket, and found an oil juice, which was full and had... oil, which was full and he had plenty of it, so he gave it to N and the overheating warning disappeared completely, but was replaced by another one: SLEEP MODE ACTIVATED.
<<Oh hell, it's always had this problem of rapid energy drain>> recalled V.
Uzi approached and using the powers of the Solver, repaired N's body, but he didn't wake up, repairing his body didn't mean bringing back his energy.
"Let's go, we'll look for answers later."
With that said, V held N and flew with Uzi back to the colony.

Meanwhile, on top of a waterfall rested the Ranger MIR15 that had just landed. Its pilot stood there, and stared up at the night sky, he loved to look at the stars. He was wearing a gas mask due to the toxicity of the planet.
"He should have been back by now... it's not that far away anyway..." the pilot said to himself.
Then he spotted something approaching, due to the darkness of the night it was difficult to make out, but the closer he got, the clearer it became that it was his friend and the informant.
The pilot opened the rear hatch and from there they both entered the ship.
J was badly injured, but she still had time before she collapsed from the oil leak.-So J... What the hell happened? -asked the one with the visor.
"Those fuckers, the ones in my squad... they took on me and Cyn..."
"And they won?" Questioned the one with the gas mask.
"Yes... the one with the purple hair... she is a Solver user..." J answered
"I understand, but... that doesn't explain how she had two colours in her eyes: purple and yellow."
"Two colours in the visor? That can only mean one thing, that they have merged?"
"Maybe... but apparently it still has its will intact, except for the tail... I saw that its tail was completely yellow."
"So Cyn was reduced to a tail..." The one in the gas mask burst out laughing.
"It's nothing to laugh about" his friend reprehended. "She's still a solver, and the weirdest thing is that she's allied with J's squadron, if I'm not mistaken, the other two were... N and V"
"Affirmative..." J confirmed.
"In that case we are up against two Dismount Drones and a Solver user. What do you think Deveneur?" asked the Captain, giving away the name of the gas mask wearer.
"I like those odds... dear Heckler" Deveneur replied, giving his friend away with a vengeance, and smiling behind his mask. But I wonder what we'll do with J?
"Don't worry... my self-repair systems are on... li... ne..." J said, as her vision gradually faded... until only darkness remained, and he collapsed to the ground.
"It's because of the oil leak, put it in the ship's capsule, that should stop us from losing it...." ordered Heckler.
Deveneur did as Heckler requested, they should now get on with the other part of the mission... find Uzi.
Both proceeded out, equipped with their armour and armed with laser rifles, along with other special technological surprises... Heckler spread his wings while Deveneur activated his jet-pack and thrusters, flying both in search of the Uzi and the dismount drones. Heckler reached for something on his belt, and found what he was looking for, some small tracking robots, shaped like ladybirds.
"Dear little ladybirds, search and find a colony of Worker Drones" Heckler ordered, and the ladybird trackers complied, dropping to the ground and then flying off in search of what was asked of them.
"A solver user and two dismount Drones... this is going to be interesting... Let me deal with the Disassembly Drones!" Deveneur asked, over the comms.
"No" Heckler rejected and explained why, "Remember that you have the best defence against the Solver... I don't, I'm exposed to it, so you better take care of the Solver and I'll take care of the other two... it'll be as simple as that..."
"I see... yes... sounds like a good plan to me" Deveneur agreed.
So, the two of them coordinated to finish the mission in the Blitzkrieg method, fast and efficient.

Meanwhile, in the colony, a WDF Worker Drone was watching the radars, he recognized 3 flashing lights, they were the usual ones, Uzi, V and N, although they were going at high speeds, and that was strange, but then he noticed something that puzzled him completely... two other lights flashing in their direction... although they were going at a lower speed, it was strange to see that... so quickly the Worker Drone used the phone, and writing down the correct number he communicated with Khan Doorman.
"Yes? This is Khan Doorman"
"This is Martin from the WDF radar spotter... I've just picked up two bodies moving, and they seem to be chasing the team we sent and they're all five of them heading this way..."
"Two bodies? If it's J, it should be just one..."
"That's the strange thing... who are they?"
"In that case, we will follow the necessary protocols to ensure the safety of the colony, thank you for reporting" Khan said, and disconnected from the phone.
It was strange, but it was real... <<Are they UFOs, or more Dissasembly Drones?>> he wondered, but the reality was beyond what he, and the rest of them, could imagine...