Chapter 1; The threat

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"Alright, I will admit I am impressed!" Harley Garet approached the metal titan as their stance dropped. The simulator of an exact match to the knight faded into the mirror room. Leaving the two the only ones standing amongst the reflections.


"I highly doubt you mean you're impressed by my fighting skill." The titan turned to looked down at the brown haired woman. Copper optics narrowing as she gave a sweet smile. The titan turned, and faced the human fully.


"Oh, of course not. However you've proven over and over again that no matter what we throw at you, you'll always find a way to destroy it." She said, smile widening. The titan narrowed her eyes in suspicion. The blade that had been abandoned in its hand was lifted, and sheathed into the scabbard at its side.


"I have proven to you what my people can do. Take me to the pods so that I may retrieve my people and leave this Yenta forsaken world," it stated, walking over the american. Her smile dropped as the robotic warrior headed for the low hanger door. Harley smirked, and pushed up the glasses that had started falling down her face when the door refused to open for the other.


"I'm afraid there's just a small bump in that arrangement," She watched the Titan turn and glare at her, protective plating flaring up with its emotions.


"You see, Japan has a rivalling robotic technology that we can't seem to replicate, which means, if they decide to attack us we're defenseless. The inside of those pods of yours have been lined with enough explosives to take down half the countryside, before you can even get to them. If what you've told us is correct, then the only casualties of those explosives going off, would be your own people rather than us," The warrior sneered as Harley offered a 'sweet' smile to it again.


"So you are here to offer me a deal then? Something that I would not be able to resist?" Harley made a 'so-so' gesture.


"More like something you have to take if you want your people to survive. You agree to become our creations, do our bidding, fill out any task that we assign you and be our puppets. Be something that we can use to Rival our eastern compatriots." Harley offered. Her grey suit pressed against her body as the warrior swung around, fangs appearing as it snarled down to the government official.


"And what do I get out of this deal? A home? A place amongst your history? You have already threatened my people, the ones I swore to protect long before your pathetic and insignificant excuses of meat bags were even organisms. I fail to see what you could offer me aside from their lives in return for our services." It spat. Harley narrowed her eyes in turn.


"Those are fighting words your highness. I would watch where you step if you want your "people" to survive this ordeal." Rage lit up the mechanoids optics, but she said nothing in return as Harley smirked again.


"You learn quickly, excellent. You get your people, a place to stay, and a chance to forget about the war of your people and start anew as warriors of justice, as cliche as it sounds. If you slip up and expose who you, or your people are then... Well," Harley allowed the threat to hang between the two. The mechanoid seemed to be getting angrier by the second, ready to explode and take down the entire building.


Something in her gut told Harley it, or she, as the being insisted on called, was just the tip off the iceberg of what the metal giant could do.


"If we do this-- if we agree to be your... puppets," The titan gritted her teeth together, much to the green eyed woman's glee and apprehension. The warrior was finally in a tight spot, a situation that she had no control over, and Harley loved it all that much more to see it submit.


"You will remove the explosives you've placed in the pods and allow us to handle any job you push onto us in our own way?" Copper and gold colored wings flared as the two locked eye contact, neither willing to back down despite the situation.


"We'll remove the explosives from the pod yes," The titan relaxed with a look of relief, and what might have been a little bit of hope. A flaw for the manipulative female to pick apart.


"The explosives in their cores however will not be removed. They will stay and serve as a warning to you to keep you, and force you to keep the others in line as well." Harley watched the titan tense up again, and looked down at her in horror, then rage.


"You disgusting no good--!" The titan froze mid step, staring down at the detonator sitting innocently in the woman's hand. Green met copper, and held the unwavering stare down between the organic and metalloid. The metalloid shifted, almost like they were going to knock the detonator from her hand. The tanned skin clenched around it, Thumb pressed to the button, but not pushing it down just yet.


They stared together a moment longer, and finally the titan backed down. Sneering to Harley as she smirked and placed the cap back on the silver device.


"Good robot. Come along, we'll awake your brethren, finalize a few plans, then introduce you to the world as the saving grace you all are." The warrior moved, watching Harley walk towards the hanger door as it finally opened up to her.


"You had also, wish to watch your step, Harley Garet," The cold, dark tone made a chill run down the agents back and stop her in place. All color drained from her skin at the promise the words, and the metal voice inflicted on her. The titan stepped over the frozen organic, and continued down the hall as if she had said nothing.


"For the instant there is a sign of deceit, nothing will be able to save this world from burning by my hand."

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