The virgin & the bad boy (Gravity)

B2/Chapter 6/All I need

There was a highly armed military presence around Dante. There was another Terran with body armour on the Daniel Tyrell who approached. Personal detail machines searched and pointed gun barrels in all directions. Some times locals peeked from windows to be met by a railgun pointing at them. The normally busy area of down town firstFootPrint was quite while the forensic work was done.

"Hail the great father" said Daniel Tyrell saluting. Dante looked at him, Daniel while a distant relative was a Bentham supporter. The sort who had read Bentham's book -'my struggle to find the art of the deal' and could quote passages from it. Daniel was a believer, here to 'protect the mother planet and promote plutocracy to people of deep space.  He wanted to be here were as Dante was here for grim necessity.

"What do you want Dan?" said Dante.

"I was wondering why you came out here in person?" said Daniel. "it's safer in the green zone".

Dante looked around.

"Look around tell me something's not wrong. Something smells worse than Louis Welch's running shoes" said Dante "This isn't a normal pattern. They were doing something and I'm not sure the bots can figure this out."

Dan looked at where Dante looked. There was less likely hood Dan could figure it out than the investigator robots. They walked along the street which a few hours before she had run backwards and forwards on. This was a weird route. He walked passed some graffiti - ALL it said.

"Where did they go next?" said Dante looking at the bullet holes in the walls.

"Down Want street" said the investigation robot pointing past the drawing on an 👁 which was being scrubbed off. 

"Why the Eye?" said Dan. 

"Well if you think it's welcoming the rise of Sauran you're wrong" said Dante to the confused looking Dan " The eye was the symbol for the resistance, it's a local reference to Mars." 

The point bodyguard robot moved forward. Dante wondered at the dumbness of calling a street 'Want street'.

They passed up 'fourth avenue' and Dante looked at the shops with holes for windows. More graffiti in the same color 'All 👁 need' it side alongside other tags like 'Robots go home' and other slogans.

"The CCTV shows them running into this shop called DIS," said the investigation robots. "They released these."

The machine held up some balloons which had a rough map of mars drawn on them in pen. They walked down the street a board over a ruined shop with 'Every effort is being made for your safety' with the side. The 'Every' was underscored in red spray paint. Dante and Daniel and the machines when into an ally way marked as the 'other way' . More dull early colonial humour.

'She's doing this for some reason, but what?' Thought Dante.

"They were covered but got into the undercroft. I've ordered all the hatches welded shut in future. They came out there," said the investigation robot. "There was an ear scrawled drawn on the Red dawn arms pub"

"So they ran down past the All. Past the eye, down Want street, past the 'All 👁 need' into DIS. Released World balloons, past the 'Every' down Other street. Realsed More world balloons. Went into here the in the Arms house and you missed every time?" said Dante.

"Their motion camouflage is confusing to our vision system," said the machine "we are recalibrating but to hit, we need to train on similar movement. We need gymnastics students for target practice".

"Denied" said Dante.

Then like a sledgehammer to his brain Dante realise the message. All I want all, all I need in this world is ear in these arms. Those were the last words he said to her. For a brief moment, his heart swelled as he thought she was alive. It was a beautiful moment like a sunrise in spring. The beauty turned to ashes in his mount. She was dead. It was another Potato-eater trick. Then it dawn on time that only one person knew he had said that to her and, she was dead. Kentro would have had remembered it. He never knew what happen to the robot. Kentro had gone off to Fedex him self to Mars, with her picture,  just before Dante had been arrested in the spaceport. It was obvious the potato Fuckers had Kentro and were getting him to spill the beans on Her *HER*. They were using her to get to him. Shit, had these people no standards? Would they really stoop so low? They were dog ass bad, and something had to be done to stop them.

'Two can fight ugly,' Dante thought.

If Kentro had been fedexed to Mars - he must be around. Dante wanted Kentro. She might be little more than a whisper in space but Kentro would be proof that it all wasn't some temporary but beautiful delirium which had punched this blast creator of his life.

ASS approached Dante.

"Word has got out of your presence. We must move." it said "Also, new orders had arrived from Earth. The Great Father himself has taken an interest in the failed kidnapping event. He has ordered that a bigger demonstration be made about your attempted abuction. He said We cannot appear weak before these people."

The robots and half the population of earth now called Bentham 'the Great Father'.

"What does he want?" said Dante.

"He's said what is the point in having nuclear weapons if you don't use them? He wants an example made."

"Let's return to the green zone and discuss this," said Dante.

They got back into the fleet of armoured golf carts to return to the safety green zone. The robots moved in carefully programmed military choreography with the last machines rail guns raised walking backwards. Filling their places were confused Martians looking at the cleaned patches wondering if the resistance had turned to performance art in its hour of need.  

As the left ASS reported important news it had just received "Also a new sector commander is being appointed for deep space out to the rim. General Kipperbatch" he will be arriving in a few days to oversee the operation.