Shade

Savior?

The air is cold around me. It is guiet. Too quiet. It may have been night but in Grey Star city it is never quiet. You will always hear a mugging or robbery. Its been six months since I started and this hasn't happened once. Something is wrong.

"Help!"

Finally. Something but silence. Why am I happy about this. Never mind. It's time to get some work done.

I unholster my pistols and drop.
Aiming them at the man with a knife to a woman's neck, I hear the words "Take 'em off.". Disgusting. I loose a bullet at his knife.

"If you don't get out of here like a demon is coming for you, I will shoot this bullet through your skull." I say as I aim my gun.

Pain. A stabbing pain exploded in my shoulder as I see a bullet graze it.

"So you brought friends, huh?" I ask "Good.".

"Get him boys!" Shouts one man.

"Run." I say to the girl as I fired a bullet through the rapist's head. A bloody mess exploded as his brains began to ooze out.

"This guy ain't a pushover. Not like Paladin."

"Trust me. I'm nothing like Paladin."

One man tries to stab me but I use another as a shield. Another man is pulled down by the shadows. 3 left. I make one more have an eternal nightmare and snap another's neck. 1 left. He runs but nobody can escape from their own shadow. I make a shadow construct which hangs the last man.

"I'm done here. Let's find someone else to save."

They move in. I don't expect it. The latest in robot technology. A small group could take out up to 30 soldiers. Good thing I'm not a soldier.
Thud. They crash down all around me. There are ten high Tec killing machines.

"What are you and who sent you?" I ask.

"We are 0n1x alpha squad, units 0007 through 0016 and we are not authorised to tell you who sent us." Says one, most likely the leader of the group.

"How comes you told me what you are then?"

"That is not required to be kept secret and you will soon be dead so it does not matter."

"Don't be so sure."

I shoot a bullet through one's head, destroying its core and shutting it down.

"Good. So that works."

They all start teleporting around me and one manages to slice off my cloak, by changing its hand into a blade, exposing my cybernetic armour. I grab it by the arm and shove the blade through another's core.

Five left. This hasn't been as easy as I expected. Some of my armour is broken and I have cuts where my weakpoints are. I stab one through the head with a blade I ripped from an arm and shoot another.

I get hit in the head hard and then shot in the leg. Damn. There were only three left as well. I pass out. I'm in big trouble.