Cynophobia

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       When I arrived at the garage, Ash was letting a jeep out of the trap door. The jeep went to go repair a security camera the Cynoids broke to get to the stream undetected. Loki was sitting by her desk, mouth muzzled and two armed Crashers guarding him.

Ash returned and waved off the guards. "Go wait by the entrance, this one should give me any trouble. If he does, I get to try out my new electric bullets."

"James said we weren't allowed to let you out of our sight," the guard reported.

"I'm in control the second you step into this garage. If he has a problem, he can take it up with me," Ash said narrowing her eyes. "I don't want you to getting in the way."

After a moments hesitation, they walked to the entrance of the garage.

Ash glared at me. "Out of all the people you get into fights with, why is it my boyfriend? My poor James had a bruise on the side of his cheek and one on the side of the head."

"It was just bad timing, Cairo wouldn't have attacked him if he wasn't here in the garage," I explained.

She let out an impatient snort. "Find someone else to bruise. James is using all of his self control to not break into the security room and put a shotgun up to your friend."

Me and Ash had a lot in common, but our personalities weren't similar at all.

"Getting on with the reason I have you two. Enlighten me with this 'game changing' knowledge Vincent says you have," she said crossing her arms.

"Well, they have two chips on their shoulders. One sends a signal for help, the other calls the first off," I said. "They have electrical glue inside of them. If you don't cut that wire, they will repair and come back to life."

"Show me where they are," Ash said.

Loki let out a whine. "I am not taking my pelt off a second time."

The brunette walked over to a metal table with a black sheet on it. She uncovered the sheet, revealing a dented Cynoid. It was a German shepherd Cynoid, its head was severed from the body to prevent it from reanimating. "You don't have to."

My eyes widened at the sight. "When did you get this?"

"We managed to kill one last night before they fled," she explained. Ash looked at Loki. "Tell me what part is what."

Loki put his paws on the table. He looked a little unnerved at the sight of the Cynoid. It was like me walking into a room with a dead human on a table. "The left shoulder chip sends out the signal to call for reinforcements. The right can send out a frequency to call it off if we chose it."

"How do you activate it?" Ash asked.

"We just think it, the super computer in our brains takes care of the functions. Its just like moving a paw for us," he explained.

She looked closely into the eye of the Shepherd Cynoid. "So you are just computers?"

"They're just part computer, Loki has only five percent super computer. The other part is their original brain," I said. "Some Cynoids are over fifty percent computers. They call the remaining original brain instinctuality."

"If he is only five percent, does that mean the higher the instinctuality the less likely they are to kill?" Ash asked.

"That's more of a personality thing," Loki said tilting his head to the side. "Their leader is seventy five percent instinctual and he is a cold blooded killer. My mate is only forty percent and she doesn't like killing humans. Most of the first gen Cynoids are vicious. The second generation Cynoids that were born from the first don't have the same drive."