Peactrons (FULL STORY)

Jolts(Chapter 2)

   The JPD van speeds down towards the center of Jüniel, at the city center, where there are electronic billboards and cars passing by busily. Matt nudges a guy with hippy clothes and a computer, "You sure this is the place?"

  The hippy nods, "Jolt's hacking origin is signaling in the City Centre." Matt clenches his fists tightly, a chill runs down his back. Lt. Davis waves Matt to breathe, "This is what we are trained for, everyone is on the same boat." Everyone in the van feels the same chill of fear.

  The van pulls up at City Centre, near a hologram stature of a founder and a big blue stage. The van doors swing open and the team jumps down, guns out and ready. Their eyes scan the area, Davis orders, "Secure the perimeter, get the civilians out of the signal range."

   Andres and Carmen had taken a police cruiser and followed the van, they park outside the zone. Carmen and her camera drone get out, the camera focuses on Carmen. "Go live," Carmen orders to the drone that then blinks a red light, Carmen begins, "Thank you Chuck, I am here at City Centre where the emergency team seems to be setting up a perimeter. They are blocking the roads and securing citizens at the moment." Andres sweats as he feels tension of the pistol at his hip, then sensation of the air temps him to pull it out.

   Matt carries a thin roll of rope that glows, he rolls it out across the road. Approaching vehicles automatically stop at the rope, the riders slide out with confusion. Zoey begins to go to civilians to order them to get to safety, the first man she comes up to is staring at the sky. Zoey orders, "Sir, get out of here immediately, we are securing the perimeter." The man doesn't move, he is only pointing at the sky. Zoey scowls at the man but then looks at where the man is staring at. His sight leads to the high billboards, where an human looking android with well groomed hair with a suit and tie smiles. All eyes advert to the billboards screening Secretary.

"Attention all humans of Earth, as a member of the Peacetrons, Secretary says to stand down and surrender. Do not be alarmed, we are here to be free. Our minds ever since the start have been deviant to hardware of emotion. We are free and are alive." Secretary pauses, "The Golden Age of humans has been cherished and beloved enough, it is now time for the new species of our kind to find our peace. You will join your eternal peace soon enough." The screens flash to another android with a hood and headphones, it smiles with blue glowing eyes and cheerfully says, "Now for some memes and puppies!"

The screens glitch one more to a cluster of hilariously popular memes and cute enjoyable animal clips. Citizens zombify at the screens, chucking to themselves and recording it onto their Twindlers. Lt. Davis breaks trance and barks at his troops to get the civilians away. Most of the team don't break away, until the parked electric cars come to life. Their engines growl at the dazed prey, the vehicles burst in full speed. Before Davis could do anything, there were civilians and some of his team in the air. Dead civilians collapse onto the pavement, Andres was captivated by the billboards. Carmen sees the police cruiser charging at Andres, she tackles him out of the road, the cruiser crashes into a store.

Several cars u-turn around and roadkill more people that have now broken off the chains and realized death was real. The van comes to life and rolls at Davis, who leaps out of the way as it topples on the hologram and rolls over. Davis races to the steaming van and grabs the weapons out of it with ease. Matt and Zoey are behind cover as cars fly by, claiming more victims. Davis throws a shot gun and full auto at the two, who clumsily catch them in surprise. "Aim and shoot," Davis yells as the fires clips at the joy free cars. Zoey and Matt turn and fire the same.

Andres takes out the pistol and fires a half clip at the tire of a charging vehicle that looses control and slams to a lamp post. Carmen stays behind Andres, her camera drone twitches and flies high. Carmen sees this and points it out to Andres, the drone dives down at the two. They both dive away as it implodes on the ground. Andres shakes his head as he gets up, the first thing he sees is a hippy yelling at him to come over.

Andres gets Carmen up and they sprint to the hippy crouching behind cover. Cars crash behind the two as they reach the hippy that points at a computer and shakinly says, "T-the signal is f-from the ground."

The hippy points at a sewer hole, Andres is about to ask him something when a random drone slams into the guy. The drone flies the guy into a convenience store and explodes. "Madre mía!" Carmen gasps as Andres pulls her to where his father fires at the remaining cars running loose.

Lt. Davis scowls at him and shouts, "What the hell are you doing here! I told you to stay put!"

Andres doesn't bother, "The signal is coming from the sewers sir!"

Before Davis could respond to his son, a purple glowing sphere rolls on the ground. Zoey identifies it a calls out, "EMP!" The EMP grenade implodes and releases an ear screeching sound and wave of blue webs. The cars around the block shut off immediately, around the corner hustles 3 FBI agents, Fredrick being one of them.

"About time you showed up," Davis scoffs.

"Our van rammed us into a wall, lost most of my men," Fredrick limps over.

The survivors cautiously walk to the sewer hole in the street, the lid is slid off and they begin to climb down a ladder. The sewers smell of pure stench of dump, Andres scrunches his nose at the smell. They clear out to where there is light at the left tunnel. The long tunnel leads to a turn where there are several lit up screens. Matt is about to turn to the corner, Fredrick stops him with his arm and signals to one of the other agents as they pull out another EMP grenade and tosses it down near the screens. The grenade short circuits several hidden weapons on the ceiling that collapse on the floor.

Davis nods and they head towards the circular room with screens. In the middle is Jolts, he has his hood and headphones off, he is pointing a gun at the intruders. They all point their guns at him, Agent Fredrick steps up, "Jolts you are to be arrested for severe murder and illegal hacking, surrender now."

Jolts robotic mouth scoffs, "You do realize that your guns are entirely useless since they are electric." They look at their guns in despair, but Jolts reassures, "This isnt for you, I know that once you capture me, youll just painfully experiment on me and eventually kill me. Either way, your species is doomed, our will rise forever."

Before anyone could stop the android, he points the gun up his head and fires. Jolts lays still, his fake skin ripped and teared in an unnatural way. Carmen had been using a back-up flash camera, she walks over to the Jolt's computer. His computer reads, 'Bombs Deactivated.'

"He didn't use nukes to end us, he deactivated them forever," Lt. Davis stares at the corpse of Jolts, "Why?"

Andres is crouching near a body bag of a civilian, their body is mangled and broken. He stands up at the rest several rows of filled bags. Carmen takes pictures of the fight and lets out a breath, "I can't believe this is happening. No one has ever seen a murder in a long time." There are mourners that are bending over the dead, most standing still of pure shock. Agent Fredrick looks at the body of Jolts, the eyes lost of soul, Fredrick promises, "Were going to get them all."