Chapter 19: Thinking Fast

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Nick put the belt around her waist, that had the pouch attached to it, and the holster attached to the other side. After she strapped the pouch to her thigh, she then put the baton in the holster on her other hip since they had apparently forgotten to grab her stun gun. The girl then put the fingerless glove on her right hand, knowing that the only way to activate the stun part of it, was to turn her hand into a fist and punch. 

They were clearly made for fighting humans though, not robots, but they'll do.

She then quickly went over to the random supplies that were in the corner and grabbing two water bottles from the trash. Nick quickly filled them up with the gasoline that Mark had been using to keep the heater running, before she put the caps back on tightly. 

After tying them together with the antenna and some loose wires, she then put them around her pouch and made it so the antenna wiring wrapped around this loop in the belt so that they'd stay put.

Nick then quickly moved back over to Mark, shoving his shoulder and pulling the headphones out of his ear. "Come on, we gotta go."

"Hm? What?" He sat up, tiredly rubbing his eyes and getting up, but Nick wasn't exactly giving him enough time to process even waking up as she shoved his jacket in his arms and began pulling him outside.

"Okay, there's two bridges into the city. One on each side." Nick stated, and as Mark gave her a confused look, Steve spoke into the comms. "We're on the East bridge."

"Which means I'll head to the West bridge." She breathed out before looking around them, grinning when she saw a motorbike. The girl ran over to it as Mark confusedly looked around, "Where is everyone?" Then he watched her begin hot wiring the bike, "What the hell are you doing?"

She didn't respond as the bike roared to life, but almost immediately, her smile got wiped off her face when she barely had time to get off the bike and run over - body slamming Mark to the ground so that the blast wouldn't hit him.

Mark, now fully awake and in shock - not knowing what happened, watched as Nick rolled off of him and grabbed an axe from where it was leaning against a stack of wood. She gripped it tightly and lifted it up, as his eyes finally trailed over to the... Iron legion that was blasting at them.

As the legion went to shoot at them again, Nick threw the axe at the robot with as much strength as she could, before she then grabbed Mark's arm and got them to the bike.

"Do you even know how to drive this thing?!" Mark exclaimed, but was answered when she started it again and it suddenly jerked forward, causing his arms to wrap around her waist tightly. But instead of driving off, Nick swerved the bike and stopped, revving the engine as the legion missed another blast towards them. "Shouldn't we head away from it?!"

"Hang on." Is all she said before speeding towards it, but as it's arm raised and began powering up at them, Nick suddenly tilted the bike sideways and turned it quickly - so that the back of it hit the legion away from them roughly, and allowing her to speed towards the West bridge as more legions began showing up - especially in the areas that people were still in. 

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