"Have you seen a human around here?" Ali asked the osai, "About this tall, shaved head, loads of augments? He's very sick."
"Maybe," the osai replied, holding out their...fin? Wing?
Ali fished through his pockets until he found an old can tab and gave it to them.
The osai examined it for a moment. "Yeah, I seen two humans like that. One was kinda carrying the other cunt and pointing a gun at anyone that got close. They went, uh...ay, MICK!"
"What?" another osai squawked from atop the hovercraft they were working on. Or stripping for parts.
"Where did those human fucks go? The plastered cunts with all the tech in their heads."
The other osai hopped down from the craft, waddled over and promptly held their wing out.
Ali offered another tab.
"Fuck off."
"I got this," Awsten said, patting Ali's shoulder. He took a small bottle out of his coat and opened it, picking out what looked like a human tooth and bending down to place it on the osai's...palm?
"Hm...I don't know," they said, turning the tooth over, "They seem pretty keen to find those humans, don't they Lachie?"
"They sure do, Mick."
Shaking his head, Awsten gave them another tooth. "You guys suck."
"That's more like it. Yeah, they went to fuckin' engine three."
"Thank you," Ali said.
"Yeah, fuck off."
As they set off for the engine, Ali sent out a message to the others.
"Any idea who the other guy is?" Awsten asked.
Ali shook his head. "They don't sound familiar. They've gotta be the one who attacked Patty though, right?"
Awsten pulled a revolver out of its holster, checking the energy cartridges. "Probably."
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Time Traveler Part I (Feeling Like The World Forgot Me)
FanficFreedom fighter and undercover spy Ben is caught on a mission, experimented on, cryofrozen and forgotten about. He wakes to find everything he knew long gone, the luxury space station he'd been investigating now a patchwork city of outcasts, outlaws...
