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2183, December 31, Time 11:32 Pm

Arthur walked along the streets while ignoring the whole environment around him drowning himself in the music that played in his head, as he instinctively made his way through the crowd not even allowing a single one of the pedestrian's bodies to touch a single piece of clothing on him, he did this naturally without showing any peculiar movements which might rise the pedestrian's attention to him.

"Master, you'll have to take the next right" Ves reminded him of the path he will have to take.

With a slight nod, he walked towards the direction as instructed into what looked like a shabby and narrow street that was cluttered with defective mechanical parts that sometimes let out blue sparks of electricity from time to time Arthur looked at all this lazily and questioned.

"Where are they Ves?"

"The coordinates seemed to indicate the garage to your left" Ves replied cordially.

Arthur moved forward impatiently and knocked twice on the metal hide that kept the garage closed as he waited for some sort of reaction, He waited one whole minute but there seemed to be no signs of anything happening. Just when he was about to question Ves again he heard a cheery voice calling out from the entrance of the shabby street.

"Hey, Arthur~ I'm here!"

As he turned his head around in accordance to the source of the voice to find a girl standing there wearing a tight pink crop-top that hugged close to her ample breasts paired with tight shiny golden pants that seemed to showcase her long legs and thighs, her eyebrows thin and delicate, she had gorgeous soft facial features giving off an impression of a sweet girl but as if rebelling against it she had multiple piercings on her ears with a miniature red sword dangling on one of the ears as an earing even then the most striking part of her has to be her hair, strict straight bangs fell neatly across her forehead but other than that the rest of her head seemed to have been shaved entirely, portraying a pale scalp making her radiant neon-colored bangs to stand out even more.

"Where were you, Jennifer? And what's up with your hair?" Arthur asked measuredly chuckling looking at her.

She smiled seeing him amused as she walked towards him and stood Infront of him and replied "well, our tin-head got the short end of the stick this time and it was his turn to be the decoy and give me a signal to jump in and snatch the consignment, but I haven't heard from him at all, even after waiting for one whole hour, can you believe that bastard!

Anyway, I was bored waiting, so I went and got myself a haircut, its freaking Blaze, right?" Jennifer asked enthusiastically with an excited smile on her bright pink lipstick adorned lips, while running her hands at the back of her head.

"Right… Blaze" Arthur chuckled and continued "So Thatcher must have been caught by those stiffs, let's go take care of those guys you must know where they are right? Seeing that you ran off without backing him up." Arthur asked his tone growing cold while raising one of his eyebrows in question.

"Hehe~ you caught me, but you'll have to understand those guys weren't at the level I could handle and even three bots were scouting the perimeter, I'll be toast even before landing a foot in there, but I did get a clear view of where they are keeping both him and the consignment, so won't be a problem showing you the way." She answered sheepishly.

"Alright, where's the Grade-27 gauntlets that I asked you to bring from my workshop?" Arthur asked.

"Oh, got them right here" she exclaimed as she moved closer to one of the piles of mechanical waste to the side and swatted away a few of the scraps in the pile to reveal a dirty-white box, she picked it up and held it before Arthur as the box opened to reveal a pair of Black sophisticated gauntlets with silver tensile like material peeking out in some areas.

He picked the pair of Black gauntlets from the box and started equipping them, as they rapidly undulated and resized according to his wrists and forearm's structure and latched onto them firmly, after equipping them he opened and closed his palms making sure it's comfortable on his hands being satisfied, he looked up at the smiling Sennafer before him and said nonchalantly.

"The next time you leave my gauntlets in a place like this I'll tear off whatever hair left on your head, got it?"

"Gotchu," she said pouting as she placed a hand over her head protectively.

"Good, now you can show me the way" he replied, his eyes showcasing an amicable expression.

After a couple of minutes walking, Jennifer who was beside Arthur pulled him to the side and hid him and herself behind a barricade wall as she spoke "That's the place."

while pointing her fingers at a rundown warehouse that was being protected by three bots that flew across in the air emitting blew flames at the bottom surface from an exhaust structure, they moved tandemly making sure they are in a synchronized cycle and covered the entirety of the warehouse, from time to time they emitted red rays of light from the front as they constantly scanned their surroundings for possible intruders.

And by the entrance of the warehouse, a burly man dressed in a tidy Black suit with half his face being made of complicated metal components coming together to fabricate an artificial face, can be seen leaning against the wall as he held a device in his hands, a device that emitted a blue screen with a multitude of information being displayed on a glass-like surface, on which he seemed to be immersed in.

Arthur gazed at the warehouse with a complicated expression on his face, as he muttered out frustrated "Why are the flies quality upgraded this time around, I don't seem to recall them using Bots like this for previous consignments, each one of them is Grade 30-35 at least this time. do you know something?"

"All I know is Psionic Python already gave up on this job the moment I informed her that Thatcher got stuck inside, I only hung around because you might come knowing Thatcher's in trouble" Jennifer answered.

"Tsk! Anything else?" Arthur asked annoyed.

Jennifer replied after pondering a bit "Um… I don't if it's true or not, it's just a baseless rumor that I heard floating around, it seems the consignment this time isn't Grade-25 weapons but something more valuable."

"Something more valuable? Do you know what it is?"

"Nah, that's as far as I know."

"Then let Python know that I'm keeping this one, after all, she did give up, she shouldn't complain" Arthur replied with anticipation beaming out of his eyes as he gazed at the warehouse before him.

"You sure? I mean I know you might pull it off, but Python will be pissed" Jennifer chuckled.

"Yeah, I'm sure, who does she think she is? To get me involved in this job when it should have already been done with you and Thatcher as usual

Intentionally withholding the information of the consignment and passing it off as a regular job, I'll rip her apart when the time comes" Arthur replied in a stale monotonous tone.