Robotic Vampires 2

Rage

"Nothing can stop what's coming, no other word describes it," Ria assigned herself a company outside the mini hut, during a crazy but manageable sand storm a mile away.

"God would help us," she says

"God's not coming, it's you and me in this funless society, and we have to find our way home, or we'll die in two weeks,"

"I wasn't scared to die, but turn a vampire and hurt my family the people I call blood, that's something I don't want to experience," the woman told Ria

"I won't let that happen,"

"You can't save all of us, but I was thinking of smuggling us into the neighboring country. We can take one of those engines and find our way, I'm sure if we go 50 miles west we'll hit the Moroccan walls "

"That's good thinking," Ria tapped her forehead "but…" Ria stopped for a moment, emotional turmoil took much out of Ria than physical effort did, "I would make inquiries with the new guy, he should know more about something of some sort,"

"Let me inquire something first," the woman said,

"Go on, I'm listening," Ria told her looking at her filthy rags, "

"If things go south and I can't make it, take my son with you and run,"

"Eww, what were you and your son doing in Safe Heaven, not like it's any good city to visit,"

"Long story, very long story,"

"It's a long night if you ask me,"

"Just don't feel safe discussing any of it with you, maybe another night,"

"Another night never comes," Ria giggles, "if you want to insinuate the fact you're Norman's wife, we already know about it,"

"Funny, but that's not the fact," she wears a hard smile, "we built it together, now I'm scouting the desert with a few of my workers," she sobbers, "he promised to make it helpful for both of us,"

"Norman is many things don't let it eat you up," Ria tries to console the crying mom, "go get some sleep, we keep moving by dawn,"

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"Morning sir," Shae tells Flynn as she moves to pass him, "morning Shae, anymore update from the drone since then,"

"No sir, command center sky crew has taken back the drone for a refill, we hope to be scouting the area after 3 hours,"

"Good job, Sergeant, let me be updated on everything that goes down today, if any of our men are out there we'll have to secure him a safe passage home,"

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"Ohh, had a comfortable sleep in a while," Easton tells himself coming out of the hut to face a burning sun staring at his face, "Ria…" he calls out

A skinny woman in a cheongsam dress from far in the sand walked up to Easton, "she would be back in a while,"

"Where did she go?" Easton asked,

"She went back to the crash site to pick up as many supplies as she can get," she walks away,

"Hey wait up," Easton shouted,

"Why? You wanna shoot me,"

"Want to interact,"

"Not available…" she says, "Ria would be the only one to keep you company till help comes for all of us,"

"Are you trying to mean something," Easton takes his helmet and rifle and waits for Ria. Not long after she appeared as a single file for a banking login. Easton spotted her from afar, then she emerged, "what are you doing?" Easton asked angrily

"I went to take supplies, sorry I had to borrow your bag, didn't know you guys carry a whole lot in here,"

"I'm not a stranger to strange and impossible situations, I was trained for something like this, don't make me look silly,"

"Ok, calm down," Ria says, "I told one Princess to get you informed, didn't she,"

"I am a soldier and if you want to leave for any supply fetching or anything else I need to be informed,"

"I have responsibility over these people, you included, if you have any problem with that you can go find another refugee camp, ohh forgot there's none, which means you have no choice but to follow,"

Easton scratches his chin, "at least prep me prior to any military…" Ria cuts in, "you mean lie to you, because that's what the US government does, lie to you,"

Easton plugs the hammer on the top of his gun, "don't speak blasphemy against our country,"

"You don't know, do you?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, it's a pity if you turn on your radio now you'll hear China sponsored the safe heaven coming from the mouth of an English Media,"

"Are you trying to mean something?" Easton suspends his rifle with a hand,

"Isn't it obvious that the US government is the ones who funded this project,"

"You're lying, the President made the mission imperative and highly classified, I won't be sharing any of such information with you,"

"Safe it, I don't want to hear it, any of it, but maybe you can give me a hand with these," she throws the heavy bag on the floor,

"How do I know you're telling the truth, US can never send her citizens to go and die,"

"They needed a reason to stop sending more troops, so they sent you guys to die by an air strike, collateral damage they called it, knowing US military won't send any troops seeing the have an enemy with rockets and robots,"

"US has more than enough rockets to fire back,"

"On whose order…" Ria looks him full in the face

"I knew it, I knew it," Easton said as Ria unzipped the bag, "are you gonna help me or you'll stand there and keep feeling sorry that you landed on the wrong side of justice,"

"Why would they want such amount of meaningless army that can be wiped out with a blow of one powerful rocket,"

"Have you not noticed, Russia attacked Ukraine, North Korea is on the verge of war with South Korea, China released a powerful virus that put the whole world to sleep, who's next? The US government has to restore order before it's too late. So they invent an unbreakable army that can never die" she cuts open a candy pack, "come get some," she yells, and everyone around comes around and got a bite, Ria had just a slice,

"When you went back to get the supplies, did you see any of my men?"

Both still squatting Ria says"About them, they're vampires already, hopefully, if everything goes well as planned, they'll be robotic vampires in three days,"

"If this is how I'll die, then it has to be honorable, not my corpse in a box,"

"Don't worry I'll give you peace if need be," Easton heard several footsteps approaching, "do you hear that?" He tells Ria,

"I don't hear anything," Ria continued unraveling packages. The noise kept increasing and Easton stood up to check behind the hipped sand if he'd find anything, "run!" Easton shouted, "go! Robots are here,"

"Burn the tent, let the smoke find us out," Easton says

The men and women struggled to their feet, retrieved their high-powered weapons, and ran towards the mountainous sand ahead, side by side with Ria. He adjusts his bag and turns left to the empty endless road enjoying a forever chase, "what are you doing?" Ria asked, "thought you needed an engine for these people,"

"Were you spying on me the whole night?" Ria jerked

"No time for sentiment, just do as I say," he snorted in disgust and tossed his head, "I'll make them go left, you get around them and get the engine, don't come back for me, I'll meet up with you,"

"No, no, I can't, I won't leave you here to die," she yells contemptuously and shakes her head, "I'll take that as a yes," Easton says, "may we meet again,"

"Moo… " Easton whistled through his teeth for as long as possible, not long all vampires turned and started following his way, "one thing I love about vampires is they always listen to a sound," he says, " c'mon guys we have a long road ahead of us,"

Ria had already ditched the four behind her and ran towards the engine, but had a problem taking over the engine as she encountered one robot who stayed behind, maybe she was their driver or something,

"Hey big guy," Ria danced around the floating something, "why don't you get out of the truck for a minute,"

The robotic vampire hopped out of the engine and threw a hissy fit over Ria, she groans, "hmmm,"

"Does that mean we'll all have two heads, cuz my friends are waiting and you're a problem,"

She removes the key to the engine and dips it into her side pocket, plugs out her glass-like tablet, and sends a message, "boss, I have one here,"

Boss replies "bring…"

"Yes boss"

Ria stretches her face towards the tablet, "are you sending a message to Norman, that jerk initiated the update,"

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While the rest had found cover behind the hilly region up north. Easton was left to reunite with the group, that which would be before Ria succeeds to get the key from her toy friend,

"Woohoo, this is so much fun," Easton slides down the hill and rounds the bend four times before heading back to the direction he came from, "ok so we've made the turn, let's make the list," he kept the pace for over 24 minutes.

Ria on the other side of the desert was unlucky as she tried a smart move to grab the keys out of the pockets of the flexible she toy, which rather landed her on the floor, back lying flat with the struggling she robots on her face trying to get a bite, "ahhh…", the female robot shouted, "Leave me alone, I am the one who built you and you have no right over my neck," Ria voiced had already muted. The robot groaned again, "hmm,"

"My destiny was to become a respected salesperson and not to be eaten by you," Ria hollered and mistakenly moved her hands to her Hammond organ reddish in color. She paused and remained stagnant,

"Good thing I wasn't eaten by a she toy with teeth," Ria suddenly stands on her feet, "I'll take this," Ria puts her hands into her spacious pocket and trots out the key among many others, "I'll take all, just in case,"

Easton was still running around with his fingers crossed, although he went straight ahead, he tried to fill the road with their moving bodies, this way he would make them tired, he thought.

"Get in," Surprisingly an engine drove and packed in front of him, "eww don't eat my face up with this stuff," a broad steel door opens vertically upward, "are you gonna get in or what,"

"Ok, ok," Easton jumped in and closed the door behind him but managed to fit in the head of one robot, "get out, don't you understand that," he pushes it out with his footy boot, "that's handy, I'd want one,"

"You want to take the only thing the US government has given to me,"

"Forget it," she tries to snub for a moment, "they're many updates from the last time I was in heaven,"

"What type of update except running rag bags without actual brains,"

"Well, that part has been sorted out,"

"They have actual brains, is that what you're saying?" Easton asked

"You tell me cuz I saw one type an actual message which means there's something else that's making them think, human-like upstairs,"

"That's a real army, only that they can't fight combat, just running around anywhere there's noise,"

"Something tells me that they're working on that too,"

"Working on fighting vampires, that's very interesting,"

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Moving freely in the sky, the only part of the desert that wasn't filled with moving toys, the dancing drone picks up a large amount of smoke, "sir we have something," Shae tells Holland,

"Zoom in, immediately," Holland hovers over Shae, "what's that?"

"Thick smoke. A group of survivors were here, my best guest half of our team,"