Robotic Vampires 11

Standing in the corridor. Easton half expected Norman to be ashamed of what had happened. The glue-like substance gushing out his arms, less dense than blood, "you better run to your apartment before you'll beg to run for your life," Norman tells Ria and Easton still bending to put pressure on the wound,

Squeezing her face in annoyance Ria said, "well, no one is leaving, and certainly no one is treating you until you tell us who you are, or should I say what you are?"

The boys stood behind the walls of the staircase and paid even more attention to "the interesting part," Ray said and everyone murmured

"Shut up shutter bug let's focus," Boss turned and everyone muted at once,

"Where were we?" Easton said

Ria answered immediately, "The part where the king of technology, my husband explains to us what he is,"

"You won't understand," Norman says

"Make us?" Easton said

"Ach! I hate the part where all that I'll say will end in scolding, I certainly don't need scolding, I need assistance from medicals,"

"You know, when I came in the second time," Ria said, "I looked at you, you were very much what I left behind, tall, wiry, aged more perhaps, wild black hair and a cryptic little tattoo on your hands," she giggled, "both hands I'd say," she glides to him and whispers, "well I didn't know and you didn't care to tell me that you were something else. Something other than human. And I can't marry what I don't know, I can't marry what I don't understand," still expressing her feelings the boys ran out from behind the stair walls shouting, "our white brothers are here,"

"What?" Easton, a little bit frightened, steps behind and grabs Ria, "what's happening?" He asked Norman,

"Well, let's just say you've made things worse for yourself,"

"What are you talking about?" Robert moved closer to Norman, "answer me," he yells,

"You've just made things worse Rob, you've attracted them with your voice," Ray said

"Woohoo…" Ria jerks her neck to both sides and the funny sound, "crack…crack," is produced,

Just after all the drama, the elevator door opens and everyone turned, "Norman, you bitch," Ria said

Norman waves his hands from inside the elevator, "I hope this serves you well. Just the word of advice you wound me the Robot goes rogue for thirty minutes, you kill me - worse - they run mad,"

"You're so pathetic," Easton says

"My specialty," Norman waves the second time as the elevator moves straight up.

"What do we do now?" Ray asked Boss

"We run," Boss replies,

Ria suddenly left Easton's hands and tries opening the door beside her, "well that's not an option because they're probably on the stair chase and all doors are closed because we didn't run on time," Rob says

"We'll have to fight then" Easton and the rest of the boys folds the sleeves of their overalls upward, "we have a problem?"Ray looked at Ria,

"I'm fine," Ria said,

"Stay behind me, always," Easton says,

"I can take care of myself," Ria said

"Shuuu here they come," the boss said, "our primary objective is to take them down not take them out,"

"Yes sir," they all echoed,

Four in number flipping their neck left and right like something strange had missed from their settings upstairs, "they behave now like the real raw materials," Ria cracks her hands, "let's get things over with," Ray said.

The first to cross was Ray, easy peasy - sneaked in the middle of one of the two by the left and immediately stood on the other side of the corridor that leads to the stairs. Ria accompanied him, she managed to punch one in the snout, while he was still finding a way to realize himself, she had already crossed,

"I can handle myself," Ria hopped to the stairs and waited at its entrance, "woo,"

"Boss, this is getting serious," Easton locked in a one on one says with a robot said,

"Boss, let's take them down," Rob says. Thereafter, the boss and Rob ran into the face of two Robots. Holding their right hands they - Rob and boss - flipped them over. Then got their chance to cross, "get over at once James," Rob yells and as James tried to take the opportunity, a robot did a quick snap over, drag his legs, and gave him a bite on the lap, "noooo," Ray shouted, "shuuu, don't attract more," Rob got closer and closed his mouth tight.

"Ahh," Easton, still struggling to get out from the bumpy corner he found himself, made a toss around the robot and threw him to the other side and went to the left. Immediately after Easton had escaped, they all ran to the corridor.

On reaching the corridor where everyone goes to their room. The thirty minutes had elapsed and all the robots were calm. Ria and Easton along with the remainder of the boys could go inside. They all stayed in one room sad and freezing. Ria said "this is quite what I expected,"

That night had passed, it was a horrible one. The next day everyone hoped for the best.

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The next morning was suddenly an awful one too for Sergeant Shea and Z. Being locked in a room by Flynn to settle their disputes and come to the right state of mind, "Seriously is this how we're going to behave and fight off the great Norman," Z says sitting at one corner of the room, "you don't want me here. I can ask for transfer…or probably return to where I came from,"

"I'm the bad guy now right," Shea sitting low on her army galligan says,

"Why are we even quarreling in the first place? Because I don't get a single reason why we should be at loggerheads," Z slaps his lap stands up, and paces a while, "Four times in three days, like football scores it never ends,"

"Does it mean I'm the cause of all the four,"

"Well, I'm not certain, but guess what, we're stuck in here and we have to figure out what's happening to our heads," he finally finds a spot in front of her, "I'm here, do whatever you want to let me get back to my job,"

"Is this what this is about? I'm the villain and you're the what?"

"Then what is it about? Hmm, you counter my every sentence and want respect from me, you're not having a shit,"

"And what do you do? Proving smart and over intelligence, I was here first, you hear that. I have handled many more critical cases like this one, I don't need your help,"

"Do you really think this is a case that involves just critical thinking alone, funny myopic Sergeant," he sniffs, "it's funny how you can't look beyond your nose most of the times," Z says "this is just insane, you're just insane to me,"

"What do you say? Insulting your superior like this," Shea gets up and folds the hands of her shirt, "get up and fight,"

"Do you think you can beat me in a real fight," Z gets up and pulls the hands off his shirt too, "you're a dead girl,"

"C'mon," Shae shouted

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Ria, still confused with what she had seen last night, walks quickly into technology early morning Sunday and moves straight to Murphy's section. "Switch," she taps the guy working with Murphy, "What are you doing?" He tries to struggle

"Do you want me to report you to Norman or which part of I'm his wife don't you get," Ria looked up and locked eyes with the middle twenties, "see you, Shawn," he walked away. Immediately Ria made herself comfortable on top of the table where Murphy had his half-made Robot attire kept, "heard you and your crew were busted," Murphy says

"Yeah, you can hear the details from someone else," she blinks, "what else do you know?"

"You know I don't answer those that shout at me,"

"Please, ok just let me hear it,"

"I know he couldn't handle the workload so he downloaded it to someone else. Maybe one of his friends maybe,"

"English please…"

"Alright, let's put it simple, there's someone else with Norman's whatever he possesses inside,"

"Woo," her breathing stopped for not too long then she said, "when I thought I've seen it all,"

"Well, I thought your friend will come to visit every morning as he promised, but I've not been seeing him,"

"We ran into some difficulties…any other thing that you know I want to be the first to know,"

"I don't like gossips, Mrs. Ria,"

"You can call me Ria and just so you know it's not gossip it's an assistant to getting out,"

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Both Shae and Z sat dirty on the floor, "Hahaha," Shea laughed, "look how childish we've been. making our pride overwhelm our judgment,"

"Well, I didn't call for a fight you did" Z turns around from his spots and looks Shae steady in the eye, "we should live this way with each other,"

"Tell that to my ego," both laughed and stopped after a few laps, "I'm sorry," Shea said,

"You should take back what you said first," Z said

Shae cuts in mid-sentence, "just say I'm sorry most times people don't need long explanations, sorry is more than enough. I need it now,"

"I'm sorry," he laughs, not long though, "can I explain myself now,"

"Well, we have work to do," Shae arouses from the floor and moves straight to the door after a very exhaustive talk with Z, "knock knock," she slammed the metal door until someone came around and opened the door. He stared at Shae standing in-between the thresholds, "what are you still doing here thought you followed Officer Flynn and Captain Holland to the gathering at saint park,"

"What gathering?" Shae asked,

"Ohh, you don't know, do you? Flynn's wife is having something at Saint Park, all senior officers have gone except you, woo what were you doing in here…" he tossed his face towards the door, "ahh, you were here with Z,"

"Hi," he flashes his teeth, widens his eyeballs, and waves, "got work for me,"

"Ok, got a little thing to do, maybe you could be a hand,"

"Woops," Z struggles to stand, then stretches, ", goodbye," he tells Shae, moving left to a reserved area in Engineering.

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Ria badges into her room and finds Norman squeezing behind his computer. Norman turns immediately and tells Ria, "well, before you say anything, I'm not the only one with blue blood, so don't freak out,"

"Yeah, so I heard, who else did you kill and resurrect after three days, hmmm,"

"It's none of your business," Norman flatters,

"I get it I'm ready to mind my business, but what exactly is your business, but what exactly is your business si…

"Get back to work,"

"I'm not going to do that"

"What do you say, Ria?"

"I said I won't be leaving this place until I know who exactly my husband is?"

"I'm going to say this one more time and you know the rules the third time you die,"

"I don't care, alright I don't care about whatever treats you make. Do what you want to do? So you know, if you don't tell me then you don't need me," Ria trots out a blade from her side pocket and places it over her neck.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm making you talk, and if you think, I can't do it then you don't know me at all,"

"Put that down Ria let's talk like adults,"

"Well that time is over," she takes it more deep up, "now start talking,"

"Ok alright, just drop it," every time Ria took the blade up Norman rattled, "please I'll talk, just drop it," Ria slowly took the blade down and stood sorry for the next word that would come pouring out from his mouth, "what do you have to say?"

"I don't know where to start but to make it short I found a way to live longer than my lifespan so I tried it and it worked,"

"What did you find out?"

"Many things Ria > many things, things I can't comprehend,"

"What about the half-person you shared it with?"

"I'll leave that to you to find out," he smiles and returns to his previous posture - hands plugged into the keyboard and his eyes focused on the screen.