Chapter 3: Landing
On that day his mother pushed him off the shuttle, Alkirvi fell into the dump right in front of the Sleeping Pig Bar.
"Old man, someone has just thrown a child into the dump right now. Says a female voice.
This voice is Kara, she is the only one waitress of the sleeping pig bar. Kara is a human in her thirties or more precisely a cyborg.
She is a blonde with medium length hair, her body is fine with beautiful curves and long legs. Her thin face has a gray-blue eye while the other, her right eye is a cybernetic eye that emits a red glow testifying that this implant is not of the last generation but a model of a generation more than old, some might even call it antique. Her little trumpet nose perfectly placed and her luscious lips would make her a beautiful woman if only it was not covered many scars showing a past life tormented. She is dressed in jeans and a long-sleeved black turtleneck over which she wears a black leather corset, she also wears a pair of white leather gloves, probably for hidden heals and her right arm a cybernetic proteus.
"What you are talking about, it is surely one of those child robots that a nobleman would have thrown away. Grumbled an elderly old man sitting on a wheelchair made of salvaged materials behind the bar's wooden counter. This man is human Brist too. He is of medium height, has the vaulted back probably due to his canonical age, 110 years a feat in the city bases. His white hair not capped do not arrange the impression of old age that emanates from him. But his black eyes shine of a surprising vigor for a person of his age.Brist with the face wrinkled by the years, on this one is present many scars and other burns.
"Old man you lose your head, you forget my cybernetic eye I saw he has a heart, a robot does not have heart."
"What are you sure of it? "
"Raise your ass old man and you'll see," she said mischievously.
"Harghhhhh, Kara was making fun of a cripple and your boss is going to have to look for another job if you continue like his kid." He answered falsely in anger.
"And who is going to take of the bar and you grumpy old man, you love me too much to separate you from your granddaughter like that." She said giving him a beautiful smile before leaving the bar running towards the dump.
"It is my vein, it has the same character as his mother and my wife fire. He mumbled with a smirk.
Kara had to climb mountains of rubbish of all kinds before finally seeing Alkrivi.
Unfortunately it seems that a dozen rats have noticed him and the eyes full of excitement for this meal fallen from the sky come closer to him. Citwo rats measuring 80 cm high and 1m long weighing 40 kg of pure muscle, they represent for every inhabitant the low city a real threat.
Kara took her two laser guns, which were clearly modified many times. She first targeted the boy's closest rat, her shot then piercing the creature's eye, while then puncturing it's brain, leaving escape the smell of burnt flesh, the hole formed by the shot dripping a mixture of cranial fluid and the liquefied eye by heat.
The shooting, the smell and the fact that one of their fellows collapsed on the ground caught the attention of the remaining nine rats on Kara. The rats instantly changed their target. They approached their new targets as an arc.
She then killed the two rats closest to her before dodging by jumping on the sides, a rat that jumped on him from behind probably a latecomer. His trained senses have once again saved his life.
She slaughtered the latecomer before thrusting a strident scream, which made the rats wobble for a few seconds, enough time to allow Kara to shoot down four of the eight rats preparing to attack him. When the survivors saw that, they fled knowing that he had fallen on an adversary whom he could not devour.
She cautiously approached the unconscious child.
Scanning him with her cybernetic eye she saw under what conditions the child was, the bones of his broken body, his spine also broken, his organs damaged too for the vast majority.
She sighed wondering if it was better to finish the poor child, indeed with such a wound his life is going to be a nightmare, and even if he was patched by a bio-engineer and a cyber-engineer the price of such a procedure would be astronomical in low-income neighborhoods without counting the fact that it will have to be performed on the black market since it will exceed the limited threshold of authorized modification.
Kara feels her heart breaking, she who had always dreamed of having a child all knowing that it will never be possible due to her past wounds, today will have to kill one. She then pointed her gun at the child preparing to shoot him. But at the moment of the shot she can not resolve, she knows that it must be done even if he survives he will live a miserable but she can not do it.
"Even if he hates me later I'll save him anyway, I was a slayer I know, but killing a child is something I have never done and would never do. "
She then approached and took the child in her arms, she then went to the bar.
Entering the bar she shouted "Old man calls the doc the child needs care"
"It's already done," retorted Brist
"It happens in ten minutes, waiting to put the kid in your bed, no way a filthy kid touches my bed"
So Kara went up and laid the unconscious child on bed before delicately removing her clothes, to her surprise she found in her clothes an anonymous credit storage chip.
She then looked at the contents of this one with her wrist computer and realized that the chip contained an astronomical amount of credit for what the child's intervention and even more.
Kara did not hesitate she shouted "Old man, call the Broker and told him to prepared a bio-engineer and a cyber-engineer with the latest bodily rehabilitation modification available on the market" not for a moment did she think she took this money here is the type of person that is Kara.
"What do you think we're rich already that it's going to cost you a little fortune to have the doc look after the mongrel and you want to pay him more, you'll never have enough money." "
"Do it, old man and I'll take care of everything else the child's expenses will be at my charge and I'll take care of him you'll have nothing to do.
"Ok, OK"
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