Android: Golem by Mel Odom

Author:Mel Odom [Odom, Mel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Hard Science Fiction, Thrillers
Amazon: B0061PI44W
Publisher: Fantasy Flight Publishing
Published: 2011-10-29T11:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Military-grade rounds ripped into Adrian Graham’s hopper and shredded my jacket, thudding into my chest and punching through my body. I raised my free hand to protect my head and more bullets deflected from my arm.

I realized then that the men weren’t there to attack Adrian Graham.

They were after me.

I clung to the landing skid as Adrian banked his vehicle over sharply. The hopper banged against another vehicle in the other lane. The contact jarred me and I almost lost my hold, but I squeezed tightly. The metal crushed a little in my grip.

The attacking hopper banked and persisted in its pursuit. I was relieved that the gunner had stopped firing his weapon.

The other nearby hopper pilots had figured out what was going on and were veering sharply away from the two vehicles locked in combat. Horns blared, triggered by the defensive programming of the hoppers, as well as panicked pilots.

I opened my comm as I twisted. “Dispatch, this is Detective Drake. I require immediate assistance.”

“I have you, Detective Drake. We’re locking onto your GPS now.”

“Affirmative.” I rolled in the high winds. Adrian had chosen to gain altitude in his attempt to shake off the pursuers. We bumped and jostled through traffic as we cut through the levels. “I’m under attack by a hopper.”

“Roger that. I have you in view. I’m trying to identify the attacking hopper. I’m streaming through the street cams but locking on is problematic.”

I twisted and focused on the pursuing hopper. I took vid through my internal recording equipment, which hadn’t been harmed by the bullets that had chopped through my metal body, and uploaded the file through my PAD connection. “I’m sending you vid of my attackers.”

“Roger that, Detective. We’re also arranging mosaic vid from the surrounding traffic cams and vehicle security systems.”

My attackers opened fire again. A line of bullets stitched holes along Adrian Graham’s hopper, chewing through the body and through the acrylic glass. Adrian jerked violently to the side as blood suddenly fountained inside the cockpit.

I holstered my weapon and pulled myself up as the Directive programming kicked in. If I could, I had to save Adrian. Balancing on the skid, I grabbed the door and yanked. I noticed then that my strength was lacking. Some of my internal systems had been damaged. The nanobots inside my body were rushing to repair the damage.

With a metallic squeal of pistol-shot fractures, the door’s locks shattered and it came open. Almost immediately, the wind caught the door and yanked it from my grip, popping it above the hopper’s roof like the gull wing it was meant to imitate. Another hopper came by, moving fast, and slammed into the open door, tearing it from its hinges. The door fell, jerking back and forth in the wind as it was buffeted, getting batted like a soccer ball by the other hoppers.

The attacking hopper struggled to close the distance, but was held off by the thick press of the other traffic.

I pulled myself into the cockpit and pressed a hand against Adrian Graham’s wrist to read his biometrics.

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