Apocalypse 2020: A Wasteland LitRPG by James T. Witherspoon

Author:James T. Witherspoon [Witherspoon, James T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2017-09-25T06:00:00+00:00

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Boothe swung his carbine from its sling on his backpack to aim it at The Injector, planted it against his shoulder, and then squeezed the trigger.

“Watch your fire Boothe!” Scarlett said. Two of his shots had gone wide and blasted through the windows on the opposite side of the hallway, hitting the wall near where the children still laid connected to their horrible machinery.

Screams filled the room, and Scarlett tried to corral the kids towards the corner, where they would hopefully be out of harm’s way. Meanwhile, Mariko flipped one of the beds over sideways and took cover behind it, aiming her rifle at The Injector and blasting shot after shot into its metal body.

Braddock held his ground, firing away with both pistols. Since he was the closest, The Injector went after him first, rolling into the room and jabbing at him with syringes.

“I’ll hold him back,” Braddock said. “He can’t do anything to me with these needles. I don’t even have veins to stick them in.”

The Injector let out a mechanical laugh. “What are… wires, but… veins for… electricity instead of… blood.”

Then one of the robot’s needles landed, stabbing into the wiring around Braddock’s neck and pumping light blue liquid. Sparks flew and Braddock’s head spasmed, jerking back and forth, then twisting around completely backwards. He made a loud whirring noise, and then tried to speak, but his voice came out garbled, like a radio tuned to the wrong frequency. He fell backwards and clanged to the floor.

Scarlett, having gotten the children to relative safety, turned and aimed her shotgun at The Injector. She spun around him to be sure that she was firing away from the children on the other side of the hallway, so that if any pellets missed, they would punch harmlessly into the walls. There was no need - her shot landed cleanly. She pumped and shot again, each blast ripping metal from The Injector’s body, revealing green circuit boards beneath. Boothe sent Marty in to attempt to connect to the robot’s circuitry. If he could hack it, maybe he could shut it down and end this fight before it got too messy. The drone flew in unnoticed while The Injector rolled forward, towards Scarlett. Marty unfolded the probe from one of its tiny claws and inserted it into the back of the much larger robot’s neck. The Injector paused, its camera eyes spinning and focusing on something unseen.

Hacking (30%) - FAILED!

For a moment, Boothe had thought it worked. The Injector’s neck twitched, the gears inside its chest slowed. Then it shook all of that off, and spun back up to full speed once again. With the same blue syringe that it had used to incapacitate Braddock, the Injector twisted its arm backwards and stabbed at Marty. The drone, still attached to the back of The Injector’s neck, didn’t have time to unplug and flee. The needle must have been made from some unnaturally strong material, as it did not bend when it stabbed directly through Marty’s metal plating and into the vulnerable wiring inside.

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