Dead Man Dreaming by Andrew Vaillencourt

Author:Andrew Vaillencourt [Vaillencourt, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction
Publisher: Andrew Vaillencourt
Published: 2018-06-26T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Chico’s internal bionics were already righting him as he flew. In a third of a second, he would land on his feet and be back into the alley to finish what he started and then some. Some bitches never caught on, and Chico considered himself just the man to teach them. It was like a calling or something.

It was a hell of a hit he had just taken, yet even the softer parts of his body were built for toughness. Nothing was broken, though pain would be his closest companion for a while yet. That much was obvious. He could manage pain. After he had his fun with that smoking hot blond he would return for Kitty. Kitty was pretty pissed at him, but she was a good girl and she would come around. They loved each other after all.

Nothing can stand in the way of true love, right?

His sensors warned him of the thing behind him before he landed. All thoughts of fun times with the chesty blond disappeared as one hundred percent of his attention and systems were subsequently saddled with the task of avoiding a gruesome death at the hands of what he now understood to be a nine-hundred-and-forty-pound military-class light cyborg.

His graceful landing abandoned, Chico’s AI twisted his body into an ungainly flopping roll just as an onyx fist the size of a Christmas ham whipped through the air where his chest would have been. The black-eyed cyborg clattered and rolled across the pavement until his toes found purchase and arrested his headlong tumbling. Without any discernable pause, his left hand drew his holstered pistol and he dumped a full magazine into his armored foe. The giant filling his optical gunsights made no move to dodge or even acknowledge the danger. It was charging at speeds even Chico’s AI found improbable.

Something in Chico’s subconscious told him not to bother. To move instead of shoot, to charge his right-hand pistol to maximum and use the penetrator he had loaded into it instead. It screamed at him to put all the power he could into the penetrator and not burn his cells on beads.

He ignored this feeling and sent a dozen beads into the fixer at less than twenty feet of range. The fusillade washed over the giant in a shower of orange sparks and the staccato cracks of shattering ceramic. Roland burst through the fragments and flames, dashing through the accumulated smoke and sending the clouds spinning off into the air like the bow wave of a freighter.

He observed the dip in the fixer’s left shoulder and a corresponding elevation of his right. Why he noticed this and why he should care was not obvious to him until another strong urge came over him and he dropped backwards.

The fist sailed over his head so fast the air cracked like a whip. It missed Chico by less than two inches and he decided then and there to start listening to these urges. The doctors had put things in his brain; he understood that.

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