Rise of the Machines: Book 1: Once Awakened by Briana Ervin

Author:Briana Ervin [Ervin, Briana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-09T05:00:00+00:00

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“Actual-Joleus” was eventually discovered in the flooded room, powered down and pinned underwater. Garenede had to drag him up to the main level and let him drain before we could release his pilot. I helped carry Krysis up as well so Alesia could keep working on him. The room below was still radioactive, and flooding was still a problem, but with the door closed there at least wasn't an Enemy threat anymore, so we had positioned ourselves right at the door of the building to be let out. By the time we were, a team of 15 models came in and began sweeping the place for radiation, much more efficiently than Alesia ever did. She wasn't jealous; just glad that she didn't have to do it.

Everything else went as normal, excepting our confusion about this hushed, midnight mission. We all returned to the barracks, and Alesia went to work with other Maintenance models to properly repair our damages. I made an interesting note that Garenede denied being repaired first, despite code entitling him to it. He kept arguing with the Maintenance model in charge about it, repeatedly saying, “Krysis is in pieces and you want to fix me?”

Funny, really. He couldn't stop them, but at least he managed to split their focus between him and Krysis. I was hesitant about being repaired, but I was significantly weaker with just one arm, so I had to let them patch a new one in. Joleus was lucky, as he only needed to dry out and have his cuts welded together. While we waited on repairs we all compiled reports on the event, complete with images from our memories, as expected, with our pilots separate to ensure that our stories matched up. Then we were all powered down for the rest of the night, our pilots trudging off to grab what little sleep they could before the wake-up call.

Oddly enough, Cyrii looked a bit furtive after leaving me on her hovercraft, preparing to deliver her report. She pretended to be occupied by re-reading it over and over, toying with the tablet's holographic display, but I could tell from the way she glanced about and how tightly she clutched the frame that she was waiting for everyone to leave. I was tempted to ask why, but I couldn't say anything without her piloting me; that would be a dead giveaway. So instead I just gave her a long stare, which was pretty much what any pilotless mech would do.

Once Garenede had returned to his upper hangar and my three peers had left (with Joleus spinning his near-drowning experience as an epic struggle, complete with the rolled eyes of his comrades), Cyrii finally lay the tablet down on my hangar's control panel, pretending to review it again while typing on the latter.

What are you doing? I wondered quietly to myself. She couldn't hear me, of course, but she really knew her way around machines. I powered down... but I did not power down. I was

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