Zero (Mech. Chronicles Book 1) by Adam Moon

Author:Adam Moon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Aliens, Robots, Adam Moon
Publisher: Gealach Publishing
Published: 2014-08-12T22:00:00+00:00

XVIII

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Capture

A LOUD BOOM shook the building, followed by an eerie silence almost as frightening as the explosion. Zero looked around frantically trying to see what was happening.

He saw a single Cogmore rush him with a handheld device clutched in its spindly little fist. It aimed it and fired. An electrode hit him in the chest and his systems went haywire. He froze to the spot.

He watched helplessly as several more Cogmores joined their comrade. They pushed him over onto his back and hefted him up like a trophy. As a unit, they ran to the north end of the hangar, where Zero saw a gaping hole that hadn’t been there before. Once through, they rushed into a dark tunnel that had been dug in the ground underneath the building just as mech reinforcements arrived, firing intensely.

Zero’s heart filled with hope. These little rats didn’t stand a chance once his teammates gave chase. That hope was dashed, though, when another explosion caved in the tunnel entrance behind them. Every twenty feet they’d plant another device, just in case his fellow mechs had found a way through the last cave in. Dirt hit his eyes as the ceiling slowly collapsed on them. But the Cogmores stayed ahead of it.

Ten minutes of running through roughly hewn tunnels, they finally came to an opening. The sun blinded him as they emerged. He was surrounded by thousands of chanting and cheering Cogmores. His captives lifted him higher for all to see. He was hit with a stone and some disgusting pig rubbed shit on him. He was spat on and hit with more stones before their delirium finally subsided.

A Cogmore split the crowd and everyone quieted down. It said, “Shackle the mechanical man. We can learn much from it.”

A timid voice, called out, “Aren’t you worried they’ll come looking for it?”

The leader said authoritatively, “They’re cowards. They fight for nothing. They’ll assume we destroyed this one, because it’s easier to assume it’s lost and do nothing than accept that it might be salvageable and try and find it.”

As he was moved along through the crowd, the leader said, “Once it’s secured tightly, mobilize it so I can see its power flow. We’ll take it apart piece by piece to figure out how to destroy them all.”

That didn’t sound fun. Zero hoped the Cogmore was wrong about his side. He hoped they’d come looking for him, and sooner rather than later.

He was taken inside a camouflaged tent, where his arms and legs were latched to a huge boulder sticking out of the ground. When they mobilized him he was pretty sure he wouldn’t be able to break that boulder to bits with strength alone.

They used chains and ropes and nylon straps. When they were finally satisfied he wouldn’t get loose, he looked like he was trapped inside a cocoon. Then they hit him with that handheld Taser thingy and his circuits popped to life like an appliance. He wanted to test the restraints, but thought it would look bad to do that so soon and right in front of so many of them.

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