Middleton, February 8th, 2028
The sun was setting on the silent remains of Middleton, but many Sentinels troopers were still patrolling the place followed with the Sentry droids as air support, looking for any trace of life to exterminate.
Behind a large group of them, but not too far, stand two Generals, surrounded by a bunch of Goliaths, were exchanging a few words while walking in the debris.
"Do we really have to be here? The place is a graveyard…" said the Athlete class General
"Oh come one, have a little fun would you? It's been a while since he's let you out." Answered the Swordsman class General.
"Well… the last time I ended in pretty bad shape."
"I promised you, the day I find the guy, I will get you his head on a plate."
"Thank you, but I still have a mark on my back from where I was hit, I remember our master saying that he left it as a reminder." She said bitterly.
"I know… but that was TEN YEARS ago, and he's been sending out Goliaths based on you ever since."
"But I am flawed, unlike you, I don't have a hard outer shell." She said touching his torso.
"No, you are perfect for what you were meant to be, a scout, an infiltrator and a fighter, I'm the enforcer, and… Let's just say that my shell is covering more than it is protecting."
"Thank you, I don't what I would.." she was cut mid-sentence when her sensors flared up.
"What is it?"
"There, she said pointing at an old house covered with debris, I detect a faint trace of energy."
The house she was pointing at looked like any other house in the street, the main difference was what looks like an explosion took a big part of the front house a long time ago.
"That one? Let me go fir…arg!" The Swordsman General held on to his head, almost falling to the ground.
"What is it?"
"I don't know… I feel like I know th… never mind. I'm going in." He reached for his sword on his back, The long curve blade that gave his class its name.
With a single swing of the blade, he sliced through the remains of the door. He was too big for the entrance but with his strength and the state of the wood, he easily got inside and into the living room.
Something was wrong, it was too tidy.
"It's too tidy," said a voice behind him
The blade swung at high speed and stopped right at the neck of his fellow General.
"You should have stayed outside." He said putting his sword on his back knowing that if someone in here was fool enough to attack an armed Swordsman General, attacking him with another Athlete General by his side was just plain suicidal.
They both walked around the place searching for any form of information about who could have been here and he found maps of the area with circles drawn on it, and she saw four mugs in the sink before turning her attention to her sensors showing her that the fridge was still powered somehow.
"Found anything?"
"The place seems to be still powered, you."
"Only maps of where Ground Zero is."
"You know who could live here?"
"I have my idea but I'm not sure yet if I'm right, we've dealt with the issue a few months ago."
"I got another energy reading from upstairs."
"I'm going, you stay here."
"Alright."
The stairs were old but still in a good shape. Others images hit him while he climbed but he just pushed them away, his body was now too big for the corridor, but the walls were not solid enough to resist him.
Nothing inside the many rooms until he reached the last one, a computer was right in front of him when he entered, his hand was too big to push any button on the computer so he tried to take the whole unite, but when he tried the screen lit up.
A human face appeared on the screen, dark-skinned and young very young. Then, it talked.
"No one sp….bzzt"
A blade ended the life of the screen before it could finish talking.
"YOU!"
Despite the rage filling his body, the Swordsman still notice the small bip sound coming from the computer. Knowing what it was, he rushed out of the room no longer caring that his body was breaking doors and walls alike.
He grabbed the other General before she could say anything and ran outside right before the entire house exploded and collapsed on itself, only leaving some dust in the air.
"What happened?"
"I know whose house it was, I want you to go back to Ground Zero, confirm to our master that the Cyborg is still around and inform him that I'm going for a little hunt."