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Chapter 15

*At Williams place*

"Ok, so we've finished the upgrade, now it's time to send him for the real battle" Williams said.
"Right boss." Bruno replied as he pushed the green button.

With the push of that green button, the new and improved AC over boosted off to find it's prey like an eager jackal searching for a rabbit.

"By the way boss, what's that think gonna be called?" Bruno asked.
"I've already programmed it into the AC's data banks. It is now known as Scavenger." Williams replied.
"Cool, I like that name." Bruno complimented Williams.

*Somewhere*

"So, where are we going again?" I asked Randy.
"To Florida." Randy replied, "We need to get as many members a possible if we want to beat that horrible monster."
"Yeah, I wonder who was controlling that thing. Possibly one of Williams former pilot/experiments?" I asked.
"Possibly, but whoever it was, they where good. Nobody can dodge my grenades like that." Randy replied.

We reached the homes of 6 members of Randy's Clan. They all had expensive and very sharp looking AC's. Each of which had the same emblem.
We all then took off and headed toward Ohio; the next batch of members where there, but none of them where as experienced as the ones from Florida. I assumed these people where all retired.

Heading toward Ohio we noticed a blip on the screen.

"Hey, do you guys see that?" Thomas, an older member of the clan, pointed out.
"Yeah, what the #### is that?" Ron asked, "It' fricken huge!"
"Oh crap! It's that killer AC!" I realized in shock.
"No! Not yet! We haven't gotten everyone together yet!!!" Randy yelled, "Well, we might as well do it now."
"Right!" I exclaimed, "All long range AC's fire!"

They did so and fired all sorts of long range weapons. Some carried sniping rifles, other carried laser cannons. There was no way to tell if we hit him or not because of the distance and the thickness of this sudden fog.

"AAARRRGGGHHHhhhhh!!!!!.........." That was one of the long ranged AC's.
"Crap! He has long Range too? He must have changed weapons! Prepare for anything!" Randy yelled.

Too my right, another AC exploded in flames.

"My God! He picking us off one by one!" Dominic yelled.
"We need to take cover!" I yelled.

We all found shelter behind anything we could find. He was still out of my radar why couldn't I find him?

"He has stealth!" Thomas yelled, "We can't see him because he has stealth!!!"
"Man!" I yelled

I looked to my right again and caught a glimpse of that AC boosting past me and attacking an AC in the rear.

I turned a followed him attacking him on the way. I fired countless multi missile at him, all hitting him, but nothing fazed him.
I fired my cannon at him and he turned toward me. Only then could I get a real look at what it was I was firing at. This thing was horribly changed from the last time I had seen it. It had to be twice the size of a normal AC. Even my Grizzle was dwarfed by it's size.
The AC had four arms, each supplying for laser blades and hand guns. The legs were even worse, it was just one long coiled tail. I wasn't sure, but I think I saw a type of weapon at the end. It's wings were exactly the same except there were two more.
It didn't have a head, it being replaced by a large, and surely powerful, rocket launcher. The way it opened, the launcher's pod looked like a giant mouth. The AC bent down slightly and hurled itself into the air. Once it reached the peek of it's jump it hovered there with it's boosters.
Even the wings now had miniature boosters to help it stay afloat. It slowly curled its tail under its core and pointed it toward my AC. At the same time it bent its four wings in my direction and aimed all of it's handguns toward me.

"Oh crap! It's gonna fire!" I yelled as I ducked behind that bolder, my only hope for survival.