Generator Rex: The Modern Prometheus Chapter Five Directors Cut: "Void and Providence"
Breech walked through the shattered halls of Providence playing a fun game. Van Klies said she could play her fun game all day if she wanted! Unless that is she ran out of playmates.
She walked past a trio of grunts held up in a guard station fighting off a pack of what once was their comrades.
She smiled a wicked little smile.
"Puppies!"
A red portal dumped a few EVO pit-bulls behind the grunts and she walked on to the sounds of men screaming.
She passed the cafeteria were a robot fry cook was protesting to a dead man sitting on his grill smoking up the place that he needed to move so it could begin cleaning the place.
"Hehehe!"
Around the corner Breech found Bio-wolf out of his cage in the Providence holding area. With a boom the large EVO slammed into a wall with the force of several grenades followed by a blond man with a scar over one eye screaming at him.
"DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS WOLF BOY!"
Breech went back to her game.
"Big puppy!"
An EVO Rottweiler appear in a red flash and ran at the man as she walked on.
Further down the way she found Kenwyn, and Breech frowned. The new girl in the pack had bat wings dark blue armored scales, and sharp-looking nails she was putting to good use on a door.
"The new girls still pretty after Van Klies touched her. First pretty Circe now HER. I am still his favorite! I don't want her to look prettier than ME! "
Van Klies walked up behind her, and sounded like a concerned father.
"There you are my dear girl. How is your game going?"
She stomped her foot a bit, and barked angrily.
"I hate it, it is a stupid game!"
He put his over sized metal hand on her head like she was a child.
"Now Breech, whatever is the matter?"
". . new girl . . she's prettier than me. . "
"Dear dear girl, you simply have to know that you are my favorite. I have no one else that can do what you do my child. That includes our Rex by the way."
The hallway echoed with the sounds of a sudden impact.
"Speaking of which, that sounds like him now! Why don't you go down there and let him know just how cross you are with him over that horrid date you too had?"
The girl began walking off towards the noise muttering as she went.
"He broke all my pretty things. . . not NICE!"
Holiday road a EVO centaur into a wall, jumping off a second before impact. She spun around finding Rex slamming two of them into each other with his over sized metal hands, and then using those giant boots of his to kick the pair of them into the far wall. She shouted at him!
"Rex they've all got hand prints on their chests! They might be our people!"
"Ooops sorry!"
He went to work trying to cure their enemies, and she took a moment to find an intercom on the wall. It was dead the same as their radios. Whatever hit the system hit it hard, and considering this was the second such attack in a month she wasn't shocked at the damage.
"We haven't finished cleaning up the mess from last time. REX I could use you over here!"
He wondered over pissed off at the situation. He smacked the control panel and used his power.
"They were all horses by the way. Oh damn Knight pulled the plug on the system. Why the heck would HE shut everything down?"
Holiday tried to sound less worried then she was.
"The Keep if it looses contact with base it will return to find out why. It was probably the quickest way to call for help."
He surprised her, she always liked it when he did that. Except for this time.
"Knight calling for help? What are they coming to bleach the place?"
Holiday looked at the ground a moment as she spoke.
"In case of a total loss of the base YES. Maybe we should get you out of here Rex."
He was so ready rush in and play the hero, Holiday loved this about him.
"OK we take a long walk though Providence. Van Klies will notice and send in the cannon fodder. That will be people he's turned, I cure as we go, and by the time we get to the man himself we have an army of angry grunts behind us."
She also loved when he was acting dumber than he should. It was cute, and he couldn't help it. You can't replace a k-12 education and the social skills most people pick up while going though all that, AND learn to fight a war. One of these days Holiday told herself I'm going to fix that brain of his. Until then I think he still needs a bit of hand holding.
"Rex this fight was over before we got here. Last time they came here to destroy this place kill Knight and show the world nothing can stop EVO power or whatever catchphrase Klies is using this week. We haven't had time to recover from that, and with the mole hunt our best troops are on the Keep because the green rookies we replaced them with don't know enough to be as dangerous. We are going to find Van Klies with his foot on our collective throats, demanding something. If he didn't want something this place would be a crater. "
He looked confused while it all sunk in. Rex hated to lose, and that was something else about him she liked.
"So what we walk in there and give him whatever he wants? Then what hope he just leaves? It will never happen and you know it!"
Good Rex put it together I know you can.
Rex shook his head a bit trying to see though his anger, Holiday smiled a guilty little smile when he spoke again. This wasn't a time for happy thoughts, but he was learning and that WAS A GOOD THING.
"We need to figure out what Van Klies wants or no one here is getting out alive are they?"
Good boy.
"That's right Rex. "
Breech wandered around the silent halls of Providence.
"Not right not RIGHT AT ALL! Rexy likes to make noise. . . "
Holiday hung upside down from a ceiling support while Rex stepped around a corner drawing her attention.
"Hay Breech, you come looking for me!"
She smiled.
"Mommie dog!"
A large two-headed poodle appeared from one of her portals, and Rex rolled his eyes.
"Really? A Poodle, come on!"
The thing jumped at Rex and he caught in air with her over sized smack hands, and slammed it into the ground like a football.
Holiday flipped to the ground silent as a ghost behind Breach to jab a needle in her neck. Impossibly the girl spun on her heals grabbing her wrist with one of her oversized hands. Breech screamed.
"AAAAA! I don't need my medication anymore Van Klies said I don't need IT!"
Holiday smiled matters of life and death aside this was kind of fun.
"Shhh I'm a Doctor."
Then she used her free hand to punch the girl square in the jaw. Breech raged.
"YOU RUINED MY DATE AND MADE ME CRY!"
In a red flash Breech's three remaining hands grabbed her from different angles. Holiday glanced over at Rex still wrestling with the dog. Somehow being here like this,fighting was like scratching an itch she never knew she had.
"You know Breech, Rex and I talked about your date. He wasn't scared, he didn't hate you, he was just a bit worried. We CAN help you kid."
The girl pulled Holidays limbs in four different directions, and she looked the Doctor in the eye. Something in the girls eyes was unsettling, a 15-year-old shouldn't have eyes like that.
"Miss smarty skirts, like the nurse that tells daddy I shouldn't need pills. . . Daddy tells the miss smarty skirt to shut up if she wants to keep her license. Van Klies tells me I don't need my pills, and he gives me the bad people to play with!"
Her face twisted with anger and Holiday was momentarily ignorant of the danger in her shock.
"They all broke you down didn't they? Van Klies found you after you changed and built you back up how he wanted didn't he?"
In her mind Holiday saw it all. Breach wasn't protected as a child, instead she was left alone with the monsters, and a monster she became. Something in that thought made her hate herself.
Rex screamed and Holiday snapped out of it a heart beat to late, as the girl opened a portal right on top of her, and Holiday saw herself cut limb from limb before being drawn into the void.
"SAAARRRAAA!"
Holiday landed in what was once Green ville Ohio, her left hand severed at the wrist, and both her legs literally cut off at the knees. Her right hand the one Breech had to keep in the palm of her oversized hand to control the syringe was the only one still attached. Before she could scream Holiday crashed back to her command console HARD.
The visual Holiday did not look good, and the Doctor herself was close to panic.
"OKOKOK! Blood loose cauterize the stumps! NO WAIT odds of reattachment afterword if I do that?"
An alien symbol she was pretty sure meant a number in the single digits flashed in front of her.
"Well screw that! Reboot I'll put myself back together and come back to plug the leeks."
The system seemed to object with a flashing red image of her brain.
"Yea I might stroke out I get that, but it wont matter of I'm dead or a one-armed legless gimp stuck in a pocket dimension! Now FORCE RESTART!"
With a jolt to her system she wouldn't soon forget Holiday sat up in the middle of main-street Green ville. Her limbs where laying a few feet away making her crawl n their direction. The area around her was filling with the sound of animals growling, the sky filled with flashes of red light, and every nightmare Sara Holiday ever had about being alone in the dark came flooding back.
"Rex I wish you where here."
A moment later she was using a few extra hooks and clamps built into her armor mean for field repair to hold her hand and legs on. Blood leaking everywhere she scanned the area for a place to hide, and decided to hell with it.
"I'll be in a coma before a find one anyway!"
She clamped her eyes shut, and prayed to shut down.
"Come on don't make me wait five god damn minutes!"
Another jolt later she was back in the void, and the visual holiday was protesting.
"Wow low blood pressure actually brought me back faster. OK now those are wounds not stumps you can half-see the limbs so fix the damn things. . . and make it fast!"
Anther message she was able to read but to a human would be nonsense showed up.
"Crap. . . Muscles skin, and major arteries first. The bones can wait. . . .Think Sara . . . Recall all nanites to my brain first then do it and fix it all!"
2820 minutes later she sat up.
"Too long, way too long. . . "
A flat emotionless voice whispered in her ear, and she shuttered.
"You blood all went back inside, you are a new toy. "
Oh hell Rex told me all about this one. I need to get out of here I need to get back to him, because he can't fight a war alone.
"If you're a new toy you need to behave she's really angry today."
For a moment Holiday couldn't help but remember watching a vampire movie with her sister a kid. Nicole insisted Vampires are the worst kind of monster because they made other people into monsters. This girl she could tell had been in here a very long time.
"Tell me what I need to do to play nice please."
If the girl could see anything falsehood in Holidays eyes she didn't let on. The Doctor stood up, and couldn't help but hear Hippocrates ringing in her mind.
"Well now you just fight who she tells you to. When shes happier we put things in order."
God you are young enough to be mine aren't you? I'm sorry, I am so sorry but I don't have the time . .
Holiday looked at the red flashes in the sky she assumed where Breech's powers being used again and again.
"What are those lights?"
As if talking about the weather the girl turned her head to look.
"That's her."
Holiday grabbed girls head with perfect accuracy and precision. Then she snapped her neck like a twig. Her tiny body went limp, and as if trying to prevent further harm dropped to her knees coddling the girls twitching body.
"Shhhh I'm sorry I am so sorry, but . . . oh god in heaven . . . "
As if on que the portal appeared to take the now broken toy out of Breeches domain, and Sara Holiday road a dead girl back to reality.
Struggling back to her feet she saw Breech one eye swollen shut and both her upper arms bent the wrong way at the elbows. Holiday could spot a concussion when she saw one. The girl just ranted ignoring her presence.
"Broken broken her too broken. . . "
Holiday set the girl down very gently as if it still mattered.
"Breech what happened?"
"Santo Michele Arcangelo, ha gettato il diavolo dal paradiso."
Turning from the girl Holiday passed grunts in battled damaged armor sorting the dead from the injured, and noticed the Keep hovering outside a broken window. Greg Callan was getting his chest bandaged by Fell, as she passed. Fell spoke, and Callan she could see in his eyes didn't have it in him to speak.
"Hello Doctor Holiday considering my morning reading I am glad to see you. I however suggest you go to the main battlements. Your charge is there with Director Knight, and his bios are bottomed out."
As she turned to leave, Callan spoke up through broken teeth.
"Sara . . Six went down in the first wave."
She couldn't help but give that worm Fell the evil eye for making the hurt man tell her. Then she jogged off.
Holiday found White Knight in tarnished armor watching Rex trying in vain to resurrect Six. Knight flashed her a dart from his right hand, and a single tear came from her one real eye.
Unbelievably he put a hand on her shoulder and spoke.
"I pulled this from his side. Its a Botulinum type B dart. The activated neurotoxin we use to kill level one EVO's. It's fourteen times what it would have taken. I know this kid will never make it work this time, but I had to let him try."
Next: "Judgment Day"