Chapter 11: Lots of birds with one bomb

"Sire, I shall stop you half a kilometre from where the rebels are. I assume you can make your way to where they are and back right?" The driver asked

"Yes, although there are quite a few Vexus seems to want none of them alive. Well makes life easy for me so it should not take long." I said

"Okay sire, I shall see you back at the palace then."

The car suddenly stopped and I found my self stepping onto a rooftop. I was wondering what was going on because all my targets were in one concentrated area, perhaps it was a meeting of sorts for a large rebellion. I did not know what it was, though was I did know is that all of them had to die.

I had secretly been working on a little bomb that I had been wanting to use, it was a normal fragmentation grenade but the shrapnel was super-heated in the explosion causing it to go through the metal body of a lot of people at once. The effective blast radius against heavy armour was ten feet, including the shrapnel. Though these did not seem to be wearing much armour so I expected the radius to be larger.

There were about forty two of them and I knew that once the first 'nade blew up it would be hell to kill them all. My scanners detected that the total area was thirty five square feet. I got out four of the nades just to be sure. I pulled the pin of two of them and threw them one at the back and another at the front, soon at those left my hands I got the other two and threw them in the centre of the crowd.

What happened was what I expected, but more horrendous. The initial explosions caused the unlucky ones to pretty much disintegrate into nothing while the shrapnel went through most of the others, the closer ones being torn apart with large holes in them showing loose wires, dangling hardware and internal components. There was also a lot of oil and hydraulic fluid leaking out of them that eventually caught fire due to the heated fragments. The ones that survived were too horribly disfigured to have much chance of survival.

Yet I had to end this, I got my trusted modified Beretta M107. I loaded it with the 'heavy' rounds and took out the remaining ones, anything that had any vital systems still functioning my scanner picked it up and my rifle put them down.

Afterwards I have out a sigh of relief to know that now most of my work was done, it felt odd though how convenient it was but these days if something was easy it would catch my eye considering the hardships the other's give me here. I slung my sniper on my shoulder and locked it in place. I started making my way back to the palace until I felt something hard hitting me, I started to fall.

With a quick swing backwards I got my self in an upright position and threw my grapple hook to the ledge. It snagged on something and sent me flying into the window to the building in front of me. I crashed into the window and found my self in a room with a red carpet and some furniture made out of wood. It was lit up mostly by the sun, there was an old fire place in it but this place was dilapidated as the paint was flaking off and the wood was old and worn.

I brushed off the glass and knew that the rooftops were no place for me to be with a sniper on my ass, hopefully they would think that I fell to my death. I opened my communicator and found the driver. I called him and was greeted.

"Hello sire, I assume you need a lift and are in trouble."

"Well yeah, how'd ya know?"

"Well there is no other reason why you would call me I believe."

"True, anyway give me an ETA"

"One minute"

It cut and I waited in the room, I drew my scythe and awaited anyone to burst through the door or windows. Though no one came through, I gladly jumped into the car when it came to pick me up.

"Congratulations on a job well done. I can see that you made short work of them in a small time gap considering the fact that they are all there."

"What ever, let's just get back."

I felt that old feeling again, after a big killing spree. It was not blood lust, it was total disgust. By killing these I broke my number one rule. 'Do not kill unless provoked.' I had sworn to abide to that one rule. Well at least now it should come to a stop, Vexus shall pass down the crown to her daughter, I'll get my upgrade and leave for Earth. If Vexus did not abide to her part of the deal death will be paradise after I would be done with her...

Back at the palace (Third person view)

"So XJ 9 what is it that you wish to talk to me about?" Vexus asked

"Okay what are you up to? There's no way you'd let humans to prime unless you were to enslave them." Jenny said with great suspicion.

"Well I'm up to saving my daughter my hordes of ruthless bastards that want her dead." She replied calmly

"So you don't have anything planned for me or my friends?"

"Well 'cept for Rick not at all."

"How do I know you're gonna keep your word?"

"Because, Rick said in my face that he would slaughter me if I touched any of you. Also my plans for Rick are to give him his upgrade when he comes back. They shall implant better muscle fibres and increase the strength of his bones by replacing them with our latest "Plasma steel" we have tested it out and the lowest grade of that is two hundred seventy nine percent more efficient than the highest grade of clustersteel. We are going to implant the highest grade of Plasma steel to replace the current clustersteel that he has."

"Wow, what did he say to this?"

"He said he would go with it, no strings attached at all. It's my personal way of saying thank you for saving my daughter from any more dramatic and heinous experiences. The money and villa are there as normal payment and the fact that he is a high noble."

"That's not like him at all."

"Well why would he refuse to becoming better? He can't reverse what happened to him so why not accept anything better?"

"I guess you have a point"

Some one screamed as Vexus was about to say something, though due to Jenny's programming her instincts took over and dashed out of the room.

"IT'S HORRIBLE!" screamed the robot

"What? What's going on?" Jenny asked

"I was on my way here and I passed by the slum's square as it is a shortcut and it has been massacred. There's fire and death everywhere but the rest of the area is un touched."

"What!" Jenny said, shocked at how such a thing could happen

(First person view)

I arrived at the palace and heard that something was going on, there was a robot and it was screaming about what happened. I had no clue that anyone passed through there, I also knew that I would be fucked if anyone else saw me. So I was sprinting off to my room until I heard a familiar voice.

"YOU! STOP NOW!" shouted Jenny

"fuck fuck fuck fuck" I swore, I stopped and looked to meet Jenny

"Look! Today was meant to be a big day for a friend of mine, you dare to come and ruin it?"

"I am the one that you're celebrating today" I mumbled

"R...Rick?"

"Ask Vexus about it, also I don't feel good about doing this but hey. Orders are orders, a few deaths for regal security is worth it. If Vega was to be assassinated then people would loose faith and break away. She also has a great plan for when she comes to power. One that would make this empire a union and peace will exist. I say that this was worth it, I am sorry Jen. It makes me sick to do this but it is a must."

"You're not the teenager I knew..."

"You never found out who I was or what my past was like. So you never really knew me from the start, we only stayed together for about three days until I got caught up in this mess." I replied and walked off to clean up

"Yo! Rick!" I heard Brad calling

"No Brad, don't go near him. I'll tell you everything that happened" Jenny said with a sad tone

"I know what happened, I over heard you two. If what Rick says is true then we don't have to ever worry about the cluster coming to attack us again! Also from what they said that is the last killing spree there shall be because those were all of the rebel robots who wanted to go against Vega. Trust me Jen, it was for the best" Brad reassured her

I looked back and saw that he had facial hair, I completely forgot how much time had passed from when I first saw that face while I was hardly concious and being dragged off to the nurse.

I also heard Tuck "Holy snaps! Rick you really gotta show me all of your super cool stuff some time!" he said in his energetic and somewhat over-eccentric voice

"Guys, I think we have to leave Rick for a bit. He obviously did not liked to do what he just did so let's give him some time collect his thoughts." I heard an old woman saying with a familiar heavy accent.

"Thank you Mrs. Wakeman" I said and closed the doors of my room.

AN: Hey guys, sorry for the wait but I have a job now so it's going to be a bit hard to enter more chapters. As you can see things are starting to come to an end but I promise I shall not leave a plot hole and give you guys a proper ending. Each character will have an ending so I don't want you to say "But what happened to Tuck?" or something like that.

Anyway I thank you for all your patience but it's not over yet! I shall still try and make room for the story in my mix of work, games and anime with my social life also involved.

Again, thank you for reading. I hope you guys enjoy reading much as I do writing!