A BORG's struggle

Nu-Rho 96 wondered what had she done to earn the displeasure of the Machine God while around her USA soldiers made use of their power armors for tasks they were likely designed. Carry supplies to the shuttles that would then be transported to the ships in orbit for the deployement to Adumbria and likely beyond.

Nu-Rho 96 made a show of consulting the dataslate in front of her even if her augmetics made the gesture redundant when she could consult the lists with little more than a thought but the people in front of her probably needed it.

"No Jokh, you are not allowed to take your favorite log with you."

She explained with as much patience as she could muster to the soldier who carried a wooden log two feet long and nearly as wide on one armored hand.

"Why not? It's my lucky log! You are letting Adhara take her horse with her!"

"No I am not" replied Nu-Rho 96 as one of her mechadendrites shoot out from her hack to grab a female soldier who tried to silently get the animal into the shuttle "Adhara, you are not allowed to take the horse with you."

"How is that fair?! I saw one of the purple ladies carry a snake aboard a shuttle and Media told me one of the blue clerks carried a bird with him when he embarked!"

"That..." another mechadendrite shoot out and grabbed Jokh who though Nu-Rho had forgotten about him "That is not my problem, they are in charge of the Deltas, these shuttles are for essentials only."

"Nedra..." "My log..." both soldiers looked at each other and nodded "... is essential to me."

"This shuttle is for foodstuff and ammunation only!"

"I could throw my log pretty hard and we could eat Adhara's horse if we..."

Jokh was silenced by an armored hand slaping the back of his head, there was an unsettling crack coming from his neck but his armor immediately injected him with a dosis of Panacea while the neneck of his armor tightened and realigned his vertebrae.

"We will be eating you before we touch a hair of Cedra's mane!"

Nu-Rho 96 spoke before Jokh could open his mouth.

"We are not eating anyone! That is why we are stocking provisions! Where do you even got that thing Adhara?"

"It was my former boss'. He said one of her parents was a Krugger..."

"Krieger..." commented a passing soldier carrying a large box over their shoulder.

"One of his parents was a Krugger horse" Adhara repeated in the soldier's direction "that makes Cedra a warhorse and we are going to war!"

"First off this is no war yet" Nu-Rho yanked Jokh that again tried to sneak away with his log "so we don't need any kind of horse! Take him..."

"Cedra is a lady!"

"A lady or a warhorse pic..."

Another slap to the back of his head silenced him even if this time the slap didn't seem to breack anything.

"Why isn't the animal in the zoo?"

"Cedra is a warrior so she joined the USA!"

Nu-Rho looked pointedly at the placid beast that was calmly standing beside Adhara then at the two headaches before looking at something behind them and she felt the machine that replaced her stomach drop.

Half a dozen of soldiers in armor, each carrying cargo that was definitely not approved.

"If they can..." started the one at the front.

"No they can't and even if they did you are not going to take a piano with you Myra!"