Antag sneered at the visage of Protag on the flat screen as he talked to the reporters announcing his survival from the attack; R0-RY’s stood next to her father arms folded.
R0-RY
That hydrogen missile should have destroyed the entire block!
ANTAG
You have grossly underestimated the strength of a typical force field.
R0-RY
I’ll make it up to you.
ANTAG
You shall hope so!
Antag stood up from his throne towering over R0-RY, with visor beaming blood red.
ANTAG
Daughter or not, resurrection or not, this is your first strike, make no mistake, I will have your head upon the third!
R0-RY seized up then started to cry.
ANTAG
Do not get weak on me!
R0-RY
My whole span I have wanted nothing more than to be threatened by you, that was beautiful.
ANTAG
Pathetic.
R0-RY
Don’t make me blush.
While Protag spoke to the reporters, Lu-Na and the rest of the bots from the campaign team had already begun digging through the rubble. Tygra, Le-Thario’s orange and black striped Monster Hover Truck landed next to the excavation, Le-Thario leaped out arms waving.
LE-THARIO
Stop right now unless you wanna get em’ killed!
He played Lu-Na Arch-Ie’s message then she recited it to Protag as soon as he broke from the reporters.
LU-NA
Arch-Ie was able to get a feed out to Le-Thario, the upper structure has been blasted in such a way that if we keep digging downward he and Syd could be crushed.
LE-THARIO
He cut out before I could hear anything else.
LU-NA
What can we do?
Protag scanned the area , campaign headquarters was dead center of Ultra-City so many business were shut down, busses were blocked, the subway was even closed off…
PROTAG
How deep and how low does the subway go?
LE-THARIO
This isn’t the time for riddles man!
PROTAG
I think I have a way to get to my son!
Hugh was in the delivery room with KVXIV as she struggled in the stirrups giving birth to their child.
HUGH MANN
Just push Vee, I know you can do this!
KVXIV
Pain censors too great to turn off, I would kill to be a basic model right now. AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Her screech was enough to shatter glass but was also enough to bring the first-born human-cyborg hybrid into the world, weighing a healthy eight pounds twelve ounces.
NURSE-BOT
It’s a boy!
The nurse-bots cleaned the blue and silver liquid off of him, he appeared as normal human baby save for the metallic coil umbilical chord that snapped into his stomach through the hole that was now his belly button. The baby cried as it was brought to his mother. KVXIV could hear him in her mind.
BABY
Cold, cold, I cannot see, where am I, where am I, where am I….
KVXIV
Hush calm down, you are new so you are afraid when you need not be.
BABY
Mother!?
KVXIV
Yes, now slow down and receive my thoughts.
KVXIV beamed initial information into her son, what he was, who his family was, where he was in regards to time, history and space all of it would be intense for a human child but was nothing to the mind of this hybrid, when she was finished he fell asleep now knowing how to shut off and rest at will. The Nurse-Bots took him away, KVXIV called out after them.
KVXIV
He wishes to be called Or-I-on.
The Nurse-Bot nodded wheeling out of the delivery room with her charge. Hugh was on his knees in stark amazement at what he just witnessed.
HUGH MANN
You spoke to him, in your, your mind?
KVXIV
And he is thankfully a very pleasant personality. He was a tad disconcerted that he could not link to you in the same way, but he is excited to meet you after his nap.
HUGH MANN
Same here.
KVXIV
Hugh, be honest with me. Now that our son has been delivered I can sense everyone connected to the Archy-web, they are all in immense emotional pain or turmoil. What has happened to our family?
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