Here comes trouble

Cebra had been working months to penetrate the security of the Herthel military-science HQ. Through careful planning, and monitoring he managed to aquire a job as an analyst for the experimental Mag cell division. Dressed in a rather uncomfortable suit and tie Cebra fit in perfectly for months right under their nose playing the good worker. He secretly stole information to bring down the company for their illegal experiments on human subjects and dumping of toxic waste into water sources. Though he had been succesful for the most part some information he came across disturbed him somewhat. Apparently the parent company of Orion had hired a bounty hunter, they had caught on to the fact their servers were being hacked long ago.

From the files Cebra was able to tell the bounty hunter was closing in, even to the point of narrowing the search to Herthel MS-HQ. This was bad news for Cebra, he could not have simply left as it would give him away easily, but if he stayed any longer he would have surely be identified by the hunter. Cebra came up with a plan to try and place the blame on a disgruntled worker recently fired for death threats. During his scheme however Cebra catches out of the corner of his eye some peculiar looking woman with a lot of pink clothes. He looks down focusing on his task trying to look innocent as possible. When he looked up again at her another employee was talking to her shortly followed the employee pointing out Cebra. The woman in pink locked eyes with Cebra... he was made, the ruse was over, here comes trouble.

"Oh shit... this is gonna get ugly"

what might that be mister? Jeannie wondered what exactly he meant how odd. and possibly suspicious huh he looked normal enough, though.   but then again a hacker would probably be normal looking compared to the oddities she usually tracked down.

so a somewhat normal case was nice. she had spent most of the time looking on their computers and questioning the employs.

which lead her to the employ that suggested to look into the guy in front of her.  as he was new and popped up around the sam time their trouble started according to her research. coincidence maybe or he could be just a poor guy that happened to start at the same time.

hey mister are you busy? I lead to ask you some questions.  do you know anything about the hacky stuff going on?your an it guy right. so you should probably have a good idea of what's going on.
you haven't noticed anything odd people oddly staying after hours. seems like an inside job,  army places would be a trick to get into from the outside, so using a computer on the inside makes sense.

but then getting clearances and taking the files without someone noticing would be hard.  the guy I'm after seems like a real smarty pants, well not really sure if it's a guy could be a girI'd like that better chasing one of them cute spy girls from the James bond movies.

Cebra tried his best too look to busy to answer her question focusing his attention down on the computer screen. He was a little taken back never having dealt with a professional bounty hunter before in his life, even more so one so uniquely dressed. Cebra glances at her quickly trying to think up of a plausible lie as quickly as he can.

"I... I'm not, I don't think I can help you there ma'am. I'm just an analyst with this company. If you like I can find someone else to help you wi..."

Cebra notices the USB he forgot to upload to his cybernetic brain right in front of the young woman bounty hunter. He freezes for a moment hoping she doesn't see it and starts sliding his hand across the table slowly to get it

"with um, whoever it is you're looking for"

oh thank you that be most helpful Jeannie smiles and waits for him to finish what he was doing, people he can then show her where the people that could help was.

careful you don't want to forget you gadget thingy it's probably important. I think they make those to small I'm always misplacing things like that.

so where are the people that can help?
she looks around the room curiously.

Cebra stands up and points her towards the security office a few floors down

"You can take the elevator down to the fifth floor, when you get there walk down the hall to your left. It should be the third door on your left"

Cebra now sees an opportunity to use the young woman, if he can slip a tracking device on her maybe she can lead him to the Orion executive who hired her to find him. He doesn't like the idea of getting too close to the woman who's trying to catch him noticing how well armed she is but if worse came to worse he thought at least he could out run her. He wouldn't try and fight her with so many civilians around to get hurt.

oh ok then, I'll go look into that then thank you. she goes to follow his directions lets see this way that way she finds the security room hopefully the guards can be as usefully as the analyst guy.

he was helpful kinda odd though he seemed to be in a hurry must have had a lot of work to do. oh well so know she has some questions for the guards. hopefully, they can help her out with some ideas on where to go next with the investigation.

Cebra takes the next elevator down to the parking garage in the basement. He starts looking through all the vehicles searching for which one might be hers

"Hm I wish I had a clue which one of these cars is hers, well it's not like I can just up and ask her... damn"

Cebra leans against a pillar and and scans the area looking for any vehicle out of place when he notices a large figure in a long coat wandering through the cars peering in the windows. Cebra had to check this out sneaking around the sides close to the wall and coming up behind the person. When he got close he realized the persons was metallic... it was a robot. Cebra peers around the car to get a better look at the make and model.

"Looks like a personal security class, but someone must have rewired it"

Cebra whispers to himself. He might have to do something about this if the robot starts any trouble but that might give him away to the bounty hunter.

huh, the security guard had given Jeannie some tapes from their cameras to look at. after awhile she noticed something, that guy from before. he seemed to stay quite late frequently.

he did seem like the into his work type of guy. so that might not be too suspicious. huh, he did seem like he was trying to hide that drive he had. and as an analyst, he'd have access to the servers and no one would question him.

did he really go through getting a legit job here to hack them? how interesting this guy is quite the mastermind to uses such an elaborate plan. hiding in plain sight no wound the company hired her this guy is good. but no one gives her the slip, she is the universe's greatest bounty hunter. after all.

and Jeannie always gets her man even if she's more interested in girls. well time to look more into this fellow. She doesn't see him when she gets back to the office he was in. she looks around his desk. she is able to pick up his scent.

he smells funny human but kinda not something odd about him but she can't seem to put her finger on it. while she can get to his computer she decides to print a report on its history, she can compare it to the list of stolen files. if he looked at them recently it adds to her suspicions his the hacker.

she then goes to look for him. following his trail she might catch him doing something sneaky. his scent leads to the parking garage. huh whats that doing here a robot.

well it is a military place so they might do robo stuff her. being a big kid jeannie is amused by seeing the robot like somthing from transforers! and goes to get a closer look at it.

domo origato mister roboto. are you lost?did you come from one of the labs here? hey have you see guy,huh lets see she takes a note book out of her bag and draws a picture of cerba then show it to the robot.

i think he might be the hacker i suposed to catch. bet you'd like that. cause your brain is like a computer. so with him not on the loose anymoe you won't have to worry about someone poking around in your head

Cebra jumps up quickly and turns to Jeannie


"Hey! Get away from that thing it's dangerous!"

The eyes of the robot flash yellow for a second as it turns to Jeannie. With a sudden burst of aggression the robot swings it's massive bulky arm at Jeannie

whats dangerous ? Jeannie wonders what the man meant. she soon gets her answer when the robots big arm came flying at her.

lucky for her the guy warned her just in time, she ducks down and rolls under some of the parked cars to get away. she pops out from under the last car in the row.

she sees the robot's arm smashed through the first where she was standing. thanks, mister that would have hurt. huh maybe he's not the bad guy he just helps her out. huh well, she'll worry about that later. right know she has to do something about the grumpy bot before it wrecks every thing.

she peaks over the hood of the car she was behind to see what it was doing now

Cebra uses saxon energy to mold part of the car he's hiding behind into a long swor. He leaps over the vehicle and stands beside the young woman pointing his blade at the robot

"Hm well today just got annoyingly complicated, first you show up with all your questions and now this tin can is skulking around the parking garage. I sont suppose you can fight? Or are those weapons for show".

Cebra charges the robot and leaps up high slashing down on it with great force, the swing however is blocked by the robots surprisingly dense forearm. The robot flings Cebra away hitting a car with a loud crash setting the alarm off

"Ow... well that didn't go as planned"

your a alchemist? that's cool Jeannie watches amused as the man made a sword appear out of thin air.

sorry questions are part of the job, of course, i can fight that's also part of the job. Got to get rough sometimes if bounties don't want to come quietly.

she pulls her pistols from under her jacket and wonders how he knew she had them. did he have x-ray vision and could see through her clothes. he better not be a full metal perv or she might let the robo eat him.you got x-ray eyes? well no peeping especially during kill robot attacks.

his sword didn't seem to work to good, well let's see how evil robots like bullets. she opens fire on the robot while moving to the alchemist guy landed to check on him. you ok?

The robot shields itself with it's bulky arm only taking a few lightly damaging rounds to the chest.


"X-ray vision?... that's a little nineteen eighties. And I already 'peeped' your body when we met sweety"

Cebra says with an arrogant smirk. He turns his attention back to the large robot now looking towards Cebra. Now fully engaged the robot points it's arm at the two as a laser comes out of its wrist. A buzzing noise can be heard as the laser charges up and let's out a blast. Cebra quickly jumps in front of the blast taking it to the right shoulder melting and burning his flesh.

"GOD FUCKING DAMN IT!"

Cebra yells out falling to one knee, coughing blood and holding on to a car door

"THAT! HURT! Oooohhhh that was not smart, I should have just pulled you out of the way"

The robot turns his attention toward Jeannie now that Cebra is down and points it's laser charging again

Jeannie looks on annoyed that her bullets weren't having much effect huh don't suppose, the evil robot will wait here while I go get a bigger gun yup definitely need a bigger gun. where's the doom guy with a BFG when you need one.

Jeannie laughs at Cebra jokes
oh did you now? did you like what you saw? before he can answer though the robot zapped him with a laser beam. crap now it's pointing that thing at her. Jeannie thinks they need to regroup let's see how Mr. robot likes flashy bombs.
. she reaches into her pocket and tosses some batman style flash bombs at the robot. her habit of wearing sunglasses inside comes in handy as she still able to see and hurries to help cebra. putting his not shoot shoulder arm over hers letting him lean on her to help him stand.

upsy dasiy
she helps him up ok if we get to my car should be something that well with our robot problem. and a band aid or something for your shoulder. oh, it's a rental so if you can try to avoid the killer robot blow it up my insurance would appreciate it. let us go then before sparky see us.

"Don't worry about me, I'll be fine, I let my guard down too much. I think your car is the least of our worries at the moment darlin"

Cebra hurries along with Jeannie to her car narrowly dodging the laser blasts along the way. He leans head first against a pillar groaning as a silver liquid seeps from his wound covering the whole shoulder and begins repairing his flesh

"Ohhhhhh yeahhhhh, that's feeling good"

He say's with a deep sigh

The robot starts to close in on the two slamming cars out of it's way like a bulldozer. It's laser was charged and ready to fire.