Kharon Chapter 49
Kiarah is standing atop a pile of smoking robotic wreckage in the server room. Her weapons all gone except the spear-like one she always carries. She looks around her at all the destruction. “Not a bad...for robots.” She walks out of the warehouse.
Jacob, Emma, Sparky, Simone and Luke are running back to the ship. “Why are no robots coming after us?”, asks Jacob.
“Kiarah is keeping them busy.”
“Was keeping them busy”, says Kiarah now running alongside the others.
“Shit! Now we’re going to have robots on our asses!”, yells Luke.
“Nah, it’s taken care of.”
“All of them?!”, Luke blurts out in disbelief.
The whole gang is back on the bridge of the Kharon as the ship is departing The Colony. Simone though is still glowing an orange color as is Jacob and Emma now.
“We’re still tagged and we’re not out of range yet. Are you sure you took care of all the robots?’, asks Simone.
Just then an explosion erupts on The Colony and a huge fire begins burning sending plumes of smoke up in the air as towers and antennas start crumbling to the ground in the heat of the flames.
“What the hell is that?”, asks Jacob.
Emma shrugs. “You said to create a diversion.”
“When did you rig that?”
“While you were taking that shit break.”
“We could have been killed while in the pods”, cries Jacob.
“Without the robots no one is there to put out the fire. The whole island is likely to burn”, says Kiarah.
Simone stares at the view screen watching the blaze spreading across the island. “Good riddance.”
Emma sighs. “So that’s four islands we destroyed.”
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