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Hans had been planning this for weeks now. This was the perfect time… and he couldn’t take it anymore.The Hammers were a mechanized mercenary group; known for their robot vehicles. They were very skilled and knowledgeable. Over his time with them, however, he had discovered that their… lets call it customer relations and community outreach… was less than stellar. In fact, it was deplorable. They stole from towns that they encountered along the way, they betrayed their employers if offered enough credits, and they found entertainment with unwilling participants. Hans himself had never participated in any of it. He never spent time with the others in the company; instead choosing to surround himself with the machines, but now, he could no longer turn a blind eye to their activities. He had found an impressionable DB. Alecto, their newest recruit. A blank slate. She needed to be taken away from this place before they corrupted her. Castle Refuge was only a short distance away. They may not accept him due to his connections with the Hammers, but Alecto needed to be taken away from them.
Knowing which machines would be put on watch tonight, he had scheduled some maintenance on their sensor suite. The others, well, he introduced some technical difficulties into their control systems. If they tried to get the robots to walk tonight, they would just sit down and would take hours to get moving again. The Hammers had gotten used to Hans’s meticulous work, and had gotten into the habit of depending on their robots for everything. They no longer used unembarked watchmen to assist the robot pilots in guard duty.
Hans grabbed Alecto on the way. They had discussed the possibility of this escape over the last couple days. Her questions revealed that she was not happy with the Hammers, but Hans knew that they wouldn’t let her just quit. For that matter, he knew that he would never be allowed to quit. They would hunt down any “Deserters”. Disabling the robots was the only way to escape. Hopefully a couple others who were not happy with the Hammers would take the opportunity to leave too. Activating his Quantum Resonance Translocator, they were able to get past a good distance away before they were even discovered to be missing.
Quickly, they discovered the work he did on the sensors of the robots on guard duty. They fired up the TR-001’s. Their BIG guns. They were out for blood. The floodlights came on as it stood up. When the pilots tried to get it to walk in order to get in range to blow them out of existence, the robots just sat down and froze in position. Their loudspeakers then kicked in at full volume with Hans’s final message to them.
“You are an armored company. You have just pissed off your BEST technician and repairman. Now you just tried to send out the same robots that he has been maintaining for you after him. It would take a special type of STUPID for him to not make sure that those same robots could not be sent after him. It should take Gregory most of the night to get the first of the robots working again, and by then we should be long gone. If I see you again, I will get creative with what I will do to your precious robots and leave them so that there is no way that Gregory will every get them working again. You don’t know all of my tricks. You don’t want to.”
Off in the distance, Hans smirking at Alecto indicated a direction. “In that way is Castle Refuge. They will take us in and help us. The Hammers won’t be bothering us for a while, but when they do find us again, I want to have some friends at our backs. Lets go.”
Victory.
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