Intermission II

Riley gasp for air on her knees regaining composure as the Android finely rips the rest of the electric bubblegum from its face and hands, Riley lunges for her green blade prepping it as the android lunges for her. He falls short though and freezes over her his green eyes flickering and grimacing face becoming slack-jawed. Riley looked over the shoulder of the robot to see Ivo with a USB plugged into the back of the android's head, he wore an angry mask painted with red highlights.  The eyes finally flickered red and he pulled out the cord.

"Ya done?" Riley said with a cheerful chortle.

"Done and done." Ivo said running over his program's script.

"Good."  With a swift slice, Riley cut through the android's head turning it into a pile of slime sizzling on the ground.

"I fuckin hate androids." She mimes spitting adding a simulated sound so as to not spit in her mask on the Android as she walked over to Ivo.

"An you, what made you feel id enjoy a disappearing act." She poked Ivo sternly in the chest like a mother hen.

"Sorry luv, there were only three readings that were fooled by the program so I had to write a new one on the fly, but he had to be in visual contact for it to work."

"Mmhmm, better late than never." She raised his mask and hers and kissed him on the cheek.

"Thanks for the save."

"No problem." Ivo quickly pulled his mask down to hide the flush red his cheeks had become.

"Now for the jerks inside, this was a personal upgrade so there's most likely an ether tech user nearby, be careful."

"Aye, aye captain." Riley gave him a hardy salute before picking up her other blade and sheathing them both.

"And you remember, humans get non-lethals babe." Riley reaches into her backpack and pulls a long Nerf bat from it, two slots filled with sparkling green and blue jewels sat in a line one at the top and the other on the bottom of the bat, the bat itself was white with pink, green, and blue lines spiraling from top to bottom.

"You know no one inside will be following that rule." Ivo said grimacing under his mask. Riley spun on her heels marching her way towards the door of the warehouse.

"That's why we aren't the people inside!" She cheerfully answered back approaching the door stopping in front of it and raising her hand to knock.

"Wait!" Riley turns to look at Ivo.

"I gotta plan."

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A knock comes at the door the four thugs at the table paused their game of cards and turned to look at where the sound came from.

"I'm not fucking getting it." A heavy-set guard said ashing a cigar with his augmented arm and bringing it to his lips.

"Me neither, it's probably one of those fucken creepy ass Bots, with a dumb ass question, plus I don't have internal heaten like you fucks." Another thug spat out, a thinner stringy built man, rubbing his hands together after nursing a glass of synthetic whisky.

"Loser gets it." The biggest thug's voice was gruff and low, it prompted the other two to look at the youngest of the group who was still looking over his cards with worried eyes. A moment or two passes before another knock comes from behind them at the door. The young one with optic augmentation scanned his cards intensely while biting his thumb.

"Tommy!" The three older thugs called to him breaking his attention and slightly startling him making him jump out of his chair.

"Y-yes sirs?!" The boy stumbled over his few words trembling where he stood. The three guards exchange looks for a moment before the biggest one spoke.

"Get the door."

"The door?" Another set of knocks spooked Tommy making him jump and turn towards it. The other three guards laughed at each other.

"Well go on." The heavy-set guard said reaching over to take Tommys' remaining chips as the other two snickered.

"B-but what if it's one of those fucken bots?" Tommy said with a shiver also lacking internal heating.

"That's why you're answering it, now hurry up." The gruff voice scared Tommy more than the skin-tight face currently knocking prompting him to quickly step away from the table and over to the door.

As Tommy opens it he was first met with a blast of cold air and a slight gust of snowflakes from outside, as his eyes adjusted to the temp and light he saw a woman standing in the cold, long green and aqua hair framed a masked face. Tommy blinked a couple of more times before he really took in the image, the woman had two Ether orbs twirling around her head one light blue the other light fluorescent green. The most shocking part about this woman was that she was completely nude, the snowflakes had gathered on her head and shoulders from standing so long, Tommy gawked at her curvy form pale and without a stitch of clothes head to toe.

"It's cold." A sweet voice from behind the mask said. Tommy shook from his daze and stepped to the side.

"Of course come in, come in."

"Come in! I know you ain't tellen one of those-" the skinny thug's voice cut short when his eyes fell on the beautiful figure now in the room.

"Guys, what's this?" The other two became less preoccupied and looked over at the door, jaws dropped and eyes widen in disbelief. Tommy escorted the lady closer to the card game where the light was better, she had been standing there for a while so frost clung to her skin and snow sat on her shoulders and hair.

"What's the matter sweety no internal heating?" Right as the chubby guard finished his statement a hissing noise filled the room along with a slow build-up of steam, the frost and snow on the young lady's body began to melt soon she stood dripping wet in a puddle of water.