Chapter 12: Grey Strikes

It's been nearly a week since Axle checked out of the hospital and nearly 2 since he came out of rehab. Carly found all his knives and took them away from him, leaving him in tears. He adored those knives so losing them was like losing part of his soul. Not only did that happen, a certain general grew more impatient with each passing day. He was getting tired of waiting to catch Carly unexpectedly so he was going to have to use a more direct approach.

"I'm done waiting. Men, go get Eight Thirty One... And use extreme prejudice." Grey ordered as he finally lost it. He watched as his troops gathered around to move out. It may have been overkill but Carly was designed to be a killing machine capable of taking down armies.

"A hundred and fifty men? General, don't you think that's a bit excessive?" One of the computer operators asked as he also noticed how the amount of soldiers were overkill as well. "He's right sir." Stone added wondering why Grey was being reckless now.

"Eight Thirty One is dangerous and it could've taken out the squad you sent in with ease. You're lucky that only one died." Grey told Stone reminding him of his failure from over a month ago.

"Well sir, Eight Thirty One wasn't the cause of Spike Green's death." Thompson spoke up telling the general of how they lost their soldier that night. "A civilian killed him using two knives. Used one to stab his heart and the other to slit his jugular." Grey was shocked to be honest.

"What's the name of this guy?" The general asked as he was shocked by this information. A civilian took down one of Thompson's best men.

"Axle Ryder." Thompson answered the general.

"Look up everything you can on this guy!" Grey ordered. "Done and done General. Axle Ryder is a seventeen year old gamer that has no friends at all. Suicidal, loner and he's home alone most of the time." The same hacker from before said as he read out Axle's information.

"This is perfect General. With this guy's background, he'd make a great addition to the experiments as Eight Thirty Two." The hacker smiled a devious smirk.

"Stone!! Go tell all those meat heads to capture the guy who's with Eight Thirty One too."  The mad general had ordered.

"Sir yes Sir!" Stone saluted before marching off.

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"You lose." Carly said before Axle shrieked in pain. "Axle, you knew about my strength before I told you I was a bot. Why did you even challenge me?" The girl asked wondering why Axle had been so reckless with his body as of late.

"I wanted to see how tough you are. I just didn't think I'd get pinned in less than a second." Axle groaned as he got up, still in pain. His body aching from what Carly had done.

"You're still healing. Just because your stitches are out and that you're done with rehab doesn't mean you can do whatever you want yet." Carly said as she help Axle get to the bed.

"Okay doc, you don't need to stress over it." Axle smiled as he found this side of Carly amusing. "Why are you smiling?" Carly asked since she was wondering why the boy had been smiling so much.

"I got a cute nurse by my side." He muttered in a silent whisper. "Go nurse yourself you idiot." Carly told him while flicking his forehead. She laughed as she watched the look of shock on his face. "In case you forgot, I can read lip."

"Oh wait, and I can hear the most silent of your whispers." Carly took pride in saying that because those words drained the colour out of him.

"Looks like I can't hide anything from you." Axle said smiling once more. "Yeah, you ca-" Carly said before doing silent. She had a blank stare on her face. Axle watched as she got up and stared out the window. He was confused by her actions and wondered if the family was in danger or something.

"Carly, what's wrong?" Axle asked as he got worried. Unknown to him, Carly was using her eyes to look out to a very far distance. She saw a troop of soldiers and three of those soldiers had RPGs.

"RPGs, Axle, get out of the house!!" She yelled. Axle's eyes grew wide. He didn't even need an explanation to know that the military was trying to get Carly again. He knew the threat was immediate so he ran into the living room first, "Get the hell out, the army's about to blow the house up with RPGs!!"

The three looked at him with odd stares. "Why are you guys still in here? We have to get out now!" Carly yelled as she made it in and was on her way out.

"Nice try Axle." Laura said before she going back to reading her book which Axle knocked out of her hands. "This isn't a joke you fucking idiots!! If we don't leave now we're gonna be blown sky high!!" Axle's facial expression and tone of voice was enough to show his parents that he wasn't joking.

"Laura, get out!!" Melanie yelled before they all ran out.

Once everyone was out, Laura looked at Axle and Carly and asked with her great level of skepticism, "Wow... where's the explosion?" And on cue, the house did explode. "Holy shit!!" Laura yelled as she looked at the house. Nick and Melanie dropped down and Laura was the next to fall.

Carly noticed something on their necks. "Tranquilizer darts, Axle look ou-!!" the android yelled but was cut off as she dropped down to the ground as well. "Carly!!" Axle yelled out as he rushed to her side but was knocked out as well. Before he fell, he pulled a strange object from his neck before dropping down to the before passing out.

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