Deal with the devil

Chapter 31- plan

"But?" I try throwing his punches back to him and eventually end up falling.

"But, you can't get hurt or caught," he reaches his hand and I grab it.

"And you guys are hardly trained," he groans as if he's defeated.

"But we need it to be believable" he turns to me.

I take off my gloves and throw them on the floor.

"You're good with aim and strength, but you're not fast enough." He goes to the back of the room and fiddles with a cupboard.

He comes back with a three small knives.

He holds a leather band in his other hand and puts it in front of me.

I put the band around my thigh putting each knife in their slots.

"We have training robots, and you're gonna need to pass to go on the mission" he slowly backs out of the room.

"And what if I don't want to go on the mission?"

He doesn't say a word and he just leaves.

The room goes black but then it's full with light.

I steady myself preparing for what might happen.

Out of nowhere a human like robot comes.

It rams itself into my side shoving me into the ground.

I huff pulling myself up.

I throw punches but it doesn't work.

The robot storms at me and I have no choice but to grab the knife from my thigh and pierce through its computer screen.

The robot buzzes off and falls to the ground.

"YES!" I throw my hands in the air.

But my victory is soon ended when another bot runs into me.

Its kicks and punches me. The screen is almost haunting and the robot seems uncontrollable.

It spins and whacks me right in the face.

Fuck.

I feel my collarbone and it's cut with red liquid slipping out.

Not only am I losing, but by a fucking piece of metal.

I pick myself up and throw a punch. Then another.

The robot falls back and I can't stop hitting.

I take the second knife and stick it to the robots beck, cutting through the wires.

Its head rolls and falls next to the other robot.

I smirk awaiting the last robot.

But I was wrong.

Two more robots come charging at me and I hold the third knife in my hands.

Shit.

I twist the knife in my hands trying to dodge every punch the bots are giving me.

I'm losing again and the robots have me cornered.

"Alright Bob and Steve, I really don't want to hurt you" I say trying to calm the boys but it doesn't help.

They corner me almost suffocating me.

"Fine, no more nice guy" I say I flip myself up

I kick one of them out of the way so I can go into the centre of the room.

"Never new you had a nice guy" the cracking of a microphone fills the room.

I roll my eyes and carry on hitting in every direction.

Both come charging towards me and I have no choice but to run.

They slam into the wall behind me and I laugh.

They stand one behind each other, in front of a board.

Perfect.

I launch the third and final knife and it slices through both of them, hitting the board.

I slump down and breathe.

"Good work" he claps as he walks in the room.

"I guess I'll be seeing you in Venice" he closes the door behind him.

Bastard.

I let myself out and see Celeste at the front of the door.

I run up to her and ask if she's ok.

"Robots?" We say in unison then laugh on our way out.