Chapter 79/Resistance/Why couldn't you die ten minutes ago?

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/Front seat of Toyota Prius/Somewhere on the eastern seaboard

ARENEA'S POV( POINT OF VIEW)

I remembered watching it happen from the stealth boat in the boat house. She was running from him. Then he appears moving as fast as a cyborg can. He deliberately moves between the gun and her. Why do that? Why did Rockwood sacrifice his flesh body for that of a slave? Unless she's special.

I see it! Rockwood is such a genius. He finds a poorly trained slave. One that shouldn't even be in the program to begin with, a malfunction. Someone who, unlike all the others doesn't break and doesn't end up knowing the first law, let alone obeying it. I knew somebody was protecting her all the way through the Factory training it must have been him. He knows Humbolt was experimenting on her. And then he makes that ridiculous bid for her.

He isolates her, he keeps her away from the other slaves, trains her in secret. Makes sure their obedience doesn't infect her. Her only regular contact is an infiltrator. Then he parades her as a cute near feral slave. She goes round, ha ha hah yes, I can't even remember when to put master at the end of a sentence aren't I adorable and stupid? Then secretly train her, convince her that he loves her and she loves him. To control her without breaking her spirit - clever. Eventually, she will do anything to protect him. Did he kill Kijo as a way of buying her loyalty -? 'I've killed for you, why don't you kill for me?'. He was grooming her. She looked at me like she was constantly figuring out ways to kill me one drop in concentration I would be dead.

So he has the ultimate cyborg assassin. Totally invisible, hiding in plain sight. God I so love his brilliance, I could just see her cheerfully injecting poison into the CPUs blood supply over drinks for him. That would be so Rockwood, not satisfied with being the prime backup he's waiting for the right opportunity to take over the New Mechanical Order. Total dictatorship under his rule, cyborgs running the whole show. With his personal assassin by his side, he could strike any AI or any cyborg on the council who stands against him. This is why Zola wants her. Brilliant masterstroke neutralises one weapon and gain it yourself.

If I could contact an AI like Wintermute then perhaps I could set up a bit of a black bidding war for the cyborg's personal assassin. After all, she offered Rockwood 20,000 bit coins for her, but how much is the future of the New Mechanical Order worth? I could be rich, have an army of blood slaves, a huge mansion in Washington 2.0, a harem full of men and a lavish punishment dungeon full of the best slave punishment gear. See what the other ex-military hunter killers would think when they came round.

"Are were there yet?" said the ultimate cyborg assassination weapon. 

#Jenny's POV.

'Price of a RV $24,500, Price of a top of the  line trained personal slave 280 bit coins, price of one months supply of blood for a hunter killer 5 bit coins, price of watching the whole thing drive off into the distance driven by a human slave who is escaping to freedom, priceless'. I thought

"I said. Are we there yet?" I said again - she's a machine of oppression why should I go easy on her?

We had been traveling for five days since my 'slave jacking'. The car wasn't traveling fast about 40 mph. It's was like we were in some cross country snail race. Araneae did this to confused the satellites or she had a pathological fear of high-velocity impacts. After just-read-the-instructions escape to extreme sulky non-presence, Araneae had managed to kick start another car in the parking lot. It was a hybrid  without sentient cruise control. It hadn't driven around on a killing rampage at the apocalypse and so it still had gas. Later we found a trailer with solar panels to charge the batteries and took off leaving the sabre tooth offal to feed wild dogs, wild cats and wild bees for all I knew.

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