Ash worked into the night on a huge wall panel that had a metal medium map of the capital. She had been asked by one of the City Saints to build a tracking system that could be used anywhere in the city. Which wasn’t an easy task thanks to the fact most of the city was metal. Ash was working the bugs out of the map itself first, the small bug like trackers sitting on a far table waiting to be worked on.
In the corner of the lab was a huge shape under a tarp, a protect Ash would rather be working on than this. It was about midnight when Ash heard a small ringing sound. She turned to see one of her machines, a small hummingbird, was blinking and flying around behind her. She frowned, standing up. “That’s the backyard alarm…” she picked up an arm band and slipped it on, also picking up a small pistol from the side table. She moved to the main shop, seeing her guest still asleep and moved to the back door, opening it slowly.
In the yard stood three all black humanoid bots, wearing street clothes and caps. Ash slipped outside and turned on her pistol with started up with a hum. She stepped out of the shadows and aimed the pistol. “I’m in no mood for this…leave now if you don’t want your circuits fried”