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Chapter 12 - Chapter 12: Upgrade

"For so long we've had to rely on so called heroes to 'protect' us but ask yourselves, do they really protect us? Every time they interfere, even more lives are lost, our city is left in ruins and it's just a never ending cycle, we can't we protect ourselves? I'm not here to cause trouble or start a fight, I'm not a rogue awakener, trust me I'm better than tha—" "THEN WHAT ARE YOU?" multiple people from different areas of the crowd screamed out "I'm human just like you, but I would say I'm upgraded" Evan said as his arm was morphing into a canon….———————————————————————-At the facility, "why should they attack them, they don't seem to be doing anything wrong. It's just a broadcast, attacking them would prove them right" Percy said facing the board members on the screen. "He doesn't seem to be an Awakener and if he's made by tech...such fine tech to be bonded with a man, we've never thought of it, till now that is…" "what if they can't handle him?" "There's 10 of them Percy and there's just him, and 3 others apparently, are you going to give the order, Percy?" "No, I won't. That'd just make them no better than any other rogue" Percy insisted. "Oh Percy, a fine doctor, a fine man even but it's just your tedious conscience. We didn't want to do this, didn't think we'd have to" the screen split to 3 figures, the feed was like someone was watching them not too far from them, Percy gasped as he recognized the figures "IS THAT….are those m-my wife and kids?" "Be at ease, they aren't in danger…just under close 'supervision' we don't intend to put them in danger, unless…" "so you know, this might lead the city down the path of war, an all out war against every kind. (My wife and kids, I have to be selfless still, if they attack and it branches out into a war, we don't know what they're capable of thousands if not millions of lives will be lost, I have to do what's right, I'm sure she'd want me to or till I at least find a way to save them)" Percy thought to himself before he continued "I'm not going to give the order but I'm sure that won't stop you but please leave them out of it" Percy pleaded. "Wrong choice" the member in the middle said as the screen shutoff.

the constructs were watching the broadcast in the main room when the screen split with one side displaying the broadcast and another projected the board members, although some of them weren't completely visible. "You're all seeing the broadcast aren't you, we want you to confront them. Go and a-" the member wasn't finished talking when Bobby cut in "why are we attacking them? What do you take us for, lapdogs? They aren't even making trouble" "I agree with him, they aren't doing anything wrong, sounds like a peaceful speech, wouldn't we be in the bad light for attacking?" Steve chimed in. The member paused "we never said you had a choice in the matter, and yes C-05 we do take you for lapdogs". Bobby's had an angry glare and even more frost permeating off him, the middle member finally spoke "we said, attack" now no one questioned it, Bobby seemed to straighten up, Steve eyes looked conflicted, his mind wasn't agreeing with his body.

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Crowds of people gasped at the sight of the canon before Evan pointed it at the sky and it shot out a blast that exploded into a firework type of explosion, the crowd was cheering then suddenly a purple blast came out of nowhere towards Evan, jones dashed towards him and deflected it towards the ground which caused an explosion. As the smoke cleared up the constructs were standing on the other side of it, crowds of people were starting to back away from them, foreseeing the fight that was definitely about to break out. Chloe leapt forward towards Evan but he reacted as his boosters fired and he shot backwards with enough space for jones to get in-between and block her punch "you'll be facing me, missy" he said with the widest grin. People were now screaming and running away, a transparent dome descended and started expanding, it pushed the civilians near it backwards a then became a barrier, the civilians couldn't enter it. "Why are you attacking us?, we didn't do anything" Evan said hovering above them "we also don't know and we don't necessarily have a say in it" Steve said as he fired off multiple blasts towards Evan.

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