Taking Out The Trash

"Billy," Fast Eddie said. "You need to take a look at this."

Billy put down the glass and walked over to the monitor. A large garbage truck was slowly coming down the road towards the dump. Maybe nothing, maybe something.



"What do you think?" Eddie asked.

"Where's Klint and Sooze?" Billy replied.

Eddie scanned the yard with the monitor.
"Klint's near the gate. Can't find Sooze."

Billy grabbed his BAP. "Billingsgate, you stay put. Bent..."
The muscular woman nodded. "Just finished cleaning my gun."

The three went outside.Maybe nothing, maybe something.

The truck turned the corner and entered the yard. As the truck got closer the driver did a quick scan. He counted four. That left two unaccounted for. He stopped the truck and rapped three times on the back of the cab.

"Go time gentlemen," one of the men in the rear of the truck said. The door in the back popped open and the four burst out as the air was filled with small arms fire.




Klint had been rummaging through the piles of junk that lay about the yard. He enjoyed doing that or rather, would have enjoyed it, if he could feel. Klint was a refurbished security bot that Professor Billingsgate had reclaimed from the junk heap when all the thread bots were decommissioned on Cestus V. So when the Professor fell in with Billy it was logical that Klint would tag along. That's how Klint found himself in the junk yard when the SWAT team exited from the back of the truck. Klint fired and the lead operative went down. The next three targeted Klint and began to return fire.



Meanwhile in the front of the truck Billy, Fast Eddie, and Bent had opened fire on the SWAT driver who ducked for cover.

Sooze heard the gunfire and sprinted to behind a bulldozer and peered out. Billy, Bent, and Fast Eddie were now in a firefight with three uniformed enemies while Klint was standing straight up sparks flashing all about.

Sooze saw one of the gunmen circling around behind the truck towards her and she quickly ducked into a drainage pipe. Holding her breath she hoped that the gunman hadn't seen her.





Bent fired off three rounds then swore as her gun jammed. The three heavily armed gunmen fired in short bursts moving in military fashion.
Fast Eddie went down then Billy was hit. The last thing he remembered was seeing a darkly dressed masked man stop in from of him and felt the rifle butt against his head.
By now Bent had ducked behind a length of pipe and was feverishly trying to clear the jam.
"Click, click".
Looking up she saw two gunmen with guns raised facing her. She dropped her weapon and interlocking her fingers behind her head she stood up.
Within minutes the gunmen had rounded up Bent, Fast Eddie, Billy Pink and Professor Billingsgate and forced them into the truck. One gunman had taken Klint's power pack. He could be picked up later if need be.



"What about the other girl?" someone asked.

"I'm not about to go down that drain pipe but you can go if you like." replied the Lt. "Besdies, we got who we came for.