Final Negotiations

Dubois waited as the docking bay filled with combat robots. He'd seen them before, a type of front line soldier that Morlatech used. They were an unholy combination of man and machine, technically they were people, imbued with the soul of some poorer person that had taken the ultimate deal in living forever, but Dubois had never known the machines to have much of a will, they always just followed orders and were very much machine and not man. There were twenty of them when they finished coming up the way. Dubois shifted his feet and held up a hand, the lead machine came forward and a holographic display showed Director Wix.

"Stand aside shop keeper." Dubois chuckled to himself, he had been called many things in his life, never that.

"This station is under my protection Director, you were supposed to come here to negotiate, instead I see war machines, did you come to make war?" Dubois had his left hand on his pistol, the polished wood grip always felt good when he was about to do bad, his right hand had drifted to his spare ammunition as it always did right before it was time for killing.

"You have an old implant, and a simple slug throwing pistol, you couldn't even harm one of my bots, let alone all of them, stand aside I don't want to have to..." Dubois drew fast, the warbot that was displaying Wix didn't even raise its own weapon before he had holed the creature. This was the sign for the rest of the Mordere's to drop their optical camo and unleash destruction. The "combat" as it were lasted a few seconds, the bots fell to the station deck weapons unused. Dubois and his people had killed them before, they knew they'd kill them again. Wix attempted to leave, but Dubois had made sure to tell the dock supervisor to lock his craft down upon entry.

"Mr. Wix." The door locks had provided no difficulty for the old assassin, he had a program that could cut just about any electronic lock. The director attempted to grab a back up rifle in the cabin, but he was no fighter, and his reflexes were slow the bullet took his arm off at the shoulder, a side effect of the explosive rounds he was using to kill the bots.

"They'll come for me." Dubois shook his head.

"Doubtful Mr. Wix, no you'll be wrote off as a lone crazy who had gone to war for no reason, corporate policy. And Mr. Morley I know you will be listening so hear me and know I speak for my order, we have not forgotten, we have not forgiven." When Dubois finished talking he put a final bullet into Wix's head and the man was no more. Behind him the Mordere's loaded an explosive device into the shuttle and Dubois worked the controls to return the ship to the warship. Dubois exited the vehicle and waved to the dock supervisor to send the ship off. Upon it's return it exploded and destroyed the Morlatech warship. Brubaker rushed down to the docking ring as the Mordere's were picking over the remains of the warbots.

"Some negotiation."

"We are efficient General Brubaker."

"I'm a Colonel."

"Not for much longer I figure, we're done here, no cost necessary our reward will come from a higher power and no not your government." The Mordere's as fast as they had arrived left a day later, their "vacation" over, it was all good for Brubaker because in the wake of the incident at Rim shit hit the fan on a major scale.