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" Oh dont worry dear brother i wouldnt dream of laying a scratch on thanatos or your cargo " Kaliska said through the connection as the black lotus lifted and lowered the cargo carefully on top of thanatos back." See not even a scratch ".

Black Lotus removed her blades and lowered them " Yes lets hope, say maybe on the way we can discuss more on this Ai Topic....as much as a pain it could be...i think Black Lotus at this point deserves a voice...after all she has been able to deal with me thus far so...that should be more then reason enough to give that too her ".

The truck came to a slow stop near a large rock pile. Ten minutes late! But the guy she was supposed to meet wasn't there yet either! Yay, good news! Audrey put the car in park and turned to her sleeping companion. They had been on the road for a while now and he was fast asleep.

"Hey." She poked him. "Hey," she poked him again. "OI! Wakey, wakey!" She yelled, jabbing him. Mine finally woke up a little disoriented.


Fiberglass stirred from his standby mode for a moment before going back into it.

"Wh-dyu poke s-hard?" he mumbled, slurring his words a bit.

"We're here. The guy's not here yet...or girl. We still have a bit of a drive, so I might as well get some shuteye. Keep an eye out for me, okay, Sleeping Beauty?"

"Yeah, yeah," he grumbled, crossing his arms.

Audrey readjusted herself in her seat and closed her eyes.

'' Riight... '' Jericho said, then looked at his own radar '' Bring it on screen Thanatos '' he told him. Thanatos brought the video feed on the main sreen and ping poited the location of the vicule '' magnify '' Jericho said. Thanatos scanned the area around the truck and zoomed in so Jericho could have a better look at it '' More '' he said, Thanatos scanned and zoomed again. After examinating it Jericho returned his attention to kaliska '' Seem like they are tradders as well, i say we do a quick stop to see what they have in their truck '' he said in the radio as they moved toward their location.

Mike's head bobbed up and down as he fought off an approaching sleep. He warm sun made the large delivery truck a little stuffy, which made keeping his eyes open very hard. The truck itself was white with black trim. "BBM was written on both sides with big, blue letters, their trademark initials. It was one of their smaller delivery trucks, not like the wide haul and semis they use for the larger mechs.

In the back of the seats, Fiberglass's yellow rings began to glow and a small glow appeared from the center. It moved around as he looked at his surroundings. It was a slow wake-up from standby mode, but something set him off. He felt a vibration from the floor of the truck, though they were not moving. Instead, something was approaching.

"WRRaaawRR!" he whined.

Mike jerked up a little startled at the sudden high pitch noise. He let out and extended yawn as he looked around before checking the side mirrors. His hand shot out and smacked Audrey on the arm. She grunted and reluctantly opened her eyes, not too happy at being woken up by a hard hit.

"We got company."

"Haaa-" She yawned and stretched her back before she sat up to take a look. He pointed at the side mirror near her and she lowered her glasses from her head to her nose to see the quickly approaching group.

"Ah. I see 'em." Not sure if they're the client yet or that excavation team I heard would be out here."

"Maaan, I hope it's not someone from the Lokites. We don't need another incident like last time with that nutjob." He paused for a moment, thinking. "....It's not that guy again, is it?" Mike asked almost hurriedly.

"I don't think so," she answered, rolling her window down to get a better look. Audrey put her glasses back on top of her head and opened the door. "But whether it's the client or not, we should at least greet them. Might be able to buy some mechs without the middleman. Besides...it's not like we could outrun them in this thing. She explained and hopped out. "You stay in here, Fiber."

"Bwee!"

Out in the open and with more room to move, she stretched again, reaching for the sky before her hands fell to her side and she leaned against the door to the truck. Mike got out as well but with much less excitement and they waited for the others to arrive.

Kaliska exited Black Lotus but kept her external controls bracelet on incase she would need Black Lotus's assistance. " Of course, leave it to the girl to do all the charming work and the guy to pack the guns...sounds like a piece from a very stereotypical movie but alas...i cant help if i am just charming enough to fit the role" she said teasing him yet again before they approached the two traders, all parties on foot at this point. Kaliska walked right up the th girl who she could tell based on body language was more of the in charge type then the guy was. " Hello, pleasure to run into you but why are two traders from Blue Bolts Mechanic doing all the way out here? You do know a lot of the lokite faction travel these area's right? " Kaliska asked. More then being curious she was trying to judge which sided they were trading with because if they were intentionally trading with lokites that would give her a bit more ground to stand on in this situation.

Thanatos lowered his front paws until his head rested flat on the ground, then the hatch slided open and Jericho pulled himself out of the cockpit then slid down to the ground. Once on the ground he looked back at Thanatos '' Switch to sentry mode '' he said. The hatch closed itself then Thanatos raised itself back up and moved away a bit then started to walk in circle arround them, to protect them from any armfull outsider. Although his guns wheren't showing yet his combat system was ready. Jericho watched him go then looked back at the two from BBM '' That's not us but show us what you got, who know '' he said.

Amber eyes followed Thanatos for a moment as he began circling, though they switched to the guy as if she wasn't interested while in all actuality she was. She wanted to take the dog-like mech apart to see how he worked and then put him back together again with upgrades. But that was the engineer inside of her talking....well, and her own curiosity and thirst for knowledge.

The man asked...well, more like ordered to see their wears. At least, that's how he sounded while looking quite intimidating, especially with his weapons. Of course he could be just as on-edge as Mike due to the situation. His sister, who introduced herself as Kaliska--pretty name--clarified that they were also interested in checking out what the other had. The woman was far more social than her brother, it seemed.

"I'm Audrey Milone, Head Engeneer at BBM."

"Mike Zan, Michanical Supervisor."

Well, at least Mike wasn't as silent as the other guy, not that she'd be able to remember their names. She was beyond terrible at that. It took her three whole months to remember Mike's first name and that was after seeing him nearly every day.

"I've got a Reader for sales and transactions we can use if we find something we want," Audrey said, turning her head back to the front of the car. "Fiber, bring the Reader here, please," she called then turned back to Kaliska. "You have a card with you, I assume?"

There was a loud whistle, a kank, and a thunt as Fiberglass rolled out the door on the other side of the truck where Mike had left the door open. His disks kicked up some dust as he drove around the truck to his operator.

"Viiii!" he cried and the plate on his disk opened up for his "arm" to stretch out with the small devise in hand.

Audrey took it from him. "Thank you."

"BWE!" he said and turned around to go back. Suddenly he stopped and turned towards Thanatos, turning as the mech walked around as if watching it. "BURBIIIR!" Fiberglass sped off towards the large mech. He stopped in front of it and spun around with another whistle and rolled forward a bit, bumping into the mech's leg. He suddenly took off at full speed away from Thanatos with a noise that had a similar tone to laughter.

"We've got a load of Enhansed Targeting Chips, Proximity Sensor Chips, Controlers, Military Grade Circuit Boards, Biometric Scanners, Cartography Cards and more."