"Whatever your rate is... I'll multiply it by ten." Lang croaked through a mouth full of blood, Zero crouches inches from Lang in the rain.
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"They said you'd say that so they'd take my rate times twenty." Lang flenched at the words.
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"Fine! Forty I'll double the twenty and hire you to kill whoever wished this upon me." Zero actually considered the offer for a moment.
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"Now they said you'd double it to forty, but the vengeance? now that almost won me over. They'll bump it to sixty if you were wondering by the way." You could hear the grin on Zero's voice.
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Lang rolled in the rain with a whine, he had hit his financial limit when it came to bribing someone for his life. The one who called for the hit knew his financial status and limits.
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"Any last words?" Zero cocked their head to the side like a puppy trying to learn a new command...
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"How would they know?" Lang asked through tears, Zero shifted their head in confusion. A moment passed and a hologram of a woman dressed head to toe in sparkly attire, a dress made of diamonds, and rings of all sorts that gleamed. Lang's eyes grew wide at the sight of his wife standing before him, her spectral-like figure ignoring the rainfall.
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"Salene? But why?" Salene cringed at his words.
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"Just keeping to our vows dear, til death do us part and all." Her hologram turns away from him and flickers from existence.
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"I'm so- a quick snap of the tails slices Lang through the forehead and neck severing his head into three pieces, leaving the last Doppleganger of Karl Lang to expire in the rain. Delta appeared next to Zero who stood stoically staring at the corpse, the rain rolled over the fabric of the hellish red rabbit.
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"Pulled thread active state, snipped." Delta looked over the corpse and their eyes began to glow as they scanned.
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"Target status confirmed...."
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"Still was only an eighty percent chance for success though, so, you know why?"
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"Why?" Zero asked shortly and quickly.
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Delta bit at his virtual lower lip at the speed of the response. " because you failed to calculate two possible outcomes do you know what they were?" The red rabbit shook its head in refutation.
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"First, you failed to account for the possibility from where you took your sniper shot someone could have moved into the target's line of fire humans are notoriously unpredictable, second the rebound from initiating a newly made protocol without the - I did." Zero interrupted with a sharp tone.
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"Every heart was in a resting rate, no one planned to move at the very moment I chose to shoot." Delta's eyes widen at Zero's rebuttal.
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"There were at least ten people over 5k meters, and you could distinguish between all of their heartbeats?" The head of the rabbit shook in affirmation this time as Deltas tilted in disbelief.
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" Fine. And the rebound?" Delta folded both arms and shifted his weight to one leg
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"How did you prepare for that?" Zero looks over in the direction of Delta.
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"Release!" The cloak begins to sag and turn back to its original form as Red falls face-first into a puddle.
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"Carry me?" Delta staggers at the request of the weakened reaper.
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"Your plan ended with me carrying you back to the safe house?" He presses a finger and a thumb against the bridge of his nose.
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"Clever Red, I'll give you that." Delta scoops up the tiny reaper into his arms and starts down the sidewalk away from the sirens and automated fire prevention drones. The rain fell and clutched Zero's cloak rolling down and off the fabric to the ground or through Delta as he walked.
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"Delta?" He looked down at the sound of his name to show that his attention was given.
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"Why can AI touch me?" Delta's grip tightened slightly at the question.
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"I'm not sure Red, maybe..." He paused briefly to look up at the heavily clouded sky.
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"Maybe it isn't so much AI can touch you Red, more..." Looking down the indicator for his partner's vital signs read unconscious, he smiled and kept pace in the rain changing his appearance to seem wet as he carried Zero back to the safe house.
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~End of prologue
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