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Internal reserve capacitor now at preliminary peak level…
Internal reserve capacitor fully functioning and processing…
Internal secondary capacitors now at preliminary peak levels…
Internal secondary capacitors now functioning and processing…
Satellite and wireless connections now available…
External radar now active…
Ammunition stores will be fully processed and loaded in seventy-two hours…
Ammunition needed…
The list of internal injuries began then.
The injuries were numerous. To the central biotech heart, kidneys, and liver, femoral artery to repair, and dozens of secondary arteries.
She would be a week, perhaps longer repairing everything and fully storing the power reserves and primary levels once processing of the electrical intake was completed. Until then, she had perhaps ten or fifteen minutes before all external wounds were healed and erased.
She felt better. Capable. Stronger.
She could hold her own now, but she couldn’t battle again as she had in that last fight.
Disconnecting the electrical current, she pushed the metal filaments back inside their protective box and closed the door. She couldn’t repair the lock, but what the fuck? It was considered a dead current, and no one could possibly even suspect that she had been there.
At that thought, she checked for fingerprints. None. She hadn’t yet activated that particular feature of her design, or the shape of her teeth to match any particular dental records.
At present, other than her injuries, her body was pristine. No fingerprints, no unique dental features or fillings, no scars, blemishes, or body markings. She would have to work on that soon, though.
Standing, she slipped around the shack, reentered it, and lay down on the rough-board floor again.
Setting security measures and the Chameleon processors to search for females missing in the area, she closed her eyes and allowed all but the most essential processes to shut down. She would heal faster, become stronger, if she wasn’t in active mode.
Sleeping, she thought. It was called “sleeping.” That was how people, humans, rebuilt their strength. They consumed energy; they slept.
Charlie slept. And she dreamed.
She dreamed of the memories her father gave her. The bright-eyed newborn, staring up at her, the center of his universe.
She sang him a lullaby; she watched him sleep.
Kissed his baby cheek and felt the warmth of his tiny body.
And she made him a vow.
I will avenge you. For all that was stolen from you. All that put such rage in your heart. I will avenge you. I am your mother. And one day, I will hold a child you helped create, sing him the lullabies, and he will know only happiness.
You will know only happiness.
I am your protection…
I am your mother…
