Rematch, Chapter 4

_"Try to relax,"_ Arcee had said moments before arriving at the set of fifteen warehouses and the huge gravel lot surrounding them. _"Once they have me, they'll let your mom and the team go."_ _"No, they won't."_ There was a time when he might've...

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Rematch, Chapter 3

..._the hell? How am I still alive?_ Jack almost sat up, but forced himself to remain where he'd fallen as the MECH soldier entered the tent and stomped up to him. _The armor,_ he realized. It could survive several hits from the average...

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Rematch, Chapter 2

"How's our guest today?" General Sanchez said after entering the security hub. Ashanti nodded at one of the monitors on the bank in front of her and the two airmen stationed there. "I don't think I've ever seen a more pathetic-looking son of a...

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Rematch, Chapter 1

"You okay, Arcee?" Jack paused, leaning around her shoulder to aim a concerned look at her face. Usually, their wash-wax-polish sessions on the helipad atop the Autobot base ended with her completely relaxed, her eyes closed, an ecstatic smile on her...

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Elsewhere, Chapter 9: Long Gone

She found the kid in the medieval clothing hanging in the air, thrashing helplessly, and staring wide-eyed at the body of the man the robot had killed moments earlier. "oh,_no_," she whispered.

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Harbinger, Chapter 1

The duplicate thrashed her arms and legs and released a scream that made arcee flinch. "shit!" jack blurted. arcee looked over her shoulder at the platform on which he and his mother stood. the scream cut off suddenly as the voice's owner died.

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Freelancers, Chapter Sixteen

"Lock the door," Valeria said over her shoulder as she stepped into the interrogation room. Elias Kelham, secured in the chair in the center of the room, stared wide-eyed at her, then glanced at the door when it closed. The holographic panel floating...

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Downtime

The creature tumbled across the floor and thrashed its legs around, still trying to get back on its feet even with corona's knife sticking out of its neck. now that he could get a good look at it, he could make out a few details.

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Enemy of my Enemy, Chapter 6

"Wow." Jack sat at the corner table in Groom Lake's mess hall, grinning at the food piled on his tray. "That's the biggest omelette I've ever seen." Arcee sat her human-size doppelgänger down across from him and smiled. "Guess it's about time you had...

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Project: Phoenix (Neon City, Book 3), Chapter Eight

"That's...a _lot_ of servers." Corona turned her head slowly, taking in the banks of computer towers that filled the room. Dozens lined the walls and dozens more on shelves on the floor, spaced just far enough apart for the company's employees to walk...

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Enemy of my Enemy, Chapter 5

His armor was warped and bubbled all over, glowing white-hot in several places, and some of it flexed as he thrashed and screamed, turned semi-molten from the intense heat of the blasters.

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Freelancers, Chapter Fifteen

Lia ducked back behind the pool table a split-second before another burst of gunfire tore into it. A hail of projectiles from the two dozen enemy weapons chewed through the metal table in mere seconds, and she leaped out of cover and dive-rolled behind...

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