Change of Perspective Page 10
#11 of Change of Perspective
That greeting could have gone better... Though maybe saving your friend's life will rebuild that trust bridge, amusingly on a broken bridge.
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Azreith heart skipped a beat as he looked his gaze on the geth before him. His hair stood on end as his eyes locked onto the glowing light of the geth's head. He heard the geth 'speech' a quick noise that he couldn't comprehend but could recognize quickly as noises that the geth made, that electronic noise.
"Now please don't freak out, but a lot has happened. It is me Kirisha, I know I look like a geth, for all intents and purposes I am a geth but I am still me. I believe I am still me? Calculate I am still me? Its rather fascinating but I just need you not to freak out and try to explain to the guards not to shoot me as we figure this out? I really had enough being shot," Kirisha explains.
Azreith continues to hear a quick few robotic noises that only last two or three seconds and in that moment his senses come to him as he lets out a scream of terror, "Geth!" He stumbles back, almost tripping on a brick before starting to high tail it out of there.
"No, wait, didn't you hear what I said? That I am Kirisha and..." Kirisha yells as she repeats what she said before almost word for word, but Azreith keeps running past his two guards and into the city ruins yelling out in total fright.
"Damn cat running off mindlessly like that is going to get him killed and look bad on my record," remarks Tiius as he rolls his eyes.
"Who cares about him. It's time to have some fun," chuckles Hux as he charges forward shooting at Kirisha who peeks over the corner at them. Kirisha pulls back behind the building just as shots of hot metal whiz by.
"Damn it, this is the worst-case scenario... thankfully I planned for this," Kirisha processes as she takes several steps back, taking her weapon that she's brought with her and firing off a few shots into the air, causing both guards to take cover.
"We have to move quickly before they call more reinforcements. After that we'll have to find the scardey-cat and get the hell out of here," yells Tiius as he looks around, scanning the area for any other contacts.
"You just want to ruin my fun," remarks Hux as he rolls his shoulders.
Tiius sighs softly and remarks to himself, "Krogan..."
"I don't see anything, do you?" yells Hux.
"No, but stay alert it could be some hunters," warns Tiius as Kirisha peeks between some rubble catching a glimpse at the two guards. Quickly she grabs a brick and tosses it in the opposite direction where she wants to go.
"I heard something," Hux says as the brick clatters behind some rubble.
"Don't wander we have no idea where or how many geth are here," cautions Tiius.
"I'm tired of sitting and hiding, grow a quad and come with me," remarks Hux as he charges forward yelling out his battle cry.
"That worked better than I'd hoped," Kirisha thinks as moves in the opposite direction toward to where Azreith ran off to. The heavy rains help hide the noise of her movements, and as she made her way to him she went over the conversation she tried to have. "What could have gone wrong? I said everything the best I could. Everything was calculated... wait... analyzing..."
Kirisha looks over her recorded video feed of what transpired as she moved and its then she notices an error in her communication. Her entire 'conversation' happened within a second. She said everything correctly, but said it so fast it would be impossible for Azreith or any organic for that matter to understand it. "I'll need to correct the speed at which I talk. Otherwise this is never going to work."
Meanwhile Azreith found some cover from the rain underneath a metal archway is partially collapsed onto itself. The archway was apparently some kind of start of a walkway over a natural shallow ravine that ran through the city. The brown metal walkway looks mostly intact it only led to more rubble on the other side, nothing of any particular interest.
Azreith leaned back against metal arch and sighs, "That was close, I almost lost my cool. Good thing I have you guys here to protect me... guys?" Azreith looks around his ears held up high as he looks and listens for them, "Guys?" he asks again with a soft worried mew.
Kirisha turns her optics in the direction of Azreith's voice, her sensors just able to make sense of it over the background noise of the rain, "Second chance, don't mess this up," Kirisha thought as she made her way towards Azreith who by the time she makes it towards him is looking around nervously. A pistol in his shaking hands.
"Guys? Hux? Tiius?" Azreith yells out as he hears a noise, his weapon raised in that direction as he starts to see a light from the distance, his body tenses, "Guys speak up!" he yells as the light and the body attached it became clearer as he saw another geth approach him. Azreith tenses and closes his eyes as he lets out several shots.
"It's me Kirisha! Don't shoot!" Kirisha says as she holds up her hands.
"Stay back, I know how to use this!" Azreith yells as the pistol shakes wildly in his hands. He closes his eyes as he pulls on the trigger, Kirisha ducking down as the shots go over her head, pinging and hitting random bricks and motor. Eventually there is an audible repeating 'click' as the thermal clip falls to the ground clattering to the ground, sizzling in the rain.
Azreith slowly opens his eyes as he sees the geth only a few feet from him. He tenses and starts to run again screaming for dear life, "Get away!" He runs down the bridge, pulling out an extra thermal clip. He fumbles with it as he tries to slide it into the weapon, "Come on! Come on!" Azreith grumbles as he looks down at what he is doing.
"Azreith! Wait!" Kirisha yells as she peruses him over the bridge which creaks under the sudden weight. Azreith drops his pistol as he continues to run as metal snaps. Suddenly his feet find no purchase as the bridge underneath him gives way. Azreith screams out as his hands flail trying to find purchase on something when his body suddenly stops. He continues to scream for a moment as it takes him a second to realize he's no longer falling. He looks down as his body dangles over the ravine filled with twisted metal, rubble and sharp objects that would ensure that such a drop would be fatal.
He feels a tense around his arm, the creaking of more metal as he realizes something is holding onto him, "Oh tha--," Azreith says as he looks up to scream as he finds himself held by his geth pursuer who is holding onto the edge of bridge with one hand, part of its tail, spreading its way across as much as the bridge as possible as it rumbles and suddenly dips a third of a meter.
"Azreith, will you calm down and stop wiggling so I can save you!" exclaims Kirisha.
"Y-you can talk!" exclaims Azreith as he looks up at the geth then back down before looking back up.
"Yes, I've been trying to tell you I am Kirisha. The geth did something to me, I don't know what, but this is the result. I escaped, but you ran off before I could tell you, then again I was speaking too fast but at the time I didn't realize I was."
"What? That's impossible. You can't just turn organic into synthetic material."
"Well they can, now stop wiggling so I can pull you to safety."
"Okay..." Azreith responds as he looks down.
"Azreith are you okay? We heard some gunshots... shit another geth," remarks Tiius.
"Wait don't shoot! It's trying to save me! Don't shoot!" yells Azreith just as Kirisha pulls him up just as Tiius takes aim and fires.