VI moved through the door The dark wasn't too munch of an issue. She could see more then anything in here could so she still had the advantage. She moved down the hall, through a second open door and found herself in a subway junction. After the invention of hover vehicles no one used these tunnels and were abandoned for years. The track, mostly covered in dirt and rust. across was a set of stairs leading to the surface. A sound made her put a bend in her knees to lower her body weight. Her hands came up in a defensive posture. Down the tunnel to her left was the sound of foot steps. A light showed on the corner wall where the tunnel took a turn. She ran to the tunnel wall and gathered some trash around her for cover. 

The light grew brighter until they emerged from the opening and stood there inspecting the area. Their were four of them and a little girl. All of them covered in dirt and rags. The girl was maybe seven cycles old. The two men and a woman were with the child. Assessing target VI had worked out the probability of success to be high. They had only pipes for weapons. The hunger grew. She felt her leg muscle tense. She only sprung to her feet when her whole body froze. She stood there exposed and still. 

The men turned and shouted at her. The woman with the torch hissed. The child pulled a knife. The men rushed at her climbing onto the platform. Raising their pipes to crush her skull. Still shouting at VI in roars and grunts. Their smell was strong of rotting flesh and rotting clothes. They were cannibals. The smaller of the two was younger and had some burn scars on his arms and the left side of his face. He held a pipe with a sledge hammer head welded onto the end.

VI side stepped the first swing, while also closing the distance his back was exposed but she needed them alive. Using a ridge hand she struck his throat and with the palm of her other hand to burst his ear drum. The stunned person forced the other guy to pause, it was his mistake to make. VI took the time to swing the first stunned guy by his arm head first into the wall. 

The second cannibal held a pipe about four feet long with a sharp end covered in blood. He was older and had some radiation sickness that made his hair grow in patches. He was taller but very fat. He screamed and started a lunging strike. VI grabbed the end but couldn't hold it. The tip was still coated in slick blood. The guy made another low jab trying to get her in the gut. Then sung the tip upward to her face. 

VI dodged it and raised his threat rating. She triggered her adrenaline and took a step toward him following it up with a hard side kick to his knee. The fat man cried out in pain as the joint gave a sick wet crunch sound. She wasted not time. As the guy fell to the floor she leaped onto his back and sunk her fangs into his spine. The taste of his dirt covered, sweat coated skin in her mouth made her stomach wretch. Still her tank was refilling. Her eyes turned to the other one still knocked out against the wall. There was a small patch of blood where his face hit the tile. VI hoped he was salvageable. SHIT!

The other two. Her eyes turned to see the torch burning on the ground and the woman and child were gone. The fat guy was now dry forcing VI to rise and leap onto the second. He wasn't any better smelling. She leaned him forward and bit into his spine. She could feel her levels rising. The sensor only made it to half a tank until the second guy was also out of fluid. She needed more. Rising to her feet she jumped off the platform and walked to the torch. The foot prints lead into the right side of the tunnel. Again something made her stop for a moment. Froze her legs in place. It puzzled her. She want damaged and yet she hesitated. 

VI moved down the tunnel. Tracking the two as they moved. She moved faster as the fluid moved through her body. She needed more. Then she heard the breathing. Pressing herself against the tunnel wall she moved closer to the sound there was light shining from under a door where the sound was coming from. The foot prints showed them hopping up onto the ledge. They were here. She was ready. She opened the door and stood there staring at them.

The older woman was covered in blood slumped against the wall of the narrow hall way. Her stomach was covered in blood and her neck had a knife in it. The child was covered in blood and chewing on the woman's forearm. The older woman wasn't dead yet. She was bleeding to death and probably grateful to be unconscious at the moment. The little girl looked up with a mouth full of flesh. She continued to chew as she stared at VI. A torch burned behind them. 

VI said nothing. She took a few steps toward them and closed the door behind her.Herr eyes kept a watch on the girl as she knelt down beside the woman. Her hands rose up, one to remove the knife with a slick squishing sound as the metal left the skin. The second to move the head forward as she bit into the spine. The girl heard the soft slurping sound as VI sucked her victim to death. The girl took another bite. She watched VI and chewed another piece off her victim. 

Vi looked at the girl for a second. Then with the speed of a viper, VI grabbed the kid by the hair and pushed her face into the older woman's lap. The girl didn't scream or resist. She was silent as VI fed off her spine. VI fed until she heard the breathing coming from her victim stop. VI's tank was now at three quarters mark. Tanaka screamed inside her head.