Geir turned to Toni, his mechanical eye blasted a little brighter just for a moment when his anger flared, when the blond recognized the android as well. “It,” Geir said coldly. He had seen this happen in the old colony he and Wrench had been a part of. An android happened upon them that was a lover of a guy and he thought he could change the programming. Long story short, Wrench and Geir were the only ones to walk away from that blood bath. No one knew about that little part of the history, Wrench didn’t talk much other than her high tech babble or when she was forced to exchange words with another, like with Kenji. Geir wasn’t the type to sit around and hash out his personal history in some strange way to bond with other people. “It is not your sister, it is a machine. A killing machine one that destroys life. Our lives!” He rose, wanting to slap some sense into the lot of them. “Am I the only one with a half a brain in this damn place? She wouldn’t hesitate to murder all of us right here. Right now. She is programmed by her robot gods to kill us. To terminate us until we are no more. They use their faces to soften our defenses.”

He pulled out a pistol and aimed it at the android. “I am not going to stand by while this thing kills everyone in this place.”

“No,” Kenji shouted dropping the glass, the whiskey splashed over his boots. “No,” he repeated a little calmer. “Please, give her at least one day here. Maybe I can get her to override the programming. One day, Geir, it is all I ask. If she tries anything, I will…” He looked at the albino. “I’ll put a bullet in her head myself.”

Geir peered at the spilt alcohol, Kenji would never have done that before. Drink was the way he coped with the nightmares, guilt and whatever else that rambled inside his head. He slowly released his hold on the trigger and replaced the safety before shoving it back into the holster on his belt. “One day, Kenji. Twenty four hours and the cords are not to be removed or I will shoot you myself.”

Kenji nodded his agreements with the terms. He moved back to the android and knelt in front of her. “Cassie,” he whispered touching her cheek, he peered at the metallic fingers on her pale skin and pulled away. Fighting an internal battle. “Say something.”

“I don’t like this,” Ning whispered when Geir stepped beside him. “I don’t like this one bit.” Unlike the quieter older man, Ning was not shy about talking about the horrors that happened to his colony. “Those machines are getting sneakier. How did it find us anyway? Maybe that tracker in that robot following me wasn’t fully dead after all. They know they cannot penetrate by force so they send in android.”

“All possibilities,” Geir answered backs softly. “The removal of the tracker worries me. It had to put it somewhere close knowing we would scramble our location and destroy it. It’s buddies are more than likely on the way while Kenji tries to get the thing to speak.”