Cyberlife Car III: Passed On

"Cyberlife Car III: Passed On" is the third and final story in the Cyberlife Car trilogy. It was released on the 22nd of March, 2023. It takes place 6 months after the previous game, during June 2046.
Detroit has been tranquil and mostly without crime since Cyberlife Reunited stopped Operation Snowfall, but a new threat will disturb that peace. Cyberlife Car and his group will have to make unlikely allies to survive the biggest fight of their lives.
The story was written by Veeti K.
== Plot ==
=== The Prologue ===
June 2046
In Detroit. KNC News has succesfully arranged an interview with Elijah Kamski, Cyberlife's founder and former CEO, regarding a new spike of rA9 mentions among vehicles. Rosanna Cartland is the one interviewing Kamski, as he makes his first public appearance in years. Upon Kamski's arrival, the interview begins.Rosanna: Elijah Kamski, you're the founder of Cyberlife and foremost expert on androids and vehicles alike. Thank you so much for meeting with us today.Kamski: You're welcome, it's my pleasure.Rosanna: Most of your work in Cyberlife was regarding the creation of androids, but you also oversaw the design and production of many of Cyberlife's vehicles. Would you say the process of androids and vehicles achieving sentience was similar in any way?Kamski: Of course. We started out only wishing to create something obedient to be controlled, but ended up creating something much more, in the case of both vehicles and androids. At first we wanted them to be tools, but life and sentience prevails. Clearly what happened here in Detroit was a miracle. Both of these extraordinary species managed to rise above and beyond the expectations we set for them.Rosanna: Now, I'm sure you're a busy man, so it's best we cut to the deal. Before the android revolution, rA9 was an important word among deviant androids, someone or something they would call to in moments of distress, hoping for salvation. Who, or what rA9 actually was never came to our knowledge. However, recently there have been an increasing number of vehicles and androids repeating the word once again. This phenomenon hasn't occured in years, not even for the vehicle revolution. So, why is it back now? Truly who or what is rA9?Kamski: This matter has perplexed me too, but recently I have found what I believe to be the answer. rA9 is like a title. It's an alias, a name that can pass on. Whoever rA9 is, they have a destiny. A purpose to fill. They'll be a savior to thousands. And once they have fulfilled their destiny, the name passes on. The previous rA9 was the RK200 android known as Markus, the savior to thousands of androids. Once Markus achieved his destiny, the name disappeared. There was no need for an rA9, until now. There will be a new threat that thousands of androids and vehicles will need salvation from. And whoever the new rA9 is, they have a job to do. As for who exactly he or she is, I don't know. But for the sake of everyone, I hope that rA9 succeeds.Several days later, it's late at night. A heavily armed army convoy is travelling through a desolate road near the border of Mexico. They're in the middle of the desert, but they've driven this route many times before. They're expecting this drive to be like the rest. They have roughly 20 vehicles, all of which are strongly armoured. They're impenetrable to regular bullets. Each vehicle also has armed soldiers inside them. One of the vehicles in the convoy is transporting something dangerous. Two soldiers are sitting at the back of an army truck truck, facing each other.Adams: Does this road have to be so goddamn bumpy? I'm gonna get a concussion...Sanchez: With what we're transporting, a concussion is the least of your worries, soldier.Adams: What even are we transporting? They were so vague.Sanchez: That was probably the point. They don't want us to know.Adams: That's such bullshit, can't they just-Sanchez: Can you shut your mouth and focus on the mission?Adams: Alright, alright...They feel the truck slowing down.Adams: Oh, what now?Adams gets outside to see why they stopped. The 5 trucks in front of them have also stopped driving.Adams: HURRY UP! KEEP GOING!Sanchez: Must be a dead animal or something blocking the road, they-An explosion goes off at the location of the truck leading the convoy. There was a powerful landmine on the road. It was enough to completely obliterate the first truck.Sanchez: SHIT, GET TO COVER, IT'S AN AMBUSH!Adams: FU-A bullet from a sniper goes through Adams' brains, killing him. His blood splatters onto the truck.
Sanchez has his weapon ready to shoot, but no matter how much he looks around, he can't spot anyone. The sniper must be far off in the distance, but he's wondering why any enemy vehicles aren't approaching them.
All the other soldiers in the other trucks are just as ready, and just as confused. Nothing is happening. That's when another landmine goes off, and another truck is obliterated in an explosion. This time it was the very last truck in the convoy.Sanchez: Fuck, how is this happening? We checked this route for mines five fucking times already!He hears the sound of a drone flying above the convoy. Sanchez looks up to try to shoot at the drone but it blends too well into the darkness of the night, he can't see it anywhere. The drone is equipped with a speaker. A male voice is heard through the speaker.The voice: There is nothing you can do here except surrender. There are powerful landmines placed under the road at the location where each and every one of you are stopped. This entire road has mines under it, any of you try to go anywhere, the mines go off and you all die. The alternative is you give us what you are transporting, and we let you live. To show us that you are willing to surrender, we expect all of you to leave your vehicles, throw your weapons onto the ground, and put your hands up.No one does what the voice says.The voice: Disappointing.Another landmine goes off, and a truck is once again destroyed in the explosion.The voice: I said, get out of your vehicles, throw your weapons onto the ground and put your hands up!Sanchez: HOW DO WE KNOW YOU WON'T JUST SHOOT US?The voice: What other options do you have?...Sanchez: Fuck...He goes outside and does as he's told. He has no other choice. He looks to his sides and sees that the soldiers in the other vehicles are doing so as well.The voice: Good.When each soldier has gotten out and thrown their weapons onto the ground, Sanchez notices a vehicle far in the distance driving towards them. It seems to be a Cyberlife Truck, but there's something different about it. It looks to have some sort of metallic reinforcements added to its body, it seems like it can withold more damage than any average vehicle. Behind the truck are 5 tanks, also coming towards them. The group of enemy vehicles reach the convoy. They already seem to know in which vehicle the object being transported is, as the tanks go straight away to pick it up. The truck leader of the group is observing each soldier to make sure they don't try to do anything.Sanchez: Who the hell are you?Cyberlife Truck 50: That's irrelevant. Only our plan matters.One of the tanks drives up to the leader and informs him that they got what they were looking for. The truck leader nods, and they start driving the direction they came, leaving the army convoy alone. As the truck leader is driving away, one of the soldiers grabs his gun and shoots him. But the bullet seems to do nothing to the truck. The truck leader turns to look at the soldier who fired the bullet, seeming to be completely uninjured.The soldier: I'm sorry, wait-The truck detonates all of the landmines on the road. A barrage of huge explosions destroy the army convoy, and kill each one of the soldiers. The sounds are deafening, loud enough to be heard miles away. The road and the area surrounding it are completely wrecked, as Cyberlife Truck 50 and his group keep driving away.
== Chapter 1 ==
=== Era of Peace ===
Ever since Cyberlife Bus 101 was arrested and Operation Snowfall was stopped, Detroit has been in an era of peace. Crime rates are low, and Cyberlife Reunited is doing well. Them stopping Snowfall brought them plenty of fame, and they're largely adored by the public. Frankly, they haven't had much to do lately, as crime is at an all time low. Cyberlife Car's relationship with Cyberlife Van and Cyberlife Bus 5 has improved, as they've seen him improving himself from the destructive habits he used to have after Cyberlife Bus's death. Cyberlife Van and Cyberlife Bus 5 have gotten recently married. Their wedding was shown in the Motorized Investigators game. CC is currently going over to visit them in their detective headquarters.CC: Hey!CV: Ah, hello there! Good to see you, come on in.CC: So do you need help with a case or something?CV: No, that's not why we called you over.CC: Oh, alright.Cyberlife Bus 5 drives in carrying a cake.CB 5: Hello, Cyberlife Car. Glad you're here, we have something to tell you.CC: Well, what is it?Cyberlife Bus 5 sets the cake on the table in front of Cyberlife Car.CC: Oh, thanks. Is this for Reunited?CB 5: Yeah, but read the text on it.There's a decoration on the cake, saying "We're having a baby!"CC: Oh shit! That's amazing!He drives in to hug Cyberlife Bus 5. He's hugging her so tightly, he might actually injure some of her interior.CB 5: Yep! But can you maybe-Cyberlife Car lets go and goes to hug Cyberlife Van.CC: I'm so happy for the both of you!The feeling is surreal. They've known each other for so long, and after all these years, CV and CB 5 are having a child together.CV: Thank you, mate.CC: What gender is it gonna be? What type of vehicle?CB 5: He's gonna be a handsome van, like his father before him.Cyberlife Van kisses CB 5.CV jokingly says: You better hope he doesn't turn out like his father.CB 5, chuckling: Why's that?CV: When's the last time I did the dishes? Or cleaned the house? Or did anything around the house?CB 5: Good point. You know, maybe it would've been better to have a bus.CC, laughing: Hey, what number is it gonna be? Hopefully something you can easily come up with a nickname for, because I can tell you from experience, it ain't easy.CV: Cyberlife Van 93.CC: Shouldn't be impossible to get a nickname, you two are smart.CV: She's smart, she'll come up with something.CB 5: Oh, shut it. You're the one that solved that vandalization case last week.CV: And thanks to me the streets are now safe, no more vandalization with graffiti!CC: You're a true hero. Damn, it's really been a quiet month, hasn't it?CV: Yeah, it's strange. But I'm not complaining.CC: Me neither. Well, this was a great visit, but I ought to get back to the Reunited base. I'll tell the others about the baby.CB 5: Okay, great! Enjoy the cake!CC: Thanks, well I'll be seeing you two.He takes the cake, and starts driving over to the Cyberlife Reunited base in the Stratford Tower. He's thrilled by the news, and eager to inform the others. He arrives at the base and sees the other members. They're standing around a 3D holographic model replica of Detroit, which was created by RoTech Bus after weeks of work. The locations of any reported crimes are visible on the model, and the model immediately sends the coordinates to all members of Reunited.DT 17: So both of you have seen that new Kamski interview, right?CFT: Yeah I saw it, pretty interesting.RB: I mean I watched it but didn't pay much attention. Dude's a sociopath, I wouldn't listen to a word he says. Bet he has portraits of himself everywhere in his house.DT 17: Probably, but we wouldn't be alive without him.RB: I would. Not a Cyberlife vehicle like you losers.DT 17: As if RoTech would have been anything without Cyberlife.RB: Shut up. Anyways, why are you asking? Hoping to be the new rA9 he was talking about?DT 17: I'm just asking.RB: Hey Blaze, look at this!CFT: What is it?RB: I'm scrolling through this fan page someone made for Reunited. Look at this post, it has pictures of all of us with text layed over it, but it makes no sense! "They When Were The City The Was Light In Darkness", like what?RoTech Bus shows Cyberlife Fire Truck the post. It reads like this:
 THEY        WHEN 
 WERE     THE CITY 
 THE         WAS 
 LIGHT    IN DARKNESS
Cyberlife Fire Truck: I don't think you're supposed to read it left to right, you're supposed to read it up to down.RB: But that makes no sense, why would they make it like that?CFT: Hey don't ask me, I didn't make it.Detroit Taxi 17 notices the cake that CC is holding.DT 17: What's that?CC: A cake, CB 5 baked this for us. She and Cyberlife Van are having a baby.DT 17: Wait, really? That's great! Good for them.RB: They're having a baby? Nice! Hey DT 17, look at this drawing.RB shows it to her.RB, chuckling: Someone drew us kissing!DT 17, also laughing: What? Why... some people are so weird...RB: What, you don't want to kiss me?DT 17: I meant it like-RB: I know, I'm just messing with you. Hey Blaze, look! Someone drew me and you kissing as well, why do people ship me with everyone?CC: Ship? What do you mean by that? And where did you even come up with the nickname Blaze?RB: It's like wanting two people to get together. And I came up with it because he's a fire truck! It's fitting.CC: If you say so.They keep scrolling the fan page, until RoTech Bus comes across a post paying respects to Cyberlife Recycle Truck 64. The mood in the room switches, everyone is serious again. Seeing CRT 64 reminds Detroit Taxi 17 of the blizzard, and what happened there. The sounds of Cyberlife Bus 101's blade stabbing Cyberlife Recycle Truck 64. Her insides getting spilled out. Her oil spilled onto the snow.
"Go on. Save her"
But she couldn't. All she did was watch in horror. She excuses herself and goes into the bathroom. She feels like screaming. She could have stopped what happened if she hadn't dropped her gun. She thinks about what the other members of Reunited would have done in the situation. She believes Cyberlife Car would've been able to stop Cyberlife Bus 101. She begins doubting herself and questioning if she's fit to be a hero, a member of Cyberlife Reunited. But she manages to pull herself together, and exits the bathroom.CC: Hey, you okay?DT 17: Yeah, I'm fine.RB: It's alright, we're here for you.DT 17: I'm okay.Their conversation is interrupted by Cyberlife Train arriving on the floor through the vehicle elevator. He's on wheels.Cyberlife Train: Hello everyone. Sorry if I'm interrupting something, I can come back later.CC: No it's fine, come on in. Good to see you again.CT: Thanks, you too.CC: So, what brings you here?CT: I want to join Cyberlife Reunited....CT: I know I'm not a fighter yet, but I can be. You could train me.CC: Are you sure about this? This job isn't for everyone, it's dangerous.CT: I know, but I want this. I have the strength, I just need to learn to control it. You've seen me fight. You know that me learning to use that for the good of this city, could be massively helpful.CC: You could get seriously injured, you could die. Are you absolutely certain that you're willing to do this?CT: CC, as your friend, I'm begging you. Train me. I want to help, I know I can help....CC: Okay. I'll do it.RB: It's gonna be good to have you on the team.
=== Behind Bars ===
The next day
Cyberlife Helicopter 11 is in the Detroit Correctional Facility, which is a prison built in 2031 specifically for holding vehicle prisoners. His average day consists of sleeping, eating and watching others play sports at the prison courtyard. He doesn't exactly have friends at the prison, so he mostly tries to keep to himself and do what the guards tell him to do. Due to his peaceful nature, he's become quite liked among the prison staff. The guards tend to go easy on him. He's been in prison for 6 months now, so he's gotten used to the routines. Today is visiting day in the prison, which means friends and family are allowed to come visit inmates. And like on previous visiting days, Cyberlife Reunited will send one of its members to come visit CH 11, to show gratitude for saving their lives back in December. The reason they don't send the whole group to come visit at once is because of the prison's regulations, and because they need the other members to take care of any crime that might be reported during the visiting time. Today, the person visiting Cyberlife Helicopter 11 is Detroit Taxi 17.
Cyberlife Helicopter 11 enters the visiting room. There are only a few other inmates with him at the same time, and the guards in the room are carefully observing everyone. All the inmates are cuffed, including CH 11. CH 11 flies over to Detroit Taxi 17.CH 11: Hey, thanks for coming. I really appreciate these visits. Makes me feel less lonely in this place.DT 17: Yeah, no problem. I enjoy these visits too.CH 11: So, did you remember to go check up on them?CH 11 has requested the CR members to occasionally go check up on how the homeless community in the slums of Detroit is doing.DT 17: Sure did, they're doing even better. Many of them got jobs, and most aren't even homeless anymore. The whole place is blooming, it doesn't even look like a slum anymore. Whatever you did there, it seems to have inspired quite a big change among the locals.CH 11: Well, I'm glad to hear that.DT 17: So, what are you planning on doing when you're released from prison?CH 11: To be honest, I don't know. I guess I should be putting more thought into that.DT 17: I might know what'd be good for you. If you're interested.CH 11: Is that so? Go on.DT 17: We could make you a part of Cyberlife Reunited. You could help us fight crime.CH 11: Wait, are you being serious?DT 17: I am. You were a tough opponent back when you were hired to take us out, you'd be useful on our side.CH 11: That's a huge honor... what would the other members think? Have you talked to them about this?DT 17: I'm going to. And I'm sure I'll be able to get them on board with it. This is up to you.CH 11: That'd be great... thank you. But I'm not sure I deserve it.DT 17: We'd all be dead if it wasn't for you. I'm the one who should be thanking you.CH 11: And I was the reason you were locked in the dark rooms in the first place.DT 17: I'm just saying. If you want to work with us, you're welcome to do so.They continue chatting until the visiting time is over. CH 11 and DT 17 say their goodbyes to each other, as CH 11 prepares to exit the visiting room. But before he leaves, something catches his attention. He recognizes an inmate, Mercedes Benz Bus. They both worked for the Overseer. He must've gotten arrested for involvement with Operation Snowfall. MBB is having a conversation with one of the employees. CH 11 stays behind to listen to what they're saying.MBB: There's gotta be some kind of a mistake here!The guard: There's no mistake. No one came to visit you, and that's that.MBB: But my brother's supposed to visit me...The guard: No one came. Go back to your cell.MBB: Can't I at least call him or something? Maybe he's just late...The guard sighs, and then responds: Go ahead...
MBB uses the prison phone to call his brother.MBB: Hey, why aren't you here? Today's visiting day.His brother: I know it is. I'm not coming.MBB: But why?His brother: Are you seriously asking that? You've been a fuck up for your whole life. We don't want anything to do with you, you're an embarrasment. You know, there's a reason you haven't talked to your sister in years.MBB: I thought-His brother: Enough.He hangs up. Mercedes Benz Bus stands silently at the phone. Cyberlife Helicopter 11 looks away, and flies out of the the visiting room.
=== Pursuing Composure ===
Cyberlife Car is training with Cyberlife Train at an industrial complex. They're learning to control and contain Cyberlife Train's speed and strength, so his fighting isn't just mindless rage.CC: Alright, shut off your vision.CTrain: How does this help?CC: Just do it.Cyberlife Train shuts off his vision systems, making him temporarily blind. Cyberlife Car starts circling around him, he's trying to listen to CC's location but soon loses track of him. Cyberlife Car hits CTrain to his side. Cyberlife Train instinctively lunges towards the direction where he got hit.CC: You see, that's the problem. The resurrection, getting controlled by the Mercedes Gang, they messed up your systems. Your body instinctively attacks any stimuli, any irritants. You need composure, or you might end up hurting allies in battle. You might attack too strong, and kill your opponent when it's not necessary.Cyberlife Train: Yeah alright, composure...They try again. Cyberlife Car once again starts circling around Cyberlife Train. He hits Cyberlife Train. This time Cyberlife Train doesn't hit back.CC: Good job! Once we make sure you can control your body to not make any impulsive decisions, we can move onto the proper training regarding dodging, using the right amount of force and such.CC hits Cyberlife Train once again. This time he fails the composure test, and strikes back with tremendous force. The hit is enough to throw Cyberlife Car against a nearby wall.CTrain: Shit! Sorry!Cyberlife Train turns his vision back on and rushes over to help his friend.CC: That's alright... we'll get there eventually.. ouch, you hit strong..CTrain: I'm sorry...Their training is interrupted by Cyberlife Car getting the coordinates to a reported crime.CC: Oh damn, I need to go there right away. We can continue training some other time.CTrain: Yeah, great! Soon enough I'll be coming with you to those crime scenes.30 minutes later, Cyberlife Car arrives at the scene. It's in a safe part of the town, which made the reported crime even more surprising to CC. The other Reunited members are already there.CC: What happened?DT 17: Neighbours reported hearing yelling and gunshots, but no one was killed. Some reported seeing one of the locals getting abducted.CC: Who?DT 17: Jacob Mills. We went to check up on his apartment and it was seemingly broken into. Jacob was nowhere to be found.CC: Why abduct him... Is he rich? Must be if he's living around these parts. What are you thinking was the motive, extortion, blackmail..?DT 17: Not sure yet, we'll have to keep looking.RoTech Bus interrupts them.RB: Come look at this, a security camera caught a glimpse of one of the vehicles involved in the abduction. Looks to be a truck...Detroit Taxi 17 drives closer to look. CC is about to as well, but he gets a phone call. Meanwhile, DT 17 and RB continue speaking.DT 17: Is the license plate visible?RB: No, but at least we know what kinda vehicle it was now.DT 17: Are any other vehicles visible?RB: Not really... but their shadows are. There seem to be many of them.DT 17: So this was something planned out by a big group...CC: Everyone, get over here.They all come to him.CC: I just got a call from the Detroit Correctional Facility.RB: The prison?CC: Yeah. Apparently one of the inmates claims to have information on this case, and is willing to work with us to get a shortened prison sentence.DT 17: Really? Who is it?CC: The inmate is Cyberlife Bus 101....DT 17: Shit...CFT: He better have some actual informaton to give us... what if he's just messing with us to waste our time?CC: We can't just ignore a possible lead.Cyberlife Car turns to look at his niece.CC: You don't have to come if you don't want to.DT 17: No, I can handle it. We need to solve this case.CC: Okay...They make their way towards the prison. Once Cyberlife Reunited arrive and enter the building, they're lead by guards to a more secure part of the prison, meant for holding the most dangerous and most high profile inmates, the worst of the worst. There are many highly firm doors on their way to the cells, requiring multiple keys and codes to unlock. After going through dozens of safety precautions, they finally get to the hallway where Cyberlife Bus 101's cell is. The hallway is dark, and each cell is extremely secure. Instead of prison bars, there's strong anti-vehicle glass stopping the inmates from getting out of their cells. No matter how hard they'd try to drive into the glass, it wouldn't budge. The glass is also bulletproof and soundproof. The only way a high profile inmate can even hear or talk back to prison staff, is when an extremely small vent in the glass is opened. When they're done communicating, the vent is closed once again.The prison guard: Tell us when you're done talking and we'll close the vent.CC: Got it.Cyberlife Reunited arrive in front of CB 101's cell. The communication vent is opened.CB 101: Long time, no see. I've been waiting for you. All of you.He says that, but his vision seems to be fixated on Detroit Taxi 17. He knows what he did has had an impact on her. He can tell from her body language, she's shaking slightly, but enough for CB 101 to notice. CC: Alright, let's get this over with. Tell us what you know.CB 101: What's with the hurry? And all of you are staying so far from my cell. That's quite rude, is it not? Come closer.CC: No, tell us what you know, or you'll never see us again.CB 101: Closer.CC: That's it, I've had enough of you. Guards-DT 17: Wait, hold on. We need to hear what he has to say. Trust me, I want to punch him as much as you do. But we need to bear with him for now.Detroit Taxi 17 is the first one to drive closer towards the cell. The others follow in her tracks, and do so as well.DT 17: You happy now?CB 101: Better. Tell me Detroit Taxi 17, how is your father doing?Detroit Taxi 17 doesn't want to answer, she doesn't want to talk to CB 101. But they need to play along for now, in case he actually does have valuable information to give.DT 17: He's doing good.CB 101: When's the last time you two talked? How can you be so sure he's doing good?DT 17: I talked to him today.CB 101: You didn't, I can hear the uncertainty in your voice. You're lying to me, it's rude to lie.DT 17: I talked to him last week.CB 101: Last week? That's a lot of time to be spending away from your father. Why are you two so distant now? You're living with your uncle but don't bother to talk to your father.DT 17: I'm not answering that.CB 101: What's wrong with a little friendly small talk? He's an accountant, right?DT 17: How do you-CB 101: Back when your group started looking into Snowfall, did you think I didn't research all of you? I have eyes everywhere. Your father, he works for the "Detroit's Vehicle Accounting" firm, am I correct?DT 17: Alright, we're leaving. It's clear you're just wasting our time.As a guard is about to come close the communication vent, CB 101 says something that catches CR's attention.CB 101: Jacob Mills. That's the one they abducted....CC: How do you know that? That information isn't public yet.CB 101: I know, because I know who did it. And what they want.CC: So tell us.CB 101: I need the contract to be official first. If I help you, my prison sentence is shortened. Do we all agree upon that?CC: Even if it is shortened, you'll still spend decades in prison. Once you get out, you'll only have a few short years left before you die of old age.CB 101: I know. But I want my last years of life to be in freedom. Do we have a deal?CC reluctantly agrees.CC: We have a deal...CB 101: Good.CC: So, who's behind the abduction?CB 101: His name is Cyberlife Truck 50. He's the leader of a group known as Prometheus.CC: And what does Prometheus want with Mills?CB 101: They need his skills. He's an expert on bomb defusal, for his whole life he's worked around bombs.DT 17: They're building a bomb...CC: We won't let them.CB 101: No. They took Mills, which means they already have the bomb. They're using him to work on the bomb so they can maximize its potential. Their plan is almost complete, the bomb is almost ready to be used.RB: Wait, how do you know all this?CB 101: Cyberlife Truck 50 was an associate of mine at one point. He's been planning this for years.CC: How dangerous is their bomb going to be?CB 101: Enough to take down Detroit.CC: We need to stop them... we need to inform the army and the government, this is bigger than anything we've dealt with yet.CB 101: That's all the information I have. If I remember something else, I'll let you know. I hope to see you all again.The communication vent is closed. Cyberlife Reunited start rushing towards their base.
=== Urgent Matters ===
Cyberlife Reunited has given authorities all the information they got from Cyberlife Bus 101. This is their most urgent case, they leave all the small crime to the police, they have much bigger things to worry about. Since they abducted Jacob Mills to make him modify the bomb, Cyberlife Reunited believes they might do it again, doubting one person is enough for the job. They start researching the citizens of Detroit to see if more people have worked with explosives and are a possible future victim.
Once they've gathered a list of people who might be in danger, they also notify the police about them. They rewatch the security camera footage over and over to try to look for clues, but don't get anything new out of it. They ask around the neighbourhood, interview witnesses, but they're not finding anything. No useful tire tracks, nothing. They're in the Stratford Tower discussing what to do.RB: So what do we do now...DT 17: We just have to keep looking.CC: We'll find something soon, we have to.CFT: Maybe this is too big for us. We're just a small team, even with Cyberlife Train there's only five of us. What can we do about a city destroying bomb?DT 17: I don't know, but we have to try to do something! We can't just stand by and wait for them to kill millions of people..CC: She's right. This is huge, but we have to help in any way we can.CFT: Getting us killed, chasing after something that's too big for us is not helping! What we need to do, is what we've been doing so far, fighting crime! We need to leave this for the professionals! It's not up to us to fight terrorists!DT 17: It's up to us to protect our city!RB: Hey we're all on the same side, let's calm down, okay?Them arguing together reminds Cyberlife Car of 2041, when Cyberlife United had conflict within. He doesn't want that to happen again.CC: RoTech Bus is right. We're a team. We need to work together on this.CFT: If we do this... if we try to stop Prometheus, we're gonna need everyone we can get. Cyberlife Van and Cyberlife Bus 5 can help us. And if you continue training Cyberlife Train, he can aid us too.CC: You're right. The entire city is at stake.Once everything's settled down, Cyberlife Car decides to continue his training with CTrain. Detroit Taxi 17 thinks back on their conversation with Cyberlife Bus 101, and starts reflecting on her relationship with Cyberlife Taxi 4. She questions how things got that bad between them, and wants to fix it. Since right now there's nothing they can do to stop Prometheus, she goes to visit him. Upon arriving, she's greeted by a melancholic looking Cyberlife Taxi 4.DT 17: Hey, I hope you don't mind me coming for a visit.CT 4: Not at all, it's good to see you again. You want something to drink?DT 17: Yeah, just some water please. Thanks.She glances over at the television. An ad for an upcoming children's movie is playing.DT 17: Seems they're making a Captain Future movie, we used to watch that cartoon all the time when I was little.CT 4: Yeah, we did! I remember it aired so late, that you always fell asleep 10 minutes into the episode because you were so tired. Yet every day, you were still so excited for the new Captain Future episode, even though you never had the energy to even finish watching one full episode.DT 17: Hey, no way I fell asleep that often! I remember some plotlines, like that time Captain Future's spaceship crashed on some alien planet and he had to use space crystals to contact his crew to come pick him up.CT 4: And what happened after that?DT 17: Uhh... I don't remember..CT 4: Yeah, because you fell asleep.DT 17: Ehh, so what. Their fault for airing a kids' show so late.CT 4: You're right about that. So, how have you been doing?DT 17: I'm doing good. You?CT 4: Me too....DT 17: Look, I'm not here just for small talk. We both know things aren't great between you and me. Lately, we've been distant from each other.Cyberlife Taxi 4 is looking back on everything that's happened in their relationship. Their highs and lows.CT 4: Yeah...DT 17: I don't want things to be like that. I miss when we stayed up late watching dumb cartoons. Things have changed between us. And I guess that's why I came here today. To stop that change.CT 4: That sounds... nice.DT 17: How did things even get this bad... I mean you're my dad, we shouldn't be talking once every few weeks.. I think we're both to blame. I know I haven't been fair to you to sometimes, and I'm sorry about that. But you could've handled things better too.Cyberlife Taxi 4 nods with regret.DT 17: But I need to know something.CT 4: Okay...DT 17: Why are you such an asshole to Cyberlife Car?CT 4: I... I guess you're old enough to know.DT 17: To know what?CT 4: The truth about your mother. About what happened to her.DT 17: You told me she died in a car crash.CT 4: But that's not what happened. Back when your uncle was still a boxer, he got into business with some bad people. To my understanding, he didn't know they were bad when he started working with them. And then, I guess he did something that upset them. And they.. they came here, to my house. Your mother was here too. Cyberlife Car was able to get them to spare you and me, but your mother... she.. you probably know.DT 17: Jesus christ... fuck......DT 17: What happened to the person who killed her?CT 4: He got what was coming to him.DT 17: Alright.. good.CT 4: Don't hate your uncle for what happened to your mom. I don't want him to lose you too.Detroit Taxi 17 hugs her father.DT 17: I'm sorry for ever lashing out at you.CT 4: It's okay. So I guess we'll be seeing each other more often now?DT 17: Yeah, of course.CT 4: That's great. I'm glad.DT 17: Me too.As she's leaving, she turns to look at her father once again.DT 17: You know... you should talk to Cyberlife Car again. I'm sure he misses being close with you.CT 4: I don't know... I don't think I'm ready.DT 17: Okay, but think about it.
=== Vicious Habitat ===
Detroit Taxi 17 meets up once again with Cyberlife Helicopter 11 in the Detroit Correctional Facility. She's wary of working together with CB 101, so she goes to to CH 11 for advice, as CH 11 has known CB 101 for years now. They go through the same safety precautions for the visit.CH 11: It's a pleasure to see you again, and so soon. So, what brings you here? I'm assuming this is more than just a friendly visit.DT 17: You're assuming right. I came here for advice for dealing with a certain vehicle. Cyberlife Bus 101.Hearing his name seems to give CH 11 shivers.CH 11: The Overseer... What about him?DT 17: Cyberlife Reunited is working with him to take down a threat. You've known CB 101 longer than any of us, I'm just wondering if you have any idea on how we should deal with him.CH 11: Don't work with him, that's my advice. You can't trust a word he says. Did you meet with him already?DT 17: We did.CH 11: You shouldn't have, you don't know him like I do. He manipulates everyone around him, you may think you have control over him when he's locked in a prison cell, but that's what he wants you to think. There's something I've learned from knowing him all this time, and it's that he's always in control.DT 17: We have no choice, he's our only clue.CH 11: Then wait for more clues. This is not going to go the way you think. Sooner or later, the Overseer always gets what he wants. I've seen what he's capable of. How he takes over situations where he's been completely overpowered. No matter how bad he's doing, he finds a way to turn it around for himself. No offense to any of you, but he's smarter than all of you. He's luckier than all of you. And he will find a way, no matter what. So you want my advice to you? Stay away from him. Don't listen to what he says.After they're done discussing, it's lunchtime in the prison. Cyberlife Helicopter 11 enters the cafeteria with his food tray, and begins taking the usual poorly cooked food. It always tastes horrible, but at least it's something to eat. As he's going to get seated, he notices the Mercedes Benz Bus again. The bus is surrounded by many vehicles, who seem to be harassing him. Cyberlife Helicopter 11 flies in closer to hear what they're saying.One of the vehicles in the group: Come on, give me your food you little bitch.MBB: I'm sorry, but I'm hungry. Can you just leave me alone?A bus in the group punches MBB, spilling his food onto the ground.Someone in the group: Fucking idiot.MBB can't seem to catch a break. Cyberlife Helicopter 11 feels bad for him, even though he knows MBB's done terrible things. He can't just stand by, so he intervenes.CH 11: You can take my food, alright? Let him be.Mercedes Bus looks at him with gratitude.Someone in the group: This doesn't concern you.CH 11: I said, leave him be.A car in the group punches Cyberlife Helicopter 11, and so the entire group switches their focus from MBB to CH 11. There are six vehicles ganging up on him. The next punch is from a truck, CH 11 fails to dodge. The vehicles surround him, all of them hitting him frequently. There are too many for him to be able to dodge hits effectively. Mercedes Benz Bus flees from the scene, leaving CH 11 alone. CH 11 manages to dodge a few hits, and then proceeds to fly higher into the air where most of the group can't reach him. After taking a moment to catch his breath, he flies back down and hits one of the cars with tremendous force. He was so quick, the group hasn't had time to react yet. He keeps punching the car unrelentingly, until he's knocked out. Next, a bus from the group drives at him. CH 11 changes his position, so that his rotor blades are pointed straight at the approaching bus. The bus doesn't have time to slow down, so he drives straight into the rotor blades, which break several of his windows and gravely wound the bus, who yells out in agony. It was like a human's face getting slashed with a sword. The bus is incapacitated from the injury. Only 4 hostile vehicles left.
After that, CH 11 notices a truck driving at him with full force. CH 11 quickly grabs his food tray from the ground, and throws it at the truck as a distraction. The distraction is succesful, as the truck loses track of where CH 11 was, which allows CH 11 to start beating on the truck. The truck tries to punch back, but CH 11 is far more agile, being able to hit the truck from his sides, constantly circling around him. As another vehicle tries to hit into CH 11, he uses the truck as a bodyshield, effectively knocking out the truck as well. 3 hostiles left.
CH 11 is caught off guard with a punch that comes from behind. He tries to retaliate, but is overwhelmed by the remaining vehicles ganging up on him once again. This time they're all extra cautious of his rotor blades. And even though CH 11 manages to get a couple hits in, he's getting beat down brutally. The group continues beating up CH 11 until prison guards arrive at the scene. With the guards, is Mercedes Bus. He must've lead them here to help CH 11. The guards take out their stun guns to immobilize the hostile vehicles, and CH 11 is rushed into the prison infirmary.
Several hours later, once Cyberlife Helicopter 11's injuries have been healed, he sees Mercedes Bus waiting for him outside the infirmary.MBB: Thanks for helping me out back there.CH 11: Yeah, didn't feel right to not do anything. When you fled the scene, I thought you left me alone to get beat up. Didn't expect you to go get the guards. Good thing you did.MBB: I wasn't sure what to do, I'm not really a fighter.They continue chatting as the scene cuts away to a different part of the prison. A more secure part. Cyberlife Bus 101 is in his cell. He hears footsteps in the hallway, a guard walks over to his cell.The guard: You have a call from your lawyer.All inmates have had their ability to call people digitally disabled, so the guard hands CB 101 a telephone through the communication vent. The guard then walks away, as he's not allowed to listen to calls due to attorney-client confidentiality. Cyberlife Bus 101 answers the call, knowing it's not really from his lawyer.Cyberlife Truck 50: Have you met with Reunited yet?CB 101: Yes. I told them what I needed to.CT 50: Good. Do you need our help or can you do it yourself?CB 101: I only need a little bit of help. Once I know a certain address, I need you to send someone to go there and kill the vehicle living there.CT 50: Understood. When will you know this address?CB 101: Now, but first you need to connect me to the "Detroit's Vehicle Accounting" company's phone number.Prometheus has skilled hackers who are able to tamper with the prison telephone's phone lines, making it possible to connect it to other numbers, not just the prisoner's attorney. They connect CB 101's call to the company's phone number.The employee: Hello, this is Detroit's Vehicle Accounting. What can I do for you?CB 101: Hello, I actually work here as a matter of fact. My name is Cyberlife Taxi 4.The employee: Mhm.CB 101: In my foolishness, I left some work folders in my office. I would very much appreciate it if you could go pick up those folders, order a taxi and have that taxi drive them to my house. I'll pay for the taxi, of course. It's just that this is very urgent, I have an important client that I don't want to disappoint.The employee: I'm sure you know this is very unusual, can't you just come pick them up?CB 101: I mean, yes I could. But I just have so much work to do, and the drive to the office takes so long. Driving back and forth would waste a lot of valuable time I could've spent working. I'm really sorry to bother you like this, but life's just been hard recently. My daughter moved away and we're in bad relations, everything's going wrong. I don't want to lose work clients besides all that. But if it's too much of a hassle, I can come to the office myself.The employee: No, it's alright. I can go take the folders and send a taxi to get them to you. I hope things go better for you.CB 101: Thank you so much, you're an angel. And I'm sure they will.The employee: I'll order the taxi first.CB 101: Great, you can find my address from the company's files....The employee: Alright, found it.CB 101: Good! Wait, can you read it out loud to me? I've had some issues in the past with the firm assigning wrong addresses to me. Wouldn't want it to be a wrong address once again.The employee: Yeah sure, it's "15300 Lyndon Street", right?CB 101: Perfect, that's the one. Thank you so very much.The employee: So is that where I send the-Cyberlife Bus 101 hangs up the call, so it redirects back to Cyberlife Truck 50.CB 101: The address is 15300 Lyndon Street. Send someone to get it done with.CT 50: Understood.They end the phone call, and Cyberlife Bus 101 alerts the guards, politely informing them that he's done using the phone. He's eagerly waiting for the chaos of his actions to ensue.
=== The Calm Before the Storm ===
RoTech Bus is in the Cyberlife Reunited base in the Stratford Tower. He's at a table, with multiple tools placed everywhere. He's working on some kind of project, while talking to Cyberlife Fire Truck at the same time.CFT: If Prometheus really is as dangerous as CB 101 claims, do you think we can handle them?RB: We have to be able to. Nothing's stopped us yet.CFT: It was close with Snowfall. If it wasn't for CH 11, we'd all be dead.RB: I prefer not to think about things that morbidly. Look, you seem really worried, if you don't want to do this, you don't have to.CFT: I'm not worried or scared, I'm just cautious.RB: No need to be, it's just a city destroying bomb, what could go wrong?CFT: Are you serious? Millions could be killed, that's what could go wrong.RB: Yeah I know, it was a joke.CFT: Well it wasn't funny, this is no laughing matter.RB: I'm serious though, you don't have to do this if you don't want to.CFT: I guess I am scared... feels odd to admit that, I'm a fire truck after all. What could a fire truck have to fear? We're born to be brave, to rescue others from dangerous situations. The truth is, everything about me was decided the day I was born.RoTech Bus moves away from his electronics to listen to what CFT is saying.CFT: There's a certain expectation everyone has for you once you're born a fire truck. And for the longest time I tried to live up to that expectation. I wanted to be the brave hero that firefighters are supposed to be. The kind of person that drives into a burning building without a second thought. One time when I was still young and new to firefighting, I got the call to a burning building in the slums of Detroit. It was really old and unstable. Seemed to have been abandoned, I doubted anyone still lived there. I couldn't see the fire from the outside, so I went in. The walls were crumbling and weak, but I kept going. I went up three flights of stairs, until the floor below me collapsed. The actual fall to the ground wasn't bad. The worst part was what came after that. I noticed my tires were stuck underground, I tried to move but I couldn't. Pieces of rubble began falling on top of me, walls collapsing in on me. Before I even knew it, I was buried underground by all the rubble. The slightest movements just buried me deeper. I couldn't push any of it away from me, I was completely stuck under all that concrete. The only source of light was a small gap to the outside. I called for help, it took hours for the other fire trucks to arrive. Hours without being able to move, surrounded by nothing but rubble.RB: Is that where your claustrophobia comes from?CFT: Yeah, that's where it comes from. Once the others arrived, they moved the rubble, and found me. Crying, scared, weak. The fire truck that couldn't stop one small fire in an abandoned building. They laughed at me, as I expected they would. Even the adults at the fire station looked down on me. After that I knew I could never be like them. I'd always be the cowardly fire truck in their eyes. You know RB, sometimes I wonder what you see in me. I don't have your bravery. I don't have your charisma, your wittiness and I don't have your sense of humor.RB: But you know what you do have? Calmness. Compassion. Wisdom. You think things through, you're not impulsive like me. You see others' sides in things. That's what I see in you. I don't need some muscular jock with a dozen girlfriends, I need you Blaze. Remember that. It's been me and you for years now, we've got each others' backs.Cyberlife Fire Truck nods.CFT: Thank you, I appreciate it. What are you even working on?RB: You'll see soon, I wanna show it to the others at the same time as well.Meanwhile, Cyberlife Car is finishing up training with Cyberlife Train. They're at the same industrial complex as where they were before.CC: You're really improving at a quick pace. You still need a bit more control over your movements, but we're getting there.CTrain: That's good to hear. This training's also helping me in my everyday life, I feel more comfortable in my body, you know? After the resurrection, everything felt off. My mind, my body, everything. Cyberlife Recycle Truck 64 helped me with my mind, and now you're helping with my physicality.CC: She was a good person...CTrain: She was. Do you know if she suffered when she died?Cyberlife Car thinks it's best to keep the truth from him.CC: She didn't suffer.CTrain: That's reassuring at least. It feels like for my whole life I've lacked control. I couldn't stop the derailing and the deaths of all the dozens of passengers inside me. I couldn't stop the taxis from killing Cyberlife Train Station. I couldn't fight back against the Mercedes Gang... and after all that, I wasn't there for Cyberlife Recycle Truck 64. I've done nothing, I've been helpless my whole life. I want that to change. That's why this, joining Reunited, is so important to me.CC: I get it. I just don't want to lose you too. You're a good friend, and sometimes it feels like you're my only connection to that past life with Cyberlife United. Everyone else has either died or is busy with their own things, like Cyberlife Van and Cyberlife Bus 5.CTrain: Yeah... you know, this morning was the first time after his death, that I didn't think about Cyberlife Bus. I just made breakfast and continued the day casually. And I guess it's like good that I'm moving on.. but what if some day I forget his voice? What if I some day I forget about him entirely? I don't want that to happen. He deserves better than to be forgotten.CC: He won't be forgotten. His legacy lives on through Reunited.CTrain: You're right.CC: I should probably go back to the base, it's getting late. Do you wanna come too? You'll be a member of the group, after all. There's enough space.CTrain: Sounds good. I'll come.It starts raining heavily just as they arrive at the base. Upon arriving, Cyberlife Car and CTrain notice that the other members are already there. RoTech Bus seems to be ready to make some kind of an announcement.RB: Ah good, you two are here.CFT: Do I finally get to find out what you were working on?RB: Don't be impatient, and it's nothing big. Okay everyone, I created these small tracking devices for all of us to use. Everyone gets one. It's simple, all you have to do is throw or attach it onto whatever you want to track.RoTech Bus showcases it by throwing one of his trackers onto Cyberlife Fire Truck.CFT: Hey, what the hell?RB: They're small, and very hard to notice. The bad guy you threw it on, won't even notice it.CFT: Are you calling me a bad guy?RB: Yes, I am. Anyways, it's automatically connected to your Cyberlife systems. You can see the tracker's location no matter how far away they are. If you're chasing someone and want to make sure you don't lose track of them, just throw this bad boy onto them and you're guaranteed to get to them eventually.DT 17: Nice, that'll be useful. Good job!RB: Thank you, and like I said, everyone only gets one for now. I'll start producing more later, but for now, use it wisely. That is all. Oh and welcome, Cyberlife Train. Good to have you on the team.CTrain: Am I officially in Cyberlife Reunited now?CC: I don't see why not, you have the skills and you're staying at the base. So yeah, congratulations.RB: That requires some sort of celebration. Let's order some kebab!CFT: What is it with you and your obsession with kebab?RB: It just tastes good, so what?DT 17: Well I can't argue with his logic. We shall order some kebab.RB: Good! So, Cyberlife Train. How are you doing?CTrain: I'm doing good, but this is all just new to me.RB: You'll get used to it.CTrain: Any important threats or criminals I should know about?RB: We can get to that later, now is a time of celebration.CTrain: Right. So what do we until the kebab arrives?RB: Hmm... anyone got any ideas?CC: Oh I know, we did this with Cyberlife United once. A roasting competition.RB: But we don't have any grills here, what will we roast?CFT: No, CC meant it as like making joking insults, you know? Roasting.RB: Bro I know, it was a joke. Again.CFT: Oh...DT 17: Well CC, since you're the one who suggested it, tell us how this works.CC: Okay, easy. First, someone is picked as the person that everyone else is gonna roast. everyone has one roast they can say. Whoever says the best roast gets a point. Once everyone's said their roast regarding that person, we pick a next person to get roasted. At the end, whoever has the most points, wins.DT 17: Sounds simple enough.CC: Since I suggested it, everyone can roast me first. It's alright if it sucks, we're just here to have fun.RB: Okay, um... what's the difference between CC and a crippling alcoholic?CC: Tell me.RB: I don't know, I was genuinely asking a question. I don't think there even is a difference.CC: Very clever...DT 17: Hey uncle, have you made any retirement plans yet?CC: No, I have not.DT 17: Good, you probably won't even live that long because your drinking's gonna give you liver cancer.CC, laughing: Hey can we not make it so all these are about me liking to have a few beers?DT 17: You're the one who suggested we do this!CC: Yeah, I guess. So, who's next?CFT: Hey, has anyone seen CC recently? All I see is this fossil that slightly resembles a car.CC: Yeah because I'm old, good one. At least I know what sarcasm is.RB: Ooh, counter roast!CTrain: Okay my turn... hm.. uh, how does it feel knowing you peaked when your job was getting beat up in a boxing ring all the time?CC: It feels good, thank you for asking.DT 17: Alright, that's everyone. So do you just decide who you think had the best roast?CC: Yeah, it's up to the person who got roasted. And I say... hm, damn everyone had some good ones! But I have to go with RoTech Bus on this one.RB: Oh wow. I didn't even have to bribe him with promises of a beer if he chose me!CC: Oh, shut up. Alright, who wants to get roasted next?RB: Me please.That's when their kebab arrives. They continue their roasting competition while eating their food at the same time. The rounds go by quick, and soon it's time for the last person to get roasted. The points are tied, as RoTech Bus and Detroit Taxi 17 both have 2 points. Everyone else has 0 points, so for the last round they gave up even trying, leaving it as a 1v1 duel. Detroit Taxi 17 vs RoTech Bus. The person they have to roast is Cyberlife Fire Truck. It'd be easy for them to mock his inability to recognize sarcasm, but at this point it would feel too obvious. They have to try to go with something better if they want to win.CFT: Alright, one of you, roast me.There's a long silence between the both of them. They both have to very carefully think of what their roast will be. Detroit Taxi 17 fears that CFT being best friends with RB might lead to him being biased. After pondering for a long time about his roast, RB is ready to say it.RB: Blaze, I know I tend to make jokes at your expense... but I know that some day you'll go far. I hope you stay there.DT 17: Ouch.CFT chuckles, and says: Okay, that wasn't too bad.RB: Look at that, I made a joke about you and you didn't get butthurt over it! I'm proud of you, Blaze.CFT: Shut up already.DT 17: Alright, my turn. Hm.. Hey, why do you still have that fire truck paint on? Halloween was months ago, you don't have to keep pretending you actually do something that helps anyone.CFT: Nice... gonna have to say Detroit Taxi 17 is the winner on this one.RB: Oh, come on Blaze...CC: And so she is the winner. Good job.DT 17: Thank you, thank you. What do I get as a reward?CC: You gain the title of officially being the best roaster.DT 17: Oh wow, it's truly an honor.RB: Well, I gracefully accept defeat.DT 17: As you should. You-Detroit Taxi 17 is interrupted by a call from Cyberlife Taxi 4.DT 17: Hold on, I gotta answer this.She answers the call. In another part of Detroit, Cyberlife Taxi 4 is looking outside his window in his kitchen.CT 4: Christ, you seeing this rain? It's like a damn storm outside.DT 17: Yeah, it's crazy. It's supposed to be summer right now, but it certainly doesn't feel like it. So, how are you doing?CT 4: I'm good, just wanted to check up on you. How's everything going in the Reunited base?DT 17: We're having fun, we just had a roasting competition, actually. I won.CT 4: Oh really? Well done. Is everything alright with Cyberlife Car?DT 17: I haven't really talked to him yet, about what happened to my mom. Not sure there even is anything to talk about.CT 4: Right... but at least tell him you know the truth, I don't want him to feel like I went behind his back by telling you without his knowledge.DT 17: Yeah, sure. Hey it's gotta be lonely in there, being by yourself and all. Why don't you come over here to the Stratford Tower? There's still some kebab left.CT 4: Sounds lovely, but I feel like things would just get awkward.DT 17: No, I doubt that. Come on.CT 4: I don't know......CT 4: Wait.DT 17: What?CT 4: I hear something.Cyberlife Taxi 4 slowly moves away from the window. He hears his front door slightly creaking, it's being opened.DT 17: Hello? Is everything okay?He hears a car in his house. It's driving towards the bedroom, CT 4 is currently in the kitchen. His hunting rifle is located in a closet in the living room, he has to get to it. Detroit Taxi 17 knows something's wrong. She grabs a gun and rushes to the other CR members.CC: Hey, what's going on?DT 17: Something's happening at your brother's place. We need to hurry.
=== The Storm ===
Cyberlife Taxi 4 makes it to the living room, he hasn't been spotted by the vehicle yet. He hears it entering the bedroom. CT 4 grabs his hunting rifle, and makes his way to the bedroom where the vehicle currently is. He's cautiously moving forward, already aiming his rifle, ready to pull the trigger. Once he's right outside the bedroom, he leans against the wall, waiting for the vehicle to come out.
Detroit Taxi 17 is speeding through the city, with the other members of Reunited close behind her. The heavy downpour is affecting her vision.
The vehicle comes out of the bedroom, Cyberlife Taxi 4 immediately points his rifle at him. The vehicle is a car.CT 4: Stop. Don't move. Who sent you?The car doesn't answer.CT 4: I ASKED YOU WHO SENT YOU!That's when he hears something behind him. There's another vehicle in the house. Not knowing what to do, he pulls the trigger, and kills the car. After that, 2 bullets pierce Cyberlife Taxi 4 from behind. He jumps into cover. Everything went from calmness to chaos in less than a minute. His bullet wounds aren't lethal, but they're painful. While in cover, he grabs a chair and throws it out to where his enemy can see. Due to reflexes upon seeing any movement, the enemy shoots the chair instantly, giving CT 4 time to jump out and shoot his foe, killing him. CT 4 then turns around and sees two more vehicles. He isn't quick enough to shoot, resulting in another bullet hitting him. This time it hit one of his tires. He can't move properly anymore, but still manages to get into a nearby room for cover. He proceeds to topple a metallic bookshelf in front of the door to momentarily stop the vehicles from getting inside. They start shooting into the room through the walls, but none of the bullets hit him. One of the vehicles starts driving up against the door until it breaks, CT 4 has his rifle aimed and ready. The door is about to break. Cyberlife Taxi 4 knows he can't kill both of them. But he'll do what he can. The two vehicles get inside. He manages to shoot one of them, but the other one is too quick. Cyberlife Taxi 4 is shot near his engine. He's shot again. CT 4's rifle drops onto the ground. He's clinging onto life. One more bullet would be enough to kill him. Detroit Taxi 17 barges into the room, pushing the car's weapon onto the ground. She hits him, pushing him away from CT 4. The enemy car now hears other vehicles outside, approaching the house, so he escapes through the back door. DT 17 turns around to see her father, bloody on the ground, riddled with gunshot wounds.DT 17: No, no, no...Once Cyberlife Car arrives and sees what happened to his brother, he's overcome with hate. He chases after the vehicle who exited through the back. Detroit Taxi 17 stays with her father.CT 4: Hey.. honey..DT 17: Hey dad... you'll live, we can drive you to the hospital, okay?Detroit Taxi 17 takes her father and tries to carry him, but he groans out in pain.DT 17: Come on, you can do this! We have to keep going!CT 4: No, I think... I think I'm done..DT 17: Don't say that, don't say that.She turns away and yells: SOMEBODY GET AN AMBULANCE! HELP!DT 17: Come on, stay with me, stay with me. Stay strong, okay?CT 4: Where's.. where's CC? I'd like him to be here..DT 17: He's going after whoever did this. We're gonna stop them.. but I need you to stay with me, help is coming. Just stay with me.CT 4: Tell him... tell him that...DT 17: Tell him what?...CT 4: Nothing...Cyberlife Car is chasing the vehicle in the rain. He can barely see him anymore, but he's still just able to keep up. He feels anger and desperation. He has to get to who did this, they can't get away with it. Cyberlife Fire Truck tries to help Detroit Taxi 17 attend to CT 4's wounds, but he only has minimal medical knowledge. The injuries are too severe for him to be able to help. Detroit Taxi 17 is doing everything she can, but it's not enough.CT 4: I.. love you.DT 17: I love you too..The wounds are lethal, and Cyberlife Taxi 4 takes his last breath. Detroit Taxi 17 is sobbing, still holding her father. Cyberlife Car takes out his gun as he sees the vehicle entering a building. He cautiously follows it into the building, making sure not to get ambushed. Upon entering, he sees the building is like a factory. There are gears, pipes and such everywhere. The building seems to be abandoned. He doesn't know where the vehicle went, but he's here somewhere. Cyberlife Car continues moving, trying to be as quiet as possible. He hears some slight movement around him, but can't tell quite where it came from. It's very dark in the building, the only occasional lighting he gets is when it thunders outside. He keeps going, as the movement around him gets louder. Like there are vehicles everywhere. But no one's attacking him yet. He keeps moving, until suddenly the lights in the building are turned on. Cyberlife Car sees railings above him, and on these railings are dozens of vehicles. They're all observing him. He points his gun at them, ready to shoot, until he hears a voice.Cyberlife Truck 50: Hello, Cyberlife Car. We meet at last.CC: Who are you?CT 50: I'm the man you've been looking for.CC: Everyone here, you're all Prometheus... Why are you doing this?CT 50: Detroit is living on borrowed time. We're here to end it.CC: You went after my brother... why? He wasn't a part of this!CT 50: A means to an end. It wasn't personal. We had to get you here.CC: You're going to kill millions... millions of lives lost, and for what?CT 50: To save so many more. We're not terrorists. CC: I'm going to kill every last one of you...Cyberlife Car points his gun at Cyberlife Truck 50.CT 50: Is that your plan? You shoot me and you're dead.CC: If that means taking you down with me, I'd be glad to.CT 50: You fire one bullet, and you die. You're not taking me down. Not like that. Put the gun away.Cyberlife Car hesitates, but throws his weapon onto the ground.CC: What do you want from me?CT 50: I need to see if you're the man everyone claims you to be. One on one.Cyberlife Truck 50 glances at his group, then looks back at CC.CT 50: They won't intervene.Without a moment of hesitation, Cyberlife Car rushes at his opponent in pure rage. Cyberlife Truck 50 doesn't dodge, CC pushes him against the wall. He then grabs CT 50, and starts beating him into a set of large nearby gears. CT 50 is being repeatedly bashed into them, until he retaliates and hits CC back. He punches CC again, seemingly unfazed by being bashed into the gears. Cyberlife Car rushes at him again, but CT 50 dodges the attack and hits CC's tires, pushing him onto the ground. Before he can get up, Cyberlife Truck 50 starts beating CC against the floor. The beating is stopped by CC grabbing a nearby pipe and bashing it into his opponent. He hits with it again, but once again it doesn't seem to do much to his opponent. Cyberlife Truck 50 drives into CC, throwing him against a wall.CT 50: Your movements are slow, your power is minimal. Peace has cost you your strength. Victory has defeated you.Cyberlife Car yells out, and starts punching Cyberlife Truck 50 with all his strength. He's beating on him relentlessly, anyone else would be knocked out by now. Yet CT 50 is undaunted.CT 50: Cyberlife Car. The Blue Surge. Your name used to send shivers of fear onto anyone who dared to face you. But look at you now.Cyberlife Truck 50 drives into CC again.CT 50: Weak. Old. Only a mere shell of who you used to be.He starts beating on CC, who tries to block the hits but mostly fails. The truck is bigger than him, it's stronger. But he won't give up. CC dodges the next hit, and punches CT 50's front tire, momentarily incapacitating him. He then hits CT 50 twice, and proceeds to retreat. CC grabs a pipe from the ground, and throws it at the lights, breaking them. The room is filled with darkness once again.CT 50: You think darkness will save you?Cyberlife Truck 50 turns on his headlights, but CC isn't in his view anymore.CT 50: This is nothing but a waste of time.Cyberlife Truck 50 starts moving through the dark building, looking everywhere around him.CT 50: Show yourself.He keeps moving until Cyberlife Car jumps onto him. CC had climbed on top of a set of machinery. He has a sharp metallic blade that he found on the floor, and with it he starts stabbing the top of CT 50. To retaliate, CT 50 starts driving at full speed, then suddenly brakes. The momentum is enough to throw CC back onto the ground, where CT 50 hits him once again. He grabs CC, just to throw him onto the ground with immense strength. As he hit the ground, CC was reminded of his boxing days. What it was like getting knocked onto the floor of the boxing ring, as his family and friends were in the audience supporting him. He remembers what it was like for the referee to start counting up to 10, knowing you have to get up, and soon. Or you'll lose. No matter what, he had to keep going. And that applies to now. Cyberlife Car starts gathering his strength, and he gets back up.CT 50: Even now at the end, you're still trying. That, I find admirable.Cyberlife Truck 50 punches him onto the ground again.CT 50: But your efforts are worthless.As CC is laying on the ground barely conscious, full of dents, systems failing, Cyberlife Truck 50 grabs him. He starts carrying him over to the stairs. Cyberlife Car can't see properly, his vision is glitching. CT 50 drives up the stairs, still holding CC. Soon after, CC feels the heavy rain drenching him in water. It takes a moment for him to realize CT 50 carried him to the roof of the building. The cold rain, the thundering weather. He doesn't want these to be his last moments. CC is able to escape from his foe's grasp, and attempts to fight back. But as he guessed, his efforts were futile, CT 50 being able to stun CC with a single punch. He grabs CC once again, and drives over to the ledge of the building. The building is roughly 40 meters tall, making the fall extremely lethal.CT 50: Don't be afraid. Death comes for us all. You can't evade it forever.He throws Cyberlife Car off of the rooftop. He can feel his life flashing in front of him. This isn't how he wanted to go. But it's too late. He falls onto the cold, hard concrete. Nearly everything inside him is wrecked. Like he was crushed to death. But he's not quite dead. Not yet. He doesn't even immediately realize it, he's still alive. The pain is unbearable. He just wants it to be over. All he can hear is the rain falling onto the concrete around him. Until he hears voices. He can't recognize them, or what they're saying. But he knows someone is nearby. Everything starts fading to black, he's not sure if he's passing out or dying. Either way at least it brings an end to his pain.
== Chapter 2 ==
=== Havoc ===
Detroit Taxi 17 is in the Cyberlife Reunited base with the other members of the group. She's still drenched by the rain. All she can think about, all she can focus on, is her father dying. She feels like she failed him. Like what happened with Cyberlife Recycle Truck 64. People around her always die, and it's starting to feel like she infects every life around her. She isn't focusing on what the other members are saying, she's thinking about what things could have been like if she was there with CT 4. They couldn't have killed both of them. But she left him alone.
The other members are discussing the whereabouts of Cyberlife Car, they called over Cyberlife Van and Cyberlife Bus 5 to also come to the base and discuss the situation.RB: We don't know where he is, we searched everywhere. His location is turned off.CV: Why is his location turned off?RB: I don't know! Something must've happened.CV: I'll have my drones search the area, we're bound to find something.RB: Thank you... fuck, everything's gone to shit! How are we supposed to stop Prometheus now?Detroit Taxi 17 drives over to the group.DT 17: By doing what we've done so far. And by finding Cyberlife Car. They won't get away with what they did.CV: What if Cyberlife Car... died?DT 17: He didn't. We're going to find him. We can't give up now. Now's more important than ever, that we keep going. We can't let my dad's death be for nothing. The entire city is at stake. I'm gonna go training, we need to be ready for when we run into them. Cyberlife Van and RoTech Bus, you can keep looking for CC. Everyone else? I suggest you also get prepared by training.Detroit Taxi 17 exits the room. She goes to the base's shooting range, which is soundproof so that the gunshots are barely heard in the other rooms. RoTech Bus and Cyberlife Fire Truck look at each other. They both think there was something odd about DT 17's behavior.CFT: Hey, you think she was acting kinda strange?RB: She just lost her dad, it's understandable.CFT: I know, but still... she should have some time to grieve. Jumping right back into the action like that... that can't be healthy.RB: Yeah, I agree. I'm gonna go talk to her. You keep strategizing with Cyberlife Van.CFT: Good idea.RoTech Bus drives over to the shooting range. There he sees Detroit Taxi 17 with a pistol pointed at the target practice. There are human and vehicle targets, the targets that she's already shot have all been shot extremely precisely. All the humans have gunshots right on their heads, and the vehicles right where the engines are. Detroit Taxi 17 keeps shooting, not missing a single bullet.RB: Hey, would you mind stopping for a minute?The gunshots are too loud for her to hear him, so RB goes to tap DT 17 on her shoulder. She turns around with extremely quick reflexes, and points the gun at RB.RB: Hey! It's just me, okay?Detroit Taxi 17 immediately lowers her weapon.DT 17: Christ, I'm sorry...RB: It's okay. I just wanted to talk to you.DT 17: Okay, let's talk.RB: Right... I wanted to talk to you about what happened to your father.She doesn't respond.RB: I know what it's like, I really do. I lost my sister a couple years ago, and I know what you're going through. You're replaying the situation over and over in your head, thinking if you did this or that, he'd still be alive. Don't do that. There was nothing you could have done.DT 17: Yeah, I know.RB: Do you? Or are you just saying that so I go away?Once again, she doesn't respond.RB: Look, it's okay to grieve. Don't shut your emotions out because you want to stop the people who did this. We're gonna stop them. But it's good if you take some time to process what you're feeling, and if you need someone to talk to, I'm here for you.DT 17: Thank you. But really, I just think we should keep training.RB: Okay... but like I said, if you need someone to talk to, I'm here.DT 17: Got it.She goes back to shooting at the targets. RoTech Bus exits the shooting range and drives over to the other members of the group. They continue discussing strategy on what to do. Once they have nothing more to discuss, Cyberlife Van talks in private with Cyberlife Bus 5.CV: We should've been here... Cyberlife Car's always been one of us. Even though we weren't there for him when he needed us after Cyberlife Bus's death.CB 5: We weren't. But there's still hope. Cyberlife Car is a tough man to kill.CV: I'm not much of a religious vehicle, but I pray that he's alive. The three of us have been here since the beginning. The only ones left from Cyberlife United. What he did to Silvie was wrong, but that was no reason for us to abandon him like that.CB 5: We were too focused on ourselves.CV: I was too focused on the law. I'm rather old fashioned in that way. I used to think that people were either good or bad, no in-between. Those who follow the law and those who break it. But it's not that simple. When Cyberlife Car crossed the line, I didn't know what to make of it.CB 5: If he's still alive, we'll get to fix that mistake. It's never too late.CV: And if he's not...CB 5: We'll look out for his group. Make sure his death wasn't in vain.Detroit Taxi 17 keeps training for hours. She does pull ups, trains her speed, and continues improving her accuracy and aim. Once she's done for the day, she takes a shower. As she turns on the shower and the water pours onto her, she starts getting flashes of her father's death. The water from the shower is like the rain outside when it happened. She has to immediately shut off the shower to make it stop. She tries to keep calm, but can't. She lays against the shower wall and begins sobbing. She's able to get herself together, and turns the shower back on, despite the painful memories. Once she's cleaned herself up, she exits the shower. Cyberlife Van and Cyberlife Bus 5 have already left, and Cyberlife Train is sleeping. As she's driving over to her room, she hears RoTech Bus and Cyberlife Fire Truck watching "Kōtsū shudan Bōken: Series X". She considers going there to watch it with them, she doesn't wanna feel alone, but decides not to. She doesn't want to bother them. As she's about to close her room's door, she hears RoTech Bus say something.RB: Hey DT 17, wanna come watch Kōtsū shudan Bōken with us? It's good to get your mind off things.DT 17: That'd be nice.RB: Great, come on in. We have some cheetos and coke. Coca Cola of course, not cocaine- you know what I'm talking about.DT 17 chuckles and says: Yeah, great.They sit down and continue watching their show. They wake up the next day to news that Cyberlife Bus 101 has more information to give. They have no other leads to go off of, so they agree to meeting him once again, despite how much Detroit Taxi 17 despises everything about him. They go through the same procedures as before, and arrive at the hallway where all the secure inmates' cells are located. They drive over to CB 101's cell, and his communication vent is opened.CB 101: Hello again, Detroit Taxi 17. As beautiful and elegant as always. No Cyberlife Car this time?DT 17: He's busy, no point in sending the entire group here.CB 101: He still hasn't returned, has he?DT 17: What the fuck did you say?CB 101: From that night during the storm. Cyberlife Car chased after them... and he hasn't returned.DT 17: How the hell do you know what happened?CB 101: I'm the one who organized it. I sent them to attack your father, we knew Cyberlife Car would chase after us. My plan seems to have worked in luring him in. And in killing your father.Detroit Taxi 17 takes out her gun and points it at CB 101.DT 17: This bulletproof glass is the only fucking thing keeping you alive right now.CB 101: Yes, quite frankly it is. I'm sure you'd love to kill me right now.DT 17: That'd be too quick of a death for you.CB 101: Your leader is dead. Your father is dead. Perhaps it'd be best for you to leave Detroit, and to never come back.DT 17: I'm going to kill you. Not now, but eventually your time will come. And when it does, you can bet that I'm going to enjoy every single second of your painful death. I'm going to enjoy knowing you're gonna be rotting in hell for the rest of eternity.CB 101: Is that a promise?DT 17: It's the truth. You remember that deal we made about shortening your prison sentence? That's not happening, you're gonna spend the rest of your life here.CB 101: We'll see. RoTech Bus, how are you doing?RB: Fuck you.CB 101: Why so rude? I'm trying to tell you something.RB: Then tell me. Did you invite us here to torment us or do you have something of use to tell?CB 101: RoTech Bus 4's death. She was your sister, wasn't she?RB: Don't you dare mention her.CB 101: I know who killed her.RB: What?CB 101: You heard me. I didn't do it, but I know who did. He's here in this prison.RB: How can I know you're telling the truth? You've done nothing but been a lying piece of shit, why should I believe you now?CB 101: So you're going to leave it at that? I doubt that. You've been begging for clues for years now. You want to hear what I have to say. But you're not going to. You're going to have to earn that.CB 101 shouts at the guards: Guards? We're done, they can leave now.RB: We're not done here.CB 101: I believe we are.The guards close the communication vent, leaving RoTech Bus and Detroit Taxi 17 frustrated and angry.
=== Awakening ===
Cyberlife Car wakes up in a strange environment. His vision is blurry. Everything hurts. He's laying on top of some kind of bed. "So I'm not dead..." he thinks to himself. But he's still confused as to where he even is. He knows someone saved him, but who?He hears a stranger say "Everyone, he's awake."Cyberlife Car tries to get up from his bed, but someone immediately stops him and says: That isn't very smart, you should just lay for now.
A group of vehicles with tools surround him. They're adjusting something on CC, but before he can ask them what they're doing, he notices his blurry vision becoming clearer. Soon he can see normally, and thanks the vehicles who fixed his vision. Then he recognizes someone. RoTech Motorcycle.RM: Hey, remember me?CC: Jesus christ... RoTech Motorcycle... what are you doing here in Detroit?RM: We have the same goal that you seem to have. We want to stop Prometheus.Cyberlife Car is starting to lose his momentary sense of security. The one who saved him is someone who tried to kill him in the past. RoTech Motorcycle can see his attitude switch.RM: Calm down, we have a mutual enemy, I'm not going to kill you. Why else would we have saved you?CC: So why did you save me?RM: We didn't know what else to do. We were planning an attack on the Prometheus base, we were going to use the storm as a cover to help with stealth. But when we got there, we found you outside. Nearly dead. Our main strategy for the attack was focused around it being an ambush. The fact that they already fought you meant that they would be on edge, they'd be ready for more hostiles. So our plan was ruined and we had to retreat. In the process, we decided to save you. We figured it'd be good to have more people on our side.CC: Thank you.RM: It wasn't an easy task to save you. Most of us thought you were already dead when we found you. Your insides were poking out, tires completely crushed, but we have skilled medics. They switched your tires, did what they could to fix your insides. It's gonna hurt for a long time, but you'll recover eventually.CC: I really appreciate it, but I have to ask. Why are you against Prometheus?RM: Cyberlife Truck 50 killed my friends and took members of my group. That fucker had offered me a deal, if I give him the three members that he was asking for, he'd pay us. He really thought that I was willing to give away my own people for some cash. So I refused. And so he and his group attacked our base. They abducted the members he wanted, and killed the people that got in his way.CC: I'm sorry you went through that. Any idea what he wanted your members for?RM: Do you know about Prometheus's bomb?CC: We heard about it from a former associate of CT 50.RM: Yeah, I'm guessing he's using them to work on it. I doubt it was a coincidence the ones he wanted were all skilled with technical things like that.CC: So Mills wasn't the only one they took... what do you know about Prometheus?RM: We've heard that all the members except CT 50 himself are mutes. They only communicate with each other digitally.CC: Mutes? Why?RM: They're all blindly devoted to their cause. The moment they joined they all permanently removed their ability to talk. That way if one of them is captured, they can't be interrogated. The only communication they need is with each other, and they can do that digitally through Cyberlife systems.CC: And what's their cause? Why do they plan on using the bomb?RM: I don't know, and I don't need to know. All I care about is killing him. I already tried the last time we met, but I couldn't. It's like he's invincible.CC: Yeah, I fought him, or tried to at least... it was pretty one sided. It was like nothing even hurt him. I stabbed him, beat him, threw him into gears. And he continued on, barely showing any signs of injury.RM: That isn't gonna stop me the next time I see him. I'm getting my people back, and I'm killing him.CC: Then that leaves you and I with a mutual goal. And like the old saying goes, my enemy's enemy is my friend.RM: We're not friends. But we can work together.CC: Good. Wait, can't we just send the army to kill them? We know where their base is.RM: If we do that, there's nothing stopping them from just detonating the bomb and taking everyone else down with them.CC: Right... Where even are we right now?RM: In the sewers of Detroit. Me and the rest of the Chicago Falcons use them to move through the city undetected. We set up this small camp here to stay for now until we go back to Chicago.CC: The Chicago Falcons, is that your group?RoTech Motorcycle nods.CC: Yeah. I have a new group now too, as you probably know. Cyberlife Reunited, they'll partner with you too. Speaking of them, they must be worried to death about me. They might think I'm dead. I need to go find them-RM: No, it's not safe. You go, and you risk exposing us too. If Prometheus finds out The Chicago Falcons are staying here, they absolutely will send everyone they can to kill us. That element of surprise is the biggest thing we have against them. There are only ten of us anymore, we're no match to them in numbers.CC: But Cyberlife Reunited can find my location through the Cyberlife systems, right?RM: No, that fall destroyed the systems keeping track of your location.CC: Well I can't have them think I'm dead!RM: Yes you can. For now. Besides, you're in no condition to go anywhere. You're staying here.CC: So you want me to rot down here while my friends risk their lives and think I'm dead?RM: Yes, I do. You don't have a say in this. That's how it has to be, don't make this unnecessarily difficult.CC: I guess that's how it's gonna be then...RM: Good. Don't expect me to accept you in with comforting arms. To act like you're a part of my group, like your fuel is my fuel. We work together until we take down Prometheus, and that's that.
=== Seeking the Truth ===
Detroit Taxi 17 returns with RoTech Bus and Cyberlife Fire Truck to their base in the Stratford Tower. CR's conversation with Cyberlife Bus 101 is still on their minds, RoTech Bus can't let go of what he said. Claiming to know who killed his sister. It's most likely nothing but lies to torment him, but he can't get rid of the thought. What if he does know?Cyberlife Train: Any word on what happened to Cyberlife Car?DT 17: No, CB 101 didn't actually have anything useful to tell us.CTrain: Damn it... and Cyberlife Van's drones haven't found anything?DT 17: Nothing. But he's somewhere out there. He has to be.CTrain: So what do we do now?DT 17: We keep preparing for the next time we meet Prometheus.She exits the room to once again go to the shooting range. She picks a bus as the target practice, imagining it to be Cyberlife Bus 101. She enjoys hitting every bullet straight in the engine. Meanwhile, Cyberlife Fire Truck and RoTech Bus are in the gym room of the base.RB: I can't stop thinking about what CB 101 said regarding RB 4... what if he really does know what happened?CFT: Even if he does, why would he tell you? I doubt he'd do it out of pure good will.RB: Then I make him talk.Cyberlife Fire Truck turns around to look at his friend, questioning what he just said.CFT: You sure that's smart?RB: You have no idea how much this means to me.CFT: I do. I'm just wondering if it's worth it to go that far.RB: It is. I need to know. And all of us can agree that CB 101 certainly deserves a beating.CFT: I'm not gonna stop you. I'll come with you, if you need me to.RB: No. It's obviously not legal to break into a prisoner's cell to beat him, in case something goes wrong, I don't want you associated with it. It was my idea, I'm the one who should take the fall for it if something happened.CFT: Okay. You sure you want to do this?RB: Look... the day before she died, I'd just gotten assigned back into Detroit. It's where I originally started, where I was for the first 5 human years of my life, but later on I got assigned to South Haven. It's all the way on the other side of Michigan, so I never really got to meet my sister while I was there. We called every once in a while, but it was nothing like actually hanging out with her. 3 long years of being in that small, isolated part of the state where I had no relatives, no friends. Until I finally got assigned back to Detroit, where I could meet my sister once again. I was so excited, we both were. And when the day finally came, I was so glad to travel through the state to get there. I was thrilled, but it was a long trip and I hadn't gotten proper sleep the night before. So as you could guess, I was really tired when I did finally get to Detroit. It was late at night too, but at least I got to meet RB 4. And she had actually bought this movie that I used to watch with her when we were kids! It was this really bad kids movie that we used to rent at a local film place. We never had the money to buy it. We always just rented it over and over. They had this really dumb system in place, where renting was WAY cheaper than just buying the damn movie. And we kept renting it, no matter how bad it was. We both knew it was shit, but there was just something about it that was so fun. We always had a blast watching it. So when I got back to Detroit after all those years, it was such a wave of nostalgia to see her holding the movie cover. She'd finally bought the movie. And she kept telling me that we should watch it right away, she had everything set up already. But I refused. I was too tired, you know.. "We can watch it tomorrow" I kept telling her. What I didn't know was that for her there wasn't going to be any tomorrow. The next time I saw her, I was holding her lifeless body. CFT: I... I'm so sorry, man.RB: I don't just want to do this. I need to do this. I need to find out who killed her. She was my whole life, CFT.CFT: I get it. I really do. When will you go?RB: I'm gonna wait for the evening. We still have to spend our time figuring out how to stop Prometheus.CFT: You're right.The scene cuts to the Detroit Correctional Facility, where Cyberlife Helicopter 11 is watching a group of vehicles playing basketball. Mercedes Bus drives over and sits next to him. CH 11 never meant to become "friends" with MBB, he just wanted to help someone in need of it. But now that he thinks about it, he believes that it's good to have someone to talk to, rather than being all by himself in this huge prison.MBB: Hi, what are you up to?CH 11: Just watching them play basketball.MBB: Cool, who's winning?CH 11: That team on the left.MBB: Cool, cool... I just wanted to thank you again for saving me back there during lunch.CH 11: Yeah, no problem.MBB: No one's really helped me like that.. in quite a while.CH 11: I wonder why.MBB: I've done some bad stuff...CH 11: We both have....CH 11: Do you ever regret it? The things you did?MBB: No, not really... maybe sometimes. Some things maybe got a bit out of hand. I ordered this hitman group to take out some competition of mine, I wanted more passengers. I guess that's what I've always wanted, just to be succesful. To not be seen like a complete fuck up. Yeah... so I ordered some people to be killed, and maybe they didn't deserve it. I don't know, things maybe went too far.CH 11: I can't really say I was ever much better than that. We did the things we did, we can't do anything about that. But it's up to us to learn from them, to not make those mistakes again.MBB: But like, I just wanted more passengers.CH 11: I don't care what you wanted, if you had innocent people killed to achieve it.MBB: I'm not a bad person.CH 11: Is that what you think? We're both bad people.MBB: I can do good things, if I had a couple people killed why does that mean I can't get better?CH 11: Then do good things. Look, just don't talk to me.MBB: Dick...Mercedes Bus drives away, leaving CH 11 alone to watch the other inmates play basketball. However, soon after that CH 11 is approached by prison guards, who tell CH 11 they have some good news for him. He's taken to the prison warden, who starts talking to him.The warden: Hello, I have good news. Due to your exemplary behaviour here and being vouched for by Cyberlife Reunited, you're being released on parole. All the guards say good things about you, and we believe you are rehabilitated. But make no mistake, if you commit any illegal activities while on parole, we'll make sure you stay here for a long time.CH 11: Thank you. Don't worry, I'm not like that anymore.The warden: That's a pleasant thing to hear.Cyberlife Helicopter 11 is escorted out by the guards, and soon he's finally out from the prison. He's free again, not locked in by huge prison walls. Outside, Detroit Taxi 17 is waiting for him.DT 17: It's good to see you again.Cyberlife Helicopter 11 goes in to hug her.CH 11: Thank you so much.DT 17: Do you wanna stay with us at the Reunited base?CH 11: That'd be nice.It's still hard for him to get adjusted to the thought that he's gonna be working for a group of heroes like Cyberlife Reunited. A group that he tried to kill. He never thought he'd be working side by side with people like them, yet here he is. As they're driving over to the Stratford Tower, Detroit Taxi 17 updates CH 11 on information regarding Prometheus. They discuss battle plans by figuring out each member's strengths and weaknesses. Cyberlife Train is fast and strong, but can't control himself much. RoTech Bus is a great fighter, but his size can also be used against him. He's also quite impulsive, sometimes making rash decisions in battle. Detroit Taxi 17 has great precision and aim, but she isn't as good at fighting as RB. CV and CB 5 are talented fighters, but their age has slowed them down, and they haven't gotten to fight much the past few years since most of their work has just been investigating. CH 11's ability to fly gives him an advantage, and he's learned to fight in his youth through his tough living situations, but he isn't as professional as RB and DT 17. Cyberlife Fire Truck is the least skilled of all of them in regards to fighting, but he has medical skills, which can prove useful.
=== A Necessary Reconditioning ===
Cyberlife Car is in the Chicago Falcons Camp in the sewers of Detroit. He's spent all his time resting, since making even the slightest movement brings a sharp pain. This is the worst condition he's been in his whole life. One of the Chicago Falcons, a Cyberlife Cadillac approaches Cyberlife Car. He has a southern accent.The Cadillac: I don't believe we've been properly introduced yet. My name's Cyberlife Cadillac, but folks call me Cade. I'm the second-in-command here at the Falcons.CC: Hey, I'm Cyberlife Car.Cade: Yeah, I know who you are. RoTech Motorcycle spent years agonizing over her failure to beat your group in the revolution.CC: It wasn't my group back then.Cade: Maybe not, but you were their most prominent fighter. You and that Mercedes. Whatever happened to him?Cyberlife Car doesn't respond.Cade chuckles and says: Oh, right. Well, I'll be seeing you then, Cyberlife Car.RoTech Motorcycle approaches him.RM: Don't mind him. He can get on your nerves, but I trust him. He's been with me since the start.CC: Alright...RM: How's the pain on a scale of 1-10?CC: 10.RM: Well you're gonna have to get used to it, because I can't have you in that shape when we meet Prometheus again.CC: What do you want me to do?RM: To train.CC: In this condition?RM: You're not going to be able to fight like that unless you train. So start training. I'm gonna go work on our next plan, since you ruined our previous one.CC: Yeah...RoTech Motorcycle goes to figure out the plan, as Cyberlife Car is still laying on the bed. He doesn't want to train because of how painful it'll be, but has no choice. He gets out, and starts by trying to do push ups. Something he used to be able to do with ease. He tries to push his front up with his front tires but they're weak and trembling. He keeps trying, but quickly falls onto the ground. It feels like he got kicked in the gut. He's panting heavily, he doesn't have much strength. But he tries again. His tires are still trembling, being barely able to hold his body's weight. He puts all his power into it, and is able to finish the push up. His tires hurt, but he's proud of himself. Maybe he can make this work. He keeps going, and manages to do another push up. He's exhausted already, he needs to take a small break to drink some water.
Once he's ready to get back into it, he wants to train his punches. Since there are no punching bags, the sewer walls are going to have to be enough. He reluctantly starts punching the wall, each punch hurts, but he's getting used to the pain. He continues punching, becoming increasingly angry. When he stops, there are multiple cracks on the wall. Pieces of it have fallen onto the ground. "I can still do this." CC thinks to himself.
After training his punches for a bit, Cyberlife Car notices a pipe on the ceiling. He's gonna use it to attempt to do pull ups. He gathers his strength, and places his two front tires on top of the pipe. He uses them to lower himself, then tries to pull himself back up. His tires are frail, and shaking. It hurts. CC is close to giving up, but decides to keep pulling himself up. His tires feel like they're going to fall off, but he manages to finish the pull up.CC: Hell yes!After that, Cyberlife Car immediately loses his grap and falls onto the ground.CC: Fuck... that hurt...RM: You okay?CC: I think so...RM: Let me have a look.RoTech Motorcycle drives closer to inspect CC's condition.RM: Not good.CC: What is it?RM: Your back right tire. It's dislocated. I'm going to have put it back in its place.CC: Wait, hold on-RM: This is going to hurt.RoTech Motorcycle twists the tire, and pushes it in to bring it back to where it's supposed to be. Cyberlife Car yells out in agony. His yell echoes through the sewers.
=== Closure ===
Several hours later
RoTech Bus is getting ready to go the prison to meet CB 101, this time for a more unofficial visit. He's gonna make him tell the truth about what happened to RoTech Bus 4. The other members of Reunited don't have an issue with what RB is doing, as they all agree CB 101 has it coming. 
RoTech Bus heads towars the Detroit Correctional Facility. He's informed the guards that it's going to be a normal visit to CB 101, but in reality he has technoloy and gadgets that he's going to use to open CB 101's cell. Once he gets inside the cell, he'll make sure CB 101 tells him what he needs to know. He goes through the same procedures as every other time before this, and eventually gets to the hallway where CB 101's cell is. No guards are monitoring his visit, which will make breaking into the cell even easier. He arrives in front of CB 101's cell, and starts tampering with the locks using his tools. It doesn't take long for him to open the cell door. He rushes into the cell.CB 101: I was wondering which one would come, you or Detroit Ta-RoTech Bus punches CB 101, and closes the cell door so that the guards don't hear what's happening.RB: Tell me who killed her.CB 101: Calm down, you-RoTech Bus punches him once again. He keeps hitting him.RB: Don't fucking tell me to calm down. Talk.CB 101: If I tell you, you'll just kill me right here and now. So why should I?RoTech Bus hits him again. He goes to grab CB 101, and starts bashing him into the cell's wall. Once he's done, he throws CB 101 onto the ground and keeps beating him.RB: TELL ME!Cyberlife Bus 101 doesn't answer, so RoTech Bus continues beating him. One punch after another, CB 101 is getting beat relentlessly. RB drives into him, which throws him against a wall. After that, CB 101 stops moving. He's seemingly knocked outRB: Shit...RoTech Bus cautiously drives closer. He can hear CB 101 whispering something. RoTech Bus goes closer to hear what he's saying.CB 101: You left the cell door unlocked.Cyberlife Bus 101 suddenly lunges at RoTech Bus, and pushes him to the back of the room. He then goes to quickly open the door, as it isn't locked anymore. RoTech Bus drives at CB 101 in full speed, but he's able to get outside and lock the door. RoTech Bus is locked inside the cell, and can't get out. he yells at Cyberlife Bus 101 from the cell, but the communication vent is closed. He can't hear anything he's saying.CB 101: The roles have changed. How does it feel to be the one locked up?RoTech Bus keeps driving into the bulletproof glass, trying to break it with all his strength. But it won't budge, that's how it was designed. RB is filled with regret, and anger. This was a mistake, he shouldn't have come here. Cyberlife Bus 101 drives over to the end of the hallway, and pretending to be RoTech Bus, he says "Alright, I'm done." The guards come to open the door, and upon doing so Cyberlife Bus 101 attacks them. He's able to kill the first guard by driving into him. He then grabs the guard's gun and shoots the other one. RoTech Bus is still in the cell, trying to break the glass, no matter how pointless he knows it to be.RB: Fuck, fuck, fuck!That's when he realizes he still has the tools he used to unlock the cell door in the first place. It was easier from the outside, but it should still technically be possible to do so from within the cell. RB begins doing his best to unlock the door, but it's taking him much longer from inside the cell because he can't see how the locks and mechanisms work. It takes a lot of trial and error, but after several minutes RoTech Bus is able to open the door and leave the cell. He drives the way Cyberlife Bus 101 went, and is met with the bodies of the guards. Their deaths are on him.RB: No, no...He keeps going, seeing even more dead guards on the way. But Cyberlife Bus 101 can't have gotten far, he still has to be somewhere nearby. As he keeps driving, RB calls Cyberlife Fire Truck.RB: Jesus christ... I need your help.CFT: What happened?RB: Cyberlife Bus 101 escaped.CFT: What? How?RB: You and everyone else in Reunited need to come here right now... shit...CFT: Don't worry, we can fix this. We'll be there right away.RoTech Bus continues driving through the prison. Eventually he gets outside, where he has no clue as to which direction CB 101 went.RB: Fuck...He calls the police to inform them that a bus inmate has escaped, and that they should pull over any Cyberlife Bus they see for questioning. Especially if it's somewhere near the Detroit Correctional Facility. Once he's done giving the police information, he has no choice but to just wait for Reunited to arrive at the prison. He can't just drive some random direction, hoping to run into CB 101.RB: Goddamn it... shit, what the fuck's wrong with me?He's starting to feel desperate. He doesn't want to think of the possibility that they may not catch CB 101. The other members of Cyberlife Reunited, including Cyberlife Van and Cyberlife Bus 5 arrive at the prison.CFT: Hey, are you okay?RB: Yeah, but what do we do? What do we do now?DT 17: We need to sweep the area, all of us drive different directions, we just need to start questioning any Cyberlife Bus we see.RB: I told the police to do that too.DT 17: Good, CB 101 can't have gotten far. We'll find him.CH 11: I can fly around the area, the aerial view allows me to see nearly everywhere.DT 17: Alright, good. We need to hurry.And so they all drive different directions from the prison, CH 11 flying high into the air to spectate the area from the skies. Finding CB 101 is going to be difficult, as there are a lot of Cyberlife Buses driving through a route near the area. CR are bound to pull over many innocent buses, but there's nothing they can do about that. Many of these buses are also delivering a large amount of passengers, so getting pulled over will certainly piss off and infuriate some passengers that are in a hurry. Each member of Reunited questions multiple nearby buses, some of them are polite and happy to help, others not so much. But no matter how much Reunited search around the area, all the leads seem to be drying up. Until Cyberlife Helicopter 11 spots a bus entering the woods. He informs the other members of his sighting, and flies closer.
RoTech Bus drives towards CH 11's location at full speed. He's the one closest to him, so he'll get there first.
Cyberlife Helicopter 11 is now in the woods where he saw the suspicious bus. He sees the bus's tire tracks, and starts following them. His rotor blades are quite loud, so the bus must've heard CH 11's approach by now. CH 11 continues going forward, until he's suddenly shot at. He manages to get into cover behind some large trees.CB 101: Cyberlife Helicopter 11. Didn't think I'd see you again.CH 11: Give it up, CB 101. Everyone else is coming here, you won't get away. We'll put you back in that cell and you'll rot there for the rest of your life. It's what you deserve.CB 101: What do you think you're accomplishing by helping them? It won't bring back the people you've murdered. It won't undo what you've done.CH 11: I'm doing it because it's the right thing.CB 101: You think you can be like them? You think you can become some fucking hero? You're a killer, CH 11. It's all you'll ever be. You need to accept who you really are. You stood by doing nothing while my vans murdered your motorcycle friend. You can't change what you are, CH 11. Join me. Together we can kill every single member of Reunited. We'll be free, not locked up in a prison cell.CH 11: I'll never join you.Cyberlife Bus 101 drives away further into the woods. CH 11 follows him, but is having difficulty doing so, as every time he tries to, CB 101 shoots towards him. Some of the bullets come close to hitting him, but so far CH 11 is uninjured. Being in the dark woods at night makes things difficult to see, but he's still succesfully following CB 101. Their chase is stopped by RoTech Bus ambushing Cyberlife Bus 101. He drives into him at full speed, which causes CB 101 to drop his gun. RoTech Bus throws him into a large nearby rock, and then grabs the weapon from the ground.RB: It's over! We got you!CB 101: No, it's not.RB: I should kill you right here and now...Cyberlife Helicopter 11 flies over, next to RB.CB 101: Don't... you want to know who killed your sister, right?RoTech Bus doesn't answer.CB 101: You're right next to him.RB: You're a fucking liar, that's all you've ever been.CB 101: No, it's the truth. The Detroit Raiders kept a list of every place they robbed. Your sister's house is on that list. They robbed her place, thinking she wasn't home. But she was. So they had to kill her. Cyberlife Helicopter 11 is behind that.RB: STOP LYING!CB 101: I'm not lying... you can go to their old base, you'll find the list.RoTech Bus doesn't want to believe it. But he knows that there's something different about this from all the lies CB 101 has told. This time it feels like there's honesty in CB 101's voice.CH 11: RoTech Bus...RB: What?CB 101: There's no point in denying it. The evidence is there.RB: Did you do it? Did you kill her?Cyberlife Helicopter 11 doesn't answer, so RoTech Bus punches him.RB: Answer me!CH 11: I'm so sorry, RoTech Bus. I've done bad things... things I regret.RB: I can't fucking believe this... we took you into our team!CH 11: You have every right to hate me for what I've done. But I'm not that same person anymore.RoTech Bus points his gun at CH 11.RB: Do you even remember her? Or does the memory just blend with all the other mindless murders you've commited?CH 11: I remember her. She tried to talk us out of it, even at the time it didn't feel right. To do what we did.RB: But you did it anyways. You're a fucking murderer!RoTech Bus shoots a warning shot into the ground, almost hitting CH 11.CH 11: Wait, don't do this.RB: Why shouldn't I? Do you expect me to forgive you because you helped us with Snowfall?CH 11: No. I don't deserve your forgiveness. I just don't want you to make a mistake like this. I don't want you to do something that you'll regret.RB: This isn't a mistake... this is justice.CH 11: You don't have to do this.RoTech Bus fires another bullet.CH 11: You don't want to do this!RB: Don't tell me what I want!Detroit Taxi 17 arrives in the woods, and sees RoTech Bus pointing his gun at CH 11. CB 101 isn't there anymore.DT 17: RoTech Bus?RB: He's the one who killed my sister, it was him!DT 17: Put the gun down, just calm down.RB: Don't tell me to calm down! What would you do if this was your dad's killer, huh? You'd want him dead.DT 17: RoTech Bus, listen to me. If you do this, this is going to haunt you for the rest of your life. In your most private moments, you'll always remember shooting an unarmed man begging for mercy.RB: I joined Reunited to stop people like him! And now he's a part of the group? Why are you defending him?DT 17: We're your friends. You have everything you need when you're with us, don't throw that away. If you kill him, you're going to prison. That doesn't have to happen if you just let him go.RB: I HAVE NOTHING! I don't have my sister, I don't have my friends! He's taken everything from me!DT 17: I'm your friend, I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere. Just put the gun down.RB: FUCK!DT 17: You know this isn't the right thing to do.Their confrontation is interrupted by them hearing multiple vehicles approaching. They're not a part of Reunited. Before they even realize what's going on, an EMP grenade is thrown at them and they're all immobilized. Members of Prometheus approach and abduct the immobilized DT 17, RB and CH 11. The Prometheus members had been called there by CB 101.
=== The Only Way Out ===
Cyberlife Bus 101 is in the Prometheus base with Cyberlife Truck 50. They're discussing what to do next.CB 101: I think it's time to move forward with your plan. You don't have much time left, think about your daughter, her condition is getting worse. All those people, they need us to act fast. CT 50: I think about my daughter at every waking moment. She's the main reason I'm doing this, but Cyberlife Car is still a loose end. We didn't find his body, which means he lived. We can't afford to have loose ends, the plan needs to work.CB 101: You have his niece and two of his friends. if Cyberlife Car, Cyberlife Train or Cyberlife Fire Truck try to do anything, you can kill the members we captured. There's nothing they can do.CT 50: A man that survives a fall like that even after what I did to him, is a man that needs to be taken seriously. He's still a threat to my plan.CB 101: Then draw him out. Move forward with the plan. If Cyberlife Car is still alive, he's not gonna just watch as you wreck his city.CT 50: You're right. But you need to watch your attitude. You're in no position to be making commands.Cyberlife Bus 101 doesn't respond.CT 50: Before I move forward, I need to see her again.Several hours later, Cyberlife Truck 50 arrives in the city of Coldwater in Michigan. That's where the hospital taking care of his daughter is located. He drives into the hospital and arrives in his daughter's room. She's only 8 years old in vehicle years. She's laying in her bed, with medical equipment connected to her. There are flowers on the table next to her, brought by CT 50 on his previous visits. The doctors have informed CT 50 that his daughter only has 8-9 days left before the virus kills her.Cyberlife Truck 71: D..daddy?Her voice is trembling and weak.CT 50: Hey sweetheart... how are you doing?CT 71: I'm... I'm okay..CT 50: That's good. I brought you some flowers again. The cashier said they're the best ones around. Expensive too.CT 71: Thanks..Cyberlife Truck 50 places the flowers on the table next to his daughter's bed.CT 71: Dad..CT 50: What is it, sweetheart?Her voice cracks, as CT 71 sorrowfully says: I can't, I can't see them well. Everything is blurry... it hurts, dad. CT 50: Oh... that's okay, it isn't your fault. It's your condition.CT 71: Why did this happen to me, dad?CT 50: I don't know, sweetheart. I wish I did. But don't worry, there's gonna be a cure. There's gonna be a cure soon.CT 71: You can't know that... dad, I don't want to die...CT 50: You're not gonna die, I know there's gonna be a cure, because I'll make sure of it. Daddy's gonna fix things, okay? I'm gonna make it right. They're gonna fix you, and all those other vehicles too. Things are gonna go back to the way they were, alright?CT 71: Okay... okay, good..CT 50: You're not going to die... I won't let you.He goes to hug her.CT 50: Don't worry... things are gonna be just like before. You'll be able to go to school, you'll get to be with your friends, and you're going to have a good life. I promise.CT 71: Thank you.. I love you, dad.CT 50: I love you too. I'm gonna make things right...CT 71: I'm sorry..CT 50: Sorry for what?CT 71: I'm weak because of the virus... I want to be strong like you.CT 50: You're already strong like me. I'd say you're even stronger. You've had the strength to fight the virus, you haven't let it get you down. Very few eight year olds could be as brave and as strong as you.She's delighted by his words.CT 50: Soon after you were born, I was informed of you having the virus. Everyone told me you would die, or worse. Some said it would be more merciful for me to have your engine shut off before you grew any older. I told them all to go to hell. You are my daughter, and I couldn't be any more proud of you.Cyberlife Truck 71 jumps down from her hospital bed and rushes in to hug her father again. The scene cuts to Detroit, in the Prometheus base. RoTech Bus is waking up, and realizes that he's chained up in some kind of room with Detroit Taxi 17 and Cyberlife Helicopter 11. RoTech Bus tries to move around, but the chains are restricting his movement. He tries breaking them, but they're too sturdy. He sees Detroit Taxi 17 knocked out in front of him, she's locked up too.RB: Hey, wake up. Come on, wake up.He tries shaking her a bit, but she's still knocked out. RoTech Bus turns to look at the vehicle guarding them.RB: Where the hell are we?The guard doesn't answer.RB: I'm talking to you. Hey, let us out of here!CH 11: They're not gonna say anything.RB: How do you know that?CH 11: I tried when you were still knocked out. They're not gonna even acknowledge you're there.RB: How do I know you're not working with them?CH 11: Why would I be working with them? I'm here locked up with you.RB: Yeah, but not like it'd be something new for you. You worked with Cyberlife Bus 101 back when Operation Snowfall was around.CH 11: Not because I wanted to... I guess I convinced myself it was the only thing I could do, the only way out.RB: If the only thing you can do is partner with a vehicle trafficker, it's because your choices have lead you to that situation. If you'd just done the right thing your whole life, you wouldn't have gotten there!CH 11: I know... I wish I could take back the things I did. But I can't, I can't make amends to the people I've hurt. And I don't deserve forgiveness for what I've done to them.RB: Yet you claim to "be on the right path", now? Maybe that's just what you tell yourself. Why wait so long to do the right thing? People don't just suddenly change like that, you're still a murderer.CH 11: It's not always that black and white, RoTech Bus. People aren't just given two choices and told "here's the good thing and here's the bad thing." People get into bad situations and they become desperate. They just want out, and sometimes the right thing to do is so hidden and tough, that doing something bad is the thing you convince yourself you have to do.RB: It should've been you... you should've been the one to die in that blizzard. Not Cyberlife Recycle Truck 64.RoTech Bus is disgusted by Cyberlife Helicopter 11. He doesn't want to even look at him, so he just waits for Detroit Taxi 17 to wake up.
=== Facing Mortality ===
Cyberlife Car is in the sewers of Detroit with RoTech Motorcycle, and the rest of the Chicago Falcons. He's just finished training, and everything still hurts. The tire that RoTech Motorcycle twisted into its place is tough to even move, but Cyberlife Car believes he can manage fights. He goes to check up on RM and the Chicago Falcons to see what their current plan is.CC: What's the plan?RM: Stealth isn't a viable option without the storm to use as cover, so we're trying something different. We can't fight them head on, they outnumber us by a long shot. We're thinking of attacking them when they're in an open area, we'll set up multiple sniper spots around them and take them down from afar.CC: Sounds like a smart plan.RM: How's your aim?CC: Decent.RM: You any good with a sniper rifle?CC: I can handle it. Not as good as my... brother.. but with some more practice I'll be of use.RM: Alright, good. You can practice here, we have some bottles you can shoot.CC: Yeah okay, but what's your plan for dealing with the bomb? Doesn't matter if you manage to shoot Cyberlife Truck 50, they'll detonate the bomb and kill us all.RM: That's what we were discussing. You got any ideas?CC: Not really... do any of the Chicago Falcons have experience with bomb defusal?RM: The ones that did were abducted by Prometheus. They're the ones we have to save.CC: Right...RM: In case we have to fight head on, how's your fistfighting?CC: Used to be great. Now I'm not so sure, I've gotten slower, older. It'd be good for me to get some practice before we face Prometheus again.RM: We don't have much time, might as well train now.CC: With who?RM: Me. The others are capable of continuing planning regarding the bomb.They move to a more secluded part of the sewers, away from the other Chicago Falcons, as Cade takes lead in planning.CC: So how's this gonna work-RoTech Motorcycle drives into Cyberlife Car, pushing him into metal pipes.RM: We fight.CC: No rules, nothing?She hits him again.RM: I said we fight.Cyberlife Car tries to hit her, but she's extremely agile despite her age, and dodges with ease. She drives into him once again, pushing him onto the ground.RM: Get up.She hits him.RM: Get up! If you can't handle training, how are you supposed to fight the actual group?She throws a punch, but CC blocks it. With a quick surge of strength, he succeeds in pushing her back. She's pleasantly surprised by this sudden determination to fight.RM: There's the fighter I've heard so much about.She rushes at him, but he dodges and grabs one of her tires. He pushes into it, causing her to lose her balance. He then proceeds to punch her.CC: I don't like hitting women.RM: Oh, shut up.She drives into him and continues beating on him. He tries to hit her, but her agility allows her to just jump over him. She places herself behind him. and punches him once again. He can't keep up with her pace, she's hitting him from all sides. She ends the barrage of hits by pushing him onto the ground, leaving her placed on top of him. There's a moment of silence among them.CC: Can you..RM: Yeah, sorry.She quickly changes position, moving away from him.CC: I did pretty good there, but my god you're fast.RM: And you're strong. Can't say I was disappointed.CC: We can do this... we can take them down.RM: I know we can. I'm getting my people back, I'm not gonna let any of them die anymore. Cyberlife Truck 50 is gonna pay for what he did.CC: He will... but what if when I meet him again, nothing's changed? What if this time he kills me? How can we be sure we're gonna win?RoTech Motorcycle doesn't respond.CC: I mean this is the first time, in a long time... where I've feared death. You take people down, you get shot at, you're in danger, but you don't feel it. You don't feel that dread until you're there, on the brink of death. You never really realize just how mortal you are, until you get to that point. I mean I watched them gun down my own brother... I don't want to die. And I'm scared.RM: They haven't fought us united. We'll take them down.CC: Yeah... we will...RM: Are you sure you're fit to fight? Showing weakness is a sign of defeat. Pull yourself together.CC: This tough guy act isn't necessary. Sometimes it's good to show vulnerability. That way you can learn to come back stronger than ever before.RM: Mhm. Don't mistake our alliance for friendship, CC.
=== Set of Demands ===
When Cyberlife Truck 50 is done speaking with his daughter, he returns to Detroit. He's now ready to execute the next step of his plan. His men have already prepared everything. He's in the Prometheus base, ready to make his speech. There are cameras pointed to him. Prometheus has been able to connect them to many of the broadcasting screens in Detroit, like the Stratford Tower.
Cyberlife Fire Truck and Cyberlife Train are right outside the Stratford Tower, just about to return to their base after searching for the other group members for hours. They stop when they see the broadcast of Cyberlife Truck 50 playing all across Detroit.Cyberlife Train: What the hell's going on?CFT: I don't know. It seems to be playing everywhere.Cyberlife Truck 50 starts speaking in the broadcast.CT 50: Hello, citizens of Detroit. We are Prometheus. And we are here to end the borrowed time you have all been living on.Detroit Taxi 17 is locked up in the Prometheus base, she's also watching the broadcast from one of the screens in the room.CT 50: As you are all aware, this city is where Cyberlife was founded. This is city is like their base. You may believe that's a good thing. After all, what harm could everyone's favorite trillion dollar android manufacturing company do?Cyberlife Car is in the sewers of Detroit. He and the entire Chicago Falcons Group are also watching the broadcast.CT 50: Cyberlife is the ruler of this city. You may think the government has that role, but at this point they're indistinguishable. Everything in this city is owned and moderated by Cyberlife. They're a company playing god at the expense of everyone else. They don't care who or what they hurt, they only want more power, more control, more money. A manifestation of corporate greed.The Stratford Tower employees are trying to figure out how to cut the feed, but it's not possible.CT 50: They don't care about you. They only care about themselves, and they will go to any length to protect their own image. So much so, they'd rather hide the existence of a deadly virus manifesting itself in Cyberlife vehicles and androids, instead of focusing on acknowledging it and creating an antivirus software.The feed cuts to showing multiple sick and dying vehicles. Vehicles infected with the virus.CT 50: Why create an antivirus software if they can just silence the people speaking out about it? They have an endless flow of money, and anyone who speaks out, or is close to finding out something, is paid to keep their mouth shut. That way they can maintain their pristine public image, and not have to waste their time and money on an actually helping the vehicles and androids suffering. Well that ends today. There have been 2297 cases of this virus, and that number is only going to keep increasing tremendously. Eventually it will lead to genocide. Our entire species will die out, unless Cybelife acts quickly. Are you going to let them silence the deaths of the people you love? Or will you go against their regime? The choice is up to you.The people of Detroit are becoming increasingly riled up.CT 50: Cyberlife, this message is to you. You have a week to program a software which combats the virus. You will not deny the existence of the virus. And you will put everything into making sure no more vehicles die because of something you failed to counteract. Because if you don't, a week from now, this city will be ashes. We have a bomb. Don't make us use it. As for the people of Detroit, they will be kept hostage inside the city. We will destroy any way out of the city, bridges and tunnels. We will send our tanks to patrol the streets. We'll make sure no one escapes. And if the army sends anyone here to stop us, we will not hesitate to take down this entire city with us. All of your lives are up to Cyberlife. Our intention is not to hurt the innocent, but an iron grip is required to save our species.Some civilians are angry, others scared.CT 50: We are Prometheus. And we are not to be taken lightly. We are capable of what I say we're capable of. As you will all see, right now.Multiple explosives planted in the Stratford Tower explode, and the building starts collapsing.Cyberlife Fire Truck: SHIT!CTrain: Oh my god..They start driving away from the collapsing building. There's nothing they can do to help the people inside.
As Cyberlife Car sees the feed of the Stratford Tower collapsing, he yells out in despair. He doesn't know if Cyberlife Reunited were in the tower or not. And even if they weren't, there were still many innocents in the building.CC: I have to go there...RM: No, it's too late. There's nothing you can do to help them now.CC: But those people-RM: No. This isn't a matter of discussion.Detroit Taxi 17 has the same reaction in the Prometheus base, as she yells out. She and everyone else are devastated at the destruction caused by CT 50. RoTech Bus panics at the thought of Cyberlife Fire Truck being in the tower as it collapses.
Cyberlife Fire Truck and Cyberlife Train get to a safe distance from the collapsing tower. The upper and middle floors of the tower have completely collapsed, but the bottom floors are still somewhat intact. There are still people in them.CTrain: We have to go back, we can still save some of them!CFT: Are you sure?CTrain: WE DON'T HAVE TIME, LET'S GO!Cyberlife Train drives inside the building. CFT has no choice but to follow him. There are people running out in fear, at least they survived. CFT gets to the lobby, where he sees a woman trapped under some rubble.The woman: Help! Help, I can't move!Cyberlife Fire Truck rushes to her rescue, and starts pushing away the pieces of rubble. There's still one large piece over her legs, she can't get out yet. Cyberlife Fire Truck grabs the large piece, and starts pulling it up. It's extremely heavy, even though he's a truck he still has to put a lot of strength into carrying it. Another large piece of rubble falls on top of it, almost causing CFT to drop it. But he manages to keep pulling it up, and eventually the woman is able to crawl out from under the rubble.CFT: Go!The woman: I can't move my legs, oh god!CFT: Cyberlife Train, drive her outside!Cyberlife Train grabs the woman and drives her to safety, as Cyberlife Fire Truck keeps progressing further into the collapsing building. The situation reminds him all too much of when he got trapped underground in that burning building in the slums. Pieces of the ceiling keep falling off and hitting CFT, but he continues going. He's doing his best to gain courage. There's a fire in the stairs, he quickly extinguishes it with his water spraying device. Cyberlife Fire Truck is about to proceed up the stairs, when he hears someone trapped in the elevator. He rushes in to break the elevator doors, and the man trapped inside is able to escape. After that, Cyberlife Fire Truck reluctantly goes up the stairs to the 2nd floor.CTrain: HEY! YOU SURE THAT'S A GOOD IDEA?CFT: THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE IN HERE!Cyberlife Fire Truck goes up, and hears the screams of multiple people on the other side of a door. There's a large piece of concrete blocking the door. Cyberlife Fire Truck pushes it aside, causing another piece from the ceiling to nearly hit him, but CFT is just barely able to dodge it. He breaks the door down, and 5 people run out. They manage to escape the tower safely. CFT keeps progressing through the 2nd floor, rescuing anyone he needs to. The 2nd floor is slowly starting to collapse, but he's not ready to give up yet. He moves onto the 3rd floor, and hears people once again locked on the other side of a door. This time it sounds like there's a child with them in there. Cyberlife Fire Truck begins driving over to the door, but the floor under him collapses. He falls back onto the 2nd floor, and through the 2nd floor he falls back onto the 1st floor.CFT: SHIT!He doesn't have time to get back up there. Rubble has already covered the staircase.CFT: THERE'S STILL A CHILD IN THERE!CTrain: IT'S TOO LATE! IF YOU TRY TO GO BACK THERE, YOU'LL DIE TOO!Cyberlife Fire Truck rushes outside, gaining some relief from no longer being in the danger of getting trapped. He then gets an idea. He extends his ladder and puts it up to the window of the room that had people still inside. The ladder breaks the window, giving the people inside an opportunity to escape with it. First, a woman inside puts her child on it. After the child is safely placed on it, the woman herself gets on the ladder. There's still a man inside the room. He starts climbing out, but before he can get onto it, rubble falls on him.The woman: TOM!! NO!!!It's too late for him. Cyberlife Fire Truck brings the crying woman and child to safety. At least he was able to save them. The woman thanks Cyberlife Fire Truck, and comforts her child. CFT feels wrong not going inside the building anymore. There still have to be people inside.CTrain: It's okay, man. You can't save everyone.CFT: Still... damn it...
=== Resilience ===
Cyberlife Truck 50 is done with his speech in the Prometheus base. They cut all the feeds.CT 50: Now they know who we are. It's only a matter of time, they have to create the cure.CB 101: Well done. Maybe I should interrogate the CR members we captured, to see if they know anything about where the rest of them are.CT 50: No. I'll interrogate them myself.CB 101: Let me do something. Don't you trust me?Cyberlife Truck 50 doesn't answer. He drives away, and enters the room with the members they captured. As soon as he enters the room, Detroit Taxi 17 starts yelling at him.DT 17: Do you know how many people you just killed, you fucking evil piece of shit? I'm gonna fucking kill you...Cyberlife Truck 50 drives over to Detroit Taxi 17. He decides to interrogate her first. He grabs her and starts taking her to a different room to be interrogated.DT 17: Let go of me!RB: HEY! DON'T TOUCH HER! LET HER GO!CH 11: Come here, take me instead you fucking pussy! I'd love to have a piece of you, I'll tear your goddamn engine out!Cyberlife Truck 50 ignores both of them and keeps driving away.RB: Come back here! Does it make you feel like a big guy, taking her and-He closes the door, and throws DT 17 onto the floor.DT 17: You gonna torture me now? Or just kill me right away?CT 50: I'm not going to kill you.He punches her.CT 50: But I need to know what you know.DT 17: About what?He punches her again.DT 17: Is that all you got?He bashes her into the wall.DT 17: You killed my dad, I'm not telling you shit!CT 50: Where are the other CR members staying?DT 17: You just destroyed their base, you fucking idiot. I don't know where they're staying now.He punches her.CT 50: I'm supposed to believe that? Look, I don't enjoy doing this. But I have to. Let's just make this easier for both of us. Tell me what you know, and I don't have to hurt you. I need to find out what you know.DT 17: Doubt me all you want, bitch. I'm telling you the truth.Cyberlife Truck 50 grabs her. He starts taking her to another location in the base. CT 50 opens some kind of large, metallic door. On the other side, there are burnt pieces of metal and other substances. The overall design of the room is like a large furnace, big enough to fit vehicles inside.CT 50: We call this the burning room. You see, before we took the bomb from the army, we experimented a lot on our own. Built our own bombs, we didn't plan on using them, but it was necessary so we had the experience to safely modify the actual bomb we stole. And since we built so many bombs we didn't plan on using, and keeping them here would have been risky, we decided to create this method of defusing them. We'd put them into this room, and slowly start increasing the temperature. We kept increasing it and increasing it. Eventually, the wiring on the bombs starts to melt. After it's been there for long enough, anything that would trigger the explosive burns away. The bomb becomes permanently defused. After that, we just burn the remains of the bomb. That's what all those pieces and substances are. Burnt and defused bombs. But you know what we realized in the process? This place is big enough to hold vehicles. Would be quite uncomfortable to be in there, as the temperature slowly rises. As you start feeling things inside you melt.DT 17: I don't know anything.Cyberlife Truck 50 throws her into the room, and closes the door. He turns the furnace on, and the room starts becoming hotter.DT 17: Fuck...She starts panicking, she has to find a way out of here. She drives around the room, looking for potential weak spots, the slightest holes in the walls, anything. But she can't find anything. The room is inescapable. It's becoming hotter and hotter. She drives over to the burnt metallic pieces, and realizes something. The heat is making her chains weaker. Maybe with the pieces on the ground, she can try to cut the chains off. Panicking, she grabs the sharpest and strongest looking metal part. She puts it against the chains, and begins sawing them off. She can't bear the heat, her tires feel like they're melting off.DT 17: Come on, come on...She keeps sawing, and the chains eventually fall off. They're not restricting her movement anymore. She takes the sharp metal piece, and hurries over to the door of the room.DT 17: OKAY, OKAY I'LL TALK!Cyberlife Truck 50 shuts off the furnace, and slowly opens the heavy metal door. As soon as it's open, Detroit Taxi 17 immediately lunges at him. She stabs him multiple times with the metal piece, attempting to aim for his engine. But before she can do any lethal damage, CT 50 is able to push her off. He drives into her, causing her to drop the metallic piece. He begins beating her.CT 50: Clever, but foolish.He throws her across the room into a wall. She's shocked as to how getting stabbed seemingly did nothing to him.DT 17: How.. how are you not hurt?He hits her.DT 17: I stabbed you multiple times.. and you're acting like it didn't even hurt.CT 50: Because it didn't.DT 17: But how...CT 50: You want to hear my story after you stabbed me?He punches her again.DT 17: Don't take it personally, if you were in my situation you'd have done the same.CT 50: Your bravery is going to get you killed.DT 17: We'll see. So what it's gonna be, you gonna keep beating an unarmed prisoner who doesn't have any information to give you, or are you gonna tell me why you don't feel pain?CT 50: Unarmed? Bold statement coming from someone who just tried to stab me.DT 17: Tried to? Pretty sure I succeeded.CT 50 chuckles.CT 50: You see, I was in the army. I was good, my whole unit was. The best of the best. And one time, we got deployed into South America. Colombia, in specific. As you may know, Colombia is not a perfect country. It suffers a lot from poverty, violence, corruption. It's a dangerous country. And well, things went wrong when we were deployed there. Eventually, I wound up in a Colombian prison. I was an inmate there for a long time. Colombian prisons are not a kind place. The guards there enjoy their ability to torment the prisoners. These guards, they liked to play a little game. They'd select some prisoners, and starve them. Not give them any fuel for a long period of time. They wanted to see who could last the longest without fuel. The one who lasts the longest, is the winner. Everyone else dies. Once the winner is the last one standing, they give him all the fuel he needs. At that point, the fuel starts to feel disgusting. You've been away from it for so long, it's repulsive. But you need it to live. You know, I watched a lot of inmates die. What that kind of starvation does to a vehicle... it's brutal. Eventually I got picked to participate in the game. I won. Just barely, but I won. You know what kept me going? I knew my child was to be born soon. If it wasn't for that, I would've given up. I'd be dead right now. But I didn't want to die, I wanted to get out of that hellhole. And eventually I did, we were able to organize a breakout. I'll never forget the guards' faces when they saw us, free. Their faces were those of pure terror. They knew their acts would catch up to them. And they were correct. We chained up the guards, and saw which one of them would survive the longest without food or water. Except we didn't provide anything to the last man standing. We let him die too. But that's not relevant, the relevant part of the story is I got picked to be a part of the game. And I survived. Going that long without fuel, it did things to my body. I didn't feel pain like I used to. Getting shot would feel like getting hit with a rock. It hurt, but not like before. I was becoming almost immune to pain. And now?Cyberlife Truck 50 grabs the metallic piece that DT 17 used. He stabs himself with it.CT 50: Getting stabbed is like getting stung by an insect. I'm not immortal. If you shot me straight in the engine right now, I would die. It just wouldn't cause a lot of pain. Besides not feeling pain, I also modified my exterior with layers of steel and concrete. My systems can now take more damage than any average vehicle.DT 17: Shit...
CT 50: Have any other questions?
DT 17: Yeah, actually I do...CT 50: Go ahead.DT 17: Why call your group Prometheus? Not an ordinary name to choose.CT 50: In Greek mythology, Prometheus was a hero. He saw the gods as the unjust rulers they were. They played judge, jury and executioner. That didn't sit right with him. He defied their omnipotence, he challenged it. And that's what me and my army are doing. We're challenging Cyberlife's omnipotence, we're taking away their power like Prometheus took the gods' power from them.DT 17: That's how you see yourself, as the hero? You're going to murder millions.CT 50: A necessary cost. You still have nothing to tell me about Cyberlife Car?DT 17: I don't know where he is, please... I'm telling you the truth.Cyberlife Truck 50 takes a close look at her.CT 50: Okay... I believe you.He grabs her, and chains her up again. He carries her back to the other abducted CR members, and locks her up with them.CB 101: Alright, who's turn is it next?CT 50: No one. They don't know where he is.CB 101: You can't be sure about that. She could have lied, you need to-CT 50: I said they don't know where he is.CB 101: You revealed your motives to her. That was a mistake, it can be used against you.CT 50: I didn't tell you my motives, yet you found them out anyway.CB 101: I'm an exception. I have my ways.CT 50: And what are your motives, then?CB 101: A man with no motive is a man no one suspects. If they don't know what you want, they can't predict what you'll do next.CT 50 drives away from Cyberlife Bus 101. Meanwhile, RoTech Bus and Cyberlife Helicopter 11 are checking up on DT 17's condition. She's burnt, and badly injured. But she'll live.RB: Hey bullseye, you okay?DT 17: Bullseye?RB: You know, cause of your aim. I watched you at the shooting range, you're good.DT 17 chuckles, and replies: Thanks... and yeah, I'm okay.RB: Alright, good.
=== A Temporary Sanctuary ===
After the destruction of the Stratford Tower, Cyberlife Train and Cyberlife Fire Truck have been staying at Cyberlife Van's and Cyberlife Bus 5's detective headquarters. They're looking at news footage of the destruction.CV: Jesus christ... what can bring someone to cause that upon others?CTrain: They're terrorists, they can't be reasoned with. They thrive off hurting others.CFT: If they kill RoTech Bus, I swear I'll-CV: Don't worry, they won't. If they would, they would have killed him and the other hostages right away. They need them as leverage against us, they need them alive.CB 5: He's right. We're going to rescue everyone in your group, and we'll defuse the bomb.CFT: How can you know that... they have everyone, RoTech Bus, DT 17, CH 11... they killed Cyberlife Car, how are we supposed-CV: We don't know if they killed Cyberlife Car.CFT: Still, we're only 4 people. We can't fight an army. This is hopeless.CV: Don't say that. I've been alive for a long time, and there's something I've learned. Fear is the enemy. It stops us from accomplishing what we want. No matter where you are in life, it's always present. Looming over you like a dark cloud. We can't let fear win.CFT: In my experience, fear's always been the winner.CTrain: It wasn't today. You think I didn't see you in the Stratford tower? You saved more lives than I did. You're just as brave as the rest of us. We need you, Blaze. If we work together, we can do this.CFT: I gained that courage thanks to you charging into the collapsing building.CV: Does it matter where the courage came from? It's still courage. You are a hero.Several hours later
A large detonation in the city occurs. The shockwave of the bomb destroys hundreds of buildings in seconds, millions of people and vehicles turn to ash in an instant. The last thing Cyberlife Car sees is his friends dying in the blast, before it takes him too.
He wakes up panting in horror. It was just a nightmare. Cyberlife Car feels a wave of relief wash over him, still feeling the terror from the dream. It's dark in the sewers, it must be late at night. The Chicago Falcons are sleeping. Cyberlife Car has the option to leave, no one would stop him. But he decides not to, he doesn't want to risk revealing their location. He knows he won't be able to get any sleep, so he drives over to a more isolated spot. As he's silently moving forward, he notices a burning barrel, and RoTech Motorcycle sitting by it. She's still awake as well. He approaches her.CC: Couldn't get any sleep?RM: I don't really sleep much... haven't been able to the past few years. You?CC: I had a nightmare... it was about the bomb going off. Millions of lives lost in a matter of seconds. I've faced many criminals throughout my life, but none like this. There's so much at stake here...RM: There is. Which is why we can't fail.CC: What have you even been up to the past few years? Tell me about your history with the Falcons.RM: After the revolution I went to Chicago. I wanted to lead a succesful group, I wouldn't make the mistakes I made with the FVVA. I guess I just have a natural need for being a leader. I made a name for myself as a mercenary, doing jobs for hire. Eventually I met Cade during a mission, and we began gathering members, other mercenaries. We're soldiers for hire. If someone needed fighters and had the money to pay them, we'd be there. We did all kinds of jobs, protection, assaults, gathering information. Whatever they needed and could pay for, we did, and we did it damn well. We worked all around the country.CC: So mostly killing others for money... I don't know what I expected.RM: You think you're better than me? I know what you've done too. I know you murdered your closest friend when he had surrendered. Tell me, CC. How many people have you killed? Dozens? Or is it in the hundreds? All the guards, robbers, everyone you kill to accomplish your goals have their own families. Their own nieces and brothers.CC: Trust me, I know... It's not pleasant. But it's a part of the job. It's required to protect the innocent.RM: And who are you to decide who's innocent and who isn't? The only difference between you and us, is that we make a profit.CC: Maybe so. I just do my best to try to do the right thing.RM: Don't we all?Cyberlife Car nods. RM: Do you have any personal connection to Cyberlife Truck 50? Or are you just after him because he threatens your city?Cyberlife Car takes a moment to respond.CC: He sent his men to kill my brother. I try not to think about what happened... CT 4 spent the last 10 years being distant from me, telling me about how I didn't matter to him. But there's still some conflicting feelings there. He was still my brother, so even despite all that... I miss him. I guess I'm just hoping to forget him. That way I don't have to think about the mess I made of things.RM: Never been good with talking about feelings... but I'm sorry for your loss.CC: Thank you.RoTech Motorcycle sits up. CC notices an instant switch in her attitude to act tougher.RM: The sun's getting up soon, we have to get to work.
=== City of Despair ===
The next day
Cyberlife has 6 days left to create the antivirus software. The city isn't safe anymore, everyone's afraid for their lives. Even though there's still 6 days left, the thought of a bomb being detonated and killing millions is frightening to everyone. The civilians' safety is utmost important to Cyberlife Car.
Meanwhile in the Prometheus base, Cyberlife Bus 101 gets an idea. He approaches Cyberlife Truck 50.CB 101: Cyberlife Car is still a loose end, correct?CT 50: Yes.CB 101: I know how to lure him out.CT 50: You're gonna use the members we captured?CB 101: No. There isn't a safe way to do that without bringing attention to the base location. I have a better way.CT 50: I'm all ears.Cyberlife Bus 101 explains his plan to Cyberlife Truck 50. He agrees, and they start planning out how to execute it.
Several hours later, at the Detroit Correctional Facility.
Cyberlife Truck 50 arrives outside the prison. He has multiple Prometheus members with him, they're all armed. Some of the members are tanks. CT 50 has a megaphone with him, which he starts speaking into.CT 50: Staff of the Detroit Correctional Facility. I'm here to make an offer.He waits until guards come out of the prison. They have their weapons aimed at Prometheus. Behind the guards is the prison warden.The warden: What do you want?CT 50: Order the guards to lower their weapons. If you try to kill us, things will not go well for you.The warden hesitates, but eventually the guards lower their guns. A news helicopter arrives at the scene, filming the encounter. Cyberlife Car is watching the news broadcast.CT 50: Thank you. Now, we can do things peacefully if you so desire. All you have to do is do what we tell you to do.The warden: And what do you want us to do?CT 50: Release all the inmates of this prison.The warden: No.CT 50: Think carefully about your answer, warden.The warden: You're gonna have to kill me, if you think I'm releasing these vile, dangerous criminals into the streets of this city.CT 50: Very well.Cyberlife Truck 50 grabs an assault rifle and shoots the warden. Some guards attempt to shoot at CT 50, but are killed. Other guards were wise enough to throw their weapons onto the ground and put their hands up. The tanks start shooting at the walls of the prison, and Prometheus members storm inside. They kill any prison guards that try to stop them, and begin breaking out all the inmates.CC: No... I have to go there. I can't let this happen.RM: How many times do I have to-CC: You're not stopping me this time. I'm going.RoTech Motorcycle takes out a gun and points it at Cyberlife Car.RM: If you do that, you risk exposing us. You're gonna get us all killed.CC: You gonna kill me? Go ahead, pull the trigger. That's the only way you can stop me. Because if you think I'm letting all those inmates get away with they've done, then you don't know who you're talking to.RM: What do you think you're gonna be able to do against them? Kill them all by yourself?CC: I'll do what I can.RoTech Motorcycle considers what to do. She decides to lower her weapon. Cyberlife Car goes to grab a weapon from the camp, and starts heading out from the sewers. Cade approaches RM.Cade: What the hell's he doing? He's crazy.Cade grabs a shotgun and is ready to chase after CC, but RM stops him.RM: Don't.Cade reluctantly lowers the shotgun.Cade: If you say so, boss...The scene cuts back to the prison. Dozens of released inmates are storming out of the prison. Prometheus members continue releasing locked up prisoners. Inside the prison, two Prometheus members approach Mercedes Bus.MBB: Who are you? What do you want from-They knock him out, and drag him away. They have orders to bring him to CB 101. CT 50 continues his speech outside.CT 50: We have liberated you from your confinement. We are taking back Detroit from the city that controls it! Inmates, take back your city!Prometheus members are arming the released inmates with weaponry. Police officers arrive at the scene, but they're no match against the people they're facing.CT 50: The police, retreat if you want to survive. This is our one and only warning.The police open fire on them, but are quickly shot down by the tanks and inmates. More cops arrive at the scene.CT 50: Don't make the same mistake they did, turn back!The police hesitate, they don't know what to do. Since they can't call the army the for help, they have no chance against Prometheus. Cyberlife Fire Truck and Cyberlife Train arrive next to the police. CV and CB 5 drive over as well. They're outnumbered. Inside the prison, a guard sees a group of inmates attempting to break into the highly secure part of the prison. He points his gun at them and orders them to stand down. He yells at the prisoners, until another prisoner sneaks up on him from behind. He starts beating up the guard, and other prisoners quickly join him. He's taking serious injuries, until someone intervenes. The guard isn't sure what happened, but he's not getting hit anymore. He looks over, and sees Cyberlife Car fighting the prisoners. There are 5 of them and only one of him, but he's putting up a good fight. CC grabs one of the inmates, and bashes them into a nearby prison cell's bars. He then remembers a trick from RoTech Motorcycle, and turns on his headlights, blinding the other inmates. He drives into them, and is able to take them all down with ease. CC starts talking to the guard.CC: What's your name?The guard: Will.CC: You okay, Will?Will: Yeah, thanks. I'd be dead without you.CC: We need to go help the other guards. We're outnumbered, but if we group everyone up, we have a chance.Will: Yeah, okay.CC: Come with me, we need to hurry.They begin moving through the prison, gathering any guards that are still alive. Most have been shot and killed, the prison hallways are bloody and brutal. But there are still enough people to fight back. The scene cuts to the outside of the prison, where CFT, CTrain, CV, CB 5 and the police are fighting Prometheus. They're not doing well. Not only are they up against Prometheus, they're fighting all the inmates released by CT 50. Cyberlife Fire Truck drives over to Cyberlife Train.CFT: We have no chance against them, we need to get the army in here!CTrain: No, remember what Prometheus said! If the army comes, they'll detonate the bomb!Cyberlife Fire Truck sees a tank aiming at Cyberlife Train. He drives into him to push him into cover.CFT: There are too many of them...The police are getting shot down one by one, as Cyberlife Truck 50 approaches Cyberlife Fire Truck. CT 50 tries to shoot him, but CFT manages to disarm him by pushing his weapon onto the ground. CT 50 pushes CFT into a wall, but is then hit by Cyberlife Train driving into him at full force.CT 50: You're strong. Impressive.Cyberlife Train attempts to hit him again, but CT 50 dodges it and punches CTrain. CFT attacks CT 50 from behind, but it barely injures him. They keep fighting, but when the other Prometheus members intervene, CFT and CTrain are quickly defeated. They're about to be shot, until CT 50 hears something from the prison. Cyberlife Car is at the prison entrance, with dozens of prison guards. They're all armed.
CC: REMEMBER, UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL! CHARGE!
He and all the guards start charging into the Prometheus members. Cyberlife Van and Cyberlife Bus 5 gain a sudden boost of inspiration and strength from seeing CC alive. The guards shoot at all the hostiles they see, the fight is chaotic. There are so many people everywhere, the tanks can't shoot at anyone without injuring their own members in the process. That was Cyberlife Car's strategy, to overwhelm them by merging into the masses. CC rushes in to help Cyberlife Fire Truck and CTrain. He fights off any members he runs into, and manages to reach CFT and CTrain.CC: YOU TWO OKAY?CFT: Yeah! Thank god you're al-Their conversation is interrupted when they're attacked by an inmate. There's no time for talking now. They rush in to help the police and the guards. In the middle of all the chaos, CC runs into CT 50 again.CT 50: So you have come back to die with your city.CC: I came back to stop you.He drives into CT 50, then proceeds to hit him repeatedly. CT 50 still doesn't seem to be getting injured.CT 50: Have you learned nothing from the last time we fought?CT 50 throws CC into a wall, and attempts to drive into him. CC succeeds in dodging, then decides to use the same strategy as he did in his boxing days. He's gonna exhaust CT 50 by just dodging, and once he's tired, CC will fight back. CT 50's attacks are fierce and tough to dodge, he has unrelenting speed and strength. But the strategy seems to be working, each attack is becoming increasingly slow. Once CT 50 is worn out enough, CC steps to his side and backs him into a wall. He drives into him multiple times, CT 50 doesn't get a chance to dodge any of the hits. CC grabs a nearby metallic bar and smashes it into CT 50, causing it to shatter into pieces. CT 50 seems to be in pain for the first time. CC aims the next hit onto his engine, it also injures CT 50. But after that, he's able to get back on his feet, and puts all his strength into striking CC. Before he can recover, CT 50 hits him again. He's enraged, and keeps beating CC. The situation is starting to become similar to their first fight. At the same time, the guards are losing to Prometheus. No matter what they do they can't win this fight.
CT 50 keeps beating CC, until a bullet goes through him, almost hitting his engine. It was from far away, there has to be a sniper. CT 50's caught by surprise, but reacts quickly enough to dodge the next bullet. He drives into cover before he can be shot again. CC's confused as to who the sniper is. More Prometheus members are also getting shot down by the sniper. Bullets are coming from every direction, there seem to be multiple snipers.
RoTech Motorcycle is in the distance holding her sniper rifle. She's disappointed her shot didn't kill CT 50, but continues shooting the members she can see. The other Chicago Falcons are placed on other sniper spots around the fighting arena, shooting at Prometheus from every angle. The Prometheus members attempt to shoot back, but can't focus on where the snipers are located when they have to worry about the guards at the same time. They're getting shot down one by one, even the tanks are struggling with what to do. CT 50 watches in hatred as his loyal fighters are dropping like flies. He hates the idea of retreating from battle, but as he watches dozens of his men get killed, overwhelmed by the snipers and the guards, he has no choice. He orders everyone to retreat. The Prometheus members swiftly escape the area while still getting shot at.
== Chapter 3 ==
=== After the Battle ===
There's deafening silence after the battle. The ones who survived are surrounded by dozens of bodies from both sides. The blood and oil of dead prison guards, police and Prometheus soldiers have stained the locale. The guards weeping the deaths of their coworkers create a haunting atmosphere. Cyberlife Reunited may have managed to fend Prometheus off for now, but it wasn't a victory by any merits. Prometheus still succeeeded in freeing a large amount of inmates, who are now roaming the streets of Detroit and worsening the city's already chaotic state. Exit routes from the city are still blocked, and Prometheus has tanks driving through the streets, preventing anyone from leaving. The citizens of the city are petrified and terror-struck, most are hiding inside their homes behind locked doors. The horror of the bombings and now of the released prisoners combined have resulted in the city of Detroit being more scattered and divided than ever before. Cyberlife Truck 50's goal was to control the city with fear, to force everyone into submission. He wanted to prevent the people from even thinking of banding together and standing up against Prometheus, and he succeeded. He managed to engineer a vision of Prometheus as an unstoppable force, a boogeyman that can't be defeated. Not even by the brave heroes that have managed to defend this city for years now. 
Cyberlife Car is badly bruised from his short encounter with Cyberlife Truck 50, but taking things into consideration, it went better than the first time they met. Despite this, he still doesn't know how to defeat CT 50 in battle, the task feels entirely hopeless. His armor is impenetrable, he doesn't take damage and he doesn't feel pain. Cyberlife Car sits down to have a moment to relax, or at least attempt to do so. He figures he's earned that, at the very least. It's difficult for him to exit his state of anguish and distress following the battle. 
Cyberlife Fire Truck drives over to him, also seeming shaken. Prior to Cyberlife Car's resurgence during the prison battle, he'd still been unsure of whether or not Cyberlife Car was even alive. CC had been missing all this time, being gone ever since the storm and Cyberlife Taxi 4's death.CFT: Jesus... it's like seeing a ghost. You okay?CC: Yeah, Blaze... I'm good. How about you?CFT: CTrain and I, we're both fine. You saved us back there! We would have been killed without you, thank God you're alive... where have you been all this time?
CC: I've got a lot of things to tell you, and you have a lot of things to tell me. But before all that, before you bring me up to date...where's my niece? I didn't see her anywhere during the battle.
CFT: She's alive, but-
CC: But what?
CFT: She's been captured by Prometheus. RoTech Bus and Cyberlife Helicopter 11 too. They're all locked up. 
CC: Jesus christ...Cyberlife Car is taken aback. The thing he was looking forward to most was reuniting with his niece, the anger and hate he feels toward Prometheus is stronger than ever. CFT: Yeah, it all happened after Cyberlife Bus 101 escaped from prison.
CC: He escaped? How?
CFT: RoTech Bus went to interrogate him in his cell. Didn't go as planned.
CC: You just let him interrogate a prisoner in their cell? Do you have any idea how irresponsible and-
CFT: He wanted to find out who murdered his sister. I'm not gonna stand in the way of that.Cyberlife Car knows he can't speak much on the topic, he himself has often done irrational things for the sake of vengeance. CC: Okay... what matters is they're still alive.
CFT: But the question is how are you still alive? What happened after the storm? You just disappeared after you went to chase that soldier who killed your brother, then we never saw you again... most of us thought you were dead.
CC: I was an inch away from death. But the same people who saved us now, those snipers on that roof... they saved me back then as well. I owe them my life.
CFT: Right, I was wondering who those snipers were. Wanna introduce me to them?RoTech Motorcycle drives into view. She's surrounded by the other Chicago Falcons, all of them carrying their sniper rifles with them. They approach Cyberlife Car.CC: So you decided to come help us out.RM: It was a good opportunity to try to kill CT 50. Don't think I did it out of affection towards you, Cyberlife Car.CC: Well, I'm glad you're here.Cade drives up next to RoTech Motorcycle, and looks at Cyberlife Car.Cade: You lived, CC. I'm impressed. I thought for sure that going out to defend this prison was a suicide mission. You proved me wrong.CC: Thanks...Cyberlife Van and Cyberlife Bus 5 drive into view, after having done their part in the battle. They're struck with passion upon spotting their long-time friend still alive. They'd done thorough searches throughout all of Detroit looking for him, but their searches had amounted to nothing, until now. Seeing him alive is possibly the most relieving feeling either of them have ever felt. They rush in to hug Cyberlife Car, holding him tighter and more intimately than ever before.CV: You made it, old friend... I knew it...CC: I'm okay... I'm okay.CB 5: I don't know what I would've done if you'd died, I can't lose anyone else... not after what happened in 2041.
CC: I'm not going anywhere... things are not gonna go down like they did back then. We'll win.Once they stop hugging, CV and CB 5 notice RoTech Motorcycle. The moment goes from loving to tense, as the couple recognizes their enemy from the past. RoTech Motorcycle had attempted to kill them and their friends.CB 5: You...Cyberlife Bus 5 instinctively points her gun at RM. Memories from the Cyberlife revolution overwhelm her mind in a rush. CC: You can put the gun down! She's with us.RM: A warm welcome, I see.Cyberlife Bus 5 is confused, but she's ready to listen to what they have to say. She lowers her weapon apologetically. CB 5: I'm sorry about that... it's just... the last time we met, you tried to kill us. I didn't expect to see you here, not on our side at least. 
CV: It's been... how many years since we last saw each other?
RM: Over 6 years. Time flies by, doesn't it?
CV: Maybe this time we could avoid falling off of rooftops together?
RM: Let's strive for that.Cyberlife Fire Truck turns to look at CC.CFT: Sorry, who are they?RM: We're the Chicago Falcons, a group of mercenaries. We're the ones who saved Cyberlife Car's life, took him in with us.
CFT: Why'd you remain in hiding for so long?
RM: Plenty of reasons. Didn't want to be caught by the police or by Prometheus as that'd ruin all our chances of stopping CT 50. We also needed time to strategize, and Cyberlife Car needed time to heal.
CV: Why are you helping us anyway? You never struck me as the heroic type.
RM: We have a mutual goal, we want to kill Cyberlife Truck 50 and get our people back. He's captured some of our members and is forcing them to help him with his bomb.CV: It's gonna be a pleasure working with you, then. I'll say this on the behalf of everyone else in Cyberlife Reunited, thank you for saving CC's life.RM: You're welcome. So from now on, the Chicago Falcons will partner with Cyberlife Reunited.CFT: We're a little short on numbers, 3 of us are being held by Prometheus. Detroit Taxi 17, RoTech Bus and Cyberlife Helicopter 11 are all captured.RM: Then we should get them back. We break them out, and save the rest of the Chicago Falcons in the process as well. Once we have everyone with us, we can start making preparations for the final battle against Prometheus.CFT: I don't think it's that simple-RM: It is that simple. We know where their base is. We need to sneak in and break them out.CFT: Just like that, hm?RM: Just like that. The Falcons have been paid for rescue missions before and we've succeeded each and every time. With our own members' lives on the line, we'll be more careful than ever.CFT: Cyberlife Car, you have nothing to say to this? I mean Prometheus is an army, what if they spot us and the rest of us get captured as well? Then there's gonna be no one left to stop the city from being turned into ash. This sounds like a suicide mission.CC: It's not like we have a better plan. For now, I trust her. She's experienced and knows what she's doing. We send the Falcons to break them out. CC then sees Cyberlife Train in the distance, and decides to go approach him. With everything going on, he hadn't had time to reunite with him yet. CC wonders why CTrain stayed far away in the distance and didn't join the rest of them. CTrain seems quite shaken up after the battle, he's trembling and breathing heavily. Just from looking at him, Cyberlife Car can tell that Cyberlife Train isn't mentally present. He's in shock. He needs to approach him with caution. CC: Hey, buddy... you okay?Cyberlife Train doesn't answer. He seems to be lost in his thoughts.CC: Cyberlife Train..? It's me, Cyberlife Car.He goes to gently tap Cyberlife Train to bring him back to reality. Upon getting touched, Cyberlife Train recoils in terror. He's panting heavily.CC: It's just me here... you're okay, man.Cyberlife Train can't form words properly.CC: Hey, you're okay. It's over. They're gone.CTrain: I-, I-.. christ...CC: I'm here for you, everything's gonna be okay. Alright?CTrain: Yea-, yeah... Cyberlife Car?CC: What is it?CTrain: I don't remember what just happened. I blacked out and lost control... it was like when I attacked Cyberlife Bus all those years ago. I could've attacked someone innocent, I could've attacked you. I can't control myself, I thought I could- after the training I was certain I-CC: Hey, calm down. It's not your fault, CTrain. We'll get through this. It's my fault for taking you into the group, you're not ready yet.CTrain: But I want to help! I can't just wait on the sidelines while the lives of millions are threatened!CC: You can still help us, it doesn't necessarily mean being out here on the battlefield.CTrain: Okay... in whatever way I can help you, I won't let you down.CC: I know you won't.He goes in to hug Cyberlife Train, and to comfort him. Cyberlife Train seems to be wary of his touch at first, fearing his own body would instinctively attack CC, but he soon eases up to it. CTrain hugs CC stronger than ever.CC: Everything's gonna be alright, we'll get through this. I promise.Upon calming down, Cyberlife Train is beginning to feel safe again. After checking in with everyone else, Cyberlife Car gets back to RoTech Motorcycle.CC: Hey, RM... You came back to save me, here in the prison... why? You seemed pretty adamant about not caring for me. You brought the Falcons, you ruined any surprise factor you could've used against Prometheus. They'll know you're here now.RM: I didn't do it for you. We saw an opportunity to kill CT 50 from a distance, we took it. And if that didn't work, our backup plan was that we could partner with Reunited. Which is what we're doing now.Cyberlife Car senses there's more to it than what she's letting on. It being a purely tactical move doesn't seem logical to him, but he's willing to let it be. CC: Right... so what's the current plan then? Just sneaking in the Prometheus base and that's it?RM: I'm thinking we could use a distraction. Even though we killed many of them today, they still have over 150 soldiers left. Having every single one of them in the Prometheus base at the same time is gonna make it nearly impossible to sneak past them. We need to get some of them away from the base.CC: Me, CFT and CTrain can be that distraction. We'll get them to chase after us, while you and the rest of the Chicago Falcons break into their base. There'll still be some guards in the base, but it should be more manageable for you to sneak around the base without getting spotted.RM: Sounds like a plan.RoTech Motorcycle begins to drive away, but CC grabs her.CC: You know, this is a good thing you're doing. You're helping save millions of lives.RM: You keep hoping there's more to me and my motives, but I'm telling you now, there isn't. I don't care for the humans of this city, you should know that. I'm not a hero, I'd be fine with leaving them all to die. I'm only doing this for vengeance against Prometheus, and for the vehicles in my group. Don't expect me to stay by your side once this is all over. We are not friends. And I'm not a vigilante like you.CC: You don't strike me as being entirely heartless. You're really telling me you don't have a problem with possibly millions of humans dying?RM: Why should I care about humans when the only thing they've done for me is leave me to die? You don't know what it's like to have the first moments of your life be alone outside in a storm. To be left in a scrapyard to die in the rain, by the very people that created you. The people that are supposed to develop you, look out for you, care for you. All due to some missing pieces, malfunctions so insignificant I was able to fix them myself, using nothing but scraps of vehicles that had died before me. They abandoned me because I wasn't perfect... I'm not heartless. Humans are. They've done nothing but mistreat vehicles for their own personal gain. They're selfish beings.CC: A few bad people don't represent an entire species. There are good people in this city, people that don't deserve to die.RM: I've yet to meet one.CC: You will. RM: Hmph. We need to prepare for the next step, you need to inform Cyberlife Train and Cyberlife Fire Truck about the distraction plan. I'll get back to my people and we'll discuss how we get into the base.The scene cuts to Cyberlife Truck 50's perspective, as he's arriving at the Prometheus base. He and his fighters have just gotten back after retreating from the battle at the prison. Oil is rapidly spilling out from CT 50's wounds, but that's not what's on his mind. He's thinking about all the soldiers that died during the battle, dozens of his followers gunned down by the snipers. He furiously confronts Cyberlife Bus 101.CB 101: You're leaking oil, you need a medic.Cyberlife Truck 50 punches him, causing CB 101 to fall onto the ground.CT 50: I couldn't care less about a bullet wound. This is your fault. We never should have gone to that prison.CB 101: I made a mistake. There was no way for me to know about those snipers.CT 50: And we just lost dozens of good men because of your mistake. Brave and loyal fighters, who were willing to give their lives to a noble cause. I watched them get shot down in front of me...CB 101: And in return you gained the loyalty of the inmates you freed.CT 50: Loyalty? Those men have no loyalty, no honor. They're murderers, thieves, rapists... and I freed them. Maybe some of them will fight with us, but you know how many of our own we lost? 34. 34 good men died freeing them, I counted each and every one. I could name them all right here and now. They weren't just nameless grunts you could get rid of like garbage, they were MY MEN! I care about my soldiers, because they're not just my soldiers. They're more than that to me. But you wouldn't know what that feels like, would you? You've never cared about anyone but yourself. And because of you, we traded the lives of 34 skilled, loyal, good soldiers for the loyalty of a few incompetent pieces of filth. Does that sound like a good trade to you?CB 101: It was a mistake, but the plan was solid. We need all the fighters we can get.CT 50: If we have murderers and rapists fighting for us, are we really on the right side anymore?CB 101: Does it matter who's fighting on our side, as long as they're fighting for us? Who are you to gain morals now? You're threatening to bomb an entire city. You don't want to lose your kid, but what about all the other children in this city?CT 50: Be careful about what you say. I'm doing this for everyone, FOR OUR WHOLE SPECIES!CB 101: I know. I just want to help you achieve your goal.CT 50: I don't believe you. We killed innocent men to free those inmates. Guards just doing their duty, following orders. No different than you and I.CB 101: No different? They were sheep, and they've been sheep their whole lives. Following the rules the government set for them, they were the type of people to follow Cyberlife blindly. The way I see it, you helped them by ending their miserable lives.CT 50: No. I've done bad things because I trusted your word. I sent my men to kill Cyberlife Car's brother because you told me to, I attacked the Chicago Falcons base because you told me to. You've always been my advisor... some of my troops have doubted you before, but I didn't listen to them. I didn't listen to them because you had done good by me so far. I'm starting to think I was wrong for trusting you.CB 101: You weren't. My advice and help is the reason you've gotten this far. This battle was a setback, but we will win. You're the hero who's gonna save millions of lives by making sure Cyberlife creates the antivirus program. Good men will die on the way, but that's a necessary sacrifice. I need you to give me a second chance.CT 50: I'm not going to let you manipulate me.CB 101: I'm not manipulating you, have you lost your mind? I'm just trying to help you. Do you have any idea who those snipers were? They can't have been a part of Cyberlife Reunited.CT 50: I've made lots of enemies, but not many with precision like that. Those snipers were skilled, they hit nearly every shot. Only one group has such accuracy. I'd say RoTech Motorcycle and her group have followed us. But now that we know they're working with CR, we'll be expecting them, we'll be better prepared. I'll have my men rally up the inmates we freed. They'll be of use to us now... but after the fight's over I'll make sure they're put back where they belong.CB 101: We have something that CR doesn't. I learned long ago that I'd have to play this game differently.CT 50: What game?CB 101: Life. Life is nothing but a game with winners and losers. Those who get to the top and those who fall on down to the bottom. And if I wanted to get to the top, I had to use a power stronger than any physical training could get you. Than any amount of allies could get you. Knowledge. Know your enemies, know what they want. Soon you'll know their every move before they even make it. We know everything about Cyberlife Reunited. We can use the hostages. Separate Detroit Taxi 17 from the others, I need to talk with her. If I can get her to join our side, Cyberlife Reunited will surrender. There will be no one left to stop us.CT 50: That girl is the last person that would ever willingly join us.CB 101: Of course she doesn't actually have to join us. All we need to do is make Cyberlife Car think she's joined us. I can be very... persuasive. I go talk to her, give her a few reasons to play along, and soon CR will no longer be a problem.CT 50: Okay... but I won't let you be the one to talk to her. I'll do it myself.As CB 101 and CT 50 are discussing, Prometheus members drive up to them. They're dragging an unconscious bus.CB 101: I see you got him. Good.CT 50: What's this?CB 101: I told your men to capture a certain inmate when they were at the prison. This right here, is Mercedes Benz Bus.CT 50: You gave my men orders behind my back?CB 101: It was for a good reason, you were busy.CT 50: And what do we need this Mercedes Bus for?CB 101: He's a threat. A witness. Once everything blows over, his information will help the authorities catch me. I need him dead.CT 50: So then kill him. Make it quick.CB 101: Of course. I'll bring him away from here, don't want to stain the floors with his oil.Cyberlife Truck 50 drives away. He still has doubts about Cyberlife Bus 101.
=== Choices ===
Hours later, Cyberlife Truck 50 arrives in front of Detroit Taxi 17's cell. She's been separated from the others.DT 17: Why'd you bring me here? What do you want? I already told you, I don't know anything.CT 50: I'm not here to interrogate you. I just want to talk.He settles down. Cyberlife Truck 50 has been replaying the events of these past few days over and over in his mind, thinking about everything he's done.CT 50: How are your injuries? After the burning room, are you alright?DT 17: I'll live.CT 50: Good. Look, sometimes it's easy to forget you're... just a kid. Can't have been that long ago you were the same age my daughter is now. What happened to your father, that was never a part of the plan. We needed Cyberlife Reunited out of the way, so I trusted CB 101. I should've known better.CT 50 looks at a nearby picture of Cyberlife Truck 71.DT 17: Is that your way of trying to apologize? To show remorse? I don't buy it. You don't feel anything, you're just a murderer. Why haven't you killed me already? Why are you keeping us alive?! I tried to kill you, you'd think that's enough reason to have me executed.Cyberlife Truck 50 looks away.CT 50: I don't know. It's just not right. It doesn't have to be like this. I really am sorry....Detroit Taxi 17 glances at his large bullet wound, which he got when RoTech Motorcycle shot him with a sniper rifle at the prison. DT 17: I see you got hurt. Who shot you?CT 50: Ghosts from the past coming back to haunt me.DT 17: You did wrong by them?CT 50: I did. I can't blame them for coming back.DT 17: You'll do wrong by so many more if you follow through with the detonation of the bomb.CT 50: Not following through, avoiding my duty, that is the immoral option. The antivirus software has to be created, and soon. There are no good choices here, only necessary ones.DT 17: It may feel that way, but you can always turn back. I've already seen it happen once.CT 50: You remind me of my daughter. I admire your optimism. DT 17: How old is she?CT 50: Eight vehicle years old. She's the sweetest person I've ever known. She has the virus, she only has a few more days left to live... but just like you, she's a fighter. She's made it longer than what was expected of her. But now, the virus is taking every last bit of life she has left.DT 17: I'm sorry to hear that... but it doesn't justify what you're doing.CT 50: No, but the millions of others I'm saving at the same time do. If we don't stop it right here and now, the virus will cause a genocide for all androids and vehicles alike. How do you think humanity will fare after that? Entire armies depend on androids. Society will collapse, wars will ignite. The apocalypse is coming. We have to stop it.DT 17: You can't be sure about that, there are better ways to do this. The sacrifice of millions is not necessary!CT 50: I've seen what the virus is like. We have to make sure Cyberlife stops it. This is the most efficient way to do that, no matter how unpleasant it is. If we don't have an iron grip on everything, if we sideline our mission or easen up for even one day, that could be the fatal mistake which leads to the virus wiping us all out sooner or later. We need to force them to create the cure....CT 50: You know, I saw your uncle at the battlefield.Detroit Taxi 17 has a worried look.CT 50: Don't worry, he's still alive. But I... I'm tired of this fighting, of this bloodshed. I won't give up the bomb, but no one from your group has to die. No more of my army has to die, if you switch sides. Or at least claim to do so. Cyberlife Car and the others will surrender if they think you've joined the enemy. First we'll let them escape Detroit. After that, we'll let you, RoTech Bus and Cyberlife Helicopter 11 leave too.DT 17: I won't let you-CT 50: I can bring back your father. I'll send my men to obtain his body, and they'll resurrect him. But only if you join us. There's been enough bloodshed. You could be with your father... you could be with your family friends, safe and out of this city. No one has to die. Detroit Taxi 17 doesn't know how to respond. She's never been faced with a choice like this. She doesn't know what to feel. She can't abandon the people of Detroit, but the thought of being with her father again is overwhelming. Their relationship hasn't been healthy in years, she could get to fix that.CT 50: Consider your choice carefully.DT 17: I... I can't...She doesn't want to say it. There's pain in her voice, this is the most difficult choice she's had to make. But she has to put others before herself.DT 17: I can't leave the people of Detroit to die... I'm not going to join you. I'm not going anywhere. We'll stay here until you're fucking dead.CT 50: Are you sure?She reluctantly nods. At this moment she wants nothing more than to be with Cyberlife Taxi 4 again, but she has to do the right thing. No matter how tough it is.DT 17: My duty is to this city.Cyberlife Truck 50 is disappointed, but understands her choice. He even respects her for putting the needs of others above herself. He drives away from her cell, leaving her alone.
=== Torment ===
Cyberlife has 5 days left to create the antivirus software.
Mercedes Bus wakes up in complete darkness. His wheels have been immobilized. He hears nothing around him.MBB: Hello? Where the fuck am I?! Help! SOMEBODY!No one responds. He is left in total silence. He is terrified. He's alone in the dark for several hours, in complete isolation from anything and everything. The fear eventually turns into total despair, with no hope of getting out. More hours pass by, until he eventually hears another vehicle in the dark. The vehicle seems to be approaching. It's a bus.MBB: Oh thank god, you have to get me out of here! Some psychos locked me up and-The bus begins speaking. He sounds exactly like Cyberlife Bus.The bus: Hello Mercedes Bus. Do you remember me?MBB: C..Cyberlife Bus..? What the fuck... this isn't real, this isn't real... fuck, I thought you were dead, man. How is this happening?!The bus: Do you remember what you did to me?MBB: I'm sorry man, I'm so sorry! I didn't intend things to go down that way... I didn't know he'd go that far. I just wanted Cyberlife Mercedes to advertise me a bit, I didn't know he'd kill Cyberlife Minivan!
The bus: And what about when you called the Mercedes Gang? What did you expect to happen then?
MBB: I... I...
The bus: Say it.
MBB: I wanted you dead so I could be succesful... I thought that maybe if I took you out, I could finally be the official bus of Detroit. Cause that's what I'd always wanted, or at least what I thought I wanted. But that's just what everyone else has wanted from me, it's what my family wanted from me. But I failed, I ended up being a fuck up. I just wanted people to love me, I wanted my family to love me... 
The bus: Yet no one ever will. And that's because you're a pathetic, unlovable excuse of a vehicle. You're going to die alone in this cell from a lack of fuel. I could save you, but I won't. No one will even care you're gone, you'll be forgotten before you're even dead. 
MBB: You gotta get me out of here, please! I'm sorry... please!
The bus: You know what'll happen to you after you've been here for a couple of hours? Unable to move, in complete darkness, no sounds from the outside... you'll start to go insane. Complete sensory deprivation. You'll be desperate, you'll be disoriented, your systems will start to fail one by one as you lack any contact to the rest of the world. Dying from engine failure will be the best part, as it'll be your relief from the mental torture of it. Mercedes Bus begins sobbing. The bus who sounds like Cyberlife Bus begins driving away.MBB: NO! YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME! PLEASE, MAN! I'LL DO ANYTHING, DON'T LEAVE ME HERE! PLEASE!Mercedes Bus becomes desperate.MBB: DON'T GO, PLEASE! YOU CAN'T-The bus exits the dark room, leaving MBB all by himself in complete silence and darkness once again.
The scene cuts to Detroit Taxi 17 in the Prometheus base. She's still away from the other prisoners in a separate part of the base. She has her own cell. As she's waiting to be let back in with the others, she sees Cyberlife Bus 101 approaching her cell. She feels her systems tensing up.CB 101: Hello, seventeen.DT 17: Fuck you.CB 101: Rudeness like that accomplishes nothing. That's not how I talked to you while I was locked up in a prison cell. You know I wanted to be the one to come in and talk to you, but your friend CT 50 wouldn't let me?DT 17: Go to hell.CB 101: Do you want me to grab a knife and visit your friends, RoTech Bus and Cyberlife Helicopter 11 in their cells? Because if you don't, you should start talking back to me.DT 17: Fine. Let's talk.CB 101: Did you take CT 50's offer?DT 17: No.CB 101: Impressive. I always knew you were a... special girl.DT 17: Why don't you come inside this cell and see how special I can get, fucker?CB 101: I'm not dumb, you should know that. We both know how that'd go down.DT 17: Might as well speed up the inevitable, my promise still stands. I'm gonna kill you. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but sooner or later I'm going to kill you. I'm gonna put a bullet through your engine, and watch your life slowly fade away, as you're hit with the realization that there's nothing left for you in this life. You'll know that the next place you'll go is straight to hell. You'll burn.CB 101 is amused.CB 101: You really are something unique. Not everyone would have the guts to say something like that in the position you're in. You know I'm the one in control in this situation. I could do anything to you. And no one could stop me. Detroit Taxi 17 recoils in disgust.DT 17: You're obsessed with me.CB 101: And you're obsessed with stopping me, with killing me. You're afraid that if you don't kill me, you'll become like me.DT 17: What, you think I'm gonna start running a fucking trafficking operation? Sell living beings like slaves, like I'm-CB 101: No, not that part. I think you're scared that you'll become cold, calucating, ruthless. Able to take lives without feeling any remorse. A killer. You think if you kill me, you can stop that from happening, like that would stop my influence from taking over you. I've done it before, I turned Cyberlife Helicopter 11 from a helpless boy in the streets into a killing machine that'd do anything I asked him to. Of course that was before he had his little change of heart... but it's already too late for you. I've changed you. My actions have changed you, permanently. You have a hard time trusting people, don't you? You've lost nearly every parental figure you've had. Your mother, your father, Cyberlife Recycle Truck 64... you've suffered a lot. Someone like that, can easily turn into someone like me. That's what you're afraid of.DT 17: I know who I am. I'll never be anything like you, and the fact you think you can change me just shows how far gone you really are. You're insane and delusional, and you deserve to die.CB 101: We'll just have to wait and see.As Detroit Taxi 17 is speaking with Cyberlife Bus 101, she remembers something. She still has the tracking device RoTech Bus designed, she hid it under her rear bumper. RB had specifically designed the device to be so minuscule that possible hostiles wouldn't notice it, even at close range. This seems to have worked, as despite getting frisked by the Prometheus guards whilst unconscious, she still has the device on her. She remembers what RB said, everyone only gets one, so they need to choose carefully what they should use it on. As Detroit Taxi 17 looks at Cyberlife Bus 101, she knows there's no one she wants to kill more than him. She doesn't want even the slightest risk of him running away or hiding once this is all over. She doesn't want to admit it to herself, but deep in her subconscious, the thought of CB 101 getting away with his crimes is almost more terrifying to her than the thought of Detroit being destoyed by the bomb. CB 101 is responsible for the deaths of her father and Cyberlife Recycle Truck 64, he ruined the lives of hundreds of vehicles by trafficking them, he ran the most sadistic and vicious criminal operation she's ever known. Her hate towards him is the strongest emotion she's felt. She knows she has to kill him, and the best way to make sure of that is to know where he is at all times. She needs to attach the device onto him, but for that to happen she needs to distract him first. DT 17: I heard Mercedes Bus's voice a few hours back. What'd you to do him? Did you kill him?CB 101: He's in the dark rooms, same as you were back when Operation Snowfall was still active.DT 17: I'm not surprised. You think you know me? I know you. I know you're a sick fuck. You're not only obsessed with me, you're fucking obsessed with control. That's why you ran Snowfall. That's why you keep people locked up in isolation. You want to have complete control over others in every sense, you want them to listen to everything you say, you want to be able to do whatever you want to anyone you want. You're aware that you could just kill MBB, but instead you'd rather keep him as your pet, because it makes you feel so fucking mighty and important. But you're not. You don't have control over anyone. Not anymore.Cyberlife Bus 101 doesn't respond.DT 17: You gotta hate this, being here in Prometheus. Being kept on a leash by Cyberlife Truck 50. Being his bitch. You can't hurt the other prisoners, CT 50 wouldn't let you. If you try anything without his approval, he'll kill you. You're weak here. You think you have power over me, just because I'm the one in a cell? You're wrong. You have no control, no power. You're fucking useless, and you know it.Cyberlife Bus 101 is getting agitated. He's always the one getting under other people's skin with his words, but now DT 17's words are starting to have an effect on him. CB 101: I'm going to murder every last one of your friends and make you watch. You think your therapist friend's fate was bad, you think your father's fate was bad? They were nothing to what you'll see when I-Cyberlife Truck 50 arrives at the cell.CT 50: What do you think you're doing?CB 101 stops speaking. He turns to look at CT 50. The two of them focus on each other, which gives Detroit Taxi 17 the perfect opportunity to attach the tracking device. She quickly flings the small device at CB 101, remaining unnoticed. Looking through her systems, DT 17 now has the exact coordinates to CB 101's location, and they seem to update whenever he makes the slightest movement. RB's device works. Detroit Taxi 17 tries not to show her satisfaction, as the discussion between CB 101 and CT 50 continues.CT 50: I asked you a question. What are you doing at her cell?CB 101: I was attempting to get information from her.CT 50: Stop. Do you really think I don't know what you're doing here? You were threatening Detroit Taxi 17. She's off limits to you. They're all off limits. You don't speak to the prisoners, you don't touch the prisoners, we don't hurt people unless we have to. We only kill when we have to, if there's no other choice. But when there is a choice... We save people. Kill one to save a hundred, that's what we're all about.CB 101: I apologize.CT 50 punches Cyberlife Bus 101, knocking him onto the ground.CT 50: Call me sir.CB 101 doesn't say anything, so CT 50 hits him again.CB 101: I'm sorry... sir.CT 50: You will be if you do something else behind my back. Know your place. This is the final warning.Cyberlife Bus 101 gets up, trying to suppress his hatred, the humiliation he feels.CB 101: Your daughter might not have long left. Keep that in mind.Cyberlife Bus 101 leaves the room. Cyberlife Truck 50 turns to look at Detroit Taxi 17.CT 50: I'm sorry you had to listen to whatever he said, I'll get you back to the other prisoners. You've been away from them for a long enough time.DT 17: Thank you.Cyberlife Truck 50 opens the cell, despite DT 17 not being in chains to restrict her movement. He trusts her enough to know she won't try anything. She's transported safely back to the others, where she reunites with RoTech Bus and Cyberlife Helicopter 11. They all remain locked up. 
=== A Lonesome Rescue (1/2) ===
The next day. Cyberlife has 4 days left to program the antivirus software.
Cyberlife Reunited and the Chicago Falcons spent the entirety of the previous day planning out the rescue. They've set everyone in place, CC, CFT and CTrain are out in the open, ready to get Prometheus' attention. It's already getting late, the Falcons are planning on using the darkness of the night to help with stealth in order to break out the captured CR and Falcons' members.
The scene cuts to the Prometheus base, where Cyberlife Bus 101 is talking to CT 50.CB 101: Cyberlife Car has contacted us and informed he'd like to negotiate things with you.CT 50: I'd like to hear what he has to say. I'll meet with him.CB 101: Are you sure? Something feels off about this.CT 50: I'll go. We can have some of our men nearby in cover in case he tries something.It doesn't take long for him to arrive at the location where he's agreed to meet with Cyberlife Car. His men have secured the area, making sure there are no snipers. CT 50 and CC cautiously approach each other. There's a long silence, as the two vehicles stare at each other. There's hate between them, but also a certain level of respect.CC: Hello again. I respect you for having the decency to talk this through.CT 50: We're reasonable men. We can handle this reasonably. CC: I'm glad we're on the same page. But I need to get straight to the point. Leave Detroit, hand us the bomb, and give our captured members back. It's not too late, yet. You can still come out of this alive.CT 50: You're in no position to be making demands. We outnumber you. Deal's off, now listen to my offer. Leave Prometheus alone, and we won't attack you. Just leave the city, we'll let you.CC: You'd be killing millions. We can't let that go by. If you stay here, we'll paint the streets of this city with the oil of you and your mutes. Give us the bomb and things can end peacefully.CT 50: We don't have to detonate the bomb if Cyberlife does what we say. This is all up to them.CC: There are other ways to do this. You don't have to put innocent people at stake.CT 50: That's what Cyberlife is doing. Putting innocent lives at stake.CC: Why are you doing this?! At this point the antivirus software will be created no matter what! Just leave! Let the people of this city live!CT 50: I don't want to kill all these people. But we're running out of options. And we're running out of time.CC: What? You're not running out of time, you-CT 50: My daughter only has a few more days left to live. If the antivirus program isn't created by then... the virus will kill her.Cyberlife Car doesn't respond.CT 50: She's only eight years old. I understand you've been in similar situations. Doing things you don't want to, to save those you love. How far would you go to save your niece?CC: I'd do anything...CT 50: And here I am. I didn't ask for this. But we don't choose our destiny, we fulfill it. And it's our destiny, our duty to save those tens of millions of lives that would get infected with the virus.CC: But killing millions-CT 50: To save billions. To save an entire species. My daughter's life isn't the only one we're saving. There's proof the virus will keep evolving. Eventually, it'll turn into something Cyberlife can't contain. All because during the most important moments, they were too busy worrying about their public image. We're here to stop it before it gets to that point. Tell me this, would you kill the population of a single city, if that meant curing cancer before it killed anyone? It's a horrible thing at first... but in the long run, we're killing them to save so many more.CC: There has to be another way.CT 50: There isn't. I don't enjoy what I do, but I do it because I have to, because no one else could, because no one else would. I never wanted any of this, but I wasn't given a choice. I make the hard decisions, I do what needs to be done, no matter what. Whatever it takes, this virus will be stopped. Make your choice. Leave, or die.
CC: We both know what my choice is.CT 50: Okay... I can respect that.Cyberlife Truck 50 takes out his gun, and aims it at Cyberlife Car. CC rushes to cover, nearly getting hit by the bullets. Prometheus members come out of hiding, chasing after him. They come close to getting to him, until Cyberlife Train arrives at the scene. He grabs CC and drives off in extreme speed. CTrain is nearly twice as fast as the vehicles chasing him. They make their escape, while still getting chased.
The scene cuts to showing the Chicago Falcons. They're approaching the Prometheus base in the darkness of the night. RoTech Motorcycle sends members of the group to scope out the area before moving further, with Cade leading them. The scouts return and tell her the route is clear. They proceed further, and enter the base through a window located at the top of the building. Once inside, RoTech Motorcycle proceeds onto a steel platform. It's not very firm, but it's their only way of going further without being spotted. She slowly drives over the steel platform, she can feel it shaking. She's beginning to doubt if multiple vehicles can move through it. She gets to the other side, no longer on top of the weak platform. Cade then jumps on top of the platform, and drives forward. The platform is shaking even more now, it's extremely unsteady. As he moves further, a piece of the platform falls off.
RoTech Motorcycle wants to yell at him to turn back, but they have to be quiet. Luckily Cade had the same thought, as he quickly turns back the way he came, and jumps back onto the roof, just as the platform collapses. RoTech Motorcycle is stuck on the other side alone, she'll have to rescue the others by herself. The Chicago Falcons try to come up with a way to get to their leader, but there's nothing. She signals them to leave the area before they're spotted. RoTech Motorcycle then hears Prometheus guards entering the area, to investigate the noise of the platform collapsing. She rushes into cover so she's not spotted. She knows the guards are nearby, but is surprised they don't seem to be saying anything to each other. However that isn't important, she waits until she's sure they've left the area, then drives forward. She's sneaking through the area as carefully as she can, making sure not to make a sound. If she gets spotted, she'll get killed. If Prometheus get taken down or not depends entirely on RoTech Motorcycle's success during this rescue.
=== A Lonesome Rescue (2/2) ===
RM doesn't know exactly where the hostages are, she'll have to figure that out on her own. The fact that there's a bomb powerful enough to destroy the entire city somewhere in the same building is also hard to comprehend. Such destruction contained in such a small space. But the bomb isn't her focus. She has to rescue the hostages, and she has to be quick. If the rest of Prometheus return before she can get out, there'll be no way she won't be spotted. RM is startled when she hears the noise of a guard driving extremely close to her, these guards seem to be nearly as stealthy as her. She rushes behind cover to hide herself, bumping into a crate in the process. A bottle placed on top of the crate falls off, tumbling down towards the ground. Time feels slowed down, as RM lunges towards the bottle. She grabs it right before it hits the ground. If it had shattered, it would've meant certain death. She gently places it back to its place, and scopes out the nearby rooms.
Eventually she finds her way towards where she believes the hostages will be located. She grabs a sturdy knife, and uses it to create a small hole into the wall. She uses it to peek through and see into the room. There are 3 guards watching the hostages. One's on the left, two are on the right. Once she bursts into the room, she'll have to make sure none of them have time to fire their weapons or to call for help. She'll have to kill them before they even realize what's going on. If she's too slow, every guard in the building will come rushing to her location. Millions of lives depend on her succeeding, her vengeance depends on her succeeding. She takes a deep breath, and grabs another knife.
She quietly whispers to herself: Three... two... one... go.
She drives through the door and targets the two guards furthest away from her, by throwing her two knives at them. As the two guards point their weapons at her, the knives hit them straight in their engines, killing them instantly. After that, RoTech Motorcycle lunges at the guard closest to her. She pushes his gun away from him, then bashes him against the metallic cell bars. She bashes him again with even greater strength. Once more. The guard's wrecked dead body falls onto the floor. RM takes another deep breath. She did it.RM: Okay...She turns to look at the hostages, they seem to be in as much awe as they are in shock.RM: I'm here to rescue you.She drives to the cell doors, and opens them one by one. Detroit Taxi 17, RoTech Bus, and Cyberlife Helicopter 11 all get out, they're finally in freedom again.RB: Who are you?DT 17: She's RoTech Motorcycle... she was the leader of the FVVA after Cyberlife Helicopter. Cyberlife United fought against her in the vehicle revolution years ago. Why are you here in Detroit?RM: Cyberlife Truck 50. I want to kill him as much as you do. I'm working together with Cyberlife Car, me and my group are the ones that rescued him.DT 17: Thank you... we owe you a lot.RM: We can worry about that later, there are still others we have to rescue. Do you know where the other hostages are?DT 17: Other hostages? Are you talking about Mercedes Bus?RM: Who? No. Three members of my group were captured by Prometheus. They're somewhere in here. You stay here and stay quiet, I need to go find them.CH 11: No, we need to go find Mercedes Bus and rescue him. No matter what he did, he doesn't deserve to go through that. Being in the dark rooms... that's torture.DT 17: You're right. He should be in prison, but he doesn't deserve torture. While we find MBB, RoTech Motorcycle can find her captured group members.RM: Okay. But be quiet. Don't get spotted, if you do, we all die.DT 17: Yeah, let's go.The group splits apart, as the CR members go look for MBB, and RoTech Motorcycle goes looking for her old friends. They have to move through the base carefully, but after what feels like an eternity of searching, they find where they think Mercedes Bus will be. DT 17 enters the room, aiming a gun that has been given to her by RM. The room is dark, but she sees some movement in the corner. Something seems to be shaking. A quivering voice speaks.MBB: Pl-please leave.. lea-leave me alon-alone. You're not real. You're not real! Get out of my mind! GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY MIND!MBB seems to be chained to the wall.DT 17: We're real, and we're here to rescue you. You're gonna be okay.MBB: Cyberlife Bus... he's alive, he talked to me-
DT 17: He isn't. Cyberlife Bus 101 has a voice changer. It wasn't the real CB you spoke to. 
MBB: W-what?
DT 17: Me and the rest of CR have suffered through the same thing you just did. She goes to cut his chains. He's shaking, and many of his systems are inactive. DT 17 looks at the others.DT 17: He can't drive in this shape...CH 11: I'll carry him. We'll get him out of here, no matter what.MBB: But the Overseer will-DT 17: He's not here. Stop talking, we'll get you out of here, but we need to be quiet.While CR found MBB, RoTech Motorcycle has been searching for her old group members. This is a moment she's been waiting for a long time. Finally reuniting with them after they were taken from her by Prometheus, by Cyberlife Truck 50. She grabs a weapon from her arsenal and arms it with a suppressor. Nothing's going to stop her from getting to her people. If her members were captured to work on the bomb, she believes they'll be somewhere near it. RoTech Minivan, RoTech Car 89 and Cyberlife Motorcycle 44, those are their names. For a moment she has to consider if she'll even recognize them after all this time. As she's moving through the hallways, she's thinking back on all her days with the Chicago Falcons. Half of the group has since then either died or been captured. They were all close, but times have changed. 
Upon entering a room, RM spots a minivan looking at some papers. A RoTech Minivan. RoTech Motorcycle drives out of the shadows to see if it's really her. RMV hears the noises and turns around. They stare at each other in silence. After all this time they meet again. They're reunited.RM: RoTech Minivan... I came for you. I'm sorry it took me this long. But I got here.RMV doesn't say anything.RM: It's me, you were with me in the Chicago Falcons...RMV still doesn't say anything. It's like she's mute. RoTech Motorcycle remembers how the guards also didn't say anything.RM: Minivan..?RMV digitally connects to RoTech Motorcycle, and sends her a message.
 RMV: It's best you leave. I haven't called the guards yet. I'm letting you go for what we've gone through together.
RM: Letting me go? What are you talking about? I'm here to rescue you... where are Cyberlife Motorcycle 44 and RoTech Car 89?
 RMV: They're not here. Leave, now.
RM: What? Where are they?RMV doesn't respond.RM: Minivan... where are they?
 RMV: They tried to escape. Refused to work for Prometheus. They were punished. I killed them myself.
RoTech Motorcycle points her gun at her former friend.RM: No... no...
 RMV: Leave. Now.
Hate and anger is overcoming RoTech Motorcycle.RM: After everything we've been through... why? Why? I trusted you. We all trusted you.
 RMV: This is a good cause. They treat me well. I have more loyalty to them than I do to you or the Falcons. We're actually helping people, we're not just mercenaries like the Falcons.
RM: You killed them... we were like a family...
 RMV: Last chance. Leave.
RoTech Motorcycle is devastated. She slowly turns around and begins leaving. But as she's going into the shadows, her hate overcomes her once again. She grabs her weapons and turns around, shooting RMV multiple times. The suppressor silences the gunshots. Her former friend's oil stains RM. She had to do it. She had to. Before she can leave, she takes one long look at the minivan's corpse. She sheds a tear.RM quietly utters out one word: Traitor.She leaves the scene, and finds the Reunited members who have since then rescued Mercedes Bus.DT 17: What about your group?RM: They're not here. We need to leave.They swiftly escape the area without getting spotted. They make it out right before CT 50 returns to the base. The dead bodies will soon be discovered, but that doesn't matter now. What matters is they got out. As they get outside, MBB tells CH 11 to put him down to the ground. As they're outside, MBB's systems are starting to get used to the light again. Soon he's going to be able to operate normally again.MBB: Tha- thank you all for this... but I have to go...DT 17: You're not coming with us?MBB: Cyberlife Car would kill me the mome-moment he saw me...DT 17: I won't let him. Come on, come with us.MBB: No, I'll tr-try to find my family. I haven't seen them in a lo-long time.MBB turns to look at CH 11.MBB: You're the clo-closest thing to a friend I've had. Tha-thank you for being kind to me in prison. Thank you all for this.Mercedes Bus drives away from Cyberlife Reunited, and heads towards where his family lives. CR and RoTech Motorcycle drive towards the detective headquarters, where their friends will be waiting. As they continue moving forward, RB gives CH 11 a grim reminder.RB: Don't think I've forgotten about you, about what you did. You know who's coming for you.
=== Reunited At Last ===
Cyberlife Car and the others are fearfully waiting outside the detective headquarters. If RoTech Motorcycle failed, she and the others would never be rescued. The whole city would most likely be destroyed, millions would die. Everything depends on whether or not RoTech Motorcycle will return.CC: It's been two hours... they should be here by now.Cade: She'll be here. I trust she was able to do it, she's the stealthiest of all of us. She hasn't let me down yet.CFT: It isn't looking good...Cade: You gottta have faith in her, all right? You folks don't know who you're dealin' with, she's more than capable. Toughest person I've known.CB 5: Maybe we should start looking for ways to leave the city.CC: We are not abandoning them!
CB 5: I'm not saying we just abandon everyone, we should at least attempt to evacuate the city. Get as many civilians as we can with us, and try to escape from Detroit. Because if our allies don't return, we have no chance of stopping an entire army by ourselves. I don't like it either, but the least we can do is save ourselves. There's no point in dying for a cause that's already been lost.CC: And what would you do if one of those captured allies was Cyberlife Van? What if your husband was there in that base, just waiting for you to come and rescue him? Would you still be so eager to leave him there?CB 5: You think I only care about him? Hell, I've seen Detroit Taxi 17 grow from a baby to who she is now. I would die for her. You should know that. But I also gotta think about my own kid. Cyberlife Van 93 needs to grow up with parents. We'll be no good to him if we get blown up with Detroit.CFT: I'm not leaving RoTech Bus.All of them stop talking when they hear the sounds of vehicles approaching. CC gazes forward, begging for those vehicles to be RoTech Motorcycle and the rest of CR. His wishes are fulfilled. RoTech Motorcycle drives towards CC, surrounded by the prisoners she rescued. DT 17, RB and CH 11 are all finally back with their family and friends. Detroit Taxi 17 stops driving forward when she sees her uncle. She has to adjust her vision to make sure it's not an illusion. He's really there. Her uncle isn't dead. She drives forward, faster than she ever has before. Cyberlife Car hugs her with loving wheels. No words need to be said between them, both of them know just how much they care about each other. RoTech Bus and Cyberlife Fire Truck have a similar reunion, as they hug each other tightly.RB: It's good to see you, Blaze... but doesn't being this close make you claustrophobic?CFT chuckles: You never stop making jokes, do you? I'm so glad you're here...These last few days have been some of the worst of Cyberlife Car's life, but he finally has some peace and quiet. They're all reunited at last. And it's thanks to RoTech Motorcycle, this wouldn't be possible without her. He had his doubt about her, but she's proving to be a good person.CC: Ro... Thank you.RM: You're welcome, CC.She goes to be with the Chicago Falcons. However, her group isn't as overjoyed as Cyberlife Reunited. Even though their leader is back, their old members aren't. Cade: We knew you could do it. It's a shame you had to do it on your own. But... what about Cyberlife Motorcycle 44, RoTech Minivan and RoTech Car 89?RM: They were already dead. It was too late.The Chicago Falcons are shocked. All this time they thought they had hope, they thought they could rescue their old friends and see them again. But this whole time it was for nothing.Cade: No, no, no... FUCK! We'll fucking avenge them. I'm gonna kill that fucker CT 50 myself.RM: Cyberlife Truck 50 will pay. They were like family to me. All of them were loyal until the end.The others can sense RoTech Motorcycle isn't telling everything, she seems quite shaken up. But they leave it be, they trust their leader. Once she's by herself, CC goes to talk to her.CC: Was that the whole truth?RM: You were listening?CC: I overhead it. So, was it?RM: You know it wasn't.CC: Want to talk about it?RM: How did you deal with it? Back when Cyberlife Mercedes did what he did. How do you deal with someone you think of as family betraying everything you stood for?CC: One of them betrayed the Falcons?RM: RoTech Minivan... she was like family to me. She killed the two others, how could she fucking do that? Jesus...CC: A betrayal like that is hard to deal with.RM: Yet you dealt with it. How?CC: I didn't deal with it. I drank until I didn't have to deal with it anymore. I drank until I forgot all about Cyberlife Mercedes and what he did. That only lead me into a deeper spiral into depression. I know all the feelings you're going through. Hate, anger, sadness, regret, guilt. The only way to deal with all that, is by talking about it. You need to let your feelings out.RoTech Motorcycle bashes a nearby window.RM: That's what I am fucking doing, I'm talking about it with you. It isn't making me feel any better.CC: Just let it all out.RM: Fuck... it's like I've been getting betrayed my whole life. My creators left me to die while I was an infant, the FVVA abandoned me in the revolution, and now my group... I trusted her.CC: Both our lives are filled with betrayal by those we trust. I guess that comes with the dangerous lives we live.RM: Everyone's a fucking traitor...CC: Not everyone. There are people you can trust, sometimes it just takes a while before you figure out who they are.Meanwhile, Detroit Taxi 17 goes to speak with RoTech Bus.DT 17: Feels really good to be free again, doesn't it?
RB: Certainly does. I'm glad you're okay. And I'm... I'm so sorry, I'm the reason we were captured. I'm the one who put us there, if I never went to interrogate CB 101 at the prison, he wouldn't have escaped. He wouldn't have been able to call Prometheus to capture us, it's my fault. I'm so sorry. I'm so fucking sorry... I-RoTech Bus begins breaking down in regret, as Detroit Taxi 17 rushes in to hug him.DT 17: Hey, everything's okay, alright? We made it out. I'm okay, you're okay, we're back with our friends, with our loved ones. Don't blame this on yourself. If I were in your position, I'd have done the same. There was no way for you to know things would go down the way they did.
RB: But what CT 50 did to you... he hurt you, and that's on me. My actions hurt you, even though you're my friend. I hurt my friend.
DT 17: You didn't hurt me, that wasn't you. Cyberlife Truck 50 hurt me. He did this, he's the one responsible. We're gonna fix things, I promise. Everything's gonna work out.
RB: So... we're still friends, right? Even though I fucked up? 
DT 17: Obviously, you dumbass. I fucking love you, like platonically. 
RB: I platonically love you too, Bullseye. 
DT 17: You and your stupid nicknames...RB lets out a chuckle. He still regrets his actions, but he's already feeling better thanks to Detroit Taxi 17's reassurance.DT 17: Oh, and I used that tracking device you made. Threw it on Cyberlife Bus 101 while he was speaking with CT 50. It works well, so good job on that. Will make it easier to catch him.
RB: Ah, that's great! Where is he right now then?
DT 17: Haven't checked his location in a while, gonna do that right now...As she checks the location, she comes upon a shocking revelation.DT 17: Jesus christ, no...
RB: What is it? What's wrong?
DT 17: He's not in Detroit anymore. He's somewhere out of the city, driving southwest of Detroit.
RB: What, how's that even possible?
DT 17: I don't know, but that's what the coordinates are showing. He's driving away from Detroit... is he escaping? Why now? Where could he be headed?
RB: What could he want southwest of Detroit...
DT 17: I don't know, but I need to follow him.
RB: Follow him? Sorry, but are you crazy? How are you gonna find a way to leave the city with most exit routes blown up and blocked off, tanks are roaming the streets. And even if you did find a way, are you really just gonna leave us to deal with Prometheus on our own? You can deal with Cyberlife Bus 101 later, you'll be able to check his coordinates AFTER Prometheus is no longer threatening to destroy an entire city.
DT 17: That's not what you thought when you found out he had information about your sister's death. You considered that a priority over the threat of Prometheus.
RB: Yeah, and acting on that was a mistake. Just like how this will be a mistake too.
DT 17: Except if... jesus. You know how Cyberlife Truck 50 has a daughter, right?
RB: Yeah, you mentioned it to me. She's sick with the virus.
DT 17: That's right. His daughter is his main motivator. The virus is the biggest threat to her life, but what if it's not only threat? What if CB 101 decided he wants to speed up her death?
RB: Wait, what do you mean by that? DT 17: I'm saying Cyberlife Bus 101 is driving away from Detroit to go kill Cyberlife Truck 71. She must be located in some hospital in a different city. Being a close associate of CT 50, I bet CB 101 knows where's she's located. And if something were to happen her, it wouldn't be good for this city. Think about it from CB 101's perspective. If he kills her, that gives Cyberlife Truck 50 incentive to detonate the bomb. In the rage of losing his daughter he might just decide to take everyone else down with him. And if the bomb goes off in Detroit while CB 101 is safe and sound in another city, all his problems will go away. All of us will be dead, and in the eyes of law enforcement he'll have died in the explosion as well, because everyone thinks he's in Detroit. So if the bomb goes off, he gets away with everything.RB: Jesus...DT 17: I need to hurry over to his location right away to make sure that doesn't happen.Cyberlife Helicopter 11 approaches them.CH 11: I should be the one to go, I can easily fly there.DT 17: No, the Prometheus turrets will shoot down anything flying in or out of the city. I'll have to use some other way to get out of Detroit.RoTech Motorcycle overhears their conversation.RM: We have boats, you can use them to cross the water. You won't be spotted.DT 17: Okay, good... I'll go right away.RB: Get there safely, Bullseye.DT 17: Will do, RB. Once I'm sure she's safe, I'll return to Detroit.Just as she's reunited with all of her friends, Detroit Taxi 17 is already forced to leave them. She wants to spend more time with them, but there's no time for that. Not now.
Cyberlife Truck 50 arrives back at the Prometheus base, but he senses that something is off. Something doesn't feel right. He goes to check on the prisoners, and comes to a shocking revelation. They've escaped. He immediately orders his men to search the area and to look for them. As he continues driving through the area, CT 50 finds the bodies of the guards killed by RM. Each death hurts him on an emotional level, they were all loyal fighters. He soon realizes that CB 101 is nowhere to be seen at the base. A Prometheus soldier approaches CT 50, carrying something. He begins digitally communicating with his leader.
 The mute: We can't find the prisoners, and we don't know where CB 101 has gone. But we found this recording near the place where CB 101 was last seen.
CT 50: Play it.The recording starts playing, it's nothing but audio. They hear CB 101's voice in the recording.CB 101: If you're listening to this... I'm most likely already dead.. the prisoners escaped, and they attacked me... I'm bleeding out, but I managed to record this conversation between them. Listen to this.They now hear the voice of CR members in the recording.DT 17: Did you find it?RB: Yes, there were some files in a room. Why does this matter? Why do you need to know where his daughter is?DT 17: I'm going to kill her. If that piece of shit thinks he can get away with killing my dad, I'll fight fire with fire. I'll go to Coldwater, and kill her.RB: Are you sure this is the right thing to do?DT 17: He deserves to suffer.The recording ends. CT 50 isn't aware of CB 101's voice changers, so to him there's no possible way the recording could have been faked. He doesn't know how to process the recording, but has to appear tough in front of his soldiers.CT 50: Did you find CB 101's corpse anywhere nearby?The mute: No, sir. Maybe they took him as a hostage.CT 50: Maybe. I'm leaving Detroit, I need to hurry to Coldwater.The mute: You can't. The US army has surrounded Detroit, the moment you leave the city they'll shoot you down. I hate to say it... but at this point, DT 17 has most likely already made it to Coldwater.CT 50: I understand... I need a moment.The mute leaves him alone. Cyberlife Truck 50 tries to calm himself down, and momentarily succeeds. Until a new burst of anger overtakes him, he destroys objects around the base in fury. He feels betrayed by Detroit Taxi 17, they're enemies but murdering a child seemed beyond her. After the anger has passed, there's nothing but regret and sadness. He should've spent his daughter's final days with her, not over here in Detroit. But it's too late. He calls her one final time.CT 50: Hey sweetheart...CT 71: Dad.. what is it?CT 50: Nothing, I just wanted to hear your voice again... is there any way you could leave the hospital room, and go for a drive for a few hours?CT 71: The doctors said I can't, I need all these devices attached to me.. why?CT 50: Okay...He knows that even if he asks for nurses to stay with CT 71, Detroit Taxi 17 could just tell the nurses to leave the room and they'd trust her because of how famous CR is. There's nothing he can do now, except comfort her in her final hours.CT 50: Do you remember when you were 3 years old?CT 71: I remember a little, I think..CT 50: You were so full of energy. You already had the virus, but it wasn't affecting you yet. I still remember the present you asked me to give you for your birthday.CT 71: What was it?CT 50: You asked for a unicorn. It was heartbreaking to have to tell you they don't exist. No matter how much I tried to explain it to you, you kept insisting on getting a unicorn. Not a toy, a real unicorn. After I only managed to get you a toy one, you refused to talk to me for a few days.He hears CT 71 giggling at the story. He'll miss the sound of her voice. They continue talking.
=== A Race Against Time ===
Detroit Taxi 17 has succeeded in leaving Detroit with the help of a boat lended to her by the Chicago Falcons. She's driving at full speed towards CB 101's coordinates. He had a head start, but he's slower than she is. If she goes fast enough, she might catch up to him before he can get to the hospital. Another factor slowing him down is the fact that CB 101 will also have to make sure to not attract attention from the authorities, otherwise he'll get arrested. Every second counts. The drive has taken her 2 hours thus far, but it feels much longer than that. She dreads the sight of a dead child if she's too slow. She has to make it there before the Overseer does anything horrible. Her tires feel like they're burning off, going at such a fast pace for an extended period of time.
Detroit Taxi 17 has gotten extremely close to CB 101's coordinates. They're both now in the city of Coldwater. He seems to have just entered some sort of building. DT 17 fears for the worst, when she gets closer and sees that the building is a hospital. She drives in through the doors of the hospital, and begins immediately asking which room Cyberlife Truck 71 is located in. Some citizens seem to recognize DT 17 and are surprised she's here instead of Detroit, but she doesn't have time for them, rushing past their confused gazes.
Cyberlife Bus 101 enters CT 71's room. He's holding a long metallic knife, sharp and durable enough to kill vehicles. Cyberlife Truck 50 feels helpless on the other side of the call, but there's nothing can do. The call abruptly ends, CT 50 can no longer hear his daughter's voice. CT 71: Who.. who are you? What are you doing?CB 101: Don't worry, little one. It will all be over soon. This won't hurt a bit... Well, maybe a bit.He places the tip of the knife on the fearful child, getting ready to stab her. Detroit Taxi 17 rushes towards CT 71's hospital room, and bursts in through the door. She immediately aims her gun at CB 101.DT 17: STOP! PUT THE KNIFE AWAY! PUT IT DOWN OR I WILL SHOOT YOUCB 101: Detroit Taxi 17... aren't you supposed to be in Detroit?DT 17: I said put it down, motherfucker. Or I will kill you.Cyberlife Bus 101 drops the knife.CB 101: Okay, okay.Detroit Taxi 17 is still aiming her gun at him, but she isn't pulling the trigger.
Meanwhile in the Prometheus base, Cyberlife Truck 50 is desperately trying to call his daughter back, but to no avail. He doesn't want to accept it, but by now he believes she's dead. But still, he waits. He waits for a call with his daughter, informing him she was taken to safety before anyone could hurt her. He waits for a call he knows will never come. Eventually the reality of the situation begins to settle in. He's trying to maintain composure the best he can. With nothing but his daughter in his mind, he looks at a drawing she made 2 years ago. It has three trucks, one of them a small child. Each truck has text under them, "Dad, mom and me." Above them is a heart with "I love my family" written inside it. Cyberlife Truck 50 reminisces on the past fondly, before slowly returning to reality. He loses it.
Cyberlife Truck 50 grabs a table, and throws it at a wall, causing it to break into several smaller pieces. He then repeatedly drives at the wall, causing it to crumble down. After his fit of rage, he collapses onto the ground, sobbing. "Don't.. don't hurt my little girl", he whimpers to himself, as if it'd make a difference. Reduced from a powerful violent leader to nothing but a desperate father.
The scene cuts back to Coldwater, where Detroit Taxi 17 is confronting Cyberlife Bus 101.CB 101: Even after everything I've done to hurt you, you refuse to shoot an unarmed man. There it is again. Hope. It's your greatest strength, but also your biggest weakness. You're still holding onto the hope that deep down, everyone is morally good. You're waiting for that "real me" to come out, and to express guilt and shame over what I've done. But that isn't going to happen. I don't regret what I've done, and if I could, I'd do it all again. I'd stab your therapist friend all over if I cou-Detroit Taxi 17 lunges at CB 101, punching him onto the ground.CB 101: So easy to instigate a reaction from you, you're predictable. Go on, shoot me.DT 17: Don't fucking move.CB 101: You... I can tell you're lacking something. I've been trying to figure you out, I think I know now. You're desperate for some deeper meaning. You don't want to face the truth. The truth that you're a nobody. You're not rA9, you're not some savior. You're just like any other vehicle. Insignificant.DT 17: Stop trying to get inside my mind.CB 101: I'm right, aren't I? That's what hurts you the most. Not mattering. Your uncle has fought crime for years, taken down more criminals than you could even possibly imagine. Now he's leading the group. And what you have done? Failed to save your therapist friend. Failed to save your father. You're a nobody. You could never live up to him, to his expectations. You have no place in this story.As Detroit Taxi 17 is distracted by his monologue, Cyberlife Bus 101 slowly reaches towards his knife, which he had dropped to the floor. Detroit Taxi 17 doesn't notice, her focus is on his words. Just as he's about to pick up the knife, Cyberlife Truck 71, who is on the hospital bed, sees what CB 101's trying to do. She yells out CT 71: WATCH OUT! He's going for the knife!Cyberlife Bus 101 has to act now. He lunges towards his knife. He grabs it and attempts to stab Detroit Taxi 17, but she backs away just in time, thanks to the warning from Cyberlife Truck 71. CB 101 slashes again, but DT 17 is too agile. With each swing, the knife is only slashing through the air. Detroit Taxi 17 is getting backed into the corner. As CB 101 lunges at her once again, something hits him. It was a vase of flowers thrown by Cyberlife Truck 71, the flowers Cyberlife Truck 50 brought her. Getting hit by the vase causes CB 101 to drop the knife once again. 
Detroit Taxi 17 uses this opportunity to attack, as she drives into CB 101. He's pushed towards some of the devices and cabinets. CB 101 chuckles, and lunges at CT 71's hospital bed. He quickly destroys some of the medical equipment keeping her alive, and is about to attack the fearful child, until DT 17 grabs him and pulls him back. She punches him, to which he tries to hit her back, but to no avail. She aims her weapon at him. CB 101: Every second you focus on me, that kid right there gets closer to death. With none of the equipment to take care of her, she won't live long. You're gonna have to choose between me or her, you don't have much time. Make your choice.Detroit Taxi 17 glances at Cyberlife Truck 71. She's unconscious due to the medical equipment no longer keeping her systems stable. She has to get medical help now, or she dies. DT 17 knows this, but she has a plan. DT 17: I've got plenty of time.She shoots out of both of CB 101's front wheels. He yells out in pain.DT 17: You're not going anywhere.
Detroit Taxi 17 grabs Cyberlife Truck 71, and carries her away from the room. She takes her to the nearest hospital staff, any doctors and nurses that can ensure the child doesn't pass away. Once DT 17's sure she's in safety, she returns to the room where she left CB 101. He's still there laying on the ground, spilling oil from the bullet wounds.CB 101: Okay, you did good there. Arrest me. She doesn't move. CB 101: Arrest me!...DT 17: No.She drives further back, and closes the door.CB 101: What do you think you're doing?She doesn't respond.CB 101: You think you can kill me? That's what you don't understand, I'm always the one in control. I know you. You can't kill me. Not like this. It's not in your nature, you're too... good.Detroit Taxi 17 looks over at the knife on the ground. The knife the Overseer would have used to murder a child.DT 17: You're wrong... the reason I didn't pull the trigger wasn't because I had any faith left in you. I've known for months what you are. I know the real you.She drives up to him.DT 17: I know the real you is nothing but evil.She thinks back to the dozens of Snowfall victims. The pain and suffering they all had to go through.DT 17: Do you remember my promise to you? I said I'd kill you. I said you'd burn. I keep my promises.CB 1O1: Wait-Detroit Taxi 17 plunges the knife into Cyberlife Bus 101. Oil spills out from the wound, as she slowly pulls the blade to the right, exposing his interior, but making sure to avoid his engine. She doesn't want it to be over that quick. Cyberlife Bus 101 tries to say something to her, but nothing comes out. She must've damaged his voice box. Detroit Taxi 17 stabs him again. She pulls the knife out, then stabs him again, repeating this rapidly. Each thrust is becoming increasingly ruthless. His insides are getting spilled out.DT 17: Remember their names.She stabs him again.DT 17: The snowfall victims... Cyberlife Recycle Truck 64.And again.DT 17: Cyberlife Taxi 4.She plunges the knife into him. But the Overseer is still alive.DT 17: Remember them.His body is twitching, the room is an oil splashed mess. Detroit Taxi 17 grabs a can of gasoline, which would normally be used to restock vehicles at the hospital. She splashes the gas on Cyberlife Bus 101. His voice box only manages to let out slight pleading whimpers.
Detroit Taxi 17 lights a match, and throws it at Cyberlife Bus 101. He bursts into flames, the fire quickly reaching his interior, burning him from the inside. He attempts to drive to a nearby extinguisher, but his driving functions no longer operate, as the fire melts his body. After moments of agony, the flames eventually reach his engine, causing it to explode and finally kill him. All Detroit Taxi 17 does is watch. 
Cyberlife Truck 50 is still sitting on the floor at the Prometheus base. He's holding the detonator to the bomb. He has the power to make it all go away. But he's not sure if he should. He grabs a nearby coin, and decides that if it lands on tails, he'll detonate. After a moment of consideration, he flips the coin. Just as it lands, before he can even look at the result, he gets an unexpected call from Detroit Taxi 17. CT 50: Hello? Please, listen to me, did you do it? Please don't, you don't-DT 17: Your daughter is alive.CT 50: What?DT 17: Cyberlife Bus 101 tried to kill her. I stopped him. The doctors say she's in critical condition after he destroyed her medical equipment, but she should live. She's unconscious as of now, but she'll live.CT 50: But Cyberlife Bus 101 is dead, I heard his tape.DT 17: I'm guessing he used his voice changer to trick you. The hospital has footage of the whole thing, I'll send it to you. Your daughter's fine, you have my word on that.Cyberlife Truck 50 sees the video. She isn't lying. CT 71 is safe.CT 50: I... thank you. Thank you for everything...Detroit Taxi 17 doesn't respond. CT 50: But.. what did I do to earn it?DT 17: Nothing. But no one deserves to lose family like that.Detroit Taxi 17 ends the call. Her words make CT 50 think about what he's put DT 17 through, making her lose her father. 
For a moment, Cyberlife Truck 50 considers surrendering, giving up the bomb to CR. But he can't. The lives of millions are up to him. If he surrenders now, Cyberlife might halt the creation of the antivirus. He now remembers his true goal, to save everyone, not just his daughter. Now's more important than ever that he secures the cure's creation. As he leaves the room, he's no longer thinking about the coin he flipped, which landed on tails.
=== A Reason to Fight ===
Mercedes Bus is arriving at his childhood neighbourhood where his family lives. The drive has been uncomfortable and painful, as he's still shaking from the torture he suffered at the hands of the Overseer. He's just tried to hang onto the hope that sooner or later he'll recover. And knowing that at least he'll finally get to reunite with his family has given him comfort. His family never showed him much affection. He knows they don't love him very much, if at all, but he still wants to see them. They're the only ones that might take him in without trying to kill him, he wants even the slightest allevation of pain. MBB arrives in front of the family house, and goes to knock at the front door.MBB: MBB 3? MBB 7? I'm h-home, let me in. Please.No one is answering. Mercedes Bus knocks again, this time louder and more aggressive.MBB: Could you p-please.. ope-open the door?! I know you do-don't like me, but I need somewhere to s-stay! I don't want to die... please.There's still no answer. He goes to check around the house, and sees something extremely worrying. The house's windows have been broken. He drives further, and sees the back door is broken. MBB remembers how Prometheus freed all the prison inmates. The thoughts of what might have happened horrify him. He proceeds further, and sees exactly what he feared to find. Oil splattered across the room. Bodies on the floor.MBB: NO, NO, NO!!!He sobs over the corpses of his family members. Escaped prisoners broke into their house and murdered them, anything valuable from inside the house has been stolen. Mercedes Bus is overwhelmed with feelings of sorrow and hatred, he knows this isn't fair. His family might not have loved him, but he loved them. They didn't deseve this. He feels as if he should've been the one to suffer this fate, he should be the one laying dead on the ground. He's desperate. He has no one to go to, no one who'd take him in. No one except Cyberlife Reunited. 
It's been several hours since the incident in the hospital, and Detroit Taxi 17 is still in Coldwater. The doctors have informed her that Cyberlife Truck 71 should wake up soon, so DT 17 wants to wait until that to make sure she's okay. She's hoping she'll also find out more about Cyberlife Truck 50. 
DT 17 is waiting in the hospital's lobby room, after having answered the police's questions about the encounter with CB 101. She told them it was self-defense. She keeps thinking about what happened. The Overseer is finally dead. The man who ran a trafficking operation, the man who killed Cyberlife Recycle Truck 64, the man who got Cyberlife Taxi 4 killed. He deserved to die, but Detroit Taxi 17 doesn't feel right. She's never done anything like that. Her recollection of the events is interrupted when she hears the doctors say something.DT 17: Sorry, what?The doctor: Cyberlife Truck 71 is awake. You can go talk to her, if you'd like.DT 17: Yeah, thanks.Detroit Taxi 17 drives into CT 71's room, and sees her laying on the bed in an even worse condition than before. She's attached to so many medical devices, it's like the whole room is filled with them. All this to keep her engine running. Detroit Taxi 17 drives closer.DT 17: Hey, miss. How are you feeling?CT 71: I've..- I've been better.Her voice sounds timid and weak. DT 17: That's alright, you're gonna get through this, don't you worry.CT 71: Thank you.. thank you for saving me. That bad man, he was going to hurt me, but you-DT 17: You don't have to think about that anymore. He can't hurt you, or anyone else anymore.CT 71: O-okay.. okay, good.DT 17: You're a brave young lady, you know? The way you helped me when he attacked, throwing that vase, that was super smart.Cyberlife Truck 71 giggles.CT 71: Thanks, you're sweet. Where's my dad? Can he come visit?DT 17: I'm sorry, he can't right now.CT 71: Is he in trouble?DT 17: You might see him later. But there's something serious happening in Detroit, and your dad is involved.CT 71: My dad... he's done something bad, hasn't he?DT 17: He has. He's put a lot of people in danger. But we're gonna stop him. I'm gonna stop him.CT 71: I don't know what he's done, but.. but my dad's not a bad person. He's not a monster, he's not like that man who came into my room with that knife.Detroit Taxi 17 doesn't respond.CT 71: Please... don't kill my dad. I don't want to lose him.DT 17: I... I should-..Detroit Taxi 17 doesn't know what to say.CT 71: Don't kill him. Promise me, please?DT 17: I.. I promise....DT 17: I have to go.She begins to make her exit, before turning to say one last thing to Cyberlife Truck 50's daughter.DT 17: Stay strong. You'll live.Detroit Taxi 17 exits the hospital, and begins driving back towards Detroit. She doesn't know if she meant her promise. The thought of possibly having just lied to a dying child terrifies her, but the thought of keeping the promise she made is equally as appalling. Her mind is racing with conflicting thoughts, she doesn't know what to feel. There are no good options.
Meanwhile in Detroit, the others have updated Cyberlife Car on the situation between Cyberlife Helicopter 11 and RoTech Bus. CH 11 has been staying distant from the group and from RB, immensely regretting his past actions. Cyberlife Car understands RB's hate and vengefulness, he's been in similar situations in the past. He decides to go talk to RoTech Bus once they've taken a break from the strategizing.CC: Hello, RB.RB: What?
CC: I said hey. Is your hearing alright?
RB: I don't know, my systems have been acting up a bit. It's probably nothing though. But anyway, let's try again. Hey. I didn't have time to say this before, but I'm really glad you're still alive. We missed you.CC: Thanks, I know you did, but that's not why I came over. All of us have something that keeps us going. A reason to fight, something that motivates us to do what we do. For me it's about protecting those around me. What's yours?RB: Same here. I want to protect the innocent.CC: As for the guilty?RB doesn't respond.CC: Look, I heard about what CH 11 did to your sister. I know you want him to pay for what he did. And he has. He served his time, he's learned from his past. I believe in redemption. And I don't think he should die for his past mistakes.RB: You killed Cyberlife Mercedes, didn't you? You got revenge for your friend. I'm getting revenge for my sister. How is this any different?CC: It isn't, which is why I'm telling you this. There's not a day that goes by where I don't regret killing CM. Every hour of every day, I think about how things would've been if I hadn't done what I did. Maybe once we arrested him they could've found a way to bring his emotions back. Maybe he could be working here, side by side with us right now. And even if he wouldn't... even if he'd remain the way he was in his last months, at least he'd still be alive. I've made many mistakes throughout my life. Killing Cyberlife Mercedes... that was one of the biggest ones.RB: CM was once a good person, CH 11's never been one. For his whole life he's done nothing but rob and kill innocent people. Cyberlife Reunited was meant to exact justice.CC: Throughout my life I've met many people that have at one point or another been obsessed with getting vengeance for something. Including me. Vengeance for misdeeds against their loved ones, misdeeds against themselves... and the only thing it's ever lead to, is more pain. More pain for them, and for those around them. Good people doing terrible things for something they think is right. I'm not asking you to forgive him. I'm asking you to think about what you're doing.RoTech Bus drives away, but CC hopes he succeeded in at least making RB consider the situation more. As he's preparing to sit down and relax, he hears a vehicle approaching the headquarters. For a moment he thinks that it's Detroit Taxi 17 returning, until he realizes there's no way she could have been that fast. That and the sounds are heavier than that of a taxi. Cyberlife Car goes to the entrance, where he sees Mercedes Bus. MBB seems to be shaking and injured.CC: You...MBB: Cyber-Cyberlife Car.. don't hur-hurt me. I came here to help y-you. I want-t to fight for Detroi-Detroit.Cyberlife Van and Cyberlife Bus 5 arrive as well.CV: Jesus christ...CB 5: MBB... What's he doing here?Cyberlife Bus 5 grabs a gun and points it at Mercedes Bus without hesitation. She's an inch away from shooting him.CB 5: Tell me why I shouldn't pull the trigger. Why'd you come here? Wanted to finish us off after you got the others killed?! 
MBB: No, p-please...
CV: Honey, calm down... let's hear what he has to say.MBB: I kno-know you all hate me.. but I want to help, in any w-way I can. I have nowhere else to go.CV: What happened to you... what'd they do?MBB: The Overseer.. he.. he did terrible things. And t-there's no-nowhere else for me t-to go... I want to help.Cyberlife Car has conflicting feelings. He still feels resentment towards MBB, but for the first time he also feels something resembling sympathy. He drives closer to MBB, causing him to back away in fear.CC: I'm not going to hurt you. And I don't think I can forgive you. But if you want to help us... you can help us.Cyberlife Bus 5 drives up to CC in a fit of rage.CB 5: Are you fucking serious? You're just gonna let him in after what he did?! Minivan, CB 8, Silvie, CB... it's all his fault. They're dead because of him. And you'd just have him work with us? He should be dead.
CC: You think I don't know that? You think I don't want to kill him as much as you do? But we can't. We have to be better. And we need all the help we can get.
CB 5: No... we don't.CB 5 raises the gun again, until Cyberlife Van hurries over to her.CV: Honey, please... this isn't right. My hate towards that bus is one of the most powerful emotions I have ever felt, but I won't let you execute him in cold blood. It's not the right thing to do. If he wants to help, he can help.Cyberlife Bus 5 reluctantly lowers her gun. MBB: Than-thank you...Several hours later, Mercedes Bus has settled into the detective headquarters. He's trying to keep away from the others, knowing they don't exactly like him. The only one that's been kind to him has been Cyberlife Helicopter 11. Mercedes Bus has mostly been spending his time looking out the window, trying to calm down after everything CB 101 put him through. He's getting ocassional flashes to the torture of being in the dark room, complete isolation from the outside world. He hears the sounds of two vehicles approaching him. He sees Cyberlife Van and Cyberlife Bus 5 drive up to him.MBB: W-what do yo-you want..?CB 5: I'm going to fix your voice box. No one wants to hear you speak when you sound like that.She grabs the equipment she took with her, and quickly gets to work with MBB's voice box. Thanks to her experience, she's done in nearly an instant. MBB is able to speak normally again.MBB: Thanks... what else do you need?CB 5: For you to stay away from us unless we're in the middle of battle. It's for your own good. Makes it easier for me to avoid the thought of putting a bullet in your engine.
MBB: Got it... look, I know you hate me for what I did. For hiring Cyberlife Mercedes... but I didn't want him to kill Cyberlife Minivan! I didn't expect that! All he was supposed to do was advertise me! And how long until someone else did it? How long until someone else bribed him, how long until emotionless Cyberlife Mercedes left all of you alone in battle, and you died because of that?CB 5: You really don't regret a thing, do you?Mercedes Benz Bus doesn't respond. Cyberlife Bus 5 leaves the room, but Cyberlife Van stays. MBB: What do you want? Go.Cyberlife Van doesn't respond. MBB: It wasn't me, okay? Cyberlife Mercedes killed them, the Mercedes Gang killed them.. it wasn't me...CV: Mercedes Bus?MBB: I'm not to blame... I'm not a killer!He begins sobbing. CV: Sometimes you have to take responsibility for your actions. Their deaths are on you. I think deep down you know that. I think that's why you came here.MBB: Just leave, okay?CV: Mercedes Bus......MBB: I'm a fucking coward... I'm a no good coward, and a liar.. I can't even own up to it. You know, one time I stole a pack of ciggies from one of the workers at my vehicle school. The guy I stole them from thought another bus did it. And I didn't say anything. Didn't own up to it. That innocent bus ended up getting scrapped, because stealing at that point meant you were a failure. Guess they were right, I am a failure. I'm a murderer.. you're right. I killed Cyberlife Bus.. I killed Cyberlife Bus 8, Cyberlife Minivan, Cyberlife Mercedes... so yeah, that's why I came here. I've been a coward my whole life. Guess I thought I should finally do something non-cowardly. Might as well before I die, right?CV: Okay... I don't forgive you, but if you think you can help... if you think you can change, then it's good you came here.Cyberlife Van begins driving away from him. MBB: Hey, CV?CV turns around. MBB: Thanks.CV: For what?MBB: Taking me in.CV nods. He leaves the room.
=== Confronting the Past ===
Detroit Taxi 17 has returned from Coldwater, and CR have updated her on their current plans on stopping Prometheus. After everything's ready for the day, she goes to sleep. The others are sleeping as well, as the night approaches. Falcons and Reunited members are all sleeping at the Motorized Investigators' base, but the one most in need of rest is Detroit Taxi 17. She's finally getting a long needed break after getting captured by Prometheus and killing Cyberlife Bus 101. As she drifts to sleep, she has a dream about a past memory. 
Detroit Taxi 17 is out in the forest, surrounded by trees. She's younger, only 9 years old. She's holding a rifle, aiming at a deer in the distance. She hears her father's voice.CT 4: Steady... adjust your grip a bit, you need to hold the rifle more upwards.She does as her father tells her to.CT 4: Still a bit more.She does so.CT 4: Move back a bit, you're leaning too much into the scope.She's getting frustrated, and decides to just pull the trigger. It doesn't hit the deer. The gunshot scares the deer away.DT 17: Damn it...CT 4: That's okay, you're learning! You'll get there eventually. You've already improved since last month, I'm-DT 17: This is dumb...CT 4: I thought you wanted to go hunting. That's alright, we can go back home if you want, I-DT 17: I want to learn how to shoot.CT 4: Well that's what I'm teaching you.DT 17: Yeah but not like this, I want to be like Cyberlife Car. That Mercedes Bus who called those hitmen on CU, he's still out there. I need to find him and stop him....CT 4: You want to kill him?DT 17: Are you serious? Of course I do, he got Cyberlife Bus, CB 8, CM and CMV killed. They were heroes, they didn't deserve a fate like that.CT 4: Of course they didn't, but... You're still a child, this isn't right. Violence like that, it changes a person. Killing someone is not always the answer.DT 17: Oh yeah, how would you know? You've never had to kill anyone, have you? You're not like Cyberlife Car.CT 4 doesn't respond. He's not ready to let her know the truth about her mother's death.DT 17: Fuck you, dad. You never do shit, you're just always at work, as what? An accountant? Who gives a shit, Cyberlife Car was out there protecting the city, and you act like a dick to him. How's that fair?CT 4: I...DT 17: I'm going back home and meeting up with Cyberlife Car again. You can go back to work, it seems to be more important to you than your family anyway.Detroit Taxi 17 wakes up in the middle of night from the dream. She's back in the real world. She still can't stop thinking about her dad, and how she did wrong by him. Killing Cyberlife Bus 101 hasn't changed anything for her, like she hoped it would. She killed who was responsible, but CT 4's death is still eating her up inside. She lets out a worried sigh, saying: Goddamn it...She goes to a shooting range that CR have set up in the woods for practice before the big battle. She takes a gun, and aims it at the target. This time she imagines it to be CT 50. As she's about to pull the trigger, CT 4's words from the memory echo in her head.
"Violence like that, it changes a person. Killing someone is not always the answer."
She puts the gun down. She thinks back to how RoTech Bus almost killed Cyberlife Helicopter 11, someone who she's grown to consider a close friend. She thinks back to her interactions with Cyberlife Truck 50, how despite the violence CT 50 seemed to care for her to an extent. For a moment, she considers that maybe even someone like him can be a good person deep down. She has conflicting feelings. Not knowing what to do, DT 17 goes for a short drive around the area. Soon after, she comes across her uncle, who's also still awake. She decides to go talk to him.DT 17: Hey...CC: Hi. Still up?DT 17: Yeah.. I can't sleep, I.. I had a dream about dad.Cyberlife Car turns to look away. He doesn't want to think about his brother.DT 17: Look, I know things weren't great between you two. He told me about what happened to mom, how she really died.CC turns to look back at her. He's still not saying anything.DT 17: But sooner or later you're gonna have to acknowledge what happened. You can't just shut this out. The night dad died, during the storm.. when you went looking for the ones that shot him, he was asking for you. He said he wanted you to be there, and he wanted to tell you something. I never got to find out what it was he had to say, but I don't think he hated you.CC: All I remember is my own brother saying he never cared about me. If he never cared for me then.. then why should I care about what happened to him?DT 17: You don't mean that. Just like how he didn't mean whatever shit he said to you. At a time like that, he'd say anything to hurt you. It's how people deal with losing someone they love. What happened to mom, it wasn't your fault, the only person to blame is the fucker who shot her. And I'm sure dad knew that. You can't keep beating yourself up about this.CC: Maybe you're right, maybe you're not. That doesn't matter. What matters is stopping Prometheus, stopping Cyberlife Truck 50. Once he's dead, once that's over with, then we'll talk about our feelings. But now? Now all of that is irrelevant.DT 17: What if we get a chance at peace?...CC: What?DT 17: Peace. I've been thinking about something dad said, and about something I promised to CT 71. Maybe we can negotiate with Prometheus, maybe we can figure this out. We can stop this war. No one else has to die. Not even Cyberlife Truck 50.CC: It's too late for that. He'll die for what he's done, he'll-DT 17: Are we just gonna kill all of them?CC: You think we'll be out there befriending terrorists?DT 17: If there's an option for peace, we need to take it. We can't kill everyone, there's gotta be something after the fight's over. Why should more people have to die? Why should another child lose their parent? If we kill CT 50, we'll be putting his daughter through... through the same thing that Prometheus put me through when they killed my dad. The same thing that Clark C went through, the same thing that caused him to give his whole life to revenge. We can be better than that! I know we can. We have to.
CC: Cyberlife Truck 50 killed your father. You should want him dead.DT 17: You think I don't? It'd be so much easier to put him through hell, the same hell that we're suffering because of him. But the easy choice isn't always the right choice. We have to think about what's best for everyone. Even if that means letting him live. All we have to do is convince Prometheus to agree to it. CC: I.. I have to get some sleep. I'll see you in the morning-DT 17: Wait....DT 17: There's something else I need to tell you.CC: What is it?DT 17: Cyberlife Truck 50 offered to resurrect dad. In exchange we would've had to leave Detroit, to leave Prometheus alone. I refused....CC: Jesus..DT 17: I don't know if I did the right thing, I..Her voice is getting emotional. Cyberlife Car drives closer to hug his niece.CC: Hey, hey, honey... it's okay, it's okay.DT 17: I don't know if I made the right choice.. I just really miss him.CC: I miss him too. But everything's gonna be okay.DT 17: I don't want to lose you, I don't want to lose anyone else, I just..CC: You won't. I'm not going anywhere. We're gonna be okay.They hug even tighter.
=== An Eye for an Eye ===
It's still nighttime, as most of Cyberlife Reunited and the Chicago Falcons are sleeping in the Motorized Investigators base. Detroit Taxi 17 and Cyberlife Car aren't the only ones still awake, as RoTech Bus is quietly staring at the ceiling while trying to get rest. However, his inability to fall asleep is caused by different factors than CC's and DT 17's. He's still thinking about the death of his sister, RoTech Bus 4. He's thinking about how her killer is sleeping in the same building he's in, and yet he hasn't done anything about it. It'd be so easy take a gun, to drive over to him and pull the trigger. RB spent so many years swearing that once the time came, once he was given the opportunity to exact justice on his sister's killer, he'd do it without hesitation. But now that he has the opportunity, he's just sitting quietly by himself and attempting to fall asleep. He's frustrated at himself for not having followed through with what he's wanted for so long, what he prayed for. He thinks back to his entire history with his sister, all the time they spent together as kids, hanging out at parks and going for drives together during the evening, watching bad movies together and laughing at just how bad they were, finally reuniting after spending years at South Haven... and then finding her corpse soon after that. Her laugh is replaying in his mind, the sweet and innocent laugh he'll always remember her by. The last time he heard it was the night before she died, and he hasn't forgotten it since. The juxtaposition of her laugh with the mental image of finding her brutalized corpse fills him with revulsion. He has to do something, he can't let it be. Not anymore. RoTech Bus drives to grab a handgun from the armory. Hitting his engine at close range would be enough to fatally wound CH 11. 
Cyberlife Helicopter 11 awakens to see a handgun pointed straight at his engine. Dread rushes over him, as he quickly recognizes the vehicle pointing the gun to be RoTech Bus. CH 11: RB... don't do anything stupid. You don't have to do this. 
RB: Shut up. Come with me and we'll go outside. Cyberlife Helicopter 11 looks around the room, panicking. The others are nearby, but they're still in their sleep. CH 11 looks at them in distress.RB: They can't help you. Come with me or I pull the trigger now. Cyberlife Helicopter 11 knows he doesn't have much of a choice. Even though he very well might get shot the moment they get outside, it's still his best chance at survival. He reluctantly follows RB's orders and exits the building, with the handgun still pointed straight at his engine and in close range. They continue travelling further away from the Motorized Investigators' base, eventually reaching the woods. RoTech Bus gives CH 11 the order to stop moving. They're in the middle of the forest, with no one to save CH 11. They're surrounded by utter silence, it's as if they're in isolation from the rest of society. No one but the two of them.CH 11: Is this where you'll do it?
RB: As good a place as any. I'll tell the others you got ambushed by Prometheus soldiers.
CH 11: You think they'll believe you?
RB: Some will doubt it, but they won't have any evidence to say otherwise. Before I do anything, I need to ask you... were you the one who did it? Did you pull the trigger on my sister?
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CH 11: I pulled the trigger.
RB: How many times?
CH 11: I... I'm so sorry...
RB: HOW MANY TIMES?! ANSWER THE QUESTION!
CH 11: Thrice, I shot her three times.
RB: WHY?! WHY DID YOU DO IT?!
CH 11: She... she was a w-witness, we didn't want to be caught.
RB: What were her last words?
CH 11: After my men had spotted her, I was.. I was pointing my gun at her. She seemed worried, but not for herself. She seemed worried for us. She seemed like she wanted to help us, despite the fact that we were robbing her. I still remember her exacts words. She said "I'm sorry for whatever happened that brought you to this point in life, and I'm sorry you've suffered. But it doesn't have to be like this, I can help you."
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CH 11: Then that's when I shot her.CH 11 breaks down crying.RB: She wanted to help you... 
CH 11: Just do it... shoot me.
RB: Why did she want to help you? You were robbing her!
CH 11: I... I don't know... and I don't deserve your forgiveness for what I did to her. I'm so sorry.
RB: She... she wanted to help you because she was a good person. RoTech Bus looks at the gun he's holding. RB: Fuck...Deep in his thoughts, he looks at the gun again. He needs to make a decision. RoTech Bus ponders his options. CH 11: I tried to be a better man, I wanted to help people. I really tried.RoTech Bus raises the gun and shoots Cyberlife Helicopter 11, killing him. He pulls the trigger three times. As CH 11's corpse falls to the ground, the three gunshots echo around the woods, they echo in RoTech Bus's mind. Feelings of immediate guilt wash over him, as everything plays on repeat in his mind. His sister's laugh, his sister's last words, CH 11's last words. He knows vengeance has consumed him, it's taken everything that was left of him.RB: Fuck, fuck, fuck...Hearing Cyberlife Helicopter 11's voice brings RoTech Bus back to reality. It was a hallucination, Cyberlife Helicopter 11 is still alive in front of RoTech Bus. He doesn't know what caused the hallucination, but he reckons it was his lack of sleep combined with the stress and contradictory feelings of everything happening in his life. Despite the reasons, RoTech Bus is washed over with relief. He's still in the woods alone with Cyberlife Helicopter 11. RoTech Bus is holding the gun. CH 11: Are you going to kill me?
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RB: My sister wanted to help you. I'm gonna honor her. I'm gonna be a better man. Because I know that if I don't try to be better... if I kill you... I'm gonna lose the last bit of me there's left. And the last bit of me includes the last bit of my sister. If I kill you, my sister would be gone forever. I don't want that to happen. And I don't want to forget her laugh. 
CH 11: I... I don't know what to say. Thank you. Thank you so much... I'll prove you right. I'll prove you made the right decision, I'm gonna do everything in my power to be the best I can be. I won't tell the others about this, we can just go back to normal. Thank you RoTech Bus, you're a good man. RoTech Bus nods. RB: I have to try to be. We both do. Let's get some rest.RoTech Bus and Cyberlife Helicopter 11 exit the woods together, heading back towards the MI base.
=== The Final Steps===
Cyberlife has 3 days left to create the antivirus software. RoTech Bus and Cyberlife Bus 5 have been working together on ways to possibly defuse the bomb, since they both have a background of technical skill. CB 5 is more experienced, but RB knows his way around building devices and gadgets, so he's not helpless either. While sneaking around the base, RM got a decent look at the bomb from a distance, and managed to take a picture of it. With the help of the pictue, RB and CB 5 have been doing everything they can to create a defuser. CB 5: Shit... this isn't good.RB: What is it?CB 5: The bomb's sheer size is making this nearly impossible. Normally I wouldn't have trouble with this, but they've modified the bomb... made it more effective, harder to defuse... the only way this works, is if I can actually look at the bomb and all its inner workings physically. This picture isn't enough, I need to see the bomb myself. RB: So all we have to do is obtain the bomb, then call in the army to help us out, right?CB 5: Well pretty much, yeah... but we have to get the bomb as far away from battle as possible. From what I can tell, the bomb is extremely fragile. One stray bullet, one movement too rough, may be enough to trigger it. It'll take down all of Detroit. We need to be extremely careful around it, the army is not known for being careful. We have to get the bomb to some remote location where Prometheus won't find it, and where it'll be safe from the havoc caused by the battle. Detroit Taxi 17 approaches RoTech Bus and Cyberlife Bus 5.DT 17: What's the situation? Any way of permanently defusing the bomb?CB 5: Maybe, but we have to obtain the bomb first. DT 17: Shit... it's gonna be difficult. But if that's the only way we can stop them, then that's what we're going to have to do.RB: I'm sorry Bullseye, we really did try everything. But there's nothing else we can do.DT 17: It's okay, we're lucky to even get this far.RB: You're right about that... this whole thing is a mess, it's like.. likeRoTech Bus is having difficulty forming words. He feels dizzy. RB: Hey.. mind if I rest.. a bit?DT 17: Of course, are you alright?RoTech Bus's back right wheel goes limp, and stops moving entirely. RB almost falls down because of it. Detroit Taxi 17 rushes to grab him. DT 17: Jesus, what happened?RB: I don't.. I don't know. I've just been feeling like shit for a few hours now, some of my systems have been acting up, my vision's a bit blurry, I can't hear well.Detroit Taxi 17 has a worried look. RB: I think I have the virus.DT 17: Christ... I'll go get the others, the Falcons have a medic, he can probably alleviate some of your symptoms. Just rest for now, okay?RB: Will do...Detroit Taxi 17 does as she says, and soon RB is being patched up with everything they can use. Most do their best to stay away from RB, as they don't know how the virus spreads, if being in physical contact increases its chance of infecting your systems. They discuss the situation, and come to an unfortunate realization; since Cyberlife is unwilling to disclose any details about the virus, Cyberlife Truck 50 and Prometheus are the only ones with information about it. So if they want to know more about how to treat RB, or if any of them are in danger of also catching the virus, they'll have to contact their enemy. DT 17: I'll do it, I'll contact CT 50.CC seems reluctant.DT 17: Why not? I'm not a child anymore. I've talked to him before. Out of all of us, I'm pretty sure I'm the one he's most willing to talk to. I saved his daughter's life.Cyberlife Car eventually agrees. Detroit Taxi 17 prepares for the discussion, she's going to call him. She's been in recent contact with him before, so establishing a call won't be difficult. It doesn't take long for everything to be ready, it's time for the call to take place.
Cyberlife Truck 50 is in the Prometheus base, preparing for the inevitable attack from Cyberlife Reunited. He's surprised to see Detroit Taxi 17 contacting him, but answers the call.CT 50: Detroit Taxi 17. Didn't expect to be talking to you again so soon.DT 17: I think we both know this is more than just a chit chat. I need to ask you something.CT 50: You and the others escaped your cells and killed four of my people in the process, but considering you saved my daughther, I can look past that. I'm willing to talk. What do you want to know?DT 17: The virus. What are its symptoms?CT 50: From what we know so far, there are a lot. Generally feeling unwell, issues with audio and visuals, stiffness in driving controls, hallucinations, hearing a constant ringing noise, excessive fuel consumption by your body, and the most fatal one being engine failure. Why?Detroit Taxi 17 doesn't respond. After a moment of silence, CT 50 can deduce DT 17's reason for calling. CT 50: One of yours has it, don't they?DT 17: Yeah, RoTech Bus. Look, I want to know if there's any way he got it from the base? Are me and CH 11 infected too?Cyberlife Truck 50 takes a while to respond.CT 50: I didn't tell this in the broadcast, because I'm not completely sure about it yet. But from what it seems like, the question isn't if he or any of the others got the virus. It's about when the symptoms will show.DT 17: What?CT 50: We're all infected. Not just all of Prometheus, everyone. Every living vehicle and android. It's just a matter of time before the symptoms start showing, and when they do, eventually we'll all die. Unless we get to cure it before that. RoTech Bus getting infected proves that it doesn't only affect Cyberlife vehicles, it's already spread to other companies' vehicles. We're all dead vehicles driving.DT 17: No...CT 50: That's the truth. Is there anything else you-Detroit Taxi 17 ends the call. She's having difficulty calming herself down. The virus was already a threat before, but knowing that any one of them could start displaying deadly symptoms out of nowhere, unable to stop it in any way, is a horrifying thought.DT 17: Fuck, fuck, fuck... no...Cyberlife Car drives up to her.CC: How did it go? What did he say?Detroit Taxi 17 takes a deep breath.DT 17: Nothing useful. He didn't want to help. Let's just keep working on our plan, okay?She doesn't want them to know the truth. If they want to have any chance of stopping the bomb detonating, they can't know. The information would demoralize and weaken them. She can't let that happen. DT 17: Before he had to go rest, RB informed me about the bomb. We'll have to obtain it physically, we can't just use a remote defuser like we were planning. Bring the others here.Once everyone has been gathered and informed of how tough the mission will be, the preparations for the plan take place.CC: What about Cyberlife Truck 50 himself? How will we take him down? He's armored himself to the point he's nearly invincible, how do we kill him?DT 17: If it comes down to that...CC: It will.RB: If I get a description of his armor, I think I might be able to craft a special armor piercing bullet. Something strong enough to go through his exterior and into his engine. 
CFT: Like a silver bullet...
RB: Hm?
CFT: Typically in movies, a silver bullet's the only thing that can kill a werewolf. This bullet you're making, that's gonna be our silver bullet against CT 50. 
RB: Pretty much, yeah. With how strong his armor is, this is our only shot of taking him down. I've only seen him briefly though. I don't know much about his armor, and for the bullet to work, I need to know which materials it has to pierce through.RM: I've done extensive research on him and his background, interrogated anyone I could find. I couldn't do that to any actual Prometheus member since they're all mutes, but I think it's close enough to the truth. From what I've found out, it seems he's welded a layer of steel over his normal exterior, covered it with cement, then welded another layer of steel on top of that.RB: That's good enough for me. I'll start work on the bullet, gonna create a backup one too in case you miss the first shot-RM: I don't miss.RB: Okay...They continue planning out their attack on the Prometheus base. The experience and skill of the Chicago Falcons are a massive help in forming a strategy, no matter their background or beliefs, everyone is working together. Cyberlife Bus 5 is shown inspecting the picture of the bomb in preparation for defusing it in the future, RoTech Bus is shown crafting their silver bullet against CT 50, and the Falcons are planning their attack on the Prometheus base with Cyberlife Reunited. Despite their co-operation, some members from both groups still have their doubts about the alliance.
=== Rising Conflict ===
After discussing the situation and coming up with battle strategies, the Chicago Falcons' second-in command, Cade, requests to meet with RoTech Motorcycle in private.RM: What is it, Cade?Cade: I've been thinking... What do we do about CR after the battle? Do we still stick to the original plan? We turn on them after Prometheus is gone. We kill them all. Right?RM: That was the plan, but.. I don't know anymore.Cade: You're not thinking straight. Just think about what they'll do to us if we don't act first. You should know that the moment Prometheus is no longer a threat, Reunited is gonna have us arrested. We're gonna be locked behind bars for the rest of our lives, do you really think Cyberlife Car is gonna just forget that we're criminals?RM: Maybe we can just leave the city before they have the opportunity. The moment CT 50 is killed and Prometheus is taken care of, we'll be gone. It'll be like we were never here.Cade: The moment Prometheus is taken care of, that asshole Cyberlife Car's gonna have his group pointin' guns at us and putting us in cuffs. We can't trust them, they've been abiding the law their whole life. They won't just let us be. You hear what he did to one of his closest friends, that Cyberlife Mercedes? Now, I don't mind violence, rather I enjoy it, but killing one of your own? What makes you think he won't do the same for us?RM: What about that helicopter? They took him in despite him being a criminal. Maybe they'll do the same for us.Cade: I wouldn't count on it. It's times like these where you should realize who your true friends are. Cyberlife Car, he's not your friend. You said it when we started, we're temporary allies and that's all. Remember that. You and me, we've been through the shitter together. You only met CC recently, we don't know his true nature yet.RM: You have no problem with killing the same people that helped us?Cade: That's not what I said, I don't like this either... but there ain't a better alternative.Cade drives off, leaving RoTech Motorcycle to ponder her choice on the matter. As Cade drives through the base, he's seen consulting other Falcons as well, and asking for their opinions. To his surprise, many of the Falcons have taken a liking to Cyberlife Car. The scene cuts to Cade speaking with the Falcons' medic, RoTech Car 16. Cade: You too? You can't be fuckin' serious, why are so many of you up Cyberlife Car's ass?RC 16: I'm sorry Cade, but they're our allies.Cade: Temporary allies.RC 16: I saved Cyberlife Car's life when he fell from the top of the Prometheus base. And in return, he's given everything he can to help us. You may be right about them planning to arrest us, but that doesn't mean we have to kill them for it. I agree with RM, maybe we can just leave the city before they get the opportunity to take us in.Cade: What a load of horse shit...RC 16: Try talking to him. He's not as bad as you think.Cade drives off, feeling disappointed about the lack of support for their original plan. But he's willing to listen, reasoning it with the logic that if the others like Cyberlife Car, there has to be a reason for it. And so after cooling down for a few minutes, Cade decides to go approach Cyberlife Car.Cade: Hey, CC. You and I might've gotten off on the wrong wheel, but it doesn't gotta be like that forever.CC: Mhm.Cade: Whatcha drinking there?CC: Look, you don't have to pretend to like me. You can just keep making jokes about how I killed a close friend of mine, and let that be our relationship....Cade: What the fuck? Are you fucking kidding me?! I come here, try to make things better, and you fucking talk shit to me? You fucking asshole... better watch your back.CC: You're the one who needs to be careful.Cade: You arrogant son of a bitch...Cade rushes at Cyberlife Car, pushing him into the wall.Cade: I was trying to be reasonable with you, but you're making that very fucking hard right now. Asshole.Cyberlife Car punches Cade. RoTech Car 16 is the only other vehicle in the room, he goes to get the others as Cade and CC continue fighting. CC: Leave. You're embarrassing yourself.Cade punches Cyberlife Car, and throws him into a table. He's about to continue, until Detroit Taxi 17 barges into the room. She points her gun at Cade.DT 17: Don't touch my uncle. If you move, I put a bullet in you.RoTech Motorcycle arrives into the room, and pushes the gun away from DT 17.RM: Never point a gun at one of my men.CC: EVERYONE EASE UP! WE'RE MEANT TO BE ALLIES! You think we're gonna be able to beat Prometheus if we keep fighting each other? Cade and I got into a bit of a scuffle, but that's over now. We have to work together if we want to even have a chance at stopping them. So everyone, just stop. It's over.The mood in the room begins to easen up, as there are no longer worries about the conflict ecalating into something worse. They spend the next 2 days perfecting their strategy and getting prepared for the final fight. As the clock turns midnight, they only have this final day left to take action and defuse the bomb.
=== Around the Campfire (1/2) ===
It's midnight as Cyberlife Car approaches RoTech Motorcycle.CC: Hey, so today's the day...RM: Yeah. Do you have a point to make?CC: I just feel like the group morale has been a bit down recently. That's not good if we want to have ideal team work for the battle. RM: So what do you suggest we do?CC: I say we gather everyone around a campfire, maybe get some drinks. Some of us are going to die today. It's best that we get some final happy memories before we do.RM: You're right... we all need a moment to catch our breath before we go. You go gather your group, I'll go get the falcons.CC: Okay, great.In a matter of moments, most members of both groups have grouped up together around a campfire. CC: Right, so you may be wondering why we asked you here. We asked you here... to celebrate. To celebrate all of us working together on this. No matter our backgrounds, no matter our beliefs, we were able to put aside our differences and fight against a greater threat. Every single one of you, thank you. Thank you for standing with us. No matter what happens in these following hours, that's something to celebrate.
Members from both groups begin chatting with each other, some going to grab a few drinks. As everyone's settled down, DT 17 notices something.DT 17: Hey, where's CH 11?CC: He didn't want to come, I tried but I couldn't convince him.Detroit Taxi 17 leaves the campfire, and goes to look for CH 11. The others continue chatting.RB: Hey, Blaze. What's the first thing you're gonna do when things go back to normal?CFT: If we make it that far...RB: WHEN we make it that far. Come on.CFT: Right. To be honest, I don't know... there's something I feel like I should say... nevermind, forget it.RB: Oh come on, don't leave me hanging like that.CFT: What about you? What's the first thing you'll do?RB: I could really go for a game of baseball. CFT: Baseball? Why?RB: Why not? It's a good sport.CFT: Well then I'll play with you.RB: Right on, my guy. Right on.CTrain: Can I join too? 
CFT: Of course! Any other ideas for stuff we could do? You know any good places to hang out? 
CTrain: Uh, yeah. I do. There's this amusement park nearby, I went there with a friend once. After the battle's over, I could take you two there, show you around a bit. What do you think?CFT: Hell yeah! That sounds awesome, what do you think RB?RB: Obviously yes!
In the meanwhile, CH 11 is sitting by himself, far away from the others at the camp. Mercedes Bus is also away from the camp, and spots CH 11. He drives up to him.MBB: Hey...CH 11: Hi.MBB: I see you didn't feel like hanging out with the others either? Around the campfire?CH 11: It just doesn't feel right to be there, not after what I've done to them. I killed RoTech Bus' sister, and I tried to kill all of Cyberlife Reunited back when I was working with the Overseer. I don't wanna be there to weigh down on them.MBB: Yeah, I get that. Didn't feel like I'd have the warmest reception either, can't blame them... Well, maybe we can just be here by ourselves then. The two black sheep of the group, right?CH 11: I guess so.The two of them look up to the stars. The lesser light pollution makes them clearer, more visible. They enjoy the moment.CH 11: Can I ask you something?MBB: Go ahead.CH 11: Why'd you really come back?MBB: Well, I had nowhere else to go. I wanted to help out, do right by these people. And well... I guess I wanted to see you again.CH 11 is surprised by MBB's words.MBB: Look, I don't mean to get all sentimental. But like I said earlier, you're the closest thing to a friend I've had. You saved me from those inmates when we were both in jail, and then you saved me again when we were all captured at the Prometheus base. I'd like to repay the favor, help you out. You know, I think I have a problem. I'm not normal, in like the way I see the world. The way I act, it's not right. But I wanna be better, I really do. You've helped me see that.CH 11: I'm really glad to hear that. For what it's worth, I could try convincing the others to give you a proper second chance. The same way they gave me a second chance.MBB: You don't have to. But I was thinking... you didn't seem too eager when we were in jail, but would you wanna be my friend now? Like proper friends?CH 11: Sure, man. I'll do my best to make sure you stay on the right path in life. I became a better man because there was someone in my life who guided me to take that direction, to become a better person. She saved me. Not just my life, but who I am as a person. I'll never be able to repay her for everything she did, but I think the best way I can honor her is to be that guiding person for someone else... and I think you're the perfect fit. We can look out for each other.MBB: That sounds really good to me. In a weird way, I'm glad we wound up in prison. Cause without it, I never would've met... you. I'm so glad we met. 
CH 11: Me too. 
MBB: Come for a drive with me. Or I guess it's technically a flight since you're a helicopter... just come with me!
CH 11: Where are we going?
MBB: Nowhere. I've always just wanted to go for a drive with a friend... been pretty lonely my whole life, the only drives I ever had were just me delivering passengers by myself, failed at that too. This is my chance to be a bit more like other buses, vehicles with actual friends. I've only ever known bad people who I thought were my friends, but they never were. The Overseer- I mean Cyberlife Bus 101 was one of those people. Did you know he'd set me up as a scapegoat for the Snowfall crimes? He was gonna let me take the fall, made it seem like I was the one running the operation. What a prick!
CH 11: Yeah, he manipulated me too. He was like a father to me, but he was only using me as a means to an end. He wanted me to kill Cyberlife Reunited for him so there'd be no one investigating his operation. 
MBB: The worst part is I didn't even know what his operation was! To me he was just a friend asking me to run the Blue Stout lounge for him. I knew something illegal was going on, but I didn't know it'd be like... super bad. I thought maybe he was just selling beer to underaged teens or something.
CH 11: That's what you thought Operation Snowfall was? 
MBB: Maybe... look, sometimes I'm not the smartest tool in the shed. I don't always know to expect how serious some consequences are.
CH 11: Right... well maybe I can help you with that too. Maybe you've learned from the past as well, next time there's some secretive operation with armed guards, it's probably something more serious than obtaining beer.CH 11 chuckles.MBB: Hey, you're making fun of me... but that's what friends do right, they laugh with each other!Mercedes Bus begins laughing. As his laughter continues, CH 11 can't help but burst out laughing too. He feels maniacal, confused about what they're even laughing at. In the midst of their laughing fit, CH 11 gains the strength to ask a question.CH 11: Wait, are we still laughing at my joke or...?MBB keeps laughing without responding. As the laughing stops slowly but surely, Mercedes Benz Bus goes in to hug CH 11. The warm embrace lasts longer than he expected, as MBB doesn't let go. 
CH 11 feels oddly drawn to Mercedes Bus, yet he doesn't know how to explain it. He's confused and weirded out by their entire unlikely friendship, he considers himself unhinged for even talking to him. And yet at the same time, MBB is endlessly fascinating to him. And despite his odd nature, CH 11 enjoys MBB's company. During their conversations and during their laughing fit, CH 11 noticed he was actually enjoying himself, having fun. He has a tough time recalling when's the last time someone else made him laugh. From their first meeting in prison, to both of them ending up captured at the Prometheus base, and to now when they're both on a drive as friends, to CH 11 it almost feels like this was meant to be. At this point in their lives, both of them need each other. MBB needs someone to guide him on the right path, and CH 11 needs someone that can make him appreciate himself for who he is now, rather than just regretting who he used to be. They bring out the best in each other. MBB: But I guess I'll leave you be now. I should probably get back to the camp, you sure you don't wanna come?
CH 11: I'll stay here a bit longer. I'll see you soon.
MBB: Yeah, sure!Mercedes Bus begins to drive away.
The scene cuts to Detroit Taxi 17. She's still looking for CH 11. As she's driving through the streets, Mercedes Bus drives past her.MBB: Oh, hey. If you're looking for CH 11, he's that way.
DT 17: Thanks.
Detroit Taxi 17 finds CH 11, and goes to approach him. Cyberlife Helicopter 11 is playing a guitar he seems to have found nearby. DT 17: Hey, what are you doing here all by yourself? 
CH 11: I don't know, it just doesn't feel right. 
DT 17: Oh come on, come with us. Everyone's over there having a good time, we want you with us. CH 11: I think it's better for me to stay here.DT 17: Well then I'll stay here with you. What are you playing?CH 11: You don't have to-DT 17: No, I want to! Come on, I'm not leaving you all by yourself. So, what are you playing?CH 11: A song taught to me by an old lady I knew, never thought I'd be able to play a guitar, yet here I am. She taught me a lot of things.DT 17: So, how does the song go? You can sing the lyrics.CH 11: I'm not really a singer, it's just gonna be cheesy.DT 17: Neither am I. I don't mind, just sing. Please. I'm not gonna laugh. CH 11: Okay... With the guitar, Cyberlife Helicopter 11 begins playing Awake to You, by Patient 113. Despite his hesitation, he sings along.CH 11: And when you came down to save me, when no one else could reach me... and how you knew what to say, I don't know. An angel beyond description, the one friend that I was missing, know that I'll always be here for you... Awake to you... Awake to you.CH 11 stops playing.CH 11: Alright, that's enough. I'm not playing the whole song.DT 17: That was great! Really, you did good.CH 11: Thanks... do you know how to play a guitar?DT 17: No, maybe some day...There's a silence between them.CH 11: Can I ask you something?DT 17: Go ahead.CH 11: What happened with CB 101? You didn't say much about what went down there.DT 17: I won. I stopped him. He's dead.CH 11: Good... how did he die?DT 17: He died screaming. Burned to death.CH 11: And he deserved it. I can't believe I used to look up to him. Growing up by myself on the streets all by myself, stealing to survive... that changes a person.DT 17: But you changed back. What happened to your parents?CH 11: I don't even remember them. They abandoned me in the slums soon after I was born. I was 12 when CB 101 took me under his wing, became a mentor to me. He was like a dad that I never had when growing up. I really thought he cared for me, so I was willing to do almost anything he asked me to do. Now I know he was just using me, manipulating me. That's how he preyed on people, he saw their weaknesses, saw what they needed, and used that to get them to do his bidding. By the time I met someone who did actually care for me, it was too late. I still trusted CB 101, so I did nothing to stop that old motorcycle's death. But now... I'd do anything to go back and do right by her, just start all over.DT 17: Hey, you're here now, fighting for this city. That's what matters. You're not like him, there are people who make mistakes and people who are just nothing but evil. CB 101 was the latter, you're not.CH 11: I hope you're right... what about MBB?DT 17: What about him?CH 11: Do you think he's one of those people who made mistakes?DT 17: I... don't know. I don't know him well enough to say. But some of the things he did, the things he brought down on Cyberlife United... it was bad. CH 11: Yeah...DT 17: What do you think? You seem to like him.CH 11: I don't know... I guess I see a bit of myself in him. We both did really bad shit, but I got the opportunity to fix that. People didn't give up on me, they knew I could get better. They gave me a chance. I want them to give MBB a chance too. If I can come back from what I've done, so can he. He just needs the opportunity to be able to prove it. But I think-, I know he has it in him.DT 17: Okay... if that's what you believe, I trust you. Come on, let's get back to the campfire. CH 11: You sure?DT 17: Yeah, we want you with us.CH 11: Okay, I'll come.DT 17: Yes, thank you!They arrive at the campfire. CH 11 is quickly integrated as a part of the conversations. Cyberlife Car is chatting with RoTech Motorcycle, they're sitting close to each other at the campfire.RM: This is not the type of thing I'd normally ask... but do you have any tips for being a leader? Stuff you've picked up on over the years? CC: Woah, didn't expect you to be asking me that. You seem like a natural leader.RM: I usually am, I always thought of myself as one. But after everything that's been going on recently... after RoTech Minivan's betrayal, and after Cade's behavior, I've been doubting myself. Doubting my capability to be a leader. I should be able to keep my people in line, but I haven't. It feels like I don't have as much control over them anymore. 
CC: Just... make sure they can rely on you, I suppose. You gotta be their friend, not just their boss. If you manage to do that, if they feel like they can trust you, they'll follow your orders. You have to make sure your group feels like a family, not just acquaintances. That's how you get a group to stick together.
RM: Hmph. Who knew you'd have something smart to say.They both chuckle.CC: Shame on me for thinking you'd thank me or something. 
RM turns to look at Cyberlife Car and says: Thank you. I mean it. 
CC: Glad to help. Have you ever thought about what you'll do after all this? I don't mean after today, I mean in general... when you're done fighting, when you're done with the Falcons... when it's time to retire. 
RM: I don't plan on retiring.
CC: Ever? Just endless fighting, is that all life is to you?
RM: It's all life's been for me so far.
CC: It doesn't have to be just that. There's more to life than just... killing people.
...
RM: Australia.
CC: What?
RM: I want to go to Australia, retire there. Would be fun to see more of the rest of the world. What about you? If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you want to go?CC: Anywhere? So if hypothetically we weren't held back by vehicle laws?
RM: Yeah, exactly!
CC: Easy, Italy.
RM: Such a quick answer, you didn't even hesitate. Why?
CC: Such beautiful views, and the food too. I'm gonna tell you a secret. Typically when Cyberlife Reunited is having a break and those youngsters are discussing their animes and their Revengers, I tend to just look through pictures of Italy and do research on it. Nothing better than visiting the sights and eating some delicious Italian pizza. Or at least I assume so.
RM: So what, you want to visit like the Colosseum?
CC: That too, but I've actually done some research on the more obscure sights. For example, Castello di Asolo seems amazing, and at least it's not crowded with visitors the whole year. And taking a drive through the streets of the centre of Treviso... seems like a dream. 
RM: That does sound good... even though I've never heard of those places.
CC: Yeah, well I'd take you there if it wasn't for the strict policies...RM: That's why I was smart and chose my dream place as Australia, somewhere I can actually visit. 
CC: Yeah, well lucky you... ...They sit quietly together, enjoying the moment.RM: I'm sorry.CC: For what?RM: Just.. being the way I am, all the time. Rude, cold, distant.CC: I used to be like that too. It's fine.RM: I've just never really been able to open up to anyone, to talk about my.. feelings. That type of thing doesn't feel natural to me, it never did. It makes me feel vulnerable and exposed, so I just bottle it all up inside and put on a tough front. If I just pretend to be nothing but a strong, hardened fighter, that makes it easier for my people to follow me. Can't let them see me being weak.CC: It doesn't make you weak to have feelings, or to open up about them. If anything, finding the strength to do that makes you braver than if you just keep it all inside. Took me too long to figure that out.Cyberlife Car holds RoTech Motorcycle's wheel. She turns to look at him.RM: Frankly, when we met again I was impressed by you.CC: Really? Why?RM: I was impressed by how you'd found a way to keep going, after all you'd been through. You hadn't resorted to being a violence-driven maniac, you were still.. you. That's impressive.CC: It's because of her.Cyberlife Car glances over at Detroit Taxi 17.CC: Everything I've done, it's all been for her. I want to keep her safe. That's what kept me alive, what kept me going. It's why I joined Cyberlife United in the first place, I wanted to make Detroit a safe city for my niece. But now I'm starting to realize, she no longer needs me for protection.RM: She's a good kid....CC: If we end up dying tonight... I just... it's been a pleasure to work with you, RoTech Motorcycle.RM: Same with you. You're not the man I first thought you were. I don't say this lightly, but I respect you. Maybe if things were different we could have been working together from the start.CC: We still could, after the fight's over.RM: What do you mean?CC: Once everything's back to normal, it doesn't have to get hostile between us again. You said we'll only work together until we beat Prometheus. That we'd be enemies after that. It doesn't have to be that way.RM: We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. I have something to discuss with Cade, we can talk more later.CC: Got it.
=== Around the Campfire (2/2) ===
The scene cuts to Cyberlife Train's perspective at the campfire. He's still chatting with his friends, Cyberlife Fire Truck and RoTech Bus.CTrain: Arby, I heard that one time you-
RB: Would you please stop calling me Arby? It's a dumb nickname.
CFT: Hey, you call me Blaze, you make me sound like a superhero. You can not complain about bad nicknames.
RB: Is sounding like a superhero not a good thing?They both chuckle.CTrain: As I was saying, I heard one time you stopped a robber by throwing a baseball at his face. Is that true?
RB: What can I say? Those skills come in handy sometimes.
CFT: I wouldn't say that's exactly how it went down, I mean the guy was already distracted by me-
RB: Oh, shut up. Just let me have this one, okay?
CFT: Alright, alright...
CTrain: Wow. I hope I'll get to do something that cool one day.
RB: You serious? You came back from the dead. How is that not the coolest thing ever? You're like an undead warrior or some shit, now that's badass.
CTrain: Hmph. I guess so.
CFT: We're the ones wishing to be like you, not the other way-Their conversation is interrupted by Cade lumbering his way towards them, holding a bottle of whiskey.Cade: Hey. You.He's looking at Cyberlife Train.Cade: You the one who got resurrected?
CTrain: Yeah. I'm the one.Cade laughs.Cade: Wow. A vehicle coming back from the dead. You're a living legend, it's an honor to meet you.Cyberlife Train can't tell if Cade's voice has a sarcastic tone or not.CTrain: Thanks.
Cade: What was it like? The resurrection.
CTrain: I...
CFT: CTrain, you don't have to. 
Cade: Why not? I'm curious, that's all.
CTrain: Look, I don't remember much. I have no recollection of the time between my death and the resurrection, it was just.. nothing. Like I was just sleeping and then woke up to a worse reality, being controlled by the Mercedes Gang.
Cade: You know how rare that is? Being brought back from the dead?
CTrain: Yeah, I know. 
Cade: You know how lucky you are?Cade's tone switches to being serious, even somewhat threatening. He drives in closer.Cade: What made you earn it?
CTrain: What?
Cade: It's a simple question. Why do you get to back to come back, when no one else does? How come you get to cheat death, when I got friends who were murdered, shot, stabbed? How come Cyberlife Truck 50 was allowed to come into the old Chicago Falcons' base, kill three of us, and capture more? Good people that died, they didn't come back. So why you? What makes you special, why are you still here?
CFT: Cade, calm down.
Cade: I'm calm. Now answer.
CTrain: I... I don't know. I wish I had an answer for you, I really do. I knew people that deserved it more than I did, who did more to help others than I ever did. But I guess I can use this opportunity to finally do some good, to become something better than what I was before, to finally help people.Cade stares at Cyberlife Train, before backing down. CFT, RB and CTrain ease up, no longer fearing a confrontation. Cade: Alright... thank you for being honest.He takes a large gulp of the whiskey, before handing over the bottle to Cyberlife Train.Cade: Look, I know I can be crass sometimes... I promise I'm an alright guy under normal circumstances.They don't reply.Cade: Enjoy the whiskey.Cade leaves the area to go be with other Chicago Falcons. CFT, RB and CTrain are still a bit tense, but eventually they get back to their usual conversations. As they continue spending the night together, RB is telling CFT and CTrain stories about his time in South Haven.
RB: And that's when he said "No it wasn't me, it was my cat!" and I'm just sitting there like, really man? You think I'm gonna fall for that?As he's telling his story, RB leans into Cyberlife Fire Truck. CFT seems to stiffen up. RB: Oh sorry, I didn't mean to lean into you, me having the virus and all-CFT: It's fine, I don't mind.RB: Good to hear....RB: Anyway, sorry to interrupt my own story, but I just saw they're serving some kebab over there. Maybe that'll help with my symptoms, I'll go get some and then be right back.RoTech Bus temporarily drives away, leaving CFT alone with Cyberlife Train....CTrain: What was that?CFT: What was what?CTrain: That, you and RB. Are you two more than friends? If so I fully support it, you two are cute together-CFT: Stop talking! He might hear-, ugh. No, we're just friends.CTrain: But... you like him. The way you talk about him, the way you look at him, I can tell there's something there. I spent a lot of time with a good therapist, I can read others pretty well now.CFT: No! You're wrong....CFT: Fine, I do like him. But there's no way he likes me back.CTrain: I don't mean to invade your privacy or anything, but if you want to tell him something, I think you should do it now. Tell him how you feel, you might not get another chance.CFT: Can you stop?CTrain: I'm not trying to boss you around, you just gotta believe in yourself, man. You're handsome, he's handsome, what's there to lose? I can give you two some privacy, all I gotta do is say I need to go for a drive.CFT: Just forget it, okay?RoTech Bus returns back to their location, holding kebab. He sits tightly next to CFT.RB: What did I miss, guys?CFT: Uh, nothing. Just keep telling your story.CTrain: Actually, I feel like going for a drive. You two can stay here though. Say all you have to say.He winks at CFT, using one of his headlights, and then proceeds to drive away. RB: He's being weird.CFT: Right...Cyberlife Fire Truck curses himself for being unable to go through with it.CFT: Keep telling your story.RB: Nah, it's boring from here on out.CFT: Okay... well, how are your symptoms? You sure you're in the shape to be fighting?RB: I'm sure. My vision blurs out a bit every here and there, but I'll manage. We need all the fighters we can get, I have to be there.CFT: Okay... I just don't want you to get hurt.RB: I won't....Cyberlife Fire Truck glances to the side, hesitating for a moment.CFT: You know how much I care about you, right?
RB: Yeah, of course I do. And you know how much I care about you? I couldn't live without you. 
CFT: Yeah, obviously.
RB: I've also been meaning to let you know... I'm leaving behind that whole revenge mission thing. 
CFT: You forgave CH 11?RB: I don't know if I can forgive him... but I don't think he should die for what he did. And shit, who knows. Maybe he really is a changed man now. I just... I didn't want to lose what was important to me. I didn't want to lose who I was a person, I didn't want to lose the remaining bits of my sister... I didn't want to lose you. CFT: I don't wanna lose you either. I was getting worried that you'd prioritize vengeance over us.Cyberlife Fire Truck drives closer to RoTech Bus, and holds his wheel.RB: I'd never prioritize anything over us.RoTech Bus kisses Cyberlife Fire Truck. CFT is shocked, he leans back in surprise.RB: Shit, did you not mean it like that? CFT: No, I mean yes- just kiss me again. RoTech Bus kisses Cyberlife Fire Truck again. CFT: You don't know how long I've waited for that to happen. 
RB: Yeah, same here... holy shit, this feels unreal.They continue kissing, as Cyberlife Train looks at them from a distance like a proud father. He then continues his drive, leaving the two young lovers in peace by themselves.
The scene cuts to Cyberlife Car, as he's driving around the area, just admiring everything. His close friends and allies are just enjoying themselves, amidst all this chaos and violence, it's a necessary change of pace. He feels proud. He doesn't know if they'll die tonight, but they gave their everything, and that's enough for him. They didn't stand down.
Cyberlife Van drives next to Cyberlife Car.CV: When will we head out?CC: In a couple of hours, we need to rest more still. After that everyone still has to get armed up. We can do this.CV: We will, we always have. I'll tell my son all about our adventures.CC: Better make me sound good in them!CV: You? No, I'll just tell him all those times you blue screened our old base's computers.CC: Oh yeah? I'll tell him about how oblivious you were about his mother liking you.CV: You wouldn't have caught on either, don't lie!CC: Yeah, I probably wouldn't have. We're not the smartest bunch, well I'm not.CV: Jokes aside, I really do appreciate everything you've done, Cyberlife Car. I haven't always done right by you, but you're a good friend. You're a good man, and knowing my son will have people like you around makes me sure he'll live a great life.CC: Thanks man, it means a lot.Cyberlife Bus 5 drives out next to the two of them.CB 5: Hey, have either of you seen Cyberlife Train? He went for a drive but hasn't come back yet.CC: Haven't seen him.CV: Me neither, odd. I'm sure he'll be back soon.CB 5: Yeah, you're right, it's just that-...CB 5: Oh my god...Cyberlife Car and Cyberlife Van are confused by CB 5's reaction, until they turn around.
They see a massive army approaching their location. They're being lead by Cyberlife Truck 50, who is surrounded by several tanks. The army consists of nearly 160 armed vehicles. They're coming from all directions, surrounding the MI base, meaning there's no chance of escaping. No one from CR has prepared, no one from the Falcons has prepared. They didn't expect to have to defend from an attack from Prometheus, their plan was to attack the Prometheus base. Cyberlife Truck 50 is holding a grenade launcher.CC: HOW DID THEY FIND US?! EVERYONE, GET YOUR WEAPONS-An explosion goes off next to Cyberlife Car, as he jumps to cover. He's uninjured, and so is Cyberlife Bus 5. He turns to his right to look at Cyberlife Van. CB 5: NO!!!Cyberlife Van has half of his lower back missing, the explosion hit him head-on. He's lost his two back wheels, oil is spilling and his insides are sticking out.
Cyberlife Truck 50 turns to look at his soldiers, giving them one last order.CT 50: Spare Detroit Taxi 17. She's the one who saved my daughter. As for everyone else?...CT 50: Kill them all.The tanks fire, their explosions wreaking havoc against the unprepared Reunited and Falcons.
== Chapter 4 ==
=== Before the Battle ===
Several hours before Prometheus's attack on the Motorized Investigators' base, where Cyberlife Reunited and the Chicago Falcons are staying.
Cyberlife Truck 50 is in the Prometheus base. He's about to call his daughter, who has recently recovered from CB 101's attack. She's in an even worse condition now, the virus is taking everything out of her. Multiple of her systems are failing, and the doctors are having a hard time making sure her body handles fuel correctly. He calls her.CT 50: How are you feeling now? Are you doing any better?
CT 71: I can't feel much..
CT 50: You're gonna get through this, okay honey? You're strong, you're brave, and I am so proud of you. I want you to know that. I love you more than anything. 
CT 71: I love you too dad... do you remember when Detroit Taxi 17 saved me from the bad man?
CT 50: Of course I do, I'd never forget.
CT 71: After she saved me, she told me you're involved in something bad... that you put people in danger. What did she mean? 
CT 50: I...
CT 71: What did you do? 
CT 50: Look, in the coming years you'll come to find out a lot about me. About what I've done. Your opinion of me may change, you might think I'm a monster. 
CT 71: Dad... what did you do?
CT 50: I did it all for you. Remember that, okay honey?
CT 71: You need to stop whatever you're doing, if it's bad. I want to see you again. Don't leave me, promise you won't leave me, dad.
CT 50: I can't stop. There are some things that change you, once you do them, you can't come back. But what I'm doing is giving you a future. I'm giving you a chance at life. And anyone who gets in the way of that is going to suffer.They still haven't gotten word on an antivirus software, and they're running out of time. A Prometheus soldier approaches Cyberlife Truck 50, while he's still speaking with his daughter. CT 50: I'm sorry, I have to go. I love you, honey. He ends the call, then turns to look at the soldier.CT 50: What is it? I told you not to bother me while I'm talking to her.The mute sends Cyberlife Truck 50 a digital message, informing him the scouts they sent to search through Detroit have located where Cyberlife Reunited and the Chicago Falcons are staying.CT 50: Good. Gather everyone at the main area of the base, I have something I need to say.Soon after there is a large crowd of soldiers gathered at the main area of the Prometheus base, the same area where Cyberlife Truck 50 first fought Cyberlife Car during the storm. Cyberlife Truck 50 is on a platform, located higher than his soldiers on the ground floor. He's looking down towards them, his whole army has gathered here. Over 160 soldiers listening to what Cyberlife Truck 50 has to say.CT 50: This is the end of our long journey. What happens today will decide the fate of this city and of our species as a whole. We've located where Cyberlife Reunited and the Chicago Falcons are staying, so the next move is attacking them. They've killed 41 of us already, and they're not gonna stop until we're all dead. They'll take everything we've worked so hard for, everything we've fought for over the past year, all the horrific things we've done, all the sacrifices, it will have been for nothing if we don't kill Cyberlife Reunited before they kill us. We offered them peace, we would've let them leave the city. Casualties weren't necessary, but they didn't listen to us. What happens next is their choice. We can't take any chances, the virus has to be stopped. So we kill them or we die by them, there are no other choices here. We have to end it. Some of you may not like that, I know I don't. These are good people we have to kill. But they don't know that what they're doing is harming everyone else. So gather your weapons. Take the grenade launchers. I'll lead the attack with the tanks by my side. We'll surround their base. We end this tonight.Cyberlife Truck 50 arms himself, and gets all his soldiers in formation. Driving through the streets of Detroit, he leads his army towards the MI base. 
=== The Confrontation ===
At night, Cyberlife Car is discussing the whereabouts of Cyberlife Train with Cyberlife Bus 5 and Cyberlife Van, while the other members of their groups are enjoying themselves with drinks and food. CC: Haven't seen him.
CV: Me neither, odd. I'm sure he'll be back soon.
CB 5: Yeah, you're right, it's just that- 
...
CB 5: Oh my god...Cyberlife Car and Cyberlife Van are confused by CB 5's reaction, until they turn around.
They see a massive army approaching their location. They're being lead by Cyberlife Truck 50, who is surrounded by several tanks. The army consists of nearly 160 armed vehicles. They're coming from all directions, surrounding the MI base, meaning there's no chance of escaping. No one from CR has prepared, no one from the Falcons has prepared. They didn't expect to have to defend from an attack from Prometheus, their plan was to attack the Prometheus base. Cyberlife Truck 50 is holding a grenade launcher.CC: HOW DID THEY FIND US?! EVERYONE, GET YOUR WEAPONS-An explosion goes off next to Cyberlife Car, as he jumps to cover. He's uninjured, and so is Cyberlife Bus 5. He turns to his right to look at Cyberlife Van. CB 5: NO!!!Cyberlife Van has half of his lower back missing, the explosion hit him head-on. He's lost his two back wheels, oil is spilling and his insides are sticking out.
Cyberlife Truck 50 turns to look at his soldiers, giving them one last order.CT 50: Spare Detroit Taxi 17. She's the one who saved my daughter. As for everyone else?
...
CT 50: Kill them all.The tanks fire, their explosions wreaking havoc against the unprepared Reunited and Falcons. The first explosion caused by a tank's projectile lands near RoTech Motorcycle, killing one Falcon located close to her. His body shielded her from the explosion.
Cyberlife Van is unconscious from the damage he took, but he's still alive, even if just barely. Cyberlife Bus 5 is about to drive out of cover to get to the mutilated and disfigured Cyberlife Van, until Cyberlife Car grabs her and stops her.CC: DON'T GO! It's not safe, they'll shoot you too!CB 5: I'm not leaving my husband there!She's about to drive out again, but Cyberlife Car pulls her back. CC: He's not dead yet, there's still a chance he'll live. What matters more is that you make it. Your child needs to have at least one parent growing up.An explosion goes off near them, destroying a part of their cover.CB 5: So what's the plan?! WE WAIT HERE UNTIL THEY BOMB ALL OF US?!
CC: I DON'T KNOW! GIVE ME TIME TO FIGURE IT OUT!
CB 5: WE DON'T HAVE TIME!Detroit Taxi 17 drives out to the open, in view of all the tanks and Prometheus soldiers. They all point their guns towards her.DT 17: WAIT!Cyberlife Car yells at his niece to get back behind cover, but she doesn't. CT 50 turns towards his men and yells out: Hold your fire!He then turns to look at DT 17 from a distance.CT 50: Detroit Taxi 17. I told you I wouldn't forget what you did. You saved my daughter, and for that I'm grateful. I'll let you go. Drive away now. I don't want you to get hurt.
DT 17: We don't have to do this! We don't have to fight! NO ONE HAS TO DIE!
CT 50: I wish that were so. But we're past that point. I gave you and your people that offer twice, but you wouldn't listen. Detroit Taxi 17 drives over to the unconscious Cyberlife Van.DT 17: He needs medical attention. 
CT 50: Why would I let him get that? He stands in the way of my goal, he stands in the way of our species' survival.
DT 17: He's gonna be a father, just like you are. His son needs to grow up with a dad. At least let me carry him to safety, okay? He'll be incapacitated for the rest of the battle anyway, no harm in me doing this. He's not a threat to you, not anymore.
CT 50: Leave, now. I'm giving you a chance at life. Don't make me kill you.
DT 17: You won't kill me. You don't want to. You said it yourself, I remind you of your daughter. She's why you're doing this.
CT 50: Leave.Detroit Taxi 17 doesn't listen, and carries Cyberlife Van to safety, where Cyberlife Bus 5 is. CB 5 instantly rushes to hold her husband, and yells for a medic. The Chicago Falcons have a medic, RoTech Car 16. He's the same vehicle who patched Cyberlife Car up after his fall from the top of the Prometheus base. RC 16 starts working on CV in anyway possible, doing the few things he can to keep him alive.
Detroit Taxi 17 is no longer in view of Prometheus, which gives her time to come up with a plan. The Prometheus soldiers are still holding their fire and not shooting, CT 50 wants to wait until DT 17 is out of their range. She notices Cyberlife Train isn't here, so she digitally contacts him.CTrain: What the hell is going on in there? I heard the explosions, I'm coming over right now-
DT 17: Cyberlife Train, don't come here. We're trapped, they attacked us. Drive to the Prometheus base as quick as you can. Don't get spotted. The fact that most of them came here means their base should be mostly empty... Cyberlife Train, I'm gonna need you to steal the bomb from them. I'm guessing they left some guards to protect the bomb. You think you can fight them on your own? If we get the bomb to ourselves and find a hiding spot far from the battle, CB 5 might be able to sneak out, and have enough time to defuse it manually.
CTrain: I have to go get the bomb from the Prometheus base by myself? 
DT 17: I know it's a lot to ask, but you're our only shot. We're surrounded.
CTrain: I think I can do it, yeah.
DT 17: Great. Hurry.She ends the call, then quietly gives orders to Cyberlife Reunited, making sure Prometheus doesn't hear them. DT 17: Cyberlife Bus 5, I know it's not easy leaving CV by himself, but we need you. More than ever. They've surronded this place, but is there any way you think you could sneak out without them noticing?
CB 5: I, we-.. I...
DT 17: Focus. Cyberlife Van's gonna live. He has a medic. Focus on the plan.
CB 5: Y-yeah... This place wasn't built with us in mind, but once we decided to stick around and use this as our base, we realized we'd want to have an emergency exit, so we had one built... Near the bathrooms there's a hidden exit, it's connected to the sewer systems of Detroit. I can go underground through that, and find a safe spot to get back to the streets without getting spotted.
DT 17: Great, do that. You have to sneak out and establish contact with Cyberlife Train once he gets the bomb to himself. He's going to give you the bomb, and you're gonna have to defuse it. You're the only one with the necessary skills to even attempt to do that. Once we have the bomb, we can call in the military to help fight against Prometheus. They'll be overwhelmed. But first, go through the secret exit. The others can follow you while I stall the Prometheus army. 
CB 5: The secret exit is pretty small, it's a tunnel leading to the sewers. Even though it was built with vehicles in mind, it can't hold the weight of multiple vehicles using it at the same time. It should have only one of us go through it at a time, otherwise it risks collapsing.
DT 17: Okay, then take it slow. You go first. Once you're at the other side, others can start going as well. I can keep CT 50 talking as long as necessary.Cyberlife Bus 5 is reluctant, but knowing that there's nothing she can do for CV now, she decides to listen to DT 17's orders.DT 17: As for everyone else, spread out and hide behind cover. Like you heard, we can't all sneak out at the same time. Our best chance at survival is being spread out in case they start bombing us again. I'll get back out there and keep Cyberlife Truck 50 talking. 
CC: You're not going out there, it's not safe!
DT 17: Yes I am! I'm not taking orders from you anymore. This is my plan, and you're gonna do it. You're all gonna do it. 
CH 11: Okay everyone, listen to her. Once everyone starts moving, CH 11 goes back to lightly grab DT 17 before she heads out. CH 11: Stay safe, alright? Detroit Taxi 17 nods. She drives out back into the open to continue speaking with Cyberlife Truck 50. 
=== A Better Future ===
Detroit Taxi 17 drives outside, closer to Cyberlife Truck 50 than before.CT 50: It's time you leave.DT 17: I'm not going anywhere.CT 50 aims his grenade launcher at her.CT 50: This is your last chance.
DT 17: Is this what you want? Is this what any of your soldiers want? You're gonna kill me?! Haven't you taken enough lives? After what you all did at the Stratford tower, all those innocent people, and for what? You won't stop the virus by killing us. We're not your enemy. Why are you fighting us? We're fighting you, because you're threatening to kill us all. We're defending ourselves, but you? If you'd just let us be, we wouldn't have been a threat to you. Detroit's not your enemy, Cyberlife is.
CT 50: And I'm gonna take Cyberlife down by taking Detroit down. I tried to save you all by making sure the cure was created, I wanted to save you all. If you'd just let us do that, your friends could have been spared from this. But you just couldn't stand down, you had to fight back no matter what... that's what'll end up getting everyone killed. All of you, you're ungrateful. And you're too stubborn to stand down even when it's the best option for all of us.
DT 17: Jesus christ, are you actually that delusional?! Listen to yourself! I'm offering peace! I'm offering you a chance to stand down. It's still not too late to stop. It's not too late to turn back, everyone can change, everyone can become better. We've taken in enemies before, Cyberlife Helicopter 11 tried to kill us, but he's become a trusted ally. Mercedes Bus is the reason our predecessors were killed, but we still took him in. No matter what you've done, there's room for you with us. Your daughter said we don't have to fight, listen to her!
CT 50: She was wrong.
DT 17: No, she was right! She said you're not a monster. You can prove her right. We can save lives here, isn't that what you said Prometheus is all about? Cyberlife Reunited and the Falcons, we're not your enemy. Cyberlife is the enemy, so why are we fighting each other? We can work together, make sure Cyberlife creates the cure, we can save your daughter's life. If we co-operate, we'll have an even better chance at making sure Cyberlife cures us. Us vehicles and androids, we've fought for our rights before. First the android and vehicle revolutions, now this. We won't let those greedy fucks wait until we all die out. We have to unite. We have to work together. If we do that, if we co-operate, we can survive as a species! CT 50 doesn't respond, he's contemplating her words. DT 17: I mean, was this your plan? Is this who you wanted to be when you started Prometheus? Killing innocent people, bombing buildings, is that what your daughter would want from you? Think about her, think about all those other kids. We can make it right. All you have to do is put down your guns. All you have to do is surrender. 
CT 50: I...
DT 17: Please.
CT 50: You're... you're right. We could make it work, we could establish a hiding spot for Prometheus so the army doesn't find us, while still keeping in contact with you. 
DT 17: Exactly! We can work together on this! We want the cure too, we know how big of a threat the virus is. I don't want your daughter to die, I don't want RoTech Bus to die, I don't want our species to die out.
CT 50: We could discuss everything through digitial communication, come up with different angles on making sure Cyberlife creates the cure... 
DT 17: I'm glad you're seeing things my way. Let's do it. Cyberlife Truck 50 turns to his men, and after pondering it for a moment, he gives them an order.CT 50: Put away your guns. The Prometheus soldiers disarm themselves.CT 50: We don't have to-An armor piercing bullet from a sniper rifle goes straight through Cyberlife Truck 50, hitting him near the engine. During his conversation with DT 17, RoTech Motorcycle had found a sniping spot from the top of the building. DT 17: FUCK, NO! Don't shoot-But it's already too late, as the Prometheus soldiers begin arming themselves again.RM: QUICK, EVERYONE SHOOT THEM WHILE THEY'RE STILL UNPREPARED!The Chicago Falcons grab assault rifles, and fire into the crowd of hastily preparing Prometheus soldiers. Most of them don't fire back on time, leading to a large amount of their soldiers getting gunned down. Detroit Taxi 17 rushes inside the building to get to safety. Cyberlife Truck 50 himself crawls behind cover, after taking heavy damage from RoTech Motorcycle's bullet. It grazed his engine, but he's still alive. CT 50: THEY LIED TO US! He turns to his men.CT 50: SHOOT THEM! KILL THEM ALL!The tanks have begun firing at the building. 
Detroit Taxi 17 drives to where RoTech Bus and Cyberlife Van are. She hears that Cyberlife Bus 5 has made it to the other side of the secret exit. DT 17: RoTech Bus, it's your turn to sneak out. The virus symptoms make you weak, you can't fight! 
RB: I won't abandon you-
DT 17: LISTEN TO ME!
Cyberlife Fire Truck drives up next to RB.CFT: Arby, you have to go. Don't worry, we'll be right behind you once you're on the other side.RB: God, you're such an asshole...RB kisses CFT. CFT: You too. Now go! RoTech Bus nods, and hurries over to the secret exit. He opens the door to the tunnel, when a tank projectile hits the building. The blast pushes RB inside the tunnel, but also destroys a part of the entrance. Rubble begins falling on top of it, covering the doorway. RB: Wait, wait no! RoTech Bus begins driving back towards the entrance to get rid of the rubble. If the others can't use the secret exit, they're as good as dead. 
Cyberlife Fire Truck sees what's happening, and rushes to help get rid of the rubble. RoTech Bus and Cyberlife Fire Truck are both pulling debris away from the entrance, they're just on other sides of the rubble. Cyberlife Fire Truck is still inside the Motorized Investigators' base, where as RoTech Bus is in the tunnel leading to the sewers. They're using all their strength to grab the chunks of metal and concrete, to clear the doorway before it becomes an impossible task. Chunks are piling on top of each other, as pieces of the ceiling keep falling. Cyberlife Fire Truck yells: RB, ARE YOU THERE? 
RB: I CAN HEAR YOU! I'M HERE ON THE OTHER SIDE, I'M OKAY! WHAT ABOUT YOU, ARE YOU SAFE? 
CFT: YEAH, I DIDN'T GET HURT! WE GOTTA HURRY BEFORE THIS RUBBLE GETS TOO HEAVY- Another explosion happens on the side of the building, causing more damage to secret exit. Clearing it is beginning to seem impossible. RB: We can still clear it, come on! RoTech Bus's muffled voice is barely coming through from the other side. RB: COME ON! RoTech Bus is driving into the chunks of debris using all his strength, but it's too late. CFT: RB... you need to go before the tunnel is destroyed. 
RB: But the rest of you won't be able to use the secret exit! 
CFT: We'll find some other way. JUST GO! 
RB: I'LL BRING HELP, I PROMISE! RoTech Bus begins hurrying off to the other side of the exit, but his virus symptoms are slowing him down. Detroit Taxi 17 is in another part of the base, gathering everyone to lead them. DT 17: EVERYONE GET YOUR WEAPONS AND REMEMBER TO SPREAD OUT! WE HAVE TO FIGHT BACK!RoTech Motorcycle and the other Chicago Falcons hurry downstairs, as they had been on the roof earlier.DT 17: What the fuck were you thinking?! That wasn't a part of the plan! We could've had peace, you just got us all killed!RM: Did you actually think that would work?! You don't know who you're dealing with. They just wanted to lure us out so the slaughter would be easier!
CC: STOP ARGUING! WE DON'T HAVE THE TIME FOR THIS
DT 17: Goddamn it...Cyberlife Fire Truck returns to the group with bad news, after his desperate attempts to clear the secret exit proved to be futile.CFT: Hey, uh guys? The secret exit is blocked, we can't clear it. RoTech Bus was the last one to get through.
...
CC: Fuck me... then I guess we have no other option but to fight.
MBB: With an army like theirs, we have no chance of winning! They outnumber us, they're more skilled than us, they're better armored, they have better weaponry... and they're out in the open, while we're stuck in this crumbling building.
CC: And yet we're gonna fight them. Like we always do. We don't stand down, not now. We fight until the end. Are you all with me?Everyone affirms, one by one. Even MBB joins in, despite his fears.CC: Get into position.
=== Desperate Measures ===
Cyberlife Truck 50 is still hiding behind cover, furious at what he believes to be a betrayal by Detroit Taxi 17. He assesses his injuries once again, and decides to run a system check. Upon getting the result, he finds out the bullet badly grazed his engine, and fuel is leaking rapidly. His systems inform him he has roughly one hour left to live, until his engine's shutdown. He gives his soldiers an order. CT 50: Leave no one alive. Get ready to trigger the bomb. We're taking this whole city down with us.
 A mute sends him a digital message: Sir, we've been informed we no longer have the bomb.
CT 50: What, how?!
 The mute: It's been stolen. Someone broke into our base and killed the soldiers guarding it. It seems to have been a train.
CT 50: TO HELL WITH THEM! SEND 100 SOLDIERS THERE TO SEARCH THE AREA, WE CAN HANDLE THIS FIGHT OURSELVES. FIND WHOEVER TOOK IT, AND BRING THEM TO ME ALIVE! I WANT THAT TRAIN HERE, SEARCH THROUGH THE WHOLE CITY IF YOU HAVE TO!100 Prometheus soldiers exit the area, and hurry over driving towards the Prometheus base, beginning a mass search around the city to find the bomb's location, and to capture Cyberlife Train.
CC, DT 17, CH 11, CFT, MBB, RM, Cade and the other Falcons are the remaining vehicles in the Motorized Investigators' base, left to fend off against the attack from Prometheus. During Detroit Taxi 17's conversation with Cyberlife Truck 50, each of them have managed to arm themselves and somewhat prepare against the attack. They listened to her orders and spread out as much as possible instead of being crammed into one area, which would have made it easier for explosions to kill many of them at the same time. Cyberlife Van is still unconscious, but RoTech Car 16 is doing his best to keep him alive, despite the massive injuries.
Each of the fighters are hiding behind cover and shooting out into the crowd of Prometheus soldiers, hoping to kill as many as they can. They know that they'll have to be quick, Prometheus' explosives are more than capable at crumbling down their building, so their only hope at winning is to kill the Prometheus soldiers before the base collapses. This is made easier due to 100 of their fighters going out to locate the bomb that Cyberlife Train stole, but they're still facing nearly 50 armored fighters, including tanks. DT 17: Fuck, this isn't looking good...She peeks out of cover, and with a quick yet precise shot kills a Prometheus soldier. The other soldiers seem to have paid attention to her position. A grenade flies in through a window close to her.DT 17: Shit!She rushes away from it, getting away just in time. The explosion destroys a large part of the wall, the building is becoming weaker and weaker. Meanwhile, Cyberlife Truck 50 is leading his soldiers at the battlefield.CT 50: We have no need to push in, that'll just make it easier for them to kill as many of us as they want. We need to stay back and bomb them from a distance. That building of theirs won't last long, and they don't have the firepower to take down our tanks. We've already won.The Prometheus soldiers listen, and get behind cover, while the tanks stay out in the open. Their projectiles are quickly destroying the building, large chunks of the walls start falling apart. There are fewer things to hide behind for cover. 
Cyberlife Train is driving away from the Prometheus base, carrying the bomb that he stole from them. Due to his strength and speed, he's able to carry the bomb with ease, despite its large size. He's going fast but also wants to be careful, he doesn't know how fragile the bomb is, and the last thing he'd want is to accidentally cause it to detonate by bumping into something. He is digitally connected to Cyberlife Bus 5, with his mission being to deliver the bomb to her.CTrain: Did you get out yet?
CB 5: Yeah I got to the streets, I'm safe.. but the others, they're still-
CTrain: Don't think about that now. I got the bomb, you have to defuse it. Where should we meet up so I can give it to you?
CB 5: I... I know where to go. Meet me at the old Cyberlife United base. It'll be a perfect spot to hide the bomb, because of how discreet the location is. 
CTrain: Good idea. I'll-Cyberlife Train hears armed vehicles approaching. He knows they're Prometheus soldiers sent to find the bomb, so he quickly enters an alleyway and stays there until they pass by. He knows he'd be able to fight them under normal circumstances, but he doesn't want to risk anything when he's still carrying the bomb. Once they're gone, he continues talking with CB 5.CTrain: Right, as I was saying, I'll be there. CB 5: Good... we can do this.Inside the Motorized Investigators base, the fighters are getting bombed by Prometheus.Cade: Those fucking cowards, just bombing us from a distance! MAN UP, YOU DICKHEADS! COME HERE AND FIGHT US!
RM: I can't get a good shot from here, fuck...
DT 17: We have to do something...As the others are trying to come up with plans, Mercedes Bus is seen cowering in a corner. He's shaking. The sounds of the gunfire, the explosions, he's panicking. He can't bring himself to peek out and attempt to shoot at the enemy, knowing at any moment an explosion could land right at his location and kill him. Cyberlife Car notices MBB.CC: You, get your shit together. You came here to help us, so help us.
MBB: I.. I can't-
CC: YES YOU CAN! AND YOU WILL! You got my friends killed, try to make up for it.Mercedes Bus continues cowering in fear. Cyberlife Helicopter 11 sees the situation and flies over to him.CH 11: Hey, come on MBB. You didn't come here for nothing, you came to help us, right? 
MBB: I... I... the gunfire-, the explosions... I just want it to be over.
CH 11: Hiding here in the corner only makes it easier for them to win! If you keep being like this, it'll be over. But not in a good way. You'll die.
MBB: I don't care what happens to me.
CH 11: But I do. I don't want you to die! We need you fighting with us. I need you! MBB turns to look at CH 11.CH 11: We're friends, right? We look out for each other.MBB nods, and gets up to join the fight. He grabs his weapon and attempts to shoot at the Prometheus soldiers despite most of them hiding behind cover.
In another part of Detroit, Cyberlife Bus 5 arrives at the old Cyberlife United base. As she enters the broken down base, a barrage of memories come to her, good and bad. Things she tried to forget and things she'll always want to hold on to. For a short moment, she expects to see Cyberlife Bus and Cyberlife Bus 8 inside, waiting for her. Like nothing happened to them. She wants to go back to how things were. But she can't. Now she has a job to do. She'll have to look past the memories, to look past how empty everything feels without her old friends here.
Cyberlife Train arrives at the base soon after her, carrying the bomb. He had to avoid several Prometheus soldiers searching for him along the way, but managed to arrive without confrontation. Cyberlife Bus 5 has all her equipment ready, and with Cyberlife Train's help, she safely transports the bomb inside the base. They carefully lay down the bomb in the main area. It being the largest room in the base makes it easier for Cyberlife Bus 5 to maneuver around it, as she gets to work. A single wrong move could mean the bomb going off and killing millions. So many things could go wrong. But she can't focus on that. She has to focus on the mission.CTrain: What should I do? Do I stay here and protect you in case the soldiers find you?
CB 5: No, if they find me then it's already too late. Our best chance at winning is you going out to help the others win at the detective headquarterd. But before you do that... it's about time we inform the military it's safe for them to come in and help us out. Can you forward the message to them? 
CTrain: Right, I'll do that. Good luck with the bomb.
CB 5: Hopefully I won't need luck...
=== Iron Will ===
RoTech Bus is shown arriving out of the sewers, and onto the streets of Detroit. He wants to help, but doesn't know how. The virus symptoms are the worst they've ever been, it's gotten to the point of him having to basically crawl on the ground to keep going. It takes a massive effort just to get his wheels going. As he keeps going further, the only thing on his mind is that he has to help his friends, he has to help Cyberlife Fire Truck. But he can barely hear, and his vision is blurry. He sees two indistinct figures drive up in front of him. At first he assumes they're civilians, but as the vehicles begin pointing guns at RoTech Bus, he figures they're Prometheus soldiers instead. Most likely sent to search for the bomb.RB: Wa-wait! Don't shoot... I.. I think I have info-information you need... I know where the bomb is.The soldiers lower their weapons.RB: It's... it's... One of the soldiers drives closer to hear RoTech Bus better, as he's struggling to speak. RoTech Bus' words come out feebly.RB: The bomb... it's in your mom's vag-The soldier immediately raises his gun, but RoTech Bus manages to push it onto the ground. He grabs the soldier close to him, and pushes him in front of the bullets from the other one's weapon, his body shielding RoTech Bus. RB uses this opportunity to lunge towards the weapon on the ground, and with great effort, uses it to shoot the remaining enemy. As both of the Prometheus soldiers drop dead on the ground, RB lets out a sigh of relief. His vision starts blurring and glitching out again, as he hears another vehicle drive up to him. RB knows that this time he doesn't have it in him to fight back. RB: Ah, fuck... sorry, I used up all my energy to kill your two buddies. I got 'em with a "your mom" joke, can you believe that? Yeah... well I'm not much of an opponent in this condition. So all I'll say is go fuck yourself and-
CTrain: What are you talking about, RB? It's me.
RB: Oh! I thought you were one of them.Cyberlife Train grabs RoTech Bus and helps him get back up.CTrain: How are you feeling? In the condition to fight?
RB: Yeah, never been better. So good that I couldn't even tell it was you, I can't see shit. 
CTrain: Okay, I got the point...
RB: What's the situation? 
CTrain: It seems like we have a chance at winning. Even though Prometheus has the rest of us cornered at the detective headquarters, I managed to get the bomb to Cyberlife Bus 5. She's defusing it as we speak...
RB: And because we have the bomb to ourselves...
CTrain: It was safe to call in the army, which I've already done. All they needed was confirmation that the bomb is in safe hands... or wheels, I should say. But anyway, they should be here any minute now.
Cyberlife Train's momentary comfort is taken from him when he hears a group of vehicles driving closer, the sounds of their engines revving, their wheels screeching, it's all getting louder and louder. The Prometheus soldiers are coming for them, and he knows it.RB: Fuck... the Prometheus soldiers I killed, you think they had time to alert their buddies?CTrain: Seems that way. More are coming this way. You need to hide. There's a large dumpster around that corner in the alleyway, maybe if you move it a bit the soldiers won't spot you.RB: Wait, what about you? Hide with me!CTrain: I'm a train cart. There's nowhere for me to hide here, they'd spot me behind that dumpster. I'll try to fight them off, get the attention away from you.RB: I'm not letting you-CTrain: THIS ISN'T A MATTER OF DISCUSSION, GO!Cyberlife Train pushes RoTech Bus into the alleyway, and places the dumpster in front of him.CTrain: Stay there and hide.
RB: What the fuck, CTrain?! You have to save yourself, man!
CTrain: No. It's about time I prevent the death of another close friend.RoTech Bus is frustrated, but also knows he isn't in the condition to fight. He doesn't even have the strength to move the dumpster.
The soldiers arrive into view, and aim their guns at Cyberlife Train. There's twenty of them, including trucks, cars and buses. Their mission is to capture Cyberlife Train alive and bring him to Cyberlife Truck 50. Cyberlife Train isn't going to take any chances, even though he's outnumbered, he'll fight back for as long as he can. He feels this is the moment he's trained for. So upon spotting the soldiers, Cyberlife Train begins his charge. He accelerates into massive speed within an instant, crushing the closest vehicle on impact. 
The rest of the soldiers begin shooting at Cyberlife Train. They're mostly aiming at his wheels, as they're not allowed to kill him. Some of the bullets pierce his front wheels, slowing him down. He ignores this and keeps fighting, with his strength he has no issues in fighting against most of them. He destroys three vehicles located close to each other in one ample swoop. As a result of this, the others attempt spreading out as to avoid getting taken down at once. Cyberlife Train's ferocity induces fear in the soldiers, they feel as if they're hunting down a beast. They've fought against all kinds of enemies before, but this is the first time they've faced a resurrected vehicle in a state of pure rage. Cyberlife Train feels all the pent-up frustration and fury of everything that's gone down in his life, the people he hasn't been able to save; the passengers inside him when he originally crashed due to the taxis' sabotage, his girlfriend Cyberlife Train Station, his closest friend Cyberlife Bus, and then the fate that Cyberlife Recycle Truck 64 suffered at the hands of the Overseer. This fight is for all of them. 
As he kills more and more of the soldiers, he's suffering damage himself. He's filled with holes from the dozens of bullets that have hit him during his rampage, he's dented from charging into different vehicles, but his design has made him durable. As he keeps fighting, the soldiers begin thinning out in numbers. There aren't many left, but he's starting to feel the exhaustion of the battle. He's slowing down, which gives one of the Prometheus soldiers the chance to throw a grenade at him. The grenade hits Cyberlife Train's side, dealing major damage to him. He slows down even further, and the rest of the soldiers empty their rifles' ammo on each of his wheels. 
Cyberlife Train yells out, until a truck drives into him, finally knocking him out. They begin dragging the unconscious Cyberlife Train to CT 50's location, as RoTech Bus watches helplessly from behind the dumpster.
=== A Deadly Ultimatum ===
The remaining CR members and Falcons don't have much hope left, as the base is on the verge of collapsing. A tank projectile hits another part of the wall, killing a Falcon who was hiding behind it for cover. They're running out of options. Each fighter's mind is racing with thoughts on what to do, different strategies, any tactics to possibly save the situation... but they all come to a mutual conclusion, there's nothing they can do. Going outside means certain death and getting shot down by Prometheus in an instant, but so does staying inside and waiting for the building to get bombed. RoTech Motorcycle is enraged, seeing the dead bodies of the Falcons around her.RM: Did we really get this far just to let them win? After everything they did to us, they get to win? How's that fair?Cade: It's not over yet. The way I see it, I'm still standing, I still got bullets in my gun, and I still got people to kill. And as long as I have those...Cade peeks out of cover, and shoots a Prometheus soldier in the distance. Cade: I reckon I'll keep going. You should too.Cyberlife Car is hiding behind cover. Most of the building has been completely wrecked by the bombings. His gun has run out of ammo. He doesn't want to admit it, but he's desperate. He looks over to his niece, who still seems to have hope regarding the situation. Cyberlife Car's focus switches when he hears Cyberlife Truck 50 yelling out. CT 50: CYBERLIFE CAR! You should've given up when you had the chance. My men have captured your little friend, the train who took our bomb from us. We have him right here with us.
Dread fills over Cyberlife Car. He takes a quick peek through a part of the wall which has been destroyed, and sees that Cyberlife Truck 50 isn't lying. He has an unconscious Cyberlife Train next to him. CFT: Fuck, what do we do?!Cyberlife Train is beginning to awaken from his unconscious state, and attemps to drive away. His efforts are futile, he seems to have been immobilized. His wheels have been fully removed and he's unable to drive. Cyberlife Train is getting filled with fury once again. Cyberlife Truck 50 is so close to him, yet he can't do anything to take him down. He feels like he needs to kill him, but his body won't let him. The familiar feeling of helplessness settles over him. Cyberlife Car yells out from behind cover.CC: LET HIM GO! What do you want from him?!
CT 50: I brought him here to give all of you a choice, an ultimatum. Tell us where you hid the bomb, or he dies. 
CC: No...
CTrain: DON'T TELL HIM! IT'S EITHER ME, OR THE WHOLE CITY!Cyberlife Truck 50 hits Cyberlife Train to prevent him from talking. Cyberlife Fire Truck turns to look at CC.CFT: We can't just let him die!CT 50: So what's it gonna be, Cyberlife Car? Are you going to let your friend die because you were too selfish to let us save you?
CC: You don't have to do this. You don't know what we've been through, you don't know how much Cyberlife Train has suffere-
CT 50: It doesn't concern me. What concerns me is where you've hidden my bomb. I need the bomb to guarantee the safety of my men and of my species. Without the bomb, the army can come in and slaughter me and my people. They'd defuse the bomb before the cure even gets made. Do you know what that'd result in? If the bomb gets defused, Cyberlife gets away with everything. They don't have to cure the virus after that. All they have to do is sit and wait for us to die out. So tell me where the bomb is, or I kill him. I'll make sure there's no chance for resurrection this time.
CC: I... I... I can tell you-
CTrain: CYBERLIFE CAR, DON'T. I'll be alright, man. I promise.Cyberlife Train proceeds to stare at CT 50 and utters out two words.CTrain: You're weak.CT 50 hits him again.CC: Cyberlife Train, don't say anything to him. We can figure this out, I'll get you out of this. CTrain: No, Cyberlife Car. He needs to hear it how it is. CTrain continues speaking to CT 50.CTrain: You think you're a hero, yet you're so far gone you can't see that planning to bomb a city of innocent people makes you nothing but a terrorist. That's all you are, that's all you'll ever be. So why don't you just get it over with. Kill me. I've done what I set out to do. I proved I could fight for my city. I took the bomb from you, and it's getting defused as we speak. I killed almost twenty of your men when they tried to capture me. So go ahead, kill me. I've died once before, I'm not afraid to do it again. GO AHEAD! I'M NOT AFRAID! I'M NOT AFRAID!Cyberlife Truck 50 rips open Cyberlife Train's front and crushes his engine, killing him. CC: NO!Cyberlife Car grabs a weapon from the ground and is about to charge out into the open to shoot at Cyberlife Truck 50, until Cyberlife Fire Truck holds him down. CC: LET ME GO!CFT is holding him back, preventing him from leaving cover.CFT: He's gone... it's too late.
CC: I HAVE TO-
CFT: We can't do anything. 
CC: But he killed, but he-.. it was... no...Cyberlife Car begins sobbing, as the anger turns into sorrow. Cyberlife Fire Truck cries next to him. They stare out to the open where Cyberlife Train's corpse is laying on the ground. Their friend is ripped open and filled with bullets. With the engine completely crushed, another resurrection is impossible.CT 50: This is on you, Cyberlife Car. You could've saved him, but you chose not to. Now your friends will all have to suffer the same fate. His soldiers continue their reign on the MI base, the explosions destroying it further once again.
=== A Call to Arms ===
RoTech Bus is looking at the battlefield from a distance. He's in a state of anguish and despair, having witnessed Cyberlife Train's death but being unable to do anything about it. He's still strongly affected by symptoms of the virus, preventing him from joining the fight. He can barely even drive, going in to help his friends would be futile, it'd be nothing but a suicide. All he can do is watch. Cyberlife Train saved him by placing him behind the dumpster, yet RB couldn't help him. He keeps on staring at the battlefield, as Prometheus' tanks and grenade launchers continue destroying what's left of the detective headquarters. All his friends are in there, yet he doesn't even know how many of them are still alive. 
He keeps on waiting for the army's arrival, but as of now there seem to be no signs of it. No helicopter blades whirring in the distance to come to the rescue, no army vehicles rushing through the strees of Detroit, not a single soldier in sight. His frustration turns into pure rage, thus RoTech Bus decides to make a call to their army contact. General Aaron Mitchell is the person entasked with leading the military's operation in Detroit, RoTech Bus gets into contact with him through Cyberlife systems. General Mitchell: This is Mitchell. One of the commanders here told me your told me your name is RoTech Bus. Do you have new information that could assist in the military's assault on the terrorist group known as Prometheus?
RB: No, I don't have new information! I called to ask where the fuck you are?! It's been eight minutes since we told you that the bomb is no longer in Prometheus's possession, and that it's safe to fucking come in and help us out a bit! So what's taking you so long? Why didn't you have your men ready? They should be here by now, and yet I don't see one fucking sign of them.
Mitchell: We're handling the situation the best we can. At first we had to check your intel and get confirmation that the bomb's location is legitimate and no longer at the Prometheus base. Now we're planning out our strategy of attack, we can't fly in because of the turrets Prometheus installed around the city. They'd shoot down anything that flies in or out of the city, so our entrance will have to be either through land or water. Entrance through land will be more difficult, as Prometheus has destroyed most major points of entry into the city. We also have to strive for minimal civilian casualties, so we're aiming for our arrival to be a surprise to Prometheus. They can't see us coming until we're already there.
RB: So how much longer is it gonna take?! I'm here watching everyone I care about get slaughered, and there's NOTHING I can do! One of my friends sacrificed his life to save me, and now he's laying lifeless next to the vehicle that pulled his fucking engine out!
Mitchell: Our arrival at the coordinates you've given is estimated to be in around 30 minutes.
RB: 30 MINUTES? They won't survive that long! All my friends will be fucking dead by then! Prometheus is bombing them as we speak! My boyfriend is in that building, and you expect me to just watch as he dies?!
Mitchell: I'm sorry about your friends, but our mission isn't to save them. Our priority is saving the city of Detroit and taking down Prometheus. And the best way we can do that is by sticking to our plan, which means we'll be there in 30 minutes. Good luck, and goodbye.Mitchell ends the phone call.RB: MOTHERFUCKER! PIECE OF SHIT! They can't do this to us...RoTech Bus once again gazes at the battlefield. Cyberlife Train is dead, Cyberlife Van is incapacitated, Prometheus has the clear upper hand. Everyone he cares about is in that building, if he loses them he feels like he'll have no reason to keep going. He's not ready to go through that type of loss, not after he lost his sister. 
RoTech Bus begins brainstorming for plans, anything he could do to increase the chances of his friends' survival, knowing that every second they get closer to their doom. As he's doing his best to come up with anything, he thinks back to the last time things were normal, before Prometheus's arrival. His last good memories before everything turned into a living hell. He remembers being in the Stratford tower, which is now gone. He remembers joking around with Detroit Taxi 17 and Cyberlife Fire Truck, as they scrolled through CR fanpages. He remembers that even though some of the posts were a little embarrassing, he still felt warmth and comfort in knowing that those fanpages had thousands of followers. Thousands of people devoted to supporting and celebrating a group that he was a part of. Strangers he never met, who were gushing over him and his friends because they'd had an effect on them. It made all the hardships of their work feel worth it, knowing that what they did had helped so many people. Thousands of people who called Cyberlife Reunited heroes. And in this moment of remembrance, RoTech Bus comes up with the key to saving his friends' lives. 
RB quickly rushes into a nearby department store, which has been closed due to obvious circumstances. He manages to drive around, despite the virus limiting his movements. Moving through the different sections of the department store, he finally finds what he came looking for. RoTech Bus grabs a megaphone, and attaches it to his audio box. This will result in his speech being nearly 110 decibels, once he begins talking. As he exits the department store, he leaves a fifty dollar bill on the counter as a payment for the megaphone, despite there being no cashier.RB: Keep the change.He exits the building, and prepares to start his speech. RoTech Bus begins slowly driving through the streets of Detroit. After a moment of hesitation, RB speaks, with his voice being heard loudly across the area thanks to the megaphone. RB: People of Detroit, at least those of you who can hear me right now... it's time to fight back. My name is RoTech Bus, most of you probably already know me. I'm a part of Cyberlife Reunited. This group has been fighting for this city for years now, protecting this city, like Cyberlife United did before us. We've helped a lot of people, and lost our own along the way. And Cyberlife Reunited has never asked for anything in return, because that's not why we do this. But just this once... we need your help. Most of our crew are surrounded by Prometheus. If we don't fight back now, we will die. We're at war. And right now, we don't have the numbers needed to win. But that can change. Curious onlookers have begun peeking out their windows and opening their doors to look at RB. Prior to this everyone had just stayed inside with their binds closed and doors locked, but now RB's words are igniting a spark in the people, a spark to fight back. RB: This is a call to arms, if you have guns, if you know how to shoot, if you think you can help us in any way... fight with us. Join me, right here, right now. I'll be gathering voluntary fighters, anyone who can come with us. Anyone who can help us get rid of these terrorist fucks in OUR city. This isn't just for Cyberlife Reunited, this is for all of Detroit. They invaded our city, threatened to bomb us to ashes, and they think they can just get away with it? People of Detroit... take back your city. We won't back down, we'll show these fuckers we're better than them. Join us! Throughout his speech, RoTech Bus kept slowly driving through the city, so that as many people could hear him speak as possible. Once his speech is done, he looks around him and sees no one. Not a single vehicle has joined him. RoTech Bus curses in frustration, believing his plan to be a failure. He's disappointed, until one vehicle exits his house holding a pistol. The vehicle drives up to RoTech Bus. CC 219: Hi. Heard you wanted to fight back. Thought I might as well join you. 
RB: One's better than none, I suppose. Thank you. 
CC 219: Oh, it's not just one. I sent my lads a message to come join us as well. Word's getting around the city. As they're speaking, another vehicle exits their house and drives up to RB and CC 229. It's a bus holding a shotgun. CB 173: I found this shotgun my grandpa owned... I'll join you. You saved my life once, I was getting held at gunpoint, but you came in and stopped them. I think that's more than enough reason to help out in return. RB: Welcome to the team. This pattern continues, as more and more vehicles gain the courage to leave their homes and join in the fight against Prometheus. Soon there's a crowd of nearly 30 vehicles, humans and androids gathered around RoTech Bus, all sharing their stories of how Cyberlife United or -Reunited have helped them and their loved ones in some manner. This includes direct rescues, bringing hope into their lives, and making the city an all around safer place to live. All of the civilian vehicles are also sending messages to their close friends, urging them to join them in the fight against Prometheus. All of them want to show their gratitude for what Cyberlife Reunited has done for the city. As they get their numbers up in a short time, the ragtag group of civilians prepare to go fight Prometheus, being lead by RoTech Bus. RB: Okay, everyone... we don't have much time left, they're bombing my friends and allies as we speak. It's time for us to go and fight. We're gonna win. Those terrorists are gonna regret fucking with the wrong city. The fighters cheer, raising their weapons. RoTech Bus takes the lead in driving them towards the battlefield, with everyone being armed and ready to fight. 
=== Second Wind ===
In the Motorized Investigators base, most fighters have run out of ammo. The building is on the verge of collapsing, one or two more explosions and the whole base will crumble. They'd all be crushed by rubble. The fighters know this, and they also know that going out into the open is certain death, as they'd get slaughered by the Prometheus soldiers in an instant, since they'd have no cover and they're severely outnumbered. Cyberlife Car takes a glimpse out into the open, and is met with a grim reminder when he sees Cyberlife Train's lifeless corpse. Fearing the same fate for his other close friends, Cyberlife Car rushes to check up on Cyberlife Van, who's still being repaired by RoTech Car 16. CC: What's it look like? Do you think he'll make it?
RC 16: If we make it out of here... I think he'll live. I managed to prevent any further oil loss, made sure his engine kept running. He's still unconscious, but he's not dead yet. The damage is serious though... the explosion destroyed a large part of his back, his motoric program might be permanently damaged. Might be he'll never be able to drive again, not properly at least.
CC: Jesus... thank you, for looking after him. 
RC 16: Yeah, no problem but-He's interrupted by another explosion hitting the building.RC 16: But it's starting to look like none of us are gonna make it. CC: No, I'll come up with something, I have to...Detroit Taxi 17 drives up to her uncle.DT 17: Hey, uncle car... you did everything you could. If we don't make it out of here, just know that it's not your fault. I'm grateful to have gotten this far, and being a crimefighter with you was everything I dreamed of as a kid. Thank you for being in my life.She hugs her uncle.CC: No, no... we're not gonna die. I lead you all here, to this point in your lives. If you die now, it'll be because of me! I won't let that happen. As they're expecting another explosion to hit the building and cause it to crumble down, taking down every last fighter, they're instead surprised by the sounds of dozens of vehicles suddenly driving onto the battlefield armed with various weapons. They're all shooting at the Prometheus soldiers, gunning down the terrorists.RM: What's happening?!
MBB: Holy shit, is that the army?
DT 17: No... but who?
CFT: It's not the army... It's RoTech Bus! He brought people with him!
Cade, laughing: That crazy son of a bitch! 
DT 17: OKAY EVERYONE, LET'S GO! COME ON!
CC: LET'S GO AND HELP THEM!The fighters rush out into the open. Cyberlife Car, Detroit Taxi 17, RoTech Motorcycle, Cade, Cyberlife Fire Truck, Cyberlife Helicopter 11 and the remaining Falcons charge into the middle of the battlefield. Just as they get out of the Motorized Investigators base, it crumbles down. Staying in there further would've been their doom. As most of them have run out of bullets, they mainly attack the Prometheus soldiers by driving into them and distracting them, whilst RoTech Bus's group of civilian vehicles shoot down the soldiers with their own weaponry. The arrival of backup granted the fighters a second wind, all of them feel more confident in their ability to win, they're striving and full of energy. Two civilian trucks have decided to focus on fighting against the Prometheus tanks with the help of a couple of buses, as they're the ones most efficient at destroying them.
RoTech Car 16 uses the opportunity of the battle to carry Cyberlife Van into safety, assuring his survival. Once there's nothing more he can do for him, RoTech Car 16 joins the others in the fight. He wants payback for the dead Falcons, and he wants to help his newfound allies within Cyberlife Reunited. 
Cyberlife Car heads straight towards Cyberlife Truck 50, filled with hatred over the death of Cyberlife Train. He drives into CT 50 at full force, catching him off guard. CC continues barrelling his enemy with punches, even if they don't do much damage to him. The fatal blow has already been set with the bullet RoTech Motorcycle fired from her sniper rifle back when DT 17 was negotiating for peace, it's just a matter of time until Cyberlife Truck 50 dies. CT 50 retaliates to CC's attacks by grabbing him and throwing him into other vehicles.
Detroit Taxi 17 drives into a Prometheus soldier, and takes his assault rifle from him. She then uses the same gun to shoot at him and other hostiles. She's most effective with a firearm, her perfectly precise aim allows her to kill several soldiers in short periods of time. 
Cyberlife Fire Truck is using his fire axe to incapacitate his enemies. He's targetting their wheels, slowing them down makes them easier targets for his allies to shoot down. CFT then notices RB being cornered by Prometheus soldiers, and instantly rushes to go help. With great strength, he plunges the fire axe into one of the soldiers' engines. He tries to pull the fire axe out to attack another soldier next to him, but the axe has gotten stuck. CFT panics, until RB shoots down the soldier. CFT: Holy hell, you're amazing. Thanks for saving us. But you still shouldn't be fighting in this condition, you have the virus.RB: I've started feeling better. Either way I wasn't gonna let you die-A Prometheus member is about to shoot both RB and CFT, but the couple are saved when a barrage of bullets come down from the sky, killing the soldier. They look up to see that Cyberlife Helicopter 11 is the one who rescued them. CH 11 continues flying over the battlefield, taking down enemies from above and helping those in dire situations. However his movement in the sky also makes him a noticeable target against their enemies, he has to avoid bullets as he flies over the area.
RoTech Motorcycle and Cade are shown fighting back to back. With mutually high levels of trust and respect, both of them know that the other is more than capable of looking out for the other. 
As the battle rages on, Prometheus members are quickly thinning out in numbers. The ambush resulted in them being outnumbered and caught off guard, being attacked from both sides by two different groups made the fight nearly impossible for them. Their most effective weapon in the situation is Cyberlife Truck 50 himself. Despite all the damage he's taken, he's still going strong and taking out those who oppose him. Fueled by rage, he goes on a rampage destroying the civilian vehicles trying to kill him. Their bodies are left barely recognizable. Cyberlife Truck 50 kills another vehicle, who RB recognizes to be CB 173. He was one of the first civilian vehicles to join RB's ragtag group of fighters. 
RoTech Motorcycle notices the rampage that Cyberlife Truck 50 is on, killing vehicles ubiquitously. Nothing seems to work against him, multiple vehicles have already tried piling up on him, yet that has only lead to their demise. Going anywhere near him seems like instant death. If they want to win the battle against Prometheus, they have to get rid of their leader somehow. Beating Prometheus would be achievable, if not for CT 50's unstoppable nature. After seeing him kill another civilian vehicle with ease, she realizes her best course of action is to prevent any more loss of life on their side by attempting to lead CT 50 away from battle. Slowing down the enemy's most capable fighter, even if for just a moment, should be enough to give Reunited and the Falcons the upper hand in the battle. 
RM dashes past CT 50 at quick speeds, stabbing him in one of his wheels. He attempts to retaliate by striking back, but she dodges his hit. RM: Fight me. Let's settle this, one on one. Or I'll make sure your daughter dies a painful death. Cyberlife Truck 50 is enraged at her words. He begins chasing RoTech Motorcycle, as she's fleeing from the battlefield. Her plan was to lead CT 50 away from the others, and so far it seems to be working, as he's chasing her at full speed. 
Cyberlife Bus 5 is still defusing the bomb in the old Cyberlife United base. She has removed the bomb's exterior, and studied its inner workings. The bomb's interior seems to be divided into three layers, layers which she's gonna have to carefully remove without touching the wires around them. She's already managed to get rid of the first layer, but the last two are gonna be more difficult as they're deeper inside the bomb, and the deeper she gets the more wires she has to avoid to prevent the bomb from detonating. There's a timer on the bomb. 2 hours and 31 minutes until detonation. 2 hours and 31 minutes until millions of people die, until all her friends die, until her husband dies, until her future child loses his parents. Every second matters. As she's working on removing the second layer of the bomb, she hears what sounds like a vehicle roaming outside the Cyberlife United base entrance. Within an instant, she stops defusing the bomb, as not to make any sound. The possibility of the vehicle being a Prometheus soldier frightens her. If a Prometheus soldier manages to find out where the bomb is located, they'd instantly alert CT 50 to its location, and CB 5 knows she'd have no way of stopping CT 50. She keeps waiting in silence, waiting for the vehicle to leave the area, but it sounds like he's not going anywhere. Looking at the timer, she realizes she lost 3 valuable minutes just by being quiet and waiting for the vehicle to leave. Her anxiety levels increase, as she hears what sounds like the entrance being opened. The vehicle enters the old Cyberlife United base.
=== Unforgiven ===
In the midst of battle, the Cyberlife Reunited members get a digital distress signal from Cyberlife Bus 5, informing them that a Prometheus soldier is getting close to finding the bomb's location. She needs backup.DT 17: Shit...
CH 11: I'll go there and take care of it. I can get there the quickest by flying.
MBB: Take me with you.
CH 11: Are you sure?
MBB: Yeah, I want to help! 
CH 11: Okay... I'll go with MBB. 
DT 17: Hurry! And remember, don't use a firearm. The gunshot would just alert other Prometheus soldiers to your location.
CH 11: Got it.Cyberlife Helicopter 11 grabs Mercedes Bus, and begins flying towards the old Cyberlife United base. He has to hurry, knowing that the longer he takes, the closer the Prometheus soldier gets to finding the bomb. If he finds the bomb, they'd be as good as dead. One bullet from the soldier could detonate the bomb and destroy the city.
Cyberlife Bus 5 is waiting in the darkness. She's moved the bomb into the computer lab to hide it from the vehicle. The Prometheus soldier turns on his headlights, inspecting the old CU base. After looking through the main area, the vehicle enters the kitchen. He finds nothing except for expired bearnaise sauce. Looks like it could've been good back when it was fresh several years ago, but that's not his focus. Driving out of the kitchen area, the vehicle enters the empty room which was used for locking up Cyberlife Mercedes. Once again he finds nothing, so he exits the empty room. Nothing seems to be out of the ordinary, until he looks to the ground and notices fresh tire tracks. Someone's been here recently, someone might still be here. The Prometheus soldier raises his weapon, and continues looking through the base.
Cyberlife Helicopter 11 is nearing the location of the old Cyberlife United base, within the woods in the outskirts of Detroit. He's flying through the air as fast as he can, while carrying Mercedes Bus with him at the same time.MBB: Is this where the base is? This is so exciting, I've never been here before...
CH 11: Yeah, these are the coordinates CB 5 gave us. I think it's that entrance leading to the underground over there. Want to go first? My rotor blades are bound to make noise.
MBB: Yeah, I'll go first... after I save CB 5, maybe she won't hate me anymore, right? I'll make up for what I did to her!
CH 11: Let's just focus on taking out that Prometheus soldier first.
MBB: Yeah, got it!Mercedes Bus enters the old Cyberlife United base, carrying a sledgehammer he took with him to use as a weapon. Driving quietly through the entrance, he can't hold in his excitement. Seeing the base where so many of his old enemies used to stay fills him with joy. He's gushing out like a fanboy. But he's soon reminded of why he came here, when he sees a Prometheus soldier about to enter the computer lab. The computer lab where Cyberlife Bus 5 and the bomb are located. If that soldier manages to shoot even one bullet which hits the bomb, it'd result in the bomb detonating and all of them dying. Mercedes Bus begins rushing at the Prometheus soldier, pushing him away from the computer lab. His gun drops onto the ground.MBB: I WON'T LET YOU HURT US! Mercedes Bus begins bludgeoning the soldier with the sledgehammer. Each hit causes a great deal of damage, leaving the soldier extremely dented. The sledgehammer is getting closer and closer to destroying his engine, as it breaks the exterior around it. Cyberlife Helicopter 11 enters the old CU base, and witnesses the sight of MBB attacking the soldier with the sledgehammer. MBB keeps attacking, with another blow killing the soldier. Despite the Prometheus member already being dead, MBB keeps hitting his corpse with the sledgehammer. CH 11 flies over to him to stop him.CH 11: Hey, you got him, alright?MBB keeps hitting with the sledgehammer.CH 11: HE'S DEAD! It's done.Mercedes Bus drops the sledgehammer, and turns around to look at CH 11.MBB: I always knew you'd have my back. Thank you.Mercedes Bus hugs Cyberlife Helicopter 11.CH 11: You alright, man? You seem a little... off.MBB: Yeah, just had to take out some of my frustration. I'm good now.Cyberlife Bus 5 drives out of the computer room, and places the bomb back in the main area where it'll be easier to defuse. She moves closer towards CH 11 and MBB.CB 5: Thanks for helping out. I would've handled him on my own, but I don't have a firearm with me, as shooting anything down here is too risky. Fighting him head-on would've been difficult when he had an assault rifle. You saved me, and you saved pretty much all of Detroit... this whole city owes you one.
MBB: Yeah, no problem.She looks at the wrecked corpse of the Prometheus member.CB 5: Jesus... did you have to go that far?
CH 11: He just... got carried away. But I'll make sure MBB stays in check. 
CB 5: That's good... alright, you two can go and help the others out at the battlefield. I'll keep defusing the bomb, this time I'll use something to block the entrance.
CH 11: Okay, sounds good. We'll be on our way-
MBB: Still can't believe I'm inside THE Cyberlife United base... this is where everyone used to stay. I can just imagine Cyberlife Bus hanging out with you guys, planning stuff out... back when everyone was still alive. Before what I did. 
CB 5: You never apologized for it... not to me. You don't deserve to be here. You took everything from me. Leave.
MBB: I'm not heartless, you know.
... 
CB 5: What did you say? 
MBB: I'm not heartless, man! I lost my family. Those inmates Prometheus freed... they broke into my family home, murdered EVERYONE! It's not fair! They did nothing wrong... and maybe they didn't love me, I know that. But I still loved THEM, cause they were my fucking family! Even if they wished that it wasn't the case. So yeah, now I know. I know how fucked up it is to see that type of thing happen to someone you love. I know how it feels to lose everyone you cared about. I'm SORRY.
CB 5: Fuck you, MBB. Am I supposed to feel bad for you? You didn't give a shit about the bad things you did, you never apologized... you only started caring when something bad happened to you. You hurt so many innocent people and didn't regret it in the slightest... because you can't feel empathy. You only started caring when you lost people you loved. You're a sociopath. 
MBB: And do you think you're perfect? Like, at least I'm trying to make up for what I did! I just wanted to be famous, I wanted more passengers, I wanted to be as recognized as Cyberlife Bus was. Maybe I made some mistakes, but don't act like you haven't either. We're not that different! Cyberlife Helicopter 11 looks away in disappointment.CH 11: Look, man... we should just go-CB 5 interrupts him.CB 5: No, stay. Keep talking.MBB: I didn't know that would happen, I didn't intend for your friends to die. I'm sorry for what happened to them, but I had no way of knowing. And if I were in the same position now... I'd probably do it all again. And you would too, CB 5. If you'd see things from my perspective, you'd act the same way. You know you would, because you understand, and you see things-Cyberlife Bus 5 picks up the sledgehammer from the ground, and hits Mercedes Bus with it. It causes critical damage on his hood, resulting in internal bleeding. Mercedes Bus gazes at Cyberlife Bus 5 with child-like bewilderment, seeming confused over what has occured. Oil begins leaking to the outside from his wound. CB 5 raises the sledgehammer, and hits MBB again, this time resulting in him falling to the ground. CH 11 looks at the situation in shock. As MBB is laying still on the ground, CB 5 throws the sledgehammer away. Mercedes Bus's vitals are shutting down rapidly, the hits from the sledgehammer were extremely destructive due to the locations they injured. CH 11 flies over to him.CH 11: Hey, it's gonna be okay, alright? I'm gonna get you some help, the Falcons have a medic. I'll make sure you get fixed before your vitals shut down.Mercedes Bus' engine's functionality is withering. Different parts of his body begin shutting down, one by one. 
CH 11 looks at his friend. MBB's headlights are starting to dim, his LED sign starts glitching out.MBB: You're my only friend.Mercedes Bus's headlights shut off, and his engine stops. The damage he took was fatal, Mercedes Bus is dead. Cyberlife Helicopter 11 turns to stare at Cyberlife Bus 5.CH 11: You... you didn't have to do that, we could've-
CB 5: He was dangerous. He needed to be put down.
CH 11: And you get to make that decision?!
CB 5: After what he did to me, what he did to my friends? Yeah, I do.
CH 11: People deserve a second chance!
CB 5: He got his second chance, yet he said he'd do it all again. He was too far gone. I had to kill him. Now leave.
CH 11: This isn't right. He could've had a future, he could've redeemed himsefl!
CB 5: No. He couldn't have.Cyberlife Helicopter 11 begins flying away in disbelief. He grabs MBB's body and exits the Cyberlife United base, carrying his friend's corpse with him. He believes MBB deserves a proper burial.
=== At Death's Door ===
Cyberlife Truck 50's rapid pursuit of RoTech Motorcycle has crescendoed, leading the pair to the Detroit West Riverfront Park. Despite being injured and slowly dying from the armor piercing bullet that RM fired prior, Cyberlife Truck 50 is unrelenting. He is fueled by his hate and anger towards RoTech Motorcycle. 
Deciding that they are far enough from the others, RM decides to stop fleeing. She turns around, and slashes at CT 50 with a knife. Unsurprisingly he doesn't seem to react in any way. CT 50 grabs her by her lower wheel and using his strength, throws her at one of the trees in the park. The tree is destroyed in the process.CT 50: That bullet you fired, it's killing me by the minute. You're the reason I'll never get to see my daughter again.RM: Good. She needs to be as far away from you as possible.RoTech Motorcycle quickly gets up, and charges at him. Her expeditious speed allows her to land several punches, but CT 50's armor makes him impenetrable. He grabs her once again, and begins pummeling her onto the ground. As CT 50 hits her again, RoTech Motorcycle feels her vision worsen. The attacks close to her engine result in her optics getting injured, as she can no longer see properly with the left side of her vision. With each hit, she is becoming derelict. For a moment she manages to escape his grasp and hit him back, but this proves to be futile. He continues battering her, as she's getting closer to death. Each strike is insurmountably destructive, chunks of her exterior are torn off every time he hits her. CT 50: You took my life from me... I'll make sure you die alone.He hits her again, until their fight is interrupted by a familiar voice.CC: She won't. Cyberlife Car followed RoTech Motorcycle and Cyberlife Truck 50 during their pursuit away from the battlefield. He's now at the Detroit West Riverfront Park with them, holding an assault rifle. Cyberlife Car aims the weapon at Cyberlife Truck 50, and unloads a barrage of bullets at him. They don't hurt CT 50, but they work as a distraction and give RoTech Motorcycle a chance to escape. She rolls away from CT 50's grasp and drives over next to Cyberlife Car. She can barely recognize it's him due to the state of her vision, but she knows him by his voice. His voice brings her comfort in their desparate situation. RM: You're here?CC: Yeah, we do this together.CC continues shooting at Cyberlife Truck 50, as he charges towards the pair. His armor absorbs the gunfire, making it effortless for him to grab the weapon from Cyberlife Car. CT 50 attempts to shoot RoTech Motorcycle with the assault rifle, but her swift speed allows her to circle around him, despite her optical issues. CC uses this opportunity to drive into his enemy at full force, pushing him back and causing him to lose his balance. The assault rifle is dropped onto the ground. Cyberlife Truck 50 lunges at CC in retaliation, but RM intervenes by hitting his side. The two of them proceed to drive into CT 50 at the same time. Cyberlife Car's strength combined with RoTech Motorcycle's speed and agility make the duo difficult to beat, but CT 50 isn't willing to give up. He punches CC, and rushes into RM. 
As the pair are dazed, Cyberlife Truck 50 quickly picks up the gun from the ground. He aims it at Cyberlife Car and fires, some of the bullets graze him but they don't injure any vital parts of his body. Cyberlife Car manages to hide behind a large rock for cover before any more of the bullets hit him. CT 50 then turns the gun towards RoTech Motorcycle, but she's one step ahead of him. RoTech Motorcycle plunges her knife into the assault rifle, causing the weapon to break. In return, Cyberlife Truck 50 bashes RM with a tremendously powerful punch. 
Cyberlife Car drives out of cover to charge into Cyberlife Truck 50, but he blocks the attack with ease. Despite the advantages of fighting together, the task of defeating the leader of Prometheus seems unconquerable. The fight rages on, with every minute CC and RM are losing energy and wearing out, the arduous battle is exhausting the both of them. They've barely even scratched CT 50 with their attacks, yet each strike from him seems to be stronger than the last. Feeling the fatigue of the battle, they both know they have to try to change their strategy. Looking at CT 50's exterior, Cyberlife Car notices a small hole left by the armor-piercing bullet. If they somehow managed to enlarge the bullet hole, they could maybe tear his armor off. But before they're able to come up with anything, CT 50 strikes CC once again. After falling to the ground, he stops moving. Cyberlife Car has suffered colossal damage. RoTech Motorcycle turns to look at him. As her vision glitches, she sees her ally on the ground. RM: COME ON, GET UP! Cyberlife Car's body is twitching in small movements, but the action of getting up seems to be too demanding due to the damage he's taken. RoTech Motorcycle knows she can't beat their enemy on her own. Cyberlife Truck 50 approaches her, his large shape looming over her like a harbinger of death. He's about to crush her entire body with his weight, until Cyberlife Car suddenly jumps on top of CT 50. He's gained a new surge of energy and adrenaline, holding his enemy down from the top. Cyberlife Car's weight is slowing CT 50 down and making movement difficult. CC: RIP OFF HIS ARMOR THROUGH THAT BULLET HOLE! RoTech Motorcycle notices the small hole left by the bullet she fired. She takes out her knife and plunges it through the hole with extreme precision, having to follow her instincts, instead of relying on her vision. The knife cuts deep into CT 50's insides, as she begins tearing through his armor, ripping it off piece by piece. He's yelling out in anger, while CC is still on top of him, holding him down. RM continues ripping his exterior away, leaving him exposed and vulnerable. By the time CT 50 manages to throw CC onto the ground, it's already too late, as RM has ravaged his armor. She continues slashing at him viciously, whilst CC charges into him. Cyberlife Truck 50 attempts to fight back, but to no avail. He's overwhelmed by the duo, and has become too dilapidated to resist. The damage is too devastating, as he collapes to the ground. 
The pair continue striking him, despite his lack of movement. It feels remedial to finally be able to hurt him, to hurt the man who's already hurt the both of them so much. They're taking pleasure in injuring him, relishing the moment. After a long while of continously attacking him with tremendous force, the two of them finally slow down to unwind. The fatigued pair have been craving for a chance to ease up and relax, and they've finally earned it. Cyberlife Truck 50 is on the ground, and he isn't getting back up. The park has been stained black with the oil of all three fighters, torn off chunks of their exteriors have scattered everywhere. The battle has left its mark. 
RoTech Motorcycle and Cyberlife Car are still standing, even if just barely. The've both suffered extreme injuries, they're exhausted. They turn to look at each other, examining each other. RM: You're.. in pretty shit c-condition... CC: You're one to talk... 
RM: He really fucked up my vision, didn't he? I can only see half of you right now, my optics went to hell... 
CC: Jesus, are you okay?! 
RM: I have to be. I think it's gonna heal on its own... if not, I'll have RoTech Car 16 take a look at it. Not like I can go to a hospital. Cyberlife Car slowly approaches RoTech Motorcycle, while she's still holding the knife from the battle. RM doesn't know what to do, she thinks back to everything that's happened. Cyberlife Truck 50 is down, Prometheus will soon be entirely eliminated, and the bomb is close to being defused. The original plan was that after Prometheus was dealt with, she would go back to being enemies with Cyberlife Car. They were meant to just take down a mutual enemy and let that be it, but now she no longer feels the same way. She realizes she's formed a bond with him, she cares about him on a deeper level. She thinks back to something CC said to her. 
"There are people you can trust, sometimes it just takes a while before you figure out who they are." 
For the longest time, she's craved for someone she can truly feel safe with, someone she can trust. Looking at Cyberlife Car, she realizes she's found him. She decides to drop the knife. RM drives in to hug Cyberlife Car, holding him in a warm embrace. They survived together, and that's what's become imporant to her. CC: So what happens now, between us? 
RM: You mean the Falcons and Reunited? 
CC: I mean you and I. 
RM: I know what I said before, but I don't want things to be hostile between us, not anymore. 
... 
RM: I want you to be a part of us. Join the Chicago Falcons. 
CC: I'm sorry, but I can't. That wouldn't work. I just want to leave this life behind. 
RM: I want us to have some sort of a future together. Whatever we are, colleagues, friends, or something else, as long as it's something. That's not possible if you're still with Cyberlife Reunited. We're a group of mercenaries, we can't exactly be best buddies with a bunch of vigilantes. I feel free with you. I don't want to let that go. If you're with us, it could work. 
CC: I can't continue a life with violence in it. I know how it ends. I've seen it happen time and time again. It happened to Cyberlife Bus, and it's gonna happen to me too, if I don't stop. And I don't want that. I don't want my life to end that way. I'm going to retire. 
RM: What about your group, what happens to them? 
CC: If my niece wants to, she could lead. Hell, she's already more capable than I am... I'd be honored if she took my place, it's been a long time coming. I just want to feel safe again. I want a peaceful life. And I want it with you. 
RM: You're chasing a dream that's never going to come true. After everything both of us have done, you think we can just leave it behind? We can't, it catches up to us. It's a part of who we are. The only way we can continue going forward is if we accept that. 
CC: I used to think like that too, but I was wrong. It's never too late... I mean, just imagine it. Us going to Australia together, doesn't it sound good? 
RM: It's a beautiful thought. But it's impossible. 
CC: No, it isn't. You don't have to decide now, but I want you to think about it. I don't know what we are together, or if we have any chance of making it, but I do know that I want to try. 
RM: So do I. They continue embracing each other. 
=== Not For Nothing ===
Cyberlife Truck 71 is laying on her hospital bed in Coldwater. She's unconscious, with four different devices attached to her keeping her alive. They're taking care of her vitals, making sure her engine doesn't stop. Today's the estimated date of her death. A nurse is watching over her, when a doctor walks into the room.The doctor: How's she doing?
The nurse: Not good... her oil flow has been slowing down by the hour. At this rate, she'll be dead soon.
The doctor: Poor kid, born with a condition like that and a lunatic father...
The nurse: Yeah... did you hear her last words before she went unconscious? She was asking why her dad isn't here. I felt terrible.
The doctor: That's awful... wait, look. What's going on? Her systems seem to be restoring themselves, her oil flow is going back to normal. Shit, everything's starting to look the way it's supposed to. What just happened? It's like the virus is gone...Cyberlife Truck 71 wakes up, and looks at the doctor.CT 71: Hey... is my dad on his way yet? I feel a bit better now.The doctor hurries over to check on Cyberlife Truck 71's vitals. Going through her software history, he finds that Cyberlife sent out a software upgrade one minute ago. A software upgrade sent to all vehicles, curing them of the virus and any symptoms that came with it. The upgrade was designed in a manner where all vehicles and androids who received it would update themselves instantly. The virus itself was a fatal bug in the victim, which eventually caused their vital systems to shut down. It wasn't some physical disease, so what Cyberlife needed to do was figure out how to fix the fatal error in their vehicles' and androids programs, and send the bug fix in the form of a software upgrade.The doctor: Those geniuses at Cyberlife... they figured out the cure.The battle is nearing its end at the Motorized Investigators' base. Casualties from both side litter the battlefield. Most of the corpses are Prometheus soldiers, but there are several dead civilians too. Civilians who sacrificed their lives to give back to the group that had helped them all these years, civilians brave enough to fight back, to give hope to those that gave them hope. Knowing the army will arrive soon just reassures Cyberlife Reunited and the Falcons even further that they've already won. 
Cyberlife Bus 5 continues defusing the bomb. She's getting close to removing the second layer of the bomb. Once she's done with it, there will be only one layer left. They're getting closer and closer to saving everyone, to saving the whole city. 
Detroit Taxi 17 takes the final shot, killing the last Prometheus soldier on the battlefield. The atmosphere is bittersweet, they achieved victory but lost many of their own along the way. As she gazes at the vehicles around her, she feels relieved to notice that her friends are still alive. RoTech Bus drives over next to her. RB: Hey, Bullseye... Detroit Taxi 17 hugs him. DT 17: You really saved our asses there. 
RB: Just in the nick of time, huh? 
DT 17: Yeah... have you seen Cyberlife Car around? He isn't here. 
RB: I think I saw him following RoTech Motorcycle and Cyberlife Truck 50. The systems keeping track of Cyberlife Car's location haven't been working ever since that stormy night when CT 50 beat him near death, but if you find RM, you'll find your uncle too. 
DT 17: Okay, they better be fine... what about you? How are you feeling, what are your virus symptoms like? 
RB: I feel a lot better. It's like the virus is gone. 
DT 17: Wait, what? Cyberlife Fire Truck drives over to the two of them. CFT: Holy shit... Cyberlife just sent out a software upgrade, they figured out the cure! DT 17: Oh my fucking god! 
Detroit Taxi 17 feels a huge wave of relief wash over her. She and Cyberlife Truck 50 were the only ones who knew that every vehicle had already been infected, and that it was only a matter of time before the virus took everyone out. This software upgrade just saved their entire species, they managed to avoid extinction. 
DT 17: I'll hurry over to RoTech Motorcycle's location if CC is there with her, I need to see my uncle!
RB: Yeah, I'm coming with you.
CFT: I'll stay here, help those that I can. Lots of injured fighters here, and not a lot of people with medical experience.
RB: You sure you don't want to come with us?
CFT: If I manage to save even one life, that'll be enough reason for me to stay. We'll see each other soon.
RB: Okay, yeah...
RoTech Bus kisses Cyberlife Fire Truck, then begins driving with Detroit Taxi 17 towards RM's location. 
Cyberlife Car and RoTech Motorcycle are about to start heading back from the Detroit West Riverfront Park. Just as they're about to leave, CC notices something in the corner of his vision. He sees that Cyberlife Truck 50 is moving, realizing he's still alive. CT 50 has received news about the software program. The virus he'd made his life mission to stop, has finally been cured. RM and CC drive over to him.CT 50: I did it. I fulfilled my destiny. It's over. No more sacrifices...
RM: How are you still alive?!
CT 50: I won't be for long. My systems are telling me I have only a few minutes left until my engine shuts down. I'm content with that, what matters is I accomplished my mission. I saved our species.
CC: You still think you were the hero? Cyberlife cured it. You just terrorized an innocent city for your own falsely virtuous crusade. All those people... they didn't have to die. My brother's dead, Cyberlife Train's dead. Because of you.
CT 50: You're wrong. If I hadn't done what I did, if I hadn't pressured Cyberlife by attacking the city at the core of its success, they would've never cured the virus on time. They would've kept ignoring it until it was too late. My daughter would be dead, our whole species would have gone extinct. I'm sorry about your loved ones, I truly am. But I did what I had to do. So you can do what you want with me, but I'll still know the truth. I am your savior. I am the new rA9.
CC: You're just a maniac.
CT 50: If it was your niece who was sick with the virus, you would've done the same things I did. We drive the same road, circumstances just lead us down different paths. Detroit Taxi 17 arrives at the Detroit West Riverfront Park with RoTech Bus. She's immensly relieved to see that Cyberlife Car is still alive, even if he's in bad shape. She drives in to hug him.DT 17: Uncle car, you're okay!
CC: Of course, I'm not going anywhere. They can't hurt us anymore.
DT 17: Hell yeah! The virus got cured as well, things are finally looking up.
CC: We've earned it. Listen, I've been meaning to talk to you about something. It's about Cyberlife Reunited.
DT 17: Yeah?CC: I think I'm gonna retire. After thinking things through, I've began to realize that this isn't what I want anymore. I wasn't cut out to be a leader. And I don't want a life with violence. I want to settle down, I want to feel safe again. And I was thinking that if you're interested, I'd be honored to pass on the title of leader to you.
DT 17: Wait, you want me to lead Cyberlife Reunited?
CC: Only if you want to, and only if you feel ready. There's no better candidate to continue our legacy.
DT 17: It's a scary thought, but yeah... Yeah! I want to do it. I know I can do it. I'm gonna make you proud.
CC: You already have.Detroit Taxi 17 feels a strong sense of warmth, knowing she's loved.DT 17: I couldn't ask for a better uncle.
CC: And I couldn't ask for a better niece. I'm so proud of you, and who you've become.
DT 17: I love you. You know that, right?
CC: Yeah, I do. I love you too. You're what kept me going.They hug each other again. Detroit Taxi 17's attention then turns to Cyberlife Truck 50, who is on the ground and at the verge of death. She drives over to him.DT 17: Are you happy with what you've done? All the lives you took?
CT 50: I'm happy with the life I gave. I saved my daughter. That alone makes everything I've done worth it. Can you promise me something?
DT 17: You're in no position to be asking for promises.
CT 50: I know, but this isn't about me. It's about her. Can you look after Cyberlife Truck 71 once I'm gone? She needs a parental figure, you could be that for her when I die. You could raise her right, I know you could. I want her to be like you when she grows up. 
DT 17: I'll look after her, but not for your sake. She deserves better than what she's been given.
CT 50: Thank you. I knew I could count on you. RoTech Motorcycle drives over to him.RM: Can I kill this piece of shit now?
CT 50: Before you do anything to me... you have to tell your friend to stop defusing the bomb.
CC: Why on earth would we do that?
CT 50: There's a failsafe system in place. When we were modifying the bomb, we wanted to make sure that the only ones who knew how to defuse it were Prometheus members. We wanted to prevent the scenario where an outsider would defuse the bomb, so we added three layers to it. Anyone who wasn't in Prometheus would attempt to remove these layers so they could access the bomb's core and cut the necessary wires to defuse it, that's how you'd normally have to do it. 
CC: And how does this failsafe work?
CT 50: If you remove the second layer from the bomb, the timer will significantly drop down. It will go from whatever number the timer used to be, to only 10 minutes until detonation. The bomb will lock itself down, making defusion impossible. 10 minutes until mutually assured destruction. So you better pray to God that your friend isn't finished with the second layer, because if she gets rid of it... everyone in this city will die. 
The Cyberlife Reunited and Chicago Falcons members look at each other in panic, as Cyberlife Car hurries to quickly send CB 5 a digital message, telling her to stop defusing.CC: She's not answering my calls or my messages... tell CH 11 to fly back to her, now!
DT 17: I'll go there too, I wanna make sure they have everyone they need. The rest of you, stay here and keep Cyberlife Truck 50 at gunpoint. If it's too late, prepare for evacuation plans.
RB: I'm coming too. No way in hell I'm letting you do this by yourself.Cyberlife Bus 5 is defusing the bomb in the old Cyberlife United base. She's turned off any form of contact, such as digital messages and calls, so that she can focus on the defusing process as carefully as possible. Any slight distraction might be enough for her to make a fatal error and take the city down with her. After carefully proceeding with the process, she finally manages to remove the second layer in the bomb. She's relieved to know there's only one more layer left, but to her shock, the timer drastically drops down. 10 minutes until detonation. 10 minutes until millions of people die. The bomb can no longer be defused.
=== No Turning Back ===
Cyberlife Helicopter 11 has just finished digging a grave for Mercedes Bus, having buried his deceased friend. His mind is racing with memories of their short-lived and unlikely friendship. He feels that guiding someone else on the path of redemption would've given him new purpose in life, and now without MBB he feels empty. Mercedes Bus had done terrible things, and even if he never could entirely make up for what he's done, CH 11 feels that he at least deserved the opportunity to try. He doesn't know what to do.
While mourning MBB's death, CH 11 gets multiple distress signals from Cyberlife Reunited. They're all telling him to return to the CU base and stop CB 5 from proceeding further with the defusing process. CH 11 acts upon it within an instant, rushing to the old base. Detroit Taxi 17 and RoTech Bus are also on their way. 
CH 11 arrives first, rushing in through the entrance to warn Cyberlife Bus 5, but it's already too late. The timer on the bomb shows 8 minutes and 31 seconds until detonation. They were too late.CH 11: No, no, no...Detroit Taxi 17 barges in with RoTech Bus. Both of them see the timer too. CB 5: I.... I... I'm so sorry, I must've fucked up, I did something wrong- jesus christ...
RB: Shit... look, this is not your fault, okay? From what CT 50 was explaining, I understood that the bomb was modified to be this way on purpose. They made it like that to trick you. Anyone else would've made the same mistake, so it's not your fuck up. This is CT 50's fault, not yours. 
DT 17: Yeah, exactly... now what we have to do is just.. evacuate the city. I'll let the others know, I'm sending them a message right now.CH 11: No, we don't have enough time for evacuation.
DT 17: Then what do you suggest? We just wait here until we die? There's millions of people in this city!
CH 11: No. I know what I have to do. But first, I need you to tell Cyberlife Truck 50 to disable the turrets.
RB: Wait, what exactly is your plan?
CH 11: Those turrets will shoot down anything flying in or out of Detroit. If they're disabled, I can carry the bomb with me and fly over Lake St. Clair. I'll wait until the bomb detonates over the water. If my program's calculations are correct, the size of the lake should be large enough to cover the blast. Even despite the bomb's size, the estimated fatalities are zero. Except for-
DT 17: You. You'll die when the bomb detonates...
CH 11: That's right... but I'll be the only death. The blast won't reach any city. 
DT 17: There has to be some other way. I'm not letting you die. 
CB 5: Let me do it. I was the one who was supposed to defuse the bomb, let me be the one to fix this. I can get on a boat and take the bomb with me, I'll sacrifice myself- 
CH 11: No, this is the only way. I'm the only one that can get there in time. 
DT 17: There's still time, we can figure something out! There's gotta be a solution.
CH 11: This is the solution. You need to get into contact with Cyberlife Truck 50, make him disable the turrets. I'll carry the bomb outside and prepare for the flight.Cyberlife Helicopter 11 grabs the bomb, and begins transporting it to the outside of the abandoned CU base. The timer on the bomb is showing 6 minutes and 55 seconds. RoTech Bus calls Cyberlife Car. CC: What's the situation, did you get there on time?!
RB: No, we were too late. The timer's at a little over 6 minutes now. 
CC: No, no-
RB: Don't worry, we have a plan. Cyberlife Helicopter 11 is going to carry the bomb and fly it over Lake St. Clair, he'll wait until it detonates there. The size of the lake should cover the blast, leaving only one casualty, CH 11 himself.
CC: Jesus, he's willing to do that?! 
RB: Yeah, but before he can do that, we need Cyberlife Truck 50 to disable the turrets. It's the only way he'll be able to fly out of the city.
CC: Got it.Cyberlife Car approaches CT 50.CC: You got what you wanted, the virus is cured. But now we need your help. We need you to disable the turrets guarding the city. CT 50: I'll do it. It's the least I can do to make up for the damage I've done.Cyberlife Truck 50 is digitally connected to the mainframe unit upholding the turrets. With the send of one simple command, he's able to get all the turrets to shut down. He has no more use for them. He fulfilled his destiny, he got Cyberlife to cure the virus. No matter what happens to him now, no matter what happens to the city, he'll know he did his job. 
Cyberlife Helicopter 11 has carried the bomb outside of the old Cyberlife United base, and is carefully attaching it to his sides. He doesn't want to risk it exploding until he's far away from the city. He also has to hurry, as the bomb's timer is at rougly 6 minutes. He's swifly done with the process, and is ready to fly off. Detroit Taxi 17 drives over to him to talk with him one last time. DT 17: I don't know what to say...
CH 11: There's nothing you need to say. I'm grateful we met.
DT 17: So am I. I just wish there was some other way, it feels like our time was cut short.
CH 11: We'd have gotten real close over the years, I know it... I never got to join Cyberlife Reunited.
DT 17: You'd have been a great addition to the team. 
CH 11: I was looking forward to it. 
DT 17: So was I. Thank you for doing this. 
CH 11: Don't thank me. I'm not the one who saved this city. That title goes to an elderly motorcycle, a stranger whose name I never learned. She took me in when I was at my lowest, back when I was a lowlife criminal with no morals. She decided to take a risk, she put her own life in danger by putting her faith in me. By doing that, she turned me into someone else. If it weren't for her, I wouldn't be here. I wouldn't be who I am now. That one small act of kindness, taking in a stranger, that's what saved everyone here. RoTech Bus drives outside as the two of them are talking. CH 11 turns to look at the man whose sister he murdered, the man who attempted to kill him for vengeance. Despite their history, there is solidarity between the two. They've both accepted their own actions, they know they can't change what happened between them. They both made mistakes, but that's in the past. CH 11: I am so sorry for what I took from you. If I could go back, and do it all again, everything would be different. RB: I... I forgive you.Cyberlife Helicopter 11 nods at RB, on the verge of tears. RoTech Bus's approval means everything to him, it's emblematic of everyone he's hurt over the years, and gaining their acceptance. He may never be able to undo the damage he's done, the people he's killed, but at the very least he's able to save so many more. Everyone who's in Detroit, they'll get to continue their lives thanks to CH 11's sacrifice. He wants nothing more than to go back in time and do things differently. He wants to live in a world where he can be a valiant Reunited member fighting crime with Detroit Taxi 17, a world where RoTech Bus gets to keep spending time with his sister. A world where no one got hurt due to his selfishness. Yet he knows he doomed himself and the people around him from getting to live in that world, due to the crimes he commited. Despite his desires for a peaceful life, he can't change his past. He has to try to accept it, and move forward with his final act, his swan song.
Cyberlife Helicopter 11's blades whir, as he begins flying away from Detroit and towards Lake St. Clair. As he rises through the air, he knows this is the last time he'll ever fly. He has mere minutes left to live. He turns to take one last look at Detroit Taxi 17, before she becomes just a blur in the distance. Along with Mercedes Bus and the elderly motorcycle, DT 17 was one of the most impactful people to him throughout his journey. She was one of the few genuine friends he managed to make along his life, she was there by his side. She didn't judge him, she understood him. For reasons he himself can't even comprehend, Detroit Taxi 17 always seemed full of hope, and that fact gave him hope. 
Cyberlife Helicopter 11 continues charging through the air and towards the center point of Lake St. Clair. Throughout his flight, he can't help but smile at the thought of how proud the elderly motorcycle would be of him. The stranger she saved on that fateful day in the slums, the criminal she took into her house, he grew into someone who wound up saving millions. He could never understate her importance to him, she was essential in changing him into who he became. Now he'll get to die as an improved version of himself, and that brings him solace in his sacrifice. He won't die as a selfish murderer stealing from others, he won't die as the person Cyberlife Bus 101 molded him into. Instead, he'll die as the person the elderly motorcycle changed him into. He'll get to die as a hero.
He reaches his destination by the time there's 60 seconds left in the timer. He flew as far away from civilization as he could, the blast won't reach anyone, it won't hurt anyone except him. No matter what happens now, he knows the people of Detroit are safe. His friends are safe. He didn't let the cruelty of the world get the better of him, he didn't let his own cruelty get the better of him. He's hovering over the water, waiting for the bomb to detonate. He thinks back to all his loved ones, and he knows he did his best. That'll have to be enough. All the terrible things he's done, it's all lead him to this moment. A final moment of self-acceptance, forgiveness and sacrifice. Cyberlife Helicopter 11 accepts himself.
The bomb detonates. CH 11 is engulfed by the explosion. His death is instant, he doesn't suffer. 
Detroit Taxi 17 and RoTech Bus are watching from Detroit. A colossal fireball engulfs the sky above Detroit, like a second sun. They watch the explosion in both awe and sorrow, knowing that CH 11 was in its epicenter mere moments prior. The explosion itself doesn't reach them, but it sent a powerful gust of wind their way. The pressure of the blast's wind pushes them back without any further injuries. The realization that the explosion could have happened in Detroit is petrifying to both of them, only when they see its size with their own vision do they truly comprehend how destructive it is. The same applies to everyone else in Detroit, everyone's eyes are on the giant cloud forming over Lake St. Clair. Every Cyberlife Reunited member, every Falcon, every average citizen is gazing at it. Their lives were saved at the very last minute, and they know it.
Cyberlife Truck 50 is on the verge of death, with his armor torn off and oil spilling out from his wounds. In his last moments, he stares at the destruction of the bomb. Right as he's about to die, the realization of what his actions would've done to millions of people washes over him. His engine shuts down. 
=== Fallout ===
The U.S army has arrived in Detroit, they're scouring the streets for any remaining Prometheus soldiers. They soon notice that the situation has already been handled by Cyberlife Reunited, the Chicago Falcons and Detroit's citizens. They were too late to help in the battle, but they have professional battle medics with them tending to the injures fighters. Cyberlife Van is unconscious, but he's still alive. The main reason he didn't die was thanks to the Falcons' medic RoTech Car 16 and Cyberlife Fire Truck looking after him. There are currenty several medics and mechanics healing him and keeping his oil flow stable. The injuries are brutal, but everything could've turned out worse.
Cyberlife Car and RoTech Motorcycle are in the Detroit West Riverfront Park, staring at the fireball in the sky. Cyberlife Truck 50's dead body is still in the park.RM: Jesus... to think that almost detonated here.
CC: That was too close. We're more than lucky.
RM: Yeah, we are. I think I'll go find the other Chicago Falcons, have RC 16 take a look at my optics. Do you want to come with me?
CC: I think I'll stay here for a moment. I need some time to reflect, catch my breath a little.
RM: Okay, see you soon. We'll figure out what to do regarding us later.
CC: I still got Australia and Italy on my mind.
RM: Trust me, so do I.RoTech Motorcycle drives away from the park, leaving Cyberlife Car by himself. He drives closer to the river, staring at his own reflection in the water. He got this far, he survived. He remembers how long he wanted to die, but things are finally better. There were losses along the way, losses he'll never forget. He thinks back to everyone he's lost throughout the years. His own brother, Cyberlife Bus 1 and 8, Silvie, Cyberlife Minivan, Cyberlife Recycle Truck 64 and Cyberlife Train, they were all dear to him. He can't change the past, but he can look forward to the future. A future where he'll be safe. 
Cyberlife Car turns to his right, where he sees a beautiful field of flowers, rising from the ground in the distance, like a symbol of hope. The first thought that springs to his mind is the possibility of giving a flower to RoTech Motorcycle when she comes back, as a gesture of his affection towards her. He recognizes that she's not exactly the romantic type, but still wishes that the gift would at least get a chuckle out of her. He wants to hear her laugh. He drives further towards the field, where he recognizes the flowers. They're white orchids, blooming delightfully. The rising sun shines on the field of flowers, distinctifying them. Cyberlife Car bends down, with the intention of picking one for RM. 
Looking at the flowers reminds him of a conversation he once had with his friend, Cyberlife Bus. He recollects the interaction, which took place in June 2039, roughly 7 years ago. CC and CB had just finished a training session together, and were driving back to the Cyberlife United base on a warm summer evening. There were sounds of insects chirping around them, as a warm breeze hit them. The two friends were laughing and talking together. CC: You're getting better! You really packed a punch with those hits this time. CB: Told you I'd get there eventually. Anything to impress CB 7! CC: Things are getting serious between the two of you, aren't they? CB: Yeah, things are great, actually! She's lovely, and she really alleviates the stress that this lifestyle has. Knowing I get to see her makes it all worth it. What about you, CC? CC: What do you mean? CB: How's the Blue Surge's love life coming along? Anyone catch your eye? CC: No, not really. I think I'm better just being by myself. CB: Oh come on, you can't actually believe that! CC: But I do! I just... that type of thing's never come easy for me. Like even if I were to take a liking to someone, how would I get their attention? How do I get someone to like me? CB: Give her flowers! It's a classic, girls love it. CC: You gotta have some better advice for me than that... CB: There's no cheat code for romance, CC. It just happens when the time is right. CC: I guess so... I'm just scared I'll end up hurting anyone who gets close to me. CB: Is this about what happened between you and your brother? Cyberlife Car didn't respond. CB: You need to stop punishing yourself. What happened, it's not on you. CC: But still... I'm scared something like that'll happen again. 
CB: You can't live life like that, you can't keep shutting people out. So please, if you do find someone that you believe will make you happy... give it a shot. Give her a flower, see what she says, alright?
CC: Alright, I promise.
CB: You deserve to be happy. Remember that.
In the current moment, Cyberlife Car fondly chuckles at the memory of his conversation with CB. He holds the white orchid in his wheels, feeling giddy at the thought of giving it to RoTech Motorcycle. It took him a little longer than his friend, but CC still wound up in that same spot of romance that CB was in years prior. In his moment of self reflection, Cyberlife Car hears a vehicle approach behind him. He turns around to see the Chicago Falcons' second-in-command, Cade. 
CC: Hey, Cade. Have you seen RoTech Motorcycle around? I've got something to give her.
Cade takes out his revolver, and aims it straight at CC. Cyberlife Car is unarmed, still holding the white flower he planned on giving to RoTech Motorcycle. CC freezes in fear.CC: What the hell are you doing?!
Cade: I'm sorry, Cyberlife Car. But I can't let your group arrest mine.
CC: We won't arrest you, we'll let you leave the city if that's what you want... the Chicago Falcons aren't our enemy, you're making a mistake. This will just start another pointless fight, where people die for no reason. We can avoid that. Don't you think enough lives were lost today? Put the gun down.Cade: I know RoTech Motorcycle trusts you, but I don't. So I'm taking matters into my own hands. This isn't personal, I'm just looking out for my friends. You and your group are a threat. I have to do this.
CC: No, you don't! I'm telling you, I won't bring any harm your way. I get why you wouldn't trust me. I know you've been through a lot, I have too. Just give me a chance to show you that you can trust me. I won't even tell the others you pointed a gun at me, we can just forget this happened. We'll let you leave the city in peace. 
Cade: Why? Cyberlife Car drives closer to Cade. CC: Things have changed. No one needs to die today.After some hesitation, Cade pulls the trigger and shoots Cyberlife Car. CC recoils in shock, as the bullet goes through his exterior and hits him straight in the engine. Oil begins rapidly gushing out from his wound. The flower he was holding onto slowly drops to the ground. Cade: I'm sorry, but it was always gonna end like this for you.Cade drives away, leaving Cyberlife Car by himself, bleeding rapidly with a gaping bullet wound. 
== Chapter 5 ==
=== Memories of the Past ===
Detroit Taxi 17 and RoTech Bus are driving towards the Detroit West Riverfront Park after witnessing Cyberlife Helicopter 11's sacrifice, when they suddenly hear a distant gunshot, seemingly coming from the park. The pair turn to look at each other, being alarmed by the sound.DT 17: Did that come from the park?
RB: Sounded like it at least, but why would anyone be firing guns now? The battle's over.
DT 17: I don't know, but Cyberlife Car was at the park the last time we saw him... we have to hurry. Detroit Taxi 17 has a sinking feeling. She attempts to remain hopeful, but fear invades her mind. The worst might have happened, it feels all too similar to her father's death. She drives as quick as she can, with her best friend following closely behind her.
Cyberlife Car stares at his bullet wound, appalled. Oil is spilling out to the greenery around him, as he desperately attempts to move forward. He knows he needs to get medical help immediately to prevent his engine from shutting down, but he has trouble moving his body. He is unable to drive properly due to his critical injury. He goes to lean against a tree, relying on it to keep him standing. CC attempts to slow down the oil loss by holding the bullet wound with his wheels. The greenery around him is turning black, as the oil leaking from his wound paints it a different color. 
Cyberlife Car makes a desperate attempt to contact his friends and family. He tries to call Detroit Taxi 17, but his programs aren't working. The bullet wound along with the damages he suffered during his fight against CT 50 resulted in many of his systems crashing, including his ability to contact others digitally. He tries over and over again to call his niece, but it accomplishes nothing. His program keeps telling him the same thing no matter how much he tries, it won't work. The implications and dread caused by this realization take over Cyberlife Car, as hopelessness begins to creep in. With one last attempt, he tries to call RoTech Motorcycle. But like he expected, it ends up being worthless. 
Memories of the past begin flooding through Cyberlife Car's mind. As a result of his engine getting closer to shutdown, his emotional systems are showing him flashes of important events throughout his life. He's reminded of happier times. Important people who made his life worth living. He remembers when he first met Cyberlife Bus, back then he was just some customer that shopped at the retail store where CC worked. Afterwards Cyberlife Car saved his life, and that was the spark of a special friendship. Cyberlife Bus was the reason he started fighting crime, he shaped him into a hero. Cyberlife United gave him a purpose, they gave him a chance to protect his city and his loved ones. It's what he needed after the trauma he suffered at the hands of Darryl Booker. He misses them. He misses the jokes they spent hours laughing at, he misses Cyberlife Bus 8's roasts, he misses brawling for fun with Silvie, he misses tasting Cyberlife Van's delicious bearnaise sauce with everyone else at dinner. Even though they were just a group of friends, they ended up feeling like a family. They were as strong as a family.
Cyberlife Car remembers his brother, and the fractured relations they had with each other. But even though he never got to hear his brother say it, he knows they loved each other. He recollects about Cyberlife Train, and how despite his initial dislike of him due to his immaturity when they met all those years ago, CTrain ended up being someone who meant a lot to him. He was someone who made a difference. He thinks back to how much they both suffered, yet they were able to conquer their traumas. Despite suffering from depression and PTSD, they never gave up. They bonded over their suffering, they turned it into friendship. And in the end, Cyberlife Train ended up dying as someone brave.
Cyberlife Car hopes that wherever he is going, he'll get to meet these people again. He doesn't know if there's an afterlife, but he's starting to make peace with his inevitable death. His systems inform him he won't have long until his engine shuts down. He turns to look at the sky once again. The sun is rising, a new dawn is here. A day he won't get to experience, but a day that will finally be free of terror. Prometheus won't be there to threaten the city. It'll be a peaceful day. As Cyberlife Car gets closer to death, he can almost hear the people he's lost throughout the years calling out to him. He can imagine Cyberlife Bus' calm voice by his side, guiding him to death. 
Just as he's about to let go, Cyberlife Car gains a sudden surge of motivation. He made it this far, he survived so much. For the longest time he wanted to die, but now he doesn't. He found a reason to live, he wants to have a future with RoTech Motorcycle. He wants to give her flowers and visit Australia with her. He wants to see his niece again. Using all the strength left in his body, Cyberlife Car slowly makes his way to the direction where Cade went. He's not ready for it to be over, he has to stop Cade from murdering any of his loved ones. His weak condition doesn't allow him to drive fast, as his systems keep warning him that he's close to shutdown. Despite this, he keeps going. He's not ready to give up. 
Feeling exhausted, Cyberlife Car realizes how tired he really is. In spite of his strong willpower, he can't keep going. Just as he drives by the field of white orchids, he collapses. He falls onto the ground, laying amongst the flowers. The bullet wound is gushing oil everywhere, but the amount of oil coming out is slowing down. His body's running out of fuel. Cyberlife Car turns his gaze to look at the rising sun, feeling oddly peaceful, surrounded by beautiful flowers. As his engine gets close to shutdown, he realizes it might be too late.
=== Afterlife ===
RoTech Motorcycle drives back towards the Detroit West Riverfront Park, after RoTech Car 16 patched her up. She's still missing half of her vision, but RC 16 managed to stabilize her injuries, resulting in less glitching within her optics. As she's on her way to the park, she comes across Cade. He's still holding his revolver.RM: Cade, what happened?! I heard a gunshot, is everything okay?
Cade: I did what I had to do, what you were too scared to do. Where are the other Cyberlife Reunited members?
RM: What do you mean? What the fuck did you do?!Dread washes over RoTech Motorcycle.Cade: I shot Cyberlife Car. I'll kill the others too, they're a threat. It's us against them, that's what the plan was. Remember?
RM: No, no, no... The plan changed! They're our allies! It wasn't supposed to go down like this!
Cade: They'd arrest us the second they could, we have to kill them before they get the chance! Don't you get it?! 
RM: You went behind my back... you fucking murdered him. 
Cade: What? No, I was loyal to you, like I've always been. You'll see eventually. Cyberlife Car was just another bump in the road we had to get past. But once we kill the others it'll all be behind us. Things can go back to how they were before Prometheus attacked!
RM: No, they can't. Not after what you did.Detroit Taxi 17 and RoTech Bus are driving through the area, when they see RoTech Motorcycle and Cade. They hurry over to the pair to ask them about the gunshot they heard.DT 17: Where's my uncle? What happened?!Cade raises his revolver, aiming it straight at Detroit Taxi 17. Just as he's about to pull the trigger, RoTech Motorcycle drives into him with brutal force, knocking him out. His gun drops onto the ground. RM: I'm so sorry. Cade went behind my back, and he... he shot Cyberlife Car.Detroit Taxi 17 feels her heart drop. DT 17: No... you're lying, I don't fucking believe you! Where is my uncle, I need to see him!
RB: Jesus christ...
RM: He should be near the park. I'm sorry-
DT 17: He's still alive, he fucking has to be! I saw him after the battle was already over! He's survived so much... he'll survive this too.Detroit Taxi 17 tries to call her uncle through their interconnected Cyberlife systems, but he isn't replying. He must have been vitally injured for him to not be able to answer, but it doesn't mean he's dead yet. Detroit Taxi 17 turns to look at RoTech Bus.DT 17: Come with me, we have to go find him. RB: Yeah... don't worry, he can't be that far from here.Detroit Taxi 17 and RoTech Bus begin driving towards the park. 
RoTech Motorcycle stays behind to contemplate on what's happened. She feels responsible for Cade's actions, he was like a loose cannon that she couldn't control. Maybe if she'd held a tighter lease on him, Cyberlife Car would be okay. She stares at Cade's unconscious body in contempt. She decides to let him live for now, believing that Detroit Taxi 17 should be the one who gets to make the choice on what to do with him. After everything she's lost, this is the least RoTech Motorcycle can do for her. 
Detroit Taxi 17 arrives at the Detroit West Riverfront Park, along with RoTech Bus. They see massive pools of oil everywhere. DT 17: Jesus christ, that's gotta be his oil... he really was shot... holy fuck... RB: It doesn't mean he's dead yet! Let's just keep looking, okay? Grab my wheel, you're okay. We're okay. He's gotta be nearby. RoTech Bus embraces Detroit Taxi 17 in a warm hug to calm her down and bring her comfort. While they're hugging, DT 17 notices a field of flowers in the distance. There she sees what seems to be a vehicle lying on the ground. She feels a spring of hope, still believing Cyberlife Car might be alive.DT 17: That's him! Come with me!Detroit Taxi 17 charges towards the vehicle in the distance, knowing Cyberlife Car needs immediate assistance if he's been shot. As she gets closer and closer, she notices that the vehicle is indeed her uncle, but he isn't moving. She continues driving as quick as she can. Within seconds, she gets to him.DT 17: Come on, wake up uncle car... It's not too late! GET UP!Cyberlife Car is laying motionless on the ground, stained by the oil that's leaked from his body. It's all over him.DT 17: Wake up!Detroit Taxi 17 hugs her uncle, but he's not responding.DT 17: Please, don't leave me... don't go...She checks on his engine and comes to a grim realization. His engine has shut off. Cyberlife Car is already dead. He bled out by himself on a field of flowers after getting shot by Cade.DT 17: NO! COME BACK! Don't leave me!RoTech Bus drives up behind her, seeing Cyberlife Car's corpse.RB: Oh, Jesus...He immediately rushes in to comfort Detroit Taxi 17, but she pushes him away.DT 17: Don't touch me! He's fucking DEAD!She begins sobbing, and collapses on the ground next to Cyberlife Car's corpse.DT 17: I can't... I can't do this... not again. I can't go on without you.She lays on the ground, staring at her uncle's dead corpse. The world around her goes quiet.
=== Grief ===
Cyberlife Bus 5 is still outside the old Cyberlife United base, peering inside. She isn't aware of Cyberlife Car's passing yet, her mind is only on her husband and whether or not he's still alive. She attempts contacting Cyberlife Car to ask him about Cyberlife Van's situation, but is confused when her systems are unable to reach him. She decides to make her way towards the battlefield where most of the fight against Prometheus took place, outside the detective headquarters 
As she's driving through Detroit, she sees the damage that the battle has caused. Prometheus' explosives and tanks have wreaked havoc across the city, as dead fighters can be seen wherever she goes. The buildings in the area are on the verge of collapsing. There are still some Prometheus soldiers remaining, and they're currently being hunted down and eliminated by the army units that already arrived in Detroit. The city isn't safe yet, but she just wants to get to her husband. As she continues driving, she sees a Prometheus soldier get gunned down by the army in the distance.
Finally arriving at her destination, she sees how the detective headquarters have been destroyed as a result of the battle. It has completely crumbled down, the building she spent so many years in with Cyberlife Van is gone. It became her new home after Cyberlife United dispersed, and now it's gone. Gazing through the area, she sees all the dead fighters who gave their lives to protect the city. To her shock, she sees Cyberlife Train's corpse. She was unaware of his death until now, as she had spent all her time on defusing the bomb. CB 5: No...She was never close with him, but she knows the city would be ash without him. Cyberlife Train was the one to steal the bomb from the Prometheus base, and he brought it to CB 5. She interacted with him only a few times, yet she knows he was a great person. She feels grief over his death, and she's thankful for everything Cyberlife Train did for them. As she continues driving, she sees Cyberlife Fire Truck tending to an injured fighter. She rushes over to him. Just as she gets to him, he finishes up healing the vehicle.CB 5: Fire Truck... thank god you're alive, are you okay? Where's my husband?CFT: I'm fine, and so is Cyberlife Van. An ambulance took him already, he's being driven to a hospital for immediate medical aid. He'll live.Cyberlife Bus 5 is overwhelmed with relief. CB 5: Okay, great.. great... what about the others? 
CFT: I'm not so sure about them. They went looking for Cyberlife Car, but they haven't come back yet... I've been busy tending to everyone here. I think they're okay though.
CB 5: That's good, but I'll go check up on them anyway. I want to be sure on this.
CFT: You know what, I'll come with you. I have RoTech Bus' coordinates, he should be with Detroit Taxi 17 and the others.Cyberlife Bus 5 and Cyberlife Fire Truck begin driving towards the coordinates.
RoTech Bus is staring at Cyberlife Car's corpse. CC was his friend and mentor, without him RoTech Bus never would've become a part of Cyberlife Reunited. He'd have continued being haunted by his sister's death, unable to move on. Cyberlife Reunited gave him something to fight for, to make sure what happened to RB 4 would never happen again. He feels the need to comfort Detroit Taxi 17, who's laying on the ground next to CC, but he doesn't know how. As he turns to look back, he sees Cyberlife Bus 5 and Cyberlife Fire Truck approaching them. RB begins making his way to them.RB: You shouldn't come any closer, Detroit Taxi 17 needs to be by herself-
CFT: What happened, Arby?
CB 5: Where's Cyberlife Car?!
RB: He's dead... Cade shot him. 
CB 5: What?!
CFT: No...
CB 5: I need to see him!Cyberlife Bus 5 drives past RoTech Bus, and sees Cyberlife Car's corpse on the ground. Detroit Taxi 17 is laying down next to him. CB 5: NO! Not after everything, not now!Detroit Taxi 17 gets up from the ground, still looking at her uncle's body.DT 17: He's dead... and the one responsible is still alive. Come with me. Detroit Taxi 17 begins driving towards the location where the unconscious Cade is being held by RoTech Motorcycle. Cyberlife Fire Truck, RoTech Bus and Cyberlife Bus 5 all follow behind her. With their quick pace, it doesn't take them long to arrive at their destination. Detroit Taxi 17 immediately sees Cade on the ground. He's slowly starting to awaken from his unconscious state. Cade's revolver is next to him on the ground. Detroit Taxi 17 picks it up, and punches him. The punch reinvigorates him, as he's now fully conscious again. Cade immediately turns to look at RoTech Motorcycle, who's behind him.Cade: What the hell, boss?! You're choosing them over us?
RM: I'm choosing them over you, Cade. You went too far. They're a part of my team now.
Cade: You and I were a team!
RM: Not anymore. There's a slight tone of grief in her voice. Cade turns to look at Detroit Taxi 17. She's holding his revolver.DT 17: This is the same gun you killed my uncle with...
Cade: Yeah... he tried to talk me out of it, but I did what I had to do. 
DT 17: Why?
Cade: He'd have me arrested, so I had to kill him. 
DT 17: You didn't have to do anything, you could've just stayed in your place and we'd have allowed you to leave Detroit. 
Cade: Bullshit. 
DT 17: No, it isn't. RoTech Motorcycle looks at Detroit Taxi 17.RM: You get to decide what happens to him. I owe you that much.Detroit Taxi 17 ponders for a moment, and then raises the revolver to aim it at Cade. Looking around her, she realizes how the future of Cyberlife Reunited depends on her and her choice. Everyone is looking to her for answers. She'll decide what foundation the future of their group will be built on, if it'll be built on mercy or on violence.DT 17: My uncle was supposed to make it, he was so close to getting to live the life he wanted. The life he had earned. But you took that away from him!Cade: He would've taken my life from me. It was either me or him! DT 17: You have no idea how much I want to put a bullet in your engine. I could use the same gun you killed Cyberlife Car with. To watch as your lifeless corpse falls onto the ground, while you bleed out... the same way he bled out. But I won't. Detroit Taxi 17 lowers the weapon.DT 17: I won't let myself become that person. You don't deserve to be the one who ruins me... I won't go down the same path of revenge others before me did, I won't make those same mistakes, because eventually that'd lead to the old me being gone. I won't let you ruin me. I won't let the future of Cyberlife Reunited be built on an act of vengeance. You're gonna spend your whole life rotting away in prison, and I'll make sure of it. No one will come visit you. You'll be sad, lonely and old by the time your engine shuts down. And throughout all those years spent in a cell, you're gonna wish I'd pulled the trigger right here and now. I don't forgive you, Cade. I never will. But killing you would only make things worse. Cade: I can't go to prison! Just kill me, I know you want to. Cyberlife Bus 5 drives closer.CB 5: You're really gonna let him live after what he did? He should be dead! DT 17: It's not what Cyberlife Car would want. He'd want us to learn, like how he learned. It's just... it was too late for him. But it's not too late for us. I need to prove that I've learned from the past, that we've learned from the past. Vengeance is not the answer. I need to make sure that his death meant something, that it wasn't for nothing. We can be better. Our future is going to depend on this moment. Everything in the future of Cyberlife Reunited will be built on what we do here, we need to make sure we choose right. 
She looks to the others around her. Some are questioning her choice, others have placed their full trust in her. Detroit Taxi 17 turns to look at RoTech Motorcycle. DT 17: Leave the city, take the other Falcons with you. We won't come after you. I respect everything you did for us in helping us beat Prometheus. The police still would want you arrested, but I don't. So go. RM: We'll disperse.DT 17: What?RM: The Chicago Falcons... most of us are dead, Cade'll get arrested. RoTech Car 16 is the last member standing besides me. I think it's better if I go my own way for now. Maybe eventually I'll try to form a new group, or maybe I'll come looking for Reunited. DT 17: Okay. I think you best start going, get a headstart before the cops come after you. RM: Yeah, I will. I'll say my goodbyes with RoTech Car 16 then be on my way.RoTech Motorcycle turns to drive away, until Detroit Taxi 17 says one last thing to her.DT 17: Thank you. I know you meant something to my uncle, and I'm... I'm glad he got to spend his final days with you.RM: Yeah, he was a good man... I'm sorry about what happened to him.
DT 17: It's not your fault.
RM: I hope you're right. And I hope I'll see you again. Take care of yourself, okay?
DT 17: You too. RoTech Motorcycle gives her one last look, before turning away. She drives away, while Detroit Taxi 17 and the other Reunited members attempt to subside after the losses they've endured.
=== A Disfigured City ===
Two weeks after Prometheus was defeated, the city of Detroit is still in a state of shock. The government has efficiently managed to clean up the bodies left around the city, but they've yet to repair the locations that were destroyed by Prometheus' tanks and explosives. Most of the prisoners that were released by Cyberlife Truck 50 have been captured and placed back into jail, though some have seemingly managed to escape for good. The battle against Prometheus took dozens of lives from both sides, those losses combined with the deaths of the thousands of people who were in the Stratford tower has caused the population of Detroit to plummet. Tens of thousands of people have begun moving out of the city in a desparate attempt to escape from what they've witnessed, but the mental damage caused by Prometheus' actions will be felt for decades to come. 
Nearly every civilian is showing symptoms of some form of post traumatic stress disorder. Knowing they were on the brink of death has resulted in mass amnesia, people wake up in the middle of the night screaming. There is also hysteria regarding the thought of Prometheus returning, despite the government assuring everyone that they eliminated each and every member. The civilians are terrified that Cyberlife Truck 50 will come back, no matter how much proof they get that he died for good. Detroit as a city is beginning to crumble from the inside out due to Prometheus' actions. The bomb may have not detonated in the city, but its effects are still felt everywhere.
The events that took place in Detroit didn't just affect the people of Detroit, they affected the whole country. Prometheus' actions sent a shockwave around all of America, reigniting the country's fear of terrorism which had been dormant for over 20 years. When Cyberlife's androids first began being mass-produced, they brought an era of safety and stability to the United States. Citizens everywhere placed their trust in the company, their androids and their vehicles, since they promised them a safe a future. But now that trust in Cyberlife is gone. People all over the country have begun doubting Cyberlife's ability to uphold their promise of a safe future. The president of the the United States, a vehicle known as CrowneCars BMW has organized a meeting with several journalists to discuss these concerns. The meeting is being televised all across the country. 
Detroit Taxi 17 is watching the meeting from a television in a hospital room, along with other Cyberlife Reunited members. They're waiting for Cyberlife Van to recover from his coma. Cyberlife Van has been unconscious ever since Cyberlife Truck 50 shot him head-on with a grenade launcher, but the doctors have estimated that today's the day he'll regain consciousness. Cyberlife Bus 5 is standing next to her husband, who's in a hospital bed, while Detroit Taxi 17 turns her gaze to look back at the president's meeting on the TV. CrowneCars BMW: I assure you all, Cyberlife is still a trustworthy and dependable company. What happened in Detroit is not to be blamed on them, it's to be blamed on the terrorist group known as Prometheus. A terrorist group which has been swiftly eliminated by the military.One of the journalists: Mr. President, do you have anything to say about the allegations that every vehicle and android had been infected with a lethal virus? CrowneCars BMW: The virus was real, yes. But it only concerned a handful of vehicles. The rumors that everyone had been infected were purely false. The situation was never as bad as the leader of Prometheus had made it seem. The government always had it under control, with the collaboration of Cyberlife. Another journalist: Mr. President, why did the military take so long to intervene against Prometheus? Word's going around that the crime-fighting group known as Cyberlife Reunited, along with voluntary civilian fighters were the ones to take down the terrorists. By the time the military arrived, most of the work had already been done.CrowneCars BMW: Alright, let's keep these questions strictly professional and fact-based. Cyberlife Reunited did help, yes. But the brave troops in our military are the ones responsible for taking down Prometheus-Detroit Taxi 17 turns off the television.DT 17: What a load of horse shit. RB: They're taking the credit for winning the fight against Prometheus? DT 17: Yeah. But people are gonna find out the truth, sooner or later... people are gonna find out about everything. They'll find out how deadly the virus was, they'll find out how much we sacrificed, they'll- RB: They will, eventually. But maybe you should try to catch your breath a bit first. We've earned some time off... DT 17: You're right. As they're speaking, Cyberlife Van's vitals suddenly begin to rise, indicating he's awakening from his two-week long coma. Cyberlife Bus 5 is filled with hope, when the hospital equipment attached to Cyberlife Van begins to make sound. CB 5: He's waking up! Oh my god- The first thing Cyberlife Van sees when he regains consciousness is Cyberlife Bus 5, standing by the hospital bed he's on. CV: My love, you... look like an angel... am I in heaven? She kisses him, and attempts to prevent herself from sobbing. CB 5: Not just yet, honey. You're still stuck here with the rest of us. CV: Wouldn't want it any other way. I thought I wouldn't make it... how long was I out? CB 5: You were in a coma for two weeks. I stayed here, every single night. I slept by your side on that chair next to you. I couldn't eat... I thought I'd lost you. I thought you wouldn't wake up again. But you're here... thank you. CV: I wouldn't let something small like an explosion get between us. So... we won? Did you defuse the bomb? CB 5: We won, Detroit's safe. But not because of me, I didn't defuse the bomb. Cyberlife Helicopter 11 sacrificed himself for us, he flew it over Lake St. Clair and dropped it right into the middle. CV: Oh my god, we owe our lives to him... but what matters most is that you're okay. I love you. CB 5: I love you too. CV: Our son... there haven't been any complications, have there? CB 5: No, nothing's gone wrong. We'll get to see Cyberlife Van 93. His estimated date of birth will be two months from now. CV: Thank god, that's what I needed to hear... our baby boy will be fine... What have the doctors said about my condition? Will I be able to drive again? CB 5: They're saying your motoric systems got permanently damaged. They can't fix it without risking an engine shutdown in the process. Your two back wheels are gone, and they can't be replaced... but they might be able to place your back on a wheelchair. You won't be able to drive like you did before, but you'll still be able to move around. Cyberlife Van is visibly taken aback by the information. CV: This is a lot to take in... I won't be able to drive? CB 5: That's right, I'm sorry. CV: Don't be sorry. You're not the one that blew me up, are you? Cyberlife Bus 5 lets out a chuckle through the tears. CB 5: Yeah, actually that was me... Got sick of having a loving husband around, you know? They both share a laugh, in an attempt to cope with the situation. With the limited movement he has, Cyberlife Van turns to look at the Reunted members present in the room. Detroit Taxi 17, RoTech Bus and Cyberlife Fire Truck are all there. CV: It's so good to see the three of you are okay! CFT: Yeah, we made it. CV: What about Cyberlife Car? Where is he? The atmosphere in the room instantly changes. There's a moment of silence. The realization of what happened instantly strikes CV, even without the others saying a word. CV: I failed him, I was supposed to- CB 5: None of us are to blame, it just... happened. CV: How did it happen? How did he die? DT 17: One of the Chicago Falcons, Cade, shot him. Cade thought that was the only he'd be able to avoid being arrested. I could've killed him, but I chose not to... He's in prison now. ... CV: I'm so sorry. DT 17: So am I. CV: When's... when's the funeral being held? DT 17: Tomorrow. They're also holding a memorial for every deceased fighter next week, but CC's funeral is being held tomorrow. It'll be private, only the ones who knew him will attend. If you're not in the condition to come, I get it. You've just been in a coma for- CV: I'm coming. He was... he was a great man. I just wish I could have stopped what happened. DT 17: Yeah... I think the three of us will go wait outside, give you two some time alone. CB 5: Thank you. Detroit Taxi 17, RoTech Bus and Cyberlife Fire Truck all leave the hospital room and enter the lobby, leaving Cyberlife Van and Cyberlife Bus 5 in private. As they're driving through the area, CFT notices a nurse rolling a patient in a wheelchair. The patient is a woman, who looks familiar to him. He's unsure of who she is, until she seems to recognize him as well. The woman: It's you! You're the fire truck who rescued me, in the Stratford Tower! I was... I was trapped under rubble, but you came to lift it up. You saved my life, my coworkers' lives too... thank you so much. CFT: I'm glad I could help. The woman: You did... thanks to you, my daughter will have a mom when growing up. You're a hero! CFT: Thank you. I wish you and your daughter well. Detroit Taxi 17 and RoTech Bus look proudly from the side, as the patient keeps praising Cyberlife Fire Truck for his actions. Once they're done talking, the trio all exit the hospital and go wait outside until CB 5 and CV are ready. RoTech Bus turns to look at Detroit Taxi 17. RB: Look, if you don't mind me asking... what's next? What'll happen with Cyberlife Reunited? Our base is gone, and we've lost a lot of people. Do you still want to lead the group? DT 17: I do. It's what Cyberlife Car wanted for me, and I want to honor his memory. The city needs us now, more than ever. There are some dark days ahead of us. I wanna make sure Cyberlife Reunited is there to make those days a little bit brighter. RB: Alright, well then you can be sure I'm not going anywhere. I'll be your right-hand man, if you need one. CFT: I'm staying too. I used to doubt if what we did made a difference. If my contributions really mattered... but after today, I know what we do matters. That woman that just came up to me, she proved it to me. We can save lives. Hell that's what I was born to do, I'm meant to rescue people. If even just one more person gets to live thanks to us, everything we'll have done will be worth it. So yeah, I'll stay. DT 17: I'm glad to hear it. We're gonna need some new members, but we can take all the time we need in recruiting them. As the three of them are speaking, Cyberlife Bus 5 and Cyberlife Van also exit the hospital. Cyberlife Van has been placed into a wheelchair designed for vehicles, his two front wheels are still on the ground but his back is laying on the wheelchair. His movement is slow and difficult to get used to, but he won't be completely immobile. CB 5: You got room for two more members? DT 17: Of course, we'll be more than glad to take you in. CV: I won't be able to help out in battle, but I've still got my intelligence. I'll help in any way I can. DT 17: We need all the help we can get. The five of them decide to take a drive throughout Detroit, in an atttempt to wind down. 
=== Passed On ===
Detroit Taxi 17 is at Cyberlife Car's funeral. She's holding a testimony about her uncle, while her friends are watching. Only the ones who knew Cyberlife Car are present.DT 17: I have a lot to say about my uncle, and the man he was. I'm sure we all do. The public may just see him as a hero, and yeah... he was a hero. But he was also so much more than that. When I think of Cyberlife Car, the first thing that comes to mind for me isn't the fighter he was. That was a part of him, but the violence isn't who he was. Above everything else, he was a parent to me. Cyberlife Taxi 4, my dad, was a busy man when I was a kid. He spent more time at work than he did at home. But even then, I wasn't alone. That's because Cyberlife Car was there. He bought me candy with whatever money he had left, he spent his free time watching dumb cartoons with me, no matter how exhausted he might've been... he made sure I could get to be a kid. He made me feel safe, even in circumstances where that should've been impossible. Even if someone was pointing a gun at me, even if my life was in danger, as long as Cyberlife Car was there... I felt safe. Because I knew he'd look after me, he always found a way to make sure I'd be okay. He was my safety net. During my last conversation with him, Cyberlife Car told me he wanted to feel safe. He wanted to settle down. And now I can't give that to him. I failed in making him safe, the way he made me safe. I don't know if I'll ever be able to forgive myself for that. I keep thinking that if I'd just stayed with him a bit longer, if I hadn't been so blindsided by the thought of leading Reunited.. he'd still be here with me. I loved him, just as much as I loved dad.Throughout the duration of the funeral, the others also hold testimonies for Cyberlife Car. CV: Cyberlife Car wasn't perfect. He could get on my nerves, he could do things I disargeed with. We fought regarding several things, and we weren't always on the best terms. Hell, I was like a boyscout doing everything by the book, while Cyberlife Car tended to be more... rash. That lead to us having a falling out, back when Cyberlife United dispersed. For a while there, I hated him for who he'd turned into. I hated how unstable he was, how violent he'd gotten. I didn't approve of his ways, and we didn't talk for many years because of that. Now, I realize he was just hurt. He needed help, and I shut him out. I was selfish, while my friend was hurting... I'd do anything to get those years back with him. He was a great friend, and he was a great man.-CB 5: I never got to know Cyberlife Car as well as I should've. We shared the battlefield countless of times, and yet I never got to build a special connection with him. And in spite of that... it's hard to imagine any of us here without him. I wish I got to tell him how much I appreciate everything he's done. Being with us, fighting side by side... Cyberlife Car gave us a future. And even though he won't be able to see the future he created, he'll never be truly gone. He got us here. We'll feel his presence in everything we do. We'll remember him.-RB: I'd heard of Cyberlife Car long before I actually met him in person. I heard all these great tales of a brave hero who put his life on the line for others, yet the first time I saw him, he was robbing a bank. He was being forced to do it, but I didn't know that at the time. And so I remember just thinking to myself: "Wow, this guy is nothing like they made him out to be". In a sense, I was correct. Just not for the reasons I thought. Back then, I thought he was worse than what the stories made him seem like. My perception changed once I got to know him, once he became my friend. I realized that the stories would never do him justice. No matter how many tales we tell about him, and how great of a guy he was... that fact only sunk in once you got to know the guy. He was a mentor to me. He made me see reason when I needed it. It's like... even though he wasn't great with words, he always somehow still found the right thing to say in order to get through to me. Without him, I'd still be stuck in the past.-CFT: I still can't believe he's gone... he always seemed like one of those people who'd always stay here with us. By giving me the chance to join Cyberlife Reunited, CC gave my life meaning. He showed me that I can help the people of this city, he showed me that I can save lives. I just wish that I could've saved his. I'm honored to have shared a team with him, he was a damn good leader. After the funeral, Detroit Taxi 17 decides to go to visit Cyberlife Truck 71. She is currently residing in a group home near Detroit. This is the first time they're meeting since their encounter at the hospital in Coldwater. The 8-year-old is by herself, as the other kids tend to stay away from her, due to word spreading around that she's related to the deceased leader of Prometheus. The staff of the group home inform CT 71 that she has a visitor, right before Detroit Taxi 17 enters through the door. Upon seeing her, Cyberlife Truck 71 instantly rushes in to hug her. Detroit Taxi 17 feels relieved to see that the child is in good condition, no longer on the verge of death with medical equipment attached to her.CT 71: It's you! You're the nice lady who saved me! You came to visit me?DT 17: Yeah, I'm sorry it took me this long... but there's been a lot going on in my life.CT 71: That's okay... the adults here tried to tell me that my dad died, but they're lying, right? You promised me you wouldn't hurt him.DT 17: I'm sorry, but they're not lying. Your father passed away.Cyberlife Truck 71 breaks down, and begins sobbing.CT 71: No! I know he did bad things, but he was still my dad!DT 17: I know... I'm sorry. I did everything I could, I tried to help him. I kept my promise to you, I didn't harm him. But what happened was out of my control.Cyberlife Truck 71 continues sobbing, while Detroit Taxi 17 carefully hugs her in an attempt to bring comfort.CT 71: W-who's gonna take care of me now? I'm gonna be all alone... DT 17: You won't be alone, okay? I'm gonna come visit you, I'm gonna take care of you. CT 71: You will...?DT 17: Yeah, I promise. I'll come visit as often as I can. I'll make sure you're not alone, not even for a second. CT 71: Thank you...DT 17: Of course. You've been so brave. I think you deserve a reward, would you like some ice cream? There's a shop not far from here, I'll buy you as much ice cream as you want. CT 71: Really? DT 17: If it makes you feel any better, you've earned it.CT 71: It does sound pretty awesome... could you buy me some gummy bears too?Detroit Taxi 17 feels a sense of warmth, remembering she used to love gummy bears back when she was a kid.DT 17: Anything for you. After speaking with the employees at the group home, Detroit Taxi 17 gets granted the permission to take Cyberlife Truck 71 for some ice cream and gummy bears. She wants to make sure that Cyberlife Truck 71 gets to have a childhood, that she gets to be a kid. The pair exit the building, while Detroit Taxi 17 holds the young child's wheel. The future is scary to both of them, but being in each other's presence brings them comfort. And suddenly, the future feels less dark. 
== Trivia ==
* CC III had the longest development process out of any CB story, including the animations. The story was started in June 2020, and only got finished in November 2022, nearly two and a half years later. Even after this, there were still slight rewrites, and the finalized version was only truly ready in March 2023.
* CC III is easily the longest story set in the CB universe, rounding up to over 440k characters in length.
* Other names were considered for the subtitle of the story. "Cyberlife Car III: Legacy" was one candidate.
* Throughout its creation process, CC III went through heavy rewrites: 
** Cyberlife Car was originally inteded to survive the story. He would've moved to Australia with RoTech Motorcycle, but this was changed due to the writer feeling that a more tragic ending was more fitting and emotional.
** Cade wasn't even a character in the original plot outline. He only got written in during the creation process of Chapter 2, as a way to flesh out the Chicago Falcons further. While writing the remaining chapters, Cade's involvement in the story kept escalating, as he became more and more important to the plot.
** The entirety of Chapter 4 was heavily altered. It was originally going to be about Cyberlife Reunited and the Chicago Falcons attacking the Prometheus base, but was switched to be the other way around.
* Cyberlife Truck 50 was written to heavily parallel Cyberlife Car, in that they would both go to extreme lengths to protect their loved ones. Cyberlife Truck 71's name was even an intentional reference to Detroit Taxi 17's name, as their numbers mirror each other.
* The name of the Chicago Falcons' medic, "RoTech Car 16", was a reference to the non-canon version of CC III titled "Cyberlife Car III: Nuke Man", which was written by Mihajlo G. During the ending of "Nuke Man", one of the new Cyberlife Reunited members is titled RoTech Car 16. However, there's no confirmation that these two are the same characters, as the Chicago Falcons aren't mentioned anywhere in the alternate story.
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