RidOv Chpt-19

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==Ridiculously Overboard!! (A Captain Roberts Tale!!)Chapter 19 - Confronting the new Captain==
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Some hours later...
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Hiro knelt on the decking under the guard of men in powered armor, with Mauser 960 series rifles. It wasn't the Snow Ravens, the markings were wrong.
A girl with one eye came clomping down the magnetized deck in shipboots, and he felt a rifle butt between his shoulders, "Show respect! that is the GREAT Pirate ROBERTS come to judge you!!"
"Who?"
Hiro didn't know that Sam was new to the armor, and twenty hours ago had no idea who 'the great pirate roberts' was-or that such a person even existed, but he was going totally into the act per Larry's direction.
"Hamasato, Hiro, former DCMS, former mercenary." the girl spoke, she was tiny, and maimed looking as she squatted to meet his eyes. "you have a wonderful choice, you can work for me, Or...option B."
"Why?"
"Why that's because I am the greatest pirate you'll ever see." she told him, "But we're a little short handed, so I'm willing to maybe-not-kill-you, in exchange for your service in my noble cause."
She's insane!
Insanity was never really a problem, but it clicked looking into that empty eye socket, the faint glimmer of metallic contacts...
"MANEI DOMINI!!" he screamed, and found the courage he'd lost in the fighting of the war, he lashed out.
His bridge-hand strike missed her throat entirely, as she seemed effortlessly to twist out of the way, catch his wrist and drive her other hand up, snapping his arm at the elbow.
Her backhand crushed his throat, and he fell into the darkness.
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Amanda stood up after killing the mercenary. "I'm not one of...not one of them!!" she babbled, "They did this to me I'm not one of them!!!"
Larry walked up to the hysterical girl, "shhh..." he gently placed a hand on the shoulder of the incredibly dangerous, cyborg killer. "I know. we know, you're not one of them." he told her.
She bawled into his shoulder.
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