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Paradigm Shift - Act 1: Paradise City

Part 9

"An android?" Running on an adrenaline high, Roger stared in shock. The sharp pain in his head was forgotten. "He’s an android?!"

It wasn’t the whole android thing that really bothered him, it was what he had just seen the android do. He didn’t know androids could do that! Sure, Dorothy was faster and stronger than a human, but nothing like this.

The android, Kikaider, was still in the way. But he remedied this situation by dropping Beck, leaving him to hack and wheeze, and leaping away.

His foot crushed the flute as he left. Roger was grateful for that as he pulled the trigger.

Schwarzwald was too slow in recognizing what the buildup of energy at Big O’s head meant. Seconds later, the Chromebuster attack went off and slammed into the robot limb at its wrist, melting through and piercing it entirely.

A gaping hole was left over in that spot when the beam cut out.

Unfortunately, it was still moving. Roger had hoped Schwarzwald’s cockpit wouldn’t be in the palm, but alas, it seemed it was.

Still, he was retreating, cursing all the way as he forced his injured craft to crawl down the other side of the building.

By the time Roger had steered Big O closer to look over the side of the building, the hand had already dug its way underground, deep down, tunneling through the soft earth between the old tunnels to where Schwarzwald felt comfortable.

"Damn it," Roger cursed. He looked around for Beck, but that freak had long since hopped, skipped and jumped away. Roger did, however, see Kikaider still standing on the rooftop.

He watched, captivated, as Kikaider’s form faded back to the human facade as the android slowly turned and looked at Big O. An eerie, completely irrational feeling worked its way into Roger’s gut, as if Kikaider wasn’t really looking at Big O in the first place. Is...is he, he struggled to put his thoughts in order, is he looking at me?

Roger couldn’t wait to talk to this ki...this android. Android...unlike his original meeting with Dorothy, Roger had seen this android in nice, illuminating daylight and had been fooled completely. Androids weren’t supposed to emulate humans that well. At least, the ones Roger knew didn’t. Dorothy had her own unique charm, Instro was a brilliant musician, but they still acted like robots.

Pressing the pedals down, Roger nudged Big O a step forward.

And Kikaider bolted.

"Hey!" Roger yelled, locking Big O’s scanners on the android before he was out of sight on the next street over. Kikaider was running, and so, Roger had Big O run as well. Occasionally, he could see Kikaider and his un-breaking stride between the buildings, but only so much. The military police was chasing him as well, now that Dastun had the time and most certainly recognized him, but they were way behind.

After a few seconds of this, Roger’s strain caught up with him. The actual crisis was over and his combat high was wearing off. The splitting pain between his ears slowly grew more obvious, the blood dripping down his neck feeling all the more wet. He didn’t want to spend anymore time chasing after someone than absolutely necessary.

Twisting the dial on his watch just the right way, Roger summoned his Griffin. The car sped out from its parking space and crossed the streets, rushing ahead of Kikaider and going unnoticed.

Almost at the same time, Roger exited Big O, its autopilot set to return to the tunnels.

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