Biting the Hand

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Tex: Hey Rayner, can you go take a look at the tank? See if anything there is still salvageable.

Rayner: Roger that, Madam.

Rayner gives a two-fingered salute to the freelancer and goes to look over the tank.

Church: You can't just show up here and start bossing people around, Tex. Bossing people around is my job. I put in the time.

While still walking to the tank, Rayner shouts back to Church.

Rayner: Yeah, put in the time to whine about not being captain!

Church: Screw you Rayner!

Tex: I had to leave, I found Wyoming.

Church: Yeah, Tucker told me, what happened anyway?

Tex: I thought I tracked him back to O'Malley. But, by the time York and I got there-

Church: York- your old freelancer buddy? Was Carolina with him?

Tex: She was already dead.

Caboose: And what about Bermuda?

Church: That's not a State, dumbass.

Caboose: Portland?

Church: Shut up!

Tex: But he still had Delta.

Church: Delta; the A.I.? How? I thought they took them- wait a minute, wait a minute, how was he even still alive? Aren't we hundreds of years in the future?

Tex: I thought it was because of his armor. You know all the freelancer suits had some kind of enhancement.

Church: Right, like your invisibility.

Caboose: And horrible meanness.

Church: No dude, that's all natural.

Tex: York's was some kind of healing mechanism. It would help him recover from wounds in battle. I thought it might have kept him alive all these years. But after I found Wyoming, I knocked him out and downloaded logs from his helmet. There's somethin' going on, Church, with a lot of people working against us.

Church: Well what did Wyoming say when he woke up?

Tex: He didn't, before I could interrogate him, he teleported away. One second he was there, and the next he was gone.

Caboose: What about the second after that?

Tex: Can I kill him?

Church: No, I'm saving him in case we ever need him for food. So, Wyoming's armor lets him teleport?

Tex: I don't think so. I think someone grabbed him from somewhere else.

Church: How is that possible? The only technology I know that could do that is- ...Wait a minute. Each freelancer had an enhanced suit of armor and an A.I., right?

Tex: Right.

Caboose: Right.

Church: Your armor was invisibility, and your A.I. was Omega.

Tex: Right.

Caboose: Wrong. Oops, missed that one, can we go back?

Church: What was Wyoming's A.I.?

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