~Missing Freelancer~Ch.2

Missouri took no time waiting to start running towards the sound of the scream, Aro right on his heels. Missouri cursed as his foot caught on a root "Da** it!" He got his foot unstuck then burst through a bush and into a small clearing.  He glanced around a moment seeing broken  dead bodies of the silver things everywhere, some of them had the sides of their faces carved out or slashed looking scars, some of them their eyes were shattered. The clearing was quiet for a long moment. "Ziree?" Missouri called trying to find any sign of her. "Ziree!" he called louder, Aro jumped out from behind him panting. "Leave me behind next time huh?" he panted, looking around. "Well I'd say it's clear she's been through here don't you?" Missouri nodded "Yeah…But where is she?" he wondered outloud, walking over the debris of the creatures/things, "What ARE these things?" Missouri asked looking at Aro. "I have no clue Brother. Beta, any ideas?" Aro asked his AI who appeared by his shoulder. "I don't know Aro, they appear to be some sort of robotics, but far from any I've seen." Aro nodded looking around kicking some of the pieces. "Indeed… Where did that scream come from earlier?" He never got an answer as Missouri suddenly snapped his head around. "What is it?" Aro asked, Missouri put a finger to his mouth for silence. He pointed upwards, Aro looked up slowly…
There were lots of eyes on them.
None of them friendly either.
A loud SNAP! Split the air, Oregon covered his ears with the sound as west twisted off the head of another thing. "Okay, we need a name for these things." West said. "I vote stupid annoying bastered silver things." She muttered, Nevada rolled her eyes at West. "What?! Don't roll your eyes at me!" West growled. Oregon walked over and put a hand on her shoulder "West relax, how about just Silver snakes for now? Easy enough to remember. "
"Fine." West muttered. "We have to hurry though. Before it's too late." Oregon nodded, they started running again, Drake took the lead this time Oregon stopped to pick up a piece of one of the silver things eyes. "Gwen take a look at this will you?" he asked  his AI as they moved through the forest. "I will." She responded to him. "Thanks." He said. "Be quiet!" West snapped, Oregon fell silent.  They crossed a rocky riverbed water splashing up their legs. "We're almost there!" Drake called.
"I just hope we're on time…" Nevada whispered, Oregon nodded quietly next to her. "Me too. But we have to try." He said, just then they broke through the line of threes to see the base. Oregon ran into West, "Ouch! West what is it?"

"I think we're too late…"



"I didn't know you invited guests Missouri…" Aro said slowly.
"Shut up."
"Alright, alright if you insist…"
Missouri wasn't in the mood for jokes, this was serious. Slowly, he held a hand out "Aro, throw me your pistol please?" Aro slowly took his magnum out of its holster and carefully threw it to Missouri. In the same moment that the gun was flying in the air, Aro pulled out another arrow and aimed at the nearest set of eyes.  Suddenly the forest canopy exploded in screeching, spitting, snarling, silver flashes.  Aro fired off his round shattering the first one in an explosion of millions of pieces of silver. Missouri growled grabbing one with his hand by the base of the next and punching his robotic arm right into the center of its array of teeth its head cracked and the thing went dead in his hands, he turned just in time to duck as one went flying over his head, he grabbed its tail and swung it around hitting another with it, before slamming it into the ground and braking its head with his foot. "That's Two down." Right as Missouri said this another one Exploded. "And that's the last one" Aro said with a grin. "Nice work." Missouri responded, glancing around. "We need to keep looking." He added. "I agree." Aro responded, Missouri looked around a moment. Then noticed something, he walked over to a bush and crouched down. "Aro, are you hurt?" Aro raised an eyebrow, "No, just some scratches why?"
"These things don't bleed do they?"
"No, they don't…What is it? Why?" Aro said walking over to see what Missouri had found.
"Blood…Lots of blood…"