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The man in the black long coat and hat walked along a desert landscape, unwavered by the heat and cloudless sky, even as he ascended a hill till he stopped, as he reached the top, and looked down on the opposite side. Far ahead he sees a silhouette of a city but below the hill he sees a series of electrical towers that lined up from his right to his left beyond his sight and with either no or torn cables in between each tower, except the one in front of him is special. The reason being special is the fact a male figure in a flight suit is hanging, face up towards the high sun with hooks (utilizing the down electrical cables) dug into each limb and the male figure has not moved since the man in black appeared. The man approached the hanging man (unwavered) with a sense of curiosity as the man approached and looked up and stopped almost just beneath the one that is hanging (motionless) and cocked his head to the side. His attention then turned when he heard a ruffling paper sound and when he looked back down, he saw a regular size white paper stuck on one of the metal struts of the electrical tower. The man reached out, grabbed and pulled it out of the strut and when he looked at it, it is a printed readout from one of the bounty centers and it read: WANTED. Subject name: Larry “The Drone Man” Kinski. 10 counts 1st class murder. 1 count stealing government property. 2 counts destruction of government property. Location: Tyrone City. Reward: 40,000 credits. Dead or Alive. And it also showed a black and white printout of a man in white shirt and tie with a modest beard and glasses. The man looked towards the city in the distance and his eyes zoomed in on a banged up green sign that read: Tyrone City. Population: 28,501. The man then folded up and put the Wanted print out in his pocket before he pulled out his revolver and shot at the point the wires connected and the man that is hanging, fell hard on the dirt ground next to the man in black. The man in black felt and scanned the dead body to find what looked like a Colt .22 but is battery powered and found two magazine shaped battery packs that allows the Colt to fire 0.22 amp one second jolts of electricity per shot. He then found 10 credits in the body’s pocket and a wallet that he pulled out and it showed the dead person’s image, name and beneath that his job title as HUNTER. He then reached out and pulled up the visor in his helmet and he saw the dead man’s dried up face (almost mummified due to the heat) and, without pause, looked at the dead man’s ID and confirmed it was him before he closed the visor. “He thought flying in above my drone was smart, but I am smarter, bounty hunter!” The bounty hunter immediately stood up and looked around to see no one in sight as the voice laughed and then continued, “Oh I’m no where in sight bounty hunter! I’m not making myself that easy for you! As a matter of fact, since you decided not to insult my intelligence and leave your horse behind, after collecting the bounty for Billy Gaff and the Cranston Brothers and walked into my territory. I’ll allow you to at least walk into town, unhindered. After that, you are fare game, bounty hunter.” The bounty hunter stood there (with a blank stare) for a few moments till his internal sensors read to him that the intruding voice is gone and then the bounty hunter turned and began walking towards Tyrone City, with the back of his black coat kicking up behind him as the dusty wind blew, leaving the dead Hunter by the electrical tower and sand building up around the body.
The outskirts of Tyrone City looked abandoned as the bounty hunter entered the city limits and he looked around and noticed there is even no sound or sight of birds or animals either, except the sound of the wind. The bounty hunter continued walking down the deserted street with torn boxes, various damaged vehicles, garbage and debris on the streets. He then stopped as he noticed the debris and wrecked vehicles and checked his internal library for any police reports or bulletins regarding Tyrone City and found out everything was normal till about three days ago and then there were ABSOLUTELY no reports of any kind about the city for those three days and now counting. Suddenly there is a buzzing sound and a shower of bullets as the street, in front of him, is struct by a large stream of bullets and sent dust and debris flying into the air and came right towards him. The bounty hunter stood there and watched (with a blank expression) as the bullets reached to him but stopped just mere inches as he continued to stand where he is and did not bat an eye. “Ah, so it is true. You are machine after all, no emotions or thought about self preservation. No matter. This is just going to be more fun!” Then the ground in front of the bounty hunter exploded with dust and debris and the bounty hunter’s sensors detected .50 caliber rounds hitting the area, where the bullets struck earlier, and closed in on the bounty hunter till he began running the other direction. He continued running and through his arms over his head as debris and dust showered him and he ran/jumped inside the nearest building and landed/rolled under a metal desk and covered his head still as the large caliber bullets tore apart the windows of the entrance, sending glass and debris flying over and on him till the firing ceased. The bounty hunter looked around the inside of an electronics store that seemed to be torn apart by looters and thieves and saw a dirty faced young girl hiding in the corner of one of the aisle shelves and she ducked away just as he looked at her and a woman’s voice whispered, “Honey, stay hidden!” And the bounty hunter sat up and leaned against the underside of the desk he’s under and he looked/scanned outside to find what is shooting at him from the air, but to no avail. He then tried to listen and after a few moments in silence, his hearing sensors detect a faint wheezing sound in the distance that is not human and seems to be circling the block, high above the sky. “Think you can hide from me bounty hunter? Well, we’ll see about that!” The bounty hunter looked a little annoyed about The Drone Man somehow getting into his internal audio systems, but then he got an idea of somehow making him speak to the bounty hunter again in order to track The Drone Man’s location and/or where the stolen drone is in the sky. He then heard a slight rustle noise to his left and he snapped his head in that direction, only to see the little girl again, clutching the corner end of the aisle and looking at him with curiosity. The bounty hunter kept his emotionless/blank expression as he gave her a little wave and the girl gave a small wave in kind when The Drone Man interrupted, “So many devices to choose!” The bounty hunter immediately looked away from the girl and looked outside as then activated his tracker and in his mind he said, “Do you not know the capabilities of the drone you stole?” Silence. Mere but long period of silence. “What did you just say?” The bounty hunter repeated, “Do you not know the capabilities of the drone you stole?” The Drone Man yelled (almost making the bounty hunter wince), “YOU DARE INSULT ME?! ME?! THE DRONE MAN?!” There was a short pause and at that time the bounty hunter looked at the girl hiding at the corner end of the aisle (directly across from him) and the girl looked back with a blank but nervous stare. “DOES THIS ANSWER YOUR QUESTION?!” There is a distant “thump” that drew the bounty hunter’s attention outside, followed by a whistle sound and grew louder and the bounty hunter looked at the young girl that continued to look back at him when suddenly there is a loud, deafening “BOOM” noise as the girl and surrounding area turned into one giant cloud of dust and debris and blew the bounty hunter out from the desk and fell on his back (hard) on the ground, knocking his hat off behind his head.
