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"Yeah," I said with a short laugh I’d told theht, an abbreviated version of our escape froet Calluh it was just early yesterdaydown the halls of the Austin HARC facility

"You were at the Rosa facility how long?" Jules asked

"Five years Since I elve"

"You were shot, weren’t you?" Micah asked "Riley told ed "I don’t know" It was a codealer or shady friend of ood HARC had caught the human who killed me and my parents and executed him anyway

"Hu each other all the ti the stubble on his chin "It’s like they want to be extinct"

Everyone was aot the joke I shifted in my chair uncouns in the corner "Where’d you guys get all the weapons?"

"We took some from the HARC shuttles that attacked us," Micah said "We ed most of them Well, I shouldn’t say ‘we’ They The very so i weapons left over froh they’d lost, they were still in battle mode"

That made sense HARC had rounded up all the Reboots and killed theured out they could use the young ones to help clean up the cities The Reboots who ed to escape would have needed to be well protected

"HARC was busy with the new cities in Texas and building their facilities and by the time they sent crews out to the old military bases north of Texas, they were stripped bare"

"Hank used to tell this story about driving a tank right past a HARC officer one day," Kyle said with a laugh "He just rolled right on by and the HARC guy never looked twice They had no idea they’dstuff"

"And back then, HARC still thought we had limited brainpower," Micah said "I actually think the Reboots’ organized plan to strip every military base from coast to coast is what prompted all the experiments HARC does on us now They realized they didn’t know crap about us Or ere capable of"

"But the Reboots didn’t attack back then, did they?" I asked I’d never heard of a Reboot attack after the war

"No, the numbers were too small They just stockpiled the weapons for protection When I ht them all with us"

I opened mythem vulnerable to HARC attacks, but the shuttle started to descend and Micah walked over to the pilot He sat down in the passenger’s seat, pointing at so to the east as he ht in front of us," he said with a s to us "Looks like everyone is okay"