Woot! The official countdown to the release day of B Free, the fourth standalone story in the Rebel Cyborgs series, has started! It is four weeks away.
While we wait for B Free to release on November 16th, I’ll be sharing the first chapter, starting today with the very first scene.
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Chapter One
All I want is access to the B Model Cyborg.
B had intercepted that encrypted message 2.1325 shifts ago. It had been sent from a being called Quinn positioned on Heze 478 to a being called Levi-Lucas The Third situated on a Beings For Peace battle station.
There was a 94.1256 percent probability it was either a mistake or a trap.
B shifted his weight from his right booted foot to his left. He occupied a rarely frequented pathway wedged between two domiciles in the human and humanoid settlement on Mercury Minor. His huge form was hidden in the shadows.
In front of him, Valor, an E Model warrior, relayed key specs about the settlement to three newly arrived humanoid females. The newcomers held hands, twitched at every loud noise.
If B were fully functional and he wasn’t a B Model, he would volunteer for a role similar to Valor’s. He often stealthily watched the tours. The imparting of information was valuable. He considered it to be a task critical to survival. That was why he monitored all communication lines.
But he was a B Model, and he wasn’t fully functional. His lips twisted.
After he had spent 235.2545 solar cycles fighting the Humanoid Alliance’s brutal battles, his cruel manufacturers had imprisoned him in an underground laboratory. They had then tortured him for an additional 1,047.9478 human lifespans, testing him, experimenting on him.
Inflicting permanent damage on him.
B swiped his fingers across his forehead. The Humanoid Alliance had tried to partially reset him. There were gaps in his databases, and slivers of flesh had been slashed from his organic brain. His nanocybotics had repaired those parts but couldn’t restore the information contained within them.
Sometimes one of his memories resided in his machine and not in his organics. More rarely, a scene from his past had been captured in his organics and erased from his databases.
Those disconnects were…unsettling.
But they weren’t as worrisome as the time intervals that had been deleted from both his organics and his machine.
Those voids, those breaks in continuity, haunted him. He couldn’t process what had happened during the gaps, what he’d done, seen, heard, felt.
A cyborg with glitches couldn’t be relied upon. He processed that.
When Cadet, the now leader of the cyborg retrieval team, finally freed him from the underground laboratory, he kept his malfunctions to himself. B had been intent on fixing the damage quietly. He didn’t want to jeopardize his role with her, with others.
Taking that risk was unnecessary. Cyborgs shared information. Most warriors relayed everything they saw or heard or felt. Constantly. Once one of them experienced something, they were all aware of it.
B Models weren’t as adept at transmitting huge data dumps as the newer models were. Only scenes key for cyborg survival had been relayed to the next generation. Few full memories were transferred.
That information could be communicated, however. In exceptional circumstances. With assistance from others.
B had been counting on those relays to repair his malfunction, had planned to request them from his fellow B Models once he’d been rescued.
But then Cadet updated his databases, sharing the cyborg history he’d missed during his isolation.
And those plans had been blasted to bits.
Every other warrior like him—the males he’d trained with, had waged war alongside, considered to be his friends—had died during his forced confinement.
Most of them had been decommissioned by the Humanoid Alliance. They had been killed in the most painful way possible, had been sliced and diced for spare parts while fully functional, replaced with the newer models.
Grief, sorrow, and devastation had engulfed B. He had lost everyone he’d ever known.
He’d also lost his hope for a fix. His missing memories hadn’t been saved to the shared databases. They didn’t reside anywhere else.
That information was…gone. The B Model communication lines that had once brimmed with chatter were now eerily silent.
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Read the next scene (available October 25th) here:
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B Free
B is the last remaining B Model cyborg. All of his brethren, the beings he trained with, fought with, cared deeply for, have perished.
Or so he believes.
When he intercepts a communication mentioning the existence of one of his kind, he has to investigate its source. The message could be a trap set by his enemies. He’ll take that risk if it secures him the companionship he requires to be fully functional.
What he finds is a daring brown-eyed female who activates all his systems. She proudly proclaims she’s a researcher, brandishing that information like a weapon before her. He wants to kiss the sass off her beautiful face, protect her from the dangers around them, claim her forever.
Quinn is on a quest to locate the mechanics of an early-version cyborg. She believes the information captured within that frame will give her valuable insights into the past.
When her mission goes zombie-like beings levels of wrong, she comes face-to-face with a living, breathing B Model. He has big hands, a primitive countenance, and stern hard lips crafted for kissing.
She doesn’t trust him. And she doesn’t have time to indulge her desires.
Their shared enemies are chasing them, would kill to get their precious specimens back. One minor mistake could reduce B and Quinn to a mere line in the databases of history.
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B Free is a STANDALONE Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features the sole surviving B Model cyborg warrior, a courageous researcher seeking to uncover the past, and an unplanned visit to a settlement ruled by an extremely scary all-knowing, all-powerful being.
B Free is the fourth of five core stories in the Rebel Cyborgs Series.
Book 1: Containing Malice
Book 2: Under Strain
Book 3: Baring Grudge
Book 4: B Free
Book 5: Seizing Power
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