Eris stretched out as stepped out of the school front doors with other students that finished their last class of the day and the rain had stopped but the clouds were dark. Kat had to grab something from her locker and told Eris to go get her car ready. Rory chose to ride with Marigold today and it makes sense since his home was on the way to her route back to her family’s farm.

Eris started to walk towards the parking lot and dig her keys out of her pocket. She stopped only a few feet away from her impala as she spotted three people standing in front of it and Eris knew two of them.

The two ladies in front of her impala were captains of soccer, Emily Brooks, and lacrosse, Jessie Hoppen, and Eris figured they were there to ambush her to join their team. The person she didn’t know was some guy she had never seen before and he was sitting on the front of her impala, which made Eris’ eye twitch.

She could hear the girls snickering as if the guy said something funny and Eris walked up behind the girls. “What’s so funny?” Eris asked and the girls parted when they heard Eris’ voice.

“I was just asking these lovely ladies if they wanted to join me in my car ride in my ride.” The guy said and Eris looked him up and down quickly. He looked like your typical rich kid you see on tv and Eris could smell the cockiness off him.

“Your ride?” Eris asked and in the corner of her eyes she could tell both captains were trying their best to not burst out laughing. The guy was about to say something but Eris double clicked her key fob to make it honk loudly under him and make him jump up.

When jumped to his feet Eris grabbed the collar of his sweater and pulled him close to her now snarling face. “You shouldn’t touch something that doesn't belong to you and you for sure shouldn’t touch my impala.” Eris snarled and saw pure terror on the guy’s face. Eris pulled the guy away from her impala and let go of him so he stumbled past her.

The guy turned around and looked completely embarrassed now as fixed his sweater. “Just wait, you hear from my father about this!” He said with a shaky voice before walking away with a huff.

Eris snorted before looking at the ladies, “I’m not in the mood ladies, try to recruit me tomorrow.” Eris said and used her fob to unlock her impala this time.

“Oh, no, I’m just waiting for Jessie as she’s my ride home today.” Emily said and nodded towards Jessie. 

Eris looked to Jessie with raised brow, “I’m here to deliver a message from my dad, Race Night this week is canceled due to weather.” Jessie said. Jessie’s father was one of the police officers that set up events for racing at the local race track and Eris always loves to join those events to show off her impala.

“Ah, I figured that was going to happen, even then I would have missed that day anyways.” Eris smirked and Jessie raised a brow as she knew Eris rarely missed out Race Night. 

“The meteor shower is happening on the same night.” Kat’s voice said to make both ladies jump but Eris had seen Kat walking up to them. “I hope the rain clears up by then.”

“Sounds romantic,” Jessie said as Emily moved to stand beside her and Kat moved to stand beside Eris. “Anyways, ya Race Night is canceled this week and that's it. See ya later, gals.”

“Have a nice evening, ladies.” Eris said as she waved goodbye with Kat and the ladies waved back as they left. “Ready to leave?” Eris asked as opened the passenger door for Kat.

“Yes, I am.” Kat said as slide into the passenger seat and let Eris close the door for her. Eris went around the front of her impala and got into the driver seat. Eris turned on the car after buckling up, “So were you the reason why I saw a freshman huffy and embarrassed.”

Eris simply gave Kat a ‘Who, me?’ expression before giving her sheepish smile before driving the impala out of the parking lot and into traffic.

Eris had got off the highway and onto back dirt roads to get out of the slow moving highway traffic. Eris hummed along with music she had blasting on impala’s stereo and Kat was typing away on her phone. “Your mom is getting a ride from my mother and picking up pizza on the way.” Kat informed Eris. 

“Well you kn-” Eris hit the brakes on her impala hard as a blast of plasma nearly hit the front of the impala. Eris had just seen the bright bolt before it could hit and she was fast enough to react with the brakes. 

Eris quickly pressed a button on the console and silently the energy shield formed around the impala. One of many things she had installed into her impala, just in case this happened again, and looked to Kat.

“I’m fine.” Kat said quickly before pausing and looking out the windshield. Eris followed her gaze and saw an armored humanoid standing in the middle of the dirt road. It looked to be the average height of male human and pointed a plasma rifle at the impala.

He was shouting in some form of alien language but Eris didn’t understand it and she also noticed a jetpack smoke trail to where he was. Eris gripped the wheel, “Hold on.” She hit the gas and showed that her modified impala can accelerate from zero to hundred in less than two seconds.

Either this bounty hunter will be smart enough to dodge with his jetpack or dumb enough to shoot to try to stop the impala, unfortunately for him, he was dumb. The impala hit the hunter straight on and dragged them for a few feet on the hood before being pulled under the impala. Eris slowed down to stop and looked through the back window. 

The moment she saw the hunter get back up she switched to reverse and hit the gas once more. The impala hit the hunter once more and once more the hunter was dragged a few feet on the rear before being pulled under the impala.

Eris stopped once more and looked out the windshield, “I think you got him.” Kat said as looked to see the hunter’s body in the middle of the road. 

“The first hit was to stun and the second one was…” Eris paused as the hunter started to get up once more but slowly. “To get through the shielding of his armor.” Eris shifted to drive and gun it before the hunter could get up. Eris could hear the crunching sound of a hunter under her impala and Kat winced.

“Third time’s a charm,” Kat said and Eris fully stopped the impala to park it. “I’ll call mom while you deal with the body.” Eris smirked as popped the trunk, got out of the impala and tossed her leather coat into the back seat. Kat was using the impala’s console to call her mother and Eris could hear the dial tone when she tossed her coat in the back seat.

The body was still intact but their limbs were twisted in impossible angles for any normal living thing, including the head facing backwards. Eris grabbed the collar of the armor with one hand and the other hand grabbed the hunter’s belt. Eris didn’t have any trouble picking up the body and shoving it into the trunk.

Eris looked over the body before locking on a metal patch emblem on the shoulder pad and she easily ripped it off due to damage the impala did. She slammed the truck before getting back in the driver seat and held it out for Kat to see. “Divgt’er Guild, they like to use clones as unethical bounty hunters.” Eris said before dropping the emblem into one of the cup holders.

“And they don’t send just one, they work as a pack normally.” Chanda’s voice came over the console and Eris shifted into drive before punching the gas. “Get back home and lay low until your mother and I get there. I’m also calling a FCP unit to meet us there.”

Eris could hear loud insectoid hiss and some alien words, which could be mistaken for odd Spanish dialect, and Eris knew that was her mother, she was not saying anything pleasant and not worth repeating. “They are aiming for me, because plasma weapons don’t work well against Vulkein. Also on his bullet belt were kinetic rounds for big game aliens.” Eris explained as she gripped the wheel and felt a shift in her form.

“Alr-Amy, keep your form human, we are still in the public area.” Chanda hissed before the call was cut off. Kat looked at the console with worry but faded away as she realized it was her mother who cut off the call and not a jamming device cutting them off. 

“Hold tight, we’ll get to the house in seconds.” Eris said as pushed her foot down more and Kat gripped the roof handle out of instinct. 

Unit One joined up with Unit Two, Unit Three, and Unit Four after Commander Unit told them that Unit Five was taken down by their target. They had personal active camouflage currently active so they didn’t catch the attention of the local FCP and they could sneak up on their target, a juvenile Talmapeo. 

Any kind of Talmapeo head would be a hefty bounty and lately the Guild was having trouble finding any kind of Talmapeo to hunt. It was just luck that one of the Guild members got solid information about a Talmapeo and their Unit was near this mud hole of a planet.

“U-5’s body was taken by the target, possibly as a trophy or to inform the local FCP,” U-C said over a transmission to all Units. “Tracking U-5’s body and sending its location.”

“Comfirm, U-C,” U-1 said and looked to other members around him. “Once we are at the location we will drop our cloaking, it’s useless against Talmapeo eyesight.”

The other units nodded to U-1’s words, “I say good riddance to U-5, his build was screwy to begin with, had to prove he was better than us.” U-2 said and the others nodded with argument. “I mean we are all clones of the same guy, meaning we are all the same skill set.”

“Enough chat, move out,” U-1 commanded and everyone straightened up to start marching towards their target.