Giant Death Robot

Artemis and Jay had encountered Lindstrom several times since they arrived in the lower sectors of the command core. He was able to ditch them, but he was running out of places to hide.

"Lindstrom, you know this is coming and you know you deserve it!" Artemis called out.
"How is that going to get him out?" Jay asked.
"His inflated ego will force him to try and snap back with something else"

"Screw you Pritchard! You deserve to die more than I do! You too Chrysler, you fucking criminal!"

"Case in point" Jay said, shaking his head.

There was a low whistle, a rocket came out of nowhere. It destroyed the catwalk that the pair was walking on, sending them falling down into a drained water tank.

Artemis and Jay looked up to see a giant mech looking back down at them.

"GIANT DEATH ROBOT!" Artemis yelled.

"Yes dear Artemis, the Giant Death Robot Mark V, the robot you built to help the Space Corps fight the communist insurgents on Delta II. Now he fights for the criminal justice system! It's a shame he'll have to kill his daddy" Lindstrom said, standing on a catwalk overlooking the pit.

"GDR, these two are communist insurgents!"

The robot loaded its weapons. "COMMUNISM HAS INFECTED THIS FINE DEMOCRATIC STATION, I WILL REMOVE THE THREAT. PREPARE TO DIE" the robot said in an intimidating, gritty sounding voice.

Artemis and Jay scrambled, dodging rockets and machine gun fire.

"Why don't you use your experiments you stupid bastard!" Artemis yelled.
"Because the Space Corps wanted you! You and your stupid father!" Lindstrom shouted back.
"I can't help who my father is Lindstrom! I always tried to get you involved with the experiments!"

"TOLERANCE IS AN ENCOURAGED PRACTICE, EXCEPT WITH COMMUNISTS" GDR said as he tried to step on Jay. Jay fired on the robot with the rifle, to no avail.

"Artemis how the hell do you stop this thing!" he yelled.

"I programmed it to adapt to its situation! It's seen an obscene amount of combat, it's almost impossible at this point!"

Jay ducked behind the large pipe that Artemis had taken cover behind.

"So, you're telling me we can't beat this thing?" Jay asked.

"There's a possible way, if one of us can get inside the robot it might try to adapt. It will either flood the insides with nerve gas...."

"How does that help?"

"OR, it will heat up the interior. It has to be out of nerve gas by now, the particular gas it used was outlawed just before the end of the war. If it heats up the interior it will cause its computer systems to overheat, and shut down. But then again it might not shut down...but this is our best chance of survival at this point"

Jay shook his head. "Alright, I'll do it. Keep that thing distracted while I find a way inside"

Artemis checked his rifle, and the pistol that he had received from Gums, and ran out into the pit, firing on GDR.

Jay made a break for the robot.

<tag/Jay>

Take down the giant robot!
I've got a plan for Lindstrom.

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