He’d only seen one from a distance. A brute, three meters tall, with a furnace door for a face and fists like wrecking balls. The crabkin must have triggered a silent alarm when he kicked the door.
The crabkin had scattered. Good. One threat at a time. boneworks train station red key
At twenty meters, he dove. The Crate Cracker’s fist slammed down where he’d been, cratering the floor. Victor rolled, came up firing—this time aiming for the hydraulic tubes on its knee. The first few rounds ricocheted. The seventh found its mark. Black fluid sprayed. The brute stumbled, bellowing, and crashed onto one knee. He’d only seen one from a distance
He clicked off his light and crouched behind a baggage carousel. Through the narrow slits of his visor, he saw them: three of the spider-like machines, their single red eyes scanning the floor. They were small, but their pincer jaws could sever a fiber tendon in a second. He waited. One scuttled past, so close he could see the corrosion on its carapace. Its eye beam swept over his boot, paused… then moved on. The crabkin had scattered