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Crimebot wheeled off the platform. Ross and Zero were close behind. Crimebot blooped. "Home, at last. That was a hell of a train ride!" Just then, a dagger flew past Crimebot's head. He peered to his right quickly, only to see a man wearing a bright red bandana darting behind a very large man who was being carried slowly in his litter.

"Who the hell was that?" asked Ross, drawing his gun.
"Looked like one of Redbeard's men!" said Crimebot.
"Redbeard?" inquired Zero.
"Yeah, he's the leader of the Surly Gentleman's Club over in Port Omegalopolis," Crimebot responded, adding "It's a pretty tough gang of thugs, but they usually don't leave the docks. Something must be up!"
"You mean someone wants you dead," said Zero.
"What do you mean?" asked Crimebot bleepingly.
"It's obvious. If gangs are being paid enough to leave their home turf, then whoever is paying them really wants you dead!" replied Zero menacingly.

Crimebot trembled in his roboots. "K-k-k-kill me?" he said, his voice shaking visibly. Then he became angry, raising his monotone voice. "OF COURSE SOMEONE IS TRYING TO KILL ME YOU IDIOT, HAVEN'T YOU BEEN PAYING ATTENTION AT ALL? NOT AT ALL?" he shouted at Zero, sparks coming out of his auratory ports.

Zero laughed faintly and waved his hand, turning away from Crimebot and attempting to maintain a facade of haughty disdain towards Crimebot's rebuke. But he could not mask the one tear that rolled down his cheek. Crimebot saw it and immediately felt terrible. "I'm sorry, Zero, I'm just a little on edge. I mean, I did almost just get a knife to the face, like, ten seconds ago. Plus it's pretty much been non stop attempted murder ever since I started this journey to find my purpose. I fought zombies! Do you know how many people fight zombies in their lifetimes? Not many! It won't happen ever again, I promise!"
Zero wiped the tear from his eye. "You promise?" he asked meekly.
Crimebot nodded. "I promise!"
Zero smiled, but it was cut short.

A huge javelin missed Ross' head by a few inches. All three of our heroes looked over at a man dressed as a woman who was dressed as an amazon. "Blondebeard's man! This is getting out of hand!" yelled Ross.
"We better get out of here before we get other things chucked at us for dubious reasons," said Crimebot.

Zero and Ross laughed over a root beer at Harry's Bar. Crimebot was "pumping" a witness information. After he was done pumping the witness a cup of water from the water pump outside of Harry's Bar, Crimebot came back into the building. "He didn't know anything about who's trying to kill us," Crimebot said. "But he did tell me about a group of men known as the Shadow Wing who have been paying people to kill us," he finished.

"So," said Ross "Wing Shadow is up to their old tricks again, eh?"
"Old tricks?" asked Zero askingly.
"Yeah. Mainly, hiring people to kill other people," Ross responded.
"So we're in danger again? God dammit!" said Crimebot, throwing up his hands.
"Well, we've got a real lead now, Shadow Wings!" said Ross, cheerfully, "We can target their bases and see if we can't pick up some of their members to interrogate," he finished.

Ross, Zero and Crimebot then set out to find the leaders of the notorious Wing Shadows gang. Little did they know that while they were hunting their quarry, their quarry was, simultaneously, hunting them...