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There was no time to stop and the truck plowed right into it.
    The mechanical body broke right in half, completely cybernetic by this time.  The upper half of the body crashed into the windshield, shattering it.
    We both screamed as the glass burst into tiny glittering pieces and an arm dangled between the two of us.
    “Holy…” West bellowed as the truck swerved violently back and forth and we ran over the lower half of the body.
    “Keep driving!” I shouted.  I was about to reach for the shoulders of the body, when its hand suddenly flung out at me, and wrapped around my throat.
    West swore loudly.  “It’s still alive?!”
    “Keep…” I gasped for air as West swerved in an attempt to put distance between himself and the Bane that was somehow still attacking.  “Driving!”
    Wrapping my hands around the wrist, I squeezed until the cybernetic bones crumpled and bent and the hand let go.  Plowing the heel of my hand into what was left of where its nose should have been, its head whipped back with a sickening crunch.  The thing was instantly still.
    But still carrying active TorBane.
    I coughed violently, unbuckling my seatbelt.
    “You okay?” West asked, wild fear in his eyes as he attempted to drive straight.  He leaned as far to the left as possible, attempting to put some space between him and the mangled Bane.
    “Yeah,” I croaked.  My throat was probably bruised.  “Keep driving.  I’ll take care of this.”
    I half stood as well as I could in the cramped space.  Placing my hands on its shoulders, I gave a good shove.  The body slid forward two feet and to the right.  But one of its arms slipped down the front of the hood and caught in the grill.
    “Oh, come on,” West said, looking at the body in disbelief.
    “Keep driving,” I repeated.  I used my boot to knock out the rest of the glass hanging around the frame of the window.  Crawling up onto the dash, I slowly worked my way out onto the hood of the truck.
    As we drove over the bumpy freeway, the arm wedged its way tighter and tighter into the grill.  Finally, I simply snapped the arm off at the elbow.  The rest of the body crashed to the ground.  I tried yanking the rest of the arm free, but it wouldn’t budge.
    “Get back in here, Eve!” West shouted.  “We can have it melted down later.  Sit down before I kill you!”
    An amused chuckle worked its way through my lips as I carefully climbed back up the hood and into the vehicle.
    “Well, this turned into an exciting day,” West said, shaking his head.
    “Yeah, I think the Bane are getting back into the city,” I said, pushing my windblown hair back off my forehead.  “That store was supposed to be fifteen miles inside our perimeter.  They’ll be getting back into the center of the city soon.  I thought I’d cleared all of them out for five hundred miles after the beacon went off.”
    “Just another day in the world of the Evolution,” West said.  “Must have been a Sleeper that recently woke up.  It could have been inactive when you called them all out to the desert.
    “For once, could the element of time just be on our side?” I said, exasperated.
    “What,” West said, smiling at me as he swerved around a particularly large crack in the road.  “And make life simple and boring?”
    I shook my head and laughed.  “Seriously.”
    West was quiet for a moment as he continued to make our way back to the hospital.  “I’m really sorry for how I’ve treated you the last few months.  I’m glad we can be friends again.”
    I looked over at him, a smile pulling on my lips.  “Me too.” 
    And I meant it.
     
    “Avian!” I screamed as we burst through the front doors of the hospital.  I sprinted toward the medical wing, where I was sure I would find him.  “Avian!”
    We collided with each other as I turned the corner, tumbling to the ground.
    “What’s wrong?” Avian asked as we rolled to a stop.  He pulled me up to my knees and placed his