Lone Ranger of Wild West of Wild

 

Lone Ranger Tales

Wild West of Wild

  

Jimmy Loong

July 2013

 

 

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Life was difficult then in the Wild West of the West, but the greed for the land and its contents, drove the colonist there. They were nicknamed the Rangers for their courage and resilience. The land was not without its local predators which were vicious but the ones that the colonists brought out the worst of in the colonists. There are the real ones who worked the land, and the ones who labor on those who did the works. The later are the ones who were termed the outlaws.

That was their mistake. Their last one being an outlaw.

It all started in a farm; termed of reference for a hundred miles of mineral land that was mined by the family that dwell there. The family named the Reid' had twenty drillers on the land; automated units that excavate the ground and hauled the metals out to be stored for picked up by the loaders which made the trip on scheduled stops.

That was the easy part.

The loaders do sometimes get hijacked on route to the designated warehouses. The Reid had the droids on their land to patrol and removed the hijackers.

That was the becoming the difficult part.

The hijackers are getting more deadly weapons, and with their success, the colonists called in the best that their credits could buy. Or do it themselves with their own means. The Reid was one such family and earned the ire of the outlaws. The outlaws made their concern known to the Reid.

They hit the Reid home. The outlaws known as the Cavendish Gang led by Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish and his seven kins. They killed six Reid' family members but they made a mistake. One of the six did not get killed; she was rescued by a droid who was in the area.

Her name was Jenny Reid, or known to her family as Jae. In her home tongue, the name meant Lone.

She was soon to be known as the Lone Ranger of the Wild West of Wild. She had a partner in the droid who saved her life. Its designation was Ton-TO. It was a war machine with a specialized weaponry system; the program to fight like a warrior from the ancient annals of the Apache history. The droid was also known as the Geronimo Series.

Welcome to the Lone Ranger tales of the Wild West of Wild.

 

 

 

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The loader was an automated vehicle with eight large wheels and one large hundred ton space load on its spine. The loader was operated by the builtin processor assisted by its two sets of twin phaser cannons; one on the front and the other to it left rear. That was not stopping power for the automated drone craft which flew alongside at high speed with its wing cannons firing. The first salvo took down the rear cannons and then the front cannons in a spate of seconds. The loader processor was programmed to drive on in such situation until assistance arrived. That would be the armed droids but their timing could be a long time. The outlaws moved in fast; eight light vehicles with two occupants each; one drive and the other was handling the single phaser cannon on the front top of the vehicle.

"Clamped it on, Kake." The one named Kake was in the vehicle next to the front portion of the loader. He was the gunner and had a round metallic unit in his left hand. He threw it at the loader vehicle and it clamped on the metallic side of the loader. Once it was locked in, the unit would send the signals to override the loader processor control and remotely replaced the processor as it main controller. That was the way they hijacked the loader.

The unit exploded on the loader wall preventing the remote override. It was hit by a metal projectile with an explosive head. The projectile was fired from a West Model PH450 side phaser gun with a projectile clip of nine shots. The shooter was a lady figure dressed in a dark leather suit with metal plates that was build to cover the wearer on its upper body and shin greaves. The lady had one a oblong shaped helmet headpiece with the etchings of a bone skull of the Tyrandog design; a local predator of the wild. The helmet had a full face darkened visor that covered her face. Her feet are covered in the silvery white thick boots with the laser blade tucked in the left one. Her guns are in the shoulder twin holsters holding her twin pairs of PH450 but her real weapon was the powered bow on her back with the quiver full of metal heads on the wooden shaft. Her spare clips are on her thigh pockets with the stunned baton there. She was riding a single seater double rimless wheels, with a built in comms unit and a mounted metal projectile gun on each side of the front of the bike. Its a mean machine for one likes to ride wild. The ride’s helmet has a a builtin on screen data update on the mechanics and performance of the bike projected on her visor. Her bike was named Silver.

With the loader still on its original track, the lady on the bike swerved her bike towards the eight feeling vehicles. She still had her gun in her left hand, which she took out Kake who had tried to shoot her with the mounted phaser cannons. Kake slumped back into the vehicle on being shot when the rider shot the vehicle driver. Another vehicle to the left of the bike rider reacted to the new threat.

"Shoot the bike." The gunner was told but he never got to sue the cannons. He was shot in the neck by the war droid named Ton-TO. The droid was red brown in shade and had the figure of man but had four upper limbs. Each limb held a PH450 as the droid was on a hover skidder that looked like surfing board but wider. The difference to the hover skidder was the at the rear was the frame to hold the powered bow and quivers of arrows. It also hold its array of tomahawks and throwing blades.

"Guns are slower." Ton-TO holstered the guns and reached for the bow. It notched in the arrow in and released it in seconds between shots. The three pulled of the bow, took down three more gunners and the rest had decided to flee the place. The lady in the bike wanted to give chase, but Ton-TO cautioned her.

"Kemo-sabe" That meant 'trusted one' in the language of Jae, blew her focused on the chase. "Its all over."

Jae pressed on the brake to stopped the bike. The unit skidded on the uneven terrain but kept upright on the stop. Jae stepped off her left foot from the brake to the ground.

"Tell me why did you stopped me?" Jae pulled off her helmet. Her face scarred on the left side from the the lower eye lid to the shoulder blade made her looked like a monster from the depths. A dark aftermath of her ordeal before her 'death' by the outlaws. She rubbed her smooth forehead while she shook her long het black hair coiled in a bun under her helmet.  Her set of emerald eyes squint from the glaring sun but she had picked up the sight of the hover skidder leveling to the ground. The droid walked off the hover and approached her.

"Your bike needed some cleanup." The droid spoke to the lady.

"Up your socket, Ton-T0'" Jae cursed at the droid. "Why do you always stopped me from shooting those scums?"

"We are to serve the protection of the Colonist." Ton-TO replied. "And also the Cavendish. Others are to be captured and killed when needed. That was our understanding."

"Next time, you bring me back to life, give me the gun to shoot myself." Jae placed on her helmet and rode off on her silver.

"Program erased on the last statement. Subject still needed conditioning for the final objective." Ton-TO recorded the log into his memory banks. Then it boarded the hover skidder to catch up with Jae.