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    City Strike
    City Strike
    City Strike
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    City Strike

    By Viola Grace

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    With the transformation from engineers to pilots, the ladies must fight the memories of their ancestors in order to keep their focus on finding the defensive weaponry that goes with their bots. The city holds the key to the weapons, but the bots are on the outside of the gates and the caches are on the inside.

    Each ancient pilot knew where the weapons had been buried, and those memories are now pressed into service as the engineers break through the city gates to get what they need to save their own people.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereXtasy Books Inc
    Release dateMar 18, 2018
    ISBN9781487408022
    City Strike
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    Viola Grace

    Viola Grace (aka Zenina Masters) is a Canadian sci-fi/paranormal romance writer with ambitions to keep writing for the rest of her life. She specializes in short stories because the thrill of discovery, of all those firsts, is what keeps her writing.An artist who enjoys a story that catches you up, whirls you around and sets you down with a smile on your face is all she endeavours to be. She prefers to leave the drama to those who are better suited to it, she always goes for the cheap laugh.

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      Book preview

      City Strike - Viola Grace

      The visit to the city has not gone to plan, and now, the pilots need to find the one thing they can’t do without. Accessories.

      With the transformation from engineers to pilots, the ladies must fight the memories of their ancestors in order to keep their focus on finding the defensive weaponry that goes with their bots. The city holds the key to the weapons, but the bots are on the outside of the gates and the caches are on the inside.

      Each ancient pilot knew where the weapons had been buried, and those memories are now pressed into service as the engineers break through the city gates to get what they need to save their own people.

      The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement, including infringement without monetary gain, is investigated by the FBI and is punishable by up to 5 years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000.

      Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage the electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      City Strike

      Copyright © 2018 Viola Grace

      ISBN: 978-1-4874-0802-2

      Cover art by Angela Waters

      All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher.

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      Devine Destinies, an imprint of eXtasy Books Inc

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      City Strike

      Innate Wright Book 3

      By

      Viola Grace

      Chapter One

      The halls were empty. The halls should not have been empty. Lido looked around as she headed back to Cio. There should have been someone watching the door. Back home the alarm would have sounded.

      She opened the com link. Does anyone else think it is creepily silent?

      Duel piped up, Yes, and I just remembered that I left my laundry in the washing station. This isn’t going to end well for my favourite shirt.

      Lido chuckled. Thanks. But where do you think they are?

      Corbyn murmured, I don’t think they consider us a threat. We are their own kind, more or less.

      Nyvett’s voice came in. Don’t get me started on that.

      Lido was relieved that no one considered the genetic alterations normal.

      Xaia muttered, Why did the first man we met be him? That mayor has a lot to answer for.

      They chuckled softly through their links and each made their way to their respective bots.

      When she finished her walk in the dimness, aided by the lens on the headset that she wore, Lido stopped at the door to Cio’s lift and tried to open it.

      It was locked.

      Hey, they locked us out of the bots. Hima was laughing.

      Lido sighed in relief. It was good to hear Hima laughing again. Her previous surliness wasn’t normal.

      I guess we are going to have to give up. Lido spoke while she opened the electric panel and started to rewire the door.

      The other ladies laughed.

      Lido’s door opened. I’m in.

      Nyvett chuckled. Me too.

      Xaia snickered. I am in the lift and nearly to Ai’s command deck.

      Corbyn muttered, Of course you are. I am in.

      Hima sighed. There. In.

      Duel grunted, Last but not least. In.

      Lido stepped into Cio’s lift. Permission to come aboard.

      Cio’s voice came to her. Granted. I thought you did very well.

      Thank you. It appears that the city has forgotten that our mothers and grandfathers designed this facility. We were taught how to take it apart and put it together before we were ten.

      It seems they have underestimated you.

      They have rotted from the inside. I swear, they have done the enemy’s work for them. By the way, did they come and get the guy from you?

      Yes. They took him away, apologizing to him the entire time. I do not believe that they have any interest in the survival of Bot City or the valley.

      Lido got out on the command deck and checked a few things that her ancestor had shown her. She grinned. Nice. A full kit of tools and small arms.

      How did you know it was there?

      I am your pilot now. What he knew, I now know.

      Thank you.

      She closed the panel and reached for another, getting the med kit.

      What are you doing now?

      "I am going out on your arm for genetic samples from our prisoner. Even if he

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