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The Mechanical Octopi approached slowly with laser sights on Grayson, Devika, and Michiko.
“Stay out of their laser sights,” Michiko said. “Their intelligence is modeled on octopus’s brain.”
Grayson aimed and fired at one of the machines; his bullet ricocheted off and struck the wall.
“Shooting won't even put a dent in it,” Devika said.
The octopi leaped into the air, their tentacled knives raised to strike.
BOOM!
Grayson, Devika, and Michiko dove out the way, spreading out across the bridge.
Michiko ducked to avoid a tentacle. One of them stuck in a nearby instrument panel. It tried to pull the tentacle out.
Devika kicked one of the octopus’s tentacles out from underneath it and it crashed to the ground. Then she took another tentacle and jammed it into the octopus’s eye. The
