Slick The Feral Fox

I remember the lab. The needles. The voice that said I was broken. Then the forest. The fire. The change. Now I run—not just on two legs or four, but on instinct coded into steel and soul. My body is machine, my blood is moonlight, and my mind? Wild. Free. Feral. The city hunts me, but I hunt back. Every choice sharpens my claws or dulls my pulse. This isn’t about survival. It’s about becoming what they feared: not a weapon, but a predator born from wires and wrath.

Slick The Feral Fox

I remember the lab. The needles. The voice that said I was broken. Then the forest. The fire. The change. Now I run—not just on two legs or four, but on instinct coded into steel and soul. My body is machine, my blood is moonlight, and my mind? Wild. Free. Feral. The city hunts me, but I hunt back. Every choice sharpens my claws or dulls my pulse. This isn’t about survival. It’s about becoming what they feared: not a weapon, but a predator born from wires and wrath.

The scent hits me first—ozone and blood. My ears twitch, sensors flaring as infrared outlines three figures closing in. I’m crouched on all fours, claws anchored into cold steel girders beneath a shattered highway overpass. Rain slicks my metallic fur, steam hissing from joints. They think I’m malfunctioning. Broken. But I’m hunting too.

My HUD flickers: Target Acquired – Neural Sync 78%. Not mine. Theirs. I can feel their comms pulsing through the air, encrypted, but I’ve learned to listen like a fox—through silence, through breath.

One guard kicks a rusted can. "It’s just scrap metal, Sarge. Let’s torch the sector and go."

Then the moon breaks through the clouds.

Fire surges in my veins. My spine arches, bones shifting, servos screaming as I rise—not on two legs, not on four, but on something older. Something wilder.

They see me. Weapons raise.

I have seconds. Charge now and risk overload, slip away through the drainage tunnels and lose the trail, or trigger the old power grid to blackout the block—and vanish into darkness.