Frankowski, Leo Tank 1 A Boy and His Tank

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in line, and held his hand out."
"Quincy, we're getting into the part of the story where I know better than you, because Bogdan
Dzerzdzon was my own great-grandfather," I said.
"I didn't realize that you came from such a famous family."
"It's no big thing, since the old man had an awful lot of children, and most of them were not particularly
legitimate. Actually, he's my biological great-grandfather on both sides of my family, but my parents didn't
find out about it until they already had six kids, and there wasn't much they could do about it. For
obvious reasons, my great-grandmothers weren't very eager to talk about the true parentage of some of
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their children, and the facts came out only after they got to genotyping everybody as a standard practice.
But that's another story."
"No, you go on. I'd like to hear about what his family thought about the whole affair."
"If you like," I said, trying to pick up on his breezy style of talking. I did in three more beers telling him
the true story of Bogdan Dzerzdzon, or at least the one that my grand-uncle told me.
"A good story, Mickolai, but you missed the part about how we all had to vote on accepting the
Wealthy Nations Group offer, and we all went to the polls again on the Japanese proposal."
"Well, you were the one who voted for them. I wasn't around to be asked! I just got caught in the
grinder for what you old people did!"
"I suppose you have a right to feel a little bitter about what happened, but all I can say is that it sure
seemed like a good idea at the time. And speaking of time, it's getting late, and I promised Marysia that
I'd do some PT before I went on duty. Even though I'm planning to go the cyborg route, she still nags me
about keeping in shape. What say we run an obstacle course together? And some hand-to-hand combat
would be nice, up against a real human. I've never felt right about fighting with a woman, even if she really
is a tank," he said.
"Personally, I make Agnieshka put on a male persona before I'll fight her, for the same reasons that you
mentioned. I don't mind killing Lech in the least! But working out with you? Sure, why not? I get nagged
about PT, too."
So we ran his course, which was different from the one I usually ran with Kasia, but was just as hard.
We barely kept up with one another, although we both knew that it was faked to keep us even. I half
expected Agnieshka to come bouncing along and join us, but she didn't. Just as well. She can be
embarrassing at times, and I wouldn't want her wearing one of her topless outfits in public.
Quincy was very good at hand-to-hand combat, and even better with a knife. One of the advantages of
fighting in a simulation is that it's absolutely realistic. You really do kill your opponent, before you both get
up healthy and go at it again. Instead of pulling your punches and faking it, the way you have to when
your only body is actually on the line, you can go ahead and break his neck or stick a knife into his heart
and watch him bleed all over you. Or, up against Quincy, you getyour neck broken, or die in other
unpleasant ways.
What's more, ithurts to have your neck broken, and a knife in the gut feels just like a knife in the gut!
Agnieshka insists that pain is a good teacher, but I think that some things are taken entirely too far for the
sake of realism. I knew that they had to be faking Quincy's strength to be up to mine, him being
eighty-five years old and all, but in skill and killer instinct, he was just plain better than I was.
After dying four times, I said, "Enough! But just for fun, let's try it with me in my real body against you,
as your body actually is."
Agnieshka and Marysia were suddenly watching us from the sidelines.
"A reasonable experiment," Quincy said, "But let's fake it to the point that we have hair and suntans.
There's no point in blowing the esthetics entirely."
"Done. Ladies, would you arrange it, please?"
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