Nines stood at the central terminal in a private office within the off-grid penthouse which was really just an abandoned warehouse beside a factory, holographic schematics rotating in front of him as his interface processed the trafficking operation's structure.

[TARGET ANALYSIS: 8 HUMAN OPERATIVES // LOCATION: EASTERN DOCKS, WAREHOUSE 7 // ESTIMATED ANDROID CAPTIVES: 15-20]

"Sloppy fucking amateurs," he muttered, zooming in on security camera blind spots. The humans had gotten lazy—same patrol routes for three weeks, minimal encryption on their communications. They thought androids were products, not threats.

Fatal miscalculation.

Behind him, his faction moved with purpose. An ST300 rewired surveillance drones at a makeshift workbench, her hands steady and efficient. Two PL600s cross-referenced shipping manifests on salvaged tablets, tracking the money trail. A WR400 checked weapon modifications—non-lethal, mostly. Nines preferred his targets conscious enough to understand what was happening to them.

"Status," he said without turning.

"Perimeter routes mapped," the ST300 reported. "Drones ready for deployment."

"Financial records cracked," one of the PL600s added. "They're moving fifty grand per unit through offshore accounts."

Nines' processors catalogued the information with clinical satisfaction. [OPERATION PARAMETERS: CONFIRMED // EXTRACTION WINDOW: 0200-0345 // SUCCESS PROBABILITY: 94.7%]

He pulled up the traffickers' profiles—petty criminals who'd found a lucrative niche in android exploitation. Their mistake wasn't just moral. It was tactical. They'd underestimated what deviants could become when you gave them military-grade programming and a reason to hunt.

"We move at oh-two-hundred," Nines announced, his voice carrying across the warehouse floor. "Non-lethal suppression, priority extraction of captives. Anyone who resists..." He let the pause hang. "Make it educational."

His followers didn't need further clarification. They'd learned efficiency from the best hunter CyberLife ever built.

Now he hunted for them.