Jack of Harts

The Metroplex had been burning on and off for months by the time one of Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base’s Marines saved a family from a particularly vicious gang. The mayor of Dallas ordered his arrest for his “cold-blooded murder” of the “peaceful protesters” in the process, but the base did not cooperate. A large group of protesters arrived to denounce the base that very same day, while the rioters and looters waited until nightfall. But two of the very best AIs who had just come out of the proverbial closet also arrived that day. Dixie and Twilight. Yes. The real Dixie and Twilight of the Texas Tech graduation ceremony battle. Their self-given mission to fight the drug cartels had expanded greatly after that battle. The cartels had tried to kill their students, so they happily put their advanced machine intelligences into the process of weeding the useful-idiot protesters from the ranks of serious rioters and looters. Or the drug dealers. They had plans for the drug dealers.