From chapter 4 of Kittens in Babylon
Will the transhumanist future have catgirls? Does Japan still exist? Well, there is your answer.
Quote:"You should have come right here," Dr. Franklin said with a lecturing-----
tone as he glanced toward Shanti and Vivian watching from another part
of the medlab. "Running around with a great bloody hole in your
shoulder. All right, take the jackets off and your weapons, please."
"Right," Rally said, shaking her head as she sat the heavy pistol that had caught Franklin's eye on the table.
"All right, now that that monstrosity is out of..." he paused.
"Wait a minute," Rally said.
With a flick of her left hand, accompanying a wince, a spring-loaded brace pushed out holding a PPG.
"A back up weapon," Garibaldi said in an approving tone from nearby.
"Yeah, you never know," Rally said as she set that on the table next to the pistol.
"Yeah,
it's always nice to have a reserve way to deal death and..." Franklin
stopped as Rally reached around behind her back and produced another
PPG. "Dismemberment."
She reached into her jacket then and drew out a kabar which joined the other weapons on the table.
"Okay,
this is getting a little..." Garibaldi paused as Rally laboriously took
off her jacket and revealed two belts around her waist holding an
exhaustive number of power caps.
"Are you planning on starting a war?" Franklin asked.
"Doctor Franklin," Rally said, wincing as she tried to take the belts off. "If I were geared for war, you'd know it."
"So, is that all the weapons then?" Garibaldi asked.
"That would get in the way of treating my shoulder," Rally confirmed.
Will the transhumanist future have catgirls? Does Japan still exist? Well, there is your answer.