Our story begins with Ido rummaging thru the scrapyard, looking for robotic parts. In the process, he finds a fully intact female bust, with functioning spine and brain. He takes it back to his workshop and works on the bust until finally an entire cyborg body has been created and the brain brought back online. Ido asks the cyborg her name, but she can't remember anything about her previous identity or life, and is finally named "Gally." Shortly later the doctor's handyman, Yugo, walks into the workroom, letting Ido know that he's done for the day, but he doesn't leave without catching the attention of a certain young female. As the doctor attempts to bring Gally up to date on the world, he lets her know about the spine thieves, who are involved in the black market trade of spines and brains. Apparently human spines and brains are the only things that cannot be replicated by machines, and are highly valuable. But in order to get these spines, a person is usually slit thru the back and their spine is manually wrenched out of their body, usually while they're still living

As Ido goes out one evening he meets up with his former cyberknetics partner from Zolom, Chiren. Chiren tries to convince Ido to move back to Zolom, but Ido flatly refuses. Later in the evening, as a young girl is being assaulted by brain thieves, Ido appears from the shadows and begins to fight the thieves while the girl runs far, far away. Gally, however is curious to see where Ido goes every night, and has managed to follow him. When she hears his screams of pain she leaps into the fray and suddenly begins to attack the two thieves, both being much larger than she is. She draws on power even she didn't know she had to kill one, and send the other flying off the ally into a ravine. Heading back home, Ido explains to Gally that he has enrolled himself into the group of hunter-warriors throughout Scrap-Iron City that are devoted to keeping the peace. The police that had formerly kept order had been replaced by hunter-warriors, who worked as bounty hunters for the factory, which put out lists of wanted criminals every few hours. Gally decides that the adrenaline rush she gets from killing is worth living for, and enlists herself as a hunter-warrior, much to Ido's dismay. This of course, leads Gally to further her fighting capabilities and generally whoop ass against almost every spine thief she comes across. In the process of fighting, Gally gets stronger and stronger, and is equally coveted by the manager of the factory who wants her as a gladiator and by the deranged Chiren, who's going out of her mind with anger at Ido. Eventually, Gally must face battling enhanced gladiators.

As human beings and andriods, we're all subject to our own ambitions. Yugo's is to go to Zolom. Gally's is to have Yugo love her. Vector's is to have Gally in the gladiators ring. And so, the cycle begins.

Yugo's in the spine-thieving business; it's a fast and fairly easy way to get cash quick. Once he's earned enough, he's paying it to Vector and he's LEAVING.. fast. Vector's happy to take the money of course, he needs the parts and he could use the cash for his lavish life-style. And since Gally has definitely got a thang for Yugo, and when he realizes it, he discovers he shares her sentiment. This is also around the time Vector figures it out too. And as we all know, love can always be manipulated to harm others. So, Vector plots to hold precious Yugo's life in his hands in order to get Gally into the gladiator ring. Which would work pretty well if he did it himself, but all powerful men need to use their not-so-loyal lackies sometime or another.

...Enter Chiren. She basically does nothing until she needs to. Yugo's out killing more and more people for spines in order to raise enough money (Vector has promised him a trip to Zolom if he can collect the right amount of chips). Unfortunately, while leading innocent robots to get a lube job, he gets caught by a hunter-warrior (a durned ugly one too). Yugo himself gets away, but not before the hunter-warrior kills his friend and gets a good look at Yugo's face. So now, Yugo is one of our criminals on the run. Gally, being a hunter-warrior, pays attention to the daily listings every day.. and happens to find Yugo's name flash brightly one evening. So, she sets out to find him. Being emotionally attached to him, she doesn't kill him. Instead they have a nice long heart to heart, which involves a story about how Yugo wants to go to Zolom because that's what his brother always wanted.. until he built an illegal aircraft and was killed brutally in front of Yugo and his (the brother's) wife by a hunter-warrior. Chiren, meanwhile has followed the two to Yugo's current hide-out. And although everything is altogether peaceful, it can't last long. Enter ugly hunter-warrior after Yugo. The hunter-warrior himself is set on killing Yugo just like he killed Yugo's older brother. Gally's not about ready to let Yugo die though, so she defends him valiantly. This particularly hunter-warrior has a grudge against Gally too. Seems Gally's just too darned efficient for him, so he'll have to "accidentally" kill her as well. He's not particularly good at it.. but he does manage to mortally wound Yugo before Gally picks him off. Gally isn't sure what to do in order to save Yugo, but she sure isn't ready to let go. Chiren manages to help Gally re-route some of her life-support system to Yugo in order to keep him alive. His body's a mess but his brain and spine are intact. So she takes him to Ido, who helps put Yugo back together, this time with a cyborg body. You'd think it'd end here and everyone'd be happy, right? WRONG! Yugo's still set on getting to Zolom. So he sneaks out of the recovery room one day and begins climbing one of the many huge chutes coming down from Zolom to Scrap-Iron City (these chutes transport waste to SI City and materials to Zolom). These are, however, rigged to keep trash from Scrap Iron City away. Huge rings with spikes swirl down the chutes periodically in order to kill whatever's hanging from it. Unfortunately, Yugo's in its way. His lower body is totally shredded, but the rest of him's just fine. As he goes flying thru the air Gally manages to grab onto him and stick to the chute using a dagger lodged into it as a handhold. Yugo can't seem to keep his grip tho, and after whispering a few last words of love to Gally, he goes tumbling tumbling down to the earth.