章 191: Freak Show
"How are things proceeding?" Joanne Koch from the large monitor Zeta sat before.
"They're 'proceeding'." he drawls, "Our contacts with those Nomads suggest a sixty percent fatality rate, and half of those survivors have some degenerative brain disorder afterwards."
"Any noticeable side-effects or obstacles?"
"There is a noticeable difference between people who have boosted antibodies or nanomachinery. On the other hand, people who have to take immunosuppressants are some of the most affected." he explains, going over reports a third time.
She nods, "Good, try and have the weapon target immuno-compromised individuals, killing unaugmented people isn't our goal here. We certainly can't risk that kind of thing spreading in the city proper."
"I'll get the egg-heads working on it."
"How is our other 'project'?" she inquires.
He shrugs, "Gonna have to be more specific there."
"The one we can't talk about like this." she states.
"Ah, that... I can see why you'd not wanna speak about it, even someone like you wants to vomit at the thought." he grimaces, "I'd have never accepted the job if you'd told me that's what I'd be protecting."
She frowns and shakes her head, "I don't care what you think, I want to know if there are any problems that need attending."
Zeta scoffs, "Whatever, your 'freak show' is going 'better than expected' or so the white jackets downstairs say. You need to ask them if you wanna know more, I ain't touching that shit with a missile, even if I'd REALLY like to."
*Bzztch!*
The lights of the room suddenly flicker before turning to normal, causing Zeta to pause, "Hmph, looks like I've got something to take care of. Toodles, boss-lady." he grins, turning off the monitor before giving the finger to the black screen, "Dumb cunt. Once I get my paycheck I'm out."
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Elsewhere :
Sasha quietly lifts the vent away from the ground and climb out, barely avoiding the armed guard who walked past. She'd found herself in some kind of server room and was already shivering with how cold it was, her tight Netrunner suit not providing really any insulation.
She hacks the cameras in nearby hallways and rooms before sneaking over to a corner where she'd located one of the ports into the mainframe. Of course, there was a lot of security preventing just anyone from accessing it, but after some minutes with some specialised software, she gets in...
Unfortunately, she hadn't accessed the full system, merely the memory banks, disconnected from their actual security systems. Even so, this was what they'd come for, evidence that would incriminate Biotechnica.
It takes only a couple seconds of highspeed searching to realise how wrong she'd been in her initial assessment. This wasn't simply a kidnapping and illegal experimentation situation, no... Biotechnica was committing atrocities against humanity, any lesser person would have freaked out and ran at what she'd seen.
Yes, this place did kidnap people, but they weren't the test subjects. The men were harvested before getting incinerated, and the women? Forcefully inseminated, so that the scientists here could attempt to genetically modify the unborn fetuses. They'd even kidnapped smaller children and experimented on them, most died horrific deaths of course, deaths that one could only experience through untested genetic manipulation.
Forget what they'd done to her mother, the things here in this facility were an abomination. Almost every subject died painful deaths as cancer overtook their bodies, genetic abnormalities tearing them apart, even killing the mothers who'd been forced to carry these poor children.
Firming herself, she quickly begins the process of downloading the most important files, documentation of the experiments, etc. Even with all the measures Biotechnica took to scrub their names from everything, you couldn't remove the fact that they built the facility, all of the equipment, and almost everyone working here had some ties with the Corporation.
As far as any court or public opinion was concerned, they were fucked.
*BEEEP!*
Sasha blinks as an alarm goes off as soon as she downloads the first packet, red lights replacing the depressing white fluorescent ones. The doors to the room all lock themselves, and the cameras all get their systems flooded with diagnostic programs.
[They're onto me, but I haven't got the security down yet! I'm setting up scrambler!] - Sasha
[We're comiRP$"%%@-] Ori's message gets corrupted by both her scrambler and the one automatically set up by the facility after the breach.
She could hear guards approaching now, but she continued to download files, even while the facility's own Netrunners and ICE tried to prevent it, it did slow her, but she already had enough to tear the company a new one. But she needed more.
*ThudThudThud!*
A security guard slams his fist into the glass of the locked door, glaring under his visor at Sasha in the corner. "STOP NOW OR WE'LL HAVE TO USE LETHAL MEANS!" he shouts, trying to scan his card to unlock the door.
She flashes him a smile and short-circuits the door, "Sorry! I seem to have gotten lost! Is this Wholefoods or not?"
"Damn you! Come out or I'll start shooting, I swear to god!" he angrily roars, backing up with his assault rifle raised.
"Please! I'm just lost! Can you tell me which direction-"
*Bangbangbangbangbang!"
Well, jigs up. Sasha retrieves her port and sprints to the vent, sliding inside as bullets strike breaking through the security door. The guard slams his shoulder through and tries to tag her, but she slips away before any bullets could hit.
"Fuck! Control, she got away through the vents!"
...
"No!? Even if I was naked and covered in grease I'd never fit!"
...
"I don't give a shit if you dock my pay, I'm not going fucking caving! Someone else sort that shit!"
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Outside, Ori and Rebecca had already jumped into action after receiving Sasha's message. They'd run through the tunnel, uncaring of the cameras, but once they reached the heavily fortified entrance of the facility, they were unsure of what exactly to do...
"You got new arms, put them to use!" Rebecca urges.
"That won't work." he sighs, despite approaching to try it anyway.
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章 192: Monsters
*DANG!DANG!DANG!*
Ori wails on the large metal vault-like door of the facility, leaving shallow fist-shaped imprints with each strike. Unfortunately, at this rate it'd take days or maybe even weeks to break through like this.
"Shit! How the fuck're we gonna get in!?" he growls, throwing even more weight behind his punches, to no avail.
"Watch out!" Rebecca shouts, dropping to a knee and blasting an automatic gun that'd appeared out of the wall.
Reacting quickly, Ori twists slightly and launches a Monowire at the next, cutting a long line into the wall as the gun gets split in two. He pulls the wire back, allowing it to wrap around his arm, the Composite Ceramic plating preventing his entire limb from getting dismembered.
A dozen more guns appear from the ceiling and Rebecca wipes five out by shooting both Guts and an automatic pistol. Ori utilises his new ankle Cyberware and leaps at the wall, bouncing off and spinning midair with his Monowire extended.
*Clatter!*
The remnants of the destroyed defences hit the ground before he does. He lands heavily and steps towards Rebecca, prepared for any other defence that might crop up. "Thank that's all of 'em?"
"Dunno! But we gotta get through soon if we want Sasha back."
*ClllaaACK!*
The door starts the process of opening, and the duo could hear the uttering of guards, likely a whole blockade ready to blow them apart.
Ori shakes his legs, feeling the shock systems reset and ready themselves for another leap. "Stay behind me, this is probably gonna hurt..."
"Not if we kill them first!" she grins, cocking her gun.
He shakes his head and raises his arms in front of him, allowing the nanites to max his defences as much as possible. This was definitely gonna hurt.
*CLAACK!*
"OPEN FIRE!"
Ori launches himself forwards like an arrow, grimacing as the guards used higher calibre ammo and more powerful weaponry against him. Some bullets get through his plating, but they were luckily stopped by the nanite reinforcement enhancing his skin.
Rebecca was behind of course, cackling as she gunned down high-priority targets, like the guys using heavy machine guns or anti-material rifles. A few stray shots hit her, but she avoided them well enough to only receive flesh wounds if they did pierce her own armour.
*CRAASH!*
Ori attempt to clothesline the closest guards, but he was moving too fast, with arms too hard, that he ended up just cutting the unlucky men in half, sending their mangled torsos flying against the back wall.
He kicks another into a group before turning and swinging a Monowire at the ones behind him, cutting all but a few down. Seems like Biotechnica was going for quantity over quality here.
*BANG!*
He stumbles forwards as some brave soul nails him point black in the back with a shotgun, the stopping power would have turned his spine to power, had it not been altered to a titanium composite. "That hurt." he growls as he turns, causing the shocked guard to hurriedly reload his gun.
*Splatter!*
Only for Rebecca to blow his clean off. She runs up and kicks the headless body over, shooting at the other downed but not dead guards scattered around. "Thanks for opening the door, idiots!" she laughs.
"The elevator." he moves, while he'd like to have the nanites deconstruct the corpses, Sasha was probably on a time limit. He scans a stolen I.D and selects the floor below, hoping they'd be done before reinforcements arrived.
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*DangDangDangDang!*
Bullet ping off of the exterior of the vent as Sasha rapidly crawls through it. Of course the facility had a way to track her movement, because why wouldn't they!? She didn't even know where she was anymore, the maze-like vent system sending her sense of direction to hell.
*Crash!*
A hand punches straight through the top of the vent and tries to grab her, she retaliates with her rippers of course, cutting a deep wound into the offending limb.
"AARGH! BITCH! I'LL SKULL-FUCK YOU TO DEATH!"
She shuffles backwards and takes another direction at an intersection, unaware of the rapid incline... She slips and begins sliding down, crashing through some fans until hitting the bottom, crashing through the vent and landing in the middle of some laboratory filled with scientists.
"Ah, well since I'm here..." she bares her teeth and extends her claws.
"W-WAIT-"
*Slash!*
She all but cuts the first man's head off before proceeding to slaughter the rest. They'd thoroughly enhanced their minds with Cyberware, but physically they were worse than the average man.
Flicking the blood off of her hands, she finally realises just where she is... She turns and looks through the nearby glass window, seeing cells upon cells with restrained, pregnant women, all covered head to toe in diagnostic equipment.
There was nothing she could do though... Even if she let them out the guards might just gun them down. Fuck it, let them choose their own fates.
She ports into the nearby door systems and opens them all, remotely releasing the women from their binds. "Stay a slave or die free, I can't do anything else for you!" she speaks through the intercom just as the door to the lab crashes open, a large cyborg eyeing her like a slab of meat.
"Boss'll give me a bonus if I bring you alive... But where's the fun in that!?"
"You can try." she scowls, attempting to hack into his system. It'd take a while given his ICE walls though...
The cyborg chuckles as his arms release steam, opening up to reveal like flamethrowers. "You choose girly, medium-well or crispy?"
"I prefer sashimi," she flexes her claws, "Stand still so I can get a clean cut."
"Hahaha! I like you! Shame you're about to die!" with that, he unleashes fire upon her. She dodges, but he doesn't care, spewing blue flames all around the place, setting fire to anything even flammable.
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