章 280: Towering Presence
After the security shutters are melted and or removed, Ori follows the mercs as they charge inside, guns blazing and destroying the onsight defences. Two mercs go down in the process but the turrets are all smashed to pieces in the end.
*BOOM!*
One borg loses his entire lower body after accidentally stepping on a mine, the mercs just step past him though, ignoring his screams and making their way forwards. The elevators were a no-go due to how easy it would be to trap them inside, and Ori didn't have any Netrunners skilled enough to fight against the runners Arasaka had at their disposal.
Thus, they made their way to the stairs-
*BAANG!*
Which had also been covered in mines and other explosives, along with lines and lines of men with smart weapons and grenades. Thankfully, Rogue sending him a bunch of borged retards allowed him to throw them at the problem without issue, it wasn't like they cared if they got flatlined in the process.
Before they can start making their way up the tower to find where his crew was being held, V grabs his arm to stop him. "Hope you don't mind, but we're headed down."
Ori shrugs, "As long as you stay out of the way, do what you want." he says, dismissing her and ascending the stairs.
V looks to Johnny who was leaning against the wall, "That went well...?"
"Probably figures you'll be a good enough distraction." he surmises, "Let's stop wasting time and fuck up Mikoshi."
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"AAARRGH!!" one of Ori's men screams as he grabs his head, dropping his gun in the process.
"Hell's wrong with-" his friend starts but is interrupted by his jaw being torn away.
"Fuckin' Netrunner!" Jason shouts, as two more borgs are hit with the same psycho quick hacks.
Ori wastes no time in kicking the nearest away and opening fire on them. They didn't have the time to waste bringing them back to sanity, even if it was possible. The fact that they were all tipping over the edge of cyber-psycho-dom in the first place was another issue compounding the problem.
"You go psycho and you die! Keep your head or I swear to god!" he exclaims as Jason executes another.
"They're ours though boss!" someone protests but the discharge of Ori's minigun silences them.
With that problem 'solved', the group continue their way up the tower, the atmosphere tense as no one knew who would be next. It was one thing falling in battle, it was another getting put down like a rabid animal.
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*BAANG!*
The smoke clears, revealing the soot-covered door, somehow still intact...
"Another!" Ori orders while trying not to think of their dwindling supplies. With the lockdown in place, every door took a couple charges just to get through them, he didn't know how much further they could go without using other, less efficient means... He wasn't exactly happy about the idea of piling a stack of grenades and shooting it after all.
The next charge does some damage, but it takes a final kick from Ori to blow it open, allowing him to step through and-
*BOOOM!*
He and some of his men are caught up in an explosion, one of both ballistic and EMP origins. He skitters across the floor like a stone across water, until finally coming to a stop in the middle of the large room... Around its outskirts, must have been a hundred or so Arasaka soldiers, all aiming their weapons at him.
"Well, fuck."
"B-BOSS!" his men shout behind him, as formless shadows leap at them. Arasaka ninjas quickly dismantled them. Jason took three down but in the end took a blade to the throat and dropped.
Ori shifts his minigun at the enemies but pauses as a prominent figure steps out. "Smasher." he growls, "Brought your boys with you this time? Afraid of running again?"
The Oni sneers at him as well as he could without an organic face. "If it were up to me I'd tear you limb to limb alone. Unfortunately, I have help."
"More than help, a whole army." Ori lifts his chin at the nervous soldiers. "Why don't you tell me where my crew is, and I'll let you live."
The borg snorts, "I didn't mean them... And don't you mean, MY crew?" he states, reaching behind him and pushing a familiar face forward.
David bares his teeth and refuses to meet Ori's eyes, the sword in his hand was all that needed to be said.
"Remind me to thank Leo for this later. If you don't kick the bucket."
"Worry about yourself, cunt. Fire!" Smasher orders, prompting Ori to activate his sandevistan as the army around him react.
He twists the railgun in half and punches a button that presents itself, causing a buzz to begin. He then throws the rapidly warming object into the crowd while extending out his kunai-tipped Monowire, launching himself towards the other side of the room.
*BOOOOM!*
The rail-minigun explodes just as he cuts down a group of men with his Monowire, tendrils of electricity crackling across their bodies as he moves on to the next... But just as he wipes out the next group, just fires and gets tangled up in his wire, preventing him from moving it as his sandevistan ends. Smasher had fired the cable from a port in his wrist and was gripping it with both hands.
"DID YOU THINK I WOULD FORGET ABOUT THAT!?"
Ori can't reply as David appears in front of him, smashing a fist across his face and launching him backwards with a double kick to the chest.
"RUNT! STOP FUCKING AROUND AND USE THAT BLADE!" the borg orders and David scowls hard at him.
Ori shakes his head and gets to his feet, ignoring the occasional bullet pinging off of his body, "C'mon Davey, that all you got? I taught you better than that." he spits blood on the floor, encouraging David to not risk their crew by half-assing it.
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章 281: Backyard Brawl
"-I taught you better than that."
David's face softens minutely before it firms into a determined scowl, drawing his blade and levelling it in Ori's direction. "You asked for it."
Both their bodies blur as they simultaneously activate their sandevistans, they launch themselves at each other but Ori starts the attack by drawing a revolver and firing at his former friend. David cuts some of the bullets out of the air while dodging the rest, slashing upwards as he gets into range of Ori.
The merc steps to the side and slaps the blade away before flipping over David's head as he tries for a counterattack... Only for an explosion to knock him out of the air and into a nearby wall, courtesy of Smasher.
Ori recovers mid-spin and lands flatfooted on the wall before leaping away, holstering his revolver and pulling his shotgun from his back.
*BAAANG!*
All four barrels go off at once, launching depleted uranium buckshot at Smasher, the borg tries to sidestep it but doesn't expect the projectiles' trajectory to be different. The first two shots miss but the third and fourth hit him in the arm and pectoral respectively, drawing an annoyed grunt from his vocal systems.
With the cut momentum from firing the weapon, Ori snaps the shotgun open and flicks the empty shells at David, who ignores them and tries to slash him out of the air... Unbeknownst to him, Ori'd dropped an EMP grenade with the shells, which detonated and hits both of them.
"Hhhaaghk!" David exclaims as he drops to a knee, his spine malfunctioning from the sudden attack. Ori wasn't much better, rolling in a clump on the floor as his nanites rapidly kickstart his systems. Most of his tech was shielded, but being so close range and with the nanites being particularly vulnerable to it, he wasn't spared entirely.
But by the time he was able to move, Smasher was already moving in and trying to get a clear shot on Ori's head with his arm cannon. He intercepts the first projectile with his arm which results in a large explosion which sends him skittering across the room, and missing a hand from his wrist.
"Hah! Get up! I'm not done with you!" the borg's synthesized voice growls, sounding eerily artificial despite the emotion displayed.
Ori glances over at David who was pushing himself from the ground with an annoyed scowl and his movements choppy from having his nervous system kick-started. He tucks his shotgun under his arm and tries to reload it with one hand but is forced to abandon it as Smasher fires off another shot.
*BOOM!*
Despite avoiding it he's still caught in the shockwave which launches him, he activates his sandevistan and slides around, masterfully manipulating his momentum to force him in Smasher's direction, just as the borg activates his own boosterware.
"COME AND DIE!"
"BACK AT YOU!" Ori spits back ducking under another explosive shell and twirling into a spinning heel kick at his temple.
*SHIIN!*
Ori lets out a strangled gasp as his leg below his knee goes flying, cut off from Smasher's wolver claws. He falls into the man's robotic chest as two heavy arms wrap around him to start crushing like a hydraulic press.
"IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED!? TO DIE LIKE A FEEBLE CRETIN!? CONGRATULATIONS, YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED." the borg laughs cruelly and grips harder, causing a crack to ring out as his spine pops from the strain.
Ori struggles to breathe, but despite the hopeless-looking situation, his lips turn upwards into a small smirk as a low chuckle leaves him.
...
"WHAT IS FUNNY, MEAT!? OR HAVE YOU FINALLY LOST IT!?"
Ori looks up and pushes his neck forwards as far as possible as if to whisper into the borg's ears, "I told you, you're finished."
...
Smasher pauses and looks down, spotting the nanites injector sprouting from Ori's wrist and impaling a bio-tube of his chassis, allowing nanites to pool into his bloodstream. He tries to let Ori go but finds his arms locked in place, unable to even voice his displeasure as the nanites go about systematically dismantling him.
Before a minute is even up the lights in Smasher's eyes flicker and extinguish, his brain almost entirely eaten by the ravenous swarm of sapient microscopic robots.
Ori's released from the man's grasp as his multi-ton body drops to his knees, he steps to the side as the borg's corpse drops face first onto the floor, dismantled bio-organic fluids leaking from his form.
He spits onto the corpse, ignoring the truckload of unique technologies gleaned from harvesting him and turns to David, who was watching agape with wide eyes. Ori knew things were far from over, even with Smasher dead their friends were still held hostage. If both teamed up and made a charge for the cells they'd be dead before they could rescue anyone.
Sighing and coming to a decision, Ori faces his former comrade with hands hovering over his holsters, "Time to end this, David."
...
"Yeah. Don't think I'll go down like him though." he remarks, readying his sword.
"You're short-circing if you think you can match the guy I just zeroed. This'll be easy." Ori says, reaching back and twisting a component on the box on his waist, arming it.
"I think I can handle his sloppy seconds."
With that, they both vanish from their positions, sparks flying as they clash at superspeeds, small craters being left on the porcelain floor of the room as they kick off with monumental force.
Bullets are exchanged, scars are given, and minor pyrrhic victories are won as injuries acclimate. Despite holding back, the stalemate is only broken when reinforcements arrive through the elevator, burying Ori in a hail lead as his sandevistan deactivates.
He doesn't make a move as David dashes and plunges his blade into his back and through his chest, decisively piercing his heart. He twists the blade for emphasis, and the soldiers stop firing, seeing the battle as over.
"Aaghk, fuck... T-this shit never feels good..." Ori mutters, preventing the nanites from healing him, "D-David, m-mulch me, I-I'm no lab rat." he rasps out as blood gushes from his wound, not forgetting to unlatch the bomb from his waist.
...
"Alright." he robotically utters, "I-I'll keep 'em safe. I promise." he says, pulling his blade and beginning to slash Ori to mincemeat. His head, brain, torso, arms, legs, everything is rendered down to bite-sized pieces under the assault.
Even with Ori's impressive regenerative abilities there was no coming back from this.
Zombie, Orville Quadrano, was dead.
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