บท 6: Pride before the fall
The tunnel was in absolute chaos, most of the homeless hadn't been able to get out yet since the main entrance was still contested ground. No one wanted to risk their necks in a mad charge, so most were either huddling in places of relative safety or running around like headless chickens.
This was actually pretty beneficial to Ori and Bats, since they weren't all that obvious in the middle of a hysteric group of screaming nobodies. They tried to follow the sound of gunfire as if they had any chance of finding Emmanuel or Cat, that'd be where they were.
It was then that Ori caught his first sight of the Tyger Claws gang, while it was a small group, they were primarily made up of Japanese, or people of Asian descent. They wore Japanese clothing and were heavily modded, which showed with how ridiculously effective they were in combat.
They were fighting against a group of Animals, gangers who modded themselves to be bigger, stronger, and with traits modelled after animals, horns, cat-like ears, some of the freakier ones even had tails installed.
Animal gangers were usually the toughest guys around, but they were being utterly decimated by the Tygar Claws. Oscillating katana blades cut through the enhanced bodies of the brutes like butter while their guns blew holes in them the size of baseballs, they stood absolutely no chance.
It wasn't just their weaponry that was advanced, the Tyger Claws were jumping around the place as if they weighed nothing at all, some even managing to crawl on the ceiling of the tunnel for a better vantage point on the enemy.
"We gotta stay clear of those Psychos, there, most fighting." Bats states, walking them off in the opposite direction.
There, much to their relief, they find his Dad, Emmanuel in a barricaded position trying to fend off more Animal gangers. Rick and some other members of the Quadrano's were there too, though, looking pretty out of shape.
"Dad!" Ori shouts, causing the man's head to whip around to face him.
Then, time slows down... Ori watches in horror as a grenade bounces off of a shack wall and onto the floor next to his Dad, Rick, and the others.
"GET DOW-"
*BOOM!*
Shrapnel flies everywhere, punching hundreds of tiny holes into those unfortunate enough to be near the initial explosion. Emmanuel flies through the air missing his leg, with blood pouring out of his many wounds.
Rick died almost instantly, his body splattering and painting the area crimson. He hadn't even realised the threat, and his life had been snuffed out without his notice.
"DAD!!" Ori roars, throwing Bats off of him as he charges over... Or tries to, his legs lock in place, stopping him from going any further, causing him to tumble onto the floor.
His dad's body had been launched a good distance away from the firefight, and the Animals didn't seem concerned over him, leaving his bleeding body alone as they continue slaughtering the rest of the Quadranos.
Ori had thought it was safe then, trying to push his body towards his Dad. The man was still conscious somehow, his Cybernetic eyes flickering as he crawled towards Ori and Bats, his blood still squirting from his missing leg. "O-Orv-ille..."
"Just move! MOVE!" he shouts, trying to force his body forward, completely ignoring the danger the Animal gangers still presented. "BATS! DO SOMETHING!"
Bats look like a deer caught in the headlights, frozen as he observed the scene. He takes a step forward to try and help Emmanuel but gets knocked over by some fleeing homeless, that wasn't the worst part however...
A group of beggars that'd been living in Casinha for weeks suddenly rushed over and kicked Emmanuel onto his back, one stabbing a knife into his eyes to try and pry the Cybernetics out.
Bats fished out the smart gun Ori had given him and tried to fire at them, only to take a crowbar to the back of his head, knocking him unconscious, his body falling beside Ori who was still unable to move his limbs.
"Stop! YOU FUCKING RATS!" Ori roars as the people his father had tried to look after tore him apart for his Cyberware. They ripped the eyes out of his head, cut open his chest to steal his synthetic lungs, chopped his hands off for the smart links, they even cracked open his skull in search of anything they might've missed.
Ori was useless, his body not functioning and forcing him to watch the rats dissect his father. It didn't take long for them to finish, their work was hasty and probably damaged the components they were harvesting, likely because they were scared that the Animal gangers would take notice of them.
Once they were done they turned their attention to Ori and Bats, while Ori himself had no real Cyberware to speak of, Bats as a Ripperdoc did... Those cunts were almost salivating at the thought of it.
"I'll kill you. I'll kill you all!" Ori growls between gasped breaths, feeling as if his heart would give out from everything that'd happened thus far.
"What should we do with the kid?" one of them asks, looking to who was presumably their boss.
Dirty ragged clothing with dull metal Cyberware visible across his collar bone, he held himself not like a bigger, but a gang leader... Ori knew him, Marv, a 'beggar' who'd managed to get him and his boys under the protection of his dad...
"Strip him like his Pa, heard he was completely 'ganic but might'as well look, right?"
"And the Doc?"
"Do him first, Rippers've always got the best shi-" he starts but is interrupted by one of his men rushing over.
"Boss! Animals are coming back!"
"What? Already? Shit! Grab everything and move out, leave these two, the Animals'll finish 'em off." Marv quickly orders before hurriedly leaving, carrying the box of Cyberware they'd taken from Emmanuel.
Ori sends wrathful glares at their backs as they leave, then turns his eyes to the stripped carcass of his father... Tears pooled beneath him, his rapid breaths suddenly cutting short as the blackness encroaches once again.
"F-uck-ing, ra-tss..." is all he can get out before he passes out.
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บท 7: Regrets
"Uuughhh.." Ori groans as his eyes flicker open, finding himself staring up at a dirty, cracked white ceiling.
As soon as he gathers his thoughts he leans over and vomits off of the side of the bed, memories of recent events filling his mind and throat with bile. He lets out a hoarse breath and slumps backwards back onto the bed, grabbing his eyes and bawling, unable to stop himself.
An agonized shout leaves him as he cries even harder, almost everyone he ever loved and knew was DEAD! TAKEN FROM HIM BY PSYCHOS WHO DIDN'T GIVE A SINGLE FUCK ABOUT WHO THEY HURT! BY PEOPLE THEY WERE PROTECTING!
His Dad, the look of hurt and betrayal on his face as those Scavs tore him apart for parts was burned into his mind. The ignorant yet focused expression on Rick's face as the grenade blew him to pieces. His burning house, his sister missing...
And it was all his fault... He'd even frozen up, unable to save his father from that grizzly fate...
It was too much to bear...
"AHHHHH!!" he cries out again, angrily slamming his fist down on the metal frame of the bed.
"Holy shit! Ori! Kid! Calm down!" Bats' familiar voice exclaims as he runs into the room, grabbing his shoulder and shaking him to help him recover his senses.
Ori continues this until he exhausts himself, breathing heavily and ignoring his now bloody hand as he looks at one of the last Quadranos remaining, "B-Bats... W-what happened..." he forces back a pitiful sniffle that threatened to escape him, along with the looming question that had been haunting him ever since he'd awoken... Why were they still alive? Or to be more accurate, why aren't they dead yet?
Bats just takes a seat on a stool next to the bed and rests his forehead on the metal railing of the bed, "I don't know... By the time I woke up we were just laying in ash, alone... I dragged you here, but-," he sucks in a sniff and stifles the tears gathering in his eyes, "I couldn't go back there... O-Ori, I'm sorry." he quietly mutters, choking up.
...
"Cat..."
Bats shakes his head, "Didn't see her... I couldn't bring myself to check the bodies." he admits.
"S-so... They're still there... Their bodies, just lying in the tunnel..." Ori rasps out, fury rising at the very idea.
Bats nods, "I'm sorry-, so sorry... Kid, I-I'm not strong enough for this, never have been, never will be." he offers sincerely, despite how little that eased Ori.
Thoughts rush to Ori, wondering if things would have been different if Bats had managed to fight instead of instantly getting knocked out... He stifles them however, knowing that 'What ifs' would only ruin what relationship he had left with his only remaining family.
That didn't stop him from blaming himself however, if he'd just left that old man alone, none of this would have happened... If his body hadn't just given out, maybe he could have saved his dad?
He wipes his face of tears and snot and hobbles to the bathroom, stepping in front of the sink mirror... His black hair was matted with dust, ash, and blood, his face gaunt with big black bags under his brown bloodshot eyes.
His focus trails down his face to his chest where the large ugly scar remains, he clutches it tightly for a moment, wondering if he should just finish the job and be done with it...
No. He still had things to do, Cat, she might still be out there... His family, they didn't deserve to rot in a tunnel... And... Revenge.
The old man.
Marv.
Tyger Claws.
Maelstrom.
Animals.
Everyone involved deserved what was coming to them, even if he died doing it, Ori was determined to bring it fruition. As far as he was concerned, he died in the tunnel with the rest of his family.
He spits the rest of the bile in his mouth into the sink before washing his face and stepping out of the bathroom. Bats was still sitting lifelessly on his stool, refusing to meet Ori's gaze.
"Where are we."
"An apartment near the Kabuki Market..." he looks up at him, "There's something else, Ori."
"What?" he growls, unable to stop himself.
"When I was operating on you to fix your ribs... I found something-, odd. Shit that shouldn't be there..." he forces himself to his feet and grabs a laptop from the other room, "Recognise this?" he asks, opening it and showing a closeup of something...
It looked like a barebones spider-robot of some kind, it was composed of many metallic segments and looked like it could alter its form judging by the peculiar add-ons here and there... "No... Why?" he questions.
Bats anxiously chews his lip, "Because you've got billions of these things, at the least, in your blood..." he states, causing Ori to still at the news. The Ripperdoc continues, "They're mainly concentrated around your heart, that scar from what I can tell but-, they're making their way up your spinal cord and into your cerebellum... By this time next week, they'll have infested your entire body..."
...
"C-could these things manipulate my body? They're in my brain so, could they... Take control, of my limbs for example..." he quietly asks, heart thumping hard in his chest.
Bats just gives a tired nod, "Yeah... They could..."
Ori clutches his face and begins pacing, the cigs, his arms, his legs... These fucking bots were the ones that'd stopped him from saving his dad! "Get them out of me, now!" he growls.
"I'm sorry... I really am... But there's nothing I can do..." he quietly says, he pulls something up and turns the laptop, "These things, they're self-replicating, even if we could isolate them, by the time we removed a part, they'd have recovered their numbers. Continue to do this and they'd expend all your body's resources rebuilding themselves."
*Thud!*
The sound of Ori's fist meeting the wall causes Bats to flinch, he pulls his bloody fist back and glares at Bats, "You, you're-..." fucking useless he mentally spits, before shaking his head. "Gun."
"What?"
"I said GIVE ME A FUCKING GUN!" he shouts in response, spittle flying from his mouth.
...
Bats uncovers Ori's pillow, revealing a brand new Budget Arms Slaught-O-Matic pistol. "Kid, don't do something stupid... We're all that's left..."
Ori just shakes his head, grabs one of Bats jackets and storms out, ignoring the man's pleas to stop.
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