บท 44: Metal meets Mettle
"HUH!?" Galen utters as his Synaptic Accelerator fires full force, he'd noticed Ori's attention shift, and his other Cyberware was alerting him to danger. He throws his head back just as an almost point-blank shot fires past his face, his ears rang as the back of his head strikes the wall behind him, leaving a dent as he pulls himself out and stands off against the suddenly appearing man.
Six growls at the missed shot, unloading the rest of his shots at the man by fanning his hammer. Galen raises an arm in front of his face, taking most of the bullets while a couple more hit him in the neck. They blow out some of the flesh there, but his extensive Cyberware allows him to weather most of the damage.
"YOU'RE DEAD!" he roars and charges as Six unholsters his gun, raising his hands in a boxer's stance.
Galen throws two rapid swipes that any regular human would barely be able to follow, the spikes protruding out of his knuckles punch holes clear through the metal railing and concrete pillar as he hits them, but Six easily weaves through all of this.
He dodges an uppercut before finally throwing an attack of his own, Six's fist connects with Galen's stomach, the pneumatic system in his arm causing his hand to shoot forward a couple inches, enhancing his attack with explosive force.
*CRACK!*
Galen coughs as both combatants feel a few of his ribs break under the attack, he just grins viciously in response however, ignoring the damage and sending out another combo.
Six dodges most but takes a punch on his chest, a loud *Ding!* ringing out as metal collides with metal. Galen's hand actually gets stuck in place, the spikes in his knuckles caught in place as if they were welded.
Galen tries to pull back but Six doesn't allow him, instead bringing his forearms straight up under the man's elbow.
*CRAACK!*
Galen roars out in pain as his arm bends the wrong way, hyperextending the to point it might as well be folded completely around, parallel with his tricep. "YOU MOTHER FUC-PFFGT!"
Six breaks the guy's nose before bringing his foot straight down on his knee, crippling that too and forcing the guy to kneel on the floor. Galen tries to look up and glare at his opponent but doesn't the chance.
*BANGBANGBANG!*
Six shoves the barrel of his other revolver into the man's mouth and fires under his spine's vertebrae are visible from behind. With that done, his form flickers and vanishes again, leaving the few of Marv's men who'd been watching baffled and shitting themselves with fear.
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Ori and Rebecca hadn't put everything on hold while Six was fighting. With that momentary distraction, Ori had rushed forwards while unfortunately taking a bullet to the lung. Ignoring the taste of blood, he skids to a halt and flies around the shipping container, blowing the arm of the guy who'd shot him completely off.
The guy falls to the ground and tries to hold his remaining arm up in surrender, but Ori just offs him with a bullet to the eye, continuing on. With Rebecca going crazy, and Ori now behind the enemy's cover, it was all too easy to spray down what remained of them.
The guys who'd been guarding the stairs to the basement had tried to support them but ended up getting off'd all the same.
[Everyone here is down.] Ori reports over the comms as he steps over to Rebecca.
[Your target is through the door the merc had arrived from.] Six states.
Ori nods but begins letting out hard, hacking coughs, prompting Rebecca to forcefully pat him on the back.
"You alright there!?"
He lets out one last cough, ending up spitting a bloody bullet out into his hand, the one that'd presumably penetrated a lung... He glances at Rebecca who was just staring down at it with an odd expression. "Look I can expl-"
"Fucking nova! Bro you just spat lead! I thought that was just a saying people used!" she exclaims with a laugh, "You've gotta teach me that after all this! Or is it some cool new Cyberware or somethin'!? Catchin' bullet in your mouth!? I gotta get that installed!"
He shakes his head, "Let's just finish this." he states, ignoring her excitement and making his way upstairs.
"Hey! You can't just leave me hangin' like that!" she chirps as she follows him. "That douchebag 'Marv' or whatever isn't as important as this!"
Ori pauses his stride and turns to her, raising a hand to her face and resting it near her jaw as his thumb trails the silver line on her cheek where her subdermal armour was now visible. "You're the one with the cool Cyberware, lemme know where to get some of my own after this, k?" he says while inspecting the wound closely, knowing that if he took a bullet to the face like she had he'd be quite dead...
She quickly slaps his hand away and turns to the side, sneering despite the dusting of red on her pale cheeks, "Y-you're the only weirdo around that asks a girl what's under her skin instead of her clothes!"
His mind blanks momentarily at her accusation, only now realising how his actions could've been misconstrued... He recovers though, tilting his head at her, "Weren't you just the one asking to show you what I can do with my mouth?"
She bares her teeth at him, "DO YOU WANNA-"
[We haven't got time for this!] Six angrily growls over the comms, interrupting the duo's byplay.
Ori walks past the still bristly Rebecca and soon reaches the stairs. He kicks open the door and spots Six standing in the hallway next to another, both revolvers at the ready.
"Target's inside."
"Right," Ori mutters while hefting up the LMG. "Let's make this the worst and last day of that fucker's life."
"Just shoot him and get it over with, no point wastin' your time on trash..." Rebecca adds, taking up position behind Ori.
"No. This shit's personal."
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บท 45: Warehouse Raid
Ori kicks open the door and Six steps inside, ready to take the brunt of whatever defences Marv had set up. Strangely, when they step in they see a communications room, with monitors on the wall with camera feeds, a regular office desk, and two people sitting in chairs facing the door.
"Marv." Ori growls at the man on the left who was sitting nonchalantly with his legs folded. As if he wasn't about to get shot by three angry mercs. The guy didn't even blink as Six, Ori, and Rebecca pointed their guns at his face.
"Ori, how's the family?" he smiles 'kindly' back, holding his arms at chest height and showing his empty hands.
"Fuck you!" he angrily spits in response.
Marv tilts his head, "Language. What would your parents think?" he questions smugly.
"Are you insane? You do realise how close you are to getting domed', right? You creepy-lookin' asshole." Rebecca states a scowl after cocking her shotgun, pushing out an unfired shell to add further intimidation.
Marv acknowledges her with a shrug, "Yeah, so? Dyin' ain't that bad, or so my priest tells me. Guy probably doesn't realise where I'm going if there is an afterlife. Besides, I doubt I'll get another chance to mock you rag-tag dick-heads." he glances at Six, "That buddy of yours kept his mouth shut, even after we tore out his tongue. Be proud he only started screamin' when we get below the belt."
"Mother fucker!" Ori grinds his teeth while noting Six's hand visibly trembling in rage as he holds his gun. "I ain't gonna kill you... I'm gonna strap you down in that fucking basement and harvest you like you did to Max!"
Marv chuckles, "How're you gonna do that? You're runnin' outta time." he states, his eyes minutely twitching to the person sitting still at his side.
The others had ignored him until now, not seeing the nerdy, weaponless guy as a threat, not more than Marv at least. They were wrong however, which they realised as soon as their vision started crackling.
"N-Netrunner!" Six rasps, attempting to aim his revolver at the man when his arms fall limply, his Cyberware failing him.
Rebecca was having a similar reaction, her colourful shotgun falling to the ground as she grips her head and lets out a pained shout.
The only Cyberware Ori had was his interface which most people had, but unlike last time with Sasha, the nanites had worked out a countermeasure against this sort of assault... His distorting vision instantly cleared up as the nanites disconnected the Interface from his brain, allowing him to spot Marv drawing a pistol from behind his back.
Ori raises the LMG to fire at him but receives a couple bullets to his arm, causing him to drop it. Another bullet hits his leg, forcing him to kneel.
"Hm? You broke through the Daemon? Weird kid." Marv remarks as he aims the gun at Ori's head. "Say hi to your daddy for me."
*BANG!*
*Thud!*
*BAAANG!*
...
Marv looks down at his hand, or what used to his hand... He looks back up at Ori who was lying on the ground with Rebecca's shotgun, a deep gouge running along the side of his head, above his ear.
It takes a couple seconds for everyone to register what'd just happened, until finally... "FFUUUUUUAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!" Marv lets out an agonized yell as he falls backwards, tipping over his chair as blood squirts from his mangled forearm.
The Netrunner's eyes widen as Ori turns his attention to him, he stands and holds his arms up pleadingly, "Hold on, wait-wait-wai-"
*BAAAANG!*
The shotgun lets out a second blast, this one hitting the guy at center mass and almost cutting him completely in half from the force of the pellets. Some of the camera monitors behind him shatter and spark as they're hit too, sprinkling the Netrunner's corpse with embers as it falls beside the whimpering Marv.
With him dead, Six and Rebecca are released from the hack, both slumping slightly as they attempt to recover from the ordeal, breathing hard breaths.
Ori slowly gets up as the wounds on his arm and legs slowly heal with help from the nanites. His arm was still bleeding, but the worst damage hadn't even come from Marv... His entire arm had been dislocated from shooting Rebecca's shotgun and was now hanging limply.
He ignores the screaming Marv and glances at the pale-chibi, "The fuck is wrong with that thing," he points at the gun with his still working arm, "You swap out the gunpowder with C4 or something!?"
Rebecca gives him a subdued grin, still reeling from the hack-induced migraine, "N-not my fault you can't handle it... You'd need my Cyberware to not break using it..." she lets out a long breath and tiredly shoos him with her hand, "Now deal with the screamer, you were sayin' about 'harvesting' him?" she ventures.
Ori nods, turning his attention to Marv. He limps over the shattered remnants of the guy's pistol and stands over him. The scav glares up, stifling his pained whimpers in some attempt to retain his pride...
"Laugh it up kid. Sometime soon, you're gonna find yourself in the exact same position. People like us, we're all goin' to the same place." he grits out through the pain.
"I don't know about that. Does hell accept package deals? Cuz' I'm sending you there in pieces." he harshly states before attempting to apply a Tourniquet to Marv's arm. He couldn't have him bleeding out so soon. Only to pause when the man starts chuckling, which quickly devolves into full-blown laughter.
"Hahahahahaha! I told you kid! YOU'RE RUNNIN' OUTTA TIME!"
Ori, Six, and Rebecca turn to the cameras as the sound of engines reaches them... A whole fucking fleet of vehicles had just parked outside the warehouse courtyard, all printed with Maelstrom tags. "Oh, shit..."
"What're they doing?" Rebecca questions as three people get outta the lead car, one pushing two emaciated, heavily modded men forwards.
"You ever wondered what happened to those people we kidnapped?" Marv quietly asks with a shit-eating grin on his face, "Those two out there might be the last of your fam."
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