บท 209: Terrorists
Falco drives the group down the highway and straight towards Alexander Street where the bridge into Watson sits. Thankfully almost everyone's attention was drawn towards the explosion hitting Arasaka tower, allowing them to get some distance.
Even though however, the Arasaka AVs were somehow tracking them, flying circles around their general vicinity. They didn't seem to be able to accurately pick out which vehicle they were in, so they started doing the next best thing... Destroying everything on the road.
The door gunners opened fire straight down the street, killing hundreds of people both in their cars and those on the pavement that hadn't heard the emergency broadcast. It was a horrific spectacle of epic proportions, and if it continued any longer they might even start to approach the casualties of the NC Holocaust.
"Shit! I think they're onto us!" Falco exclaims as the cars on either side of the truck got lit up. He'd rapidly slowed down to avoid it but that action alone drew attention to them...
Ori looks around the back of the truck, "You got anything that could take them out? My guns won't get through their armour!"
"Under the seat behind me!"
Maine moves over and Ori cracks it open, revealing a large sniper rifle that'd been pained with camo but scratched and worn down.
"Hey, that's a Militech Catalyst Mk3.2! Special Ops used it in the last Corpo war!" Rebecca states, leaning forwards to examine it as if they weren't currently under fire.
"Less of a history lesson, will it work!?" David asks the question everyone was thinking.
Ori shrugs and hefts it up, it weighed enough that a baseline human would need a stabilizer to shoot it. "It'll have to." he says, stuffing the direly few magazines of ammo into his pocket before kicking the back door open.
"It's only got four shots a clip!" Rebecca intones behind him.
"CAN SOMEONE JUST DO SOMETHING ALREADY!?" Christy shrieks from the wind whipping her hair, pushing herself against the back of Falco's seat.
The AVs seeing Ori all reorient and begin readying themselves, uncaring of the large gun in his hands. He takes aim at the cockpits, knowing whatever calibre bullet this gun had would only break the glass... The shot was stupidly difficult, the bumping of the truck was enough to throw him off, even without Falco swerving to drive past traffic and the wreckages of destroyed vehicles.
Thankfully, the Nanites came in clutch, activating a number of systems they'd stolen from the animal kingdom. The gyrostatic systems of birds were stupidly effective in this scenario, especially when applied to everything above the knee.
*CRACKOW!*
He fires and the bullet strikes the windshield in front of the pilot. The guy behind the glass gapes at the huge cracks running through it and begins evasive manoeuvres, but Ori's next shot stops that.
*SHATTER!*
First the shrapnel of the glass hits the pilot, shredding his face and neck, then the bullet finally puts an end to him. He slumps on the controls which span the AV out of control, at least until the automated systems kick in, forcing it to fly off to a designated area... This left the group with three more AVs to deal with, all of which had already taken aim...
Ori takes aim at another AV but before he or the enemy could fire a large shadow approaches with sirens blaring. "YOU ARE UNDER ARREST! YOU ARE ORDERED TO SURRENDER NOW, OR LETHAL FORCE WILL BE EMPLOYED!" a voice commands from one of the five NCPD AVs as it flies next to the 'terrorists', an automated gun aiming at the door gunner.
"Haha! Looks like the cops are finally good for something!" Pilar laughs.
"Get down you idiot!" Rebecca shouts, pushing him over and Ori braces himself. NCPD or not, the Arasaka men hadn't killed hundreds of people just to stop now, which was obvious when they ignored the officer's order and opened fire on Falco's truck.
"GOD DAMN IT!" Ori shouts as he tries to absorb as much of the fire as possible with his arms. The sheer size of the bullets was punching huge dents into his armoured arms, and those that slipped past went straight through him and into the cabin at his back.
The NCPD also opened fire, instantly killing the nearest Arasaka door gunner and blowing the jet from another, causing it to slow and eventually crash into the road behind the group.
Ori slams the truck's door closed and stumbles back inside with blood gushing from his wounds. His arms had been turned to sieves, his torso in a similar situation. Half of his neck had simply been blown off, destroying the whole external carotid artery, and that's not even mentioning the dozen or so holes where his heart should've been.
He chokes slightly as everyone stares at him with morbid fascination, but he ignores it and spits a globule of organ/blood/who knows what else onto the floor, "E-Everyone good...?" he rasps out, applying pressure to his neck so the nanites would have an easier time healing him.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!?" Christy screams, pulling her foot away from the increasingly growing pool of blood on the floor... Wait, that didn't belong to Ori... Her eyes dart to the size where Dorio sat, clutching her chest with an intense look.
"A-ah... Funny... I-, hadn't noticed that..." she mutters staring down at her blood-covered hand.
"Dorio!?" Maine exclaims, rushing over to her side and almost dropping the stim he'd grabbed. "Shit! You're hit bad!" he mutters as he injects her with it.
"Apply pressure to the wound!" Lucy shouts, rushing over and porting into Dorio's Interface to get a scan from her own systems. Unfortunately, it didn't look good... The bullet had nicked the thoracic aorta and collapsed one lung.
"SHIT! SOMEONE DO SOMETHING!?" Maine shouts, but everyone present was silent. No one could do anything for an injury like that.
"WHY ARE YOU ALL STAYIN' QUIET!? DO YOU NOT WANNA HELP!?" Maine whirls on Ori who was still in the process of recovering. "WHAT ABOUT YOU? YOU GOT YOUR HEAD BLOWN OFF? SURELY YOU CAN HELP HER NOW!?"
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บท 210: Succour
"WHAT ABOUT YOU? YOU GOT YOUR HEAD BLOWN OFF? SURELY YOU CAN HELP HER NOW!?" Maine desperately demands, still applying pressure to the rapidly paling Dorio.
"M-my shit doesn't work like that... It's a personal implant..." Ori breathily utters. He'd questioned the nanites but they were useless here, to work outside his body they had to be in contact or in the immediate vicinity of the Injector, even if he did Inject them into Dorio they'd need to do a full body scan in order to not immediately kill her.
Despite acting as a single consciousness, the nanites were singular existences, from their point of view he'd essentially be throwing them into a minefield and told to fix a single defective mine within a ten-mile radius. They'd be more likely to liquefy her organs than heal her.
"YOU LYING SACK'A SHIT! YOU JUST DON'T WANT NONE OF US IN ON THAT CHROME YOU GOT, AIN'T THAT IT!?" he angrily accuses in response to Ori's refusal. "DON'T THINK I FORGOT WHO'S FUCKIN' FAUL IT IS THAT GOT US IN THIS MESS! THOSE CORPO FUCKERS ARE AFTER YOU!"
Ori scowls, "They're not just after me! They said they were after seven people, and you'd be stupid to think any of us weren't included in that!... I'm sorry, but there's nothing I can do. We should get her to a doc quick and maybe she can be saved-"
"We can't stop nowhere right now! Those goddamned AVs are still on our asses! Three of the NCPD ship already got shot down!" Falco shouts from the front.
Maine just grits his teeth and puts his full attention on Dorio, applying enough pressure to her chest to break a couple ribs. "Lose 'em and find somewhere then! We're not letting her die like this!"
"C-chill out, Maine..." Dorio says despite the blood dribbling from her lips.
"S-shit... Dorio..."
In the background, David catches Lucy's eyes but she shakes her head. He wanted to reassure Maine but he was more likely to get punched in the face right now, ignoring the fact they were still in a police chase.
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Falco skids off of the bridge into Watson and speeds down the southernmost road of Little China, he'd barely avoided one police blockade already, but with how close they were to the NCPD HQ he doubted they'd make it through the next, even with their focus still mostly on the AVs following hot on their trail.
He'd tried to make a getaway through some lesser-known alleys and tunnels, but they'd already been cordoned off by both automated turrets and NCPD patrol cars. Even now three cars were following from around three blocks away, ready to kick the shit outta them if they dared stop.
Despite Maine's assistance, there wasn't any possibility of stopping. "The best chance for her making it through this right now is giving her to the cops! We can break her outta prison afterwards!"
"Fuck that! You heard the kid! Arasaka is hunting us too, whaddya think'll happen if they capture her!?"
"So you're just gonna let her bleed out! She don't have time and we ain't stopping soon!"
"M-Maybe we should surrender too?" David speaks up and everyone turns a glare at him for even suggesting it, "I mean! We'll have a better chance of helping her from the inside, right? 'Cuz it looks to me like we're being run straight outta the city!"
"Don't be fuckin' stupid! You know what they do to people like us!? They'll tear that fancy spine outta your body and dump you in a cell with Tyrone the sphincter inspector! I'll put it in a way you'll understand, WE'LL ALL BE FUCKED!" Pilar shouts.
"But she's gonna die at this rate!" David waves a hand at Dorio.
"David. That isn't an option." Lucy states in a cold tone. "There are fates worse than death."
Pilar quickly nods, "Like getting to know Tyrone!"
"Shut up about that already, we get it!" Rebecca growls.
*BOOM!*
A nearby car explodes almost upturning the truck, forcing Falco to drive on two wheels. Some of the group are thrown to the side but Maine forces himself and Dorio to stay put.
"I-I don't wanna go out like that... T-this suits me fine..." Dorio quietly rasps out.
"You dying at all don't suit me!" Maine shouts, "STAY WITH US, WE'LL FIX THIS!"
"HELL! THERE'S A BLOCKADE OUT FRONT AND THERE'S NO WAY WE'RE GETTIN' THROUGH IT!" Falco shouts from the front.
"Leave it Maine, we both know I'm done..." she reaches up and palms his face, smearing blood over his cheek, "Was fun while it... Lasted..." her hand drops and her eyes stray, and Maine could feel her heart stop beating...
"FUCK! STAY WITH ME! DORIO!... DORIO!"
"WE'RE GONNA RAM 'EM! BRACE YOURSELVES!" Falco repeats.
Maine stares at Dorio's body and grits his teeth hard enough to draw blood, "FUUUCK!" he suddenly roars, standing and opening his arm cannon towards the front windscreen, "OFFF!"
With that he fires, blowing out the window and launches a huge explosive at the blockade, blowing up three patrol cars in an instant. Falco drives straight into the fireball, crashing into one of the wreckages but the truck's weight allows them to push through it, albeit with everyone getting thrown around again.
When they exit the smoke the group found themselves headed down the bridge back into Japantown, much to everyone's confusion. "Why're we heading back in!?" Christy shouts as she pulls herself off of the floor covered in Ori and Dorio's blood.
"The kid was right! The city's a no-go! We gotta get out and lose the heat!" Falco states with squinted eyes due to the shot-out window.
"It isn't like we can do anything else!" Rebecca adds.
"Just do it..." Maine says, dropping next to Dorio's boy and laying a hand on her shoulder.
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