บท 225: Dollar Dollar Bills
*Clank!*
David skids to a stop with a robot falling to pieces behind him, the nearby Lazarus soldiers blearily blinking as the blindness from the flash grenades starts clearing. Activating the Sandevistan once more, he zips around, sliding at superspeed to sever the heads of the nearby men.
*BANG!*
He cringes at the loud sound, ducking his head as a piece of metal flies over and stabs deep into the wall, "HEY! WATCH WHERE YOU'RE FIRING!" he shouts but Maine gives a lazy shrug and gets back to the fighting.
"Little bastard!" someone roars behind him, prompting him to use the Sandevistan again. He turns and slowly slides his blade into the charging man's throat while he's still in mid-stab with the bayonet.
Time resumes and the man stabs air, quickly falling to his knees as blood gushes from his new wound. Surprise and shock mar his face, and he's only able to turn onto his back and stare at David as his life expires.
Pilar runs over like he had a metal pipe up his ass and swipes a radio from a corpse, "The fuckin' hive's been kicked! Finish the hell up so we can taste that gold rush!" he shouts and hurries to the sewer pipes, intent on getting a headstart on blowing a way into the Tower's basement.
David just lets out a short breath and gets back to fighting, his boost in fitness and new Cyberware allowed him to last far longer than in the past, but it was still taxing to use the 'Sandy' too much, especially in small, staggered intervals.
He slices an unaware's soldier down his spine, crippling him, but is startled when the man's body explodes into blood and viscera... The cackling of a certain pale-skinned shorty...
"Hahaha! Red suits you a lot better than yellow, Davey!" she laughs, moving on to her next target.
Five minutes later and almost all the Lazarus men had been taken care of, with just a few left hunkering down in groups and blasting anything that moves... David thought to clear it but Maine drops a hand to his shoulder, "Leave it, let'em deal with the fucks who've been watching us the whole time."
"Watchi-" he pauses, looking toward the entrance of the cave and spotting many eyes peeking at them.
"Those god-damn mole people want our shit. Probably heard the shootin' and came running. All of you! Let's go, Pilar should have the bombs ready!"
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"Seriously, we get new clothes and now ruin 'em like this." Falco adjusts his hat as he tip-toes through the shit-filled sewer water.
David forces himself to ignore the occasional softness underfoot, instead thinking back to his last discussion with Lucy, about their future... She'd pleaded, no, begged that they not return to Night City.
Her reasons for why were obvious, she feared Arasaka, what they'd do if they caught either of them. She wanted to get out of America completely, hide away in some European hole where she could make use of her talents to earn them a living income.
She didn't think the crew could do anything to Arasaka that wouldn't be repaid tenfold. That they were just going to doom themselves if they tried... He half agreed, but whether it was pride, ego, honour, or whatever else you'd name it, he couldn't bring himself to abandon his city, or his crew.
Maine and Ori had basically raised him as a merc, both were going to return to Night City and fight Arasaka, for Dorio and everything else they'd done. He'd heard about their hand in what happened to Ori's sister, and back then he'd promised to help get back at them for it. He'd made many promises that wouldn't be fulfilled unless he went back.
He and Lucy had fought over his decision, until she reluctantly agreed to accompany them back. This only made him feel shittier, he was essentially forcing her to follow them to hell. Making her choose between their relationship and her freedom, her safety.
He reaches up and grips his necklace, wondering what advice his mom would give him if she were still here... It'd barely been a year since she passed, even if she worked with Maine as a smuggler, he wasn't sure if she'd be happy with his choices.
Would she want him to run with Lucy, or stay and try to keep everyone from ending up like Dorio...?
"Shit..." he quietly utters.
Pilar walks over and claps him on the back, "I know right! There's so much of it I can taste it when I breathe!"
...
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"I got it!" Ori shouts, the electric traps covering the vault door switching off and a loud 'clacking' ringing out. The mechanism to the door had unlocked, but the nanite's peculiar method of lock breaking hadn't forced it to open.
Thankfully, there were two human tanks present, with Ori and Maine's cooperation they shifted the large metal door slightly, creating a slight crack with which the crew could duck through.
Ori catches the two large duffle bags and is the first to enter the vault, quickly scanning the interior for any remaining traps. Apparently though, the Crystal Tower probably hadn't expected anyone to get this far.
He smacks a fist into the nearby light switch, illuminating the interior with a crack of the lights. "Damn... We're gonna need more bags."
Behind caged off area were huge walls of deposit boxes, some open while others were closed. More importantly, below them were multiple marble pallets carrying more gold than Ori had ever dreamed of, let alone seen in his lifetime.
Stacks and stacks of gold bullion bars shimmered in the light, and Ori had to force himself to not salivate at the mere sight of it. The rest of the crew's reaction was less restrained.
"HO-LEY-SHEET! LOOK AT THAT FUCKIN' MONEY! WE'RE GOD DAMN MOTHER FUCKING CUNT LICKIN' RICH!" Pilar screams, running over and trying to pry the metal bars of the cage apart, only to fail and sends a helpless, pitiful look at Ori.
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บท 226: Old Money
Maine picks up a gold bar and weighs in his hand, "Anyone know how much these things are actually worth?" he eyes the mintage on the side of the bar, "Shit's as pure as you can get..."
Pilar pauses his massaging of the bullion in his hand and wets his lips, "Well, I checked this shit with Lucy before we started this. A single one of these bars is around a million eddies, maybe more depending on who we sell 'em to."
"A-A million a bar!?" David yelps, almost dropping a bar on his foot.
"You guys forget we have an army comin' for our asses? Grab as much shit as you can and we'll divvy it out later, we still got that blonde bitch to pay anyway!" Falco urges.
"You guys do that, I'll check the deposit boxes, chances that they'll have someone good is pretty high..."
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"I-I don't know if we'll be able to run like this." Rebecca mutters as she strains against the bag. She had almost eighty kilograms of gold in her pack alone, which if Pilar's estimate was correct roughly equalled sixty million Eddies...
To her that number was something outta fantasy land, and she was sure she'd faint if she tried to add up what Maine and Ori were carrying. Both had multiple bags tied to their bodies, all together must've been a couple tons at least.
Billions of Eddies.
Shit, she was getting wet from the thought of it. It was a shame no one would know that they'd done it, their names would go down in history if they did. Who else could steal billions of a Corpo's Eddies in one night?
Not only that, Ori had stashed a pile of data chips he'd found in those safe deposit boxes too. Presumably Corpo secrets which might be worth more than the gold. "C-come on! Let's dip!" she exclaims, shuffling with the crew over to the vault entrance.
She'd rather fucking die than drop a single bar of gold!
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A vein throbs on Ori's forehead as he stomps towards the sewer entrance. Maybe they should've moderated how much they took. Thankfully they could dump some if needed, leave some gold covered in shit for the Corpos to clean up.
*BOOM!*
"Time to go!" Maine exclaims, everyone knowing that the sound was the Lazarus soldiers blowing a hole through the rubble to get to them. They'd check the vault, find gold missing, then scour the place for the hidden exit.
They reached the cave soon enough, finding the Lazarus soldiers dead at the hands of the mole people... They tried to attack the but ended up easily getting annihilated. Having superior numbers was good against grunts, but a specialist crew? No way Jose.
Ori leads them all through the labyrinthian tunnels, taking hidden paths, secret entrances, and other obscure routes to completely lose their pursuers. By the time the Lazarus goons had gotten out of the sewers the crew was long gone.
He took the crew and had them bury the stolen gold under the cracked concrete of an abandoned maintenance tunnel. They'd come back and pick it up once the heat had died, no need to risk taking those incredibly heavy bags out of the underground... Doing so after such a big heist was just asking for trouble.
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"Well done." Aliya smiles as the crew enters her room, freshly cleaned and clothed. "Though, I hadn't expected such a scene..." she admits looking out of her window at the Crystal Tower, which had a section of its foundation collapsed, undoubtedly burying hundreds of people in the process.
Maine shrugs uncaringly, "Can't make an omelette without scrambling a few eggs. We got the job done, that's all that matters."
She nods, "Quite... I don't see the spoils of war with you however?" she queries, obviously expecting them to have brought all the gold along.
"Stashed it." Maine walks over and sits nearby her, "We gotta talk biz though, renegotiate."
"Maine-" David starts but merc shoots him a glare.
"Quiet, kid. I know a bad deal when I see it, what percent were you planning on paying us?" he questions the woman.
Aliya folds her legs, "Five percent, a deserving amount."
"Deserving? What's deserving about that? You sit on your ass in your porcelain tower while we work, and you wanna claim most of the Eddies while you're at it?" Maine angrily asks, "You wanna take billions of Eds worth of gold, and hand us a couple million? And you think we'd sit through that!?"
She sighs, resting a hand on her cheek, "Mercenaries, make a deal but they always want more." she shakes her head, "Fine, you can have half, but you will tell me where you've hidden it and allow my men to confirm the amount, just to make sure you aren't trying to fool me."
Maine snorts, "Fat chance, I can see it in your eye, you wanna run off with it, don't cha?"
Rebecca pulls on Ori's sleeve as the crew watches this with varied expressions, "He ain't serious is he... Sure we're getting the short end, but a couple million Eddies is all we need... Why's he pissing her off...?"
"I don't know... Greed, maybe? I'm not happy with the deal either but we got other things to focus on. Not mentioning the fact we may not even get outta the city without her say so.
"What would you suggest then?" Aliya asks Maine, "What, in your 'wisdom' would you have me do?"
Maine folds his arms, "You pay us upfront, now. And we tell you where the gold's at."
"Do you know how much gold you took?" she queries, sounding cynical.
He furrows his brow behind his specs, "Four billion's worth. Pay up two bill' and we're even. You'll never see our faces again." he says, but Ori was pretty sure Maine was overestimating the amount, three billion was a maybe, four was stretching it.
...
Aliya strolls over to the bar and pours herself a drink, seeming mulling the choice over.
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