บท 270: Fight and Flight
"AAARRGJJH!! GOOD SAAVE ME"
*Crunch!*
Ori shakes the blood and grey matter from his fist and moves onto his next target, sliding over and grabbing the man's foot before swinging him backwards to use as a living shield against the charging Adam Smasher.
The borg doesn't give a single shit and cleaves the man in half before making a grab at Ori, only for the merc to dart to the side, blocking a slug with his arm and clotheslining the offending MaxTac soldier hard enough to behead him.
"YOU'RE DEAD!" Smasher growls as he pursues, but even with his own Boosterware he wasn't as manoeuvrable as Ori, who continued to duck and weave through the panicking soldiers.
Ori pushes a shotgun to the sky while redirecting another at his side to the soldier's colleague. The man flinches and accidentally pulls the trigger, killing his own. Ori snatches the crusher out of the other's hand and bats both over the head's with it, splitting their skulls while snapping the gun in half.
He then grabs the two bodies in either hand to block a barrage of shots from the remaining Arasaka soldiers, only to grunt as Smasher crushes a soldier and rams his wolver claw through Ori's back.
It hadn't cut his spine but it was perilously close to it, Ori replies with a metal elbow to the borg's face, rocking him, but yelps as two MaxTac men speed forwards and start unloading their Crushers into his chest and face.
The slugs break through his defences, turning his organs to mulch while he loses an eye in the process. The nanites turning his face pitch black while reinforcing it is barely enough to stop them from destroying his brain, but the vision was spinning regardless.
He wasn't able to extract himself from Smasher's claws, but the nanites were working on it, using microgenerators to melt them within his body as fast as possible... By this time however, Smasher had already reached around with his other hand to Ori's neck, gripping it tightly.
"This is your end, meat!" he spits as he twists, snapping Ori's neck with a sick CRACK!
His body goes limp but his eyes stay widened and focused. "Motherfucker!" he shouts despite everything from the neck down being paralysed.
"I might be." Smasher smugly remarks, "You have something I want, you will die later." he states and looks to the speckled groups of survivors, "Is the pilot dead!?"
"Y-yes sir!"
"Get another, we're heading back to HQ." he growls, maintaining a crushing grip on Ori's neck, aware of how quickly the merc could heal.
"Oi, Smasher, how's it been being a Corpo slave? That body isn't even yours, is it?"
"Bought and paid for, now shut it."
"You think I won't tell everyone with ears you killed Yorinobu?"
"Don't give a fuck, you want your jaw?"
"My what-"
*SSKKKCUN!*
Ori barely holds in a scream as Adam grips his lower jaw and tears it completely off, flesh and tendon separating and hanging from his face, his tongue left dangling.
[Ready to operate: Flesh Administrator] the collective report while disabling the pain receptors in his face, allowing him to focus.
Troops are sent off to search for his escaped crew but he knew they were long gone, With Lucy in deep net, Kiwi and Sasha with Falco, there was no chance of them getting tracked down.
"S-sir, some of the guys want some-er, payback?" an Arasaka grunt quietly asks Smasher, his friends waiting behind him with crossed arms.
Adam tilts his head at them and shakes Ori's limp body slightly, "Him?" he questions if they meant him or the prisoner.
"Him... Sir."
The borg shrugs, "Go ahead, he won't feel shit though." he says, holding Ori up like a punching bag.
Ugh, this is gonna take a while...
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Ten minutes later they were in an AV headed for Arasaka tower, Smasher still gripping Ori's neck like a vice... His jaw had already regrown but he'd wisely kept his silence, until now...
"Hey, Smasher."
"What, meat? Do I need to tear out your tongue this time?"
"Knock, knock."
...
"Come on, play along."
"Quiet."
"Fine." Ori mutters. "Let's go!" he mentally orders the nanites, who expel the newly regrown Monowire from his wrist, wrapping it around Smasher's knee and pulling hard, severing vital fragile components.
"WHAT!?" Smasher growls as he drops to a knee, Ori's body smashing his elbow into the borg's face to escape his grasp. The other soldiers in the cabin go to act but he sweeps the Monowire around, cutting them to pieces... Along with breaching the hull of the AV.
*Beep-Beep-Beep-Beep!*
Alarms blare as the wire catches and short-circs an engine, and the nanites take full advantage by throwing Ori's body against the breach. He crashes through the metal and is sent tumbling to the city below, no, not the city, the river between City Central and Japantown.
"FUCK YOU SMASHEEEeeerrrrr!!" he shouts as he falls, cackling as the enraged cyborg grips the severed walls of the AV and slams them closed like a door.
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*Slam!*
Smasher stomps into the corporate room despite his sparking knee and glares at the occupants, his red optics glowing dangerously, "Are you playing with me!?"
Hanako Arasaka crosses her legs, Sandayu Oda and Takamura Goro standing protectively at her back. "I suppose you lost the prisoner, then?"
"Who's fucking fault do you think that is!? You forget to mention he didn't need his spine to move!" he glowers.
"Mind your tongue!" Oda exclaims with a glare.
"Fuck you, I did my job, and you give me faulty intel!?"
"I told you what we know. The target can operate while unconscious, and can recover quickly from any wounds, even fatal ones... It is you who should have suspected he had more tricks." Hanako neutrally states.
"And what now? He's gone, dust in the wind, our contract doesn't mean shit!"
Hanako steples her fingers, "He won't leave, not while he still has resources. Get yourself repaired and ready, the assault on Sekaiheiwa will begin soon."
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บท 271: Lake Metal
[Judy, fucking black-alert, liquidate everything, recover Christy from whatever the fuck op she's currently on. Hanako played her hand and we're looking at a grade B to A FUCKED sitch right about now] - Ori
[Ori!? Where the hell are you!? The others think you got scrapped by Smasher!] - Judy
[I'm at the bottom of the canal right now, heavy-ass chrome and water don't mix! Don't send an evac, it'll be spotted a mile off by the search crews looking for my corpse... While I'm marching my ass to Zombie HQ you get everything of worth out, get our runners on double-time, I wouldn't put it past Arasaka to shoot that fucking soul-killer thing at us!!!!] - Ori
[Yorinobu's assassination is all over the net, are you sure it was even Arasaka? For all we know Smasher could've swapped creds?] - Judy
[Don't waste time with jank-fuck questions, even if it ain't Hanako we got about two hours before the whole city is on our ass, not mentioning the two AVs full of MaxTac we zeroed. Just dump everything and anything related to Sekaiheiwa and delta! Get a virtu-scrub while you're at it, people might not know your face but they'll look for you anyway! Now ciao, I got half a mile til I get to shore.] - Ori
*Beep!*
Bubbles expel from his mouth and nose as he grunts in annoyance, while he'd been expecting things to fall apart he hadn't thought it was gonna go like this. A controlled demolition is what he wanted, not Yorinobu suicide bombing at his doorstep. Fucking Hanako, should've flatlined the bitch when he had the chance, Yorinobu's love for his sister or not.
He swats away a plastic bag and continues wading through the seabed, the nanites had given him makeshift gills to survive this, but breathing water made it feel like he was perpetually drowning... If he could scream right now he would, but he needed to stay on task and in focus, shit had hit the fan and it was only just getting started.
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The HQ of Sekaiheiwa was in an absolute state, while officially everything was still above board the staff knew better than that. While most of them didn't give a shit about the state of affairs around the higher-ups, the fact that more than half of Sekaiheiwa's stock had been dropped within an hour had spread like wildfire. Most considered it rumours or whatever, but those in the know were preparing their own get-out plans. The smart ones were already gone, even.
Ori's crew had ducked into the 'Zombie HQ' and were licking their wounds after the shitshow that was the parade. Most weren't strangers to fucked up gigs, but that didn't mean everyone was okay with it...
Leo sat rocking in the corner of the room with his face buried in his hands, an unusual look for a hardened prisoner, former or not. It didn't escape him how quickly he'd fallen in the shit with this crew, when he joined he assumed he'd be doing the usual Edgerunner work, klepping for scavs or acting as a bodyguard for those who couldn't afford the security corps.
Now he'd been helping remove higherup Arasaka members, and was even 'involved' in the murder of the god-damned CEO...
Ignoring that though, he was more concerned about the secret he'd been forced to keep, after all, what were the chances that David had ended up in the same cell as his old friend? He should've just told those Arasaka grunts to fuck off, but now he was between a rock and a hard place.
He knew the boss, Ori, didn't like him, but Arasaka had his sitch and was asking, or better yet demanding answers. He'd been played, if he didn't kick something back to them they'd spill the beans to Zombie and he'd get flatlined. If he played ball and Zombie found out he'd be worse than flatlined, shit, he hadn't seen much yet but the rumours of the guy actually eating people didn't seem all that farfetched...
Word got back that he'd survived Smasher and was headed back, which only lent credence to his skill. No regular chrome-fiend could survive a fight with the Oni and escape, especially with an army at his back.
Damn...
"Leo! You alright? You've been lookin' outta it since we got back?" David questions, concerned.
Leo shrugs and makes a show of rubbing the freshly stitched bullet wound at his shoulder, "Just in my own head, you know how it is Davey... Thought you'd been schmoozing it up with your runner-friend by now?"
David's expression didn't shift, not even a blush as he crooks a brow, "Yeah, and?"
"Just saying... You think this is all gonna work out ok? I was under the impression we were betting on that Yorinobu-fuck to keep things moving..."
"We made do in Vegas, we'll lose a shitload of Eds ditching Sekaiheiwa, but it's better than going down with the ship."
Leo frowns, "You say that like that's not what we're doin'..."
"Whachu mean?" David replies, brow furrowed.
"I mean, where do you see this ending? Our guy, the one chance at burning Arasaka is dead, we'll be framed for his murder soon enough... Do you really think there'll be a place we can run and hide? Arasaka ain't so easy to escape..."
"I know... We know." he corrects himself, "But there ain't any better options right now, we could turn to Militech, but they worked with Faraday to fuck with us last time. Every Corp is a shit-shovelling tire fire, can't trust 'em as far as you can throw them. You saw the same shit I did when we were younger, you know as well as me that this world is fucked because of them. We keep moving forward, that's the only path we got left."
...
Leo looks up at his friend with a subdued look, "You sure that's the only choice we got? Or are you letting your biases get the better of ya'?" he asks, lips firmed.
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