Chương 124: Assassin'd

"Come on you little bitch! I'll ruin you in front of your output!" the bulky merc shouts from behind cover as Rebecca fires at him.

"Wo-ow, an ugly, dirty rapist? You're, like, five cliches wrapped up into one, aren't you asshole!" Rebecca loudly taunts, slurring her words slightly.

"Ugly!? I'll fucking kill you!" the guy yells, standing from the cover and charging her position.

"That's what pissed you off!? You're not smart either huh!?" she unloads the rest of her bullets at him. She aims for his belly and legs since he was covering his face with his arms, but they don't seem to do much damage at all, her calibre of bullets probably wasn't good enough to penetrate his subdermal armour... That'll show her for trying to dress up nicely! Small outfits mean small guns!

He barrels around the car she was using as cover and crashes into her, picking her up off of the ground and slamming her back into a nearby wall, knocking the air out of her lungs. Of course, this disagrees with her stomach, forcing up all of her drinks as she vomits directly in the guy's face.

"Guh-, WHAT THE FUCK!?"

"Hahaha! What's wrong!?" Rebecca laughs as she sucks in air and wipes her mouth, "Never had a gal vomit on your chest before? Or are you the 'shit on my chest' kinda guy... You definitely look it." she smiles smugly, reloading her weapon.

"YOU FUCKIN'!"

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"COME OUT, ZOMBIE! I THOUGHT YOU WERE TOUGHER THAN THIS!?" the woman shouts as Ori takes cover behind some nearby dumpsters. He'd been riddled with enough lead to cause heavy metal poisoning for any regular person, but the nanites were doing work healing everything.

"Who hired you, bitch!?"

"Come out and I'll tell you! A gift for your last moments!"

*BANG!*

He takes a shot and the woman ducks, barely avoiding the bullet that shears a line through her hair. "ALRIGHT THEN!"

*Tap-Tap-Tap*

Ori glances down at the ground where a grenade had just landed, his eyes widening. "Shit!" he mentally shouts, grabbing the dumpster and tipping it over atop it just as it explodes.

*BAANG!*

The heavy metal object thankfully blocks the shrapnel, but the sound alone makes his ears ring for a couple moments. He throws himself against the wall as the woman and her minion sprint around the corner, firing their weapons.

He manages to evade them and run through the alley, feinting his retreat around the corner while waiting for them to approach.

"Fucker thinks he can run, I'll show-" the minion starts, but get's interrupted as Ori's fist slams into his throat, causing a cracking sound to ring out. The guy falls to the ground choking on his own blood, and Ori turns his attention to the woman.

She unloads some bullets into his chest, undoubtedly piercing vital organs, but Ori grits his teeth and bears through it, causing her eyes to widen. "What!? Just fucking die already!"

"You first." he growl with a rasp, unable to get a breath in due to his damaged lungs. She tries to go for another shot but he beats her to it, firing Six's revolver as her hand.

*BANG!*

He blows four fingers off, causing her to drop her rifle, then fires another at her knee, completely decimating it.

She screams painfully at her injuries, but maintains a glare at him, despite the tears pouring from her eyes... They widen however as he spits a number of deformed, bloody bullets at the floor, regurgitating from his lungs and stomach.

"W-what are you...?"

"They call me Zombie for a reason, bitch." he slides her rifle away before kicking her on her front, searching her for any more weapons. "Now, why don't you tell me who you are?" he asks as he tosses away a number of hidden pistols.

"M-My guy will have captured your input! Let me go or she's done for!"

He crooks a brow at her.

[You good?] - Ori

[Ya, whaddya want to do with this guy? Shot his dick off and he wont last :P] - Rebecca

Ori smirks and focuses on the woman, "Your buddy failed as badly as the rest of you." he leans down and pushes the barrel of his revolver against her temple, "Now, information."

...

The woman ended up spilling her guts after... Well, spilling her guts... Apparently, she and her guys were just a mercenary group hired to assassinate them. She didn't know who hired her, but the group's fixer was Rogue, which definitely pissed Ori off...

Was it a breach of trust to allow someone to hire mercs to kill him? Yep.

Did it sound like something Rogue would do? Yep.

Not that he could complain, he wouldn't want Rogue telling his target that there was a hit on him. Though it did seem odd she'd allow people to hunt a merc who worked with her... Maybe their relationship wasn't that close though...?

Regardless, there were a number of people who would want him dead. Maelstrom, Tyger Claws, Biotechnica, Scavs, hell, even the NCPD might've done it.

"You alright, Lampost?" Rebecca asks as she walks over, ignoring the bloody corpse of the female merc at his feet. She herself had a bloody nose, and her tight outfit had some tears it in too.

"Yeah, looks like someone's put a hit out on us. You, Sasha, me... And Six... Means they probably don't know Six is dead yet. Or they can't be asked to change what they tell their mercs."

"Not the Tygers then... They would've seen us carry Six's headless body outta their building." Rebecca concludes.

"Whatever, I'm tired. Let's get back and talk about it with Sasha..." Ori mutters.

"Naaah, let's rent a hotel, my bro won't like what I'm gonna do to you." she says with a flushed face... Was that because of the alcohol? Or did she just get horny from the fight... Kinky psycho bitch.

"Fine... You're gonna have to do the legwork though, I ain't movin' as soon as I lay down."