IC: Bleeding Edge Options

[Fresno Bob]

Nick was smiling as he smacked some gangers in the head. When the crack came, he dove to the floor like everyone else, and when the kid fell, he smiled again and got up.

The shot to the knee was quite unexpected, but he didn't have time to contemplate that. There was only the pain.

"OH, FUCKING HELL!", Nick screams, clutching his kneecap as blood pumps out under his fingers.

"FUCKITY FUCK FUCK FUCKING FUCK! IT HURTS GOD!", he continues, using his good leg to push himself back against a wall, his boot heel making streaks in the blood pool. Once there, he leans against the wall and stops screaming and starts breathing hard.

"Goddamn...did you see...the size of that fucking cannon? Fuck me...", he gasps. Then he spots Kake.

"Ah...fuck."

[kevyn668]

Sue is immiately at Nick's side, smoke is rising from the two barrels of the shotgun. He tucks the Predator into his waist band and pulls out the flask "Drink this. I'll go find the Magic Man."

Sue leaves the flask w/ Nick and goes off to find to Ricks.

[Fresno Bob]

"Thanks man...", Nick says, taking the flask. He quickly spins the top off and drinks the contents, hoping it makes him nice and drunk. After its empty, he sets it aside, then takes the belt out of his jacket, and tightens it around his knee, in an attempt to staunch the bleeding.

[Digital Heroin]

Blitz moves to cover Nick, just in case anyone's got the bright idea of taking a shot at him while he's down. There's a grim look on the big trog's face. Another failure on his part.

[gobogen]

"Fuck, this is bad. Better call Mickey right away."

Retile dials on his cellphone with his left hand, while holding his smoking AK-97 in his right hand and looking anxiously around for potential threats, ready to shoot.

"Hey Mickey. Fuck! Shit happened. Kake's dead. Nick's badly injured. We don't need reinforcements but Painkiller has to get the fuck down here real quick. Sue's looking for Ricks right now, but send us Pain just in case." Reptile says on the phone really fast, than hangs up.

"Nick, fuck, you need a hand?"

[Fresno Bob]

Feeling the warming effects of the alcohol kicking in, Nick smiles.

"No, mate...I need a knee.", he says, the laughs.

[Grey]

Ricks suddenly appears next to Nick, "Damn man, that looks fucked. Lemme see what I can do about that for ya."

He bends down and grabs ahold of Nicks leg. As the mana flows into Nick, Ricks gives him a wink, noticing the boner that grows inside his pants. "Seductress likes ya I see. I'll get one of my girls to heal that problem for ya when we get back."

Chuckling, Ricks stands back up and wipes his hands off, "Thats the best I can do."

[JongWK]

"I'm comin'! I'm comin'!", says Painkiller as he stumbles across the room.

"Drek, the fragging squatter bited me! Who the frag does he think he is, Neil the Barbarian?!" -He gives a brief look at his wound.

"Hmph, this wound can wait. Ok fellas, who needs a doc and who needs a trip to the chop shop? I can deliver both of them."

[last_of_the_grea...]

Mickey gives the order to secure the floor to Junkie and Bruised, keeping Yellow with him just in case one of the idiots decided to chuck a brick through a window in some petty revenge. Then he gave the applicants the once over after Yellow patted them down and removed anything dangerous.

"Allright, you are going to tell me your name and what you do best when I point at you." He went from left to right, pointing at each in turn, watching how they carried themselves and their body language as much as he listened. An idea popped into his head as he listened...a new gang sign. THe red bandana would suffice, of course, but a proper symbol would do wonders for morale. A red circle-and-slash...with a "sharp gleam" on the top surface of the slash and blood dripping off of it...

His mind returned to the task at hand, then his cellphone rang. Ah, good, he thought. They're there. He caught the hasty message but never got a chance to respond as Reptile hung up the line. Dammit! They were supposed to call before they engaged! Well, it was possible they got caught in a streetfight, but unlikely. He'd scouted those streets himself. If there was a real threat he should have noticed it. He tries to remember who has a phone, then just shrugs and hits the dialback feature to Reptile.

"Reptile, this is Mickey. If Nick is able, hand him the phone. If not, hand it to Blitz." Once the phone is handed over he says, "Report. Situation and status."

[kevyn668]

Standing guard over Ricks as he works his mojo, Sue curses inwardly, Not the best way to impress the new boss, boy.

When Ricks is finished with his business, Sue crouches down next to the captain and huals out the now semi-crushed pack of smokes. He lights two and hands one to Nick. "Whats tha' feel like?" He takes a drag, exhales, and indicates Nick's knee with a nod of his head. "Th' magic, I mean."

[Fresno Bob]

Nick grins when Ricks makes the remark.

"Thanks man. I could use a bit.", he says, taking the smoke from Sue. He takes a drag and looks at him.

"The knee felt awful. Just throbbing pain now. And a weird feeling, like it didn't heal in the right position. The magic felt...", he starts, then trails off, searching for a word. "...warm.", he decides. Then Reptile's phone rings, and he hands it to Nick.

"Situation? We kicked their asses. Its under control. Status? My kneecap got blown off, Ricks healed it. Still hurts though. Some kid with a big shotgun got lucky. Oh, and he killed Kake.", Nick says, then hangs up the phone (Unless Mickey has more things to say)

Nick staggers to his feet and still propping himself against the wall says

"You know, this is the knee that got me arrested, too."

[kevyn668]

@ NIck: "Figures, omae. It was just bad karma..." And pats him on the shoulder.

Sue turns to Blitz, "Ya wanna keep an eye on 'im while me an' the boys police up the place?"

He turns to the rest of the Edgers: "I need a burial detail for Kake. Two men. Take him back the new HQ. The rest of you fan out and search the doss. Pain, your special task is chrome huntin'. Find every peice these bastards have...And get it." Sue takes a deep drag and holds it for a second. "I assume you can come up with a way to dispose of the bodies." He moves to where Nick left the flask and retrieves it. Sue upends it to get the last drop and finding none puts it back in his pocket.

Went to a good cause...

Taking another drag he starts searching the gang house.

[gobogen]

Reptile finds a big blanket and carefully puts Kake's body into it.

"I'll bring him back to HQ while you guys finish the clean-up here. Anyone wants to cover me on the way back? I wouldn't want to have to drop him to defend myself.

"Shit, today was fucked up," he says to himself.

[Digital Heroin]

Blitz simply nods, and he kneels beside Nick. When Reptile comments about the fucked up day, he grunts.

`Welcome to life on the Edge.`

[Large Mike]

The first quatter seems confused about having to pigeonhole himself so quickly. "Uhh... Gene and I... uhh... umm... uhh... fuck." He hangs his head in shame as Mickey points to the next one. Judging by her clothes, she was once the most expensive kind of goth. Now she's not. "I'm Little Raven, and I'd make a great scout or spy. I've been sneaking around my whole life."

The last one is a hard-bitten dwarf, at least fourty years old, who's missing an eye. "I'm Lou, that's short for liuetenant. I've been crushing heads since before the desert wars were even wars."

[Grey]

Ricks reaches into his pocket and pulls out a self-rolled cigarette. He extends his arm out to Nick, "Here, smoke this. It'll help with the pain."

Ricks turns around and as he does so, a tall, thin figure appears before him, "Gather all the guns and weapons together and put them in a a pile over there."

The spirit moves through the room and begins to go about its task, ignoring any looks anyone gives it. Ricks then glances around to make sure no one else is hurt, then turns to Reptile, "I'll cover you." Then, "If anyone else is hurt, let me know now so I can patch you up, the quicker Healing is done, the better."

He then turns back to Nick, "Sorry we lost one of the boys, but all things considered I think this was a big score. With the heat these guys were packin' it could have been a lot worse. And hell, we get all their gear now for ourselves too."

[last_of_the_grea...]

Responding to Nick's report, Mickey says, "Return for debriefing A.S.A.P." He'd deal with the lack of the phone call later.

To the three applicants he is short and to the point. "Lou. Rank: Applicant. Specialty: muscle."

"Little Raven. Rank: Applicant. Specialty: Intelligence."

"Gene. Rank: Applicant. Specialty? Joyboy."

"Now, one of the Bleeding Edge lost their lives today while furthering Our cause. There will be a service and a pyre. Your first job is to go and prepare the pyre. Gather up any broken wood and burnable stuff that is not usefull and set it up in the alley. Begin."

Two birds with one stone. Pyre prepared and garbage removed and disposed of!

[Large Mike]

The three get cracking fairly immediatly, gathering any burnable bits of Jetsam.

[gobogen]

"Thanks, Ricks. I really appreciate."

"Is there anything you want me to tell Mickey before I come back here, Nick?", asks Reptile while covering the corpse in the thick blanket.

Reptile lifts Kake's body in his strong arms and starts to head back to the doss, followed closely by Ricks. Reptile keeps his body very straight and he walks slowly, in order to pay proper respect to the man's soul.

"Ricks, did you know Kake well? Tell me about what he liked and what he did not like in life, I want to know a little bit about this man before the 'funerals'"

[Fresno Bob]

Nick speaks from his precarious stand in the corner.

"Hey, you guys are doing it wrong. We need to take him back to HQ, and pyre him there. Here, we can use his truck. I won't be able to bike.", he says. He starts limping outside.

"Someone else drive. I'm a little drunk."

[Grey]

Ricks grins, "Ummm... and I'm a little short to drive it."

Ricks scans the area as they go outside to make sure they aren't getting jumped by any of the gang members that got away. He then shifts his sight to the Astral to check things out there.

[gobogen]

"All right, boss. I'll drive him back to HQ with Ricks."

Reptile puts the body in the truck and picks up the keys. He then takes place in the driver's seat, waiting for Ricks to get in as well.

[Grey]

Ricks frowns, looking up the street, "Hang on man, I think I see something. Stay with the body and I'll go check it out."

Calling a city spirit to him, he heads up the street, but fades from view as the spirit Conceals him. He moves into the alley where he saw the activity and peeks his head in to take a look.

[gobogen]

"You do that, Magic Man.... Damn! Where did he go!?"

Reptile puts a hand on his Pred just in case, and looks around to try to find what this something could be.

[Large Mike]

Around the corner sit four gangers, each with armored vests and pistols at the ready. They're talking amongst themselves quietly, and obviously keeping a very good eye one one specific chunk of road that the truck is likely to cross in order to leave. One of them has a radio, and seems to be conferring with someone over it.