IC: Bleeding Edge Options

[kevyn668]

Sue nods. "Keep th' kid here. I'll get th' sheets." He struts off to find something fitting and returns shortly with some old, worn curtins. "This should do," Sue lays the battered green window covers over Blitz's form.

"I'll take th' kid and go with th' spirit and Blitz. You can take Reptile if you want a shotgun rider. While we're at it," Sue unslings the Spaz and hands it to Nick. "Here, take 'er. She's got 7 rounds left but I got my hands full." He opens his arms to reveal the Pred, along with the newly acquired Pred 3, Deputy, and the Thunderbolt.

Sue raises his eyebrows, "Gonna hafta get some way to hold all this up. Know anyone that could help me out with that or some ammo?"

[Fresno Bob]

"I know a guy. His name's Boris, and he could get you enough ammo to kill God, if you wanted.", Nick says, taking the Spas. He slings it over his other shoulder, and straightens up against the weight of all his new guns.

"Good thing those guns survived the explosions, or we'd be empty handed right now. Can't say the same about the lot of bystanders.", Nick says, pointing at a severed leg lying in the gutter. Nick shakes his head and relieves Blitz of his other Thunderbolt.

"This feels wrong somehow. Goddammit, if he'd been using this thing, he might still be alive. Damn prideful bastard.", he says sadly. He goes and climbs down the hole in the roof, and limps over to Reptile and Mickey.

"Hey, Reptile, congratulations, you're riding back with me.", Nick says, smiling. He walks over to Dreamshredder, swings a leg over and stomps on the kickstart. He looks back over his shoulder, waiting for Reptile to get on.

[gobogen]

"Ok, let's go back quick, I really feel we're still not safe here." And Reptile takes the back seat on the bike waiting for Nick.

[Fresno Bob]

Nick revs the bike and shouts "See you back at base camp!", then peels out and drives back to the doss as quick as he can.

[kevyn668]

"A'right, you heard the Big Man, folks. Let's move." Sue draws the Depuity and covers the punk. "I got him, MagicMan. You take thier spellslinger and Blitz's body."

With that, he sets off at a brisk but managable pace. Keeping the kid in front of him.

After a few blocks, "So kid, ya got a name?"

[Large Mike]

The kid seems startled out of a hundred mile stare by the fact that someone's addressing him, and it takes a minute to rouse himself to speech.

"Yeah, make sure they put 'Tarp' on my tombstone," he says in a sarcastic, bitter voice.

[kevyn668]

"Hey Tarp, its a long walk back. Jus' thought you might like a li'l conversation, s'all."

After another block or so, "This don' hafta end like you think it does, Tarp...."

[Large Mike]

"Oh yeah? What, you gonna keep me around as your house-bitch? Cook your food and darn your fucking socks? I ain't got nobody left but Diego, and you obviously gonna put one in *his* fucking skull. There's nothing left for me but to die on my feet."

[kevyn668]

"You wanna go that route, ya can. I want'd ya hear all yer options, s'all."

Sue shrugs, tough crowd. "Look kid, I've lost a gang twice and don' plan on losing this one." He sighs, "I'm tryin' ta help ya out here but you ain't makin' it easy."

[Fresno Bob]

Nick turns the bike to the side and skids to a stop in front of the gang doss. He heads inside with Reptile.

"Go lay down somewhere man. I've got a call to answer.", ha says, flipping open his phone. He checks the voice mail message and calls Sid back.

(Transcript conversation as needed)

N: Hey, Sid, you need a truck? What the hell for?

S: We're...uh, gonna steal some motorcycles to help with the costs of-

N: You know what? I don't have time for this crap. I almost got my leg blown off, and two of our members got wasted, not to mention the truck we did have getting blown to shit. You need a fucking truck?

S: Look, sorry I asked, but-

N: No, don't apologize... Look, I can't do anything about it, but I'll put one of the other gangers on the job. Maybe they'll get you one, maybe not. But that's the best I can do.

S: Alright...thanks man.

N: Yeah.

Nick snaps the phone shut, walks his bike inside, then goes to sit down beside Reptile.

"Well, at least we didn't have to walk back..."

[gobogen]

"Yeah, that's what we won for almost getting killed out there. God damn it, all this wasn't worth the nuyen we received.. "

[Large Mike]

The HQ is... very quiet. You can't even hear any of the backround noise usually associated with Redmond. Gunshots, fights between couples, the occational siren, nothing.

[last_of_the_grea...]

Mickey looks around, making sure noone's tried to move in while they were out. "Remember, the third floor is under siege. Noone goes in or out. Not by windows, not by the stairs, not by cutting through the floor. If anyone wants to leave they have to surrender!"

He looks at the applicants with his half vacant stare. "Go get those pyre's ready."

Then he looks to everyone else. "Reptile, tie up the prisoners. Make sure the mage cannot see or speal and his hands are bound. If he gives you any trouble, break his fingers...then get sue to heal them while you hold them bent out of shape." That last he adds in front of the mage, making sure he knows there are consequences for misbehaving.

[gobogen]

"Ok, boss." Then Reptile goes to find some rope and comes back to tie up the prisoners.

"You guys behave nicely and everything's gonna be just fine. The first one who attempts anything and who doesn't obey me right away will get a broken nose and very tight bonds. Now I'll start with the mojo guy. What I just said applies to you especially, any trace of something suspecious and you're getting something worse than just broken fingers, trust me."

Reptile makes sure all the prisoners are unable to move efficiently, tying them up by feet and hands behind their back, and then their feet and hands tied up together, so that they really can't move. He also covers the mage's eyes and mouth with a sufficient amount of duck-tape.

[Large Mike]

The hog-tieing goes smoothly, and there's some old extention cord that's supple enough to use as rope. But with that finished, someone appears in the doorway. There's a scarred up guy with some bandages on him, standing in the doorway, with a bat that has some nails through it and a crooked grin.

"When the tenants association asked me to look after their problem, I never thought that I'd have such a golden opportunity as this. Laid low, ripe for the pickings."

There's *something* familiar about this one, and he obviously knows you.

[kevyn668]

"Suit yourself, kid." Sue and Tarp walk back to HQ in silence.

Upon arrival, Sue turns over custody to Reptile. "Lemme know if ya change yer mind."

When the new guy w/ the bat makes his presence known Sue feels a shiver run down his spine.

With Blitz gone, the enforcer gig is mine. Looks like its time for some on the job training...

Sue drops a hand to the butt of the Deputy and looks to Nick for the go sign.

[last_of_the_grea...]

Oh, bad timing! This idiot walks in and makes less than subtle threats right after the Bleeding Edge has been through a nasty combat? And all he has is a bat? The bandaged guy must have been one of the guys kicked out. Well, Mickey wasn't about to put up with this crap!In an instant his Predator 2 is in his hand, bucking as 2 rounds rocket down the barrel, exiting the confined space with a sonic boom and a flash of fiery light. A bullet flys through the air, one at bat-man and one at the scared guy who went to get him.

[Large Mike]

The bullets thud into the elfs chest, and he lets out as much of a laugh as he can without air in his lungs. He dives behind the doorframe, and quickly receding footsteps make it seem as though he's gone, but there's still something not right about this.

[Fresno Bob]

Nick slowly rises and pulls the Thunderbolt and Warhawk from his belt.

"Who the fuck was that? What the fuck is going on, you shot him twice...", he says to Mickey.

"Someone go after him, shit!"

[last_of_the_grea...]

"Ricks, astral. Find him. Come back and report. Reptile, guard him. Nick, pacify the prisoners. Everyone else, be ready and hit cover." Mickey took his own advise and leaned up against the wall by the entrance, squatting low with his pistol in hand. "If Widow has anything to do with this, it's gonna hit the fan!"

[Large Mike]

On command, Ricks falls into a pile on the ground, and within an instant he's back, looking a bit worried. "Considering our current wound-licking, we might want to find another way outta here."

[gobogen]

Reptile, to his assault rifle, "It's you and me, baby.. Let's rock."

Reptile comes closer to where the guy was, and points his AK-97 towards the elf, ready to shoot. He makes sure that people outside do not have an angle to shoot him, and he guards the door, shooting the elf if he appears again, and anyone that he doesn't recognize and who seem to be a threat.

[last_of_the_grea...]

"Ricks, report! Who, where and how many? Armed with what?" Mickey's all business now, though his half vacant eyes can be decieving. He switches from his pistol to Nick's SMG, shaking his head while he considers the eventfull day they are having. Anyone that has grenades, go get 'em." If we need to clear space we'll need them."

[Fresno Bob]

Nick puts down the pistols and picks up the SPAS-22 he recently acquired. Then he reaches into the inside pocket in his motorcycle jacket, and pulls out a grenade.

"Reptile gave these to me.", he says to Mickey. "I'm not very good at throwing them. Maybe you could do it." He continues taking the remaining offensive grenade, and the two defensive ones out, and hands them to Mickey.

Then he looks to Reptile.

"Hey Old Man...feel like doing a driveby on this group?", he asks, grinning, and nodding to his bike.

[gobogen]

"If they're not too many of them, yes, of course. But now I'm guarding the door, you guys should watch out too.. that first guy seems to have disappeared.."