Deep Vengeance..., ...is the Daughter of Deep Silence Options

[Buddha72]

Cypher
You see pulses and random discharges arc out from the lattice all around you. The ripple along the surface of the sphere spasms and you see rips form all along the interior of the node. You watch as two humanoid shapes pull themselves from points of light along the now unstable sphere - you see light gather and a crystalline shell begin to piece around the light.

<< WHAT THE HELL!? ARE YOU MENTAL?! >>

The first figure turns sharply catching sight of you and you watch as one arm begins to restructure into a long and serrated looking blade of light and glass.

<< oh shit this is going to hurt >>

The second figure seems focused on the collapsing node - you see a flow of light and small fragments of crystal as it tries to stop the crash but its clear its too far gone to do anything about.

The reality around begins to fragment and distort as the simsense signal degrades and then abruptly is cut off. You feel the backlash travel through your persona and feel the echoed pain slam into your meat body. Your brain screams as it tastes sound and feels color - your body struggles to adapt to the rapid return of your physical senses. You think you feel something warm running down your neck and face - you suspect blood from your eyes and ears.

All
You see the drones all around suddenly go inert. You hear the sound of the aerial drones striking the floor and hear the motors powering them cycle down.

Ayo
You see Cypher's body through the glass desk begin to spasm and seize. Blood begins to pour freely from his ear, nose and eyes. The angry swarm of drones around you abruptly stop and fall to the ground around you.

Fat Man
You feel the sudden and unexpected thud of a drone landing on you and rolling off to the floor beside you. You hear more than see the crawler drones weapon mounts hitting the floor. Risking a look you see the guns now lifeless in their mountings and no sign of movement from the drones.

[BishopMcQ]

"She's the world's greatest action decker in the world!" The words are slurred and off key as Cypher giddily sings to himself in a high pitched voice.

Stumbling and careening off walls, he begins moving through the hallways. Scooping up a gun and clip off fallen guards, the hacker looks across them for grenades as he continues to weave drunkenly down the hall toward the drone delivery door.

[TacNet [@Emilio] Hey My name is Cypher and the skywalkers...we're here to rescue you. Aideen Kenobi said we should help you out.]

"Medic!! There are people bleeding in the hallway, and I might be one of them."

[Hamagen]

As the drones crash to the ground Breeze pops up from his prone position and aims the pistol at the now powered down drones, he holds still for a moment till he hears someone singing incoherentlyg down the hallways and he looks over to the rest of the team of strangers and says...

"Wha in the blazes is going on?"

[BishopMcQ]

"I crashed the server. You've got thirty seconds to kill the two people that were inside. Then the robots start killing stuff again."

Cypher wipes the blood off his face, and shoves himself off the wall. The bloody print glistens in the lighting. He trips over one of the fallen bodies, rights himself, and keeps moving toward the hatch.

[JxJxA]

With the sudden sound of metallic thuds ricocheting through the hallway, Zerone cautiously looks outside. He glances over the scene, his face twisting into an expression of shock and concern at the sight of Eklipse and Fatman fallen on the ground.

"Oh dear," murmurs the elf in his native tongue.

"I have a medkit with me, it should help get them back to their feet. I...um...I can't really use it right now, as I am maintaining two spells right now...one on myself and one on Mr. Emilio... Does someone else know how to use it?"

[Hamagen]

Breeze, still holding the gun at the downed drones, looks over to the elf...

"Sorry mate, I don't really know anything about medicine or first aid"

[Fenris]

"Do you really need one these days? I thought those things ran themselves, as long as you don't have tendency to crash electronics when you touch them."

Ayo seems a bit distracted as he speaks, bringing his foot methodically down on top of the small drones with vicious, precise little stomps.

[Hamagen]

"I have seen some combat medicine, let me have that medkit, I"ll see what I can do"

[UmaroVI]

Fat Man stood up a bit unsteadily, his vision refocusing as the bruises and burns healed - aside from the damage caused by his own spell's drain.

"I don't know anything about your fancy modern medical things, but I do know about healing magic. Let me help with that."

Fat Man could see Eklipse's aura clearly, indicating the other runner was still alive and just unconscious. Fat Man tucked Eklipse under one arm and carried him to the medical center.

Cypher, can you tell where the magicians controlling the machine spirits are? They don't seem to be in this building, but our shen might be able to go after them if you can give directions they can understand."

[Hamagen]

Breeze helps bringing the downed Eklipse into the recovery room and opens up one of the medkits look around, obviously not sure of what he is doing and muttering to himself in a British accent.

"Yup, I've seen o'l Matty use these before, that bastard, always hurts at first but then makes the pain lessen"

Once the equipment from the medkit are out on the table he picks them up reads a few of the labels then begins administrating what first aid he can.

"Oh this thing, I remember this thing"

Breeze looks up at Fat Man holding up a path with some medicine on it..."This thing is a trip, when your not hurt, it will take you on a ride" the Brit grins.

He continues his work and though it is obvious he has no personal experience with it, it was obvious he has seen combat medicine in action before, perhaps administered on him more often than he cared to admit. Regardless, he was able to patch up Eklipse.

"Next patient!"

[BishopMcQ]

[@FatMan [Cypher] They should be in the building, everything was locked down from wifi outside. Just kill everyone who isn't us...if they aren't the ones who tried to kill you, they are Yakuza and will try to kill you.]

[Hamagen]

Breeze continues to treat Fat Man with the same side comments he makes about the various medical drugs and what they would do to you if you were using them for entertainment instead of their "intended purposes"

The Brit actually stops what he is doing and uses his finguers to do air quotes when saying "intended purposes"

After Fat Man is patched up he looks over to the staggering hacker...

"Looks like you are my next patient!"

[Notsoevildm]

Eklipse's eyes snap open and he tries to sit up. He quickly realises it is not a good idea and allows Breeze to ease him back down on the bed.

He half-closes his eyes and focuses his senses on his injuries. His whole body hurts, especially his arm and he can smell burnt fur and skin.

Just burnt, not broken, he thinks as he carefully moves it, grimacing against the pain.

He opens his eyes and watches as Breeze treats Fat Man. He clears his throat and tests his voice.

"Is the facility secure?"

He pulls up the tacnet in his AR and reviews the data from the time he went unconscious.

[JxJxA]

Isabela spends the next few moments firing lances of golden white fire into the lifeless drones, turning the devices that sought to harm her allies into heaps of ruined slag. When she is finished, she touches the mind of her summoner.

The swords of your foes have been shattered, young one. I shall stay at the ready, just in case another threat should dare to raise its head.

[Buddha72]

All
The sudden quiet fills the space with the occasional sound of movement or action echoing out. The small explosion from the kitchen area is startling one as the grenade tossed in goes off. The team continues its triage and Ayo following the shen called by Fat Man finds the remaining members of the security team. He mercilessly shoots each in the head as they try to get their bearings - apparently suffering the same aftereffects of dumpshock as Cypher. The last occupant appears to be a patient - still out from a recent procedure.

Breeze & Emilio
You quickly find your gear stored in the clinic with a few choices pieces being used by the security staff.

[BishopMcQ]

As his mind slowly begins to make sense of his surroundings again, and the edge of pain is taken away by pharmaceuticals, Cypher sorts through the list of data that he needed for each of the bounties. He tasks his agents with scanning through the data he downloaded to identify what parts he had and what was missing.


<<--Text Message-->>
//To: Prodigal Daughter
//From: Wayward Sheep
//Pasture gates are closed. Eagerly await the shepherd.
<<--End Message-->>


The hacker then moves to the office, closing the outside door and locking it. He hauls the doctor to one of the surgical theaters. Finding a biowaste bag and a bone saw, Cypher looks down on the remains of the woman who had experimented on him. She had shoved needles in his arm, taken samples, and tried to find out how far he could be pushed before dying. Humming to himself, the same incessant song that she had hummed while working, Cypher closed the door to the room.

A few moments later, he came out, dark red plastic bag in hand. The lab coat he wore, hung limply over the body. In the hallway, he calls out to the rest of the team--his voice a happy, resonating baritone.

"Node should be back online. Widget knows we're done here. We should stay to keep the squatters out until the next crew arrives or orders to the contrary."

Cypher then goes to collect the commlinks from the hacker and rigger. As he walked, he checked with the agents about their progress and scrolls a quick message to Aideen.


<<--Text Message-->>
//To: Aideen
//From: Cypher
//We found him, safe and sound. Return him home soon.
<<--End Message-->>

[UmaroVI]

Fat Man
"Cypher, Eklipse, we should leave the clinic for a moment. The flow of chi in this area is impaired, and I can't properly heal you inside."

After the three of them left the clinic, Fat Man calls upon the shen of the city to heal their wounds. Luckily, neither are seriously injured and so the spells work easily.

"By the way, Cypher, can you find out anything about Breeze or the unconscious patient? I would like to free them from this place, but I would like to know who we are letting out."

[Hamagen]

As Breeze walks around the clinic a bit, he eventually locates his gear, he looks up to the heavens and crosses himself quickly (christian cross)

"Oh thank all tha almighty that they didn't hurt Thelma and Louise"

He picks up two modified pistols and kisses them

"Daddy won't let you go again, no he won't!"

He starts strapping on his concealed holster and his hidden arm slide so he can then put his "Babies" in there.

[Buddha72]

Cypher
You almost immediately get a message back.

<<--Text Message-->>
//To: Wayward Sheep
//From: Prodigal Daughter
//On my way.
<<--End Message-->>

You see the small windows in AR representing your agents - they are making quick work of the database and its contents. You open a new field and quickly feed in the commlinks from the rigger and spider and see the streams add in. Pick a few key words you isolate data on the two patients. The one calling himself Breeze was a test subject - it seems your replacement with your recent escape from the portable lab. The other patient, labeled PT2304, was brought in for bone lacing. A female ork whose balance was paid in full. The notation says she should be in recovery for about two more days before she is scheduled to be moved to an off-site street doctor's care. You get an alert another message has arrived for you to read.

<<--Text Message-->>
//To: Cypher
//From: Aideen
//Please let everyone know I owe them a solid. Thanks.
<<--End Message-->>

[Notsoevildm]

After Fat Man has healed their injuries, Eklipse takes Cypher aside for a moment.

"Can you do a favor for me, Herr Cypher? I am looking for a young woman. Her name is Heidi Klein. She is a german national and an employee of S-K. She vas investigating yakuza activity here in Seattle and went missing. If you could check ze database of ze clinic to see if zere is any mention of her, I vould be most grateful."

He pauses for a moment to send Heidi's HR file to the hacker.

"Here is her HR file from S-K. Don't ask how I got hold of it. Just use it to find her."

[BishopMcQ]

Nodding to Eklipse, Cypher takes the data packet. The agents immediately begin scanning it for data bombs and viral code that S-K could use to track the files.

"The less I know about accidental data finds the better. I'll see what I can find."

<TACNET @Team [Cypher] Boss lady one is en route to secure the site. Boss lady two congratulates you on recovering Emilio and owes you a solid. The Brit appears to be a test subject, in a condition similar to how you found me. If he needs a place, I'll see what can be done. The other is a criminal type brought in for new bones. She's set to be transferred off-site in 48 hours.>

While the rest of the team moved around the facility, Cypher began spooling up more searches. He grabs keywords from the file, along with biometric data and sets the agents loose on the database to see if they could find Heidi. With that running, the hacker began to look around for the hardware running the node.

[UmaroVI]

Fat Man scratched his beard.

<@Team [Fat Man]: So, what do we do with that other patient? Breeze, I think we should perhaps introduce to Aideen; maybe he'd be interested in helping get back at the people who locked him up, and he seems useful, but that ork sounds like she's part of the Yakuza.>

[Fenris]

"I thought we were all pretty well agreed. Yak's get a bullet. What's the holdup? Breeze, Emilio, can you two move under your own power? As soon as the Boss's Rep arrives, we're clearing out. Right?" he asks with a questioning glance at Eklipse for confirmation.

[Hamagen]

The Brit finishes putting his guns and gear away, he seemed to be carrying quite a bit of equipment but it all fit into little pockets either on his vest or pockets in his pants, he takes one look at the table then seems to be checking all his gear again...

"Yup I think I got everything"

He turns to go out the room where he sees the rest of the team

"Gents, it's been real, thank you for favor, if you ever need my services here is how you can get a hold of me, I owe you all one"

He smiles a bit and turns to leave

<<--Text Message-->>
//To: Team Members in site
//From: Breeze
//<Breeze's email and phone number>
<<--End Message-->>

[Notsoevildm]

Eklipse hesitates for a moment before replying.

If she's yak, she deserves a bullet to the head. But what if she's not? What if she is just another victim like Breeze or my Heidi?

"Check her out Ayo. If she's obviously yak muscle - asian racial type, tattoos - zen deal with her. But if you are not certain, leave her for our employer to deal with. I don't vant to kill someone who is just another of zere victims."

He turns to Breeze and gives him a small nod.

"Auf weidersehen, herr Breeze. Perhaps ve shall meet again one day."