Chapter 2 (Cont.)

     "What the hell are those?" I say as I see Knuckles get charged by very undead like giant rats. I also watch as ELLyen kill 2 tangos in the opposite room from Knuckles.
            "I'm goanna be sore in the mornin'. You won’t be needing this anymore." I say as I explode the last tango's head like a watermelon, and almost lose my stomach as I see Knuckles cut the back off of one of the rats. The insides of the rat looked like it should be dead. While getting up into the Buffalo and grabbing Martin’s med kit, I see the zombie rats start shaking and one of them collapse while the other just seemed shaken. It then falls over and dies as Jack shots it in the middle of its eyes.
        “OW! Son of a bitch that hurts!” I yell out as I pull a bullet out of my leg and patch it up along with other parts of my body that had been shot up by the tango I just relieved of his head. I then see Knuckles smack a gun out of the tango in the room with the now dead rats, then beheads him after receiving a punch to his face.
        “Aha! I see that Christmas has come early for me. Just what I’ve always wanted a few grenades!” ELLyen said as he loots the corpses of the 2 tangos he just killed.
          “Hey Martin! Ether help me with these bodies or get in the driver seat and pull us over to the front door.” I say a I pull one body into the back of the Buffalo.
         “Alright then.” Martin replied as he hoped off the med bed and walked over to the driver seat and started up the Buffalo as I pulled the last body into the Buffalo and sit down on the edge of the back of the Buffalo and replied “Alright I’m ready lets go.”.
           While this is going on outside, the rest of the team inside found one last tango holding onto one hostage that looked very businesslike and 3 other hostages with one more lying dead on the ground in front of him. As Jack started trying to negotiate with him ELLyen ran up to the last normal tango shot him in the chest and the punched him knocking him out into next week, but not before he could call out for help from “Zimmy”.
       While that was going on Knuckles ran into a “human” that was about 6’7”, really bulky with boney spikes along his arms and claws for hands. As Knuckles and the hulk human traded blows Knuckles got scratched that did nothing other than making his arm a little puffy. One of Knuckles major attack failed on him as if the organ that would cause death to his enemy wasn’t there.
   After the tango called out for Zimmy Knuckles saw a blue mist come out of a door in frount of him and go into the dead body behind him, causing it to start getting up. After the mist came out of the door, it opened allowing 2 zombies to come out and move over to the room with the rest of the team just down the hall.

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Chapter 2 (Cont.)

        Having decided to go in through the front door of the safe house, we started making preparations to go in. We decided that I’d stay in the Buffalo while Knuckles, ELLyen, Marry, and Jack would go in the front door. Martin however decided to go check out the roof alone. 

      “OK guys I don’t see anymore nodes outside the building. I can’t see anything inside though I may need to go in after the front 3 tangos are down.” I say over comms.

  “ We’ll deal with that if it’s needed. Do you have the camera looped yet?” Knuckles replied.

    “One sec… Ok it’s looping. You’re clear to go.” I reply back.

       I then see Knuckles charge into the closest tango, try and fail to grab him. ELLyen also sprang into action, running along side Knuckles to go and shot the second tango, but the shot failed to do any real damage.

         “Oh crap!” I hear Martin say as he looks on top of the building and drops himself back down with a soft thud onto the Buffalo. “There are 2 hostiles on top.” I then hear someone else’s voice above me as one of the tangos on the roof looks down at Martin, as Martin hit the tango’s gun out of his hands.

      Looking through ELLyen’s eyes I see Knuckles get dropped by a third tango just before Marry stunned the first 2 tangos.

      “Do you think you can handle them?” I asked Martin.

     “I think so go help the others.” He replied.

While running to help the others I see ELLyen explode the first tango’s head like a watermelon and then knock the other one out. As I see that I hear Martin yell behind me “OH SHIT!” and hear a grenade go off and a sickening thud as Martin’s body hit’s the side of one of the other buildings and slides to the ground.

     “What the hell was that!?!?!?!” I yell as I turn around to see one of the 2 tangos from the roof on the top of the Buffalo. I then fire 2 shots into him, one from each of my revolvers (think of the revolver from the Dirty Hairy movies), and drop him as Marry heals Knuckles and ELLyen takes out the third tango in the front.

        As Martin gets himself onto our med bed, I hear the second tango from the roof call out “Jason? Jason you there?”

         Firing a round into “Jason’s” head I reply to him “Jason has left the world”

   “Oh your goanna get it punk!” he replied as he jumped onto the Buffalo and shoots me.

    “ HAHAHAHA! It’ll take more than that to kill me. Douche!” I say as I shot 2 rounds into my new friend and drop him too and put an bullet in his head.

      After getting done with my problem I look to see ELLyen throwing a grenade into a room in the building and Knuckles breaking down another door to a room with a tango and 2 large hairless rats.


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Chapter 2 (Cont.)

     After having turned the rigger's drones on each other, we left the wreckage far behind us and continued on hoping to not encounter any more obstacles in our path.
     About 20 minutes later, our hopes were shattered. As we were driving Jack, Marry, and I look out the windows toward downtown Seattle to see 4 explosions go off in rapid succession. Less than a minute after seeing the explosions, the matrix flooded with all kinds of different information. Not long after, all of the news channels started streaming live feed from the explosion sites.
    Feeling the change in the matrix, grinning to myself I said "Oh my god! There's so much info here, it's orgasmic"
    Looking at me like I had three heads Marry said to me "What are you? Some kind of media freak?"
    With a devilish grin on my face I replied to her "HA HA. In this day and age knowledge is power, baby."
        "Cut the chatter guys we have a problem." Jack's voice came floating back into the passenger/cargo bay. Looking out the front window I see up ahead of us traffic start slowing down and coming up to a road block with police light blinking.
  Slamming my head into my palm I grumble to myself "Why couldn't this be an easy mission."
  " Ok we need a plan. Should we try to get the scientist on the med bed and try to pass as a medic evac team?" Martin yelled back after putting down the pieces of the radio he had ripped out.
 "Sounds like a plan." Marry said looking over to our "cargo". "Are you willing to cooperate with us?"
"Or do we need to force you to be part of this plan?" ELLyen said picking up on Mary's train of thought, readying his H&K-227.
      Knuckles also picking up on the train of thoughts grinned and said, "Mind if I help?" while cracking his knuckles.
    Looking like he as about to crap his pants and much to the disappointment of ELLyen and Knuckles our "cargo" hastily agreed to cooperate preferring to not get shot or have limbs broken.
      "Well if we're going to pull this off we'll need a matrix node." I said "We'll be F&B extraction. Knuckles mind making  us some papers?"
    "Find if I have to." Knuckle replied puling out some electric papers.
     Falling into the matrix I hastily pulled together a decent looking node for our company. While putting the finishing touches on the node I see that the police forming the road block are the Lone Stars*. We were able to pass though the road block with out a problem. A few minutes after we passed the road block I managed to find out that the explosions happened at 4 of the top 10 corps  in the world.

    When we reached our drop-off point we found 3 armored vans outside the Ware house. There were also 2 armed soldiers standing outside with the front door opened.
    We informed Mr. Johnson that the drop-off was compromised, he asked us to go in and extract anyone that may still be alive. He also told us that if we did as he asked he would double our pay for this shadowrun.
   Agreeing to this we were given the secondary drop-off location. We started planing to enter the building and decided that I'd watch the scientist while the others would go in the front door and wing it from there.


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Chapter 2 (Cont.)

           After moping up the last of the enemy I hear ELLyen say over coms. "All right there's nothing  more of worth in this dump. Let's get going soon."
        Grumbling to myself I paused my searches on some different sites that I take a look at each day I pull out of the matrix and get ready to move out. Glancing at the different windows in my HUD (heads up display) I see Knuckles look up in sky and see a dark object.

      "Rah can you do a scan and see if there are any drones nearby?" said Knuckles. "On it." I replied by as i go back in and do a quick scan. I say "Sorry I'm not seeing anything that's out of place" after scanning and not finding any nearby active nodes. After my search we all piled into the Buffalo with Jack at the wheel.

           A few minutes pass by on the 2-3 hour long trip to get to the drop off point, when Martin does an electronic sweep of our "cargo". Not finding any he asked me to sweep him in the matrix. While looking around in the matrix I see closing in on us, 2 nodes moving in rather quickly. Seeing this I taped into the node on the Buffalo to see that there were 2 aerial drones coming toward us.
            "Ummm............... this isn't good." I say
             "What's not good? What are you doing?" I hear ELLyen reply.
        Responding I say "Take a look for yourself" as I put up a Radar window for everyone.
While watching the nodes move in I waited for them to show some sign of hostile activity, but also watching the meat world as I see ELLyen climb on top of the Buffalo and watch as the drones fire one rocket each at us. Looking back at the matrix I see another node incoming which I found out to be a Rover van with a machine gun pointed out the front.
         "Son of a bitch!" I hear Martin yell out as he moved over to the Buffalo's console to try and make the Buffalo's signal weaker.
          "Oh shit!" I said as I moved into the Buffalo's node and start helping Martin, while muttering to myself  "Fricken slow meat world.". Thanks to our combined efforts the first missile missed (barley) and hit the road next to us. With another missile still coming Martin and I worked even faster to shrink the signal.
                Our efforts paid off though, the second missile completely missed and instead hit a car behind us causing the car to become a huge ball of fire. Just before the second missile hit Marry did her funky magic thing and put a huge dent into the driver side window.
           After the missile exploded the car ELLyen managed to shatter the window the rest of the way and hit the elf driver knocking him out. I then see Knuckles take our bullet horse and completely rip up the front end of the Rover. As I'm hacking into on of the drones I grin in an evil delight as I see the enemy Rover spin out of control and explode into a great ball of fire. Invigorated by another elven death (stupid elves, they should all die a bright fiery death) I finish hacking into the drone as Knuckles starts firing into the other one.

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Chapter 2 (Cont.)

     Having finished taking out the enemy comms, I made my way into the main computer system.
    “Hmm… this isn’t good.” I mutter to myself as I found almost all of the systems in the building were turned off.
  “Aha! Those idiots forgot the rear cameras!” I exclaimed as I made my way into on of the active cameras.
   “Umm… guys, we’ve got incoming. There are 7 hostiles moving toward the doors can’t see which yet.” I broadcasted over our comms.
  “Well find out then. Aren’t you supposed to be smart?” ELLyen replied.
   “What a dick.” I mumbled to myself as I hopped over to the other camera.
   “Ok they’re moving to the big door. One of them is being un-cuffed right now and being shoved forward first. There is also one tango with a heavy machine gun, like the one Knuckles is using as a club. There is also one lightly armed that might me their leader or a mage not sure which.” I broadcast as I see Knuckles fire 2 shots off, one into each of the tires of the tango van by him.
  “Son of a bitch!” I yell to myself as the tangos look around in alarm and prepare to move out. “Incoming!” I yell over comms as a blue smoke ball appears in front of the door. “Whelp, I don’t need to be in here anymore” I say as I pop out of the camera and finish shutting down the computer system. I then popped into the tango van’s node and turned the van off just in case they did make it to the van, just as the door opened.
               “ Guess I can shit back and watch the show.” I said as I see  the tangos move out in a V formation.
     “WOO HOO! GO Knuckles!” I yell as I see him move over to the side of the door, behead one tango and run through another.
     “HAHAHA! OH MY GOD! Total fail!” I say as the scientist runs out of the smoke and face plants into the side of the enemy van. “Note to self: try to not speak like I’m talking in a game in real life.”
     Jack then went over and dragged the scientist back to the van. As the shooty types moped up the last of the tangos, Jack and I strapped the scientist into the Buffalo.




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Chapter 2

   After our 48 hours were up we all received some information on the next shadowrun we're going. Our mission: to "acquire" the scientist that is working for Peco Energy that created the formula for a better way to produce energy. The scientist that we must "acquire" is fortunately in the same building that we just robbed.  Before arriving Martin the ganger of the group did a drive by to see what if anything had changed.
 " Ok guys, I'm not seeing anything really different here. Most of the lights are out. I see one guy by the back of their van. I'm going to try and sneak in the side through the fence. Rah is it electrical? If so turn it off."
   "I see him." replied ELLyen as we pulled up to the parking lot entrance, while readying his H&K-227.
    "On it." I said as I slipped into the matrix, after seeing ELLyen knock the tango on his ass with a shot to the chest.
  "HAHA! Nice shot ELLyen! Oh and Martin the fence's power is off."
 "Well,well,well what do we have here?" I mutter to myself as I see our new friend try and send out a call for help.
   "I don't think you want to do that." I continued as I shut off the com systems of the enemies and any that were in the building itself.
  

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Chapter 1

      After successfully completing our trial run for Mr. Johnson we had 48 hours until our next shadowrun. During those 48 hours we spent most of our time selling off the goods that we "acquired" from the warehouse we broke into.
   Thanks to the contacts we had amongst the group we managed to sell off the weapons of the guards of the warehouse and we sold off a rather large power generator. Thanks to the power of the matrix and eBay I managed to sell off 2 nexus parts for close to the retail price.
    All in all we scraped up a rather nice amount of Nueyen (17.7K to be exact). We each took 2k of that and gave Knuckles the last 5.7k to spend on upgrading our new Buffalo.
     Thanks to another contact of the group we managed to get a deal of 25% off of whatever we wanted to put in the Buffalo. The modifications made to the Buffalo were 2 bench seats, a gun safe, a beer fridge, rear and side windows, run flat tires, a valkyrie module, and the best modification put in was a really comfortable chair for me to crash out of the meat world and fully enter the matrix.
  Lastly, I managed to make "good guy sub-space" for use in shadowruns to see and hear what others see/hear. It also gives us a secure way of sending back and forth texts, video, and audio massages.

Things you need to know.

Main Characters;
 ELLyen- human, male, weapons expert, uncouth (Bob)
 Marry- human, female, mage, pacifist (Sal)
 Martin- human, male, ganger, "Jack of all trades" (Scott)
 Knuckles- troll, male, enforcer, "tank" ( Evil Ed)
 Jack- dwarf, male, face, con-man (Good Ed)
 Rah- elf, male, technomancer, media junkie/expert hacker (R2)
 Mr. Johnson- ????,?????, ????, the group's current employer
 Ike- dwarf, male, fixer, group's fixer contact

Corps/ other terms;
 Peco Energy (corp)- company that was making a new way to use energy effectively
 Peco Energy Scientist (AKA the groups current cargo)- a scientist that created the formula that Peco Energy was trying to use before we to it and the scientist off their hands
 Lone Star (corp)- the current police in charge of the jails in Seattle they were the general police until The Knights took over.
 The Knights (corp)- current general police corp
 Tango- term that I'm going to use to mean enemy/bad guy
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med bed- our valkyrie module