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.

------------------------------ (to be continued)