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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