206 Aras-Cyka

"Y-y-y-y-ouuuu M-MOTHER FUCKERS!" Ori roars as he forces himself backwards, avoiding more EMP shots as he falls back into the bar, twitching and spasming all the while.

"Holy shit! You okay kid!?" Pilar runs over and kicks the door closed, shoving a fat unconscious in front of it as a makeshift barrier.

"D-DO I LOOK OKAY!?" he forces himself to his feet as the denizens of the bar cautiously look at him, "Arasaka are out there hunting our asses! They got snipers everywhere!"

"You're joking..." Dorio frowns as she and Maine make their way over.

"Do you think I have epilepsy or something? I just got shocked by those bastards!"

"Wait, so Arasaka is here?" Lucy aggressively asks.

Ori peeks through the tinted window, noting that a bunch of 'civilian' vehicles had been set up nearby the ends of the streets. Most likely ready to block off any escape attempt should they try it. "If I have to keep repeating myself we might as well hand ourselves to them. Yes, they're fucking here!"

David wipes his mouth and spits at the floor, "What're we doing then? Let's bail before they can storm us!"

*BANGBANGBANG!*

The group look over to see some strangers who'd tried to surrender themselves, hands to the sky with their knees on the sidewalk. That is, until Arasaka put a volley of bullets into them, spraying the pavement with crimson. Clearly they were in a 'No-Witnesses' sort of mood.

This causes the other people in the bar to start panicking, but Ori was more focussed on getting his own friend out alive right now. "Anyone got a plan? Because right now we're pretty fucked."

"They've jammed the entire street... We'd only be able to call the NCPD through this place's fibreoptics." Lucy reports.

"Any chance we can fight our way out?" David questions.

"Fat chance. Corpo fucks've planning for this. They know what we got and what not, they'll be ready for us." Maine grouses, prepping his arm cannon for combat.

"Great, you fuck up my life yet again. Good job, Ori." the disguised Christy D'Clert spits from the side of the room, a beer in her hand.

"Fuck off bitch number five. You wanna complain go give it to the assholes shooting at us!" Rebecca angrily replies.

Ori shakes his head, "Don't mind her, just a washed-up criminal." he glances back at the door, "Seriously, any ideas?"

...

The silence was telling. Two teams of veteran mercs and no one had a clue how to approach the situation, the fact that Arasaka had somehow blocked off the entire street, stopped anyone from noticing the wide-range jamming, and were now executing civilians on sight only emphasized how severe things were.

Maybe the Corpo that'd given everyone stims last night had been in on it, keeping them all in one place so they could set up a perimeter... Plus the fact they knew EMP would fuck him up worse than getting his brain blown out meant Maine was right in his assumption.

"I think..." Lucy speaks up while running a hand through her pastel-coloured hair, "I've got a plan."

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Operative 024F lets out a cool breath as she stares through the scope of her rifle, things were going according to plan, and soon they'd have permission to assault the building.

Seven targets, three capture and four KoS. It was just unfortunate they had to kill five innocents before the rest got the right idea. Though, it might not matter depending on how the higher-ups feel, having this all revealed to the public would probably see everyone involved purged for posterity's sake.

"Wait, did someone order the transports early?" she queries over the comms as a dozen trucks barrel down the road. She quickly realises her mistake however as sirens start blaring, "Someone called the NCPD! Captain! please advise!"

...

"Captain!" she repeats, heart beating faster as the police get closer and closer.

[Allow them into our MSB, then execute.] her Captain commands.

...

"Affirmative." she sighs, turning her rifle to the cars and aiming for the drivers. Their armoured windscreens wouldn't protect against the calibre of her rifle, it'd be a clean kill.

...

*BANG!*

The driver's head explodes as he swerves his car into a wall, causing the others to speed up and drive around him. They don't get far however as the other snipers take their shots, quickly whittling down the NCPD force.

Those that remain all leap out of their cars and behind cover, quickly locating the snipers and opening fire.

[POI's spotted! They're running for the NCPD!] someone shouts over the comms and she looks over, finding the targets running towards the NCPD in a crowd of civilians that'd also come from the bar.

[Non-lethal rounds on the targets, do not kill POI's at any cost! Units two and three finish the NCPD!]

*Click!*

She growls under her breath and quickly releads her weapon, but when she tries to lock onto her target again, trying to aim around the other fleeing civilians and his own weird movements.

*BLAM!*

Zombie fires his revolver all the way from the ground level and manages to shoot straight through her scope, sending glass and metal fragments into the mask covering her face. She tries to take a blind shot but feels another impact which sends her falling to the ground.

She gasps and stares through the hole in her visor at the crimson quickly gathering below her head, so much blood... She tries to blink but notices the absence of feeling in her left eye... It was gone, along with most of her skull on that side.

She couldn't move, or talk... She could only stare as her lifeblood leaked out, and listen to her comrades over the comms. But even they crackle out and die, an obvious sign of a Netrunner attack.

Only one thought materialised through all of this however...

"Good shot..."