Undeaded

"Re-becca..."

"L-Lampost?" she stutters out, tentatively stepping towards him despite her shock.

Ori stares at her, blinking between her and Six's corpse. He could feel the nanites reconstructing his skull, repairing his brain and attempting to cover the bone with flesh. But the discomfort was nothing in the face of what was before him.

She'd just killed Six...

Ori grunts as Rebecca barrels into him, jumping over Six's body and wrapping him up in a tight hug, squeezing the life out of him as she wipes her tear-stricken eyes into his bloody shirt.

"You're not dead!... You're alive!..." she pushes her face into the crook of his neck, "I thought I'd lost you..."

"You killed him..." he mutters, feeling skin stretch over his repaired skull.

"He killed you!" she quickly retorts, squeezing him tighter.

"He recognised me..."

"He shot you in the face!"

"He was coming to his senses..."

"He was going to kill you again!" she grips his shoulders and pushes themselves apart, locking eyes with him, "Six wouldn't have shot you! He wasn't Six, just a Cyberpsycho!" she exclaims.

"We could have taken him to Regina! She could have helped him!" he loudly responds, "I-I can't believe you killed him..."

*Smack!*

She slaps him hard in the face, "Stop being stupid! Six is gone! I killed a Cyberpsycho!" she glances over at the storefront where a gunfight was still going on outside, "WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT LATER, WE NEED TO GO!"

Ori bites on his lip hard enough to draw blood but relents and nods. He pushes past her and grabs Six's revolvers, then throws his body over his shoulder. He wasn't leaving Six here to get mulched and tossed away by the NCPD or Tyger Claws.

[If... You two are done, get outside, we're waiting down the street and barely holding on!] - Sasha

[On our way...] - Ori

He marches to the door, unable to look at Rebecca as they both storm out into a veritable bullet storm. NCPD drones, Tyger Claws were fighting, and he could see his and Maine's vehicles parked down the street.

Tyger Claws were attempting to destroy them but anytime someone brought out a weapon powerful enough to crack the vehicle's armoured plating Kiwi or Lucy would disable them. Maine, Dorio, Pilar, and Sasha were occasionally firing back, but it was clearly a losing battle.

Ori and Rebecca sprint down the street, not always avoiding the gunfire sent their way. Rebecca takes some shots to the back, and Six's body ends up getting even more mutilated than it already was.

"GET IN!" Sasha shouts, the back doors of Ori's car opening wide. Rebecca jumps in as Ori drags Six's body inside.

[We're all here! Delta!] Sasha shouts over the comms as she slams her foot on the gas pedal. Both vehicles fly down the road, barely dodging the NCPD cars skidding around the corner. They manage to get past and onto the highway, but the sound of engines alerts them to the many Tyger Claws following them on bikes.

"Dorio! Take the wheel, I got these glowing assholes!" Maine states, moving over and leaning out the window with his arm cannon ready.

*BOOM!*

Two bikes instantly go up in flames, and Kiwi raises some emergency bollards just as they pass them, causing another three to collide with them. Unfortunately, ten more bikes were still following, firing at their truck.

*SKKCH!*

*THWOOM!*

A stray bullet somehow finds its way past the vehicle's under armour, striking the gas tank and igniting it. The safety measures activate, dumping the fuel before it could burn the occupants, leaving a trail of fire behind them as the car continues.

The secondary, smaller tank gets put to work, but Dorio quickly notices a problem...

"Maine! There's barely any juice left!"

"WHAT!? I filled this sucker up the other day!" he shouts, only to pause and look at Pilar. "Uh, I may have taken it out..."

"And you used the secondary tank so no one would notice..." Kiwi drawls, "Nice one, retard."

"Well shit!" Maine groans, firing one more blast out the window before contacting the truck ahead of them.

[Oi! Our gas got hit and we'll be out in a mile or two! Big fuckin' problem!] - Maine

[What do you want us to do about it!?] Rebecca shouts over the comms.

[Well the hostages are in our ride, so think of something!] - Maine

"This is bad... They won't get far enough to throw the Tygers off, their bikes are faster and more'll catch up." Sasha states, glancing at the wing mirror as she keeps driving.

"Where are we even going!?" Rebecca questioned, pulling her focus away from Ori who was still glaring down at Six's body.

"Watson, we'll be out if we can get to the oilfields... Maine's truck won't make it that far though!"

[Shit! It's chugging! You guys got anything!?] - Dorio

Ori sighs as he looks at Rebecca, "Watch him." says, pointing at Six as he leans heavily out the window.

[Keep stable.] he orders over the comms as he aims his grapple hook.

*PHuud!*

*Clank!*

The claw hits the grill and opens up, locking in place as the metal cord strains, forcing Ori against the door as he pulls it taut, acting as a makeshift winch for Maine's car.

He grunts, struggling to keep himself from being pulled out of the car, Rebecca races to his side and tries to help, but she wasn't strong or heavy enough to make a major difference.

"Ori, are you good!?" Sasha quickly asks.

"Y-yeah! J-JUST DRIVE!"

[How the fuck did that not rip your arm off!?] - Maine

[Cyberware.] - Ori

Maine's about to reply but pauses when he sees a Tyger Claw try to cut in front of them, not noticing the cord now connecting the two vehicles. The guy gets clotheslined by it, then cut in half as Maine's car drives over them.

"Dorio, keep steering! Pilar help me shoot these assholes! And yeah, we're talking about you cleppin' the car later!"