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The Opening 4

"Not that I want to be any trouble but why did you bring me here?" Mayne walks up to Ted and shows him a news article, Ted looks at the article and finds his face on the cover. "You're wanted for the deadliest ever to occur since the fall of Muncler Empire..." the name 'Muncler Empire' echoed into Ted's ears. A flashback is showing someone who was wearing a Cyberpunk-inspired oni mask, he takes out a walkie-talkie and speaks to someone on the other line. "I'm inside the building, what am I looking for exactly?" The person on the line responds, "You should be looking for an Energon-like system room, that's where you'll find the 'thing' you're looking for... Seriously, is it too much for you to tell me what you're looking for?"

"As a matter of fact, yes. Now let's get back to business, I'm close to a pool... river? or something like a piss storm." The person on the line explains to the masked figure, where he was, "get this, Bart Muncler paid $2.65 million to get an energy drink fountain... selfish pricks! You need to go to the CEO's office to gain access to the main system, but be warned, there are multiple cameras active and drones ready to shoot the second they're alerted."

"Thanks for the info... Well, well... it seems our friends, Nova and Delta are here... you know what that means?" The person on the line groans angrily, "Kill those fucking bastards! I don't give a shit if I owe you even more! Kill them!" The masked figure tells the person on the line to calm down.

The masked figure's eyes begin to go static but it turns out that Ted's eyes are turning into static. "I can't see!" Ted moves around uncontrollably while Mayne and Bolt attempt to stop Ted but he stops and shouts, "I can't see!" Mayne understands what he mean's by that and punches Ted's eyes until they fall out, Ted calms down, not caring about the amount of pain and blood shown on his face. A couple of hours later, Ted wakes up to find his eyes, slightly fixed and different. "I did what I could!" said the doctor, "but the shit you put this boy in... what were you thinking?" Mayne just hands the doctor the money and carried Ted out of the clinic. "Hey, I asked you a question!" shouted the doctor, "and I ain't obliged to answer, now good day." Bolt pulls the middle finger on the doctor and leaves behind Mayne.

"Hey kid, you okay? You were acting like a gorilla back in HQ..." Ted looked at his hands and saw the eyes that Mayne broke. He remembers falling to the ground and feeling something round and broken, he reaches out and grabs it. "What happened..." before Ted could ask anything else, Mayne interrupts him, "Can you stop asking questions for one hour at least? We're already in a tight situation as of now."

"Sorry..." says Ted then Mayne replies, "No... It should be me saying sorry... A lot of shit has happened and I've already got my backside working on too many jobs..." Bolt comments on how this was Mayne's fault again, "Well excuse me for focusing on beating those clowned pricks on jobs! It's like I'm the only one who cares about showing Hood that we are the better team! The hood is a member of a rival faction we are against... They're not bad people, they just love looking down on people like us... I'm sick of it!" saying that Mayne accidentally throws Ted near a dumpster, "it's like I say, you throw someone, there's a convenient dumpster nearby! It has to be a sign."

"A sign of what exactly?" Bolt thinks about what it means and a lightbulb turns on conveniently on top of Bolt, "it just means, you need to take the trash out, I mean think about it, you never take the trash out and you always rely on me to do that." Mayne looks at Bolt with a serious look while Bolt looks at Mayne with a childish look.

"You... May, and I say MAY... Have a point." Mayne gets Ted out of the dumpster, not noticing that Ted dropped the chip that he received earlier. "You know what we should do... Get this kid some cyber ware in him, I mean look at him! He looks terrible and the rusted paint on this is SO 30 years ago." Mayne agrees and takes Ted to someone they know. "Viola kid! Welcome, WurstMeck, a parody of WestMuck, the home of Enigma! This place has the best cyber doctor, except the fact they don't have normal doctors themselves is a questionable mistake not to have... I swear almost all the assholes there are..." Bolt bumps into a giant man with titanium arms, "oh, hey Hound." Hound slightly pushes Bolt forward and makes Ted drop to the ground, breaking his leg cyber ware. "Now look what you've done you, idiot! Come on Ted, we need to get you to that doctor ASAP... COME ON ASSHOLE!" Mayne grabs Bolt by his beard and drags them to the doctor.

"I swear, whenever you wankers come here, I have to bring in gloves and they ain't for me to use..." Mayne laughed sarcastically at that joke, "Can't you help him or not?! The doctor looked at the critical conditions he suffered and could help him but it cost a lot of money, "I'll pay..." Mayne, Bolt and the cyber doctor looked and saw Hound with his partner, Zeke. "Consider it to be an apology for me and Hound and... I could use this kid for some troubles in dealing with... What do you say?"

Mayne looked at Bolt and Bolt shook his head 'no' whereas he looked at Ted and could see the amount of pain he was in. "What's the job?" Zeke showed them a dangerous chip, "when do we start, Zeke?"

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