Towering Presence

After the security shutters are melted and or removed, Ori follows the mercs as they charge inside, guns blazing and destroying the onsight defences. Two mercs go down in the process but the turrets are all smashed to pieces in the end.

*BOOM!*

One borg loses his entire lower body after accidentally stepping on a mine, the mercs just step past him though, ignoring his screams and making their way forwards. The elevators were a no-go due to how easy it would be to trap them inside, and Ori didn't have any Netrunners skilled enough to fight against the runners Arasaka had at their disposal.

Thus, they made their way to the stairs-

*BAANG!*

Which had also been covered in mines and other explosives, along with lines and lines of men with smart weapons and grenades. Thankfully, Rogue sending him a bunch of borged retards allowed him to throw them at the problem without issue, it wasn't like they cared if they got flatlined in the process.

Before they can start making their way up the tower to find where his crew was being held, V grabs his arm to stop him. "Hope you don't mind, but we're headed down."

Ori shrugs, "As long as you stay out of the way, do what you want." he says, dismissing her and ascending the stairs.

V looks to Johnny who was leaning against the wall, "That went well...?"

"Probably figures you'll be a good enough distraction." he surmises, "Let's stop wasting time and fuck up Mikoshi."

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"AAARRGH!!" one of Ori's men screams as he grabs his head, dropping his gun in the process.

"Hell's wrong with-" his friend starts but is interrupted by his jaw being torn away.

"Fuckin' Netrunner!" Jason shouts, as two more borgs are hit with the same psycho quick hacks.

Ori wastes no time in kicking the nearest away and opening fire on them. They didn't have the time to waste bringing them back to sanity, even if it was possible. The fact that they were all tipping over the edge of cyber-psycho-dom in the first place was another issue compounding the problem.

"You go psycho and you die! Keep your head or I swear to god!" he exclaims as Jason executes another.

"They're ours though boss!" someone protests but the discharge of Ori's minigun silences them.

With that problem 'solved', the group continue their way up the tower, the atmosphere tense as no one knew who would be next. It was one thing falling in battle, it was another getting put down like a rabid animal.

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*BAANG!*

The smoke clears, revealing the soot-covered door, somehow still intact...

"Another!" Ori orders while trying not to think of their dwindling supplies. With the lockdown in place, every door took a couple charges just to get through them, he didn't know how much further they could go without using other, less efficient means... He wasn't exactly happy about the idea of piling a stack of grenades and shooting it after all.

The next charge does some damage, but it takes a final kick from Ori to blow it open, allowing him to step through and-

*BOOOM!*

He and some of his men are caught up in an explosion, one of both ballistic and EMP origins. He skitters across the floor like a stone across water, until finally coming to a stop in the middle of the large room... Around its outskirts, must have been a hundred or so Arasaka soldiers, all aiming their weapons at him.

"Well, fuck."

"B-BOSS!" his men shout behind him, as formless shadows leap at them. Arasaka ninjas quickly dismantled them. Jason took three down but in the end took a blade to the throat and dropped.

Ori shifts his minigun at the enemies but pauses as a prominent figure steps out. "Smasher." he growls, "Brought your boys with you this time? Afraid of running again?"

The Oni sneers at him as well as he could without an organic face. "If it were up to me I'd tear you limb to limb alone. Unfortunately, I have help."

"More than help, a whole army." Ori lifts his chin at the nervous soldiers. "Why don't you tell me where my crew is, and I'll let you live."

The borg snorts, "I didn't mean them... And don't you mean, MY crew?" he states, reaching behind him and pushing a familiar face forward.

David bares his teeth and refuses to meet Ori's eyes, the sword in his hand was all that needed to be said.

"Remind me to thank Leo for this later. If you don't kick the bucket."

"Worry about yourself, cunt. Fire!" Smasher orders, prompting Ori to activate his sandevistan as the army around him react.

He twists the railgun in half and punches a button that presents itself, causing a buzz to begin. He then throws the rapidly warming object into the crowd while extending out his kunai-tipped Monowire, launching himself towards the other side of the room.

*BOOOOM!*

The rail-minigun explodes just as he cuts down a group of men with his Monowire, tendrils of electricity crackling across their bodies as he moves on to the next... But just as he wipes out the next group, just fires and gets tangled up in his wire, preventing him from moving it as his sandevistan ends. Smasher had fired the cable from a port in his wrist and was gripping it with both hands.

"DID YOU THINK I WOULD FORGET ABOUT THAT!?"

Ori can't reply as David appears in front of him, smashing a fist across his face and launching him backwards with a double kick to the chest.

"RUNT! STOP FUCKING AROUND AND USE THAT BLADE!" the borg orders and David scowls hard at him.

Ori shakes his head and gets to his feet, ignoring the occasional bullet pinging off of his body, "C'mon Davey, that all you got? I taught you better than that." he spits blood on the floor, encouraging David to not risk their crew by half-assing it.