Clep from Dead

[Don't kill that man.] - ???

...

[Who are you and why the fuck are you telling me what to do?] Ori texts back, the others noticing his change in demeanour.

"Something up?" Rebecca asks.

"Yeah, someone's asking me not to dome this guy..."

[I'm Regina Jones, a Fixer here in Watson. I'll say again, don't kill him.] - Regina

[Why not? He's already dying, plus there's no cure for Cyberpsychosis from what I've heard. I'd be putting him out of his misery.] - Ori

[There's not a cure, yet. I'm working with various people, who shall not be named, who are researching Cyberpsychosis. That man, Joel Juarez, is someone we've been keeping in contact with.] - Regina

[And? You expect me to waste my time with this? I'm not that friendly. How'd you even find my contacts?] - Ori

[A mutual friend of ours. And I'm not asking you to do this for free either. 9k Eds to bring him to me alive.] - Regina

...

[Make it ten.] - Ori

[Deal. Drop him off at Instant Implants... Trust me, you're giving Joel there a second chance, one he deserves.] - Regina

"Er, Ori, hate to interrupt but we've got Maelstrom incoming..." Sasha states, her eyes glowing as she takes control of nearby cameras.

Ori just sighs, "Sasha, Rebecca, take the guy in the back and keep him alive, someone's paying us to deliver his ass to a Ripperdoc in Kabuki." he states, climbing into the driver's seat as the others shuffle in.

Rebecca and Sasha had to put the Psycho over their knees, staining their trousers in synthetic blood as they attempted to patch the numerous wounds covering him.

Six borrows his LMG in the passenger side as Ori starts the car, just as two Maelstrom vehicles tear around the corner. He kicks it in reverse and starts driving backwards down the street, doing a sweeping turn and barely preventing the can from rolling over as he drifts around the corner.

Unfortunately, his car wasn't anywhere near as fast as the Maelstrom gangers', and they quickly gained on him. Bullets punched through the back window, forcing Rebecca and Sasha to duck while Six responds with some of his own.

"I KNOW YOU! YOU'RE NOT GETTING AWAY THIS TIME ALBINO CHILD! NOT YOU EITHER BLACK BOT!" one of the Maelstrom thugs shout as they drive beside them.

*BANG!*

Rebecca blows the guy's head clean off with Guts, "I'LL KILL WHOEVER MADE THOSE NAMES!" she shouts as the car skids and slams into a nearby lampost after the death of its driver.

"FUCKERS!" another danger shouts as the second car pulls up. Six fires at the driver but they duck out of the way, allowing the guys in the pack to start firing. They try and shoot Rebecca and Sasha, only for the bullets to hit the unconscious Cyberpsycho instead, some deflecting off of what was left of his subdermal armour and going through Ori's roof.

Sasha just leans out of the window as the Maelstrom car gets close and cuts their guns in half with her Cybernetic claws. Six then lights up the confused gangers, killing most of them as they drive out of view.

"I've got a jammer up! Get us outta sight before more get here!" She reports, using one of her claws to dig out a bullet from the psycho's arm.

"Got it."

Ori turns and drives through an abandoned construction sight, past a roundabout then onto the main road headed to Little China. Thankfully, that was all, no one else from Maelstrom managed to track them, allowing Ori to turn into Kabuki Market and towards Regina's Ripperdoc.

"Alright, we're here, dump the guy off. I still wanna go back for that crate..." he states, prompting the group to crook a brow at him.

"What? He's not gonna be using whatever it is, and I'd rather one of us have it than some gangster."

Rebecca grins, "I'll tag along, Six and the cat can deliver the guy."

"Isn't that dangerous? Maelstrom will still be looking for you... And your car." Sasha says, gesturing at it.

Indeed, Ori hadn't realised just how much damage it'd taken. One of the tires had been shredded, and the rubber was barely hanging on to the rim. Most other vehicles had alloy mesh instead of regular old rubber, but his piece of crap didn't have any of that.

One of the doors was basically just a scaffolding too, with so many holes in it that it was like it wasn't there in the first place. He lets out a breath and walks over to the front, raising the hood... Yep, oil was leaking out and the engine was scuffed to fuck. He was honestly surprised it'd run until now.

...

He tries to start the car and it failed, obviously. "Whatever, we'll get a cab there... Six, Sasha, get the psycho to the doc, I'll send you your split later."

"Alright, just be careful... Ciao, Ori." Sasha says, leaving with Six.

"Whaddya gonna do with it?" Rebecca asks, nodding at the wrecked car, "I kinda liked it..." she admits.

"Just leave it here, I guess. Not worth paying to have someone drag it to a scrap yard."

He calls up a cab and has them take him and Rebecca back to the psycho's apartment. Thankfully, they got there just in time to see a homeless guy trying in vain to drag the heavy crate away. He'd got it to the staircase but lacked the strength to carry it down.

After kicking him away, they drop it in the back of the cab and have him drive down to Lizzie's Bar. Ori wasn't trusting taking the thing home since it might have trackers, and the Mox bar was one of the safest places he knew. He confirms the delivery for Dr Chrome, who didn't ask any questions since he'd already been paid for the product, then contacts Regina.

[Job's done, your psycho's with the doc.] - Ori

[Alive, I hope?] - Regina

[Should be, unless your doc trips and stabs the guy.] - Ori