Fixer's Delight Reboot

>>>>>Antonio<<<<<

Keyed up and ready, his Reaction Enhancers already jacking his nerves into action. Everything seems to slow down as the door pops open to reveal the cyber hitter and the gangers snatch for weapons. He swings his new Colt Cobra up to bear directly on Si-low while opening a conference call with the others. Drang and Sturm! Ahab, cover Slick T and don't trust him.
As Si-low's hand is still finishing it's snap Antonio squeezes off a narrow burst of hollow points right at him. Frag off you slant-eyed dreck.

The Gangers all assume ready positions as there ace in the whole Enters the playing field... Just then Zzzzp! A streak seems to zip through the sky and buries its trail in the cybered, and rather large Chinese ganger's chest!!! He smiles breaking the arrow after pulling it out...!

Antonio moved like lightening, Pulling the trigger almost as soon as his arm was extended!!! Though not quite a point blank shot, his aim was true!! The Colt Cobra barked with authority, echoing throughout the box Ally!!!

Si-Low Goes down spinning as the bullet makes contact despite his attempt at dodging it he is lain flat on his face blood oozing out of him...

Ahab who in fact had already drawn his pistol, moves to do exactly as he is told, but in his effort to speed his movement he twists his ankle!!! The weight, his weight sending flashing pain to his brain, and he goes down also!! A minor sprain he knew, but it would hamper his combat ability... With his free hand he grabbed at it trying desperately to stem the pain...

Slick Tony had a Predator in hand in no time!!! Si-Low spun and dropped in front of him, so he shot at the ganger that was his Second off to the side, and behind him! His Semi Auto Barks more echoing in the surrounding area!!! Si-Low's former second Goes down squirming, Though not quite dead yet, the initial idea of getting shot doing most of the damage... He screams some stuff in Mandarin at the group of gangers all, an obvious attempt to get some help and or counter attack... (unless you speak Mandarin you don't know which but does it really matter? Maybe...)  

Lou raised his sub-mission gun, and steps forward smiling, but looses his smile when he stumbles...! Managing to hold(sort of) using the door frame to support himself, he angrily screams at the roof the arrow came from and fires...!!!

The second Squirms and runs for cover at a near by dumpster to his right...

>>>>>Shawl<<<<<

Shawl nod's at the voice piping in his ear. Keeping his perceptions in the astral and on the look out for new dangers in his peripheral.
The sudden appearance of the chromer having his primary attention. The sod looking solid enough to absorb way too many rounds is enough to decide Shawl on his target.
A course muttering and a snap of his fingers draws a spark out the mundane air, the astral shows the mana coiling into the spell like an electric eal waiting to be loosed, then with snap of his wrists Shawl directs the spark at the Chromed party crasher. The spark jumps to it's target in a nanosecond trailing a bolt of lightning behind.

Shawl's Spark leaps out engulfing Lou L. in sparks and visible electrical leaping jolts causing him to spazzim and fallout... His cyber parts moving of their own accord

An audible scream alert is released from ganger 3 "Mage! They brought a mage!!!" whose Gun Jams leaving him out of the volley's of gangers 4, 5 more to the front of the conflict who no longer consider the roof the biggest threat they focus on getting rid of the Spell Slinger behind his mediocre cover...

Gangers 6, 7 Figure the others got the mage they exchange glances one nodding up to the roof Sharpie is on. the other nods back in the affirmative and in unison the both Get up and fire off their Man Hunter's at Sharp Shooter!!!

The last Ganger drops his gone and then falls prone trying to retrieve it!!!!!

Sharp sees the fire fight begin to open up after he scratches the cyber junkie with his narcojet arrow.  He raises an eyebrow when a few seconds later, the chrome head still hasn't dropped from the effects of the drug. "Tough son of a- oh Drek!"  A quick duck of the head and the samurai's bullets go wide "Missed me!!!"  He yelled to no one in particular, and spun on his toes, away from another hail storm of bullets, towards the far end of his rows of arrows, where the more tactical options were.  "You wanna play rough?!? Okay, Let's play rough!" With a definitive draw, and a heavy thud, his NarcoJet slices through the air towards Ganger 6, as Sharpie picks up an explosive arrow.  "Say hello to my little friend."

>>>>>Antonio<<<<<

As soon as Si-low drops Antonio is scanning the alley, taking note of everyones position. Especially ST, still standing in the middle of it all like a neon target. With a deep breath Antonio bellows behind him. Move your Drecking Hoop Slick! Cover, Cover!
Antonio flicks the Cobra from burst to full auto as he readies it. Not letting himself think about it he starts running at the same time as he opens up with the Colt, dumping rounds towards and around the gangers to keep them all down as he rushes forward the shelter of the door and the dead cyber-monkey.

As the heated battle ensues the teams opposition seems to be dropping like flies... In an attempt to get back into the game Ahab Makes it too his knees, and sees Si-Low's second has the same idea... Ahab being the quicker let a shot off Sending the man's arm wide!!! Slick Tony was quick to piggy back on this and fired off his predator again square in the young mans chest ending his brief life...!!!

>>>>>Shawl<<<<<

Still weakened from the Lightning and really smarting from the gangers return fire Shawl decides on a more mundane approach, pulling his Browning and activating the laser as he aims at Si-Low's second just in time to watch him go down. Switching targets he fires at the one ganger on the left side of the alley.

Ganger 7 is hit by shawl and spins to strike back his left arm slump and unusable from the blast of the heavy pistol...

3 tries to fix his pistol making it worse then it was and unusable...

Now getting a little nervous with Antonio's movements, but less concerned with the now closer runner then they were with the mage... They fire at shawl who still alive and revealed from his shot with the browning...

7's pistol fires in anger at the mage also...!

2 gets up and moves into position...

Shooter keeps on peppering the baddies with arrows, wishing he could keep up with their rate of fire, but simply not being able to do enough. He reaches down for an arrow when he sees Shawl take a few bullets. "Here you go baby." Sharp grits his teeth an his moves hasten as he draws back a particularly interesting arrow, releasing it at the ganger that's about to fire.

Antonio moves quickly shooting and shouting orders barely heard over the noise but responded to none the less...

The Go-Gangers move frantically and uncoordinated, trying desperately to fire at the mage they see as the biggest threat none of them could shoot properly with Antonio holding them at bay with his own gun fire!!! Which really saved Shawl's hoop!!! Shawl again was poorly covered, and probably wanting to get in the van for protection about now... The unfocused shots wizzing past his head...

Just then there is another streak from the sky which catches a oily haired gang member in the shoulder igniting his hair as he screams, and flaming through most of his head killing him, and dropping him in a smoking heap!!!

ST took the diversion as a gift and moved to get behind the same dumpster as recovering Ahab...

Sharpie watched as his arrow not only lodged into the collarbone of his intended target, but the product-filled long hair lit aflame as he screamed, the fire engulfed flesh melting under the intense heat as the ganger fell to his knees and flopped on the ground.  His screaming coming to a abrupt halt as the fire eventually caught to his clothing and he made his own funeral pyre in the city alleyway.  This was the first time Sharpie had used these arrows on a live target, shocked would be an understatement, but horror and fear didn't register.  He had taken lives before, and this one deserved it, for shawl who may or may not be dead.

Sharpie grabbed another incendiary arrow, readied it, and aimed down at the Gangers.

"Drop your guns you idiots.  I see anyone so much as twitch and i'll burn the mother fragging heart out of every last one of you. 3 arrows, 3 kills. Do the math."

>>>>>Antonio<<<<<

Frag me.  Really?    Antonio wasn't expecting that, considering the still cooking corpse.  Adapting, Antonio adjusts his position and readies his Colt while scanning for any weapons directed at them.    Your call Boss, won't even be a minute to clear this dreck.  

With the advantage of numbers lost and the skill level of the opposition clearly out matching them... One by one the Go Gangers begin to put up there hands and weapons... a look of defeat as they stood up from cover their spirits beaten and battered...

Slick Tony peaked out from cover seeing the guns up he tells them to "Throw the guns away..." And as they do he gets up and points his weapon at them aiming he asks "Thought you could put one over on old Slick Tony huh?" Ahab Grabs ST's attention saying "hey man there giving up" Slick Tony only smiles at him and moves on saying "Aaaay its all ice im breezy Chummer..." There is a reassuring tone in his voice... Ahab let Go thinking to himself "You better not..."

Slick Tony Approaches the Ganger's "Who was it! who ordered the double cross...?" The gang sticks together everyone's lips pursed... as ST draws ever closer to them waving his pistol and stepping over Psi low... Ahab says "We got Police Chatter about shots in our area we gotta go...!" And ST gets angry but does not respond to Ahab instead screaming and frantically waving his pistol "Who was it?!!! Did you guys do this or was it Phat Lou!?! Tell me and you walk!"

But they said nothing...

Perception check Antonio...

>>>>>Antonio<<<<<

With the shooting done Antonio sends a comm message to the rest of the team. Ahab; help Shawl and keep a running eta on the heat. Shawl; get in the fragging van. If you can, go astral. Sharpie; Watch for in-coming. I'll cover these slots for now but we need to move soon. Antonio adds some quick hand gestures for Sharpie, just in case. Pointing at the archer then his own eyes before circling his head with one hand. The other never wavering from the three gangers.

His nerves still racked-up enough to slow his perception of time Antonio takes advantage of the effect to watch both ST dangerously waiving his gun around, the now terrified gangers, and the rest of the alley. As ST rants on Antonio can't help but notice the youngest ganger sliding glances at his boss's corpse when ST demanded 'who' and then the other slot couldn't help but look over at the credstick. Like reading a text file, drecking pathetic. Frag me, we don't have more than a couple minutes.

Antonio smiles coldly as he drops the barrel of his colt away from the gangers and down before putting one more round through Si-lows dead head. The Colt snaps back up to cover the gangers. He set their dance and the credstick was the tune. Clock is fraggin tickin boss and we still have hot cargo and the credstick. You wanna yack we gotta bring one with. Stepping closer to the gangers Antonio asks in a blandly pleasant tone of voice. Your boss fragged with the wrong fellas, but that don't mean his boss was involved. So here's an idea; If that stick holds all our cred and my boss agrees then you get to keep the cargo, deal completed. Just remember, your boss had a boss too and that cargo is now his. If the sticks a don't have enough cred........ One of you get's to go explain why, only one of you. Understand

The youngest blurts out "It was Psi-Low he, he was in love with his fathers adapted daughter, she is not blood, but he planned to take the money, and run away with her splitting it all with us, but now he's dead, and we will be too" The one next to him slapped him in the head! "What he said I don't want to die for a dead man, and you know fat Louie will kill us when he finds out his only Son is dead... I just want my bike, I'm outta here man! Look man take the credstick I don't care k...? A pleading look on the young boys face as he realized Antonio was the one to reason with...

"Yea! yea! Im hurt too you know?" said Ahab limping to the Van to attend to shawl, who was moving to the back of the van... "Oh yea you said listen in on the cops we got three drones responding in the area they intercept in two minutes they fix on us we will never get away just chew on that a bit boss" he says as he limps by ST's shadow...

Shawl moaned "I'm not even bleeding just get the crate in here and lets get the hell out of here..."

Slick Tony moved for the credstick which he had dropped when the shooting started. When he got the stick his eyes got real big as it was a fake, and he let it be known with another shot piercing the head of another ganger leaving one less, and his brains all on his friend next to him.. The remaining Go-gangers did not know what to think... Why had he done this was painted on their faces as well as anger towards ST who simply said "It's a fake wheres the real one I wont ask again...?

Sharpie sees ST approach the gangers, and they drop their weapons. With a heartfelt sigh, he gathers up his arrows and hauls ass from the rooftop to the alleyway where the group is, since the van would be the quickest way out. He ran as fast as his feet could carry him, needing to get down to cover asap. "What the hell are we waiting for?"

Shooter gets to floor level asking what the team was waiting for "Get the crate!" ST orders Antonio, and Shooter before moving closer to the left over opposition. "C'mon man don't do it! We don't know what happen to the C-Stick Honestly thought that was it!!!" Earnestness voices it seemed as though they knew nothing more and were truly as surprised as anyone else there...

We gotta go 90 seconds before drone contact Ahab yelled for all to hear as he tended the slumped body Shawl had left behind...

Shooter helps the crew hurry the crate back in to the van, especially after the announcement of 90 seconds till drone. Being half-in half-out of the van he helps the crew into the van, looking to ST "ST, Save your bullets and leave them. These guys are dead men anyways. We'l pawn off the stuff, or charge'em double for fragging us over. Either way, you'll get your money. NOW LET'S fragging MOVE IT!!!"

Gods, Sharpie wished he knew how to drive.

Slick Tony issued a final warning "Never let me see you punks again, leave the guns go...!" and he moved back to the van fast on sharpies heels, jumping in the drivers seat, he pulled around once the cargo was secure...!

It would take a minute four them to get out the maze of alleyways, 90 seconds on the clock, that gave 30 seconds for there get away!!! It would take three minutes for police to zero in on the drones and then they would have an all out chase "Where are the drones? Ahab was it?" Ahab frowned at that "Yeah Ahab, and there coming from the North, North East, and finally East... What do you wanna do?" Tony Gunned it trying to shave even more time on there escape... "Umm? Way out is east so yeah you's guys get ready to get rid of those drones if you gotta... k!?!" Fear in his tone, but control still over all was there, and He still seemed more then competent... His movements were sharp on the wheel, but fluid still somehow in spite of what he was trying to do...

>>>>>Antonio<<<<<

Antonio is totally flabbergasted when Sharpie runs up beside the van but when ST shouts the order to beat it Antonio drops his Colt to hang from it's sling and immediately begins ignoring the remaining live gangers.  Instead he directs his jacked nerves to ST's demands, keeping in mind the clicking clock. He quickly grabs anything of decent value within reach as he makes for the crate not allowing more than 20 seconds too the task, stuffing it all into his coveralls to gather above the waist band.  Then he takes another fifteen seconds to rapidly pat down Si-lows corpse for his comm and any more sticks, leaving everything else before helping rush the drugs back into the van as fast as they can.  Visually scanning the others he makes sure nobody seems seriously hurt, just badly bruised and winded.    Thank the spirits for decent armor  

Once everyone is in and moving Antonio pulls two compact devices from inside his coat and hands them to Ahab.    Area Jammers, smart ones too, rated at 4 for whatever that's worth.  If the drones get within five to ten meters we should be able to jam em and drop em.  Get them up and running omae.  

>>>>>Shawl<<<<<

Already crawling into the van when the end of the fight happened he separates himself from his body and steps entirely into the astral.  In the strange state of separation Shawl astrally takes a deep breath and smiles at the lack of discomfort even while he can still distantly 'feel' himself.  Astrally he watches the end of the fight and the scramble to leave, sitting perched atop the van.  By act of will he keeps his seat on the van as they make for the exit from this dreck up.  The whole time looking for any threats, from any direction or interested party.

As the Van pulls out of the Ally maze ST spins the wheel turning the van right and south does not gun it though for as he gets down the block "We got company of the drone variety... Six o clock 30 meters" Ahab sounds the Alarm! ST speaks "stay cool!" he says "I got this!" The drone draws every closer sirens blazing, and an electronic voice shouting "citizen Gun shots have been reported fired in this area please route your vehicle away from this zone police will be here soon to rectify the situation... Thank you and have a good day!!!" ahabs voice flares up again... "drek!!! There running our plates and scanning the vehicle! if we Jam them they will know its us... What do we do ten meters six o'clock...!?!"

"They are too far out for us to jam them as is. Just drive normal and let them scan us, best case we come back clean. Worst case, they chase us, then we turn a blind corner and turn on the jammer, they lose us, we're good. Speaking of, find us a blind corner close to here. When you're being stalked, you don't run right away, you'll just die tired."

Sharpie may not be a driver, not just a hunter, but he also knew what it was like to be hunted. He pulled out all the explosive arrows that he could and readied one of them. It was the only thing he had against armored opponents. Let's add an armor piercing arrow to my growing list.

Shooters words were true enough everyone in the van knew it... Panic was no friend, and it got real quiet in that van... The Drone scanned a few time and then let it rock as it could not penetrate the armor of the van, But with a lucky call from the other drones about bikers escaping the crime scene, the drone flew off to join in the chase... Shortly after that sirens could be heard in the distance it seemed for now the danger was past... It was some time and driving before Ahab asked "Where too" and ST responded "Meat packing district warehouse, should be safe there for the afternoon into the night, shower, change and work this out..."

Chapter one fin...

"Fixer's Delight Reboot"
Chapter 2: We gotta get paid!!!

Slick Tony pulls into a warehouse with a big funny looking dancing pig on the sign above... The auto doors close, and ST's forehead hits the steering wheel and sits there for a minute... "Damn, damn, damn!!!" his fists hit the dash board a few times... Ahab looks around for reactions then speaks "Umm its not like we lost your product or lost any men like why all the anger...?" ST looks at him as if Ahab has two heads "Yeah well we killed a tongs son, and we did not get paid... Which means now I gotta find a way to pay you out of pocket, or more likely I gotta find a way to close the deal with the man himself... With a dead boy though its unlikely he will deal, now more likely he's gonna have me or all of us shot in front of our loved ones... Well if you got any anyway..." He gets out the Van and starts hitting things Then screams "Dio mi dia una pausa!!!" Then in English "What do I gotta do?" Ahab gets out behind him and limps to a support beam for the building his back against it he slides down the support and sits against it thinking and rubbing his ankle...

ST stops screaming at the sky and looks to the group with fear in his eyes... "Look guys this was not part of the plan worse case i thought id have to pay you and figure my own way out but was not prepared to not get paid look Monty is gonna wanna know what happen don't tell Monty nothing..." But He is immediately interrupted By a delicate voice from the regular door way saying "Tell me what exactly Mr. slick, has something gone wrong?" looking at the doorway as it opens and a suited man actually you recognize him as the suit playing the corner when you had the matrix introduction to ST and Monty Who walks through the door being held open for him by the suit he looks very much like he did when you first met him in the matrix there really nothing different and still very eccentric and flashy... ST gulps "M... Mm Monty what are you doing here pal, I... I did not call yet..." Monty looks you all over and then back to ST smiling "Oh Posh i figured id come and congratulate my new business partner and his success... Umm everything is as we planned yes?" Monty looks around at everyone nervously saying nothing as he cant think of what to say and all you can think is What the hell does this frail skinny weird elf have on this Mafia vet... from what you can tell ST is hard boiled... Now your looking at Monty what is he...?