well here it is
a little small but I don't want to end up at the climax at the end of it so
i'm spreading it out farther!
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Priss: "Whatever I drank to have this dream,
I've got to remember to try it again."
by Adrian Tymes
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Or not to be that is the question before the bench
For the less traveled is paved with good intentions
>From whose dark bore no traveler returns
It is a far far better thing that Christmas morn
For tomorrow is another day
A shot rang out, the shot heard round the world,
suddenly guns to the left of me guns to right of me
<Miss Ayumi from Project A-Ko>
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yudenakya nama-BIIRU
*if i don't boil it, it's still draft beer
<from Dragon Half ending song, Watashi no Tamagoyaki>
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Singularity Tokyo
By Battlekrome
Disclaimer: Ranma 1/2 is property of Rumiko-sama
And yes there's gonna be Ranma
BGC is property of Youmex and whoever's making 2040.
Chapter 3:
<BGM Jonny Quest intro (1996 version)>
Now in my haste to get to the boomer rampage
I broke a couple things I shouldn't do. One, I exceeded the
speed limit by double digits. Two, I was in my armor the entire
time. This identified to any cop with half a brain that A: I
was a knight Saber. B: I was running from something that was
assumed to be more police. Thus I managed to acquire a few cops
on my way.
"Aika, What's your ETA to scene?" Nene radioed.
"About two minutes. What about the AD police?" I replied.
"They're about one to two minutes behind you."
"What about the ones chasing me?"
"Well those are going to get there as soon as you are."
"K, noted."
Stepping on the gas, I accelerated onto the freeway. Weaving in
and out of cars as I passed them. The streetlights seemed to
zip by almost like strobe lights. My HUD had popped up a small
radar to show where the cops were, how close the rampage was
and what route I had to take to get there. A glance at my
speedometer put me at over 200kph.
Shifting down to pull down the off ramp. A quick skid turn
later and five blocks away was the rampage.
"Um.. Nene, what was count on the boomers?" I radioed.
"Well most accurate count puts it at ten to twenty."
"TEN TO TWENTY!?"
"Yes, it should be no problem ffor you. Yuri's ETA is half a
minute after yours and Priss will drop in soon after that. Try
to keep the cops out of it."
<BGM Instruments of Destruction by NRG off Transformers the
movie>
The Cops behind saw the rampage up ahead and decided to form a
perimeter around the surrounding blocks instead of following me
into the ruckus. The Boomers at this point decided to notice
me. Shots began to arc towards me. 'Ah, man' I thought. A
stray shot impacted just before my front tire and I lost
control of the bike. Spinning and sliding my bike and I landed
in a conveniently place pile of garbage. Now fighting is one
thing, garbage is another but scratching the bike is a big No
No.
Dashing toward the first boomer the battle began.
Time seemed to slow as I neared the first one. Leaning to dodge
the first fist. My hand stopped the fist past my head and then
I smashed the elbow of the boomer upwards. Then with my now
free other hand I removed his brain from his chest the quick
way.
Out of the back from the front.
The jumping upwards to avoid the five boomer pile up. Flipping
in midair. I aimed my landing to coincide with a boomer's
misplaced head. Landing behind the boomer I swept out his feet
from behind and then pulled a shot towards one of the
approaching boomers.
Flipping backwards to get some distance. I popped another shot
at the boomers taking an arm off one of them. Pulling back
I checked ETA on my 'reinforcements' and other such assistance.
Twenty sec's till Yuri showed. Gritting my teeth I decided some
evasive maneuvers were required. I charged the nearest boomer.
As I closed to close combat range the boomer opened wide and
prepared to blast me with its mouth cannon. I fired before it
could acquire a lock on me. The resulting blast took the head
off the boomer. It stumbled and slumped to the ground. Flipping
over it as I went past it I fired another shot to the chest to
finish the boomer off. Three down, a whole lot more left.
The rest of the boomers decided to rush me. A jetpack assisted
jump put me onto the roof of a nearby building. Mouth cannons
fired on me as I ran along the top of the building. Jumping up
to clear the gap between the next one I landed behind the lip
at the edge of the rooftop. Rolling as I landed, I pulled to a
stop on the other side of the roof. Leaning over the lip I
fired a few shots to get the boomers' attention. With a flip I
was over the lip and heading towards pavement. After it hit I
stood and let loose a shot that I had been charging up. The
football sized blast tore through two boomers before burying
itself into the side of a building.
"Hey, Aika ever heard of Skeet shooting?" crackled Yuri's voice
over the radio.
"Yeah, isn't the thing with pigeons and yelling pull?"
"One clay pigeon coming up." and with that a boomer suddenly
was launched up into midair. Quickly aiming I popped a shot off
that removed its brain from its chest.
With Yuri now here thing became quickly less hard. With her
bulldozing her way through and me dancing along after her,
covering her back. The boomers were a lot easier to take down.
Yuri lifted the boomer in front of me off its feet and with a
roundhouse kick I removed its head. Then Yuri punched the brain
out. This continued for a couple boomers. Then Priss showed up
and the fun began. With three of us the boomers were no match.
Each of us could take down them one on one. Smashed boomer bits
began to litter the ground as their numbers dwindled. Then
there were three. The fight seemed to pause as the three of us
stood opposite the three boomers. Then the AD police decided to
join in. Unfortunately for us they were more for shooting at
the general direction of the boomers rather than aiming. As if
the start of AD police fire was a starting gun, we leapt
forward. Retracting my claw I began a series of flips toward
the boomer. The flips ended with a switch from a flip to a
roundhouse kick, then a shot to the boomer's chest to finish it
off. Still under fire from ADP, I dashed to my fallen bike.
Kick starting it, I quickly accelerated down a side alley. Up
ahead was an AD police car parked blocking the alley.
"Damn it"
Accelerating faster, I sped toward the cop car. Popping a
wheelie as I reached the car, I ignited my jump pack. Sailing
over the surprised cop behind it, I skid turned as I landed.
Giving the cop a salute I raced off down the street. Deciding
to go the stealthy approach home by the time I had reached the
highway I was dressed normally for a biker and going just under
the speed limit.
----
Now I would like to think that working for the Knight Sabers
changed my life, but it hasn't as much as I thought it would. I
still did the things I did before. Two of the few changes was
getting back into motorcycles again and being on call for the
knight Sabers.
My netsurfing leads me to strange and wonderful places. Weird
sites that haven't been updated since god knows when. One of em
wasn't updated for almost 30 years. It had a page on what
seemed to be a popular series back then. It was about this guy
who dies then comes back with a neat suit. Weird huh? Now the
thing that makes me remember about it was how cool the suit
looked and some of the neato properties. Also he just looked
evil and dangerous.
I was during looking down one of the art pages that I noticed
something. My clothes were changing to what costume of who I
was looking at. My response to this was 'man I'll never have to
dress up for Hallowe'en again'. Then I realized I was hungry.
Not wanting to get up, I thought about how nice it would be to
have something, and then I turned my attention back to the
screen.
It was later when I was stretching that I knocked over a can of
pop on my desk.
'How did this get here?' I thought.
The can was unopened which meant I hadn't gotten it myself.
Since usually I open and drink cans before I get back to my
desk. 'Who could of put this here?' I puzzled.
Deciding to now find out some of the limits of my suit's
costume making abilities. Shifting to the Spawn costume (1) I
stood looking at all the attachments and such. The neat cape,
that fluttered in the breeze. Wait a second, breeze? I'm
indoors. The cape was moving by itself! 'I must be moving it
then' I thought. With that I tried to control it mentally. The
cape shifted by itself.
"Neat" I said.
With that I went through all of the costumes I had seen
recently. Except for the electronic equipment and weapons
systems I was able to imitate them flawlessly. Well, compared
to my memory. Switching back the Spawn costume, I tried to see
how realistic I could make it. The cape fluttered in a non-
existent breeze, the chains moved how I told them. This was too
cool. Switching to my armor, I tried adding the cape and chains
to it. My skin crawled as the suit changed. My armor now had a
chain belt that I could use as tentacles and a cape that I also
could control. Now I looked like death himself though.
Switching to the original midnight blue with red stripes color
scheme I attempted to switch colors. The Color shifted along
the spectrum till it reached a matte black then shifted to
white. Then down along the spectrum until it reached blue
again. I remembered Nene telling me that it had thermoptic
camouflage as well. At this the suit seemed to vanish to my
eyes to be replaces with a green outline. Looking into a
convenient mirror
I saw nothing. Wondering how good it was I switched to various
forms of visual enhancements and checked for the concealment.
Infrared proved to be a disappointment. I showed up equally
well cloaked as I did uncloaked. Oh well, it was quite good for
visual trickery.
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Nene had called me into Knight Sabers HQ. Seems we were meeting
a new client of ours. They were hiring us to do some corporate
espionage or that's what Nene seemed to think. Deciding to
sneak up on Nene. I shifted invisible and snuck into the
computer lab and stood behind her. Five minutes later, after I
had seen her glance at her watch, I reached out and tapped her
on the shoulder. Nene leapt a good two feet out of her chair. I
couldn't help myself; I started laughing and de-cloaked.
"Aika! Don't scare me like that!"
This fell on deaf ears as I was still busting a gut laughing.
"Sorry, Nene, but the look on you face." I managed to get out
between laughs.
"Humph," Nene humphed "So you want to know what we're doing?"
"Sure. Any word on who we get hired by?"
"N-Corp." She replied.
"The N-Corp?"
"Yep"
"Good lord. I thought they were just a myth."
"Most people do. They were bought out by Genom fifteen years
ago. The head of it left a shell Corp that got taken over and
took everything with them."
"So what have we been hired for? I take it they don't need
bodyguards."
"They need us to investigate and depending on findings destroy
or disrupt it."
"So a smash and grab?"
"So to speak, Aika. The only prob is Genom has some heavy ICE
around its computers."
This discussion went on for quite a while. I don't want to bore
you with the details but needless to say Nene and I were up
till early in the morning batting ideas back and forth about
how and where to hack in.
"What about the bug in the OS that involves the FTP server?"
"Naah, they fixed that."
See told you so. This ended with a pizza, and Nene and I
finding places to sleep for the rest of the day. That night we
were at it again. This time though we had slightly more
information. Linna had gotten from one of her sources that it
was probably physically located in a computer in a Genom
factory that seemed to now have a negative output of boomers
now. Now with well, a target to seek at. Nene and I redoubled
our efforts. That is to say we began living like true hackers
yet again. That being Eat, sleep, computer. With little of the
first two and lots of the last.
This went on for a week before we had a full plan. Now
the real hard part telling someone who doesn't know a thing
about hacking the plan. This we first tried on Priss. She was
skeptical.
"So let me get this straight. We smash our way in. Hold off god
knows how many boomers so you two can hack this thing and then
get out?"
This we nodded at.
"And how much are you two going to fight in this?"
"Well, we were hoping we wouldn't have to. With my stealth and
Nene's ECM, we were hoping to be able to sneak in with a
diversion from you and Yuri."
"Oh so Yuri and I are the decoys now?"
"No, it just you get all the action." I replied.
"Yeah you get to kick butt, Priss." Nene added.
This planning stage went well considering whom we had to
convince.
Then we went on the major dam to get this working: Sylia.
This went better than Nene and I expected.
"Yes, go a head but I want you two to talk to N-Corp first."
This was nothing short of amazing.
Thus this led to out meeting with N-Corp
Author notes: That's all for this chapter folks
I'm not going to end up at the climax in the third chapter hope
I can delay till at least the fifth one.
Also sorry about no Ranma in it as promised but,
Guess who the head of N-Corp is?
(1) cool costume it is and property of Todd Mcfarlane
(2)