As he moved further into to take cover behind a concrete block, he got a clear view of the camp. A lot of goods had been gathered there. But that was for later. He grabbed a frag grenade and threw it at the tents. He threw all three of them, each landing on the tents.
Panam was right beside him, firing like a maniac with her assault rifle.
[Grenade!]
Cypher heard the warning from the AI and leapt away to the side, easily rolling away to safety. He continued to shoot after that, always staying in cover, taking aim, and dropping a body. All his aims were to pierce the head or the hand holding a gun, and then a fatal headshot.
His breath was calm, however. His head was surprisingly cool.
"Damn you, Wraiths!" Panam roared.
He noticed the crazy woman getting a bit reckless. She stepped out of cover and sprayed at the remaining five n. He didn't stop her and shot the Wraith holding the shotgun.
It was deafening. His ears were buzzing, being in an enclosed space. The last remaining three Wraiths were behind the cover of a concrete block.
So, he sighed and grabbed his DL-18 blaster. He started blasting right at the concrete, scorching it black and crumbling it until the red bolts pierced through.
"What's that?!"
He ignored Panam's question and kept shooting. Not long after, the three Wraiths had to ditch the cover and leap aside. Panam was quick to shoot the two who leapt on the right. Cypher got the one who rolled left.
They were alert, seeing no more movent after that. The tunnel returned to the windy sounds of the ventilation working overti.
"That wasn't so hard," Panam muttered, standing out in the open, her rifle slung over her shoulder.
But Cypher didn't relax just yet.
[Cypher, six additional hostiles are advancing from the opposite side. There were no caras there. I have bypassed the minor ICE governing their cyberoptics. Each is ard with rifles and shotguns.]
"Get down! More are pushing in from that side!" Cypher yelled at Panam, diving behind a concrete block. "Move, now!"
Panam did heed his advice, but instead of taking cover with him, she hid behind a block in front of him, putting herself closer to the enemy side than him.
This woman never listens.
He put away the DL-18 blaster and grabbed his pistol again. He didn't wait; as soon as the six Wraiths appeared, running to take cover, he started.
Bang!
Cypher let his instincts take over. His raw talent with guns was already in his body. He didn't even take shots or use the sight. Just based on instincts, his body aid, and he pulled the trigger.
"Aaaargh!"
This ti, there were grunting, crying voices as the fight was ugly. He had to take aim from narrow spaces to hit their arms or legs. He never stayed in one position either, rolling away often to take a better angle.
He changed the magazine mid-fight, so fast as if his body had done that a million tis. Then he aid, the gun held at a strange angle, yet when he shot, it was accurate.
Bang!
Panam was right in front of him, unable to do anything as the bullets flew over her head too fast. At best, she could blindly spray her rifle without looking.
[Four down, Cypher. The right one is reloading.]
Hearing that, he ca out of the cover, leapt sideways towards the destroyed camp, and took aim. He jumped in a way that the left one had no clear shot at him. But he took a clear one at the guy reloading.
Bang!
The skull cracked.
"Panam! Fuck him up!"
At his command, she finally got the chance to get up and shoot. As the man was too scared of being the only one left, she got a clear shot and killed him.
"Cockroaches!" Panam seethed. "Why are there so many? The intel didn't say Nash's gang was this big."
Cypher had his own doubts, but the fucking fight was still not over.
[Cypher, ten additional hostiles are approaching from your entry side. A netrunner is present. All internal caras were attacked, along with Panam's truck systems. Panam is fully exposed and within their direct line of sight.]
"Jump!"
Cypher shouted, wasted no ti explaining. He knew Panam's personality, fucking rebellious. Her first instinct was to always ask 'why', instead of doing it. She was a sitting duck, standing in the middle of the tunnel's direct line of sight. He was safe as he was on the tent's side.
He could hear the footsteps already.
He dashed towards Panam and dived, dipping his neck low to save his head.
BANG!
Sure enough, the first shot was fired at her. But he covered her right on ti, taking the shot on his back, on the vest. He continued to fall, now with Panam. He took her down with him above the concrete block she was hiding against before, this ti dropping on the other side.
Thud!
Bang! Bang!
Trrrrrrr!
Pistols, rifles, shotguns. Bullets flew over them endlessly. Only the concrete block was saving them, and it was getting chipped away fast.
Cypher was flat on top of her, staring at her face.
Panam herself seed guilt-ridden, her brows creased in shock and fear.
"Still silly?" he asked with a smirk.
"Are you hit?"
He shook his head and seriously looked into her eyes. "No questions, promise?"
"What?"
He didn't reply to her. "Buddy, do it."
The fight had gone on for far too long already. Sothing greater was at play. That many Wraiths appearing at the sa ti wasn't normal. In an under-construction camp at that. He believed it was his and Panam's timing that was wrong.
Cypher didn't have to look up. Rather, he enjoyed a few more monts of keeping Panam trapped under him. Too bad his vest didn't let him feel the flesh, damn Arasaka for making it so firm. Still, the view was fucking stunning.
Her hair a bit ssier now, her eyes confused, guilty, a thousand questions in them, locked with his.
Within three seconds, all gunfire stopped.
[Cypher, neutralisation is complete.]
He smiled, music to his ears.
"You good?" He asked Panam while moving off of her. Once he was up, he gave her a hand. "Rember, no questions."
"What do you an by tha—"
She took his hand and stood up. But her lips stopped moving the mont she saw the aftermath right on the other side of the concrete blocks.
Cypher was a bit surprised by the bodies there. The enemies had co so close, he hadn't realised that. But that didn't matter anymore. He put away his pistol and equipped the shotgun. It was ti to clean the scene of the cri.
He couldn't leave the ten dead bodies, all with identical injuries. Each had strange cracks in their skulls, the entire skullbone chipped away. There were also identical large see-through holes in their throats where shard slots went in.
Cypher walked to the nearest body and fired his shotgun at the head, splattering it completely into a gory, aty, bloody ss. He made sure the entire head and throat were gone. Then he repeated it with the rest.
Surprisingly, Panam didn't say a single word during that whole ti. But it did annoy him that she just stood there like a frozen doll when she should be going through all the goods and grabbing whatever they could.
Bang!
He dealt with all ten bodies, destroying the evidence. Finally, he walked over to the woman and shook her firmly.
"Rise and shine. What the hell happened to you?"
"W-What? I… how did you do that? I was… we almost died. You alright? You took a hit in the back."
"Argh," Cypher groaned, leaning in closer, shoulders hunching, making sure to exaggerate comically. "Damn, that still hurts. But hey, you know what they say, right? Sotis the fastest way to forget the pain is a nice, sweet kiss."
"..."
Seeing her awkward face, he laughed and walked away. Who knew Panam could be made speechless like that? But again, he did show her sothing crazy. God AI's work was nothing short of magic.
"Just ssing with you, Panam. Hurry up and grab whatever's yours, or whatever you want. Then we're out of here."
He didn't wait for her and walked over to his motorbike. He felt so sort of old connection with it, although it wasn't that fast of a bike. Still, he wanted it back. He also started checking all the containers. And when he was sure she couldn't hear him, he ordered the AI.
"Alright buddy, check the corpses for any good cyberware I can pop off easy and carry with us. While you're at it, scroll their ssages and emails. I wanna know what the fuck happened here."
Instead of speaking, God AI appeared in his AR view. But this ti it was different. Instead of appearing like a translucent 3D figure hovering in front of him, he fully integrated himself into the surroundings. And there he was, a Morgan Freeman-like man in human flesh, sitting on a tal box, smiling and waving a thumbs-up.
I guess I got my own Johnny Silverhand, then… but Morgan Freeman… Smarter, for sure. And yeah, not a terrorist. I can live with that.
He didn't mind it because he knew he could stop this at any mont. This was just God AI testing the limits and trying new things. It was also a fun thing to see him look so realistic. Made it easy for Cypher to treat the cosmic-AI like family.
One by one, he checked all the crates. He found bundles of eddies here and there and pocketed them. Then he found so low-grade cyberware and also pocketed them. He eyed Panam, hoping to see what she was taking. But nothing seed special.
Just for revenge, then? Crazy for sure.
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