Jim McKenna awoke from down comforters in a climate controlled room. it was small, servants family's quarters not a suite as he was.. attempting to lie low.
but even that wasn't a reason to be out of view of the beach.
There was a sound..
A footfall outside his door. Something strange about being a shrink ... every action even footsteps where a psychological que.
This footfall said "Oops.. that was loud."
Adrenaline rushed into his heart and head as Jim fumbled for his holster... Which WASN'T WHERE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE, the noises of an electronic mag lock being hacked let him know he has three seconds to do something besides get found,shot,kidnapped, or..worse?
Kibbtz a younger cultist urged the hacker to force the lock before the traitors brother woke up.
"Hecate will shoot us both if we fail to tranq and bag this guy."
The hacker lost his balance and made a rather loud step... Both looked at each other thinking to listen inside... if they had awoke someone or not...
The hacker continued and cursed.. "****".. As the lock whined and clicked off.
"Its open... get the stunner.." the hacker rasped in a whisper to kibbutz.
Kibbuts had a Detroit Munitions PSG it looked like a.. old 50's sci fi weapon and when primed opened up 4 claws that projected an array of frequencies and audio sonic pulses that could bind muscles and shock the nervous system.
he armed it as it made a wooing noise and charged its capacitor of 5 shots.
"Alright here goes nothing.. Open the door fast!"
The door swung open and Kibbutz ran inside yelling for shock effect... his battle-cry turned into a shriek when all he saw was the spare foldout mattress was being kicked at him... he shot the furniture in vain as he was shoved back out the door and onto his back. The wayward shot bulls eyeing a fire alarm.
The two cultists of the apocalypse scrambled out from foam and fire retardent being sprayed in the halls.
They even scrambled by a tall red haired woman.. stern faced and ignorant of their flight.
Hecate had thought the leaving the retrival to mere cultists was a dumb idea... Even if they uniforms where male the Nine said she would stand out even under disguise.
She released to two ten minutes ago... and an alarm is sounding..
The idiots.. The two foam covered ran past her taking cover.
The threat was down the hall... only one way out.. through the hallway..
Hecate took out a personal sidearm that looked more like a cannon.
"We don't wish to hurt you congressman... but I have no qualms about blowing away a junker, specially when killing you might hurt that traitor."
she waited patiently.. but now muffled soggy steps could be heard..
Jims head peeked around the corner of the entrance to the saw the scary 6.7 tall red haired lady and shrank back into cover.
"I was going to say something like youll never take me alive but.. uh.. let me think about this.."
~wholy crap that bitch is huge~
he finished assembling his scatter gun, this particular modification was plasma based.. Called a Blast wave gun it could stun everyone in a room or breach a weakened door.
the red headed terminatrix spoke again "Just come on out McKenna... we wont harm you.. we need your brother not you."
Jim was stuck and he knew it. God damn cult..figured Leonard wouldn't even fit in with these mooks.. hed too freaky for them... Why the hell couldent he just be int he mollys like uncle Glenny or burnie or the rest of the smith boys...
"Well... Ill come out.. only if you promise not to hurt him.." Jim peeked out to see her face.
She smiled. "Of course not.. See we can all be friends here."
Jims eyesight was so much better then it was.. Almost 51, restorative surgery... He could spot the lie in that cardi heads lips movement.
Kibbutz and Hacker were kinda cowering behind the the bend to the elevator and when it seemed like he was going to come out they came out to backup the Exarch.
"man I thought this was going to be a shootout.. hey Hecate how did-
A wave of orange energy BLEW all three down. Hecate was singed on one side of her face drops of purle streaked from open wounds that started to close up right away... and her eyes begain to glow... she was...
-pissed-
"Shoot that scrap fink!" she glared at kittbutz who snapped to attention and fired his stunner as Jim tried to duck into another hall for cover. He didnt know if he hit him but he heard a yelp.
Hacker pulled out a holdout pistol, a simple laser pulse job and went after Jim with Hecate.
Kibbutz was still dizzy from the pulse-wave and used the left side of the hall for balance.
"Did you see him?" he asked hacker in a smothered tone.. Hacker pointed down the hall.
"He went past the lift when it was clear it wasent there and she went to the stairwell." hacker said.
Another pulsewave blast went off downt he halla nd made both of them flinch. They hear a feminin ugh.. then shots from her gun... an exchange of fire.. and Jim yelling something..
Hecate wanted this guy dead now.. he managed to shoot her twice in the face trying to capture him unspoiled but now.. she was going to blow his legs off and mail the parts to the bounty hunters where his stupid brother fled.
"I'm going to have to spoil those good looks."
She had him pinned in the stairwell when hed move up shes shoot holes in the steps.
"have a gift" Jim said.. the familiar bounce of metal on concrete...
She saw the sphere and attempted to shoot it when it burst into a thick white smoke.
She shot wildly in the air, debris came down from the stairwell but his footfalls going upstairs... the doors wouldn't open on the stairwell ...
Was all he could think.. the sky was spinning.. the indicator on Jims comm unit was blinking like crazy.. he didn't see the blurry figures running for their lives as Jims Eagle hovered into view Vaporizing Hecate and sending her surviving accomplice off the roof with Phoenix prototypes.
Tinny the geriatric assistant droid managed to pick him up and "bandage" the multiple shots.. The droid realised without blood he was going to get worse.
Jims adrenaline ran out with the roll. ~Dumb old man... you aint 30.~
Jim rasped a command as he got piled into the fighter. "Put some plasma in me Tinny... Im getting the hell out of dodge.."
The droid applied several packs. +Sir you need hospitable attention...+
"Will these patches hold till we get to Caneria Medical?" He wasn't going to trust anywhere else..
+Your wounds do not seem critical but eventually the pain masking will wear thin and you may not be strong enough to withstand the pain.+
Jim shifted his body.. "Good.. Plot it out.. let get going quickly."
Jim got a message ready..
"John.. they shot me John.. I dont thing they where after what I gave you but my dumb-ass brother got me shot... My droids gonna get me to the hospital...Hopefully alive.. Uugh.. Jim out."
~aw crap.. I didn't hit record..~
"Tinny for gods sake help me out here." Jim passed in an out of consciousness.
It was familiar... he had spent a little over half a year with therapy shortly before the "estium" excursion.
his eyes slid over to tinny.. the android bent over forward to check to make sure he was indeed awake.
"Whos my god damn doctor..." jim squeezed out rasply.
+Unknown, you where in surgery for several hours, your chart has yet to manifest.+
"I feel shot.. It hurts." Jim was looking around the recovery room.. it wasn't quite a recovery room.. odds are he was due for more surgery.
+Four shots located in the calves and thighs a clean shot through your right shoulder and a shot in your artifical disk.+
"I don't remember being shot in the back..." he questioned.
+While I was coming into weapons range a large red haired woman fired her weapon into your back my strafing run did eliminate her.... however it ruined your jacket. I spotted the accomplice jumped off the roof.+
"Ill be damned... that expensive little disc saved my damn life." He huffed.