182 Full Circle
Ori stares down at the sewer entrance with a wrathful glare. After a moment of indecision however, he reluctantly drops down into it, his pupils turning to slits as they quickly adjust to the darkness. But all he could think about right now is whether or not he'd just stepped in shit.
Thankfully, the liquids around him weren't what he expected. A dark, almost black crimson instead of the green sewer water he was expecting. That old cyber psycho had been busy apparently.
Arms, legs, organs, and other body parts ley strewn about the narrow tunnel. They hadn't been removed cleanly however, as there were obvious signs of ridiculous force being used. The bones in the limbs had all been crushed, and the fist-shaped indentations in the walls gave a clear picture of what he'd be up against.
He glances down at his now pitch-black metallic arms, wondering if he'd chromed up enough to handle it. (They look like this but more metallic and pitch black : https://www.pinterest.com/pin/720857484079682651/ )
Cautiously, he makes his way through the tunnels, navigating by using the now rather limited tracker. While it pointed him in a vague direction, it didn't help much in deciding which path to take... Thankfully, the spatters of blood and other signs of destruction made it fairly easy to guess.
He stumbles across a couple small rooms that'd been divided by scrap metal walls which had already been torn through. Remnants of a chemistry lab undoubtedly synthesizing drugs were left strewn around.
There were some complete corpses, likely the chemists and other egg-heads. Unlike the drone, the absorption of the corpses via the Injector was far more gruesome than he'd expected. First, the fluids were expelled out by the nanites, then they began dismantling it like flesh-eating bacteria.
It takes around five minutes for each body, which was slow if he didn't consider just how much information they were cataloguing. These guys in particular had numerous smaller Cybernetics, related to health, and regulating hormones. Hell, they even recorded their 'Sexual Assistance' Cyberware.
The things of interest were the Kiroshi Optics V1, Subdermal Armour, RAM enhancements, and Synthetic Muscle Fibres. All of which the nanites intended to install once he had time and safety. Needless to say, most of them would require a day or two to fully integrate and install.
The length was mostly due to the nanites wishing to integrate the tech into the biological enhancements already made. His eyes were biological wonderments already, and simply replacing them with some Kiroshi's would probably be a massive downgrade.
By the time the nanites were done all that was left of the corpses were puddles of chunky, bloody vomit... He retracts the Injector and continues on his way.
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*Thud-SNAP!*
*Thud-SNAP!*
*Thud-SQUELCH!*
"Y-you fuckin' creep! Just leave us alone! STOP!" a woman cowers against the wall as the madman stomps on the skulls of her friends.
The old man pauses the violence and raises his head, showing his heavily armoured, enhanced, and plated face. Drooling pools from his mouth as he growls, snarls, and sniffs erratically, clearly out of his mind.
"LEAVE YOU PSYCHO FUC-*SPLATTER!*" The woman's entire upper body is crushed as the psycho throws a huge piece of rubble at her.
The psycho then leans backwards and screams up at the ceiling, his jaw looking as if it was unhinging from the rest of his face.
*TinkTinkTink!*
He pauses, looking down at the three small glowing things that'd dropped next to his feet.
*BOOM!*
An electric shockwave explodes out, forcing the psycho to his knees as his entire body sparks and shudders.
*CRASH!*
A foot crashes into the man's stomach, punting him across the room like a wet rag. "EMP's, a Cyberpsycho's worst enemy." Ori remarks, as he hefts the rifle and aims it. He'd learned a lot while working gigs for Regina, particularly what highly chromed-up targets were weak to.
*Bangbangbangbangbang!*
He frowns at his bullets all pinging uselessly off of the guy's armour and throws the rifle to the side, realising he'd have to get up close and personal. His Monowire drops from his arm and he whips it forwards, slashing the guy's neck, but again, bounces off uselessly.
"More anti-mono armour...? It's like they created you to fight me-... Oh." he mutters as he realises that Arasaka may have done just that.
*Crrrack!*
The guy forcefully stands up as the sparks arcing across his Cyberware become more intense. He locks eyes with Ori, his crimson visor brightening with intensity.
"And resistant against EMP..." he shakes his head mirthfully, retracting the Monowire and dropping into a boxing stance. "Come get it then, this won't be like last time. Ass hole."
"AAARRGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" the man launches himself at Ori with reckless abandon, arms flailing as if hoping to confuse his opponent.
Ori sidesteps it, allowing him to crash into the wall behind. His fists bury up to the elbow in concrete, and he just growls as he extracts himself and gets ready for another assault. This time he meets it fist to fist.
*CLANG!*
Both stop dead in their tracks as they strain against one another, the psycho throws a haymaker with the other hand but Ori ducks it and hits him in the stomach with an uppercut, then grabs the arm to throw him into the ground hard.
His fist cracks the floor as the old man moves, sprinting back up and attempting to bite Ori's throat out with his horrifically altered mouth. Ori blocks it however but stuffs his left fist into the man's gullet.
"EAT THIS YOU SACK OF SHIT!" he shouts as he shoots out the Monowire, which quickly slices up the insides of the psycho's throat, entering his stomach and doing even more damage from there. He tries to stab the Injector into him as his opponent struggles and writhes in pain, but his armour was too thick to breach.
Ori steps back and retracts his arm and Monowire, allowing the old man to fall to his knees, vomiting up an incredible amount of blood, flesh, and whatever was left of his organs. "Don't worry, 'buddy', I'll pay Arasaka back for what they've done to both of us."
Ori tears the visor from the man's face, revealing his empty eye sockets and allowing him to stab them with the Injector.
