44 Metal meets Mettle

"HUH!?" Galen utters as his Synaptic Accelerator fires full force, he'd noticed Ori's attention shift, and his other Cyberware was alerting him to danger. He throws his head back just as an almost point-blank shot fires past his face, his ears rang as the back of his head strikes the wall behind him, leaving a dent as he pulls himself out and stands off against the suddenly appearing man.

Six growls at the missed shot, unloading the rest of his shots at the man by fanning his hammer. Galen raises an arm in front of his face, taking most of the bullets while a couple more hit him in the neck. They blow out some of the flesh there, but his extensive Cyberware allows him to weather most of the damage.

"YOU'RE DEAD!" he roars and charges as Six unholsters his gun, raising his hands in a boxer's stance.

Galen throws two rapid swipes that any regular human would barely be able to follow, the spikes protruding out of his knuckles punch holes clear through the metal railing and concrete pillar as he hits them, but Six easily weaves through all of this.

He dodges an uppercut before finally throwing an attack of his own, Six's fist connects with Galen's stomach, the pneumatic system in his arm causing his hand to shoot forward a couple inches, enhancing his attack with explosive force.

*CRACK!*

Galen coughs as both combatants feel a few of his ribs break under the attack, he just grins viciously in response however, ignoring the damage and sending out another combo.

Six dodges most but takes a punch on his chest, a loud *Ding!* ringing out as metal collides with metal. Galen's hand actually gets stuck in place, the spikes in his knuckles caught in place as if they were welded.

Galen tries to pull back but Six doesn't allow him, instead bringing his forearms straight up under the man's elbow.

*CRAACK!*

Galen roars out in pain as his arm bends the wrong way, hyperextending the to point it might as well be folded completely around, parallel with his tricep. "YOU MOTHER FUC-PFFGT!"

Six breaks the guy's nose before bringing his foot straight down on his knee, crippling that too and forcing the guy to kneel on the floor. Galen tries to look up and glare at his opponent but doesn't the chance.

*BANGBANGBANG!*

Six shoves the barrel of his other revolver into the man's mouth and fires under his spine's vertebrae are visible from behind. With that done, his form flickers and vanishes again, leaving the few of Marv's men who'd been watching baffled and shitting themselves with fear.

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Ori and Rebecca hadn't put everything on hold while Six was fighting. With that momentary distraction, Ori had rushed forwards while unfortunately taking a bullet to the lung. Ignoring the taste of blood, he skids to a halt and flies around the shipping container, blowing the arm of the guy who'd shot him completely off.

The guy falls to the ground and tries to hold his remaining arm up in surrender, but Ori just offs him with a bullet to the eye, continuing on. With Rebecca going crazy, and Ori now behind the enemy's cover, it was all too easy to spray down what remained of them.

The guys who'd been guarding the stairs to the basement had tried to support them but ended up getting off'd all the same.

[Everyone here is down.] Ori reports over the comms as he steps over to Rebecca.

[Your target is through the door the merc had arrived from.] Six states.

Ori nods but begins letting out hard, hacking coughs, prompting Rebecca to forcefully pat him on the back.

"You alright there!?"

He lets out one last cough, ending up spitting a bloody bullet out into his hand, the one that'd presumably penetrated a lung... He glances at Rebecca who was just staring down at it with an odd expression. "Look I can expl-"

"Fucking nova! Bro you just spat lead! I thought that was just a saying people used!" she exclaims with a laugh, "You've gotta teach me that after all this! Or is it some cool new Cyberware or somethin'!? Catchin' bullet in your mouth!? I gotta get that installed!"

He shakes his head, "Let's just finish this." he states, ignoring her excitement and making his way upstairs.

"Hey! You can't just leave me hangin' like that!" she chirps as she follows him. "That douchebag 'Marv' or whatever isn't as important as this!"

Ori pauses his stride and turns to her, raising a hand to her face and resting it near her jaw as his thumb trails the silver line on her cheek where her subdermal armour was now visible. "You're the one with the cool Cyberware, lemme know where to get some of my own after this, k?" he says while inspecting the wound closely, knowing that if he took a bullet to the face like she had he'd be quite dead...

She quickly slaps his hand away and turns to the side, sneering despite the dusting of red on her pale cheeks, "Y-you're the only weirdo around that asks a girl what's under her skin instead of her clothes!"

His mind blanks momentarily at her accusation, only now realising how his actions could've been misconstrued... He recovers though, tilting his head at her, "Weren't you just the one asking to show you what I can do with my mouth?"

She bares her teeth at him, "DO YOU WANNA-"

[We haven't got time for this!] Six angrily growls over the comms, interrupting the duo's byplay.

Ori walks past the still bristly Rebecca and soon reaches the stairs. He kicks open the door and spots Six standing in the hallway next to another, both revolvers at the ready.

"Target's inside."

"Right," Ori mutters while hefting up the LMG. "Let's make this the worst and last day of that fucker's life."

"Just shoot him and get it over with, no point wastin' your time on trash..." Rebecca adds, taking up position behind Ori.

"No. This shit's personal."