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mparkerceo

Shanghai, Friday, morning local time, Oh God When? jet-lag-time

Jan 07, 2011 10:13

There was this about 5-star hotels; they stocked enough alcohol to make jet-lag tolerable. Unfortunately, Parker wasn't going to be able to take advantage of that until after her briefing of Triela, and set-up for Angelo's audit ( Read more... )

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Re: A few hours later... mparkerceo January 8 2011, 03:57:27 UTC

Angelo kept working, oblivious to everything not his screens. Sometimes he was louder, sometimes quieter; otherwise, not much change.

Two hours into the job, though, he stopped, spun on his chair, and blinked upward.

"Smell?"

Re: A few hours later... sorella_vecchia January 8 2011, 04:04:41 UTC

Triela looked over at him curiously. "What?"

Re: A few hours later... mparkerceo January 8 2011, 04:06:16 UTC

He gave Triela a very solemn look--

--then ducked under his desk, shivering.

An alarm sounded, far away, then was echoed much closer.

Re: A few hours later... sorella_vecchia January 8 2011, 04:10:33 UTC

"Ah." Smoke. Or something else. Triela checked her gun in the holster and gestured for Angelo. "Come on. Time to clear the building."

Re: A few hours later... mparkerceo January 8 2011, 04:12:46 UTC

"Fire bad!" Angelo protested. "Running screaming shouting crowds not safe--"

Re: A few hours later... sorella_vecchia January 8 2011, 04:15:50 UTC

"Yes," Triela agreed. "But so is burning. And I don't think we're ready to go out the window yet."

"Come on," she gestured again. "I'll keep you safe." That was the job.

Re: A few hours later... mparkerceo January 8 2011, 04:20:20 UTC

Angelo peeked out, then scuttled behind her, hands over his head to block out the alarms.

"Safe. Promise? Promise?" She'd have to shove him down if she *had* to shoot someone. But he'd go down easily.

Re: A few hours later... sorella_vecchia January 8 2011, 04:23:14 UTC

Triela could handle that. "I promise. Now let's go. We're going to the stairwell at the end of the hall." Not the one near their room.

Just in case.

Re: A few hours later... mparkerceo January 8 2011, 04:26:19 UTC

Angelo stayed glued to her side as they exited, following her faithfully...

Then howling once they were inside the stairwell:

Two goons above, two goons below.

Calling for back-up might be a good idea.

Re: A few hours later... sorella_vecchia January 8 2011, 04:29:55 UTC

"Down the stairs," Triela urged Angelo, pushing lightly on his shoulder. She didn't see any weapons drawn yet, which meant she wasn't going to draw her own.

They'd made a mistake just sending four guys. She could take them all on unarmed. And if no one was shooting she didn't have to worry about her charge getting hit by a stray shot or a ricochet.

Re: A few hours later... mparkerceo January 8 2011, 04:37:24 UTC

They had guns, but foolishly didn't think they needed them yet. They saw Triela as a handler, not security.

"Get the geek!" One of the ones on the floor above yelled.

The two from the floor above were moving to intercept him.

Re: A few hours later... sorella_vecchia January 8 2011, 04:50:46 UTC

Triela stepped past Angelo. Parker had requested no lethal force, but you could be in intensive care without dying. She planted one foot and used all of her cybernetic strength to drive one of her boots into the chest of the first man coming up the stairs.

You know something's wrong when your ribs splinter hard enough for the cracking sound to be audible over a fire alarm.

Re: A few hours later... mparkerceo January 8 2011, 04:53:41 UTC

Which actually gave the two below pause, and caused one to step back and draw his gun.

Angelo, meanwhile, had crouched down low, and was now sliding down the stairs on his butt, arms still over his head, whimpering.

Re: A few hours later... sorella_vecchia January 8 2011, 05:05:47 UTC

Triela had to move fast. She lunged forward, faster than was really humanly possible, and grabbed the freshly-drawn gun. She swung her other arm around to hit the thug's forearm with her own, hard enough to break both his radius and his ulna.

That should take him out of this fight. Then she spun, pistol leveled at the two remaining thugs. "Don't move," she commanded as she stepped back to where Angelo was sliding and reached down to lay a hand on his shoulder.

Re: A few hours later... mparkerceo January 8 2011, 05:08:52 UTC

They both froze, gaping at their fallen comrades, as Angelo leaned gratefully against Triela and peeked up the stairs at them.

"Okay, look," one of them said nervously. "We've got our hands up. We're not moving." He was breathing shallowly, eyes flicking to the one with multiple broken ribs. "It isn't worth the paycheck. We get it."

Re: A few hours later... sorella_vecchia January 8 2011, 05:12:37 UTC

She nodded in approval.

"Did you pull the fire alarm?" she asked, eyes narrow.

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