Whirlpool...?

Ori watches as the two mutilated people begin walking forwards... The AI-controlled truck attempts to fire at them with its turret, but a dozen sniper shots go off, destroying it completely.

The duo's eyes had been replaced with the trademark glowing red open optical sensors most Maelstrom members had, which were a marked improvement to most other alternatives, while also making you look completely inhuman...

Their eyes shine and a big red light on their chests begins pulsing, they grip their heads momentarily before breaking into a sprint, laughing manically as they do so.

"HOT HOT HOT! I WANNA BE ONE WITH THE SUN HEHEHEHAHAHAHA!"

"I AM THE SUN! I AM ART!" they both ramble as they run at the truck, "BECAUSE ART IS AN EXP-" they throw their bodies onto it and-

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!*

Both of their bodies erupt simultaneously, utterly annihilating the truck and everything around it, leaving a huge crater in their wake.

"NOOOOOO!!!!" Rebecca shrieks, gripping Six to stop herself stumbling to the floor, "MY FUCKING GUNS!" she wails as all the guns she had stored in the truck go up in flames.

"HAHAHAHA! TAKE THAT YOU DUMB BITCHES-"

*BOOM!*

Rebecca retaliates by blowing Marv's head clean off, leaving only his neck remaining as it releases some last couple of squirts of blood before stopping entirely. "SCAV TRASH! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH THAT SHIT WAS WORTH!?" she angrily shouts as the corpse, as if it still had ears to listen with.

Ori just blankly switches between staring at that and the monitors, his mouth agape and mind running in circles... "R-Rebecca..."

"WHAT!?" she angrily shouts, but pauses when she sees Ori's look of utter disbelief, she looks back down at her foot which was resting on the corpse when it clicks, "Oh shit! Ori I'm really fuckin' sorry! I didn't-"

"STOP. We need to leave." Six growls, his eyes locked onto the monitors which showed the Maelstrom gangers slowly approaching the warehouse.

Ori releases his trembling clenched fists at that, he grabs Max's LMG and quickly makes his way to the door, "We'll talk about this later, Rebecca. Let's get Max outta here first." he states as Six nods.

Rebecca sends one last punt at Marv's corpse before running after the duo, "I said I was sorry!"

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The trio, now under threat of getting stormed by a small army of Maelstrom goons quickly make their way to the basement where Max's corpse lay. While Six fished him out of the bathtub, Ori gets to work searching for anything of worth...

Since Maelstrom had turned up they'd probably steal everything and leave nothing behind... He'd need to pay eight thousand Eddies to Six and five thousand to Rebecca, leaving him with little to find his sister with...

Thankfully, the scavs weren't exactly secretive with their things in their own workshop. He'd quickly found a freezer full of Cyberware, all sealed in plastic bags and ready to be sold. He shoves all of them into a duffle bag that presumably belonged to one of their victims and sends a nod at Six and Rebecca. "We good to go?"

"Yeah, we gonna shoot our way out?"

Six hoists Max's body in his arms, carried in a princess hold, "Through the back, too many to fight."

Ori scratches the back his head while ignoring the pang of pain in his recently reset arm, "We'd just get chased though, we've got no ride outta here."

"Escape and head North, try to reach Kabuki... Maelstrom won't follow if we get close enough to the market..." Six states.

"That's like a thirty-minute walk!" Rebecca exclaims.

"Do you have alternatives?" the quiet merc grouses.

Before anyone can say anything the building suddenly shudders and rumbles from some sort of explosion.

"What's that!?"

"Maelstrom, they detonated one of my charges." Six remarks.

"Then let's dip before they bring the place down on us!" Rebecca says as she makes her way to the stairs. Ori and Six follow, and luckily the warehouse was still almost completely clear of Maelstrom gangers which they got back to ground level.

All that was present were a couple Maelstrom meat shields that were searching for more charges, their masters obviously unwilling to risk getting blown up for a scav workshop. Ori shoots them dead with his LMG, and the trio quickly rush for the backdoor.

Ori runs through first, his eyes widening at the four Maelstrom gangers standing nearby keeping watch.

"Hey, what the fu-"

*BANG!*

Rebecca blasts his head away, before running over to the next and slamming the barrel of her shotgun into their stomach, pulling the trigger and making it rain blood from a couple seconds.

Ori guns down one but the other manages to escape around the building, shouting for reinforcements. "Fuck!" he yells, angry that he'd just made their situation even more difficult.

"Forget it!" Rebecca responds as she looks at the wire fence blocking their way. The top was lined with barb-wire, making it difficult for Ori and her to get over, and impossible for Six with Max's body in his arms.

"Move." Six states, raising his foot and stomping on some metal links. A loud screech rings out as the metal fails under his strength, the links deforming before finally snapping, creating a waist-height hole to get through.

Rebecca goes through first, then Ori. Six rests Max's body down and the duo pull it through, but just as Six was entering, bullets sound out and spark off of his metal back. He ignores it, getting through and picking up Max again as the duo return fire.

"YOU THINK YOU CAN FUCK AROUND IN BRICK'S TURF!? GETTEM BOYS!" one goon shouts, his arm opening up to reveal a heavy-duty barrel.

*BANG!BANG!BANG!*

The guy's arm kicks back with heavy force as he fires, .50″ bullets kicking up dirt around the group as they flee through the street.

Six takes one to his side, causing blood to fly and spatter onto the nearby ground. He simply glances back however and activates the rest of his charges.

*BOOOOOOOOM!!!*