Mercenary and Technician

The Weapon Storage
Chapter 2

The Weapon Storage was a complex of a few buildings in a fenced area. This place was usually on guard but tonight the guards have been disposed by Space Pirates and the Plague.

As mentioned earlier, Space Pirates is a intergalactic terrorist group that excels on piracy and pillaging planets and space ships as well as illegal science research. They suffered a heavy blow when their stronghold at Planet Zebes, was attacked by the famous bounty hunter, Samus Aran, who destroyed their leader, Mother Brain along with the rest of the base. But the Space Pirate Confederation has risen again and gone active. Rumors has it that even Mother Brain was still alive.
But right now, none of this is Eduardo's concern. He only thinks on how to get inside the storage base.

The Plague on the other hand is just a regular gang of thugs and former students. Their insignia color is red, which is why they wear Red Shirts. They are all Humans, for River City is a human-only city. Plague was formed by a River City High student Simon who assumed the name Slick for the leading role. River city was suffering from gang attacks all over the town and Slick united the gangs to take over the city and took River City High as his stronghold. A rumor has it that he held the students as prisoners for ransom. But in the end, Slick and the Plague along with the rest of the gangs were defeated by two martial artist friends Alex and Ryan. Rumors also had it that Ryan's girlfriend was among the captured students and Alex is known to be a fierce fighter, so with those two combined apperently left alot of broken bones and noses squashed for several gang members. Another rumor has it that Simon conducted this whole thing to get to Alex and Ryan because of jealousy or revenge or something. In the end, Plague was assumed disbanded, but it seems Simon/Slick is now back into his gang stuff once again....

Eduardo and Jyrr have successfully sneaked to the main door, without being noticed. It was guarded by two Space Pirates who seemed to be bickering about sleeping and disobeying. One of them also verified that Kraid truly was in this building.

Kraid was one of the leaders of Space Pirates, a scaly lizard-like creature, said to be larger than a elephant. Once again, rumors had it that he was killed by Samus during her mission to Zebes but he's got to be alive now than the Pirates themselves are confirming it.

Eduardo signals a nod to Jyrr. Jyrr takes a silver shining technical orb and tosses it hard as possible at the base of the Space Pirates feet which left them puzzled until a green gas was released from the orb. The Pirates fell immediately on the ground fast asleep. It was one of Jyrr's good ol' sleeping gas grenades.
'Okay, Russ! Now's our chance. Lets go' Yelled Eduardo as silently as possible.
'How you liked my update on the grenades?' Jyrr asked while following Eduardo.
'Smooth, Tech, Really smooth'. Eduardo replied satisfied.

Tech was a new nickname Eduardo and many others had developed for Russell Jyrr ever since he became Eduardo's partner and tech supporter.

After a while they ran across corridors avoiding Plague members and Space Pirate patrollers. After a while, they sneaked into a room where there where large shelfs in the back of the room. They saw couple of Plague members standing at the only exit of the room. Eduardo gestured Jyrr to stay hidden while he himself snuck closer to the Plagues. He climbed up into one of the shelfs which was perfectly 5 feet away from the floor. He pulled out a coin and tossed it down on the metal floor, hoping to distract the Plagues, which it did successfully. Both Plagues came to examine the source of the sound. One of them started to get worried sick. Just when the other was reassuring his comrade, Eduardo made his movie. He made a side somersault from the shelf and landed with his feet right on the reassuring Plague member who lost consciousness from the impact. The other Plague was shocked very balyd and froze while Eduardo lectured him the following.
'Rule number one, pal. Never Pause before an enemy in a middle of a warzone'
'W-w-what?!?' the Plague said in dumbstruck.
'And rule number two, always be prepared for the coming...' With that Eduardo roundhouse kicked the Plague on the face which send him flying on the ground falling unconscious.
'So the Plagues are tough, huh?' Eduardo muttered...

Just in that moment a couple of Space Pirates ran into the room noticing Eduardo.
'An intruder!' one of them said in a alien-like squeky bug voice.
The other one looked at Eduardo's equipment and said with a similar voice,
'You must be some sort of a Soldier of fortune'
Eduardo nodded, seemingly not worried by their presence.
'Got that right, I am THE Mercenary'
The Pirates gasped to the his statment and one of them exclaimed,
'The Mercenary?? We gotta be careful, I hear this guy is as tough as Samus Aran!'
Eduardo felt a bit of pride when he heard that he was being compared to the famous bounty hunter Samus. His reputation has far exceeded him during his time on Vyydia as it did once in New York. But feeling too modest to bee compared to the bounty hunter he stated,
'You know, there's a big difference between an intergalactic bounty hunter with a Power Suit and a guy that has returned from the battlefield bringing war with him through riches and fortune.' The Space Pirates where aiming with their wrist blasters at Eduardo.
Eduardo looked around through his shades. He couldn't see Russell anywhere. Where was he? It seems that the ace in Eduardo's sleeve seems to have dropped.... Eduardo started to wish he had his katana or his desert eagle with him. Tech had them in his bag.

Oh boy.... this won't end good, thought Eduardo...