Mercenary and Technician.

The Weapon Storage.
Chapter 4

Eduardo and Jyrr had managed to get to the floor above. Jyrr had produced from his backpack a laptop which he then had connected to a security panel in the wall.
He was downloading the blueprints of the Weapon Storage and was on his way to hack into the buildings surveillance network.
Eduardo was keeping on watch. It was dead quite, except the taping sounds which Jyrr was making with his fingers while working on his laptop.

'Everything is fine...' Eduardo muttered while watching down at the corridor 'Aha!' Jyrr broke the silence which almost had Eduardo to jump up.
'Hacked into the surveillance?' Eduardo asked 'Yup. It seems they are in the generator room, in the first floor basement'
'How'd we get there fast?' Eduardo asked 'Seems that there is a cargo elevator after few corridors that way' Jyrr said by pointing towards the corridor Eduardo was looking earlier.
'That│fs all?' He asked 'For now, yes' Jyrr said while putting away his laptop. 'Lets do it then' with that Eduardo dashed into the corridor Jyrr on his tail.

They came to the cargo elevator, but it was in the bottom floor and disabled.
Jyrr gave Eduardo a gun with a claw hook and had another one for himself. They both shot simultaneously on the elevator ceiling waiting for the claws to get attacked with the mechanisms of the elevator, once sure they then attached the guns on their belts and leaped down, steadily yet quickly descending floor by floor.

When they arrived to the last corridor before the generator room, they found the corridor being guarded by Space Pirates and Plagues. The strange duo was noticed almost instantly in which made them ready themselves with their wrist blasters, guns, iron pipes and two-by-four│fs, ready to dispose their uninvited guests.

Eduardo detached himself from the wire and broke his fall with a front roll and immediately got up with his Desert Eagle aimed at few Space Pirates and Plagues and got three of them with that as many shots. Jyrr was searching through his backpack and found a weapon which Eduardo was most identified with. But Eduardo was running low with his shots and was already being surrounded by some space Pirates and Plagues armed with steel pipes. They realized this and proceeded to deal with Eduardo with their Pincers and Steel pipes.

'Johnny!' Jyrr yelled, by using his first name in exchange and tossed a long shaft object to Eduardo. Eduardo noticed this and grabbed the object while doing a cartwheel to get a clearing from the horde of aliens and gang members. He unsheathed the object which revealed out to be nothing else than his beloved Japanese Sword which is said was being once used by Miyamoto Musashi.
He took a couple of practice swings and readied himself for the assault.
'Come and get me!' He yelled while attacking the crowd of aliens and humans He parried a pincer claw of a Space Pirate and cut off a steel pipe in half. He then continued to hack and slash limbs and body parts while continuing into the fray.
A mixture of screams of pain, confusion and rage filled the room with a combination of voices both human and alien.

Some Plague members decided to charge at Jyrr, feeling that most where on to Eduardo or simply being afraid of the blade of the Katana. Even though Jyrr wasn't highly trained in combat as Eduardo was, his mind and aim was what he excelled most of. He took a aim with his arm at a gang member with his customized wristwatch and set loose a small dart coated with tranquilizing drug powerful enough to put a horse into sleep.

'Ouch! What da...' the Plague didn't have time to finish his sentence and fell unconscious on the ground, asleep while still holding his cheek.

Jyrr proceeded to aim at more Plagues and set loose what seemed to be a small shaft-shaped bunch of cord which in air got spread out, turning out to be a trapping net which ensnared the two Plague members who then fell on the floor inside the net, squirming and screaming.
'That should be enough to keep them busy' Jyrr stated to himself

Jyrr took a look at his partner who finished a Plague by grasping him by his shirt and exchanged a head butt on his temple which resulted with a fall on the back.

'Johnny!' Jyrr yelled to his partner. Eduardo looked at Jyrr in a responding manner.
'Heads up!' he yelled and with that he produced a gun with a small explosive on it and fired it to the door which resulted in a small explosion and a smoking hole.

Meanwhile earlier, on the other side of the door was a large generator. There where crates filled with weapons and a bunch of Space Pirates and Plague members where present standing opposite each others. In between the crowds, in the center of the room, two persons where standing discussing with each other. One was wearing a redshirt, in the usual Plague manner, had black hair and had a smirk on his face, but otherwise didn't look too unusual than his fellow Plague members. The other person, or rather, creature was a large 9-foot tall, reptilian creature with green scales, big belly and three ruby red eyes, with the third being on the creatures temple and a horn on his nose.

'I take it we have a deal then, Kraid?' The man said to the creature.
'Yes, 600 crates of wrist blasters for 800 crates of submachine guns and shotguns'
The creature, addressed as Kraid said with a deep reptilian voice.
'No. 800 crates for both of us. That was the agreement' the man protested.
The creature was quiet for a while, and then approved to the man's offer 'Very well, 800 it is then, my dear Simon'
'Don't call me Simon in front of my boys. I use the name Slick when leading gangs.' the man said with a hint of pride of his made up name.
'Very well, ..Slick' Kraid said. 'Now about the intruders....'

Kraid didn't have time to finish his sentence when the door exploded.
Everybody turned their eyes at the smoking hole where they could figure out two humanoid figures. A average sized, red haired man with a sword and a gun, and another taller man with a mohawk, shades, and two guns.

Eduardo and Jyrr walked inside the room, Eduardo armed with his sword and his Desert Eagle while Jyrr had his Glocks on both hands. 'Alright, listen up!' Eduardo began. 'I was promised enough cash to put a hold on to your little party you're having here.'

Simon stood up and barked, 'Who the hell are you!'

'Johnny Eduardo', he introduced himself sincerely. 'This is my partner and main guy, Russell Jyrr' he indicated to his partner who answered with a 'Greetings'

'The Mercenary.....' Kraid mumbled.
'Huh? you know these two?' Simon asked Kraid with a puzzled look 'Yes.... The Mercenary and Technician, one of the most dangerous and most successful merc-duo of the underworlds of Vyydia. Never met them before but their reputation far precedes them.... they were responsible for the destruction of our secret spy post in this city....'

'MERC AND TECH?!?!' Simon shouted in fear 'Those two?? Here'
'Right, it seems that you know us alright, so why don│ft you just do us a favor and leave all your weapons here and get the hell out of our sight!' Eduardo proposed defiantly'

'Whatever you're paid for, I pay you double to drop your contract' Kraid further proposed to the duo. This left Eduardo quite for a moment in thoughts.
'You're not seriously going to agree with that big ugly one, Johnny, he may be bluffing!' Jyrr whispered to his partner with a hint of doubt and worry.
Eduardo then proceed to state, 'Sorry, but I could never accept any money from the likes of space insects like you and same goes for you scumbags as well' he said while addressing the to Plague 'You sure got some nerve, eh, punk??' Simon exclaimed angrily 'Well, me and da boys will show ya!' 'No, Slick' Kraid said, with a hint of satisfaction his alien tone. 'Everything is right how we want it'
'Huh?' Simon exclaimed again 'What do you mean??'

Kraid produced a small object in his hand and pressed a switch. Suddenly a sharp alarm noise went on with a computerized voice warning 'Code Red, Warning, a bomb has been detected in the building, evacuate immediately, evacuate the building immediately!'

'What the..... What the f.... what did you do?!' Simon barked at Kraid 'Just in case, we brought a bomb here for a situation like this' Kraid explained 'But what about us?!? We had a deal!' Simon protested

With that Kraid grabbed Simon and mysteriously vanished with him as if they were beamed up in a typical sci-fi-way. Plagues where panicking and where heading to the door with some Space Pirates while some of the latter crowd tried to deal with Eduardo and Tech whom they quickly dispatched with they guns.

'Can you stop it!?' Eduardo yelled through to his technician friend through the alarm sound.
'Negative! I can't figure out where it is'
'Warning, estimated time remaining before explosive, 10 minutes'. Said the computer voice from the speakers.
'We don't have time! We need to get the hell out of here, or we can kiss ourselves goodbye' Eduardo yelled and was running out of the room 'Damn.... I hate it when things go like this' Jyrr muttered and proceeded to follow Eduardo.

After arriving with the elevator to the first floor, they ran.... They ran trough the corridors as fast as they could.

'5 minutes until explosion' the computer voice stated

They where still in the corridors running

'2 minutes until explosion' came the warning voice

They are still running....

'30 seconds until explosion'

They where running as hard as they could

'10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1'

A large rumbling explosion was heard

'It went off, run like hell!!' Eduardo yelled while on the run 'Man, what the hell you think I'm doing?' Jyrr commented to Eduardo's statement.

The fires of the explosion was gaining at them.
At that moment they saw the entrance and where running as hard as they could.
Just at the moment when they made it out with a leap, the force of the explosion sent them flying trough the air on the asphalt ground with their heads down.

Moments passed, and Eduardo finally lifted his head to check around, with Jyrr doing the same a moment after. They turn around on their seats and looked at the fiery entrance they just ran through.
'...another hell of a day.. .│f Eduardo muttered while panting.
'Yup' agreed his partner to his statement.

They slowly stood up and Eduardo produced a cigarette pack from the pocket of his jacket and a lighter which he used to lit up a cigarette.
'Russ, send the van here so we can get the hell out of here, before the authorities get here'
'Yea' With that, Jyrr pressed a button on his wristwatch and a moments later, a blue van appeared, without been driven by anybody. This was the very same Van which they came on when they arrived to Vyydia, 18 months ago. Since then, Jyrr had made lots of customizations on it, like having it on automatic drive.
Jyrr jumped on the drivers seat and switched on to the manual while Eduardo headed for the other seat while tossing the cigarette away in to the flames after a last breath of smoke.
'Now lets get to the location where my client promised to leave my money after the task was done' he said while entering the vehicle.

With that, the Van vanished into the night of the City.

The End

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