Back at the penthouse, ninjas were attacking.
As Otto and Wing ran to the roof with Agent Zero, Raven followed them from behind, getting her ass handed to her by one of the ninjas. She threw him out of a window. It was pretty darn cool.
Otto, Wing and Agent Zero emerged onto the roof, just as they were about to reach their escape route, a massive great big helicopter that no one had noticed earlier landed on the roof. From it emerged a man wearing a smooth black glass mask.
"Cypher?" shouted Agent Zero, "what the fuck are you doing?"
"You know," replied Cypher, "stuff." Then Agent Zero was shot in the chest.
"Dammit," muttered Otto, "I should have listened when Raven told us to cherish our time with him."
"Yes," agreed Cypher in a random act of kindness," I think we should all take a minute to mourn the last black character in this series."
They waited for a while.
"Actually, a minutes a pretty long time," said Cypher, "so, uh, I guess we should just get on with it."
Then he shot Wing in the chest.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" cried Otto.
"Right, is that all?" asked Cypher.
"NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" continued Otto
"Was that an answer or are you just ignoring me?"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-"
"Fuck this," sighed Cypher, "assassins, load the boy's body onto the helicopter."
If the assassins were a more talkative bunch, they might have raised the issue of why they were leaving Agent Zero's body but taking Wing's. But the subject never really came up.
"Oh," said Cypher as Otto continued to scream in the background, "and kill that fucking kid will you?"
However, at that moment, Raven emerged from the shadows of the almost bare rooftop lit by the morning sun, stopping the assassin's from being able to kill Otto.
As she fought, Cypher quickly hopped into the helicopter and flew away before Raven had a chance to stop him. Raven couldn't help but feel that despite the death and carnage, it was a good thing that Wing and Otto were wearing immaculately tailored suits, because it made the whole thing 10x cooler. And it's quite a feat to make child murder seem cool.
Then the building exploded.
…
In the helicopter, Cypher felt that he was having a pretty good day.
"If Nero thinks he's having a bad day now," remarked Cypher to the pilot "what's about to happen will make this seem like a picnic. This will teach him, him and his perfect, perfect hair."
"Sir," said the pilot.
"Yes?"
"I wasn't going to say anything, but the guys were wondering…"
"Go on."
"Well, it's just, you talk about Nero a lot."
"Of course I do, I hate him."
"Yeah, it's just, a lot of it is about his 'perfect hair' and 'soulful eyes', is that how most people talk about their enemies?"
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"And the comment about his arse was just a bit-"
"Shut up and set a course for the Forge, will you!"
"Yes sir."
