Shadows of war chapter 2: Hacked into Horrors
A/N: I do not own gunslinger girl by yu ada and hope to have following chapters out in a timely manner. Comments and reviews are appreciated
"Damn it my scope was out" Richard mumbled to himself as he saw rico had made a perfect shot placement much to his shock in the gun range. Thinking it was because he was in his black civvies and not tactical gear he glanced over at rico blushing all the while. He thought she didn't notice but she did and he thought that was a good a time as ever to open up to someone as a thin stream of tears slid down the battle hardened features he wore with pride and regret.
"Hey rico I have something to tell you" not knowing that Chris and Triela were having the same conversation in the kill house. as she asked why he was crying much to jeans chagrin. As she nodded to tell him to go on he asked her if she knew the circumstances that led him to his current situation. "No" she replied as he started in to when his life had gone to hell.
"As Me and Tay were walking home from school, Well I was walking Tay is way to energetic and running we got a call from our dear uncle, who was a leader in the RDF or red devils faction as they called themselves, and I foolishly thought it was for a family chat not knowing that my little brother had somehow joined the military and was working for NCIS on the coast.. I should have known it was a trap after he caught me looking over his guns which are my passion along with music." Richard then looked like he was about to lose it as he slapped another mag in his customized delta .45 he got from his time in the service.
"Tay and I had decided to go and talk to him but Taylor having a wild side well a little less than me" he smiled thinking back on the days the three had spent together playing soldiers and blaring heavy metal bouncing around as if they were rock stars, "her brown eyes and brown hair were always a mess as she over slept from partying and was blaring rock through her headphones in black clothes which would become our units staple, walked up to our uncle only to find it was a trap with a dead informant in the seat." That is when we knew he was going to make sure we didn't reveal his plans for uprising and the overthrow of the government and I pushed Taylor back and ate the blast of the car removing my CP induced limbs not knowing that my brother was having his chopped off slowly like it was being done by a cartel, oh wait that's because it was and Taylor was filled with slugs" Rico looked on in sadness as he then preceded to unload all 10 rounds into the target crying and following suit with his 417 and 7.62 ACR.
After he had calmed down he walked back to his big sister Katy who unlike the rest of the cyborgs was actually related to him, who then wrapped him and Chris, who had walked in from spilling his guts to Triela, in a hug and in front of rico as her carefree and protective sides dropped whispered
"You must really like that girl to tell her what happened little brother" much to Richards anger as rico had heard that and blushed before walking away with Jean.
"Never again sis" was Richard's only response as he prepped Chris's ACR and both .45s and his armor for he was to help rico and Henrietta, who he had met and told that he liked rico, take down a faction of the padania and their friends in the RDF which he kind of was looking forward to as payback.
"Rico fire only when I give the signal came through his headset from jean who he didn't particularly like even though he couldn't place why.
"Sonuva-" was the last word the lookout got out before a 12 gauge blast from Katy and ump-45 fire from Taylor took him and his comrade down. As the door caved in stunning or out-right decapitating the poor unlucky bastards who happened to be around the door causing the others to scatter like cockroaches and the FRF and RDF members began retreating as Richard yelled, with no intention of keeping his promise
"damn it if you surrender I may not kill you" as he finished executing the man who had shot him in the body armor as with Chris' skills as the breacher, he was leading the way and his role was the main factor leading to his close quarters enhancements namely, sight hearing and smell. His skills were not diminished through the fact that as he was a cyborg but hadn't undergone conditioning do to delta force training. Quickly slamming the door in Chris met with the sights he thought he had left behind and that was two girl tied up and abused with a computer web cam trained on them as well as a computer full of malware and Chris shot the computer with his Saiga and his ACR leaving it in a smoldering heap. Snapping around, his eyes burning with rage, Chris yelled
"Richard grab Katy and get the fuck in here because I need some help here and maybe the bomb squad because I am hearing a very low buzzing sound" causing the two to run in and Chris yelled getting a good look at the two girls, his voice raising with both fear and hatred for the men who did that to them
"I know the girls now let's get them out of here and do it now!" and then Chris pulled out 3 blocks of C4 holding them close as Richard pulled the girls out and turning around Chris just smiled as the bomb went off. Walking out dizzy Chris leaned on Richard who then went over to rico who was bleeding just a little from the lip due to a missed shot and looked at jean while 'etta dealt with rico.
"Okay asshole what the fuck is the point of hitting a girl" he raged before Katy told him to walk away and slugged jean because she felt a sisterly attachment to all of them just as he did with Triela but Chris decided that the girls he had known had been bullied because of him and with a grim smile proceeded to kick Jean in the ribs growling
"Fuck you asshole you are just a pansy ass fucker" with each word being punctuated with a vicious kick only to be shoved back by Triela, who said quietly
"You proved your point now let's get going" and Chris gave up and walked to his mustang with her in tow as the girls he rescued said quietly
"Man we owe you and the reasons we got tied up is our skills with computers" and Chris said smiling "Well come on we have room for two more so what you what you waiting for" and both girls made a mad dash to the new change in their lives that they would never forget.