The road was clear as the only sound that could be heard was the tires in motions running the pavement.

But in Rich's mind he was in overdrive as the news hit him like a truck, he needed to react and fast.

Suddenly the Transport and Columbus had stopped as Dum Dum spat orders.

"Terry, Shane, go with Vanderlei and Hendo to drop off the Transport, me and Rich have got more business for tonight" said Dum Dum as the 2 followed and got off and went and got on the transport.

Then Dum Dum looked at Rich and slid over to the passenger seat.

"Get in the driver seat and give me the details" said Dum Dum.

Rich did as he was told because he wasn't going to argue nor did he know how to tell Dum Dum, but that's always been they're dynamic, The only people to ever read him like a book was Dum Dum and fucking Royce.

It's not if they read his mind but they can till that's somethings gotten at him and that it needed to be done at that moment.

"Destination is in Tyger Claw Territory, Clouds"

"What our we dealing with, sluts and sex toys, if you wanted to get off we could have gone to somewhere in home territory"

"We're dealing with a Cyberpsycho, and we need to incapacitate not kill the target"

Dum Dum was Flabbergasted nearly jaw dropped.

"This is fucking suicide, you know that right"

Rich didn't say anything because he knew it was suicide, but this was his responsibility he should have taken time to help her get used to the tech sooner, but to be fair he didn't know how soon the Mox were going to take they're shot back at the Tyger Claws.

"I don't know how were going to do it"

"I have an edge over her, I know her Cybernetics so I got a plan of attack"

"Give me the list run down"

"Self-ICE

Heal-On-Kill

Kiroshi Optics MK.3

Syn-Lungs

Second Heart

Adrenaline Booster

Inductor

Cataresist

Krenzikov

Nanorelays

Subdermal Armor

Heat Converter

Fireproof Coating

Microrotors

Microvibration Generator

Smart Link

And a Qiant Sandevistan MK.4"

"What The Fuck, You Made This Bitch a War Machine, You Know What Fuck Off I'm taking a Shotgun"

"It won't take me long to tear through the Self-ICE, the issue is if she'll jump straight to using the Sandevistan"

"The Sandevistan is the last worry on my mind, it's the Microrotors, Microvibration generator, Subdermal Armor, Second-Heart, NanoRelays, and Krenzikov that I'm worried about"

"I'm going to use my Berserk and If you don't cut in before I go Cyberpsycho, then were all fucked"

"I'll do what I can with what I have, it'll take me not as fast as we dealt with those scrubs at the G.I.M but it'll be fast enough to make sure that we can end this fight quickly"

"And how are you going to do that"

"I'm going to Shut Down her Cybernetics and it will be up to you to knock her out, after that if she comes back from that we'll have to get at her together, we won't cross the line to killing her"

"And what says your plan will fall through the way you expected"

"Because I'm not giving anyone a fucking choice to fuck it up, I'll fucking kill anyone and everyone in the way of what I came here to do"

"And what are you here to do"

"Fix. My. Mistake"

"Ah, I get it now, So thats how it is, if anyone's going to kill her it's going to be you, Brav-fucking-o"

"The Killer in you is back and is building up his game, what a fucking Joy it is to have My Neck on the line for your Fucking Games"

"It's. Not. Like. That."

"BULLSHIT, This Is How It Always Goes, Never Fails, How Many Bodies Over The Years Did I Have to Bury, All On Your Request"

"YOU DON'T KNOW A FUCKING THING, OF WHAT THIS IS ABOUT"

and that was true, Dum Dum didn't know of the friendship between Rita and Rich.

But he knew Rich as a person and the only times he got like this was when he was after someone in specefic and the intent back then was to put them in the ground.

Dum Dum knew Rich from way back before Rita even knew he existed, and the Rich Back Then was the type to play with his victims, like a cat and mouse, hell he even did it to other Maelstrom members that really caught his eye.

The nice careing Doc, that welling to help and lend a ear is nothing more then a show for innocent Morons that have no idea for what they signed up for.

Dum Dum knew the man he called a friend and you never knew what he was after but you always knew the reason was always personal even if it was over a pity reason...

"Just Take My Word, this once, she is someone I'm here to help, I gave her the equipment, and I was supposed to help her get used to it but-"

"Tyger Claws attacked Lizzies recently, I assume this is just The Mox Lashing back at them"

"And going off that alone, we can assume that something didn't go according to plan for which has landed our little Cyberpsycho in her current case"

"Knowing all this I'm going in with a Shotgun" said Dum Dum as he pulled out a DB-2 Testera Super Shotgun.

"Fine..." said Rich as they were almost there, they were Deep in Tyger Claw Territory at the H8 megabuilding in Japan town.

They exited the van and what they came to see was bodies all over the place from the outside stairs case to the inside leading to the elevator.

"Amateur work, nice work ladies I'm starting to get more of a picture, you?"

"I need to see and hear the end result before I fry the brains off those Morons I saved"

"Damn if I knew you were so deep in with the Mox I might as well have shot you"

"Yeah, Yeah, put me out to pasture by the end of this I deserve it at this point"

They had pressed the elevator a bit ago as the elevator made it's way down to them.

The amount of Tygers that were down were around 20 from outside to inside of the main floor.

The floor was nothing but blood at this point as Rich and Dum Dum paced in it as blood was a norm to them anyways Rich was roaming further for he long ago hacked the main server of the megabuilding and hacked and shut off all the cameras.

And was now working on getting the lights off, get the advantage of surprise on they're side.

While Dum Dum was just pacing around because he rather be sleeping right now and was just agitated as all hell and wanted to get this shit over with.

The Elevator made it down and who was waiting for them was one of the Mox girls Rich had worked on.

The girl with red and black hair.

She was currently bleeding out all over the elevator, Rich went into action.

He needed her alive long enough to give him the full story and he couldn't do that when she was on the brink of consciousness.

So he dragged her out of the elevator and got to work on her wounds.

Doing a quick patch up and putting her in a spot they could come back after words.

Dum Dum didn't give two shits, he would have finished her off and moved on.

One of the most pleasant ways to die in Night City was a quick death.

Rich finished up and Dum Dum got in the elevator as Rich joined him and punched in the 12th floor.

The Elevator ride was in silence as They were both ready for what was to come.

When they arrived on the 12th floor it was nearly the same as the first, 23 bodies with a pool of blood being the new in thing for floor design today.

As Rich saw was another one of the girls he saved sprawled out injured in a pool of her own blood.

The girl with the big black fuzzy hair, she was wounded but she will live.

"Aurora got to you, thank god" said the girl with the big black fuzzy hair.

"What happend" said Rich as he lowered himself to her level.

"Me, Aurora, and Clementine found out where the bastards that shot us up were and we weren't waiting on getting back at them"

"Rita found out what you were doing and caught up with you when you were already in the heat of the mess"

"We were ready to die today, we didn't expect Rita to come in to save our ass"

Suddenly Rich punched her in the face and kocked her out instantly.

"Next time think of your crew before you think of yourselves"

Dum Dum and Rich finally moved in on Clouds as they stepped and they saw more Tyger Claw bodies.

The main lobby was filled with at least 10 bodies as Rich and Dum Dum jumped the counter and found they're way into the whore house.

No need to say anything, they weren't surprised by the body count, the amount of blood, but the real shocking part was the lack of bullet shells.

These Tygers weren't given the chance to fight and as they continued deeper into Clouds they started to get the feel of how the shoot out started and how it escalated further.

There was no Denying it any further most of these bodies, were probably back up and it was most likely Rita who put them out.

"She doesn't have a smart weapon, only 2 pistols. And her baseball bat"

"I'm going in"

"I'll get to work"

Dum Dum went on the charge as he heard the growls and yells of pain from a women as that was most likely his target.

He head in the direction of the V.I.P. area.

He activated his Berserk and went in guns blazing finding his Mark immediately and successfully hitting her knocking back on the floor as he continued his assault from firing his Shotgun and reloading time and time again.

But then suddenly he saw as she activated her Sandevistan and in the blink of an eye the tide turned as Rita waled on dum dum giving him no room to breath but in this state he could take the hits as he swung on her but missed as the Sandevistan allowed her to move much faster then him but her time was running quick.

As he was waiting for her time to run up so he can take advantage.

And eventually her time did run up but not as soon as he expected because now he was worrying about the time he had left on his Berserk.

But at the end it didn't matter as the opening came and he took advantage of it as he filled her full of lead until he ran out of bullets.

And then he switched it up as she was still fighting back until suddenly a burst of energy came in as she sprung back to life with more energy and strength then ever as she punched Dum Dum in the neck and used her bat to nail him so hard that he went flying through a black screen that lead to another room.

She enterd the other room as she began to batter dum dum but He recovered too quick as they went back to bashing each other in until suddenly Rita froze in place.

This was the chance Dum Dum was looking for so he pulled back and put in all the power he had and throttled the bitch with a solid right hook that sent down Cyberpsycho Rita.

As she hit the floor and went out like a light.

Silence was all that was left as the only thing that could be heard was Dum Dum's breathing as the punishment he felt from all day to now, especially now came back to him like a lightning bolt flashing his entire system as he fell on his ass.

It was over.

To Be Continued.