Ready Runner Racer.
Mokoto blinked as the scene resolution dynamically scaled to her netgear. the crips polygons of a gunner seat of heavily modified armoured car were before her, with the neon pink electric cat girl avatar that was Sasha sitting in the driver seat beside her.
"Whats the plan?" she asked the annoying cat themed edgerunner with hyperactivity.
"win! nya." Sasha answered, explaining precisely nothing.
"Sure, so you want me to shoot the other racers I guess?" Mokoto asked for clarification.
"Just gotta take out their cars so we can win today's prize! It's so preem! I need it. Nya!" Sasha answered sticking her tongue out of a whiskered avatar face.
"what is it, the prize I mean?" Mokoto asked only to get a pointed silence in return as Sasha's avatar's tail coily swished innocently.
"Fine be like that, but if we're doing this, we need some bitching tunes to slay to!" She said as she ejected a data cable from her wrist and slotted into the car's systems loading up some heavy tunes.
As Mokoto took in the racers around them, there was nearly a hundred of them all competing for whatever this prize Sasha wanted was, but there was also clearly some deamons with some very uncustomised cars with no flare. It was only then when looking around that she noticed just how Sasha's ride was decked out, sure it had armour but it was also bright pink with neons.
The lights above the demon cars in front of them started counting down just as she had finished lamenting the garish design of her friend's car. at this Sasha flipped down her headset and revved the engine. as the lights turned Green they were off with a burst of speed easily keeping pace with the other racers.
"where's my gun then if you're wanting me to shoot them?" Mokoto shouted over the engine as Sasha nimbly overtook another runner's car, even managing to turn and give her a coy smile as she did. only for moments later as they drove through a huge yellow block with a question mark on it, for a auto turret to spawn on the roof for her to control. "There! Nya!" she said as her digital display over the visor gave a wink.
Mokoto took this and ran with it blasting away at the cars in front of them aiming for tires and fuel caps, engaging her cool to feel the ice-cold smooth motion of the precision motors of the rotary systems of the auto-cannon mounted to the roof as she did. Soon she had taken out three demon cars that had been working together to block overtaking by runners, Sasha took advantage of this zooming through the explosions as the cars flew into the air. surprisingly Mokoto was granted assault Xp for the act, but it was enough for her to get into the act and start enjoying herself.
Unfortunately just as she did that was when the cannon despawned.
"Hey! where's my cannon?" She complained and folded her arms petulantly.
"Out of ammo! Don't worry next weapon point is just round this corner." Sasha said overtaking another runner as she drifted into the item box.
"Nice! A rocket launcher." this time the item was spawned within the car so Mokoto leaned out of the window and aimed at the car in front to fire. Only when she did instead of the expected rocket a huge cartoon Bullet Bill was launched and ploughed strait through the car in front obliterating it before continuing on out of sight as the rocket propellent ignited fully. given the wreckage they past on the next few turns it must have hit a few cars on its travels.
"Preem!" Sasha commented as they approached the next group of demons and runner cars battling it out. "get 'em kitten! Nya!" she ordered colleting another item box."
This time the item was a large flame thrower looking device except instead of where a fuel tank would be there was a blue glowing container. Mokoto knowing video game logic guessed correctly that this was some sort of cryogun and used it to great effect. as Sasha pulled up alongside the group just as they were all about to take a huge turn Mokoto used the gun to instantly freeze the floor under the cars causing them to oversteer and drift out of control allowing Sasha to easily take the corner on the outside.
With most of the groups take care of it was down to Sasha's pink kitty car and another car that had followed in their wake taking advantage of Mokoto's carnage. It was a much more industrial look, clearly specked for damage resistance over speed performance.
With the final weapon point coming up it was nearly neck and neck with Sasha just edging out the industrial runner's car, reminding Mokoto of something from a stromer. not knowing what the other runner was going to get from their item box Mokoto quickly inspected what they got when it spawned, it was a small blue bottle with NOS Booster in bold text written down the side. seeing the slot behind the hand break for the canister open up she quickly slotted it and twisted it emptying the container into the engines. suddenly the car lurched forwards and thrust Motoko and her cat themed accomplice to the back of their seats the scenery stretching by their side windows in long lines as the netcode struggled to keep up with their optical input. they left their rival way behind as a few bullets could be seen passing them the driver had gotten a auto cannon and had missed when trying to hit them.
"YATTA! we won little kohai! Nya!" Sasha said excitedly hugging Mokoto.
"cool! are you going to tell me what we won now?" Mokoto asked only to be given a cheshire grin and the silent treatment.
2 Weeks later - after the heat dies down from the Biotechnica job.
"Look little kohai!" the now cybernetic tail sporting Sasha said running up and hugging her race partner in the real making Mokoto want to facepalm having assisted in furthering her 'chooms' cat obsession.