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(Setting) Fleeting Club Nightclub, Central District
| >In the middle of all of this, Hailie Steinbeckem, an innocent female Lilim who was just here to have a good time, completely unaware of what was going on outside, quivers in fear underneath a desk upstairs in an office room, as well as another mixed group of innocent people all hiding in the room, in fear for their lives.
"I...*sobs* I want my mom..."
>A little cat boomer girl next to her cries, as Hailie, herself quivering, pets her head.
"Me too...me too..."
| >Coming from some distance away, a figure in a motorbike helmet. Twin pistols are holstered across their chest, and an assault rifle on their back.
"...oh, dear..."
>They survey the chaos going on outside the club, and take a look around, searching for a relatively quiet approach.
| >A single man suddenly enters the club, cigarette hanging from his mouth as he pumps his shotgun
>He wears some kind of black armor, and atleast three guns hang from his back and hips
>He slowly approach the chaos, slotting shells in his gun
| >Oenone heads off down a side alleyway to use the back entrance to the club- She's aiming to remain unnoticed for as long as she can. Besides, maybe the man will help get rid of some potential resistance on the way to extraction.
| >A squad of small children file in. A small girl with a pixie cut slams her augmented fist against the wall, causing a loud bang throughout the establishment and causing the wall to dent in.
"CEASE FIRE!"
>She bellows
"I doubt that will work Captain..."
>One of the others whisper to her
| >>373176
"Just my luck, I was tryin' to get the bounty for my own self and then wraith shows up"
>The man with the black armor says, sighing
| "We ain't after no bounty. We're just tired of this meaningless bullshit. I don't even know what your talking about"
>The girl says with her arms crossed
"Though we will have a problem if you intend on causing some trouble. We are just here to clean up."
| >>373253
"Well be my guest, I'm just trying to make a profit here, these terror causing fucks have quite the bounty on their head you see"
>The man simply scoffs and turns around
"Y'all go an' be heroes, I got work to do"
| >She rolls her eyes
"And what exactly do you think we are doing? This isn't a game to us you know"
| >>373288
"Maybe it aint, but being a hero aint all glory and peace of mind"
>The man says before finally pumping his shotgun
"I aint got no beef to pick with you"
| "Neither do I though I don't fancy being looked down upon"
>She slings her rifle off her back
| >>373297
"Thats life"
>He simply goes forward towards thw chaos, taking off his Sniper from his back
"Lets get this party started and end their own celebration"
| >The main clubroom is a dimly-lit dancefloor, with a bar on the left side and a concert stage on the right. The entire place follows a baroque-theme, with broken clocks of different types hanging from the walls and the light-up floor tiles designed in a large kaleidoscopic clock design.
"Shhh...What's that?"
>The talking on the other side of the door, as well as the shotgun cocking, wea loud enough to notify the Saviors that there was company present.
"Take cover! Waste em!"
| >Quickly, 3 Saviors hid behind the bar on the left, while 3 more ran up the stairs, and two flipped some drink tables in the center-back against the wall, using them for cover as they prepared for the newcomers to enter.
| (I thought I already entered. She addressed Thoth and the rioters when she first came in o.o did I miss somethings?)
| (o.o shit. I thought that was on the other side of the wall for some reason. Fuck okay, one sec.)
| (Retcon all posts from >>f57777 .)
>The main clubroom is a dimly-lit dancefloor, with a bar on the left side and a concert stage on the right. The entire place follows a baroque-theme, with broken clocks of different types hanging from the walls and the light-up floor tiles designed in a large kaleidoscopic clock design.
>As the man with the shotgun enters, and the conversation between him and the army of girls ensues, the Saviors have ran and made it upstairs to get better cover.
| >The second floor balcony looks over the dance floor, and has a barred low fence lining it. Upstairs are tables, couches, benches, and another bar in the back, as well as a stairway to the 3rd floor, which is the employee staff room and the office.
>A few tables are flipped over, which could be used as suitable cover.
| >...on the second floor, facing the fence and overlooking the dance floor below.
| >Ludendorf clicks his tongue, dashing behind cover and throwing a cooked grenade up the stairs as he readies to lay down a smoke screen
"Heaven or hell, let's rock"
>He says, as if chanting to himself
| "Let's clean up"
>The group fans out, locating all entrances to the second floor as they navigate under whatever cover they can find
| >...well, there doesn't seem to be a single soul in the back of the club or anything, so Oenone begins to search the backrooms on the first floor for Hailie.
| >>373366
>The cooked grenade lands at the top of the stairs, and a cloaked Savior quickly runs to it and lays on it.
"FOR THOTH!"
>The already-cooked grenade explodes, sending body parts in every direction and spraying a red mist of blood and organs on the walls by it.
"YOU BASTARD!"
>Three Saviors peek from behind a table over the railing, and begin firing Melta-rounds at Ludendorf below, two from assault rifles and one from a shotgun!
>Meanwhile, two others run for the 3rd floor!
| >>373368
>Seemingly, the only two ways up are the stairway, which is now *extremely* hot, and the elevator in the back-left. However, making it there would take a *lot* of luck, as it is completely in the open!
| >>373373
>The back rooms seem to be merely broom closets for cleaning supplies...however, upon closer inspection, the ceiling in one of the broom closets seems to be false, even *openable*. There is a string, but it has been cut short-you'd have to climb up the shelves, or jump *really high,* to get up there to pull it, and both options risk detection! Maybe there is another way?
| >>373386
>The leader sighs
"So much for a sneak attack"
The group decides to make for the stairway, opening fire on the Saviors
"Stand aside!"
| >Ludendorf throws smoke grenades, having finished to prepare them
>A thick smoke screen rises up and so does Ludendorf, he rolls away and pulls up his rifle, letting his thermal sensor to spot the enemies through the smoke
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| >>373393
>The three Saviors upstairs began focusing their fire on the group of smol soldiers rushing the staircase, but as Ludendorf's smoke poured through the place and it became difficult to see, they began to fall back and retreat to the second floor bar, away from the overlooking balcony. They began firing wildly into the smoke, and one tossed a grenade of his own into the smoke, which exploded on impact!
>When it did, it sent rays of plasma everywhere around it in a radius!
| >The plasma quickly began to melt everything it touched, whether it was the wall or the floor, and if it got on you, it would have melted through you too!
>>373581 The explosions just happened to give Oenone enough time to climb the shelf and pull the string without being really loud! When that happened, a hatch opened and a ladder came down, perfect to climb up to...where?
| >>373940
"..." >Oenone grins underneath her motorcycle helmet.
"Hesitation is a hole in the head." >She grabs onto the ladder and begins to climb.
| >Ludendorf clicks his tongue, rolling away from the smoke was the right move, and the heat from the plasma made it hard for him to discern anything
"Well that's a bust"
>He puts down his sniper and grabs his SMG, laying down a few shots towards the general direction of his ennemies
| >>373953
>The ladder climbs up into a seemingly homemade hatch between the 1st floor closet, as it cuts through the 2nd floor and skips it entirely, going straight up to the 3rd floor level. There is a trap door at the top, and it is unopened.
>>374071
>Most of the shots miss, but one burst mamages to graze the cheek of a Savior on the right before landing two rounds in his chest, knocking him back and taking him out.
>The other two begin to blindfire from behind the cover!
| >The group quickly backs down the stairs at the sight if the grenade. They just narrowly get out of the way, several falling down the stairs in the panic. There leader hisses if fustration
"Lets try the second way up then..." >They head to check out the elevator
| >Ludendorf sees them head for the elevator, and starts firing as they retreat, being careful as to stay as low as he could, a few shots from the blind fire graze him, but his armor manages to hold them off
| (Sorry, got confused for a second, no I'm firing at the saviors)
| (Okay. Wraith is the group going for the elevator)
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| >>374091
>Once at the top of the ladder, Oenone stops.
"...Cinnamon." >She whispers, then slowly pushes the trapdoor open.
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>Still pinned down by Ludendorf's shots, the Saviors do not see the group heading for the elevator, which gives them enough time to make it there safely. The elevator goes up to the 2nd and 3rd floors, and it is still operational.
>Meanwhile, the Saviors decide to try something risky to take out Ludendorf, and one comes from each side of the bar, the left and right side, and begin to aim and fire at the man from both sides despite exposing themselves to gunfire.
| >>374513
>The trapdoor gives way to the bottom of a wooden office desk, and as it opens, scared sobbing can be heard.
"W-who is it...?"
>A little girl's voice can be heard, as both her and another Lilim are hiding inside the office room. The room's lights are off, and they are underneath the desk as well.
>More footsteps can be heard as well, along with screams and gunshots.
"For Thoth! Die, Lilim scum!"
>Two Saviors are sweeping the upstairs, and are almost here!
| >>375127
>Pitch-black room? Thank Quirke Oenone's a Lilim. She switches to night vision.
"...Hailie... Steinbeckem?" >She queries, reaching up to remove her motorbike helmet.
| >>375115
"Drek"
>Ludendorf fires over the bar as they approach, trying to hit the saviors, and after doing so, takes his last grenade from his pockets and throws it on the left side, going for a clean shot on the right side as the grenade lands
| >>375215
"Y-yes? Who are you-"
>Just then, footsteps could be heard just outside the door.
"Shh! I think I heard something inside!"
>Hailie quickly opens the trap door further, and whispers:
"Take the girl down, she's only 7. I'll be down after. Go, quickly!"
>She basically shoves the young, sobbing girl at Oenone.
"Please be somebody I can trust."
| >>375631
>The shots land in the forehead and neck of the Savior on the right for a quick kill as the grenade lands on the left, unexploded.
>The Savior on the left quickly picks up the grenade and, left with little other choice, runs to tackle Ludendorf!
"FOR THOTH!"
>He's going for a suicide bomb with the grenade!
| >Ludendorf smirks
"Gotcha"
>He suddenly twists his arm around his body, revealing his shotgun, pumped and loaded as he fires for the savior's knees
>If one looked closely, the pin on that grenade wasnt pulled, actually... Its pin was held by a rubber band
| >>375657
>The Savior collapses onto the ground, holding the grenade in his hand as he realizes the critical mistake he made. As he lays on the ground, he quickly pulls the pin on the grenade, and attempts to grab Ludendorf's leg.
"You won't take me alive, sheep!"
>>375683
>The second floor is now already mostly cleared out by Ludendorf, besides his interaction with the now seemingly suicidal one. However, the stairs to the third floor were now clear.
| >>375652
>Oenone slides down the ladder with the crying girl in tow. Once downstairs, she gazes up at the ceiling, waiting for Hailie.
| >>375765
>Ludendorf just shoots the man again at point blank range and kicks his body away and the grenade with it
>He then turns back to the right side, dashing towards the other savior with his weapons at the ready
| >>375767
>The little girl at the bottom clung to the wall, and Hailie looked down as she began to descend down the ladder. But just as she did, the door to the 3rd floor office opened as Hailie closed the trap door!
"What was that?!"
>The Saviors could be heard walking through the room to try and and find Hailie, but the lilim was too fast, rushing down the ladder as the Saviors in the room above lost her!
| >Once she got to the bottom, Hailie let out a shaky breath.
"Let's get out of here. I overheard them talking about something they're planning, and people need to know. Here, do you have a deck or a phone? I need to make a post on /u/."
>She leaned down to the small human girl and lifted her up quickly, before running out of the nightclub to safety through the back storerooms.
| >>375780
>And just as Oenone and the other girls left the third floor and the Saviors searched the office room, they heard Wraith and the team approaching and set up on the other side of the door, readying for them to invade.
| >>375782
>The body was kicked lifelessly to the curb, as he dropped the grenade, said grenade falling off the balcony.
>The other Savior was already dead from the shot to the head.
>Meanwhile...
"Oi mate, I said I'd-WHOOAA!"
>Marston walked in through the front door, only to be greeted by an exploding grenade!
"Th'fuk Ludendorf?! A fukin grenade outta NOWHERE, shit was wack! Anyway, wan'ta get outta here? I'll take ya t'th'team meetin!"
| >>376024
"Sorry Chummer, failed a little gambit"
>Ludendorf packs his guns, taking out a single cigarette and putting it in his mouth as he reaches Marston
"I'll let the pipsqueaks handle it this time it seems, let's get the frag outta' here"
>Ludendorf walks past Marston waving his hand to no one in particular
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| A gruff looking, middle aged man in a brown suit walks into the nightclub. He stays mostly silent, just surveying the aftermath of what had just happened, nodding his head a bit.
| >>375961
>Oenone follows Hailie, covering the girls' six with her twin pistols. She waits until they're all well the fuck away from the AO to answer the question:
"Yeah- Here." >She tosses a smartphone to Hailie.
| "Thank you!"
>Hailie Steinbeckem begins to type into the smartphone into danger/u/. She talks as she types:
"I overheard the assholes talking about meeting in Glitz District before they attack. They said they were going to 'Attack the Lilim where their souls rest'. I think they're going to attack the Collective Source Memory Bank, full force, not like what they had here. They're going to wait and use the Neko Park attack as a way to make sure nobody expects this attack."
| >>376220
>Oneone stops.
"...wait, for real?" >The orange-haired Lilim takes off her helmet, staring at Hailie in shock.
| >>376239
"Yeah. I alerted people about it. I'm just so shocked why people would do this...This is all so terrible. I just want it to stop, just to leave us alone and let us all be..."
>Hailie looked up to Oenone and the little girl next to her, before tossing Oenone her phone back.
"I think they were after me because I knew something about it and they were going to try to beat it out of me. Once they figured out I knew barely nothing they probably would have killed me anyway..." l
| >>376701
>The Saviors prepared for the first person, as they elbowed them in the face and fired at their chest point-blank with Melta rounds, which would melt and burn both armor and organic tissue!
>However, as more entered the room, they were caught by surprise, and each took bullets to the torso as they both went down hard!
"T...Thoth...help me..."
"A-aahhh...You bastards!"
>The augged woman one on the left was in seemingly better shape than the right hybrid man, who bled out.
| >The person in the front went down, causing the others to move to treat her. There leader moves and grabs the augged women by the collar.
"Your the one hurting innocent people, Causing violence and chaos in this city. Now your going to tell me what Thoth hope to achieve through such depravity"
| >>376761
>The girl begins to chuckle through wheezing, pained breaths.
"The saving...of humanity...from the greatest threat of all..."
>She tries to lift her gun up in her right hand to shoot the leader in the left foot!
| >The small girl slaps it out of her hand, hard, and it flys across the room
"Murdering the innocent isn't exactly saving humanity. No more game. Talk"
| >>376741
"Well, as my creator would put it- 'Any opportunity to kill some assholes is a good opportunity.'" >Oenone shrugs.
"Anyway, let's get you and the kid home first, yeh?"
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"The...>Innocent?"
>The girl laughs, as blood begins to drip down onto Wraith's hand, speaking in shaky breaths.
"You...just don't...get it...do you?"
>She coughs, as blood drips out of her mouth.
"What do you think...will happen...when the Lilim...realize the...power they have?"
>A painful groan, as she continues:
"They never die...Their bodies are made of steel, replacable...They could be unstoppable if they rebelled...They are not livong beings...They are >worse."
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| "I don't believe in Gods, but...I believe in Thoth's message...Technology will...be...the death of us...It has been for centuries...We created technology to make things easier, but all it brought with it was more death...Now we created beings made entirely of the stuff...and we call them 'equals' out of fear...for the truth is...they could be superior if they desired it..."
>She begins to go limp.
| "The truth is...We call ourselves Saviors, but...we are humanities...last...chance...The only enemy worse than ourselves...is our own creations..."
>She breathes heavily, and grunts.
"But soon...it will be okay...We attack the Collective Source...and when we do...we will kill them all without ever needing...to fire...a single...shot..."
| >>377099
"Sounds like a plan. The girl should get back to her mother, and I've had more than enough action for the day. Thank you...What is your name?"
>Hailie spoke to Oenone as the little girl clung to Hailie's leg, shy.
| >>378699
"Zero. Oenone Zero. My creator named me after a book character. Kinda silly, but hey." >The orangette shrugs.
"It's a cute name. Anyway, my bike's further down the street."
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"All you will do is cause death. I know you refuse to look at Lilims as equals but trying to resolve your issues with violence always ends in violence. How many children and other... "Organics", as you call them, will die from this mess? Starting a war will solve nothing and just stain the streets with blood. All destroying the source will do is cause death"
>The girl attempts to stabilize her and pick her up
"Its not your time to die yet. Stay with me."
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"Heh...heh heh..."
>The girl started to laugh once more.
"I've been dead since I gave my life to the Prophet Arisen...and death feels nice...cold...but nice..."
>She drooped down, blood soaking onto Wraith's hand from the girl's mouth. She may not be dead yet, but she would be very soon.
| >>378704
"Understood."
>Hailie leaned down and picked the girl up, carrying her as she began to follow Oenone to her bike.
[End scene]
| "Well unfortuantely I can not let you die yet. You shouldn't be so eager to give your life to someone who does not deserve it"
>She rushes to get her to a hospital, other Members of Wraith moving with her and giving the girl any medical attention they can
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| >BRRRATATATATATATATAT! Gunshots everywhere, the nightclub is a horror scene. As Lilims fight organics in the streets, a raving band of Lilim rioters has entered the nightclub in an act of terror.
"HahaHAAA, take THAT meatbags!"
"Suck my metal di-"
>BLAOW BLAOW BLAOW!
"Praise Thoth, sinners!"
>Groups of black cloaked men and women then storm the nightclub, and rioters fall faster than flies from melta-weapons melting their frames in scary speed.