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  "description_bbcode_parsed": "<span style='word-wrap: break-word;'>While Noelle and Kris are living it up in cyberspace, Susie and Catti decide to air a few grievances. Or they would be, if Netwatch wasn&#039;t about to kick down the door.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://kimberlyeab.carrd.co/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Visit my website to see where else you can find my work, follow my socials, or join my Discord!</a></span>",
  "writing": "Chapter Three\n\n``So how long have you known this Noelle girl for?'' Susie asked. She pointed at Catti with a pair of chopsticks before plunging them back into her Cup Udon.\n\nCatti looked over at her. ``Long time.''\n\nWas this girl just built like this or did she do something piss her off? Now, wasn't that one of Susie's favourite games to play.\n\nWhat in the World Did I Do Wrong, Starring Susie!\n\nSusie worked her jaw, hearing the hardy metal physically grinding against itself. She instead looked away and kept her eyes on the road outside, savouring her meal. They might've been far away from corporate security but that didn't mean that there wasn't a whole exciting world of potential conflicts just waiting to rear their ugly heads. Pacifica was chopped full of gonks who would only be too happy to take advantage of their lax concern and strip them of their hardware.\n\n``Why so loud?'' Catti grumbled.\n\nSusie scoffed. ``Do you have a problem with me, choom?''\n\nCatti shook her head. ``Merc for hire. Barely know you.'' She scoffed. ``Weakest link.''\n\n``Yeah, well I don't know you very well either,'' Susie grumbled. She nodded towards her read out. ``How do I know that you won't just ice these two when I'm not looking. I bet Holiday Corp would pay some pretty good eddies to have two Netrunners delivered to them in a body bag.''\n\n``Noelle's a sister,'' Catti snarled before glancing at Kris and shrugging. ``Dreemurr... not so much.''\n\nSusie balanced her cup on her lap as she reached into the fold of her coat, drawing out her pistol for the second time this night. She kept her eyes on the feline's wrists, waiting to see if those mantis slots would start to peak open. They didn't, so she merely rested her pistol out in the open, making her point crystal clear. ``Guess we just have to trust one another until the cooler heads are awake, huh?''\n\nCatti nodded. ``Guess so.''\n\nThere was a sharp ping from the monitor on Noelle's tub and her body started to thrash about. A moment later and that same reaction played out on Kris' console with them also violently spasming in their brainless slumber.\n\n``Shit!'' Susie snarled. ``Did they get caught?''\n\nCatti quickly tapped through her pad, quickly tossing it aside and instead grabbing a medical kit off of her belt. ``Firewalls tripped. Antivirus after them.'' She pulled out a pair of needles, plunging one into the side of Noelle's neck. ``Blood pressure crashing.'' She then did the same for Kris. Whatever was in those needles seemed to sooth both of them as their twitching quickly died down. ``Brains quickly warming.''\n\nSusie growled and went over to a cooler, grabbing it. She knew enough about this tech nonsense to know that these two needed to get colder and they needed to get colder quickly.\n\n``Is Holiday Corp onto us?'' Susie asked.\n\nA screech pierced from within her brain and she instinctively flinched from it, clasping a palm over her ear as if that would somehow help. Whatever caused that seemed to strike Catti at the same time as she cried out, losing her cool as she desperately tried to dig her fingers into her ear. Not that she had any success in this.\n\n``Sorry, sorry,'' a nasally voice jeered. ``Little feedback from cracking your channels.''\n\n``Berdly, what the fuck?'' Susie asked, desperately trying to rub away the rapidly approaching migraine.\n\nThe voice chuckled. ``I...'' A pause. ``Wait, how did you know that it was me?''\n\nSusie looked at Catti who just shook her head.\n\n``Lucky guess,'' Susie grumbled.\n\n``Well, you may be surprised to hear this but I'm the techie that Kris roped into your little escapade,'' Berdly explained. ``And unfortunately, I need to break my anonymity because Noelle has tripped a Netwatch security system.''\n\n``Shit,'' Catti growled, peering out the window.\n\nSusie placed her noodles on a nearby table and clutched her pistol tighter in her hand. ``How long do we have until security starts to pour down our necks?''\n\n``Well thankful you lot were smart enough to post yourself out in Pacifica,'' Berdly dictated as he hammered away at his keyboard. ``Which means that you'll have about five minutes before their convoy actually shows up.''\n\n``What can we expect?'' Catti asked.\n\nBerdly paused as he just kept clattering away at his keyboard. ``Street cams are getting pretty fuzzy this far away from the city centre but I'm counting at least three vehicles with probably four men each. I'm guessing twelve guys in total unless they're packed in even tighter than usual.''\n\n``Twelve guys,'' Susie grumbled, looking at Catti. ``Can you fight?''\n\nCatti answered by simply cocking a brow and revealing that mantis blade embedded in her arm, gesturing towards it with her other hand. Not exactly a yes but she must've been capable of something to afford that kind of hardware.\n\n``If you two can hold out, I have a response on the way,'' Berdly said.\n\n``Drones?'' Catti asked.\n\nBerdly sighed. ``No but Chara's Collective will be excited to have some proper Netwatch tech in their neighbourhood. I dropped them a little anonymous hint on where they can scavenge some.''\n\n``Oh great, Chara's boys are inbound,'' Susie grumbled. ``That chick is straight up a cyberpsycho.''\n\n``Not a chick,'' Berdly interjected. ``My dossier says that their pronouns are they/it. Also says that the rumours of cyberpsychosis are blown completely out of proportion. Apparently, it's just an intimidation tactic it likes to use.''\n\n``We're borged,'' Catti murmured. ``Issue?''\n\nBerdly chuckled nervously. ``Then that might be a problem... especially when you have a human with you. Even if Kris is pretty monster-passing these days. Any chance that you can make yourself scarce before they show up?''\n\nCatti scoffed. ``No.''\n\n``We hold until these two wake the fuck up,'' Susie growled. She perched herself by the window and took aim, pointing her pistol down at the street below. Whatever corpos were fortunate enough to get in her sights were about to have a round put through them. She grinned at Catti, winking at her. ``Guess you're about to have a very hands-on demonstration to why I'm the best solo that Kris knows.''\n\nCatti scoffed. ``Keep them safe.''\n\nIt seemed that Berdly's words held true as three cars came careening around the bend, rushing up the short street which led to their derelict little operation. They came to a screeching halt right outside and a tense silence settled into place, a brief calm before the storm came flying forth with overwhelming intent.\n\nAll four doors on all three SUVs snapped open in near unison. But instead of twelve goons, there were actually fifteen. Corporate security, armed with state-of-the-art body mods, composite armour, and smart firearms. Their eyes frantically darted about with their laser pointers going ever which way, desperately searching for any sort of target. \n\nHow accurate were some of those new upgrades from Militech? Could they detect a cold-blooded monster hanging in the windows? She had little interest in finding out.\n\nSusie squeezed the trigger and fired her pistol, roaring as she did so. ``Suck my fucking dick!''\n\nHer gun was old and ornery, having a nasty kickback. Though that was well worth it considering the damage it could inflict. The round shattered the glass of the apartment window and flew towards one of the cars below. That solid slug punched right through one of the hardy steel doors, as if it were made of paper, and plowed into the centre of mass of the corpo who stood just behind it. \n\nThere was no upgrading around a solid ounce of tungsten flying fast enough to crack the sound barrier.\n\nThe remaining corpos started to scatter. A few seemed to have Sandis, blitzing to the side with unnatural speed. The others opened fire and peppered the building, punching through the windows and walls. Some of these corpos seemed to know right where she was as they shattered the prior peace of the room.\n\n``Fuck!'' Susie roared, ducking down.\n\nBerdly clattered on his keys. ``Still hesitant for Chara's crew to come in?''\n\n``Not like we have a better option,'' Susie snarled, popping out of cover and providing a poorly aimed shot. For her trouble, she nearly took a round to her soft head. Thankfully it smacked into the hardly titanium of her jaw instead, bouncing away harmlessly aside from rattling her poor brain within her skull.\n\nShe'd survived worse.\n\nSusie rubbed her jaw and glanced at Catti, trying to blink away the high-pitched ringing within her ears.\n\nCatti slid the tablet into her belt and instead grabbed a pistol herself, popping up and holding down the trigger. She fired off a rapid three round burst, spraying wildly into the now dissipating group of corpos.\n\nIt was a hopeless struggle. Two C-grade mercs versus half a platoon of the cream of the crop of corporate security.\n\n``Please tell me backup is on the way,'' Susie snarled.\n\nBerdly sighed. ``They seem to have taken the bait but aren't getting their butts into gear just yet. It's not like I can control them.''\n\n``Well, we're about to be shit out of luck over here,'' Susie growled. She spared a look towards Kris and Noelle, seeing those two sleepy angels snoozing away. What exactly were they up to during all of this?\n\nShe scoffed. \n\nThey were probably having the time of their freaking lives right now.\n\n\f\n\n",
  "writing_bbcode_parsed": "<span style='word-wrap: break-word;'>Chapter Three<br /><br />``So how long have you known this Noelle girl for?&#039;&#039; Susie asked. She pointed at Catti with a pair of chopsticks before plunging them back into her Cup Udon.<br /><br />Catti looked over at her. ``Long time.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Was this girl just built like this or did she do something piss her off? Now, wasn&#039;t that one of Susie&#039;s favourite games to play.<br /><br />What in the World Did I Do Wrong, Starring Susie!<br /><br />Susie worked her jaw, hearing the hardy metal physically grinding against itself. She instead looked away and kept her eyes on the road outside, savouring her meal. They might&#039;ve been far away from corporate security but that didn&#039;t mean that there wasn&#039;t a whole exciting world of potential conflicts just waiting to rear their ugly heads. 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She kept her eyes on the feline&#039;s wrists, waiting to see if those mantis slots would start to peak open. They didn&#039;t, so she merely rested her pistol out in the open, making her point crystal clear. ``Guess we just have to trust one another until the cooler heads are awake, huh?&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Catti nodded. ``Guess so.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />There was a sharp ping from the monitor on Noelle&#039;s tub and her body started to thrash about. A moment later and that same reaction played out on Kris&#039; console with them also violently spasming in their brainless slumber.<br /><br />``Shit!&#039;&#039; Susie snarled. ``Did they get caught?&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Catti quickly tapped through her pad, quickly tossing it aside and instead grabbing a medical kit off of her belt. ``Firewalls tripped. 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I&#039;m guessing twelve guys in total unless they&#039;re packed in even tighter than usual.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``Twelve guys,&#039;&#039; Susie grumbled, looking at Catti. ``Can you fight?&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Catti answered by simply cocking a brow and revealing that mantis blade embedded in her arm, gesturing towards it with her other hand. Not exactly a yes but she must&#039;ve been capable of something to afford that kind of hardware.<br /><br />``If you two can hold out, I have a response on the way,&#039;&#039; Berdly said.<br /><br />``Drones?&#039;&#039; Catti asked.<br /><br />Berdly sighed. ``No but Chara&#039;s Collective will be excited to have some proper Netwatch tech in their neighbourhood. I dropped them a little anonymous hint on where they can scavenge some.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``Oh great, Chara&#039;s boys are inbound,&#039;&#039; Susie grumbled. ``That chick is straight up a cyberpsycho.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``Not a chick,&#039;&#039; Berdly interjected. ``My dossier says that their pronouns are they/it. Also says that the rumours of cyberpsychosis are blown completely out of proportion. Apparently, it&#039;s just an intimidation tactic it likes to use.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``We&#039;re borged,&#039;&#039; Catti murmured. ``Issue?&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Berdly chuckled nervously. ``Then that might be a problem... especially when you have a human with you. Even if Kris is pretty monster-passing these days. Any chance that you can make yourself scarce before they show up?&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Catti scoffed. ``No.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``We hold until these two wake the fuck up,&#039;&#039; Susie growled. She perched herself by the window and took aim, pointing her pistol down at the street below. Whatever corpos were fortunate enough to get in her sights were about to have a round put through them. She grinned at Catti, winking at her. ``Guess you&#039;re about to have a very hands-on demonstration to why I&#039;m the best solo that Kris knows.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Catti scoffed. ``Keep them safe.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />It seemed that Berdly&#039;s words held true as three cars came careening around the bend, rushing up the short street which led to their derelict little operation. They came to a screeching halt right outside and a tense silence settled into place, a brief calm before the storm came flying forth with overwhelming intent.<br /><br />All four doors on all three SUVs snapped open in near unison. But instead of twelve goons, there were actually fifteen. Corporate security, armed with state-of-the-art body mods, composite armour, and smart firearms. Their eyes frantically darted about with their laser pointers going ever which way, desperately searching for any sort of target. <br /><br />How accurate were some of those new upgrades from Militech? Could they detect a cold-blooded monster hanging in the windows? She had little interest in finding out.<br /><br />Susie squeezed the trigger and fired her pistol, roaring as she did so. ``Suck my fucking dick!&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Her gun was old and ornery, having a nasty kickback. Though that was well worth it considering the damage it could inflict. The round shattered the glass of the apartment window and flew towards one of the cars below. That solid slug punched right through one of the hardy steel doors, as if it were made of paper, and plowed into the centre of mass of the corpo who stood just behind it. <br /><br />There was no upgrading around a solid ounce of tungsten flying fast enough to crack the sound barrier.<br /><br />The remaining corpos started to scatter. A few seemed to have Sandis, blitzing to the side with unnatural speed. The others opened fire and peppered the building, punching through the windows and walls. Some of these corpos seemed to know right where she was as they shattered the prior peace of the room.<br /><br />``Fuck!&#039;&#039; Susie roared, ducking down.<br /><br />Berdly clattered on his keys. ``Still hesitant for Chara&#039;s crew to come in?&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``Not like we have a better option,&#039;&#039; Susie snarled, popping out of cover and providing a poorly aimed shot. For her trouble, she nearly took a round to her soft head. Thankfully it smacked into the hardly titanium of her jaw instead, bouncing away harmlessly aside from rattling her poor brain within her skull.<br /><br />She&#039;d survived worse.<br /><br />Susie rubbed her jaw and glanced at Catti, trying to blink away the high-pitched ringing within her ears.<br /><br />Catti slid the tablet into her belt and instead grabbed a pistol herself, popping up and holding down the trigger. She fired off a rapid three round burst, spraying wildly into the now dissipating group of corpos.<br /><br />It was a hopeless struggle. Two C-grade mercs versus half a platoon of the cream of the crop of corporate security.<br /><br />``Please tell me backup is on the way,&#039;&#039; Susie snarled.<br /><br />Berdly sighed. ``They seem to have taken the bait but aren&#039;t getting their butts into gear just yet. It&#039;s not like I can control them.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``Well, we&#039;re about to be shit out of luck over here,&#039;&#039; Susie growled. She spared a look towards Kris and Noelle, seeing those two sleepy angels snoozing away. What exactly were they up to during all of this?<br /><br />She scoffed. <br /><br />They were probably having the time of their freaking lives right now.<br /><br />\f<br /><br /></span>",
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