One offs and random stuff I write

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Rouges

When good heist go bad

The sun shined brightly in the sky and the day looked like the greatest despite how bad the weather was the past couple days, the clouds weren't too dark as well, the streets of New Washington were somewhat void of people at the moment despite it being the middle of the day, including the bank.

I soaked up the sunshine from across the street on a bench, next to me was my gym bag filled to the brim with all of my gear, I reclined into the bench as a curvy ausar woman strutted by in a tight black dress. I attempted to get a look at her butt as she started to cross the street to the bank, but her fluffy dog tail was the only thing catching my eye.

Soon my codex began ringing, after quickly fishing it out of my jacket, my favorite ausar's voice hit my ears." You having fun staring at the asses of cat girls and ausar Gaz?" She asked.

"It's not my fault if New Washington has a bunch of kaithrit women and curvy dog women scattered around the place." I chuckled.

" Just don't forget what you're doing."

" Yeah, Yeah." I told her." It's my plan anyways Ven."

Suddenly the last thing I wanted to happen, happened. I heard a gunshot, not over on Ven's end, but from inside the bank. I quickly unzipped my gym bag and came face to face with my mask. It was a simple mouth gas mask with bright neon lights over the filters. I quickly donned the mask and slung my bag over my shoulder.

I dashed for the front doors and threw my hood over my head, as passed the threshold to the bank I witnessed a guard fall over a balcony and hit one of the teller's desk.

I've always said the word "Fuck" many times, but right now I needed to scream it loud, but like everyone else, I stayed silent waiting for the first scream to happen, the calm before the shit storm. I dragged my Liberator shotgun from my gym bag before a Kaithrit woman screamed and her two cat tails curled up.

Just before the customers could attempt to make a run for it, I fired a shell into the ceiling making them all stop in their tracks and giving my team enough time to make it to the atrium. The first one to make it was oddly Ash, she smacked a thin ausar woman with the butt of her light machine gun.

Ash, unlike the others, came in heavy battle armor that showed off her scarlet chitin plates and to complete her ensemble she wore a helmet with a visor and holes bore into the top of it revealing her mouth and antenna to people.

While she started to cable tie the civilians and bank tellers, another member of my team arrived. He leaped off the second-floor balcony and landed onto the hard marble floor. Like me, he wore a mouth mask, but it wasn't a gas mask, it was a simple mouth mask with Japanese characters on it, he wore some casual clothes over a simple battle vest. He armed himself with an old meteor shower pump action shotgun with anime girls on the butt stock." Black-sama." He called out to me.

" Bates fired the first shot, man." He told me.

" Damn it." I sighed." Help Gyne with the ties Weeb."

I jumped up onto the teller's desk and looked down on everyone." Listen up!" I yelled "This is a robbery, wanted to harm no one. We're after the bank's money, not your's! Your money is insured by the Galatic Confederacy! So you won't lose a single credit! So keep your faces, tails, and tentacles down think of your loved ones or lovers and this will be over in no time."

As the planet side police force began to surround the building, their hover car sirens wailing and screeching I finished off with "Please don't be a hero, we got enough of them coming for us."

While Ash and Weeb began moving the hostages from the atrium, I sighed wondering how Bates ruined my plan, But before my thinking could get too far into my thoughts, Ven called me on my codex, probably wanting to tell me my plan went wrong. But once I put the device to my ear she surprised me on what she greeted me with.

" I'm connecting with the hostage negator as we speak Gaz, I think you brought Bates along for the wrong ride."

My only response was a sigh.

" Told ya this job was gonna be go hot with a guy like him. Head to the manager's office, and I hope the plan b isn't just shooting everyone on the way to the escape car."

Rushed to the set of steps, telling the ausar " Whenever I have a plan b it's always sweet."

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Rouges

The Assasult

The entire "Job." was turning into an entire shit show after the first shot."We're going to the Manager's office!" I shouted. The weeb lord, Akira, Lead the small group of hostages up the stairs of the bank and into the first room he saw. Once he kicked in the door in, he rushed in aiming his Meteor shower shotgun at who I can assume is the manager, once I pushed everyone inside, I took out of my Hammer pistols scanning the room.

Once I laid eyes on the manager, I noticed it was a Gryvain woman, probably a Herm. The dragon woman just raised her clawed hands to the ceiling." Stand!" I yelled at her closing the gap between us and then I heard it. A constant sucking sound, followed by slurping, it didn't take a genius to tell what was happening under the desk," Pull ya damn pants up. No, wait, I'mma zip tie your hands to the back of the chair."

I went stepped around the desk grabbing one of the dragon woman's hands before tying her wrist together. I moved her back and pointed my pistol at the slut under the desk only to be surprised that it was one of my crew, our very peppy cat girl, and safe cracker, she popped up from under the desk with dragon slime on her cheek.

"GA-Black!" She yelled nearly saying my name." I lost where Bates went, I know were suppose to be bank robbing buddies. But I'm in heat, and it took over, and I couldn't control myself." She gave me excuses before wiping off the dragon slime from the corner of her mouth.

" She didn't do a half-bad job compared to my secretary." The bank manager interjected.

" Oh shut up." I told her." And you, mask up. Then pull up her pants and make her decent."

I set my shotgun down on the boss's table and watched Akira open a small windowless closet he began shoving the hostages into the closet and once the manager was inside. I took my mask off and took a breath of fresh air. " Kat," I called her over. Looking at her again, I noticed the petite catgirl was wearing a simple tight leather jacket and leather pants she had her sleeves rolled up to show her bright purple fur to the world.

I looked into the eye sockets of her metal mask and looked into her innocent cat eyes." Listen, Noi, go and find the vault and do what you're best at." She stood up straight like a soldier with even her purple tail sticking up straight as well." Got it Gazi." Once she began running to the door. I called her once again stopping her." And don't go off blowing people, focus on the safe and the money."

" Got it!" She gave me a thumbs up before disappearing from my sight, Akira set his shotgun down before taking off his mask and running a gloved hand through his spiky hair." So, you think that she will get 2 feet of the vault before attempting to blow a knocked out guard?" He asked.

I chuckled, before pressing a button on the manager's desk and dimming the windows." Probably, I told him, I believe she'll get there and do the job before needing some of her meds." I tossed my codex onto the desk and hit one if it's many buttons to bring up a hologram of Ven's head." Hey, Okami with Blue fur, where's Yan and Bates."

" Bringing up a feed now, Black." Suddenly her hologram changed into two screens, one showing Yan sleeping in the getaway Van, the second screen showing a guy with a blue fleece stabbing a guard in the chest after flipping him onto his back. I looked back over to Akira." Ya sure that it was the Batesmen who fired a shot?" I asked my Weeb friend.

" I'm pretty sure that it had to be him, or it could have been a guard that got a shot off on him. I know for sure it wasn't me." Akira covered his own ass.

Before I could say anything, I heard shooting outside the room, the sound of the caliber had to be from a heavy machine gun." Damn it. Ash is firing on the police." I spoke aloud. I put my gas mask back on and slipped on some goggles." You're on babysitting duty." I told him before rushing out the room with my Hammer pistol. I headed over to the balcony overlooking the atrium to get a better view of the situation Ash was crouched down inside of the bank's indoor fountain the red myr woman was firing a hail of bullets out the front door.

Suddenly several cans of smoke grenades were lobbed at the front doors and released a cloud of smoke at the entrance. The heavily armored woman released the trigger and waited for whatever was on the other side of the smoke to come charging through, unlike us crooks, Ash was a real warrior, a woman made for stuff like this, and her ass looked great soaking wet, for an ant woman.

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Typhoon

Stepping into a Typhoon

It was only a short time since I joined the Typhoon agency, I still remember the final test, a near free for all test to see how well I'd do surrounded, alone, and outgunned. I never expected to be put into the highest class, but I guess I could consider it overachieving without actually trying. A sudden chill began to spread across my chest, almost prying me of my thoughts, then a mature feminine voice broke me from my thinking."Please close your shirt."

As I slowly returned reality and noticed I was in the infirmary, the nurse gave me a long look before she spoke." You're perfectly healthy, but there seems to be something a bit off about you, your skin isn't supposed to be this pale. I'd like for you to come around regularly for check-ups." She began to peel off her plastic gloves." I'm sorry that you had to wait so long, but Typhoon agents of your class need to be in the best of health, not many people just walk right on into the agency's first test and come out with the rank of S."

I nodded agreeing with her as she discarded her gloves into a nearby waste bin." As per usual someone from your class will show you-" Before the nurse could even finish her sentence someone kicked in the door to the infirmary and rushed in, I jumped to my feet and came face to face with a young woman with the smile and ears of a goblin. She was about as thin as me and had long blonde hair tied into a ponytail the woman was wearing an oversized purple hoodie and black shorts.

The nurse grabbed the young lady by her ponytail and dragged her out of my personal space before she began berating her." Chi, you think next time you could just knock on my door instead of kicking it in?" She asked the blonde.

"Doc a dynamic entrance is always the best way to introduce yourself to new friends." She said with a bright smile." Hopefully, they won't be like everyone else in my killing class." Once the blonde laid her red eyes on me, she moved into my personal space again and slapped me on the butt before saying.

" Sup my dude, bet you're ready to see all the fine ass girls in our class huh?" She asked in a casual tone. I grabbed the bridge of my nose and looked away from her before returning my look back at Chi." I'm not a guy." I mumbled." I'm a girl." I told her, holding back my desire to yell it. Chi grabbed the back of her neck chuckling nervously." I know, I was just kidding with you really, nice to see another chick in our little badass group of killers, what's ya name anyways."

I looked Chi in the eye," It's Eiko, just that." Chi began looking up to the ceiling then closed her eyes as if she was thinking then snapped her fingers." Ah, I'll call you Ei-chan." she put a hand on my head before giving me a bright smile."Come on Ei-chan I'll show you around then take ya to our classroom."

The tour Chi took me on was pretty quick, she showed me around to the common areas of the academy and always ended off her quick descriptions of each place with."You ain't gotta hang here though." After showing me the cafeteria, atrium, and several dozen hallways, Chi ended her tour, then announced to me that we're heading to the classroom. Chi and I made our way to what looked like a vault door of some kind she turned to me with a smile before saying." You got one of those badges right?" She asked before revealing her own.

The blonde shoved her badge into a computer next to the vault door and quickly pulled it out and once the door opened it lead to a windowless hallway kept lit by a trail of lights, this hall, unlike the others, was sterile white unlike the eggshell color of the others. While Chi led me along, she began talking about how this section use to have dozens of badass people strolling through the halls and then we were at the door to the classroom. On the inside, there were fewer people than I expected, only a handful of different people doing their own thing by themselves.

One albino guy was sitting by himself lining up different calibers of sniper bullets on his table while rifle magazines surrounded the little line-up. The albino wore a dull colored peacoat, black leather gloves, and matching colored pants, lying by his feet was a long case more than likely holding his rifle.

Sitting at the table next to his was a tanned guy with his feet up. The man wore what looked like a Hawaiian shirt and khaki pants the guy had a holster slung across his shoulders. But his guns were laid out in pieces on the table with his ammo scatted around the table, the guy himself was leaned back and snoring loudly, covering his face was a catalog about handguns.

On the other side of the room was a gingered haired woman fixing some unknown object that I couldn't guess to be a firearm or a knife, surrounding it was a mess of tools, screws, bolts and other things I didn't know the names to. She was wearing a summer dress with large black gloves and had a headband keeping her bangs from falling in front of her face.

After looking over the gingered haired inventor, I spotted another girl sitting by the window and gazing at the scenery then I noticed that the classroom had windows, but the hallway didn't, I shook my head before looking back to the girl looking out the window. She was in a tight black dress with matching colored wristguards she looked like a typical goth girl, wrapped around one of her wrists was a long silver chain connected to a ball sitting on the table.

Lastly, there was one guy sitting in the back of the room he had a large curved machete-like blade and was bringing a wheat stone across its edge slowly. The man looked like a hooded killer with a blue hoodie covered in a million stitches, unlike everyone else here he was the only one glaring at me with a death stare.

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Typhoon

Class Onyx

Without any warning, Chi hopped onto the albino guy's lap and hugged on of her arms around him like an octopus." Guys! We got a new classmate for fucking once, let's celebrate!" She yelled before giving the albino a quick peck on the cheek. The white haired guy had a stoic look on his face, despite just being kissed by a girl and having her jump in his lap, now when I think about it, he seems more irritated than emotionless. "Well, go ahead and introduce yourself to everyone Ei-chan" Chi pulled me away from scanning everyone in the room.

I walked to the front of the classroom and bowed quickly before saying."My name is Eiko Kobayashi you can call me Eiko." When I lifted my head up, the entire class stared at me, then, the albino spoke up." My name is Misha Vasiliev, what are you good at?"

Once he asked the question, I blanked on giving him an answer before I just stupidly blurted out." Submachine guns mostly but I tend to use whatever I can get my hands on." The albino Russian didn't show it, but I could see he was somewhat disappointed with my answer and it was confirmed when he said." Oh, I was hoping for another rifle user or someone who favored them."

Chi lightly hit Misha's cheek saying."Oh, that's our Simo, blunt and cruel to the end." She spoke aloud with a big smile." Simo here is one of the best Snipers here, and to show it he uses mostly old rifles to assassinate targets and rebounds bullets off flat surfaces for headshots if he's shooting at you, then it's best if you just scramble your own eggs before he does."

Suddenly Misha's stoic stare turned into a hard glare." Last time I checked Chi, I can speak for myself. I don't need you to introduce me, now would you mind getting off my lap, I'm not even into women like you." He sounded harsher than when he first spoke. Chi leaped from his lap and hit his shoulder saying." Yeah, yeah. You know you like this." She shook her flat chest attempting to entice him.

Then like an animal hunting down its prey, Chi moved onto the ginger haired girl and groped her chest from behind, the girl screamed as if someone stabbed her before Chi covered her mouth and adjusted the ginger's dress." This tall drink of water is Fabby, she likes to kill people with drones, computers, and shit, most of it is fucking greek to me, but if it's got anything to do with computers or making a badass powered suit Fabby can do it. Also, she's got perfectly breast, the type you gotta grope."

When the blond removed her hands from Fabby, the tech specialist elbowed Chi in the eye and knocked her to the ground." It's not Fabby, Jesus!" She yelled before fixing her long red hair."My name is Fabrizia De Rosa and what I do is wage cyber warfare, and at times I do fit drones with micro bombs." She finished crossing her arms. Before I could see it, Chi was already off the ground and had her arm around Fabby's neck." A real assassin would get up close and personal. They wouldn't pervert the art by killing people from states away."

The look of terror filled Fabby's eyes." What would your big mafia boss papa think?" She asked, then unexpectantly Chi bit the Italian woman's ear lobe before cheerfully telling her."Love ya still Fabby." and blowing her a kiss, Chi then moved over to the man lounging back in his chair with a Hawaiian shirt. She grabbed the weapon catalog from his face before looking at it herself and turning it sideways to reveal the extended pages and let out a long whistle.

After rolling up the catalog and lightly hitting the guy in the ear, the tacky shirt wearer awoke and caught himself before falling over, Chi told him of my presence and being nice the guy stood up and waved saying." Sup man, I'm Aleixo Lobo. Kind glad we got another " He said with a bright smile almost as similar to Chi's smile."I am Eiko Kobayashi, and I am a woman." Once I told him I wasn't a guy he rubbed the back of his head before saying." My bad Bonita, I didn't mean to."

I wanted to shake my head and look away from the guy, but I just held back a groan, I beginning to feel like like I was cursed to look this way. Chi gave the guy a pat on the back before introducing him to me." Alex here is a blitz really, the guy dual wields handguns and chucks flash grenades at people to line up headshots, he's also pretty fast as well. Alex blushed after Chi told of what he could do, the dusky skinned man thanked her before saying." It's not a blitz play for me all the time I try to switch it up once in a while and two hand automatics."

Chi knocked her hip into the guy."That ain't the only thing you use your two hands for." She snickered before she got next to me and put an arm over my shoulder. I made sure to keep an eye on her hand close to my chest as she put her mouth near my ear and whispered." He's an okay guy, but he's really fucking gay, you saw the way how he looked at ya when he first saw you?" Chi pulled her face from my ear before nodding. After giving me that bit of information, Chi began walking me to the back of the room with the last guy.

When the two of us approached, the guy didn't bother taking his eyes off his machete-like blade he was sharpening it with a brick sized whetstone, Chi held out her hand in front of the guy telling me." This bad boy wannabe is Jaeger, and from the looks of it, he is overcompensating for something." She spoke in her playful tone. Jaeger looked up at me before turning his attention to his blade." I don't care who you are." He told me bluntly." Survive two missions from the director, and maybe I'll give enough of a fuck to know who you are, for now, you're just extra bullet fodder."

The blonde took her arm from around my shoulder and leaned close to the knife wielder." Come on Jaeger, get off your period and calm down you chump." After telling him the insult, Jaeger put the whetstone down and stared down Chi." I'm gonna count to three, if you don't walk away I'm gonna fuck you up Chi."

Right as Chi eagerly said, or at least attempted to say "Do it" The knife wielder slash Chi across her face with his blade. The blonde recoiled back onto the floor with deep cuts on both the cheeks on her face." Stupid bitch!" He yelled out. The second I tried to see if Chi was okay, she was already getting back up and attempting to speak only to cough and make gurgling sounds as her own blood spilled onto her jacket.

The others in the room only glanced back before Fabrizia decided she would come over to help, she offered her arm to Chi." Come on, I'mma take you to the nurse, God she's gonna be pissed with you again Chi." Once Fabrizia took care of Chi, I chose to meet the last person on my own.

When I got to her table at the front, like Jaeger she didn't bother looking at me, but she slapped the seat next to her saying." Sit." I reluctantly sat down next to her, and the second she turned to me she let out a sigh." The Name's Cassidy Ames, Cass by Chi's stupid standards." She reclined in her chair best she could." I torture people and use Fawkes here to get people to give me info." She motioned towards the chain mace sprawled out onto the table. Cassidy began trying to lean back in her chair telling me." Also if that weird bitch Chi didn't tell you, we're class Onyx."

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Rouges

The Push back

The time for gazing at ant women wasn't now the time right now was for action, I leaped from the balcony to the first floor, then dove into the fountain soaking myself and crawling up next to Ash. As soon as I caught my breath, I asked the red myr." The fuck are you doing?!" She responded by giving me a long almost awkward stare and slamming down a magazine box on the rim of the fountain, she then spoke." Peacekeepers arrived on the scene, sniper tried to take me out, and a group of shields attempted to move in." She spoke as she casually knocked off the emptied magazine box from her LMG, then pointed to the dent in her helmet." Also, Bates is right behind you."

I quickly spun around nearly smacking my head against the fountain's rim to be greeted by the sight of our serial killer and bank robber. He was wearing his only set of clothes, a navy fleece jacket, a pair of jeans, and black running shoes his mask was unlike any other though. The mask was a pair of eyes with no mouth, just six small holes in the mouth's place. Bates stared off into the smoke before telling me." We need to charge through it when they do. Confuse them."

I looked at him before taking out my second hammer pistol telling him." What?!" I flicked the safety off the pistol with my thumb before he just sighed and said." Fine, I'll handle it then." Bates vaulted over the rim then charged out into cloud without any hesitation and disappeared into it, not long after it the both of us heard more than enough shots to put him down, as I slowly rose up, Ash grabbed my shoulder and stopped me.

As the smoke cleared, I was surprised seeing Bates on his own two feet and more than several Peacekeepers dead in the street or horribly injured, but my focus soon shifted from Bates over to a UGC officer. It was Leithan woman, standing tall with a horse like lower body and six legs, even though I've seen only a few, they still weird me out, it's like a centaur crossed with a lizard, but with odd horns for ears. The big thick centauresque lizard woman wore a modified version of the UGC uniform, beret and all. Next to her was a small army of PeaceKeepers of different alien races, once they caught a glimpse of Bates they started firing everything at him from the police barricade, Plasma, Lasers, and bullets.

Surprisingly, Bates began heading back towards us, luckily ducking a laser beam but sadly getting hit in the back with a bolt of plasma. The serial killer threw himself back over the fountain's rim and instead of asking if he was okay. Ash thought out loud." That Leithan officer has some big tits."

Suppressing my chuckle, I checked on Bate's back." You okay there big dude?"

Bates rose up like some horror movie monster and got to his knees." I'll be fine." he grunted as the plasma sizzled on his back, he then began laying in the fountain's water hoping that it would be cool enough to stop the burning. Before I could tell the two to retreat, back up to the manger's office, the Leithan Peacekeeper grabbed a megaphone.

"I am Captain Neykkar of the UGC in this sector of the galaxy, lay down your weapons and come out with your hands up." The centaur woman announced.

"I could take her out right now, I got a good shot," Ash whispered as she pulled the lever back on her light machinegun. I put a hand over her iron sights before leaping out of the fountain, I strutted forwards towards the doors of the bank and stopped at the frame, I glimpsed up at a sniper training their sights on me.

" I have over a dozen hostages!" I yelled out." If I see one blue beret or one P.K badge in here, I'll Kill one hostage here in the lobby!"

Then like a badass, I turned around and began walking towards the manager's office as I passed the fountain I beckoned for the two to follow me back up into the office with Akihiko. The second the three of us got back inside, the first thing I noticed was the weeb Lord with his feet kicked up chilling like he owned the place.

Instead of walking over to the desk and throwing down his feet, I made my way over to the tinted windows to see the UGC gunship's lights through the tint. I turned my back to the window just to see Bates take off his mask and smear blood on his face before cursing and wiping off his face with his jacket sleeve, I chuckled then got serious." Ash go and check on the hostages, then berate Akira for looking too comfortable."

"Hey!" He jumped up to his feet," I did my job, it just wasn't that hard man."

I ignored him then pointed over to Bates." B-man, I want you to make sure nobody comes into the Lobby or upstairs, cut'em down if you see'em, but don't kill them."

Then I went back to the door." I'm checking on my pet cat and the safe, if we're lucky, she's got it half way open by now." I told them before heading off. As I took off down the hallways heading deeper into the bank my gut began telling me that it was time to bolt, PeaceKeepers weren't a part of the plan and sticking around too long would just make things worse.

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Rogues
Cashing out

Once I made it to the vault area, I half expected to see the security guards nude below the waist, but Noi listened and followed directions. After going around a corner and stepping over a zip tied knocked out a security guard, I spotted my pet cat girl and noticed that she was wearing her roller blades, she was going in a circle as a massive drill burrowed into the bank vault's lock. The second her innocent gold eyes spotted me the purple-furred cat girl attempted to pounce on me, only to fall short and eat marble flooring face first, even after face slamming the ground the Noi managed to scramble up to her feet with a toothy brace-filled smile."Gaz!Gaz!Gaz!" She shouted." I listened good and found the safe then I didn't blow anyone because you told me to."

I nodded agreeing with Noi before petting her on the head." Yeah, yeah." I sounded like nonchalant." Maybe now I'll let you sit at the table with that dumb ass cat bowl."

Suddenly Noi began pouting and glaring at me." Meanie!" She yelled before she could meow more insults at me, the drill began to sound off with a high pitch click then the grinding of metel on metel sound and it's laser switched off, out of nowhere a small blue holographic image of the Steele Tech logo appeared above the drill, then a female voice announced that its drilling was complete. Noi leaped onto the drill and yanked it off vault door before attempting to pull open the safe, only to fail due to her lack of muscles, after watching the catgirl yank on the door handle and get a sweat going, I figured that I should help her before she hurts herself.

Knowing that this was a Gryvain bank, or at least owned by one, I decided to take the opposite approach and simply pushed the heavy door instead, after moving the million ton door and Noi's motivational cheers. I laid my eyes on the one thing we came here for, the fruits of my planning and waiting, the planet side cash, stacked at the end of the vault, it was too much for all of us to carry out, but it was beautiful still and the only thing I could do is just stare at the massive blocks of bills. Then Noi rushed in and dove into the money head first, like a cat version of Scrouge McDuck." First I'mma buy a bunch of Rush from my dealer, then I'mma get a new collar and get a tattoo." She began listing off all the things she'd do with the money, as she poked her head out the top of the pile.

I strolled over and chucked an old gym back next to the pile of money and told her." First get your braces removed." I grabbed one of her fangs that had a noticeable metal bracket with my pinkie finger. The second I let it go, her ears drooped, it looked as if I smashed her dreams in a single sentence." Well, your cut is your money Noi, you don't have to get your teeth fixed." Her ears perked up and a smile formed on her face." But we first will need to convert everything over to credits and chill out before partying with it."

Noi looked bored and annoyed by the fact that she would have to wait before using the money, as I began filling up the gym bag and preparing to open another one, my codex sprung to life ringing off the hook, once I answered Ven sounded panicked and rambled too fast for me to even understand her, after telling the ausar to calm down, she took a breath." There's a Federation Ranger in the bank!" She screamed into my ear. As my ear recovered from the screaming, I asked Ven " Just what the hell is a Ranger? Like a power ranger or something?" There was a long sigh on the dog girl's end." No, they aren't like those lame asses. The Federation Rangers are like bounty hunters trained in non-lethal fighting and are forbidden to use guns besides Arc casters."

After being given the shock notes from Ven, I asked her why would one of them be here." They're here for Bates, they are trying to bring him in, or at least one of them is trying to." She told me. I looked down to the bags Noi filled up and put one on my back before picking up two of them." Ven ready the ship I told her over the codex." As my pet catgirl began putting a bag on her back." Come on Noi we're leaving."

As we entered the lobby and began heading back to the Manager's office, I felt an impending feeling of danger, and true to my feeling a cloud of smoke exploded at my feet engulfing the both of us before I could check on Noi, an armored figure in all black almost fell on me from the ceiling fist first. The person landed only inches away from my face and knocked away most of the smoke he used to make a cool entrance, once he stood up straight the black armored guy told us." I'm ending this withdraw, and I'm taking that serial killer back to my sector of the galaxy."

I chuckled before dropping the money bags on the floor." Man, you walked straight out of a comic strip." I then drew both my Eagle handguns in a flash then cracked a smile under my mask." But sadly this is my comic buddy, not yours." I fired off two shots as he rushed me, with both rounds bouncing off his armor before he roundhouse kicked both of the guns from my hands and knocked both of them into Noi's head.

The second he disarmed me, I froze where I was standing, just shocked that he knocked my weapons out my hand and then used them to knock out Noi. My mind was going back to what Ven told me earlier, but before I could think too hard about it, the other side of the man's leg connected with my head and knocked me over the balcony railing. I narrowly avoided breaking my neck hitting the ground in the lobby."Damn, I didn't think Batman existed in the galaxy." I thought out loud. I slowly pulled myself up off the floor only to be greeted by the sight of the Ranger.

Feeling angry and fucked up by the fall, I took my knife out ready to do my best Bates impersonation then I just charged him without thinking only to have my knife kicked away and nearly gave his leg another smooch, but in the split second of nearly being hit, I dodged the best I could and dived away from the Ranger." This Bonnie and Cyde stunt is over, I may not know who you are, but I believe you can change yourself, do something better than comitt crimes." He held out one of his hands." You just have to be willing to take the first steps."

I glared at the dark armored man offering me a second chance, I stood up and stared him in the eye." Ranger, you barely know who you're talking too, I'm not a guy rejected by society. I'm not someone who's down on his luck on his shittest day. I'm a man that was locked away because I was hope." He didn't need to take a helmet off for me to tell he was squinting at me and wondering what I meant, but before the rare moment could go on. Bate's cleaver struck the ground, and soon it's Owner arrived." Black, I got this one." Bates leaped in between the two of us and ripped his cleaver out the ground.

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Rogues
Clean getaway

In just a couple seconds Bates began swinging at the Ranger, his blade only making near misses with each swipe."Give it up Bates, you're coming back with me, to the Federation." The boy scout threatened him. Then out of nowhere, Bates tackled the Ranger to the floor and held the man down,"Black go, get the others escape or help me, I don't care!" He grunted.

As I began running back up the steps, I knew not to leave the guy behind, I went back up to the second floor and found Noi still out cold and drooling all over herself. I quickly grabbed one of my Eagle handguns and went over to the railing just in the nick of time to see Bates get thrown by the Ranger, seeing my chance to strike. I fired several shots at the dark armored man, only for my bullets to 'ping' off his armor, but before I could empty my mags into him, he threw a smoke bomb and disappeared like a ninja. Feeling as if he would pounce any second, I slapped Noi with a stack of bills to wake her up, and luckily, one was enough, she smelled her furry forearms before picking up the bags a second time, and soon Bates regrouped with us.

When the three of us kicked in the door to the manager's office, Ash greeted us with the barrel of her LMG I threw both her a bag then the Weeblord a bag, once everyone was ready with their share, I pulled out my codex and locked the door to the outside. I called up Ven, who instantly picked up the video phone." G, I got the ship, where I'm taking it?" She asked me, but before I could give her the order. The Gryvain manager broke down the door to the small closet, then dove to my four barreled shotgun, the dragon woman grabbed the weapon by it's handle then aimed it directly at me, putting a clawed finger into the trigger guard.

In any other situation, I'd probably be a bit scared, probably on edge, maybe even shocked, but right here and now, I was everything but the before mentioned." Alright. All of you are gonna lay down your weapons and return all of my money." She ordered. The others began slowly putting their guns down, instead of me, the dragon woman seeing me disobey her orders, she aimed it at me." All of you means you too boy." She told me.

I looked over to her with a smile growing under my mask before telling her." Lady, you're holding my gun, and knowing my gun, I know how many shots I've fired, right now all I gotta ask is, do you feel lucky?" I leaned closer to the woman." Well, do ya?" Feeling the doubt I planted in her mind, the woman looked down at the gun before actually looking down its barrel." I know there's ammo, I can see it." She told me before pointing the gun at me again." But you can't shoot me tho." I told her. Wanting to prove me wrong she pulled the trigger, and the shotgun made the dreaded click noise.

I quickly kicked the barrel of the gun into the dragon woman's face, then took the gun from her scaled hands, once back in my hands, I turned off the safety as the lady dragon held her now bloodied nose." Every firearm owner knows that you're unkillable when your enemy has the safety on." I told her. Once the ordeal was over, Ash decked the dragon woman in the face before she zip-tied her and threw her into the closet once again, I put my codex back up to my ear to finish the conversation with Ven telling her about what happened,

"Ven I want you to come in hot, smash in through the lobby with the cargo bay open. Once we're off the planet, we're heading to the warp gate." After the Ausar woman gave me her okay I pocketed the device, I the shotgun under one of my arms." Okay, I just talked with our ride, they're coming in the lobby, we might have to deal with the Ranger as well."

The second all of us rushed out of the manager's office, the first thing I noticed was a Peacekeeper shield wall charging into the lobby of the bank. "Ash!" I yelled out." Light'em up!"

The Red Ant woman opened fire on the charging phalanx of shields causing some of them to tumble over from the sheer impact of the bullets, out of nowhere Ven slammed my ship into the bank and threw the Peacekeepers across the lobby, luckily the light freighter was small enough to get into the building."Everybody to the ship!" I shouted. Bullets, plasma, lasers, and every other type of ammunition began flying into the bank attempting to stop us from boarding the ship.

Next to all of us made it onto the ship with Bates slow dragging behind us, then before we knew it, the Ranger showed up once again with the same motive, to capture Bates. He attempted to tackle the killer, only failing and grabbing the bag of cash on his back and pulling him out of the cargo bay. In the heat of the moment, Bates slipped the bag off his back and grabbed the other end and attempted to kick the Ranger off his share of the money.

But holding on tightly, the dark armored soldier only kicked back, when Noi, Ash, and Akira rushed to the heister's aid, the Ranger threw a set of boomerang-like knives that bounced off of Ash's helmet with a ping noise, and dropped both Akira and Noi quickly. Thinking quickly, I grabbed a detached laser turret from the outside of the ship and told Bates."Yo! Get the hell out the way!" Bates let go of the bag as I fired the turret into his chest and flung the Ranger into one of the bank's walls, still holding the bag of cash.

Thinking he was going to get the bag, Bate's surprised me by throwing both Akira and Noi into the ship's cargo bay and leaving the cash behind." Let's go!" He yelled.

The bay doors slowly closed and a wave of relaxation came over me, I took my gas mask off and took a breath before checking on Noi and Akira, the both of them had light injuries from the boomerang like knives he threw. Ash, on the other hand, was just sitting on a crate now, helmet off and silent, before I could do anymore, I realized I left the dog flying my ship. "Hey Ash double check to make sure Noi and Akira aren't dead, I gotta fly my ship," I told her as I ran down the narrow corridors.

Our ship was a light freighter with teeth, teeth being put in at the moment, it was a modified smuggler ship made for speed and eluding PeaceKeepers. As I stepped into the cockpit, Ven had already taken off, and we were being chased, by PeaceKeeper gunships." Mr Orange, hop out the driver's seat and let me fly my ship."

"Stop calling me that, I'm not an undercover cop Gaz!" She barked back at me with her Dog ears narrowing, Yan sitting in the co-pilot's seat chimed in," Probably be smart to listen to your boss there Ven, could effect your payment today." The giant told her.

The Ausar girl took the ship through a narrow section of buildings and the second when we came out and started flying over water she quickly hopped out the seat, I dropped my bag and jumped into pilot's seat. Ven stationed herself next to the navigation screen and radar," We got a couple behind us, the rest must be helping with the situation at the bank." She alerted us.

"Yan get ready, I'm about to pull some slick shit before I take us outta here, charge the forward guns." He just nodded, before flicking one of the switches on his side of the board, the front guns hummed to life." Don't kill'em just scare'em." I told him.

I quickly pulled the up and turned it back around to the gunships still chasing us back in the city. Once the gap between us began to closing, I yelled out."Fire!" Yan blasted two shots from the front cannon, making the Peacekeeper ships scatter or crash in attempts to dodge the shots, Once we flew past them again. I took the ship straight off the planet and made a beeline for the warp gate, the second we launched out of the system I cheered and couldn't believe it.

"Holy crap did we just do that?" The ausar asked."We just got away with that. Oh my god how?" She asked herself.

The dog girl held back cheering as she began digging through my bag of cash." Jesus, with all of this or just a small bit I won't have to keep my shitty job anymore." The ausar girl's eyes lit up." I could buy way out of my contract at the stupid burger joint."

As we entered the warp tunnel, the rest of the gang made their way up to the cockpit, Noi collapsed on the floor along with Akira attempting to slump against a wall, while Ash and Bates just leaned on a set of consoles. I spun my chair around to everyone pulling my hood down and cracking my neck." Guys got good news, bad news and in between news." I told them all." I'll let Yan here tell the bad news first."

The big guy just looked back to the group."First off the money here will need to be laundered, and the process will likely take a long time. Then, the money will need to be changed over into credits which will be costly, but also take even longer, sadly we won't have a million credits in our accounts, but we will become richer over time."

Ash looked over at me with her black eyes and asked." So then what's the good news?"

" Easy, while our Benji's are processing, I figured we get actual credits through the Darknet, they won't all be bank jobs, some might be things that are a little fucked up." I told them, I let the idea sink before I continued." If any of you want your cash and to go your own way after this, I'll be willing to drop you off anywhere as long as you don't sell us out."

Akira managed to stand himself up and rubbed his head saying." Well Gaz me, and you go way back, and I can't do anything besides this. I'm with ya."

Noi looked up to me with her gold eyes saying." Gazi, you still own my contract from Mishka and that other mean lady from Tarvos. I gotta do what you say anyways." She spoke as if she was okay with being in a debt contract.

Ash shrugged before crossing her arms." I'm okay for it Gaz it's not like I won't see anything I haven't seen already."

Bates was admiring his meat cleaver as he just simply said." I'm fine with it."

Ven looked up from the cash before sighing and saying." I'm in, if not I'm stuck flipping burgers and listing to stupid people ask me every ingredient to a cheeseburger."

I clapped my hand saying "Sweet." Then remembered the in between news." Oh yeah, the in-between news is that we won't have to worry about the UGC because Darknet jobs mostly are us fucking with pirates and other criminals."

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Rouges
Gone before Daylight

After the bank job, all of us needed to lay low for the past couple days, mostly with us doing our usual daily routine. With Yan goes to the gym to keep his perfect body nearly every day, Bates stays inside all day only to go out at night like an animal, Akira wanders around the city browsing the shops for his cartoon comics, and Gaz doing whatever it is he does.

I laid in bed with a pillow on my face, and suddenly my antennae picked up on something closing in on me. Without a single warning, the purple haired catgirl leaped at me."Ash, Ash, Ash!" She yelled while I groaned."Get up! You can't spend all day laying around and sleeping you will get all thick!" The cat girl didn't bother using her indoor voice as she bounced up and down.

I peeked out from under my pillow at the clock by my bed to see it was still in the early hours of the morning I slapped now with my pillow before lining up." no, it's still fucking morning, plus I can do whatever I want with my time." I told the manic cat. Instead of leaving, the cat girl found her way under my covers and met me face to face before saying." How about spending your morning with me?" She did her best seductive voice.

Before she could do anything, I flicked one of Noi's cat ears to make her back off." No, I'm not in the mood." I pulled on the same ear to make sure she got it." Jesus Noi, I told you to wake Ash up, not have sex with her in the morning." The both of us looked over to see Gaz standing in the doorway." Ash throws some clothes on, you're coming with me." The dark skinned human told me.

I threw Noi out of my bed before throwing on some random clothes I could find around the room, once I had on a pair of Jeans and a simple black tank top, Gaz bothered with telling me why he wanted me and where we were going." Before you ask, I wanted you to come with me because Noi's heading off to buy some rush from her dealer, and everyone else is busy." He told me, I scratched the back of my head before asking." What about Bates? Can't he go with you?"

" Oh, so you want to lay around all day in bed?" He asked." You're already slightly chubby Ash, even with your rock hard muscles."

I held back punching Gaz in the eye and instead just barked out." I may be a warrior Gaz, but I'm a woman also!" I held a fist up at him." I'm not that hard, or chubby!"

The white haired human just shrugged before telling me." I'm just saying, don't look the same as you are in armor." I wound up a punch only to stop it just before his face.

I then calmed down and put my hands at my sides." Where are we going?" I asked.

"I'll tell you while we're heading there. Let's hop on the bike." He headed outside.

I took a deep breath before walking outside behind him to his motorcycle, unlike most vehicles today, Gaz's bike wasn't a hover cycle, it was a ground bike with a side car attached to one of its sides, it had a beige paint job but with paint chipped in several areas. I stepped into the sidecar as he started up the bike and had us take off down the street from the hideout, I glanced back at the warehouse as it quickly grew smaller and smaller before relaxing myself, but found it kind of hard with something hitting my feet.

At the first red light Gaz stopped at, I reached down into the sidecar to pull up a briefcase, feeling curious about what's inside of the case, I tried to open it only for Gaz to stop me." Hold up, don't open that, it's got part of my share inside of it." He warned me." We're going to see someone then we're heading off to the hospital."

" Who's in the hospital?" I asked him. The light turned green, then Gaz answered." Somebody I hurt badly." He didn't look at me as he spoke, then a hover car blasted their horn at us making Gaz speed off. The two of us drove through several different neighborhoods, once we turned into suburban territory, Gaz began slowing down and stopped in front of a corner house." Hand me that case." He asked. When the case entered his hands, Gaz opened it slightly to see the money inside packed neatly inside of the briefcase, but there was a big bundle of money sitting on top of the rest of the neatly packed cash.

Out of nowhere two dog boys began walking up the street and once Gaz caught sight of them, he closed the case shut and handed it back to me." Alright, we're here, we're going up the back porch." He told me as he got off the bike. As I did my best to get out of side car I dropped the case on the sidewalk, luckily it didn't crack open and spill everything all over the ground, when I bent over to pick up the case I caught wind of a wolf whistle from across the street where the two Ausar dog boys were walking by, suddenly one of them yelled out."Extra Thicc!"

The second I got up and turned to the two boys, they immediately jumped and began running down the block hoping I wouldn't chase after them." Hey, there's nothing wrong with being extra Thicc Ash, it looks good on you." The white haired human began eying me up. We both hoped the white picket fence and strolled up the back porch and closed in on the sliding glass door, before he knocked on the glass Gaz looked at me with a serious look on his face for once." Ash, you aren't afraid of spiders are you?"

I cocked an eyebrow, then remembered Earth spiders being tiny then shook my head saying."No, their tiny, I'm not afraid of something so small, Why?" I asked." Does your friend here have a pet spider or something?"

Gaz just turned his eyes to the glass door while saying." Something along those lines, yes." He knocked on the door twice before sliding it open. The door led to a small kitchen, both of our noses were slammed with the smell of recently cooked breakfast and it made my stomach growl in hunger." Hey thicc-ness we aren't gonna eat here sadly." Gaz announced.

" Gaz!" An older woman's voice called out." Show yourself!"

The white haired human sighed before grabbing the case from me and heading through the kitchen into the next room, ignoring my stomach and following behind Gaz's reluctantly, I found myself in a small, quaint small, quaint dining room with sitting at one end of the table was an old woman wearing black pajamas. The old woman had long graying blonde hair and tired blue eyes, she must've been in her fifties going from how little face wrinkles she had, in her hands, she was nursing a cup of what I could guess was coffee and sitting on the plate in front of her was normal human breakfast food, bacon and chunky yellow blobs they called scrambled eggs.

At the other end of the table looked like an odd colored Bothrioc from my home world, but they looked different, the alien woman was covered in dark carapace all over her body that wasn't clothed and instead of her face, she had four black arms, red hair tied back into a small black ponytail, and the second she stood up to see Gaz she had six long spider like legs and a giant spider backside." Oh Hey Gaz, oooo who's your friend." she asked.

I stood still frozen not saying anything, as Gaz looked back to me and introduced me."That's my buddy Ash, excuse her she's afraid of Spiders, well Driders really."

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Rouges
Quick stop

Once I began calming down, Gaz began explaining why we were here." Granny, Cyn, I'm here to get my cash converted, I need a lot of it transferred over into credits, if this goes well, then a number of my "co-workers" will become repeat customers." He removed a bundle of cash from the briefcase and slid it across the table to the Drider. Once the bills reached one of Cyn's lowest hands she held the stack of money up and tossed it up and down in her chitin covered hand, Gaz kept a serious look on his face before saying." The money is obviously stolen, but before I brought it here I made sure no tracers, dye packs, or specially made tracker bills were inside of the bundles."

The Drider looking a little bit more relieved, began flicking her thumb through the bills examining them closely with her six eyes before the entire set of bills exploded into red paint and covered her face in the red ink. Gaz and the old woman broke out in laughter at the spider woman's predicament, and laughed even harder as she tried her hardest to rub the red ink out of her eyes." I thought you said there weren't any Dye packs you Jackass!" She shrieked.

" Yeah, none of the bank's dye packs." Gaz told her in between laughs." I may have ruined a thousand dollars, but damn was it worth it for the laugh." As soon as Gaz winded down and took a breath, he asked the tall drider woman how much would it be to process everything." One thousand Dolans for every hundred thousand you have damn it!" She slammed a fist down onto the marble table.

Then surprising me completely, Gaz just dumped all of the money down onto their dining room table and left the case onto the table before walking back into the kitchen saying." Good luck counting it all Cyn." I slowly followed out back behind him awkwardly leaving the old lady and the drider lady. When I caught up with Gaz, he was already on the bike and starting it up, I hopped back into the sidecar, I had to ask why did he do that to Cyn and just leave the way he did." Eh, I spiced up Cynthia's day and gave them something to talk about for once." He told me before asking a question.

" Hey, are you hungry?" He asked." I'm hungry and I'm willing to pay for everything."

" I'm hungry, but I'm not looking for a burger or fries."

He looked over to me leaning on the handlebars of the motorcycle." How'd you know I wanted to mess with Ven?" he asked, I looked at one of my nails before answering him with." Call it Myr intuition Gaz, let's just go to a small little shop."

After agreeing he started up the bike and we began riding around to look for a convenient store in the area and in a short amount of time we found one that Gaz parked up next to, before I walked in I felt something off about the place, there wasn't anyone in the store, and the clerk was hard to spot with a hot dog machine next to them. The moment Gaz walked right by me into the store I followed behind him and I stopped in the middle of the store and I saw it.

There was a group of Alien people lined up against the back refrigerators with their hands up, and I spotted a thin cat girl sitting in front of a Goo woman on the counter with a gun in her face." You're gonna download all credits you made into this credit chit, or I'm gonna blast your gooey ass all over the-" The Kaithrit woman stopped herself once she noticed that appeared, leaping off the table, she fired a couple shots at us, I dove down a small aisle filled with chips and other assorted candies before the mouthy cat girl yelled out a couple names." Butch, Mitch, I need help in here!"

I swore under my breath as a door somewhere in the store slammed open with heavy footsteps come into the room, suddenly I heard a couple grunts and not thinking I stood up and looked over the aisle on my toes, what I saw as Gaz kicking the cat woman's gun out of her hand before kicking her in the head. Then in the split second I spotted a big bull man with a pistol and ducked when he fired a shot off, I began moving down the aisle while he began shooting through the chips and candies trying to hit me with a lucky shot.

The moment I stepped out the end of the aisle, I came face to face with a large red and black panda man bigger than me, in one of his hands he held an old break action shotgun, he swung his large, heavy arm at me and time seemed to slow down, I put a hand up catching his wrist and throwing his fat fuzzy arm back before delivering a punch to his face, then delivered my chitin covered foot to his face knocking him out. Then, before I could catch a breath, the bull man yelled at me." You ant bitch!"

I ducked down another small aisle as crackers and discount noodles exploded into tiny shrapnel, I moved slowly on the floor before I heard the bull's hooves step on bags of snacks on the other side."Gaz, gimme a hand here!"

" Got my hands full with the pussy up here!" He told me before a loud meow filled the air and he yelled out in pain. The second I saw the bull's hand gun and large hand, I grabbed his wrist and pulled him over with all my strength and in the same motion I threw him into a nearby coffee machine head first, while he laid head first smashed into the coffee machine, I decided to grab the pot and pour some of it out on him." I never was a real coffee person." I told him as he groaned in pain.

I kicked away his gun before I began heading back to Gaz who was standing over a knocked out cat woman, I sighed." Thanks for letting me do all the work."

He just shrugged before telling me." Well, you had it covered from what I sa-" He stopped himself mid sentence before we both picked up on the sound coming from the back room in the store. In just a couple seconds a human emerged from the back door with the sound of a toilet flushing being the sound we heard, seeing his cohorts taken down, the human took a ausar hostage and put a gun to his head." Stay back! I'll blow this fucking dog's brains out I swear I will!" He yelled.

Not wanting the hostage to die, I froze up not knowing what to do, then Gaz acted on his own, pulling out a hammer pistol from the back of his pants, and aimed it at the last robber." Go ahead, shoot him." Gaz told the guy." I don't fucking know the fucking dude and I don't care if he dies. But just know this Mr. Blonde, civilians or hostages are an asset once you lose them, they're gone and the police has a reason to kill you."

Like some kind of movie Gaz pulled back on the hammer cocking the gun before telling him." Even if they do catch you luckily, they will keep you in prison till the end of days. So go ahead and kill him, either way you'll be giving me a better shot Vincent." The Ausar began thrashing in the robber's arms berating Gaz, taking the chance he fired and shot the gun out of the robber's hand before hitting the other human in the shoulder and shooting a couple beers in the refrigerator behind the two.

My only reaction the sight was just,"Whoa," I was surprised that Gaz could shoot as well as he did there, he looked over to the gooey Rahn clerk and told her." Mybad, about the fridge, put it on their tabs." He shoved his gun back into his hoodie and asked me." Ash you get any snacks? Or we heading out?"

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Rouges
Visiting Hours

The two of us stuck around till the police arrived, for a number of reasons, one of which was because the gooey orange Rahn store owner was afraid that the robbers would attempt to run off or continue robbing the place before the cops would arrive. As I polished off my, I looked down at the many bags of cookies that I've eaten, my fourteenth bag of cookies, it felt odd waiting for the same people that we shot at almost two weeks ago, once I finished off my last bag and dropped it onto the floor Gaz chimed in to mess with me,"Jesus why don't you just eat out the whole store while your at it Ash."

I rolled my inky black eyes, sighing at his comment as the paddy wagon showed up and gathered up the criminals in the store. As me and Gaz tried to walk away from the scene, one of the Lady cops, who was oddly enough a pig humanoid, stopped us." Hold up." She ordered us, doing his best to resist calling her bacon Gaz rubbed the back of his snowy white hair along with me." Yes, miss officer." He answered her.

The pig cop snorted before saying."We need to know what happened here, from what the Clerk told us, you two handled the situation and you pulled a gun boy. Do you have a license for that firearm?" She asked.

Gaz crossed his arms before simply telling her." We're planet rushers, just came back home from one of the newest planets out there, last one we came back from was a planet with worms that try to crawl into your ass." He bullshitted her while taking out an I.D. After she looked it over from back to front, she handed it back to him before looking to me." What about you?"

I patted my jeans realizing I had nothing in my pockets, nor did I have any real form of identification on me, seeing me hesitate Gaz threw his arm around my shoulder before saying." Sorry miss, my gal Ash just tossed some clothes on, doubt she really got her id on her, she didn't really expect to help take down a robbery with me today and be a hero." He then kept true to his bluff and gave me a kiss on the lips before looking back to the pig cop.

The swine grabbed the tip of her police cap and said an extended "Well." She turned from the two of us saying."I'd hate to ruin a nice couple and run you in M'am, but please carry your identification around with you in the future."

Once the cops were off and the Rahn began cleaning up her store, I was still frozen there surprised by the silver tongued devil and how far he went with that bluff, once he hopped back onto his bike, Gaz padded the sidecar's seat." Come on Ash, it's kind of a long ride to the hospital and that fucking robbery cut off a lot of time."

I hopped into the sidecar and like a bat out of hell, Gaz had us take off heading to the hospital, I tried to push back him kissing me to the back of my head as he sped through the streets and narrowly ran through yellow lights and just caught green lights, at one point he even drove up onto the sidewalk to get past a line of traffic, he whizzed by people on the street and a couple kids before we dropped back into the street and made it to the hospital's parking lot, Gaz drifted into a parking spot, leaving skid marks on the asphalt.

The whole ride here, the thought of who we might be visiting peaked my curiosity as he took the keys out his bike and started heading off into the hospital, I did my best to keep up with him, but all I could manage was getting to the doors before I began huffing and puffing trying to catch my breath. When I finally caught up to Gaz at the front desk, I caught the ending of the conversation between Gaz and the Leithian secratary,"Yes she's in room 101 Sir, and visiting hours aren't over yet, they end at 9pm. Take the elevator up one level and go down the end of the hall."

Thanking her looking back to me Gaz took it slowly as we walked to the elevator, once inside, he began speaking the second he hit the button." The person I know here, she's been through a lot really." The elevator trip was short and the doors opened quickly letting us out, as we continued down to the room he kept speaking." I had the chance to stop what happened to her and even could've saved her parents, but at the time I was a fucking selfish asshole." He stopped at the door and I nearly bumped into him as he reached for the door." But I let Mishka get her hands on them."

When Gaz mentioned that name my mind when back to when we first met, it wasn't a great moment of my life and I almost made the biggest mistake in my life, all because of that woman. My memory of Mishka was of a large dark amazon woman standing taller than both me and Gaz, with bright white hair in a ponytail, when I fought Mishka, it was like fighting a robot that showed no pain, remorse, or even signs of slowing down, she was a living horror movie monster that would always come back to hear her name just puts me on edge.

As Gaz opened the door, we both were greeted with the sight of a young woman covered in bandages from head to toe, she was laying in bed and quickly turned to us before getting up and wobbly walking towards us with her arms out. Her form and walking style reminded me of the old movie we all watched the other night, a horror movie about a human wrapped up in bandages and shuffle stepping toward their enemies, when the mummy closed the distance instead of biting Gaz and eating him, she instead grabbed him and did their best to hug him with their skinny arms.

Acting a bit different for once, Gaz picked up the mummy and put them back into bed, he turned to me and introduced me," Ash this here is Rika. Rika, this is Ash." He introduced her to me. Then, before anything else he clapped his hands together before saying." Now that you two ladies know each other, I'm going to. Go and take care of something."

Once Gaz disappeared, I stood over the bandaged girl and bluntly asked what happened to her, but I didn't get a response from her, but she put out one of her wrapped up hands and waved it around as if she was trying to act it out, then closed one of her hands into a fist and extended all of her fingers and understanding it, I asked out loud." An Explosion?" She shook her head and waved her hand back and forth and soon I started to understand." A fire, right?"

The mummy girl nodded, then she put her hand on her arm and rubbed it up and down and I understood." Mishka burned you." I thought out loud. Her tired purple eyes widened in alertness once she heard the name before nodding a second time." Damn, I knew Mishka was a monster, didn't know she would just do stuff like this." I sighed, before either one of us could make the situation more morbid Gaz popped back into the room with a wheelchair." Surprise Motherfuckers!" He yelled before noticing the somber mood." Damn I wasn't expecting to come back and see you guys looking all down."

He brought the chair next to Rika's bed saying." Alright Rika we're going on a little field trip, and let's make it quick because I beat the shit out some cripple dude to steal his chair." Without fighting Rika plopped down into the wheelchair before we began heading back to the elevator, he hit the lobby button, once the doors to the elevator opened we headed out to the hospital's outdoor courtyard and took the two of us to start of a long track.

"Okay Rika, I got a present for you, hell, maybe even two of them, but you have to work for them." He let go of the chair." You have to beat my muddy Ash in a foot race."

"Wait, what?" I asked him.

He ignored me." I know the odds may seem against you, waking up from a coma and all, but I'm gonna give you an edge to get back on your feet." He pulled out a medipen." This stuff is some old school drugs that will give you your motor skills back in a matter of moments, only down side or upside is that it will increase your libido and make your breast grow up a cup size." Gaz spun the medipen in his hand before asking." So you want to get the surprise? Or not?"

The moment she nodded, Gaz injected her with the medipen in a way that wouldn't get others staring at us, then he pointed to the end of the long track." Alright, Go!" He yelled out and I took off running. I wasn't running that fast, but I was moving, when I looked back to Rika and Gaz she was struggling to stand up and when she got out the wheelchair she fell on her face. Not wanting to feel like an asshole and being a cripple in a foot race, I stopped and took a breath, but the second I did Rika was getting off the ground with Gaz's help, she began taking her time, one step at a time to catch up, then she looked as if she took a deep breath and began moving faster and soon she was catching up to me on the track.

Before I knew it, the mummy was running once she got close enough to nearly pass by me, I went into a jog before sprinting trying to stay ahead of her and in mere seconds my lungs began feeling like they were in a vice, my stomach started twisting into knots, my muscles began to burn, and it felt like my veins were pumping battery acid. Then to add to all my problems at the moment the mummy girl passed right by me and reached the end just as I made it to the end of the track.

I held back my need to vomit before we walked back, sweat flowed down from my brow into my clothes and almost soaked them completely, I collapsed at Gaz's feet and nearly fell into the wheelchair before saying." I'm out of shape." In between huffs.

"You don't say?" Gaz stood over me answering, he took what looked like some type of bulky codex device from his hoodie, but it was covered in odd switches and buttons," What is that?" I managed to ask.

Gaz handed the device to Rika, before saying."It's an old school tape recorder, an ancient device used to record audio nearby."

"Correct." The device played a feminine voice after Rika hit it's play button.

The white haired human, turned away from Rika saying." I couldn't save your house in Silicon valley, nor could I save your parent's money, but I managed to save this from the fire Mishka set."

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Hellbound

Gaz and Rika got me a bottle of water to help cool down, and once the 3 of us were back in her hospital room, Gaz made sure the nurse wasn't around and closed the door before he leaned on the wall asking Rika." So, Rika. You know who did this to you right? You can remember the person right?" He asked her. The mummy nodded before hitting a button on their tape recorder saying." No, my name is." She quickly hit the stop button, rewind button before hitting play once more." Yes." Gaz crossed his arms and looked towards the window before looking back to the mummy." Alright, Me and Ash are members of a... A real estate firm that makes bank surveying buildings, and our "firm" could use someone such as yourself, would you be willing to join us?"

The mummy thumbed the play button to her recorder saying."What?"

Gaz sighed before closing in on her, and putting his hands on the skinny mummy's shoulders." I know you want revenge for what Mishka's done, I have a badass team, including Ash and myself, and like you Mishka has fucked me up as well." He told her.

Rika put one of her bandaged hands onto Gaz's shoulder before hitting a button on her recorder." Please raise arms and assume the position." She played the wrong line before hitting the buttons and playing something else." Thinking, time needed." They told him before hitting fast forwards." Sleeping is a vital part of health, driving while tired is not recommended."

The white haired human cocked his head to the side before getting what the recorder spouted." Ah, I get it, I'll be back." Gaz turned to me as I took a long drink from my water bottle, he tipped the bottom of it up higher and made me spill the water all over my breast and top, I wiped the water off my breast before slapping Gaz for messing with me, his only reaction was a smile. As we left the hospital and headed to Gaz's bike in the parking garage, I heard someone's footsteps behind us, I stopped to look behind us to see nobody, I grabbed Gaz's shoulder and stopped him." We're being followed?" I told him while still looking behind us.

" Shit, you think it's one of Mishka's people?" He asked.

" I don't know." I told him, I let him go before calling out to them." Whoever you are, I know you're there. Show yourself." My antennae twitched as a woman in a black coat walked from behind a pillar. The woman had long black hair that framed her pale face well, she looked somewhat closer to a slender curvy super model, with bright red eyes, she wore long dark heeled boots that came up to her thighs and sticking up from over her shoulder was the handle of a sword.

She walked out to the middle section of the overhead parking lot before bowing politely." I am Rin Amon apprentice assassin, of the Amon clan, I am here to collect the bounty that is on Mr. Gaz's head." The assassin then stood up straight before taking her sword off her back and holding it in front of her." I would be grateful if you would please stand out of my way miss Myr."

Gaz turned around slowly to see the assassin and blurted out." The Amon clan is real?!" Before the apprentice assassin could attack us, a large black hover van drove down from one of the higher levels and stopped on the other side of us, the doors to the Van slid open and a masked man held up one of his hands with a gun in the other yelling." Stop right there, he's ours assassin! We were here first!"

I sighed, but the moment I wanted to say it, Gaz said it for the both of us."Ah fuck!"

It was almost lighting fast, the female assassin threw her sword on her back before removing a bright silver looking pistol from her coat, the hit squad began to open fire on the assassin with laser rifles and plasma rifles. The two of us hit the deck before a stray bullet hit either of us, and we began crawling towards the bike, but midway into it, I looked over to the Assassin to see her dodge and move around the lasers as if she was dancing around them and the plasma, she flipped towards the hit squad and spun in midair firing her pistol at them hitting their bulletproof before shooting them in the head one by one before she even touched the ground.

I stared wide eyed as the two survivors chose to throw away their guns and run away instead of facing her in single combat on their own. Suddenly I heard the roar of Gaz's motorcycle and threw myself into the sidecar, Gaz hit the throttle and we drove off up the parking complex instead of out, as we took off the assassin held her gloved hand out yelling." Wait!" as if we were supposed to stay and die.

When I noticed that we were heading up, I started asking Gaz where the hell we could possibly be going." Don't know, up?" He told me urgently before we hit the roof of the complex, he looked around as if there was another place to go, before seeing a small hover car parked at one of the corners. He throttled the bike towards the small hover car, and I nearly had the idea to throw myself out of the sidecar, but Gaz ramped the bike off the front of the tiny car and launched us off the side of the complex and into the street with us nearly landing on a moving hover car.

" See?! Nothing to worry about, I know what I'm doing. I at least feel as if I know what I'm doing." He muttered the last part.

" So much for keeping a low profile. Who the hell was that chick in the parking lot?"

Gaz Shrugged, then made a sharp right turn," Hell if I know, some assassin from the Amon assassins."

"Amon assassins?"

"Yeah, you know Japanese people who kill other people for money. The use the Darknet to get contracts and I guess I have a contract on my head." He said before driving us down an Alleyway. Suddenly rock music began playing as if it was one of those escape scenes from a movie, Gaz stopped the bike on the sidewalk and reached into his coat." Of all times I gotta get a phone call damn it."

He pulled out his Codex device and answered the call." Yeah, who is it?" He answered while looking around." Yeah, I kinda know that some people want me Dead Ven, thanks for telling me on your break you're very kind."

I noticed two black cars ride past us before turning around in front of traffic," Ah fuck!" Gaz started up the bike as he tossed me the device and began speeding down the street as the cars started chasing us, I put the Codex to one of my pointed ears before hearing Ven's concerned whispers." Ven it's me Ash, can you do anything about this?" I asked her.

"I could, but there's a problem." She whispered

" What is it?" I asked, getting pissed.

"Thing is I'm not at my apartment or at the hideout, I'm at work right now and would need my computer to do anything."

I groaned while Gaz drove us through someone's backyard and knocked over a grill." Your an Aoosar right? Your people are supposed to be smart, can't you just do it from your Codex? You went to college to do smart stuff right?"

Ven almost seemed to forget that she was at work before overreacting."Okay, one Ash that was kind racist and an insult to my intelligence, plus I majored in engineering to modify weapons, not computers." In the background the sound of a gruff man telling Ven her break was over and after hearing a growl she hung up.

"So we got good news? Bad news? Or in between news?" Gaz asked me as we drove around in what seemed like circles in a mall parking lot." In between news, Ven says she could do something, but we probably should get out of this parking lot."

" Alright then." Gaz began heading towards the Mall's doors and slipped into the mall past a couple humans leaving, sticking to us like glue the two hover cars slammed through the doors staying on our tail.

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The Heat

As we drove past people scrambling for cover with their kids, family members, or lovers, I noticed Gaz' large smile on his face." Man! I always wanted to do this!" He yelled as we drove threw a store, with one of the cars behind us attempting to do the same but smashing into the walls of the store and crashing. The second hover car lowered it's passenger window and a long laser rifle leaned out the window and started firing at us, with one of the shots hitting the joints holding the sidecar.

The smell of burning metal hit my nose before I ended up turning off away from Gaz and tumbled off on my own, I slid across the ground before jumping from the death trap as it spun and flipped into a kiosk, I landed on my chest and as slowly pulled myself from the floor I held my breast holding back a swear as Gaz doubled back and stopped next to me." Quit playing with yourself, now's not the time!" He yelled before a bright red beam of light narrowly dodged his head.

I jumped on the back of the bike and held onto his waist as we sped off, as we past a giant fountain in the mall, I felt a burning feeling in my lower back and tightened my grip on Gaz, one of their shots hit me in the back. Right now I was really wishing I had my suit of burly armor, while I was bear hugging Gaz's guts out of him, he looked back to me groaning." Hey Ash, why don't you grab my gun from my jacket and shoot them back?"

Digging through his hoodie, I felt the handle of the pistol and quickly yanked it out of his holster, I turned my body back to the driver and the shooter, the sensitive trigger on the gun made me fire my first shot without aiming properly and cracking the front windshield, I fired a couple more rounds at the windshield, hitting the driver and making the car crash into a computer kiosk." Alright let's get the hell out of here before the cops come." I told him.

After Gaz drove us through a set of glass doors and got us back out onto the street, I felt something vibrate and music began playing out of nowhere, then I remembered Gaz' Codex, I took the odd looking device from my back pocket and the moment I tried to answer it, Gaz took it from me and answered it at a red light." Hello who is it?" He asked.

I leaned in close to Gaz to hear the conversation." This is Gaz right?" An apathetic voice asked.

" No, I'm John Mclane and I'm trapped in a high rise, Of course I'm Gaz." He answered." Who are you? How'd you get my Net-link code?"

" I'm Simo, we both have a mutual friend, your grandmother or Granny really, she gave me the code. Listen the contract placed on you is a fake, it's too high to actually be real, and if it was you'd probably be dead before waking up this morning."

As the light changed green and traffic began passing us, Gaz asked him another question." So you're telling me it's just a prank bro?"

" I guess if that's what you're gonna call it, listen survive the day and I'll look into this to help you out, I'd hate to lose a chance to get some good work Gaz."

When the conversation ended Gaz placed the Codex back into his jacket, he sighed before we took off from the scene as a trail of police cars began heading past us and to the mall." So are we heading back to the hideout?" I asked him.

" Nope, and we can't take the Intercepter to get off planet either, if we go back to the hideout then the place is compromised and we'll have to move everything probably during a long gun fight." He sighed." We can't take the Intercept because it will get ID'ed before we even get into space and have a trail of Peace Keepers on us. Fuck!"

As we drove into a neighborhood, I began noticing some streets blocked off with hard light beam barriers, and even the small one way streets were blocked off, with nobody in the street doing anything or anyone on the sidewalks, walking by, I slowly began to see that we were riding into a trap and the moment I tried to tell Gaz, he told me."I know, but is it for us or them?"

We were guided by the blocked off streets, right into a large hover truck parked blocking both sides of the street, we stopped in the middle of the street and the moment we turned around we were surrounded by a trio of Robots. They had oddly shaped round heads, their bodies were sleek but also somewhat bulky looking, the one in the center had a cobalt trim to his paint job, while the other two had a dim gray looking color." Hmm. Observation: The Meat bag has trapped himself with a cohort. A Myr female, height sixty seven inches, weight... Overweight."

I flipped off the robot before it began speaking a second time." Query: Meat bags, did you corner yourselves in a failed attempt to fight us face to face? It would be foolish." It raised a an energy rifle I've never seen before in my life.

I put my chin on Gaz's shoulder asking him who these robots were as the trio, suddenly began talking with one another." These are assassin robots, they only kill who their target they are programmed to kill, they are armed with some badass black light laser rifles, stuff that would cook us alive before killing us." Gaz revved the engine on the bike and the assassin robot aimed his rifle at him.

"Threaten: Do not move Meat bag!" It ordered, it's head moved from side to side before it blurted out." Threat detected, several armed organics in the area, scans say they are hos-"

The Assassin robot could barely finish as a beam of heated plasma slammed into its chest, and threw it onto the ground, out of nowhere another trio of fully armored warriors flew over the truck with Jet packs strapped onto the back of their armor, with one of them holding the smoking gun, their armor was similar to the Ranger's from the bank heist we did a while back, but theirs was gray color, and everyone one of them had a small cape sticking out the shoulder pad of their armor.

"Damn, I'm really split down the middle here, either fulfill the contract or see how well these robots handle an Outlaw throw down, what do you guys think?" He asked his teammates.

" I've been looking for a fight ever since we got off the ship, these bots will do." A female one answered.

" Never fought against a droid that went against the robotic laws, I wanna see how I do. We can always catch up to the mark."

I was puzzled to see how quickly, the new group of bounty hunters went from hunting Gaz to fighting against the droids in an odd way."Even when they aren't in the military, these guys still thrive for a tough battle, never thought that would save my ass." Gaz breathed out loud.

The bounty hunter standing in the center of the group looked back to us, the glass of his visor glowing a golden color." Well, I'd take our choice to be a good chance to run mark, wouldn't want to catch a stray bullet or some plasma right?" He cackled under his helmet.

Gaz took us right past them and the assassin robots, with one of them trying to grab at us, only to get its hand shot by one of the bounty hunters, the two of us ducked under a hard light barrier and rounded a corner. In the split second we rounded it, there was a silver haired Cat woman, she was wearing a jet blue duster with lightning bolts on it, aside from her coat, she looked like she could be someone's mother with curves like hers.

The Kaithrit woman drew an odd looking a bulky looking gun from her hip and blasted both of us before Gaz could turn away, the gun didn't fire a bullet or a laser at us, but it fired a long stream of electricity at the two of us, I felt the tingling of the electricity and ended up pulling Gaz off the motorcycle as we both tumbled into the street rolled nearly face first into a curb.

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The Coming Gauntlet

My vision was a daze from the fall and my lower back felt like I just lifted up the front end of a car, I started to make out the form that shocked Gaz and caused us to crash, it was a tall woman, one Gaz would probably call a Milf, once I laid eyes on those cat ears sticking up from her head I could tell she was the same race as Noi, a kaithrit, but instead of the two tails they usually had, she had an odd green reptile tail.

I could see Gaz laying next to his motorcycle, but after taking a laser blast to my back and falling off a motorcycle, I couldn't force myself up to help fend off the cat bounty hunter." Well, just my luck, I caught you right after you escaped from the others." She taunted the wounded Gaz. I only wished I had the energy to pull myself up to my feet and fight the woman, but all I could do was lay on the cold asphalt and hope that Gaz could pull something out of his sleeve.

"Isn't that just my luck?" A gruff voice spoke aloud.

I felt the worst was about to come as another bounty hunter was coming to claim Gaz's bounty, but when I craned my head over to the person, I was surprised by who it was. It was Yan, he was wearing his gym clothes, a sweat soaked simple T-shirt and some sweat pants. I sighed, feeling a bit of relief come over me as Yan dropped his gym bag." Sorry ma'am, but I won't allow you to do what it is you wish to do with my friend." He stared her down with his glowing blue irises.

"Miss I wouldn't want to hurt-" Before the bodybuilder could finish the kaithrit woman tried to fire her electric gun at Yan, but the electricity from the weapon crackled and fizzled around Yan instead of hitting him, he patted a small block on his hip saying."I always come prepared miss, I really wish this didn't come to this."

The burly took on a defensive stance, keeping his hands in front of him, the cat woman, giving Yan a chance put away her Arc caster before closing the distance with him. The two traded blows before both of their shields went down, the second Yan noticed her shield was down, he stunned the alien woman with a jab, in a swift motion he put his foot behind her leg and knocked her off balance, he then grabbed her by her by the collar of her duster and flipped her onto the ground back first.

Yan looked down to the Kaithrit woman saying."You're pretty good. But your experience doesn't beat my people's instinct, thanks." The giant threw me over his shoulder like one of his 'buddies' Then collected Gaz under his arm. He treated us like we were his toys before he began taking us to where ever it is he was taking us. I couldn't help but letting the tiredness of today take me, my eyelids began to feel heavy and slowly I felt the fatigue come over me.

The moment I awoke, I nearly jumped to my feet, wondering where Yan took us only to find me and Gaz in what looked like a cramped store room. On several shelves there were bottles of what looked like different kinds of alcohol, next to me there were a couple stacks of odd mead in short bottles, close by there was a door leading outside. After I took in my surroundings, I felt a warm feeling on my lap, I looked down to see Noi napping on my lap, I shook my chitin coated legs to wake her up." Get off me Noi!" I yelled at her.

The cat girl rose off my legs with drool trailing down the side of her face, she stared her big gold eyes at me before telling me."But mom! I wanna have five more minutes." She meowed before putting her face right into my breast and go right back to sleep. As I was about to shake the cat girl awake, I heard something or someone coming, they were walking towards the door at a casual pace, and once they opened the door, I was greeted by the sight of a well dressed albino man, but he had green eyes and a ponytail.

He walked in grabbing a couple bottles and casually told me." Please be quiet, there are customers that I'm hiding you from." He then left with an arm full of bottles and closed the door behind him. Soon Gaz began waking up, he tried to get up and noticed Noi just lying on top of me." I guess either Noi found us and got some people to help drag us here, or someone else came to save the day."

"It was Yan." I told him." He came from the gym to help us, he stopped that woman that made us crash."

Gaz leaned on the wall swearing after hearing we crashed, the human stepped over me and Noi and peeked out the door and closed it." Shit." He whispered." We're in The Den, and it's filled with fucking bounty hunters and assassins right now, fuck."

I could imagine The Den being filled with killers and pirates right now, they were here for Gaz or to get their favorite drink before heading off, Gaz sat down across from me and pulled Noi by her collar into his arms and held her, he then petted her head and told me."She's from Hardy, my pet cat here."

"Hardy?" I asked." Why are you telling me this?"

Gaz played with one of her ears as she snored in her sleep." Well, we might be here for a while and I felt like sharing, plus Noi would be too drugged up to focus on one thing unless you put a candy on her nose."

" If she's that bad, why keep her?"

" Easy, because Noi can crack any safe on this side of the galaxy given enough time, she doesn't even need a drill either, unlike that last job." He told me." Plus, I bought her contract for dirt cheap, she was first owned by some brothel then one of Mishka's badass kids used her as a living punching bag daily."

As Looked at the cat girl, I started to see Noi differently, I always just thought that she was just some cat girl with a bad rush addiction and incredibly stupid, but now I could see she was just someone with a bad history.

"Like I said she's from Hardy, a shitty poor town filled with Kaithrit people, it's on a backwater planet between H Federation space and Confederacy space. The kaithrit there are so fucking desperate to get food and drink that they drink the old starship fuel that was mined there years ago." He told me.

I stared at him wondering to say before just asking."Why, why are you telling me this?"

Gaz flicked one of Noi's earring studs before saying."If I don't survive today, at least someone will know Noi's past besides just me." He chuckled before saying." After all, I did for her, I can't think of her as nothing but an annoying little sister sometimes."

Suddenly a commotion was starting up on the other side of the door, Gaz pushed Noi back up onto me and told me,"Ash get Noi's gun." He got near the door." We're probably gonna need to shoot our way out." As I tried to check Noi's shirt for a weapon, Gaz sighed before saying." Grab her ass."

I groped the cat girl's butt, then felt the barrel of her gun, I grabbed the handle and took out a black revolver, I got up and was ready to take on whatever could be on the other side of the door, gunshots began going off before Gaz opened the door.

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Deathwish

As the sun began to set and I slowly approached the bar Yan called me to, I only could wonder how bad this "Situation" was for Gaz. I pushed open the door to the bar with the odor of several alien Alcohols hitting my nose and reminding me of more comforting times, as I made my way to the bar to find Yan I noticed nearly everyone here was either a bounty hunter or assassin all armed to the teeth. I ignored them for now as I went straight to the bar and noticed Yan's large form hunched over and slurping away at some odd drink probably something I would never be able to pronounce.

"About time you got here, I nearly got spotted a couple times taking our friends here." He told me.

"Well, you probably should've taken them to somewhere else if you were almost spotted." I crossed my arms.

He knocked back some of his liquor."As you can see, I didn't do well enough to get that far and someone told that he's here."

Suddenly the bartender appeared, he looked pretty much like an old school bartender with a bow tie and vest, in his hands was a glass he was cleaning with a white rag." Would you like to place an order sir?" He asked me.

"No thanks, I'm not a drinker anymore." I answered.

Right before he could tell me something else, a woman got between me and Yan, nearly pushing me. She was an abnormally pale woman with bright red eyes and long black hair, she was wearing black gloves and a dark coat. She slammed a gloved fist on the bar." You have him somewhere, I know you do, everyone else here knows it even, just hand him over."

The bartender stared at the woman as if she was speaking Japanese to him,"Ma'am, I don't know who you are speaking of, if you wish to make an order please make one, I'd rather the customers not be bothered."

"Speaking of orders, Max you think you could get me a bottle of this stuff?" Yan showed him his empty glass.

The bartender nodded." Another bottle of Vatorian stout, excuse me." He walked away from the three of us to fetch the liquor for the big guy. The woman looked over to my direction and in response to it, I tried to look away from her so she wouldn't get a look at my face, but right out of nowhere she grabbed my chin and tried to force me to look at her.

I batted the woman's hand away as she said."I know who you are, you're bigger game, but you're not who I'm looking for."

"You shouldn't mess with my friend there, he's not one to handle rudeness lightly." Yan warned her.

Knowing who she was here for, I chose not take the chance, screw this bar and fuck most of the people enjoying their drinks here. I slipped a tiny knife from one of my sleeves and swung the blade in her direction, surprisingly enough, she quickly dodged it and grabbed my wrist, for a woman as small as she was she oddly was strong enough to slow my hand down from stabbing her in the shoulder.

Right out of my peripherals I noticed a guy getting up and rushing to the woman's aid, right before he could give her a hand, Yan smashed his cup into the man's face and knocked him on the ground. I stabbed my knife down into the assassin's shoulder and threw her away from me and Yan, I sighed as everyone else in The Den began to rise out of their seats.

I pulled my cleaver from my jacket telling the crowd." Half of you in here probably know who I am, the other half don't, if you want to live, I'm giving you one stay of execution right now, leave!" I watched as a couple of the people slowly backed down and walked away, most of them being pirates really." Never thought pirates could make smart decisions."

I chucked my cleaver at the group hitting one of bounty hunters in the shoulder, then I followed after it, I used one of my smaller knives to stab the same guy in a soft spot of his armor, I quickly kicked another guy near me before Yan jumped in punched a man that would've blind sided me. I yanked my cleaver from my first victim as Yan stood behind me covering my back, I prepared for the worst as they surrounded us, one of the armored bounty hunters punched me across the face, but in the moment I caught that same arm and took it off with my cleaver.

"Try not to focus on only one of them it will get you killed fast." Yan tried to warn me as I blocked a bottle with my arm. I got lucky as the shards didn't cut me, I slammed my cleaver into the Alien's gut before kicking him away. While the fight was only growing bloodier for me and tiring for Yan, Gaz finally came out from his hiding spot with Ash, I noticed him through the gaps of the aliens, unlike me and Yan they actually had guns.

The second both of them fired off shots into the group, everyone scattered about the den flipping tables and taking cover all but one of them, it was the woman from before, the one with the black coat, she was holding a short samurai sword. I spun my cleaver around my hand, then blocked her sword," I'll collect his contract, then I'll collect yours Bates."

I ignored her before punching her with my free hand, I quickly spun around, hoping that I could catch the assassin woman with a quick cut across her gut, but she surprised me by stopping my cleaver with her blade and even parrying me in the process. The woman sliced me up pretty, she slashed me twice across my chest, then caught me with another slice across my stomach, while the pain felt indescribable in many ways, my anger kept me standing, everything and everyone around me deafened, my face twisted into a scowl right as she stabbed through my gut.

Letting my anger get to me, I dropped my cleaver and boxed the woman's ears hard enough to leave them visibly red, while she held her ears in pain, I pulled the sword out of my guts slamming the handle into her nose, I didn't waste time trying to return the favor, I tried to stab her but she was more agile than I thought. The thin assassin had her gloved hand covering her bloody nose, but she was still able to move as if didn't have a single injury, my swings with her sword seem to only get so close but to miss.

Getting a lucky swing, I cut her across the stomach and watched her fall to her knees and soon see Gaz and Ash appear next to me out of the blue. I just realized that most, if not all of the bounty hunters were dead in the bar, I tossed the sword on the floor in front of the woman." Hey B-man you okay?" Gaz asked me.

" I don't get hurt Gaz, I get angry." I told him calming down now.

Before we could finish off the last assassin, Gaz stopped Ash from shooting the woman." Naw, if she's really a member of the Amon assassins, then killing one of them will really piss them off, best to leave her alive."

Suddenly a new guy appeared, he dressed just like Gaz, dark hoodie and dark pants. The guy was a human with bright white skin and from what I could tell he was an albino, on his back he carried what looked like a metal guitar case." This place is a shit hole." He sounded like he was in a different place as he looked around the bar.

Ash quickly shoved a black revolver in his face."If you're here for the bounty you're gonna have to get through me first." The myr woman threatened him. He put his hands up before calmly saying."I'm no scrub assassin." He told her.

"If I wanted to kill Gaz, you wouldn't have known I did it." He moved the revolver before saying." You're lucky my agency looks into things like this, they claimed that your contract is false Gaz." The guy out a doodad and brought up a hologram of Gaz's contract with the word false going over the numbers." Might want to get out of here, the Politsiya might be here soon and I don't want to miss the bus." He told us.

Just like that, he left just as quickly as he arrived, acting quickly we rushed out the back into the night, but Ash went back to get Noi and luckily she caught up with us carrying Noi in her arms covered in a layer of sweat, it was a long trek back to the warehouse, but once we got back I took a much needed smoke. I lit up a cigarette and looked up to the moons in the sky, I sighed, feeling a bit tired, maybe the loss of blood combined with a run was making me light headed, I sighed before taking a long drag. This wasn't even my whole night and I had to help with something that I didn't even cause, once I knew everyone was okay, I flicked my cigarette away before walking back to the city, there was 'work' that still needed to be done.

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Rapid Transit

A month passed after our first heist and despite the amount we pulled in from the bank we had a decent amount of cash to play with, hell we even could afford shield generators, more ammunition, and even some body armor. Once I felt we were getting a little bored, I found a new job for us to do, it was gonna be loud and probably tougher than the bank was.

I had most of the team in Yan's hover van, even if my bike wasn't trashed I doubt that I'd want it with me on this one, I pulled the van up to a nearby gas station, I let Yan fill up the thing with gas as I went into the store and bought some simple snacks. As I returned I saw our target cruise by, it was a large armored semi truck, riding behind the giant truck was a convoy of military-esque jeeps, I almost felt a little turned off by the jeeps feeling as if they'd be too much for us, then I decided to make an executive choice and slapped Yan on the back." Hurry up big guy, our loot is on the move."

I didn't waste rushing to the driver's seat and waited for Yan to finish gassing her up, I stomped the petal and chased after the convoy." Alright guys, this one will be a hard one, we're going up against Nova securities, from here on in we're using our code names." I told them.

Ven poked her head from the back of the Van looking both surprised and scared." What!? Nova?" She barked." They have small armies of mercenaries, Black! If the police come or even the Peace Keepers then we'll be fucked!"

I tried to calm her down by patting her on the furry head." Calm down pup, they aren't taking a major road so we can drop them away from public view, the only thing we'd get is more of them."

Out of nowhere Noi appeared under Ven with the cat girl's head in between the dog girl's breast." Oh, Black what we stealing? Money? Safes? Virginity?" The brace faced cat girl asked me rapidly.

" To be one hundred percent with you, I have no real clue, but knowing a whole convoy has to escort it, and Nova are the ones holding it, it must be something either very important or it must be something incredibly expensive."

" You should've done more research before we just moved to hit this thing, we could just be hitting an empty truck." I heard Ash's voice from the back.

She was right, but I didn't respond as we came up on the convoy, they turned off into an exit and onto a road absent of any hover or even ground cars, once we were alone with them on the road I masked up along with everyone else." Alright! Little hand, says it's time to rock and roll!"

I sped the van up to the convoy before opening the window and checking my body armor under my hoodie, I was starting to second guess the armor before I told Yan to take the wheel. I climbed out of the Van onto the roof, the convoy's jeeps began to spread out and I drew both my hammer pistols and fired for two of the Jeep's gas tanks only for my bullets to ricochet off the jeeps, I then aimed for the windows and all I succeeded in doing was cracking them slightly.

Feeling like I would need to get closer to do more damage, I crouched down and leaped from the Van hoping to whatever space god above that I didn't miss where I was jumping and ate asphalt, luckily whoever they were they read my thought and gave me a chance. I head butted one of the tinted windows before getting a hold of one of the door handles with a couple fingers, while pulling myself up, one of the tinted passenger windows rolled down and an odd colored baseball bat began trying to knock me off, I suddenly began hearing the sound of laser rifles being shot off and noticed the jeeps opening fire on the Van.

I fired some rounds off into the open window, hoping to hit whoever was trying to push me off and the second I noticed the baseball bat fall, I entered the window and crawled onto the laps of two aliens, the first was chocolate skinned Dzaan with pointy ears holding a nasty wound, next to her was four armed golden Myr. I got close to the Dzaan nearly butting my head into hers."Hey, you mind telling me what I'm stealing?" I asked.

Her only reaction was to punch me in the head saying."Blow me!" The Gold Myr next to her began trying to stab me with a knife in one of her four hands, quickly dodging one of her stabs, the brightly chested ant woman stabbed the Dzaan in the other arm right as she was trying to punch me a second time." Shit! I'm sorry!" She apologized in a sweet voice. I began to push to the front seats quickly shooting the passenger and pressing my feet into the two women in the back in a bad attempt to restrain them."Driver! Please tell me what is in the big truck." I asked him.

Like the two women in the back punching my legs, he attempted to attack me with a baton, acting off instinct I fired half my pistol mag into him breaking his shields quickly before painting myself red with his blood, the split second I noticed I shot both the driver and passenger, I fired my second pistol into the sun roof and climbed out as soon as the jeep began slowing down. I leaped from the hover vehicle to another Jeep saying goodbye to the ladies in the process as they were left with their shitty situation, when I landed on the second vehicle, I noticed the others were having a shoot out with some of the other convoy jeeps.

I wasted no time knowing that I was closer to the big truck now, I didn't bother with Jeep I was on and jumped once more, grabbing a hold of an outside ladder mounted on the side of the trailer, as I climbed up the ladder, I nearly fell off and let go as I felt a couple rounds of a gun slam into the back of my body armor, I turned back to the fuckers who could've shot me and shot the fuzzy Alien in the head." Fuck you asshole!" I screamed at the dude before getting on top of the trailer.

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Rouges
The Titan

I watched as Yan slammed his van into the last hover jeep and sent it off the road an into the dense tree line, He sped up to the back of the trailer and let Noi slip out and climb up on the trailer, tied to her back was a thermal saw. I pulled the petite cat girl up, then let her put the diamond tipped blade to the trailer's metal, once she started it up I felt the radiant heat come from the buzz saw as it both melted the metal and sliced through it like a hot knife through butter. The second the metal plate fell through, I leaped into what looked like a small warehouse with crates on top of crates, I let out a long whistle before signaling Noi to come down.

Before I could attempt to open the back doors to the trailer, Noi stopped me and pointed to a door and a wall made of what looked like glass, I let go of the handles before sauntering over to the door and the wall and knocking on it and then I realized something odd, the glass was shield glass, something only the Galactic Federation owned, it was similar to two way glass, on our side there was mirror like glass as hard as ship shields." Noi cut through this door we got more we're gonna take." I told her.

She put a gloved thumb in her mouth looking at the other crates before asking me."How we gonna get everything out?" She asked." The other stuff won't fit with everyone else in the van."

" We aren't taking everything, just the stuff that's gonna get us a ton of credits really." I told her before she started cutting through the door's lock, the second I slid the glass door open I spotted what looked like a furry face putting on the last of a heavy set suit of power armor, they pulled up a giant double barrel shotgun that looked just the right size for the armor but giant for someone like us.

They fired the shotgun right into my body armor, knocking me right on my ass, once I hit the ground I didn't move feeling as if I just died or was hit by a fucking car, my vest began to slowly feel hot. I could hear the giant's foot falls close in on me and hear them stop right before me." Do you even fucking know who you're stealing from asshole?" They cracked back the chambers on the shotgun and unloaded two bright green shells before slowly loading in another bright green shell." You dumbass, you're attempting to rob Mishka you stupid fuck."

The moment they flipped the chambers shut, Noi came to rescue cutting them at the back of their knee with the diamond saw before leaping on them and hanging onto them, as she distracted the giant I got a burst of energy and ripped my vest off with a single hand and with my other I fired at the powered armor giant knowing that I'd only burst their shields. When they threw Noi off their back and aimed for me again, I rolled backwards and onto my feet just as they fired off into the trailer, I ducked behind a crate before taking out my codex and calling Ven." Tell Ash to shoot the truck with a grenade."

"Gaz, you and Noi are still in ther-" I cut her off saying." No shit Sherlock! just tell her to do it."

Out of nowhere the entire trailer shook, a sharp ringing filled my ears, and everything, including the three of us began tumbling around the trailer dodging the crates full of shit that could be valuable or just random crap. Once the trailer stopped moving I found Noi under a crate, I kicked the metal box off her and shook her to see if she was still alive, once her bright gold eyes opened and locked in on me, I carried her out of the trailer on my back, we went back out through the hole she made and I began taking her to the Van, but when I got half way there, the back doors to the trailer blew open and the armored figure appeared again.

I spun around dropping Noi to the ground before I drew both my hand guns and just unloaded all of my ammo into the power armored figure, coming to my aid out of nowhere Ash and Akira began firing on the armored giant." Someone call the survey corps!" Akira yelled out." We got a Titan." He fired his shotgun in their direction, then Ash crouched down before firing in burst at the giant.

Right as I began reloading, the giant fell to their knees and dropped their massive shotgun. I sighed, then gave Akira a high five." Let's get as much as we can before their reinforcements arrives, we gotta work quickly their boss is Mishka." When I mentioned her name Akira put a hand on my shoulder and stared at me."I think we should.." He struggled with his words but I knew what he wanted.

" No, it would be stupid, don't act dumb." I told him." We're taking all we can here before a shit storm comes down on us, when we're ready we'll go after her."

He glared at me before simply nodding and helping Noi up and taking her to the van, before we got to the looting one of the drivers kicked open the truck's door before tossing out what looked like a server, they wobbly fell out, the driver looked like something of a deer-morph with antlers included. Once they laid eyes on us, they snatched up the server and made a break for it into the trees."Motherfucker!" I chased after the deer wanting the server he was holding, I know it could've held nothing, but like the crates it could've been something valuable, or hell it could help with taking down Mishka.

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Rouges
Close and Far

I felt my blood just rushing all around my body as I chased the Deer morph into the forest, as we entered the depths of the forest I noticed he ditched the big tower part that he was carrying." Just drop the hard drive and I'll let you go pal, I'm not gonna hurt you!" I leapt over a small rock that would've tripped me up. We both jumped over a small river before coming up on a construction site with robots operating most of the equipment, the deer leaped onto a fence right when I caught up and threw myself into it and knocked him down on the other side of it, I groaned in anger before quickly climbing over it and doing my best to catch up.

Part of me was feeling the guy was scared on another level, he scaled up onto one of the cranes and began running up the machine's arm, at first I just watched before sighing and following the deer guy up onto the arm. Even though the guy had hooves for feet, he managed to balance next to perfectly as went all the way to the tip of the crane before leaping onto the close by partially constructed building. Part of me wanted to just say 'fuck this' then just leave, but I pushed myself and leaped right behind him keeping up with him." Damn, I'm starting to sweat man, just drop the shit dude, you don't have to do all this!" I followed him down a flight of stairs jumping down each one.

Then, with a stroke of luck, I tackled him and punched him in the furry muzzle, he began fighting back trying to stick his fingers in my eyes." I can't let you have this hard drive!" He tried to wrap his hands around my throat." The crazy woman who owns this thing would cut my balls off." He tried to plead with me." You and your lot, don't even know who you're stealing from or who you're dealing with fuck nuts."

I felt his hoof meet my groin, and an unimaginable amount of pain overwhelmed me, I doubled over in pain as he stood up and walked away from me. The second I looked up I saw him by one of the ledges with a rope going from the top of the building all the way to the bottom, probably, I saw him jump from our level, from fuck knows how high up. I quickly got up and went over to see him land in a bin filled with garbage and other waste, I spat into my left gloved hand and went off the ledge holding onto the rope mid way down I saw a fire ignite into the palm of my hand and I let go right when I landed ass first into the construction waste still alive.

While I pulled myself out of the waste container, several of the construction bots surrounded me all telling me to wear a hard hat or leave the area, I pushed myself past the stupid machines before spotting my target once again, then the chase was back on again. The deer morph began taking me back to civilization on foot, the two of us ran up to an old twentieth century bridge. He kicked the door open to one of the side decks before running up to one of the side beams holding up the bridge, not wanting to give up I leaped up there behind him, keeping my balance on the thick beam before he crossed over onto a small pole and went to the other side." Oh fuck you, now I'm gonna beat the shit out of you."

I crossed over to his side before, then we got to the other observation deck on the other side of the bridge and right when I could nearly touch him, he jumped through a window and I climbed through as quickly as I could before slamming myself face first into tiled, pavement and getting back up to my feet and keeping up with the chase. The deer ran down a flight of crowded stairs, and instead of doing that shit, I slid down the railing and knocked over an Zil boy on my way down to the bottom, I heard the bee boy yell at me from the ground as I kept going after the Deer.

The both of us ran through a restaurant, as we passed a table, I snatched an ash tray from one of the tables and kept myself moving right behind him outside into what looked like a small outside market with dozens of stands. Yelling out "Fuck you asshole!" I chucked the glass ash tray into the guy's head and made him barrel right into a table full of books and knock the whole thing over, the moment I caught up and he began getting up off his back I kicked him in the face and knocked him back down hard enough to make one of his antlers break off.

I picked him up by his shirt as people began surrounding us, I didn't bother dragging them this, I just let them assume what was going on, I shook the bloodied deer back and forth before saying." Alright Bambi, what's in the drive?!" I demanded an answer from him.

He spat his blood on my mask before I pulled out my gun and put it to his forehead, the mix bag of alien people surrounding us began to quickly disperse and pulled back on the hammer for my gun to seem more intimidating." Tell me what's on the damn thing, or I'm gonna give you a one way trip to your mother."

Behind me, one of the few only Ovir I've ever seen in the galaxy yelled out for someone to call for a Peacekeeper, the word itself made me panic more than I should've. I shot the deer in both his kneecaps before checking him for the drive, once I got the damn thing and looked it over for any damage. The big fucking Leithian Peacekeeper from the bank job appeared over my shoulder, my only reaction was to do the same as the deer did to me, run for it.

As I felt the leithian woman close in on me, I could feel myself just, slow down and feel tired from all the shit I've been through with the deer morph beforehand, I didn't get a chance to catch a second wind. I turned down an alleyway feeling my breathing getting heavier and my legs feeling like they were the weight of cinder blocks, as I began slowing down and the woman began, reaching to grab me, I took a deep breath and looked back to her." Cap, I don't think you understand, how fast I really am." I let out a breath and began running again, this time just pushing my body to move faster and to just get away, I looked over my shoulder to just see the captain just standing there surprised that I could move this fast.

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Rogues
The Spoils

I used the chameleon silk app on my codex to change the colors of my hoodie and jeans making them look like a track suit, I watched as small white hexagons over took my dark hoodie and jeans, replacing the old colors with a bright white and a deep crimson red, before I continued took off my mask in a nearby alleyway and pulled down my hood, taking in a breath of air after all the running. Once I emerged from the alley, I used my codex to call the others as started to head back to the hideout, when Ven picked up on her end, I stopped at a bus stop and laid on the vacant bench, she began telling me Yan took them straight to the fence instead of the hideout."Nice instead of potentially leading Nova securities to our hideout, let's lead them to our fence and black market contact, it's not like it's gonna bite us in the ass." I told her.

"Well, when we left from the road, nobody was following us, and the police hadn't yet arrived. What happened with that Deer guy?"

I groaned before telling her the whole story without sounding suspicious in public, I felt like I just chased someone all the way to the other side of the planet, then to the other side of the galaxy, my lungs felt like they were just cooling down from a ten K." I'm heading over there, I might be a while since I'm on foot." I said to her before hanging up the call.

I didn't bother laying around any longer on the bench and got up, I shoved my hands into my pockets and started walking know where I was it would take me a while before I get there. I walked several blocks, crossed a couple bridges, and dodged the cops just in case my disguise failed me, It was when I made it to the suburbs, where the easy life is, that I was stopped by someone in front of some random store. The person wore an almost similar looking outfit to me, an all white outfit with red patches on the knees and elbows, he was a human just like me." Hey buddy, nice outfit." He complimented me, right before I could thank him, he spoke again." Hey pal, you're already dressed like one of us, how about considering joining Perfection?" He asked me, holding up a pamphlet and a flyer.

I took the flyer and noticed that it was decorated with statuesque humans that looked almost like models standing in a uniformed line, all with the same outfit as the guy in front of me." The fuck is Perfection?" I asked not taking my eyes from the flyer. The guy smiled from ear to ear almost as if he wanted me to ask about it.

"Oh man, what are we pal?" He sighed." Buddy we are the people who'll make the galaxy the way it should be, human only." He told me while putting a hand on my shoulder." We'll make sure those Aliens out there know who's the superior race and we will put them in their place under us." He said in more whispered tone.

Taking his hand off my shoulder, I turned away from the guy."Yeah, no thanks pal, I'm fine." I balled up the flyer as I started walking away and tossed it into the street, not caring if he would get pissed about it or not, I didn't expect another cult to pop up this year, first it was the Followers of the Void, now these Pefection dudes. It wouldn't be long now till I got to the house, it was turning twilight about right now as I came up to the house and hopped the white picket fence to get into the backyard, I walked up to the back door knocking before someone yelled to come in.

Once I was let in, I walked through the kitchen and into the dining room to see Ash struggling to open a metal crate with a crowbar and next to her was Yan popping one open like they were beer cans, the contents inside his crate were several white packets of what I could guess to be Terran cocaine." Damn it more drugs." Yan ran a hand through his short hair. Noi brought herself to the crate to see what was inside before sighing." Aww, it's not rush." She sounded defeated before grabbing one of the white packages and cutting it open with a sharp nail, instead of doing what most others would do, Noi instead began eating some of it.

On the other side of the room, both Ven and Akria were working together to crack open an extra big metal crate with two metal poles before Yan came over to just pop the top with his crowbar, the two dug inside with Akria taking out a bulky laser pistol." Well damn these are all pistols, and suits?" He pulled out a bright white suit jacket. Ven on the other hand found an odd device that looked somewhat like a headset and placed it onto one of her head." Aww sweet with these, I can hook them up to info link and we won't have to use our codex to chat." She said aloud, almost as if she wanted the rest of us to hear her intelligence." Hey dumbass, we been could've used Infolink with our devices!" I shouted to Ven.

Everyone looked at me and I noticed Cyn sitting in the corner of the dining room at the table, her giant drider taur self taking up the whole corner, it's a shock that brown chitin coated legs didn't knock anything over or reveal herself to me earlier, she was wearing her glasses and had her computer down here with her, probably wondering the cost of everything here would be. Before I could do anything else though, Noi charged me with her mouth covered in powder, she hugged me and accidently knocked my clothes back to their old color." Gaz I missed you, I was thinking you left forever!"

Ven finally decided to yell back at me saying." W-well, I knew that, it's just now we can just. We can just activate it a little easier and don't have to go through all the other hoops and stuff, okay!" She crossed her arms before just calling me an asshole.

" We mostly found guns, drugs, suits, and this unknown stuff." Yan pulled out a canister of fluid from the back of his cargo pants and tossed it to me. I did my best to catch it with Noi still clinging to me, once I brought the thing up to my eyes, I knew what was in the canister." Yan, stop boxing Dzaans and Leithains you should know what's in this." I threw the canister back to him." Now that I think about it, I know who all this shit belongs to, and I'm more than happy we stole it."

Ash took a break from trying to crack her crate to sit on it and look back to me." Who?" She simply asked with the crowbar sticking up between her chitin covered legs.

" Mishka and her fucked up ass kids, that's probably who and what's on this hard drive I took off the deer." I put the hard drive onto the dining room table." Where's Granny?" I asked while I pried Noi off myself.

" She's in the bathroom trying her hardest to take a dump right now." She held out one of her lower arms." Lemme get that drive and I'll check it."

I slid the thing across the table and as she began working on putting it into her computer, I went over to my favorite red Myr to help her with the crate she was trying to open on her own. Even though Yan could've helped her pop this thing open, she oddly enough, let me help her, we wedged the crowbar into a gap and push down attempting to open the metal box, once I began sweating trying to open the box I stopped Ash and took a breath to catch myself.

Then I just thought, "fuck it." I slammed my left fist into the end of the crowbar and popped the lid of the crate, but also sent the crowbar flying across the dining room and hit Akira straight in the back and he dropped to the carpeted floor." My bad Kira, walk it off." I told him. He yelled out something in Japanese before I turned to see what Ash picked up, I was surprised to see that it was actually lined with thick bars of gold and silver, Ash placed her chitin coated hand over one of the silver bars picking it up and saying."This is Myr silver probably even gold as well."

This started to just seem weirder and weirder to me, first Hale federation shield glass on a Nova transport, now Myr silver and gold, before I could ponder on this any further Cyn cut off my thoughts." Well it would make sense." The drider woman spoke up.

I picked up one of the heavy gold bars before turning towards Cyn." Cyn mind elaborating?" I asked her.

" Well, reading through some of these docs here, I found somewhat of a list of the things they were transporting." She fixed her glasses with a thumb." The gold is a payment really, it says here 'Thank you for the "volunteers" the population need to be lowered, this time we're giving you a little extra.' I'm going to guess someone killed some Myrmedions, or if the darknet is actually correct, then this is payment for slaves."

I shook my head at the thought of owning this, but it wasn't exactly mines to do anything with, it belonged to Ash." Ash!" I got her attention and most of the others from the shout." Are you fencing the gold and silver? Or do you want to get rid of it?"

I watched as the heavy armored Red Myr look over a silver and gold bar in both her hands before giving her answer." Gaz, I fought enough golds at eighteen to hate them as much as I hate my people's government." She ran a hand over a silver bar and looked directly at her reflection." The Golds are worth their weight silver and well gold."

It was clear what her answer was, I turned to Cyn asking her how much she could give Ash for the gold and silver, she told me a measly twenty thousand for each gold bar and eight thousand for the silver, seeing the angle she was playing I closed in on the drider woman and delivered a slap to her oversized bosom. I knew she was trying to cheat Ash out of her new found wealth, I slapped each of her giant boobs making her moan and wail in either pleasure or pain." You fucking cheapskate, don't be a greedy web spinning bitch!" She didn't bother fighting me back as blush appeared across her face.

" Thirty!" She screamed.

I slapped even harder." Quit being so cheap, even it out mod junkie."

"Fine! Fine! An even fifty and a split down the middle for anything else I can get for the silver and everything else."

Once I stopped, she covered her chest with all four arms and stared me down mumbling." Fucking prick, how am I to buy a ship when I don't take a lot off the top."

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Rogues
Blood Gems

It was another Monday morning and sadly I couldn't set up any jobs for us, most stores of the stores on our planet were beefing up their security and I didn't feel like stealing Gene mods for Doctor Badger on Tarkus, I flopped down on the couch in the hideout groaning knowing that I couldn't set anything up for us, I sprawled myself out on it as if I have been Noi just coming down from Rush and suddenly Akira showed up and threw my mask on my back." Yo Gaz!" He caught my attention." Gaz did you hear about the jewelry store downtown?!" He sounded excited.

I grabbed my mask and noticed he was geared up." Yeah, I know dude, I've done the math and there wouldn't be an even way split between all of us. There's me, you, Yan, Ven, Noi, Ash, and Bates. Then Cyn take a fuck ton off the top as her "payment" for fencing everything so she can get a ship and join the rush." I told him.

" Dude, they were donated some new gems from the planets in the rush." Pulled up a hologram flyer as evidence." We could do a quick smash and grab, Me, Ash, and Bates can get on crowd control and baby sit the hostages, while you and Noi crack the safe and Yan plays wheel man and Noi tracks how close the police are."

I brushed off my mask before saying." Well, shit sounds like you got this one down pack, I remember when you were first asked me which you hold a shotgun, now look at you, criminal mastermind ready to take down any bank on our side of the galaxy."

He chuckled before rubbing the back of his spiky hair." I learned from you and my big bro man."

"I'll get the gang together, but this is your caper, I'll advise and give help, but I'm not in charge." I told him pulling up my info link to call the others. It didn't take long for everyone to get here, and once Akira told them all what the job was, everyone one was on board once they heard them about the high pricing gems and jewelry. We piled into Yan's suspicious black Van and as we drove downtown I told them all I wasn't in charge of this job, I could feel that the others were a little uneasy, but they didn't say much as we were almost half way there. Yan parked up around the corner of the store as we all masked up." Alright guys, little hand, says it's time to rock and roll." Akira stole the line I wanted to use.

"Damn, uh. Remember why they call it money, because everyone needs it. Ah fuck it, imagine I said something cooler than Akira." I told everyone not even getting a chuckle. We hopped out the Van and rushed the jewelry store with a couple people on the street seeing us and avoiding us noticing our guns, I kicked the glass doors into pieces with my left foot and pulled up my hammer pistols aiming at the clerks and customers, with the others doing the same behind me." Reach for the sky or taste hollow points." The Jewelry store looked like I thought it would, shined up white floors, glass cases housing many jewels and accessories the wealthy and upper class would bring to their graves and die for.

" Get on the ground!" Akira yelled out to the customers.

" Lick the floor!" Ash ordered the others making them all hit the floor as fast as dead bodies.

While Ash and Akira began zip tying people's hands, Bates smashed a display case with his cleaver and the store's alarms began sounding off, in response a security guard emerged from a small room behind the clerks and acting quickly Akira unloaded three shells into him and blowing him back into the room." Shit!" The weeb yelled.

He looked back to me as Bates started to gather gems and watches into a bag, I sighed before talking over the blaring alarm." Ask where the safe is." I told him as Noi looked outside behind us, suddenly the info link opened up with a call from Ven." Cops are coming guys, you need to learn how to handle those hostages."

Akira pointed the barrel of his shotgun at the clerk's head and did his best tough guy voice." Where's the uncut shit, the real gems, the nice shit, not these rocks out here." The clerk meekly told him across the sales floor, it was the door with the palm reader. Taking charge of the situation, I patted Noi and directed her to the palm reader, surprising me, she pulled it apart with her claws before hot-wiring the door, I rushed over to the door and grabbed its handle and right when I did, something in me felt like this was wrong, something here wasn't right, there was only one security guard and a palm reader guarding the high end gems, then it hit me this was was sting or a trap and it took me a split second to realize it.

The moment when I turned my head to Akira to abort this, the door slammed into my face and knocked me on the floor, the alarm was turned off and my gas mask was cracked and ruined. The sound of boots touching the floor was the first thing I noticed, then it was Noi's voice." No." It was the only thing I got from her as a giant hand with burly fingers wrapped it's self around my bullet proof vest, I was lifted off the ground then another hand wrapped it's self around my neck. Through the cracks of my mask, I could recognize the long silver hair in an old school ponytail, one of the hands pulled my mask off my face forcefully and threw it onto the floor before stomping it with a heavy boot.

" Huh? I thought I killed you Gaz." Mishka told me." But like a cockroach, your hard to kill."

I stared at the massive aging, female, bodybuilder, my eyes were locked onto her sun baked skin and silver-hair getting in her left eye, I noticed she was wearing her simple black and red jumpsuit with her patched up battle coat." Jiro! Marishka! Get your asses in here!" She ordered. Before I knew it another giant emerged from the back room and tackled Bates into the wall before he could act, it was Marishka. Like her mother, she was rippling with muscles, but covered herself in black latex suit with a single green belt and a small butt pack just above her perfectly toned ass.

Moving quickly, a man in a white suit kicked Noi in the face with his fancy shoes, he wasn't as built as Mishka or even as toned as Marishka, under his suit jacket he wore a silky red shirt. The guy was clearly Japanese and had the look of a harden gangster, it was written all over his face mostly in his eyes. He put his dress shoe on Noi's head and took a silenced pistol from his suit jacket and pointed it at Akira.

" Brilliant Plan mother, lure the theives out of hiding by appealing to their greed then slaying them when they come into the trap."

" Quit being a kiss ass Jiro." She looked over her shoulder to something glowing in the dark back room." Karat, baby girl, quit hiding back there and come up to help Momma." She spoke in an oddly motherly tone.

A gold myr emerged from the darkness with an apathetic look plastered on her face, the source of the glow behind Mishka, it was the four armed ant woman's large jugs, she stepped out of the room and faced down Ash with two eagle handguns, just for Ash to point her large machine gun at the gold ant woman.

The gold myr looked starkly different than Ash, first off she had a large ant like abdomen on her backside just above her ass and had four chitin coated arms unlike Ash's two arms, then there was her big breast that almost dwarfed Ash's. The gold was covered in an odd type of black power armor that showed her breast and arms, but also had an opening for her abdomen to wobble free.

But my oggling had to wait as Mishka slammed me into the floor and put a boot over my right arm." Mask off all of you." Miskha ordered them.

Going against my rules, Ash, Noi, and Akira took their mask off, Mishka looked at them all before slowly remembering them all." Noi, you still have those furry purple arms and legs? You know Kaithrit don't have furry limbs you stupid junkie punching bag." She insulted Noi.

" You." She pointed to Ash." I thought I starved you and that nosey ass soldier, I guess 4 months of nothing but hard tack chips must have saved your chubby ass."

She then turned her attention to Akira not recognizing him." You look kinda familiar, like someone I killed a couple years back."

" You killed my brother, you ugly bitch." He insulted her before Jiro fired a shot at him, the bullet took off some of Akria's lobe.

Mishka looked down to me shaking her head." I remember sawing off one of your arms and then moving onto your leg, but I can tell you have some cybernetics, I could tell when you kicked the door into pieces. I'm gonna guess you have borg limbs wrapped in synthetic flesh because most people like to flaunt their robot parts."

She put more weight on my arm." So you assembled a group with a wannabe two bit gangster with a dead brother, a junkie punching bag who can't focus on anything for more than two seconds, a serial killer, and a soldier suffering from shell shock. You're all just a group of dead failures."

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Rouges
Shitty reunion

As I waited for the others to rush back, I drummed my fingers against the steering wheel with an uneasy feeling stirring up in my guts, I looked back to Ven on her laptop, the holo screen had several different numbers and words scattered across the screen and it looked like another language to me. When the blue haired Ausar began turning to me, I looked back towards the street and wondered where the police was, usually they would be here by now, a jewelry store would have a fast response, the moment when I glanced back to Ven once more, all of the numbers disappeared from her laptop." Something's wrong." The dog girl barked.

" Yeah, no cops, alarm went off and-" Before I could finish Ven cut me off.

" No the alarm was shut off just a few minutes ago, so now the police will dismiss it and call in, Something isn't right, this was suppose to be a smash and grab, not a smash and let's dick around." She spoke quickly typing on her laptop." I'm calling Gaz."

When the dog woman pulled up the commlink, there was someone else talking, it was a voice I was familiar with." Is that? No, it can't be her." I felt like running to the store and rushing in so I could save the others, but it would be stupid of me, and from the names she was calling out she wasn't alone.

" Yan, who is that woman?" The ausar questioned me.

" A monster that looks like a human, gimme that coder." I snagged the plastic and metal rectangular device and examined it, turning it back and forth." How do you?"

She snatched it back from me with a sigh." It's a codex, not a coder meat head, and what do you want me to do?"

" I need you to call someone for me." I told her. Part of me was hoping this guy could help us, or at least give us some words of encouragement before we run in shooting.

Many thoughts were running through my mind at the moment, with each thought speeding by like a customized hollow point, I even began questioning my sitting position and rifle at the moment, right when I was about to re-adjust and force myself into a leaning position my headset came to life." You're being quiet, can you actually see me?"

I looked down the iron sights of my ancient rifle and spotted my partner sitting on a bench in the middle of a hotel courtyard. She was wearing a black coat covering most of her body, and from this far I could still see the small details of her, her pale skin, bright blue eyes, small nose and flat chest, under that coat I knew she had an odd petite but muscular build." Yes Eiko, I see you now, our target is taking too long and the rooftop up here isn't exactly comfortable." I complained.

"Simo last I remembered you were one of the best snipers in the galaxy, and here you are talking about not being comfy on a rooftop." She began messing with me.

I got onto my gut, only to go back into my crouching position telling her." Last I remembered, I didn't get shot in the head and put into a coma for a year."

Suddenly another voice came into my headset." Now, Simeon you shouldn't be rude to a woman, especially one that could floor you in a face to face fight."

"It's Simo cowboy." I told him before wiping some sweat from my forehead, before I could continue talking, I felt a vibration in my pocket, I took my headset off and answered my codex's info link only to be greeted by one of the criminals I met a couple months ago.

"Are you Simo?" A gruff man's voice asked.

" Speaking, is there something wrong?" I gave him a question back.

The gruff sounding criminal began to quickly fill me in on the situation, and I began to set my rifle down." I'm not too far by, but I'm in the middle of a contract with two other agents. I can't leave my position, but I'm willing to send them both to help you, but in exchange for their aid, you need to split your loot with them as payment to take down this mu'dak."

There was desperation in his voice as he spoke to me, but he soon agreed." They will be there to handle the situation, Yawn." I hung up and put my headset back on." James, there's a nearby jewelry store being robbed, go save the robbers from the owners space cowboy, look for the guy with the white hair and dark skin. Eiko put on your combat rig and give him James backup."

" About time I got some action, standing around was getting on my nerves, Colter out."

"I'll tell the hog that I'm running late so you still get your chance, be sure to confirm the target's death, Eiko out."

I finally took up a sitting position with the crook of my elbow, keeping the barrel steady, I peered down the sights and watched Eiko quickly walk away, I let out a breath of air feeling a little more comfortable with my new sitting position.

A heavy punch to my face knocked me out of my daze and Mishka tightened her hold on my neck, she kept her grip tight enough for me not to get lucky and break free, but just enough for me to speak."Gaz, I never believed I'd see you again, but here you are, a gunshot wound to my back just annoying me." she broke my nose slamming her fist into my face again." But like every bullet it's time to remove you." She pulled her face close to mines and I could feel her fingers tightening around my throat but she then stopped and looked to the others." No, I'll kill you, but first I'll make you watch your failure allies die first."

The giantess had turned me around with a hand on my head now." Choose Gaz, now which one of these failures of the galaxy you want to watch die first?" She asked me." The useless junkie? The brotherless wannabe criminal? The serial killer? Or the broken soldier?"

I looked to the others before telling Mishka." None of them are failures Mishka, all of them bring their own thing to the table, something you can't see." She delivered a punch to the back of my spine and I could feel a pressure build up in her hand." Fine then, I'll just kill you first, doesn't matter to me what kinda trash you lump yourself in with." I grabbed her wrist with my hands trying to stop her, I dug my nails into her hand getting no reaction as she slowly crushed my skull.

I closed my eyes and grimaced as the pressure on my head felt unbearable, nothing I was doing could stop her, clawing at her hand and trying to get her to drop me or even trying to kick her wasn't working, it was like trying to break down a ship's bulkhead with my bare hands. Suddenly, out of nowhere someone walked on the glass shards of the door and my eyes shot open.

Standing in the doorway looked like a cowboy straight out of time. He had the hat, the duster, and the boots, right under his duster he wore what looked like some thin type of armor and dress pants, sticking out the corner of his mouth, was an old rolled cigarette. He laid his hands on his belt lined up with bullets and his gun on his hip saying." I heard someone call for a hero."