[rednblack]

<< @Inanna [James] Toxic mage. Big bounty. Thought I'd get your say whether or not it was worth the risk of keeping him. Can't transport him conscious, though. Thought maybe you might have tranq patches. >>

<<@James [Inanna] No, but I bet there's a tire iron in the trunk. Pretty sure those bounties are dead or alive. I'd rather not risk alive. Drop him quick and let's get him in the trunk.>>

Inanna puts on the hazards, and exits the car, readying her tazer.

[Sabato Kuroi]

Sabato can clearly see through the enhanced vision of his cybereyes Yako's  bike approaching their position but he spares only a fraction of a second to aknowledge the fact  that IT and the Fox Lady  are both safe.

His attention is focused on the fleeing rider :The man  obviously  dislikes straight up fights  and, given the chance, he will probably attempt a third ambush


Sabato  holds his breath and pulls the trigger

[Malevolence]

"Look, I need him conscious to question him..."


<< @Inanna [James] I'm no murderer, but unconscious works for me. >>



James then targets a nerve cluster with a well placed strike, sending the mage toward Inanna and her waiting taser. Once the mage is unconscious, he turns to the Uranium on the ground.


"Probably not safe to touch, and we certainly don't want to leave it here for just anyone to find. Any ideas?"

[Siren]

As you dodge into the alleyways, you hear the screeching of rubber on asphalt a good distance ahead of you.  For the moment, your opponent does not seem to be giving chase.



Your prisoner simply gives you a casual glance just before you strike him unconscious, submitting willfully to the inevitable.  At no point during any of this has he displayed any real concern over his predicament.



Your careful inspection of your bike yields nothing out of the ordinary.  It's going to need a good washing after this encounter, however.



Your shot was true and blasts a good sized hole in the body armor of the fleeing attacker.  You see a good deal of blood mixed with the vaporized fibers, but he manages to stay on and continues to speed fast out of sight.

[rednblack]

Inanna looks on approvingly as James says one thing and does another.  Smart move.  The toxic mage looks stoic, but crumples at James' feet in a heap.  Ok, now what?

"Probably not safe to touch, and we certainly don't want to leave it here for just anyone to find. Any ideas?"

She looks down at the pellets of uranium, clearly horrified.  "Well, we need to get out of here, but we certainly can't leave this stuff just lying around.  Maybe it's time for an anonymous call to the authorities.  We're certainly not equipped to deal with radioactive fraggin' waste.  As for him," she says, motioning to the shaman, "you know what's going to happen to him if we bring him in alive, don't you?  I'll follow your lead, though James.  I worry about him coming to if it's just us around, but he may have some information for us if we do.  We could also leave him here for the authorities to find.  I'm sure if we 'pellets of uranium,' they'll be on their way shortly."

[Malevolence]

James nods at Inanna's words. "Make the call to the authorities. I'm not sure my fake SIN is good enough to collect a bounty, and I don't need anybody poking around in my true identity, so someone else will have to do the turn-in. For now, let's try rendezvousing with the rest of the team somewhere unimportant and send the rental on its way. I'm not sure we can trust the rental car to not have any trackers on it."


He looks down at the unconscious man and then opens a comm to the team.


<< @Team [James] Our ride's likely compromised. Anybody got room for three more? We'll meet up with you. >>


With no better idea for what to do with the prisoner, he turns to Inanna. "You go ahead and place him in the trunk. If you decide to turn us into a hearse, I just don't want to know. Bodies creep me out." And with that he drags the man to the back of the car, then goes to recover both of his shuriken, and then returns to the driver's seat, closes the door and waits for Inanna to finish up and take her seat.

[ScytheKnight]

Yako sighs in relief, glad her bike hasn't been tampered with. She stands debating for a while before rolling the bike around, placing it so that the car is between her and the road, with an imidaite view of what she's doing blocked she pops open the carry case and digs into it, taking out the taser and it's hidden arm slide setting it up on her right forearm under the armor as well as her Light Fire 75, the heavily silenced pistol is highly illegal here but in it's concealed holster it's difficult to spot.

She debates again before slapping a clip full of regular rounds into the pistol, her face hardening, if these people wanted to send toxic spirits after her, she wasn't going to mess around and play nice, she grabbed a spare clip of regular rounds as well as a clip full of stealth tracker rounds and stashed them under her armor along with some extra taser darts.

She left the Predator V in its hiding place, the firearm was bulky and loud, sacrificing a silencer for the gas venting needed for her to control the heavy sidearm, she preferred to leave it for situations where stealth wasn't an option.

Now properly armed she looks over at Bravo firing a parting shot at the rider, waiting for him to finish firing before sending him a message.

@ Sabato [Yako]: My apologies for not being properly armed earlier, being a legal citizen I need to be extremely careful about carrying illegal firearms, I wasn't expecting trouble so soon. That's sorted now, what do you need me to do?

[Sabato Kuroi]

Sabato opens the message in AR and responds immediately , using his AR gloves to text back
@Yako (Sabato):

Help me catch the one who fled


Sabato sends a message to all drones ordering them to keep their position around the car and attack anything or anyone who tries to harm their owner.IT would need protection.
He waits for Yako to pick him up

[ScytheKnight]

Yako hesitates a bit before replying.

@Sabato [Yako]: I'm not the best at direct confrontations... unless you want news reports of a high speed bike chase with lightning bolts being thrown around, there's little I can do in this situation, my skills are in illusion and manipulation.

[Sabato Kuroi]

@Yako [Sabato] : Diversity provides tactical advantage.Wasting time does not.Hurry.

[ScytheKnight]

Yako shakes her head, looking in the car she sees that IT is laying limp in the car, she might not be able to do it herself, but she can guess that IT is in the Astral again. She growls softly in frustration.

@Sabato [Yako]: Listen ya hunk of metal, your car is damaged and IT is in the astral, we leave her she's going to be completely defenseless, plus if we're both going to fit on my bike I'll need to take the carry case off and it's not designed for two people anyway! He got away, it sucks, but we're all still alive.. and considering they've been throwing toxic spirits at us that's no small thing. We need to be more careful now, not rushing off and leaving each other exposed.

[Sabato Kuroi]

Hunk of metal?Rich, coming from a woman resembling a fox

He was surprised that he wasn't angered by Yako's words.Maybe Dead End had been right.Maybe Baro Sukezane  was withdrawing, day by day, until only Sabato Kuroi remained.A hunk of metal.

That man.He was good.Better to chase him now than face him another day, without me being  present.

No point.They had missed the chance.He kept his thoughts to himself, without responding.He turned around and headed for the car.

[ScytheKnight]

Yako's ears twitch nervously as Sabato doesn't even respond and turns smoothly to get in the car.

I really need to learn to watch my temper... a street samurai like him could tear me limb from limb, and as heavily augmented as he is, probably wouldn't have trouble sleeping afterwards.

Shivering she puts her helmet back on and starts the bike up, ready to follow.

[rednblack]

Inanna stands looking over the unconscious shaman.  She looks to the tire iron in its little compartment in the side of the trunk.  Putting off the decision she searches the man for his commlink, and then stands back up.  She looks back and forth between the tire iron and the shaman for a long three second, and in the end she closes the trunk, and comes around to the passenger seat. 

"I haven't been able to rise Whisperer.  Maybe you should try.  See if you can get us a Bulldog for the weekend.  We'll probably need one for the job anyway, and we've got the nuyen to spare.  Let's get out of here."

Soraya pulls out one of her burners, and makes an anonymous call to the authorities, using her voice modulator to sound like a well-educated ork businessman.  "Uranium just past kilometer marker 18.  East side of the road . . . Yes, that's right.  Thank you."  Upon hanging up, she immediately turns off the burner.

[Malevolence]

The idea of a larger vehicle that the whole team could use, and one "off the books" both appeal to James. He reaches out to Whisper.


<< @Whisper [James] Can you arrange for a van in Seoul? Something low-key, like a Bulldog. Our legit ride was compromised, so we need it from a source we can trust. Modded for rigging, if possible. We've got the Nuyen. >>


James pulls out into traffic, continuing toward Seoul, with a watchful eye in the rearview mirror. Hopefully the other teammates have come out of their conflicts on top and he'll hear from one of them with a meet up location soon.