A drone flies overhead scanning the desert road. Aside from the glowing skyline you would never know that it's not even 10 miles from the city. A long and dusty road stretches into oblivion. It's quiet here, aside from the wind the only thing that breaks the silence is a single drone and it's humming scanning the road. From the sky it scans an electric scooter driving away from the city. The driver stops in the middle of the road and looks around. They're wearing a dark hood and goggles. It is unable to get a facial scan. The drone hovers lower to try and get a better look. The driver makes eye contact with the camera and lowers their hood letting out an ocean of long black hair. They smile and wave at the drone right before a charge of electricity jolts through it and it falls into the sand.
"The truck won't be far behind. Lay out the spikes now. Stop them from reaching the city,"
"Yea yea, you told me this morning," Kitt speaks to Kyoto through a headset and pulls out a roll of tire spikes from her bag.
"There's a 97 percent chance they'll be armed you need to move the scooter and stay hidden until the vehicle is disabled. You did bring a Gun like I told you correct?"
"Hey now Ky! This isn't just a scooter, this babys a vintage super cub. You know how long ago they stopped making these?" She pats the side of the scooter and smiles for nobody.
"It's also stolen. Did you bring a weapon?" Kitt rolls her eyes and pulls a metal back off the back of of the scooter.
"Yea, I brought a weapon. But you aren't gonna like what it is,"
"I don't even want to know, just get ready the vehicle will be at your destination in 7 minutes," Kitt throws down the spikes and pushes the scooter off the road into the sand. Then she lays down in the sand herself.
"So Ky, I've been meaning to ask, why do we need to stop these people? What's one random corp matter to these people?" Shes laying down with her feet up drawing faces in the sand.
"United steel is a weapons manufacturer that supports the New Union Military. If they're able to slow the flow of munitions, then it'll be that much easier to take over,"
"Alright, but doesn't the New Union have hundreds of supporters? Why this corp in particular?"
"The NU just finalized a deal with United steel allowing them to create a factory town. They actually plan on building it on the sand you're laying in right now. If they're allowed to build thousands of workers will be uprooted from their homes and taken here to create more weapons then you could count."
"That doesn't sound like a good thing, why are we allowing this?"
"It's better than the alternative," Kyoto was short. He knows that letting a factory town exist like this is evil, but it's better than letting millions of people die.
"All those people... They deserve a better life,"
"The truck is aproaching be ready,"
"Understood," Kitt smiles and slowly begins to stand up as the ground begins to rumble under her. A huge gray military van comes barreling down the road at 90 miles an hour. Atop the van is a man in black kevlar and a tactical helmet. He's sitting at a machine gun mounted on top. The drivers seat is empty meaning the other 4 must be in the back. When the van stops they'll come filling out of the back door.
"You need to take the man at the top first,"
"Hush Ky, you've done your part now let me do mine," she clicks the earpiece and her head goes quiet. At the same she hears the loud pop of 6 tires and the scratching of the van signaling that it's time for her to make a move.
The van squeals and shakes, it almost tips on its side but stays upright. Before he can realize what's happened Kitt jumps up onto the hood of the van and sprints towards him. He tries to point the gun at her but before he can she smashed his helmet cracking it at the top. He screams out in pain but quickly regains his composition and tries to push her off the side. In the same movement she grabs his arm and pulls it behind his back. A cracking of bone and another scream before she pulls him out of the seat and throws him towsrds the back of the van.
From the safety of their apartment Kyoto is screaming at Kitt that she's going against the plan again but she can't hear him. All he can do is watch from his Holo.
Kitt jumps into the seat of the machine gun as 4 soldiers pile out of the back of the van. She begins shooting, laughing maniacally. One man gets shot and falls over dead, as the others hug the side of the van barely avoiding the bullets. Two of the soldiers make their way to each side of the van and climb up to intercept her. One of them pulls her out of the seat and pins her arms behind her back as the other pulls out his pistol and lines up a shot. Before he can she slams her foot into his shin and escapes his grasp. She ducks the shot and pushes the first man off the van. She kicks the other in the gut and grabs his pistol before shooting him in the leg.
While she's focused on him the last man pulls a rifle out of the van and begins spraying the top of the van. She tries to duck but a stray bullet grazes her arm as she screams out in pain. Consumed in rage she shoots the man on top with her in the head and jumps off of the van. She's huddled under the hood as the last 2 pin her down with gun fire. She waits for a moment for the fire to stop and crawls under under. She sees their feet shuffling around looking for her. Without a second to think she shoots one of them in the foot and rolls out behind him shooting him in the back. With the other on the opposite side. She climbs up onto the roof again and jumps on top of him. He drops his weapon and she pulls his helmet off before stamping her foot into his head repeatedly until he stops moving.
With all five soldiers incapacitated she leans against the driver side door and turns her earpiece back on breathing heavily.
From the other end Kyoto sighs, "mission completed. Leave the van and get out of there before someone finds out that five of their people aren't on the airwaves anymore,"
"Actually, I have a better idea," Kitt smiles and walks back too her scooter where she pulls out a stick of dynamite.
"Don't even think about it Kitt! Do you know how big of a target that'll put on our back? Where did you even get that thing?"
"Calm down Ky," she walks over to the gas pump and slides the stick into the pump, "it's not like anyone could find out it was us. Your little premonitions should know that," Kyoto is silent as she walks back to the scooter and drives away. She clicks a button and the entire van erupts in an explosion of fire.
"God damn this job is fun,"