"Fair enough. So what's the job?" i ask, getting down to business.
"Patience Ms Lockheart. We're not to discuss such matters in public, and certainly not in Charter Hill." She replies, shaking her head before looking to the AV and back at me.
"Join me on board. We're reloacting to my private estate. We shall discuss more there." She continues, inviting me on the AV and going on board with her 3 guards.
"Alright but lets not take long. I've got stuff to do." I sigh before walking towards and on board the AV.
Inside, the flying car's windows are tinted, reminicent of a limosine wih a mini bar, TV, a plush couch and black sleek and modern interior with a single door leading into the cockpit.
I sit beside Ava as 3 of the guards sit opposite and 2 of the guards sit inside the cockpit.
Around 15 minutes later, one of the guards from the cockpit speaks.
"Ma'am we may have a situation here." He speaks with wariness and a serious tone.
"What's the problem?" Ava asks, stepping up and deactivating the tint on the windows.
Outside, we seem to be above Kabuki in Watson, with 5 motorcycles below; trailing.
"Those are Tyger Claws." I point out as I look to the trailing motorcycles, wearing masks and each posessing katanas.
"She's correct ma'am. Scan indicates they have connection to Tyger Claws. They're supposedly a prominent gang in NC, famously connected to Japanese Tradition." The guard replies as me and Ava continue watching them.
"Are they a threat?" She asks as she looks to me, looking concerned.
"Possibly. Shouldn't let them-" I begin answering before I'm cut off by the pilot guard.
"Shots fired! Detecting a homing missile on the radar. Deploying flares but we've only got one more. I advise a landing as soon as possible." He calles out as the flares deter the missile, exploding mid air.
"Shit we need to go. They must think we're a 'saka convoy." I state as the guards equip the assault rifles and open the side doors, Ava sitting down an equipping her seatbelt.
"Returning Fire. Stay down." The guard states as he begins firing at the motorbikes below.
"Be careful, we're sitting ducks up he-" Suddenly, the AV deploys flares again as a Missile comes near.
"Last ones gone. May need to evacuate. Chelsea get Ava prepped for- OH FUCK-!" He shouts as the missile strikes the left side of the AV, damaging one of the left jets and causing one of the guards to fall as another is headshotted by a stray round from below and Ava screams in fear.
"STOP THEM-!" Ava shouts in a panic as the AV begins descending.
"Losing altitude! Gonna have to make an emergency landing!" The guard calls back.
"Fuck… okay you focus on getting us out of here. I have a plan." I say, finally intervening and pulling out my pistol before positioning myself near one of the open doors, seeing 3 of the 5 motorbikes still down there.
"Be careful!" Ava speaks with worry, huddled up on her chair still.
"I'll try my best." I comment as I open up my OS, my eyes turning cyberneyic light pink again.
"Time to test this new Cyberdeck of mine. Thanks Keira." I smirk as I begin assessing data, analysing if they have cybernetic equipment, which they don't.
I begin taking shots as I breach the network of the bikes, avoiding bullets myself as we continue to descend.
"What are you doing?" Ava asks with curiosity included in her fear.
"Stopping them." I comment simply as I continue to take shots, now having access to the electronic bike's network.
I then upload a short circuit quickhack on the bike, causing the Tyger claw to fall off the bike before remotely accessing it, taking control.
"Get me lower!" I call out as I reload my pistol, avoiding their shots and keeping the bike under the AV.
"we can't fly back up if we do." The guard points out. "You know what you're doin'?" He questions as I nod firmly whilst he looks behind.
"Do it. Just kill them!" Ava says with fear as a bullet whizzes past her head, causing her to jolt and huddle up more.
"Copy. Moving down." He comments before letting the AV lose more altitude.
"A little lower… that's good. Okay, This is gomna hurt." I grit my teeth before leaping out the AV and onto the remotely controlled Motorbike below.
"AH FUCK-!" I shot loudly as I lose control for a moment, a massive pain shooting through my abdomen whilst ducking bullets.
"Just die bitch!" One of the 2 tyger claws shout as they pull up a little to meet me and pull out his Katana in attempt to slice me but I turn and shoot the gang member whilst sitting up and driving.
"Just you now." I challenge the last remaining Tyger claw as he speeds up a little.
"ファックユー!" He shouts before ramming my bike into chainlink fence on a bridge over a river, causing himself to go through it like me.
"YOU PSYCHOPATH-!" I shout and gasp as I look down a 5 metre drop into a flowing river before turning into a pencil shape, feet first, to reduce the impact and decrease surface tension on my upper body when I land.
Just a moment later, I crash into the thankfully deep flowing water, getting carried away as I thrash to get upright.
A couple of seconds after I land, I gasp and cough as I notice the tyger claw hit the river bank upon breaching the surface again, his motorbike on fire and his leg broken. I shoot the fuel tank of the motorike and it explodes with the Tygerclaw as I'm carried further upstream between Watson and Westbrook; now finidng myself just next to the city centre and kabuki, just shy of a bridge connecting them both.
"Fuckin'… lunatic." I cough, the pain in my groin still seething from the landing om the motorcycle as the river takes me.
After a while, the flow finally weakens and calms, allowing me to swim to a ladder on the river bank and climb up onto the side of Little China.
I look up soon after and see the smoking, rapidly descending AV pass by with a loud metallic groan as the fire sparts on the side, heading for central middle china.
As it passes over buildings, I hear a distant crash and thunder in the distance, the AV finally crashed.
The NCPD immediately speeds down the bridge as well as many civilians looking fearful and concerned of wjay just happened, quickly moving through the area to get to Ava and her guards.
5 minutes of running later, I finally see a smoking AV on the monotail tracks, another large white AV detailed as "Trauma team" descending nearby.
"Ava?! Are you up there?!" I call up as the destroyed AV sparks and burns, crashed through the monorail track by stopped by the 2 ends of it sandwiching it.
No response.
"Ava?!" I call up as Trauma team hovers beside the downed AV, approaching myself before yellow holographic tape reading "caution" is placed around the scrne by trauma team members holding assault rifles.
"Stand clear! Move along." One of the Trauma team members demand firmly as they keep their assault rifle in hand but at bay.
"Hey! I know her. I need to speak to her." I comment to the trauma team member as he stands uncaring an unphased.
"Negative. She has platinum coverage. No-one is allowed to interfere. Move along." He refuses and stands firm on his word
Knowing it's best not to contest Trauma Team as they can and will shoot me, I obey and step back, looking at the discombobulated and destroyed AV on fire on the monorail tracks.