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Cyberpunk 2020

Xi got into the sergeant's car and got him to drive but as the car left the building, NCPD was already waiting outside. Xi tried to ram through the road block but a small EMP was discharged and a tazer grenade was launched and Xi was shocked. The C-SWAT quickly arrived and arrested Xi. They were lucky as this was done before the media arrived.

The Chinese assassins arrived and saw the large amounts of police cars and C-SWAT and did not take any action and followed the police van and found out where the police took the clone.

The Chinese assassins had contacts with a Chinese Nomad group in Night City and had a contract to capture the clone and the others alive. The gang immediately contacted their contacts in the police to get more information on the clone and the cops in the precinct. With a few phone calls, money was offered to several cops and the detectives in charged were visited by the Chinese.

"We don't want a big massacre, and will kill you if we need to. We just want to find out more about the cop killers. There are more of them. Bring our specialist in and everything is fine." A chinese man said to the detective who had a noose around his neck on top of a building. The detective nodded.

At the police station, the clone was interrogated by the detective and a "specialist" and behind closed doors, injections were given and he was tazed to extract information. A few other devices were used to extract brainwaves and recent images but the clone was hard to crack and when the interrogation was done, the clone was in a coma.

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A nomad group searched Chinatown and spotted one of the female clones walking up the stairs to a building and followed, while one of them informed the Chinese assassins.

When the assassins arrived, they found 4 of the nomad gangs dead and the police was on the way. "They are here. Search!" The lead assassin said and the group spread out. A few NCPD officers arrived and later, several C-SWAT arrived as well.

The assassins used the clone disguise again and moved to a group of GCPD and ambushed them. 2 cops were stabbed in the throat and the assassin snapped the neck of another cop. The remaining cop in the police car frantically drew his gun but the assassin arrived and easily disarmed him and shot him in the head. All of these caught on the police camera in the police car on purpose and the assassin in the clone disguise ran away.
 
Max spent a day tidying up her shoebox apartment. It was getting a little too messy. She wanted to find some work but had constant distractions like taking some of her meds, cutting her nails and cleaning the house.

Max found a few urgent contracts but she did not think her arm was ready, so decided to take a break and locate some of her possible clone friends. Max returned to one of her doctors again and saw a team of Night City Cops in an alley checking IDs. "This is going to be bad..." Max said. "This is such a rough neighborhood."

Across the street, gunshots can be heard and Max approached and saw a group of nomads exiting the alley and the cops fired at them and a gunfight began. It was quick and brutal. Within seconds, 2 cops were shot but 4 nomads were down and the cops chased them into the narrow alley.

Max checked on the cops, they were badly shot and waiting for medical help but the nomads were dead. Walking into the alley, Max saw several others who were killed, some she recognized as a local news team. "Cameras make people nervous here."

While everyone on the streets avoided the alley, Max was curious and followed the fight and saw that the cops were not taking hostages as the nomads were gunned down, but the cops were now getting fired at by a booster gang. "This is getting ugly..." Max said. Some of the chromers in the gang were high and out for violence and charged the cops only to be ripped apart by their armor piercing rounds.

Then more cops arrived and they approached the group of cops behind a dumpster. The cops were resupplied with ammo and they proceeded to shoot more of the gang and advanced. Max climbed up the roof and watched. It was not everyday where a big fire fight was happening and as it comes, it went away quickly. 2 Enforcers bots arrived from the other side of the alley and the booster gang was attacked from both sides and it was quickly over. 4 remaining gang members surrendered and were arrested.

Max saw some more media arriving and the reporters were all over the scene. The police cleared the area and made sure it was safe and Media covered the area and interviewed people. Max saw some police detectives at a reporter's corpse and they seemed to have found something on her and the other reporters were not allowed closer and the bodies were quickly transported away after the police drone made a scan of the crime scene.

"Intense..." Max said and there were easily 30 cops on the streets and not even the local booster gangs and wanted to be involved now.

Max looked at her arm and it reminded her about the consequences of her work. It felt better now, but she felt like it was holding her back from joining the firefight earlier, and was rather glad as she might have joined the booster gangs if they paid her.

When the commotion cleared, Max went down to the flaming skulls, a local bar to get some drinks. She noticed someone following her as she entered the bar and the person approached her. "You need work?" The man in a suit said.

Max smiled, "everyone needs work here..."

"I need something that was taken." The man said. "No questions, $1000 now, $9000 later."

"Wow, a generous offer." Max said. "What do I need to do?"

"This..." The man said and showed her a metal cylinder, something one of the detectives took from a dead reporter. "We need it back."

"Ok, raiding a police station is not something I would do for $10,000" Max said. "Last time I did something like this, I spent it all on a new arm."

"We understand, we can send some gangs for distraction, and we can have you get a team assembled and all of you can get the same amount, 3 more people, and we don't need you to steal it, just press the button on the cylinder."

The man said and left a card. "Call me when ready. Offer is limited time only."

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Max looked at the card. $10k is a lot of money, and since she had a gang she was comfortable with, she decided to let them decide. "Hey guys, (Mio, Jackie and Johnny) have a contract here, $10k to press a button of an item in a police station again. Just press and walk away. Interested?"
 
mainman said:
[An assassin was sent to find out about the kids, he attacked me while disguising as a reporter, I think he is looking for the kids, if you put out that interview, you may be targetted, be careful.]
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After Johnny finished his editing of Bob's interview, he received Bob's text. After reading, he grunted, annoyed by the possibility of having wasted his time and effort wasted. Though, having another crowd beat down his door intending to stick knives in him this time was very unattractive. Also, if the bad guys (whoever they were) knew Bob was associated with the kids, it seemed likely that the twins weren't safe at his apartment.

[Alright. I'll hold off. For now. We should move the kids. I'll check in later.]

Johnny spent the night looking for news of any strange goings-on with Chinese solos. He did notice gossip about Asian newcomers leaving a wake of bodies behind them. Then he looked for larger living accommodations outside the city where it was more affordable. He found a few places with multiple bedrooms in some outlying suburbs. Being away from the particular police station that was being targeted daily was also a bonus. He took a nap, then called Max when he woke up.

"Hey, I gotta ask about the arm.. but Bob got attacked again by someone he thinks is looking for the twins. I don't think they're safe at his place. I found some places we could hole up for a while and stay offline. We'd need to pool some money, but it's doable. What do you think?" Then he added, "I do not want to start an orphanage for clone babies."
 
Mio was driving home from her parents' place when she received Max's call. She answers the call in her cheerful way, "Hi Max! How's the arm?" Then she hears about the 10K reward. She saw dollar signs but she didn't survive this long in the business without being careful. She had picked up a mantra for doing business: "If it sounds like a lot of cash for not enough work, then what's the catch?" The last time she went on a milk run that had an absurdly high payout, she walked away with a little more metal and a lot less flesh in her system.

She responds to Max's question with the same cautiousness, "That... sounds like a lot of money for a seemingly simple job. I don't know about this one. You just had a new arm and this seems dangerous. Maybe we can take something less suspicious sounding? Maybe a simple assassination or some repo-work? Maybe we can walk into a police station and see if they have any bounties up. Don't get me wrong, 10K is no joke and I'd really love to have that extra spending money but I don't know. Something about this job doesn't sit right with me."

Mio was being ambiguous but she knew what it was that she didn't like about this job. It sounded too similar to one of her earlier jobs. It sounded too much like a job that nearly ended the life of a 16 year old Mio. Like a gaudy tattoo that announces the wearer's poor life choices to the world, Mio still bears the markings of that job. It changed her life and who she was in more ways than one. She didn't want Max or Johnny or anyone else she has meet to go through something like that. Though Max does seem like she wouldn't mind too much if she had to get more cyberware. At least that was the impression Mio got.
 
"Hello?" A police sergeant shouted. "Where is everyone?"

As he scanned around, he heard muffled moans and his parner went missing. "Fuck, something is not right." He muttered and drew his gun. As he turned the corner, a hand grabbed his wrist and disarmed him and the sergeant was grabbed and pulled close. A lady overpowered him and started removing his belt.

"What the fuck are you doing?" The sergeant shouted and the lady injected him with a syringe and shoved a dildo into his mouth and choked him. The sergeant pants was pulled down and the lady started jerking him off and choking him with the dildo. She felt horny as she rubbed his neat white hair and started thrusting onto his erected dick. The drugs began to kick in and similar to Viagra, the liquid form was much faster acting and the lady enjoyed herself and continued shoving the dildo deeper into the sergeant's mouth and he could not breathe.

"Oh shit..." The lady muttered as she enjoyed his weak struggles but the sergeant suddenly went limp. "Fuck... He's out."

The lady sniffed the crotch of a motorcycle cop like she was picking some fruit and grabbed a plump cop by his crotch and dragged him to Bob and pulled down his pants. "Fuck that old cop." The lady laughed and commanded the motorcycle cop as she pointed her gun at him. The motorcyce cop was injected and the lady went behind him and sniffed his neck as he started fucking Bob.

Bob woke up to a dick entering his ass and saw a plump motorcycle cop fucking him and Xenia, the cop killer pointing a gun at him. Bob struggled and tried to get away but the plump cop held him down. Bob struggled and inched towards her and shouted, "Get her" As Xenia seemed to be pleasuring herself. The plump cop tried to tackle her but she punched his gut and grabbed his head. SNAP.

Bob tackled her to the ground and turned on his reflex booster but she stll feels inhumanly fast. Xenia punched Bob's gut, breaking his ribs and Bob moaned in pain as she shoved the dildo into his ass. "Fuck... no..." Bob begged and she plunged the dildo deeper inside. Bob tried to inject her with his syringe finger and she was ready this time and grabbed Bob's finger and broke it. Bob reeled in pain and was shoved onto the plump cop. Bob reached the cop's belt and found his pepper spray and tazer and as she approached, Bob sprayed the mace on her face and as she was blinded briefly, Bob shocker her with the tazer.

"It worked... " Bob shouted and pounced on her and grabbed her arm with a knife and cuffed the wrist. She was still stunned as she was tazed continually and cuffed.

"Fuck...." Bob muttered as his ribs hurt a lot as Bob took shallow breadths. "Bitch!" Bob shouted and cuffed her. Bob eventually found his finger and injected her, knocking her out.
 
Jackie ambushed an old cop and was fucking him in the police cruiser. The old cop did not struggle and rather enjoyed Jackie and Jackie received the text from Max and replied, [Sure, I'm in.] Jackie continued to fuck the cop and said, "I need a favor from you. May need to enter the police station to get an item from the police store. Will get in touch later."

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Max contacted the kids, the informed her that Bob was out all day and not back yet. Max received a call from Johnny. "The arm is fine, the red is receding and feels normal now. Weird that it feels hard but I can actual have sensations on it. I called the kids, they said Bob was not back yet, was he in a hospital again?"

Max saw Jackie's reply and Mio's reply. [Hey Mio, I think there is something to do with a reporter taking something, possibly some corporates want it back, so I think we either take it out and return it to the corporate or do it as told, press the button for the easy $10k, sounds too good to be true, but if we are double crossed, then we come back and kill that little fucker. ]

Max replied to the man, [We will take the contract, bringing 3 others to make sure we get it done, where do we meet?]

Max was now a little worried about the twins but so far, they were responsive. [Gimme a call if something is wrong, Bob may be injured and not coming back so soon.]

Max contacted his fixer contact to find out more about the reporter and Bob.

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Jackie's cop returned to the station to find out more about the reporter and immediately called Jackie, "The reporter was murdered, and there was some street shootout, that is as much as I can find out. There may be some items in the police store from him, but I cannot access it, it is in the basement."

Jackie immediately called Max to inform her about the item.

Max texted everyone again, [Ok, I think it sounds legit, lets do it]

He received a text from the man, [Let's meet at Club Spudnik, 1 hour.]

Max texted everyone again, [Club Spudnik 1 hour... get deposit and lets do it]
 
Mio sighs and texts back, [I'll be there. I still don't like it but I'll be there.]
She had just enough time to drive to a few shops to buy some more ammo for her Assault Rifle. AP rounds seem to be really useful when dealing with what is basically a metal wall with limbs. She also bough a new Light Armored Jacket. Her cyberware mask already functioned like a Nylon Helmet when it came to protecting her head. It was made as a war-augmentation for super soldiers so it's to be expected.

"YOUR ACCOUNT BALANCE IS 1000 EURO DOLLARS" It wasn't that long ago that she was loaded. Now she needed jobs again. That's how her life is so there's no reason to complain.

She then drives to Club Spudnik. Arriving moments before the time to meet up, she quickly puts on her mask, her cap and her shades as she entered the front door and looked around for Max. She was having trouble finding her ally in the crowd.
 
Bob called for backup and an ambulance. This time, 4 police cars and a police van arrived and an Enforcer bot was sent to make sure she does not escape.
Bob was surprised that he arrested Xenia, the wanted cop killer. However, on the way to the police station, the adrenalin wore out and Bob was really hurting a lot and could not breathe well, but still wanted to make sure that Xenia was behind bars.

Bob noticed another Chinese man in the opposite cell. The Chinese man seemed to be in poor condition. "Hey, should this guy be here? He looks like he needs medical attention." Bob shouted but the other officers did not care. Bob approached the sergeant in charge of the cell and informed him that the Chinese prisoner need attention. "Will you want to be responsible if something happens to him?" The sergeant stared at Bob and unlocked the cell and as an ambulance arrived for Bob, Bob escorted the Chinese man to the hospital, and he was brought to a secured wing.
 
Max arrived at Club Spudnik and found the corner with the fixer. She texted Mio, Jackie and Johnny. [The contact is at the table near the toilet, there is a Jabba the hut blocking the view, never knew why people want to biomod to be that fat. We are behind him.]

Shortly after Jackie arrived and sat down. Max was looking around and Jackie informed her about the job and information he got from a cop she fucked. "The murdered reporters had some item placed in the basement, this is legit. Does not seem that hard." Jackie said.

It sounded too easy to warrant that much money and Max was getting a little suspicious, and that is why getting the man to pay $4,000 up front was important as when he runs away, it is still $1,000 in the account each for a simple job. Max did not know this person and her checks came up nothing at all. It was like dealing with someone new and trust is all she has to go with.
 
Mio was the last to arrive. Looking at the text message from Max, she quickly makes her way to the fixer's table. She didn't want to cause a panic so she left her assault rifle in the car. She had her handgun loaded with AP rounds. She was ready to draw and fire at a moments notice. Mio didn't like this situation at all.

She walked over to where Max and Jackie where and said, "I'm here."
 
2 cops were checking the IDs of people in the alley and spotted a lady in a hoodie. "Hey, you there!" A plump cop shouted and the lady turned and walked deeper into the alley. "Stop!" The cop shouted and followed her.

The rear cop was grabbed and she chopped his neck and he collapsed to the ground. The other plump cop turned and fired a round before he was punched in the throat and disarmed. His helmet was grabbed and the lady snapped his neck.

"Shit..." The lady muttered and saw more cops approaching and drew her dagger. A cop turned the corner and was stabbed in the throat and the other cop fired a few rounds into her before she shoved the dead cop onto him and drove the dagger into his heart.

"Fuck..." The lady muttered as she touched her wounds and more cops with flashlights approached. A cop with white hair was grabbed and choked and the other cops arrived and they fired their tazers at her. Unfortunately, a tazer got her while the others shocked the cop, but it was enough to take her down. The lady was arrested.

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Bob was in the hospital and went for some medical checkups and xrays. He suffered from broken ribs and he was placed in a machine where the ribs was held in place while the healing nanites were injected into him. He laid back and closed his eyes. "Fuck yeah... Got that bitch."
 
Max waved at Mio as she approached. The man started showing the group what the item looked like. It was a small metal cylinder with a button and the mission was just to press the button and leave. "Really, you would pay $40,000 for us to press a button and you need 4 of us to do the job?"

"All I needed was one to do the job. Tonight." The man said. "But I'm willing to offer 4 of you to go together."

"That seems like a lot of money for something like that. Is it a bomb?" Max asked. "Will the cylinder blow up? What will we be doing?"

"You have to trust me this is not a bomb, but I cannot tell you what it is." The man said. "A lot of money is to buy your silence."

There were quite a lot of risks involved, but this is the line of work Max was in. Max nodded and looked at the group and the man started giving out the deposits. The 1000 creds were good. The man nodded and left and Max watched him as he leaves and there were 2 ladies with blue hair that followed behind him.

"Ok now, what is the plan?" Max asked.

"We can get some uniforms and I can get a cop to let us in." Jackie said. "No guns, no kills, I promise."

"Anything else to add?" Max said. "I know this is a risk, and you don't have to come if you don't feel comfortable. I was just thinking that this beats killing someone."
 
Mio says after the man leaves, "I don't want things to get harder on us if the cylinder is something horrible. No, I don't trust our employer. I say we walk in with disguises, press the button and leave as soon as possible. Max, this mission, if we see the police or children or anyone being under attack, we leave them. No chances. Jackie, please don't try to fuck anyone tonight. For now, we need cop uniforms. We can create a small distraction by going over to a different station, knocking out 3 guards and then taking their clothes." Mio then walks to her car to get ready for the mission. She turns around at the group and say, "Sorry, if I'm being too pushy or paranoid. It's just I've had bad experience in these situations before." Suddenly, Mio has an idea. "What if ask Bob what the cylinder is? If we trusted him with the kids maybe we can trust him to not tell anyone about our job?"
 
Max looked at Mio and said. "Sure, we will walk in, press the button and leave. Let me call Bob now."

Max called Bob and the phone rang for some time and then a nurse picked up the phone. "Can I speak to Bob please?"

"Oh Bob, Officer Bob is doing some checkups now, this is the hospital. Nothing life threatening, but we need to have him here to observe him." The nurse said.

"Oh my god.. Bob is in the hospital!" Max said to Mio. "I think we will stick to the plan, let's go get some uniforms."

Jackie nodded and the group left the bar, with slightly less than 1000 creds each after a drink. As they exited the bar, Jackie spotted a group of cops in the alley across the road. "There is like 6 of them. I'm sure we can find something that fit." Jackie said and approached.
 
Mio went along with Jackie. She held the Tazer in her pocket. Mio wasn't the best at melee brawls so she waited for Jackie to do her thing and she will assist her with the tazer.
 
Johnny's anxiety about the twins rose as he got ready to head out and meet with the women. He decided to call Bob and get more of the story, but he got the same message about Bob being attacked, even again, and being in the hospital. "Fuck that.." He quickly threw some clothes, guns, and tech into a duffle bag and stormed out. He contacted the twins and managed to navigate to Bob's to collect them. He explained quickly that he was a clone like them, someone attacked Bob looking for them, and they were in danger. Between the earlier rescue and his admission, the twins agreed to trust and go with him.

They wouldn't all fit on his bike, so he lead them through the streets until he found a bar. It wasn't hard to charm a few drunks until he could swipe someone's keys, and he quickly ducked back out with the twins in tow. He stopped only to call Max, "Hey Babe, Bob got hit again. They knew he had the kids. I'm taking them out of the city. I'm tossing the phone if anyone is listening to either of us. I'll contact you later." He knew she'd understand the importance of not telling her where he was going.

Johnny took the kids to one of the farthest out small slummy homes he'd found earlier. At least it had two bedrooms. He still had needs. He instituted a communication tech ban in the home and only scouted the news on his own systems that he'd drive a distance away before activating. At times, he'd laugh at himself at how his sense of protectiveness had snuck up on him so suddenly and dramatically. At least the kid were safe.

//I'm gonna go on pause. Work is killing me, and I'm not keeping up well enough not to slow everyone else down. But, I'll keep peeking in. 👋
 
The cops were checking the ID of a booster gang member who was clearly high and Max grabbed 2 short cops and choked them. Jackie kicked a cop's head and he collapsed and she slammed the heads of 2 cops on the wall. The remaining cop was shocked and reached for his gun but Mio was ready with the tazer...

"Ok, got the uniforms." Jackie said. "This old cop smells so good." Jackie said as she rubbed the balding head of an old cop.

"Let's go..." Max said and they quickly changed into the police uniforms and left for the police station.

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"Ok, Mio, I can go in with Jackie and I need you to be outside in a getaway car with your gun ready. We plan to be stealthy and we are just pressing the button and running, got it?" Max said and Jackie called the old cop and the cop let them into the police station.

"Go outside and patrol or something." Jackie said and sent the old cop away as she went to the basement. Max went around searching for the security room and entered. She saw a fat cop inside on the phone and placed a gun to his head and nodded at him. The cop nodded back at Max and put down the phone.

"Stop the recording." Max said and the fat cop nodded and stopped all recording and was cuffed up.

Jackie went followed 2 cops into the bathroom and clubbed them unconscious and hid their bodies in a cubicle. She went around taking out cops one by one and entered the basement. She saw an old cop at the evidence room and entered the room and hugged him. She reached into the cop's pants and grabbed his dick and started rubbing it. "I need a metal cylinder, probably just in today or yesterday."

The old cop nodded and pointed to the few shelves and Jackie cuffed him and left him on the ground. "Found it." Jackie said and texted Mio and Max. [Going to press the button now.]

Jackie took the silver cylinder and looked at it. It seemed very heavy for its size and there was a protective layer of glass on top of a button. "Here goes nothing..."

A small pulse went off and every unshielded electronic device was gone. Everyone closeby felt a sharp headaches as the EM shockwave hit them. Max looked at her phone and it was dead. Max quickly went and search foe Jackie and found her on the ground unconscious. Max carried her and quickly left the police station. Everything was dark. There was a blackout.
 
As Jackie and Max left, Mio wondered to herself, "I Wonder if I should have told them I'm a terrible driver. No way am I qualified enough for a getaway. I think I'll let Max drive."

Mio stands outside her pink subcompact She has her assault rifle at the ready. Nobody bothers her though so that's good. She hangs around, wondering what that cylinder could possibly be.

After waiting around for a while longer, she suddenly gets a sharp headache as the lights start going out. Her mask, though not disabled, begins to react. The old-timey voice synthesizer reacts negatively and begins making static noises, straining her throat in the process. Then she sees Max arrive shortly after. Mio qucikly opens the door to her car and lets Max into the driver seat.
 
It was some kind of high powered EMP. The whole city was shut down, phones were not working and anything electronic was shorted. Jackie had a lot of cyberware and was just taken out by the EMP. Max carried Jackie out and approached the car. Max's neuralware was shielded and a lot of other cyberware was also supposed to be shielded, but as the operation was fresh and the EMP was very strong, some of them started to malfunction.

Max's new arm just failed to work. The EMP had taken it out and Max saw several accidents around as all the modern cars malfunctioned as well. "Fuck...." Max shouted as she remembered that Mio had a new car. Max reached Mio and at this point, she was in intense pain. Her pain editor shorted out and she could feel the pain of her new arm in full force running up her spine. Her new arm twitched and it cannot move or be controlled.

The throbbing pain was so overwhelming that Max dropped Jackie and had to fall on her knees and grab her arm. The pain finally overwhelmed her and this was one of the reasons why Max wanted to have cyberware. It was to take away the pain. Max fell on her knees and held her arm and was paralyzed by the pain.

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For safety reasons, the cells unlocked when the EMP triggered, many people were knocked out and all the bots stopped working. The Chinese clone had a headache and suddenly, the cell went dark and the door unlocked. He saw the booster gang and chromers rolling on the ground in pain and exited. There were several cops at the cell area and they were trying to check the equipment and fuses and the clone moved behind them.

2 cops were grabbed and their spines were dislocated and they were paralyzed. The clone moved towards 2 plump old cops with thick glasses and grabbed their throats and lifted them off the ground. The old cops without cyberware were shocked and the clone simply crushed the throat of a chop and took the other one hostage. The cop trembled in his arms as he walked out and saw several cops twitching in pain and he easily choked the old cop in his arms and spotted the "specialist" that interrogated him and grabbed a baton from a cop and started smashing his head.

"Holy shit..." 3 cops without cyberware saw the Chinese clone smashing the skull of another man and approached but did not realize the danger of the man and the clone was skilled in some martial arts and the cops did not last a minute and were all taken out with a blow to the head. The chinese clone saw a balding old cop dropping his gun as the clone stared at him and walked over to the cop. "noo.. please..." The cop begged and the clone took his cuffs and cuffed the old cop and shoved him to the ground.
 
Bob's new neuralware was EMP shielded and the hospital went all dark. "What the fuck?" Bob muttered and even the emergency system was down. Bob staggered out of the room and towards the secured wing where dangerous criminals were held and it seemed that many of these criminals had a lot of cyberware and the EMP took them out as well. There were 2 prisoners that were bio altered and inhuman;y strong but they were not so fast and were shot and taken out by the guards.

"Oh fuck, the police station.... Xenia." Bob shouted and rushed out of the hospital, only to realize that most of the cars were not working as well. "Oh hell no..." Bob muttered and saw a cyclist on the ground with his neuralware shorted. "I need to borrow this." Bob muttered and took the bicycle and rode to the police station.

There was much chaos, certainly implants were important part of half the population and only military grade and top operatives had access to EMP shielding and Bob was surprised he had it on his neuralware. There were many people who were still shocked that their phones whcih contained everything was destroyed by the EMP pulse and sat there doing nothing.

"This is fucking modern technology." Bob complained. "People now cannot function without their phones."

Bob reached the police station and entered the station. There were several old cops and most of them could not afford cyberware and were ok. Xenia and several other solos were incapicitated by the EMP and Bob saw only a few prisoners active and simply put on cuffs and locked the cells with the cuffs. "Fuck smart technology." Bob said. "Luckily there are no smart cuffs yet!"

Bob looked at his phone, the screen is blank. "Wonder how the kids are doing..."
 
Seeing Max in pain, Mio rushed over to ask her if she was alright only to see that her words were being drowned out by the voice synthesizer. It was then she realized that most of the features of her mask was taken out. The mask still felt normal, probably because unlike modern cyberware, she had no feeling in that part of her face to begin with. She could still open and close the metallic lips and the chemical filters probably still worked... maybe. That was not the time to worry about her mask though. She pulled Max back into the car. Seeing her in so much pain, Mio tried starting the car but it didn't work. "Fuck. And I just got this car too..." Mio realizes that there's no choice right now. She pulls off the license plate and other identifying features of the car and grabs all her stuff. Mio huffs as the weight of everything was really heavy. She looked at Jackie and Max. If it was just Max or Jackie, she could have carried them away but she can't carry both of them.

"Think. Think Think."

Mio wasn't strong enough to drag both of them to base, her car wasn't working and Max was paralyzed with pain. She decided to use her knowledge of the city's underground network of sewers, abandoned train lines. In a section of the city, she knew how the lines connected and how to get from point A to point B within that section. However, she was unfamiliar with the sewer lines in this part of the city. That wasn't an issue though. She didn't need to know where she was going, just go somewhere to lay low until Max can move again. She opens a nearby sewer and drags Max and Jackie down it.

It was pitch black down in the tunnels. Mio regretted not investing in a flashlight. She drew her handgun in case mutated pets or hobos try to attack them. She swapped the handgun's AP rounds to normal rounds and checks Max and Jackie for any kind of light source that didn't get taken out by the EMP.
 
Xi arrived at the police station and saw several cops on the ground. He noticed that the chinese clone had already escaped and was fighting some cops and he joined the fight. The clone were much stronger and faster than humans and these are the most elite you can find as they are in to physical shape and did not have any problems taking out the cops.

The building and streets were dark and Xi and the clone exited the police building and ran into an alley. They saw people on the streets and quickly hid in the alley and saw a manhole opened and jumped in. In the sewers, they saw Mio with a gun and put their hands up. The clones looked identical, far more than how Asians looked compared to white people.

"Look, we mean no harm." Xi muttered the dim light from the night sky shined into the sewers as the full moon was uncovered as the cloud passed. It was clear now they the 2 Chinese men were like twins.

"Wait..." Xi said. "I've seen her before. She has a tattoo behind her left ear - 8255"

// Max has a tattoo behind her left ear, and it was 8256
 
Mio holds the gun high. She talks to them and notices that her voice sounds hollow echo-y as if someone is speaking through a metal tube. With her cyberware malfunctioning, the parts that make her voice sound the way it normally does has stopped function and now the sound waves travel from her larynx through the metal tubes of her mask. She says, "Who are you? How do you know her?" Mio held her handgun but didn't fire. For all she knew, these guys were sent by the employer to finish them off after this. She looked at Max who was still in pain. She hoped Max would clear things up if she knew these people.
 
Max turned and showed her tattoo. It showed 8256.

"I am Xi, and this is Shiong." Xi said. "We are from the Olympic team in China. The government said that we are clones to be destroyed, and we managed to escape and met a lady that looked like her. She said she could help, we had no choice and followed her and she got us out of China. She informed us that there are more like that in Night City. We did not get her name but saw her tattoo behind the ear."

"I had a good childhood, not grown up in some lab..." Xi said. "But after meeting several others that looked like me, when we were rounded up and locked up by the Chinese government, we began to think that something is not right. We are all stronger, faster and have more stamina than the average human, although a lot is from our training, but the difference was huge, and we each broke the national record before we were arrested. We need to know what is going on. I think we need to talk to her to get more info."

Max moved her hand but she was still out from the pain. "need doctor." Max said.

Then gunshots were heard above and someone with an automatic weapon was firing at others.
 
Bob found Xenia, she was also incapicitated by the EMP blast. Bob quickly walked over and cuffed it. Everything was in chaos, power was down and phones did not work. The sergeant informed everyone to be careful while keeping the streets safe. Looting was expected, the job of the police was to keep people safe, and if looting was too severe, the police was to maintain safety to avoid conflict.

The main problem faced now is that nothing worked and probably a lot of people with implant may have already been killed. The Enforcer bots were not working the cops feared that the lifesupport may have failed for some of them.

"How are we stopping the booster gangs without the C-SWAT?" A plump cop shouted. "They are armored and have bigger guns."

"A lot of them also have cybernetics." The sergeant said. "Our teams with Cybernetics were all taken out. I think they should also not work."

"Does this mean we can go arrest the dangerous cyber criminals?" Another cop shouted.

"We probably have our hands full trying to stop the murders when the cameras and lights are out." The sergeant said, he looked a little concerned at the remaining cops were all in their late 40s and 50s. The younger cops all seemed to have enough cyberparts that they were taken out.

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Bob partnered with a few other cops and started patrolling the streets by foot. They helped some people off the streets but everything still felt surreal as everything was dark and most cars were not running.
 
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