When I opened my eyes I was recording. Staring straight over the edge to the Scavs ho. Not that the people watching this in the future would know that yet.
I could feel my breath coming out icy cold, but it wasnt enough to stop the excitent I could feel pulsing up.
I pulled the shard out of my pocket. Flashed it in front of my eyes.
Looked at the na of the song etched into the plastic.
The Only Thing They Fear Is You.
I slotted it into my neck. A little less than seven minutes.
Thats how long I had to murder all of the Scavs.
Because a mont later the music started. The sound mirroring an ancient, at least by this years reckoning, musician.
I an if people considered Samurai to be oldies, then The DOOM Eternal Soundtrack would be considered the sa.
Before the song could get going without I leapt. My feet hit the ground on the floor below just as the first drop hit and I rolled forward to bleed off speed before jumping up to my feet, and then I was moving. I didnt care about caras.
I didnt care about noise.
I was the Boss Monster. They would learn to fear .
I blew the door open with my Carnage, not bothering with the lock, as I let all my hatred for Scavs fill .
Cold Blood was all about control. I had only used it in one way up until now. Used it to suppress everything so nothing could interfere with the cold calculus of combat.
But I wasnt here for cold blooded murder.
Instead, I flipped the script, I brought out all my rage, my hatred, my disgust for these people.
That feeling of horror mixed with certainty that I had to kill them.
That murder was the only option.
I saw my first Scav as I burst into the first room. The details were unimportant, but I noted them anyway. A forr apartnt now taken over as a recreation room for the Scavs to relax in, alcohol and drugs strewn across the table sitting under the holo TV.
As he saw , I let that rage fill .
As he tried to leap out of the chair at my entrance, it was ti. Weapon Glitch slamd into his system, bouncing again and again as my entire Cyberdecks RAM was used in repeat.
I had figured out the best way to make sure no one could shoot , was by simply hacking them over and over and over again.
It was a loop Quickhack. Every ti my Cyberdeck would get enough RAM to run the program again it would do so throughout the system without my direct attention. As long as the network didnt alter its security it would be an endless disruption of weapons.
I was already in their security.
Their weapons were now useless.
The first Scav didnt even get a chance to pull the trigger to find out how fucked he was.
I leapt a snarl on my face as I cleared the distance.
From the entrance to the Scav standing in the indented recreation area, was more than twenty feet across.
I slamd my Carnage into the fuckers face like a club at the end of my leap. His scream of pain went ignored as I didnt end there. I rolled past him to bleed off montum and then I was on him again fist raised and slamd into his already broken and bleeding face.
Again and again. I hamred him. Even grabbing his head and smashing it into the table until I was sure he was dead.
Breathing deeply, but not heavily. Adrenaline surged through . The music was still going, and so was I.
I moved. Leaping and practically bouncing off the walls, moving more like an animal than man as I surged into the next room. Leaping through the broken wall connecting the apartnts. The Scavs were reacting, shouting for help at the sounds of my gunshot, alarm that sothing was attacking them. The flipping of their normal predator and prey dynamics as always making them fearful. Their bleating calls were just noise telling where they were.
The next room was a ripper room. The stink of blood and dead bodies filled it, but I barely hesitated leaping right over a ripper chair that had an elderly man laying across it, body ripped open the face of one of the Scav ripper docs moving away obviously realizing he was in danger.
He scread as my fist slamd into his face with all my weight and force behind it.
I loved my new ankles. Superman punching a monster in the face was the best.
He went down, but he wasnt alone.
Carnage flipped up and his buddy who had an Ajax roared as he tried to open fire on only for his gun to beep and not fire.
Mine did.
He went down in a torrent of blood as the carnage turned him into a newly painted wall. That done I flipped the carnage barrel up to the ceiling and slamd it right into the face of the ripper doc, ignoring his crying pleading for rcy as I continued to hamr his skull into the floor until the tal stock of my shotgun hit concrete.
Okay. Now I was breathing a bit heavy.
It felt fantastic. I pushed the cold blooded control even higher. Rage and hate flowed and it was all I felt.
I glanced up to see another Scav peeking into the room. The mont he saw , he made an attempt to shoot only for his gun to fail. This guy leapt back into the room once he realized it, which is the only thing that saved his life as I brought my Carnage down and blasted where he had been.
I charged, leaping into the room he had just escaped into and ca out into a roll.
Four soon to be dead Scavs faced .
Excellent.
I had all the ti I needed to aim my shotgun at them and fire. I didnt hit any of them as they fled into cover, but it did make them scramble around. Which is why the gonk that had just tried to shoot suddenly had an intimate eting with Carnage-chan! As I slamd her into his face like a baseball bat.
I love this shotgun. Doesnt matter if you literally beat soone to death with it, itll still fire!
But before I could kill him he kicked out, his much longer legs slamming away and forcing off my feet for a mont, as I rolled and then ca out of it with my Carnage raised.
No! Wa-! His pleadings ended with Carnage sounding off followed by the heavy cycle as I cocked the next round.
Kill her! One of the Scavs scread out trying to do just that.
They would fail. These pathetic wling creatures would not kill .
One guy obviously pissed at what he saw charged , a knife drawn and ready.
He didnt expect to charge him back. He knew how to use a knife. I would even say he was pretty good.
I didnt care.
I wasnt fighting. I was raging. I slamd into him, ignoring how he nicked my side with the knife, the blade skittering off my leotard or subdermal, wasnt sure which as I slamd into him.
He scread as I used one hand to literally slam my thumb into his eye socket so I could grip his face were musical, flowing perfectly into the song pounding in my head as I proceeded to try and beat him to death with the carnage in my right hand.
I ignored his attempts to at first stab , and then just try to desperately get away.
Neither stopped .
His death ca regardless, as my thumb word its way through to his end.
Then there were three, before I could even rise up though. There were once again four.
Cyka! A voice roared out, and this ti I was caught off guard.
They had realized their weapons werent working against , but it turns out it didnt matter.
Big fuckin Scav decided to remind I wasnt invincible.
He blurred, a Sandy activated and suddenly I was the one being punched across the room. Out through a hole in the wall and into the ripper room I had just co from.
I coughed, blood flowed.
It hurt, but I would live. I pulled a MaxDoc and huffed it. Letting the adrenaline flow.
I could hear russian. Scared russian, and a firm confident voice.
Ah. The fucker had taken my Carnage. I added it into the next round of Weapon Glitch. Then, as the music once more peaked in my head.
I rose up slow and steady.
They had knocked into a ss off dical equipnt and storage the ripper room had, so as I stood tal clattered and glass shattered off .
The firm russian voice from before wasnt so firm anymore.
They were looking at .
I cracked my neck, and spit the blood out of my mouth.
Big borg fucker had my Carnage. He aid it, and like a good girl she just clicked, already disabled. Eh she only had one round left anyways.
I bared my teeth, a rumbling snarl leaving my throat in ti with the roar of the guitar in my head. Then I moved.
My speed surprised Sandevistan Scav, but he activated his implant again probably a fearful reflex, as he suddenly shifted from where he was when I leapt to right in front of . My leap was aborted, he slamd into .
All too many pounds of him hitting like a truck and this ti he followed back into the room pounding into the concrete wall in a clatter of equipnt.
He knocked the air out of . He hit hard, hard enough to rattle my head. He had pinned against the wall as he was already starting to beat on .
Too bad, he hadnt managed to actually kill .
I threw a fist back, and his Sandy speed kept him from getting slugged, but that was fine.
I had fought people with Sandevistan. The Dojo had taught a lot about how they work. Their strengths and weaknesses.
That there was always a ti limit, and not every Sandy was the crazy shit that David had.
I raised my arms up in a guard as he punched back Sandy speed punches slamming back into the wall, and my shoulder ached from the stress of trying to keep my chro fists from slamming into my own face.
It was a moderate success.
He hit again, and then again, and suddenly he was moving at a normal speed..
Sothing I had been told. When a Sandy turns off and you go from super speed to normal? In that mont you felt like you were suddenly moving in slow mo. You felt the shift as ti changed.
I had spoken with a few people that used the sandy and they all said the sa thing if you could get them to admit it.
The mont the Sandy turned off was their weakest mont.
Quickdrawing my Burya, I slamd it right into his mouth before pulling the trigger.
His head separated in two from the force.
I hurt. My vision was a little woozy, but that was just a concussion, and the BD would still be recording fine. I was definitely bleeding internally. Easily fixable once this was over. Lungs were struggling to breathe. He had knocked the wind out of twice.
But I was in control. I forced my body to breathe. I forced myself to stay on my feet. Because the rage wasnt gone.
The Scav fell backwards as I pushed him away, letting his bulk fall and revealing the three Scavs from before.
Ah, no it was six now. There was a mont of silence. Or maybe that was just my ears ringing. Close range Burya shots do tend to deafen for a mont, but as I watched.
I smiled.
Fear. I could sll it. I took a step forward.
Fuck this! One of them scread and tried to run.
I shot him, just to prove a point.
Then I holstered Burya and rushed them. The first guy had been smart enough to try and grab a lee weapon. A hunk of wood from a chair I think. I took the blow on my forearms, not even feeling it compared to the Sand Scavs hits, and the wood broke apart. So did he when I reached up and grabbed him by his jaw and started slamming my chro fists into his face.
His attempts to bite down on my chro fingers were pointless, he fell backwards, and as he fell I jerked his head to slam him into the side of a table.
That either killed him or knocked him senseless because he didnt resist as I raised up his head and battered him into the table a few more tis.
His buddy slamd into . Grappling as he tried to body down. I slamd my forehead into his nose despite how it made my head spin and started punching.
He started punching.
punching in his throat did more than him punching my face. He gasped as he fell to his knees.
I rose up and kicked him across the face before leaving him to die with his broken esophagus.
Three more to go.
They had all grabbed weapons. One had grabbed a knife from the guy that tried that earlier, the other two had tal rebar.
I smiled out another snarl as I grabbed another MaxDoc in the stillness of the fight and huffed it down. The surge of adrenaline should mask the sudden lowering of pain.
I stalked forward but not towards them, I stopped at where Carnage had been left behind and kicked her up into my arms.
The music peaked.
I moved. Like she was a baseball bat I weighed in, blocking the first gonks swing with the rebar only to leap up and drop a kick right into his nose. I could feel it break on my boots as I flipped back and the other two surged forward.
I blocked and parried the rebar and knife, keeping the weapons away from even as my breath ca out in a desperate wheeze.
Even as I was pushed back and back.
They could have had . They were good. Working together to keep from ripping either one of them apart.
But they had done sothing stupid. They backed into a corner.
So I leapt. Backwards. My boots slamd into the concrete wall and then I kicked off, my ankles more than making up my bodies weight launching up and over their heads.
And towards their buddy whose nose I had broken.
He didnt have ti to react, too busy trying to see through his busted face.
Carnage fell onto the back of his head, and sothing snapped.
I hit him again just to make sure.
Then turned towards the two.
Carnage shifted to one hand, as I reached to my hip and drew my own knife.
Fuck this. The one with the rebar said sounding panicked as he reached into his jacket and pulled out a fucking frag grenade.
He yelled out sothing in Russian, that I was just going to assu was fuck you, and threw it at .
I dropped my knife. I grabbed my Carnage in two hands and knocked the grenade to the side.
Then I leapt at them.
The man screaming as I slamd into him, was a mont I was doubly glad I was recording.
We went down in a jumble of limbs as the grenade went off. Shrapnel pinging around the room, but I had a gonk between and it. Unfortunately the pinging tal didnt actually do any harm to the gonk I was using as a shield.
Fortunately I did. Both hands grabbing his face I plunged my thumbs into his eyes and with that had full control of his movent.
I slamd his skull into the floor using all the muscles I had at my disposal, even jumping putting all my weight into his skull.
I looked up expecting to have the guy with a knife trying to stick , but he was nowhere to be seen.
No.
No one escapes.
I rushed to follow, jumping over garbage and the junk the frag grenade had strewn around as he raced away like a madman he leapt through what was once the front door to an apartnt into the hallway splitting the gabuildings apartnts, then raced across the way and into another set.
I grinned as he had gathered even more Scavs for to kill.
Idly I slowed and fixed my Carnage, reloading her as well, five shells in, before pumping her loudly, the noise echoing through the complex.
The next room was obviously another rest area. Far enough away the Scavs could take a nap without having to hear the ripping of bodies apart, or the screams of rcy.
Both of which I would make sure they heard soon enough.
I stepped into the opened door to see the group all readied for .
Guns were aid at and triggers were pulled but other than clicks, or other bad noises nothing fired.
Seven.
I fired.
Six.
Madness. They charged , or fled. The group was disorderly, despite so of them potentially being ex-soldiers, they were Scavs now. So charged, so fled, all would die.
I fired again, and again.
Another Scav died, as they finally reached . Swinging a Cut-o-Matic at . I instantly fell in love.
A chainsaw sword? A chainsword that actually worked? For !?
I wanted it.
I leapt straight up disappearing from the Scavs sight as I lined up a shot. Carnage fired and he turned into a puddle below that I fell into. Blood coating as I fired again clearing so room long enough for to bend down and pick up my new chainsword.
I grinned ferally as I felt it buzz back up.
I leapt forward, dropping my Carnage as I slamd into the first Scav that was an instant too slow to avoid .
Blood hot and ssy coated as I ripped into the monsters neck.
The Scavs started running.
I chased them. Leaping from filth to filth. Their attempts to resist were unable to stall out as I battered down any defense.
I looked around as I grunted my Chainsword was stuck in the head of one of fuckers. Stupid chro skull.
There was still one more. The sa gonk that had fled from in the first place I had purposefully left him for last, but he wasnt in the room anymore.
He was back the other way?
Hah! The coward had tried to escape while I was distracted with his chooms! Unfortunately I still had him in my sight, his own agent was telling exactly where he was. I raced back through the hallway, back into the Scavs work room.
The music was building up to the end.
And my own voice, demonic and angry roared in my ears.
Rip and TEAR. RIP AND TEAR!
He had escaped back into the ripper doc room. Into another section that was covered in the plastic sheets to stop blood splatter. He was trying to hide.
He scread as he saw . As I ignored his attempts to hide from .
I slamd into him like a wild cat. He scread in terror. A true guttural horror note as I promptly began beating him to death.
I smashed my fist into his face over and over as he desperately tried to fend off. Punches were slamd into my face and chest, that I ignored.
It hurt, but pain was passing.
Murder was forever.
Hands balled, I slamd both arms down into his face again until his struggling ceased.
Until bone bent.
Rip and Tear. I said, exhaling along with the songs only lyrics. Until its done. I whispered breath hoarse and heavy, I probably had a busted rib in there sowhere, but it was just Cathartic.
Even if I really shouldnt have enjoyed that as much as I just had.
A-aha! A voice weak and terrified squeaked from nearby.
I looked away from the broken body beneath . Eyes focused and hand already reaching for my Burya.
Six red optics t my own.
Maelstrom.
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