Happy Hour

[Cazador]

As Cazador stood out on the building roof from near by, he waited for an opening to jump in and attack. So far Riley was holding them off well. All of his gadgets were making quick work of all the enemy troops in the area. They never even stood a chance. If this was what Riley was capable of then Cazador would need to start purchasing weapons from him in the future. After a few minutes of watching the troops getting massacred, he figured out that Riley wouldn't even need his help. As he prepared to leave, something showed up on his motion sensor. It was coming in fast. He turned back around only to see a bomber coming in to take out the tavern. The only thing Cazador saw was the explosion.

"Riley!"

As the light and smoke cleared, Cazador could see that Riley reappeared unharmed. He wasn't sure what could be said though about the other patrons in the tavern. Cazador could only assume the worst for them. He clenched his armored fists. Now he was pissed. Before he could react, another target popped up on his sensor. This time it was a heavy mech. He looked at it just in time to see a barrage of missiles coming right at him. At the last second, Cazador used his jetpack to shoot himself backwards away from the brunt of the explosion. His armor was able to endure the rest of the shockwave that hit him. The top of the building he was on became covered in debris and smoke.

Cazador turned on his infrared sensor to get a look at where the mech was. At the same time he adjusted the outside temperature of his suit to counter any possible thermal scans. Seeing through the smoke was easy enough, but now he would use it to his advantage for some sneak attacks. Cazador pulled a grenade out and set it to explode once it was close enough to the mech. Using the enhanced strength of his armor, he threw the grenade as hard as he could. He would use the damaging explosion and light though as a diversion. While still in the smoke, Cazador set a hologram to come running out of where he was at. He wanted it to make it look like the hologram was trying to make an escape.

He waited for a few seconds before he thought for sure that the hologram had gotten the mech's attention. He pulled out his War Dragon Assault Rifle and set it to the high powered sniper rounds. With such a large target, he wouldn't need to worry so much about missing. Cazador jumped out of the smoke and opened fire. His shots were slow and the recoil was high, but he was confident that the molten hot adamantium rounds would do the trick.

[Red Queen]

But Hustler One wasn't using their naked eyes to track Cazador. Instead they had him on radar and continued to fire missiles and from their pulse rifle at Caz's location in the air. The grenade only hitting the mech's shields and doing little to damage them. The radar didn't pick up on the hologram since it wasn't real and as such, Hustler One ignored it and continued on through the light. Continuing to open fire on Caz as the shields protected against what the mech itself couldn't avoid due to its size.

---

Riley would be greeted with a little red dot by his feet from the space platform above. Instead of a warhead it only teleported the usual thirteen armored super soldiers. The first of which chainsaw roared to life and came crashing down upon the head of the tavern owner to slice him in half as the soldiers behind him followed suit just as they appeared.

[Ayen]

Riley recognized this trick, it was one of Vulture's personal favorite to perform ever since it was introduced back in Sector 4 against Spokesman and a couple of known Resistance members labeled terrorists. Right away he knew to leap back just as the thirteen appeared, the first one bringing his chainsaw down to cut through thin air.

“What's the matter? Don't think Riley's powered shotgun shells will be able to do the trick?”

Riley open fired on them as they came at him with their chainsaws. His shotgun was strong enough to break through their armor, but even then these men were tough sons of bitches to take down. Being able to take the blunt end of the powered shells of the shotgun as they switched to their lancers and fired. Forcing Riley back behind cover as he wasn't fast enough to avoid bullets that traveled at fifteen rounds per second. If he wanted to get pass these enemies Riley was gonna have to do his best to outmaneuver them. One wrong move and it was over.

[Cazador]

"Damn it!"

It looked as though stealth in this battle would be out the window. It didn't take long for Cazador to realize that his opponent could track his movements. It led to two possibilities. One, that the pilot was a psychic who read Cazador's movements or two, that his opponent was also armed with a motion sensor. Seeing as how Cazador could still dodge the barrage of rocket fire meant that the latter was more likely since a psychic would just be able to anticipate all of his moves. In any rate, the battle would have to escalate into all out brawl between the metal warriors.

Cazador continued to moving quickly with a combination of running and jetpacking between the buildings as to avoid being hit with any on coming missiles. He could literally feel the heat from the explosions behind him. Every chance he could find, he would take some pot shots at Hustler One. It wasn't doing much except causing the shield around the mech to flicker. So long as the shield remained, damaging his opponent would be a problem. Cazador would need to find a way to get them down. There were a few options that came to his mind. The most obvious one would be to set his grenades to emit an EMP. There would be a problem in doing that.

Cazador took a quick glance at Riley through the hole in his tavern before setting his eyes back on the battle infront of him. If he set off the EMP, there would be a good chance it could effect alot of Riley's gadgets and leave him defenseless, but on the other hand it would also leave the enemy at a huge disadvantage as well. Cazador would have to hold off on that idea until he laid out all other options. Using the FEITD missile would be out of the question for this battle all together. Its destructive force almost always eliminated everything, but with still so many innocence around, Cazador couldn't risk it.

"I can't keep dodging forever. I'll have to engage."

It was time to make his move. The constant rocket fire was turning the surrounding area into a mess. Cazador stopped running momentarily to put his rifle away on his back and to dig his hands into two giant pieces of debris. The strength his armor granted him, allowed the warrior to continue moving with limited restraint. With the two large debris in his armored hands, Cazador flew off before the next barrage of missiles could find their way to him. He started to fly circles around the mech. After each pass, he would move in closer. Once he felt close enough, Cazador changed direction to fly directly at the mech and right into the oncoming rockets.

At that point, he hurled the giant rock towards Hustler One. It wasn't meant to actually hit his opponent. Cazador knew the missiles would destroy it before the first rock wold even touch the mech, but it served the purpose of shielding himself from the rocket fire. As he continued his direct course towards Hustler One, Cazador readied his free hand with his adamantium blade. He accelerated himself even further before throwing the second giant rock at Hustler One to meet with the rocket fire. There would be his split second opening. With both hands now open, Cazador pulled out his second adamantium blade and accelerated one last time to Hustler One. He kept his body straight and pointed his blades towards the mech. If bullets weren't going to work then he'd just have to use his blades and armor to punch a hole in his enemy.

[Red Queen]

When Cazador got within striking distance of the mech he'd see a red beam slash across the air, this belonged to a laser blade attached to the left arm of Nineball, blocking the adamantium blades allowing the mech to move backwards through the air and unload more shots with the plasma rifle in its other hand.

---

All the cover in the world didn't matter to the super soldiers. The caliber of their rounds were too big, and too powerful. Breaking through the cover in no time flat and continuing through to Riley as others simply cut through the cover with their chainsaw to get to the tavern owner.

[Ayen]

Riley dropped a chaff grenade onto the ground before moving from his spot to evade the bullets. Once it went off they would find their visors and weapons useless temporarily. But that was all the tavern owner needed to readjust, keeping them at a distance with his shotgun so they couldn't slice and dice him with the chainsaws as he aimed the powered shotgun towards the visor of the group's leader and fired.

[Cazador]

Missed! For such a big target, the mech could certainly move quickly. The pilot's reaction time almost seemed to be not human. As Cazador barely missed, he continued moving at his high speed knowing that if he stopped, he would be open to a counter attack. Sure enough he was right. While retracting his blades, Cazador turned around to see plasma rounds coming in his direction. They were moving much faster than the rocket fire from earlier and even with the speed of his jetpack there would be no way to outrun it. Instead, Cazador pulled out his assault rifle again and set it to automatic mode. He quickly opened fire on the incoming plasma rounds. Molten adamantium rounds and plasma collided causing a large light shot to light up the sky.

So far the battle had proven to be a stalemate. Cazador would need to think of something to break the draw. So far their battlefield had been the sky. It was time to pick a new one. Seeing as how the ground offered more cover and would leave less room for the large giant to maneuver between buildings, Cazador changed his flight path back toward the planet. Through out his decent, he would take shots at remain Vulture troops in the area. There was no sense in leaving them around to think up a plan to stop him. Just as he was about to hit the ground, he reversed the thrust of his jetpack to slow himself to a stop. As his feet touched the ground, Cazador started to run. There was no way he planned to be a stationary tarted for Hustler One, The suit offered him increased speed to move quickly across the road.

"Okay you bastard. Round 2."

As he ran through the warzone, Cazador picked up two armor transport vehicles. Just like before with large boulder debris, he threw them at his opponent before opening fire with his rifle on the vehicles' fuel source. Fire erupted followed by a large shockwave that blew apart the windows of the surrounding buildings. His hope was to get the mech caught in the explosion. He wasn't sure just how strong Hustler One's shields were to this, but it would be a good test as he kept the pressure on by continuing to shoot his rifle.

[Red Queen]

“Stop such foolishness...”

Hustler One descended towards Cazador, firing the pulse rifle in rapid triple bursts strong enough to rip through armor while unloading upon the rebel with its grenade and missile launchers simultaneously. When the explosion and shockwave came Hustler One was right in the thick of it, bringing the mech's shields down to 75% but still holding. It shook the mech's descent but didn't halt it entirely as Nineball's feet touched the road Cazador was on.

“Resistance is futile...”

Hustler One swung his arm blade diagonally unleashing a powerful surge of energy from the swing towards Cazador.

“Your fate is sealed...”

---

The squad of super soldiers crotched down into a duck beneath the charged shotgun slugs and continued their way forward, the chaff grenade finally burning out as once again the Lancer II were aimed at Riley and resume open firing upon the tavern owner.

[Ayen]

The slugs continued on through the air after the squad ducked and took out the nearby fire hydrant. Sending a powerful wave of water bursting forth, washing the super soldiers away as Riley took a leap back to stay out of the water's trajectory as it went off.

“People never learn to mind their surroundings...”

[Cazador]

Out from the explosion of light came Hustler One's attack. Cazador was able to maneuver around the pulse rifle shots, but finally slipped up at the incoming grenades and missile launcher. Though it wasn't a full dead on contact attack, the explosion launched him through a building nearby. He pushed the rubble and debris off himself as he got up and started moving back outside into the action. He emerged just in time to see Hustler One reach the ground. Cazador listened to his opponent as the mech prepared its attack on him. He took his opponent's talk in as more of a challenge. Something that he would gladly accept.

Cazador readied one of adamantium blades to meet Hustler One's energy blade. He swung his arm with large amounts of force to clash with the giant mech. The force of the colliding blades caused the ground under Cazador to shatter a little bit from energy of the attack. This was just what he needed. Close quarters combat. Using his free hand, Cazador launched his grapple hook into a nearby transformer. The hook wrapped around the pole before quickly retracting back towards Cazador. As The transformer got closer, Cazador readied his second adamantium blade to impale the generator.

He needed to lower Hustler One's shields even more if he hoped to have a better chance of damaging his opponent. A giant blast of electricity is just what he needed. The two warriors were quickly engulfed in electricity. Sparks surrounded the area they were in as the electricity was jumping from any form of metal surface it could. Cazador's hazard protection on his suit prevented himself from being shocked and since his suit was powered by magic and not electricity, he wouldn't have to worry about any sort of malfunctioning on his HUD.

[Red Queen]

The surge of energy was a projectile which fired from the blade mid-swing when it was charged. And Cazador had just ran head long into an explosion of it when their blades connected powerful enough to inflict massive damage upon contact. The force of the blast was also enough to force Hustler One back, taking down some of its shielding but a godsend at the end of the day as now the mech had enough time to used its jet boosters to get out of the way of the electricity that engulfed the area below when the generator was taken out.

---

The super soldiers withstood the power of the water that threatened to wash them away. Continuing their advancement and fired upon the tavern owner.

[Ayen]

“Tough little bastards.”

While Riley were still being pushed back by the super soldiers, a squad of his own people came rushing in armed to the teeth with grenades, minds and fully-automatic rifles. Covering Riley to allow the tavern owner to get behind some cover before they took behind some of their own. Firing at the super soldiers with large armor piercing rounds as one tossed a grenade in their direction.

“It's about time you bastards came and gave Riley a hand. Only so much Vulture Riley can kill in one day.”

[Cazador]

Cazador's eyes widened. The pilot goaded him into matching blades with him. At that close of range it would be impossible to avoid damage. The only think Cazador would be able to do is find a way to lessen the damage. With less than a millisecond to spare, Cazador used his jetpack to boost himself to just far enough to the side to avoid severe damage to his torso. In return his armored arm took the brunt of the damage while the force of the attack blasted him underground. The power of the attack carried him deep into the sewers of the city. At least this time he had his mask to filter out the smell. Even if he didn't have his helmet, the pain in his arm would of been enough to distract him from the smell.

He pushed the rubble off of himself and looked at his arm. The armor on it was heavily dented. He couldn't believe that with one swing, Hustler One was able to dent one of the hardest known metals. He was lucky to be able to keep his arm at least. Underneath the armor, he could feel the pain. It hurt to move it, but it wasn't the first time in his life he would keep fighting while hurt. Like many times before, he would use that pain to just fight back even harder. Cazador set his visor to xray the surface. His vision pierced through the ground to find where Hustler One was. He noticed how far back the pilot had jumped to get away from the electricity. He started to think to himself to develop a plan.

"Dodging means that it would of hurt... Let's see what kind of other toys Riley's got."

Cazador had killed many Vulture troops in his short time in the city. During that time he was able to learn which radio frequencies they operated on. It always made for perfect ambushes on unsuspecting patrols. This also meant he knew which one's they didn't operate on. He quickly started trying to use short radio transmissions to send out a message to Riley. Hopefully he'd be on one of the frequencies and have some kind of radio nearby.

"Riley? Come in Riley. This is Cazador. Damn it you better be on one of these frequencies. Listen! I need some kind of weapon that can generate enough electricity to knock out that mechanized bastard's shields."

There was no way Hustler One was going to fit underground and with the dozens of rats moving around, he could conceal his movements from the motion tracker. It would only be a matter of time though before his hiding spot became obsolete. For now he could plan his next counter attack against the mech.

[Red Queen]

"Riley? Come in Riley. This is Cazador. Damn it you better be on one of these frequencies. Listen! I need some kind of weapon that can generate enough electricity to knock out that mechanized bastard's shields."

“I wouldn't recommend it.”

Cazador would know something was wrong the second proper speech was used. Instead of hearing the voice of the laid back male, he heard the voice of a little girl and in the seconds to pass he'd see a red hologram appearing on his HUD.

It was the face of the Red Queen.

The Red Queen began the process of hacking into Cazador's systems to shut them down. While he'd be combating this Hustler One went over to an opened manhole, tracking the man from its own radar and firing down into the sewers below. Igniting the sewage and producing a large burning ball of sewage gas that was now fast approaching Cazador's position while he battled an enhanced AI for control of his suit.

---

The armor withstood the bullets, and the super soldiers walked right through the explosions of the grenades. Never ceasing their fire and destruction of cover before long. A little red dot now appearing on Riley's forehead as the space station from above fired its warhead right down upon the tavern owner's head.

[Ayen]

Riley saw the little red dot on his forehead and told the rest of his crew to run. They quickly got out of the blast radius as the warhead came down. Jumping at the last minute to get away from the massive explosions as smoke and debris filled up the place. Parts of buildings hitting the ground as Riley and his crew got up.

“This is too rich for Riley's blood. Let's get out of here.”

The group ran over to where they had parked the van far away and out of sight of where the battle was going on. Just as Riley entered the back with the others and the driver hit the gas, he heard a ringing in his ear.

“Hello?”

"Riley? Come in Riley. This is Cazador. Damn it you better be on one of these frequencies. Listen! I need some kind of weapon that can generate enough electricity to knock out that mechanized bastard's shields."

“Riley got just the thing. Only problem is Riley is predisposed at the moment.”

“I wouldn't recommend it.”

“Well if it ain't the redheaded homicidal bitch herself! How you doing? Riley gotta hand it to you girl, you got spunk. But if you think this is over you're sorely mistaken. Riley has a present just for you.”

Riley pulled out a mini computer and tracked down where Red Queen was hacking Cazador's armor from and infecting her systems...

With animal porn.

“Needs some music to go with it.”

Riley clicked another button and this started to play on every computer ran by Red Queen alongside the porn.

“Enjoy.”