Shadowrun Legends by Mel Odom
Author:Mel Odom
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
Published: 2016-10-19T08:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
Throbbing pain filled Skaterâs head and he had to fight to get his arms and legs moving. His vision doubled, then blurred, and the low-light enhancers fragged up his depth perception altogether by overreacting to light and shadow.
âKid!â Duran roared from somewhere nearby.
Skater tracked the orkâs voice amid the gunfire and screams. Gunpowder stink filled the air. He turned his head and concentrated on the rectangle of light coming from the wall of glass. Evidently the floodlights out in the Sound operated independently of the ones inside the Gray Line. Shapes slipped across the glass surface and threw moving shadows into the room, but he couldnât distinguish what they were.
A yakuza came out of the darkness at him, chipped eyes gleaming in the dark. He carried a taser, and the dart on the end sparked blue-white electricity.
Skater raised the Predator and fired till the man went down. Dumping the empty clip, he shoved another one home. He activated the commlink. âTrey.â
âIâm here, chummer.â Trey was positioned out of sight and using an external mike.
Skater threw himself behind an overturned table and had to shove the corpse of one of McKenzieâs men out of the way. Bullets and fletchettes thudded into the table top. One of them skidded off the Kevlar weave of his jacket. The side of his face was covered with a warm, bloody mask. He couldnât tell how bad it was, but his vision was coming back on-line. âTime to go.â
âIâm ready. On your mark.â
At the back of the room, highlighted by the uneven illumination coming from the glass wall, McKenzieâs shaman stood making intricate gestures while his razored girlfriend stood guard. Sheâd taken a clear bulletproof shield from a shopping bag at her feet and was holding it in front of their faces. Bullets drew lines of fire across the surface.
âShamanâs scanning a bead on us,â Duran warned.
âI see him,â Skater said. Another fusillade of bullets tore chunks from the table as two Mafia yabos came streaking toward his position. He got his feet under him, knowing it was all going to happen quickly. Blood blurred the vision in his left eye and tasted of salt on his lips.
A fireball flickered into view in the shamanâs hand, then arced the length of the room with a fiery tail twisting out behind it. As Skater abandoned his position, the ball of fire struck the table and reduced it to flaming splinters that pinwheeled through the air.
The smoke given off by the blast cut deep into his lungs. Oxygen in the nearby area was reduced.
Counting on the distraction of the fireball exploding so close to the two men rushing him, Skater threw himself into the air and hit the second man with a flying kick. He landed, keeping his footing with difficulty as the after-effect of the fireball shot a glare of light across the room. Before the first man could turn, Skater shoved the Predator to the back of the manâs skull and pulled the trigger.
The corpse dropped to the restaurant floor, most of its head missing.
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