Kill Code by Justin Sloan

Author:Justin Sloan [Sloan, Justin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elder Tree Press
Published: 2018-06-26T22:00:00+00:00

12

We’d had our victory. Maybe it wasn’t quite time to sit back and celebrate, but we took the moment to remind ourselves why we were alive, to remember those who had fallen. We’d made our way back to the edge of the site, to a corner of a well-lit part of the simulation that looked like Tokyo—Shinjuku, to be exact.

This was it, the final calm before the storm. We’d seen their mechs and their raiders, but the four of us had been able to take down a group about half the size of their force, I wagered. Our confidence levels were soaring, but we didn’t want to get cocky. The showdown was coming, but first we’d rest, regain our bearing, and formulate a plan.

We scouted a building and ensured it was clear. As Rivera set up some of the motion sensors at strategic points at the corner of the building and claymores on the stairs, we went about securing the place and then preparing for an evening of waiting the enemy out. We wanted them to give up, or spread themselves thin looking for us. They wouldn’t expect us to have come right back to their backyard so soon after realizing how royally screwed we were, right? Then again, we’d just kicked some major ass and gotten some great loot, so hell, who knows.

Now that we’d settled on a room to lay low in, it started adapting. At first it was confusing, and then I saw exactly what was happening, and loved it. Where before there’d been a futon on tatami, now a bar rose out of the floor and a whole wall of bottles sat waiting for us. Our benefactor had provided us with an open bar, so we figured we’d at least have a sip each. Or, that’s what I figured, but apparently the NPCs weren’t on the same page.

“Might want to slow down there,” I said, holding up my glass of scotch. “I mean, if you can even get drunk in a simulation.”

“Isn’t this for all the men and women we’ve lost today?” Glider said, then upended the bottle of tequila she’d found. When she was done, she wiped her mouth and grinned. “Best make it count, then.”

“Except we don’t know if the enemy could come charging in at any minute,” I countered. “I need all of us at our best.”

“He’s right,” Rivera said. She had her glass, as of yet untouched, and sat by one of the windows keeping watch.

“Is that necessary?” Banshee asked, going over to join her at the window with two shot glasses. “I mean, we just kicked their asses. We have the defenses you set up… we’ll be okay.”

Rivera shrugged. “It’s not always easy to just let loose.”

I joined them now too, glancing around at the empty streets. Outside, neon lights flashed and a large billboard lit up the night with the image of a woman smiling at us wearing fox ears and too much eye shadow. Below was some sign about

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