Antoine the Fixer

Here was the deal: Amadeus finally bought a car. He worked out parking arrangements with Manuel, his landlord. Manuel mentioned he had a new car to a fixer friend, Antoine. Antoine went down to Amadeus' apartment to ask to make a pick up (I jutht looove what you did with the plathe!). Amadeus (Oh, thtop theathing me Amey!) gathered Lindy and Blue together. Antoine (You can call me Tony. Amey! YOU can jutht call me Tone. But your little lithard hath to call me Antoine!) spelled the deal out for them: go into the Combat Zone, find this girl, she's a bone marrow donor, give her this money, and bring her to a waiting ambulance. You get a 500 now and 500 when we get her. "Make it 1500 and you got a deal." "Done."

So Blue goes out and buys a shotgun, Amey tops off the gas tank, Lindy takes a quick nap, and they head out into the Combat Zone. Not two blocks into it, they stumble across a dead end. Amey bootlegs the car (spins it around), but are now head-on with a biker gang! Amey floors it and Blue hangs out the window, shotgun in hand. The bikers squeeze off some shots. Blue blows the hand off one, sending him into a crumpled mess. Amey plows into the front of one bike, tearing the front fork to pieces and sending the rider over the car, pulverizing his bones in the process. The other two bikers avoid the car and slide past the driver's side. Blue and Lindy then just open fire like mad. Surprisingly most shots miss and Blue's shotgun jams in the process. Lindy does get off a well placed shot, taking the rider down just as he clears the rear of the car. Amey flies out of the dead end. The car sustained minimal damage including a flat tire. The remaining biker wasn't so lucky. He wiped out trying to bring the bike around.

They make the rest of the trip to the girl's apartment fairly safely. Upon getting there they hear some arguing going on. Lindy goes to check it out, Blue changes the tire, and Amey provides cover. Suddenly, the front door of the place bursts open, and it's the girl. She's being chased by a guy. It turns out they're brother and sister - Kaitlin and Sean O'Connor.
"But Kaitlin, we're Blanks!"
"Yeah, but it's money!"
"But you NEVER make deals with SINs!"
"I don't care who it's with! It's only a bone marrow transplant! And it's more money than YOU make in a month in that gawdawful sweatshop of a garage you work in!"
"I don't care, I don't trust them!"
By this point, Blank Kait had made her way over to the car. Lindy handed her the packet of money. Blank Sean tore it out of her hand and gave it back to Lindy.
"I don't want you going with them! SINs can't be trusted!"
Lindy gives the money back, "I'm supposed to give her the money, not take it back."
Amey pipes in: "I'll tell you what. You can hire us to watch over her for the duration of the transplant operation."
"But I have NO money to hire you with."
"I couldn't help but overhear that you work at a garage. I will be needing some repair work on this car and I'm planning on adding some mods. You take care of that and that should be payment enough."
By this point, Blue has the tire back on and is putting the stuff back in the trunk, Amey is behind the wheel (Oops! No manual control! But you know what I mean.) and is jacking into the control system, Lindy has the rear door open. Blank Kait jumps in and Lindy follows, shutting the door behind her. As they pull off, Blank Kait pitches the envelope of cash at her brother, Blank Sean yells, "Ok! You got a deal!", and some street urchins pitch junk at the car as it passes.

The trip back is surprisingly uneventful except for the small war that has erupted over the remaining biker gang parts! Nothing that can't be solved by punching the gas and ramming through the middle of it. Just some stray bullets and a little cosmetic damage. Did I mention Lindy noticed a strange bandage on the back of the girl's neck?

They rendezvous with the ambulance as promised. The back doors open revealing Tony and two, rather large MedTechs. Tony gets out and our fearless heroes jump out of the car. Tony asks for the girl and asks Lindy if she checks out. Lindy gives the affirmative. The girl willingly jumps into the ambulance. Blue steps forward to accept the payment. Amey slyly explains, "There's a condition. We have to stay with her for the duration of the operation."
"What'th thith?"
"We have contract with her brother to keep an eye on her until she returns."
"You're making dealth with OTHERTH before OUR contract ith finithed?!?!?"
Blue, with hand outstretched.
"That's right."
"That'th poor form!"
"That's the way it is."
Blue, STILL with hand outstretched.
"Alright, come on..."
Lindy heads for the ambulance.
Tony pulls a wad of script out of his tropical shirt pocket and slaps it into Blue's outstretched hand, hoping they'd go away.
Blue returns to the car and gets in. Amey jacks back in. Lindy and Tony get into the ambulance and the doors close.

This is where the tension begins. Our fearless heroes were supposed to take the cash and move on to survive for another Tony contract. Instead, we have one hero trapped in an ambulance with some very unhappy people ('cept the girl, of course - she got her money.), and our other two heroes following the unhappy ambulance.

Without warning, some in-line skaters dart out into traffic. The ambulance creams one of them and the driver, swearing like a madman, slams on the brakes. A moment follows where everybody inside looks around at each other wondering what's gonna happen, while the other two skaters commence banging on the van asking for help. Tony asks Lindy if she would mind checking out the kid.
"Send one of your MedTechs. I'm not licensed anymore."
"We need them for the tranthplant operathon! Jutht check it out."
The banging is getting louder and Lindy pulls her Predator.
"I'm not leaving her. Send one of them or drive on."
Tony nods to the driver and they screech off.
Lindy makes the mistake of reholstering her weapon.

Meanwhile, outside, the skaters are chasing after the ambulance, completely ignoring the beaten up Chevy behind them.
See, Amey has a problem with any and all skaters: he has a penchant for hurting them. Real bad.
Amey decides to "love-tap" the both of them. Fortunately, they are skilled enough to use the hit to propel them closer to the ambulance and they get close enough to cling onto the door handles. This doesn't discourage Amey at all; he just speeds up and tries to "love-tap" them BETWEEN the ambulance! The skaters suffer some minor knee trauma and fall away from the ambulance. Unfortunately, there was enough impact to force the ambulance to swerve. The MedTechs take the opportunity to jump Lindy. Struggling with both of them on her, she pulls her pistol again, unfortunately she can't use it on them. Blue decides he's gonna be a real action hero and tells Amey to pull in behind the ambulance so he can get out on the hood and try to get inside. One MedTech puts Lindy in a headlock. Since Lindy can't get a shot off on the MedTechs, what the heck, shoot Tony! Tony takes it in the arm, landing in the driver's cabin.
Seeing the muzzleflash, Amey decides to change the strategy, just get up close and BEHIND the ambulance.
Sure enough, one of the MedTechs is able to hit her with an airhypo of medical grade tranquilizer; Lindy sees black like a massive power outage. The last thing she hears is the hiss of the airhypo.
From the OUTSIDE, the rear doors kick open and Lindy's limp body gets flung onto the hood of Amey's Chevy (she broke a few fingers in the process, but she gets off easy, as we will see.) Blue, with amazing prowess, literally catches her and drags her inside the car.

What follows is a long drawn out chase through the city. Most of it is uneventful except for Blue taking out some innocent bystander ("Well, we DID honk!")

The chase finally comes to an end when the ambulance driver makes a wrong turn and ends up in a dead-end. Amey pulls the Chevy RIGHT up to the back of the ambulance in an attempt to box it in.
All's quiet except for some motion in the ambulance. Blue decides to take aim at the tires, trying to minimize their chance of escape. He fires, missing, and suddenly the rear doors of the ambulance burst open and there is a heavy spray of assault rifle rounds into the front of Amey's car. Amey unjacks from the car and links into his heavy pistol. Blue manages to get out of the car and switches to throwing knives to continue what he started. The front windshield disintegrates and ceases to exist. Blue is an accomplished knife thrower, but luck is not on his side tonight - he drops the first knife into his foot (Ouch!) and the second glances off the fender. Amey gets off two good shots disabling one of the MedTechs-now-mercenaries. Unfortunately, he, himself, sustains a couple of shots to the arm and a shot to the head, knocking him unconscious. The remaining Med-Merc leaps out onto the hood of the car and puts the remaining rounds into Blue. Blue retaliates with a poorly placed throwing knife. The Med-Merc tosses the FN-FAL aside and leaps towards Blue, connecting with the asphalt instead. Blue chucks a knife into the back of the guy's skull. With Blue's attention elsewhere, the ambulance driver floors it in reverse, pushing the Chevy as it goes. Blue turns to pitch another knife into the front wheel of the fleeing vehicle, but is SURPRISINGLY attacked by the wounded Med-Merc. The Med-Merc ends up kissing ground again, Blue misses his shot on the ambulance, and resorts to choking the remaining consciousness out of the Med-Merc.

Blue goes back to the car, dumps out Lindy's MediKit, finds a StimPatch and slaps it directly on her cheek (Oooooh, that's gonna leave a rash!). Amey comes to, rummages through the mess, finds a painkiller patch, and puts that on. When Lindy joins the world of the awake, first aid! All around! Just as she's finishing up, sirens start to scream. What to do with the Med-Merc body? He'll make good interrogation material! Lindy is more than happy to administer an airhypo of medical-grade tranquilizer...


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