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Message no. 1
From: "Michael R. Goldberg" <mrgoldbe@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject: Reruns....
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 21:21:05 -0700
>>>>>[ Well, it wouldn’t be a week without some sort of tidbit for you
all.

+++++ begin transmission

A beautiful, and extremely angry female voice shouts, "Frag you,
Blitzkrieg!"

An equally angry male voice retorts, "Bite it, whore!"

"Why YOU -" A door slams shut. "Fine! Walk away, you sorry
muscle-headed idiot. I'm better off with out you."

"You're a fragging whore for money, fame, and music! You have no
concept of the words quality and taste! You just agreed to work with
me so you would have a shot of dating my brother! Fragging WHORE!
Good FUCKING RIDDANCE!" A door slams hard.

You see an angry man in a trench coat storm out and onto the sidewalk.
People scramble out of his way as the shaved-headed man storms down
the path. The left hand, a cybernetic one, ruthlessly shoves people
out of his way. A kid, not moving fast enough gets a fist to the face,
breaking the kid's nose. The man, Blitzkrieg you assume, continues
storming along like the kid never existed. He fails to notice that a
white van starts to follow him. He also fails to notice that this van
has no tags on it.

As he is passing a troll, he suddenly stops and looks at the troll in
surprise. The troll grins viciously and says as he slams a fist into
Blitzkrieg's right shoulder, "About time, breeder!" Blitzkrieg grunts
and spins around and a smooth motion is backing away and drawing a
pistol. You can see a man leans across the driver of the white van.
He pokes an assault rifle out of the window and everything seems to
slow down.

Blitzkrieg, unaware of the van opens fire at the troll, who is diving
(because he is aware of the van). The guy with the assault rifle fires
on Blitzkrieg and the crowd. Blitzkrieg finally realizing what is
happening, hits the ground as well. He takes a bullet in the left
arm, but seems to ignore it. He rolls around and shoots at the van.
The first shot misses but the second shot nails the rifleman. The
troll, meanwhile, springs to his feet (extremely quick for a troll) and
right after Blitzkrieg's second shot, nails him with a punch.

Blitzkrieg slams into another kid and backs out onto the street, as
another gunman opens fire at him and the general crowd. Blitzkrieg
starts running in-between cars as the troll takes off after him.
Suddenly, the troll grabs a bystander. The bystander screams in terror
as the troll holds her in-between him and Blitzkrieg. "Drop the gun,
Blitzkrieg!"

"Frag off, Whirlwind!" The white van pulls up. and blocks Blitzkrieg's
only escape route. Blitzkrieg swears and shoots the hostage in the
leg. Whirlwind, surprised, drops her and opens fire on Blitzkrieg.
Blitzkrieg jumps over the car as bullets come crashing in all around.
Suddenly, a dull thump is heard and the other gunman has stopped
shooting.

Whirlwind shouts, "You can't escape, fool!" As he jumps on the hood
of the car with the now blaring alarm. Blitzkrieg runs and crashes
into one of the few brave people standing. The boy he crashes into (a
decently in-shape 15 year old) stops him and shouts, "You shot my
sister!"

"Get out of my way, kid!" Blitzkrieg shoots him in the groin area and
smashes him aside with the butt of the pistol. Ejecting the clip, he
jams in another one into the pistol. You think you hear him mutter,
“What a fucking time to be packing normal rounds." As he races around
a corner. Whirlwind hot on his heels tramples the still falling boy,
but dives back as yet another gunman opens fire. This one at the
troll. You hear someone shout, "Take that you stinking, trog!"

Whirlwind quickly breaks for the van, and enters through the side door.
The van surges forward, ignoring the bullets from some unseen assault
rifle. The van breaks through the traffic jam (by ramming any vehicle
in its way) and races around the corner that Blitzkrieg took.
Blitzkrieg however is nowhere in sight. Hearing the police sirens.
Whirlwind curses, but the van drives out of the area.

+++++ end transmission

The van was found later. There was one dead ork in the van that had
his cyberware ripped out. The police have identified the ork as "J.R."
a local punk with an attitude and a rap sheet a mile long. The police
have issued warrants for Blitzkrieg and Whirlwind, but so far neither
has been found. Although I hear Blitzkrieg's lady friend was
questioned extensively about Blitzkrieg. Body count is 10 with another
35 or so wounded. Some of them aren't expected to survive the night.

The name Whirlwind seems to ring a bell. I believe he gave Doomsday
some fits guarding the children from the massacre a year or so ago.
Didn’t he have run ins with Whirlwind both in Seattle and Germany?
]<<<<<
-- Ratspeak <21:40:14/10-15-57>

>>>>>[ Very perceptive, my rodent chum. I believe you are correct.
Whirlwind among others was speculated as having been involved in the
massacre. Rumor has it, that when it was realized to have been a
failure, and they finally got up the nerve to tell him that they
botched the job, he told them to go frag themselves. (He ended up
murdering the slot who had hired him in the first place. I guess not
all the money in the world can remove guilt.) The guess is that the
Wanderer hired him (and some friends of his) for his past record of
dealing with Doomsday. He went after Doomsday with zeal. First in
Seattle, and then chasing him to Germany. Things in Germany got ugly.
But ultimately, we got the poor troll and ork orphans out with only two
more deaths in the children. How is not my story to tell though. It
was tricky though, because at the same time all this was going on,
DragonEyes was going through his crisis. ]<<<<<
-- Sprinkler <21:42:04/10-15-57>

>>>>>[ Oh that. I remember that, almost old news. I hear that Kor
learned the true meaning of non-violence, eh? ]<<<<<
-- Ratspeak <21:42:26/10-15-57>

>>>>>[ I hear that you are a dead man, if I ever get my hands on you.
At least you didn't show what the person I was arguing with looked
like, you miserable slot. Shadowfox, I believe I'm going to call a
favor you owe me. ]<<<<<
-- Blitzkrieg <21:50:12/10-15-57>

***** Private: Blitzkrieg
>>>>>[ Contact >>encrypted<<. He will get your identity clean,
and get
you on the first plane to here. Once you arrive here, we'll discuss
things. And Blitz., I owe you nothing. I'm doing this because you are
a friend. Meanwhile, I'll also have my chum put out some feelers to
see if we can track down Whirlwind. See you soon, Blitz. ]<<<<<
-- Shadowfox <21:56:31/10-15-57>

***** Private: Scourge, Kor
>>>>>[ Contact Doomsday and Harker and warn them that they could
have company in their yard. Whirlwind won't waste much time now
since he is probably assuming that Doomsday already knows. I suspect
he will first go for Nightingale since he failed to get Blitzkrieg.
I've already contacted a friend and told him to get her to Boston,
where Gunner can help her out. I guess this is what happens when you
are decently visible. I wonder if this means he will try and go after
Nightmare soon. ]<<<<<
-- Shadowfox <22:00:00/10-15-57>
Message no. 2
From: "Mark A. Imbriaco" <mark@******.NET>
Subject: Re: Reruns....
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 12:20:07 -0400
>>>>>[ Son of a bitch. ]<<<<<
-- Griffyn <12:09:30/10-16-57>

***** INTERNAL: Serenity Security: Personnel Division
>>>>>[ Mark me as being on indefinite emergency leave, effective
immediately.
I suspect Jason won't be terribly far behind me. ]<<<<<
-- David Jarman <12:12:50/10-16-57>
Field Officer
Serenity Security

***** PRIVATE: Jason Stormwind
>>>>>[ I'm going after that fragger. He disappeared on us last year, but
he won't get away again. ]<<<<<
-- Griffyn <12:14:21/10-16-57>

***** INTERNAL: Serenity Security: Personnel Division
>>>>>[ I'm on personal leave, effective immediately.
]<<<<<
-- Neuron Basher <12:15:54/10-16-57>

***** PRIVATE: Jason Stormwind
>>>>>[ I _want_ that fragger that Wanderer was working for. Bad. After
what
Wanderer did to Tris, he's got to pay. I'm on personal leave until further
notice .. personnel has already been contacted. ]<<<<<
-- Neuron Basher <12:18:12/10-16-57>

***** PRIVATE: Doomsday
>>>>>[ If you or your brother need anything, I'm here. I didn't forget
about
the massacare last year, and that fragger still needs to pay. ]<<<<<
-- Griffyn <12:20:30/10-16-57>

***** PRIVATE: Lynch
>>>>>[ All my old contacts have dried up, so I need to ask you a favor. Do
you
have any contacts that I could use to get a hold of a little bit of gear? I
need some untraceable weapons as soon as possible. Nothing heavy, just an
assault rifle, some grenades and such. ]<<<<<
-- Neuron Basher <12:22:17/10-16-57>
Message no. 3
From: Mike Broadwater <neon@******.BACKBONE.OLEMISS.EDU>
Subject: Re: Reruns....
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 12:47:58 -0500
>>>>>[Hmmm. I guess it's lucky for Blitzkrieg that his opposition was
almost as incompetent as he was.]<<<<<
-- Blade <20:45:00/10-16-57>
Message no. 4
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Reruns....
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 00:12:07 +0100
*****PRIVATE: Neuron Basher
>>>>>[Rifle, grenades, no problem. Untraceable limits me a little - most
of my sources are legitimate - but I happen to have a few cold,
unregistered weapons for just this kind of contingency. AK-97 clones,
Chinese: good quality weapons. Let me know what modifications you want
and I'll gunsmith it up for you. Ammo, I have damn near anything, and I
can even pass you a clip or two of sabots: weapons have serial numbers,
bullets just have headstamps.

Grenades, easy, just gimme the list of what you want.

Consider this a favour: if you're a friend of Stormwind, you're probably
a good guy to know.]<<<<<
-- Lynch <00:12:16/10-17-57>

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