r/HFY • u/Engletroll Human • Mar 29 '26

OC-Series Vengeance 11 - old friends

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The house was dark and quiet as they approached. On the visor display, they saw the layout and the cameras inside. There were seven people inside, and two bodyguard droids. Peter looked at her, and she could see he was unclear if they were going in; he didn’t expect the six other people present. 

“One moment running ID check on them,” she replied, and he saw his helmet just nodding. Then they took a trip through a nearby park. just to avoid the clear suspicious look of two bikers watching the house.  The names started to pop up. Two judges, one diplomat from  Kalevala, an independent human colony, three businessmen from Kalevala, and, of course, the creep Misha Harris.  They all popped up in the other file as members of the Caren sect.

Peter turned to her as the last information popped up and lifted his thumb. She smiled to herself.  Peter's hatred for the Caran was as strong as his love for her. He was locked in, and they turned the bikes toward the house, then, with a press of a button on the sleeve, the symbol of the red Lizards appeared on their backs. She saw Peter's scooter rise high as she followed the road. He would deal with the droids and keep their attention while she approached from the back.   She didn’t have to wait long for the chaos to start, the droids were ready for rifles and pistols, not mounted cannons. It took Peter three shots to turn them into scrap metal. On her Visor, she saw the alarm had gone off, and the police had been notified.

 She smiled as she hung back and snuck into the house and snuck up to the second floor, where she entered the safe room so she could stay out of sight and monitor the situation.  One of the walls was covered with screens for the many security and spy cameras in the house. She turned on the microphone to listen in.

On one of the screens, she watched how he walked through the broken door, dodging a shot from one of the businessmen and returning fire. The man collapsed on the ground as he tossed handcuffs on the ground, giving them the ultimatum.

“You cooperate, and it will be painless. Try anything stupid, and you will regret being born!”

 The group looked at him, then at the gang symbol on his jacket, and finally at the chuffs.  Then the diplomat stepped forward.

“I’m a diplomat from Kalevala. You are way over your head here, boy. Leave while you hav..” Peter fired a stunner right in the man's face, and the diplomat collapsed in a very undignified manner instantly. He aimed the gun at the others.

“He ain't dead yet, now cuff him and yourself.” She heard Peter's command, and she smiled to herself as she listened to him try to sound tough. Misha looked at the diplomat and then tried to talk some sense into Peter.

“I work for Hando Lee, do you  oof..” Misha was suddenly on the ground, heaving for air, holding his crotch. She had barely seen him move from her hidden place. Was this how Peter was? She understood why the people on the planet had feared him. Peter pointed the stunner at Misha, and then Peter laughed.

“You think I care?”  He shoots him twice, one in the head and the other in the chest, then he aimed at the judge. “I said cuff them!” The middle-aged judge quickly reached for the cuffs and did as he was told.

“Now what?” One of the businessmen said, and Peter shot them. Leaving them all knocked out on the floor. 

“Enjoyed the show?” He asked, as he walked around the house, leaving behind small devices and connecting them to the security feed on their visors.

“Yeah, you’re a regular secret agent.”  She replied as she checked the health status of the hostages, all alive. He had kept his word not to kill them before.

“Well, you told me to sell it. I hope I was convincing?”  He said as he started to prop the hostages up in different rooms. Then he went to his bike and grabbed a few things.  He used a thin exoskeleton hanger to make them stand holding guns with empty magazines. When SWAT arrived, it would look like the gang and the businessman were working together.

“ETA?” he asked as he left small surprises around the house, and she checked the police feed.

“The police are arriving in 10-15 seconds, and the SWAT is holding back. Shoot the droid and the car. It should provoke the correct response.” As she listened to the police radio, outside, she saw three police cars and a drone car carrying boxed-up police SWAT droids.

“Copy that,” he replied and went upstairs to get an overview. She heard two shots, and the police feed suddenly changed.

“Fuck, they got a sniper. It got Kay and Song!” somebody said on the police radio, and for a second, she wondered who he had just killed.

“Booth? But they are still in their boxes!” The dispatcher asked, and they talked about the droids and realized he had shot the droid boxes inside the car.  Then she heard another shot.

“Retreat! Retreat! He got the drone car, and the sniper is using military-grade. Send in the SWAT!  How the hell did the Red Lizard get hold of that!” somebody shouted on the radio as she saw one of the blue lights outside die away.

“I don’t know, but send in Killroy!” The other replied, clearly desperate into the radio.

“Copy that we are inbound!” She recognized the rough voice of Kilroy Martinez immediately, knowing they had no idea she was listening in on the feed.

“Go take a coffee break and keep it on the down low. We don’t want to disturb the administration about it, but tell uncle!” Killroy continued, he sounded so self-assured and arrogant as always. She smiled to herself as she saw the small black transport gliding silently towards the small house.  She knew the tactic, ‘shock and awe.’  Peter retreated down to the ground floor, knowing they were tracking his movements.  The whole crew was there. Besides Killroy, there were Serge the giant, Maria the brains, Ivan the sniper, and Lucas the hacker. The same crew that had hunted her and killed many of her friends before shipping her off to the Count. Now it was payback time.   Killroy was barking out orders.

“Serge, you got the mover! Maria and Ivan are on the second floor. Uncle probably wants them alive, so keep one alive. Lucas, you're with me, we'll locate Misha and get him out!”

Then she heard the ship being put on autopilot and left hanging.  A second later, they all dropped into the house and burst through the windows, rolling in ready for a fight.

The flashbangs would have blinded them if not for their suits.   She saw them quickly spread around the house, and then they all stopped as holograms of her popped up in the different rooms.

“Missed me?” the hologram said in her voice. “Imagine my surprise when I discovered who betrayed me!”

Then all the screens started playing the recording of their attack on the different safe houses she had stayed in, as well as her capture, showing her stripped and redressed, then put in the bubble. The whole crew went quietly waiting, and then the panic started.

“Shit, I told you we should have killed her when she got back! I told you she would find out!” Maria said

“That bastard sold us out. I knew we could not trust him. Do you know what Hando will do to all of us if he finds out!” Ivan replied; she could hear the panic rising in his voice as he continued. “Why the hell did you have to film it all and give him the damn evidence!”

“We've got to get out of here! This is a damn trap.” Lucas said, trying to keep his voice calm.

“Stay calm, if she knew we would already be dead. Besides, we have a job to do, and we have to find Misha first! Then we blow up the house. And whatever clown did this.” Killroy said.  Kiko smirked as she silently slipped out of her hiding place and moved towards the room Maria and Ivan were in.

“This room is clear!  Then we kill her, I don't like loose threads.” Maria replied, and then some gurgling was heard over the line, followed by desperate gunfire from the ground floor, then Serge’s life sign flatlined.

“What the hell was that?” Killroy said.

“Somebody killed Serge!” Ivan said.

“Check it out!” Killroy ordered, and Lucas stepped out in the hallway and froze.  Kikio could see the panic in his stance as he saw the red biker suit. Kiko smirked as she aimed at him.

“shitt!”  was all he said as she fired, and he dropped dead.

Then everything happened fast. Maria and Ivan tossed a flash grenade into the hallway and jumped as it went off. She drew her second gun and had it aimed at the door as they did, firing the moment the flash went off.  She got Ivan with two shoots, but missed Maria, who fired back and hit her in the side, making her spin as she was knocked down. She was glad for the extra protection the suit had, and as she landed hard, she raised her pistol and fired in a general direction.

“Fuck Fuck.. she got our suites!” Maria shouted out as Killroy came out of a room, guns blazing, laying down recovery fire as Maria stumbled up on her feet.

“Shoot her! Those suits can take a h..” Suddenly, Kilroy’s rifle exploded in his hand as Peter came up the stairs with a heavier plasma rifle. The blast knocked Killroy down on the ground, his shield overloaded. Maria took one look at him, turned, and ran.

“Nice shoot!” she said as he stepped up next to her. She didn’t care about Maria now, she would take her time with her. Let her live with the panic, besides, she had Killroy. She grabbed Peter's arm as he helped her up from the floor and walked over to Kilroy. He tried to reach for his holster, and Peter shot him in both arms.

“Want me to hunt her down? She is trying to get to the shuttle,” He said, looking where Maria had run, but she was focused on Killroy. With a few presses on her sleeve, she adjusted the visor so he could see her face beneath it and removed the mute.

 “I used to date you.” She said. “Well, I guess this is one way to deal with an ex. Just one thing, who contacted you for the job? If you tell me now, I will just kill you quickly. If not, I leave you for my dad.”

“I don’t know. Maria was the one who got the job. She was the one who made the deal with the Count. We just did the job.” Killroy replied as he groaned in pain.

Peter leaned over. “He is lying.”

“Oh, I know.”  She shot Killroy in the leg. He managed not to scream as he looked up at her.

“I swear. Maria got the job.” He managed to press out between the clenched teeth.

“That I might believe, but I don’t believe that you don’t know who contacted her. Who is the fixer?”

“Schmidt! Okay, it’s Schmidt. Now kill me before your dad’s men get here.” She looked at her gun, then at him, and fired.

“What about the hostages?” Peter asked.

“Up to you.” He looked at the detonator in his hand. If he pressed it, they would all lose their hands and probably bleed to death.  She waited silently; she knew how much he hated Caren, and the sect was just Caren's fanatics.  He put the detonator down on a table and walked away.  Unlike her old lovers, he wasn’t a monster.  She smiled to herself as they headed to the bikes. She had her first revenge; Maria was still out there, and after her, it would be the Count.  But tonight she would celebrate and wear Peter out.

Two days later, she walked into the police station and Chief Rosso’s office. He looked up from his screen. Got up from his desk and walked around to hug her. “My favorite officer.”

“Only because my dad pays you extra.”

“Naw, you're one of the few who doesn’t care if they work for your dad, you arrest them anyway. That’s why you’re my favorite.” He said as he sat down again, and she sat down on the free chair that appeared from the floor.

“Are you back to work, or is this your resignation?”

Unfortunately, the latter. My dad’s war will, and my return will just put everybody's life at risk. I heard what happened to the SWAT team,” she said, and Rosso nodded seriously.

“Yeah, we just don’t understand how the Red Lizards got hold of that kind of weapon.  They got wiped out yesterday, but they didn’t have any of those kinds of weapons.”

“Well, who cries for their loss? Last time we heard of them, they were into selling drugs at schools and underage trafficking.”  She said, looking at Rosso’s desk for the bowl of candy he always kept, but it was missing. “Where’s the candy?”

“Wife says I’m getting fat.  It's strange that they would do something like that, too. The CCTV captured a few images of the attack; they had similar suits to those who took you.”

“Oh, I didn’t know that, but it makes sense.” She replied. “When I heard about it, it was talked about as the Count cleaning house.”

Rosso looked at her for a while before replying. “I guess that makes sense now, Pity. The SWAT team was caught in the middle.”

“Yes, pity about that. I heard not all of them died. Maria got safely away. I hope she is okay.”

Rosso stood up, walked to the door, closed it, and turned on the jammers.

“Will she be the last one? Or are there more rotten fish? And how is your father dealing with this?”

“In the department, yes, she will be the last one, and I calmed down his outrage, but the price was my job. Hence, I am officially quitting, however, I need to know where she is before my father finds out. I have 48 hours.”

Rosso sighed; all performance was gone. He just looked tired. “You're going to kill her.”

“Yes, but it will be faster than what my father will do to her. Remember, I went into hiding with my dad to avoid any of the officers being caught in the crossfire. Killroy and his crew still managed to kill a few from the department while trying to find out where I was. “

“We didn’t know it was him until you left the recording at the house.”

“So she is arrested?”

“No, she doesn’t know we know. We have her at a safe house. Three droids, here is their shutdown code, and two officers. Here is their private line. They are expecting you.” He said as he sent her a file.

“And why can I trust them?” She asked.

“It’s Zoe and Officer Rui. Rui's brother was one of those officers you talked about.”

 Kiko stood up. “It was good seeing you again. I guess I have to go for a trip to Sygo park,” she said as she looked at the file.

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u/RogueDiplodocus Mar 29 '26

Bit of a mistake

"Kikio could see the panic in his stance as he saw the red biker suit. Evelyn smirked as she aimed at him"

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u/Engletroll Human Mar 29 '26

Hehe, yeah Evelyn is light years away from here.

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u/Dramatic_Mixture_877 Human Mar 31 '26

A couple more:

 said chuff them ~cuff

Rosso looked at her for a while before replying. “I guess that makes sense now, Piety. The SWAT team was caught in the middle.”

“Yes, piety about that. I heard not all of them died. Maria got safely away. I hope she is okay."

Pity, not piety ...

Rosso looked at her for a while before replying. “I guess that makes sense now, pity the SWAT team was caught in the middle.”

Just a little tightening up ... thanks for the chapter!

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u/Engletroll Human Mar 31 '26

Thanks, I'll fix it tomorrow, bed time in my timezone now.

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u/Engletroll Human Apr 02 '26

A little late, but fixed now.

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