Sgt. Cookie's story (CK)

[sgtcookie]

Blowing up the factory

"Come on Tashika, hurry the fuck up, please."
"I'm trying, I'm trying but this is not easy, you gotta hold them off a little longer."
He sighs "OK, Sawbones, how you holding up?"
"Not good, Cookie, not good. These, things are almost here!"
"Hell hounds Doc, Hell hounds. I'll explain later. Tashika, how's the door coming?"
"Almost..there..GOT IT!"
"MOVE MOVE MOVE"
Before running through the door, Cookie throws a grenade at the Hell hounds, killing one of them. "OK, rest here for a minute." He stated, after a short while.


"What were those, Hell hound things any way Cookie?" Sawbones asked.
"Heavily modified dogs, bone grafts, dermal plating, the works. They're also kept in constant pain, to bump up aggression levels. Considerably."
Tashika spoke up "So, what is this place anyway?"
"It's a factory, for Hell hounds. This place could mass produce them if needed. But so far they have only been made on demand. There's about a few hundred of them out there right now, but this place could create thousands. And we're here to blow this place sky hi..."
Cookie was cut off by the sound of some high pitched barks.
"PUPPIES!" Tashika exclaimed.

"We are saving them Cookie, you hear me?"
"Fine, Tashika, we'll go save them."
"What are puppies doing here, anyway Cookie?" Sawbones asked.
"It's how their made, puppies are reared to maturity and then all that cyber shit is added to them."
The barking got louder as they approached a door. Cookie tried the door. "Locked, damn."
"Out of my way, Cook, I'll handle this."

Within a minute Tashika had picked the lock, inside the room were three puppies. "Strange." Cookie exclaimed.
"What is?" Sawbones asked.
"None of these are Great Danes. Normally a Hell Hound is a Great Dane. Large, powerful beasts. Chosen simply because they look intimidating. These have been chosen for a reason. I wonder what it is..."
Tashika had already run into the room and picked up one of them. "This is an Akita Inu, popular with Yakashimi. Japanese in origin."
Cookie picked up one of the others, "This one's a Basset Hound. Bravestar love to use these as sniffer dogs."
"You'd know all about that, wouldn't you "Sergent"?" Sawbones remarked.
"I'm not Bravestar any longer, Sawbones." Cookie said as he put the dog down.
"Got a Jack over here." Tashika stated.

"We ready to go yet?" Sawbones asked, irritably. Tashika looked a little confused. "Where'd the Basset go?"
Sawbones' pack started to move a little. "Sawbones..." He opened his pack and took the dog out. "His name is Scruffles, he is my Scruffles. Got a problem with that?"
"What part of the bag is he in?"
"...I took his bedding and put it in an empty part of the bag."
Tashika simply sighs "Cookie?"
"I took the Jack Russell."

The three of them, and their new dogs, began to place the explosives around the building.
Sawbones flicked his radio on and called Cookie. "Cookie, what's to stop someone from coming back here. If this place is a factory then shouldn't there be workers?"
"About once a week someone comes around to clean up the litter box. It was last cleaned yesterday so we're good."
"Ah, OK. But, what's to stop more of these Hell Hounds being made?"
"This place simply mass produces them. They can be made in labs, if needed. So to stop production of them entirely we'd need to nuke the entire NBZ."
"All done here. Ready to go?" Tashika piped in with.
"Done here, how 'bout you Sawbones?"
"All done. Let's go."

Standing about half a mile away, Cookie stood "there with the detonator in-hand. "Three, two, one, boom."
Cookie pressed the button on the detonator and blew the building up. The entire NBZ could probably have heard that explosion. "So, we ready to head home? I'm starving. Your turn to cook Sawbones."
"Sure, lets head back. Scruffles needs to get some sleep anyway."

(So, what do you think?)

[LordofSyn]

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Good quick read. short scenes or stories are always fun.

[sgtcookie]

Thanks, more to come. Don't worry.

[fallen]

Funny that the next release features War-Hunds, the semi-mutant attack dogs of 2217! Certainly, the (already started) cybered-up version of this monsters will now be known as Hell-Hunds.

[LordofSyn]

Sept 29, 2011 17:10:58 GMT -5 fallen said:

Funny that the next release features War-Hunds, the semi-mutant attack dogs of 2217! Certainly, the (already started) cybered-up version of this monsters will now be known as Hell-Hunds.

Huzzah! good call. let's hope that they are hounds too!

[sgtcookie]

An old friend

The night was calm at the safe house. Well, it was until Scruffles started barking his tiny head off.
"Bloody hell, Sawbones. Can you not keep him under control?" Cookie shouted.
"Alright, alright. I'll shut him up."

Sawbones gets out of bed and walks into the kitchen to find Tashika sitting there. Working on a maglock kit.
"Do you ever sleep Tashika?"
"Of course not my dear Sawbones. Why do you think I have a chem auto injector implanted in my skull?"
"All I have some minor bone grafts. And I'm happy. Too many of those damned implants and you loose touch with reality."
"I know the risks. So what are you doing up this late?"
"Shutting Scruffles up. Do we have any rohypnol or some such left?"
"I think so. Why?"
"Scruffles likes his biscuits."

A few hours later Cookie gets up. "Morning Tashika. Fix the maglock kit yet?"
"Morning Cookie. Almost. I really have to watch those falls in future."
"After I eat I'm gonna put in a few calls to some contacts. Get in a couple of jobs for today. Any preference?"
"Getting out of the house. Crammers give you way too much energy... Especially when you have too much."
"I told you to turn the auto injector down. And you didn't listen. Did you?"

A couple of hours later, the three of them were walking towards a Los Val building. Sawbones turned to Cookie.
"So, what are we doing here Cookie? Los Val aren't that dangerous. Irritating? Yes. Dangerous. No. So why are we here?"
"Long story short. There is a discussion between Los Val's top guys and Fenian's. Los Val want protection from the Irish, the Irish want to amass gangers in Los Val territory. Don't know why. An old Bravestar friend of mine wants us to capture the lot."
Tashika piped in "Usual plan?"
"Of course."

Tashika broke off from the others, and slinked into the shadows. She clambered up a drain pipe and onto the roof. She came up to a door and began to pick it. Unbeknown to her a Los Val guard snuck up behind Tashika. A shot was heard behind her and she turned round in time to see the guard fall.

"What the hell was that Sawbones?"
"That would have been me." A female voice from behind them said.
The two of them turned around.
"Charlotte? Not that it isn't good to see you but I though you were getting out of the NBZ?" Sawbones said.
"I did, Sam. But I decided to come back." Charlotte pointed up. "She a friend of yours?"
"Yeah, that's Tashika. I think you just about saved her life."
"Not to interrupt this or anything. But who is she Sawbones?"
"Oh, sorry. Charlotte, this is Cookie. Gunslinger and team leader. Tashika up there, Assassin. Cookie, this is Charlotte. One of my patients when I was, you know. A real doctor."
"Impressive skills Charlotte. You know a thing or two with a rifle. Doesn't look like a gun link. Real skill?"
"Yes it is Cookie. Might I ask, is "Cookie" your real name? I doubt it is."
"No, my real name is Cooke. Someone just decided to stick an "I" in to it and the nick just stuck."
"Which do you prefer?"
"Cookie."
"Alright Cookie."

Tashika popped up on the radio. "So who's the blond?"
"An old friend of Sawbones. A brilliant shot with a sniper rifle. She saved your arse."
"Will that give away that we are here though?"
"A gunshot? In Los Val territory?"
"Point taken. So, will you ask her to join us? You have been saying we need a sniper."
"I'll ask."

"Charlotte, I know this is a bit sudden but would you consider helping us?"
"Sure, I came back to kill some Los Val thugs anyway."
"Will you do what I tell you to? This job is far to valuable for an itchy trigger finger turning it all to shit."
"...Alright. I'll do what you tell me to."
"Ok, take up a position in the abandoned building behind us. Make sure you can see every window on this side of the building."
"OK."
"Here, take this." Cookie passes Charlotte a small inner-ear radio.
"Put it in your ear, just talk and we can hear you. Do you have a smaller gun for shorter range threats?"
Charlotte puts the radio in. "Yeah. Automag."

About twenty minutes later the four of them were all in position.
Tashika called up Charlotte. "Anything ahead of me?"
"A couple of Hyper Gangers are a couple of rooms ahead. One of them has a War-Hund. That a problem?"
"No, of course not. Just wanted to know what I am up against. Cookie, Sawbones. You two in position?"
"We are both outside the front door. Ready to kick it in when you give the all clear. Charlotte, when we have the bottom captured you need to make any escape attempts.. unworthwhile. But use stun rounds against any higher ups. Los Val AND Fenian. Just look for the fancy suits."

Tashika had finished opening the door, and crept into the room before the Hyper Gangers. The door in front of her begun to open. "Charlotte, what is going on?"
"One of the Hunds caught a whiff of something. One of the Gangers is looking into it. Want me to take em out?"
"Put a silencer on first."
"Done, lining up the shot."
Within a couple of seconds Charlotte had killed both the Gangers and the Hund.
"Nice shooting. OK you two. Get ready."

Cookie and Sawbones took their positions outside the door, ready to kick them in. "OK, NOW!"
With two swift, simultaneous movements the two of them had kicked open the door and took out all the guards inside. "No need to take it silently anymore. They know we're here now."

Cookie, Sawbones and Tashika shifted tough the building, shooting guards and hunds alike. Charlotte suppressed any escape attempt, expertly Cookie noted. "OK, the top brass of both gangs should be in here. Lets take em in and get paid."

Cookie opened the door and several people in sharp suits were on the ground, stunned. "Nice going Charlotte. That will make our job so much easier. Tash, call up our Bravestar connector. Tell him to send some drones to pick up the prisoners. Charlotte, come up here and help us move them downstairs. I have a couple of questions to ask you..."

A couple of hours later when the four of them were back at the safe house, Cookie was winding up his speech.
"...So, that's the deal. Virtually free food and board, an equal spilt of the profits and unrestricted access to the stockpile. All you have to do is be a team player. Your answer?"
"One question. How the hell does retina blanking work?"
"The blood vessels in your eyes take on a uniform pattern. So I take that as a yes then?"
"It certainly is."