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In the year 2107 humanity has changed quite a bit. Machines and human minds have become integrated, where people can plug directly into computers and each other. While this has brought about many wonderful things, it also means that people can be hacked, have their memories erased, changed and even downloaded with viruses. The government is also fighting in an arms race to stay one step ahead of gangs and their like to prevent the hacking of it's citizens. A new rebel group has popped up, causing quite a few problems while claiming the government isn't nearly as benevolent as they appear and something is wrong with the system.

Akira waited by the back door next to Corky while the rest of the team got into position at the other entrances of the building. They had finally managed to corner some rebels who had been causing no end of trouble the last few months. The various gangs had been a cake walk to deal with compared to this group who seemed to have some sort of inside access to information, but a informant had yet to be found. The rebels were dug in and would make the team fight for every inch, Akira knew that much. There were a few others who would wait outside and prevent anyone from escaping, but Akira and Corky were to go into whatever hell waited inside and deal with the problem. “Ready?” She asked as the last team got into position. It was time to dive in.

On his mark Akira entered the first room close on Corky’s heals. Fortunately it was empty, but they weren’t so lucky with the hallway as gun fire sprayed in their direction. She smoothly stepped to the side and pressed her back against the wall while her partner dove back in. “They’ve got the hallway locked down. Prepare for a flashbang.” They were using the network to communicate instead of speaking out loud so the rebels wouldn’t hear them. She unhooked a flashbang from her belt and threw it down the hallway without looking. A few seconds later it went off and with it she went charging back into the hallway ready to disarm the rebels. Their primary objective was to capture as many as they could for questioning, only killing when necessary, but she had a feeling they’d be killing a lot more than capturing if every floor was like this. She managed to disarm one, pulling the gun from his hands and throwing it down the hall before the effects of the flashbang wore off, before kicking the rebel’s feet out from under him. Hopefully Corky was dealing with the other one.

She finished off the rebel she’d been dealing with by rendering him unconscious before rolling him over onto his stomach where she then restrained his arms behind his back in case he woke up. Akira frowned slightly, but gave a slight shrug. “Perhaps we had some bad intel and these guys have some rich backers.” She commented before mentally switching channels to speak to the rest of the team. It wasn’t the first time she’d had a mission where the information had been incorrect before leading to the loss of lives on their team. “I’ve got two here ready to be picked up. They are better armed than anticipated so watch yourselves.” With the room clear another team would come behind them and pick those they’d managed to subdue and take them away for questioning. With that done she motioned for Corky to lead the way into the next room.

“Make that two feet.” Akira answered as Corky returned fire at his would be killers. While they were more than capable having the correct intel was important so they knew what they were up against. Now wasn’t the time to be questioning how these guys could get their hands on such hardware unnoticed. Their targets didn’t seem to be worried about the server room or the cost of the equipment. In fact they seemed to be actively trying to destroy it when he partner broke down the door. Shots rang out and Akira dove to the right to dodge them. Smoke quickly filled the room so she switched to infrared vision however the hear from the servers interfered with that mode making it difficult to locate the enemies. She muttered a curse. “Do you see them?”

“What?!” Akria shouted in surprise. Expensive guns were one thing, but optical camo was serious hardware. Their team couldn’t even get their hands on it serious hardware. That stuff was kept under lock and key, carefully monitored and tracked. Only the highest ranked special ops teams got them and the equipment was ripped out when they left special ops. Body recovery of anyone killed in action was the highest priority of anyone with optical camo. “How in hell-“ She began, but before she could finish her sentence an invisible force struck her, a sucker punch right to the stomach. A second blow to the side of the head sent her to the ground. She mutters a string of curses under her breath. She needed to get her head in the fight instead of worrying about how they got their hands on such tech. A kick to the ribs and Akira made her move. She swiped her legs to the side the kick had come from and felt them connected with the invisible attacker, which was followed by the thud of a body falling. She drew he pistol, but before she could shoot in the general direction of where she thought her opponent would be a second attacker was on top of her, wrestling the gun from her hands. Things weren’t looking good and they were at a serious disadvantage here.