“We hired your Eldritch ass to do the ‘heavy lifting’ so to speak…”
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“Get your things Mister Wright… We’re going…” Anton said as Marcus finished checking over his antique Luger. Roza was too busy cleaning her old combat knife to notice that the pair was leaving, but a tap on the shoulder from Marcus got her attention long enough to allow her to get up and follow her host out of the building to a small car that was waiting at the pavement. “Oh… You’re driving by the way…” the Dutchman smiled as he opened the door for Marcus to get in, noticing that Roza had disappeared once again.
“Of course I am…” Marcus smirked as he got in and started the engine, much to his relief, there was no annoying AI that would tell him where to go this time. The drive from the safehouse to the port would only take a good 20 minutes from what Anton had told him, although it was currently at rush hour traffic so the trip could possibly be delayed by a few minutes – give or take at least 10. Marcus then started to drive out onto the road, allowing the old music blaring from one of the local radio stations to lull him into a trance, something that he would profoundly regret in a few minutes’ time…
The traffic seemed to be building up to almost insane levels as Marcus had mysteriously managed to keep his cool for the duration of the trip. The old music had put him into a trance as he skilfully overtook anyone that tried to slow him down, but staying within the speed limit as he got many a nasty glare from the drivers that went past him. The large skyscrapers started to approach him as the two Agents started to make their way through the Central Business District of New Brabant, looking for what turns to take had kept Marcus in his driving trance, something that he’d learnt from being stuck in traffic in whatever city he was in, be it Brisbane, Berlin or Bombay.
“Just go with the flow and don’t give anybody any sour looks…”
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“Is everything ready? We must not disappoint our backers…” a Germanic voice boomed over a loudspeaker as his varied, multi-national minions ran around the abandoned office block with crates of weapons in tow as the Red Army Faction planned yet another terrorist attack that would send the world reeling into yet another uncoordinated rush to find their leaders.
“Ja, Herr Kommander!” most of the building said in unison, living up to the collectivist ideals that they were brought up with after their failed attempt to keep the German Reich going for another century or so. The small group 7 men and woman that came from afar afield as Brazil, Soudan or Siam had finally managed to ready their weapons as a few of them stood outside of the 4th storey windows with old American
Stinger missiles at the ready. The rest of the men and women stood ready to get-out-of-Dodge when the situation presented itself, while the rest of them would fight to become martyrs for the new world revolution. Just like Himmler, Baader and Meinhoff had intended all those years ago…
“FIRE!”
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“I wouldn't if I were you, I know what she can do… She's deadly man, and she could really rip your world apart… Mind over matter… The beauty is there but a beast is in the heart…”
Marcus continued to drive through the CBD, completely unaware of the chaos that would unfold around him as he tapped out the familiar rhythm of the song that was playing out of his Walkman, the radio having long since malfunctioned on him for some odd reason. This world wasn’t blessed with one of the best musical duos in the multiverse, which seemed to be one of the things that Marcus thought was a downside for the world he was currently operating in. He was suddenly snapped out of his momentary coma by the soft strumming of a guitar, playing a tune that he recognised from his mother’s LP collection, he looked to the back of the car to notice Roza strumming a Spanish guitar with a look of either utter horror or that of a confident smirk on her face.
“Turn around you idiot and put the pedal to the metal!” the
Magyar shouted as Marcus turned to face something that caused him to almost ram the car into the one in front of him before common sense prevailed and probably divine providence forced him to do a swift manoeuvre that sent the vehicle into a mostly empty lane, but the car was also driving into a well-sized salvo of anti-air rockets that were aimed anywhere
but the air.
“What is with you and playing fucking Roundabout at the worst of times!?”
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I'm going to hell for this... Aren't I? But yes, this is a legit update... I just needed to throw in some much-needed comic relief in the form of a Metal Gear reference spewing Hungarian that is part Eldritch...
I had the idea all week, pls no kill ;-;