[@Letter Bee]

Hagen raised an eyebrow. "Trader, eh?." He snorted with laughter. "I'm sorry If you don't like people pointing guns at you, but in case you hadn't noticed this city is at war." He told the youngster. "So you want to trade. All right, follow me. We'll see what the boss thinks of you. Alone." He specified, pointing at the rest of Par's men. "They can cool their heels here." 

Hagen led Par into the Tuileries bar, through crowds of drunks and the poor until they came to where the leader of the revolution sat nursing a glass of something strong. 

"So Dan." Napoleon said. "Who's the stray?" 

"Trader. Wants to...trade." Hagen answered. Napoleon V swung round to face Par. "All right, friend." She said, sipping her drink. "What do you have for me?" She didn't invite Par to sit down.


[@Tuxedo Fox]

SECONDARY QUEST-A Light in the Darkness

The barge moved clumsily towards shore, minimising the area the two little Marauder craft could attack. Boss dropped into cover, as did Carson. Boss fired a couple of shots from his handgun. Carson didn't see if he hit anything; he concentrated on the second boat. The major fired off a tight three-round burst, cursing as the bullets thudded into the red-painted hull of the enemy vessel.

 Return fire whipped across the water, sparking off the side of the barge. AH let out a high-pitched warble that sounded like a battle-cry, opening up with a surprising amount of fire that caught one of the Marauder's crew in the torso, hurling him of his ship and into the water. The first vessel swept past, inundating the barge in small-arms fire. Carson leaned over the rail, firing back. He whooped in glee as he saw his bullets drop another foe out of sight, blood spiralling through the air.

 Boss stood: "Choke on this you sonsofbitches!" He roared, hurling a grenade with all his might. The explosion caught the second boat at the stern as it came in for it's first pass, kicking the rear clear out of the water. Carson pumped a fist in the air. "Hell yes, Boss! That'll teach em to mess with pros!" The Marauder vessel began to sink. Her surviving crew swarmed the decks, firing with whatever weapons they had. The barge swung towards it, bearing down on the smaller craft. 

"Uh, Boss?" Carson shouted. "Your pilot got a death wish?" 

Before the other could respond the barge slammed into the Marauder craft. The enemy ship exploded into shards of wood and metal as Boss' ship pulverised it like it hadn't even been there. Carson didn't even lose his balance. 
The surviving enemies on board the enemy ship were annihilated, wiped from the Wasteland as if they'd never been there.  

There was no time to celebrate. Even as the barge ploughed through the remnants of the Marauders the first ship, which had swung around for another attack, was alongside. Several Marauder scum hosed the deck with fire whilst five of their comrades leapt across onto the barge. 

"Boss!" Carson shouted. "We got boarders!" Kind of pointless to shout that. Boss could hardly miss them. The major groaned as he spotted a Mister Gutsy   amongst the enemy. 

"Kill em all, let God sort 'em out!" The Marauder robot barked, powering across the deck.