[i]>device: Ocular-Photonic Headset and Neurointerface (OPHAN) v.7.0.1
>synchronising feed to radiometric sensor...
>success
>decrypting hard drive...
>...
>... 66%
>... 67%
>... 68%[/i]

Things that seemed to be moving slowly at a surface level started to accelerate.

Giggles felt a few jolts below his feet and then smiled. [color=darkkhaki]"What balls, babe?"[/color] he crooned, snapping his own finger gun. He was still moving forwards, but not at an idle pace anymore. This girl had the skinniest legs he'd seen since the flamingos on Ecetopia. Let her run if she felt like it.

[i]>... 74%[/i]

[colour=darkkhaki]"What's up, Hound?"[/colour] murmured Giggles as the dog fretted and followed them over the bridge. Colin introduced the two of them succinctly enough but the tomboy's attention was elsewhere. [colour=darkkhaki]"Drones? Followers?"[/colour]

[i]>... 83%[/i]

Seong crouched behind a concrete wall and lowered his HUD visor. Blood stims thrummed in his veins.

[i]>... 89%[/i]

There was a shadow ahead, some way down the street- Giggles saw it and hardened with tension. Someone in a coat.

[i]>... 96%[/i]

The barrel of a heavy rifle peeked out of the block they'd left behind. Giggles's gun whipped into the air-

[i]>... 98%[/i]

-a spray of bullets roared from the bridge as two explosive rounds hammered into the concrete at SIGINT's back-

[i]>... 99%[/i]

-half a dozen shots smacked into Seong's vest as two more cracked his bulletproof visor into his face-

[i]>... 100%[/i]

The universe blinked out and Giggles was blind.

Muscle memory threw him to the ground with a charcoal blade in his hand. The parang swung low across the bridge, finding nothing and narrowly avoiding Colin's ankles, and when the reflexive game of blind-man's-buff was over and Giggles didn't seem to be dead, he threw a hand to his face.

He tore off the left eyesac, taking a few capillaries with it, and fixed SIGINT with a rapidly swelling green eye. [colour=darkkhaki]"Yeah, real fuckin' funny,"[/colour] he said in her general direction as he started to run, freeing his other eye and feeling the rush of water somewhere distant. [colour=darkkhaki]"Colin, grab this minx and move. That merc isn't dead. Go anywhere, I have your back."[/colour]

But his gaze and gunpoint were already elsewhere. The submachine gun was facing somewhere to one side, where the shadow in the coat had last been. [colour=darkkhaki]"Come out, motherfucker! I saw you!"[/colour] Giggles gestured off to one side with the machete as he yelled, bidding the two non-combatants to make haste.

[@LPRKN][@JaceBeleren][@SIGINT]