It took a while, but my convoy of tanks 'quickly' cleared out the front area of infected and bioweapons that came to mess with us.
And with a crisp crackle of energy. I got out of the tank with an energy sword crackling to life as I moved with several dozen androids, having already secured the area.
'Thankfully, I am wearing an optical reflection in my armor. So no cameras can record me and instead just counter hack itself to delete its recordings.'
It was amazing how even in this advanced world. Just walking around in a set of clothes that had built-in malware and trap QR codes would fuck over any surveillance.
A loud series of hisses rang out from the shattered and destroyed remains of the small stores at the entry section. Dozens of lickers, horrible-looking muscle-exposed monsters, rushed at high speed across the wreckage.
I pointed my hand cannon at the closest one and with a loud crack, its head and upper chest became a bloody mist as the fragment shot out of my gun at a speed closer to the speed of light, utterly evaporating its upper body.
'Mass Effect guns' may not be good against energy shields that ignore inertia and only fail against massive mass impacts. But against fleshy monsters? Yeah, it shreds easily.' I mused thoughtfully.
Then the laser rifles and other mass effect-style guns my androids were using. Rang out all too quickly as the rest of the lickers were cut down under the android's unfailing aim.
Not even getting close enough for the androids to take out their own melee tools.
But that wasn't all, as from far above. Hearing the much closer gunfire, came what I expected when I heard that a large 'monster' was beating on the reinforced door of my old apartment.
A loud boom followed by a cloud of dust filled my vision before I switched my implants to X-Ray vision to peirce through the fog as I looked past the dust cloud to see the Tyrant who stood up from the crater he created with his landing.
"Kill it. Use the plasma casters to disable it's regeneration." I said blandly as the heavy weapon user's in my personal guard quickly stepped out, even as the Tyrant's own minigun spun to life to shoot at us as well.
But I just held up a hand to create a Mass Effect field to block the stream of what I quickly realized were hybrid smart and explosive rounds as the bullets tried to fly around my Mass Effect field and exploded when they were caught.
Within a couple moments, the androids leveled the large plasma caster's on the tyrant and it was bathed in green plasma energy that quickly melted it's body while forcing it back.
And despite it's armored suit that was clearly built with energy weapons in mind. Probably for fighting Vault Tech special weapons as well. It still couldn't withstand a constant beam of green plasma that was hotter then the surface of the sun.
Once it was disabled. I looked away as I heard the loud bleeping warning of several plasma grenades being armed and I quickly made my way towards the elevator leading to the upper levels.
As several plasma grenades were going off at once was both utterly blinding. And there was still plasma radiation to worry about from ionized particles that got flash-melted beyond their evaporation point.
And that Tyrant woudn't be an issue at this point with a dozen plasma grenades turning it into a pile of ashes.
As soon as I got into the elevator, I sent both David and Gloria a message that I was coming up the elevator and that they needed to be ready with their go bags.
And as a few more androids and I went up the elevator... There were a few lickers that tried to break into the elevator. But I wasn't Leon or a normal Resident Evil protagonist who was just armed with a pistol or maybe a normal shotgun.
The lickers were easily dealt with as 2B carved them open with her sword and soon enough I was giving the standard knock to my old door even as I shot the two another message to confirm it was me.
And as the dented and armored door to my old apartment slid open. I couldn't help but laugh seeing David holding my older and smaller pistol that wasn't aimed... Totally at me at least even though I could all but feel 2B bristle at the sight to begin with.
"Yup, it's me dude. Alright, let's get the fuck out of here before more bioweapons and shit I don't want to deal with get here." I said quickly.
And seeing David wearing Gloria's own jacket that could read his bio-data... I quickly snatched that shit off him with him grumbling. "The hell is up with the jacket choomba?"
Seeing both their confused expressions, I said flatly. "There is little reason for Umbrella to be sending a Tyrant to break into my old apartment... I am not at all a known figure, David. But you, you are a man of talent and have an adaptable body. You could be made into a high-end bioweapon for sure."
David's tanned face went pale at my frank words, with Gloria cursing under her breath in Spanish before she said quickly. "Then are you just going to toss the jacket Jake?"
To which I smiled and said in amusement. "Nah, not yet, at least. I can at least counter hack the servers in which that biocompany you work for. That hosts their servers. I can then empty their accounts before I torch this jacket."
I tossed the jacket to one of the scout androids and said with a smile. "96S, start DDoS'ing the servers, actually."
And for a brief moment, I wondered about the couple of hundred thousand other people stuck here in this mega-tower before I mentally shrugged. I connected with the tank convoy outside of the tower.
[Use the tanks to push a bunch of debris and such to block off the front of the mega-tower so more undead and bioweapons can't climb into the tower as easily.]
Sure, things like licker's with their insane mobility would still be able to easily get in. But unless they were licker's with dermal implants and implants to make them far hardier.
The tower's security forces and Max-Tec could easily clear them out as Lickers were stealth scouting and assassination forces. Not assault units at all in this world.
With Gloria and David secured. I loaded them up into one of the wraiths with David HAPPILY taking over a gunner position to wipe out the slowly encroaching undead that were attracted by all our noise.
As I went and called my 'bestie' in Rebecca with her voice from the call filling my mind with her usual cheer.
"Yooooo! What the hell happened when you stepped out of your carrier!? It made all the surveillance equipment fucking explode and shit the bed!" She cried out as soon as the call connected.
I let out a helpless chuckle before I said easily. "Visual-based quick hack that will cripple any camera looking at me that isn't cleared. Really helps when some fucker is going to attack me and his eyeballs basically shut down for a forced update due to the corruption."
There was a pause before I heard Lucy in the background cry out. "That's bullshit!"
But then Rebecca just laughed and said. "Choom that's just cheatin at our game, haha! Anyway you on your way yet? Some fuckin giant bugs are breaking out of the sewers, and smaller caliber rounds are just bouncing off them."
I nodded even though she couldn't see it. But I still said helplessly. "On my way, yeah for sure. Especially with what you promised. But I need to push through a fucking horde of a couple thousand undead with their own implants. I am going to need like... Twenty minutes to get to the Mox's playhouse."
"Well you better hurry the fuck up! This fine ass is currently busy killing all the freaks of the rainbow!" And with that, she cut the call as heavy gunfire filled the other end of the line.
'She is fiiiineeee.' I thought with a helpless smile before I sent a message to Commander White even as Devola and Popola took a heat gun to my armored form to clean up any virus's.
[Any notable developments? What is Arasaka and Vault Tech doing?] I messaged her.
Commander White after a few moments then replied with a thoughtful tone. "Both corporations have fully barricaded themselves in their various headquarters, it seems. Araska tower has gone on full war alert and only a nuclear bomb could shake it at this point."
And then White's thoughtful voice turned wry as she said. "As for Vault Tech's mega vault built underground in the badlands? It has also been attacked from what we can see via the Bunker's camera's but their systems are completely analog and local. We can't hack into them to get a better picture."
I let out a thoughtful hum as I remembered that giant bastard Frank Horrigan even as White sent me the satellite imagery that YoRHa had taken around Vault Tech's mega bunker and HQ for the western side of America.
And I could tell that Vault Tech had a heavy fight as there were many destroyed drones, machines, super mutants, and even deathclaws that got pulled into a nasty fight with a horde of bioweapons that Umbrella pulled out of it's ass and had hit Vault Tech.
Either way, I was glad to see that there weren't any Arasaka ninja's running around Night City doing bullshit to cause ME issues. They were seemingly perfectly fine sniping any poor bastard that wasn't wearing an IF tag of theirs that got close to the tower.
A heavy rumble rang throughout the armored carrier that made me hit the side of the vehicle with a curse.
"Ultra Mini, Mini-Nuke was launched out of an undead's Projectile Launch system. Energy shields held, but one of the offboard camera's was damaged." One of the scouting units informed me and I nodded in understanding.
By this point we crossed over several streets as we headed in Mox held gang territory with Mox's liking large slug throwing gun's that allowed them to punch up past their weight alot of the time.
So soon enough through the carrier's audio sensors I was jacked into. I could hear the cascade of shooting in the distance as the Mox's gang had come together to put up a kill box around their fortifed whore house.
"Make sure not to shoot the girls. They are nominally on our side, and they are hosting my friends." I called out through the channels even as Rebecca started blowing up my phone as she obviously saw the first wraith tank in the convoy roll on up.
{Jaaaakkkkeee! Why are these tanks so fucking gay looking!? They look like a blue metal slug decided to crawl up into a shell and that the ground was to dirty for it to walk on!}
My face twitched at her... Utter heresy! But after a moment, I wondered if I should also branch off into making other Covenant vehicles as well.
I was very, very curious how the Batarian slavery fleet's would compare to a covenant flagship like the Longnight of Silence that invaded Reach for example.
But still in Rebecca's case... If she really was going to happily gargle my balls while jerking me off as she so elegantly put it. I could... Maybe make her a Brute-style chopper with an integrated antigrav lift so the bike woudn't tear up the roads of NC and get her killed NCPD.
So with a chuckle, I replied teasingly. "Tell you what Rebecca, I got some idea's for some badass bikes and armored tanks that could use your input. Let's just get your asses out of there first."
And then my smiling expression turned a bit awkward as I watched as while we pushed forward. The Mox trying to get access to the tanks as they obviously didn't want to also be left behind in NC. That was a shitstorm as the new Corpo War was underway.