<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote from: Lust for Life</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Here comes Johnny Yen again<br/>With the liquor and drugs<br/>And the flesh machine</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>It's about twenty minutes to 5 A.M. on March 1st, middle of the road, the were doesn't matter. What's supposed to be happening when the clock strikes 5 is an informed team of the best corp-sec has available firing on and killing the disoriented survivors of an Ares Roadmaster crash. The handlers were being completely honest when they called it an unmodified, registered transport vehicle. After all, the modification was done almost a year ago, tailor made to be unnoticed by the team. When you're responsible for (almost) every detail of their lives, you can do things like that, especially if it's to start a corp war that you can't help but profit from.<br/><br/>But there's no accounting for things like luck, especially where mechanical breakdowns are concerned. It was only the equivalent of three wires connecting where they shouldn't have, but it was enough to turn a ram into an overpowered ram instead of an on-the-side skidding crash. And because of that the Roadmaster flew through the weakened wall, and reduced the whole team to a bloody smear.<br/><br/>And if that had been the runner team, the people behind this 'run' would have been overjoyed. It would have forced the investigators to use DNA profiling and hope for dental, and thus find the clues at double speed. Unfortunately for them, it was the security team that became red paste and a minor miracle meant that the runners emerged wholly unscathed.<br/><br/>A little disoriented, but that didn't matter. They'd have their heads clear, berings strait (go north, up the stairs, then hope that the shorter route was clear), and be on the move before an alarm was called. After all, the crash was expected, as was a bit of comm silence while the shooting was going on. That briefcase was going to be leaving with them despite nobody wanting it.