Character Fiction/Extraction Job

Written by Drakir Released on March 15th, 2020 Extraction Job New job. Finally. It had been way too long. Met the Johnson, could have sworn I recognized him but no. Me and four, I repeat four friggin mages! Three women, an elf, an ork and a human, and a human red-head guy. Won’t tell you any names for professional reasons but it seemed like a mix of very experienced and some on their first run. At least one of them could talk the talk really well. And would you believe it, our face mage was the ork girl! Good on her, did her job much better than a lot of humans or even elves might have done. Raised our pay significantly. Magic helped of course. The job; Prisoner extraction. And, prepare yourself, a frikkin Halloweener! And one I had heard of nonetheless. Ok, I know the Halloweeners pretty well as you know. Take pot shots at them every chance I get. Drek gangers with their fire fetish. Nearly walked right there, but money is money. Had to be the professional. Hate them for what they did, and still do. Wouldn’t even be that sorry if we failed. Of course there was no time to prepare, unless we wanted to hit a high security prison. Noone voted for that option. Extraction en route it was. All of them jumped into my pickup, because they had no real vehicles. One of them even arrived by bicycle! On the way there, I asked them to refrain from fireballs (was a bit worried about the redhead). But apparently they all preferred magic electricity. Suited me well enough. And then a new surprise. One started handling a cyberdeck! Mage decker, have never encountered that combo before. Our plan was for the decker, with some magic boosts, to hack the transport truck and get it to stop. I would be our frontline troops and mages do what mages do. And of course, the plan was good and worked well until action time as usual... I tailed the truck without them noticing until we entered a lower lever security zone. Deckers turn. Immediately the decker failed at hacking and warned off their rigger. Give me a real nerd, with datajacks and antennas out his/her head. Not some mage with a deck! I can drive, but no way I’m keeping up with a full rigger. Time for action. All the mages, including the decker started blasting the big hauler with all sorts of spells. Never seen that much lightning in such a short time. Noses started bleeding in my car. The truck seemed unhurt. Not a dent. And still going full speed. A bullet or ten would do nothing to a big hauler so I concentrated on the driving. Some magic started happening, but fortunately we had the small japanese elf girl. She did some magic protection stuff but then was pretty out of it. More Lightning. No effect. A dwarf popped out of a roof hatch and we all could see he worked some kind of magic. Fearing the dreaded fireball, I did an evasive maneuver. Lucky I did, or we all would have been crispy. The red-headed guy sent two large spirits against the truck. I saw one blazing fire elemental and was really glad it wasn’t going my way. The two apparently killed the rigger. Dwarf mage seemed to resist most spells my ”colleagues” tried throwing at him, but finally one last lightning bolt did him in. I saw nothing of what happened in the truck but suddenly some whirlwind lifted our target out of the truck and apparently the fire elemental killed everyone inside. I shudder just to think of it. I stopped and we put our target in my truck. To my satisfaction, he seemed a bit worse for wear. Probably tasted a bit of all that lightning. Our job description said nothing about him having to be in perfect shape so no worries. Took a glance in the truck if there perhaps was a body for you, but everything was burnt to a crisp. The mages did something they called ”scrubbing” for a while, then we left. Changed color and plates on my truck if there were witnesses. But it seems like we got away without trouble. Got paid. Nearly 10k for a relatively short drive. And I did not shoot a single bullet! A job well done in the end. I hope the Halloweener bastard soon gets caught again, or I might kill him myself. Would gladly work with all of them again, but might prefer a ”real” decker instead of a mage doing on the side. How was your day?