Inside Fratellis' Pizza
The Judges enter the dark warehouse through the broken window. Haphazardly stacked crates, cases and boxes, of all shapes and sizes, form a maze of corridors and tunnels inside.
Steel and Que inspect one of the military style flight cases and find a consignment of Stub Guns which their label confirms were part of a consignment destined for the Citi-Def at Berlusconi Block in the Eurozone. Steele makes his way along the wall until he finds the main door. He locates the buildings electrical panel and flips all the switches. The lights turn on illuminating the warehouse and the Judges get a brief glimpse of their surroundings.
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| if only it was as neatly arranged as this famous warehouse |
Que and Steele spot an approaching droid whose nameplate reads "Call Me Eddy". A forklift bot with two long fork arms, it trundles innocuously forwards to a large crate nearby marked "Soft Toys" and proceeds to lift it up. A second forklift droid, "Call Me Ed" approaches Wallace and Holmes position on the 76th street side of the building and positions itself behind a large crate. Eddy's torso swings violently towards the Judges as he throws the large crate at Steele. His fate is not to die today and he leaps out of the way through the glassteel door into the office hallway as the crate lands, its contents of garishly coloured stuffed toys erupting like an exploding volcano. Rolling to his feet he fires an Armour piercing round at the droids domed head which punches a neat hole through the glasteel wall of the hallway, and another just below the droids menacingly reciprocating singular red eye revealing sparking interior circuits.
Edd pushes the crate towards Wallace who instinctively leaps atop it, the label at his feet reads "Anvils". He selects a High Explosive round, steps back onto a second crate marked "Packing Peanuts" and fires at Edd's head. At such close range the HE does not have time to arm and it ricochets off the droid exploding somewhere else in the warehouse.
Que spots a big red stop button just below the Eddy's nameplate on his chest and fires an AP round at it. The plastic button stands no chance and disintegrates on impact as the round pierces deep inside Eddy shredding vital components as it goes. Gears begn to grind and Eddy's torso revolves at an alarming rate it's long forklift arms acting like scythes shredding anything they touch.
On the other side of the warehouse Holmes fires an AP round blowing off one of Edd's radar dish ears as it crushes the case of Anvils against the case of Packing Peanuts. Eddy continues his inexhorable deathspin towards Steele and Que.
Wallace fires another AP round at Edd which penetrates but does not cause any appreciable change in the droids behaviour. Faced with being sliced to death by Eddy's forklift hands, Steele calmly aims at the hole inthe droids body work and fires an AP round. It is a direct hit! and Eddy drops an arm, overbalances and crashes to the floor.
Que moves into the office and spots another droid approaching from the shadows on the other side of the warehouse some 45 feet away. It looks like a decomissioned war droid sporting a FOR SALE sticker half covering it's nameplate "Call Me ED209". She immediately fires an AP round at the hulking bipedal death machine's head punching a neat hole in it's grill. It's twin miniguns whirr into life as it commands
"+++HALT INTRUDERS+++ +++YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY+++"
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| ED209 - Winner of 1980s "Now That's What I Call A War Droid" Award |
Meanwhile Holmes homes runs up alongside Edd and slams her fist into the droids Kill switch shutting the oversealous cargo bot down. As she surveys the scene her keen eye for detail makes her notice that the truck which had been parked in the loading bay with its driver side window wound down now has it wound up. A third lifter droid hoves into view from around the other side of the Fratelli's Truck.
Wallace hears the truck's engine start. From his elevated vantage point standing on the crate of packing peanuts he shoots at the right front tire with an HP and misses. The round explodes under the truck lifting it up briefly.
Steele fires a Heatseeker over the shattered glassteel office window which locks onto the nearest heat source blowing off part of ED209's faceplate. Que kicks through the shattered window and and shoots an HE at ED209's exposed circuitry the explosion spins the war droid off to the right as it unleashes both of its miniguns shredding crates and their contents like confetti at a wedding.
Holmes rushes towards the back of the truck grabbing at the rear door lever determined to gain entry and arrest the driver.
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