From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis L. Rostykus)
Subject: Danger Room: Li's run part 2 of 2
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:30:51 GMT

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        Li's right arm was ressurecting itself; and it was complaining
every single step of the way.  Sudden jolts made it feel like it was on
fire like the sky.

        A 'splat' sounded near by and she threw herself to the side.  The
whole arm felt like it was blowtorched, and she screamed after she hit to
make the blackness go away.  It receeded, but left her whimpering.  She
continued the whimpering after she could hear again, against the pain, and
two sets of footsteps hesitantly came up towards her.  

        They led with their guns, so identification was easy.  She blasted
the first as he came around the corner, as he held the gun like it was some
sorta antenna or something.  The second jumped back, Li rolled to the side
and around the pile of rubble and got him from the back.  She walked
forward and rolled him on his back, the glint of gunmetal as his pistol
rolled to the side, and then he and his buddy disappeared.

        Li was surprised to find that the fall 'cured' her arm and
shoulder.  She had feeling back in it, small patches of needles and pins,
but, on the whole, it was back.

        After two more shootouts, she reached the far end of the block.
There was one tightly packed group of people in front of the building.  She
realized why they were so tightly packed when six go-gangers whizzed by on
their motorcycles and laughed as they pulled off and picked off the former
denizens of the apartment building they torched. 

        She was too far from them to do anything about it, and had no rifle
or real long distance weapon.  There are, however, only two that have guns
among the gangers that are messing with this group.  She sighed, put a
fresh cartridge in the one pistol that was left, checked that everything
was in place; and then waited until one of the piece packing gangers was
getting closest to her position.

	She sprinted full-out, stopped and fired four shots, dropped,
rolled, found her targets and fired four more times as they closed on her.
She was lucky and found both of those with the evident firearms and two who
had been using chain, one of which had been charging her as she fired.  She
tossed the empty pistol and stood there, arms at her sides as the fifth
charged her swinging something that looked like a weird cross between
various pole arms.  It seemed a spear, but with a wider, flat blade, a bit
like a naginata but not as heavy.  It only took one arm and hand to guide
and swing it.  As it came towards her, ran towards it and leaped into the
air towards the rider.  The blade and haft went under her, and she landed
behind the bike.

	She ran after the motorcycle, which had slowed while the rider
tried to turn around.  She leaped up the back and put one of her knives in
a kidney.  Li pushed him off, grabbed the spear in her still tingling arm
and yanked the hog around.  The last ganger was facing her. 

	He saluted her with a wave of a similar weapon.  Li blinked and
waved hers back.  Then the roar of the open throttle echoed from the nearby
walls.  Carefully, knowing that haste could probably kill her, she tucked
the pole under her left arm, opened the throttle and popped the clutch with
her left hand.  The bike leaped forward.  She managed to hang on.  Then,
while still accelerating, she tried to crouch the spear like a lance
against her hip on the left side while her right controlled both steering
and throttle.  When she looked up, the point of the other's 'lance' took
her in the right shoulder.  Combined with the shock of meeting his body
with her lance, it threw her off the bike.

	She blacked out when she hit.

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	Liralen blinked open somewhat bleary eyes.  Argent, Jason, Amanda,
and Ekho were bent over her, looking at her with some concern.

	Li swore a blue streak that brought a smile to Argent's face.
"She's all right, I think." he said in his clear voice.

	"Yeah..." Li said, grudgingly.  "I was stupid, though, thinking I
could do that..." 

	"Yes, you were." said Argent.  He ignored Li's sigh and turned to
the others, "Next?"

-- 
Phyllis Rostykus     | "... and how you feel can make it real 
aka Liralen Li       |      Real as anything you've seen... "
li@Data-IO.com       |	                         Peter Gabriel _US_