010: The Great Train Robbery

*"The life of a thief is all bits and pieces
It's out on the street and all that it teaches
The look in the wind and taking a gamble
The wages of sin are too hot to handle"*

*- The Great Train Robbery* by **Mountain**

## Session Summary

Our story begins with the Runaways (Bit Chaos, Fridge, K2, Nova, and Smoke) planning a heist. Their client Luna, had given them quite the task to tackle, and the Runaways spent the night huddled up in Luna's megabuilding apartment getting their plan in order.

Smoke suggested clothing that would help them keep a low profile, changing their own hair and eyes to brown, and suggesting that K2 change her skin color to something less blue. Supplies were gathered and vehicles that were a little less identifiable were stolen: two dune buggies that belonged to the rich kids of some corpo. They wouldn't be missed...

Bit drove one with K2 as the passenger, Nova and Smoke on the other, and Nova’s contact Aries drove himself.

At 5AM the horizon backlit the coming convoy, and Smoke issued the “sandstorm” alert. The convoy slowed down almost to a halt and the bodyguards exited their vehicle while The Runaways tried to take cover behind nearby dunes. K2 was seen, and a guard named Lela focused in on them with a sniper scope and fired.

*Battle for the Booster*

Smoke sensed something was up and sent out an alarm just fast enough that Bit was able to swerve and K2 duck and lean just enough that the bullet missed. But there was nothing anyone else could do to prevent Lela from hacking into K2’s cybereye and overheating it.

On their own ATV, Nova burst over the dune and tried slamming into the group standing outside like she’d done when rescuing Potion, while Bit drove herself and K2 up beside Lela and Una, tossing out a spike strip to prevent them driving off easily.

Smoke attacked Lela on the net, weakening her cyber-attack abilities, and then attacked the used the rear complement of 12 mercenaries with an RPG.

Aries held the booster transport driver at gunpoint while K2 turned their eye of and  on again. No sooner had it restarted than the bodyguard Una used Gorilla Arms to punch their dune buggy, decimating it in a fiery explosion that sent Bit and K2 flying.

K2 was able to duck and roll, but Bit was hurt bad by the hot metal and hit the ground very, very hard.

The rear guard started to approach as the front soldiers now opened fire, collapsing Bit’s left lung.

Still on the ATV, Nova tried slamming Una but succeeded only in launching Smoke as a human projectile, which Smoke used to their advantage to shut down Una’s gorilla arms, further weaken Lela, and then shut off Una’s heart, sending him into a heart attack.

Holding his position, Aries lobbed a frag at the rear-approaching enemies while K2 stood over Bit and fired shots at Lela.

The front 12 soldiers fired at The Runaways, but their spray-and-pray went unheard as no one was hit.

Ignoring his injuries, Una reengaged his arms, throwing buggy parts at Smoke, clipping them in the arm quite forcefully.

Biffo, assigned to protect Militech executive Thomas Bohr, took the opportunity to get back in the car and begin to drive away, careful to avoid Bit’s strips.

Lela now attacked Bit, deleting her favorite song from her music player.

Bit launched a smoke grenade at the front soldiers, and K2 took advantage of Lela’s distraction to Lela shoot her Moe-Green-style through the eye, finally eliminating one of their threats from the convoy.

Nova ran toward Smoke and gave them some kind of injectable pharmaceutical to keep them going, while Aries lobbed another grenade a the rear 12 soldiers.

Smoke refocused on Una, taking his arms down again , sending Helbolt through his borg circuitry and shutting him down permanently. She then fired another rocket at the front group and half of them went down.

K2 focused on giving Bit first aid, while she herself sent a smoke grenade out into the desert.

Smoke ran to Aries and intimidated the driver into getting out of the cab while the front soldiers continued to spray and pray - they still hit no one - and Biffo made his fair escape with Thomas Bohr.

Dragging herself toward the cab, Bit lobbed another grenade at the front group of soldiers, and when the smoke cleared none remained standing.

As The Runaways took possession of the truck and booster, Bit laid down spike strips to prevent any remaining soldiers from following them easily.

*Immediate Aftermath*

By 6AM they were back in Nighty City, pulling  into an arranged hangar, killing the lights, and locking things down.

From the shadows stepped another Nomad, introduced by Aries as Haven, a ripper who came to assist the Runaways, but Bit in particular. Smoke negotiated the trading of ammunition for his services, and the whole party gratefully received what medical attention they needed.

They knew they would need to lay low, but just how low and for how long remained to be seen . . .