This takes place between Part 7 and Part 8 of the main storyline 

Arja wakes up late one night in the safehouse she and her team make for their home, Stephanie standing over her. The little Indian shamaness comments on having a weird dream as her Irish half-elf witch of a girlfriend walks with her down to the briefing room where Nelen and the others are waiting. 

Nelen is tinkering on a large holographic display console when they arrive, connected to it via his cyberjack as both his organic and cybernetic arms click and clatter away on the keys. Natasha, their team's stealth and assassination girl, is stretched out on the couch in her usual black latex, using her shiny black satin cloak as a pillow folded up under her head while she waits for the team to assemble. Drusilla is sitting next to Nelen, a small but sharp horn peeking out from under her black hair as she waits patiently for the briefing to begin. 

Nelen explains that the team will be targeting Fullmoon Industries, run by his grandfather who abandoned Stephanie and himself when he found out they were changelings (half elf, half human). The corporation has been helping to fund one of the terrorist Pro-Humanity cells, a group that wants to force all meta-humans into extinction by any means necessary. Arja comments that the corporation must have some insane degree of security, which Nelen confirms. 

"Yeah, it is. Franklin is nothing if not a stickler for security." he replies, zooming in on the basement of the building. "The main servers are at least three levels underground." he points at a room of the hologram, the image flashing yellow where he does. "But there's always a way around it. He prefers people who are strong, but not very smart and tend to follow orders, so we're going to play a bait and switch." he nods to Natasha. "Little Miss Dracula there is going to sneak into the guard room, ambush the chief of security, and... well frankly I don't give a frak what she does from there so long as she gets his keycard." he smirks at her. 

"She gets that back to me and I can get into the network. Once I'm in I'll trip a false alarm near the top floors of the building, code red, high alert, get-your-ass-here-now-or-we'll-fire-you type stuff. This should get the main guards off the lower floors. Once they're upstairs I'll get in the electrical grid's control program and fry the elevators. It won't hold them forever, there's still stairs, but the building is thirty stories and it'll take 'em a while to get back down, especially with them pushing and shoving each other out of the way." 

"We use the keycard to get downstairs and I jack into the servers, Drus and Natasha will hang back to deal with any stragglers while you two, Arja and Stephanie... Steph fuck's sake stop chewing on her ear while I'm talking... you two will cover me while I get into the network and find their financial records. According to our sources they -should- have been making substantial donations to a certain Human Veterans Charity that's actually a front for the Pro-Humanity assholes. I get that downloaded onto my datapad and then we get out like there's a fire under our asses, then we get a nice payday and dear old grandpa gets a big black eye." he smirks grimly.

Before they leave Arja feels confused for a moment, commenting that she thinks someone is missing from their team. Stephanie just giggles at her and asks if she means Dawn, Nelen's pet cat, who looks up at her from her catbed next to Nelen's decking rig, then starts grooming herself. 

The trip is uneventful and, once the team arrives Natasha vanishes up above the buildings while Nelen leads the others around to the back to wait for the vampire to return with the keycard they need to get inside. 

Natasha manages to infiltrate the building, sneaking through the hallways. A guard almost spots her, though she manages to stay behind his field of vision... however, her predatory nature gets the better of her and she decides to forgo stealth for a bit of fun. She pins the guard to the wall before he can use his commlink to call for backup, but before she can deal with him he screams for help. 

He yells in shock and looks down at her, indeed surprised at first at what appears to be a young girl, then his expression turns to terror as he sees Natasha's red eyes and fangs. "Fuck! FUCK!" he gasps, then yells as loud as he can, "INTRUDERS! METAS IN THE BUILDING!"

Natasha manages to bite him and knock him unconscious, but not before his scream is heard by the other guards. Outside the building Nelen, who has tapped into the comms frequencies, warns his companions that they've been discovered and grumbles about Natasha 'playing with her food'. 

The team prepares for battle as Natasha returns with the card key and something red on her face that probably isn't lipstick. Drusilla tells Nelen that she'll stay behind and keep the remaining guards busy as Nelen smirks and says "Have fun lil' wrecking ball." before opening the door and leading Arja and Stephanie into the building. The rest of the plan seems to be going smoothly. Nelen trips the false alarm at the top of the building, then fries the elevators so that the guards are stuck taking the stairs back down, before the three of them head into the basement to steal the data they need. 

As Drusilla and Natasha entertain themselves upstairs Nelen and company arrive in the basement to find a grisly sight. A vivisection lab full of half-alive meta humans. Stephanie almost gets sick at the sight as Nelen shakes his head in disgust, wondering just what the hell their grandfather was doing, then tells Arja and Stephanie to free anyone who looks like they can still walk while he finds the data they came for. 

Nelen and the girls find what they came for, along with Nelen discovering why the metas were being held captive and experimented on, then leads his team back upstairs and out of the building to where Drusilla and Natasha are waiting, the other two having just finished mopping up the rest of the guards. 

Drusilla grins, stomping down hard on one fallen guard's arm before picking up his truncheon, swinging it a few times "Mine now" she says as she sees the other team get out "Got the goods?" 

Nelen nods to Drus, "Yeah... and a lot more besides." he replies, "We need to get the hell out of here right now." he says, then pauses as clicking sounds fill the air from all sides. "...fuck." he mutters. All around the team there are guards, multiple ones, with high powered long range rifles aimed at them. Their leader calls out, "Put down your weapons and get on the ground with your hands on your heads or we -will- open fire.". Very professional sounding, very serious. An experienced veteran.

Drusilla taunts them about working for an 'old racist sack of crap'... then the team gets a surprise when the man himself shows up, flanked by two guards and what appears to be an older woman working with the company. He says something about 'the project being ready for testing', then tells the men to open fire. One bullet misses, the other catches Stephanie in the arm. Nelen immediately returns fire and tells the girls to get back into the building, barricading the door from the inside as he shoots out the window and begins taking potshots through the broken glass. 

As Stephanie shakes off the shock of being shot, healed by one of Arja's spirit companions, she makes a terrifying discovery. Her magic is gone! Nelen reveals that this is why the lab was down there. Fullmoon Industries was developing a weapon specifically designed to cut off a magic user's power, a type of gun called 'The Silencer'. All the metahumans trapped down there were either mages or shaman, the scientists trying to determine how they could use magic and how to remove their ability to do so in order to incorporate it into a weapon. Fortunately, the prototype's effects are still only temporary, so Stephanie's powers should return. 

As he explains however the door on the other side of the building bursts open and Franklin enters with a full company of guardsmen. A shot almost hits Arja, but Franklin was holding the gun and he simply grumbles about his aim getting bad in his old age. Drusilla rushes forward as another guard raises his weapon, bringing her 'acquired' truncheon down on him and breaking his arm as several others shoot her in the arm and leg, Nelen taking out three of them with his own gun. 

As Drusilla rushes forward Franklin shows fear for the first time, backing away from her. The Silencer will shut down a mage's powers, but to a non-magic user it's just a normal gun, and to a troll it may as well be a pea shooter. 

Nelen keeps firing, trying to shoot down anyone who's aiming for you as Franklin scowls, moving to back away through the press of guards. "What are you idiots aiming at?" he snarls, "Forget the testing, SHOOT TO KILL!" he yells, then suddenly stops. "Yes, I believe its time we did just that Franklin." says an older woman's voice. There's a loud pop, Franklin looking upwards as blood trickles down his face, then slowly he falls forward onto the floor. His companion from before, the elderly woman, holding a purse gun with smoke still coming from the barrel. 

She smiles at Drusilla, then says, "Alright everyone, stand down, safeties on." she calls out. The guards are confused for a moment, but defer to the voice of authority and lower their guns as Nelen sighs, "Couldn't you have done that BEFORE that old bastard had his men shoot my sister?" he says accusingly, glaring at her.

Drusilla is confused, but Nelen explains. The woman who just shot Franklin was their client and vice president of Fullmoon Industries. She wanted evidence implicating him of aiding the terrorist Pro-humanity movement so that she could use it to remove him from control of the company and take over as president herself. When Franklin himself came to play his little Bond-villain act she took matters into her own hands. When Drusilla had all eyes on her she pulled out a small pistol and shot Franklin, point blank, in the back of the head. 

She tells the guards that it was all a 'security test' and that anyone who sticks to the story gets a bonus, while those who don't will "wake up on the unempoyment office floor". Arja is irritated that it all wound up being for nothing, but Nelen seems satisfied and, after they get back to the safehouse he goes out on a beer run with Drusilla. 

Stephanie sighs and flops into Arja as the van pulls out. "Ugh, well, at least I know that I'll get my magic back eventually..." she whines, then smirks a bit "Guess it just means I'll have to let you protect me until I do though~" she giggles, kissing Arja's cheek. "Still, that could've been a lot wo... wo... wo... wo..." 

[Shadowrun.exe has stopped responding] 
[This program has performed an illegal operation and has to be shut down] 
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... Simoni blinks, leaning against Arja as they stand in her bedroom. She looks around, then looks at Arja and says, "Um... is it weird if my first thought is 'I want a jacket like that one'?" she asks.

After a quick search of the house Arja and Simoni find Dawn, curled up drunk next to Nelen's iPad which has Shadowrun Returns open on the screen. Apparently she'd gotten blitzed while playing it and had hallucinated her own game. As they leave Simoni wonders if anyone else got affected or if it was just her and Arja. 

Meanwhile, in Nelen's room... 

Nelen gazes up at the ceiling, his face blank as he lays there in bed naked save for his hand-bandages. It shows why he's always wearing teeshirts and long pants, his legs and chest are covered in scars. He looks over at the small cyclops next to him, also nude, "So... we were training in the courtyard... then suddenly you've got a horn and I'm halfway to being Robocop... we do some badass stuff... see Franklin get shot in the head (rather satisfying really)... then we go out, get some beers... wind up in the back of the van... and now we're here... and its pretty obvious what we just did..." 

Drusilla grins, tracing her finger down the male's chest slowly, licking her lips abit "mmmhmm..." she says, not seeming too phased, maybe her supernatural nature made her a little resistant, or maybe she just didn't care..."Hope you still have that robotic stamina though" she grins, moving to straddle his hips suddenly with a devious grin! 

Nelen looks over at her and raises an eyebrow... he had to admit, she was pretty cute with her long dark hair and feisty personality. "Well... I don't think what we just did is illegal in India..." he smirks, gently brushing her hair away from her eye. "... and dammit, you -are- cute..." he leans in, guiding Druislla over him as he pulls her close, then guides her in and kisses her lips as he slides one of his hands down, squeezing her rear.

As they get going Simoni peeks in to check on her brother, then immediately peeks right back out and heads down to Arja's room, clinging to her and trying to banish the mental image of what she just saw. Not because of all the scars, not because of the fact that he's having sex with an underage cyclops... but rather... 

Simoni shakes her head frantically, "No no no! Big brother doesn't like anyone! He's just my big brother! Nothing else! I'm not gonna think about-" she gets cut off as we hear Drusilla's voice from the other room. He may not have the robotic bits anymore, but he does have plenty of stamina apparently. Simoni's face goes as green as her sari, "Eeeeeeeeeeewwwwww! I don't wanna think about that! He's my brother! I don't want to think about him doing stuff like -that-! Its..." she goes limp as her eyes go wide, "Oh my god... this must be how Nelen feels... All. The. Time..." she says in a shocked tone.

The scene ends with Arja guiding Simoni downstairs to indulge in some much needed sensory depravation play as Drusilla and Nelen see who has more stamina, an experienced magical mercenary or a giant kin who's just entering puberty.