“Which cell are they in?” Noodle pushed us aside and started mashing keys on the terminal. Her eyes darted about looking for information on her parents. I held my breath, hoping that her parents were still alive and not long since dead.

  Noodle let out a gasp, making us all lurch forward to see what she was looking at. The screen said they were both alive and well, in the VIP section of the prison locked away tight, probably producing new variants of Huff as we speak.

  “Their alive…” Noodle trailed off as her voice began to quiver. She stepped back and slumped down to the floor, her breath sporadic as she tried to hold in her emotions. I gestured back to Ash, pointing at the Anthro-Cat. Ash understood and knelt to Noodle, rubbing her back. Noodle began to let her tears run and sob on the floor of the control room.

  I stepped up to the terminal and began to search up Gabriel, hoping the man was still here, alive and well. After a few searches, I found his cell. His name was different on the files, for obvious reasons. He was in public lockup, cell 3A-23, just down on the third floor, locked up like an animal for feeding the homeless.

  I smirked. I guess the guy really had started a new chapter in his life. He left all the killing behind and still ended locked up. No more reminiscing about the past. It was time to get to work. We had to get down there and grab our guy, along with finding the way to the VIP lockup for Noodle’s parents.

  My heart started racing. “He’s here, cell 3A-23, just down there.” As I pointed, a clump of concrete erupted next to me. Gunfire raked out amongst us from below. Corpo goons were storming the cells, and we were all lumped up here together.

  “Shit.” Uwu ducked along with the rest of us. Bullets began smming home all around us, filling the booth with lead. The gss in front of us erupted in an inferno as a rocket hit home, shaking the tower around us. We braced ourselves for another strike. The Corpos weren’t messing around now.

  I peaked over, seeing several dozen, heavily armed Corpos taking up positions all around us, above and below on all the levels.

  “Fuck, they’re everywhere.” I pulled my pistols and looked around my comrades. “If anyone’s got a pn, now’s the time to tell it.”

  Uwu smirked at me, “Maybe it’s time we let our prisoners out for good behavior.” Uwu slid over to the control panels and began pressing every release switch at once. Buzzers bred out as red lights fshed all around the circur room.

  I stepped out of the door for a second, spraying my guns at a group of Corpos, not giving them time to realize what was about to happen.

  The sounds of hundreds of metal doors opening at once cnged and reverberated off the walls.

  Uwu grabbed the intercom mic, his smile reaching ear to ear, “This is your Captain speaking,” He gnced over at me and winked.

  He was so hot right now.

  “You are all now free, curtesy of the Meowtw Stars. Murder, Rape, drugs, whatever it is, you are all expunged of your records. The only ones standing in your way to freedom are the corporate dogs outside your cells. How about we teach them a lesson in good business practice?”

  Shouts and cheers rang out all around the tower. Gunfire ensued instantly. I peeked out again to see hordes of prisoners starting to rush down the Corpo sluts, ripping weapons from their hands, beating them to death, whatever it took. Prisoners were getting gunned down at their own expense too.

  I turned to our group, “You guys find out how to get to the VIP lockup. I’m going to get Gabriel out of this mess before he gets gunned down in the chaos.”

  Uwu grabbed my hand before I could go, “Let us come with you.”

  “You can’t, it’s too messy out there for all of us. Plus, I know what he looks like.”

  Uwu nodded, “Stay safe.”

  I nodded, kissing him one more time before leaving. “3A-23. That’s where I’ll be. See you soon.” I took off without looking back. If I did, I probably wouldn’t be able to leave. I took off up the stair case to the third level, keeping my head down low from all the stray bullets flying about.

  I grabbed onto the railing as an explosion shook the room. A rocket went off on the ground, caving in one of the walkways across the room. Rubble tumbled down below to the base level, people falling with it too.

  I shook my head. I had to focus on my own mission here. I pushed onward, making my way across the small bridge leading to the cells on the outer wall. Bullets cnked against the metal casing of the inner tower behind me. Someone was still trying to kill me. Must be a fat bounty to risk your life at this point.

  I rose over the nding, my feet smacking against the metal below me. Across the bridge were a pile of dead bodies, lying down in pools of blood, both Corpo and prisoner alike. I swallowed the lump in my throat as I crossed the bridge, my feet sliding through blood as I stopped behind the support wall.

  The way seemed clear so far as the fighting had moved further down the balcony. I just hoped Gabriel had the sense to stay in his cell and not die in the riot. I followed the numbers on the wall until I got to 23. I held my gun in my hand, stabilizing myself on the wall with the other.

  “Gabriel! You still here. It’s an old friend!” I peeked around the corner into the cell when a massive bck hand grabbed me by the neck, pulling me in, lifting me off the ground. I tired to bring my gun up spray the fucker down with lead, but a robotic arm gripped my gun hand, squeezing tight.

  The freak in front of me smirked with his half robotic head and his rapist pig goril face that was left.

  “You’re right, we are old friends.” He smiled from ear to ear, his mouth leaking out the side of his robot mouth. “And I think we should get back to old times!” The cyborg brute whipped me around by the head and swung me down on the cell’s bed.

  The air in my lungs was forced from my body. My gun dropped to the ground and cttered across the floor. I struggled to breath as my arms filed to get me upright so I could fight back. The once Anthro-Goril grabbed my arms and pinned me to the bed, his massive frame looming over me.

  His breath was rank and burned my nostrils. His robotic voice echoed in my ears, “Just like old times, I’ll take that asshole raw.” He licked his lips, “I can’t wait to have you over and over until I split you in half.”

  I gasped out, “Nice face, Brutus, who gave you the makeover?” I giggled while trying to breath.

  Brutus’s smile faded instantly. His face turned to a scowl as he yelled, “You bitch! I’ll fuck you till you wish you were dead and I’ll fuck you some more, wait until I cut your face off and …”

  “Heels.” I kicked upwards as my heels activated into Brutus’s chest. His eye went wide as he was flung off me and out through the cell door. He smmed into the railing, smashing right through as he fell to the floor below.

  I rubbed my throat, gasping for air as my lungs came back to normal. I grabbed my pistol from the floor. Brutus wasn’t dead yet. The fall would just slow him down. This time. I would make sure he was finally dead.