Magical Girl Mercenary for Hire – Chapter Three

Chapter Three

>> 2041
>> Continent: North America
>> Country: Old New York
>> City: Mega City New New York
>> 10:12am

I didn’t know what to think about the way the guys in Magic squad moved.

Titan took the lead, walking at a pace that was easy to keep up with, his rifle was butted up against his shoulder while pointing to the ground ahead of him. Mouse came in behind talking almost sideways so that she was facing his left, and C4 took up the rear. He had his big gun slung over his shoulder and was aiming a handgun to the right.

I was behind Mouse and in front of C4, feeling kind of awkwards with my Wand of .50cal in hand. I didn’t know where to point it, but it seemed like they were going through a lot of trouble not to point their guns at each other, so I tried to do the same.

The problem was, of course, that Magic squad moved like soldiers, all crouch-y and snappy movements and quick moves of their heads to look for trouble. I wasn’t a soldier though, I was a magical girl.

It felt wrong to skip after them though, and I was pretty sure my poofy dress was all wrong for the kind of movement they were doing, so I just walked behind them normally. Being shorter did mean that I was at about the same height with them, even as they walked at a crouch.

“Elevator,” Titan said with a quick forward swipe of his hand.

I blinked and leaned to the side to see ahead. The corridor we were in continued for a while, then stopped at the elevator. That was it. There wasn’t anything else to see, unless someone was really fascinated by overhead pipes and wires.

“This is the first level of the lock,” Mouse said as we came up to the elevator. Titan and C4 moved to the sides, pointing their guns towards the closed doors while Mouse crouched next to the panel with the up-down buttons.

“So, what’s the plan, then?” I asked.

“We, and my we I mean I, override the elevator controls. We drop down. This one only goes down to B4. We’ll have to cross over to a second elevator below to get to B6, which is our ultimate goal.”

I nodded along. This was supposed to be a simple walk in the park kind of mission.
Mouse undid some screws on the panel, then pulled it off and set it to the side. The backside was a dusty panel with a few wires and a small bus that Mouse rubbed with her thumb. She reached up to the big goggles she was wearing and pulled out a long cord that she plugged into it. The goggles lit up from within as she did some cool hacking stuff.

“Alright, elevator’s he–” Mouse began.

The doors slid open, and for a split second my heart leapt up into my throat.

There was a monster in the elevator. A model three! It was–

Titan and C4 opened up and the corridor filled with loud bangs. I flinched down and away, the noise was impossibly loud and there were flashes all over.

When I stopped flinching and opened one eye to see what was going on, I discovered a dead… no, not dead. It wasn’t alive to begin with.

What I’d taken as a model three was, in reality, a four-legged robot. It was… or had been before Titan and C4 opened up on it, a plastic and metal machine, about as tall as my hip. It lacked a head, but its back had a turret mounted onto it with several barrels sticking out of it.

“A security drone,” C4 said.

I noticed Titan looked at me. “Are you okay?” he asked.

I nodded. “Yeah, I’m okay,” I said.

“You sure?”

I nodded harder and tried to dampen down my blush. If that had been a model three, then I’d probably be a dead magical girl. I wasn’t prepared to fight it at all. I distracted myself by checking over my gear.

“I’m ready,” I said. I loosened my Ultra Kawaii Mark two personal flamethrower in its hidey spot, prepped my flying daggers, and then shifted my grip on my Wand of .50cal.

Titan nodded, and he turned back to the elevator. “Let’s turn this thing onto its side. It’ll give us some partial cover, at least. Mouse, do you think the AI knows we just took it out?”

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“Very probable, but not guaranteed,” Mouse said. “The entire B2 to B8 area is one big faraday cage. It’s possible that it sent this one up autonomously.”

“Let’s not bet on it,” Titan said. “Chaff?”

“On it,” C4 said.