Saioma Month 2023

New Bounty

Shuichi, Maki, and Kaito are bounty hunters in this sci-fi universe. They've stuck together for a while, and eventually decide to get a new target. One mysterious, and somewhat attractive, Kokichi Oma.

Prompt : Sci-fi

Looking around, Shuichi briefly adjusted his gas mask again - pulling on the straps to make it that bit tighter. To his immediate left he could see more of the chaos of Clemen - incredibly crowded streets and skies, with at least one brawl going on. To his right was a wall, which was honestly just reassuring - less places (generally) to get attacked or pickpocketed from. Behind him were Kaito and Maki, waiting at the data collection point as new information was loaded onto their space-USB.

Kaito was in much of the same gear Shuichi was in, a gas mask, flexible but protective plated armour - except he'd painted his in an almost magenta purple - although it was probably a bit brighter than that. The fabric underneath and seams that connected the armour reflected the immediate galaxies and star patterns around them; which Kaito thought was cool - and Maki thought was a waste of tech. He had painted his armour in a dark blue, with black as the fabric underneath - no extra quirks.

Maki didn't want or need armour, of course. He supposed that was one of the advantages of being a Miasmis, along with her other abilities. Being able to turn your skin either into weapons or crystal due to advanced morphing was pretty cool. Not that it stopped from carrying a frankly excessive amount of weapons anyway. She argued they were useful for bounty hunting.

Because that was what the trio had been doing these past few years (generally) - they'd been bounty hunting. Shuichi was generally their tracker, or their detective - working out where the target was. Kaito had turned out to be a great pilot and a good driver of most alien tech, so he got them to their destination (and enjoyed high speed pursuits slightly too much). Maki was the one who generally took their target down, and she was also just incredibly scary. That was always a bonus for when they were co-ordinating how much they should all be paid.

"It's downloaded," Maki announced, taking the USB in her hand and closing a fist around it.

"You not a fan of Clemen?" Kaito guessed, although he began to move away with her.

"Are you?" Maki shot back, cutting through the crowd and grabbing Kaito's hand (she always said it was so he didn't lose them).

"It's certainly..." Shuichi considered his words, "Profitable."

"You mean a den of criminal activity," corrected Maki, "The sooner we get out of here, the better."

With minimal conversation (and minimal difficulties) the three made it back to their ship, with Shuichi immediately plugging in the USB.

"Find any bounties near us?" Maki asked, half-reading over his shoulder.

"Yes, actually," Shuichi had clicked on the profile already, "Kokichi Oma. Unknown species. Two separate people are asking for him."

"Really?" Kaito asked, "What'd the guy even do?"

"One's for robophobia," Shuichi scrolled down for a few seconds, "And the other one doesn't specify, but it's a lot of money."

"Who from?" Maki asked.

"Android named K1-B0."

"The one that will pay us well."

"Ah." Shuichi scanned the page for a second, "The genius inventor Miu Iruma."

"Miu Iruma?" Kaito questioned, "Dude, let's go for him!"