Mastermind in Kivotos (Blue Archive X Payday)

Ch. 10 Devil's Crossroads, Part 3

MASTERMIND IN KIVOTOS Ch 9, Devil's Crossroads, Part 3: Assault

1:16PM Gehenna Standard Time, Beezle Street & Styx Street South intersection.

In Universe BGM: Payday 2 OST - 16. Armed To The Teeth (Control)

A thick cloud of dust obscured what was the small cafe on Beezle Street as rubble rained down onto the pavement and tar mat. An electronic beat thumped from Problem Solver 68's earpieces as they gathered around the wreckage. The concerned president held her microphone close to her ear.

Aru: H-Haruka! Are you still conscious? Please respond!

As the dust cloud began to clear, the sound of something made of metal falling onto the floor rang out. Then a lone figure stepped out of the cloud, one with a purple glow above their head and hugging a shotgun.

Haruka: *Cough* D-did I *Cough* do good?

Kayoko: *Sigh* You really gave us a fright, Haruka.

Mutsuki: Woaw~ That's some nice driving Haruka! Although, our truck is busted now.

Once the dust cloud had mostly settled, the carnage the combined speed and weight of two trucks ramming into the cafe had caused. The food truck hadn't moved too far into the cafe due to its heavy weight, but it did destroy a good portion of the entrance while in somewhat decent shape except for the smoking engine. The white mini-truck didn't fare so well, with its front engine block halfway peeking out from the hood which had been mangled.

Bain: Glad you're alright Haruka, you really got [Resilience] as you said. Anyways, let's stick to the plan before the improvisation: Kayoko, get hostages; Mitsugi, breach the back door; Aru and Haruka, take out the remaining Kurokame gangsters.

The girls nodded at their assigned tasks and split off.

Raising her black and white pistol to the sky, the air around the stern-faced girl began to become heavy and misty, before she shot into the air that despite being suppressed, rang out loudly and clearly. The civilians who didn't flee after the crash collapsed onto their knees uncontrollably, freezing to their spots as Kayoko ran to them and zip-tied their hands. With a monotone voice, she told them to move towards the crash site.

With a hop in her step, the impish girl skipped to the back of the food truck with the ominous black duffle bag swinging merrily. Digging through the bag, pushing the anti-personnel mines and gray bricks with burner phones attached aside to pull out a thick gray cord. She began sticking the cord to the hinges and lock of the reinforced door and attaching a wire to it that led to a detonator switch. Mutsuki stepped a few meters back to admire her work with a devilish grin.

Due to sniper fire from Aru, the drivers of the SUVs had been taken out and the crashes had incapacitated some of the gangsters. The remaining ones stumbled out of their smoking SUVs, before quickly disabled by quick shots of 7.62mm from Aru's ornate red and gold (actually brass) rifle and 00-buckshot from Haruka's spiked dark-gray and purple shotgun before they even grabbed their guns. Although the explosive ammo wasn't not the most effective against their heavy armor, it still did a reasonable job in knocking them cold (somehow for robots).

Mutsuki: Fire in the hole!

*Ka-Boom*

With a large explosion rocking the street, a cloud of dust once again covered the food truck when the explosion rang off. Once it settled, the truck's door still stood, although much worse for wear.

Bain: I see the door from the camera across the street. I expected that much that much from the damn thing tanking Aru's shot like that. Mutsuki, got any more breaching charges?