(G5 04/04/2020 JF(GM), AP)

(G5 04/04/2020 JF(GM), AP)

M.A.V.I.S Corporate Logger System.
FILE #006
Auto-Selected Personality Type: 'Mournful'

DAY 14

M.A.V.I.S Report on death of Will Bates.

The meeting between Perrence 'Pawpaw' Tusk of Terseler and Will Bates of Megasoft went ahead as planned at 10 am the Tusk Building in Manhattan. Mr Bates's assistant Lisa Craine was also present.
As instructed, Mr Bates's bodyguards Stephen 'Wee Jimmy' Cranky and Carole Dee were in the adjoining room.

At 10:34AM Will Bates's brother Nigel 'Mazzie' Bates entered the meeting room from a side door and shot Will in the chest with an armour piercing round fired from a Alpha MP-10 pistol. Cranky shot out the glass between the rooms and went to his bosses side. He snapped his copy of Mr Bates's Trauma Team card and as he did so Will breathed his last, his final words being to 'Jim' Cranky:

''
Mazzie will try and kill Mercedes. He controls everything now, but only until she is 18, then it all goes to her. Get to the fortress - protect her! Urggggg!
''

At this point 'Pawpaw' Tusk went berserk and started shooting at everyone. Mazzie left again by the side door. Jim returned fire. Pawpaw was heavily cybernetically enhanced and shot from powerful rifles that had sprung from his arms. Jim and the others retreated down the corridor, and finding themselves under heavy fire from Pawpaw, Jim shot him repeatedly in the head. The old man fell, bled out and died before medical attention arrived.

Meanwhile the corridor was being blocked by guards coming in from side rooms. The ladies managed to barge past them but Jim was caught, carrying the body of Mr Bates over one shoulder as he was.
He shot too of them in the head in order to get free. He certainly decorated the 73rd floor of the Tusk Building with plenty of brains that morning.

They all reached the lift and headed to the garage level. Some guards were down there, but Trauma Team arrived by then and after a tense stand off Jim handed over the body to the medics and leapt into the Winnebago with Carole and Lisa.

Will Bates was taken to Mercy Hospital nearby, but air ambulance, but was pronounced DOA. All of us at Megasoft will mourn his loss.

Meanwhile, with Jim at the wheel the others were making their escape. The Winnebago broke through the parking barrier and they charged into the street, pursued by three fast cars and one aerodyne.
While they drove through Manhattan he put through a call to Bella Witchelm of the Alpha Team.
'You murdered Will and Pawpaw Tusk!' she exclaimed, 'We are watching it on the news!'
'Not true! Mazzie did it. Well I did kill Pawpaw...' admitted Jim. 'Will told us we need to..'
Carole hissed and waved at him and he put his hand over the phone. 'What?'
'Can we trust her?' she whispered. 'Technically don't we all work for Mazzie now?'
'Seems silly,' said Jim, thinking she was being too paranoid.
'She's a company goon, she'll do whatever the person that pays her wages tells her to do. If you have to call anyone, call Tam.'
Jim called Tam, who was also watching the news. Tam believed Jim's version of events and they arranged to meet at the 'Pig and Bucket Diner' in the village of Abe Creek that was about a mile away from the mansion house where Mercedes lived.

They were going west along 57th street. Scrabbling together a plan they decided to see who was being followed, the van or the people in it. Carole and Lisa jumped out at a street corner and ran down into the Metro. The cars kept following the Winnebago. Next Jim set the van to auto and jumped out at a park area. The cars stopped though and six guys followed him. Cursing his luck he ran through an area of student flats and jumped back into the van as it turned north.
After a few blocks he turned into the Lincoln Tower underground carpark, set the autopilot again and jumped out. With more success this time he avoided pursuit, but sad at having to abandon the Winnebago.

Carole called him and told him they were now just riding around on the underground. He told them to rent a van and meet him at Central Park. From there they drove west, watching the new for what the Winnie was up to. By now the cops were involved, it got really messy, until the finally they had to hit it with a powerful EMP explosion to make it stop.
They drove to Central Station and got on a train. An express to Kansas City.

They spent the rest of the day on the train, keeping a low profile and keeping an eye on the news  on their mobiles.


DAY 15

They got in to Kansas city at 2 am, the Topeka at 3 am. From there they hired a car to the Pig and
Bucket and arrived at 5 in the morning.

Tam was already there, sat at the back, drinking his fifth cup of coffee.