Session 37 - End of the Road

• Combat Broke Out!
• Dual Yumi's attacked Hazmat. Ripping through the suit and knocking off the helmet, it appeared that it was a gray haired woman underneath it who looked like an older Nikki. She held onto her wounds - trying to stop herself from bleeding out.
• Nikki upon seeing who it was, offered herself to surrender again - though most of the crew would refuse to let her. 
• The masculine 'Operator' watching over the scene would accept the surrender, but only if everyone would stand down.
• Tamit took to the air with her jetpack; firing a smoke grenade to provide cover for the hostages.
• Vela teleported into the air and used her psionic capabilities to help keep her and her wing suit active.
• Crow and AUW provided protection for the civilians.
• Round Two!
• The acid storm drew closer; now upon the group.
• A squad of eight flying drones arrived with a woman of Nikki's stature; long white hair and headphones over her heard. She wore Light Power Armor with robotic spider limbs on the back to help her maneuver. Each limb appeared to be a firearm of some sort and she kept a pair of swords at her hip.
• When Tamit moved to continue forward and flush out the sniper, the hidden operator fired off a kinetic strike from his rail cannon at the A.I. 
• The shot was enough to knock Tamit offline. Vela swooped through the air still and collected the falling robot. 
• Crow shot one of the drones out of the sky in revenge.
• Hazmat pulled out a nanite device; letting nanomachines stitch her wounds back together.
• Yado Yirar, the four-armed kalian scientist in charge of project SHIELD, came through the communications and agreed for peace when Nikki threatened to kill herself.
• Ban and Tert got the civilians to safety in the transportations. 
• AUW's protection kept the group safe from Acid Rain.
• Combat Ceased...
• Yado explained that Nikki's knowledge was the center piece of Project Shell. 
• Yado revealed that the Nikki's were clones of the body that R inhabited. 
• Yado seemed displeased that Nikki wouldn't come back willingly to be his commander, but she suggested that she would return to him if needed when the day comes.
• Nikki consented to her 'brain' being downloaded as a copy in exchange for her freedom and Remek's contract being voided. 
• With Nikki's brain copy, the 'baddies' left the group to themselves.  One of them left a satchel for Nikki.
• The group finishes the mission...