Hey! Teacher! Leave Those Kids Alone!

[Rezantis]

"Guys!  Armour in the boot, then get in the car!"

[Bjorn]

The next son of a bitch who decides to be cryptic at me is gonna get one right in the kisser, decides Bjorn, as he jogs out to the sedan, and climbs in the back seat -- still wearing armour under his jacket, because he needs the pockets.

Oh, and holding the invisible sword, because what else do you do with an invisible sword?

"I hate to be a party pooper, but we're covered in smoke and blood, carrying too many things that normal people wouldn't, and I, for one, am dressed pretty goddamn inappropriately.  Hertz isn't going to so much as talk to us, but they're pretty damn likely to chat with the cops.  We need a bit more of a plan, I think."

[Ginrai]

Ginrai takes off the armor and places it in the trunk.  "You know, I just realized that the only weapon within my grasp at the moment is the tazer.  Damn, shouldn't have given Rez the shotgun as well.

"Oh, and shotgun!"  Ginrai immediately hops into the front passanger seat.

[Rezantis]

Rez is not pleased about this, being already in the front passenger seat.

"AAAH!  The BACK, dammit!"

[Ginrai]

"Ah, damn.  Very well."  Ginrai heads to the back, cursing his lack of speed in reaching the front.

"Hmm... I think Rez or I can deal with that, Bjorn, since we look relatively normal at the moment."

[Rezantis]

Rez is, he thinks, remarkably without blood spatter or scorch mark . . . since he never meleed anyone, and he only got near FIRE when he was wearing his tactical armour.

He checks anyway, though.

[Bjorn]

"You're dirty, Ginrai, and you stink of smoke, and you have bits of blood and gore all over your shirt.  Rez is better, I admit, but why take chances?  If we can find a motel somewhere, Rez can get us a room, and we can all get cleaned up.  Then Rez can take a cab out to a car rental agency, maybe near the airport, and rent something.  That way, not only do we avoid the whole problem, but if somebody does have a bug in the car, it'll confuse them.  If we just dump the car and head to the nearest car rental, they'll know where to start looking.  The other way, though, they have to check the motel first, and then they won't know for sure where we went, or where we rented."

[Rezantis]

"No.  If we're going to rent something, we should do it in another city entirely.  We've got somewhere around that we could go, though . . ."

[Bjorn]

Bjorn shakes his head.  "That means driving a while in a potentially traced car, and that means more chances of getting picked up.  If we're going to switch cars, we should do it here.  

"What do you think, Philip?"

[Rezantis]

"It depends.  I doubt Seventh Cabal is tracking us, they wouldn't have done all this just to put a bug in our car.  Pax Arcana quite possibly.  I'm more scared of Seventh Cabal finding us than Pax Arcana, which means we take this and get out of here without a trace."

[Bjorn]

"I don't know who Pax Arcana or the Seventh Cabal are.  But I don't want anybody to catch me, and I think this area is going to be in enough disruption from what we just did that we have a couple hours free.  Let's take advantage of them while we can."

[Rezantis]

"Seventh Cabal are the people who ran that place.  They'll look for us around here, and probably find us pretty quickly by checking rental car joints and motels and stuff around.  Pax Arcana are the people who just helped us raid that place, who will probably look for us whereever the car is.  Hell, they might not have had time to bug the car, but I doubt that.  We can dodge one or both of them, and I'd rather dodge Seventh Cabal.  Which means we leave, now."

[Dracos]

"My thoughts exactly Bjorn.  My car was next to a motel where I left it.  We can get cleaned up there quickly, use some of the spare clothes I managed to toss in before getting out, and go off to hertz or something here and get a larger car to travel in and get out of here."

Dracos frowns, checking that everyone and everything is in and, if so, driving off quickly towards the hotel that he'd left his car at.

"Preferably though I want to see if I can disable that lowjack.  Traveling in two cars is half the risk and twice the mobility."

Dracos

[Rezantis]

"Bullshit.  If they're competent, they've probably got an obvious and god knows how many inobvious.  We don't trust your car."

[Bjorn]

"I'm with Rez on this one.  Unless you're actually Q and have been keeping quiet about it, I'm not gonna trust any work you do on that car.

"Look, however we do this, there's two priorities: getting clean, and getting a new car.  Well, I probably need to get some new clothes, too, but we can work around that.  If your car is near a motel, we're set."