Description: Audio Log - Tyce and Ridley
Date: August 31st [YEAR REDACTED]
Location: Unknown
Time: 19:21
Unknown Voice: ...And the final components from the archives should be arriving as we speak.
Mercenary Commander: Very well.
Unknown Voice: And you?
Mercenary Commander: Everything's on schedule. You just concern yourself with making sure the uplink happens.
Mercenary Soldier: ...From the wreckage of the VIS recon team, sirs. This pilot was the only one that survived.
Unknown Voice: Name, rank, and serial number, soldier?
VIS Pilot: Lieutenant Harvey Miller, KF1992. You'll get nothing more than that from me!
* Gunshot*
Unknown Voice: And why would I need anything from you..?
[CLIP ABRUPTLY ENDS, but the recorder immediately picks back up]
Thomas Ridley: ...So it's true then, their unit was behind that. I wonder...
*Gun cocking sound*
Andre Tyce: Don't move!!
*Momentary struggle is heard*
Andre Tyce: Ridley..? It's you! What the hell are you doing out here?!
Thomas Ridley: I could ask the same question of you, Tyce, but I'm afraid I already know the answer.
Andre Tyce: You don't know anything about me.
Thomas Ridley: I sure as hell don't know who told you to pull a gun on a ranking officer!
Andre Tyce: It's been a long time since I served under you OR the VIS.
Thomas Ridley: Instead you work for terrorists? And I work for myself.
Andre Tyce: Your QF implants say differently. They may have given you your gear back, but the VIS treated the rest of us like machines. They tried to dismantle us like we were malfunctioning hardware! We're human beings, damn it!!
Thomas Ridley: And the people of this city?! What were they, Tyce?!
Andre Tyce: We have a right to fight back! Taking away my hardware would be taking away my life!
Thomas Ridley: So you'd trade MILLIONS of lives for your own?!
Andre Tyce: How many people like us would have wound up facing the firing squad, Ridley, because a few government fearmongers are afraid of the tech that made us?! They'd assign us all to wheelchairs and let us rot!
Thomas Ridley: You DESERVE a chair, Tyce!! But the one I'm thinking of doesn't have wheels. You're no freedom fighter! You're just like me - a killer.
Andre Tyce: Then why haven't I shot you yet?!
* A gunshot rings out, followed by a heavy object hitting the floor and running footsteps.*
Andre Tyce: SNIPER!! Ridley, don't for a second think this shit is over!
Thomas Ridley: ...It never is.
[END OF LOG]