Sacrifice your Firecracker Bomb to create an opportunity (Firecracker Bomb -1)

Tschau really did look distracted... for someone who was always ready to whip out her ninja blade and stick it to your neck, she didn't seem to have her guard up most of the time when it came to the rest of her team. You remembered Goodbye's orders... disrupt the others in order to expose vulnerabilities. You had an idea to follow up on, but it would cost you the smoke bomb... ironically, you'd be using the tool Tschau herself gave you against her.

From reading the primer related to this tool, you'd learned that you could vary the degree of fire, noise, and smoke by twisting the pin at the top to different degrees before throwing it. Doing so would, supposedly, segregate or expose chemicals inside the bomb, changing the effect. It was even possible to use the thing as a regular smoke bomb or an ordinary firecracker if you wanted. In this case, you wanted the whole shebang... And you wanted it out among the rocks and sand of the desert where only a few would be notified of the noise.

You said a silent prayer, then tossed the bomb out into the wilderness. You knew that in a second, you'd hear an explosive cacophony of noise, fire, and smoke coming from that direction, and thus, you opened your mouth before it had even started, warning your partner to look out for gunfire!

The various effects of the firecracker bomb did indeed sound a bit like gunfire. As such, you would be perfectly justified as you tackled her over so that she lay flat on her face; after all, you were only pinning her down with your own body so that neither of you got shot by the unseen (non-existant) gunmen.

"Don't... Ciao...!" the ninja cried, squirming underneath you. "Stupid...!"

You thought it was pretty unkind of her to throw such abuse at you, but then, you were being a bit inappropriate... while lying on top of her, you eagerly felt up her body, searching for anything that might be of interest.{if Tschau's Physical > 1000} It was a superbly thorough inspection, even compared to the physical you'd given her earlier.{endif}

Finally, you found something interesting, though not where you expected it... Just beneath her firm, skinny ass... right around her thighs... there was something metallic? You pinched her upper thighs near her buttocks curiously, wondering what could be generating that sensation.

"Stop touching me! I can feel your dick poking my butt, bastard...!"

Okay, maybe you were getting a little carried away. Still, you couldn't help but be curious... You knew she wore some sort of lightweight metallic mesh underneath her outfit, but that was just a skin-suit, right? What had produced that dense, un-pinchable hardness around the thighs?

"Of course there's gunfire here, it's a damn Adder auction! Everybody's a criminal with a gun! That doesn't mean anybody's seen us!" The girl's voice came out as a red-faced hiss.

Finally, you released her and raised your hands, telling her you were only trying to protect the two of you.

"... Hmph." She picked up her phone from where it had fallen nearby, then straightened her hood over her head, trying to hide her pouting face, but unable to cover her angry pink eyes. "Well, I guess you know now... My legs are advanced CEDIT prosthetics. Completely robotic. Don't ever ask me any other questions about them... And don't pinch me anywhere. Ever."

But now you really wanted to ask about them! Still... That could definitely be a vulnerability. You'd never heard of an agent with robotic legs before. Body modification was something that the tech-heads were working on- the cyberpunk agent of the future, if you will- but supposedly, progress was slow coming and nothing had been rolled out yet. Had Tschau been given robotic legs to help in her stealth infiltration, or was it something related to an injury she'd taken during the line of duty? Actually... she was really young to have an injury like that. You wondered if the installation of those prosthetic could even be related to a disability she had before she entered CEDIT...

Shortly after, with a bit of searching, you met up with Vaarvel, already deep inside the auction building and focusing on a weapon that advertised itself as "the power of a military-grade turret instillation in a portable laptop." As scary as that sounded, you focused on her reception of you instead... after all, you were pretty late, and she might pose more of a threat to you than any laptop turret. You expected her to be irritated, but somehow, she just looked amused.

"You and Tschau had something to talk about after all, hm?"

You told her it was nothing, sighing with relief that she didn't seem any more suspicious than that.