Line #13 Recap/DeusExFallenAngel


1	'''Novella:'''
2	!Fallen Angel
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4	Faridah Malik skydives into the cargo bay of a nearby VTOL near Hengsha using a wingsuit and is congratulated by her friend and co-pilot, Evelyn Carmichael, for doing such an insane feat while they return from a cargo run. As they near the city, the discussion turns to Evelyn's relationship with [[CallForward her hotheaded boyfriend Lee Hong]], but Malik keeps quiet after realizing she is trying to control Evelyn's life.
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6	The aircraft reaches Hengsha and lands at a nearby airfield. Once there, Malik and Evelyn are shocked to discover that their employer, Jai Cheng, has contracted them to fly out more cargo immediately. Malik wonders if the job was ordered by the Red Arrow triad before a group of Belltower soldiers, led by Narhari Kahn, arrives to board the aircraft. Despite her hesitance at their new flightplan, Cheng orders her and Evelyn to ferry the soldiers to an unmarked location near the Yangtze River.
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8	The two pilots eventually discover their destination - a cargo ship called the Bel Canto. Kahn and the other Belltower soldiers disembark and tell them to wait until they return, and both women discuss the cargo they're supposed to ferry. The ship is soon loaded with several white containers and Malik realizes that they'll have to smuggle them back to Hengsha.
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10	Enroute back to the helipad with the Belltower soldiers and the cargo, the VTOL gets hit by lightning. As Malik goes to repair the damage, she discovers that the cargo is human beings in stasis pods.
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12	The VTOL safely lands in Hengsha, and Malik covertly trails Kahn and the stasis pods to a nearby meeting site. Once there, she finds that the four stasis pods contained people who formally worked for an augmentation company and were forcibly kidnapped and made to work for a rival competitor. Upon seeing one of the awoken scientists start complaining that he wants to go home and get executed by Khan, Malik flees back to the copter and takes off before the Belltower soldiers can stop her.
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14	Malik realizes that her retinal augmentations caught the footage of Kahn executing the scientists as the VTOL lands at an alternate airfield. However, both women are surprised when Cheng arrives and orders Evelyn to leave. He forces Malik to stay put with his security officer, Lau, while he reports her whereabouts to Belltower, but she flees the scene by taking off and causing the man to fall out of the cargo hatch.
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16	Cheng radios Malik and tells her to return to the base under threat of hurting Evelyn. Malik counters that Evelyn doesn't know anything and that she has proof of Belltower's atrocities. In response, Khan authorizes the launch of several unmanned drones to destroy the VTOL.
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18	She manages to destroy the drones, though not before ramming the last operational one with her aircraft and goes down in flames. Khan and the Belltower operatives presume that she's dead, and report the news to a horrified and grief-stricken Evelyn before telling her to keep quiet about what she's seen.
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20	On a nearby tower, Faridah recovers and remembers what happened - she bailed out of the burning VTOL and activated her wingsuit, which allowed her to glide to safety. Realizing that she is now presumed dead and labeled as a thief, she calls a close friend and asks to call in a favor. The man, Maji, agrees to get her out of the city and pass on a message to Evelyn in the near future
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22	When asked where she wants to go, she responds that she'd like to go work for Sarif Industries in Detroit...

Context Recap / DeusExFallenAngel