Beneath the East Dock Vault

The service route spills onto a maintenance platform beneath the transit depot. Selene carries the evidence cylinder and copied authorization trail while Mara follows close behind, one hand on the conduit rail.

Euran waits beside the failing transit control panel, his oil-stained bomber jacket hunched around him. The courier, a lean adult with dark skin, shaved hair, and a gray utility coat, works among improvised tools.

The panel spits blue sparks across the platform. Beyond the railings, armored shutters descend over access tunnels one by one, sealing the depot beneath pulsing red indicators.

A terminal strip illuminates with Voss’s authorization signature. The failing panel rejects the courier’s bypass, while a distant mechanism engages and the platform’s last open shutter begins to close.

Selene delivers the first words through gritted teeth, then steadies her voice. Red lockdown light cuts across the evidence cylinder in her grip and Mara’s guarded face.

The courier tears open the failing panel’s lower housing. Beneath the sparking controls, a hidden relay accepts Mara’s authorization and wakes the lift with a deep mechanical thrum.

For one dangerous second, Selene loses herself in Euran’s deep-set gray eyes and the crooked left side of his mouth. The closing lift snaps her focus back.

She opens her terminal and jacks into the depot mesh. Camera feeds collapse across the display, access controls unlock, and every motion detector begins reporting live positions.

Red silhouettes populate the platform map: six armed responders descending from the north tunnel, two drones approaching the upper gantry, and no movement near the municipal service lane.

The hack succeeds, but the terminal emits a sharp diagnostic chirp. A trace alarm catches the intrusion, burning through Selene’s disposable municipal access key.

Selene drives deeper into the depot mesh, overriding camera firmware and severing every external viewer. Security feeds fold into her terminal, clean and simultaneous.

The building resolves around her in a layered map: responders in the north tunnel, drones circling the gantry, sealed corridors, and the municipal lift glowing green.

Selene filters motion alerts by threat and route, marking every armed position while suppressing harmless maintenance signals. The entire depot becomes a live tactical diagram.

On Selene’s display, the service lift remains unobstructed from platform to municipal lane. Every camera reports only what she permits, and the escape route is hers to direct.

Selene moves first through the clear central lane, terminal angled toward the depot map. Cameras obey her, feeding silent corridors and empty gantries into the display as the others follow.

The group passes beneath the gantry while drones circle overhead, their lenses locked on false maintenance loops. Selene guides Euran and Mara straight toward the green-lit lift entrance.

Selene reaches the municipal lift with Euran, Mara, and the courier intact. The doors close behind them, sealing out the depot lockdown as the lift descends toward the safe municipal lane.

Selene leans close enough that only Euran hears the promise. Then she turns toward the lift controls, terminal glowing across her steady hands as the cage descends.

The lift reaches the municipal lane and opens onto a rain-dark service tunnel. Selene steps out first, sweeping her terminal across the route and confirming clean cameras, clear doors, and no active pursuit.

Selene leads them beneath humming conduits and municipal signage toward the safehouse route. Euran stays within arm’s reach, while Mara and the courier follow into the shelter of Night City’s service network.