I was quickly running across the desert using bullet jumps and other Warframe related moves to blitz my way across the desert, though night city was several miles away and I'm neither Gauss or Volt so I couldn't close that distance at a rapid pace.
I mean if I had access to Blink Teleport I could move vast distances, but that was a move meant to cut down enemies with a finisher from range, it wasn't really meant for long distance travel but I guess it could be if need be.
But for now all I could do is bullet jump, sprint and the many other moves a Warframe can pull off in order to gain speed and distance across vast areas.
Though when I arrived the sun had already began to set and night time filled the desert with only the moon above and Night city in the distance having any illumination as far as the eye could see.
"What I need is a vehicle, a motorcycle or a car will work." As I wasn't thrilled with the idea of just running into Night City with nothing but a sharp and rusty machete at my side.
What I needed was a gun, some transportation, and when I get close to night city, maybe a place to set up shop, but with no creds/eddies to my name, that's gonna be really fucking hard to do.
Though as I crested a hill I came to a stop at the top as I saw something, fire in the distance several toppled over vehicles along with a gun fight playing out.
I zoomed in using my Warframes interface to get a better view of the Situation, though I did notice a message pop up in the corner of my hud.
'Hey Kiddo, your gonna need something to interface with how currency is exchanged with this world, lucky for you our worlds interface isn't too much different from this worlds, got you your own private bank account and everything, anyway have fun out their Kiddo, try and make things entertaining.' Is all the message said making me sigh.
'Well at least that's not a huge issue, though I'm still flat broke, but because of that I can use my Parazon on dead enemies to pull out whatever eddies they have on them.' I think to myself before focusing on the fight.
From what I see is it's a small Corpo convoy that got ambushed by several nomad raiders, I saw a symbol on one of their vehicles, it had a light blue flaming screaming skull and if I remember right that belongs to the Wraiths, one of the many Gangs in and around Night City.
And these bastards are known for ambushing convoys, taking everything worth a dime, and if they have people, they'll do whatever they feel like to men and women alike before ultimately killing them and ripping out their cyberware for a quick buck, and maybe, just maybe you would be worth being bought by your company to save you, but the chances are slim to none with that happening.
But from what I could see, the corpo convoy is losing as the ambush outnumbered them three to one, and while the convoy had better gear and even a few tactical robots, the sheer number of guns and bullets from the enemy side turned most of the corpo guards into Swiss cheese.
"Hmm, looks like they have a hostage." I mutter as I see the Wraiths pulling out a disheveled man wearing a business suit that was now cut up in places, I couldn't tell what they were saying, but they look like they were demanding info with the guy refusing and him getting his shit kicked in as a result.
"Well, easy way to get eddies, guns, and some rides."
I mutter as I silently hop off the hill by doing a mid air jump right before hitting the ground in order to land silently before I began to rush to the scene of the battle.
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"Damnit! This wasn't the fucking convoy!! That damn scav fuck is gonna get a bullet between the eyes when I see him again!" One guy who seemed to be the leader of this group of wraiths couldn't help but shout out.
"Hey, hey, hey! Easy man! You know how your crome like to short circuit in your head when you get all pissy like that." Another guy said while casually smoking a cigarette.
"Easy? Take it fucking easy?! This convoy was supposed to be loaded with weapons that we could sell off for some massive creds, but this hot piece of shit has only a shitty netrunner along with some heavy encrypted data on it that we can't get in since we don't have a netrunner on had, and this! *Kick* Fucker! Won't give us the data!" The leader kept ranting about, but while he was shouting and kicking the downed Netrunner he didn't notice several of his men start to go missing.
"Relax chief, we get this data back to base we can let our guys work on it and then we can sell whatever data off to data brokers for some good creds." He says finishing off one cigarette and tossing it off to the side before grabbing another from the pack in his pocket as he tried to light it.
*click click click* "Sonofbitch, damn lighter must be empty." The guy said while his boss was still kicking the shit out of the downed corpo netrunner.
"Here, let me get that for you." Another voice sounded out right behind him.
"Oh tha-" *SPLISH* suddenly a machete went right through his back and out through his chest while a hand covered his mouth so he wouldn't make a noise before the man behind him pulled out the machete from his body.
'Surprised I'm not even hesitating to take a life, but these guys probably have done plenty heinous shit so it doesn't hurt my conscience.' I think to myself as I throw the Machete like a spear and finally killing the pissed off leader with none of the Wraiths being the wiser.
"Well then, don't mind if I take the spoils all for myself." I mutter as I now go around, scrounging up weapons, putting them in my inventory along with there ammo along with me using my Parazon into their neural ports and taking all their creds in what little they had in their bank accounts along with any that they had on them.
Most the good weapons were from the dead Corpo guards and from them all that I decided to keep instead of breaking down for parts were a Malorian Overture Revolver, an M2038 Tactician Shotgun and a Red Military Grade Katana, though I wouldn't notice until later that the Katana would start to look a bit pink on the blades edge under certain light.
"These weapons will do for now, don't know what I will need to build my own personal weapons later on." I say to myself before holstering my revolver to my side and shotgun on my back before I went to check on the beaten up Netrunner.
*Smack! Smack!* "Hey you, finally awake?" I couldn't help but say as I chuckled while I saw the unconscious Netrunner stir awake.
*Cough Cough* "Ugh fuck, I told you assholes, I'm more afraid what Biotechnica will do to me than what any you fucks can do to me!" He shouted back at me, though he slowly looked around and noticed I wasn't the guy who was beating him up before.
"Ah so that's why you guys got so easily wiped by just a bunch of Wraiths, well at least your alive so good for you I guess." I said as I stood up while he slowly pulled himself up against one of the only not completely destroyed convoy Hummers.
"A Solo? Ah shit man, am I glad to see a merc like you come along." Said pulling himself up and leaning against the Hummer.
"Well, you know I don't exactly do this for free, especially for Corpo's like yourself." I say which makes him sigh while he wiped the blood off his lips.
"I don't exactly have much to give on hand, but hopefully this is enough for at least saving my life." He said as his eyes glowed while mine glowed from my helmet as I got an easy 10k eddies from the guy which by the standard USD from what I had found online back in my old life is that eddies are roughly 3 to 1 ratio between eddies and usd so it was really a bit over 3k for perspective.
"Ehh good enough for me, but it's gonna cost you to get you out of this place safe and sound, but lucky you I won't ask for more creds so long as I get a bit of help from you in return." I say as he straightened up his tie before looking at me seriously.
"And what would that be?" He looked at me carefully but I just shook my head.
"Your a Corpo right? Then you must know a few guys who are landlords in Night City or something right? I'm coming in from out of state all the way from Sin City itself, but sad to say that place drained me dry so besides what you just gave me I'm practically flat broke." I said making it sound like I was a gambling addict all out of money as a result, but it was a good cover when anyone asks.
I don't have any reason to tell anyone the truth unless I'm close friends with them or swear complete loyalty to me there's no chance in hell I'll tell anyone the truth.
"A place to stay huh? Alright, get me and all this data I have back to Biotechnica HQ successfully and I will get you in contact with someone willing to give you a place to stay." He said as he hobbled over and grabbed the suitcase that had a miniature computer and chipset in it that were opened but everything was locked behind heavy encryption as a result.
I rub my chin, "Deal, though I can't exactly just use my normal way of travel to take you where you need to go and your convoys Hummers are all fucked up, but we got some unscathed Wraith Vehicles we can use." I say as I pull out the keys I had taken off the leader and clicked them as one of the Wraiths Quadra Type-66 'Reaver' unlocked before I walked over and hopped on in.
Then the guy got in the passenger seat before I revved the engine and sped off from the ambush site as we made our way towards Night City proper.
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