Chris woke up. Vicky stood directly outside his room. Chris is very skeptical of Vicky. As he walked outside the room after waking up in the same clothes from yesterday.
"Hey," Chris said.
Vicky quickly turned around.
"Why are you fucking following me"? Chris asked. "I can't answer that". Vicky said.
"Well what can you tell me"? Chris asked. "Vicky is dead". Vicky said. "Who is Vicky"? Chris asked. "It is the body that my AI program took over". Vicky said.
"Wait, you guys exist"? Chris said.
"We only exist because of NR-N-O-$-C-!R 0". Vicky said
"Is that a name in another fucking language?" English please". Chris demanded
You will find out soon enough." Vicky said.
"Do you think that's really enough to make me trust you"? Chris said.
"My initiative is to protect you. That's all I was given to do." Vicky explained
Chris isn't buying it, it looks like shit, it smells like shit, he doesn't want to taste the shit shit so he aint buying. Chris activates hit electric arm emulators.
"I think you should g-". Suddenly his psychosis symptoms popped up again. In his eyes he is in his bedroom. Listening to his mother and her new boyfriend fight.
"That boy isn't human anymore! You allowed Militech to make him into their product! You did this to yourself!" Her boyfriend yelled.
"But but i can do better! I can work harder please don't do this!" Chris' mother cried out.
"Carol im sorry, I did love you, but i have my orders". Her boyfriend said.
"LUDACHRIS YOU DID THIS TO ME YOU MON-" A gunshot ecoed through Chris ears, followed by her body hitting the floor.
"This is Iron Horse reporting in. Yes, it was a safety violation she died while working. Yes her body was incinerated, she was the only casualty. I agree sir I'm glad no one else died. Of course I'll clean the place up and bring you our new product."
Iron horse comes in and takes away chris. As chris is on the floor paralyzed, only his tears spoke volumes. Right as iron horse went on his knees to pick Ludachris up, Vicky was in front of him, injecting an immuno blocker. He is back in the afterlife, and Vicky just saved him from becoming a cyberpsycho. As Chris came back to his senses, Vicky reached out her hand. Chris was reluctant. "She jut saved my life. I dont know what her agenda is, but she seems to be telling the truth when she can. At the very least she can help me get revenge. Ill use her instead of her using me". Chris reached out his hand and took hers. Pulling him up chris said, "fine, i have no more questions, just make sure to be ready when we go raid militech tower." Vicky says nothing, and goes back to protecting Chris by guardian his door. Meanwhile, V and Rowan are having a conversation while Clayton is patching Rowan up.
"I can draw out the lay out of the Militech building, then we can start strategizing." Rowan said.
"A Decoy would be best. Imagine, in the middle of a city wide crisis, they have to dal with cyberpsychos on the outside, we might get lucky if there are cyberspychos still in the building, a double edged sword we can take advantage of." Vexplains
"What kind of decoy are you thinking of?" Rowan says.
"Me." V turns around and looks at the floor. "This time, I won't fear the reaper. Anyways ill get you a digital pad, sorry we arent old school enough for a pen and paper." V says as she walks off. Rowan draws out the layout of the entire building, he knows the layout because he snuck in numerous time, the only place he hasn't been to is the very bottom of the building.
"When we send you in, I need you to rise to the top of Militech tower, have the entire building fixate on you, if you feel like you cant go on any further, break through the closest window and parachute down, if you can reach the top their should be some type of aircraft you can take, and if not, parachute down, ill radio you once we get to the bottom if possible, but the moment you leave the buildiog your mission is done no matter what happens. Me and Chris will go to the bottom floor 20 minutes after you enter the building, we will lie low till then." Rowan explains.
"Has some holes, but we dont have the military power to back you up when you descend, so it relies on you and Chris skill set". V says
"I know. Ive spent all my career to take down one corporation, i will not fail now after all i did to get to here." Rowan says.
In 2040, at the age of 40 When Rowan first joined the police force, it was on a wim. This was because during the time he was with the Aldecaldos, He was powerless to Avenge his Father Carl, he couldn't fight back with fire power, nor could he put any of them behind bars. The same powerlessness he had when the Aleirs was taken away from Carl right from under his feet. Nothing he could think of could Avenge Carl. So he took matters into his own hands. He Left to Night city. His first mission was to take down the person who killed his father. After some asking around the city, avoiding fights, and starting others, until he was able to steal an data chip from maradith stout. He came to his friend river, who had the technology to read the data.
While the data was loading, "you know, you'd be a great police officer." River said.
"I'm here to take down my enemies, I'll join if it gives me an advantage."
Before river could say something, the data loaded. And what they saw made Rowan pissed the fuck off. It was militech who ordered the execution of the aldecados. And since the last job failed, they were planning on bombing the next camp sight as soon as they find the aldecados.
He quickly called Saul. And told him to stay on the move.
"River, I need you to help me." Rowan said.
River drove him to militech tower. In the main entrance of militech tower, a guard stopped him. It wasn't as heavily guarded as it is in the present. So he got close and personal to the guard.
"We're just fucking looking, what's your problem?" Rowan said.
The guard, pissed off hit him with the back of his weapon. Rowan took the chance to take the guards badge right as he hit Rowan.
Rowan holding his nose acting like he learned his lesson and walked away.
"Thanks river, that's all I need from you." Rowan said.
"What ever you're about to do, be fucking careful." River said.
Rowan walked into the building saying nothing. Making his way to the top of the building, where the CEO of militech was in his office, he was caught by none other than Morgan Blackhand. He was physically old, half of his face was scared, and with a pure white eye. Dtill with the same Cyberarm.
"Shit!" Before Rowan could do anything black and subdued him within seconds.
"How did you get in here son?" Blackhand said. Rowan had to think quick, he couldn't show him the ID because it didn't have his face on it. The only chance he had was to bluff.
"How do you think? I'm the new fucking intern." Rowan said.
"New interns don't go wandering around the bosses office. So I'll ask again how the fuck did you get in here?" Blackhand firmly said.
Rowan knows if he loses the ID he doesn't have a chance to get back inside the building.
"I'm telling the tuth! I was sent here to be trained as a combat guardsman". Rowan said.
"A combat guardsman"? Blackhand said, "You're my replacemant". Blackhand stood back up.
"Now that you,re here, lets get you trained right away, i don't like waiting."
Rowan and Blackhand went to the training room a floor below the main office, where Rowan spent the better half of his time in night city training under Blackhand. Rowan was gifted in martial arts and learned quickly, but he never once beat morgan Blackhand in hand to hand combat.
Rowan pivots to the right, barely dodging Blackhands left hook, and aimed his fist at the liver of Blackhand, Blackhand catches it whit his right arm, the cyber arm, and chucks Rowan across the room.
"You have that cyber arm, its not fair at all." Rowan says while thinking back to the cyberpsycho who almost turned him into the very thing he is afraid to become.
"Cyberwere will only fail you in the end, if i were you, don't get any cyberwere. I got this arm i while working in the military, while i was unconscious they forced me to have this implant after I lost the arm. Never again will i allow another cybernetic attachment will touch my body." Blackhand explained.
Rowan, already admiring Blackhand, now idolizes him. Then and there he swore to never get an implant onto his body.
After Rowan finished training he became the new guard of the militech boss, he took the most out of the opportunity to sneak around the building while training to being combat efficient. Thats when he was informed he had an obligation to get optic implants or no pay would be directed to his account. With Blackhand gone, and Rowan being put in a tight spot, he negotiated the operation to be done the next day, and took the chance to abandon militech, and hid under rivers wing as a police officer on a whim, hoping militech doesn't figure out who or where he is. Rowan left no traces, he changed his mask to Black and cut his hair. This was the time when Rowan became known as, Rowan Blackmask, the only 100% Flesh police officer in night city, and one of the very few police officers to help maxtac take down the most powerful cyberpsychos.
Back in the present day. Chris, Rowan, Vicky, Clayton, and V gear up in preparation to invade Militech tower. They hop in V's vigilante, and speed towards Militech. As they head there, cyberpsychos notice the car, and start jumping on the car.
V quickly turns left into the bridge heading across the lake to the other side of the city shaking off any cyberpsychos.
When they hit the highway, the cars in the road are still, and cyberpsychos roam the streets. V dodges and weaves pass by the vehicles and the cyberpsychos. The cyberpsychos start shooting at the car,
"Get down!" V screams.
The windows shatter from the sheer amount of bullets pushing through. V can barely see a thing. Through her HUD, she hacks all of them, unleashing the black wall. Throughout the entire road, everybody blew out into flames, and collapsed. The Black Wall spread like a disease, unleashing countless rabbid virus's into every cyberpsycho. The shooting has stopped.
They turn right onto R Night Ring street.. The cyberpsychos are back, V doesn't have enough ram for another unleashing of the black wall, they have to power through to the very end. They turn left onto Corporation street. Finally they hit corporate plaza, they turn right onto the large round about, V pulls up to Militech tower and hops out to storm the tower. and immediately she gets hit with the most bulked up cyber wearing cyberpsychos imaginable.
Just in time, her ram is back, she unleashes the black wall on all of them, killing them instantly as they burst into flames. Chris takes over the drivers seat, and drives around the building to these storage containers, and two garage doors, the exact place where he would be tasked with guiding commercial trucks to their destination. In there was Cyberpsychos with militech cyberwere was located. Too many were there to go into the building now, they just had to hide in the storage containers for 20 minutes.
V now inside militech tower, goes gunblazing taking down psycho after cyberpsycho. Every one of them having top notch military cyberwere. She quickly ducks behind cover, and blast cover fire to give her time to gain back ram. But too many enemies are in the way, so on a desperate gamble, she starts using more ram than she can regain. Knowing that the writer cant think of a good fight with guns, she switches to her katana. She jumped out, hacked all of their systems with short circuits while deflecting bullets. The moment they reloaded, she ran across the hall striking down psycho after cyberpsycho. Finally, getting close to the top of the tower, she has had enough. So much health gone and no ram left. She jumped out of the window and parachuted down.
Now its their turn. "I got the message from V we are good to go!" Chris yelled making sure everyone could hear him. They all jumped out of the storage containers, and rushed into the building. No cyberpsycho in site, they descend down the flight of stairs. As they reach the bottom, one highly tanked up cyberpsycho was waiting. Standing over a corpse wich was similar in size to the alive, but beat up cyberpsycho. The Psycho slowly turned his head, and stared down Rowan, his immediate target. In the eyes of the Psycho, he saw Rowan, as the Militech agent who got him the job, and the others only a mere robot. "Ha hha hahahahah." The psycho teared up. "Stop it. STOP IT! QUIT LAUGHING AT ME!" The psycho bolted over at rowan, screaming with rage. Rowan, takes a step forward, readying his shotgun. But, Chris and Vicky Arua walk towards the psycho. Waiting till the last second, right as the psycho raised his fist at them, Chris activated his sandy emulator. He easily dodge the punch and redirected his weight towards Vicky. Vicky unleashing her arm blades, and extending the blade forward, making a baraka blade under her forearm, she slides her blade across the arm. Chris ducks, and tackles his legs causing him to fall over, and aligning his head with Vickie's blade, she cuts it clean off. Everyone stands there speechless. "Lets get moving." Chris said.
When they approach the door, of course its locked. Rowan visually pissed, V sticks out her hand. And with a quick Dark Red burst of electricity, the terminal blows, and the door open. A Massive computer, with Netrunner Chairs sitting around the giant computer, similar to Arasaka's Child Netrunners experiment. Rowan notices a mirror to the left of the room, no doubt a two way mirror Rowan thought. He pulls out old tech, and takes pictures with a smartphone. Vicky, and Clayton stand their and observe. Chris starts setting up explosives. Rowan turns his attention to the giant computer. Looking for a jack, He pulls out a 12 TB Flash drive meant for extracting data. He finds one on one of the Chairs, and just about he is to jack in, Clayton stops him. "Let me jack in at the same time, for a clean data transfer." Clayton said holding a netrunner suit he got from one of the chairs. Rowan agrees. Clayton jacks in, and Rowand jacks in the Data extractor. 5 minutes later, Chris is done setting up the explosives, and Rowan is still extracting data. Chris walks up behind Rowan, "How long will this take"? He asked. "Depends on how much is there, probably two hours, maybe 1 with Clayton. Inside the net, Clayton is picking out damaged data, so complete data can pass through quickly. "Its weird, with the shape of the plain here, this looks like old net, yet not a single Rabbid here? It gives me a sense of unease." Suddenly, a hand touches his shoulder. Terrified he jumps and turns around. Nothing there. "What the fuck? I better hurry up." He says. Suddenly. A Dark red hand appears on his chest. Clayton eyes widened. Paralyzed with fear. The Red being, starts climbing out, and with half of its body out, it turns around and looking in Clayton's eyes. "Its me." Clayton and the red being said at the same time. Clayton stared at what looked like him, talked like him and at the same time he does. Finally grasping the situation, he holds back the Rabbid, and tries to jack out. Suddenly before he is able to, a narrow hole forms on his chest and back. The rabbid fully climbs out, and smiles at clayton. The last thing Clayton sees is himself, opening his mouth like a shark, before darkness plunders his mind. In the real world, Vicky has Chris by the neck, Rowan is across the room on the floor. Vicky pulls her blade out of Clayton's chest and ripped him out of the chair, and throwing his lifeless body on the floor. His dead body stares at you, with nothing but darkness in his eyes. Vicky shoves Chris on the chair and jacks him in without a suit. Chris Manafest in the old net. The first thing he sees is A rabbid, in the shape of clayton finishing off the rest of Clayton and swallowed a leg whole. "So, your my vessel." it says while wiping his mouth, "Lets se what you got."
Chris not knowing what the fuck is going on, Clayton appeared infront of him in the blink of an eye. Clayton with a big smile on his face, he throws an uppercut. Chris narrowly dodges and jumps back. His eyes dart to where clayton was, he is not where to be seen. Suddenly he heres laughing. Right behind him, clayton still with the menacing smile, punches Chris on the back, making him launch into the data stream. Chris laying on his stomach, he turns over. Clayton hovers above him. Chris now understanding the situation, he springs up on his feet and throws a right hook at Clayton. Clayton dodges easily, and hits Chris with a spinning back elbow. Chris stumbles back, but before he was hit the the attack his leaned backwards to absorb the impact. Chris firmly plants his feet, grabs clayton by the shoulder, and head buts him hard. His first hit. Clayton stumbles back with a bigger grin than before.
"Not bad". He says.
Chris replies, "Im not here to entertain you, i don't want to be here at all, So ill ask you the once. WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU!"
"You got a hit in earlier than expected, spill reward you with that answer, I'm NR-N-O-$-C-!R 0!' Clayton said.
"What the fuck does that mean?" Chris asked.
"Nah ah ah, it's my turn. Can you deceive the divine?" Clayton asked.
"W-what?" Chris said.
"Wrong answer".
Suddenly Clayton's face shifted from amusement, to great joy. The room starts rotating, Chris falls from what was the floor and is now the ceiling, Clayton while in mid air, round house kicks Chris in the stomach. The room rotates once more, and Chris crashes to the floor just before the room finished rotating, causing Chris to roll beneath Claytons feet. Chris staying calm, sweeps Clayton, and uppercuts him as he falls to the floor. Clayton gets sent flying as Clayton flips to a straight position, attempting to land on the wall.. The room rotates fast, the force pins chris on the wall, the room stops just as Clayton lands on the wall, and he kicks Chris directly in the stomach. Chris feeling the hit, blood flies out of his mouth. Chris isn't finished. He Grapples Claytons leg, slams him on the wall, slams him onto the floor, and kicks Clayton in the gut, causing Clayton to roll away. Chris slowly walks toward Clayton, pissed the fuck off. Clayton gets on his knees. His grin so danm wide, he looked like the devil himself.
"Your perfect! I can't wait any long, i want you now!" Clayton says as he gets to his feet.
Not even a second, Clayton is infront of Chris. Chris feeling fear, he locks in. Clayton throws a l=right straight, Chris barely blocks, Clayton throws a left hook, Chris barely blocks, Clayton throws a right uppercut, Chris barely blocks, Left kick, high knee, downward kick, left uppercut, right hook, spinning right backhand, left straight. Finally, Chris parries the attack and counters with a gut punch. But the punch goes straight through, lockinhg Chris in place. Clayton grabs him by the shoulders. Suddenly, Chris is in a land, a land of PcB stretching as far as the eye can see. Capacitors covering every achor
"You entertained me, so ill grant you one last request after i take over your body". Clayton says.
A capacitor explodes with a flash of red lightning.
Chris can feel his body overheating, he knows his fate is sealed.
"Please, get rid of militech." Chris ays with a single tear drop from his eyes.
"Ill make sure to kill every executive safe from the Cyberpsychosis spread." Clayton says.
Chris smiles. More capacitors explode. His eyes, turn from normal, to blue. Chris falls to his knees. He remembers the days he and his mom spent together happy. He wished it could last forever. Chris burst into tears. He covers his face, "Mom, please call me Chris one more time." Ludacris says. Even more capacitors explode. Back in the real world. Chris wakes up from the chair, he unplugs the jack.
"Oh yeah, it feels so good to have a body!" Chris says.
Suddenly, Mr.blue eyes walks through the door. He looks down at Rowan.
"As we agreed, i get Rowan, and you roam free, no restriction". Mr. blue eyes says as he tosses Chris a chip. Chris smiles, picks it up and inserts it in. Mr.blue eyes snapps his fingers, and two men dressed up in suits with red eyes picks up Rowan. Mr.blue eyes looks at Chris one more time.
"I hope you won't become a problem.." he says.
Chris smiles. Mr.blue eyes walks out of the room. Chris puts his hands behind his head.
"Alright, lets go find my other parts yeah?" Chris says to Vicky
"Am i not coming back to you?" Vicky asked.
"No, i like your body too, its a nice Combat set up." Chris says as he starts walking out of the building.
In the desert, on the outskirts of night city, in a small house. Rowan lies on an operating table. Two optical on silver treys next to surgical equipment. An unknown man, tall, Dark Blue hair Dark red eyes, and a devious smile. He picks up clamps and a small surgical blade.
The end.