บท 260: Grievening
"Anyone got eyes on our target yet?" Ori questions as he idly runs a hand over where his head had been severed. While no scar or any evidence of it remained, the fact his decapitated head had been shown on international news was disconcerting, to say the least.
...
"Are we just gonna pretend that ain't happenin'?" the new crew member Leo jabs a finger at the TV which was announcing that Ori's bounty had been claimed, the head serving as evidence.
"You get used to it." Lucy shrugs, picking at her nails as if all of this were beneath her.
"Still, never did get an explanation for it... You warned us to ignore this shit but why do they have your head!?" Rebecca questions rather heatedly.
"Doesn't matter, probably a fake or something to take the wind outta the protester's sails." Ori offhandedly says.
Kiwi snorts at the side, "Yeah and that's working. News's only been out for twenty minutes and people are calling you a martyr, the one Silverhand wasn't."
"They'll be disappointed to hear I'm still kickin' then. Now, let's focus on the target, y'know, doing your jobs?"
Sasha throws her hands up in the air, "It's hopeless! No one had her face and anyone who might refuse to come out with it! All her accounts are marked but she doesn't use them, and when we checked we found her apartment trashed and abandoned!"
...
"Ahem..." Ori coughs into his fist and connects with the nearby TV, bringing up V's face. "I actually managed to grab a photo of her."
...
"How...?" David questions.
"Yeah, you're acting pretty fucking shifty! What's the biz, Ori!?" Rebecca interrogates.
Leo chuckles, "Hey, my bet's on her being an ex."
"THE HELL IT IS!" the pale chibi explodes.
"All of you shut the fuck up!" Ori exclaims, "I got no relation to this bitch, I just got a photo, so take it, shut up, and find where she's at!"
...
He looks to the side and scowls as if he'd been told something unpleasant, "And remember, we take her alive." he states before walking out. Plunging the room into silence.
"Alive huh? Told you it's an ex!" Leo smirks.
"You'd be mighty fine keeping your nose where it belongs." Falco sighs, "Be a funny man somewhere else, but that ain't gonna fly much longer."
Leo tilts his head, "What? I'm just saying what we're all thinkin'. And back at you 'cow-poke' mind your own biz."
"You really wanna start this?" Falco stands, only for David to place himself between the two men.
"Chill out, Falco, he's new and doesn't know about how shit goes here. Leave it, I'll handle it."
...
Falco sighs shrugs, "Hope you know what you're doing here, kid. We've had it easy so far, but teach your buddy some respect." he says before stepping out.
"Whelp!" Rebecca hops out of her chair, "I'm headed to our friends at Colt, they'll want to know 'Zombie' ain't dead. Hey, it'll be free publicity when he makes a comeback, maybe they'll sell another set!" she skips off.
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"This is bullshit. Real bullshit." V scowls as she barrels down the road towards the Sunset Motel to meet with some merc that owes Rogue.
"What? You want her to do all the work? Suck it up." Johnny remarks from the passenger seat, his legs kicked up on the dashboard.
"No, I just wanted her to do something but throw us the leftovers. Handing us to some struggling Nomad ain't exactly preem service."
"Probably the best she can do, didn't you notice it?"
"What?"
"Those suits hanging around the Afterlife, probably Arasaka goons pushing their weight around. She does anything overt with us it'll be her on the chopping block next."
V scowls, "There's no 'Us' in this, even if there was you're leavin' soon as. I wouldn't get comfortable if I were you."
He snorts and shakes his head, "Geez, try and kill a girl once and she hates you for life. 'Hell hath no fury to a woman scorned' checks out, huh."
"Like you wouldn't know that already. All those dumb broads you-"
*Ping!*
[Recieving Call: Mama Welles...]
V blinks for a moment before letting out a sigh and parking to the side of the desert road. "Gotta take this..." she disregards Johnny and opens the call, "Mama Welles..."
"V, how are you?"
"Good..." she trails off, "Look, about Jackie-"
"No, don't give me excuses. I do not need them, he knew what he was doing and he paid for it. I'm just thankful he came home... I wanted to ask, are you coming to the memorial for Jackie?"
...
V wets her lips, "T-that's not really possible for me right now. I'm sure you've seen everything that's going on?"
Mama Welles nods, "I have, but I would still like you here, for Jackie... You and him were-, closer than I have seen him with anyone else, even that girl of his." her expression falters at the mention of Misty, "Come, for Jackie."
...
"When's it happening." V relents.
"In three days on Saturday in El Coyote Cojo, can you make it?"
...
"I'll try."
"That's all I ask. Stay safe, V."
*Beep!*
"So, this 'Jackie'... Output?" Johnny asks with a grin.
"Don't fucking start, I swear to god if you talk shit about him I'll-"
"Hah, alright, alright, I know enough to not talk shit about a lover."
"We weren't-"
"With the way you're talkin' about him? If you weren't, you wanted to be. I seen this skit all before, don't surprise me. 'Sides, you're gettin' on in years, thirty? Ain't long til your gear stops working-"
"FUCK. OFF!" she slams her foot on the accelerator in hopes of the wind killing the sound of his voice... Thankfully, it works, if temporarily.
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บท 261: Trunk
"You Panam Palmer?" V asks as she steps into the bar at the Sunset Motel.
The subject, a busty-looking woman of Spanish descent with black hair and healthy brown skin, turns her head slightly at V while continuing to nurse her drink. "What of it? You another of Nash's 'gringos' that he owes money to? 'Cuz I ain't got nothing for you, bastard probably owes me twice he does you-"
"Rogue sent me." V interjects, causing the scowling woman's expression to drop even further.
"Of course she did. Well? I'm guessing she wants me to work for the 'favour' of telling me where my goddamn car is?"
V shrugs, "In a manner of speaking, she'll tell you where it is along with its cargo, and you'll help me take down an AV and capture a VIP. Seems a fair trade to me."
"Uh-uh, I ain't doing shit until I get my Thorton back. Not like I can take down an AV without my shit anyway."
"How'm I supposed to know you won't run off as soon as we get it? I'm not an idiot, Mercs, Solos especially don't hold their word unless it helps them."
"I'm not some two-bit scumbag, I say I'll do something, I stick with it. Half the reason I'm stuck like this is because I trusted too much, it was my partner who stole all my shit in the first place!" she jabs a finger at V, "So if we do this, we do it my way, Rogue can bitch all she wants but she can't make me do shit in that ivory fucking tomb of hers, got it?"
V frowns and leans her back against the bar, folding her arms and looking up in thought... Only to be interrupted as Johnny appears next to her, "Don't know about you but I trust her, an ass like that can't lie."
"Why am I not surprised you like her?"
Johnny smirks, "Well, minus the bitchy-facade she reminds me more of a lost teen... But hey, as a master of Asstronomy, she ain't lying.
V glances at Panam and can't help but notice her rear sticking over the stool she was sitting in, of course Johnny would notice that before anything else. "Fine, you're shit's in Rocky Ridge, but after we grab it we do what I came for."
Panam brightens, a smile twisting her lips as she downs the rest of her drink, "Sounds good to me, c'mon, let's go while we still got sunlight." she says, getting up and walking to the door.
"Hate to see her go but love watchin' her leave." Johnny can't help but remark at the girl with swaying hips, "If she weren't a desert hillbilly she'd be a shoo-in for a model."
"I've barely known you and I want to lobotomise myself already." V sighs and follows.
"Hey, no point ruining it for me, first thing I'm gonna do if we fail to fix this is flick the bean-"
"God, just shut up!"
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*BOOOOM!*
*Bangbang!*
"You fucking bitch!" Nash roars from his hiding spot in the cave he and his Raffen buddies had been hold up in. The ambush in Rocky Ridge turned into some kinda revenge gig, and while V was sympathetic she wasn't about to risk her client running off and getting herself killed, especially when she already owed her.
There was no doubt in her mind that Panam would get flatlined, as even her Aldecaldo buddies had refused to help her... Going against an entire Reffen Shiv gang was just asking to die, or worse.
Thankfully, Panam wasn't completely outta her mind. As soon as they got her Thorton back she fixed its munition and aiming systems, allowing her to set that big ass turret on the roof on autopilot. That gave them around even odds, the two of them plus the terminator truck against the entire Raffen gang.
Unluckily for Nash and his goons, they'd been caught with their pants down, mid-refuelling from the large storage units they'd presumably stolen from a CHOOH2 production facility... These provided excellent targets, and basically turned half the gang to ash before the fighting even started.
"Hey Nash! Head's up!" Panam shouts, grabbing an oil can filled with gas and throwing it over where Nash was hiding.
*Bang!*
V nails it with Yorinobu's stolen pistol, causing fiery oil to rain down on the ganger, who stands, screams, and starts thrashing around like a humanoid bonfire.
"THAT'S WHAT YOU FUCKIN' GET! YOU TRAITOR PIECE OF SHIT!" Panam shouts as the man drops to his knees while looking in their direction... Well, 'looking' didn't really count considering how his eyes had melted.
V shrugs and puts a bullet between his eyes, ending his suffering, much to Panam's disappointment. "If you're gonna burn a man alive every time he betrays you, you might wanna stay outta Night City."
"Nah, I'll just stick Solo..." she glances at V, "Unless you wanna team up? I'd say we worked pretty well together, barring you staring at my ass... I'm straight, by the way."
V frowns, "I wasn't staring at your ass..."
"Hah, good one. So, what is it? You dude in a woman's body or a woman with a piece?"
"... I have no idea what you mean...?"
Panam shrugs, "You can try to hide it. But I know people like you in the Aldecaldo's, you walk like a dude, fight like a dude, stare at my ass like a dude... And yes, there's a difference, a lesbian would be more subtle about it, that or straight up when we first met."
"Fuck sake. I was born a girl and don't have a cock, if that's what you're asking. Can we just get back to my shit? Taking down an AV and capturing Hellman is more important than, whatever this is."
"Whatever, just curious... Come on, gotta drop off the cargo at Boz, then we can focus on your gig."
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