บท 264: Silver-Tongued
"I know your condition, the 'Johnny Brain Parasite' that'll kill you in a few weeks if left untreated. I'm offering help with that, if you work for me."
"W-work for you!? You broke into my best friend's funeral and threatened to kill everyone there!" she angrily shouts.
Ori sighs, "But I didn't kill anyone, which would surprise everyone who knows me. Almost every gig I'm on results in a massacre, so while I don't care that you're not kissing my ass right now, zip your fucking lip and listen." he growls, drawing a sceptical glare from the woman.
"Look, just listen to him for five minutes, he ain't the corpo cunt we thought he was... He's just a regular cunt who's trying to pull my schtick." Johnny states at her side.
V scowls and folds her arms while idly looking around the room, scanning it for a weapon she might be able to use... Her only options were a small wrench left sticking out of a nearby draw, the light above her that could act as a thin metal pipe, and the revolvers on Zombie's hip.
"As you know, right now I'm working with Arasaka, but not in the way you'd think... I'm with Yorinobu Arasaka, that guy that off'd Saburo, which you obviously know already. What you don't know is that he's not just a power-grabbing piece of shit, the guy's off his rocker, but he actually wants to tear the entire corp to the ground..." he says, surprising V. "He hired me to start thinning out the Arasaka board members so he wouldn't have any trouble setting fire to its infrastructure. Once they're gone, the only real obstacles left would be his remaining family, Hanako and Michiko... And, someone Silverhand knows, Adam Smasher."
"God, it's always that fuck. Surprised no one's domed him yet, thought Arasaka was bound to get sick of him eventually." Johnny growls.
"You really think you can beat Smasher? Cuz you went down pretty easy last ti-" her words are cut off as Ori appears behind her in an instant, fingers wrapped tightly around her neck.
"Your guardian angel ordered me not to kill you, locked my chrome up to stop it. So, I'm giving you an alternative. Work for me, and I'll help fix you, in return, we'll fuck up Arasaka in the process." he states.
"I'd say listen to him, V, our only current leads are that Evelyn girl, who's disappeared off the face of the earth, and Hellman, I'd rather trust his capture to this guy rather than that piece of Nomad ass..." Johnny adds.
...
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"This is Juno, since David thought we needed more members I brought one of my own in... And I actually vetted this one." Ori states, sending a look at David who just sighs in response.
The person standing before them had no identifiable gender under all their clothes, wearing a leather jacket with the Samurai logo on the back, torn-up black jeans, and a helmet visor concealing their entire face, gloves covering up even their hands. It was obvious to everyone that they were trying to cover their identity.
"So, 'Juno', where'd you and Ori meet?" Rebecca asks.
"At the Afterlife, hit it off and he offered a job." 'Juno' says, their voice sounding identifiably male.
The crew continued to interrogate Juno over the course of thirty minutes, and finally, Ori claps his hands, interrupting the session. "Alright, now that we're done with that-"
"Hang on! I wanna know why this gonk won't show his face!" Rebecca exclaims.
Ori shrugs, "He's an ugly bastard and embarrassed about it," he nudges Juno 'playfully', "Ripperdoc fucked up a nose job, then their tool went haywire and scarred 'em up good. Trust me, unless you like looking at mincemeat he's better off masked... No offence." he said, offering his apology to Juno.
"It's-... Fine..." 'he' grumbles out, clearly perturbed by the subject matter.
"Now, I wanna know the status of our target, we've wasted enough time on it and if there's nothing we'll have to report it to our benefactor." Ori states.
Lucy audibly sighs, "There's nothing, I spent six hours straight in the subnet and got nowhere. They're probably hiding in the tunnels under the city waiting for the heat to die down."
Ori looks to Kiwi, "Anything?"
"Same old, only thing I found was their abandoned chess club account... Rest of their shit must've got scoured by Arasaka before we could touch it." she says, and V/Juno can only frown under her mask... How did these people get into her account? She'd forgotten the goddamn password for it years ago!
"Alright, guess we're holding off on this gig then. I'll report back to the client... For now, you guys take a break, I've had you on overtime for this the last couple of days, have a beer or something." he says while walking off.
...
"So, Juno-" Rebecca starts, only to be interrupted.
"Not here to make friends." Juno states before leaving.
"Oookay..."
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"What is the status of our thief?" Yorinobu asks.
"About that, we got no leads, she's gone underground and disappeared, there's no point wasting more time on this... Best we can do is return to it later and hope she gets sloppy." Ori explains.
...
Yorinobu frowns through the holoscreen, "Is that so... I trust you have exhausted all possible options, not that I am no disappointed with your lack of progress... We shall continue with your last assignment, the purging of board members. Without my father, we can act with less restriction. I will send you an updated list of targets I wish to be removed."
Ori nods, "I'll get my team on it, the surviving members are probably skittish though, so we might need some help getting them in the open."
"That has already been covered, I have manoeuvred them into more... Dangerous ventures, it's almost amusing how easily they can be lead, thinking that they are getting the better of me whilst in grief for my father. Handle them, and you will be paid handsomely."
*Bzztch!*
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บท 265: Botched Op
"Heh, start the clock, my bet's on the gonk not lasting five minutes." Rebecca casually says as she and the rest of the crew watch in on the Med Center from a dozen or so hidden cameras.
A day ago they'd launched an operation to sabotage a piece of Cyberware the Arasaka Board Member Hoji Kamazaki was going to have installed. With the intel Yorinobu supplied them, it was laughably easy for Sasha to sneak into the supply centre and accesses it.
Usually there'd be a shit load of anti-theft and security seals, but with three Netrunners on hand, blueprints on the cargo, and instructions on how to operate them, it too was barely an afterthought.
"Were you expecting him to last? Even Ori would explode if he jacked that fuckin' thing in." Falco states.
"So you aren't betting?"
...
"A thousand Eds on thirty seconds." Falco adds.
"Quiet, it's happening." Sasha says, more anxious than anyone else due to her being primarily responsible for this.
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In the hospital, the doctor had just numbed Hoji in preparation for the operation. He was required to be kept awake due to the Neuralware and the risk of accidentally touching something they shouldn't, brain surgery was tricky like that.
"This is quite the implant Mr Kamazaki, I was surprised the board gave you permission to have it installed." the doctor remarks, making small talk to keep the man's thoughts away from having the back of his skull opened up.
"Drastic times call for d-drastic measures..." Koji says, stuttering slightly as he feels the uncomfortable sensation of a breeze brushing across his brain... "T-the Emperor's death h-has required all of us to make s-sacrifices. This N-Neural enhancement will allow A-Arasaka to continue without p-problems."
The surgeon idly nods, "Access points have been made, we will begin the installation... Please inform us if you feel anything other than slight itchiness, Mr Kamazaki."
"J-Just do it already..." he grouses, irritated either from the surgery or the fact his head was trapped in a vice to keep it still.
...
"So I heard about the parade that will be held in Saburo Arasaka's honour, will you be in attendance? If so, is there any chance I could acquire a VIP card? My daughter has always looked up to-" the surgeon's voice trails off as he connects the Neuralware to Hoji's Interface. The chip had sparked slightly, causing Hoji's hands to jolt, not that the man himself seemed to notice... Had he blacked out for an instant?
"You want a VIP card? I hardlo thank goal tomato chocorate... Pony sauce bat car?" Hoji asks as the rest of the hospital staff shift uncomfortably. The Corpo just looks at them all oddly, as if asking if he'd said something odd. "Jakgh netuna loienilo pikachu fireduck? Kakarot?"
"M-Mr Hoji, if you understand what I'm saying please raise your left hand-"
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"HAHAHAHA! LOOK AT THAT FUCKIN' GONK! HAHAHAHA!!" Rebecca roars in laughter as the Corpo starts speaking in the lost language of retardation.
"Shit, that's the funniest fucking thing I've seen in my life!" Leo exclaims, joining her in the merriment.
Even the typically stoic Lucy was chuckling, the big bad Corpo that may have played a big role in her earlier life was not reduced to a bumbling wretch. She couldn't think of a more apt punishment... Not that it was over yet.
V, or Juno, was sitting at the back of the room with Johnny next to her, a digital bag of popcorn in his lap as he watches the screen like it was a bad chick flick. "I'm not sure how I feel about this..."
He sends an apathetic glance at her, "Why? Cause those doctors are gonna get vivisected for the botched op? Who cares, one dead Corpo, 'specially a high-up one is worth a thousand sacrifices."
V sighs, "Of course the terrorist would say that."
"Yeah, and? Not shut it, we're getting to the good part."
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"Something's wrong, Mr Kamazaki's condition is rapidly deteriorating! Quick, remove the implant!"
"We can't! I-It's overloading! It's already begun to burn his upper temporal lobe! We need to cool it! Taking it out now would be like an impromptu lobotomy!"
"What do you want us to do then!? Spray him with a fire extinguisher!? The coolant was have isn't rated for soft essential organics!"
*SHHhhh!*
"AAGGHKKK!!!" Hoji lets out a hacking scream as smoke begins billowing from his mouth, the chain reaction of overloading Cyberware even affecting his synth-lungs, which had essentially turned into a furnace inside his chest.
*THWWOOM!*
His eyes finally burst, the Kiroshi Optics exploding like dropped frozen Christmas baubles. Spittles of flames exit from the now vacant eye-holes, and it only gets worse when things reach critical failure...
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGHHHH!!!"
Hoji Arasaka's entire head bursts into flames, his arms flailing to put it out but proving to be ineffective as he was locked in a vice grip. The doctors and other nurses all cower at the sides of the room to escape from what was quickly beginning to look like some kind of self-detective sequence. Sure, they'd seen Netrunner attacks with similar results, but nothing so violent.
With a final yell the Corpo finally slumps in his seat, brain scorched and half melted, still on fire from his absolutely destroyed Cybernetics... An alarm pings, and the doctors are all forced to the floor as the Corpo's security entourage charges into the room.
"Client down! Take them into custody, someone's going down for this, and it ain't us!"
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Ori slips out of the room while the crew was having an impromptu celebration at a job well down. With Hoji marked the third Board Member they'd flatlined in two weeks, with the spree they'd need to slow it down a bit, which was fine given that Yorinobu had hired Sekaiheiwa to aid his security during the parade in Japantown...
Apparently Hanako was supposed to be there in his place but she'd refused for the reason of being 'too sick to attend'. Ori was sceptical, but Yorinobu had assured him that his sister knew nothing, and would do nothing.
Again, he was sceptical...
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