It was quiet in the car as we began our drive back, though my eyes glowed as 75k instantly went into Sasha's account as she turned to look at me.
"What? You think I would just keep all that scratch for myself? Nah choom, I'm not an ass like that were I'd leave none for my partner in crime." I say with a bit of a grin to her.
Though she just smiled as the car kept driving across the old empty roads of the Badlands while we were getting closer and closer to the city limits until she spoke.
"I think…. I should pull out of the Merc life for awhile…." She said slowly and a bit quietly as well.
"So you want a break for a time?" I ask her as I see her nod.
"I want to…. Talk with my older sister who I haven't contacted for a few years now after becoming a Merc." She explains a bit more about her family.
"That's fine, I'm not going to hold it against you if you want to go quiet for a time, everyone needs a break, whether it's a long one or short one, but question is what you will do for creds in the meantime?" I ask her a genuine question.
"I…. Don't know really where I should go, I have several hundred grand saved up but that won't really last that long with where I live for rent at Corpo Plaza." She said to me as I thought of an idea.
"Well Sasha I might have a way to have you set up while your away from the crew, but I need you to promise me that you don't tell anyone on Maines Crew what I'm about to say to you alright?" I look at her seriously once more as she nodded.
"You have my word, I won't say anything."
"Alright, now tell me, what do you know about the AWG?" I decide to ask her a simple question.
"The AWG? You mean that New MegaCorp that appeared out of nowhere a little over a month ago that is taking Night City by storm by completely destroying Pacifica?"
"Yes, and do you know about the President of the AWG?"
"Well not much, but I know his name is Shie Yamada but I haven't tried any deep dives on him though."
"Well Shie Yamada…. Is actually my older brother…."
"….. Wait what?! You-your brother is the President of the AWG?" She said sounding completely shocked with this info.
"Yep, that also makes me the Heir to the AWG, but he knows I'm not interested so whenever he has a kid they'd take over the company when my brother feels like passing it on, but if he dies that Corp falls into my hands instead." I say as we get into the city limits now.
"But why I'm telling you this is if I give the word to my brother he will hire you as one of his Corps major netrunners, and if your worried about him working you to the bone then you don't know that the average work week for anyone in his company is only between 40 to 50 hours with 8 to 10 hours a day with 2 days off a week, something no other Corp does anymore." I say to her laying out a normal work week which seems completely foreign to this current Cyberpunk world.
"That's…. A bit hard to believe…." Most Corps are around 80 hour work weeks with only one day off a week as they always work someone down to the bone even the best Corp out there is still 65 hours a week with one day off a week.
"Well let me call him up again, he's probably done with his investors for Pacifica." I say calling him up on the cars holo.
"Well your calling me a lot little brother, what do you need now?" Shie says as he picks up the holo.
"Brother, I have a friend who wants to go quiet from the Merc biz for awhile, she's a great netrunner and I'm wondering if you'd take her in for awhile." I tell him about Sasha as she waited to hear what he would say.
"Sure, I'll give her an extremely flexible contract that she can look at, send me her contact info and I'll give her the location of our new office in Pacifica."
"Wait, you already got a building made in Pacfica?" It's only been a few weeks since Pacifica was cleared out and now it was still mostly rubble.
"Well it's still under construction but the first three floors have already been built up by our construction robots and I'd say in about a month and a half the building will be completely done and the rest of Pacifica will get remade and rebranded after that."
"Alright then, I'll send you her info, when she's ready she can meet up with you." I say sending her info to him which she instantly got a message from Shie.
"Good, well until then." He said before we cut off the call entirely before looking at her as she didn't say anything even though she could and just listened instead.
"Well? Does that sound find to you with doing this?" I ask her as she seems deep in thought.
"It seems reasonable…. I just feel sad leaving the crew like this…. But I know it's for the best so let's go tell Maine what's going on." She says slowly as she comes out of thought while thinking about the future for her.
"Alright, let's go meet up with the crew and tell them what we've been up too." And so that's what we did.
We called up Maine as we met up at the afterlife as he and everyone was there, Barring Briar as she doesn't drive and was still at my place.
We went and explained what went wrong with the gig, though both me and Sasha got 100k as the client, who was my brother no less, still gave us the bonus for what Sasha did which from what I could tell dropped Biotechnica's stocks price which he bought up plenty of shares in as well.
And then Sasha went onto explain she was going to take a break from the Merc life for awhile so she was going to be out of the crew for the time being.
So we held a impromptu going away party for her as a result which improved her spirits and brought a smile to her and everyone else's face as a result.
The night was long and everyone had fun together and it wasn't until the morning before we all said our official goodbyes to Sasha, though not before her texting me to 'come see her sometime at her apartment in a week ;)'
I guess doing what I did caught her interest and at least I'll keep in contact with her from now on, and if this develops into something serious like I think it will and when she gets close with Mikan and the others I'll let her in on everything when it comes to that point.
Now it was just me, Maine and Dorio as both Rebecca and Pilar were drunk on the couch's of the booth we were all staying at.
"Haaa…. With Sasha gone for now we're gonna need to get a new Netrunner for the crew." Maine said as he ran his fingers through his hair thinking about it.
"Hmmm, why not ask Rogue? She knows everyone that's anybody in this Biz, if we look for any solo netrunners that are looking to join up with a crew she's are best bet right?" I say back but he seems pensive about it.
"Well you know the last gig you did was through her and she was pissed with how it went before getting, I dunno, confused I guess as to why the client was still pleased with what actually happened in the end so it's a bit…. Awkward to talk with her at the moment." He said scratching his chin.
"Alright old man, let this young blood handle it then, I'll talk to her personally." I say getting up and smoothing back my hair to have a chat with the Legendary Rogue of the AfterLife.