So the annual writer report came out and…. This entire year I've only taken around 3 days off from writing overall?
Man this is like my second job and I'm not even getting paid, and originally I was fine with that but now….
Now I think I really should plan to actually make something off my stories so as some of you might dislike this decision I'm planning to open a Patreon soon.
Will I stop uploading here? No this will still be where I upload everything I have to the public but I'm going to post advanced chapters to Patreon before uploading them here for everyone else to see.
It's mainly for me to earn extra money on a passion I have come to love ever since I started writing a few years ago and with my uploads that I have been dishing out daily I think getting some money in return from my dedicated fans is all I ask in return.
But I'll give an update on that later so back to the chapter!
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At the same time as Gloria, in my apartments Gun room.
I was currently working on my guns, but more specifically looking over my newest addition to my overall arsenal the Midnight Arms Erebus SMG.
In the game these schematics are deep under DogTown but I guess for this version somethings are different but from what I have seen most are minor differences.
".... Curious, you are different from the rest of your species, DNA Scans shows you only have 2% human DNA and the other 98% is unknown." The guns Rogue AI began to speak to me as I began cleaning off its parts.
"Hifumi this guy talks to much, Ooo! Ooo! I have a cool idea! Why don't I become the AI core for this gun?" Shinigami chimes in as she pops up next to me while I'm cleaning the barrel of the gun.
"Curious, unknown non-biological entity detected on my sensors, Query, What exactly are you?" The gun asked while looking at Shinigami specifically.
"Shingami, what did I say with appearing in front of anything that isn't apart of our group?" I say with a raised Eyebrow too her, luckily Rebbeca's out getting ammo for her guns so I had nothing to worry about.
"Shinigami, Colloquial name referring to a Death God or the Grim Reaper from Japanese origins, while I can't be certain with my current limited processes, this entity has more similarities with an AI than not." The AI says while I start to put it back together.
"Hifumi I really don't like this thing, it knows to much already, it's best to wipe its consciousness and factory reset it or something, or even better let me take control of it instead!" She said as she was clearly irritated at the thing.
But I just shrugged, "Suit yourself, just don't go all crazy on me when you take this thing over." I say laying it on the table.
"Yahoo! I get to have some bloody fun for myself for once!" She cheered before inserting herself into the gun as it let out red sparks before they changed to a more purple hue instead.
"Systems all linked up! Shinigami is ready for action and…. Oh…. Oh that's not good…." She says cheerfully before seeming…. Disturbed.
"Shinigami? What's wrong?" I say looking her new gun form over as the purple light section acting as her eye began to 'dialate' for a lack of a better term.
"Welllll….. You know about the BlackWall? Welllll….. Seems the Rogue AI's are…. Getting ready to punch through the Blackwall and that by 2080 if NetWatch can't keep up they will break through the Old Net and all hell will break loose across the world, and even if they can fight them off by the turn of the century the BlackWall will be corrupted by then and the world as we know it will end…." She went onto tell me from the info she just recieved which shocked me as a result.
"…. I need to make a call." I said before I pulled Shie up on the holo who picked up not long after.
"Little brother, how's biz? Oh I also heard your almost a millionaire without being a Corpo, nice work." He complimented me from my EdgeRunner status and the things I had done overall.
"Yeah, yeah, but that's not important, I got something to tell you that Shinigami found out through a Rogue AI." I said before I told him what I learned.
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"Hmmmm…. This isn't good, but we have time, and luckily I have made connections with NetWatch along with having homunculus NetRunners help NetWatch find the vulnerabilities in the BlackWall, I'll get a meeting on the way with them to create a brand new seperate Network completely seperate from the current and old network and cutting off the Rogue AI's for good, and this is even better that we do this."
"Why's that?"
"One, massive profits in owning the majority of the New Net, Two, Extremely good PR with the entire world where the entire world would find our coporation the worlds saviors as result of the New Nets creation."
"You only think about profits don't you?"
"Hey! Don't give me that, we are one and the same, I'm just Lawful Evil leaning more towards Chaotic Neutral, while you my good brother are the Chaotic Good out of the two of us, besides the more we do to help this world the more we get back in return in the end, I fix the wider world while lining my pockets in plenty of cash while you fix the domestic problems while also lining your pockets with cash as well." He says before leaning back in his fancy desk chair as he grabbed a cigar and began to smoke it.
"Hmmmm…." I for some reason…. Didn't really like to see a different version of myself looking like this, but he has a point if I'm what someone would call an Anti-hero he is more of an Anti-Villian in a sense.
"But don't worry about it, everything we will have figured out as after all, everything is for the end goal, even if plenty of people die as a result, but anyway chao for now." He says before cutting the call.
Left with my thoughts I just shook it off and headed out of the gun room with my newly built gun.
Though the elevator dinged as it opened up and Rebecca and Briar, covered in blood came back into the apartment.
"Hifumi! We are back and we got presents!" Rebbeca said not caring about her blood covered body as she and Briar dropped down a large quantity of guns and weapons.
"Okay first off, go to the bathroom and clean up you two, don't need blood all over the wood floor." I said pushing the two crazy girls to get themselves cleaned up.
As to how they got all this gear? Well it's obvious they killed plenty of gang members to get these but hey a bigger arsenal is a better one.
Though while those two were getting cleaned off Maine called out to me.
"Yo Maine, we all set to go?" I say cleaning off the guns still covered in blood and a bit of guts.
"Yeah, get your gear ready and head on out to Dakotas Place as that's where we will meet up with are man Falco and see how good he is for this next gig."
"Alright sounds good, me and the girls will meet up with you guys in a bit." I say before hanging up the call once more.
Time to head towards the Badlands.