Time skipped 4 months later
I was tasked by Rogue to steal a guitar belonging to the former Samurai member Kerry Eurodyne, which came in the possession of Gaston Slayton, a Samurai superfan and also a son of a big Corpo rat named Harry Slayton member Biotechnica upper management.
When I entered the apartment building on Los Lobos Street and took the elevator up to the 17th floor, there were two ways to break into Gaston's apartment. The first is to simply break in through the front door, which requires a high level of Technical Ability since the Ice for the network was hard to hack in. Otherwise, I would have to access the apartment via the balcony, which involves getting to the roof. To do so, I would have to go to the fire exit that leads to the roof and go up the stairs until I reach the apartment roof. From there, go straight ahead to the edge of the building, where I can drop to the apartment's balcony below. Disable or Hack the security camera before entering through the door on the terrace of the apartment.
I decided to go for the second option. While inside the apartment, I can freely explore the surroundings without the risk of being caught.
Present
noticing various Samurai concert posters and vintage guitars, although Kiwi and Lucy were calling them "hot trash". Proceeding upstairs to Slayton's bedroom I found a suitcase containing vintage samurai records which I take to sell them later, and a shrine room containing Kerry's guitar. Lucy noticed that the door to the shrine was protected by a keypad, the code for which Kiwi found on his laptop.
"the code is the date he bought the guitar 2065". I simply entered the code and the door opened, I took the guitar. While still in his bedroom I went to the computer on the desk
"locked via a keycode" I connected my neuro-link and let Lucy and Kiwi do their job.
"although it doesn't unlock from the same code, entering Kerry's date of birth might work since this guy since to be obsessed with him".
I typed the date and it appeared to have unlocked the computer "Ok girls let's take as much money as we can from this four-generation young master"
"I can't believe you read those old Chinese novels," Lucy said sarcastically.
to my surprise the are still wuxia novels in the future and they are still as bad as I remember.
while they stole his money I went and checked the messages showing Gaston wanted to get surgery to look like Kerry. the girls were done after 20 minutes so I jacked out of the computer. had Kiwi hack the front door while I Exited the apartment building and headed to Drop Point to deposit the guitar, The girls cleared the security footage and cleared all of our tracks. completing the gig.
As I left the drop point and got in the car, I sent Rogue a message to let her know about completing the gig. while driving I look around to see Lucy and Kiwi talking about what we got from hacking Slayton's accounts
"ok, girls how much did we get from Slayton?"
"We only managed to access his personal account, the rest were too well protected with top-of-the-line security from Netwatch," said Kiwi.
Lucy just shrugged and said, "We got 150,000EU plus the 25,000EU you are going get from Rogue".
I smiled and made a transfer of 58,000EU to Kiwi and did the same to Lucy with the money I am getting from all of the jobs I'm doing, I can finally start my plans to get rich enough to not need to risk my life in Merc work.
Kiwi just laughed a little and said: "Thanks, I still can't believe you actually split the money even between all of us".
"you are a top runner, it would be a disservice to not pay you as much after the jobs you have helped us with, over the past few months. Lucy and you have helped me steal so much more money than what the fixers usually pay for. Also, I don't understand why you guys only work with Faraday. that guy from the info I got from other fixers is that he is just a dog for the corporations to do their dirty work"
Kiwi did not say anything but I think she agrees. from the info I got from Lucy and Regina's info broker, she owes a debt to him.
After we dropped Kiwi at her apartment, we made it home to our new apartment, located on the 12th floor of the Megabuilding H10 in Little China, Watson. we bought the apartment for 120,000EU, which includes the garage for our vehicles. It is way bigger than the one-room apartment I used to live in with my Mom. Is 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms with a living room, kitchen, and office space that I'm using as an armory. Lucy is using one of the free rooms and bought a cyberdeck chair and tub to connect to cyberspace.
Also, my street cred is as high as it can be. I am working with the best fixers in the city since my alias is well known for his way of working silently and without being noticed. Of course, there are still some gigs I don't take that most of the fixers I work with know the type of gigs to give me. most of the gigs I do involve stealing, rescuing, killing gangsters or just horrible people (like Jotaro), infiltrating, and some other random jobs.
Call from Rebeca in coming.
"Yoo David are you and Lucy free"
"yeah, I just got home from a job. Lucy is in the shower why?"
Even though I'm still disturbed by Pilar's untimely death 2 months ago, not because I was close with him (the choom was done dirty by being flatlined by a guy pissing on the street), but by the way that affected Beca. thankfully she is doing a lot better after 2 months/
In my last job, I helped Maines crew. even though I'm still not comfortable with Maine using my school career info at Arasaka Academy and that he is using it as a point to get to Tanaka's. also found out about the Job that Faraday gave Maine. which is to get information from Tanaka who is a high-ranking executive on the Arasaka Academy board and was the father of Katsuo.
the job was easy on paper, The first part of their plan was to get their hands on Jimmy Kurosaki a renowned Braindance editor who's known for scrolling high-quality BDs of recent events, which has made him extremely well-known and exceedingly wealthy and one of Tanaka's customers, to kidnap him from the parking lot of the club he usually spend time on.
But Jimmy knew how to protect himself and use an EMP weapon to incapacitate most of the crew. except me since I was fast enough to react and move out of the range with my sandi. the rest was easier since all I had to do was come back knock him out and help the rest of the crew who were temporarily out of commission.
Maine plans to set up a trap to kidnap Tanaka when he visits Kurosaki's studio again for one of his more exclusive BDs. but I refuse to participate since I don't want to be on Arasakas's radar.
"Maines is asking for help from Lucy since we are doing the kidnap gig in a few hours"
"Are you guys doing this now? going against a Corpo like this is risky and unnecessary"
" I told Maine the same thing but Faraday is not giving him much of a choice"
Lucy came out of the shower and I motioned for her to join the call
"Hey Beca, how are you"
" Hey Lucy, I'm good choom"
after a few minutes, Beca explained about the gig they were about to do, and that Maine was asking for help since Kiwi might not be able to get the info from Tanaka alone.
"why is Maine doing this last minute, he has no time to plan anything with only a few hours?"
"he told us that Faraday got info of the Corpo guy. he is doing a transaction in 3 hours with the guy we kidnap. so he rushing us to do the job now"
"danm, that rat Faraday. are you and Kiwi joining?."
"yeah, Falco is picking Kiwi up right now and I'm at the base already, we are about to head out."
Lucy hesitated for a few seconds and then said "All alright I'll be there, send me the info"
I finally spoke again and said "We will meet you there Beca"
"Nova, with you both here it would be easier, alright see you there"
Call ended
"Are you sure? you said you did not want Arasaka to know too much about you"
"yeah is fine I'll wear the armor and try to be your backup in case anything goes wrong. I can't let you or Beca be in danger, hell I even like Kiwi, Dorio, and Falco, Maine is the only one who is an asshole sometimes but he's not a bad guy, I think at least.
she kissed me and headed to her room to get ready, I did the same and also grabbed some Iron from the armory. after a few minutes, we headed downstairs and entered the car
"ready," Lucy said to me
I kissed her and smiled "always".