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PTV Early Chapter 56 (Interlude)

Yukito

Mossui Town Hunter

“Why do you continue to not hear me! A small foreign girl came across a Mimikyu! We should be looking for her body!” He argued growing heated as once again his words left no impact on the older man.

“The girl and the other as well, are not one of us. I will not allow another to head into the deep forest just to find a body.” The elder offered with a sigh. “Yuki-chan. Let it go.”

“I fled! I tried to grab her and...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 158

“Jun? You’re home already?”

“I told you it was just scratches.” He grumbled at me. I had dropped off Rebecca at home after we stored the Behemoth for the night. All of us too tired to want to unpack everything just to pack it all back up again.

Hiromi had apparently made a deal with the SCSM company for a garage to store it. Which we could use as a space for our loot. So it was secure enough.

Now I was home ready for a shower but Jun was already on the couch.

PTV Early Chapter 55

As I stood up to get a towel I noticed I hadn’t been alone.

Which should have been fairly obvious since Gram Gram had been sitting out on the porch to start with.

Mama, Papa, Gram Gram, Grandpa Roy, and Elizabeth were sitting on the porch watching.

I flushed a little.

“You were all watching?” I said calmly and without my voice sounding like I was shrieking.

“Of course.” Papa said, smiling as he rose up and walked over. He handed me a towel and I quickly...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 157

This room was one I definitely remembered from the game. This was the Scavs rec room, the place they hung out. It also had crates of weapons and other supplies so they were ready for us here.

The lights from Ping gave us numbers, and locations so I didn’t have to call it out.

Six guys.

*Going to frag again. Rebecca you too.* I called as I found a position to post up before. Running into the room. Rebecca and I both stood next to one of the metal security blinds, and once s...

PTV Early Chapter 54

The drive to Fuschia city was filled with me going into everything that happened on the adventure once again.

“So then I spent the morning with Milotic going through the caves full of water looking for Feebas! It was really nice. Gyarados was so happy that we got to spend some time together going up the mountain.”

“Well it’s good that your Gyarados is gentle with you.” Mama offered, and I just smiled.

“Gyarados is a sweetheart Mama. I didn’t get to spend a lot ...

Ghost in the City: Early chapter 156

Rebecca

That was pretty much it. Right after the weird hand thing, which the gonk was smiling like crazy over, they all left the apartment and slipped into an array of vehicles down in the garage. Motoko even invited Rebecca to ride with her, which was nice, as she didn’t have a car. Just taking N-Cart to get there.

It was actually kind of surprising the array of vehicles the teenagers all had.

Malcolm rode around in a Badlands Thornton Colby. The truck was rough ...

PTV: Early Chapter 53

A/N: I want to add a few caveats for anyone that might see this. PTV is not my main story. It will be second fiddle to GitC and so updates will be inconsistent at times.

Well I'm sure this is a surprise for all of you! I've been asked like a dozen times about adding PTV to Patreon in the last week or so. I figure I should stop hesitating and just do it.

I'll try my best to make them not too long apart, but I can only write so much at a time. So... I hope you enjoy!

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Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 155

This couldn’t stand! I couldn’t allow this! I had to distract!

“Okay! So the gig we are doing we already scouted the place, and we are putting together the attack plan, Rebecca, so let me fill you in!” I said hurrying back to the living room table and popping a shard out of my neck and handing it to her.

She took it after a moment of smiling up at Jun and then slotted it. Then she blinked.

“So, the first thing you’ll notice is the target information. Not sure if ...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 154

So my night was a bit off from there. I ended up camping out on the couch with Jun, as he watched TV. We didn’t talk much more about the Scavs. I just tried to relax, but that was only that night.

After a good night's rest, I headed out. First things first, I needed verification. Driving over to Arroyo on my Kusanagi I parked far down the street, and instead of walking down the street which would leave me far too open. I leapt into the industrial parks and used my ankles and Parkour t...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 153

The last attack on the SLS had happened in an alleyway just off Lele st. This was Charter Hill. One of the richy rich places in Night City. Which is why I was struggling to find a good camera to peep through.

Most of the camera systems in the area were controlled by whatever corp owned the building. Or were heavily protected by building security.

I quickly slipped out of another server as I could see a netrunner beginning to look around at the increased server load of me wandering...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 152

I reconnected my audio and visual link with Malcolm once I was sure it was over.

“Malcolm you there?”

*Motoko! You okay?*

“I’m fine Malcolm, just some unexpected defenses. I guess I should have known a gun shop wouldn’t ignore their net defenses as well. I’m moving in now.” Then I did just that, first stopping at the Turrets to examine what was left of their code.

I couldn’t find anything that would give them a defense against my stealth Daemons. Until ...

Ghost in the City: Early chapter 151

The explosion of the grenade going off sent dust and debris flying everywhere, but we were all safe.

“Woo! Yeah! Nova!” Malcolm called out as he bounced on his feet. He had already thrown a half dozen grenades, but still cheered every time.

The others had even started to get into it too. Hiromi actually had a really good throw once she got a little practice. Turned out her chrome hands had been to blame as it messed with her throw. Something she hadn’t even known until now.<...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 150

After a few songs Alice called for a break, and then casually flopped onto the couch next to Jun.

Flirting.

I rolled my eyes, but she had been surprisingly nice this time, so I decided to give her a bit of space.

I wasn’t exactly thrilled that Fujimura’s niece was into Jun, but I would just rely on my brother's denseness to romance.

Instead I headed into my room.

The Tachikoma part was completed, so I prepped the next piece, messing with the printer making su...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 149

Hiromi Mitsunashi

“So treat Motoko as if she was me.” Hiromi added with a glare. To find her Motoko sitting on a bench besides Martinez of all people! Martinez who even Hiromi could admit was good looking and had a tendency to attract attention even from the other corpo girls! Not that any of them allowed themselves time with a boy with no future.

Martinez was smart. Too smart. Martinez was also poor. Too poor.

“Yeah, I got it. She’s the Ghost! I can’t bel...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 148

I left the club after hanging out for a while. Afterlife was neat, but I had spent my social batteries. Instead I decided to focus on what I wanted to do next, having used the time at the bar to figure it out. Getting home, I wandered over to my workbench inside my room and plopped down into the chair.

I wanted to level my Tech ability more.

Between my work on the armor for Section 9, and the tools I had made I made a big advancement, but I still wanted more.

So I plopped do...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 147

Once my chooms were all suited up I disappeared into my room after pushing Hiromi out to get changed myself. Of course I had the actual Netrunner undersuit!

So instead of pants and armored jacket, I slipped on a suit, leaving me in skintight flexible armor! Then I threw on the boots, and chest rig. I had to make some quick adjustments for the faulds since I wasn’t wearing the silly pants that came with it, and instead wrapped the straps around my legs with some velcro-like material I ...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 146

I was back outside the next morning, after spending all night working on the program I was out at the gym. Pushing myself as hard as I could to try and get more Body XP.

There was no John bothering me today thankfully. Just me and the weights that I was pushing myself against.

And the new chrome was making a massive difference.

I was pushing weight I never would have managed before. My arms were connected to my body far more intrinsically now. No more tingling feeling around...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 145

“Stealth is still the superior tactic.” I argued and once again Rebecca scoffed.

“Some gigs you need to be sneaky, but nothing beats overwhelming firepower!” She argued. It turns out that Rebecca didn’t have a lot of chrome. Besides the obvious Chem skin and stuff, but she had all of her chrome plotted out. Like how people would plan out every part of their perfect car, or all the pieces to make up their perfect gun.

Funnily enough I already knew most of her desires, hav...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 144

I woke up instantly blinking and feeling just fine, I sat up nearly instantly and noticed I was covered in a scratchy blanket.

“Well looks like we got the time right.” Vik said noticing me wake up.

“You got everything done in time?”

“Yeah, no problem on my side. How do you feel kid?” Vik rolled over and started examining me.

“Fine. Actually… Hmm, I feel like my weight is off a bit.”

“Yeah well, that’s what happens when you change out most of...

Ghost in the City: Early chapter 143

The housing for the directional mic was done. So I took the prototype helmet, and integrated my old mic into it. Setting both pieces of the mic into the housing and sealing it together, then running the wire through the helmet to connect with the radio, flipping the thing around I just popped the radio casing, and hard wired them into unused ports. A few quick checks making sure it all still worked, I sealed it back up and flipped it around.

Yep. Looked a little weird, but hey. Addition...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 142

After giving Jun some affection, making sure he was okay and happy, and comfy and back to feeling like he was home and everything was okay. I finished cleaning up. Grabbing my gear I ran it all through a thorough cleaning. Holsters, belts, guns, and equipment. Just everything needed a cleaning.

So much dust.

Bleh! I hate the Badlands!

After that everything was settled I took a nice sleep, something I hadn’t really enjoyed during the gig and woke up feeling refreshed and re...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 141

“Yeah, alright, fine.” Malcolm grumbled as he took off the control band and huffed at all of us. It had taken a bit of urging to get him to actually stop stomping around in the Minotaur.

“So, The reason we are still here, and not heading straight back to the city. I found something. The reason the Wraiths were able to down the Arasaka AV? The specific one loaded up with high end equipment?”

I noticed Hiromi perk up at that, although information wasn’t part of the gig her...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 140

The bipedal remote controlled robot smashed into the dirt as it stepped off the large container truck and started spooling it’s HMG’s up looking for whoever was attacking.

Yeah no.

Fuck that.

I instinctively tried to slip a weapon glitch in, but the Minotaur had amazingly good ICE that fought me off.

Worse it alerted the driver to my location. He turned towards me, and I ran. Leaping off the other edge of the building as dual HMG’s roared into the night, absolute...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 139

*That’s a lot of bad guys.* I spoke into the group call as I overlooked the camp.  It was mid afternoon and I had walked for miles, climbed up onto a mountain to overlook the Wraith camp and was now hidden in some brush with my Nekomata pointed down.

*Dakota wasn’t kidding about the numbers.” Hiromi cut in, and all I could do was nod. I was basically sending snapshots of what I was seeing to my chooms as I took note of things. My Kiroshi highlighting things for my chooms in t...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 138

With the outside cleared out, I had some time to prep just in case something bad happened. So I went over to the HMG turret, it hadn’t spotted me yet, and with just a moment's work turned it off, reset its targeting to the gonks data, and then started it back up. Then I aimed it at the entrance.

Heh.

If they were in a car and really moving, it likely wouldn’t hit them, but if they came out on foot, or came out in a car slowly, that HMG would tear them up.

I spent a few m...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 137

I got a call from Hiromi.

*Hey Hiromi! What’s up?*

*Motoko! I did it! I got us a gig to get supplies! You are going to love this!* Hiromi practically squealed into the phone as I pushed myself away from the workbench to focus on the call.

*Okay, hit me.*

*Okay so, I was talking to my Dad, and he mentioned there had been an AV carrying supplies shot down. I think you can figure it out from there?*

*Oh easily. Arasaka doesn’t care so much for the supplies just ...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 136

“And that’s that.” I said having parked the Quadra-R right back into the same garage that I had put it in before. “Let me call Wakako.” I told my chooms, as everyone was distracted with Malcolms retelling of what happened.

*Ringing.*

*Ringing.*

*I see that you have completed the task successfully.* Wakako answered her phone without a moment's wait.

*Yeah, found it parked in a little garage. So now the real question. What do you want me to do with the gonks th...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 135

Turbo’s was definitely having a party. As I pulled in, the rumble of my Quadra earning me a spot as a few of the wandering crowd moved out of the way so I could slip into a parking spot. I took a moment to stop and just breathe.

I was so not ready to run into my favorite character right now.

No Motoko, you fucking gonk, she wasn’t a character. She was a person, and wouldn’t like me geeking the fuck out over her.

I opened my eyes and stepped out, Cool and Cold Blood wor...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 134

I sighed as I stretched my arms above my head, finally home. I still hadn’t really noticed any differences in weight or balance driving home, so I was very satisfied with Vik’s work.

That man deserved way more than the stack of eddies I had given him for his time and skill.

He deserved all the eddies!

“Hey, there you are!” Jun called out as I walked in the apartment. Jun was sitting on the couch, stupid ogre arms hanging over the top as he had obviously been staring ...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 133

We hadn’t actually gone to a bar this time. Instead all of us had crashed into my apartment, and we had just brought home a ton of food, having hit a few different restaurants in the area.

The entertainment system was set to some terrible movies and we all just ate and drank ourselves sick while laughing and sometimes throwing shit at the TV.

Sorry Jun, I’ll clean that up after I promise.

We had all gotten comfortable, and I had started working on Short Circuit again whi...