New Edgerunners Idea but I'll see which one gets more feedback and try working on the more favoured one for all of you, so do put your thoughts, it helps get feedback.

Ave Imperator.

A Renewed Beginning.

Alt was sure ain't lying, 6 months was all she had, V had done everything… Avenged Jackie, slew smasher, gave Johnny his wish… and became an NC legend but soon not a living one, crystal palace went tits up.

Hard.

Coughing up blood, she gave one last weary smile before lifting her Liberty, she gripped the gun and slowly heaved up her body limping over to the data term she slots in her personal link and gave Mr. blue eyes his precious data… the Sealed door to the pod bay slammed open and more guards in armoured space suits came in…

Process complete.

"Well this is one last time, Blaze o' glory… heh maybe dex was right about us, eh Jackie?" her sandivistan kicked in, the world came to a crawl she stood and pulled the trigger on the first and grabbed the second before the world caught up…

One head gone in an explosion of gore, and the other riddled with lead by being a meat shield before the body dropped two more guards dropped as gunshots rang out in the casino but soon one stray shot caught her in the gut, damn smart bullets snapped to her despite the user being dead dropping to his knee, she was on his last legs… showing her leg she jabbed an air hypo in her chest, it won't last long judging by the bleeding she reckons 4 minutes tops.

Stepping up to the casino bar, she slips behind the counter, he grabs the tequila and chili flakes, she pours herself a drink "To us, Johnny…" tossing the drink back she feels the stim wearing off, vision slowly growing darker.

"Happy endings? Wrong city, wrong people V."

All became black and Numb.

Wind was lashing at her face.

Wait… Wind?

She opens her eyes, seeing Night city in all its glory, Falling from very high place, her instincts kick in and she could still feel all the cyberware under her skin, she eyed the massive trash heap of the landfill, slowing her descent by spreading out her body, once she felt as if she slowed down enough she curled into a ball and landed…

The trash took most of her momentum but it still hurt, damn well mostly trash, under her stark nude body was a just a pool of blood and some metal, maybe a bit of intestine or something… probably some poor gonk who was homeless, gazing at her body she noticed something, she is more fuller, body looked healthier, a few other things, her 'assets' got larger… great, whole new measurements for clothing, just what she needed.

First things first.

She steps down the mountain of filth, sneering she realized something, her body felt great, better than great like before the whole Johnny fuck up, though she did forgive him, as much he attested to it not being him. But again first priority is clothes, she may have worn some skimpy clothing in her early merc days, but she was no nudist. Hand drifting down to her thigh a compartment opens, A Nue… La Chingona Dorada, Jackie's pistol… his last gift.

Brushing past the pistol she grabs a credit chit, worth about 500,000 eddies… saving for a rainy day case a job goes bad and a big job always goes bad for V, Glancing around she walks to a location remembers vividly, a old vets den although he was dead when she got there and she thoroughly destroyed the Maelstrom fuck who killed the poor man, she walked a fair distance before she arrived, The camp was in better condition but she couldn't find the old man but what she did find was a Maelstrom goon there, not wanting to taint Jackie's pistol with the borgs blood, she picks up a metal can and crushes it down into a small disk.

Dink…

It bounces off of the wall of a facing away from her, the goon clearly not the brightest walked over to the noise, V releasing the breath she didn't know she was holding snuck up to a container where she knew the vet hold some clothing, no underwear but the netrunner suit and boots are good enough.

Pulling out a Unity, not her preferred pistol but its something she can work with, slotting the only mag in the pistol she counted the 12 rounds, the goon making his way back spots V. "Hey you, you fucking gonk, this is maelstrom turf… fuck of-" the goon was cut off curtly by the cracking shot of the unity, "11."

Pulling her pistol in and stepping over the cooling corpse, she jogs to the edge of the badlands, "Heh, looks like either they covered Dex or someone lifted him for that high end civilian chrome."

Later.

V sat down at the Sunset motel after a few hours of walking, taking a long draw of her cigarette, she looked at the monitor behind the counter, The date was wrong, 2074… What the fuck? So apparently she was 3 year back in time.

Wait a minute, so if she is back in time, where was she in Arasaka counter-intel? If she is not wrong she would be in Washington… hmm, yeah she can work with this, this means a few things, Jackie can no longer die, not only that, she can save one David Martinez, how she knew he was around, well back when she owned the afterlife, she done some digging with Claire's help, apparently the kid was a massive rise in the afterlife in 2076, had a tangle with arasaka and Adam fucking smasher… wait that borged out fuck was around, a wry grin split her face, she can blow his brains out a second time, this time she doesn't need to worry about rogue or Panam.

So she got up and payed Jonah a heavy tip, stepped out the bar, walking down the stairs and hitched a ride with some other drifters in a nomad vehicle, the ride was short, she got off at Santo Domingo, just not far off of where El Captain Muamar was, seeing the Fixer she approached slowly.

"Need some work, word is you are the best fixer of Santo…" his head snapped towards her as if it was on a swivel "don't know you but I have work, but first introductions, El Capitan Muamar Reyes… and you are?" "V." all she could see was the fixer sizing her up, slowly he turned to his guard "a Gig for our friend here, preferably one that is close…" his guards eyes lit up, and soon he turned to Muamar "got one, for a Santo native… Client's name, Gloria Martinez, Gig is a headhunt, Find her son's father, reward is-" ''Don't need the reward, let me guess father is absent and she wants his head on a pike?" a nod was all she got "Perfect, Send me the Client's detes"

Stepping away from the fixer she gave him a nod and tracked back towards the place where she got dropped off, her screen lit up with her contacts, and Gloria's name appeared before her, soon she rang the number…

"Hello?" was the weary response, "Hey got your your detes from Capitan, heard you have a job for me, would like to meet in person, need some info that you shouldn't say on holo." on the small video she saw Gloria's face light up "Perfect, come to mega building 8."

V also rung up a Delamain, her package info on her personal link… soon the cab came with a curt greeting from the AI cab driver, her information now in the system, she rode the Delamain to the Megabuilding, its ride was short, barely anything of note maybe a few shootings happened on the way there but nothing too far off norm of night city, when she arrived at the mega building she saw the redhead mother standing with her son, latter of whom was afterlife legend when she started her Merc career, his clothing was that of a Arasaka school uniform, Falco was right… maybe we were not all that different in the first place…

"This is your Merc, she looks like a bum…" that earned a slap, "David" you could see the 'what?' on his face. "So I want you track down-" "got that part from Muamar, now I can do that all well and good, now the only thing I want to talk about is rather simple, Reward" "Well I can pa-" "let me finish, Now I don't want your eddies, got plenty of that, I need a place to stay… Kind of rubbed the wrong people and got thrown out" the look of 'told you' was on David's face, Gloria thought it over "Fine but long as you help pay the rent…" a grin appears on V's face.

"Deal. Now with that done we can discuss our job details, Who am I… tracking" choosing her words carefully, Gloria seeing this sighed of relief "Your looking for a ex-coworker, a black haired man with a lithe frame, blue eyes and thick beard and utter scumbag" V having all she needs raised her hand "do you know where he was last seen" "I have some reliable information that he frequents clouds" "Great…won't be long"

V soon left in the Delamain again leaving mother and son…

"Did you see the amount of cyberware she had!" was all David could excitedly say "Thought she was a bum?" Gloria's smug rhetoric was, now David glared at her "Not cool" "come let's get you in and out of that uniform." it was barely an hour before Gloria got a call from V "Got him you want him to flatline?"

"Yes."

A Gunshot Rang out.

That's all folks for this, now I will see which receives better feedback before updating this or Beyond the Edge, so again please review and see you all later.

Rylanor Out