hope you're enjoying this, i realise cyberpunk only appeals to a certain audience but i enjoy writing this story
Rin lay back on the bed slowly, it was uncomfortable and smelled awful but it was safe, upon leaving the crappy doctors office Rin and Izumo had decided that their apartments were not safe, iy was more than likely that someone watching them, so they decided to go to the opposite side of town and get a room in a motel or something, unfortunately the only place that had vacancies was a love hotel.
Rin held his side and grit his teeth while examining the bullet, it was a hollow point, meaning that the tip of the bullet was hollowat the tip so that when it impacted it opens out into for razor sharp sections, like the blades on a blender, And Rin definitely felt like someone blended his insides into shit.
He put the bullet on the nightstand and propped himself up on the bed and looked around the room, it was decorated with crappy paintings and the colours red and pink dominated the entire space, there was a small bathroom to the side which Izumo was currently taking a shower in. All round the room was crap, but it was safe, at least he was pretty sure it was.
His side wasn't as sore as it had been earlier, in fact most of the pain was internal. Rin let out a hefty sigh and looked at the ceiling. He wasn't real, he was a robot, a cyborg. He hadn't been born he was invented in a test tube. He gripped his side tightly "fuck it all!" he exclaimed before standing up and moving to the small fridge in the corner of the room and inspecting it, it's only contents were a ln empty box of synthetic chocolate and a few bottles of various spirits. Rin grabbed the bottle of whiskey and lay back on the bed drinking it gradually, safe to say that it wasn't whiskey.
A beeping noise began to resonate throughout the room, it was shrill and abrupt, sounding out every second or so, Rin scanned the room with his eyes looking for the source but to no avail, that's when Rin realised that the sound wasnt coming from anywhere in the room, it was coming from his head.
He stood up, holding his side in one hand ant the small bottle of whiskey in the other "the fuck?" he murmured before his eyes started to glitch, there was no other way to describe it, it was like a broken monitor, flashing and moving in and out of focus. His vision turned blue before returning to normal then suddenly becoming sharper than ever, he could see every single detail in every single thing, the dust floating in the room, the microscopic insects that were littered throughout the room, the bloodstain underneath the carpet, it was all crystal clear to him.
Rin's side began to burn intensely, like someone drove a hardlight blade into him, He screamed and began tearing the bandage off, his side was glowing electric blue, like a fire had been lit inside him, suddenly his recently stitched skin began to weld itself back together. The pain was excruciating.
When Rin came to he was lying on the ground with a puddle of whiskey beside him.
He began to sit up groggily when a chirpy voice rang out in his head "HI RIN!"
Rin looked around "what the...Kuro, where are you?" he asked confused
Kuro's happy voice made Rin feel a little more safe, after all, Rin had nurtured that AI to be the nicest little guy possible
Kuro spoke up "i found a way into your head, i took care of all the inhibitors for you, turns out you've got a bunch of nanobots in your system, i woke them up, then i turned on the implants in your eyes and you passed out when i turned on the implants on your spine"
Rin shook his head "in my head? nanobots? and you turned on my spine?, wha..kuro..i, this is too much to process"
Kuro sounded sad "I'm sorry Rin, i got lonley" he suddenly perked up, kuro never stayed upset for long "then i picked up this weird EMP, it came from your head, i managed to get in and put up some firewalls, the cybernetics are advanced but you had some serious security issues, i fixed them though and..." Rin cut him off "Look Kuro it's fine, just, don't stay awake the whole time, you might overlord, give yourself some cool down time"
Kuro gave an abrupt "yep" before silencing
Rin was again alone with his thoughts "what's next" he shook his head and looked at his hand, opening and closing it, he didn't feel any different, besides the fact his eyes were picking up every little detail.
There was a creaking noise and Rin looked over at the bathroom door realising he was not alone
The door opened a little and Izumo poked her head out, blushing bright red "uh... the..there's no towel and..i..uhm left the bag with the clean clothes in it over there"
Rin looked over at the bag and grinned "well then, aren't you going to get it?"
She glared at him "you're an asshole"
Shima sat on a broken up couch looking over at Yukio and Konekomaru tinker with the police bot while bon adjusted that ridiculous arm of his. He sat up and ran his hand through his hair "anything we can use?" he yawned
Yukio sighed and adjusted his collar "an actuator, a radiator and a power cell, but as usual the motherboard got fried the second it went offline"
Koneko sighed "i can repurpose the parts for mechs and drones but we just can't get good VI data, this stuff is top grade, Vatican B5 level Virtual intelligence, we can't replicate it without raw data, even a source code would help, i mean we've got Nii chan but he's only a little hack not. We can't even fight level 2 police bots right now, if the swat teams found us we'd be put into Leto if not killed immidiately, we don't stand a chance"
Shima threw a ball in the air and caught it again "you're a really negative guy kuro"
Yukio slammed his fist on the table "im useless with technology"
kuro looked at him "but you're great at other stuff, like strategies and money, you don't need the brains for this stuff, we got this"
Shima nodded "yeah boss, we'd be dead if you hadn't managed to talk your way out of that drug bust, i mean c'mon, do i look like a doctor?"
Yukio sighed "thanks guys, i just feel like we'll never stop all the corruption at this rate, I'm a bit stressed"
Shiemi ran in breathing heavily "guys, A massive Emp just went off this side of the city, I mean HUGE, it was only there for a second before the signal was blocked, and it wasn't an attack, it was given off by somthing"
Shima bolted up "like a bot? how big are we talking?"
Shiemi shook her head "it was too big to be a bot, it looked like the emp bomb we set last year at the corporate tower"
Yukio's brow furrowed "what's that, like a square kilometre?, that's massive"
Shiemi nodded "And that's the thing, it wasn't a bomb or a radiation leak or anything, Nii managed to grab part of the coding before it
got blocked"
Bon grumbled somthing and reattached his arm "well what did Nii grab, any files?"
Shiemi nodded "one"
she lifted her watch and began typing on the green hologram in front of her
they all gatherd around her and watched, it was a quick video file, only a minute long, played on loop, but that was all they needed to realise that they had just gotten deeper than they ever had been before.
the clip began playing
The words on the bottom left read
Gehenna
Cybersoilder project
donor S
status- successful
a tired looking man in a lab coat sat in a chair holding a clipboard in one hand and his forehead in the other showed up on screen and began to speak
"the cybernetic implants in the boys brain have increased his intelligence 100 times over and the spinal imants have given enough stability to re-enhance the muscle actuators and the bone supports, at two cycles S616A is capable of lifting over 400 pounds and is displaying heightened dark matter manipulation, future plans involve technoscopic eyes pnumatic heart and muscle servos. Moving on to subject S617B, Paternal twin of S616A, the boy is..."
that's when it cut out
Everyone looked at each other with wide eyes.
Yukio was the first to speak "what the fuck... so you're telling me a cybersoilder just got activated a few miles away?"
Shima looked around frantically "what else could it be, i mean a cyborg, a human robot capable of anilating us all with its laser eyes
and unemotional face capable of blending into society perfectly without us knowing any different"
Bon sighed heavily "shut the fuck up Shima"
Koneko spoke next "i think we should check it out"
Yukio and bon nodded while Shima looked on in horror
He looked down, his glowing hair flopping forward "this is how I die, by a frickin cyberdemon thing"
And with that, Bon grabbed the collapsible grenade launcher, Yukio grabbed his coat and guns, Koneko and Shiemi got their electronics, and Shima...well Shima took a massive bite from a magic mushroom, out a handful of candy into the pocket of his extra long coat before grabbing a metal pole and screaming at the top of his lungs
"FUCKIN BIRDS GOT ME LIKE PURPLE!"
and sprinting out the door
Yukio shook his head "that junkie doesn't even know where we're going"