King of the Zeroed Highway chapter 2
"OH FUCK V, YES." Panam screamed as V pumped his manhood in and out of her, the pressure from the last few days seemed to slip away with every entry. Feeling her tight wet walls grip his meat hungrily was all he could think about, her legs pressed so tight around his waist holding on for dear life. They rocked back and forth synchronizing the rhythm between their hips, feeling her thick caramel ass slapping against his pelvis and hearing the wet sounds of her lips was driving him crazy. He didn't know how she felt about kids, but if she didn't slow down. V was sure they would end up having some.
Locking eye's she could see what her partner couldn't say through the shared moans, he was close, luckily for him she was closer. Not having him for so long had made her horny beyond belief and this whole situation has been the sexiest of her life. The grief of trying to find him, the drama of the argument's, the way he came pulling up in his thulu with something else that would benefit the entire family. God she'd missed her King, she thought keeping him cooped up would keep him safe. While it kind of did, it also killed their relationship in more ways than one. The libido, the bickering from V's boredom, the constant chore of the family, V feeling like a caged animal.
She had to learn to trust him, to trust him to be alright, to make smart decisions and keep himself safe. She locked eyes with him once more and said "go ahead baby, let me have it." She said feeling her own climax approaching. That was all V needed too hear before letting his seed fill her tight space, the way she clawed at his back and attempted too crush his waist as his dick spasms and empties inside of her. Only helped push him further over the edge.
Staying in that position for a few minutes both could be heard attempting to catch their breath. Slowly releasing V from her leg lock, she lowered her shaking legs, waves of pleasure still crashing over her. As the waves of her orgasm finished crashing over her, she pulled her panties up and her jeans in one swift motion. Rolling her eyes at the sticky feeling she looked up too see her lover buckling his pants. He had this far away look on his face, like he was a million miles away right now. She knew One bout in bed, and not even really in A bed mind you. Wasn't going to fix these marital issues, should she even call it that? Ugh she can decide that later right now she has things to do…… where did he go, The idiot was just here and now he's gone.
Spinning around she was about to curse him out as she climbed back up the cliff to camp when she saw his hand dangling in her face, ready to pull her up. She smirked as she grabbed it and he hoisted her up with one hand easily. As she dusted off her clothes she stared at her lover, his muscles riddled with scar after scar. She could only hope those would be the last he'd ever suffer, but she knew it was unlikely. Not with the life they lived, not when so many depended on them.
V's head was spinning he was trying to put as much space between him and Panam, The make up sex had been amazing don't get him wrong. But the relic was splitting his head, he felt like he was coming apart at the seems and he couldn't afford to undo all the talking they just did by flatlining in front of her. Once he was sure she was busy with her duties again he dived into Sauls tent. The man in question had seen this and moved to follow behind him curious as to what was going on.
"I don't care what the excuse you could at least clean up after sex before sitting on my…. Jesus V." The man was cut off, walking in fully and seeing the sight of the most dangerous man in night city barely keeping himself up right in a chair as he threw up blood all over himself. Saul moved to sit him up right and get him a rag he wet with water from a cantine. Handing it to V, The young merc began to clean his face off as Saul spoke. "So you jumped in here to avoid your gf seeing you like this." Saul stated it more than asked him, they both knew it to be true.
"Yea yea spare me the riot act, never had a dad never wanted one." V stood up swiping the Canteen, he swished the water around in his mouth then spit it on the floor. "Don't tell Panam, we just started making progress."
"Trust me I have no intention of doing that, I like being between you two less than you like getting babied." Saul helped him through the tent opening and over to his car where he could sit and rest without prying eyes. Propping the car door open and dropping him in the seat, V leaned back into the leather. "Take a breather and get yourself together, you may be lethal but right now you are broken and need rest lest you become a burden." He said striding off back to camp to help out, V was taken aback. He'd thought the same thing himself but to hear it out loud, from someone else in the family, just told him he wasn't the only one thinking it.
Groaning at the headache these heavy thoughts induce, he immediately pulled his legs in and shut the car door, it was like being in a different world almost immediately. No heat from the desert, no noise of the family moving things, no Panam treating him like a goddamn child. Just him, just the steering wheel, resting his hand in the passenger seat he wrapped his fingers around Johnny's pistol. Closing his eyes he could see the whole memory, storming arasaka with Johnny, shooting everything and everyone that moved on the way up. Just to get up there and be told he couldn't be helped.
He was startled from his day dream by a call on his holo, it was just again. Quickly answering he neglected to look at the woman, deciding to instead lean back and let his eyes rest. He knew he needed to recover.
"Hey V, I might have a lead on how to fix you." Jude said out right, not waiting for the Merc to open his eyes or reply to her greeting. She knew her friend didn't have much time, so she figured at this moment every second had to count. "If an engram on a relic rewrote your neural pathways and changed your body too Johnny, if we put you as an engram on a relic and shove that in you. Shouldn't that rewrite them again in your favor."
V was slack jawed, not only did it make perfect sense. It was obvious as hell, why hadn't he thought of this earlier, he'd been so busy soaking himself in gallons of blood he hadn't ever stopped to ask anyone the obvious. Why not just redo what's been done but this time with him as silverhand. "Jesus Jude you're a fukkin genius I could kiss you right now man." V said, excitement clearly rolling over him like waves. All he needed was for alt to hit him with soul killer one more time and to build a relic to slot his engram in. Once that's done he can get back in his body and the rest is smooth sailing. He could have his life back.
"I wish you would." He could have sworn he heard Judy mumble these words as he looked up from being locked in his daydream of having more than 3 months left in his life. Chucking it up to a trick of his hearing. Getting out of his car feeling only slightly stronger, he turned to call out to Panam to find her none too far gearing up with some other members of the family. Still on the holo with Judy yet missing the look on her face as he went looking for his other half he marched up to her ready to spill the good news.
"Nam I just got some great news….." He was cut off by Carol who put a finger on his lips as panam and Saul finished going over their plans with the family that was heading out. Apparently they were going to have to go pretty far from the rest of the group, but it couldn't be helped. The family needed to get rid of this arasaka tech, it was too hot to keep lugging around and they needed the money to make it to Arizona. Once the group started to head to their cars V again attempted to talk to her.
"Panam i really got something important to talk…" this time he was cut off by his girlfriend who was halfway in her thorton. "V whatever it is can wait, this is important for the family, anything else has to take a back seat, you're a nomad now not a street kid." She said not sparing him a glance, too busy trying to calibrate the turret. "I promise you can go out on the next run and I'll rock your world when I get back but we don't have time for little things right now hun." Finally looking at him she noticed he'd started walking away already "Sorry to be a bother panam, I'll see you when you get back."
She realized she'd been a little insensitive just now, ok very insensitive. He usually kissed her before they parted ways. Now here he was not even facing her direction. "V wait" Saul placed a hand on her shoulder before she could step down though and told her that they needed to go now to keep the schedule. She sighed and closed her truck door as Saul climbed in the passenger and they rode off.
Walking back towards the tent he and Panama shared, V stopped in front of it. Fist clenched, he wanted to be angry but knew panam had responsibilities. To the family, always family first. This brought flashes to V's mind.
Flashback
A little boy standing in ragged torn garments. In front of him, an expansive pool of blood deep enough that dozens, upon dozens, upon dozens of bodies lay in it. We're actually floating in it. Several different logos covered in splatters of blood. Everything from nomad tags, to militech logos and arasaka vest could be found in the pool.
"Very good vlad, we were right to codename you the impaler. The shit may not be neat but you definitely fucking delivered kid. Take a seat over these and cool off, wouldn't wanna burn out your bio blood." A young V responded in kind and sat where he was told, releasing steam from his many vents that led to his bio blood. The shadowy man who ordered him earlier came up to him and sat down.
"Listen close, the program is being shut down. The company is gonna hunt down every asset and every handler." V looked up at the man, the only thing he could make out was a bun of dreads nestled on top of his head. He had been with V all of V's short life. Now it seemed they would die together. "I'm not telling you this cause I give a shit about you, or some stupid sentimental crap like that."
"I'm telling you so that you can kill these fuckers one day." He lit a cigarette and put it in V's mouth who smoked it while the man lit another for himself. "I know what we've done to you kids is terrible, I know you deserved real lives with real parents and families." V could only look at the man as he gritted his teeth and clenched his fist so tight his knuckles changed color. "I know I'm not your dad, who knows where that guy is. But you're the best partner I've ever had, kid. So I'm sorry, but I'm gonna dump your memory bank so you won't remember any of this. I've already taken out the trackers once I take out their hardware they'll never be able to find you." V could see the tears staining the man's face, as they fell down to his pants. The man put a hand on V's head and pulled him close to his chest.
"If you remember anything Vlad, remember this, you're the best at what you do. No one could be better, and please I know I have no right to ask this of you. But should you ever happen to run into my little girl out there. Please take care of her, or at least spare her your wrath." The man heaved and cried one more time before everything went black for V.
End of Flashback.
V grabbed his skull, what in the fuck was that. It felt like a memory. But it was so blurry and fucked up, he couldn't tell what that shit was. "Hey V?" He'd heard Judy call out for him, realizing he was still on the holo he snapped back into his regular attitude and tried to collect himself. He needed to know what was going on with that memory but more importantly he needed to fix his gonk ass brain. He didn't have time to wait for panam or the caldos to make time for him. He wasn't the guy to sit on a waiting list, he was the guy who cut the line and put a gun in the face of the mother fucker dumb enough to question it. "This is gonna be a lot to ask Judy, but I need you to meet me in Colorado." V said, dawning his casual smirk.
"It's never a lot for you V, you deserve way more than I can offer." If he didn't know any better, he could swear Judy had been coming on to him, but remembering which team his good friend batted for he pushed on without giving it too much thought. "Besides I was already on my way thinking I'd need to meet you in Arizona, so it works better to see you in Colorado. Are you sure your family is ok with that?" She asked
V snickers to himself, rolling his eyes he ignores the question and simply sprints over to his car hopping into the driver's seat and revving the engine. "I'll see you there choom." He said hanging up the call, he was startled as Mitch tapped his window. He rolled it down to look the vet in his eyes, V didn't need to say a word, but he didn't need to. Mitch could practically see the stupid radiating from his brain from whatever idea he had.
"What should I tell her when she gets back?" Mitch said he knew the fallout of Mount Panam was gonna be nuclear. He needed V to give him something that might settle her down. "Tell her I'm going too." V coughed up a little more blood, looking at the spots of blood on his hand brought the pool of blood back to him. He shook his head "tell her I don't do backseats." V sped off and Mitch quickly jumped back, he knew they were having problems but sheesh. Thinking it better to not relay V's petty message, Mitch set out to do his task for today. It was gonna get hectic.
Only V could turn an 18 hour drive into an 8 hour speeding session, he'd been bookin it Judy had already had a lead on him and he didn't want her waiting. He'd gotten a video message from panam saying that a storm had cut her and the group off from the rest of the family so they wouldn't be back tonight. That she missed and loved him and they could talk when she got home. He ignored it. He had to focus. He pulled into the run down motel Judy had agreed to meet him at. "New beginnings huh? Hopefully." He said spotting his long time friends Van, she told him she'd got them a room at the back of the motel on the ground floor so he made his way around to the back. Quickly spotting room 17 he made for the door and knocked twice before saying "His own choomba shot 'im."
The door suddenly flew open and he was pulled into a hug, hearing the door shut behind him he hugged her back before slowly removing her and her vice grip. "I've missed you so much V, life just wasn't the same without you in it." She smiled, hitting him in the chest. "I've put together the relic, it wasn't cheap so you'll have to send me Eddie's back or I'll be destitute." She chuckled out. V did the common hand flick and sent her the Eddie's, he couldn't thank her enough. She was literally doing all she could to keep him from death's door.
"Alright thanks, the parts are on the table. You assemble the relic, I'll get the tub ready for you to jump in the net. I'm already set up tech wise." She said handing him the parts. He grabbed them and moved to the nearby red table, it looked like it would give out any second but he only needed a few minutes. He spent a few minutes putting together a new relic, only occasionally looking up to see Judy carrying bags of ice and dumping them. Just the thought made him shiver. Quickly finishing up he handed it to Judy who let him strip and get in the tub.
As he settled into the freezing water he started recording a message on his holo. He has faith, but just in case. "Hey panam, if you're seeing this my gonk ass probably screwed this up…… and I didn't make it. But I'm trying to fix myself and that's the reason I left, I love you Nam. Never forget that." If he had eyes in the back of his head he would have seen Judy wince at his admission of love. Ending the video V gave her a thumbs up to Jack him into the net. As she approached, she noticed the tattoo at the nape of his neck. '1MP8L3R' looked more like a barcode or an identification number than a goofy bad decision tattoo. Shrugging it off she plugged V up and leaned down to whisper in his ear. "I'm here for you V, I've got you." Judy said, retreating to her terminal immediately after.
No big deal, all he had to do was jump on the net, head for the wall, and pray that the powerful A.I. was still willing to help him. Just another day in his shit life. Closing his eyes he felt the pull on his consciousness, he opened his eyes and before him was the wall. It got more imposing every time. He began to call out "Alt, Alt…. ALT." He said spinning in circles, repeating her name over and over. It wasn't until the fifth set that he saw a daunting figure appear before him. There she was huge and levitating as always.
"Why do you search for me V." She stated, looking at him, she couldn't imagine what he could want with her. She made it clear she couldn't help him. "I need a favor Alt, I need you to hit me with soul killer one more time." this caused Alt to give pause, why would he want that? "Have you decided to join me V."
"Hard pass." V interjected immediately, he proceeded to explain his plan of being put into a relic to be able to right his body to its original makeup. Alt however pointed out that this isn't the way these things work but she felt she could alter it to work the way he wanted the question of course that came next was. "Why should I?" V knew she would say that, she always said that.
"You owe me, you told me you could save me and you couldn't, now you have the chance to make it right." V could only hope that this logical answer would be a good enough one for the A.I. "I'll do you this favor at the behest of Johnny and his nagging but be aware of how this works V. I'll be taking a copy of your childhood that I saved from when I originally used soul killer on you. It was separated from you by neural blockers, but it seems as though those blockers are failing so integration may be possible." She said waving her hands and assembling the data.
"Right so this makes it so my DNA is written back into my body." He said thinking he was getting where she was going with this. "As well as give you back the memories hidden behind the blockers. I'll specially write the program function to only merge back with the host. Not to overwrite you." Alt said as she sent the data stream to the relic after the adjustments. "I'll call on you in the far off future V, I'll need you to do another job for me. This is a down payment on that job." She said without pause. "You may eject the old relic as soon as you slot the new one."
Nodding his head seeing as how he didn't have a choice, he was immediately ejected from the net by alt once she finished the download. V closed his eyes and when he opened then he began to struggle in the freezing water, there were sparks flying and a certain BD specialist was running around trying to keep everything from exploding. Hearing V's struggles she immediately goes to unhook him and help him out the tub, toweling him off and placing him on the bed. She immediately jumps over to the relic still slotted in the rig and pops it out, she hands it to V who slowly grabs it and starts laughing.
Pressing his head against hers, she asks slowly, scared that this may have been another failure or goose chase. "Did…… did we get anything? Or…. Was I wrong for even calling." She said hesitantly, she'd hate to have wasted his time with another false lead. His response was to bring her into a crushing hug, she'd saved his life, thanks to her and Alt he'd get to live a full life. "Thank you so much Jude, you don't know what this means for me." He said as he broke the embrace, she looked at him and then the relic. He wasted no more time in slotting and activating it, he could immediately feel the relic working. He began to get a thumping headache but he expected as much, it had a lot of work to do on him.
Remembering Alt's words, V unslotted the other relic, which began to fall apart as soon as it was out. Letting the broken device sit in his hand all he could do was stare at it, it had been killing him for so long and he'd wanted to do this for so long. Fighting through the headache, he helped Judy pack her van back up. The two having a few beers before agreeing that she would come see him when the caldos got set up, V readily agreed and made sure to let her know multiple times that he'd never forget what she did for him. As he leaned on her van window ready to send her off, back to the East coast the two shared a knowing smile. "One more time, who's your best choom?" Judy said in a sing-song voice teasing him. Letting out a low chuckle with a half smile V tussled her hair and said he'd see her later. He watched her pull off and disappear from view before getting in his car, doing a goofy half dance of success as soon as he was in the car he started his engine ready to head home.
'Kill them all Vlad, do it for momma.' "What." V called out spinning around to see where the voice came from, yet no matter how much he spun his head he saw no one. Scratching his neck he opted to forget it and get home fast, he had no idea how much time he had till panam got there. He needed to drive like a maniac and to do that it was best to rock out. Slotting another old song in the car, 'I love rock 'N roll.' By Joan Jett began to play as he pulled off at breakneck speeds.
8 Hours later V was speeding down another highway almost back to the caldos camp, he hadn't spit up blood the entire time. He felt good for the first time in a long time, he was pounding back whiskey doing 189 down the highway. (Never drink and drive.) Panam had called him but he didn't answer, he just wanted to enjoy his personal party a while longer. The camp was a little suffocating with so many people constantly just around you. As he got within earshot of the camp his music could finally be heard, blasting 'Welcome to the jungle.' He pulled up in front of the panzer where he usually parked, and jumped out of the car air guitaring the rest of the song while occasionally stopping to drink.
He'd been doing so for 30 seconds before Mitch sauntered up, easily walking past the young man and reaching in his car to turn down the blaring music. This made the younger man grunt in disapproval, Mitch took the bottle from his hand next and began drinking it as he walked away. "What the hell were you thinking with that damn radio?" He muttered between sips as he walked away. "At least I beat the warden home right?" V said knowing if panam had already been here she'd have killed him upon his arrival. Mitch spared the young man one glance before shuffling off again. Throwing over his shoulder leisurely without turning around. "If the warden can't contact the prisoner she'll ask the guards his location." If he was saying what V thought he was saying, then after ignoring her call she called the others to ask them to check on him. Which meant she knew he'd left. But how could she be mad when he'd solved his biggest problem. Credit truly goes to Judy and Alt but what matters is the result.
They could finally stop worrying about him and solely focus on the rest of their life. 'They won't love you like momma does Vlad.' V whipped his head around looking for who'd said that, before deciding it was a mind trick. Maybe just a side effect of the rewrite he assumed. Grabbing a six pack of beers from his backseat, V took a seat on the cliff side near camp. Cracking the top to his can he immediately started chugging it, knowing he'd finally done it. He'd reached the big times with Jackie and he'd live to tell the tale about it, his brother would be undeniably proud. Now he could relax and enjoy the sunset and his new lease on life. Then came the sound of a roaring Thorton, it sounded like the engine was gonna blow. Now he was going to die, a painful, brutal sudden death.
Sorry for the late update, I'm literally writing like ten stories at this point you'll see In the uploads if your following me. I'm also looking for a beta reader since I write all of these on my phone I don't have time to reread. Till next time.