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In the early 2070's, there was an attempt to construct a self-contained residential area in the desert east Night City. Similar to Rancho Coronado, Rocky Ridge was a town developed to be self-sufficient, cozy and practical. Streets were plotted out and houses were built, ready to welcome the workers employed by the businesses located just next door. Plenty of the homes there offered roof for all the families that worked in the nearby highway project, and it would also offer a freeway extension to the town for an easier job commuting. It was aiming to be a choice for people looking for a new place to live, and was advertised as a paradise, guaranteeing quiet and peace, while at the same time being really close to Night City. But like most investments in California, it didn't end well. The nearby businesses went bankrupt shortly after, and at the same time construction became too expansive. Soon, the town was no longer economically viable. In just a mere day, the construction workers had disappeared, and contractors had lost their jobs while the houses in Rocky Ridge became vacant as the town was abandoned.
That was till the new recycling plants were built and the town was brought up by Cyclonian Waste Disposal, to house the workers for the new plants. Once the trash was sorted and cleaned they would be brought to the plants that would turn the plastics, metals and other trash into useful materials and sold to other companies. Causing lots of people to try to get a job and move to the new company town, thanks to the decent wages, healthcare, work hours and the cafeterias of the recycling plants all serving real food. Causing the employees of the company to be rather loyal and the other companies find it very hard to get any to work as moles and higher level employees impossible. The other companies are looking into where CWD is getting all of the real food, in the amount that is allowing them to feed all of the workers with real food.
Many other places around Night City have been changing hands and new buildings springing up. And one of those places is where a private party is being held. Harold Bage the CEO of CWD is hosting a party and other CEOs are invited.
Was owned by the Silver Pixel corporation, this drive-in theater was the company's facility in Night City, showcasing all the latest movie releases as well as popular classics. For some time, business was good enough for SPC to enlarge the parking lot and allow more customers to attend it, however, during the late 2060s, the corporation went through undisclosed problems that would force them to close a number of theaters across North America during the following years.
Although originally the Night City facility was planned to continue functioning, the corporation CEO, Brandan DeLuca, announced a change of plans stating the facility's closure by the end of 2069. Any employee that chose to transfer to another company location was not entitled to severance pay, though the corporation offered them a choice between Silver Pixel facilities in either Rockford or Laredo. This, however, was also temporary, as these locations were also slated to close within the following six months.
In 2077, Silver Pixel Cloud was an abandoned facility on the eastern hills of Night City. Nevertheless, the theater had not been dismantled, so anyone that got access could power it up to watch any movies still found there, which included Bushidō X: Fade to Black. That was till Fugu Furukawa, brought the property and open a sushi house that unlike the one in Night City is a high class restaurant. The restaurant is only open to those who could afford the prices as all the food is real, for the high level corporate executives to meet and talk business away from the city. Where there are large aquariums where the fish that would be serve to the customers would be taken from and prepared. With the nights that Fugu works would put on a show as she would prepare the fish herself with a camera showing off her cooking skill for all to see.
The restaurant is made up of 3 levels and a basement. The different levels are for the different customers, the bottom is for the regular customers that can afford the price, with the higher reflecting how rich and powerful they are. The restaurant also has a large stage that are for the bands that play or stage shows, or special events. Which one would be taking place in a couple of weeks.
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Cyclonian Waste Disposal HQ -
Walking into the lobby of the office building at the recycling center is the reporter Max Jones. One of the few true media left in Night City, Max has dedicated his life to exposing corporate corruption. His firebrand reporting and exposure of scandals has placed a heavy price on his head. It's there after checking in with the receptionist a young looking black woman in a suit and wearing glasses working on her terminal, her name tag she's wearing says Ms. Foxworth, who gave him a guest pass. He was personally greeted by the personal aide of Harold Bage the CEO of the waste management company.
Eva, who has modified her body to be a glossy white, with blues eyes, blue lips and metallic blue hair. She wears a blue business suit, a jacket, matching pants, a white button shirt, a black vest, a blue tie, black dress shoes, and a blue wide brim hat. Covering the buxom body underneath, massive breasts, and hips that are wider than her shoulders.
"Follow me," Eva said in a flat voice.
Max followed the aide to the elevator and rode up to the 8th floor of the 10 story building. Once the elevator doors open, Harold Bage was there waiting for his guest.
"Welcome Mr Jones," Mr. Bage greeted him.
"Thank you for the interview," Mr. Jones said as Bage gave few interviews.
"With what my workers found. I just needed to get the word out and I like what you do. You are recording this live right?" Bage asks.
"Yes as you requested right after I got in the lobby," Jones said his camera glasses broadcasting what he sees live online.
"Good, now follow me into the trophy room," Bage said walking to the double doors behind him.
"Trophy room?" Jones asks.
"You'll be surprised at what people just throw away, not knowing the value it has," Bage said leading Jones and Eva into the large room.
Inside the room is a treasure trove of pop culture history, some that Jones recognizes. The costumes that were thrown away that are still recognizable for those who seen old movies and tv shows. Old signs and logos of companies that are no longer around or changed over the years. Old game consoles and arcade machines, toys that for some collectors are priceless. A whole section dedicated to Star Trek and Star Wars.
"As you can see, I collected some very interesting stuff over the years. Digging through the trash that was just thrown away, every now and than I come across something of value like this," Bage said placing his hand on top of a protective glass case with a wooden violin inside.
"A Stradivarius?" Jones asks reading at the plaque.
"For those who know what it is, is in fact one of the few surviving ones left," Bage said going to another case.
"Lord of the rings?" Jones asks looking at the old books.
"From the first book The Hobbit and Return of the King, all first editions and while worn are still valuable," Bage said going to the next case.
"Declaration of Independence?" Jones asks seeing the relict of a fallen nation.
"A Dunlap broadside copy, the first ever printing of the Declaration, produced by Philadelphia printer John Dunlap when the handwritten copy was brought to him from Congress on July 4, 1776," Bage said.
Bage showed Jones an Apple 1 computer, some raw comics from companies that aren't around anymore, a Roman bust, some rare guns, and other things. Even a shrine to the 007 films of props and equipment used for the films. Bage explains how he loves the old spy films and would love to be the villain in one of them.
The buzz online was hot as people around the world are tuning in as more and more treasures were revealed. Many people couldn't believed what was just thrown away.
"Now here's something that I saved for last and something that many will be offering me plenty for," Bage said going to a display covered by cloth.
Pulling it off, revealed a body that has rotten, frozen in a cryogenic tank. But the face could still be made out, a face that many recognized, being infamous for the fall of the old net. Rache Bartmoss, the most wanted man in the world who just disappeared no matter where people looked around the world.
"Is that Rache Bartmoss?" Jones asks.
"It is him, had his body check and his DNA matches the records. Which is where the buzz of Rache Bartmoss's DNA showing up in a lab came from. Needed to act fast so, I set all of this up. To show the world who has found the most wanted man in the world, who died some years ago after his cryogenic tank that was made to look like a freeze, power supply was cut off. And the best part was that he never left Night City, he was here all of this time somewhere before the freezer he was inside of for all of these years, was toss out in the trash. Where my robots found him and brought him to my attention," Bage explains.
"What are you going to do with him?" Jones asks.
"He's dead but his data shard is still there and maybe someone could read it. I have no interest in what the shard holds but I'm sure that there are governments and companies who are more than willing to pay a pretty sum to get their hands on him," Bage said.
"Offers have already flooded the network," Eva said in her flat voice.
"That was fast," Bage said and turns to Jones. "The interview is now over, I called a guard to escort you down to the lunchroom. Eat, or take a doggy bag home."
"Thank you for your time," Jones said walking to the exit where a guard is waiting for him. He heard about the real food that the employees are served by CWD and how Bage would throw big feasts of real food. Enjoying some real food was a prefect way to celebrate breaking this story.
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Storm Hawks World -
In the private bath of princess Lark, known as Master Cyclonis is having a soak with Piper who is leaning up against her as both of them soaked in the warm water. Piper is telling Lark all about what happen in the world where Chloe is from, how the old classmates of Chloe had wanted to see Izuku but he didn't wants to ever see them again. Leaving the world and having no plans on ever returning, Chloe was upset herself as she had wanted to spend some time with her father but her half sister Zoe had spoiled those plans.
"What of the scans on the bee kwami?" Lark asks.
"Taken and the weapons from that superhero would will harm them," Piper said. (1)
"I'll setup a cage for the bee, Chloe's sister will come along with her stepfather when he visits," Lark said.
"Be careful in how you handle that. Chloe still has some feelings for her sister and the bee," Piper said leaning back on Lark.
"How is she doing as a handmaiden?" Lark asks.
"She has made herself the head handmaiden as none of the others had stepped up. Yuuri and Chito, are the longest serving handmaidens but they don't really do much besides following commands from Cleopatra, as well as the ninjas. Chloe has taken command and acts as Cleopatra's personal aide and making sure that the others don't do something to embarrass their princess. And keeps the ninjas from getting any ideas when Izuku washes them," Piper said giggling as she remembers how embarrassed Izuku got when the ninjas tried to have him do lewd things to them.
"He was nearly 17 when I met him by what he had figured. 3 years at most had pasted when he started his journey at 14. Thanks to Zelda's wish to send him back home, he's now 14 again, while the rest of us are older than him, most of us anyways. He's just intimidated at having older girls all over him and his young body is going through puberty again," Lark said. (2)
"As that would had stop you," Piper said.
"The age of consent in Japan is still 14," Lark pointed out. (3)
"True but Izuku wants to be married before he has sex," Piper stated.
"He does need to grow some bit before he's the size you saw when you sneaked in the bathroom," Lark teased.
"Can we not talk about that," Piper said still embarrassed at what happen.
"That you landed with your face between my legs and face pressed up against my groin and Izuku behind you having grabbed your hips. Thinking that you're an assassin, and mother hearing the noise came in and saw us in that position," Lark teased.
"I never been so embarrassed," Piper said.
"You been between my legs enough times already. I can't wait to see the face you make when it's Izuku taking you from behind," Lark said.
"Yes that be great, but both of us are 17 and his mother doesn't want him to be having sex till he's older," Piper said as their world has different rules about when it's ok to start having sex and when kids are seen as adults.
"I can wait and I still have to teach the other princesses and their handmaidens the ranking," Lark said.
"My body will be back into shape in a couple of weeks and my attunement is almost complete. I won't have that excuse to sleep with him all the time anymore," Piper said.
"I already have a plan to replace that," Lark said having been using Piper's need to be with Izuku to heal her body, to gather information from the other girls and other things of interest.
"Well there is his mother," Piper said as she enjoys spending time with Inko who mothers her, giving her something that she never had growing up.
"If, I must," Lark said being uneasy being around and interacting with her future mother in law. She's just too different from her own mother in how she treats her.
"Where is he?" Piper asks.
"Staying at the embassy on his world. All that work he did helping Star after school and on weekends has worn him out. He just wants to relax," Lark said.
"He earned it," Piper said.
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Author's Notes -
1 - The Kwamis are powerful but only by their universe rules. Seeing how Master Cyclonis has access to a Marvel world where technology and magical items that have handled god level and cosmic beings are all there for her to use. The kwamis can be dealt with or even killed.
2 - Izuku is 14 again after being wished back home at the moment he left, and was gone for around 3 years. While the girls are mostly all older than him.
3 - It's still the law in real life Japan that 14 years at most olds can have sex.
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