The next morning was a blur of activity as I went about collecting scrap metal and trash from the neighborhood. Living in the Glen there wasn't much but every bit of good metal scrap got fed to the recycler. It gave me lots of iron nickel silver gold and carbon. Lots of carbon. Turned out carbon was basically in everything. Plastic Oil coal and diamonds all where made from carbon. Which is why making diamond was so easy. I added some of them to the fabricator but the rest I put up for action. The internet was interesting place especially for Mercs. So I put them up for sell.
While that was happening I was taking apart the spar arm I had bought. Cortana was checking to see what could be made with out the forerunner tech from her universe and Sasha was currently worshipping my thick pole. I let out a small grown as I worked the soldering iron over the wires separating them from the metal chasy.
It seemed that their was a small amount of gold even in this mostly chrome alloy that allowed small copper gold wires that filtered into the main metal components that worked like nurve clusters. These clusters connected to the actual metal threw small hollow ports in the metal bones and plates. This all connectes back to your main nerves system which after getting my personal sweet installed is partially cybernetic allows you to feel things with the cybernetic or cyberskeleton prosthetic.
I swapped my focus to the smart link, Ballistic coprocessor, and shock absorber. these three hand mods are the core foundation for power and smart weapons. Tech weapons while having the most piecing power have the least recoil. These mods help with targeting and recoil for smart and power guns. I move the smart link aside as the only smart weapon I have I can ling directly with a person cable connection or let it run the smart fire it's self. More so with Cortana I really don't need to operate it's smart link at all she can do it faster then even a military smart link and nerves system could. But the other two would definitely help with recoil and using the ricocheting rounds. Add in Cortana able to inside my new spine mod and act as a netrunner I could use Ember Rose to hit head shots from around the corner when I don't want to punch wholes with Stome Rose or Fools Rose.
"Cortana how are the shields coming along?" I asked as I began the process of breaking down the two implants to see how they worked and if I could upgrade them,
"Not very well. These elemental Catds to charge ammunition did not exist in my universe. The EMP element charge and toxin charge cards are the most problematic with the shield. The Toxin card, or at least the exotic variant, causes ammunition to burst with a toxic gas if the round fails puncture the target. The shields aren't air tight since even Spartans need to breath. On the other hand the electric charge cards exotic versions that is found in your Storm Rose completely shuts down the over-shield for 30 seconds before the regin process even begins. To to mention if put on a Tech weapon like your modified Achilles the round still lands against the target since the shield fails without filling stopping the round's momentum."
A low grown escapes me as Sasha bottoms out, "Grrr, So your telling me that the current system's primary weaknesses are two components used in making iconic weapons?"
"Yes and while they are rare for civilians to get a hold of like most mega corp or military grade tech they are not rare when it comes to corp elite soldiers or corp sponsored mercs"
"Fair point," I sigh threading my left hand threw Sasha's silky hair. I hold her head down as I unload down her throat.
"Yes also Spark is approaching the front desk. She should be up soon."
My eyes flew wide. Spark was here? And wait Rebecca isn't with here? "Rebecca isn't here it's Spark?"
"No sir. She's not in the Haywood at all. She seems to be in Watson."
"Oh is she back at her apartment?"
"No she seems to be at a ware house at the docks."
My smile faltered as I called her. The call went straight to voice mail. So did my next three calls. "Cortana get all information about the ware house for me now."
Sasha pulled back with a pop, "Is something wrong?"
"See if you can get Rebecca on the phone. But be ready to roll. I have a bad feeling and if it's right Watson may be about to burn. Cortana I want a prototype shield ready in 20."
"Understood sir!"
"I'm on it Harper. I'll hit the shower now."
My eyes glowed as I called Spark.
Spark: Hey I'm in the lobby what's up?
Harper: Did Rebecca stay with you last night?
Spark: No she said she was head over here from the job. I thought you might get it in with her and Sasha and decide I'd wait before the full team orgy.
Harper: She texted me she was stay with you. And she's not home or picking up calls. Ran a ping on her sweat and she's in Watsons Docks area.
Spark: Fuck me! I'll get the car ready. What are you going to do you don't have mono wire or a combat arm.
Harper: I'm going to make some calls and rely on my guns more.
Before she can respond I received a text for Rebecca surrounded by several Animals. She was tied up and looked ruff next to a nother woman with pink and blue hair. Both look like they had been beaten and passed around. Rebecca looked absolutely murderus while the other woman looked near broken.
Rebecca- Come get your whore. She might not be as tight as you remember she's been used all night.
Attached was an address for the ware house Cortana already had marked.
Harper: Spark I'm going to have to call you back. But you should know that Rebecca is being held by the Animal who thought it was a good idea to rape her. So please bring the car around I need to go butcher some chicken shit cock sucking Bitches.
Before she could respond I cut the connection and slammed my metal fist against the counter breaking it's surface. I stormed back into the work room grabbing everything I would need. Storm Ember and Fool all found their spots. The 3AX was loaded up ready to shred threw my enemies. All I was waiting on was the shield prototype. A bracelet I'd ware giving me a shield able to stop several charged up tech shots or sustained fire for a few seconds of heavy caliber ammunition or several minutes of medium and small caliber ammunition. Watson would burn. Hell all of Night City would learn. But first I need to makes some calls.
Reyes: This is the…
Harper: Shut up. I have 250k I need extra bodies. Have them meet at this address and let them know that no Animal gets away. Any come out of the slaughter house they kill them.
Reyes: Hey we may have worked to gether before but I won't be talk to…
Harper: They have one of my teammates so if you don't have bodies there wait by the time I get over there. Then when I'm done saving her and done hunting down every animal in this city I'll start hunting you. I'll butcher everyone related to your operations.
Reyes: I'm going to help you and I'll let this slide but when all this is said and done you will owe me.
Harper: Yeah well I'm not the one who gave my self the name. But you all know what I am. I'm a butcher. So I'm sure I'll make up the fact that I'm kinda kill happy right now to you someday when you want the Rose Butcher to slaughter something.
I hung up. My temper was flaring so high that I was becoming to volatile. I just threatened a guy that has given me a few jobs and helped me get my apartment. Worse of all I called him knowing that I would be that way and didn't care about him. He wasn't Padre. I was willing to ruin my relationship with him unlike Padre because he was nothing to me. But after tonight if he came threw and didn't cut me off I'd make it up to him.
—- 3rd Person with Rebecca
"Do you real think he will come for the used joy toy?" A mass of muscles and bad decisions asked the leader currently having fun with the feral gremlin.
The new alpha of alphas as he started calling himself was a massive man with steel piercings covering his body. He was almost 7 feet tall and 5 feet wide. One of his arms was the size if the two women he had tied up and had been running a train on. The ex Mox joy toy was gagged because even after being raped for several hours she was screaming cursing and threatening them. And while they could put up with that they drew the line at having there man hood mocked because of their juice.
Funny enough after being gagged and having several of her fingers broken she seemed to quite down and just glar. She still never cried though and that was upsetting. Even the fake alpha who tried to keep us from hunting the punny rose man broke and cried. With a grown the man finished inside her and pulled his massive black market Mr. Stud out of her used cunt. With a growl he halled her up by her hair dragging her to the same room he'd put the fake alpha. He opened the door throwing her down. She hit the ground with a sickening snap. He smiled as she finally screamed from the broken arm.
"If he was smart he wouldn't. But if he wa smart he wouldn't let her live in Watson."
The door closed leaving Rebecca alone with the other woman. Rebecca layed there eyes filling with tears. How could she have let this happen? How could she have been so stupid to have been captured? She wasn't worried about what her friends or Harper would think of her. She wasn't to worry about seeing pity in their eyes or being treated like fragile China. What she was worried about was what Harper would do.
She cried because she new he wasn't at one hundred percent but would definitely walk threw the front doors all the same. Even though he had his arm destroyed two nights in a row and definitely shouldn't be up he was going to come save her. He was going to possibly die because she was to stupid to weak. And that's why she cried.
Not from pain or misery not from shame or disgust but because she new that if something bad happened to her friend it would be her fault. And that hurt worse then the broken arm. That made her feel more ashamed then the hours of rape. Her weakness was possibly going to get her friends hurt.
Then the lights in the room dimmed and Rebecca heard the doors emergency security lock engaged. She slowly looked up and saw Harpers face on the wall. A projection of his face with the words, "Don't worry I'm pulling up now." Written in blood red next to his face. Then the words changed, "Your safe. Nice and locked in. They just so happened to put you in a bulletproof room. My Achilles couldn't even break threw the walls. Which is good. That means I don't have to worry about them trying to use you. I can simply kill them all then take you to Vic's."
Rebecca looked towards the camera in the corner and gave it a nod. She wanted to tell him good luck. That he didn't need to come save her. That it was a trap. But just seeing the projection of his holo tag. Just seeing his eyes. His yellow eyes that seemed to glow with pure malice and murder she new that he didn't need it. She new she was safe. And she new that tonight, that legends would be told of tonight. The night the Animals went to slaughter. The night the Rose Butcher truly earned his name.
—-1st person Harper—-
After Cortana relayed my message and locked the security door I opened the system. I hadn't done this since coming here since the pain was alway to much but my body didn't care this time. I had sent Reyes 250k for the crew that was acting as the net making sure no one escaped. I had around 428k left and i dropped 300k four three rolls. Two weapons rolls and a cyberware roll.
—-
Rolling 2x SCI-FI weapons!
Uncommon Recharging Rifle- A self recharging low damage laser rifle.
&
Uncommon R-97- Compact SMG with armor piercing rounds perfect for a pilot on the move out side their titan.
Rolling 1x Cyberware
Common Kang Tow Mk1 Kerenzikov- A basic bare bones model that increases reaction time by 10%
Would you like to pre install?
—-
I clicked yes feeling it settle in. All this Cyberware was going to be very hard to explain to Vic and Michael. But in the mean time I asked Cortana in a whisper, "Can you scan both weapons and the ammo and have them down loaded to the fabricator when we get home. I have a feeling I might uses all the R-97 ammo and depending on how things go I'll definitely want more."
"Understood. I have locked down the area no in or out bound data. All cameras in the area are now in a loop and local netrunners have been delt with depending on affiliation. All gang and corp runners are dead, edgerunnners are simply unable to record," Cortana's voice was sweet and her ability to take initiative was definitely taking a weight off my shoulders.
I sighed, pulling out the 3AX from the back seat. Sasha and Spark where still load spar mags and getting ready. But Rebecca had already been here to long. "It me with the count."
"This seems to be a major hang out of Animals. I count at least 12 Packs such as the Lions Wolves and Boars. But I also count 3 of what fixers corps and gangs heads call a mega Faunus Pack. These packs are usually called Bears Elephants or something similar and are packs of bigger more chrome and better weapons. The three mega packs I see are the Elephant, Rex's, and Mammoths. The over all leader is a man by the name of John Heymonda. He now goes by ApRex. Is old pack leader was Sasquatches Second Angelica Whelan. She was the other woman in the picture tied up with Rebecca. From information I was able to obtain Angelica believed that what happened between Sasquatch and you was just business. She believed you where to dangerous and her Mega Pack was ordered to stand down. Well her second then Tritop now ApRex Met with the two other Mega Pack Leaders The Bully and The Brain along with the leaders of the packs inside. They formed a new super pack like what was under Sasquatch. But Sasquatch had military training and was basically a puppet for Angelica who is the real brains behind the original super pack."
"That's all real good info Cortana but I asked how many bodies should I text Reyes to expect for clean up?"
Cortana sighed as she answered sounding less excited this time, "Well each Normal pack is 8-12 and the mega packs are."
I cut her off, "Head count. Now please?"
"There is about 162 bodies inside that building that are not Rebecca and Angelica."
"Thank you," I slipped on the shield bracelet and activated it. A semi liquid like light shield spread over me before shimmering out of view. "Now turn my magnetic field up to max."
"Turning of field intensity you are now able to stop and manipulate metals in a 20 yard radius."
"No I want you to use it and focus on stopping anything you can from touching me and the shield. I know that tech weapons will still be moving to fast to complete bleed off but the heavy caliber machine guns should be slow and big enough for you to focus the rounds around me or out right stop them. If Spark or Sasha are in range do the same for them."
"Understood!"
I smiled as I raised my gun the two guards at the gate didn't even get to register their deaths before they no longer existed. As I walked forward the gate simply began to cave as if an unstoppable object was walking threw it. All the while bullets ripped threw throats heads chests and stomachs. I wasn't truly aiming I was just pointing the barrel at someone and shooting till they died. Yet none of there bullets hit me they seemed to strike the ground all around me as the gates gave way. A perfect hole in the middle for me to fit threw. The first two mega fauna where there holding heavy's.
My smile was bone chilling, i didn't break stride as i walked derectly into their fire watching it was around me as i brought them into the field. That's when i saw it. Bones of iron and tungsten but these where dead animals in my slaughterhouse so bones they did not need. They bones shot out of their bodies so fast that all that was left was a pile of clothes and viscera. The bones flew like sharpenal stabbing into the Animal's around them. None of these where fatal wounds but the bones then shimmered becoming liquid with out even heating up. The Liquid Metal sank under the slink and began to separate skin from muscle. And that's when the screaming finally started. Those inside had to listen the the 24 out side be skinned alive.
When someone dump or brave would run out hubs blazing they would have their kneecaps shot out from under them as the metal in their own guns came alive and attacked them. By the time those inside figured out that it was better to shoot at me from inside 24 had grown to 46. 46 skinned corpses and another 20 that had died from being shredded by the 3AX. But the 3AX had long since emptied so I let it slip into my pocket space.
I heard Sasha and spark retching at the sight of the carnage. But i did see disgust or fear just surprise. I was lucky to have them. I turned back towards the building and pulled Fools Rose out. "Y'all can wait here. There's only 60 or so left. And the field that let me complete this carnage is big enough that buy the time I make it to the top floor all of them will look like this."
Spark shook her head, "No we are with you."
Sasha came up hugging me whispering in to my chest, "I am yours. And you are mine. So I will see everything that you will do and I will judge you accordingly but I will always stand beside you. No mater the evil or good you commit. Now with all my heart. Slaughter these pigs. Leave not one alive. Live up to the name this city has given you." She looked up into my eyes, "Go be this City's Rose Clad Butcher."
—-
The building shook and raddled as Rebecca layed there. Tears long since dried and fear replaced with vindication. She was wrong to fear for Harper. She new with every bloody step he took the nose closed ever tighter around that beasts throat. She head hands and fists beat in the door. Clawing away at it unable to get inside. Angelica woke up to the sounds of screams and laughter.
—-
I slowly reloaded as more and more metal fell to the floor. It turned to liquid snaking into rivers of Iron nickel chrome And Tungsten that washed over the bleeding and crying animals on the floor. Drowning them in a see if Liquid Metal. Those where the lucky ones.
Cortana had long since gotten all the footage and pictures. Ever creature that joined in on hurting Rebecca wasn't drowned in metal. No it seeped into their poors. Drilled into their bones as it puppeteered them if they died the metal simply rejoined the rivers but if they didn't and to many bodies where joining the meat shields well metal was turned solid and used to blend them from the inside out.
It was brutal since every kick of his Rose caused another screaming body to hit the floor. Knees ankles wrist and hips blown threw like a 9mm threw tissue paper. Spark and Sasha calmly walked behind watching the carnage. The the ruthlessness of it all and just how unfazed I was. We came upon someone trying to run but i couldn't have that so I aimed and fired. The super sonic round punching threw his ass and crotch. The man being held back from jumping out the third story window fainted from the shock of having his cock and balls Eviscerated by the bullet. I put Rose away as the rest trying to hold them back looked at me. Several giant muscular women.
According to Cortana most of the women besides some of the Pack leaders where against the rape but didn't do much to stop it. So while they must die, they don't need to die so horribly. The R-97 smg appeared in my hand. I heard a confused intake of breath as I squeezed the trigger. Bullets ment to punk threw lares of tungsten titanium and Carbon steel blasted threw the mussel bound woman turning them into Swiss cheese.
When the magazine clicked empty I placed the empty back in my pocket space and placed a new one inside the strange gun. Only a few more rooms left.
Each room cleared only seems to boil my blood more and more. Eventually I'm no longer aiming to wound and maim so that my Cyberware can kill them im just shredding them like cheese with the R-97. It's no where less messy but it is more mercy then these things deserve but my need to fold Rebecca out ways my want to make them suffer.
I store threw like the reaper of loss souls as the metal door to the last room fold inward down the center. Opening like two scrolls being rolled up. The metal jolts the rooms occupants to me. Three massive figures that I'm guessing are ApRex The Brain and The Bully are trying to pry open the room Rebecca's in.
With a growl I raise the R-97 only for it to click empty. "Apparently my last mag has run dry, no matter," I say as the gun disappears into thin air. "I'll just butcher you the same I did y'all's men." The river of metal shimmers as it rises up forming into a long thin saber fitted with a basket hilt. I smile just as I rap some metal around my boots and use the magnetic field to attract them to the nearest large sorce of metal on the three. My feet slam into ApRexs junk with a loud crack as my blade snaps out. Cutting threw the hands of brain who was reaching for his gun. Both hands where cut in half from pinky to thumb. Leaving him with half a thumb and a pinky.
The bully yelled as she went to punch me. I flipped over her fist off of ApRex metal cock and yanked her down by her metal face plate and jewelry. She let out a cry of pain as she met the metal basket hilt of my saber. She tried to stumble away but the metal from my sword seemed to stick becoming almost like spiders silk. It dug threw her face around her veins and mussel and turned her into a living statue of flesh crome and tungsten. Unable to move barely able to breath unable to close your eyes or sleep. Not that she'd ever get to sleep if Rebecca decided she would die. These three where the ring leaders and the ones that lead the rape. Rebecca decided their fates.
—- 3rd person
The sounds of struggle died down as Rebecca slowly force her self to stand up on shaking bruised legs. The door finially slid open showing Harper his suit that was made to let blood and water slide of was drenched in gore. His skin nearly died red from it all and he looked like the devil to Angelica but to Rebecca he was her angel. He savor stude there for a second before he lunged forward taking her up in his arms. She felt a strange sensation as she felt something wash over her and then her bones move. But the pain that should have been there was muted. Her pain editor seemingly turned to its max. The metal binding on her hands simply fell away like water as her arm seemed to snap back into place and her ribs realigned.
He pulled back just a little and smiled down at her. His smile was of relief and concern but not pity. He didn't look at her like she was fragile he looked at her like she was precious, she new deep down that both looks ment that the person wanted to protect her. But one ment they thought her weak and one to her ment they thought she was worth protecting. And she new that Harper would do anything for her. Hell he just stormed a Mega Pack animal Din just to save me.
"Rebecca all of them except the leaders are dead." His voice was soft like silk but filled with such barely contained rage. Like he was mad he hadn't slaughtered them already.
"Why are they still alive?" Her voice hitched a small unintentional fear filling her voice.
"Because you deside their fate. I already made everyone else pay. Drowned in iron or skinned alive. Blown to pieces or shot into chunks of gore. But these three are the leaders who desided to hurt you." His eyes looked passed her at the other woman. "And you tried to stop them. For that I owe you. You can come with us. I'll make sure your taken care of."
Rebecca pushed her face into his chest. She didn't want to deal with this but she new he was coming from a weirdly sweet place.
Angelica voice was nervous when she responded, "Well for now can I just have a place to crash?"
"The building I'm staing in as several empty apartments I'll pay for you to have one. I'd offer you my spare room but I'm using it to create some new tech to sell."
"Really then maybe you could give me a job. I'm excorpo and can be a big help with getting you licenses and other necessary stuff."
"That sounds reasonable. Now Rebecca I did get you a present. I might need to barrow it to make more of it later but for now." Harper seemingly created a rifle out of nowhere. It was strange with pipes of glass and plastic everywhere. But Rebecca took it shouldering it and testing its weight.
"What is this? What was that? Where did you get it?"
"It's a laser rifle called a Recharing Rifle. I'll tell you later and I'll tell you later. Lots of things you and Spark need to hear but I have to officially know you are mine. Tie you to me for the rest of time before I tell you."
"That is weirdly creep and extremely hot. Does this mean we are having team orgies now?"
"Yes if yall agree and no ones against it."
Angelica face was both pale and confused, "What have i agreed to?"
—- Harper POV
I lead Rebecca out of the room were she could see the fozen statues of flesh mussel and metal. "They die but you decide how. They lead the ones who hurt you. So how will we kill them."
Rebecca seemed so small right now. With Cortana's help I straightened out her bones and reinforced them with the strongest metals her mussels could handle. Cortana had turned her pain mod up to block out what should have been horrible pain from having broken bones forced into the correct position then fused with titanium nickel and aluminum.
But as I looked down at her the fire in her eyes it melted me. The flames inside her, her refusal to break and be changed by this excited me. It showed me that she was strong, stronger then me. And that was truly amazing to see.
"Why are they frozen?" Angelica asked sounding terrified.
"I've trapped them in metal. Spider webs and vains of metal constricting every fiber of there bodies. And no matter how strong you are you can't break free from hundreds of pounds of steel copper titanium and tungsten rapped around your bones mussels and woven just under their skin."
"What happens if you leave them like this?" Rebecca said sounding very curious.
"Well they would eventually die from dehydration or hunger. If you hooked them to fluids and nutrients then they would eventually go insane from being unable to move barely able to breathe and the fact that they probably would never be able to sleep while standing."
"That's what I want. I want them frozen like this trapped alive while the most annoying sounds play all around them. Let them die of old age in a box where they will be forgotten."
"Priceless! I know a guy who can make this a hole thing. Hands In Pacifica will make sure they alway have there water and nutrients as long as we pay him and maybe agree to do it to a few of his enemies," Spark said with a terrifyingly attractive insane grin.
"Then we can visit them! We can make sure they live in a waking nightmare!" Sasha said excitedly.
"Fuck me im joining actual monsters," Angelica whined.
"Oh lighten up! They deserve worse but I can't do so with what I have on hand." I sighed think of how they would be used in human experimentation when I got the chance.