Zayne broke and told him the real story. They indeed were trying to find a place to gather for the next stage of the progenitor's infiltration of the continent. However, it all somehow got leaked from someone in Libra Force. Both the government and Phobia were now after them. Some of them literally needed to hide underground to take advantage of the special charge ports there. "Fuck that, Z! No friend of mine is living in the fucking sewer. Text me the coordinates and I come get you and all the guys you got down there." The man went out got into his car. He came back several hours later. The sedan was all shot up and all the passengers were heavily injured. There was a big fight at some point. The man brought Quick and Zayne with him. "We still need at least two more PEP unit agents." Zayne said as he was eased into a chair by the man. "The mission from the transmission hub required 4 opinions." The man groaned. "You guys're fucked right now. Do you know how much bleach I'm going to need to clean the hallway and elevator!?" he said. He groaned again. "And a new car."
Luckily there was a unit that actually had an apartment nearby with a partner also in the syndicate. It did not take the man too much coaxing for the female PEP to move in with the others for the time being. She also happened to know Mouse, another PEP unit agent. Known for his mousy brown hair and submissive demeanor. He was hiding across the city in another sewer. The man facepalmed and said "I guess I'll go rescue him then." "I would if I was given the coordinates." I offered. He glared at me and told me to shut up. He had the poor cyborg covered in raw sewage walking in the streets. That probably drew lots of attention. I was mentally preparing to have a large shootout in the apartment. Going over it from the top all over again they nodded. "We were not trying to hide it from the humans in the group. It was just a secret project the transmission hub wanted us to work on. We were on the 'net looking for places and running the calculations for it." Mouse said as we looked at the agents. "It took you weeks? You couldn't reach out to the higher ups you were all okay?" I snapped.
Quick just furrowed his brow. "We never tell them that. Just like we don't tell them about the safehouses in the city or the Foundry." Zayne agreed. "When they need us to hack or take a few bullets, they contract us. That's all we do for them. There is no need to let them know our location every moment of the day?" he said. "Did you find a place for the next stage?" Ryder asked. Mary said "We have to be sure that it's a place only PEP units would look and can access. It will take time." "Time you don't have. Phobia is hunting you guys. It might not be only them either." the man said. This was a very urgent matter. He then ducked from the conversation for a bit. When he came back, he had a large map of the continent. "You guys need to look for a place to do your thing, right? He's right you know. We don't have time." The 4 cyborgs looked at each other and then at me. I got another ping in my main menu for the game. I now had to choose the location for them. I just sighed out loud. Having the map in front of me was fine. I looked all over the map for something I could pull out of my ass.
I pointed at an anomaly on the map. "What's up with here?" I asked. It looked like there was supposed to be a large city, but it was not listed as one. The man looked and said "That's Ghost Town. After a big corpo war went south, the losers set off a tactical nuke on the doorstep of their rivals and fled. They hired a company full of drones to build the city in an open area that was being reclaimed from the cybermonsters. The war ended up wiping them out and the execs died, but they paid in advance. "And the city was built anyway?" I asked. He shrugged. "What's a drone care about who's going to live there?" Mary chimed in. "It's a massive private corpo town, but with no administration. It was overrun with the homeless and outlaws." Zayne added "The city limits are said to be enforced tightly because its private, but really anyone that can hop a fence or 2 can make it easily." I smirked and put my hand there. I said "Let's go there. It seems as good as any place. PEP units have superhumans stats. You can jump easy." "How are you going to get everyone chosen there!? It is still an open area."
