That gave them pause. Marion groaned. "What's wrong?" his cousin asked. "Beau is not going to let this fucking go!" he said. Beau Kilroy was on the list in the binder. It seemed like he was a honest man. Or at the very least, obsessed enough with finding and killing cyborgs that he would not bend or break. "No. He's not. He's going to try to arrest all of you." I just got a smile on my face. "Looks like you better go over his head or shut him up. I won't do it, but there will be squads full of green haired cyborgs lining up to kill you guys if you keep snooping around. I even gave you the full story. If that isn't enough nothing will. How was I supposed to know that AEP units are living bombs!?" I said. "Even if we move on, you're not just going to be let go. We'll keep in touch." Terrance said. "I have lines I won't cross. No deets on Researcher faction business. But if the Conquerors start acting up, I'll look into it for you." The 3 investigators looked at each other. Terrance sighed. "Fine. It seems that Conqueror faction clans have a habit of cyborgs going rouge anyway. That will be a handful on its own."
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With that, they left. Stretch and Sky came and asked if they were good. "Let's go walk for an hour. They are the prime investigators Cold Clan made a whole document on. That means they are either super good at their work, or very diligent to the point they keep digging no matter what Cold Clan put up to stop them. Why do you think they wanted them all dead?" I said. They looked at the targets as they got in their cars and left. "We'll go to the park first. We can see if they bugged us." They nodded in agreement. We walked over there and found a secluded area. They checked me first. Surprise surprise, they did bug me. It was small and fixed to my pants leg. I did remember one of them brushing their feet against me. We found them on Sky and Stretch too. We destroyed them immediately. "What did I say? They are really good at their job." I said. "Do you think they will be back?" Sky asked me. "They told me they would. Whether they will be hostile when they do is the big question." I then smiled warmly. "Congrats. You did it. You get a clan of your own." I told them happily. They cheered.
Brett met us on the opposite side of town. Because it was just a couple of PEA units, we did not make anything grand. It was a small juice bar. In the back room was a trapdoor that led to the clan building. They had a main hall, a PEP lab and a PEA lab. For flair, I had Brett add a koi pond and pagoda. That was an actual garden setting for the space. I told them that Hoods would give them the installation surgery. "I don't want that shrimp touching me here. You do it for us." he said. I sighed and went down to the PEA lab with them. I did the procedure with Brett giving me the instructions out loud. It was a success. They would have a 0% chance of making chips until they reached their 15th mission success though. But at least they had the black memory nanites now. I popped in the PEP lab to see what X-frame blueprints they got. It was the 04M and 04F models. The same thing happened to ours. Since this was the Cold transmission hub, those were the only blueprints it would give. But now, it was a twice as rare drop and the cost rose by 5 times. They only wanted Cold Clan to have them.
It made no difference to Brett and I. We had infinite money and resources. We just gave them everything they needed for 2 sets of each model. Not only that, we gave them the sexual upgrades for the X-frames so that they all could fuck and make AEP units. I laughed as their eyes went wide. This should not be possible, and yet it was happening right before their eyes. All they needed to do was find 4 PEP units to join their clan. That was actually harder and harder to do. Dwan Town had 3 clans and the chief of police was also a PEP unit. They honestly might need to go to Micropolis or Neo-Rutten for recruiting. Brett gave them a black sedan with purple tinted windows and neon lights under it. I asked where he got it as I did not see him spawn it in. "I won it in a drag race. Totally easy. I took the pink slip and kept it at my house in town with my girlfriend." I did not know that. Stretch and Sky were happy to have it. They went to Micropolis right away. I told them to stop at the guild. "Chad can put the message out. Let them come to you. We don't want you caught in some sting." I warned.
