They left and Brett went back to his girlfriend. I shrugged. I hoped things went well. I had to stroke a whole lot of egos when I got back to the clan building. The PEA units were all pissed off and felt cheated of a chance to show their skills to the whole region. After the week limit was done, Stretch and Sky got the reward. It was that their clan got the blueprints to the 04Mx model. That was a really big deal. They had found 2 mid-tier units to join their clan in Micropolis. They would greatly benefit from the new models. I hear that they were going to call their clan Shrimp Killer Clan. I could see that the newly brewing rivalry between Sky and Hoods was not going away anytime soon. Hoods was furious when he heard the news. Cold Clan did not say anything to us about it. Using my guild channels, Nancy, Marion and Terrance had in fact moved on. They also got another 3 to join them. That did mean that 3 were still on the case. However, the 3 were working on Toxic Clan. They could not just go on my word. They had to figure a way to get into the inner workings of the bank. That was good.
It was the 3 that they pulled away that was working on Water Clan. They probably could get to investigate it sooner. Water parks had way less security concerns than the bank accounts of private citizens. Especially the very rich ones. It was the rich ones that would store their hard assets in the vaults down there. Beau Kilroy was taking the lead on the investigation in Micropolis. With the information that had been shared with the group, Beau was in for the long haul. His friends were also interested in digging deeper. The fact that Cold Clan called the hit pissed them off. I heard this from Terrance. I was now officially a mole for them. In return, they would keep PBJ Clan out of it. Blank was still following me around. I looked at them and they turned masculine. They then jabbed me in the chest. "I want to take a mission." they said. I only shrugged and said "You can go solo. You got this." Blank just stormed off in a huff. They were heading for the AEP lab. I followed after them. If Blank was going to go out, the least I could do was give them upgrades. The took the shotgun in the small of their back.
Blank went out and did not return. After 3 days, I just wrote them off. It was not the first time an AEP unit got in over their head on the first mission and got themselves killed. That was when I got a furious call from Terrance. "Your newest member fucked up." he snapped. "Blank is a wild card I created to test a theory I had about PEA units. Did they just walk up to your computers and try to hack them? They are super powerful, but totally derpy because they have the minds of children." I said. "Well, I can tell that now. Blank came in the forward-facing base of operations wearing a slutty dress and demanded to see Liam Uxton, Beau's friend and fellow target on your list." I groaned out loud. ."They had a female body and tried to seduce him. He's gay. Then Blank, the absolutely white cyborg made of nanites, transformed into a guy wrapped up in green ribbons. Obviously, we had to detain them." "Well, I did warn Cold Clan wants you dead. I should have asked Blank what mission they got." "Luckily, they sent the derpy cyborg. The technicians are going to have a field day with this." he said.
Beau
Quickly, I said "Terrance. Listen to me and listen well okay. There is no mission quite so prevalent as a rescue mission. PEP units go missing and get captured all the time. They are alien and subversive. It is foolish to trust one from any region, but the Conqueror transmissions breed disdain in the cyborgs that live in the area. If a scrapper or a reprogrammer gets their hands on one, they send an immediate mission to rescue them. If you hack them, they can lead you to hubs or reveal secrets humans should not have." "All this to say...?" he trailed off. I sighed. "They will send the heavy hitters for this. Other AEP units and PEAs. AEP are made of pure nanites and can therefore shapeshift at will. PEAs are the cleaner. It is easy to spot them from the green hair and yellowish eyes. They will storm the base and cause a war. Even if they are a mutt and mine. It would be better to just kill them now." I told Terrance. There was a beat of silence and then he hung up. Half an hour later, he called again. "I relayed the message to Beau, Liam and Kelly. They said they are ready." he told me.
