Being the best meant that we could take detours like this. It did not change that we were in an amazing position. Before this was even a confederacy, we could launch from our hanger at any time. Heat Clan had snubbed us, but all the best things for cyborgs came from our clan. No one could deny that. In the current situation, there were only 2 Researcher faction transmission hubs on the continent. Those were the Heat and Radiation hubs. There were just 3 Advocate faction transmission hubs here as well. The Lightning, Sonic and Void hubs would be naturally peaceful to all humans living there. Peaceful cyborgs were outnumbered by nonpeaceful ones. I was not too happy about that. The other 8 transmission hubs were controlled by the now dominant Conqueror faction. Among them were Wind and Magnetic Clans. We had them on our hit lists for what they had done to us. It was the time to get our revenge on them for once and for all. We would start with Wind Clan. 06-001, 12-001 and 12-004 had betrayed us after we had spared them. It was over for them and the clans now.
It took several weeks to find where they were hiding their transmission hubs. It was all well and good. Us keeping a low profile lowered the heat on us. Doing the flashy demonstration raised a ton of questions. Questions that we really did not want to answer. The Conqueror faction clans that we allied with were demanding we give up all of our XX-frames. That was not going to happen. The Advocate faction clans already had a couple of blueprints that they were collectively researching. We gave all the blueprints to Radioactive Clan. We were tied to the hip. They still needed to gather the money and materials though. Vassalizing clans would be a problem too. Because they all got wiped out initially, the PEP units in the region formed their own clans and living arrangements. Since they were older and more established in the region, the other clans saw no need to come swear fealty. It was something they would need to work on. They were much too far to make the trek over there. Besides, it was not actually clear that the Progenitors they would summon would be friendly to humans.
Capturing one of them would be needed. The reports out of the Wind Clan region was insane. They were taking the "Conqueror" moniker fully to heart. Rampant gang violence and outright terrorism was how the waged war against the humans living there. Anti-cyborg syndicates, already gang-like in their operations, rushed in the area to combat them. The police and the military had their hands full with them. It explained why there were no military blockades of their town for the demonstration. They all thought that they had bigger fish to fry with Wind Clan. If only they knew PBJ Clan was a massive whale in the grand scheme of things. To be fair, Wind Clan was totally out in the open. They made sure to shout out their clan affiliation when they killed a target. We were more in the shadows. Nobody too important knew about us and our dealings. We liked to keep it that way. I was going to get to the bottom of this. It was a simple plan. I would go to their territory and simply walk around. I did get one thing from Mason before I went in. It was a laptop. It had a program that could hack AEPs.
Doing that was hard for people without the required skills. We maxed Mason's out for hacking for this reason. A program made by him would make the processes trivially easy. With the red laptop in my possession, I went right to the center of their hub's territory. Brett spawned in a green sedan. I was not the best driver in the game, but I got there in one piece. I had no clue where their transmission hub was. It could be in an entirely different city. Still, it did not hurt to try. Once I got there, I went over to the nearest motel. Checking in was easy. Walking around the streets, I did not see a lot of people on the streets. People were super scared. I was not because I was an overpowered person. A squad of Phobia syndicate members stalked up to me. It was about 5 of them. They were angry. "Hey! We know you, Brianne!! Get over here and then get out of our damn city!" one shouted at me from down the block. I sighed deeply and waited for them to approach me. When they finally got to me, they began to curse me out. PBJ Clan was on their radars for all the crazy stuff that we did earlier.
