The Throton Colby with Jamie, Kiera and Kendrick speeds down the road in pursuit of every location, albeit not manu of them, I usually hand out around in Little China but there appears to be no trace.
"It's like she fucking Vanished. Where the hell is she?" Jamie asks with a groan after pulling into a car park, adjusting her GPS again as Kiera remains silently worrying and Kendrick assists Jamie in her search.
"Not at her place, not near Vincent's place, not at the park, not near the docks, no anywhere in Japantown; Where the fuck..? There's literally no where else she could be. No fingerprints, no blood, no nothing-!" Jamie lists off the areas they went, ticking each part of the list off and groaning loudly.
"Do you think she left NC because of me..?" Kiera asks insecurely and Kendrick turns.
"Don't say that Kiera.." Kendrick replies sadly; holding her hand softly and running her thumb over it.
"You said she felt guilty and upset about what happened. You sure she didn't just get the next flight out of NC after that?" Jamie asks quietly and elicts a shake of Kiera's head.
"No… where else would she go..?" She sighs, shaking her head and lookin gout the window.
"Fuck… you've really done it this time Chelsea…" Jamie groans, putting her head in her hands.
After a long, quiet while of acceptance, Kendrick finally offers a possibility.
"Why don't we find another Netrunner to find her..?" Kendrick asks, looking to the pair of them.
"What do you mean?" Kiera asks before Kendrick elaborates his idea.
"Well, Chelsea's a Netrunner, right? She does all that techy mumbo jumbo shit and uncovers loads of data about people. What if we just find another Netrunner who can do that?" Kendrick elaborates and offers the possibility again, which Kiera looks satisfied about but Jamie… not so much.
"Finding Netrunners aren't exactly easy in Night City; nevertheless finding an Effective one that won't kill us immediately." Jamie counters and Kendrick adapts his strategy.
"Sure we can. What about Arasaka? I have connections there, plus it's chockf-full of Netrunners." Kendrick offers and Jamie shakes her head.
"Nah. Arasaka'll kill you for trying to get back in, especially after conspiring with a "domestic terrorist" as they label anyone who don't like 'em." Jamie assesses before shutting it down.
"How about those guys Chelsea mentioned? The VDBs was it?" Kendrick asks and Kiera shakes her head.
"Immediately out of the question. The VDBs would want something and I dunno if you know anything about them, but they have everything you could already offer. Plus they're not exactly the most co-operative gang." Kiera responds, looking bleak and solemn still.
"His idea isn't horrible I will say. The only other group I can think of is Netwatch but I dunno how reliable they'd be. And they're mainly just focused on arresting criminals rather than anything else." Jamie states, beginning to debate with herself. "Knowing how corrupt the NCPD and Netwatch are, it wouldn't be hard to just pay them off to do it." She adds on.
"Well how much would that cost?" Kiera asks but Jamie just shrugs in response.
"Could be anywhere between 10-30 grand." Jamie replies which results in them all falling silent afterwards.
A minute later, Kendrick offers an alternative.
"Maybe we could offer them something else? Like maybe… information?" Kendrick asks.
"I dunno. Netwatch can be reaal cagey. It's not likely they'd help. Especially for a criminal netrunner." Jamie responds quickly, not seeming convinced.
"Well we HAVE to try right? We can't just let Chelsea be possibly killed!" Kiera replies, looking determined for the first time since she originally found out I was taken.
"I guess. But I don't even know where to start looking for them." Jamie comments, the 3 going silent again.
"Maybe Pacifica? I think Netwatch has operated close to there because of the VDB's attempts to get past the blackwall." Kiera offers, taking an educated guess.
"Could also be in Heywood. I worked with Netwatch a couple times when I worked at Arasaka. They have a pretty established presence there." Kendrick suggests, his hand on his chin.
"We'll start at Heywood and move to Pacifca then, hopefully Netwatch knows how to take a bribe." Jamie evaluates and comprimises before starting the car.
After searching Heywood for any Netwatch presence in vain, they trio move to Pacifica, the run down abandoned beach with an unfinished amusement park and half built buildings. The area is covered in litter, Graffiti, Scavs and primarily the Voodoo boys. Rough, abandoned, half built construction centre of what was meant to be Night City's best money maker and torist attraction.
"Welcome to Pacifica." Jamie comments as she parks and steps out of the car in an obscured alleyway to prevent her car getting destoryed or graffitied.
"So what're we looking for again?" Kiera asks, unknowledgeable on what Netwatch actually looks like.
"Look for a man or woman with a normal face but with metal plates around their neck and back of their head. They still keep their hair though. They look a bit odd; you'll know when you see 'em." Kendrick replies before he strays from the rest of the group.
"Uh… okay..?" Kiera responds before trailing off from the car herself, looking around with a sigh.
"If I was a nerd, where would my secret tech sex dungeon be..?" Kiera asks out loud and crosses her arms and searching around; looking for any landmarks; coming across a mall, a ferris wheel and the pier.
"Goddamnit." Kiera groans before walking to the decrepid Mall frustratedly.
Upon arrival, the song "hit me with your best shot" plays quietly in the background and Kiera finds herself in the large mall with abandoned stores; spanning 3 floors, with even a downed AV resting in the middle of the third and second floor's walkway.
"Netwatch?! You here?!" Kiera calls out in search of a netrunner but no response is given. "Yeah that's about right." Kiera mutters to herself as she looks down.
Something dawns on her though… how is the music playing? None of the internal lights are on and the escelator has completely ceased function. There's no electricity; so how is there music playing..? There'd be only one explanation. If someone could hack into the speaker and operate it manually. A netrunner.
"Hah. Got you fucker. I know you're in here. Just where…" Kiera smirks, a newfound piece of hope in her mind.
"Also what are these stupid '80s and '90s songs? They're almost a hundred years old, Jeez." Kiera comments as she continues searching through each store.
Upon exiting a store on the second floor, a woman calls from behind Kiera.
"Can we help you?" The woman with no shirt and a pink unzipped jacket asks, her jeans baggy around her ankles, as she holds a metal baseball bat with barbed wire wrapped around it.
Besides her, 2 women and 3 men approach, each holding different weapons. Knives, hatchets. One of them even have gorilla arms.
"Just passing through. Looking for someone.." Kiera replies guardedly, but her composure falls a little, showing hints of fear whilst stepping back slowly from the Scavs.
"Aw. Come on. We don't bite… well whilst you're alive that is~" The woman teases as she steps forward, holding the only part of the bat that isn't covered in razor sharp wire, the other 5 following suit.
"Yeah? Bullshit. You're scavs." Kiera replies before pulling out her sniper before any of them can say anything else, scoping in and firing the trigger on one of them.
The sniper shot sounds out through the mall as Kiera shoots it, immediately piercing the 1st male Scav's head whilst the others run up to Kiera in retaliation.
Kiera's face goes pale as she scrambles to reload her sniper, the other 5 scavs imbound any second.
Giving up with the sniper, she grabs it by the side and slams it into the nearest Scav's head, the 1st woman with the baseball bat, before grabbing a bottle and smashing it on the second woman's head, downing the pair before another tackles her to the ground, the knife pointed to her chest as they both fight.
Kiera spits in the male scav's face before kneeing him in the stomach and pushing him to the side as another scav throws their hatchet at Kiera, embedding itself in her shoulder .
ARGH-!" She screams loudly as the thid woman punches her into the wall with inhuman strength from their Gorilla arms, making a horrifying crack sound from her body.
"Got 'er." The woman smirks as she walks forward, the 1st scav getting up as 3rd approaches with sadistic intent.
"Fuck… you." Kiera retaliates as she pulls the hatchet out of her shoulder with a loud cry before shakily throwing it towards the Scav with Gorilla arms, hitting her in the chest and killing her.
Kiera rises as one of the male Scav's kicks her in the stomach and holds her chin with one hand, weilding a pocket knife to her neck with the other.
Before the scav gets the chance to kill Kiera, she weakly kicks the man in the stomach whilst sat on the ground.
"You're a real brat ain't ya? No matter. Make's this more satisfying~" The 1st woman who's still close by with the barbed wire baseball bat comments as she approaches closer again, swinging it towards Kiera's pain filled face.
But just as its about to hit, Kiera moves her hand in the way, the wires piercing her skin on her hand with a quieter groan elicted, kicking the woman in the shin and ensuring she falls before picking up the bat and swinging it at second male Scav's head's that get close, climbing to her feet.
While she tries to get up the second woman runs at her face on and Kiera moves, slamming their head into the wall befor dragging her onto the ground; the second male scav punching her before Kiera blocks and elbows the Scav in the face, slamming then on her knee and sweeping their leg.
Kiera staggers and groans, spitting out
blood, mimiking the blood leaving her shoulder and hand and a sharp pain in her chest.
Just before yet another Scav goes to attack, they all drop to the floor limply, either dead or unconscious. No sign of blood, no sparks; nothing. Just… limp.
"Wh-what- what the-?" Kiera mutters, her back still against the wall, her eyes wide and her position poised.
After a moment, a speaker activates and the '80s pop rock music is gone, replaced with a man's voice.
"Impressive Kiera. Impressive. I must say that was a rather entertaining fight." The man comments almost amusedly from the speakers whilst Kiera pants and groan in pain from the various bruises and cutson her body. A long hatchet slice wound through her shoulder, pierced and small areas of her hand bleeding and a sharp pain in her chest.
"I-Is this a fucking joke?!" Kiera asks in an aggrevated, raised voice as the man speaks again, holding her bleeding hand to her chest.
"No, no. I am what you're looking for I assure you. However I did not send those… awful creatures… after you. Meet me at the Iodine on the third floor." The man responds begore hanging up the phone.
"W-wait- i- ugh-" Kiera coughs loudly as she recieves a call from Kendrick and Jamie on her OS; picking it up.
"Holy shit Kiera-?! What happened?! Where are you?!" Jamie asks in concern as she sees the bruised up state of Kiera through the OS facetime call.
"I- At the mall… some bastard scavs jumped me. Th-they're- hngh- dead now though…" Kiera replies as she begins slowly limping and staggering out of the store, slowly moving to the third floor.
"We're on our way. Where should we meet you?" Kendrick asks with worry and concern.
"I-Iodine… third floor." Kiera announces weakly before hanging up.