237. Upgrades people, UPGRADES!

237. Upgrades people, UPGRADES!

“For all of this I can give you ten thousand max” The gun store owner said while looking over the many guns. In reality all of this was closer to thirty even taking into account they are second hand, used goods.

“Give us fifteen and we come here to sell more at a later time.” Tomoka knew very well that the guy was trying to rip them off. She didn’t care all that much about it though, haggling would take time, time she would rather use to flatline more gonks.

“Deal.” And so the trio walked out of the store with a data chip holding fifteen thousand eddies. Due to being new to the universe none of them had chrome or a bank account. Hell, they didn’t even have any form of identification.

It took a while, having to drive around, zeroing unhelpful gonks, selling more loot. By the end of the day the trio had gotten a good chunk of eddies saved up in their brand new bank account. Who would have thonked that in the dystopian future of Cyberpunk banks would give a shit about the legality of the individuals working with them.

“Do you think this much will be enough to get what we need?” Hinata asked, looking at the stolen terminal in her hand. The thing had been ripped off of a random bending machine then rewired and reprogrammed by Tomoka to work like a sort of phone.

“Sure hope so, as heretical as it might sound I am kinda getting tired of killing.” At that both Hinata and Nozomi looked towards the red head with raised eyebrows.

“What? I like killing as much as anybody else, it's just that I would also like to do other stuff too. Not to mention the food we have tried so far from the bending machines is packaged garbage.”

Yeah, the duo could agree with that last statement. Most of the foods they had tried tasted like plastic seasoned with chemicals not apt for human consumption. It wasn’t straight out vomit inducing, just not palatable in the least.

“So what's the plan?” Hearing Nozomi’s question, Tomoka looked down at her own stolen datapad. It was already quite late, she doubted vik’s would be open at this hour, much less for some rando who just decided to drop in.

“Let's find a motel to crash on. Then tomorrow we go get our implants and then we go looking around for a fixer.” With that plan settled the trio got back in their stolen car. This car was a different one as the first had run out of CHOOH2 somewhere along the way.

The next day Viktor Vektor was watching an old boxing match as he would usually do in his free time. His attention however was taken away by the sound of the shaking of the metal grate separating his clinic, if it could be called that, from the main door.

“Yo! Vik! we need a good doc and we heard you’re the best in the city.” As soon as he had turned he heard the voice of one of his guests. Three girls, perhaps no older than sixteen, maybe seventeen. No noticeable cybernetics anywhere in sight. Somewhat oriental facial factions.

What Viktor did notice was that all of them were armed. not something rare in night city, except their armaments weren’t something people would carry for just self defense. Their clear asian descent made him wonder if they were Tiger Claws however, there were no visible gang marks chances were they weren’t gangoons. No, most probably they were mercs.

Tomoka instantly noticed Vik’s analyzing eyes, especially when they landed on their very visible weaponry. That is when she realized that said weaponry was probably making Vik a bit wary.

“Right, sorry, is there anywhere we can leave this?” Tomoka said while pointing to her pair of shigure’s hanging by her waist. She had gotten so used to carrying them around she had almost forgotten about them. Following Vik’s instructions the trio left their weapons in a locker outside before being let inside.

“So, what can I help you with?” Even though the trio had left their weapons outside Vik was having a hard time relaxing. He had been a professional boxer in the past. Any professional of any fighting style could tell when they were faced with another. It had to do with the way such people tended to move.

“So, how did it go?” Hinata asked as she woke up. The Insta-heal Tomoka injected her with had also gotten rid of the rest of the anesthetic she had been injected with.

“Quite well I would say, Vik is an expert of his craft.” Nozomi commented by the side with a bit of awe. In the year Tomoka had been under she and Hinata had gone to study under Orochimaru. While Nozomi preferred the study of chakra and jutsu more, she still learnt quite a bit on the biological side, which was more of Hinata’s thing.

“How are your eyes?” Hearing Tomoka’s question, Hinata blinked a few times. Although they felt a bit weird it wasn’t exactly uncomfortable.

“Feels a bit weird, but otherwise they are fine. Though I will need to figure out how to use them properly.” Afterall, she could see a few icons in her vision that would swim around whenever she moved her eyes.

“Ah that, yeah, since this is your first time getting optics installed your are in user setting mode. Here, let me help you out.” The next five minutes or so were spent with Vik explaining to Hinata how to set up her hud. Although he had been extremely interested in whatever the redhead had injected the brunet with. He was still a professional and he still had a patient to help.

“Alright, with that done, would you mind telling me your names, and what you injected her with.” Now that Hinata had her hud setup Vik could contain his curiosity anymore. Whatever that thing was, it was revolutionary. If he could replicate its function somehow he could help a lot of people.

Hearing Vik’s question the trio blink slowly before looking towards each other. It was like they could have an entire conversation with just a glance. It was then that the three realized that in fact never introduced themselves to Vik.

“Right, sorry about that. I am Tomoka Fushi. It is a pleasure to meet you, although please just call me Tomoka.” Following Tomoka Hinata quickly introduced herself with a tinge of pink on her cheeks showing her embarrassment at her lack of etiquette.

“I am Hinata, thanks for the good work doc.” Finally Nozomi introduced herself with a little wave and a somewhat cheeky smile.

“The name is Nozomi Uchiha, a pleasure.” Done with introductions, Tomoka gave a little cough before speaking again.

“Well, I can tell you what I used, However, I know you will ask where I got it from and if I told you you wouldn’t believe me.” Tomoka just shrugged once she finished her part. However, seeing how Vik’s interest wasn’t diminished in the least she decided to tell anyway.

“It's called Insta-heal. It is an extremely dense concentration of nutrients that contain a culture of nanomachines. Once injected the little things become active, scan the body and DNA structure before fixing any damage they might find. They also possess a dumb eye that is capable of full on analysis. That is why they didn’t attack the cyberware.”

Vik’s jaw had almost hit the floor hearing that. It is a well known fact that AI requires ridiculous amounts of computational power to work. Sure, he isn’t a techie so he couldn’t know how much that would be. However, he is very sure that it wouldn’t fit in that little injector.

Well, Tomoka had called it a dumb AI but then again, how dumb could it be if it could run a full body and genetic scan in seconds. Not only that but it was smart enough to know when something is and isn’t a desired factor in the body. Like for example when cyberware is installed or even the necessary microbial life in the intestines.

“That is... how can something like that exist?” Vik's question was met by a shrug of the shoulders and some giggling.

“Again, if I told you, you wouldn’t believe me. Anyway, if you want I can leave a few of them with you. Now, would you mind doing my cybernetics next please?” Again Vik suffered a bit of whiplash hearing Tomoka’s nonchalant tone. In the end he decided to swallow his questions for later. He still had two patients to work on.