I was awoken by the sound of heavy rain hitting the window, I wanted to close my eyes and just sleep through the rain, but I knew that I needed to get up and meet with the Mox.
Getting dressed I left my apartment only to see that the man from yesterday morning was on the floor passed out while holding an empty bottle of alcohol in his hand.
"Don't worry about him." A woman said.
"He's been doing this every day for the past few weeks. It's a shame he used to be such a nice person."
"What happened to him," I asked curiously.
"Simple, got divorced turned to alcohol and eventually became unemployed." She said without any care before returning to her apartment.
With one last look at the man, I left the complex, got in my car, and drove to Lizzie's bar.
The constant heavy rain and the fact it was close to noon meant there would be some traffic to deal with, thankfully there weren’t any idiots on the road, meaning my journey to Lizzie’s wasn’t going to be even longer than I expected.
Parking outside of Lizzie's I noticed that the door was labeled closed. Confused, I got out of my car and began approaching the door. Getting closer to the door I saw two bouncers, one was standing against the wall smoking a cigarette, while the other with purple hair was looking at me while holding a baseball bat behind her head.
"We're closed kid come back later when we are open!" She yelled.
I tried to explain that I was told to come here to look for work, but I could tell that she wasn't going to let me in no matter how much I tried.
"Sorry kid but we've got rules. I can't let you in without Mox's approval. Come back at six and I'll let you in, heck I'll even buy you a drink."
It's only 12:20 a.m. I didn't want to just sit around and wait till it was 6 o'clock.
My phone vibrated
???
"Is this Max Carver?"
Sent at 12:21 am
Max
"Depends. Who's asking?"
Sent at 12:21 am
???
"Name's Vincent, I've got a job for ye."
Sent at 12:22 am
Max
"What is it?"
Sent at 12:22 am
Vincent
"Head to this location and I'll send ye the details."
Sent at 12:22 am
Max
"How do I know I can trust you?"
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Sent at 12:23 am
I didn't get a response after that, so I decided to drive to the location Vincent gave me. It looked like a typical American diner. I wasn't sure If Vincent was having a laugh as there wasn't anything shady going on here, but I decided to give him a text confirming if this was the location he wanted me to be at.
Max
"You sure this is the place?"
Sent at 12:37 am
Vincent
"Whit ye mean?"
Sent at 12:38 am
Vincent
"It may look like an ordinary diner, but it's owned by the Crimson Blades. You see what they do is advertise as a nice place to grab a wee bite to eat but they add a compound in certain people's food that knocks them out which allows them to take them to a secret room and harvest their organs and cyberware. What I want you to do is. A) Find the private room and locate any survivors. B) Shut down their operation. As for how you do this, I couldn't care just get it done and your reward will be 4000 eddies.
Sent at 12:41 am
Max
"Make it 4500 and I'll help you."
Sent a 12:42 am
Vincent
"I like that. Deal."
Sent at 12:42 am
Vincent's pay and intel sounded good. Besides there wasn't anything else to do so I might as well help him out. Looking through a window only three people were inside, two elders and a man. I decided to look for a backdoor.
I kept low to avoid getting noticed. I managed to get into the building through an open window in the kitchen. Continuing through the building I could overhear two Crimson Blades talking.
"We should get some good eddies from her. Parts could have been worth a lot more if we didn't kill her."
"Don't worry we'll get another one, I'm going to see if any donations have arrived."
They went their separate ways, one threw a door that led into the dining area and the other went outside to have a cigarette, I decided to sneak up on the one having a cigarette to get information.
I wrapped my arm around his neck and placed my gun on his head.
"The people you kidnap where are they?"
"I don't know what you're talking about," he replied sarcastically.
"Don't play games with me! I overheard your conversation about a woman you had kept here."
"Fuck… the door in the cleaning room you'll find a key panel that will lead you to where we keep our donors."
"NUMBER!" I demanded.
"4 8 2 7."
"Glad you could be of some use."
I decided to snap his neck, didn't feel like wasting a bullet on him. Now with the location, I made my way to the cleaning room.
Walking to the cleaning room I notice the Crimson Blade from earlier has got the man who was already at the diner tied up and blindfolded. Seeing this as a perfect opportunity to announce my arrival, I waited for him to open the door leading into their basement before putting a bullet through his head.
BANG!
The sound of the bullet alerted everyone in the building and three Crimson Blades immediately rushed to where they heard the gunshot only to be met with me standing at the door with Eve and Ivy in my hands gunning them down. Making my way downstairs I was met with gunfire by the remaining Crimson Blades. Ducking for cover I started to return fire killing two of them.
"SOMEONE THROW A GRENADE!"
"OPEN FIRE ON THIS ASSHOLE"
Pinned down, the only option I had was to rely on my sandevistan yet again, to take care of the remaining Crimson Blades. With the sandevistan activated they were no match for me, I was able to get up nice and close with my handguns killing them with a perfectly placed bullet to the head.
I searched the different rooms and what I could see was disturbing, it looked like something you would see in one of those incredibly fucked up horror movies. A bathtub full of dead bodies of both men and women cut to pieces, an operating table with a woman cut open with some of her cyberware missing as well as some organs. I wished I kept one of those Crimson Blade fucks alive. So, I could let them experience the amount of pain that these poor people had to endure.
I opened a door that led into what looked like a central office. On the table, I spotted a piece of paper. On it, they kept a list that had how many eddies they made from each organ or cyberware they harvested.
"This could be useful," I said before leaving the office but before I did, something caught my eye. A safe that had around roughly one thousand eddies that were just ready to be taken.
Max
"It's done, all I could recover is a list of how much money they made."
Sent a 3:57 pm
Vincent
"Any survivors?"
Sent at 3:58 pm
Max
"None."
Sent a 3:57 pm
Vincent
"Dam...Right... OK. Bring me the list, my office is at the old news tower in Kabuki."
Sent at 3:58 pm