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Chapter 31 - Change

I sold the truck to El Capitán for a nice chunk of eddies and bought an apartment building outside Viks place. I bought lots of stuff including a high quality netrunner set up for Lucy. I also payed Maines crew to run security for the apartment and moved them all into the now empty rooms. I used my AI to eliminate the corruption with the law enforcement of the city then exterminated all the scavs and most of the gangs within the city. With a massive power vacuum now left I took control of as many mercenary forces as I could.

With new forces in place I collapsed Militech and Arasaka power in night city. With them out of the way I cleansed Night Corp and set them up with some competent leaders. I then shoved control of the new forces onto them.

Multiple forces somehow tracked all the changes to me and quickly mounted assaults. Most attacks were completely crippled by my AI but a few were disconnected from the net. Maines crew and the new Night city forces held most attacks off but a few managed to actually get into the apartment. It was then that Lucy and I got to stretch our legs.

She showed her netrunner abilities by frying enemies of dumping the blackwall on them. The few turrets I'd set up under her control gutted any attackers that snuck past me.

I slunk through the alleys, and dashed across buildings and roads. Any enemy I found died to my metal hands. A punch crushed a chest. A kick split a man like he'd been shot by a 30mm round. I ripped and tore my enemies apart, leaving macabre scenes for the rest of the filth to find.

After the attacks died down I began making my original Sandevistan. I couldn't remember exactly what went into the savitar sandy but I could still replicate it. My first few attempts fried the maelstrom idiots who tried it. My 18th was stable but inefficient. A full half year into my second stay in this world and I had a sandy I felt safe to attempt practical tests with.

The first three users fried themselves with the fifth and sixth snapping their spines. The fourth however went cyberpsycho and busted out of the testing area. He went in a rampage through the streets before I could eliminate him. NC forces were almost immediately on the ground after I put him down. After killing the subject I left to let my people clean up.

An hour later I found that the body had been scavenged and the sandevistan was missing. I tracked it down to Gloria. I watched her for a bit and the accident from the anime occurred. I had her taken from the scav hospital to an NC hospital where she'd get actual medical care. I practically burned down the scav place.

I found David the idiot getting the sandy installed by some back street ripper. I hunted him down and entered the bogus ripper shop. I threw a random metal rod into the fraud pinning him to the wall of his 'clinic'. I injected David with a powerful anesthetic. After knocking him out I carefully cut out different pieces of his body and rebuilt his spine. I properly installed the savitar sandevistan prototype.

With David and the sandy intact I carried him back to my place. I began scanning and making the cybernetics he'd need to have to survive the sandy. I called Vik up to the clinic to help as while he was still independent he was sponsored by me. With his help we put David together way better than he was before. With the changes I'd made to the sandy it should work properly without hurting him. I'd even given him the regeneration tech I had.

I was here for two months when I was notified that Gloria was stable and coming here. David was still in recovery so I made her wait with an explanation of what had happened and what I'd done. She was angry with me at first but when I explained that the ripper David had gone to had already removed a good chunk of his spine she folded in on herself. She believed she had caused it all by taking the sandy.

I continued to try convincing her that she wasn't at fault but she wouldn't accept it. I eventually let Vik handle it as we waited for David to wake. When he finally woke Lucy decided to join us for the testing, as she'd wanted to see the sandy I'd been 'obsessed' with for so long. When David's tests showed what I'd expected we celebrated with the best food money could buy.

I forced David into working with Maines crew so I could keep an eye on the only savitar sandy user other than me. Gloria began working with Vik as a nurse as his business was growing massively. It had gotten to big for him and Misty to run so the old man welcomed he'd instantly.

With Viks help I installed my own savitar sandy and some other tech. My first attempt at a second pair of arms went incredibly well. With support from my AI I was able to use the pair just as easily as my normal arms. The wings I attempted however were much harder to do. A mix of fallout, Star Wars, and cyberpunk tech, with magic runes made flight easy.

Getting used to flying however, was difficult. Three weeks and millions of eddies in property damage later and I was flying like I was born in the air. I quickly caught the attention of the corporations in the city and they started hunting me. Most attacks didn't matter to me at all, except one. I was gliding one morning when I was blasted out of the sky onto a building by eight micro explosives.

I spun as I stood looking for the bastard who'd thought they would try duck hunting me. A flick of my wrist extended my sole weapon in this world. A long beskar lance covered in glowing golden runes shot into my hand. The end of my polearm had a large mono molecular blade of heavily enchanted beskar. To top of the lance it could fire bolts of yellow plasma.

As I spun I caught sight of my attacker. Adam fucking Smasher. The big borg was charging straight at me, leaping from buildings with enhanced jumps and what looked like rocket boosters. I aimed and fired as many bolts at him as I could before he got to me. He dodged every single one with after images getting shredded by pure heat. I activated my own sandy and closed the remaining distance between us. He emptied his gun at me then leapt as I dodged. His boosters launched him at me. My lance lodged itself into his chest as his knife flashed across my face.

I pummeled his less armored spots while wiggling my lance in his chest. He quickly realized he wasn't doing anything except cut my synth skin. He attempted to pull back but as he did I dosed his chest with plasma. He let out a horrible scream as his internals melted before his eyes. Another shot tore off a leg. A swipe removed an arm. I surgically took him apart, letting the agony of his death shoot through him.

"Any last words Smasher?" I asked the psycho.

"Fuck you! You pathetic bitch! I'll come back and rip you and everyone you care about to pieces. I'm going to make your skull into a cup for wine. I'll crucify everyone you love, you damned winged bastar-." I interrupted his screaming with a plasma bolt to the head.

I clipped the last few minutes of our fight and his death. I uploaded the video to the net then erased his body. I took his gun, burned a few more things and left. In the previous world he'd become a lapdog to my own control and had eliminated anyone I pointed him at. This one however had been quite idiotic.

When I got back I set up new synth skin to be put on as I slept. Alongside the synth skin were multiple bio organs. The bio organs were mostly redundancies. I also removed the AI from me with some magic replacing its control. I didn't want to lose control of it and it try to harm me. I went to sleep with my synth skin being fixed or replaced.

I was already tired of this world and wanted to get back to Rena and Sasha in the Harry Potter world.

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