High Assault Commander's New Life with the Thera Virus

I looked ahead at the massive tunnel that was 4x the size of Earth and spiraling slowly. I thought back on how I had found out about me being the Host of the Thera Virus and instead of dying I am cursed with immortality and endless hunger.

Victor: "It's been three years now, hasn't it? Yeah, you made me rethink your actions and like you a lot"

I chuckled sensing it's annoyance yet playful feeling at me. A virus grown by Ronson for experimentation to see what it does to human corpses.

To think you'd break out and infect the entire Planet within days, you are a strong one huh?

Feeling my right hand starting to warm up I smiled and looked at the screen on top of the control system and saw a white skull looking at me.

Combot: "This would be our last voyage Sir...We shall arrive at our destination in three minutes and the gravitational pull increasing every millisecond"

Victor: "Then let's enjoy our last moment, even although I would miss the others I have already said my goodbyes to them"

Combot: "Then as my final goodbye, I thank you for helping me reconstruct my broken system and letting me stay with you"

Victor: "It's nothing Combot, Thera here had gotten strong enough to infect you before and needed your help so it asked me to save you"

Victor: "Still, you ready to release everything you have into Cyberspace? At least Rancor will end up having a fallout with the Transfederation"

Combot: "Releasing encrypted files throughout Cyberspace....Task completed"

I nodded and the entirety of our spaceship started to shake wildly as creaking could be heard throughout the hull of the ship.

Victor: "We'll I enjoyed my stay in this world and had strange encounters with the both of you on my side"

I closed my eyes as we were pulled into the white spiral and my body kept being crushed by it's gravitational force but with the Virus my body kept trying to repair itself

Combat: "Warning!!! Cosmic power is breaking reality!!! Chance of survival for transfer is 0.00000001%!!!"

As the blaring red lights were heard in the ship I took my final breath and felt my body crumple into nothingness an into atoms.

My soul now floated freely through the black void

where nothing exists and everything exists yet I felt something tingle within the deep depths of my soul.

Narrators POV

In a place unknown to omniscient beings who existed in the vast dimensional planes above and beyond Outer God's.

A well muscled man was chained up in a cross that held a long Dragon-like creature wrapped around the man's abdomen and had its head wrapped around his neck with red orbs in it's body containing spiraling universes within.

Sometimes sparks of flames lit up from it's body as it created new creatures within the Red orbs, as it waited for it's master to awaken from his crucified state.

To the man's right arm lays golden chains wrapped around his arm and black mist coming out of his bleeding hand in which lays a stake going through his hand.

To the left of his arm there are bolts of electricity

shooting off and striking the dark mist. A Gold Red sphere is engraved upon his arm as it releases a variety of lightning.

On his Head lay a Golden crown that radiated an unknown yet terrifying pressure that made all three objects stop attacking one another and stay in their area.

At random intervals, all four beings would light up in a white glow and wisps fall below the crucified man.

As if sensing Victor's and the Narrators presence, the man chuckled before slowly whispering out a few words.

???: "It seems you have inherited my wish, time to make it more interesting"

???: "I hope you are able to overcome your limit.....Xallos..."

Unknown POV

So now what would be the outcome of Victor in a new world that is vastly different from his last one.

But how will he take it knowing he is still alive with the Gift of an entity similar to pre-existential beings as it's long forgotten wish?

Find out how he changes and becomes someone he wished to be before he joined the SAS Taskforce.

And would you look at the time, It's time for some freshly brewed coffee to drink. Would any of you like some brewed coffee before I continue with the story?

Well for those who enjoy, have a jolly good time reading and drinking your beverage at the same time!

Now let us continue onwards on the story my good fellows.

Ahem, as Victor had flown through the void, many changes happened within his very soul and his two companions now had fused with his soul with their strong connection.

By twist of fate, a Golden Light washes over his soul and starts to build back up his body slowly as it fully reconstructed his body back to his younger years as an initiate of Britain's Army.

A purple mist appears behind Victors body and slowly shapes into an oval shaped gate that opened slowly.

As it opened, countless colors could be shown spiraling into the middle of a black dot as it pulled Victors body inside and closed it shut shortly after Victor had his entire body through the gate.

Oh how wonderful it must be to be young once again. Alas, the story must continue before the Author comes back from his long vacation so excuse the ramblings of an old narrator.

Traveling through time and space Victor flew by unconsciously as he broke reality until the purple mist deemed it to be far enough before it formed large hands that pried opened a hole within the space tunnel.

Not long after, it picked up Victors body, before making a purple mist sphere around his body and threw him off into the far distant faster than the speed of light.

My, did you truly have to send him flying with that strong swing of yours hmm? Stop shrugging your shoulders at me, you could have sent him to a civilized planet landing safely or In the backstreets of a parallel world of earth and let him live there.

Well, it's too late to stop him now that you sent him away with the strings of Destiny wrapping themselves around him.

But it seems you are tired from overusing your power, take a deep rest and go to sleep alright?

Looking at the purple mist giving me a thumbs up I smiled and told it I would watch over it as I continued.

The purple mist took out a bed from behind it's back and laid down on it as it pulled a blanket over it's body.

Very well then, enjoy your sleep and hopefully you aren't like the others who like to listen to ASMR. Oh how times have changed since then, when the Big three had fought breaking the 11th dimension and Azathoth woke up.

Even with Yerser fighting off Outer God's and his greatest servants fighting the servants of God. Of course God did rage and fought alongside Khaos against Azathoth who destroyed his beloved creations.

But most of the Pre-existential beings were neutral so it didn't get out of hand except Azatoth devouring concepts but it ended with Azatoth and his Creations banished to the Outerverse and Azathoth put to sleep with a lullaby but that's a story for another time.

(My Head canon and OC joining in on the fun so dont mind this)

Ahem, As Victor landed in a planet known as Earth, the entire place looked desolate with some green scenery but desolate and grim black polluted skies with large skyscrapers towering the streets filled with junkies and homeless.

Finally, as our hero's body having been turned back to his 20's losing his valued strength as an enhanced human with military training that of special forces, he landed in a strange world unknown to most.

Having his strength shortened to that of a private along with the virus powers lowered due to his muscle mass and Virus almost being exterminated completely from existence.

Oh how will our young hero escape the clutches of death in a place where civilians live in fear of local gangs and mega corporations that scam them out of their money and many escape the reality of their world with drugs?

Let the fun begin and I hope you enjoy your lovely stay here as the story goes on and we see Victors new life.

Victor POV

I groggily woke up and looked around my surroundings only to see the dark polluted skies overtaking the vast city and futuristic buildings and strange people with machinery on their faces walking around.

Victor: "Is this a joke? have I come back as a man in a machine filled world..?"

???: Rebooting... Rebooting... Searching surroundings.... found bound Host Victor.."

Hearing the all familiar cold voice of Combot made me smile for a second before I asked it where it was.

Combot: "Reboot complete.... Updating previous data...data updated"

Combot: "Greetings Victor, It appears we have landed somewhere in....a parallel world of Earth?"

Combot: "To answer your question, it seems I have fused with you to a... molecular level and exist within your mind with the help of a new strange energy residing within your body"

Combot: "There also seems to be an unknown emptiness within your body holding your weapons"

Victor: "Huh? An unknown emptiness within my body? Wh-"

Combot: "Correct, only conclusion is our fusion and unknown energy within your body"

Victor: "Still doesn't answer my question other than being lucky, do you know where we havr landed?"

Combot: "Unknown origins, can't connect to previous ports. Conclusion, connect to this worlds internet and gain information…"

Victor: "Hmm, although I don't know if the people here will have the same internet as ours"

Before I could continue Combot sent out an alert and started to scan the surroundings.

Combot: "It seems there are multiple hostiles in the vicinity, I warn you Victor that it appears to be some gang members holding up a civilian"

With a strange glint in my eyes I looked around and saw none of the weapons I had were with me except my knife,making me sigh sadly.

Victor: *Thinking about it, all the weaponry I had seemed to now disappear but at least I got my trusty knife"

Combot: "In whatever way possible, it seems like all the weaponry you had is within a tear of space that contains all of your weapons and armors"

Surprised I wanted to talk to Combot more about my weaponry but heard the sounds of someone pleading and a multitude of laughter made me stop and focus.

I took out my military knife and held it in a reverse grip as I slowly got up and followed the sounds of laughter and took a look around the corner and saw a group of adults harassing an old man with strange guns and few having machetes or knives.

Victor: "Hey Combot, Do you happen to know if I have a non-lethal weapons in the "Space" your talking about?"

Combot: "Checking through the unknown energy….All weapons are lethal within inner space"

Victor: "Well shit, guess I will have to just use my weapon or knock them unconscious. But they have guns as well…"

Victor: "Combot, you able to get the RIA 313 out from the energy?"

Combot: "Looking at energy through your body, it seems most effective way to gain the RIA313 is to imagine it?"

Victor: "Imagine what now? Are you still scrambled from our arrival here?"

Combot: "As said before, imagine the weapon appearing in your hands"

Victor: "Listen, theres no way I can imagine a weapon such as the RIA 313 appearing in my hand-"

(RIA 313)

But looking down at the weapon slowly constructing itself with the unknown energy Combot said made me stop and think logically how this happened.

Victor: "What the hell happened to me…?"

After the gun was finished building itself the gold like energy retreated back into my hands like if it was all an illusion.

Victor: "Hmm, I've experienced the dead pass through walls, so why do I find this surprising?"

Victor: "Guess I should deal eith this as quickly as possible…"

Taking a look once more, I saw 5 of the casual yet same clothed group of assailants and for their weaponry, seems like a large caliber submachine gun and a small caliber weapon that of a revolver.

The other 3 have machetes and a knife, I should deal with their weapons first. Aiming the RIA 313 at the man holding the sub machine gun I lined up his hand with the ironsights and pulled the trigger.

(Tyger Claws)

???: "Arghh!!!"

???: "Who the fu-"

Once the first bullet hit the man's hand I lined up the ironsights at the pink haired girls hand holding the revolver and pulled the trigger once more.

???: "Wh- Ahh! My fucking hand!"

Once thheir weapons fell to the ground I started running towards the three melee armed assailants with my knife ready.

???: "Theres the fucker!"

???: "Ill fucking kill you!"

???: "Baka, it's only one against 5! Lets beat him up-"

Heading for the man who spoke about it being 1-5 I faced the one running at me with his machete raised. As we were about to clash I rolled to the right and karate chopped the confused assailant who fell to his knees and raised my combat knife blocking the strike of the machete.

Victor: "Don't let your balls be unguarded kid.."

???: "My w- AHHH!!!"

With a sudden punch to his unguarded groin he fell to the ground letting go of his machete and unfortunately for me.

???: "Got you motherfuck-"

Victor: "Hmph…"

It seems my reflexes seem to worsened than before as I felt my back get stabbed but I spun around and headbutted the guy and stabbed my knife into his right leg.

???: "Ho- Arghh!!! My leg!"

Seeing the guy who had the submachine gun before raise a pistol I rolled to the left and heard a gunshot as it hit the cement and immediately I raised my gun and fired back at the tall guy's chest and instead of going down he stood and kept shooting surprising me.

Victor: "Combot, are humans of this world advanced so far even gangsters have modified bodies?"

Combot: "Due to inefficient data no conclusion arrived. Results are pain receptors, augmented muscle tissue"

Oh for the love of god, I took a deep breath and focused before I rolled out of my cover aiming with the ironsights at his right arm then shot him again at his leg.

Looking at the girl who looked horrified and at the guy who held a machete running away I sighed before I aimed at his leg as he fell and rolled down the stairs to the subway with screams.

???: "W-wait don't kill me please! I- I will let you do anything to me just le-"

Victor: "What the fuck, get the hell out of here kid!"

Looking at the girl who simply nodded and started running for her life I turned to look at the old store owner who was harrased who had a schocked look that turned into a grateful look.

???: "Thank you for saving me! If theres any way I can repa-"

Victor: "Then can you tell me who the group thosr guys belong to? And if I could borrow a sort of laptop or phone, I have just arrived to this city"

???: "Huh? O-oh alright, the people who you uh, dealt with are part of the Tyger Claws who clamor around mainly in Japantown, Westbrook District, Kabuki, Charter Hill, and Little China so be careful"

And before continuing, he looked both ways and quickly told me some interesting information.

???: "You didn't hear this from me, but there are rumors that the Tyger Claws rise is due to Arasaka. It's said Arasaka's upper management and Tyger Claws leaders are on good terms they supply them with cyberware and military-grade automatic weapons"

Victor: "Well if that is the truth, why isnt the police doing anything against them?"

???: "Right, forgot you said you were new here! Well to put it in layman's terms, the NCPD is in every megacorporations payroll, Arasaka, Biotechnica, Zetatech, Militech, etc"

???: "So I guess you can say many small businesses owners, stall owners don't get protected by Night City's police"

Victor: "Tch, so much corruption in this city"

???: "Indeed, so much for the City of dreams huh? Only a city built by corporations wanting to take advantage of idiots buying into the idea…"

I simply nodded and told him to tell me more about Night City and if there was a way to gain money, know information, other groups that commit crime and their territories.

30 Minutes Later

Unfortunately, he couldn't say much as he hasn't traveled to other places with his stall but he did tell me the major groups of interest and to watch out for Maelstrom who are insane fuckers and will do anything that interests them.

He also spoke about gaining eddies quickly by either working as a civilian or putting your name out in the dark web as a mercenary for hire which would take time to be hired but getting reputation in the city is necessary.

Victor: "Well thank you for having given me general information, but do you know how I could become a…Mercenary?"

???: "Hmm? Its quite simple really, you do some small jobs on the territories of local fixers or make your own reputation rise to the point that fixers will call you"

Vincent: "Thanks once again, I should get going now if I do that want them to come and harrass you again"

???: "Hah, then be on your merry way young man, go out there and let orhers know your name!"

Hearing his words I simply chuckled and felt refreshed having talked to another person freely rather than subordinates whom talked only to kill the Thera Virus or corporate interests.

Looking at the unconscious Tyger Claw members I kneeled down and took his phone from his pant pockets and decided to see if I could connect Combot into the phone.

Victor: "So are you able to connect now?"

Combat: "Connecting now….connecting…. Hacking password….Hack complete…! Accesing nessesary data…"

Combot: "Time until relevant data is uploaded to Storage, 5 hours"

Victor: "Hmm, are you still able to talk whilst gathering data?"

Combot: "I am still able to respond but responses will be delayed in order to fully integrate new information to storage"

Victor: "Alright, guess I should g-"

Combot: "Hostile armed assailants approaching host from East"

???: "T-Thats the son of bitch that shot my leg!"

???: "Then lets teach him a lesson!"

Before I could go, I heard a multitude of rushing footsteps and looking at a group of 5 looking at me like a dead man surprised me before I remembered Combots words and imagined a Black Trailblazer in my left hand.

(Black Trailblazer)

With a deep breath and focusing on the weapons of the Tyger Claws judging by their neon colored hair and jackets having Tyger Claws sewn on.

I raised the Trailblazer and aimed at the charging tyger claw's leg before pulling the trigger and a shocker bullet shot through his leg as a small emp ran rampant through his body.

???: "ARGHHH!!! The PAAAINN!!!"

???: "F-FUCKING GET HIS ASS!"

I aimed at the left and right tyger claws legs with guns on their hands and heard more screaming compared to the use of .50 cal rounds from the RIA 313.

???: "Wait move out the w-"

???: "ARGHH!!!"

???: "M- MY LEG!!!

Victor: 'Especially once the emp impacts their bodies…'

Seeing another tyger claw aim a his submachine gun towards me I dived towards a nearby stone pillar and felt the stone pillar shake with bullets firing at it nonstop.

Hearing the bullets stop after a few seconds I peeked the corner and looking through Trailblazers scope I fired another shocker round towards the leg of a tyger claw sticking out their cover and heard his screams.

I took cover once again as bullets kept riddled the stone pillar. I can't delay this fight any longer unless more Tyger Claws come visit.

So taking a deep breath and slowly breathing out I sprinted to another cover once I heard the gunfire stop for a few seconds. Once I heard the nearest tyger claw speak japanese in a hurry I sprinted out my cover and dived towards where the tyger claw was in.

???: "W-wher-"

Before finishing his sentence he was shot with two shocker rounds, one to his leg, another to his left ribs and grabbing his body for cover I fired the last bullet at the submachine gun tyger claws chest as he fell having a spasm as electrocity discharged around his body.

Letting the tyger claws body fall to the ground I looked at the pained faces of the grunting tyger claws.

Victor: "I guess this should be karma for harrasing the nearby sellers"

Looking at what seemed to be marked bills from the tyger claws pockets I decided to take them and looked at this worlds currency, "Eddies" and to say im surprised is an understatement.

(Eddies)

Seeing marked bills of 100's stacked, I read the front and simply decided to take all the stacked bills from the Tyger Claws. The stall Owner said eddies were the main currency throughout North America and Europe.

Victor: "Gues I should collect some from these guys to get some type of income huh…?"

Looking at the dark sky I decided to grab their weapons to see what I could get from Combot analyzing their materials.

5 minutes later

Victor: "That should be all of their weapons and eddies. Counting all, I should have around 3000 "Eddies" but man is it weird saying that…"

Nonetheless, having to walk down the street to find their vehicles I decided to reload Trailblazer with new Shocker bullets.

Pressing the keys button, I saw a bike light up and for whatever reason I felt a connection with it. It appeared to be a bike having the head of a creature with horns, yet it did not change my views on its color being purple or it being from another person.

(Arch Nazarė "Itsumade")

I got on the bike and put the keys on the slot before revving the bike to get a feel for it. After enjoying the sudden elation for getting a vehicle after so long of fighting millions of the dead.

Victor: "Its a new change I don't mind having"

After revving the engine one last time I sped off the site of unconscious bodies laying on the ground and onto the road to find a place to stay the night.

1 Hour Later

Whilst driving around the Japantown District, I suddenly got a phone call from an unknown number and thought of it being a friend of the guy whose phone I stole.

I thought of the call of being tracked so I told Combot to see if he can stop the call from sending my location.

Combot: "Stopping signal…. call successfully stopped from being tracked…"

Once Combot stopped my location from being tracked I took out the phone and answered the call.

???: "Well, I must say you have guts attacking the Tyger Claws. But I wonder if you can escape the onslaught of the Tyger Claws Revenge?"

Without any explanation, the caller hung up suddenly and soon I received a warning from Combot.

Combot: "Warning! 6 fast pursuit bikes are approaching your location, 2 approaching cars nearing your location"

Victor: "Shit, How did a gang grow to this size that they can have pursuit vehicles ready at all times!?!?"

I quickly revved up the bike before running a red light as I could see distant lights rapidly approaching my location.

How the fuck did they manage to find me? Does the bike have a t-, of course it does, this is a futuristic world after all.

Thinking of a weapon to not harm these guys on bikes I decided to go and use the Banshee to target their bikes wheels.

(Banshee)

Victor: "Combot, tell me where to aim and make sure the seeking round only target the ones pursuing no civilians!"

Combot: "Understood, locking onto incoming pursuers….3 targets locked …6 targets locked… 9 targets locked. Smart bullets prepared"

Immediately I pointed my gun backwards while looking forwards dodging through traffic as I pulled the trigger and a multitude of bullets flew out the barrel in quick succession.

??? POV

As we were chasing down the man who went and shot our fellow brothers I couldn't help but be surprised by the driving skills of the unknown target driving Takamoto's Arch Nezarė "Itsumade" whom he loves to death.

Seeing the unknown target pull out a golden version of the Saratoga everyone got alerted and pulled out their weapons rather than their katanas and machetes to chop our target up with.

As we prepared to shoot at our target a trail of yellow tipped bullets were fired at us and to our surprise the spray of the bullets didn't hit anything except our bikes that started to smoke and a few of them hitting our body.

Looking at the front 2 bikes started to swerve before they crashed onto other cars or on the street lamp post.

???: "Shit! Its a Smart targeting Gun!"

???: "Disperse and let the front car take the hits and hide behind the car!"

The bikes moved out of the way for the Villefort Columbus V340-F Freight to come forwards as the reinforced vans window started taking the hits of the targeting rounds yet it was nowhere near enough to stop the onslaught of targeting rounds that kept being fired.

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Inside the Van

???: "W- How can a saratoga continue firing this many bullets!"

???: "Tokuma-san the windshield won't be able to hold on for long!"

Tokuma: "Shit! How does a fucking nobody have these types of weapons!"

As he was about to curse again the windshield had suddenly shattered and now both the driver and passenger had were in danger to the many bullets that found themselves into their bodies.

???: "Ho- ARGHH!"

???: "Arghh, T-Tokuma-sa… Blagh!"

With the driver coughing up blood and consciousness fading he couldn't stop the van from swerving and eventually flipped on it's side with black smoke and fire coming from the vans engine.

Within seconds, lives can be taken at any moment in a city full of shattered dreams from many who once hoped to reach the skies….

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Unknown Tyger Claw Biker POV

When we hid behind the van to block the bullets, we thought the van could protect us until the streets were empty. Yet I would never believe the prey we were hunting could have strong weapons.

It wasn't even a minute before all three of us saw black smoke billowing from the front of the van before hearing pained screams and the van swerving left and right before it flipped on its side.

Seeing the van flip I swerved out the way and onto the next lane but the foremost bike unfortunately crashed onto the van making me curse loudly at his incompetence.

??? "What are those idiots thinking!?"

Seeing the bike drive towards the highway I grimaced at the thought of getting killed with no cover and the fact that we are avenging the lower ranking members who were just incapacitated by the unknown attacker.

Still we kept shooting at the dark clothed figure who seemed to evade the bullets and took cover whenever we saw a swarm of yellow smart target bullets coming straight at us.

Seeing the dark figure go up the highway I grimaced even more and knew I couldn't escape punishment.

I immediately called Yamamoto to stop and let the son of a bitch get away. This isn't worth more casualties and Azegami-sama said to not bring attention to Kabuki District when business partners arrive.

We both headed to the side of the highway to a stall, much to the stall owners horror seeing Tyger Claws come to his stall.

???: "Akari-san, why do we let the fucking bastard g-"

I simply tightened the grip on my right hand before I punched Yamamoto in his face as I started cursing him.

Akari: "Did you forget Azekami-Sama's orders to not make too much noise in Kabuki?"

Akari: "Even if we followed we would die and could not inform the higher ups of this incident with the unknown attacker"

Akari: "Whoever that fucker is, he is trained professionally and I won't die for a stupid bike and lose more subordinates"

Shit! Ill have to report to the Yakuza about this incident, tch. Of course they get to order us around since they only follow the Arasaka Lineage direct Heir.

Thinking of the punishment I will recieve for losing a group of subordinates and a couple bikes broken made me look at the speeding figures back in hatred.

Akari: "Lets recover what we can of the weapons from the others corpses if they aren't already dead…"

Just you wait you wait you son of a bitch! Next time I see you, I will blow a hole through that skull of yours and flay your skin!

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Victors POV

After having shot the driver and flipped the van I thought they would stop but they continued chasing but guess one of them crashed onto the van.

Seeing an exit that led to the highway I took it to deal with the final 2 bikes but it seems thats where the chase ended with Combot telling me the pursuers stopped.

Victor: "Hmm, guess they know they will die in the open highway"

I sighed and told Combot to see if there is a nearby hotel or something akin to a hotel where we could stay the night away from the Kabuki District.

Combot: "Understood, searching… hotel found! Sending coordinates via helmet!"

Soon I saw a small map appear on the right side of the masks interior lens surprising me but at the same time not so much.

Victor: "Still, guess the map is a lot more helpful compared to the previous broken interface that only showed arrows…"

Still, I complied with Combots new detailed map function and followed the white trail towards the location of a hotel.

15 minutes later

After taking a look around and asking Combot some questions about Heywood we arrived at Wellsprings Megabuilding H2 and if I haven't seen it all I don't know what else there is to see.

Victor: "Bloody hell, the financial debt the city must be crazy. It's suppose to be a hotel of some kind not a large skyscraper right?"

Combots: "There are many more scattered throughout Night City and were made due to the Fourth Corporate War"

My god does this world have no financial debts to build a massive housing complex. But I guess I should go to reception to buy a room.

I parked on the front of the Mega building and got off the bike before remembering how I was tracked.

Victor: "Combot, you able to disable the tracker placed on the bike?"

Combot: "It is possible, but it will take a few minutes due to an unknown firewall and dealing with Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics of this world"

Victor: "I will just guess it's this worlds firewall and security called, tell me when you are finished"

Looking at the japanese food stall near the entrance I walked over and sat down as the stall owner welcomed me with a smile on her face.

???: "What can I get for you today?"

Victor: "I want to try your best food on the menu"

???: "Hah, you won't be disappointed!"

Whilst I was waiting for my food that seemed halfway done I looked around and saw more shady people walking in and out the megabuilding.

But, the most eye catching were the men who wore red and black with a multitude of tattos of crosses and a woman praying.

They proudly showed off their tattos alongside their gold and silver guns yet it seems like nobody is bothered by them, rather they seem glad to be there.

Then you have the large gold spraypainted V with roses on the wall which some have tattoed on their arms or have a necklace with a V at the end.

(The Valentinos)

Guess the rumors are true about them being one of the "Nicer" gangs in the city. Adhering to absolute Loyalty and Honor they keep it to their graves and fight like a band of Brotherhood.

Victor: "Man I miss you guys…."

As I was remembering the past I saw the bowl of ramen be placed in front of me and I smiled before pulling out my worn out wallet ready to pay.

Victor: "So how much will it be miss?"

???: "It will be €30 Eddies for the Tonkotsu Ramen!"

I paused before nodding and pulling out €50 and before she could return back the extra €20 I told her to keep it since I will be staying in the Megabuilding for a few days.

???: "Thank you very much!"

Victor: "Its nothing"

I started eating and used the chopsticks the dtall owner gave me and it was a delicious meal even with synthetic flavoring added.

After a couple more minutes I finished and said my goodbyes before leaving for the megabuildings reception desk.

20 minutes later

After haggling a deal with the manager I got my floor and paid for a weeks worth of rent and left me with less than €100 unfortunately enough.

Victor: "Hmm, he said it was Floor 8 and door number 247"

I got on the elevator and tapped on the 8th floor of the screen and soon the elevator doors closed and went up quickly to the 8th floor.

Ding!

Seeing the elevator doors open along with a chime I got out the elevator and asked a few people where door number 247 is which I got a couple of "fuck off!" But once someone told me where it was I went down a hallway then up the stairs and saw the number 247 posted ontop of the door.

After pressing the keycard on the scanner the door unlocked and I entered my neatly arranged room that had an overview of Heywood.

Feeling tired I clenched my fist and let go before sighing and looked at the wardrobe filled with clothes and took some before taking a nice, cold shower after a long day.

15 minutes later

Once I stepped out the shower I looked at the mirror and smiled at this new life of mine that didn't have billions of dead men walking.

I briefly touched the stab wound on my back but feeling it not be as deep as before made me think the Thera Virus is still with me. Even though it caused trillions to die I must guard it with my life so it doesn't wreck havoc and try to control once again.

Sometimes I wonder what life could have been if I hadn't chosen to serve as an SAS Operative who still took jobs from the companies.

A much better life, even if its not normal compared to civilians. It is all new to me as a man who sends groups of brave men out to fight, and me joining some expeditions to not get rusty.

Exiting the Bathroom I headed to the bed for for a good nights rest and to get a clearer mind for tomorrow.

Victor: "Wake me up if anything important happens Combot"

Combot: "I will keep watch"

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To be continued

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A/N: It's great to be back to writing