Gal-Night

Elsewhere :

"Hahahaha! How long's it been since we all got together like this?" Rebecca laughs, giddily clapping the backs of Kiwi and Dorio, all as Lucy and Sasha watch with mild apprehension.

"Maybe you should lay off the chems?" Kiwi remarks with a stony look, reaching for the paper topped with a dusting of almost luminescent white powder.

"That's mine!... Unless you want some, otherwise it's mine!" the pale chibi exclaims, slapping her hand away.

Kiwi retrieves her hand and frowns behind her mask, "You must be bored if you've dipped into this again. Let me guess, you've not done any gigs lately?" she glances at Sasha who gives a slight nod, confirming her guess.

Rebecca sniffs in response, both to capture the powder around her nose and at Kiwi. "No one wants 'Zombie's crew' without Zombie." she grumpily complains, "Now I've been left on door duty for that tech Ori bought!"

"It's not that bad. I've been wanting a vacation for a while now. It's not like we're low on Eddies..." Sasha adds from the side. "Besides, we'll be up to our necks with work once the stuff in Japantown starts..."

"That's some dangerous territory. Luce' showed us what you ran into last time, Arasaka ninjas... I'm on edge just being around you, who knows if they'll try get rid of you before you can cause any damage." Dorio states while surreptitiously taking a glance over her shoulder.

"Eh, you guys worry too much. We're still too small to catch their attention. They'll be too busy gunning for that old bag-fixer to grab us anyway." Rebecca waves their worries off.

Dorio sighs and shakes her head, taking a big gulp of her drug before ordering another, "Let's just hope you're right... Speaking of 'Saka though, Maine's been talking to that Fixer about following up on that last gig, 'Tanaka' was the name, I think...?"

"Dorio..." Kiwi trails off, obviously not wanting to discuss such a cagey subject. Especially something concerning Faraday, that creepy-ass Fixer.

"Eh, leave it. 'Snot like these guys are gonna rat on us... Ain't that right?" she trails her gaze over the group.

"Whadda we look like? Suits?" Rebecca protests.

Kiwi sighs and leans back into her chair, folding her arms after lighting up a cig. "Whatever."

Dorio grins and leans forwards, lowering her voice, "Apparently, Faraday wants us to grab a certain Suit's kid. Still dunno why, but it's probably gonna be blackmail or something."

Lucy tilts her head, "Someone from Arasaka won't bend to blackmail. He'll probably want us to kill the hostage to 'prove his loyalty' or something." she quietly volunteers.

"Don't quote me, but apparently our Fixer has a plan around that. Says 'The loss of family is one thing, but the loss of face cannot be tolerated'. I doubt that four-eye-bastard'll give us a gig bound to fail." she quotes in a mockery of Faraday's tone.

"Eh, if you do go ahead with it give those ass holes a kick for me. Saw some Arasaka students talking smack the other day, took everything I had not to dome them..." Rebecca adds.

*Beep!*

The pale chibi pauses as she receives a text from a certain 'Bitch-Fixer'.

[Hope you aren't expecting your delivery to arrive. Received word that someone else would be 'better suited' for it.] - Rogue

...

"'Becca? Something wrong?" Dorio questions the girl's uncharacteristic silence.

Rebecca just holds up a hand as her eyes flashed with data, signalling she was busy.

[Whachu mean?] - Rebecca

[I mean, that Cyberware Zombie bought'll go missing as it reaches the port. Too bad he bought it through unofficial channels, otherwise insurance might've covered it.] - Rogue.

[Are you fucking kidding me? That thing cost a hundred grand, and you're telling me some dumb piece of shit is gonna klepp it?!] - Rebecca

[Or try to, at least. Too bad security's already been paid off... I may be able to help you out, but it'll cost you.] - Rogue

[Of course it will, when do you ever do anything that's not for Eddies... What kind of help?] - Rebecca

If she wasn't riding on a buzz thanks to the coke she might've started breaking things. Not only had she been put on house-sitting duty, but the fucking delivery she'd been asked to keep an eye on was apparently gonna get stolen.

[Depends on how much help you need, and how much you got. You want intel, or a team to solve the problem?] - Rogue

[Just gimme the detes, I ain't a corpo so having you hire mercs ain't an option.] - Rebecca.

[You better come to the Afterlife, the guys involved in the 'heist' would be annoying to deal with if they got word of it.] - Rogue.

Rebecca scowls, downing the rest of her drink and finishes the last of her coke. She looks up at Sasha just as some douchebag steps in between her and Lucy, trying to get their numbers or something.

*Bang!*

The guy flops backwards like a fish and the club goes silent, all turning to Rebecca who held a still-smoking gun.

"What the fuck you dumb bitch!? What did you d-" one of the guy's friends shouts as he walks over, reaching for something in his waistband, but Rebecca jabs her gun at him too while wiping her nose.

"You want some too?!... I didn't think so! Let's go Sasha, something came up." she gestures with her gun before moving to leave.

"Hey, you just gonna leave us to clean this up??" Dorio exclaims.

"But my small arms can't carry a body!" Rebecca mockingly says, turning and clapping her bicep as she walks out, her gun still in her hand.

"That girl, I swear..." Kiwi mutters into her drink.

...

"Uh, you three should probably leave, the cops'll be coming..." the bartender tentatively says.

Dorio nods with a sigh, tipping the guy some Eddies for the help, "Thanks for the heads-up. See you around Peter."

"My name's Jerry..."

"Bye, Peter." Lucy adds with a small smirk.