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"Figures she needs time to plan the attack." V sighs as she drives back to Night City, trying to meet the time of Jackie's Memorial.

"To be fair, not just any desert rat knows how to take down a Kang Tao AV, I'm impressed she thinks she can do it in the first place." Johnny states from the passenger seat.

"And she wants to team up after calling me a guy?" she shakes her head, "We're out as soon as we're done with her."

Johnny quirks a brow under his shades at her, "She ain't wrong, you forgettin' we're one and the same now? Or starting to turn into it... You're steadily becoming as awesome as I am, by becoming me." he grins.

"Wait... So when she says I'm walking like a dude-"

"She means you're literally walking like you got a stick between your legs, or in our case, a baseball bat. I noticed you're punchin' like me too, notice the bruises on your left hand? You ain't got an arm like mine yet," he taps his silver arm on the dashboard.

Her face falls, "Oh fuck, we gotta get you out now... How long'll it be til I'm telling shit jokes, eyeing every girl that walks by, or suicide bombing Arasaka tower?"

"No time at all if I have anything to do with it, not willingly mind you."

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V steps into the El Coyote Cojo bar and is greeted by a group of people all milling about and waiting for Jackie's Memorial to start. She spots Mama Welles off in the corner, but as she starts making her way to them, she's stopped by someone gripping her arm.

"Holy shit." Johnny gapes as she turns around and spots who's holding her...

"W-what..." she mutters, not moving an inch as she lays eyes on Zombie, now not headless and standing without a car. "No, that ain't possible..."

Ori grins down at her and tightens his grip, "Shouldn't it be the other way around? You giving me head?"

She opens her mouth but doesn't manage to say anything, mimicking a fish outta water.

"I'd remind you to do as I say, wouldn't like your friend's funeral to end badly, would you?" he questions eyeing Jackie's family and friends, Mama Welles in particular.

Realising just how dangerous the situation had become, she grits her teeth and scowls hard at him. She'd cut off his head and claimed his bounty, yet here he was standing like he hadn't regrown his fucking head!

"V, I don't say this shit lightly, but you're fucked. Throw these people in front of you and fucking delta before this zeroes both of us!" Johnny hurriedly says.

"I-I can't fucking do that!" she furiously whispers under her voice.

"Talking to the voice in your head? Don't worry, I was like that at first." Ori idly remarks, "Now, you're gonna come quietly with me, or things are gonna get nasty, spiteful even. I do owe you for last time, and I doubt your friends are as durable as I am."

"J-Just don't hurt them..."

Ori nods and pulls her towards the exit, taking her outside and into an empty alleyway further up the street.

"S-so that's it then?" she brushes her hand over her pistol, "Because I won't go with you easily."

Ori shrugs, "But then, you'll be risking your friends. You won't beat me as easily as last time, and if you struggle I'll take my anger out on Jackie Welles' family, even if you beat me, you can't kill me." he states.

V's handle trembles, then drops to her side, fighting her way out of this wasn't an option... But then, would she just let him drag her to Arasaka to be dissected?

"V snap out of it! You really gonna let this goon fuck us!?" Johnny exclaims.

She sighs and rubs her eyes with the back of her hand, "J-Just do it... Finish it quick."

"If you say so." Ori states, jabbing a finger into her neck and shocking her into unconsciousness. With that, he throws her over his shoulder and calls for his car before making his way back to base.

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"Just tell me what you want to do, check her or whatever you want so we can get this over with." Ori asks the Collective. He'd managed to drag V into the crew's base without anyone noticing, and was now standing over her body in the makeshift medbay.

[Interface with her, we will decide after we have confirmed the Sapience.]

He sighs, pulls the port from his wrist, and plugs it into the port next to V's ear.

*Bzzch!*

"Oh for fuck sake!" a voice says, and as Ori looks he spots a certain punk rocker-boy sitting on the side of the Ripper doc chair V was on.

"Johnny Silverhand."

"Zombie." he retorts while signing quotation marks with his fingers. "Fucking dandy, we got the chief corpo-douchebag hooked into this mental gangbang." he stands and steps towards Ori, "Here, let's test something." he says before slamming his fist into Ori's face or trying at least, he only ends up hitting the wall behind him.

Ori chuckles, "I'm the corpo? You wouldn't have touched Arasaka if Militech hadn't shipped your ass directly there with Morgan fucking Blackhand backing you up, even then you got shit on by Smasher! And you're talking to me? The guy who singlehandedly kicked Biotechnicha out of Night City? The guy who stole billions from those asshats in Las Vegas?

Only the truly retarded would compare me to you, a drugged-up suicide bomber 'revolutionary' who had to have one of the largest corporations back him up to do anything of substance. Silverhand, piss off, I'm the better you-, no, I'm the better version of the better you."

"Fuck you." Silverhand spits.

"No, fuck you. How the mighty ass hole has fallen, enslaved in a Biochip by the same company you tried to destroy." Ori obnoxiously claps, "Good job! Do you want a medal?"