Alt Cunningham

V, Johnny, and Graves arrived at the Blackwall, they looked at it and Graves sighed before saying, "I don't know why such a crap wall even exists. It can barely hold the constructs out."

"Well, NetWatch is doing what it can with the resources they get. Can't expect much if the people think that constructs are harmless to them while Corpos are trying to get as much as possible from your pocket or start wars against each other," says V looking at the Blackwall.

"We should continue, once we pass the wall stay beside me or I can't guarantee that you get out in one piece. That goes for you too, Johnny," says Graves seriously as he walks up to the wall and touches it making a small hole in it to pass through it without damaging the wall so constructs could get inside.

They walked for a while before everything before them changed and V, as well as Johnny, recognized the place since V saw this place in Johnny's memories.

"This looks like the Arasaka office that you raided before you got Soulkilled by Arasaka," says V nervous as Graves looked around seeing many prying eyes on them before he pulled out a double-barrel canon which radiated a powerful energy from it.

He points it at one of the constructs and shoots at it surprising everyone as the construct was deleted from existence through Graves's attack.

"If I were you, I would be caring about my own business," says Graves seriously as he points the gun at another construct before saying, "Except you all have a death wish. I can fulfill that if that is your wish."

The constructs left in a hurry not wanting to get into unnecessary trouble with a being that could delete them completely while the group continued walking for a bit when they met with the person or better said the construct they wanted to talk to.

"Alt Cunningham, you don't look much like I remember you," says Johnny seeing Alt floating before them.

She is naked and a giant made out of data while her face was covered by her hair. V looked at the construct curiously while Graves was suspicious of everything going on.

"Johnny Silverhand, I can see that you have become a construct as well," says Alt looking at him before turning to V ignoring Graves.

"You must be the person sharing her body with him," says Alt before Graves interrupts her.

"Now then Lady how about you stop trying to open a backdoor into her. I am getting annoyed by you doing that," says Graves in a cold tone as he points his cannon at Alt.

"You think you can win against me here?" asks Alt provoking Graves who only smirks.

"I can win against you everywhere I want to. If you didn't have an act to play you would have been dead a long time ago killed by this cannon," says Graves coldly as his killing intent was visible to everyone.

Alt looked at Graves differently than before as she stopped doing what she was doing behind Johnny's and V's back.

"You caught me, construct," says Alt as Graves shoots once against the ceiling deleting it of existence giving Alt his final warning.

"It is Graves, G.R.A.V.E.S., Graves is my name. Call me construct again and you will end up like your beautiful ceiling, non-existent," says Graves in a threatening tone as he points his cannon back at Alt.

Graves then turns to V and says, "Try to make it fast. The longer we are in here the more people John and Nesiara will be killing outside since they are watching over your body at the moment," says Graves to V trying to make V deal with this matter as fast as possible.

"Right," says V as she turned to Alt beginning a conversation that left a bitter aftertaste in V's and Johnny's mouths while Graves was reloading his cannon.

They soon returned with Graves's help and V was feeling ice-cold finding Nesiara beside her using magic to keep her temperature down when she sees Nesiara smile at her.

"You are back. We were worried about you," says Nesiara as she helps V out of her icebath.

V wasn't feeling her limbs as she leaned herself on Nesiara when she notices more blood covering the floor than before.

"Did John kill even more people?" asks V seeing it as she took some steps while Nesiara used magic to warm her body.

"What do you think would happen when we attack their secret lair. They all came here to see what was going on and John needed to hold them out while I was keeping you cool so you wouldn't burn from inside out," says Nesiara as V slowly could stand on her own two feet.

"Let me get changed first," says V as she grabbed her clothes and put them over the Netrunner suit since she thought they don't have time to waste.

They then got on their way toward John walking over corpses when V asks nervously, "How long was I away?"

"Around three hours," says Nesiara seeing the trail of corpses.

They get out of the catacombs and find themselves in the blood-filled church finding John standing in the middle of the room holding Dragon Slayer while corpses were scattered around him.

John looks in their direction and V felt chills run down her spine when John says, "You are awake that's good."

"How many people have you killed while I was away?" asks V nervously as John looked at the missing ceiling.

"I think that all the Voodoo Boys are dead or are hiding after finding out that they can't defeat me," says John looking at the sky as dark clouds formed over their heads.

Rain slowly began to drop from the sky, people were running to find shelter while John only looked at the sky as the rain cleaned his face which was covered in blood.

The blood ran down his body and clothes before John swung his sword to clean it from the blood as well then Dragon Slayer vanished in thin air.

"We are done here," says John emotionless as he just jumped into the sky towards the clouds leaving Nesiara with V.

"We should leave as well," says Nesiara seeing that John needed some time for himself.

They both leave under the rain that gets more intense over the second, washing the blood away. Nesiara and V returned to the penthouse.

There Nesiara rushed upstairs to get a towel before throwing it toward V who catches it looking confused when she notices that the floor was getting wet because of her.

She uses the towel to dry herself when she notices her clothes were wet as well. She changed out of her clothes when Nesiara brought her some of her clothes to change into.

"Thanks for the change of clothes," says V exhausted from what she just saw some minutes ago.

"Don't worry about it," says Nesiara as she grabs V's clothes and takes them away to dry them.

"What about John?" asks V worried as John just left them.

"Don't worry about him. He will be back before you know it," says Nesiara as she rushed to the kitchen to make something to eat when they hear thunder louder than normally strike over Night City.

"Is he?" asks V as Nesiara only nods.

"He is screaming, releasing all his bent-up pressure. It is causing this thunderstorm," says Nesiara confirming V's assumption.

"How much did you tw-," says V as she was interrupted by Nesiara.

"You better not ask. We went through a lot through our lives and this is only a small stop on our journey," says Nesiara trying to stop V from asking the question.

"She is right, you shouldn't ask about their past," says Graves knowing that his former partner had to endure a lot as well.

V stopped her curiosity since Graves was sounding alarm bells to warn her not to infringe into their past for her own good.

"Fine," says V when she received a call from an unknown number.

"Who is it?" asks V confused since she knows everyone that normally calls her.

"I am Elizabeth Peralez, you might know me as the wife of Jefferson Peralez who is running for Mayor of Night City at the moment," says Elizabeth informing V about who she is while V only rolls her eyes.

"Who gave you this number?" asks V as she looks at Nesiara who was already placing the food on the table.

"It was a common friend that gave me your number telling me that you are a person that I can trust with the task my husband and I have," says Elizabeth hoping that V would accept her request.

"I won't do your dirty work," says V firmly since she didn't want to be dragged into a political mess that guarantees her death if she is on the wrong side.

"It is nothing like that. How about we meet personally and my husband and I will tell you about what we want you to do. You can always say no after hearing us out," says Elizabeth thinking that V misunderstood her because she was too secretive about the task.

"Where?" asks V as she sits down at the table.

"In the Heywood District. I will give you tomorrow the accurate address and time since my husband has small windows open between the events he has to attend," says Elizabeth full of hope that V would meet them.

"I will await your call, Mrs. Peralez," says V before ending the call when V looks at Nesiara who wasn't looking at the table but outside.

She follows the gaze and she sees John walking towards the penthouse. He seemed relieved as if everything he did was washed away from his conscious.

He enters the penthouse and waves with his hand drying his clothes and body with magic before taking his shoes off. He sees V and Nesiara look at him. Nesiara was relieved that he was fine while V looked at him nervous almost worried going by her expression.

"Everything alright with you?" asks V nervous as John smiles at her warmly.

"Everything is alright, I haven't killed this many people in a long time," says John calmly at V before sitting down beside Nesiara who was already at the table.

"You returned at the right moment," says Nesiara relieved with a smile on her face before they begin to eat.