Preparations to Raid Smasher's Ship

V left the next morning to meet with the Peralez Couple while Nesiara and John stayed in their house since they needed to think about how they should tackle the Arasaka Tower.

"V will need the help of the Nomads once we are done here. I would recommend Jackie and Misty the same but they won't leave Night City even if it wanted them dead," says Nesiara seriously as John nods before sighing.

"We could try to convince Jackie's mother but that would only backfire since she has NC blood in her veins," says John knowing that it is hard for Guadalupe to leave the city and begin anew.

"What about Judy?" asks Nesiara seriously as John looked at her confused.

"What about her?" asks John since he thought that it lay in V's hands to get Judy out of Night City.

"She needs help to deal with the Clouds," says Nesiara seriously as she placed her scythes on the table.

"We let V deal with it while we help Panam with her problems," says John placing Yamato and Mjølnir on the table.

"So are we doing it here or upstairs?" asks Nesiara as she takes her shirt off.

"How about here since we won't be disturbed," says John as he took his pants off.

They wanted each other badly yesterday but it was hard with V staying the night as they shared the same bed with Nesiara sleeping between John and V.

They continued with what they were doing until they receive a call from Rogue. John wanted to ignore the call but Nesiara answered the phone.

"What do you need Rogue?" asks Nesiara having John deep inside of her.

"We need to talk about V," says Rogue seriously as Nesiara was confused why Rogue wanted to talk about V when she looked out of the window and saw that the night sky was already out.

"What has Johnny done?" asks Nesiara when John moves making her moan into the speaker confusing Rogue who was on the other end of the call.

"He went crazy around the city in V's body. V is currently sleeping in a bed and when she wakes up she will feel completely wasted because of Johnny," says Rogue angry as she could hear the couple have sex over the phone and was happy that they can't use holos to communicate.

"But why call us if Johnny is under your control already?" asks Nesiara paying only a little attention to Rogue.

"I don't think V will be of much help once she wakes up from this hangover to finish a gig with me," says Rogue trying to keep her anger inside.

"We will be over as fast as possible," says Nesiara before she turns to John and says, "We need to end it now."

She hung up on Rogue who still heard Nesiara saying the sentence to John making Rogue think, 'They are far older than me why are they still this lustful.'

John finished fast inside of Nesiara before they washed up and equipped themselves again. They then teleport to the mark that V has on her body.

They were standing over a sleeping V when they arrived and a Rogue who was sitting on a chair observing the new anomaly in her life.

"I thought you were joking around when you said that Johnny would be returning," says Rogue as she was holding a gun in her hand.

"What were you going to do with your gun?" asks Nesiara curiously as Rogue puts the gun away.

"I just wanted to make sure that V wakes up and not Johnny. If Johnny really woke up from this hangover I would have shot him in the face," says Rogue seriously as John puts his hand over V's face and cleanses her body of all toxins that Johnny might have taken while being in charge of the body.

V slowly opens her eyes before she sees the couple and Rogue looking at her making her wonder what happened when she suddenly is overcome by pain.

She begins to hold her head and John puts his hand again on her head while saying, "You really have a death wish, don't you. What have I told you before?"

"Not to let Johnny hold control over my body," says V seriously as she had a serious headache that didn't come from Johnny's drinking and drug habits.

It was the relic trying to change the brainwaves so Johnny could merge with the actual body the relic was implanted in.

"Now you know why I told you not to let him do it even if he can be quite persuasive," says John as Johnny appears beside John and leans against him.

"I am a charmer after all," says Johnny to V while John and Rogue didn't hear him.

"Zip it, Johnny," says Nesiara holding her scythes intimidating Johnny who lifts his hands into the air.

"He is here?" asks Rogue furious as she pulled her gun out again.

"Yes, but you can't see him not hurt him and if I were to do it he would die instantly," says Nesiara when Graves appears behind Johnny and grabs him by his shoulders.

"I made a small break and everything gets out of control. Now what have you done Silverhand?" asks Graves grimly but in an authoritarian tone which made Johnny feel fear because Graves deleted rogue A.I. behind the Blackwall as if they were nothing.

"Nothing, sir," says Johnny suddenly saluting to Graves as Graves looks at him confused.

"You saluted to my creator, not to me," says Graves angry as he punches Johnny right on the chest taking the air out of Johnny.

"I am not a soldier," says Graves seriously at Johnny before walking towards Nesiara to ask what happened.

Nesiara explained what happened and Graves looked grimmer than usual as he helps Johnny to stand again only to hit him in the gut this time.

"Do something like that again and I will castrate you even if it is only digitally," says Graves to Johnny who was on his knees while John and Rogue didn't know what was going on.

V burst out laughing from seeing Johnny being handled like a dog by Graves making John and Rogue look at her confused before she stopped laughing.

"Now that everyone is awake, what is the gig you have for us?" asks Nesiara curiously as Rogue takes out a map that was hard to get.

She stretches it over a table and everyone could see that it was the map of a harbor in Night City and Rogue explains to them that at the said harbor was a ship that belonged to Adam Smasher.

V turned serious since she made a bad experience running into him the last time in the Konpeki Plaza Hotel.

John and Nesiara were unnerved since they could deal easily with Smasher if he were to appear there. Rogue explained to them that the Maelstrom was protecting the harbor.

"So what do we do?" asks V curious to find out.

"I would be for open and direct. It will be the easiest and fastest way since the NCPD won't interfere with this incident," says John cold and calculated making V remember what happened in Pacifica.

"No, sneaky would be the best answer here since we don't need to kill them ourselves," says Nesiara as she looked at V, or better said at Graves who was beside V.

"What do you mean?" asks Rogue curiously since she made a background check on V and knew that she wasn't a Netrunner.

"V can use Graves to take all the people in an area out. It wouldn't have helped against the Voodoo Boys since they have a bigger security system against being hacked but the Maelstrom doesn't. It will be easy to let them all fall like flies and walk past them to get to the ship," says Nesiara seriously as Rogue looked at V.

"Can you do it with that Graves's help?" asks Rogue as V looks to her right and Graves only nods.

"We can," says V with confidence before Rogue nods.

"Alright we will be going in stealthily once on the ship we will be attacked by Smasher's men. They aren't like the Maelstrom, they are professional mercenaries that have lived this way for years. I await no mercy once we are on the ship," says Rogue seriously as they all nod to what Rogue said.

"Can we explore the ship after taking care of the ship and getting your revenge on Smasher?" asks John since he wanted to break into Smasher's office on the ship.

"You can," says Rogue not knowing why John wanted to explore the ship before she continues, "But destroy it leaving nothing of it behind when you are done."

"It isn't my specialty but I can do so," says John having a good idea to get rid of the ship forever.

"Do we drive separately or together?" asks Nesiara as Rogue thinks about it for a moment.

"Does anyone have a car with four seats?" asks Rogue not knowing that V had the Regalia.

"I have one," says V surprising Rogue who looks at V like a person would look at an enigma.

"Who are you and where is the V that I made a background check on?" asks Rogue sarcastically knowing that John and Nesiara must be involved in why all the information she had on V could be thrown down the drain.

"So do we begin today or tomorrow?" asks John curiously since the night was on their side at the moment since they had a new moon.

"We don't have time to lose," says Rogue as she rolls the map up again and continues, "V, get your car we are moving right away."

V does as asked and leaves the room to get to the street so she could call the Regalia while the rest prepared for the night raid they were about to perform.

Once V honks the horn of the Regalia they leave the room they were and Rogue was surprised by the Regalia since it was a car she has never seen before when John tells her that it only existed once in this world before entering it.