2 - New World
Dante looked around, all the equipment seemed to be working and the power generator was not activated meaning that he was still connected to the electrical circuit under the city. He first checked all the equipment.. seeing nothing wrong he walked to the front and also saw nothing there..
"I must be hallucinating." Dante walked back to his seat and noticed that the TV was not properly working.. it was tuned into the news before.. as they reported on the attack in the plaza.. he let his tv almost always stay on the news, except when there was a sports event going on, which was almost every day, or at least seemed as such.
Turning the TV to a different channel Dante still got the same results.. normally when he had no signal it would at least be able to connect to a local network, but now…
"Is the signal jammed or something.." He knew that it wasn't a power outage of some kind but still wondered what could stop the signal..
He got up from his chair and walked to the TV connecting to it and finding nothing out of the ordinary except for the normal signals not working.. deciding to check on the receiver he found that it seemed to be operating fine.. but something was of.. the signals that were being received were unknow to Dante..
Switching to one of those signals, his Tv showed.. from what Dante could gather a Brazilian soccer match..
"What in the name of..." Dante saw the match… noticing that none of the players on either of the teams had any cyberware visible on their bodies… watching further he concluded that it was a different sport.. or at least one with different roles as the players weren't even allowed to injure one another, some even getting a warning for his aggressive playstyle.
Dante doubted the reality of the situation.. deciding to move outside to confirm if this wasn't just a realistic hallucination.
As the door opened Dante could see the street he was on.
"How in the world.." Moving outside he could see the rest of the city.. without the poisonous gasses and with the greenery he had only seen in his earlier years...
Looking at his own building he saw his two story building just as it ones was, with everything still in place, but being out of place in the street where he stood..
There were no windows on the first floor and barley any of them on the second as it was made to be save and hard to breach from the outside, so Dante didn't know that the outside had changes..
he first confirmed that it was his building by going around it. Dante still had a corner home with the entrance at the front and a garage door on the side of the building, in which he house his vehicle and supplies…
Dante couldn't be bothered to check more as he looked around, amazed by the surrounding scenery… The corporate run toxic world that he lived in had changed.. not by much as he stood in a somewhat rundown part of the city. The street seemed to be near the exit of Chinatown as he could see some decorations that reminded him of that part of the city, but the advertisements were too different to be that area.
Dante could see some skyscrapers in the distance.. being of a design of the early 21st century that didn't suit Cyberpunk..
"What the fuck…" It hit Dante he could be back in his original world.. or at least he thought so as he looked around and saw some people who were closing their stores for the night in the distance.
From the temperature it seemed to be a somewhat cold night but Dante felt akin to nothing as his enhanced skin protected him from even frostbite.
'I need to get a connection to the web..' although his cyberware seemed to be running fine and he could access the net it felt different… not something he was familiar with but more like a fresh start where he was the only one to access it…
Sadly most daemons would not work on the population as they didn't have any cyberware or other pieces of technology inside them.. maybe people with a sickness that had robotic live support but that was just… not him…
Getting money could also be a little difficult… as his own money was useless and selling cyberware wasn't something he expected to go well for himself in the long run…
Hacking could get him some initial funding, using his open exes to the net to breach any systems protective barrier as he could literally see everything laid bare before him on the net…
But that could eventually lead back to him… maybe investing would be better although he still needed to initial funds to do such things….
Dante felt like he didn't need to do it, being comfortable with just healing the injured and sick with his clinic… but at the same time wanted to try it out…. Wanting to feel rich, not to mention play out his fantasy's of knowing the future…
Thinking about the future, Dante thought about if he wasn't in the same universe as from once he came… it looked similar… and from major world events most of the history turned out similar… so if it wasn't the same world, what could there have changed…
The mystery was causing Dante to both fear and feel exited…
Turning to look through the streets, Dante saw that it was completely dead, with no one around to liven the night up a little…
Looking back at his home Dante instead decided to head towards the nearest open bar…. Wanting to taste the food… see the nature… and basically enjoy himself… even if he wanted to collect more information about the world…
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Returning with a full belly and a stumble in his step, Dante entered his home…
Getting back into his favourite chair Dante turned on the TV, only to remember that his favourite channel wouldn't be on.. ever..
"Fucking hell.."
Dante switched through some channels hoping to find something and eventually stumbling on the news.. this time in Italian.
The news didn't have much only reporting some local events with the inclusion of some billionaire that got injured in a gang fight..
"Always the important guys who get reported on.." Dante complained in his heart as he thought back on how the death total was always just a fun number until a important person was hurt.. than it was immediately trauma team killing more people and getting them out.. to be reported as; innocent rich asshole was attacked and heroically defended by trauma team.. get your Trauma team card today for just…
Dante turned of the tv for the night and just planned on going upstairs and maybe enjoying some rest..
Walking into the back of the store.. he entered the previously mentioned garage containing almost all of his equipment and cyberware available for purchase with plenty of storage for his personal machinery and other equipment.. but currently feeling empty, because of the missing car.. Dante couldn't help but feel disappointed that he had lent in out to Jackie.. he still had his bike but it wasn't the same as his sportscar.
Climbing the stairs Dante entered his living room where a hologram projector was instead of a tv like he had downstairs.. the upstairs area was quite similar to a standard apartment.. with just a little more space for everything.. from the stairs was his living room which include a sizable kitchen on the side, with the armoury being across the room next to his bedroom and bathroom..
It had a open design allowing Dante to walk into the bedroom without needing to open doors, just like every where else Dante saw that nothing had changed
"Just the world.. ey.." His room had a king-sized bed with his clothes lining up inside the wall-mounted closet, the armoury being on the far side from the door and bathroom to the side.
The upper floor was designed to protect him in case anyone entered unannounced.. the open floor design would change and become something akin to a fortress for anyone inside of the bedroom while four turrets dealt with anyone that wasn't otherwise
In the armoury lay most of his equipment he used from when he was a nomad including some classic guns that weren't available anymore.. it also had the newer tech weapons but Dante didn't really like the lack of power from those kinds of weaponry.
The bathroom was quit standard considering that he had change the layout to include a bath and change the entrance to one from his bedroom instead of from the living room
In total his home didn't look much different from the original design, just seemingly having some added personal belongings and having the latest technology to suit his needs, but it was a certified bomb shelter
Deciding to spend the night reading up on the complete history of the world instead of sleeping… wanting to make sure that he got a solid foundation for where he was…
Midway through the documentary the story of world war one began… but Dante was already out of it, having fallen asleep part way through the time where witch hunts were still prevalent…
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Dante woke up the next day only a little groggy, before starting the day by creating a account at a bank and forging an digital identity for himself in the government database.. he had paid the last day by transferring the funds out of some random account he found.. not remembering who he eventually settled on, only remembering that it was some important person that he knew a little about… while he was at it he also created the documents for his clinic, in case he ever needed to provide them for proof that he was actually qualified to be a doctor…
He had compiled some of the data related to him, finding out that his house was located on the outskirts of Chinatown in New York city.. in a store previously abandoned.. that he changed in the public database to belong to him making it official digitally. The date was the 4th of march 2006…
Some other interesting things he found out was that there was another human race, called mutants, who had special abilities that varied from person to person, apparently being roughly characterised based on their level of power.
He recognised the information, but couldn't remember from where it came… only remembering that he had watched some movies with them in it… although not knowing if they were actually related…
Dante viewed mutants as just a human being that possesses some more power than the average joe, because of having a genetic traits called the X-gene. That causes the mutant to develop superhuman powers that manifest at puberty, in a somewhat interesting light.. from what he could gather most if not all mutants weren't that strong mostly just getting natural weapons akin to basic cyberware enhancements.. but from some government reports it could be seen that some were extremely powerful with one even being able to control metal through magnetic powers.. or others with mind controlling powers..
The mutant that could control magnetic powers was the obvious threat to someone who was covert in machinery, but Dante thought he would be fine as he would not directly be opposed to them in some way, and from the report while the guy called magneto was classified as a terrorist he didn't really attack innocent locations always having a motif of some sort..
And even if they came into contact using a magnetic repellent could counteract most of the damage magneto could do to his internal organs.
He also found the information on government agencies like the FBI and CIA.. being quit similar to the cyberpunk version namely the FIA… a new agency he didn't recognise was the Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division.. the organisation seemed to be quite young coming from the second world war with a small name change.. the current leader was ….. not filled out in the government database.. the only thing that stood there was his last name or code name being N.Fury..
The Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division servers seemed to be closed off from the normal web but Dante was sure he could find out more if he wanted… he just didn't see the point in digging for government secrets that didn't concern him…
His first plan was to fill his empty heart and get a new car.. and those are expansive.. if Dante hacked into some more banks to get more money he could purchase any car he wanted, but that would ring alerts to those who pay attention to taxes.. namely the IRS.. instead of causing trouble his best bet would be to get some money legally.. something he had already begun working on…