[center] [h3][color=violet]Suzy[/color][/h3] [/center] Calmly having herself seated on an operation table, Suzy awaited the medtech preparing his stuffs to begin the surgical maintenance on her. She knew that the man who owned this workshop had his knacks in this trade. A VIP appointment had been made, especially for this young woman, allowing Suzy to personally meet the cyber-surgeon face to face, and for him to directly treat the delicate stuffs Suzy had inside her. The cybernetics implants Suzy had herself embedded were some serious stuffs, a perfect grade of high rarity. It required a person of special skills to take care of its maintenance. Having all the set of her cybernetic implants inside her stomach cavity, Suzy had her shirt raised to allow some parts of her midriff exposed. The porcelain skin she had on the surface of her abdomen looked so human, unless for the interface socket on her navel and some neon indicators that looked like a pair of colorful beauty spots beside it. Suzy had never thought to ever put any cybernetic implants to augment her physical performance. She loved the natural aesthetics of her body, sculpted from the disciplined routine of exercise, dieting, and beauty cares. The mechanical part Suzy had was closer to a necessity rather than purpose. “You’re ready?” Gecko asked, the medtech who owned this workshop and all the equipment inside it. Without any words nor delay, Suzy’s abdominal implant received her own brain signal that demanded it to expose its inner part. The sequence was quite complicated, but it had a resemblance as if a flower bud bloomed out of her navel. Some exposed internal parts jutted out around the center of Suzy’s midriff, along with a hollowed cavity of her stomach where her implants were positioned. Gecko followed, with him flexing the mechanical fingers of his right hand. Soon enough, each of his fingers got separated from the digits, transforming into mechanical apparatus of micro-sized scalpels, clamps, graspers, and many other things necessary for a surgery connected to his hand through tendril-like cables. The medtech quickly utilized those gadgets to operate on Suzy’s abdominal implants in unison. [color=violet]“Gasp! Uuuh!”[/color] Suzy let her groan of agony among the twitches and shudders her muscles made, reacting to the apparatus being inserted to her. “Hold on, princess, you’re the one asking me not to apply any anaesthesis… do you need something to hold or bite?” [color=violet]“Quiet, Gecko!”[/color] “You’re also the one who gave me an idea of keeping your nerve ends intact with all these implants.” [color=violet]“I said, be quiet, just do your maintenance, ouch!”[/color] “Just a little bit more, it seems that no replacement of component is necessary, they’re still fine… I like the way you keep your body fat percentage under control, princess, some people would possibly got their fat clumping around their delicate cyberwares.” [color=violet]“I don’t know if that’s a compliment.”[/color] “Hardware check done” said Gecko as he retracted the tendril-like cable from Suzy’s cybernetic implants. The young woman’s abdomen returned to as it was before, with the cavity closing and the jutting out parts retracted inside. The spots around Suzy’s umbilical socket turned on, indicating that the operating system of her cyberware had just booted up. “Now it’s for the firmware check, this might tickle a bit, princess” said Gecko as he plugged a cable pin into Suzy’s umbilical socket. Suzy twitched, reacting to the ticklish sensation when the Gecko pushed his the cable plug, then relaxed herself as the monitor beside her showed a diagnosis run for her system. “Seems fine, no reports for runtime error, no bad sector, and reasonable amount of computing resource utilization… you’re still good for action.” Gecko then finished the sequence and plugged the cable out of Suzy’s umbilical port. [color=violet]“Thanks, Gecko,”[/color] said Suzy as she exhaled, relieved that the process was finally concluded. “It’s always my pleasure to help you, princess… anyway, I guess we can move on to your other request.” [color=violet]“Now you’re the fixer.”[/color] Suzy said as she lowered her shirt to cover her exposed part and stepped down from the operating table. “As much as I can, well look at this, you might find this one interesting, Suzy.” Suzy looked at the holographic monitor Gecko showed her. There was a dossier of what looked like to be a man who had been heavily modified in cybernetics. [color=violet]“Praying Mantis… a mercenary?”[/color] Suzy asked as she scanned the profile. “A soloist, an assassin for hire.” [color=violet]“You’re sure he’s connected to the Conglomerate?”[/color] “Well, I hired some net-runners and they managed to pluck this dossier from the lawmen’s database; we found this interesting fella under the case handled by this particular [color=orange][b]Hiro Nishida[/b][/color], though he lacked the necessary data to profile him; and what the detective had missed, I found a way to discover it.” [color=violet]“You infiltrated what?”[/color] “I have my confidence the people I hired are not that sloppy, these lawmen won’t be able to track them to us.” [color=violet]“That’s relaxing, I don’t want to directly get in conflict with the local enforcers.”[/color] “You can always settle down like me, open a business firm with less risk.” [color=violet]“You know I can’t do that, as long as this Conglomerate still have their grasp in this city.”[/color] “To each their own, princess, as always.” [color=violet]“I like to have you as my ally, Gecko, thanks… now there’s this Praying Mantis I need to take care about, and this lawman officer [/color][color=orange][b]Hiro Nishida[/b][/color][color=violet] who might notice if this person would suddenly be gone.”[/color] “Be careful, princess, don’t rush, the true monster you’re facing is… big.”