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  "description_bbcode_parsed": "<span style='word-wrap: break-word;'>December Holiday&#039;s mind was scattered in the wake of the Fourth Corporate War. <br /><br />Years later, Noelle is still searching for her. With the help of Susie, a fresh solo, she&#039;ll hopefully have a little more luck.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://kimberlyeab.carrd.co/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Visit my website to see where else you can find my work, follow my socials, join my Discord, or support me on Patreon/SubscribeStar!</a></span>",
  "writing": "Chapter One\n\nSusie had been in enough shitholes just like this. The wallpaper was curled at the fringes and stained a lovely synth-tobacco yellow, mildew seemed to fill her lungs with every breath she took, and the furniture looked like it was going to give her tetanus and bed bugs at the exact same time just for the crime of resting on it.\n\nShe scoffed. It almost reminded her of home.\n\n``So let me get this straight,'' Susie said, folding her hands in front of her chest as she leaned back into her chair. The black of her trench coat folded tight against her sturdy fridge-like frame. ``You need me to keep an eye on your sorry asses while you're trapezing through cyberspace?''\n\nKris, that mostly human freak, nodded. ``That about sums it up.'' They scratched at the patchy black scruff upon their chin with those bronzed fingers of theirs. ``We don't think that corp security should be able to track us out here.''\n\nThey wore a face that screamed human in denial with an array of exotic augments mixed in to give them a slender snout and glimmering ruby red horns which poked through the shaggy dark blue mane that they had styled their hair into.\n\nCatti scoffed, the tip of her nose twitching. ``Think...'' She extended the mantis blade from her forearm, looking it over. ``Word's doing heavy lifting.''\n\nShe was wearing a face of white make-up with black accents, matching the dark full-length gown which she wore. It was strange, she seemed like the kind of girl who would want to cover her arms though Susie supposed that those blades made that a little problematic as she left them bare.\n\nThe reindeer girl sighed. ``From what I could find, my mother's network security is pretty patchy when it comes to attacks originating from Pacifica. So, we'll hopefully fly under the radar with our penetration.'' She must've known that her words were not having much of an effect upon the girl as she added, almost like an afterthought, ``You owe me one.''\n\nCatti nodded. ``After this... We're even.''\n\nThe reindeer girl looked at Susie. ``It really does mean a lot that you're here too.''\n\nShe was the one stranger in the group, the client who Susie was only just meeting. This reindeer screamed spoiled little princess, wearing a green and white sundress that seemed to be made from real cotton with a few accessories made of gold and jewels that had actually come out of the ground instead of a lab. Her augments were also fairly numerous but hidden behind cost, nearly tricking Susie into believing that she was as pure as the day she'd been born.\n\nWho among those rich pricks was born pure these days?\n\nWell pure save for those two LED lights where her eyes would've been. There was no hiding them.\n\nHow could a girl like that make those eerie red eyes look kind of warm and inviting? Fuck... when she smiled, one of them even turned green, kind of like it was Christmas lights. Though that was probably just some sort of cute coincidence.\n\nSusie realized that she'd been caught in a stupour as she quickly stirred, rubbing at the back of her head. ``Well, I owe Kris big time for pulling my ass out of the fire during a gig in Chinatown.''\n\n``Japantown,'' Kris quickly interjected, poking away at a datapad in their hands. They were mostly stripped of clothing, left in just their boxers and a bra as they sat upon the rim of a filthy ceramic bathtub that was filled with ice water. Next to it was their clothing: a faux leather jacket and crustpunk pants that had been left in a haphazard pile. ``I don't fuck with that fixer in Chinatown. Always terrified that she's going to sell me to the fucking Tiger Claws.''\n\n``So...'' Susie tensed her metal jaw, feeling those deathly sharp titanium canines grinding together. ``Which corp are we pissing off today?''\n\n``My mother's,'' the reindeer girl said.\n\n``And that would be?'' Susie asked, lifting a brow.\n\nShe watched as the reindeer girl shed her gown, seeing that her eyes weren't the only clearly borged out part about her. There was a length of solid black carbon-fibre implants which ran down her spine, slipping underneath the material of her undergarments. It looked like a whole lot of hardware and fairly pricey hardware at that.\n\nMight even put Kris in a distant second.\n\n``Carol Holiday,'' the reindeer girl said.\n\nSusie blinked. Why did that name sound...\n\n``Wait! As in Carol Holiday of Holiday Corp?'' Susie blurted, her eyes bulging as she looked at the girl. She flinched as she put two and two together. ``Shit does that mean that you're...''\n\n``Noelle Holiday,'' Noelle said, sitting upon the edge of her own tub; which was a fridge turned on its side. She brushed her fingers across the surface of the water as if testing the temperature. Though spoiler alert, it was cold as balls.\n\n``Kris this sounds pretty heavy. Are you sure that...'' Susie began.\n\n``I owe Noelle one,'' Kris said, offering a crooked smile as they pointed from themself towards her. ``And since you owe me one...''\n\n``The pay is good,'' Noelle quickly added, lifting up her hand and motioning vaguely in Susie's direction. A prompt came up in the corner Susie's vision, showing a sum of money that would be worth a week of her usual solo work. Even better, it was already being added to her account ``The other half will be delivered after the job has concluded.''\n\nSusie had to suppress the urge to whistle. Did this silly little rich girl know how much she was spending? This was some serious Asgore Blackhorn kind of money. Maybe this was even the kind of money that could get her into the Ruins.\n\nStill, she wasn't entirely dumb. No, she knew that money like this was as much of a red flag as it was a benefit.\n\n``Why are you going after your mom?'' Susie asked.\n\nCatti scoffed. ``Does it matter?''\n\n``Just seems personal is all,'' Susie said, shrugging. ``And I want to know why this is happening?''\n\nCatti opened her mouth, seeming like she was going to shut her down. It wouldn't be the first time and hopefully it wouldn't be the last, even considering the suicide mission kind of money that had just been shoved into her account.\n\n``I had a sister,'' Noelle explained, frowning. ``I think my mom knows what happened to her and I want to know what she's hiding.''\n\nKris grabbed a cord from the edge of their tub, examining it. They pressed a button on the side of it and a series of prongs shot out, each composed of a different metallic alloy. ``You know the second that we jack in, there's a chance that your mom is going to find us.''\n\n``I'm aware. It's why I asked you for the best solo you know,'' Noelle said, smiling as she now looked at Susie. ``And I got to say that I'm pretty impressed.''\n\nSusie felt a little bit of red flood into what little flesh remained on her cheeks. Where the hell had that come from? It probably wasn't a great idea to act like an idiot around a pretty girl. So, she instead drew out her gun, distracting herself by looking over an old revolver with four chambers that fired hefty shotgun slugs. ``Promise to ice any corpo pigs who show up.''\n\nKris whistled. ``You brought the big guns?''\n\n``Well, it's a job from you,'' Susie said, grinning. ``And I know that you always take me to all your special occasions.''\n\nCatti plopped down in a chair between the two tubs, looking at her own pad. ``Meds look good.'' She looked at Kris. ``Have a techie?''\n\n``Hired my usual,'' Kris explained, looking over the prong of the jack quite intently. It was all techno nonsense to Susie but she learned to trust their gut on the computer bullshit. ``He wants to stay incognito just in case...''\n\n``It's Berdly,'' Susie grumbled.\n\nCatti nodded. ``Berdly.''\n\n``It's totally Berdly,'' Noelle murmured.\n\nKris sighed. ``Okay, yes, it's Berdly. He's more paranoid than Hands but we all know his work is preem.''\n\nSusie had no complaint there even if she wanted to throttle that weasel sometimes.\n\nNoelle drew in a breath and let it out slowly.\n\n``Nervous?'' Kris asked, looking at her.\n\nNoelle nodded. ``Never really stood up to my mother before.''\n\n``You're about to become a regular Yorinobu?'' Susie teased, grinning at her as she reached over and thudded her upon the back. ``Maybe you'll get a drink named after you at the Ruins?''\n\nNoelle giggled, rubbing at her arm. ``I don't drink.''\n\n``I can take you out after this mission if you'd like,'' Susie said, blinking as she realized what she'd just said. No, that was certainly too much rizz for her. ``I mean with everyone else of course.'' She grinned. ``Couple rounds to celebrate, you know?''\n\n``Smooth,'' Catti chided.\n\nKris groaned as they slid into their ice bath. ``Just make sure that we don't end up like Kei instead of Yorinobu, okay? If we pull that off then we can start thinking about drinks.''\n\n``Yorinobu went corpo,'' Catti grumbled. ``Overhyped.''\n\nNoelle also plunged into the ice bath, looking far more comfortable with it than Kris. The two of them floated there, waiting patiently as Catti quickly swiped through a few interfaces, studying what they said.\n\nWhen she was finished, she nodded, motioning between them. ``Temp good. Vitals good. Good luck.''\n\n``Hopefully,'' Kris said, jabbing a cord into the back of their neck. They pressed the button and the prongs extended, entering them. Their eyes momentarily lit right up before snapping shut as they entered the net. They went totally motionless and sunk deep into the water, barely keeping their head above it.\n\nNoelle did the same thing, those red and green eyes blipping out as she sunk into the water as well.\n\n``How are things looking on your end?'' Susie asked.\n\nCatti shrugged. ``Not dead. So good.''\n\nSusie nodded, working her jaw. She looked around the shitty little rundown Pacifica dump. This place had never really been lived in and it showed, with a complete lack of literally anything to do. There were no books, no holodisks, no TV, just bare rotting walls and equally rotting furniture.\n\n``Do you want to play twenty questions?'' Susie asked.\n\nCatti scoffed and shook her head.\n\nWhat the fuck was her damage?\n\n",
  "writing_bbcode_parsed": "<span style='word-wrap: break-word;'>Chapter One<br /><br />Susie had been in enough shitholes just like this. The wallpaper was curled at the fringes and stained a lovely synth-tobacco yellow, mildew seemed to fill her lungs with every breath she took, and the furniture looked like it was going to give her tetanus and bed bugs at the exact same time just for the crime of resting on it.<br /><br />She scoffed. It almost reminded her of home.<br /><br />``So let me get this straight,&#039;&#039; Susie said, folding her hands in front of her chest as she leaned back into her chair. The black of her trench coat folded tight against her sturdy fridge-like frame. ``You need me to keep an eye on your sorry asses while you&#039;re trapezing through cyberspace?&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Kris, that mostly human freak, nodded. ``That about sums it up.&#039;&#039; They scratched at the patchy black scruff upon their chin with those bronzed fingers of theirs. ``We don&#039;t think that corp security should be able to track us out here.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />They wore a face that screamed human in denial with an array of exotic augments mixed in to give them a slender snout and glimmering ruby red horns which poked through the shaggy dark blue mane that they had styled their hair into.<br /><br />Catti scoffed, the tip of her nose twitching. ``Think...&#039;&#039; She extended the mantis blade from her forearm, looking it over. ``Word&#039;s doing heavy lifting.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />She was wearing a face of white make-up with black accents, matching the dark full-length gown which she wore. It was strange, she seemed like the kind of girl who would want to cover her arms though Susie supposed that those blades made that a little problematic as she left them bare.<br /><br />The reindeer girl sighed. ``From what I could find, my mother&#039;s network security is pretty patchy when it comes to attacks originating from Pacifica. So, we&#039;ll hopefully fly under the radar with our penetration.&#039;&#039; She must&#039;ve known that her words were not having much of an effect upon the girl as she added, almost like an afterthought, ``You owe me one.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Catti nodded. ``After this... We&#039;re even.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />The reindeer girl looked at Susie. ``It really does mean a lot that you&#039;re here too.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />She was the one stranger in the group, the client who Susie was only just meeting. This reindeer screamed spoiled little princess, wearing a green and white sundress that seemed to be made from real cotton with a few accessories made of gold and jewels that had actually come out of the ground instead of a lab. Her augments were also fairly numerous but hidden behind cost, nearly tricking Susie into believing that she was as pure as the day she&#039;d been born.<br /><br />Who among those rich pricks was born pure these days?<br /><br />Well pure save for those two LED lights where her eyes would&#039;ve been. There was no hiding them.<br /><br />How could a girl like that make those eerie red eyes look kind of warm and inviting? Fuck... when she smiled, one of them even turned green, kind of like it was Christmas lights. Though that was probably just some sort of cute coincidence.<br /><br />Susie realized that she&#039;d been caught in a stupour as she quickly stirred, rubbing at the back of her head. ``Well, I owe Kris big time for pulling my ass out of the fire during a gig in Chinatown.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``Japantown,&#039;&#039; Kris quickly interjected, poking away at a datapad in their hands. They were mostly stripped of clothing, left in just their boxers and a bra as they sat upon the rim of a filthy ceramic bathtub that was filled with ice water. Next to it was their clothing: a faux leather jacket and crustpunk pants that had been left in a haphazard pile. ``I don&#039;t fuck with that fixer in Chinatown. Always terrified that she&#039;s going to sell me to the fucking Tiger Claws.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``So...&#039;&#039; Susie tensed her metal jaw, feeling those deathly sharp titanium canines grinding together. ``Which corp are we pissing off today?&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``My mother&#039;s,&#039;&#039; the reindeer girl said.<br /><br />``And that would be?&#039;&#039; Susie asked, lifting a brow.<br /><br />She watched as the reindeer girl shed her gown, seeing that her eyes weren&#039;t the only clearly borged out part about her. There was a length of solid black carbon-fibre implants which ran down her spine, slipping underneath the material of her undergarments. It looked like a whole lot of hardware and fairly pricey hardware at that.<br /><br />Might even put Kris in a distant second.<br /><br />``Carol Holiday,&#039;&#039; the reindeer girl said.<br /><br />Susie blinked. Why did that name sound...<br /><br />``Wait! As in Carol Holiday of Holiday Corp?&#039;&#039; Susie blurted, her eyes bulging as she looked at the girl. She flinched as she put two and two together. ``Shit does that mean that you&#039;re...&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``Noelle Holiday,&#039;&#039; Noelle said, sitting upon the edge of her own tub; which was a fridge turned on its side. She brushed her fingers across the surface of the water as if testing the temperature. Though spoiler alert, it was cold as balls.<br /><br />``Kris this sounds pretty heavy. Are you sure that...&#039;&#039; Susie began.<br /><br />``I owe Noelle one,&#039;&#039; Kris said, offering a crooked smile as they pointed from themself towards her. ``And since you owe me one...&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``The pay is good,&#039;&#039; Noelle quickly added, lifting up her hand and motioning vaguely in Susie&#039;s direction. A prompt came up in the corner Susie&#039;s vision, showing a sum of money that would be worth a week of her usual solo work. Even better, it was already being added to her account ``The other half will be delivered after the job has concluded.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Susie had to suppress the urge to whistle. Did this silly little rich girl know how much she was spending? This was some serious Asgore Blackhorn kind of money. Maybe this was even the kind of money that could get her into the Ruins.<br /><br />Still, she wasn&#039;t entirely dumb. No, she knew that money like this was as much of a red flag as it was a benefit.<br /><br />``Why are you going after your mom?&#039;&#039; Susie asked.<br /><br />Catti scoffed. ``Does it matter?&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``Just seems personal is all,&#039;&#039; Susie said, shrugging. ``And I want to know why this is happening?&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Catti opened her mouth, seeming like she was going to shut her down. It wouldn&#039;t be the first time and hopefully it wouldn&#039;t be the last, even considering the suicide mission kind of money that had just been shoved into her account.<br /><br />``I had a sister,&#039;&#039; Noelle explained, frowning. ``I think my mom knows what happened to her and I want to know what she&#039;s hiding.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Kris grabbed a cord from the edge of their tub, examining it. They pressed a button on the side of it and a series of prongs shot out, each composed of a different metallic alloy. ``You know the second that we jack in, there&#039;s a chance that your mom is going to find us.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``I&#039;m aware. It&#039;s why I asked you for the best solo you know,&#039;&#039; Noelle said, smiling as she now looked at Susie. ``And I got to say that I&#039;m pretty impressed.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Susie felt a little bit of red flood into what little flesh remained on her cheeks. Where the hell had that come from? It probably wasn&#039;t a great idea to act like an idiot around a pretty girl. So, she instead drew out her gun, distracting herself by looking over an old revolver with four chambers that fired hefty shotgun slugs. ``Promise to ice any corpo pigs who show up.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Kris whistled. ``You brought the big guns?&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``Well, it&#039;s a job from you,&#039;&#039; Susie said, grinning. ``And I know that you always take me to all your special occasions.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Catti plopped down in a chair between the two tubs, looking at her own pad. ``Meds look good.&#039;&#039; She looked at Kris. ``Have a techie?&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``Hired my usual,&#039;&#039; Kris explained, looking over the prong of the jack quite intently. It was all techno nonsense to Susie but she learned to trust their gut on the computer bullshit. ``He wants to stay incognito just in case...&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``It&#039;s Berdly,&#039;&#039; Susie grumbled.<br /><br />Catti nodded. ``Berdly.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``It&#039;s totally Berdly,&#039;&#039; Noelle murmured.<br /><br />Kris sighed. ``Okay, yes, it&#039;s Berdly. He&#039;s more paranoid than Hands but we all know his work is preem.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Susie had no complaint there even if she wanted to throttle that weasel sometimes.<br /><br />Noelle drew in a breath and let it out slowly.<br /><br />``Nervous?&#039;&#039; Kris asked, looking at her.<br /><br />Noelle nodded. ``Never really stood up to my mother before.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``You&#039;re about to become a regular Yorinobu?&#039;&#039; Susie teased, grinning at her as she reached over and thudded her upon the back. ``Maybe you&#039;ll get a drink named after you at the Ruins?&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Noelle giggled, rubbing at her arm. ``I don&#039;t drink.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``I can take you out after this mission if you&#039;d like,&#039;&#039; Susie said, blinking as she realized what she&#039;d just said. No, that was certainly too much rizz for her. ``I mean with everyone else of course.&#039;&#039; She grinned. ``Couple rounds to celebrate, you know?&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``Smooth,&#039;&#039; Catti chided.<br /><br />Kris groaned as they slid into their ice bath. ``Just make sure that we don&#039;t end up like Kei instead of Yorinobu, okay? If we pull that off then we can start thinking about drinks.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``Yorinobu went corpo,&#039;&#039; Catti grumbled. ``Overhyped.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Noelle also plunged into the ice bath, looking far more comfortable with it than Kris. The two of them floated there, waiting patiently as Catti quickly swiped through a few interfaces, studying what they said.<br /><br />When she was finished, she nodded, motioning between them. ``Temp good. Vitals good. Good luck.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``Hopefully,&#039;&#039; Kris said, jabbing a cord into the back of their neck. They pressed the button and the prongs extended, entering them. Their eyes momentarily lit right up before snapping shut as they entered the net. They went totally motionless and sunk deep into the water, barely keeping their head above it.<br /><br />Noelle did the same thing, those red and green eyes blipping out as she sunk into the water as well.<br /><br />``How are things looking on your end?&#039;&#039; Susie asked.<br /><br />Catti shrugged. ``Not dead. So good.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Susie nodded, working her jaw. She looked around the shitty little rundown Pacifica dump. This place had never really been lived in and it showed, with a complete lack of literally anything to do. There were no books, no holodisks, no TV, just bare rotting walls and equally rotting furniture.<br /><br />``Do you want to play twenty questions?&#039;&#039; Susie asked.<br /><br />Catti scoffed and shook her head.<br /><br />What the fuck was her damage?<br /><br /></span>",
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