It had been a few weeks after hiring a bunch of mercs and the ones who had signed on where getting outfitted. Most were getting their upgrades directly from my corporations but a few had been set to the side by me. They were all solo mercs that I'd be making into assassins. Each got multiple changes of chrome then got put through training. They weren't the best but, I didn't need the best.
Besides the assassins I also oversaw some interesting people. Maine had gone for full tank. He could probably take hits at Smashers level and shrug them off. Dorio also went for toughness but also went for raw performance and endurance. Pilar took sheer dexterity and implanted skill. He could probably do anything as long as he survived long enough to do it. Rebecca had of course made herself into a compressed weapon. She had multiple hidden weapons including lasers and had an experimental skeleton. Lucy and Kiwi had added every high grade netrunner cyberware they could. I was still planning to make myself some custom pieces and some of them would probably be tested by them. I had also nabbed a nearly dead Sasha after her attempt to damage biotechnica and I was planning to rebuild her body much like her previous one but all around better. Falco added some new pieces, mostly internal, and got a new cyber arm with an integrated laser. He also added a powerful sandivistan with accompanying cyberware and some stuff that would help him drive a car with such tech.
Last but not least was my new combat medic Gloria. I had a few cybernetic sleepers. Most sleepers were solos who had stayed mostly off radar. Most of them had stayed powerful sleepers but a few had decided to show themselves. Gloria on the other hand was going to be a custom for me. She was going to be my combat medic and on my 'team' like Sasha eventually would. I had already guessed that she had sold most of her chrome before the anime started as she was an endurance focused tank. I had already taken her to be scanned and looked at by Vik and we had made a few basic pieces of chrome we'd put in her. Her first chrome from me would be a basic hand crafted beskar sub-dermal armor with a cortosis weave. The cortosis and armor would shunt heat into powerful heatsink that would vent all heat out of small wing like flaps on her back. Her armor would massively increase her toughness by making her immune to energy attacks and negating most kinetics.
On top of the new sub-dermal armor she got a new high grade skeleton and muscle weave. All the surgeries and changes were massively sped up by stimpacks and other drugs from fallout and Star Wars. She got a few more pieces and then I helped Viktor give himself a few choice upgrades.
It took a week of work but I was finally done setting up everyone and could put them to use. I immediately sent out most of them all over the world to assault places I knew about but couldn't access. I'd gotten Gloria to put David in one of the schools under me after showing her David's Arasaka file. I sent Maine and his crew, soon to be my crew, Gloria, and some more advanced droids to Dogtown to start investigating the shit there and hopefully find the bunker with that mostly tame AI in it.
After all of that was taken care of I began my work on Sasha Yakovleva. The now ex-cat girl was suspended in a tank of medigel with multiple drugs constantly flowing in. She had suffered massive damage from her fall and was missing all her limbs except her left arm. The worst of the damage was done to her brain. I'd had a few experts under me look at her and they all said she'd have massive memory loss at best. I was stil waiting on some high grade brain cybernetics to help her while working on her body. I was doing my best to stay accurate to her previous body as I could as I still had most of her torso intact despite most of her organs and bones being broken or crushed.
I was going to give her a full body conversion but, the doctors suggested not doing so as her reproductive organs were still functional and taking away the choice of having children from her would be wrong. I already had a full beskar skeleton made based on her current remaining bones with all that would accompany it.
Her other planned chrome was going to make her a terror in combat. She'd be incredibly fast and deadly physically and have an internal droid AI to hack and deliver destruction. She was also going to carry my greatest tech to date besides the railguns. It still wasn't finished as I had so many versions of it to integrate. Cyberpunk optical camo, fallout stealth boy and stealth suit, with Star Wars multi-spectrum disguise suit, stealth field generator, and sensor jammers. I was in for a good amount of work for this invisibility tech.
A week later I was notified by Vik and the other docs that Sasha and her cybernetics were ready for integration. While working on the stealth tech I had changed Sasha's chrome multiple times. I had run with the cat like visage of her and made her tech match it somewhat. I remembered a cryptid called a wampum cat and ran with it as she'd be my own terror inducing cat.
Her legs were advanced multi lynx paws with integrated fortified ankles, Jenkins' tendons, and reinforced tendons. The biggest change was the larger and extended torso for a second set of arms. It had been a mess making it compatible with her body but she'd use them just as well as her normal arms do to the AI housed within her and connected to her brain.
For the integration I would simply be watching as Vik and my docs put everything together. There was a single space left without high grade chrome in her abdominal section where I'd put the stealth tech. Once they were finished they cut the drug flow into her and gave her some stimulants. While she was waking I was entertaining Rena with my prototype stealth tech called the Lelan module.
She was having fun messing with me with the invisibility and her teleportation. She was an incredibly intelligent child having already figured out the Lelan module. She had had a hard life till I found her, but with me doing everything I could to spoil her and draw her out of her shell, she was doing much better. I and the people of this world were lucky she was a nice innocent child who didn't care much for mischief, otherwise she already have become a successor to Loki or something through the trouble she could bring.
She stopped when Sasha sat bolt upright with her new, bright green cyber eyes flicking open. Her bottom arms gripped the bed she was on as she brought the top pair up to her face. She had a gown on so I took a picture and flicked it to her. With the picture I sent her new bodies specs and what we could do if she wanted it.
She mostly recognized herself as the only obvious visual change was her larger and proportionally bigger frame with the second set of arms. Vik wheeled a mirror infront of her and she stood to get a better look. However before she, or anyone, could do anything she accidentally charged her legs and in a powered leap smashed though the mirror and slammed into me.
Before she hit two thoughts occurred to me, we hadn't tested the leg and foot cybernetics full output, and we hadn't tested how much she weighed with all the changes. A tall, lithe woman that weighed around 400 pounds then collided with me and knocked me out.