I woke with Sasha still 'atop' me as we both slowly separated due to Rena levitating us. As we were set down I made a joke while introducing us. "I would prefer having dinner with you before you try to jump my bones, as it were. You may call me Ellery or boss, the adorable little magical girl who made us float is my daughter Rena. The others are the doctors that put you back together and added the chrome I have created." Vik walked over as I spoke and waited for me to finish. Sasha gave a feral grin, highlighted by her modified jaw and extendable fangs. At the smile Vik spoke. "Hello Sasha, I hope you still recognize me. I'm Vik, a ripperdoc who's worked on you and your previous team multiple times. I'm also the head doctor here at this facility." She looked at him then gave a nod and spoke in a melodic voice. For some reason the only voice samples of her we could find were of her singing. "So, you guys are the ones who saved me. Why?" Before I could answer Vik cut me off. "The boss here will go on a bit of a tangent about why but, I'll get to the point. He has the ability to change the world, for better or worse. He decided he'd make it better and we are all part of that. I haven't seen all his plans but I've seen some of them pertaining to you. He wants someone who can be what Smasher is to Arasaka. You are that someone." Her large green eyes blinked and unfocused for a second then she looked at me and asked. "Why me though. I was just some idiot who tried to harm a megacorp and nearly died for it." I smiled at that, in that way she and I were similar. I had died trying to hurt tyrants.
I responded to her. "Why you indeed. I don't know why. You were there, ready for me to take and make into a symbol. You had proven you'd die for what was right, even if it was admittedly for vengeance. Why you? The only reason I can give is because." My answer probably wasn't very satisfactory but it was pretty accurate. Before my plans I had wanted to save her, but that was only because I knew her in some way.
She blinked slowly while tilting her head, then turned to Vik and asked. "You sure this guys not crazy?" Vik smirked "I've already put money on it. We made a betting pool a couple weeks ago." The docs in the room snickered and whispered and even Rena started nodding at Sasha. Sasha and Vik started laughing at me as Rena nodded so I scooped her up and tickled her. After a bit she disappeared with her teleportation and stunned Sasha. A bit of explanation later I left as Vik took Sasha to a nearby training facility for a bit till they were forced to leave by the droid overseer after she destroyed all the training bots.
It was two weeks later that I finished the Lelan module and put it in Sasha's already prepared space. After installing she trained with it for a few hours then I sent her on her first mission. I had gotten in contact with Rogue and taken multiple jobs for Sasha to do. Her mission was to become famous. I needed the world to know someone on Smashers level had popped up.
The only reason she wouldn't be able to fight Smasher was because I couldn't give her a sandivistan due to her remaining brain damage. Despite not having a sandy she could still keep up with all but the best. Once I got her sensor array and cat tail made she'd be almost supernaturally coordinated. Her additional height, alongside her brain damage and memory loss had removed most of her automatic balance but the tail and its accompanying Ai would allow her to move as good or maybe better than a cat. Her sensor array was multiple cat whisker like antennae to be placed on her face, head, and limbs to vastly improve her physical senses.
If she had had these already I could have sent her into dogtown by herself but without I felt she would be in a bit of danger. I was only comfortable sending her there as she had the lelan module and, was with Maine and crew, and Gloria. With her brain damage and amnesia I couldn't be sure how stable she was. Sasha had easily agreed to work for me but her actions outside of her missions were strange. After I'd told her of the wampus cat cryptid she'd taken to acting like a mostly tame bug cat. I had even found her once, rubbing herself against a pillar like a cat would. It didn't make much sense for her to do something like that as she didn't have scent glands and such like a cat did.
The doctors explained it away as her damaged mind putting itself back together by filling gaps with cat like behavior. Whenever she was here at the penthouses we were working out of, she'd sleep, barge into areas like she owned them, and even 'hunt' Rena like she was a mouse. Rena loved it as much as Sasha did and I didn't have to fear her getting hurt due to her abilities.
Eventually after finishing Sasha's chrome I began working in sandivistan tech. It was all extremely complicated and hard to test but, dragging in multiple experts and drawing from all the net data my AI had collected made getting a prototype easy. The prototype would allow for two modes, extreme speed or a small but near permanent boost. The cost of the prototype was that it demanded the entire skeleton to be replaced with metal and most fleshy parts to be reinforced.
It was pretty hard to find someone willing to undergo the prototype implant but after reaching out to the 'nicer' fixers in Night city, Padré contacted us and sent over two people willing to take the prototype. He sent the street kids Jackie Welles and Vincent. While the docs were preparing the prototypes and the procedure the two were being young chooms and messing around.
When it came time Vik started admonishing the two then took them to be sedated. I watched the surgery for the entire 9 hours it took to complete. After they were put together I had them both suspended like Sasha had once been and lots of monitoring equipment hooked to them. With that all done I had most docs take a long break and left some docs who had been resting to watch them alongside some medical droids.
After setting things up I finally got myself some rest. After resting I brought in the doctors and some security, all with sandies of their own, to watch over their awakening and prototype testing. The two woke without much sign of mental change so we put them through a multitude of tests and subsequently found that we needed to give them cortosis heatsinks as even with minimal chrome and low power sandies overheating was still a massive issue.
I was still trying to integrate coolants from Star Wars and fallout but almost anything useful was highly toxic. The cortosis heatsinks with normal high grade coolant was fine but not nearly efficient enough for me to want to use on myself. If I could figure it out then wielding a sandivistan myself might be worth doing.
Vik and I had been working tirelessly on chrome based on Star Wars tech and materials. Having hyper efficient bone marrow and beskar bones was easy to do, and I had already gotten them. A basic sub-dermal armor made of quadanium steel and durasteel, and multiple healing implants such as, a PHOENIX Monocyte breeder, a nanobot colony, and epimorphis tech. The last chrome I'd be getting was the lelan module as it's invisibility was incredibly powerful.
All the tech in me would easily be powered by my enhanced bodies bio-energy. A few minutes of preparation and I went under with Vik and multiple docs ready to work on me.