One month passes in which you try to get your cyberpsychosis under control with the help of your cyberpsychiatrist and Zia, but you don’t make any significant progress. Then one day you wake up in a plane and are greeted by M: “Welcome, V. My name is Michael. I’m one of the passengers of this plane. Do you remember anything?” “Zia? Is that you?” Michael replies: “Negative, V. The Zia AI has been extracted from your body and integrated into a doppelganger of you that is codenamed ‘Varnish’. I’m sorry we couldn’t rescue you earlier, but this was a very delicate procedure.” You thank Michael: “Great, good job! But, why do I still feel so confused?” Michael replies: “The Zia AI was designed to build a connection with you as a human being. It’s supposed to make you feel better. But that’s not its only purpose. It was designed to keep in in check. When we stunned it with an EMP, a purely mechanical safeguard started injecting you with a neurotoxin. Our doctor analyzed it immediately and injected an antidote in your body. If you are confused, this is the residual effect of that neurotoxin.” You feel groggy and ask: “Will Zia be alright? I hope she won’t eat Varnish.” Michel replies: “Varnish is a copy of Zia. Zia is still in there.” You think you see a tiny crack on Varnish’s forehead. It feels like you are tripping and everything from Michael’s mouth would make perfect sense, even if it was complete gibberish. Michael continues: “Zia is in a safe area protected by our security forces. Do you feel up to continuing this conversation? I’m willing to keep talking as long as you do.” You say: “Can I be a unicorn princess now? Now that Zia has left me?” Michael sighs and replies: “Now we have you back. You can be anything you like.” You grin and reply: “Super!” A month passes and you begin to have your memory back. Your thoughts start to become more coherent. Your voice starts to become a bit deeper. As you are yourself again, Michael can explain the whole situation to you: “When Pablo Perez captured you, we were informed about this. We told us not to get involved, otherwise the deal between him and Killer Inc. would be terminated, and we would become his next target. We weren’t happy about his, so we decided to pull the same trick on him that you pulled on Shadowarb. We replaced you with this doppelganger Varnish that we have trained, until she behaved like a perfect copy of you. Then we went in and rescued you as stealthily as possible. The plan was a full success.” With Zia out of your system, you made a full recovery from cyberpsychosis. You consider taking revenge on Pablo Perez, but you have other open bills. You will have to wait. For now, you can finally rest easy. You are free again. Before you went to Mexico, Vlad has been copied to the server of Killer Inc. to act as central AI for your company. In the meantime, Vlad informed you that the hack of the van was probably organized by Nexus, the hedge fund that owns a majority of Wall Street Inc. They wanted to send you a message that they are not afraid of you. You wonder what to do about Nexus. After all, they are one of the top 5 megacorporations. This is a serious threat to your entire way of living. You decide you will try to infiltrate their corporation to get more information. But you realize that this won’t be enough. If Nexus has really targeted you and Killer Inc. and decides to attack you with full force, disregarding all possible casualties, this is a fight you can hardly win. You need allies. Luckily for you, the President of the United States has decided to take action. He wants to crush this Nexus conspiracy. Jake Kennedy, the President of the United States, doesn’t like the interest rates that are set by Nexus. He threatened them to quit all deals with them and instead make business with their competing hedge fund Contra, another of the top 5 megacorporations.
You decide that you need to talk with Jake Kennedy, the President of the United States. But contacting him directly might reveal that you are active as CEO of Killer Inc. again. Instead, you let Vlad handle business negotiations with the President.
Everything goes smoothly: Vlad is able to convince the President of the United States to let him take care of the situation. While you send your spies to get information on Nexus, the President cuts business deals with that megacorporation, causing a large degree of economic turmoil. A few months later, you are informed by your spies that a large part of Nexus’ leadership was killed by an assassination organized by the President himself. The war against them is over. You are glad that the President has taken decisive action, but you are still not satisfied. First, it was not you who ordered those assassinations. Second, Nexus is sure to take revenge on the President. You decide to wait for the time being. You need to think of a long-term solution to this problem. Vlad takes the initiative and tells you: “I know you are thinking about revenge, but dealing with the top hedge funds is a different weight class than dealing with the Mafia. As you should know, the Mafia itself is mostly owned by the top 5 hedge fund Aegis, which also owns the police force and most of the military of the United States. You can’t afford to antagonize the entirety of Nexus or Aegis. I advise to stay out of their business.” You ponder about his suggestion and reply:
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