This is a series of short stories focusing on a young teenager that is trying to make a better life for himself. Hack leaves the mines and tries to find a way to live in the city. He is forced to deal with shady characters and do less-than-legal work to make his way in the world. Along the way, he makes a few friends and adds a few more skeletons to his closet.

What do you want to do in life? Who are you? Who decides your will and fate? All these questions brought to David by his long-time friend and fellow Edgrunner, (Y/N). While the two come from different walks of life, they bond over a desire to just live their lives and do what they want, while also having a faint desire to not disappoint their mothers. As these two venture into Night City, they'll face the challenges of this city, and living life on the edge. Only they can tell whether they'll decide their fate and make it to the top, or will they simply Fade Away.

Street life isn't easy, not without a proper job and especially not when you have to take care of more than just yourself. To replace your sister's deep-fried implants, you box for prize money in Night City's illegal leagues. The dream of one day becoming an official champion is long gone. Until the day you get stabbed and a ripper doc decides to do you a favour.

That phone call wasn't what you (the player/ as female V) expected. 2 years in a coma, was supposed to be freedom. But the world moves on so fast. (Unedited, fanfiction. Not entirely accurate with the story, but ChatGPT efforts)

“I want to know how they survived, what vital information we’re missing. I want them found and brought here as soon as possible, and we’re not going to stop until we figure out what gave them the ability to walk this Earth with the rest of us. I swear it.” -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- They believed it was over. That their lives could return to normal at long last. But that’s the thing about the past… it always finds a way to come back and haunt you. Not long after the Cube members return to Earth for the second time, problems begin to arise once more. Upon discovering codes mixed in with human DNA, Pixel’s creators are on the hunt for the ‘Artificial Intelligences’ that they sealed long ago, wanting to capture what they believe to be theirs; putting the life of the friend that just returned to the group at risk. And the scientists will use any means to retrieve what they’re searching for. Struggling to keep their past a mystery and Grape’s secret safe, the Cube members barely register when their own powers start going haywire, endangering the alibi they’ve been working so hard to construct. Slowly, they find themselves being torn apart, all the while trying desperately to put their experiences in Pixel behind them. But there’s a greater force at work; and it’s content to simply wait, biding its time until it’s all that’s left…

Plague has stricken Earth, ending civilization as we know it, but the majority of humanity lives on, playing out their lives as immortal denizens in a computer program known as Soteria. All has been going as planned for 150 years, but humans are humans and discontent turns to greed. When a mysterious group of hackers begins stealing memory resources, entire realms begin to disappear and it is left to a handful of individuals spread across three worlds to salvage what’s left of human existence.

❝ there is and will always be a flaw in the system ❞ the important question is. . .who are you? can you prove your identity? or are you just programmed to follow the system? ▬▬ status: completed ✓ a nct fanfiction a dystopian / sci-fi au © minsyeuga 2020-2023

While not ideal, your life in Night City was comfortable; working as a trauma agent, you enjoyed a decent paycheck to get you by. However, everything is turned upside down when you are stabbed in the back over a cover-up pinned directly on you. Left for dead, your new life begins working from nothing, with no cyber enhancements, money, or allies. Witness how you rose the ranks and became an outlawed psycho taking back what was rightfully yours.

"None are taken back from the darkness, not without giving one up in return." Everyone has burdens. We are imprisoned by them. But Victor? He has the most. And he doesn't know what to do.