Fire Fox...

Fire Fox flew his persona program down the data lines that were the Matrix. His icon was an anamorphic red fox that blazed a fire trail as he mentally moved.

His destination was the Gavilan Investments Boston Node, he needed to check in with Jane-in-the-Box for the latest information she had.

Jane had been the Big D's personal decker for the last couple of years. She handled all the communications with the Big D and his agents and Watchers. Of the latter included Jake and Fire Fox.

Fire used his access code to get into the node, then sent a query to Jane-in-the-Box.

A nanosecond later her persona appeared. Fire Fox knew Jane in real life, and always found her icon of the cartoon wet dream girl funny. Her icon had breasts the size watermelons, with an ass to match. She had a vapid stare usually, though that wasn't present at the moment. "Fire, how are you?" Jane asked her predecessor.

"I'm actually very confused. Do you have any more information?"

"Not a stitch, Fire. The Government is mostly playing it straight on this one."

"Perhaps too shocked to cover anything up for the moment. But you did say mostly."

"One thing I know for a fact is that fifteen minutes before the..the act D had gotten a call from Quicksilver."

Fire nodded.

"Carla said whatever Quicksilver had said rattled him."

"You know what was said." Fire responded, raising an eyebrow.

"Ryan thinks the Azzies found a Locus."

Fire's icon displayed his shock, "Not good. I'll have to tell Jake...in the morning."

"Will you be coming to FDC? Because after that call, Quicksilver dropped off the grid. It could be nothing, but...after tonight."

"I'll see what I can do. I'll be seeing you Jane..." He turned to leave.

Jane looked at Fire, "Uh...Fire?"

Fire Fox turned back, "Yes?"

"Uh...well...I mean this may not be the best of times, but I...I've read that in times of grief...it...it's good to celebrate life. Now, I know this is on the Matrix, but as a goof I picked up a program that could make it feel like we were...you know actually...with each other. I mean if you don't want to that's all right too, I could always run a sim for it."

Fire hesitated a moment. Jane was younger than him. Young enough to be his great grand daughter. And while her icon was the manifestation of a teen boy's ideal fucktoy he was not a teen. Pleasing to the eye, but never real without augmentation. "This in an unmonitored node right?"

Jane perked up a bit, "Yeah, only I monitor this particular node. Just as you did before me."

"Then it shouldn't be a problem to do it in our real forms. Take off the sculpting." Fire said, figuring Jake was going to be busy for a while anyway.

Jane thought a moment, then nodded. In an instant the the big boobed delight morphed into a graphical interpretation of her nude meat body, she looked a little embarrassed by it though. Fire always thought of Jane as a reincarnation of the old Pornstar Stephanie Swift, glasses and all. She was small, with perfect 34b breasts and a perfect heart shaped ass.

"That's a better icon, my dear. Never be ashamed of how you look." Fire said, following suit.

Jane nodded, as the two icons floated together. Jane held out her hand, which now grasped an icon for a program transfer. Fire accepted the transfer and then activated the program. Immediately his senses, already heightened by his Persona programs, went into over drive. He felt her hand graze his face as though she were in the room with him with his meat body. "Is the setting good? You don't want to overload your brain here." Jane said with a giggle.

Fire grabbed her body and held her to him, "It feels great."