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Post by Kamui.EXE on Jul 9, 2004 10:27:15 GMT -5
IPeX flies in to the room looking for Kamui.EXE. Instead he finds Tweaker.
<Where's Kamui?> IPeX asks.
Tweaker seemed to be ignoring him.
<Where's Kamui? Why isn't she with you?> IPeX says as he flies up in front of Tweaker trying to get his attention.
IPeX was unsatisfied with Tweakers responce flew down to his fingers and bit it.
<Where's Kamui-chan? You were her partner! Don't tell me you left her alone? Don't you know how stubborn she is?> IPeX says glaring at Tweaker.
OOC: I'm RPing as IPeX at the moment. I just went ahead and translated his speach so everyone can unserstand it. That's why it's in those weird brakets. It's a translation.
~Kamui.EXE
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Post by Harpo989 on Jul 9, 2004 17:01:12 GMT -5
I left the bar, waving good bye to some friends I had made in my long stay there. I walked along, thinking. So they say the virus is . Well, that makes for less trouble... but they better get that port open soon, or I'll be a sitting bit. I fumbled through my subroutines, stumbling apoun my profiler, and activated it. Wha... I'm still detecting the virus? in the infastructure... I headed to the nearest infastructure port, and reached the permissions unit.
[error: invalid permissions.]
with a smile I pulled out my old routine, the one that was put into my code when I was written. the permissions lock quickly fell to the hack, and the door disengaged. then I moved down the tubes, quiety.
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Post by Tweaker on Jul 9, 2004 18:35:05 GMT -5
Tweaker was gazing into space, pondering whether to implement a new manual-confirmation anti-password-cracking routine when suddenly he felt a sharp pain in his finger. "Ow!" He jerked his hand back from a small byte-like object hovering menacingly before him. "What the GIF...? Oh, I know you. You're that little whatsit Kamui keeps as a pet. Sorry, um, IPeX, Kamui went off by herself, and she left explicit instructions for me not to follow. Leave me alone, I have important processes to attend to."
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Post by Kamui.EXE on Jul 10, 2004 7:17:57 GMT -5
IPeX growled. As much as he hated begin called "Pet," he couldn't dwell on it/ Somehow deep within his code, he knew Kamui.EXE was getting herself in trouble again.
<Firstly, I'm a Megabit. Secondly, Kamui-chan usually leaves those kinds of instructions when she's stubborn. Don't you know how much trouble she gets in? Because of her stubborness I've nearly seen her derezzed a lot of times. Now are you going to help me find her? She's helped you didn't she? Isn't it time you helped her?> IPeX says.
IPeX flew over to Tweaker's ear threatening to bite it.
<I will pester you until you help me.> IPeX says.
Meanwhile with Kamui.EXE......
Kamui.EXE was thrown in to a tent with her arms tied behind her back. The two Datawraiths guarded the exit.
Now how do I manage to get myself in to these things....?
There was the sound of fanfair. The Datawraiths stood up straight. One of Korri's second in command marched in to the tent.
"What do you want with me? Don't you know Korruptika is derezzed." Kamui.EXE growls.
"I know that. We're looking for the program who did it. I'm hoping you can lead us to that program." Korri's Commander growls.
"I don't know much. Only the fact that she was derezzed." says Kamui.EXE.
The Commander turned to look at the Datawraiths.
"You bunch of Ignoramouses! This is a bystander!" says the Commander as he slaps both Datawraiths accross the faces.
"We're sorry. We saw her snooping around and we thought----" The commander cut them off.
"I don't give a gridbug what you thought! If you can't do your jobs right, I'm going to have to derezz you. Now do something with this beat up program! MOVE IT!" The commander snapped as he marched out of the tent.
Kamui.EXE was tempted to go to the nearest I/O node to call Tweaker. But she knew that even if she could, this may put Tweaker back in jepordy. She wasn't ready to risk him.
Later.....
Kamui.EXE formulated an escape plan. She slid her hands underneith her , then around her legs and then in front of her. Having her hands bound together was part of the stratagy. Both Datawraiths were chatting to each other. One of them walked off leaving the other behind. Kamui snuck up behind the Datawraith, sliped her hands/arms over his header and yanked back.
"You're going to let me go or else I'll derezz you here and now." Kamui.EXE growls.
The Datawraith began to comply.
~Kamui.EXE
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Post by Harpo989 on Jul 10, 2004 10:32:18 GMT -5
Even though it was dark, I could make out the sides of the tunnel fine. good 'ol datawraith subroutines. long ago, I had derezzed a datawraith by mistake when I was working with fCon. it had been a trap for several system ICPs of a system I'd been breaking into, and I didn't see the datawraith until it was too late. my only reward was that I stole the Datawraith's core dump, getting his unusual subroutines. just one thing that made them decomission me... but as I reached a corner, I could detect something odd in the back of my AI. Well... it's a hunch, but maybe this'll help- providing I can get it to work again. I activated my Datawraith_invisible subroutine, and as I turned invisible, I could see the ghostly forms of invisible datawraiths. about three of them, walking down the tunnel I intersected with. corrupted datawraiths? this just keeps getting wierder and wierder. I crept up behind one of them, then activated my mesh sword and jabbed it through the datawraith, immidiately jumping into his place. the lead datawraith turned and spoke to me at the sound of the derezzing. "What was that?" "um," I replied, "It was a intruder. intuders are to be derezzed." the commander seemed to be satisfied, and lead me and the group right into their base...
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Post by Kamui.EXE on Jul 10, 2004 12:32:00 GMT -5
"Now pass me my subroutines," Kamui orders the Datawraith.
He hands her back the subroutines.
"Now my hands." kamui says.
"You're very heavy you know that," says the Datawraith.
Kamui.EXE kicks him in the shins.
"Less chat more slack! Now get my hands free!" kamui.EXE growls.
"Riiiighhhhttttt....." says the Datawraith slowly.
He turns his head and positions his mesh underneith the bindings. He shoots his mesh. Kamui.EXE's wrists are now free. Kamui.EXE whips out her modified LOL and points it to the back of the Datawraith's header.
"Now you're going to take me to the place where we stop this little viral civilization in the infrastructure and maybe I'll consider letting you go," kamui says.
"We're NOT going to get out there like this. You'll be seen," says the Datawraith.
"Yes. But don't you have a subroutine that'll let us be invisable?" Kamui.EXE asks.
"Yes." the datawraith says.
"Pass it to me. The other corrupted programs and wraiths won't mind seeing you walking around but they would mind me," kamui.EXE says.
The Datawraih complies. Kamui.EXE installs and activates the subroutine. She ushers the Datawraith out of the tent and in to the tent city.
"Now look casual," Kamui.EXE growls.
The Datawraith looked as causual as he could. he was leading kamui.EXE to the main command post for the secret civilization.
~Kamui.EXE
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Post by Tweaker on Jul 10, 2004 15:17:11 GMT -5
Tweaker frowned. The creature was obviously being insistent, but its entire language seemed to be composed of its name, subdivided and repeated in various combinations. Hmm...
/Unzip UT.sub; install UT;/
The Universal Translator integrated with his Profiler and allowed him to read a rough transcript of IPeX's speech. "What? You think Kamui wants my help? Well, OK then, let's go! Do you know where she is? Never mind, I'll run a system search."
[SEARCHING C:\*.*...DONE] [KAMUI.EXE NOT FOUND]
"What? If she's not on the hard drive, then she's either left the system or in memory. OK, then..."
[DETECTING RUNNING PROCESSES] [KAMUI.EXE FOUND, MEMORY ADDRESS 80211AB0:13942560]
"That's in the city's infrastructure. Well, if we're going to go, then let's go."
[grabs IPeX] [swivels chair] [feeds memory address into datastream] [rez_out]
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The Tweaker materialized in the ugly underbelly of the city, armor and weapons once again at full. He released IPeX, who indignantly jerked away, muttering, "ex, eye, peh..." Tweaker then pulled out his tricorder and scanned the area. The tricorder told him of 47 programs within a 1km radius of him. Small patches of corruption were also sprinkled about-- small, inconspicuous, but totally unacceptable on his server. Tweaker activated his chat line. "Yeah, get me a maid down here. Got some nasty corruption that needs scrubbing out." He closed the line and continued scanning. His tricorder picked up a number of spacial anomalies. His heart sank. He recognized these readings. Datawraiths. How in the heck these digital thieves had gotten onto his server was irrelevant right now; he needed to get a full complement of ICPs down here. Finding Kamui came first, though. The tricorder didn't report any program with a filename of Kamui.exe, which was decidedly odd. The search program had shown she was here a minute ago. "Time to get some information. I bet one of these DataWraiths can make himself helpful." He locked onto the nearest fluctuation and pulled his phaser. The energy beam would overload the cloaking subroutine of the program it struck. His tricorder interfaced with his Profiler, drawing an orange circle on his HUD at the precise location of the fluctuation. Tweaker took aim and fired.
Kamui yelled as a burning orange lance of energy struck her in the back. The cloaking subroutine she'd acquired from the DataWraith overloaded and shut off, leaving her exposed.
Tweaker's jaw dropped as a program materialized-- not the mesh-wielding DataWraith he'd expected, but his own friend. "Kamui?"
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Post by Kamui.EXE on Jul 10, 2004 16:22:13 GMT -5
"GYAH! OW! USER DAMNIT! THAT HURTS!" kamui.EXE yelped.
She then realized that her cloacking subroutine was gone. The Datawraith took this opotrunity to attack Kamui.EXE. He noted the limp in Kamui's right leg and struck it hard with the side of his mesh. Kamui fell over. the Datawraith took off. Kamui was about to run after him when her legs buckled underneith her and refused to move due to the pain it caused. kamui.EXE fired off her LOL repeatedly but the Datawraith got away.
Kamui.EXE growls. But yet in a moment, being shot at by Tweaker was the least of her worries. All the scum that had been hiding down here with her had their weapons drawn ready to attack.
~kamui.EXE
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Post by Harpo989 on Jul 10, 2004 18:09:14 GMT -5
(OOC: of course, niether of you could see them...)
the squad I was with took a right and reached a gathering of at least ten other Datawraiths surrounding someone. of course, because I had my invisiblity subroutine on, I couldn't see them through all the others. hmm... how could I... oh yes. I activated my profiler and ran a scan over the area the Datawraiths had surrounded. it may be distorted, but- hey... I think I recognize those signatures... Then I realized the commander was talking to me. "Wraith! why aren't you in line with the others?" I realized then that I hadn't been paying attention to the Datawraiths. "uh..." came my reply. then I whipped out my double meshes and opened fire on the Wraiths without warning. I guess there ARE advantages to being fCon after all...
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Post by Kamui.EXE on Jul 10, 2004 18:22:52 GMT -5
"There's no way you're going to stop me!" Says Kamui.EXE as she opens fire with her modified LOL.
She was not only stubborn but to most watching appeared insane. Despite the fact that she was badly damaged (Especially from the waist down), she was taking on multiple armed opponents. But kamui.EXE felt weak again. Something deep with in her processes nagged at her but she wasn't sure what. Her LOL stopped firing. She pressed the trigger. Nothing happened. Kamui.EXE began to feel dizzy. She now knew what she was forgetting.
She didn't recharcge.
~Kamui.EXE
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Post by Tweaker on Jul 10, 2004 19:57:39 GMT -5
Trust was not a virtue that fCon nurtured as a rule. The pay was lucrative, but backstabbing was the modus operandi for a considerable percentage of employees. Thus the DataWraiths were not entirely unprepared when one of their own opened fire.
This guy thinks he can take on the five of us? He's welcome to try, thought Thomas Warner, aka DataWraith 0247, as Harpo989 whipped out a pair of meshes and kicked the guy next to him back into the real world. Tom took advantage of his extensive physical training and cartwheeled to the left, firing his mesh for all he was worth. His mesh blasts connected, and the offending program jerked back from the impact. Tom smiled.
And then a blue disc streaked from down the hall and detonated in the middle of his squad. Tom saw three flashes and three core dumps as the blast knocked him on his back.
Then he heard a whisk sound and saw the disc coming for him. His last thought in TronSpace was, Boy, that program looks ticked.
Catching his disc, deactivating Cluster, and replacing it on his arm in one fluid motion, Tweaker ran down the hall to Harpo and Kamui. "Kamui! What were you thinking, running off by yourself? I'm so glad to see you! Are you OK?"
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Post by Harpo989 on Jul 10, 2004 22:31:54 GMT -5
I felt the mesh blast take me down, but I was able to derezz at least two more before they were finally gone. I turned and ran a profiler on the program running up, as well as the one on the floor. then I realized that I had been hit by some corruption. I began to clean my profiler, and tried to get up. I felt a little disoriented, and I needed to be alert, so I sat down and watched the two programs carefully... although my system receptors must have been malfunctioning, as I couldn't quite make out what the others were saying, or what they looked like exactly. I'll run a diagnostc later. but if either of these programs are anti-virus, then they'll need my info... assumeing they're not corrupted. I felt my hand twitch towards the handle on my mesh... no. they may need me. I simply sighed and leaned my head back, letting the cleaners do their work on my code.
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Post by Kamui.EXE on Jul 11, 2004 7:18:34 GMT -5
"This viral civilization is leaching power off of the city's infrastucture from a small outpost down here. We HAVE to find it," Kamui.EXE says struggling to get up but her legs wouldn't allow her, "I-I can't move them. Damn that stupid corrupted Datawraith. If I ever see his face around here too soon...."
IPeX hovered right by Kamui.EXE. He started speaking quickly. kamui translated.
"I'm sorry I ran off, IPeX. Somehing just didn't feel right to me and I had to do something." Kamui.EXE says.
IPeX begins rambling again.
"'I was trying to fix my mistakes by comming here?' IPeX, did you realize what happened with Korri?" Kamui says.
IPeX says a few words.
"Me? Stubborn? Now what would give you that idea?" Kamui says.
IPeX giggles.
"Okay. Well.... we have to get to the outpost and hurry. If we shut it down, it'll make things easier," Kamui says as she looks down at her legs, "Uhh..... as much as I'd hate to say this but can someone help me out here?"
~Kamui.EXE
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Post by Tweaker on Jul 11, 2004 11:41:38 GMT -5
"Kamui, you're really in no position to be fighting a battle here," Tweaker said as he helped her up. "Look at you, you're still not recovered from battling Korri, you've got no energy, you can't even walk..." Tweaker trailed off as he saw the look on Kamui's face. "Oh, all right."
Tweaker stood in front of Kamui and raised his hands. Puzzled, Kamui did the same. Tweaker pressed his palms against hers and she felt a surge of energy as he gave his energy and life power to her.
/// Tweaker::Health = 100% Tweaker::Energy= 100% Kamui::Health = 14% Kamui::Energy= 0%
Transfer in progress...Complete.
Tweaker::Health= 57% Kamui::Health= 57% Tweaker::Energy= 50% Kamui::Energy= 50% ///
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Post by Kamui.EXE on Jul 11, 2004 16:11:45 GMT -5
"Thanks. Now to get to that out post. I'm certain I saw the Datawraith go this way," says Kamui as she dashes off in to another direction.
She was still a little slow but was in better condition than when she started down here.
After this, I'm going to have to take a nice long rest.... kamui.EXE thought.
She came to a set of steps. She saw the corrupted Datawraith at the top.
Kamui.EXE growls.
"You've got a lot of nerve to hit me with your mesh like that. Now I'm going to pay that back with interest!" kamui.EXE says as she rezzes up her modified LOL and takes a shot.
~Kamui.EXE
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