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Post by Tweaker on Aug 3, 2004 21:49:23 GMT -5
Tweaker was about to transfer to the battle zone when a code spike appeared on his monitor. Someone had invoked a Teleport subroutine, and Tweaker doubted it was IPeX. Tweaker spoke into his chat line. "Harpo! See that? Don't worry, she's still in the quarentined area-- she doesn't have much more than about 250 square meters to run around in. Watch for an ambush! I'm on my way!"
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Post by Harpo989 on Aug 3, 2004 21:58:59 GMT -5
"Shouldn't be to much of a problem." I continued to run (as fast as I could) to Kamui's location. "IPeX! can you distract her when we find her? I don't care for ow long, but she needs to foucus on something other then my sure for it to work."
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Post by Kamui.EXE on Aug 4, 2004 7:05:02 GMT -5
IPeX searched for Yami Kamui. Yami Kamui scared him. IPeX knew that in this form, she wouldn't stop fighting until she was close to being derezzed or her processing caught back up to her. Perhaps the sight of him, Harpo and/or Tweaker might put her back to her senses? IPeX only hoped.
He caught sight of another blur. Sub_Net again. She was moving as quick as she can to avoid capture and to hunt down her new oponents.
~Kamui.EXE
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Post by Harpo989 on Aug 5, 2004 22:23:11 GMT -5
After analyzing the pattern of Kamui's teleporting, I pulled out a Prankster gigabit and set it off at about where I guessed She would be. the gigabit went off, then inverted on itself and started to suck in surrounding objects. then Yami Kamui appeared, cought by surprise by this odd phenonema, but not too disoriented. I yelled at IPeX. "Distract her! now!" I pulled out a Rod primitive.
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Post by Kamui.EXE on Aug 6, 2004 7:47:47 GMT -5
Yami Kamui glared at Harpo. Before there was a chance to react she threw the sub_net on herself and was gone again.
She reappeared behind Harpo and sunk her newly rezzed claws in to Harpo's shoulder draining him of his health and energy.
"You DARE interfere! You will be DEREZZED!" says Yami Kamui.
Now that she was latched in to him, she swung him in to a wall.
<Kamui-chan! Stop it! Please!> says IPeX as he flies in front of Harpo defending him.
Yami kamui rezzes in her data_katana and angle the blade to Harpo's header.
"Out of my way, Megabit! Any moves and I'm sending his header flying." Yami kamui growls.
<Kamui-chan! Please don't do this! Harpo's your friend! We're your friends! Please! Haven't you done enough?> says IPeX.
Yami Kamui stopped dead in her tracks. There was a long pause. A few programs came out of hiding to watch the show down.
<Kamui-chan. You will miss us, won't you?> says IPeX.
There was another pause before the quiery registered. Kamui's features began to soften and relax. Her cirtuits began to switch back to blue.
<Harpo, keep talking to her. We seem to be getting through!> says IPeX.
~Kamui.EXE
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Post by Tweaker on Aug 6, 2004 10:39:06 GMT -5
With his usual penchant for bad timing, Tweaker rezzed in. Seeing Kamui, Harpo, and IPeX, he froze for a second, then carefully holstered his disc and collapsed his armor. "Kamui-san? Are you all right? You're hurting Harpo..."
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Post by Harpo989 on Aug 6, 2004 14:07:06 GMT -5
I registered IPeX's remerk and spoke to Kamui. "Kamui? it's me... Harpo. do you really want to hurt me? after all the things that have happened? and look, there's Tweaker. you remmeber? on the Encom server with the code wave? the journey to EN12-82? would you want to kill any of us after all that?"
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Post by Kamui.EXE on Aug 7, 2004 7:00:10 GMT -5
Her blade wavered dangerously as they spoke. Deep inside her processes a battle was fought with a dark figure and herself.
<Kamui-chan. Please come back to us.> says IPeX.
After those final words were said, the data_katana was rezzed away and Kamui.EXE fell to her knees. Her circuits were back to blue again. Kamui.EXE's breathing was heavy. She had a lot of wounds all over her body and a few small fractures in her shell.
"It was so cold and lonly. I'm only greatful you guys were here to bring me back." Kamui.EXE says.
<Kamui-chan's back! Oh how I miss her!> says IPeX cheerfully.
~Kamui.EXE
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Post by Harpo989 on Aug 7, 2004 17:21:51 GMT -5
I crawled over and kneeled next to Kamui, trying to comfort her. "I'm glad to have you back, Kamui. you had some of us worried..." I looked up at Tweaker. "We probably ought to rezz out of here, right?"
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Post by Tweaker on Aug 7, 2004 18:11:03 GMT -5
"That would be good." Tweaker walked to a wall control and applied his hand to it, dropping the quarentine fields. Just on the other side of the field was a datastream, which Tweaker keyed to the exit port. With a hum the datastream sprang to life. Then Tweaker came back, and he and Harpo helped Kamui to her feet. Tweaker glanced at a clock on the wall. "Still 17 minutes to go-- plenty of time." Then the base rumbled and the clock flickered once. "Oh, squee. They've noticed. Let's get out of here." Tweaker stepped through the datastream, then, after a brief recharge cycle, Kamui went, then finally Harpo. IPeX was able to fit through with Kamui, not being a full-size program. But when they reached the other side, something was wrong. The exit port was offline.
"They've unplugged the Internet connection! We've gotta get to an Ethernet port-- I'll bet anything they're trying to recover their programs that way! C'mon!"
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Post by Kamui.EXE on Aug 9, 2004 7:40:57 GMT -5
"What about the innocent programs? Don't they need to be evacuated?" kamui.EXE asks.
~Kamui.EXE
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Post by Harpo989 on Aug 9, 2004 12:19:53 GMT -5
I grabbed Kamui by the wrist and pulled her along. "They'll be fine! can we take a data stream over there, Tweak?" I kept following Tweaker, but just then the data stream port sparked, then exploded. the pad remained, but it continued to spark, and the controls didn't respond. "Looks like I got an answer."
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Post by Tweaker on Aug 9, 2004 14:38:57 GMT -5
"I think most if not all of the civilians got out already. We're the last ones." Tweaker pulled out his PEdit and cut a hole in the floor. "We're going to have to get to the Ethernet card the hard way. Come on!"
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Post by Harpo989 on Aug 10, 2004 13:02:01 GMT -5
I pushed Kamui in, then followed Tweaker down the hole. "Don't tell me we're going through the subsystem..."
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Post by Kamui.EXE on Aug 10, 2004 19:36:23 GMT -5
"I'm guessing that exactly." Kamui.EXE.
She heard shuffling.
"Damn. Not more trouble." She says.
~Kamui.EXE
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