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[hacker_twins]

(Continued from here after Release 88 made the first post unusable)

The only thing that grates on Techno worse than when people notice how obviously he resembles Forte, is when it dawns on them he resembles both Forte and Mega. He isn't really sure how to feel about the person responsible being dead, as now he'll never get to have that nice loud 'what the hell were you thinking' talk he'd sometimes fantasized about.

But for now the Twins skirt around that topic and onto one of pets, as they follow Zero towards X's room.

"I still think we should get a puppy."

"We live in a treehouse, Middy. Canines can't climb."

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[vengeancechild]

"A real life videogame speedrun," says Zero, and nods. "Getting even one step ahead of that bastard would be better than being ten steps behind all the time."

"I have some news too, but almost all of it's bad. This starts with humans fleeing Arcadia because Weil's having anyone who disagrees with him killed. And it says that was triggered after someone killed Arcadia's 'leader'. We know the leader's Weil, but... you know who he just set up as a figurehead. So at some point he's going to pull the same trick again and killing that Copy is going to play into his plans. The fleeing humans don't want anything to do with 'bots, because they blame us for the whole mess. Again."

"Second, the humans are trying to flee to a place that doesn't exist. The game says it was made by the Eurasia colony crash. It didn't crash for us, it ended up on the moon. Lumine took it back over not long after the Giga City mess."

"The only good news is I guess I can tell Quick he can tell Plum that Neige probably isn't dead yet. She's with the ones fleeing in this game."

[builtforbattle.livejournal.com]

"A speedrun with a lot of effort put on damage control," he winces. Protecting people was such a pain in the ass. "If even the humans are getting killed off, he must get some serious power over them. Enough that he's not worried about his image to the public anymore."

"What if a replacement place was set up?"

[vengeancechild]

"It's like he doesn't care about that any more. He doesn't need Copy X to hide behind, so lets him get offed so the humans will blame us for spoiling their 'utopia'." Zero pauses and swears. "That's why that crazy Harpuia blamed me for Weil. Maybe in his universe he didn't know Weil was there the whole time. Or, hell, maybe he wasn't."

"Don't think Earth's ecosystem's as trashed as this game acts like it is, but it couldn't hurt. Part of that might be the time difference. There are supposed to be a couple of hundred year gaps that have disappeared on us, I think."

[builtforbattle.livejournal.com]

"All he knew was that your actions started a domino effect."

"I guessed something like that was at play when game you gets woken up and travels through a lab from prehistory. Prehistory... how does that even.." He shakes his head. He shouldn't take the game's plot too seriously, or at least not the parts that don't line up with what's going on.

"It's something to offer them," he shrugs. "Leaving Weil with an empty kingdom would be nice. Just not as nice as killing him."

[vengeancechild]

Zero snerks. "Now I'm picturing a lab with a Flintstones theme... If I'm a 'old relic' already, what does that make the rest of you?"

"There's a few more familiar faces. An alt of my daughter. And an alt of Ciel, but the one I know isn't even five yet, so definitely some of the time distortion at work."

He'll nod agreement to the rest. "If we can do something to get them to trust us. Though... if we can get X's kids back, maybe they can do that. And I don't care what the game says happens to Weil in the end, he's dead. I wouldn't trust leaving him alive."

[builtforbattle.livejournal.com]

"Older than time itself? I don't know, it's certainly making me feel really old." He mashes a button frustratingly. "I shouldn't be old enough to feel old." He already gets enough of that with the newer reploids who don't know who he is.

"Definitely. Wily was bad enough getting second and third chances. Weil can't be given that opportunity."

[vengeancechild]

"This... isn't good," Zero mutters. "There's something in here about a plan called 'Ragnarok'. Basically, Weil finding a way to wipe out any place humans could survive outside of Arcadia to force them to stay."

"The first level I picked involves taking out some particle beam cannon being used to destroy stuff. The game's got some stupid bits. Even if the boss was part of the thing's power systems, I don't think that would shut it down for good."

[builtforbattle.livejournal.com]

The only words for that level of crazy is a few choice curses. At this rate, there isn't going to be anything left to fight over.

"No, but it's not a good game if you're breaking stuff that doesn't fight back. If it comes to it, we'll just blow the whole thing up."

[vengeancechild]

"Oh, there are drones, and the boss was still a reploid. Some kind of turtle design, but it looks like each 'level' is going to be some kind of doomsday device that looks like Weil got it out of a stack of designs Wily rejected. This one's a floating fortress that drops acid rain..," there's a pause and he starts to snicker, "with a prissy pegasus boss named after a French pastry." Because that's what comes to Zero's mind when he sees the word 'éclair'. Food.

He shakes his head. "The bosses in this are giving that nutty alt-Harpy a run for loony bin material, too. Half of what they babble makes no sense, and the rest is just restating the obvious."