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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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"They're clunky and look like they've taken a step back as far as tech goes. Unless teleporting has become a lot different, it seems like a way of controlling people's access to it." Internal teleporters were so much simpler and faster to use. No new system of teleportation is worth downgrading it like this unless it was to purposely make it harder to use.

"That's probably right. Easier to make a new one then find anything left from the first one after all the time between games."

He glances up from the game for a second, thinking it's an odd time for drinks unless Zero needs a break from the crazy game. "Uh, sure."

He'll hand one over on his way back to his own beanbag chair... and then tilts his head as if he heard something. Oh, that was great timing... "Fire lizard message. Iris is going to help Roll get the food ready, Colonel's busy, so Alouette's on her way here."

At least it gave him something else to think about other than the crap game... and the crap 'poetry' one of the NPCs had spouted off and that had made him feel like someone just walked across his grave... Fighting ends. Tomorrow offers the promise of peace. But to those who fall and vanish with the night sky, dawn never comes...

"Damn foreshadowing, anyway..." He start hooking one of the other game systems up to the TV, though he plans to send Emerald to fetch some other game for Alouette to play than any of the ones in the box.

Forte just takes the e-tank and hmms in response. Not really the best place for a kid at the moment, he thinks, but not a lot to do about it.

He doesn't know what Zero's going on about, but he's not asking. He's fighting Fafnir again and- "Did he just turn into a tank? What kind of modifications are needed for that?"

Zero frowns. "Do you mean like what Lumine can do? Damn... I'm no tech, but that sounds extensive. If Weil's done that much to them, I don't know how he could have missed finding anything X put in them in case of this stuff."

There's a knock at the door, which Zero answers... revealing a little blond reploid girl, a large stuffed cat, and a green firelizard. The latter makes a beeline for Zero's hair, while the first gets scooped up and hugged.. stuffed cat dangling by a paw. Zero settles back in his beanbag chair with an armload of kid.

"Is something wrong, dad?" asks Alouette. Kids are observant that way, usually at the most uncomfortable moments for adults.

Zero shakes his head. "Forte and I were just discussing Weil, that's all."

"Oh. Are you going to kill him? Mum says he's bad and needs stopped... she never says that, but I remember you said Wily was bad and wouldn't have stopped unless he was dead..."

"Weil's worse than Wily ever was," Zero admits. "So... whatever else happens, kitten, we'll make sure he's dead."

"I hope not. It was flashy and now he's three times his size, rolling at me, and spitting fireballs out of four cannons, but it still vaguely resembles him. It could be like me and Gos, but... bigger and without anyone to fuse with." He's not sure how that would work, but ending up with a upgrade like the Gospel Boost wouldn't be as bad as an overhaul to be more like Lumine.

Gospel happens to notice the plush cat doll and makes a snorting noise, displeased that someone would pick a feline over a canine. However, she is little and probably doesn't know any better.

And Forte might not know much about kids, but he knows enough to know it's unusual to talk about killing someone around them. He can chalk it up to her growing up around Wilybots.

That she's half-Wilybot herself, and a little snoop, probably didn't help. Alouette tends to hear all kinds of things adults didn't intend her to.

"Who's a tank?" Alouette asks, before the snort means she notices Gospel. As soon as she can get Zero to put her down, she'll leave Kitty propped in a corner and edge a little closer to the wolf.

-Something else we could mention to Gate,- Zero says, deciding to switch to private comm rather than have Alouette hear some of what they were discussing. He'll pick his own game back up, and try to resume playing and keep an eye on Alouette at the same time. "Careful..," he says when he sees her creeping up on Gospel. "He might not want petted... And I'm almost sure he wouldn't like pounced and cuddled."

-Good thing they locked that door after all. One of the NPCs wants to kill Harpuia while they're down for repairs.-

There's a second of Forte trying to come up with an answer before Alouette is distracted by Gospel.

-At this point, it might be easier to just let him play the games as well.-

Gospel knows he's not suppose to hurt the little girl, and after talking to Forte about it, moves a little closer to her. Petting is okay, if it'll keep her distracted from the games Forte and Zero are playing.

-Finally doing something right.- Letting Harpuia get killed in his sleep wouldn't be right, game or otherwise.

Alouette is careful, and curbs her instinct to pounce in favor of just giving the big wolf scritches. "I think something besides Weil has dad upset," she whispers to Gospel. "But things will be better with Weil gone."

-Went after Copy 2.0. He blew up. Not on his own, though. Weil rigged him to explode and then pulled his usual blame game, and used that to officially take over. Elf!X started to say something about Omega but backed out and flew away. Where's a bug net when you need one? Most of this is still elf stuff though... I think they were made to get rid of the Maverick Virus, but our world never had it because the Omega Virus never spread and mutated.-

Gospel will let her pet, lying next to her and listening. There are a lot of things to be upset with, from what he understood of Forte's frustrations, but they don't want her to know so he doesn't say anything.

-We're better off without them seeing what a mess they're making in the game.- Not to mention how their lives are used as power ups.

He keeps from making too much of a scowl at seeing Levi transform. -Levi turns into a stingray looking thing.-

Alouette sits by Gospel, snuggles a bit, and continues to pet as she looks around the room. "Is it true the people in Arcadia don't have enough food?"

-And losing the stuff that can't happen without them will make getting to Weil that much faster. I've seen how that works. I caught a Jedi LOL right after the virus was deleted... it's like some Jenga game. Events that can still happen will try to fall down to fill up the space left from the stuff that can't.-

"Weil doesn't let them out of the city, so they can't grow food," he tells Alouette. "They have to use hydroponics. Remember seeing those in the greenhouses?" When she nods, he continues, "They don't really have enough space to grow a lot of food for everyone. I don't think they'd be in danger of starving, but things would have to be tight..."

"It sounds awful, not having enough food," says Alouette. "I like food."

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