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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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[builtforbattle.livejournal.com]

Forte is still snickering. Zero saying what is going through his mind doesn't help. "It's like they turned you into a magical girl. All that's left is a sparkly transformation sequence of some kind, and hell, nothing says it doesn't have that. Maybe you are a girl in these- no, male pronoun, never mind."

He digs out another, still looking for any mention of Weil and only finding more things worth laughing over. "Might explain why you look so pissed off on all of these."

[vengeancechild]

"You'd be pissed, too, if you had to fight in girl's underwear, surrounded by sparkling fairies," says Zero, who's snickering by now too. Hey, he can laugh at himself... when it's an alt in an outfit he has no intention of ever being forced into in any way.

[builtforbattle.livejournal.com]

"That it's possible to fight like that at all is mind boggling." Besides looking ridiculous and uncomfortable, the 'armor' doesn't look like it'd offer much protection.

"Here we go, defeat the evil Weil and blah blah blah. Fourth game. Heh, there's a recipe system. Any more after this one?"

[vengeancechild]

"Recipes?" Zero says, as if he can't quite believe it, and swears. "Well, we know that won't happen. I've been banned from trying to cook anything since I was a few months old. I set fire to the last Skull Castle's kitchen..." He checks the box carefully while saying this, then shakes his head. "That's the last one."

[builtforbattle.livejournal.com]

The recipes are for new items, but he isn't going to correct Zero. It's funnier this way. "No one's around to tell you no in the game's world."

"Alright, then as long as he isn't sent to jail at the end, you should get to kill him in that one. I wonder if playing the other three is necessary to understand what's going on in the last one."

[vengeancechild]

"How would I know?" Zero says, checking the box. "More than one player in here. One of us could start with the first and one could start with the fourth..."

The Twins are still just keeping quiet, coding a VR setting.

And X has fallen asleep on the couch. Not being alone seems to be helping a bit with that.

[builtforbattle.livejournal.com]

"I call dibs on the first," Forte says as he grabs the first one and digs around for a system to play it on. He's gotten slightly excitable over the games, especially the odd content of these.

"I want to see how deep this rabbit hole goes. And it looks like the forth has escort missions so screw that."

System in hand, he scoots to a corner of the room out of a habit to avoid people bothering him while he plays. It's not long before he's through the intro and on to the first mission. That's when things get familiar.

"Got some good news and some bad..."

[vengeancechild]

Zero had just reached a boss selection screen when Forte says that, so waits to pick a level and asks, "What's the bad news?"

[builtforbattle.livejournal.com]

"That thing we just did with the crusher and Harpuia's bird. Doing that now, and it's only the first mission. So if things line up, that's four games worth of stuff before Weil's defeated."

[vengeancechild]

Zero just swears at that, "If Weil's timing is like Wily's," meaning roughly a 'game' per year, "I don't know if X will survive that long. What's the good news?"