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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]

"That should be on record somewhere," Middy says.

"Somewhere in Arcadia, that is," adds Techno, before both twins say "We're on it." in unison and try to hack in and get that information.

"Figures. One of those 'take you out with me' kinds? Or did the base just go up on its own? ... Weil's worse on failure than the old man ever was." Between that, the issue with the emergency teleporters earlier, and the 'failsafe' the new gens had been designed with...

That train of thought gets disrupted at the next part of the game Zero's playing, and he just swears. Biting it back, he says. "Now, here's something that's just like Weil... All that crap in the whole rest of the game was a diversion."

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"The take you out with him kind. More reason to keep our distance. And this is a shit ending. I might not have the whole story, but X is a dick and you seem fine with that." He puts the game down and contemplates moving to the next one.

"...I think I liked the idea of him being completely nuts instead. What is he really up to?"

[vengeancechild]

"I know X doesn't even like the thought of most of his alts from that time... are you saying there might be something more to the 'deadbeat dad' stuff than the psycho Harpy getting him mixed up with the copy? And... if X is even in these, why the hell are the kids with the copybot? None of them are in this one that I've seen."

"Ever hear of Final Weapon? The real Ragnarok is Final Weapon 2.0... Weil plans to use it to wipe out everything else. Kraft just snapped and tampered with it... but... I don't care what it says here, he was a Maverick Hunter. I can't see him aiming something at a city full of humans. So I guess that makes him Weil's scapegoat for blowing up Arcadia..."

"... ... except that makes no damned sense either, because why would Weil want to blow up Arcadia.. with himself in it."

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"He's a glowy elf thing, then he's a glowy ghost thing that's either wearing a dress or the sprite art is being confusing. The multicolored halo could either mean he's full of himself or really is a ghost and it's the game's way of saying he's dead in some form without actually saying so." Forte won't rule out robot ghosts just yet. He's see too much weird shit by now to do so.

"Anyway, if he can talk to game you and hand you your weapon at the beginning, he should have been able to do more. A lot more then the weapon and telling game you to go off the copy. And then he 'asks' you to take over at the end so he can go poof. The world is in shambles and he-" Forte stops there to just growl. He doesn't want to go into another fit that may wake X. He's hoping that them not being in the fourth game means they got away and don't end up like Phantom.

He groans at that. "A plot within a plot within a plot..."

[vengeancechild]

"... and he decided he just didn't care," Zero finishes, echoing what the insane Harpuia alt had said about X. So maybe that hadn't all been about the Copy after all...

"And what the crap is this?" he says giving the screen of his handheld a glare. "Game-me just gave Kraft a speech about how Reploids shouldn't change the world. It isn't 'our place', it's up to humans to change things and and we're just supposed to help... So Game-X is a lazy deadbeat dad, and Game-me is a bigot who just dissed his own species."

"We're in," says Techno.

"Getting the dossier files," says Middy at the same time.

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"What a craptastic world this is. I knew it'd be nuts but, seriously, what the hell. How does it get that bad?"

He finally convinces himself to pull over the second game. The first gets a careless toss back into the box.

[vengeancechild]

"It isn't going to get that bad," insists a determined Zero.

He's still scowling, and updates. "Kraft's dead. He blasted the hell out of Arcadia just before that. I have no idea how you can make a crater in an artificial island, but supposedly that's what's left of where Weil was. The place is being swarmed by people looking for survivors."

"... and even with Weil supposedly gone, Ragnarok just powered back up and is trying to crash into that damned human settlement I've spent most of the game defending. Seriously, these people need to move."