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(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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"Survival of the strongest. If they're too stupid to move, let it crush them." Not that the game would let you do that.

Blah blah blah, emo cutscene, blah blah intro level, blah, oh hey Harpuia again. That's good.

"Huh, game you gets rescued by Harpuia in the beginning of this. That's a good sign." It meant they could come around after all, though getting that to happen before any self-destructing is what they need.

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"They make a big deal in the game about there not being anywhere else they can go, but that won't be true for us. I say let the Lightbots deal with that. And Repliforce. Rescuing squishies is what they do."

Zero nods. "And if that code X passed along really does speed things up, maybe that will happen before the second game."

".. they stuck in a lot of boring crap just trying to get to Ragnarok. Finally at a repeat fight with a bunch of guys who should be dead already."

"... and it's Weil controlling the thing. I should wonder how the hell a human survived that, but I'm not at all surprised." He pauses the game, since the twins wanted info from that and they're busy at the moment. Setting the handheld down he checks on X.

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He nods, because like hell he's rescuing a bunch of idiots.

There's a moment where he looks at his game funny, but that shouldn't be surprising by now. Whatever it is, it's not worth mentioning. Not unless Elpizo became important. Then Zero could lose his girly robot title.

A lot of the game seems to be the same old stuff like the first. Missions that aren't likely to happen. It isn't until he sees X again, the game one, that he gets pissed.

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Zero notes the blanket slipped, and tucks X in again. "You just rest, X. We'll take care of this." He says it quietly to avoid waking X, then goes to see what the twins have found.

Middy is busy hooking their portable computer up to X's TV, while Techno is still using it to poke around. "I think I can slip us a backdoor into their security system... access to cameras only, unfortunately, but it could be useful."

"Just be careful you're not caught," says Middy. "We have the army dossier files when you want to see that," he adds to Forte and Zero.

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Forte twitches at hearing Zero say that, but doesn't point out why it's cringe worthy.

"Might as well before the little elf bastard pisses me off more. I don't know what a dark elf is and game Zero doesn't either. A real explanation to this bullshit instead of cryptic clues would be wonderful. Who does he think he is, Blues?" At least they didn't have to worry about elves outside of the games.

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"I have the other game paused at Weil, too," Zero says, as Middy brings up the files on X's TV.

"Ok, we have an 'army' with four divisions. Each general has five immediate subordinates and access to a lot of cannon fodder drones," says Middy.

"So much for sets of eight," says Zero.

"Harpuia's are Aztec Falcon, Panter Flauclaws, Kuwagust Anchus, Herculious Anchus, and Pegasolta Eclair." As Middy speaks, icons pop up onscreen... Harpuia to the left, followed by those five next to her. "Fafnir has Anubis Necromancess..."

"Who the info says is actually a guy," adds Techno.

"...Noble Mandrago, Popla Cocapetri, Sol Titanion, and Heat Genblem."

Zero frowns. "All of those except Anubis were in the fourth game."

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Forte saves and puts the game down, picking out the reploids he's seen.

At first he's not sure what Zero means by that. So what if one of them isn't in the fourth game, he'd already killed that one twice in the first one so shouldn't it be expected? And he hadn't seen any of the others in the second so far. Of course if they could be brought back, why would they stick around with anyone other than who lead them? It's worrying.

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Zero just thinks that having four out of eight bosses be Fafnir's troops is a little disproportionate, and is wondering why... especially since most of them seemed a little short on sanity.

"Leviathan has Poler Kamrous, Maha Ganeshariff, Blizzak Staggroff, Mino Magnus, and Fenri Lunaedge," says Middy, adding more icons to the screen as he goes, "And Phantom has Phoenix Magnion, Tech Kraken, Hyleg Ourobokle, Hanumachine, and Burble Hekelot."

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Forte's worried, after Phantom going boom, that the others could follow. Fafnir is more likely to take a fight further than he should and game Zero doesn't care about them so he'd probably finish him off.

"So the soonest we can reach Phantom would be with the place with the bombs. At least that gave them a little more control over the location. "He's still the last of them to show though, so if were trying to get the code to them, we should focus on the others." And maybe doing so would get the code to Phantom sooner anyway.

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Zero nods. "Do you think the tactic of grabbing one of their troops will work with Fafnir and Leviathan? You had the first game, which would be the first of those we could get to?"

"... He's playing with blocks?" mutters Techno, blinking.