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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]

"If there's not a fifth, he should be dead." There's a silent 'as well' in there that he doesn't feel like saying. It's not often you're able to see your own grave, and he's not about to poke Zero about it.

[vengeancechild]

It's definitely not pleasant. Zero's already thinking they need to work on some way to kill Weil that doesn't end up a suicide mission. "Hmph. Should be. But if he's using that force energy... even if it kills him, it would still be there. The crash site will need quarantined and cleaned up." He's mentioning that partly just in case he isn't there to bring it up when it happens. He had no plans to die if he could avoid it, but...

He shakes his head and decides not to think of that any more. Tossing the fourth game's cartridge to the Twins so they can access data off it for their simulation, he debates whether to play the first or the third. He'd like to see the beginning of this, but... they'd probably have time to play through them all, and Forte's already played the first one. Might as well play them in reverse order. If Forte's done with the second before he's done with the third, there are a couple extra copies in that box... he'll pull out the Japanese version of the third game just to make it easier if it comes to that. He can read Japanese dialogue if he has to.

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Forte nods as he turns his game back on. He stares at the title screen for a moment before finding his save and continuing. He can read Japanese, but prefers English.

There's nothing worth mentioning, and when he gets to a lull where a level has him standing there with Zero's shield just defending Ciel as a timer ticks down, he decides to mention something.

"You know, the weapons you get aren't that bad." Probably the only good thing that happens in the game is getting shiny new weapons to play with.

[vengeancechild]

"We could try mentioning those to Gate. I still like my 'saber, but some of those are useful. I was going to talk to him after we throw food at Fafnir anyway..."

Zero snerks. "Game me just told the NPCs to shut up. They were babbling exposition on a mission. Nothing relevant to us... energy stuff."

"... and a crashed spaceship."

[builtforbattle.livejournal.com]

"You can never have too many weapons."

Forte grins. "They do go on excessively. It's too bad you can't do that to more of them."

"Spaceship? Would that be important?" he asks, trying to pick his next mission from the icons of the kids on the screen.

[vengeancechild]

"Arcadia has the area sealed off. Harpy's there, tells us to scram... game-me doesn't... something there throwing Levi and Fafnir around..." He growls at something, then shakes his head.

"It's a giant reploid named Omega that was supposedly banished from Arcadia by being launched into space. That hasn't happened, and I'd say good riddance. Even if the name is a coincidence... Omega was Wily's name for the original Maverick Virus."

"Fafnir and Levi retreat, looks like Harpy wants to stay and help fight the thing. Weil shows up, tells Omega to stand down and... huh... it says Weil was banished from Arcadia a century ago, along with Omega. Which also doesn't fit for us. Hell, there hasn't even been an Arcadia for that long. Heh, Harpy's not pleased to see Weil..."

[builtforbattle.livejournal.com]

Knowing that the three are still around in the third game makes it easier to just randomly choose the next mission. He doesn't have to worry about another of them getting killed off.

"Omega's an ominous name. I can see it being used for another 'bot. But say it did have something to do with the virus, what then?" Covering all the bases meant a lot of what ifs.

Harpuia not being happy to see Weil gets a smile from Forte. At least some things are looking up.

[vengeancechild]

"Then it needs destroyed, fast, hard, and without any contact it could use for transfer. Unless it came through the Nexus, though, there shouldn't be any other copies."

Zero's scowling at the screen again. "Weil rebuilt Copy X, but there's something wrong with him. He stutters, and even when Harpuia tries to tell him Weil's dangerous it's like he can't disagree with Weil. Someone's been reprogrammed hard."

"... and I think Weil just dissed game-me for wearing a thong." At least that's all he can make out of the comment about game-Zero's body.

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"Hm. Doesn't hurt to be prepared." So he won't be touching it if it shows up.

"I'm surprised he didn't do that with the first one." He sighs. He still doesn't like the idea of saving the copy, but he hadn't done anything wrong, not really.

"And he's wearing a lava lamp on his head. I don't think he has room to talk."

[vengeancechild]

"We still have an antiviral for the original strain, and it's worked on at least one alternate version."

"Huh. There's a mention in here of Harpuia being the leader in Arcadia after Copy X died the first time."

"It looks like most of this is going to be either hunting for some 'Dark Elf' or attacks on Arcadia. ... Hm... the bosses are Weil's Judges."

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"That's good." He still doesn't want to chance catching it if he can.

"That's the thing they're mentioning in this one. X said he sealed it away or something, and its babies, or whatever, want it back. I still have no idea what it is besides another fluttery fairy thing and bad."

He growls. "And these soldiers can't fight their way out of a paper bag! They're always needing rescued or covering the floor dead! And now a bunch of them have these stupid antennas on their heads, are being controlled, and shooting at me! I'm not suppose to shoot them but to hell with it! I'll redo the level if it doesn't like me taking them out."

[vengeancechild]

Zero can't help it. He snerks at that. "Antennas? ... ... I suppose I should worry that Weil might come up with some way to remote-control Reploids, but that just sounds weird."

"Apparently the babies are looking for it too... ... And calling Weil 'grandpa'. I wish I were kidding."