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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]

-X had a lot of time to plan for this, but none of it took the force energy into account. Hell, we didn't even know it could do stuff like that until Giga City, and that was too late. I was also going to ask Gate just how the system he and X came up with works, that way we'll know what to expect there. And we definitely need a backup plan. I'd go with beat them unconscious and drag them back if it wasn't that Phantom blows himself up-

-And definitely glad we missed the Elf Wars the game's babbling about. Wiped out 90% of reploids and 60% of humans, and stuff about the elves being used to control reploids. Weil did enough damage on his own wiping out about 90% of the humans with a virus... Huh, I guess that makes that our world's 'elf-free' version of the same thing.-

-Oh, great. Weil just took remote control of every damned reploid in the base. Why game-me is immune, I don't know...-

The grown ups are being quiet, and Alouette is getting bored. She wriggles where she's sitting, still petting Gospel, and looks around for something to do.

[builtforbattle.livejournal.com]

-I was thinking something similar, and we could still do that with all of them besides Phantom. If there was some way to get to the copy without fighting, we could take him and Phantom wouldn't be so quick to blow himself up and leave the copy without rescue. But that's too risky.-

-There's so much elf stuff in this, what if it gets replaced by something as well? The force energy could do it in a lot of places. All the bosses I'm fighting are doing it because of the Dark Elf. I kill them and they snap out of it just before blowing up.-

-Your coding is probably too messy for it to work. Or it's once again proof that those guys are weak and useless.-

Gospel gives her a curious look. Forte wants him to keep her distracted, and it looks like she's bored of just petting. But what would a little girl want to do that wouldn't get her hurt?

[vengeancechild]

-If we could get to the Copy, all four of them might follow. Even if we could just somehow coax him into meeting us in the Nexus, he might bring them as guards... we could get all five at once. But then what? Could we convince them to have the energy removed? If we could do that, and then prove what Weil's done... the Copy thinks he's a hero. He won't listen to someone who wiped out most of the humans on Earth... Or at least version 1.0 won't. 2.0 does whatever Weil says.-

-You're right. It could. And we know Weil's using it, where it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the games... but that means that boss fight is going to be even worse.-

He snerks. -Guess I'm lucky I'm a Wilybot, and too buggy for mind control? ... Elf X just knocked out everyone in the base. Finally he does something. He says he can block Weil controlling just them, but it's taking all his energy. And he knows where Omega and Weil are, so off to fight Omega. And he avoided saying something about Omega again.-

Alouette isn't sure either. She starts to poke around the room, and glances in the box. Hey, that cartoon lady on the box looks like her mom... she starts to reach for it.

"Do you want me to send Emerald for one of your games? I don't think you'll like these much," says Zero. "I know I'm not..."

"Can she get my paints instead? Your wall in here is boring. I want to paint you a picture..."

[builtforbattle.livejournal.com]

-We may be able to get them into the Nexus if we keep helping them. That is, if they're as bad as Rockhead is with trusting people. And it might be easier to convince them to get rid of it if they're cut off from your world. I'm can't say if it can jump a gap like that, but it didn't bother me like when I was near a large source. Maybe tell them we're helping because we have a common enemy in the energy? But... Weil could stop them even if they agreed to come.-

-And it could be his version of thinking he can't die. And even the robotic parts. It can hold you together past your breaking point and keep things together that wouldn't normally stay. ....useful when it's not mind warping you.-

-It's the one thing the old man did right. And he probably did it by accident. This X is worse than Blues. And that's saying a lot. But uh... he just died. Or his body did since he's still around later. This whole ghost thing is damned weird.-

-These games need to be hidden once we're done with them. I'd say destroyed, but they could come in handy later.-

[vengeancechild]

Zero will set Emerald to fetching Alouette's paint things. The little girl is thrilled at the chance to paint all over the wall.

-The problem is that, for all that we know he's done, Weil doesn't leave behind a lot of tangible evidence. If we try, and can't convince them of what he is, and they go back... he'll wipe them again or reprogram them. Or kill them and blame it on us. That's pretty much what he does with the game Copy.-

And Zero stiffens at mention of X dying, then quickly convinces himself of something, -Maybe the elf thing is like a backup until he can get rebuilt. I'd agree about the games, but... this is the Nexus. You can probably find copies at the Nexus Mall, or even the Nexus Library.-

-And I don't get the ghost stuff either. I just ran into Phantom. He says he's been haunting cyberspace since he died. Apparently in the game-universe, the 'bot version of the afterlife is getting stuck in the internet.-

[builtforbattle.livejournal.com]

-I don't like the idea of only having one chance at this. Especially if it all hangs on something we can't control. What if we stuck to just the energy being the enemy? At least until they remember for themselves.... no, that could backfire as well.- He's trying not to get too irritated with Alouette in the room, but this is frustrating. At least he had a lot of practice in staying calm from when he had the force energy.

-The body was being used as a seal. Don't ask me how that works because I haven't a clue, and I doubt we can seal away the force energy in a similar way. So X won't be a sitting duck for some idiot looking for ultimate power. The elf could be a back up I guess...- He's not so sure about that himself, but better to let Zero believe what he wants.

-I didn't think of that. ....want to see how many pieces you can cut one into before it hits the ground?-

-That sounds like hell. And I mean that literally.-

[vengeancechild]

-Given that it's Weil, we might be lucky to get one chance. If we don't tell them anything Weil doesn't probably know that we know, then maybe he won't wipe them if they don't believe us... just come up with excuses. I don't know. I think we need to run this past Lumine. As for showing the games to Gate... I don't want to risk giving him the idea to make Cyber Elves. It's better if we just tell him the bits we might want him to work on... like some of the weapons.-

He snerks at cutting up one of the games. -Tempting, but we might need them later and this way we don't have to track them down again. Besides, they're Quint's. He can just re-lose them in the back of his closet.-

-Now that would have to be some kind of mistake. What's a Lightbot doing in hell? Other than challenging me to a fight and making more cryptic comments about Omega...-

Luckily, Alouette's attention is completely on her painting for now... well, except for the occasional pause to scritch Gospel.

[builtforbattle.livejournal.com]

-Yeah...- He sighs and turns the second game off. X might have told game Zero more this time around, but seeing how much more was going on that was getting ignored, it doesn't help his case in the not helping department. -Would he really do that after seeing what they're used for? They're a race of power ups.-

-I'd say you have more right to them than Quint since you're in them, but hey, if that's what you want."

-Trying to save everyone there? Why does everyone have to be cryptic? There's fate of the world stuff going on and they choose to keep important information to themselves.-

Gospel watches her paint, tilting his head at it. It isn't the usual graffiti he's used to seeing.

[vengeancechild]

-I'd hope not, but Gate... sometimes he does stuff just to see if he can. Reminds me of Light in a way. He'd probably do it to see if it was possible and then just try to eliminate the whole problem of them dying when used.-

-The Baby Elves blew up... more coordinates from X... rematches against the Judges now, so should almost be to Omega... I'm guessing he's the last boss for this one.-

It's actually a pretty scene she's putting on the walls, at least at first glance. The colors are limited and the style is cartoonish, but her sense of proportion is better than a human child's would be.