COI C132

There is no part of the contract of the devices being affected during the fight. A loophole that they never thought would work, the users thought of using DDoS attacks if they able to find their IP addresses. It wasn’t that easy, the users never thought the first day, the Dexter Guild had already hacked their devices as their apps are being affected separately. A timer is one of them, extended the duration of the suspension as they were getting a surprised attack. They were able to solve it with an update, until there is one person who was out with another timer.

C down, is another one taken out as another item is used. The pause mode, it stops both of them from doing anything and also hide the sensitive data inside of the avatar. They almost got the data out from the avatar then failed after when the explosion hits. The basket head deletes the traces of itself, now a copy of itself with an added update ruined their chance to track it back. They are too well prepared for this. The battle in social media website continues.

Miss receives a message from C with her own personal device, from an app that is transferred it into the VR head set. The two first take contact with each other as the situation is under threat. Miss said to the administration

“Is there any information about the intruders? I look at it as they are only four of them kicking all your asses. Munch* (from the real world) This looks rather entertaining where something around them while they fight”

“That’s what we are wondering about it too, what are those floating invisible balls moving around them?”

“Let’s focus about the four”

Four Dexter avatars invaded the website, after the bait. The trigger chain link had gain them access, and no possible way to revert it back. They chain it further away and removed the links as it spread throughout their accounts. Surprisingly, it doesn’t spread massively than before. They thought it was limited of their memory, or is it that beneficial for them to pull through this fight. The pictures, the gifs, and hashtags showing collection of them in plain view.

Basket head, Ahegao, Linked, and one female character name; Tea are the avatar character so far who are from the Dexter side. They show some bizarre pictures of them and how they wear, except for Tea, she looks like a celebrity as a rich modern-day woman. A humanoid fighter with a basket on its head, a militarized space trooper with logos and frames of its armored bodies filled with obscene hentai that has ‘ahegao’ faces, and a cyber character with glasses shines white. The character with white glasses is the most threatening, the videos show it capable transporting resources and making resources while fighting.

All of them has the same items, but their roles differ base on their performances. They can be more when they use those same items. Basket Head is the most daring as it is capable to return back to the website faster than the rest. It carries itself with explosives on it instead of throwing it. Linked is the support among the group, an informant and transporter. The bright white lens was not for dumb looks but viable skill to look at the area in a ray of light. It hides through the background where it is looking at, hidden away they could not see. Where it looks at has something it interacts and setting up a trap or attacks.

It is still unknown how it can do, but it is obvious to be a support mage. The examples are well crafty after the fight. Every particle is used to make the items bit by bit as it reaches to bytes when needed. It shows of it rushing through the blaze of the battle cleaning through what is left and transforming it into an item. The coding that held to remove is being converted into a command order as it link through the protocols. In other words, their ban features are redirect back to them. Forcing their own accounts to be kicked-out from the website, but it wasn’t enough. It has a special coding that added fake updates on their devices to stop their devices as it being updated, creating the illusion of a death timer.

Ahegao, named because of how it wears its combat armor with images of ‘ahegao’ faces. The secrets of why it used it as a defense mechanism lead many serious Fuku adventurers to question its action. They never thought, there are webpages have it on the twits. It is camouflaging or blending in with the troll feed. With it accessing those posts made it impossible when it activated it from a different user. All users are allowed to access it as the domain turns into an environment, link after link going through like a new map is formed. Too much of it from a field of pictures, make it difficult to find it when that’s its hideout. So dumb, yet so effective.

Lastly, it is Tea. An identity theft avatar, with every picture of a woman celebrity but one common picture match where the background has the same tea brand. This was meant to let her allies know where she is, and the administrators were able to find her. Although, no one knows what she can do beside escaping. They believe that she is the one who able to access part of their administration. She still hides among the twits and the posts scrolling through are there to help her change identities again, except for the tea in the background.

Miss sees the potential among the three, they clearly knew what they are doing, as if they were doing it before her people ever thought about it. She whispers to herself, “I get it now that the hackers agreed to have the contract. They have already experienced with it. It was their own version of tech that can converted to our systems. No, it is too soon for them to actually understand about computers”

She turns to the administration “Did they know about the website?”

All of them already knew, and they admitted to her “All the secretive stuff, like the controversial of shadow banning. They, uhm, they used it to stealthily sending their messages there”

“But should shadow bans never seen in contact with the original post’s comment”

“That’s the thing, they have one and it is Tea. She is able to use shadow ban without using the administration”

Great, from Miss’s mind she ironically getting the karma from the original creator of this website. Realistically, this won’t happened when there are magic and other strange supernatural powers. She is not the person to understand this law of magic stuff, and she is also not capable tech supporter either. There is also another way, and it has to be with Flashes devices both her and C’s.

C reconnects to the website and the personal message is sent to her. She had the information she needs and the tricks they did. The social media website is becoming special and one of it has a wildlife themed twits and posts moving like leaves or the small birds as notification. The fight distracted them to see the beauty they made it to be. No notification spamming at them, and only gives them the simple different images going around to post surrounded itself with likes and views, when click it, where the numbers of retwits and replies in a full thread. Nice improvement when they enter this website digitally.

She sends her first digital twit to him, then said to the administrator “Our enemies seem won’t be teaming up together. Send him a team prepared enough to face them. If you don’t, I just have to go there myself”

The women were almost being sneaky to think of them as a couple, but her eyes show a strict look and her lips stiff as if she is going to scold them if they mention about it. They were here to see what happened here, and fight them to what the best abilities they have. She left, as the administrators look at the situation with the remaining Fuku adventurers available.

C gets the message from the users, the people who are near the target are not face to face combatants. Yet, they are specialized in espionage and information gathering. Those are defectors who can play cat and mouse, they are the mice of the community. Their weakness is already there, they can’t defend their captured area. They change location when they are attacked, even this website. The two can be found near one of the targets. An there’s an added note updated

“Treat Dexter Guild as modern American special forces, efficient as they were from the cold war”

C has no idea what he said, and this is not about communism vs capitalism from what he thought. Miss finds him and reverted back to her previous avatar, a beauty, and the look of her eyes as a strong woman looking for a fight. She shows him an avatar for him to switch

“Use this, I still don’t like that look of yours even it looks chibi. I know it is young anime boy, and there is nothing for you to convince me otherwise, small fry”

C’s avatar is just chibi warrior, but Miss is still not fond about his looks and has an enact reaction of seeing people like that.

He asked “Why do you want me to change my looks according to your taste?”

“It was back in our home world, kid. You’ve seen people like me who are politely stay away from those types of people, especially to communities. If you’d like me to make a different answer, I have a lot of news in my head about silly internet dramas. I don’t care about the girls back then, and it was the boys who somehow make it and seriously committed to it”

Miss went silent after that. She is now focusing on one of their enemies. From what she had gathered, the easiest target they could go for is Linked, the supplier, she wrote it on her document.

Linked is found at the large list of linked threads of hashtags. Recycling all the reposts and repeats into resources, compressed it in such tight grips in both of its hands. Duplicates were made through retwits and able to turn it into resources. New batches of the items formed then post it on the private thread. Three of them received the notification and the quick click on the tag as their equipment arrived in a compressed document from the main g-drive. Under a short second as the post being recycled again to remove the traces of where it supplied.

White glasses lens stared to the distance where the people are keeping an eye on it. Letting do whatever it can to resupply to its teammates, the Fuku adventurers busily made fun from their boring supervision.

“There it is, the knock off white eyes glasses man. Compared to the anime glasses meme, this one trying to look different by using laser eyes in white beam light. Sigh* They should’ve called it spams”

“Spam? Its previous avatar got deleted because of us. It was ‘link’ then become a default void character later, (deep breathe*) next it become like this and still able to beat the others”

Linked’s profile, at first was stolen image at random from a video game. It was from the exclusive character from a children’s game. An elf hero, then the avatar got deleted because it is easily being searched from the search engine. The code it copied was exact. It was the first to get attacked every time they search for it. It learned its lesson and going random like the other three. Having an average body, and only unique features on its face is the anime glasses. It was able to innovate as this is the most dangerous character they come across.

C and Miss arrived and found Linked. It is still the easiest individual to find as it shared and retwit the most posts from the threads. There are two people who are watching it as they see their personal profile names. One of them spots them and nudges at the other

“Remember, don’t mention her name”

“What? I thought it was just a gossip”

“No, you idiot, she hates her double’s name”

“Wait a minute, that’s her?!!”

Miss steps forward activate the field. The user’s utilities have been opened. Linked didn’t give itself a chance to escape. It is waiting for them. The field blocks any threads on this website sets to private.

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The loading screen sequence is preparing for the field to start. Linked prepared its items while C is waiting. Miss speaks to them

“Have you two fought it?”

“No, but we are able to update ourselves how it can do. Its abilities are the same back from Taiyou Industries. Heavily armed and equipped, the differences are that it going be a bullet sponge when it fights”

“It is also already proven that this one is acting alone. Don’t compare it to Basket Head, because it always come back when hacking one of our avatars. This one only returned when it comes to twits”

“Twits?! Did it give us a handicap?”

“We’re not sure, something is too off about it when it gathers those useless twits”

They showed her the data it gathered. All of them are one sentence posts like greetings, reminders, and random reaction words they found in this website. It was kind of odd at first until they read the accounts are. Not from the Twit name but the @sources, she remembers one of the administrator’s names. One of the men said again

“It is better we don’t let it see us reacting to the twit. The rest of the threads were removed and turned to resources if one of us didn’t interact”

“Like it is already learning who posts who when one our side read it. That post though might be important, meaning that account is what it is after”

Miss sees how they can able to identify them, this website is being used for information gathering. She is no genius when investigating through a pile of threads posting and chatting in short sentences. They would be surprised if they were able to get through. This war is hardly made any sense if she thinks what uses it can do. The users know, and she is here for the easy job. Thinking wasn’t supposed to be the part of it. Later, a small band of Fuku adventurers arrived behind them, calling them out

“We’re back, where’s the intruders?”

Linked and C had finished their preparation, and Linked sees there are more coming to join the fight. It is the same people when its companion fought before. Stored from its memories, it will be able to fight against them. This fight will be hard as the field’s radius is limited and the number of people here are coming in. It will soon get crowded if they were more people are coming. It’s detecting its inventory, organizing it to the best of its profession. All armed for damage, and a finisher enough to stop them.

C steps back letting them to confront it. They reach out to it with grudges they could not imagine to say “Your hashtags were everywhere when we fought your friends. It seems you are their supplier. You’re making yourself a center of attention . . .”

Linked had no intention to make this conversation long. It touches its lens as it taps it as the white lights dim down. Linked responds

“I am learning, that’s all the advantage we have left. Or so I just post it to take click baits”

This avatar is learning indeed. At least Linked made a respond with a purpose, it was no joke for why it replies to them. One of them sees the new guy and gives a heads up

“Linked is special, prepare your spam block if you have one. Just don’t blocked its main account. You can’t reach it as the blocked made it invisible and invulnerable to the both of you”

C heard Miss before, that it would be easy to beat. Miss from afar, already knows that it is easy. That perspective is limited of why she meant it. Those guys made him to be wary of it. She doesn’t care as she sends him a message

“Don’t cooperate, just watch how they are doing. React when it’s needed”

The field is transforming into a background, the hidden threads are popping around them showing the details of a fight in a digital space. UIs around them treating it like a game, an eventful sight for Linked to see. They are adapting, and updating every new feature at the same pace as theirs. The differences that these UIs are referencing certain tools to make them easy to navigate. Hiding in the real world to the website, it can only say it back at the hideout. Dexter Guild member heard him

“Updates Incoming!”

The moment it said that, its own abilities were revealed. The twits it spreads materialized in random backgrounds, and they respectfully acknowledge the programming they made. Because of them ignoring their empty visuals, it becomes invisible on use. Now it appeared in front of them, now they surely know where and when it attacks. Linked brightens its lens and the beam of light as it revealed itself as an eye tracker. The hashtags tracked and quickly activates consecutively to thread to thread, as it treated as tabs locked in when the time to switch to the next page.

They look at it as they shouldn’t have ignored it. “Those hacking fuckers are right, there is no better time to be surprised against them. I am glad they figured it out without us even knowing”

Miss’s expectation withered down from what they have anticipated, her magic never brought into the internet. It is already new to her to understand without her spells to identify them. The programs that the enemy’s made doesn’t have the visuals. But from what she read from the news feed from her twits, they finally updated to see their enemies’ abilities.

She covers her face of how something like this ever happened, then she stares at the two and planning a counterattack for what she will see next. “Hey! You two, do you know anything using apps?”

“Apps? What kind of apps?”

“About things that you two know how to make something up”

“Uh what?”

“Oh, just follow me and we can deal with the white eyes spamming hashtags around this website”

The two stayed silent and look at Linked, the background it has is surely is annoying but the UIs visualize it and make it harder to see with posts as the visual effects. They need to win somehow.

Linked sees everything from its arsenal, there is no secrets hidden and also to theirs. They are playing fair this time, and the twirling threads are revolving inside the field preparing for what is going to happen. It opens the twit and unleashes its attack on the post, captured in to make it a picture then an indicator shows up as it is now progressing. They can now see what is it doing. A relief from the Fuku adventurers from their enemies’ unpredictable abilities. Linked readies with its wall of threads is filling up with memes, texts, and other unblocked links.

One of them throws the first attack, and Linked blocks it by snap it into the thread. It links spread in fast rate and fires back at them. They pulled their users’ items and delete it, causing a break on the chain links. It stops the link but never stopped the snap. One of them smirks

“Heh, now we know where it gets it spams from”

Linked keeps shooting at its post as it is charging something. They know what’s going on and use this opportunity to use the links. Getting inside by their own post as it messaged to it, its account was tagged and they teleported.

Linked raises its guns and aimed at its own post, blasting away as it is storing the projectiles into it. Their thread reaches Linked and appeared a man coming out, Linked counters it with its own post to release the gunfire, a large blast hits him and pushes him away like shotgun. Another man comes in to the side and stuns it. Linked slightly moves as it auto capture activated from one of the twits. A gif plays as it captures both of them, after the recorded ends. The man and Linked are forced to replay the same event, the gif stops where he almost stuns it. Linked moved the threads to him as the edits replaced the original.

In quick editing, the new gif is complete and the man who attacked first replaced Linked. The gif is edited out and forcing the video of them hitting one of them. Linked escape near them as it waits for the stun to end.

“That clever little shit!”

“Fuck! Stop the gif!”

The gif ends after few attempts, as one of their companions able to delete it. They return back to normal as the man waits for the stun duration to be over. Linked retreats to its own post and disappear. Their companion tracked it and puts it at the center of their thread. She unleashes all the content inside of the twits with texts as words flying out as damage.

Linked appeared and immediately shields itself with its own threads. The stray posts around the field made by itself burst out causing chaotic explosion. She stops the thread as her own twits are spreading like wild fire. The two men linked back inside as she sees they are inside the hashtags, and she places them where Linked is. Linked throws an object to its links but was blocked by her. Users’ utilities are now being used to stop it from abusing the website’s features. That moment, it gets bombarded and forces itself down to the ground.

Its profile is revealed and they quickly forced control its account to logout from this site. It didn’t happen.

“WTF! What . . . !!!”

Linked retaliates with its item exploding off from him and also itself and went flying to another thread. She yells out to them “That’s a JPEG, you idiots”

“Damn! We are doing too fast without even notice it. Fuck! This guy is faster than we thought”

“Of course, that thing is not human as it spams too fast with its threads”

The new wave of threads is coming their way as she blocks it.

“This is bad, it is able to connect to our threads. Cut off the hashtags or else it will track us”

They cut it off losing their abilities to go near it as it posts. One of many advantages falls, Linked has lost the thread by the woman’s users’ items. They made it to be more valuable as it was surprised how it was used effectively as it maneuvered through their website features. Now that its own thread cuts off, only now is the random posts by the website’s recommendation. The fight is getting hectic.

Its equipment is now on use as the resources it gathered turn to energy. Following the rules of the game, their functions are always in a time limit. Unless resources are gathered through memory, this one is limiting itself as the data is surely being blocked by the tools they have. They see its eye tracker looking at the posts, it got blocked as they quickly see how it is being controlled.

“You two, I’ll be handling with the random twits. Just destroy the tabs it had. This feature doesn’t exist from what I remembered”

Their hacking progress is updating. They are using one of the users’ utilities.

Linked sees it and places its own defenses. The indicator is now showing to them the fire walls. One of them charges in as Linked disappeared. The man stops and sees it reappeared near to one of the random twits. The hacking is complete as it randomly closes one of its tabs. Linked manually closes it as the hacked is trying to get a hold of its systems. The fire wall is not ready to activate as the chase keeps going. She sees that it is able to evade the hacks as she continues to open it again and again.

One moment as Linked is finally caught and forced itself to the ground, the tab closed as its last available link to escape. The special animation kicks in as he pulls it out from the ground and perform a wrestling move on to it. It tries to use of its item as it falls drilling down to the ground, then it paused. But it was too late, it lands its head as the paused activate. Out cold until the pause is over, the three Fuku adventurers were glad to see it goofs up its opportunity to escape. The woman sees that her hack was able to access its screen. She takes a look of it.

“Guys, I have its deactivation code”

One of them warns her “Don’t use it, it’s probably fake”

“I know, but this is not about Linked. There is a special order . . .”

Linked recovers and used what equipment it had. The fire wall is finally complete and blocks her off from accessing its files. A large weblike links forcing Linked’s body to tear itself apart and escaped from the man’s hold. The pieces of its body materialize like a robot detached and reattached itself back as a whole. Linked’s defenses are at full protection.

The systems they blocked returns and one of them forced back to the gif again. They return where he stuns his partner again. Its white eyes lens traced to the woman from afar, as it restores her thread then appeared before her. She uses her users’ item, destroys the thread easily and its fire wall protection, but it was too late. The gif plays again with her as the edits fixed it up, the photoshop forced open along through its tag as it makes her items disappears. Again, one more time. She reenacts again but no items in hand, like a fool to believe it had something isn’t there. Linked’s secret weapon, Photoshop.

Linked takes its aim, shoots, and breaks through her avatar, her profile revealed inside her systems as she tries to fight back. C timed it well as he comes along to save her, Linked turned its gaze on to him and blinded him with its light beam eye tracker. The DDoS attacked its system forcing all the tabs nulled. Linked forced direct the attack as it almost removed itself from the website. Linked pushes her off the field. She fell down as its item affecting its avatar to move.

C charges it as the two fight one on one. Linked brings out its gun in point blank shots, C activates his users’ utilities to force it into a fighting game. He punches the gun fires as if he is parrying it, continuing the fight as he blocks the gunfire. Linked quickly learns from the situation and mimicking what just happened. The first combo lands by C using a jump attack then lands on the ground using his light jabs. Linked backs away using an ability, but he slides down with a slide dive ability.

Linked falls over to the ground, as he waits for him to stand up. Pretending to lay down, it waited for him to react. C has no hit indicator to fallen foes, this made Linked understand that this is a fighting game. Editing his skill sets a bit, as it blinked itself upright and combo counter him with its throwing abilities. It wasn’t good of a combo as it only edited to befit on the situation. Unprepared, it cheated with the defensive special as he fights back. The animation triggered as it places its bomb and forced knockback him away. C hits with another of its item canceling the fighting game sequence.

Miss sees the opportunity and sends her post on top of it. It forced itself to play along the video, an amateur like video playing captured its avatar’s likeness. Scene by scene, it shows its weakness as all the thing that happened before are negated. Its links cut, its programs stopped, and its equipment edited out. It plays along the video of its own demise. All of its advantages were being stripped off for this special bad looking scenery. Miss appeared within the video like in a tutorial video. Forcing Linked’s actual account to open in plain view, sadly it is edited and didn’t reveal much information, but.

But . . . it is the same features for this social media website. This character had done enough to see the potential of programming and forced protocol if they have a hacking ability. Miss understands its worth, Linked’s greatest weakness is being compatible to the rest of the internet functionality. Then it means it had functional UI that matches to theirs. The homepage is rushed, but the icon is there. This is enough to took control of the character, its source code finally found through the links.

The video is almost ending as she opens the administration and coincide with its account. Clicking both at the same time as it is layered with clicks. One of the exempted accounts, as it removes in one single click of a button and forcefully, successfully removed the account. Linked is now permanently banned. With one last moment, she said to it

“Thanks for providing such variety of ideas for this website”

The empty box appeared for it to response as the video ends. It replies “Your people are following fools”

It’s gone, the administrator sees what happened and cheered. The two men broke out from the gif cursed and sees in their profiles that Linked is finally gone. The woman approaches to Miss about the video.

“What in the world did you just do?”

She turns around fashionably showing her strict stares because of the video looks so horrible, she smiles “I just made a live video. Just don’t retwit it, ok?”

The woman looks at the boys from behind the scene. They just raise their thumbs with the apps appearing before her in a thread. They use video makers, another abusive tool to control their enemies. It only works when the users’ utilities are in use.