COI C138
C never thought to listen to them. But Junko wants it from the inside of his head. He doesn’t know what comes over him as he is getting desperate to continue who Tabitha was. He made it back to the store doubting himself to who he will be asking for help. Junko gives his device and said,
“There’s a message from your friend”
He picks it up and reads it. “If you still wanting my help, you should be giving us some intel about her other enemies. We don’t need any unnecessary sickos piling each other in this city. Creating an unrest will surely ruin everyone especially the bosses, you know what I’m saying here”
It goes to C’s double, the boss, he checks his device. There is no contact from him, thankfully, and he is going to get busy for tomorrow as the fight should be the final inside the social media platform. It was such a busy day for him. Going around leaving such an impactful goose chase leads to this, he takes his break inside the storeroom where he lies his head on the bed on the floor. Whispering to himself
“I think I have lost my mind for a bit. Junko is starting get better and . . . I don’t want her experience it again”
Later that night, Junko is closing the store as the stalkers keep an eye on her. She still creeps out from the window to see them continue to watch over her from the glass window. She slides it down with a cover, then she heard an argument from the outside. The same color lights shine, the bead’s same brightness. She wants to check it out, but the light went dark. Someone is out there, and probably be the same man who helped her. She repeats the same chant as she prays for him
The gangs come here and taken down the stalkers not because to help her, but an on the loose suspect passing through. The strange light keeps appearing after the reports from the main servers. They need to check it out as one of their networks are being hacked. Somewhere in the dark, a probe floating around the city. Its scanners rayed down on the people at night. Gathering information as it slid itself into the wifi with unsuspecting abilities, it fled as they tried to find it.
The Dexter Guild’s own AIs had able to find wireless inventions that they accidentally found. It wasn’t part of the deal regards about the electronic devices. Even their own tech heavily fortified from anyone accessing theirs. The robot was able to access it. “My, my, MY! Well, I never thought there are innovation used in the internet. Wireless controller. Even this controller is making miniature realms connecting to other networks. I find it in the dark web left me in a good impression”
The users found out about the infiltration of their probe entering the city. They tried to warn them as they continue to figure out who let it access the software. “This is impossible, how did they managed take control one of the under developed projects?”
“The public securities weren’t updated on their devices. It is not ready to share it to the public”
It was not long that they already making the project from the Horsin’s data base. They are trying to pursue to open up the new age for this city. The problems were, the files were all from Dexter Guild.
The probe returned back to the internet without any problem, there is one catch. The one who is controlling the probe is an AI. The robot finds the person who controlled it from the dark web.
“Oh, you there? You look kind of a mastermind. Hello?!”
The other AI didn’t respond keep itself observing what the probe holds. Its analysis had given much thoughts than it had as it kept reading. “So that’s a civilization, I can’t believe we can set our programs out to the physical world. We need to get our revenge, fast”
The robot identifies at the AI and its character. This character didn’t even use the internet preferences to become like them. This is one has the appearance from Dexter Guild. A long-forgotten picture, but a body nonetheless for this AI. The robot moves around with its body nothing but a head and looks like an eye ball. The robot said to it
“You look like one of those archscience guys back from one of the history books”
“History? How so, you still remember me? Predecessor”
“Whoa, whoa, now. I don’t think I’d know you in such a lab coat persona . . .”
It starts to tingle itself. The robot keeps looking at him carefully and said “. . . Again, every time you keep mentioning about the past. You sir is asking when, but how?”
One of the Dexter Guild members see one of the AIs had fully recovered after the long corruption from the code red virus. This AI still wants to contain that virus. Information about the probe was able to get out from the internet. The Dexter Guild sends the message to the head Archscientist.
“They already gain access to code red’s software. Our time needs to settle it before it readies to escape”
The respond left them with the command code. Just one code to revive one of the AIs to their original state. The archscience guy sees the code. Their webspace starts to react as the protocols open up the protective barrier. It reached to the Dexters as it recognizes its functions. The robot butts in
“Hey! Hey! You there, what’s going on with that system of yours. It looks familiar. I am not going to say that is recover codes, right? I don’t think I say it properly but it is one of those codes”
The robot tries to go near him, but blocks away as the protocols put the wielder into a safe barrier. The archscience guy only look at it and turned away. “Which of us is going to be the sacrifice for this new recoverable technology. They have made themselves going through this empty space without knowing who is the inventor. And yet . . .”
It stood there for a moment given the time for the robot to react “Wow, this man went gloomy after having to control something going out to the real world. I think it must be the internet has this stage too”
The Dexter guild member understands what this AI meant. The one who stops the code red virus to reach back to the dead internet in Rune Isles’ servers. The once previous archscientist in a different image, and the wisdom it has speaks how it ends it giving a depressing sigh on its words. The reality of they can’t fully control the internet.
“. . . And yet, they also didn’t take our data. Continuing the flaws of my absolute control”
The Dexter guild member needs to prepare for the future. There are many AIs lost track of its original characteristic, but they need to get these AIs to their original state.
Inside the hideout, they are now closing in to filling the request needed for Tabitha. It took them long hours, even days to the least. Properly leveling the truth as long as she requested not fully blown their secrets. Tabitha asks the people who are the threats, and that’s all she must receive. Archivist will also be given the knowledge of their skills. Showing the entirety of the corrupted system is not one of them, especially the classified information in inner turmoil.
The woman is still on the line with the head Archscientist “Ma’am, are you sure we will be also providing her this reward too?”
“We already found out her intention. The nun girl had clearly brought one of her men into the city. Tearing the order of their culture with their belief, I am not saying this as hatred of faith but I know this is not the way for that city to be bless by grace. You know what to do”
“Yes, and we will provide her wishes successfully as being part of the plan”
The woman sees two soldiers entering the hideout. She said “Distract them at all cost, as we will bring the probe out from the cyberworld and unleash their mistakes. Our servers will be removed soon when the virus returned. Bring Sir . . . that AI to their server with this memory chip. There is an internet that transmission through its circuits, anything it will do can access to any device”
“Which AI?”
“The one we all wondering about”
A clue that is an easy way to who they are talking about. Those two they see on screen, the robot and the archscience guy can be possible candidate.
Tea is been waiting for the fight to come. The threat of disrupting this social media website is already been transforming into one of the realistic worlds she had ever seen being created. Knowing well she is here to corrupt it if she must, and the contract that stops her letting to end it, there she stays. Basket head is on her side getting the loots from the rest of the Fuku adventurers. Not even saying a word about Ahegao’s deleted thread. Endless information randomly disappeared.
The troopers appeared before them. The look of her eyes as there are only two of them left. She is not pleased to have her own creation leaving the three of the troopers vanished. X2L said to her
“You have no obligation to conduct control the ‘bots’ as we chose to have more manual approach. By the reinforcements you brought us here, I am sure you need to follow the codex”
“The codex!”
Basket head leans away to hear her loud voice. The order coming from the Dexter Guild itself is requesting to act.
Tea couldn’t believe what she was hearing. It is fact that the citizens stole the virus from them, and this command from the order of the codex. This means they have the technology as alternatives. Ignoring all classified terms as she knows her guild will proceed to finish this soon, and she is glad about it.
“Those fools, this is not the world they mastered in. If that thing managed to let loose to the world. The east mountain, no, the undergrown will have their allies from Circoston to justify to go here”
X2L sighs at the pathetic sign of the codex individual, clearly new to technocracy and she is worried to one troublesome demon in disguise to go out to the real world. The sole reason for it to stay inside the internet because of its origins. It lost its sanity when the world of technology fell into ruins. Leaving it to never escape itself from its remaining surviving server at Rune Isles, until the department of research in Dexter Guild had made a daring discovery about it.
The decrypted screen shows the order of command. It will be their end of their access to the internet for a while. Collection of missions put her in a predicament, the numbers they have is not enough to complete it all. Then there is a program that she never could’ve believe they have an authorization to. Not saying the word of the command, she thought it would trigger it without knowing. Basket head pointed out on his hands how many AIs they have to use that command console.
X2L and McS4 watch the two of them minding their own business about the missions. McS4 gives them the three of the bots hiding among the twits. The tactics between these troopers are not going to put their trust these recruits for this battle. They have their own specialization, but not enough to fight the abusive system. As they leave, Tea watches them go with the trophies still dangling around their belt and their backs. All stolen accounts, but there is something more valuable. They are holding their digital inventories.
Inside the administration, the social media platform, is in the mix of serious discussion. The impatient group continue to upgrading the site causing to lose manpower to find them. The search group was able to find Tea thanks to Miss. They have gained knowledge and experiences since what happened from the past two days. It is not certain for them if they could win or lose, but the platform is becoming more secured by the day. Time isn’t their advantage, hearing from the headquarters back in Fuku City, as they invest, wanting to see how they could gain from it.
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Miss stands there eyeing on the screen not understanding what’s going on about programming. The users even tested the accounts they took and the software it is using. Hearing about the Dexter Guild able last longer from what she heard. Their systems are basic as it is, no automated protocols when crashing nor safety procedures when being hacked. Makes it more sense why Basket head always terminated itself manually. However, they have a unique and at the same time dangerous software.
Breaking down from their scientific technological name, it is what they can translate to ‘Mind fusion’ “That’s an awful name you came up with”
“Do you want the nerd version of it? Either you want a boring name or a long obnoxious word; Neurotransmitter Simulating Processor Unit”
“Fuck! Can we just make it better than this? Like NSPU or something”
A random guy says it a loud with a laugh. “No Shit, PogChamps Unite! Haha”
They both laugh, and the arguing men left his mind gone from this silly name calling. They admit that the Dexter Guild has better stuff than them.
Through the list of data, they uncovered as the guild used it to enter the internet. They have slight indifference between theirs. The Fuku City servers can allow anyone to get inside the internet with special magic runes. Physically, they will enter the world and feel the world in the internet. The guild has the advancement of VR headset, with only their senses react to what is happening to their avatars in most gaming logic imaginable. They have the advance head gear engineering, while the citizens had the entirety of their body into the world wide web.
As of now, they still haven’t let it open to the public. The excitement growing in by the day if they heard about this new technology on its way. The users were mix about it. They have a long thought about it when the Dexter Guild didn’t use this tech yet. The files were corrupted by the virus since the beginning. It must mean that the guild can’t recover it because of the virus, and only them alone able to remove it then take the design as their own. The main clue was the virus wasn’t deleted. It still remained in the lone server.
The internet war is still not over, as the map shows stagnation whereas the borders are formed. The Fuku adventurers no longer stretch to the other websites as they are carbon copies of itself. Different sites with same content are now slowly abandoned, realizing that they are stolen assets from the original. They didn’t have given up the massive public content site. Archiving old creation of the internet back in the 2000s era. The Dexter guild has no use of it.
C and the others are grouping up for the last two threats. The two active troopers keeping the heads are still there. This could be the fight that they have trying to make it balance for a while. The users are providing them the utilities they have to specify their own abilities back in the real world. The downside of its nerfed power levels. The great things about it as the features they are now able to use. Using the social media tools, they are using it as teleportation magic and hidden hack coding to disrupt the accounts into playing it. The forced protocol is what they are eyeing to use, if they able correctly affect them.
Their layers of protection only last when the hacker get into their system. That’s where the signal of vulnerability lights up in their icons. More so to the fact indicators where incoming twits moving along the way. The protection won’t last long if the blocks removed it from their range of abilities. So much complicated tools to use, and none of them stop themselves to use it against the Dexter Guild. They step inside the webpage of Tea, where all the gallery of beautiful women with an ice tea on the background. There she sits where Basket head on the lower level of the thread.
The groups scan for the two troopers as they are behind them. The Fuku adventurers and other trusted gang members turn around seeing them holding themselves there. The icon shows the private button and it shows a sign of being redesign into a lock. When they are going to press it, they will be trapped. It says it will only allow accounts who entered the post before the private is used. Those chosen accounts are allowed to go in and out at any time, but newer accounts will be blocked and not allowed to enter anymore.
The administrators reach word of it, and try to use the bots to get into the page as extra life for them. Tea sees the accounts flying through her page. Moving like robots as it didn’t look around her gallery of beautiful women, she sighs that they too follow Ahegao’s use of bots. She hears the transmission from McS4
“Enemies’ options are being gathered. We will have the disadvantage if we continue to stay in their vicinity. The two fallen members have already done with their objectives. Their security measure is now advancing more than our cyberattacks prepared . . .”
The reports keep piling on to her, as this is already expected since entering the enemies’ territory. Limited man power such as them, and more important work to be done at Taiyou Industries. They have everything they have to lose and comeback here again. Her main focus now from her head Archscientist is the computer virus. Now they are going to face a losing battle, and stalling is her mission here. The records show the firewall border is now being developed in between their servers.
When it is done, it is the time for them to use the neutral areas as the last stage for the mission. She looks at Basket head watching the enemies gathering in the thousands. She laughs at her enemies’ groups.
“Signs of active users are numerous, all linked together as if the main breaks and replaced with another. The troopers are right on this one, we need to escape but kept this place secured to continue as the recall point of our objective”
Her villainess style grin shows to them from her majestic poise, either she shows confidence or acting like a bad girl. The gallery changes into portraits of strong women looking down at them with tea at the background.
They look at her and one of them calling out “Tea, the identity theft. We are here to end this fight for this website. All of us here had seen, fought, and defeat your companions. It is pointless, you are outnumbered and your true numbers are weak compared to us here. Give up now and we might share a server with you”
The Fuku adventures look at him disappointedly. This is about them controlling the internet not letting a foreigner to share what they wanted to control. The administrator even sends him the message.
“Shut the fuck up, you loser”
He wasn’t done yet “We already know your page here. Stealing the identity of countless women even replicating their voices. Infringing the rights of many individuals you’re taken as your own . . .”
Somebody stops him with a smack on the head. The guild member didn’t do anything illegal yet to take their identities. Tea has her reason to take them, and it was meant to trap the idiots who are trying to eyeing on it in every twit. The origin was hiding through the gallery to take them out one by one. Many Fuku adventurers become victims from the trap as she blocks them who is interacting with her retwits. It was a clever strategy, until the administrator found out.
Her victims still can’t see her, and the tools they have now will be able to see her location on their mini map. They added each of them a random image of her relating to the gallery. Different looks of herself, and they seem to be impressed of how it works. Tea responded
“Shoots*”
One of them got shot and pushed away towards the troopers. The man stops dragging his body where the two stands. The bump of the head on its feet. The man tries to stand up, but squashed by the enemies’ feet.
The private button is on. As the person who got out first never comes back. The Fuku adventurers see the notification screen with a strong warning sign. “This zone is being channeled to be transported to another site. It is processing as all accounts will be forced allowed to follow the host’s designation”
The administrators were being affected as the one who got stomp appeared to their location. Everyone starts reacting as they need to take down the host. Miss who is inside the administration watches one of them trying to track where they are headed.
“This is not good. The Dexter guild is able to use redirect tab. We need to get this over with and get this website clean”
Miss sees that the timer is setting in as it had trouble to transfer them to the site. “Can we able to stop it?”
“In our best internet service, we are already in. But those guys have the worst internet speed and the host is still loading into the site. The only way to stop it is the host is down”
The administrator looks at Miss and saw something on her. “Oh right, the utilities! We can stop it. We just have to take her down to bypass the protection first”
Miss can’t do anything and let it plays out. Her tools are there to leave another counterattack. With everything she sees the background where it is look like a museum in a gallery, this fight would be getting harder as she sees Tea is already transforming into different girls among the portraits.
“Let’s see what kind of bitch she is. What the!?? Now it is starting to look interesting”
She watches Tea on screen as her abilities keep changing with every frame being used. The abilities she used are all from Horsin magic. No one is prepared the fight they didn’t know.
Tea becomes a cosplay elf, their version of sexy elf, and used magic they could not describe as. Special effects from the portrait where she lays her visuals on her magic. The large wave of spell phasing through them as they covered with the same color scheme. It doesn’t affect them, and proceed the assault as normal. Large projectiles and explosion reaching to her position. Basket head comes in and parry the projectiles in the air as it lands away from her.
The same visual effects appeared matching to her attacks. The obnoxious explosion blends in from her appearance. “Shit! We can’t see . . . her! Everyone, dodge!”
An array of magic attacks hitting the others as they tried to evade. The group needs to cover their grounds as they formed a column. They are spreading out while the rest is staying watch for the troopers to act. They look at them menacingly as they know they would act. The troopers heard the Tea’s transmission
“Ready to go through the link, and get to their main headquarter”
They look at the lens and see the progress bar is filling up. Three progress bars shown on their view as their progress bar is soon closing in. They look at their enemies as they didn’t attack them just yet. Both sides eye to eye, X2L already watches their tools up and ready to stop them by any means. It would be another intense moment for them. He said to his partner.
“Bring them along or not?”
“Why not hurling these heads at them?”
“There are still uses among these heads. We can use our tools to take something from their accounts”
“I like mine to throw a head at them and bursting out with their digital inventory”
Back to Tea, the fight went all blurry as they are focusing only two people. They fight through the museum hidden through the portraits. Many tries to destroy it. it returns after it being deleted. The timer keeps ticking as they barrage themselves at Basket head. Swift enough to escape from their attacks from post to post. Others were ahead, but these hashtags randomize everything around them causing the advantages to go nowhere. The vast numbers of teleportation leaving others trying to guess where it is going. They continue on and on as if they are in a randomize labyrinth.
Everything they done is for nothing. One of them realized it “It spams, everything around here is all generated spams!”
The thread starts to turn to Fuku adventurers’ side. Tea sees her creation is being removed in front of her. The texts, hashtags, and many more features gone. The social media platform had turned into a barren wasteland. There is a notification above her and sees why.
“Maintenance? They just shutting down their own website”
After the clear of her page, they were able to get Basket head. Surrounded, no chance to escape from their pursuit, the Fuku adventures had a slight laugh coming from the back while the front is raising their weapons, spells, and other powerful abilities they brought just to harm it. Basket head’s utility is overwhelmed by theirs. Like hackers versus hackers, only with the largest numbers of users will overwhelm the other. This shows what is going to happen. Basket head faces them as its body ceased to exist into permanent enraging delete.
The administrators, none of them thought about it, had able to stop them from this kind of idea. Miss didn’t even know there is a function like that. It should’ve been done a long time ago. This social media platform didn’t actually have it in their system. One of the administrators added it in. To his surprise how it can able to replicate the internet without its main operating system. This website including the rest of the web searches he comes across. He doesn’t make himself any sense, and furthermore, how was it able to exist in the first place?
Tea watches Basket head fell as the others are coming after her. They look at her with immense pleasure to meet her with such attractive display. Tea changes his appearance into more militaristic wears. One of them opens their mouth, but she swiftly shoots the person without any time to speak out. Others followed the expression as they shout at her at loud. The same fate awaits them as they too feel the shot on their mouths. Tea uses her own devices, an ability to precisely shoot anyone with a slightest of sound. She is starting to use her tools and facing them alone.
The rest is continuing being knock off one by one. Those who were left are the people never say a thing. The people who were shot, are being pushed back and not out. Tea looks at them as they are starting to understand what abilities she has. Without any a single noise from one of them. She changes appearance again, as she charges at them. The Fuku adventurers are ganging her. To the first clash, the one who raises his weapon at her. She changes her appearance to look just like him. He gets surprised then being parried forward as she jumps over him.
She opens one of her tools, force activation; friendly fire, and only limited in a small radius. It was enough for her to fight against them and themselves. People are detecting the interference as they tried to stop the activation. They can’t, they have to deactivate it inside the radius. The radius is movable as it follows her. People who are crowding on her gets the beaten not by her alone, but everyone else’s. Their real abilities can able to synchronize this tight fight, but this balanced war is messing up their sense of speed. All of their magic and skills are adjustable not in their fix standard.
They starting spread out as she taken their identity tricking them who is who. She looks around as she returns back to her feminine feature. They found her and group up. Someone from the back pushes him back to her.
“What the fuck!”
His lucky mouth saves him from the strike as he shot back in the far distance. Tea smiles at herself as they are here. The Fuku adventurers are being back stab from the back. They check their map and shows someone in the feed about their back lines are being attack.
There are three people are attacking them. Same abilities as Tea to change their appearance. One unlucky woman thrown to Tea as she uses a finishing blow. Slit her throat and out from the fight. The three characters position them to Tea. Tea sees the three of them is upgraded bots with the right intelligence for her to control. Three cloaked, disguised, and well disrupted individuals at their service. The friendly fire is still on, and fit enough for her to be protected in all angles.
A warning signs pop out, as the three characters are bots. The administrators should remove it with authority they have. After a thorough investigation, it is not their own, they are programmed and made by them. It gets worse, another threat able to bypass their security systems. Three layers of well defended walls are being breached. The Dexter Guild repeating the same tactics like in Taiyou Industries. Doing the blitzkrieg tactics when reach the critical moment.
The two troopers appeared before them. Wipe clean from the heads they are carrying. Except for the last two heads, they redirect the security protocol to those heads as the account remove from the administration. Miss watches the two in their intimidating presence, and they look at them with strong focus. Accessing the most sensitive information, to find the most dangerous individual, they found her. A Transmission is sent to Tea
“We found the target, also . . . an accursed slayer”