COI C139
Time is ticking, according to the digital timer. The fight is getting dire and more elusive than ever. Everyone is in the social media website. Tea’s personal page and the administration are underway to send into the neutral zone of the internet. It is a matter of time before . . . In the main servers, there is trouble happening. The users have detected a probe wondering inside the city.
“What is happening? We have enemies infiltrating the city”
“There shouldn’t be a problem, we have the full authority from the cult leader himself, right?”
The available Fuku adventures inside the city are been calling out to them. Familiar faces; Magnet, Flashes, and the other companions who are with them during the siege. All call to return to find a small object floating somewhere inside the city. Flashes is the only one who takes it seriously, while the others losing their train of thought of a digital object from the internet.
“Are they serious, Flashes?”
“I heard you said you were going into the internet before. What’s so urgent about it?”
“This is not about your ordinary internet. You suspect a lot of things how it existed without its IP addresses”
“. . .”
Flashes looking at them with no knowledge about electronic devices. Only thing he could do for them is to say what they want
“They can pay for our time”
“How much?”
The man carries a lump of coal on his belt, treated as a keychain for his accessories. It wasn’t wise for this committed solo fighter joining with them, but their organization says otherwise. He is not the type of person who will work secretly and openly fights like there is no better solution but having good smack. Magnet agreed
“Yeah, if it is urgent, how much?”
The other person joins along, as he has no idea what’s so important about it, and the two is acting much like delinquents for a moment. Flashes admitted from the back of his head, these idiots know nothing the value of the internet. These part timers need to learn a thing or two about Fuku City’s future uprising businesses. He continued
“Do you know how much I pay for my expenses with these gadgets?”
“Don’t care, rich fat ass”
Flashes looks at him in the eyes as he knows they are disguising as doubles. What’s with that arrogant look all of a sudden?
The man sighs as he regrets for the moment, he said that to him, “Sigh* You already know I’m getting myself into this shit . . .”
Magnet stops him “I know what you’re feeling. Our residence here in Mihayara district is something we don’t want to accept. It’s been almost a month now and we still looking at our old place down to rubble”
The man shakes his head “No, we are becoming like salary man again”
Magnet didn’t experience it, but those three. They did, repeating the same activities as they alternating the workload from one place to another. Of course, there is pay, for what they done then another call for another job.
The probe is now heading to the center high rise building. It is now moving fast approaching as it digitalized through the mainframes of every piece of computer software in the city. Smart tv screens, telecommunication networks, signals transmitting through electromagnetic waves, to everything what the microchips, processors, and other components shared the same software and hardware. It will reach closer to what they intend to get, the code red virus.
Meanwhile Miss checks on screen where Tea is now, having a group of bots siding with her and her secret weapons. With another glimpse of her eyes where the two troopers, walking in bulk of heavy power armor. Their sigils of skulls and wings giving the expression of their designs to be dangerous. Unarmed, but they already knew that they are formidable. With the troopers’ inventories they have are all coming from the stolen items of the beheaded accounts from Ahegao’s mission.
Their UIs are already in word spread in a chat. Voicing out the threat right in front of them.
“How did they managed to breach the securities?”
“Stop complaining, we have two monsters in front of us. Can anyone of us able to beat those two?”
“We must stop them. Secure the room, don’t let the controls handed over to them”
“The controls were already lock. Damnit, you sure don’t know how security works when being hacked”
Miss cuts them off “I don’t think they are here for a fight”
Miss says it as the administrators and everyone else heard her. One of them understands the situation.
“That’s right, the timer. They want us to go their side of the internet. It means ending our advantages”
“They might already know that we are improving this website. This means they can’t stay here for long” “Those guys appeared here to be kept for a reason. They turn the administration room into a hostage area”
“She’s right . . .”
One of the administrators pointed out few more people entering the place showing signs that they want them here from the beginning.
All while the troopers watch them closely and listening to Tea’s orders “The administration room is where going to be replicated. Wait for the control room to fully copied and adjust it into our own version. We have no capable units to properly program to bring the virus here. With only a few code commands and the rest of the basic system controls are needed to bring them here”
“Objective received, after this is done. Please proceed to initiate warranty under the order of the head archscientist”
They watch one of the troopers raised their fingers to their helmets, signify as it is transmitting their calls to Tea or the other available users. An emergency tool opens up indicating their data is being accessed. Miss was mistaken that they would just putting them as hostage. They need to act now before everything they have will be stolen. Reluctant to fight them, Miss looks at her own devices as her utilities hopefully be able to take them down. The administrator is standing idly as one of them talk to them
“What are you doing to our systems?”
They raised their weapons, modded funny looking weapons, and X2L said “Completing our mission”
While McS4 replies with “And something you people need to be aware as well”
Miss reacted as the first shot fires. She raises the barrier and the firing projectiles are a bunch of stuff toys. Confused by the use of modded weapons, Miss shouts out to them
“You heard them, now let’s fight back”
The Fuku adventurers shake their heads as the fight begins. X2L and McS4 fire at them with ridiculous shots where the projectiles are toys.
Fuku adventurers used their replicated abilities as they reach in melee range. The troopers switch into melee as the sound of the frying pan hits them. The damage indicators sprung on them in numbers as their hit points going down. The people see the fight as the troopers are showing no seriousness with their ridiculous weapons. They stuttered from the attacks, with their big sizes pushing them back. The Fuku adventurers were not appreciate how they are being attacked, and returned to them with deadlier approach. Massive waves of destructive force coming their way, impossible to dodge as it already scanned to hit.
X2L sacrifices one of his arms as he quickly opening up with mods. The limbs are being replaced with even more dumb looking parts. A swing of a random arm being equipped. The arm of a gorilla grabs one of them then swing him around like a weapon. They were pushed back and their magic being swing out to their direction. They look at their UIs whereas they are using their utilities and tools as well. Able to endure and continue push with no idea how much health they have. No real pain, just an avatar with the body to control. The crazy looking gorilla limb trooper is heading their way.
McS4 activates one of his tools, lowering his defenses and raising the destruction to parts of his body. He jumps to the air as it polarized all incoming damage towards him. Landing down to the front as the moving projectiles coming at him, tearing his lower half apart. He opens up his inventory as it replaces it with hovering jets, crashing further and piercing to them like mad charger. He hits some of them as they were caught then drag down by the speeding power armor.
They keep firing at him as the projectiles keep following him to no end. Hidden inside of his inventory is the trigger transformation, boss type transformation, and him slowly destroying any unnecessary parts of his body in order for it fully transform. One of the administrators traps him as the moment of transformation triggers. He calls them out
“Redirect your attacks on the other one, this one is absorbing the damage”
McS4 thought carelessly to try this ability. Nonetheless, his disfigured body still moves from all the severed parts he has. The indicators show only its limbs were the most fragile, and inside of his system where his hp is bulked into like a tank. Fuku adventurers adjusting themselves to where they need to protect their accounts. Endless supplies of heals or ways of converting anything into heals, they themselves cheated. The only way to fully take them out is destroying inside their system.
Miss is comparing their systems to both sides. The Dexter Guild had already state of the art advance coding on their side. It is obvious that they can continue to function when the right compatibility is being used in both software. While theirs are heavily adjust to cheat, seeing on her own real world’s UI as she slightly removed her VR headset. It shows the information of this world’s technology and compared to their own. She gives only tch from her mouth realizing they are in the disadvantage without knowing how it works.
X2L is now being focus, trying to fight back as he is being surrounded. His body is already being torn and trying to replace it with everything it had in modded body parts. Turning the war machine into a bizarre creature, arms of a forearm creature, legs from any animal, to nothing less from the content from the citizens’ world. His software keeps dishing out information to each part can do. Finally, his protective system is breaking open. They focus on it with everything they got. X2L is exposed, but continue to remain unbroken during this matter.
The system is being hacked. They breached it and tries to cut off his account.
“We got it, what?!!”
A shock coming from them, as the hack is being diverted into a secret protocol. X2L has the hack turned into his weapon. He grabs anyone through his animal like arms and quickly gives the unfortunate user a head butt. The random person struck on the head as everything on his system is being corrupted. Same hacks place on the trooper and now he is being shut off for a time. X2L is too well prepared for what is happening.
It was not long, as the Fuku adventurers not holding back to their numerous utilities by spamming the hacks toward them. Miss was initially thought they could not beat them by their superior tech, but her lips know too well with an annoyed expression in her eyes.
“That’s enough, one person with a powerful computer rig can’t always surpass its limits”
X2L was blown away into the air then landed on the ground. Seeing more and more of them have to waste all the tools they have. The sounds of him grumble at the transmission as he and McS4 is being overwhelmed.
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Tea is having trouble. She is being getting close to be taken out from the remaining Fuku adventurers. They are starting to understand how the three AIs worked. Not identical to Dexter Guild AIs, yet still viable to hold them off. The Fuku adventurers are carefully not letting anyone from them being taken out, and others use themselves as fodders to see how she and the bots can do. Not so much for them being skilled alone from the group of well experience defectors. C is among the group now able to fight against the bots effectively with the others.
The bots are beginning to learn how the situation they are in. Tea keeps the image from one of the defeated Fuku adventurers. They look at her disguised as she fully able to distinguished what that character is. It is hard to believe she is able to use those skills and the tools from the same companions they knew. Others are starting to like this identical copy as she acts like real copies of themselves. Without those smack talks and annoying comments, but the sad part is she doing better than the original using those abilities.
C watches them as his time to pull back. The bot jumps to him, disguising itself like him as it grabs him and spinning both around. C quickly blocks the bot as it replicated his abilities. Lightning strike with its fist as he able to dodge it, he grabs the bot with a hold releasing his electrical charge from his body. Releasing a shock as the copy redivert it to the ground, C waits for his companions to find the real him. One of them sees C with a hard expression on his face.
C was pulled away while the bot returned back to Tea’s side.
“Looks like I got another try hard”
“Thanks, you got everyone out from the shuffle”
The woman backs away a bit further to save another one from the shuffle. The bots had those usual tendencies to grab someone, changes their appearance to look, act, and even fight like them. Along with Tea’s auto shot to whomever say a word inside her radius, when it happened, they will take out with the bot’s finishers. Their tactics are incredible if they get close to them. One more of them fell for it with a scream, knocks back then quickly ending him in mid-air.
Many fell victim as they see their UI’s, their health bars, stuck in the much lower state of their health. The health lock is one of the Tea’s tools, forcing everyone not using their heals unless you are in the safe distance to reset it. The timer is almost up. No indication of the actual count down, but with only a progress bar is filling up. It is already been 10 minutes, when will they are being transported to? The Fuku adventurers watch them fight where they needed only four to five of them to fend them off.
Tea is pulled into with her bots as her utilities are now fully used. Nothing left in her inventory to fight against their hacking equipment. In this empty thread, she has to fend them off somehow. One of the bots is tapping from her side. Its hand giving signs that she is nearing to fail. Her equipment is all she had to protect herself from them. However, they too are hesitating to attack her. The awkward silent putting them hard to coordinate from what they see. Lastly, there is one person who keeps saving them. She needs to delay more or else the plan is ruined
The bot is waiting for her to decide, she has nothing else to face them as all the tools and the utilities she had are already discovered. Alone to try to reverse engineered the software they had. She sees them are now finding ways to stop using it and try something else. Her systems still holding on as the sequence of hacking attacks already setting in, the bots are slowing down as its own systems are connecting to her, and all she has to do is to let the timer reaches zero. It will put everything what she had done into a final confrontation.
C and the others from the far safe distance see Tea is starting change her tactics. Tea shouts the top of her lungs, reaching further to the administrators’ screen. Everyone hears her voice. the shout is like singing choir than a shriek. All of her system is starting to overload. The Fuku adventurers’ UIs show them that her abilities are being transferred for this powerful build up. It shows far better than they have hope. Her status is losing control one of her equipment, the sound detector is gone. They proceed to shout out to their team.
From their overexcited expression, they use every ability they have to shoot her down. All barrages of magic projectiles and firing power to one woman. The bots didn’t react are already crashed. Tea’s system is being overloaded and caused immense of memory and energy from her operating system. A large shockwave continuing her shout in a most opera voice she ever screamed.
“AAH!”
Her tone is majestic as the projectiles slowly closing to her. The sound turns smoothly as everything around her are surrounded by floating magics aiming at her.
She gets to change her disguised one last time. Her defenses left her vulnerable and changed her appearance to one of her enemies. The warning notification pops to the Fuku adventurers. It was finally too late, the timer, the transfer is now loading in.
“We’re too late. Everyone, be ready for what’s going to happen next . . .”
A large sonic wave bursting through. Everything around them is causing a lot of disruption through their field of view. Still the opera loud voice is as good as they listen to it for relief.
“. . . Now that’s kind of mix when she sang like this”
The bots start to move once again, then proceed to fight one last time. The others are identifying the statuses of their enemies. All of their defenses are gone and the rest of their abilities reaching to their limits. C receives the notification as they are now fully committed to attack them in full force. One of the people who is with him calls out to the others.
“Our enemies are vulnerable now. She is overloading her systems, either take her out now while she is vulnerable or keep our distance as she implodes”
C boosting up his system as he charges up all his abilities, all while in the real world, there is a message from Flashes on his device and checks on it first.
“Is something happened in the internet, kid?”
“Just fighting for some websites here. What do you want to know?”
“Strange things are happening about the main servers calling out for help, it is urgent from what they said”
“I thought this balance war is regulated under a contract”
“Balance war?”
“Never mind about that, what I am saying is that there is some fight with the Enders and that’s all so far”
C returns back to his VR headset and sees that he was too late to see the bots are being taken out one by one. They already showing signs of them overheating from their bodies as Tea is now suffering the aftershock of the overload. Without all of her best utilities, she will be easy be defeated with the last few more hits. The tunes of her voice keep singing loud and clear.
“AAH!”
A long voice keeps singing to the point of no stopping, making them believe it just a recording.
Tea and with one remaining bot standing. Together, back-to-back to see their enemies showing no difficulty and their last stand will witness the transfer of many users to their destined location. This is not what she had expected from the beginning. It always the numbers are the most advantage, it’s been a few days they are new to this internet world, and now they are able to withstood so much challenges with the guidance of the head archscientist. The contract led them to this high efficiency in development. It wasn’t the plan to have an even fight, it is about the thing they took from them.
The two troopers were already giving into the numbers surrounding them, the damage is balanced and the gaming logic is unbelievable. X2L understands that the administrators and the users have the upper hand since the beginning. Linked fell because it was alone, not even the wide opened space would help it escape by these numbers. Ahegao, having its own page. Almost reach pinnacle of its own base inside this website, same goes with Tea’s page. Until now, they are able to fix it by given them the time.
The timer is up and finally they made it with limited resources. In their eyes, this is not about this website transferring to another site. No known technology had forced control all the rights of the users’ accounts to transfer unless accepted through their notice. Pretending all this fight just to lock them inside this part of the internet, while the true threat is coming from the real world to send them the coordinates. Tea keeps singing through their transmission. McS4 knows to well, even lying on the ground in front of their enemies.
Miss and the other administrators opened their systems as McS4 said to them “Was it difficult for you to face such a threat like us?”
“You don’t even know you’re already lost this fight. This website is ours now”
“Scuff* Then you don’t know what are the purposes here to begin with”
Miss has her suspicion, then she calls her group out “This is pointless. Everyone, could you spare me for a moment with this big chunk of bolt?”
The administrators and the other Fuku adventurers didn’t ask, but follow along. Her reputation proceeds.
McS4 detects of the barrier blocking them from hearing their conversation. Miss isn’t the type of girl for gossips, but wanting secrets are the other things she is jealous about. The Dexter Guild is not that stupid to fail such a simple tool like the internet. They have shown too much progress turning their train into a battle ship on the rails. She is not that stupid to believe such great engineering to actual know about machineries to be defeated like this. They should have the same computers as them to design it perfectly without flaws.
Silent persists on between the two, while she needs to act properly inside this nerd profession. Then gives up the usual nice girl into her strong suits “I know there is a purpose for this. What are you trying to experiment us for?”
“!!! That is not how we work. However, if you wanted to know everything. Try calling out your old companion, under the name; Flashes. I’ll make it simpler for you. Failures are the test and successes are the true objectives”
Miss don’t like the trooper’s answer. But it does make sense of how they are going through this even so much disadvantages on their side. She pulls out her head set and picks up her device, not texting but immediately calls Flashes.
Flashes, without knowing, receiving a call while she waits for him to answer. Miss hears her head set making a sound, then return back to the website. “What’s going on?”
“Unidentified virus is coming this way, and the coordinates we found as we are being transported with it to the neutral zone”
She looks at the troopers as there are buffers hovering on to them, spirally moving, as it shows trying to reconnect. They check on Tea as she is already gone.
Miss hears the answering call from her device, as she lost herself from the commotion. She grabs it quickly and hears Flashes’ desperate call
“LOGOUT YOUR FUCKING ACCOUNT NOW!”
She immediately turned her headset off, and quickly uses her magic to teleport to C’s place. Surprisingly, it was someone’s apartment. She didn’t care, out of spite of her own powers she turned it off as C is almost being blinded by a strong red light.
“How!?”
“Stop! you’re that damn lucky to get out of there”
Miss don’t care much what is happening right now, but Flashes said so made her don’t want to be part of the incident.
Sometime ago, Flashes is calling C for confirmation “Is something happened in the internet, kid?”
“Just fighting for some websites here. What do you want to know?”
“Strange things are happening about the main servers calling out for help, it is urgent from what they said”
“I thought this balance war is regulated under a contract”
“Balance war?”
“Never mind about that, what I am saying is that there is some fight with the Enders and that’s all so far”
Flashes cuts the call, as they are chasing the probe. The man with a lump of coal on his belt sees how it maneuvered them out from their grabby hands.
“This thing definitely from those soldiers. Immune to magic, and has runes that protects anything I could reach it. Small and persistent like a rat”
The probe is already reaching close to the network outside of the building, where Magnet polarizes the scraps hiding on the windows. The probe dodges it as it senses all the magic is coming.
Rushing towards the top where more ana more people are trying catch it. The building is forming a barrier to hide them from seeing what happened outside. Flashes brings one of his companions and shooting it down. Teleported, chased from behind, and all the traps moving ahead with the probe. It is able to go through signals to signals from people’s devices for any frequency it finds. More and more Fuku adventurers come to aid them to stop it, the last destination it goes where the people are guarding the servers. The probe must not do anything from it.
“Cut all of your electronic devices. The probe is able to move fast to any frequency it finds. We will bait it from here”
And it did, the probe follows the signal disruptions as it momentarily slowed down and trying to detect the signal again. The man with a lump of coal is closing in his reach. The probe uses it runes and release nullification on his abilities. The momentum of him going up continue to go up, misses to grab the probe, and then slowly fell down. He got silenced after, and got caught by Magnet’s polarization magic.
“Are you good?”
“I’m fine, that thing caught me out surprised”
“That’s new for you”
“Heh, I never fought a pipsqueak before”
Both of them look up and they quickly go after it. The probe is already going to where they wanted it to. The frequency is now being trace to the main servers. Without them knowing, it teleported back into the internet. The people guarding the physical servers lost their mind as it disappears.
“The probe disappeared again. Search it before it reaches here”
The probe is inside the main servers. Starts scanning to any signs of backlogs and past activities who were using the Dexter Guild servers. The users found it looking around and scanning all over the place. The main servers activate its defensive protocols as the probe is being under stasis. The probe detects the defensive measure and retaliate it with a console command. The command was able to stop it as it continues searching. The users are calling out.
“The probe is inside the main server, repeat inside the main server”
One of the users are forcing to use their prototype to physically appear inside the internet, but one user stops him
“Don’t do it, it is still under experiment”
“We need to get it before it found out everything we have researched on”
“We can’t! The testers who used it from the beginning made them inefficient on their health conditions”
“We are not letting this server down. The cult leader had already given us the power to . . .”
The probe moved pass them as the user quickly use it.
“No!”
The user tries to stop him, but he got kicks out from the main server.
The man pulls out his head set and quickly tries to use his device. The signal was cut off and the magic inside the room is sealed. This is not the right time as he tries to leave the building with all his might warning the other users. The probe is almost reaching to the server is needed to be, then stop as the user’s actual body appeared and use all his rune items to grab it. The probe is being crushed by his grip as the sound coming at it starts to crumble. The man tries so hard to squeeze with his runes. The probe tries to resist his grasp. It suddenly changes where a loud singing voice coming from the probe. The sound waves loosen his grip with strange force it opens like a barrier. It disappears again leaving the internet.
Back into the real world, the location it is now in the main server room. The people are waiting for it, and the shock of hearing a loud opera singing in this confined room. The shock puts them to stagger a bit. The probe is rushing through the room finding the destination as it seeks. It searches deep and to find nothing what it is looking for, a weak signal, not coming from their frequency but an old frequency generated somewhere else. It is the target is what is looking for. The people slowly recover and watch the probe headed to different room.
The probe finally reached its destination. The room itself has no signal leaving itself dormant. The users found it through their surveillance, as they finally caught it. Such a relief for them as the probe is picked up. The noise from the opera voice continues on as they try to take it out from the room. The people who chase it eventually reach the room. Flashes was the only one got in. The user stops him
“It’s done, you can leave now”
The users are blocking their views what lies inside.
Then Flashes device receives a call. The users react to the signal as they try to stop him. Flashes with his quick reflexes, takes a flash inside the room.
“What are you . . .doing?!!”
The room reveals the lone server, and the digitalize image appeared as the probe itself is already sent the data to it. Under the short time as it returned back in motion, Flashes realize what it is as his UI identify the lone server’s hidden creature. He pulls out his device and answered her call, breaking through the signal jammer with his runes
“LOGOUT YOUR FUCKING ACCOUNT NOW!”