COI C135

Dexter Guild has found something really interesting. Ahegao had reset the randomizer to properly coordinates for them to process the tactical simulation. The rest of the members look at him reading the procedures one by one.

“An infight commander, who didn’t have an HQ for strategic planning. Did you do something to your collections?”

“I have, and I treated as junks scattering around the area. The bots did its best, but not properly in use in my logistics”

The woman laughs as he speaks about logistics “Sounds like you don’t have a proper dictionary inside your rock head”

Ahegao don’t know how bot works from their world’s AI. It was cheap use memory in order to delay him more time to escape their advances. He lost tracked between leadership and scavenging. He just needs help. He looks at the available members who can control the bots. They look at him and sees the bots they are going to use.

“This is not going to work, what I reviewed how it works in your simulation. This is genuinely identical to the military corps. Why not bring them here?”

Ahegao don’t want to bring them here. The agreement is to fix the mistakes they have done or was it because they fear the troopers.

One of the members had figured it out surprisingly. “They might look for your classified data. The people called your avatar Ahegao have something to do what you have found”

“I’m already know that after the agreement. They pulled out a trick to take some of the content. I was hiding inside the cavern . . .”

One of them tries to intervene, but he stops them “. . . About you said something important, I have so much things to do. Let’s just say they don’t want some threads to go public. They are smart enough to private it instead of deleting it. I have already taken it since the beginning”

The woman who facilitates the hideout is collecting information far more complicated from the social media website than any forums she finds. Ahegao kept the most sensitive files that she never understood. Ahegao answers her as her eyes gaze on his direction

“Public reputation, or what they call as scandals from one of my team said to me”

“Do they really think that they have to shame their own people who are traitors?”

“Defectors from what I read from the administration. It wasn’t a good idea to divide like this as the lives they have been easily fragile for the demons to go through them”

“That’s the problem why we need to get back that virus as soon as possible. If one of them is sensitive enough or anything valuable under the control of the virus will be the menace with those sensitive topics in the internet”

A group of people entered the hideout, it is the military corps entering the room. Under the paperwork given by the archscientist, not the head, as the important priority is to lock away the demon before they even reach the citizens. Even though they took their servers down to get their files. Only two members joined, the woman says their names

“X2L and McS4, are you here by the sub leader’s command?”

They removed their power armors as they ready themselves to enter the cyberspace. X2L said to her “With added bonus, I heard one of our members are fully simulating the old version of my power armor”

McS4 added “Along with the antiques that I never use before it expires. I don’t care how unrealistic it is with the doom heavy type weapons. I just want to feel and hear the glory of its military prowess”

Ahegao stands before them as the two look at him in the eyes. X2L recognizes him “If the corps wasn’t discontinued, we might find you some weapons and armors”

“Sir! My mission is collecting intel. Please don’t disoriented the last moment of data gathering”

The two other members look at him as the mission is where most of their users are headed. They are going to use the simulation for the bot’s control. It will soon remove once Ahegao, the main central network of those bots, out from the platform. But they seem to be not taking it lightly, and they keep their standards as it is. Two military soldiers with good knowledge of their weapons. Ahegao’s thread will be gathering more intel than he had ever worked alone.

Inside the main servers, the users have collected pieces of information that Ahegao tries to shield it as camouflage. “It is trying to provoke us. The environment it is using are the defectors’ sensitive message and post. We really need to take it out”

“Hey, he agreed for a truce. He might agree another one”

“He?! A soldier with lewd faces of hentai girls for an armor”

“Well, at least it doesn’t define itself as lesbian. Come on man, their avatars are kind of plain but it makes them respected how it fights us in groups”

“There is nothing to show respects if you don’t know how to code”

“And I thank them for not using the code against us too”

The user and the man who joined the team for the hunt of Ahegao. The same man who is holding the beacon. They turned and see Miss entered the server as she heard the news about their progress last night.

“I see you guys are focusing on that pervert. I’ll be taking the other girl, who was her name again? Oh yeah, Tea. If you don’t have any intel about her. I’ll take my lead”

User gives the only information they have about her. “She is with basket head”

“Smart girl, she knows how difficult it is to fight with only her appearance. It makes me feel I want to get her myself”

She left leaving the two alone. The user whispers to the man “She was supposed to be with the boy. What’s her problem?”

“I don’t know, the administrator didn’t want to spread a word about her. It is quite obvious that no one should tell their names except their double’s”

“Yeah, and she hates her double’s name too”

They return back to business, and examine the information they have from Ahegao’s thread. The user can’t describe so well how secretive it collects. The cover was all about sexy anime characters, especially for BL ones. It was the first attraction for the female Fuku adventurers to find it.

They admit “Not going to lie, it does hide itself from us”

“But it only lasted an hour, like what the fuck, those women really love those art”

They took a peek to one of the BL arts, it is something they don’t want to admit. They struggle to ignore the loving and see how it draws. Too well, and better than any artist to draw such . . . beautiful detail. They avert their eyes as the feelings about that art filled them with envy and disgust. The man has to say it to the user.

“I wish for it to animated with that kind of art style”

“Holy Fucking Christ! Just say it in a more referable to other hentai form”

After that silly moment out of the way, the team regroup once again one hour before they resume back to the platform. A message coming from the Dexter Guild to accept additional members as theirs are joining into the fight. Skipping the process to bypass the cover from the thread, they look at the obvious as they heard from the Taiyou Industries. They were not that dumb enough to see how their people is spying for them to whom are using the internet. Yet enough obliviousness to ignore their common workers.

The new team leaders, only two extras, are joining for this special activity. “Two Dexter Guards are missing since this morning. The one who took away the loot, and the other one who was in the front border fighting what monsters that fits its mouth with his heavy weapons. I couldn’t say yet for us being fucked”

The other team leader nods then said “From what the hackers, I mean users said, the internet war is ‘balanced’ so we will have a chance to bear the barrage of their attacks”

The old team is not too fond of their attitude, acting like cannon fodders as their introduction. Their team leader is having suspicion as if they are trolling or they know about the classified personal documents

“Let’s get it on with it. Either we are successful or not, they will keep those accounts when we banned Ahegao. Those accounts will become sacrifices if we do something differently”

He turns to the man who had done recon work. Both of their eyes meet as the mission is changed, this is the fight they could win after they rescue . . . them.

The man nods as he secretly went back to his old team to form another group. While they are busy backing a plan, he brings the people who are able to fill the needs and not the critical units that his old team needs. He is doubting himself as the numbers he needs starting to go down. Volunteer, who is willing to initiate because of his flexibility in roles had done too much to make the defenses on their Recon base, he needs to stay there as decoy.

Scout, annoying that he is but he lost many alternate accounts that he will be willing to join. Even how degenerate they have to go through, his own creation shouldn’t be taken down. Lastly, it was C. Still using a different account but stays with his young anime like avatar, he is becoming essential now that Miss comes by earlier talking to them one by one. C has Flashes’ items from what he heard from the users.

He brings them in to the other room. “I know this looks sketchy, but there is no need for all of us to fight just to waste time”

Scout didn’t suspect it, as defectors, they are better than that “Sure, as long as our objectives convince me to do it, otherwise . . .”

Scout went silent as he has nothing to say, with his face went airy, C’s turn to ask the man “What are you want us to do? And, why only the three of us?”

The man brings out from his UI, showing the location of the kept accounts. Scout’s eyes looking at it seriously as the map shows icons from one of his accounts.

The man sees him being eager. It is a great start “Our mission is a rescue operation. Certain accounts have special uses for one of our friends. It means we have to go out from the base where we stationed and go through the woods on our own. There is a route downstream by the river. I don’t know if the waterfalls actually exist in the thread”

The map shows the location, and the area is less likely to be the likeness in nature. The strange environment where he searching were not realistically formed, rather, it is just solid platforms for them to move.

The solid platforms though, but are not the same texture of any natural environment. If they use lights to see what it is, it is threads that were shadow banned. Ahegao collected it and making the worthless posts into the map. The man carefully warned them

“If we do make it to the accounts, remember to ignore what information it gathered. They may be true or not, just don’t get distracted by it”

The two sees the conditions on this map, they venture through the caves as many posts are the terrains. None of them didn’t say a word, and maybe because something sensitive they don’t want the administrator to see.

The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.

Ready or not, they returned and the fight resumes. Ahegao returns back going into the cave and sees the numbers of them are gone inside. While the two troopers see three others as bots, they check the trajectory as they found out the randomness of the coordinates put the bots into madhouse machine. Both of them didn’t critique him for his negligence, and they look around through the lens of declassified visions. They smug him as he hears a slight chuckle

“Trying to be one man army is what every mad archscientist truly want to become. We will take the bait, you will to where they pursue”

McS4 shoots to the air as the flare seen by the enemies. Ahegao sees a slight glitch going somewhere as the wave of light moving to the surface. The light scans the area as it moves to where the captured area is. The glitch shows the disturbance as it bounces the waves back at them. Ahegao sees the direction of the enemies are moving, fast. It seen them going to the direction he held the stashes. A change of plan, the inevitable defeat is approaching.

X2L quietly stared Ahegao as the light shines its lewd artistic armor. He looks on his own armor if he tainted with his nostalgic pistol aimed at him for the silliness he made. The logo is different, skull with wings, Ahegao didn’t notice it was aimed as it proceed to go a different direction. McS4 pulls down his gun, no words to respond, he just slammed his hand with the big heavy weapon up high then down to X2L’s hips. Both wearing the same provocative look and their lens show spots of light, the light codes behind the lens, they bring themselves inside the transport and launch it to the enemies.

In the recon base, they gathered the men to this place as the troopers are coming this way. The old team leader sees the computer as it starts to update. Ahegao is fully utilized their programming to this thread. Horsin’s law of realism is setting in. They don’t know how to react as their abilities are being upgraded to their avatars. The secret classified files exposing their original identity. The screen is already revealing who they are, and they are being provoked by seeing their true identity on screen.

“That fucker is finally get it to work, and repaid us to be exposed”

“We are not exposed yet. We are all Fuku adventurers here?”

Ahegao’s twits are manifesting their original powers as the simulation has to be realistic, their world of realism. This platform is made by it, and so is the reality of this map. The new teams are using their own ability as the internet maintain the damage as it called ‘balanced’

“Ironic how I was expecting have my power, not nerfing me to their level”

“Don’t be a dumbass, no one can control the internet”

“Pfft* Like how I would see them try”

His magic opens a spatial spell controlling/polarizing/manipulating the matter of space. He looks at his power and feel like he mastered it than in real life.

Everyone is receiving the same treatment. The flying transport is coming this way as the lights shine on the sky where it reaching up to the sky then starts falling down. The teams are taking aim at the falling transport. With all of their abilities in use, the users’ utilities, the cheats, and their upgrades by the Dexter Guild: heals and resurrection, they are ready to face the troopers they have feared. The troopers watch themselves falling to the captured facility. Firing to the air as the projectiles had already pierced through the body, the trooper bot survives but not the passenger seat. It went flying as it scatters, they look at the base as they ready to breach through.

A magic suddenly froze them as the cheat and the codes are setting in through their systems. They waited for them to act it out. Slowly trying to breach inside the bots and themselves, they are just leaving themselves open to their enemies. The team is now hacking through,

“We are bypassing their defenses”

The new team are quickly taken action while old team leader holds themselves off. The new team leader reacts “What are you doing? We already holding them. Don’t hesitate”

The old team looks around them as their positions are safe, all of them are. Then why didn’t the enemies fight back? The two troopers waited as the bots are waiting for their command. X2L without moving his head, slightly and twitching his hand, showing the hand sign that they could not see yet. McS4 already know what he is expecting them to do. He waited X2L’s hand properly giving the sign. The protocols, the enemies are using is already breaching in, closing in for them to get the accounts then banned it. For these two, they have the superior tech when it comes to moment like this.

The new team leader is channeling his spell with a powerful polarizing attack. An atomic orb has it has and explosive reaction. His angry eyes looking at his enemies remained idle as he complains to the old team.

“What are you waiting for? We need to end those so-called overpowered threats . . . Well?!!”

The old team hesitates and the new team grief them for it.

“. . . FUCK! I don’t see why you need our help, you fuckers . . . AAH!”

A loud shout coming from him as he fires a sharp magic orb to the transport.

The spell is closing in as the X2L’s hand is reaching high enough to see the troopers the signal. Their cyber defenses quickly responded. X2L opens fire with his energy pistol, precisely hitting the magic orb coming to their direction. Redivert the spell to his control forcing a traced of magic where the enemies are shooting. A rift opens between them and their enemies limited only to five people each. This moment of time where the magic exploded, and the same slight second for them to react their initiations. The troopers reach out each one of them to their enemies.

Their cheats activated as the time slows down to fit the pace of their counterattack. The old team sees the new team as the rift appeared before them, something thrown out from it as the arms of the troopers’ punch through the rift as it not yet fully opened. The team tried to dodges it, its powerful grasp is fast and firm to the point of their body being crushed to no avail time under seconds. Others dodges it, but a second hand with a hook pulled them up to the throat. One fights back with his stun weapon, the trooper stops a bit and its hand expand into a claw redirect the static back at him with countershock, then pulled him inside the rift.

The other tries to smoke out, and the trooper’s sensors see their pixel bodies as it tries to teleport away. It pierced the teleported body, at least a spec of himself, the man teleported away successfully. As the time returns back to normal, he sees his line of magic attached to him and the transport from above. The falling transport continues to fall as he is being pulled into the falling transport.

“AAH!”

A powerful pull leaving the screaming man’s voice suddenly went quiet from such a distance. The new leader was shocked as his magic was negated.

He turns around to the old team, blaming them “You fuckers! If we continue to push like we did . . . LOOK! 96.9% hacking and it stops because of your idling”

A loud noise coming behind him, he turns around. It was too late, the ship crashes down and slide through the building and out of the facility. Five people were out, then half of the new team’s number taken as well into casualty. The surviving team is being pulled after the other as the crash damaged them severely, thanks to the healers. They restore their limbs in quick succession. The remaining surviving new team announced the situation.

“Total twelve units are out, other units can be recover using resurrection”

The other new team leader is reaching out the other team. “I’m sorry for my partner, we are talking about it before and . . .”

“Don’t be, this is your first time fighting in the internet by the way”

The old team rushes to the ship, then stops where they are at the barricades. The moment of their base being destroyed like this, the ship was easily being damaged and able pierced through the defenses. They didn’t expect this, and the devastation was beyond extravagant to see a military corps like this. They mount their guns as they fire at the destroyed ship.

X2L emerged from the crash as other three troopers followed him. They focus fired at him as his body quickly torn apart. He shields his head with his own arm as they shred him easily and forced himself down. The three scatters as they fire back. The gunners see them maneuvered to cover and shoots down their guns out from their barrels. The old team heard the command by their new team leader

“Pull back! Follow the plan!”

They retreat back to the base. X2L remained down and alive. McS4 readies his weapon for the moment for his leader to give him another signal.

The fight stops, and he comes to save him anyway. A particle cannon fires on him then through the wall as it breached open. The team sees it fired and the one that is down is being healed. It stands up as it fully recovers after being gunned down.

“Even their own attacks, they can materialize it too”

“No, look! There is something on one of the troopers”

McS4 pulled out an energy case from the cartridge and throws it away. On the ground as the ship is being drained into the energy case, the whole thing charged the case and brings it back up to the cartridge and reloads it. Their eyes were in disbelief as this mission can actually follow the plan.

The recon team manages to escape from the attack as they call out the rest of the team outside of their captured base. The man, scout, and C are setting their way to their destination. The beacon left inside the base in order to delay the troops. The signal reached out to them as the new team formed doing their own missions as well.

“We are continuing on the hunt of Ahegao. Be quick about your rescue as we find its traces”

“Roger, end it even we are failed our mission. The attack had caused too much damage to delay any longer. The main base’s signal is already gone”

“Copy, proceed to kill the target. You heard me . . .”

The transmission ended and they moved on. It was not long as they reach a hidden chamber. Scout able to find it without any trouble. After sometime they have no problem into a limited thread as it guides them down, scrolling down even on screen, like a wall of texts they will eventually find the words in the sources. They have so many things to search with third party software.

They face a door, look rather complex with the locks and futuristic scanners. Scout tries to unlock the door, but the man pushes him the way and slides the door to the side. The door turns around. Scout and C watch the door rolling away. Don’t want to say anything as they need to save the accounts. The first account they have is the punisher avatar, the loots and weapons are preserved. Scout immediately reaches it and free it from its containment. The punisher avatar is the first being released.

They search around and free the rest, they found their team’s accounts. One by one they need to save every important account they find containing the items that users given to them. Soon a call coming from the search group.

“Enemy sighted, you have under 10 minutes before we secure the target”

Scout hurry to find the accounts as he finds his own. C takes his time to by pass the obstacles where the rest of the accounts where hidden with the twits blending into the environment.

C finds something on the wall and it was the banned comments to a specific person he had met before. His eyes fixated on the comments and it is the first time he had ever read from a hater’s viewpoint. The man knocks him off from his feet and said,

“This is not for you to stand around with posts that the users were not taken to this world”

“Sorry, but I . . .”

“There is no need to apologize, and if you really want to take some posts as souvenirs. Do it when it is over?”

Scout heard the man’s argument, he sees the hate thread from afar, and couldn’t agree from his statement “These posts are what the Dexter Guild are getting at. There is no way they take these posts and make it into a place like this. You already know that”

The man responds as they waste their time “And it is also to the people who had never use their real name in these accounts. Why making enemies now? We all know about the demon . . .”

C turns his head around with the suspicious look on his face “. . . demon?”

Scout sees his expression in disbelief “Are you kidding? You don’t know? Then you didn’t about the . . .”

“Shut up, we explain to you later. We need to rescue these accounts before they able to take it down”

It’s been past 20 minutes, and they taken nearly the important ones. The UI appeared as the banned simultaneously wiped the chamber off clean. The deleted posts it gathers are gone and the team had finished the job. The three did what they can to save those accounts, as it clears, there are posts that are not banned or blocked.

A message left behind. It was Tea’s post hashtag Ahegao. “Those five units are sent to your thread. Complete any information it needed, so I can use them for future operations”

Ahegao replies “I’m collecting information by known abusers and blackmailers here. These are the people that the defectors disguised as. We have necessary traces to find that demon”

The three didn’t continue to read the thread as they too are looking what they never thought it was their problem as well.

The man felt guilty about it, “Shit”

Scout didn’t hold back from the man’s mistake “Shit? That’s it?! So, it is true that scammer isn’t bluffing about troubles”

C asks “What are you talking about?”

“Sigh* That recon guy had some juicy intakes about the man was kicked out from the district. A missionary from Enders Bridge, I can’t describe him except spouting nonsense about helping the community”

The man sees the thread empty and the teams are not responded anything yet. C is acting up as the topic is way off than they initially thought.

“First, we need to go. If you still want to bother about that missionary boy. Let’s first make you decide first”

The man looks at C seriously and Scout didn’t understand what he meant. C couldn’t understand why he suddenly act like this and what decision he had to do? The man continues

“The decision I am trying to make is settling your score with your double”

“!!!”

“Oh jeez, are you going to make the kid go kill and replace mission? What about the others?”

Everything doesn’t made sense. How did the man know about his situation? Did his friend share their conversation, last night?

C can’t answer that. The man sighs and said to him “I’m telling you the truth from our side as defectors. We know about from the east coast and there are some people who obtain forbidden magic”

Scout smacks him “Forbidden magic my ass, they, I mean some of us are dealing with the devil. I know the two of us, no. Scratch that, none of us from our team from yesterday had a deal with them. I don’t know how we are going to this detail after not successfully . . .”

C stops him “Alright, I get it. I’m still don’t trust you guys”

Scout smiles and snap his finger at C then look at the man showing he gets it. The man awkwardly grins and said to C

“That’s what we’re hoping for, but they might suspect us that we were collaborating with you”

“Collaborating, whom thought of that?”

Scouts crossed his arms shows his twits to him “You might don’t know. This thread that causes problem even before the internet war. There are some communities went augh* social justice warriors. Fuck! And I thought only foreigners were making this trend”

The man sees the conversation is going nowhere and they still haven’t received the news. He needs to make it brief for C “Let’s talk about this in the real world and keep our name like here. You need to understand the situation the defectors are bringing into the city. Judge as enemies if you like, we have too many enemies that we never let you know about. The misinformation in Fuku City is very dangerous . . .”

A group of people entered their line of sight. Scout is the first to see them clearly, and he horrifyingly froze with his blood vein eyes.

The man and C turn and see that the group of people are Troopers. They have taken down the team with heads hanging on their belts as trophies. His scanner indicates those heads are active. Severed heads motionlessly idle as they are blocked within their Dexter items. X2L pulls out his gun fires. Scout pushes them away, his neck shot right off his head and a harpoon hooked on his head back to the troopers. Scout’s body still moves and throws his equipment at the man. His head buckled to their belts and loses its body.

The man needs to act quick. He brings out an emergency item, stops, then given it to C. C held it without any time to explain. He brings out his hammer. The troopers hooked at his lower body and pulled toward them. He throws his things at C and carefully aim his hammer at him. C remained stun how it happened. He watches the man being reeled in. The man throws the hammer managed to hit C’s head and the icon pops out as banned. As he getting closer to the enemies and his neck aimed. The words from his mouth as he says to them

“Guess you guys don’t know about the ban hammer, huh?”