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Post by Sparkexe on Jan 27, 2005 0:01:48 GMT -5
Spark Man.exe: Hold on, I think Moe's right. Let's be sure that this info's legit. I'll be back.
*Spark Man cloaks himself and goes over to the knocked-out navi and grabs his last dark chip and his zenny. A few minutes later, he reappears looking quite frustrated*
Spark Man.exe: No good, I persuaded him as much as he could take, and he still stuck with his story.
Drill Man.exe: Ah damnit.
Nathan: Wonderful. I e-mailed Guilter just now to keep his eyes peeled for her. I just hope he'll keep a closer watch on her rather than his vodka. Hell, I think I'll e-mail the other members just to be safe.
Spark Man.exe: So, can we drill to Sharo's Undernet or we gonna have to walk it?
Nathan: *to himself* So they've butted heads against the WWW too, huh? *tightly grasps his pocketed hand*
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Post by Commander Sazabi on Jan 27, 2005 19:33:14 GMT -5
Pharon: Well if we find out where she is I'm sure I can steal muster up enough cash for 1 ticket but we'll have to wait.
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Post by Drillman on Jan 28, 2005 13:02:21 GMT -5
Moe: How did Pharon just cross out a word that he was speaking?
Drill: I just heard him do it and I still don't know how that sounds. Bizarre. Anywho, I've never been to Sharo's Undernet before, so we'll have to take the long way and walk to the other side of the world.
*And so they walked back to Netopia, took the cyber-metro east until they got to the World Network Hub in Colliseum city, took the path linking to Netfrica, found the path in there that linked back to Sharo, and then made it accross the rail with the help of Windman's Wind Storm. Then it was just a few steps to the link to the Undernet. The journey took about seven minutes.*
Spark: Damn! Walking halfway accross the world takes a long time!
Wind: We probably could have gotten here sooner if we didn't have to stop to ask for directions.
Drill: I probably should have asked that guy at the Hub if the Undernet path in Sharo was accessible to flyers, we could have saved that two minute trek through Netfrica. Alright, I guess it's just straight through to Black Earth now.
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Post by Sparkexe on Jan 28, 2005 16:24:46 GMT -5
*the trio enter the link and find themselves at Sharo's Undernet*
Spark Man: Ah damnit, I forgot how senseless the layout is here.
Wind Man: At least I have a vague idea where we need to go. I think we stumbled into Undernet 6 before when we were just started and looking for navis to join our syndicate.
Spark Man: Yeah, that's right. Lemme go scout ahead and see if there's anything we should look at for.
*Spark Man cloaks himself and runs ahead to the link to Undernet 2 and shortly returns*
Spark Man: Looks clear.
*the trio trudges towards Undernet 2, and make their way to Undernet 3. But halfway through Undernet 3...*
????: Who the hell are you?!
Wind Man: Huh?
*a Heel navi steps foward accompanied by a weatherEX virus and a cirsmashEX virus*
Heel Navi: Nobody comes through here!
Spark Man: Yeah, watch us.
Heel Navi: You wanna play rough, eh? Ya got it! *snaps his fingers and 3 more heel navis appear* You're going down!
*it was a sickenly short fight*
Wind Man: Spark, you said it was clear!
Spark Man: *taking the navi's zenny* No, I said it LOOKED clear! There's a world of difference.
Drill Man: Okay fine, how does it look now?
*Spark Man cloaks himself and scouts the remainder of Undernet 3*
Spark Man: *reappears* ...Looks clear.
*the trio continue to the link to Undernet 6 without further incident*
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Post by Drillman on Jan 28, 2005 18:07:39 GMT -5
*at the far end of Undernet6, a shapely female navi in black is tossing handfulls of Dark Chips into the Giant Dark Hole. A black spherical navi with four black orbs surrounding him hovers above the hole. Energy released from the Dark Hole is being absorbed into the spherical navi and his orbs.*
Shan: There, is that enough?
Planetman: By my calculations, Vector will be 99.9% ready for launch after we feed it this energy. Just one more load should do it.
Shan: Christ! That's what you said last time! Now I have to spend another week virus busting my ass off to buy more! Can't we use something else for that last bit of energy?
Planetman: We'll see what we can do. At any rate, it's time to return, my balls are full to capacity. I have to shoot off this load.
Shan: Will you PLEASE stop saying that?
*Planetman snickers and starts to hover away.*
Drill: You!
*Drillman flies straight up to the platform then transorms and lands*
Shan: Drillman? I heard you got deleted with the rest of the WWW. Let me guess, you decided to join us after all?
Drill: I'm not the Drillman you think I am. I only used his ghost data for a body since the Life Virus destroyed mine...with your help of course...
Shan: Heh heh, oh really? You'll have to refresh my memory. We delete navis on a regular basis you know.
Drill: I am Fortissimo, you betrayed me and your team to take the easy way out. Now finally, you will pay.
Shan: Hah! Fortissimo? No wonder your panties are in a twist, downgrading to a body like that, who wouldn't be?
Drill: Oh, this body suits me just fine, thanks. I hope you don't mind, but I'm not going to be fighting you alone...
*Sparkman uncloaks from behind Shan and Windman swoops down from above*
Drill: I figured it was only fair considering how YOU prefer to fight.
*Shan simply smirked and drew her whip as the three navis began to attack her*
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Post by Sparkexe on Jan 28, 2005 19:06:40 GMT -5
Spark Man: Hold yer horses, guys! *turns to Shan* Ah, damn you're fine! Dive's something to look at, but you, you're in a league of your own!
Drill Man: Spark...
Spark Man: *points to the whip* And you're into kinky stuff! I like that in a woman!
Nathan: Spark, we'd like to delete the she-bitch now.
Spark Man: Quiet! Both of you! You're everything I want in a woman...
*suddenly, a shadowmaker comes up from behind Shan and ensnares her with its own whip*
Spark Man: Still, I'm not into deleted navis, or soon to be deleted navis, and you ain't an exception. *fires two spark mines at her*
Nathan: ...Spark, never do that again.
Spark Man: Hey, I had to distract her somehow. I just hope the shadow's whip will hold. *fires another spark mine*
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Post by Drillman on Jan 29, 2005 22:51:52 GMT -5
*It doesn't. Shan turns into a shadow and slips out of the whip's hold. She dashes through Drillman and then quickly unleashes a charged laser whips attack. She swings the whip towards her enemies, which extends and rapidly oscellates accross the whole platform, dealing several hits to all three of them. After that she does an agile leap to the platform above them as her Shadow defense wears off.*
Shan: Aren't you going to help?
Planetman: *who hasn't gotten far* I can't do much while I'm carrying this energy. Here. *summons two tiny DefenseCraft Spaceships* Maybe those can help you. I'm sure you'll do just fine against them anyway. Or not. Makes no difference to me, really.
Shan:...you are SO deleted when I get back.
Planet: IF you get back. Anyway, the energy's getting cold! Toodle-oo! *flies away to the exit of the area*
Shan: Hmph! Ami, make with some chips.
*As Drillman is about to fly into her, she sidesteps and throws an Engetsu Kunai, cutting him up as he flies by. Windman gets up close for a Round Tornado, but she uses a BodyBurn to tackle him then leap off of him onto the next platform even higher up. Sparkman is still on the platform below with the Dark Hole trying to hit her with SparkShots as she moves around.*
Spark: Great, they're getting too high up for me. They're probably not going to be able to herd her down here anytime soon either, she looks pretty quick.
Drill: *drilling into a wormhole to attack her from behind* Moe, now's our chance to find out where Ami's hiding.
Moe: Got it. *starts up a tracking program*
*Meanwhile, Windman gets held up by the laser fire from the DefenseCrafts. Shan receives a Variable Sword and begins the technique to unleash the Quadruple Elemental Sonic Boom from it towards her opponents.*
OOC: Yeah, I'm trying to make it all fast-paced and crap. Just trying to raise the intensity level a bit.
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Post by Sparkexe on Jan 30, 2005 1:20:31 GMT -5
Spark Man: *picks himself up after Shan's attacks* So...what's the plan now?
Nathan: I dunno, it seems kinda dumb to leave this unguarded.
Spark Man: Yeah, but Round Boy just beat feet. There's no sense in just staying down here while everyone else has the fun.
Nathan: Still seems kinda dumb to me, but those guys probably can't take her by themselves...
Spark Man: *cloaks himself and runs up stairs* Exactamundo.
Nathan: Alright. Need any chips yet?
Spark Man: *fires two spark mines, one at a defense craft, deleting it, and one at Shan hitting her in the chest* Nah I'm cool. *cloaks himself*
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Post by Drillman on Jan 30, 2005 17:11:48 GMT -5
*Windman destroys the other ship with his Fujin Racket, blowing the wreckage straight back at Shan, hitting her in the shoulder*
Shan: Gah! Fat lot of help those were. *Shadowifies to defend from Drillman's DrillArm attack.* I won't let these 3 against 1 odds overwhelm ME though! *Uses Neo-Variable Sword to slice Drillman and Windman with a Double LifeSword technique.*
Drill: Agh! No, you WILL pay for what you've done! *triggers a MotherQuake PA*
Shan: Oh please. Float Shoes on!
*Shan starts to float over the shaking ground, she nimbly leaps around, over, and under all the falling boulders and tries to attack Drillman with her whip, but is knocked back with a SparkWave*
Shan: Stop getting in my way you fat ugly spark plug! *Activates a Hell Boomerang PA, sending three powerful Boomerangs at Sparkman*
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Post by Sparkexe on Jan 30, 2005 17:53:01 GMT -5
Spark Man: Uh-oh! *tumbles to one side, barley avoiding the Hell Boomerangs*
Nathan: Wood chips! Icky! *downloads an anti-wood chip and totem 3 chip*
Spark Man: *uses the anti-wood chip* We'll have none of that now! Still, this is the most fun I've ever had!*cloaks himself*
Nathan: Yeah, I can walk away a happy man; she's freakin' pissed at us. Did you see the look in her eyes? She hates you!
Spark Man: *reappears behind Shan and sets down a totem 3* I'll have you know that a certain navi finds me sylvette and a sexay beast! *does a pelvic thrust and cloaks himself again*
Shan: *whips at where Spark Man was* Yeah, probably Fortissmo here- AGGGHH!*gets torn up by another Drill Arm*
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Post by Drillman on Jan 30, 2005 22:45:37 GMT -5
OOC: I guess I should mention here that the forum link on the site goes to the job requests page. Speaking of which, you should double-check the personell shots.
Moe: Found her. She's not in Netopia or Sharo, she's in Electopia, Den City, Kotobuki District....Planetman was in there, is the WWW really still active? That must be where they are. If only I could get over there.
Ami: *speaking through Moe's PET* Don't bother trying, I wouldn' be here by the time you got here.
Moe: The hell?
Ami: Yeah, I noticed your tracking program. Cute. Look, just give it up. In just a few days, you'll have a lot bigger things to worry about than your revenge. The whole world will. Oh, and just FYI, this has nothing to do with the WWW. You'll see who the real threat is in a few days.
Moe: Damn you, what are you talking about?
Ami: Later. Shan, we have better things to do than fight these losers. Just distract them long enough for you to Jack Out.
Shan: Forget it, it's been months since we had this much fun. Send me more chips!
Ami: I make the calls here. We'll have all the fighting you could ask for after the launch.
Shan: Send me a chip dammit!
Ami: Fine. *downloads an Escape chip*
Shan: ...You bitch. *disappears*
Drill: No! We lost her.
Moe: I can't pick her up on the scan. She's logged off.
Wind: Sooo, I guess the job's over now?
Spark: Yeah, it's about time we got paid.
Moe: What?! Hey! The job's not over, they're still at large.
Spark: Well I believe we were hired to persue up to this point. We also performed valuabe services and the success of the mission was out of our control. I think we deserve full pay.
Moe: Look, I'll pay half now. *uses his PET to wire 25000 Zenny to the DLM headquarters.* You'll get the rest WHEN Ami is in custody. I'm going to use the other half to buy a plane ticket to Electopia right now. But I should make it up again in a few days during the job. How does that sound?
*Meanwhile, at the DLM homepage, a 25000Z Data Crystal materializes in the middle of the conference table.*
Coldman: Weeell...it must be my birthday!
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Post by Sparkexe on Jan 31, 2005 0:47:05 GMT -5
Nathan: Damn straight. The job's still on if there's a WWW bitch to put on ice. I don't like the way she mentioned that real threat crap.
Spark Man.exe: Guess yer right. Besides, I can't wait to see the look on her face when I show up again.
Nathan: But yeah, that's a good of plan as any. I'll meet you over there. Electopia's my kicking grounds, and there's no point in staying here in Netopia anymore. And Spark Man? Send this e-mail to Moe pronto.
Spark Man.exe: What is it? *reads over the e-mail*
Moe, I'm about to do something I've hardly ever...never done for any of my clients. You're not the only one who's butted heads against WWW, and not much would thrill me more gratefully than to send them all to hell in a handbasket. I won't go into the details now. But consider the rest of the job on the house. Make up whatever excuse you want to calm down Pharon and Wind Man, I'll back you up anyway I can. The offer also stands for any other WWW guys you want me to wax in the future.
Nathan Bernhard
Spark Man.exe: Y-you can't be seriou-
Nathan: Just do it, Spark Man!
Spark Man.exe: Sigh...you got it.*sends e-mail*
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Post by Drillman on Feb 1, 2005 1:41:07 GMT -5
*Moe reads the note and barely cracks a smile, breaking his "tough guy" façade, he breathes a sigh of relief, partly because of the note's reassurance and partly because nobody was around to see his smirk.*
Moe: We'll meet at the Kotobuki Metroline station at 3:00 PM tomorrow. Even if they're gone, we should still be able to find a clue to where they're headed.
*Not wasting a second, Moe grabs his jacket and heads for the Airport.*
*Meanwhile, in DenCity's Kotobuki District, in the basement of the town's Network Administration Building, where the server for Kotobuki Square sits running smoothly ina dimly lit room...*
Ami: So can we make up the last bit of energy by tomorrow?
Scuzzy: Sorry no. The thing's been designed to run on Dark Energy from that Hole. The best we can do by tomorrow is scrape up some Dark Chips from elsewhere.
Ami: Well great. I guess we have those junkies at the old hideout to thank for that. "W" Square only became a DarkChip den so we could bring its profits into the Vector Virus, but thanks to those left-over WWW losers, Fortssimo and quite possibly the Officials are going to find us.
*A large man in a lab coat is tooling around with the server's inner-workings*
Dr.Docman: We'll just move. I can get this thing hooked up to a wireless modem and a portable generator. We'll re-locate before tomorrow morning.
Ami: Won't the townspeople notice we're taking their server away?
Dr.Docman: They think we're doin' maintenace onnit. If anybody asks, we're takin' it to uhh...get it fixed.
Scuzzy: No way, the Officials could already be on to us. We don't have time to be relocating. Look, I'll have Jet start searching for the DarkChips right now. Shan deserves a rest from that job now.
Shan: Oh, how sweet of you to offer to help out when the job is 99% done!
Scuzzy: You know very well I've had my work cut out for me here. Well, with any luck, vector will be loose before they come knocking on our door, and if they do, you two could probably use your fighting skills to hold them off long enough.
Dr.Docman: Oh that'll be nice. Protectin' the most unstoppable force on the net with our two flimsy bodies here in reality. That'll be a great ending to a story that won't get a beginning.
OOC: The "Man" isn't supposed to be mysterious. I just forgot his name right now. Yes, I have written this story in broad-strokes in my mind a long time ago as a VI thing, and I'm trying to do a mini-variation of it with this RP. I drew this guy already and I think I named him, and I guess I'll edit in his name when I find it.
Edit: *shrug* I guess that's it.
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Post by Sparkexe on Feb 1, 2005 20:26:12 GMT -5
OOC: Nah, I just needed to think for a moment as to what my guys should do next, I haven't ditched this yet.
IC: Nathan: *arrives at the Kotobuki Metrostation* This is Moe said he'd meet us, right?
Spark Man: Yeah but who gives a crap? What were you thinking giving up the other 250000?
Nathan: I've got my reasons, but now's not the time for that. Are Pharon and Wind Man going to make it?
Spark Man: Can't say, they were pretty vocal about bailing. And seeing how you short-changed us, I don't blame-
Nathan: Get beyond that! This is more important!
Moe: *steps out from the shadows* Damn straight. What kept you? I was starting to think you wouldn't show.
Nathan: So where exactly did your tracking gizmo say she was hiding out?
Moe: Lemme check. *glances at his PET* Ah, Den City's Network Administration building. But she could've easily high-tailed it in the time it took us.
Nathan: Well, let's give it the benefit of the doubt. Let's roll! *heads off to the Network Administration building with Moe*
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Post by Drillman on Feb 2, 2005 1:10:22 GMT -5
Almost 20 hours without a reply? I was ready to send a search party. Seriously though, take as long as you want to think of stuff. I know as well as anyone these things shouldn't be rushed. I'll likely appear to slack off for a day or two eventually. At least it'll give Pharon a chance to show up and post every now and then. Oh yeah, and just because I said I had this thing "written in my head" already, that doesn't mean you have to avoid making your own story development. I only "wrote" stories like this as templates for Sim-Battles in the first place, so they're supposed to be altered beyond my expectations.
Moe: So, how good a fighter are you?
Nathan: I dunno. I haven't been doing so much "fighting" lately as I've been "beating people up". That's probably just as good.
Moe: Well, like I said in the job request, Ami has a black belt, so she shouldn't be taken lightly. I think I can hold my own against her, but there may be others.
*the two arrive at a small building in the middle of town. It's the NetAdmin building, and it's locked.*
Moe: It's just an electronic lock. No biggie. Jack in! Drillman!
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Moe: Why are you still in your PET?
Drill: Because the Jack-In port is locked, that could probably explain the "out of order" sign in front of your face.
Moe: Oh...well we could probably get in through a different port.
Nathan: *looking around* Uh, looks like all the ports around here are locked.
*Some local guy walking by carrying groceries notices the confused tourists*
LocalGuy: You can't get on the Kotobuki Net right now, the government finally sent in some people to debug it after that Gospel crap messed us up last year.
Moe: Since when?
LocalGuy: It's been going on for about two months. Must be a big job. They assure us it will be done any day now though. *walks off*
Nathan: And she was apparently jacked in here just yesterday. Doesn't take a genius to figure out what's going on here. Let me guess, the rumours about Shan at W Square go back two months as well?
Moe: Yeah, what a "coincidence". Well, we gotta get in here somehow. I suppose the low-tech way is always a good plan B.
Nathan: Right. *looking at the nearest window* Now we just need to find a big enough rock.
*Meanwhile, Scuzzy is watching the security monitors.*
Scuzzy: The hell? Is THAT the brigade of Officials about to bust our operation?
Ami: Huh? That's Moe!...I think...and one other guy? Holy! They must not have taken us seriously! They have no idea what they're up against! Kyaahaahh!
Scuzzy: Woah bitch. You're more scary than usual today. Anyway, you want to go kick their asses? Or should we send Docman up and just stand in the doorway until they get tired and leave?
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