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My Demons and I (Dust/Open)
Dust
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Post by Dust on Apr 20, 2016 5:41:12 GMT
Keith flipped her the bird and kept walking along his own path towards where everyone else was going, the super fortress of doom, nice name and it will also be nice to destroy. "It should take him to long to find my code and mess with me, if he wants to deal with them he shouldn't be worried about me, might as well take advantage of that." Keith said with a small laugh before rushing off towards the area the Airship went in, he had to hurry if he wanted to be part of the party.
Dust was cautious for another reason, if the game went Keith went with it right? He had no idea how he would survive the game being deleted but that stuck Dust in his core, Keith was Data like him, he was happy, he joked and was rude but he acted regular like Dante, like Dust but he was going to be deleted. Dust steeled himself, heh ad no choice as Luna grabbed on to Dust's back again. "Afraid of heights?" Luna shook her head and laughed. "Nah." Luna said giving no reason why she was doing this but she already took the parachute and equipped it so, good he supposed. Dust then was dragged out of the ship by Luna and started falling while looking rather calm about it.
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Post by Dante on Apr 20, 2016 6:02:11 GMT
Dust, Luna, and Dante fall through the sky. They open their parachutes and land far enough away to not get attacked. They start heading towards the lake on the left side of the fortress. The Rebel Rose lands close to the front gate, and crusaders storm down the loading dock. "Alright men! It's us or them!" The Crusaders rush the main gate. Shirou's men are already stationed, and have fortified their posts. Shirou watches on from the monitors. He decides to stop messing around with Aria and Wormmon, and take this fight seriously. "That's enough for now. Come on, out of the tub." The aliens escort Wormmon and Aria to the dungeon. "Can't you at least get us some towels?!" The two aliens laugh at them and walk away. Wormmon and Aria just stand there in the dungeon, shivering in their bathing suits. "Damn Shirou to Hell! He doesn't care about anyone else."
The three party members reach the lake. There's a small patch of land leading to a wall on the other side of the lake. Tybalt messages the party from the Rebel Rose. "There should be a wall you can glitch through. Once you bypass through the map, you should be able to continue on through the fortress. Once you reach the in game master terminal, start blasting." "You can count on us. It's now or never." The party walks around the lake and approaches the wall. Dante tries to run through the wall, but ends up jogging in place, like in most video games. "Yep, it's correctly mapped. See if you can breach it, Dust."
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Dust
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Post by Dust on Apr 20, 2016 6:14:08 GMT
Dust just followed along before looking at the wall, Dante ran in place and Dust just stared at the wall for a few moments. Was this the best time to tell Dante he has no idea what he's doing? Or that he wasn't sure exactly what everyone was talking about before? Luna looked at Dust then the wall then at Dust again before getting behind Dust and pushing him into the wall causing him to go through it and destroying the wall without even a sound. "Huh, well then, huh." That would explain why they found Keith before if Dust could just randomly do this whenever, then why didn't he go through the floor? Thoughts for later.
"Well, lead the way." Dust said motioning Dante to show him where the hell they were going, he had no idea and neither did Luna. Keith got there just in time to see the attack on the castle, he stole some guys motorcycle by punching him when he kept doing circles around Keith, luckily he knew where he was going so this wasn't a total loss. Keith wondered if he should either help the ones fighting or go find Dust and Dante, after a moment he started up his bike before going straight for the wall jumping off of it building a massive amount of power in his blade before slicing the ari creating a large slash that ripped through the air strangely only damaging people Keith thought were his enemies which would be Shirou's men.
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Post by Dante on Apr 20, 2016 7:15:53 GMT
The party continues through the base. Because they went off the map, they are in part of the game that wasn't designed for players. They will have to navigate around several obstacles before reaching the master control room. They get to a part where there's a narrow path along one of the walls, and a decent jump to the next platform. Dante walks down the platform, but falls through part of the floor that hasn't been properly mapped out. Dante grabs onto the ledge behind him, and pulls himself up. "Great, this jump would be difficult even if we could start a little closer." Even Dante's blink strike wouldn't be enough to clear the gap.
Back at the front gate, Crusaders storm Shirou's troops. Because of the level disadvantage, it takes 2 or 3 players teaming up on 1 guard just to defeat them. Some of the weaker crusaders fall in battle. Luckily there's enough buffs and healing to keep fighting. Keith even unleashes an attack from his sword, injuring a wave of guards. More guards poor out of the gate, equipped with large laser cannons. Tybalt watches on from the Rebel Rose. "Our one chance to stop Shirou, and I'm stuck manning the ship." Tybalt's desire to fight takes over. He takes off in the ship, heading south of the fortress. He turns the bird around and builds up speed. He sets the course, and grabs a parachute. The Rebel Rose crashes into the center of the fortress. The destruction from the crash triggers several mines and traps set up in the fortress, causing a chain reaction of explosions around the base. Tybalt activated a one time use trinket, negating all damage for a few seconds. He jumped out before the crash, and lands on top of one of the towers. The crash took out several battalions of Shirou's forces, and even knocked the security AI out, resulting in the gun turrets going offline.
Shirou frantically scrambles to the main terminal. "Damn it! I didn't expect any of this." Several of his top programmers access the damages. "Too many of our defenses have gone down. We need to lock down our most valuable sectors." Shirou scrolls though various programs on the terminal. "Looks like I need some more pieces on the chessboard." Shirou opens up the main file and changes some of the numbers. Another battalion of troops appears in the center chamber. They are wearing heavy power suits equipped with mini guns and rocket launchers. Shirou instructs his new troops to lock down all major intersections between sectors. "Whahaha! The bait is placed, the trap is set. The Crusaders may have caught me off guard, but my defenses are still impenetrable! This is MY GAME and nobody's going to take it from me!"
Victoria watches the battle at the gates from afar. She really didn't care for one side or the other. Having suffered defeat, her own life was forfeit. She notices Keith fighting along side the crusaders. Her anger toward Keith burned inside of her. She was conflicted. Keith had chosen to spare her life, so fighting him again would be shameful. However, she respected Shirou's authority in the game, and decides to fight on his behalf. Victoria heads to the east side of the fortress, and stands on the edge of a small cliff, staring at the massive wall. Victoria activates a transformation growing large angel wings. She flies up in the air and throws her double bladed sword at the wall, spinning it through the air. It hits the wall and creates a vortex, sucking in a large portion of the wall. Victoria grabs her sword and flies through, continuing on deeper into the fortress.
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Dust
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Post by Dust on Apr 20, 2016 7:32:40 GMT
Dust and Luna stop near a long narrow path that would require a good jump before they could even get there, not only that Dante almost fell through the floor, before either could react he had already pulled himself back up. "Yeah you're right." Dust agreed looking at it, how could they get past this area? Luna apparently had a dumb idea and took out some of her old equipment and threw it over to the plateform to make sure it wouldn't fall through like it did with Dante before, if it didn't Dust would get what the girl wanted to do, she'd end up stuck but she could possibly throw them across, that or they could learn how to wall jump in five seconds but hell they most likely didn't even have that much time left before something happened. Dust looked over his skill set wondering what he could use to get across but there wasn't anything except. Hey what if me and Luna use session, we fly when we do that if we hold you on one of our backs we might be able to get across." Or Dante could fall to his early doom but Dust didn't remind him of this fact.
Keith had to admit that guy who just crashed his ship was brave, or a huge idiot both worked well but it didn't seem to matter as more enemies just came, Keith sighed rolling his blade around his hand before grasping it with both closing his eyes. "Alright then Demon, lets see what we got." Keith said to himself as a dark energy started eminating from the boss, behind him a large dark purple being appeared behind him holding the sword in the same way Keith was, if someone saw his status you could see his MP drain stupidly fast just to hold this as Keith lifted his blade bringing the blade of the demon up also. With one swift movement he cut sideways attempting to hit every enemy that just appeared with the skill, after he finished this he thought he saw something fly into the fortress, he didn't trust something that seemed familiar so he sheathed his sword and followed cutting down anything that tried to stop him.
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Post by Dante on Apr 20, 2016 8:16:23 GMT
Dante tests out the rest of the platform. He leans down and sticks his foot out, tapping the floor to see if it is safe. "There's a small ledge just before the very end." It was only a small area, but enough to land on. Dante takes a few steps back, and gets ready for a running start. "Well, here it goes." Dante dashes towards the end of the platform. Just before Luna's piece of equipment he jumps, landing on the small area with both feet. He uses his forward momentum to launch off, jumping towards the next platform. He almost makes it, but comes up short a couple feet. Right as he falls below the platform, Dante blink strikes up, landing safe and sound. With Dante across, Dust and Luna can easily combine their powers to cross the gap.
At the front gate, guards and Crusaders duke it out, killing many troops on both sides. Keith unleashes a devastating attack, turning the tide of the battle. Indiana and the crusaders continue on into the fortress. Keith detects someone entering the fortress from the side, and runs off to follow them. Tybalt enters the tower and makes his way through a different area of the fortress. He heads down the tower, slicing and dicing whatever guards are unfortunate enough to stand in his way. Tybalt reaches a small storage room. He notices a cellar door on the other side of the room. He takes a peek, and realizes he is directly above the dungeon. Tybalt drops a couple of smoke bombs down below, and covers his face with a bandana. he jumps down below and dispatches the guards stationed in the dungeon.
Wormmon and Aria see Tybalt coming to the rescue. "Tybalt! Thank god you're here! Get us out!" Tybalt grabs the keys and unlocks the cell door. Wormmon and Aria grab any gear that was taken from them in the storage lockers, and equip their regular armor. The three make their way out of the dungeon and up a flight of stairs. They reach a long hallway with several doors. "Uhh, which way out of here?" "Well Shirou's lounge was through that door, but he already went somewhere else." "I guess we should check what's behind these doors." Tybalt walks up to one of the doors on the right and opens it. Inside the room is tons of old video game systems and games, and tons of video game merchandise. "Hmm, pitiful..." Aria opens a door on the left. Inside is a purple fox-human hybrid female, laying on a heart shaped bed surrounded by candles. Aria quickly slams the door, shocked by what she saw. "Okay, that was too weird!" "Ooo, ooo, let's open another door!" "I don't think that's a good idea!" Wormmon opens another door. Inside is a large armory filled with superior weapons and gear, stackable gems and artifacts, and dozens of potions that add a permanent increase to health. All three of them stare at the room, eyes wide open. "Woo hoo! We hit the jackpot!!!"
Meanwhile, Dust, Luna, and Dante have crossed over to the next room. After a few more obstacles and jumps to navigate, they reach a door leading to the game's main system hub. They walk in and see countless computer equipment covering the room and the walls. Dante walks down a row of hard drives, staring at the advanced equipment. "This is amazing... But how do we know where the central terminal is?" The group explores the vast network of computers, looking for any indication of what to break first.
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Dust
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Post by Dust on Apr 20, 2016 8:28:53 GMT
Dust and Luna shrugged before both turned into the whisp like form when they used the third part of session easily crossing the path landing near Dante. "That will never stop being weird." Dust said streching a little, maybe it was because he was naturally Data so things like that effected him more then he'd like. "I think it's awesome, sad we won't get to do it once we're out of here." Dust nodded, it was a powerful skill but could they do that in the real and digital world? That would be something if they could, following down the path dealing with several things they eventually found their way to the main hub of the area, Dust looked around not knowing what he was supposed to be looking for, Luna also they'd never dealt with computers so they just looked for one that was different from the others.
Keith felt this following thing was stupid about half way though as he got lost looking down the many paths of the castle. Keith wipes the blood from his blade before returning it to its sheath and started walking around the area, there were many doors around here and he didn't know exactly what he was looking for. "It couldn't of been her right? I just spared her wouldn't her pride make her accept the loss?" Keith asked himself crossing his arms, he shrugged deciding it wasn't worth the thought, he beat her once he'd beat her again. Keith eventually felt another presence nearby, this one more powerful then the last he felt, it also felt more malevolent then the others he felt before.
Keith quickly made his way to a door and stops before he opens it feeling a massive amount of dread before he opened this door, like if he opened it he'd be facing his death quite soon. Keith breathed in a few time steeling himself before he opened the door leading to the main terminal, though he didn't know and walked along the path bringing his blade out ready to counter any opponent that tries him.
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Post by Dante on Apr 20, 2016 8:57:42 GMT
The Crusaders charge forward into the next sector. Shirou sees several alarms going off around the fortress. Feeling threatened, he decides to place invisible walls in between the sectors. Shirou regrets having to stoop so low. He designed his base to be beyond overpowered, and yet still he had to stoop so low as to exploit his authority in the game. He sits at his desk in the control room, staring at all the monitors. The Crusaders try to enter the main chamber, but are unable to get past the invisible wall.
Victoria had noticed Keith was tracking her, and decided to toy with him, circling around random parts of the fortress until reaching an invisible wall. She retraces her steps, and stumbles upon the room containing the main terminal. Hearing Keith coming, Victoria hides in the room, waiting to see what Keith does. (Thinking) "I mistakenly lead him right to the heart of Shirou's computer system. Why was he following me?" Fortunately, Shirou had safety measures in place, and deactivating the terminal would require multiple steps. Destroying it would only upload its data to another server. Victoria watches Keith, hoping he will leave so she can continue exploring the fortress.
Dante, Dust, and Luna continue searching the large room. Dante comes across a large monitor, and a control station. He looks down at all the knobs and levers. "Hmm, what do we have here?" Dante deactivates the circuit breaker regulating power to the machines. A massive surge of electricity flows into the complex web of systems, causing several of the computers to explode in a blast of sparks and smoke. Several features in the game start getting wonky. Quest givers everywhere start massacring players. Experience stops going up. And it becomes impossible to load into another map unless you are entering from an adjacent area. The invisible walls go down, and the Crusaders advance into the main chamber. Shirou panics, seeing all the alarms going off. "Oh this is terrible! My game is falling apart! But I can still stop them. My personal protection policy, the ace in the hole, the trump card, my one creation too powerful to fail! This outta show those punks who's boss!"
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