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Mon of the House ~ Eva (Finished)
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Post by Eva on Sept 3, 2017 23:36:43 GMT
It certainly seemed like NanoWerx Industries' "pet project" was certainly a case of quality over Shirou's quantity right about now, the cybernetic digimon lining up shots with a calm, well trained precision as though she had done this a thousand times before. In truth, between the combat simulations, combat training memory implantation and digital world combat she in a way had, even if most of the virtual scenarios put into her were against the sort of thing that humanity expected to be fighting, IE, itself, the knowledge and experience was working just fine in dealing with these mechanised units.
However, the sheer weight of fire soon forced Eva back behind cover, rounds spanking off the thick metal of the heavy industrial machinery as she pulled out the now empty magazine from her rifle and tossed it aside, slotting in a fresh one and cycling the bolt to chamber the first round. The cyborg was just about to make the now already rather impressive pile of destroyed military hardware even taller when a heavy impact tore into her cover, flipping the heavy machinery over her head in a maelstromn of fire and twisted steel, the digimon barely able to duck out of the way.
The machines turned on her, their cold, calculating optics locking on while Eva's did much of the same, HUD flashing up as time almost began to slow for her, priority threats, potential cover, and optimal routes to avoid the incoming hails of gunfire all highlighted over her vision. She knew that those larger bots were certainly the greater threat, but by how much? They were certainly an unknown factor in this. Nonetheless, she certainly knew that those things needed to be dropped pronto.
She cloaked, vanishing from sight and moving to flank, re-emerging with a subtle shimmer of amber light as she impaled one of the smaller robots through its skull with her wristblade and using it as an improvised shield, absorbing the incoming fire for a moment before she shoved the mangled husk into a large group of them in an attempt to buy her some time for her next move. Leaping onto the back of the first N4-SUR, hoping to bait them all into firing on it and doing her job for her, preferably with a shot from the other heavy with its seemingly rather powerful weapons system.
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Post by Dante on Sept 4, 2017 4:13:11 GMT
As more robot drones flood the factory, the heat of battle intensifies. The net holding Stingmon back begins to fade, and Stingmon lets out a burst of energy, vaporizing what is left of the net. With his wings spread out, Stingmon dashes towards a Cutter and bashes it in the head with his energy cannon. "Ho ya! They don't want none!" Eva took a more stealthy approach, going invisible and taking out a Cutter, before using it as a shield. Then the cyborg Fox leaped onto the back of one of the N4s.
The Cutters were foolish enough to fire at the N4, detecting a hostile target behind it. The other N4 had target recognition, and held its fire for risk of hitting his robo buddy. Several cables appear from the N4 Eva is latched on to, wrapping around Eva. The N4 lets out a powerful surge, in attempt to electrocute Eva. The intense voltage might be enough to damage her cybernetics. However, this surge left the N4 a smoldering heap after the fact.
More Cutters appear in the distance. Dante is worried about Eva. "Eva! Are you alright?" "Dante! We have to get to safety." The Cutters fire a barrage of bullets towards the Palladino siblings. Thinking quickly, Stingmon darts over and takes the fire himself, guarding against the specialized ammunition with his forearms crossed. Judith grabs a hold of Dante by the arm, and starts leading him through the factory. They catch up to the Handsome Boys and head down a hallway. They reach a large steel sliding door.
Babi and Kano try to open the door, but it doesn't budge. Red and Flamedramon rejoin them, and Flamedramon blasts the lock on the door with a fire rocket. The Handsome Boys slide the door open, revealing a large area of the factory. Dante approaches the edge and looks down. He sees a giant assembly line cranking out Cutters and other models designed by Shirou. As the remaining N4 locks onto Eva, Stingmon fires a Moon Cannon, incinerating the left arm and shoulder of the N4-SUR, but not disabling it entirely. "Come on, Eva! No sense playing right into Shirou's hand." The Cutters show up behind the group, forcing them further into the factory. They rush down the metal stairs, creating loud *tink tink tink tink* sounds as every step echoes throughout the factory.
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Post by Eva on Sept 4, 2017 12:10:06 GMT
That... didn't go as planned. While Eva's cybernetics were fairly well shielded against EMP and the like, a jolt of electricity to the system certainly was enough to disrupt things, her HUD quickly becoming a corrupted mess of scrambled elements and warning symbols while acrid dark smoke from smouldering electronics rose into the air, mixing with the dust and debris of heavy combat. Nonetheless, she was certainly doing better than the N4. After all, she was still in the fight, the large robot on the other hand seemed to be very much not.
She barely managed to get clear of the smouldering wreckage, almost her entire body feeling numb as the various systems scrambled to reboot, her vision clearing just in time for her to notice that she was on the ground staring up at the second heavy, which despite seemingly missing its main weapon, had her well and truly within its sights. Eva's mind flashed back to an old movie. The Terminator. That killer machine was taken down by a pipe bomb stuffed into it. While she didn't have a pipe bomb, she had something even better. A frag grenade. With the hopefully rather expensive robot's arm being blown off it made quite a convenient hole to stuff one in before legging it.
Of course the smaller robots, seeing movement, opened fire but Eva's armour was designed to stop rounds far more lethal than what they were packing, the few glancing blows only managing to put a couple of tears in the kevlar and dings in the plate as she regrouped with the others. The cyborg didn't exactly escape unscathed from the rather... electrifying experience though, her HUD still displaying a swathe of errors and her wrist blades locked in the deployed position.
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Post by Dante on Sept 5, 2017 3:23:41 GMT
Things did not look good for the gang. Eva was heavily damaged by the N4 essentially self-destructing. After the damage had been done, Eva took out the remaining N4 by putting a grenade right into it's chassis through the opening, neutralizing the bot's hardware inside, and sending it to the scrapheap. The group rejoins down in the lower part of the factory. More cannon fodder bots show up, pushing them further on. Red backs up slowly, until he reaches a conveyer belt. After pausing for a moment to think, he climbs up and flees the Cutters through the assembly line.
"What on earth do you think you're doing?!" "We've gotta get out of here, now!" Babi reluctantly gets on the conveyer belt. Kano refuses to get on, but Leo pushes him forward and Babi yanks him up by the arm. Stingmon continues trying to hold off the machines. The Cutters get closer and closer. Stingmon knocks one of them back with a front kick, but two more get in close. They shred into the King of Sting's outer shell with their spinning blades. "Argh! Take this, you stupid electric razor!" Stingmon charges up his energy cannon, and fires a Moon Cannon point blank, incinerating one of the Cutters.
The Handsome Boys continue down the assembly line. They dodge all sorts of deadly machines. Mechanical arms poking and prodding, giant blades slicing... Babi dodges one of the blades, but gets too close to an automated smasher. A very heavy metal weight rams into Babi from the side, knocking him off the conveyer belt and into a bin of broken robot parts. "Babi!" The instigator of the squad lays down on the parts in horrible pain. He tries to roll over and lifts his shirt up, only to look down and see a giant bruise on his side. "Damn it... you're gonna get what's coming, Shirou!"
Dante and Judith back up to the conveyer belt. "It's too dangerous! We have to find another way." Dante looks around, and sees a thin metal ladder leading up to the top of one of the large machines. "I've got an idea, hold on tight sis!" Judith climbs up onto Dante's back and holds onto his collar. Dante holds onto Judith's legs, but when he gets to the ladder he has to let go in order to climb. He takes the first step, climbing up the ladder. It feels like Judith is slipping off. "Come on, you have to hold on tighter." "I'm trying!" Judith leans forward, grabbing her hands to balance herself. Dante climbs up to the top, and the Palladino siblings at on top of the assembly line. "What's your plan now?" "Uh, ... fall out of love with living."
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Post by Eva on Sept 15, 2017 23:02:20 GMT
Eva wasn't entirely sure how much of a beating her cybernetics had taken from that overvoltage. Diagnostic readouts were showing inconclusive results, the consequence of fried internal sensors. What she did know though, was apart from the blades sticking in the deployed position was that most of her augmentations were still reporting that they were still active, she still had full control of her movement, and all of her natural senses, sight smell, touch, sound and the like were still just fine apart from some ringing in her ears and strange distortions on her HUD.
Eva continued moving up at a steady pace, checking the corners and doorways for additional threats or traps, snapping off accurate bursts from her rifle at the hostile machines. On their own those things weren't a problem in the slightest, but it was the numbers that was really the problem. Before too long, their path was taking them through the actual manufacturing and production lines themselves.
As Eva stood with the group, an idea hit her. Sure, maybe Shirou had already run off, maybe she wouldn't get a chance to put several bullets through his skull... But what she could sure as hell do, is try and ruin him financially by destroying as much of the factory as she could.
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Post by Dante on Sept 16, 2017 16:26:35 GMT
Things didn't look good. The group is scattered around the room, having made their way through wave after wave of Shirou's robot goons. The Handsome Boys head over to the injured Babi and check on him. A giant screen on the wall activates, revealing Shirou's pale white face in high def. "Oww, my eyes!" Dante and Judith nervously steady themselves on top of the machine. "Have you had enough fun yet, Shirou?!" "Oh, not quite. As much as I like a good challenge, the prize of NanoWerx's technology is too much to pass up. Looks like it's time to start getting serious and capture you."
The vents around the factory near the ceiling open up. Several robot drones equipped with energy lasers fly out the vents. The drones look like short and thick robots with round glowing green hands to fire lasers. They are mostly painted black with some green decals, and their heads are constructed to have short thick necks and a smooth face. Stingmon and Flamedramon take up defensive stances next to Eva. The drones rain energy blasts down at the group. Some of the blasts hit Red, burning right through his baseball clothes in several places. "This isn't the time for fanservice." The drones fire energy blasts towards the Palladino siblings, shaking the construct they are standing on. One of the drones flies towards Dante and crashes into him, causing him to stumble. Dante is knocked over, but holds on to the edge. Judith reaches down and grabs Dante's arm.
Judith struggles, but manages to pull Dante back up without sliding down herself. Another drone flies towards Judith, but she ducks down out of the way. "This is ridiculous! You want to mess with us like this, Shirou? I'll beat you so bad, you won't even be able to look at girls anymore you creep!" "My my, spoken like a true lady. Please, don't be polite on my account." "Seriously, Shirou, this time you've gone too far." More drones continue flying in. Stingmon and Flamedramon fight some off, but their numbers overwhelm them. The damage starts adding up. "Argh! Can't we have one day without an intense battle?"
Some of the drones fly down and circle the Handsome Boys. They fire electric nets to tie up Red, Leo, and Kano. The drones approach Babi laying in the bin. One of the drones grabs Babi and throws him down on the ground hard, before another shoots an electric net at him. Flamedramon is enraged, and attacks several drones with a massive blast of fire. However, the drones take down the Armor Digimon with a barrage of energy blasts. Flamedramon drops to the ground, struggling to maintain his form. "Don't worry, it will all be over soon. I'll just drag you back to my lab for a little off the record experimentations." It's down to Eva and Stingmon against a fleet of robot drones, and Dante and Judith are starting to go all King Kong on us.
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Post by Eva on Sept 16, 2017 23:58:15 GMT
Eva continued to engage the machines, however, she was slowly getting worn down, tiring out. With the damage she took earlier from the self destructing robot her cybernetics were starting to fail. Small things at first, starting with her eyes not focusing on objects as quickly, and her left leg making a slight grinding noise as she moved, to more major things such as the artificial muscles themselves starting to lose efficiency. While the cybernetic digimon had more staying power than any human combatant, even she had her limits.
The exhaustion was starting to have a very visible detriment to her combat effectiveness the digimon for the first time in this fight taking a very solid hit from one of the lasers as she changed the magazine on her rifle, the shot fragmenting the plate in her body armour and tearing a large gash in her side. The drone quickly moved in, seeing a chance to finish this, but, Eva still had more than enough left in her to spear the machine through the head with her still stuck nanoblades.
The digimon figured that she could maybe keep this up for another ten or so minutes until her cybernetics completely gave out. She needed a plan.
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"Shirou! Call off your units! I have set my systems to incinerate themselves if you do not comply! Let my friends leave and come out and talk to me face to face, you'll have what you want. Me. If you don't, you'll have nothing!"
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Post by Dante on Sept 17, 2017 16:54:51 GMT
Things were looking desperate for the group. Wave after wave of robotic soldiers had been thrown at them. And in that desperation, at her psychical limit, Eva made an all or nothing last ditch effort to stop Shirou. If her internal mechanisms indeed self destruct, this would all be for nothing. Shirou would be left without her technology, and a doomed factory. Shirou takes a moment to think. Finally, he agrees to Eva's request. "Alright. Seeing as how your techno-" *static*...
Shirou's face on the big screen starts to glitch out. Part of his face becomes scrambled. It looks like a glitch in one of those yearly copy and paste video games studios dump out. Shirou tries to continue speaking, but his voice and appearance continue to grow increasingly bizarre. "Something not right... Shirou, what is the meaning of this?!" Finally the screen fades to blue, displaying an error message. Dante didn't know it at the time, but Shirou's programming has fallen victim to a serious glitch. Whether it was caused during the baseball game, or whether he entered the data wrong because of his blurred vision, the Shirou they know is no longer in control of the maniacal factory.
"This isn't good, Dante. Shirou has always been weird, but he's gone over the edge." The drones fire more blasts, damaging the machine the siblings are standing on. The metal framing buckles in, and starts falling over. "This thing is going down! Try to grab onto one of the drones." A drone flies by, and Dante grabs onto it. Dante's added weight drags the drone down, causing its trajectory to take a turn for the worse. Judith is thrown off the top of the tower, but Stingmon quickly takes action and flies up to make the save. Dante and the drone smack right into another construct. While flailing around, Dante's foot knocks a tube off the machine. Smoke pours out, as the machine starts to overheat.
Dante and the drone are sent spiraling down to the conveyor belt below. Fortunately they didn't fall far, otherwise the impact could have been quite painful. Dante struggles to get up on the conveyer belt. He looks over as the drone is crushed by a large weight. Dante struggles to avoid the deadly blades and hammers, but is getting closer to the device that flattened the drone. Before Dante becomes a pancake, the machine overheats, triggering a large explosion across the top part of the room they are in. The power is cut, as the factory's machines shut off. Dante is sparred from a horrifying fate just in time. The remaining drones power off, and the nets containing the Handsome Boys dissipate.
With no power, the factory has gone dark. Holding Judith in one arm, Stingmon charges his energy cannon, emitting a lime green pulse to see. Dante wipes the sweat off his forehead and jumps off the conveyer belt. The group rejoins where the Digimon had last been battling. Red is carrying a severely injured Babi on his back. Flamedramon tries to spark a flame for light, but it quickly goes out. The Digimon reverts down to his Red Veemon stage to regain energy. "Is everyone else alright?" "I'm okay, thank Goddess. What about Babi?" "He's pretty banged up. We need to get him some treatment." Stingmon sets Judith down, and she rushes over to check on Eva. "Are you going to be alright, Eva?" "It looks like she's sustained near critical levels of damage. Probably more than NanoWerx would have liked." Given Eva's speed and ability, it was unlikely she would encounter a foe this destructive, but in this case quantity outdid quality.
Now that the machines have stopped, the group is left to wander the dark factory, searching for a way out of Shirou's computerized nightmare.
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Post by Eva on Sept 17, 2017 20:34:54 GMT
This certainly caused a change in Eva's plans. Her original intention was the hope that Shirou's greed would outdo his common sense, making him come out in plain sight where she could simply fire either a high velocity rifle round through his skull, or use the PDFLS to turn a good fifty percent of his body into the consistency of a chunky salsa sauce. She even had a contingency in place if Shirou used some sort of robotic body double. Her multiple vision modes, including thermal, would easily be able to tell the difference between a human and a deception of that sort of nature. However, the entire factory seemingly going awol changed that. Perhaps it was her earlier attempts at sabotage? Perhaps it was a fluke stray shot penetrating a wall and hitting some sort of vital component of the factory's mainframe, perhaps it was some sort of programming error, whatever it was Eva didn't exactly care right now as she shoulder rolled clear of a falling drone, spiralling out of control in a ball of fire and vectoring right into a part of the machine she was standing on. The whole structure shuddered, the previously relatively stable walkway dropping to a steel angle with the ear splitting cacophony of rending steel.
The digimon lost her footing, sliding down the catwalk, barely having time to stab her blades through the metal to bring herself to a halt, cutting a fairly long gash in the solid material. She remained there for a moment, catching her breath, before using what was left of the railing to climb down to the relative safety of the ground. Even as the facility dropped into total darkness, Eva could still see everything in near perfect clarity, her cybernetic eyes switching to their night vision settings. It was only now that she could really stop and take a look at how much of a beating she had taken. The gash in her side was "bleeding" rather heavily, although, it certainly looked more dramatic than it actually was as the blood coloured dragonskin liquid ballistic protection bled out from the ruptured cells. Nonetheless, if this kept up it could very well cause some much more lasting damage to the entire armour package. A section of "scarring" would drastically decrease the amount of protection it could provide in that area, not to mention disrupting the cloaking system. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately depending on who you asked, this lead to even more "fanservice" than the holes punched in Red's baseball clothes as she took off her heavily damaged plate carrier (which was nothing more than dead weight at this point and disintegrated back into a pile of the base materials it constructed itself from as it hit the floor anyway) and her shirt underneath, tearing it up to make some improvised bandages and stemming the bleeding yet leaving her, well... topless, and more than a little embarrassed.
"I can still see perfectly fine here, and I still have a rifle as well as plenty of other integrated weapons. If I catch any of you staring there will be consequences."
Despite the level of injury to her and damage to her cybernetics Eva still seemed to be standing strong, rifle in hand, lowered, but certainly at the ready to be shouldered and fired at a moment's notice. Eva looked over to Judith for a moment as she asked if she was okay, before continuing to scan the area for potential threats or a way out. "I'm still breathing, that's what matters for me right now. I'll try and find us a route out of here, my night vision's working just fine. Stay close and don't get separated, last thing you want to do in here is get lost in the dark."
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Post by Dante on Sept 18, 2017 5:45:10 GMT
Other than Stingmon's glowing energy cannon providing some light close by, only Eva is able to see clearly. She has taken quite the thrashing, even so far that her cybernetics have been damaged to the point where her chest is exposed. She warns the others not to ogle. Kano just looks away and starts whistling innocently. Red doesn't really care to look or try to avoid suspicion. Babi is too injured to pay attention. Leo nervously looks away, not wanting to complicate his budding friendship with Eva. Dante doesn't see Eva's state of undress as arousing, and Eva certainly won't have to worry about Judith. If anything, Dante would be interested in her holosuit form.
However, Stingmon just stands there, confused. "Wait, I don't get it. What am I supposed to be looking at?" Stingmon looks at Eva's damaged body. The liquid protection spewing out looks like blood, and her cybernetics have been heavily damaged. Though, lots of Digimon do not wear any clothing, and there doesn't seem to be a problem with other Renamon walking around in the buff. "No offense there, Eva, but Judith has bigger breasts." Judith looks surprised and embarrassed. "Eva's been heavily damaged. We need to act quickly and find a way out of here."
With the platform above destroyed they won't be able to go back the way they came. Not unless Stingmon carries everyone up one or two at a time. With Eva able to see in night vision, she can scan the room and locate exits. There are two available exits, but what lies beyond in this creepy factory is unknown. The group now has to choose which path. "Okay gang, let's split up." "What? Are you crazy?! That's like, what somebody says before the monster gets someone." "M-m-monster?!" "Let's just pick a direction and go."
The group follows Eva, staying close to Stingmon's light. With Shirou's machines powered off, the factory is strangely quite. Every footstep echoes across the room. They reach one of the doors, which leads down a hallway. "Hang on, let me check this area out." Stingmon flies down the hallway. He searches nearby rooms and looks for an exit. Stingmon returns back to the group. "There's just more computers in most of these rooms, but there's a path leading to some kind of lounge." "Hmm, did it look like a public lobby, or a private lounge?" "More like a lounge. It could mean that Shirou is close by." "Knowing Shirou, he would have some sort of room for lounging."
Red isn't impressed with Stingmon's scouting. "Like I'm going to trust bug brain over here. We need to find the exit, not go further into Shirou's trap." "Don't you get it? Shirou's the only one who knows the way out. And it might be limited to a portal." Red gets up in Dante's face. "Are you really this stupid? Look, just because we're stuck together doesn't change anything between us! We're leaving." "Don't think I like this alliance any more than you. This is one of Shirou's virtual worlds." "No it's not! The power is out. If that were the case, we would already be out of here by now. Come on, boys, we are out of here." Babi, laying limp on Red's back, struggles to speak. "Ooh, Handsome, Boys, for life..." "Ya, well how are you going to see in the dark, dumbass?" Judith tightens her fist in frustration. "This isn't the time to start fighting again..."
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Post by Eva on Sept 18, 2017 23:05:16 GMT
Eva was certainly glad that no one was ogling her, it made having to resort to that measure rather less embarrassing. In fairness, she didn't really need to worry about it, not like most digimon even wear clothes anyway but unlike most of her kind she felt very much naked, both literally and figuratively, without something to cover herself up. "That was more to those guys." She regarded the "handsome boys" with a quick head gesture before continuing to look around the room for potential exits, spotting several corridors but no real signs or indications. Not even a fire exit sign. This place was a health and safety nightmare.
"No offense there, Eva, but Judith has bigger breasts."
"Judith's a human. I'm a digimon. Of course the biology up there is going to be completely different. Now if we're done talking about breasts, let's keep moving."
Eva was seemingly getting more and more irritated by the constant bickering as she was trying to concentrate on the task at hand. She was very systematic in the way she moved up, taking cover by the doorway to the corridor that seemingly lead to some sort of lounge. "Keep your bloody voices down. Take cover by the doorway, on my go, we move through it." She quickly checked the doorway for tripwires or any other sort of trap before quietly opening the door, aiming her rifle as she peeked through from behind cover so that she would be ready to take a shot at anything behind it. "Clear ahead. Clear right. Clear left. Go."
She walked forwards at a steady pace, keeping her weapon poised as she constantly looked for additional threats, every doorway stopping, taking cover and doing the same procedure. Despite this though, it seemed the bickering was not showing any sign of stopping even as they got to some sort of lounge area. She almost growled through her teeth, not turning to look at them for risk of a threat popping up in the mere moment it would take to do so.
"Shut. the. f*ck. up. Stay focused, stay alive."
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Post by Dante on Sept 19, 2017 5:53:24 GMT
"Judith's a human. I'm a digimon. Of course the biology up there is going to be completely different. Now if we're done talking about breasts, let's keep moving."
"We're never done talking about breasts."
After they stop talking about, that, Eva takes charge, and the group follows her through the factory. Red and the other homely bros aren't too happy about working together, and tension between Dante and Red is boiling. Red begrudgingly goes back on his word to leave, as there's no other source of light presently. Red starts to get tired carrying Babi around. He lays the near unconscious Babi down on a couch in the lounge. "You'll be alright here. We will come back for you." "Such loyalty..." he said sarcastically. Judith tugs on Dante's arm. "Stop stirring the pot." The group explores the lounge further, but there are no signs of online machines or more drones. However, there is a snack bar.
Stingmon goes over to the snack bar to munch down some cookies. "Hey, Stingmon, can you bring the light back over here?" "Just a sec, nom nom nom..." As Stingmon gorges himself, he catches something moving in the shadows in the corner of his eye. *Gulp* "What was that? Who's there?!" Stingmon fires an energy blast in the direction. The attack brightens up the area for a split second, but there is no sign of anyone. Then something can be heard coming a little further away. A series of 1s and 0s repeating in random orders. "Hold your fire. Keramon, is that you?"
The lanky computer virus emerges from the shadows. He continues speaking, but the group can't understand him. "Wait, slow down. We need to find a way to figure out what he's saying." Keramon stretches one of his cables out, and inserts it into a light fixture. He powers on the light, providing some much needed brightness in the room. "Ah, Keramon can power things on! Can you get the microwave going?" "That can wait. Hey, what if 1 means yes, and 0 means no? If you understand, say 1 twice and nod your head." Keramon smiles and nods his head. "1...1." "Alright, well now we can ask him yes and no questions. But what questions should we ask?" "For starters, has Shirou lost control of the factory?" "1." "Is there a way out of here that doesn't involve portals?" "0." "See? Told you." Keramon gets anxious. He wants the group to help Shirou. But with the language barrier, Keramon can't communicate beyond yes and no. Maybe Eva has a way she can understand his binary speak.
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Post by Eva on Sept 20, 2017 5:13:11 GMT
Most of the damage report readouts on Eva's cybernetics and vitals were starting to one by one reset and come back online. The readings were both a mix of good news and bad. On the one hand, she didn't have any internal bleeding or any broken bones and the damage to the cybernetics was mostly stuff that could be recovered by the built in self repair, but on the other hand there was a long list of components that had simply been overstressed to the point of degrading quite badly, in particular the artificial muscles which had even begun to fray and tear in a couple of places. Of course, Eva didn't need the readout in order to tell that she was just straight up exhausted. Her whole body was aching, her vision was slow to focus and even slightly blurry. She almost felt like she might just pass out and drop to the floor at any second.
Nonetheless, she pushed on through it. In fact, it was just seemingly making her even more annoyed, not to mention the constant bickering going on right now. With her optics in their night vision settings she had no problem whatsoever navigating the lounge and had no problem detecting the virus. She quickly snapped around and aimed at it, however, she was pretty much blinded as soon as the lights were suddenly turned on, leaving her a little stunned for a moment even after she switched them back to their normal settings.
Eva had no way of understanding binary outside of "one" being a signal for "on" and zero meaning off. She was a cyborg after all, not a robot. She seemingly was not taking any chances whatsoever with Keramon, instantly sticking the barrel of her rifle in its face. "Alright wanker, this is how it's going to go down. You are going to lead us to Shirou and we are going to have a nice little chat with him. You make one wrong move and I am going to put a round clean through your god damn skull. Understood?"
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Post by Dante on Sept 21, 2017 0:44:45 GMT
The gang was trying to communicate with the Virus Digimon, but Eva had other plans. She aimed her rifle in Keramon's face, demanding that he take them to Shirou. Keramon nods and answers "1." Shirou's partner floats through the factory, escorting the group down the hall and through some doors. The group leaves Babi passed out on the couch in the lounge. They reach a dark computer lab, the room where Shirou was operating the factory from. Stingmon looks down at Keramon, and sees Shirou laying on the ground.
Judith runs over and leans down, giving Shirou mouth to mouth. The pale computer nerd wakes up feeling Judith's lips on his mouth. "You cans stop now, he's awake." "Oh, where am I? I was having the most wonderful dream. Expect you were there, and you. Wait a minute, did I try to pull one of my evil schemes again? Sorry about that." "Damn right you better be sorry. Now get us out of here right now!" Shirou sits up, rubbing the back of his head. "It looks like the power is off. We need to activate the backup generators."
Red and Kano stand next to Shirou. "You're not going anywhere." "Once we get out of here, we're going to punish you for everything you've done to the Handsome Boys. These losers, well I don't really care." "You're the losers." Shirou gets up and heads to the computer panel. Keramon powers it on, but it's next to useless with the rest of the factory offline. "That's strange. Everything was going according to plan. What could have happened?" There's a strange mechanical noise coming from down the hall. "What was that?!" Keramon speaks in binary. "Really? Hmm. Keramon says he saw some kind of computer virus exit my body when the power went off. Strange." "So does that mean we're not alone in here?" "Nope, there's something else stalking about this pitch black factory. Someone needs to reach the back up generators. Just be careful..."
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Post by Eva on Sept 21, 2017 3:51:06 GMT
Eva listened to the conversation, hearing about the virus and the backup generators, plus the apparent "creature" moving around, however, Eva was still absolutely fuming by the look of it. She marched right up to Shirou and tried to grab him by the throat, her eye protection snapping down giving only a cold reflection back at the person that to her seemed to very much be the complete architect of several attempted murders. The cybernetics whirred as she lifted the man into the air with just one arm. Even with the systems on the verge of failing, they still had much more strength than almost any human could muster, while the blade on her other arm, having managed to reset and retract as she was moving through the corridors slowly deployed, getting closer and closer to the man's neck, starting to apply pressure just above where Eva's hand was. She was being careful not to just straight up slice into Shirou yet, her goal right now was very much intimidation, to scare an answer out of him.
Nonetheless, it certainly looked like the enraged cybernetic digimon was about to end the nerd's existence, and if Eva wasn't careful or Shirou didn't give her the answers she wanted, that was probably what it was going to be. "Virus? You attempted to murder several of my friends Shirou. Now you're going to tell us how to get out of this factory. An exit. Through a fucking door rather than some bullshit with generators and another one of your "monsters". Do that, and I promise i'll end you quickly. You won't have to find out what your left ball tastes like."
Someone miiiiight want to hold Eva back a bit...
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