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Post by mugenginga on Aug 12, 2009 21:15:22 GMT -5
Zero materialized out of one of the unattended computers littering the area. It blew up as he left, and the back of his outfit charred a little from the explosion. Some computers were just so out of shape they didn't handle viruses well. He rolled his eyes and concentrated a bit, allowing his outfit to "heal" itself.
The white-haired man with three ponytails looked around. He'd felt quite a bit of electronic energy coming from this area. Come to find out, it was just a mass of broken down machines. Zero looked deep in thought and looked to the south. No, there was one area that seemed to be more concentrated than others.
All the computers here seemed to be connected. There had to be a central station, right? Zero yawned in a rather theatric manner and began walking towards where he felt the energy. The panic caused by a crashing mainframe could be great fun. And still being new to this dimension, what better way to stir up trouble. So many cultures relied on computers just as much if not more than breathing, after all.
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Post by tsifan on Aug 12, 2009 21:20:06 GMT -5
Bashton just wandered into the area where he heard the explosion. He was slightly curious, but he certaily did not show it as he took a look to see a man in white leave. He jusr fell back into a buildings shadow and disappeared quickly following the man going from shadow to shadow.
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Aug 12, 2009 21:24:27 GMT -5
Before the explosion had gone off, Chip had been around the industrial park, working on something incredibly top secret: a transporter that lead straight to his home planet instead to one of those alternate Earths. Using the abandoned computers spread around the park, he had been writing the program that could read the coordinates...
And then it all went offline at the same time an explosion went off. Chip sighed.
"I never was good at this kinda robotics stuff. I shoulda been a rocket scientist instead. Well, I better go see what happened..." He stood up and started heading in the direction the explosion had come from, not knowing a sentient glitch was behind all of this.
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Post by mugenginga on Aug 12, 2009 21:37:05 GMT -5
(OOC: Zero would get a huge kick out of that. XD He loves crashing people's programs)
Zero noticed Chip's movements, and turned a bit so that he was headed straight for the blue-skinned human. This dimension had the oddest mis-match of beings. As if someone's bad fanfiction had come to life or something. Zero smirked. It was amusing.
He was unaware of Bashton, but probably wouldn't have cared or acted any differently had he been. It was probably because Zero was impossible to predict most times.
"Hey!" Zero said to Chip. It came across as a friendly 'howdy' type of greeting. He waved as he said it.
Zero could be friendly when he wanted to, after all.
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Post by tsifan on Aug 12, 2009 21:39:56 GMT -5
Bashton watched carefully, he felt something was odd about this man and wanted to know what.
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Aug 12, 2009 21:42:32 GMT -5
Chip gave a smile too. There was something slightly unerving about it, it looked real enough, but there was something a bit fake about it. He waved one of his leechsleeves at Zero.
"Hello! Are you the one who broke my program?" Chip asked sincerely.
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Post by mugenginga on Aug 12, 2009 21:50:43 GMT -5
"Program?" Zero paused, "Oh! I thought there was a little much activity there. Not intentionally, no. But I might have. Computers don't like me." Zero chuckled at his subtle pun.
It was the truth. He hadn't been aiming to disrupt any programs at the time, but sometimes being near a fragile program meant he'd crash it. Same with computers "not liking him". If computers were sentient, which Zero hadn't had the experience of meeting, they'd like him about as much as humans liked deadly parasites. After all, a computer virus was just like a human virus. Just for computers.
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Post by tsifan on Aug 12, 2009 21:56:16 GMT -5
Bashton continued to watch from the shadows and still felt there was something wrong so he slipped to a shadow of a building closer to Zero.
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Aug 12, 2009 21:58:40 GMT -5
"Ah." The corner of Chip's mouth twitched. He scratched himself on the head a couple times before finally making a decision. When he did, his entire expression changed.
[glow=red,2,300]"Fix it,"[/glow] Chip growled. [glow=red,2,300]"Fix it or I'll bite off your head, you damn human."[/glow] He lifted up his leechsleeves to make his point.
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Post by mugenginga on Aug 12, 2009 22:03:50 GMT -5
"Human?"
Zero found the statement hilarious, and was suddenly laughing like he'd heard the world's funniest joke. He was bent over, holding his chest as a few tears ran down his face. He held up a hand with his pointer finger up to indicate, "Wait just a minute."
He saw no need to hide his true identity. This creature obviously wasn't human either. And with computers scattered all over the place, fleeing would be easy. If nothing else he could revert to his physical virus form.
And despite looking doubled over in laughter, he was well aware of where Chip's sleeves were.
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Post by tsifan on Aug 12, 2009 22:37:59 GMT -5
Bashton appeared out of the shadows and smirked as he leaned against the building. "So what exactly are you?" he asked in a tone with no emotions.
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Aug 13, 2009 5:45:55 GMT -5
"Well, hurry up," Chip said, his expression returning to "normal". His antennae twitched when someone else appeared, or rather, when they came out of hiding.
Chip looked at Bashton. "Him or me? 'Cause I'm an RHA."
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Post by mugenginga on Aug 13, 2009 10:21:51 GMT -5
Zero seemed to finally recover, although he was still chuckling a bit. He hadn't meant he was going to fix the Chip's system, but there was no reason why he couldn't. He had been indicating he was too busy laughing to talk. He turned and waved when he saw Bashton.
"The simplest explanation would likely be a sentient computer virus," he said, "But you need to lighten up. You look like you'd make Death look like a party animal," he turned back to Chip, "Well, what were you working on? If the computer has the processing power I can probably get it to do what you want. If not, it'll likely fry its circuits. Most of the computers around here seem pretty weak."
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Post by tsifan on Aug 13, 2009 12:18:19 GMT -5
Bashton continued to watch this conversation, mostly since he was bored and had pretty much nothing to do but not bored enough to kill someone for fun.
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Aug 13, 2009 19:27:55 GMT -5
Chip crossed his arms (leeches?). "A transporter program that would be able to teleport someone across dimensions. I was using the computers around here to help support the program, since the main computer I was using didn't have a lot of memory."
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