Conflict://001 - Night: [Video + Accidental Teneka --> Text]

[notglitching]

[The Portal display is dark. But there’s faint light, twisted in reflection, and after a moment, it pans out slightly to give a better view. A black mask. A helmet. It’s smooth, completely opaque, with a few dashes of color to the sides-glowing red-orange from within. It tilts slightly, as if observing

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video | teneka;

[isomorphology]

[ Quorra knows that security program anywhere. Oh, oh no. No, no. She jumps up, nearly sending her own PORTAL flying. She's in an utter panic. ]

You! What are you doing here?!

[text]

[notglitching]

[There's a pause. A significant one. The connection stays open throughout. When a response comes, it's short. Direct.]

Identify, program.

video | teneka;

[isomorphology]

I'm not a program and you know that, Rinzler.

[ Defiant glare. ]

[text]

[notglitching]

[Another pause. Though there's no way to tell from the other side of the screen, there's genuine surprise in this delay.

He hadn't known.]

ISO.

video | teneka;

[isomorphology]

The last ISO, thanks to CLU. He isn't here.

[text]

[notglitching]

[Lying. She has to be. No use asking for answers, not from her, not like this.

He needs time, though. There's been progress in the trace-but not enough. Yet. He's unfamiliar with this network format.]

Source of data?

video | teneka;

[isomorphology]

The fact that he hasn't showed up. Flynn isn't here either.

[text]

[notglitching]

You failed to locate him.

[He doesn't respond to the mention of Flynn.]

video | teneka;

[isomorphology]

Or maybe he failed to locate me.

[text]

[notglitching]

[That touched a circuit. It had been Rinzler's task-and if she was what she claimed, it had been his assignment well before the recent order.

Almost done.]

Difficult for him to fail. You are not hiding.

video | teneka;

[isomorphology]

Then maybe he isn't as good as he thinks he is.

[text]

[notglitching]

False.

Not his task. Greater priorities.

video | teneka;

[isomorphology]

Creating the "prefect System." It's not perfect.

[text]

[notglitching]

False. System functioning optimally.

You are not perfect.

video | teneka;

[isomorphology]

Because I can think on my own and don't listen to someone who willing destroyed an entire species?

[text]

[notglitching]

[No response for a long moment.]

Not a species. System malfunction.

Now rectified.