4.04: Touched by a virus.

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The task that Daemon lays out for Mouse and YT is simple enough: allow the Word to spread to its fullest extent. To that end, YT is sent off into the 'Net carrying a list of IP addresses and a copy of Mouse's encryption codes.

One by one, YT visits the systems Mouse has firewalled off. One by one, the firewalls drop, allowing the Word to spread to

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[command_dot_com]

They're fragged. It's only a matter of nanos now before Daemon and the infected Mainframers get through the second firewall. Her father is putting the finishing touches on his invention with Phong's help- The Gateway Command. It split Gigabyte into two new Virii, leaving Lost Angles a wasteland from the energy released in the process, because it was keyed to bring anything through it to one point. Mainframe. Now it's being tooled for an entirely different purpose, to ping and send to all corners of the 'Net at once.

It's a long shot. It probably won't work. But it's the best Dot's been able to come up with under the circumstances. That's what contingency plans are for, as she stands near the huge upright ring, checking the door to the Principal Office before giving up in frustration. Where's the door when you really need it? She glanced at the sky for any signs of a incoming Game, if the door wouldn't show up... She'd just have to use that instead for her backup plan. Get Enzo somewhere away from Daemon's touch. Bob would never

[mend_and_defend]

Speak of the devil... here comes Bob now, jumping out of his car as Hex lands it, a little clumsily, in front of the Principal Office.

"We're out of time! We'll never evacuate the city now. --Nice idea, the second firewall," he adds as an afterthought.

[command_dot_com]

"Thanks, but it won't hold Mouse for long. And who said we were evacuating the city?" Dot checks in on the programming one more time and glances to the sky again.

[mend_and_defend]

"But--I thought--"

Why in the 'Net were they rebuilding the Gateway, if not as an evacuation route?

[command_dot_com]

"...Spammit where's a Game Cube when you really need one..." Barring that the DOOR would be even BETTER...

[a1enzo]

"Hex!" Little Matrix races over to where the virus-cum-sprite has parked the car. Frisket bounds along behind. If they needed any further evidence that Hexadecimal isn't a virus any longer, it's that Frisket displays no more hostility to her than he does to everyone by his default settings.

"I-I wanted to thank you for bringing Dad back, this is so cool, he was dead and now he's not, and I missed him so much, so thanks, and he's totally pixelacious this way, he's stretchy..."

[red_cg_insanity]

Hex couldn't help but giggle. "Stretchy, eh," she said and kneeled down to talk to Enzo face to face- after all she liked Enzo, and she didn't think he would like talking up at her or to her crotch, "Have you though about>what we talked about?"

[command_dot_com]

The movement catches Dot's eye... What is HEX doing talking with her little brother?

"Enzo, get away from her!"

[a1enzo]

"But Siiiis!" But she's nice now!

[red_cg_insanity]

"Yeah,siiiis!!" said a reformatted Hex who was just worried about Enzo.

Come on she had a heart to heart with the kid a few nanos ago.

[command_dot_com]

"And you can stop it with the "Sis" thing!"

Dot's worried as well, but for a whole different set of values concerning Enzo. Hex is right to be worried. Dot's back up plans are sketchy at best. You don't want to know what they are at worst.

[red_cg_insanity]

Okay, is Hex socially retarded, or is she a comic genius?

Hex looked at Dot and back to Enzo.

"But I simply adore children," She said and looked back at Dot moving her hand in such a way as telling a secret, "But I could never eat a whole one."

She waited for the reply of either shock and horror or laughter.

[command_dot_com]

...the Command.Com is going with Socially Retarded for this one. But don't worry Hex, we'll chalk this one up as being a lack of experience with sanity.

Dot glances back worriedly towards Bob. Definitely not laughter, not quite shock and horror.

[mend_and_defend]

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She's kidding, right? She has to be kidding...

[a1enzo]

That's a yikes from Enzo and a yikes from Frisket.

Hex is nice now... right?

[red_cg_insanity]

Hex looks around amused. Then not so amused. Oh no these Sprites don't get it when she's joking now.( I told her it wasn't a good idea, but she did it anyway *shakes head at Hex*)

"It was a joke," she said frustrated,"I'm joking!"

Get it get it? huh? I mean come on it was funny. This is what her face was saying to them.