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Jul 15, 2011 22:22

[The view on the screen when the transmission starts up is a nice one. It shows a long stretch of Sacrosanct, disappearing off into the seemingly never-ending horizon. It appears that whoever's on the line is perched somewhere very, very high up ( Read more... )

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video traceurmonitor July 15 2011, 19:20:45 UTC

[aksdljflkjs what.]

Quorra, wait.

Video isoalgorithm July 15 2011, 19:24:10 UTC

[She pauses, dangling over thin air by one hand. Brings the other up to give Anon a look.]

Don't follow me this time, System Monitor. I mean it.

Video traceurmonitor July 15 2011, 19:26:18 UTC

Afraid I cannot do that. Have to keep you out of trouble.

[Who is tracking the signal from your wearable to find you? Anon is.]

Video isoalgorithm July 15 2011, 19:33:04 UTC

[If she knew how to turn it off, she would, but Quorra hasn't had time to figure all the features of her wearable out yet. Which is a good thing, otherwise she'd already be knocking on CLU's door.]

You're going to have to catch up to me first.

Video traceurmonitor July 15 2011, 20:35:56 UTC

[Anon's on the move before it even pinpoints her exact location, and the landscape is a blur behind him because of it.]

Faster than you think.

Video↬Audio isoalgorithm July 16 2011, 02:18:40 UTC

We'll see. [And just to make things more difficult, she shuts off the video feed, so that the only sound is the wind and her breath as she continues scaling the building.]

Video↬Audio traceurmonitor July 16 2011, 03:30:29 UTC

[He'd tried that on Abraxas once. He's pretty sure the virus still could have tracked him. But he has his wearable set up a flag on his helmet's sparse HUD. As long as Quorra's wearable is on, he'll catch up.]

Suppose we will, Quorra.

Action! isoalgorithm July 16 2011, 06:00:33 UTC

[Unfortunately - or perhaps fortunately, depending - Quorra isn't thinking logically enough to take off the device. Instead she just cuts off communication entirely, as if that will keep Anon away somehow.

She reaches the top of the building in little time. There's a smaller high-rise to her right, the roof of which is only a hundred meters or so down. Quorra doesn't hesitate - she jumps, the wind whistling past her ears as she plummets, and she lands with a quick tuck-and-roll. The impact is heavier than she expected, though - gravity's different here - so the breath is momentarily knocked out of her. She pulls herself up, crouches on the roof, panting. It's a small pause, but it's one that might give Anon time to catch up.]

Action! traceurmonitor July 16 2011, 18:11:05 UTC

[Fortunate for Anon, anyway. It doesn't hurt that he knows his way around the Residential Zones and sees her jump across to the shorter building. A-ha.

He starts scaling up one side of the building, using the windows to vault up. The one good thing about having been here so long is that he's gotten accustomed to more urban settings and moving up to the roof is a fluid transition.
Even better, that he doesn't have to be concerned that the virus is going to pop up out of nowhere. He'll be able to tackle Quorra in peace if it comes to that.]

Action isoalgorithm July 17 2011, 02:09:18 UTC

[Quorra might take exception to any actual tackling. Or maybe not.

She gets to her feet and walks to the far edge of the roof, peering out over Sacrosanct. If only she knew where CLU was. She glances down at her wearable, bringing up the readout with a flick of her wrist. She doesn't really know where to start, but she thinks she has some time before Anon reaches her.

She's wrong.]

Action traceurmonitor July 17 2011, 03:17:14 UTC

[Anon, since his stint as a virus, has discovered that tackling ISOs is actually a fairly effective tactic. It got Gibson to leave Clu alone, after all.

... Someday, he's going to have to stop rescuing Clu from his friends.

He pokes his head up to see where she's at before vaulting up to land on the roof in a crouch, straightening up and staticking in warning. Quorra, whatever you're thinking of doing, please don't.]

Action isoalgorithm July 17 2011, 04:10:46 UTC

[Quorra whirls at the noise, spotting Anon. Her reaction is a quick frown and a glance around to see how far away the next building is - too far for even her to jump, and there aren't any mag points around here.

It looks like the only choice she has is to face him until she can find a quick out. If there is one.]

What do you want?

Action traceurmonitor July 17 2011, 15:52:17 UTC

Keep the station at peace. Protect the ISOs.

[Even if the ISOs don't want protecting or if they think they're protecting themselves. Anon keeps himself tensed, just in case Quorra tries anything or someone else shows up.]

Clu cannot cause much damage here. User world; does not have the same power here.

Action isoalgorithm July 17 2011, 15:55:26 UTC

[That's all she's ever wanted. Peace.

Her shoulders slump. She's tired.]

You do remember what happened the last time we tried to make peace, don't you? [Jalen; corrupted. Tron; killed. Flynn; exiled. Radia; derezzed while she watched, unable to do anything about it. The images prey fresh on her mind.]

Action traceurmonitor July 17 2011, 16:00:13 UTC

I do.

[He'd had to personally destroy one of his few friends, and one of the ISOs he'd had the opportunity to get closest to. He can recall the destruction of everything he'd known like it was yesterday.]

Things are different here. And if he tries again, more will stand up to stop him.

Action isoalgorithm July 17 2011, 16:05:48 UTC

[Right now, for Quorra, it was yesterday.]

I just...I can't let it happen again. I won't. [Her jaw sets against the urge to cry.]

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