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[So walking around Garden today, students, you may notice an increasingly more standardized sight: you guessed it, ANOTHER RIKU. Except this one is wearing a bodysuit and

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FFFFFFF. I have to tag this.

[thecolorleslite]

[ She sees him in the Quad. Her day had been going pretty well so she is all small smiles.]

Data Ri-

[ Then , she gets a better look at him. Another Riku? Darn it..]

I'm sorry. My mistake...

[dataspaced]

[Oh, Shelke. Poor, sweet, innocent Shelke...]

--Eh?

[He turns around, looking at her.]

Oh. It's you

[thecolorleslite]

Me? Who-

[ The realzation hits her.]

What have you done?

[ She doesn't look surprised In fact , her face has became guarded and blank.

[dataspaced]

I haven't done anything

[He makes a laughably bad attempt at a smile -- probably the real Dataku attempting to make some contact with her. Of course, he's still pretty weak, so in the end the whole thing just ends up like a particularly deranged and wide-spread twitch. So on second thought, it's not really laughable anymore, probably inching closer to creepy and very inherently wrong, whether Shelke can pick up on it or not.]

[thecolorleslite]

[ With the people she grew up with , yeah she totally knows that smile.]

Let me rephrase my original inquiry.

What has happened to you?

[ The whole thing..it sends chills and memories through her. It reminds her of the experimentation. God , she wishes he wouldn't smile. Of course , Shelke doesn't show it. ]

[dataspaced]

Data

--corrupted--

Minor issue. Maintenance error. Will be fixed in time

[One of these voices is not like the others.]

[thecolorleslite]

But...you are not data anymore! You are a person!

[ There is some concern now.]

[dataspaced]

It is a combination

[Of course, Dataku was not previously aware of this; but he is now, certainly. Even so, the Darkness is affecting him differently than it did the last time, even though it came from the same source...]

[thecolorleslite]

[ There is some distance between the two. Shelke doesn't dare take a step closer. He is in a fragile state and ,she doesn't want to do any damage.]

How do you plan to correct this? [ Corrupt data...dang Shelke was thinking fast.]

[dataspaced]

It will settle

[Definitely the Darkness talking. Because it's not going to settle! What's going to happen is it's going to keep getting worse and worse and he knows what it does to humans and he KNOWS what the viruses do to him, he's seen it before, oh good god he's going to die, dammit Ardos--]

[thecolorleslite]

[Her expression snaps to that same cold one from before, only its mingled with resentment. She hates that tone. Rosso used the same one ,back home and Shelke hated Rosso.]

No. I know more about technology than that. You need to be 'rebooted' somehow.

[Thats how you fix system corruption, so maybe it'll...]

[dataspaced]

It will settle

[He's pretty intent.]

[thecolorleslite]

[ There is a pause as she studies him for a moment.

No. You are not yourself, therefore what you say could be compromised. Its the only logically explanation for the uncharacteristic speech.

[ She gives him a sad smile.]

Please. I desire nothing but to restore your previous state. I do not know how, but rebooting is the only thing I can think of.

[dataspaced]

...Reboot.

Don't do it. Tht was a minor error, do not try to reboot. Human being. Do not try to reboot. Do not try to reboot

[thecolorleslite]

I do not know what else to do. If there is a way to reboot a person , I do not know it, anyway.

[ Why should she care? That thought startles her. She thought she was over that whole, 'hating the thought of helping anyone but herself' thing. Visibly shrugging the thought off, Shelke takes a hesitant step towards Data Riku.]

At the core, the human brain is said to be similar to a computer..I do not know..

[dataspaced]

Don't do it. Don't do it

[The 'real' Dataku is shutting up, focused more on reclaiming control completely. He's not even sure if he can be rebooted either.]