4.04: Enzo's Overwrite Delivery Service - for all your armament needs!

[a1enzo]

The Matrices' upstairs hall closet creaks slowly open, and Enzo pokes his head out. Seeing the coast to be clear, he opens it fully and emerges, looking around with mounting distress. The walls, the floor, the furniture are all patched with pulsing green light-veins.

He listens carefully. No one home. Didn't think there would be, but good. He beckons at the open doorway behind him.

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[fryertuck]

"That's the plan." (This is probably being addressed to the other voice.) "Chill, dude. Just covering the bases. And getting some sweet footage while we're at it!"

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

"It's a house. Admittedly, it's like a video game house, but still: a house."

But he was amused. There was no way Tucker couldn't be enthusiastic about this.

[a1enzo]

Enzo's pretty enthusiastic as well. Danny may be able to feel him bouncing. "I wanna say hi!"

He's like that when Dot's using a vidwindow, too.

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

Wryly, "Technically you just did. He probably heard that."

[fryertuck]

The voice comes loud enough for both of them to hear it: "Loud and clear. Hi, Enzo!"

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

"The clear's fine, but can we go with less loud? We're going out onto the street now."

They were indeed invisibly phasing through the door and heading out into the street.

[fryertuck]

"Roger that. Clamming up now," whisper the FentonPhones. The rest is silence.

[a1enzo]

Dude! They just stepped through the door! It tingled all over, and he could feel the doorframe passing through his insides.

Awesome!

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

For some reason, Danny had expecting the street to be either empty or full of screaming people.

It was just habit to expect that of a crisis--either people hid in their homes or ran around screaming.

But the whole "She's controlling everyone" aspect of it sunk in as they went out into the street.

The Mainframers were just...going about their business on the street, but with these huge smiles on their faces and the same green veins on their bodies.

He heard a random binome exclaim: "Praise be to Daemon!"

...Also, they were all apparently boxes and spheres with legs and faces.

If he didn't deal with weird ghosts on a daily basis, he would have boggled a little more than he was already doing.

He made them both float up off the ground.

"Which way, Enzo?" He'd looked at the map but it wasn't exactly the best map.

[a1enzo]

On the bright side, the map highlights things like back alleys and other points of childish interest.

Enzo knew a bit more what to expect, since he'd seen them bringing Turbo down to the cells. But so many of them... people he knew... this was creepy.

It almost made him ignore the fact that he was flying without a vehicle. Dude!

He shakes his head and makes himself focus. "That way," he says, pointing. Real helpful, kid.

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

"...If you're pointing I can't see it, dude. Left or right?"

[a1enzo]

"Oh, right, sorry. Um, I don't mean right like right, we wanna go left, I just... here." He tugs Danny to the left.

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

Off to the left they went, and higher up, too, so that they could get a good view of the street and the principal office up ahead.

It might have been smarter sticking to the alleys and going visible when he could to conserve energy but they had no idea how much time they had left before Daemon corrupted the entire net, and they couldn't risk being seen until they brought the actual first wave of fighters through. He was making a straight run for it, flying pretty quickly, though not his top speed because even though whatever let him fly extended to whoever he touched, it still might have been too jarring to Enzo.

There was green, everywhere down below, threaded through everything, glowing, sick. Mainframe wasn't his home, but Danny got a flash of Amity Park looking the same, and wondered how Enzo felt seeing it all like that.

Up here there was less risk of being heard, so while Danny spoke quietly, he didn't whisper anymore.

"You've done a really good job so far, Enzo, gathering the reinforcements and everything. Dot and Bob will be really proud of you."

[a1enzo]

Under other circumstances, Enzo would love Danny to fly him at top speed. At the moment...

He's used to living in a system with a certain amount of viral corruption. Megabyte controlled most of Ghetty Prime, back when. But he controlled it through the people, and through intimidation, and most of them wanted their freedom. Daemon's infected the entire system, software and firmware alike, and the system is happy to have it so. And she's marked her territory.

Enzo closes his eyes, but his eyelids are invisible, and it doesn't help.

He jumps slightly when Danny speaks. But, fortunately, it was exactly the right thing to say. Enzo beams, even if Danny can't see it. "Thanks, Danny!" Then he tugs on his arm. "There it is, the big round one, see?"

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

"I see it."

He saw what was going on around and on top of it, too, even if it was from a distance.

[nofileext]

The sub-sphere atop the Principal Office is open, revealing a ring of small Tears. In the center of the ring is Bob (whose skin is covered with pulsing green veins) and a small pink-skinned girl. One by one, Bob stabilizes the Tears into portals; one by one, the girl touches each portal, spreading something that makes them glow with a greenish tint.

Bob flickers and cringes in pain; the girl holds up a hand to steady him, and they continue.

[a1enzo]

"Bob!" cries Enzo, leaning forward. "We gotta stop him she's making him use his powers and he's gonna..."

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

Danny immediately yanked Enzo closer and clamped a hand over his mouth, having them fall back a bit, down towards the principal office so they weren't in exactly the same space in the air, waiting for a moment to make sure she didn't hear him yell.

"Ssh."

If she heard that, they were in trouble. It wasn't exactly like it would be lost on the wind. There wasn't any.

He just hoped they were high enough up and that she was too busy to hear it.

[nofileext]

The girl shows no signs of having heard them. Yet.

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

Oh good. Good.

Danny zoomed down, through the domed roof of the Principal Office. Fortunately, the hallway they wound up in was empty, and Danny let go of Enzo's mouth.

"I know you're scared for Bob, Enzo, but you know what we have to do to save him, and it's what we have to do to save everyone. We can't take her on. Not yet."

[a1enzo]

Enzo squeezes his eyes shut instinctively, though his vision remains. "She's gonna kill him."

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

"Not if we bring in everyone and stop her first."

He looked around, then briefly had them both go visible.

"Point in the direction of the armory, and remember, walls don't matter. I just need the direction."

[a1enzo]

Enzo stares around. "I'm not even sure where we are."

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

Nuts.

"Okay. Let's move around a bit until you can figure it out."

He made them go invisible again.

"Pick a direction."

[a1enzo]

"This way," with an accompanying tug.

The soundtrack begins playing a slightly-altered-to-avoid-infringement version of the Mission: Impossible theme.