Spectral Analysis [The Cure, Part 2]

[a1enzo]

Once more, Enzo emerges from the Matrices' closet. "Mouse?" he calls. "You got everything? Did Oracle show up okay?"

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[l33t-mouse.livejournal.com]

"I think she's around, sugar, but her aim was off a bit," Mouse says. She pulls an icon from a little pouch on her belt and holds it out to Enzo. "Got you that corsage y'wanted fer your girl."

[a1enzo]

"Mouuuuse!" He takes the icon, though.

[ami_imperfect]

Ah, and speaking of the girl...

"What'd Mouse do now?" Dani asks curiously as she enters the room.

[a1enzo]

Meep! "Nothing. Here," he says, handing her the icon. "You'll need this."

[ami_imperfect]

Dani holds it in her hands, looking at it in surprise and awe. "Really? Thanks."

She looks over her clothing format, trying to figure out a suitable place to put the icon. Finally she settles on her belt, over where the buckle would be.

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

Oracle moves smoothly up the stairs (she's got legs!) shaking her head, "I need to recalibrate my interface algorithms. I was off by one floor. Which was a bit disorienting, let me tell you. And the door to the closet on the first floor was closed, so for a second there I thought I might have mis-jumped." She trails off, "You guys didn't have any problems, I take it?"

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

"We're cool," Danny said, entering himself. He was looking the picture of calm with all of this.

Of course, the moment Dani was unconscious in surgery, they'd see how panicked he really was, but for now...

"So where to now?"

[command_dot_com]

"The garage," Dot looks towards Mouse. "We have some cars with hidden file commands for everyone from Milliways. Then it's a short trip to a secret lab in sector G-prime."

She's not taking any chances of any media sprites getting so much as a byte of information of this.

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

"It's a secret lab? Why's it a secret lab and not just a normal lab?"

He trusted Bob and Dot and even some of their friends that he didn't know, like Mouse, with his life. After all, if Bob and Dot and Enzo trusted them, then they were trustworthy.

But that was with his life. This was Dani's life, so he indulged in a little paranoia.

He just didn't like the term 'secret lab,' not after winding up strapped to medical exam tables on more than one occasion (thank you Vlad and Spectra).

[command_dot_com]

"Because, after the events with Daemon, the media sprites have been crawling all over Mainframe trying to find the 'mysterious Game sprites' that helped to stop her infection and save the 'Net." Dot gives him a very tired look.

"And none of you are registered on the 'Net from any known systems, so if any, say... officials or Guardians might find you, they would have a lot of questions for us."

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

"Oooh."

A pause.

"It's just a normal...code-doctor, right?" Danny asked. "We're not going to some bargain-bin mad scientist type, right? Because that's, uh, kind of how this whole thing started..."

[command_dot_com]

"It will be the same people who worked on Bob's code Danny. Top quality people, like Barbara and Mouse." Dot reassures him gently.

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

"Okay. It's just the only good thing that came out of that whole thing was her," Danny said, pointing at Dani. "Secret labs get me a little nervous."

And since he was nervous for her sake, he was even more nervous.

But he seemed reassured.

[l33t-mouse.livejournal.com]

"I s'pose y'could call me a scientist, sort'a," Mouse chimes in. "But I ain't mad, just bad." She flashes Danny a friendly-but-somehow-unnerving grin.

No, not helping. But sometimes Mouse can't resist bugging people a little.

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

Oracle would shoot Mouse a quelling look, but she's a bit distracted. By her legs (yay legs!).

She turns to Danny, "I haven't had a chance to really look at Dani's code yet, but I can assure you that I am one of the best coders you will ever meet. And with Mouse and Dot? We won't have any problems."

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

Mouse got one eye narrowed at her, in a sort of twitch. (It was the fangs. Vlad had fangs).

But eventually, Danny just breathed out, "Okay. So. Time to go, I guess?"

[l33t-mouse.livejournal.com]

"Not just yet, darlin'." Mouse turns to Bob. "Hey. Can ya tell me what yer scan of Dani looks like?" She's actually worried - only a little, but still worried - that a hidden file command might be sufficient to trigger some instability in Dani's code.

[hack-slash-bots.livejournal.com]

When the system restarted, the virus-scan replaced Silicon Tor with what used to be there before Megabyte had it constructed. The original buildings are in good repair - the system restored them, as everything, in pristine condition - but after not existing for so long, some of them are still standing disused. They are, in fact, abandoned warehouses, even if they don't much look the part.

A pair of bots are patrolling in opposite directions around one of the smaller warehouses. They somehow manage to smack into each other every time they cross paths, twice per circuit.

As the car approaches, they stop circling and stand to attention, clanging off each other sideways. "All clear, sir ma'am!"

[command_dot_com]

Dot gives a half-tired smile at the bots and nods to them. "Keep up the good work, you two..."

She parked up near the large doors and called out. "Alright, everyone, you can uncloak and come out now."

Getting SEVEN people crammed into one car together was an ordeal that she was pretty sure everyone will be happy is over now.

[mendanddefend_archive]

"She's stable for now," says Bob. "She shouldn't get any errors unless she tries to use her special abilities."

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

"Well, that sucked," Danny said, getting out and stretching his legs, not that anyone could see him doing it. He'd eschewed the hidden file commands for his own comfortable invisibility (which wasn't an option for Dani, of course). The stretching was mostly out of habit. He wasn't sure if he even had anything resembling muscles under there anymore--didn't feel like it.

It still felt weird. Of course, he always felt weird in general, but at least he'd gotten familiar with half-ghost weird.

This was a different kind of weird.

His code made him still feel the urge to throw on a cape and find the nearest villainous ne'er-do-well and bring them to justice.

After going visible again, he went human--sprite again and looked around, then looked back towards where Dani should be.

[l33t-mouse.livejournal.com]

"Okay, then. We're good t'go," Mouse says. "The car's downstairs. Hidden file commands're in the back seat. We'll kinda have t'squeeze in, but it's a pretty short trip." Mouse and Dot had discussed the option of using two vehicles leaving at different times along different routes, but had eventually discarded the notion as unnecessarily complicated.

[ami_imperfect]

"Oh, it wasn't that bad." Dani's voice comes from somewhere in the backseat of the car. There's the sight of other people's legs being jostled then the sound of a pair of feet hitting the ground before Dani uncloaks herself.

Of course, her difference of opinion could come from the fact that she managed to finagle herself a seat beside Enzo for the trip.

[hack-slash-bots.livejournal.com]

"Oh! Look! It is Miss Danny!"

"And Mister Danny."

"Yes yes, and Mister Danny."

"Hello, Dannys!"

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

"They're pronouncing it with a Y," Danny said to Dani. "I can practically hear them pronouncing your name with a Y, so I'm hearing 'Miss' in front of my name, and that? Is disturbing."