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Enemies by Default
« Thread Started on May 20, 2008, 1:21pm »

((Posted here because I didn't see the point of making only a couple of posts in Radiant Garden before they get into Space Paranoids. And Vinnie, you can ">_>" at me all you want. Shaddap.))

Demyx was understandably nervous. Radiant Garden was right smack in the middle of Rebel territory. Plus, it wasn’t too far from this computer room that he had met his end by the Keyblade master Sora. Somehow that fact alone made the whole situation seem a little… creepy. Like walking into a graveyard and seeing your own grave. Well, not quite, but you get the general idea.

And now, he had a feeling that it wasn’t only going to be Rebels who were after his blood. He’d just done the unthinkable— he’d betrayed the Organization. Xemnas had always been brutal in the way he dealt with deserters… but even worse, Demyx had actually helped a Rebel. The enemy. There was no hope of redemption in the eyes of the darklings. He was as good as dead.

But Hayden had been right. The Nocturne had had his opportunity to not get involved. The chance to be the coward that he usually was. He had even had the opportunity to trick the Rebel, and turn him over to the rest of the Organization without even having to fight. The opportunity to do something right for once, and get a little credit from the people who usually looked down on him. But he hadn’t. And it had been his choice.

Why?

“Y’know, Xigbar told me, once, there’s supposed to be an underground laboratory and stuff below this computer room. There’s a place called the “Room of Sleep” down there. Xigbar said that room’s where Xemnas disappears off to a lot. I dunno what’s in there, though, I’ve never even seen the entrance to the laboratory. Apparently the door only appears after you enter some kind of code into the computer, but only Xemnas has the disk that actually starts the sequence to open it… or something. Xiggy said that was where they did a lot of their experiments and stuff. You know, before they became Nobodies. Like creating artificial Heartless and…” Demyx had a habit of talking too much when he was nervous. Trailing off as he realised what exactly he was saying and who exactly he was saying it to, he shot a sheepish look at Agent Rising Force. “I… probably shouldn’t have told you that, huh? Pretend you didn’t hear it?”

Why was he still here? He’d done as he’d said he would, and brought the Rebel as close as he possibly could to that world within the computer… whatever it was called again. But he couldn’t go back to The World That Never Was. He didn’t dare to. He was to afraid they’d know that he’d… No, of course they’d know.

So where else could he go? Both Rebellion and Darkling controlled worlds were too risky. But then, even if the Neutral worlds tended to be ignored by both sides – for their lack of strategic value or whatever other reason – if he was located there, there would be no effective deterrent that’d keep either side from marching right in and making short work of him. Real short work.

Peering warily through the doorway towards Ansem the Wise’s old study, the Nobody chewed on his bottom lip anxiously. Was there any world that wasn’t dangerous?

“Don’t give me that look,” he muttered to Rem, although undoubtedly Agent Rising Force would think the Nocturne was talking to him. “It’s your fault I’m in this mess.”

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Re: Enemies by Default
« Reply #1 on May 25, 2008, 12:03pm »

"You chose to help me. And right now I'm repaying you for that."

He replied while turning to face Demyx, he suddenly reached out to grab their arm with his normal hand before pulling back the sleeve to press his metallic hand against their bare arm. A rather scientific thing was going on as the Rebel downloaded the 'patch' that the Organization Member would require to enter the Space Paranoids. Only those with this patch could actually enter that world in the state of utter chaos it was still currently in. So far just Hayden & a specific brigade of Rebels under his control had been holders of those patches.

Even the Four Elders did not seem to have them.

Moments later he removed his hands from the Nobody, a strange imprint left behind which resembled a small circuit board belonging to a computer. It then vanished into the Dark Nocturne's skin, leaving no external trace that anything had actually occured. After that the Rebel walked over to the computer, activating it at a speed only Leon had been capable of in the past. . . not to mention less violent than bashing the damn thing with a Keyblade like some idiotic people often did.

The technology came to life as security along with access codes were utilized & bypassed so that the world of the Space Paranoids, of Tron, could be accessed from the outside. A few more moments went by until Hayden went to stand in a position which was almost identical to where Goofy had stood next to Sora those three or so years ago. Next he looked over at Demyx.

"Stand next to me, or you won't go through."

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Re: Enemies by Default
« Reply #2 on Aug 8, 2008, 11:53am »

“Huh, what? No, I meant—” Demyx didn’t have time to finish his sentence, because it was at that exact moment that the Rebel chose to grab hold of his arm. Naturally, the Nocturne panicked. Was Agent Rising Force going to kill him now? If that was “repaying” him for helping, he’d make sure never to bother helping someone again. If he was still alive to not bother, that was.

It was pretty pointless for Demyx to try to escape, considering he almost certainly didn’t have the physical strength for it. Of course, that wouldn’t be enough to stop him trying. So it was probably lucky that Hayden let go only moments later, before the Nocturne could kick up too much of a fuss and end up drawing unwanted attention. He stared at the mark left behind with somewhat over-exaggerated horror, which quickly became blank confusion as the thing just seemed to vanish without a trace.

“Wh— what was that?”

Anyone else might have had theories, but the Nocturne was truly completely clueless at present. He had way too much on his mind to think straight about some weird mark that a Rebel left on him which disappeared before he could even make out what it actually was. Besides, it wasn’t like it had hurt or anything. Or at least, if it had, he’d been too busy panicking to notice. Then Hayden spoke to him again, and Demyx gave the Rebel a wary look.

“…Through?”

Ok, so… the term ‘through’ tended to be used in context of through a door, right? Or… a window or whatever, but generally people tended to go through doors more often than windows, and besides, there weren’t any windows in here in the first place. And there were only two doors in or out of the computer room; one, the one Demyx was next to at the moment, leading to Ansem the Wise’s study, and the other, in the opposite wall, to the vast room of debatable purpose, in which the hidden entrance to the underground laboratory was… well, hidden. Demyx didn’t see what standing next to the Rebel would accomplish in being able or unable to get through a door. But, in that rather meek manner he had – the one that allowed the rest of the Organization to walk all over him – the Nobody did what he was told.

The Nocturne wasn’t sure what had happened. All he was certain of was that one moment he had been in the computer room in Radiant Garden, and the next he was… not. And in between times, there was something very odd that he couldn’t quite make sense of, beyond that it felt, for some strange reason, vaguely like being taken apart and put back together again… and jumbled up slightly in the process. And wherever they were now, it was like no world he had ever seen before.

“Whoa… Where is this pla— whoa!” Surprised, he backed away from the Rebel a few steps. “Wow, you uh… look pretty different. …That is you, right?”

((Bad. And I don’t care. At least I freakin’ posted.))

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Re: Enemies by Default
« Reply #3 on Aug 29, 2008, 2:32pm »

"I am all that you see, I'm all that you want me to be."

Hayden replied somewhat cryptically, looking nowhere near the form he had appeared in the real world. Concealing any shred of humanity, the supposedly unbreakable alloy which made up his right arm appeared to have spread all across his body into a complete suit of armor. The humanoid form turned into only remaining vestage of humanity left. One truly did start to wonder about the origins of such a being who existed in more than one reality. It did not last long however, the 'helmet' which looked melded to the body suit started to seperate into three distinct sections which then retracted into the suit with a cold mechanical precision. Now his human face revealed itself once more, turning away from the Melodious Nocturne to look out across the virtually limitless expanse of his homeworld.

"You are in the Space Paranoids, my homeworld which was nearly erased due to the efforts of your former allies, forcing me to flee and somehow end up in your reality. Since then I re-activated the Master Control Program to restore this place through reformatting into a functioning status. Right now he cannot tamper with anything without effectively corrupting his own programming."

Glancing around for any potential viral programs, the Tron Native then looked down briefly at his own form. A suit of armor capable of existing in dual realities, implying the use of unimaginable technology. Inside were countless nueral connections with the capability of creating just about any weapon imaginable. Not to mention it could summon a real-world version of a beam cycle to travel around in space. Yet that brought up the debate as to whether or not this 'man' actually needed to breathe at all. Regardless he seemed to function like a human most of the time, one lacking in real emotions despite the known potentia he possessed for duplicating such things at the appropriate time.

"Here is the last place both sides would ever think to look for you Demyx. The Dark Ones do not have a clue where you are and the Rebellion will be kept in the dark as long as I can manage. No one can enter unless they obtain a genuine system patch which only myself and my special squad possess. Hacked copies will be recognized in a matter of seconds and face the stand-in Anti-Virus program."

Agent Rising Force gestured briefy with his arm outward until ending it completely, the tone he used nearly identical to a tutorial computer program. No heart stripped him of any chance for convincing acting while remaining a program gave him the propencity to behave as one when interaction protocols were not activated. Right now he could literally go from talking to battling a massive virus in a nanosecond resulting from such a cold & collected disposition.

"Until then the Organization are estimated to search all other planets for you and eventually suspect your capture by the Rebellion. . .except the Rebellion will not know of you. Stay on your guard against other programs, some may attempt to challenge you to games that put your very existence at stake. At all costs avoid the Master Control Program or face the risk of de-resolution. . . the equivalent of what you would call death."

But why was Hayden doing this for Demyx? Everyone knew that members of the Organization were to be terminated on sight if the oppertunity presented itself to an agent. The very same protocol for any Dark One encountered, so long as a potential chance for victory existed. No one wanted a dead Rebel n exchange for a dead Dark One. Agent Rising Force had no logical reason under his directives to protect this Nobody, which left possibility of another motive altogether. Meaning he felt some type of connection to the Melodious Nocturne in that they both had no hearts, both were not looked upon kindly by their so-called 'teammates'. In addition, he did not seem quite so evil as the other Twelve Organization Members.

"Do not attempt to use Dark Portals here. . .I do not have enough intellgence on that yet to know if it would alert the Dark Ones to your location."

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