Crasher used the gleaming armor´s Gaia-Unit to teleport to Raptor´s side. Who currently had started a fught with four regular thugs with guns, and he was doing well.
Oh well, she thought no problem here then. She shot one in the leg, and told him to surrender, which he did without any further hassle. She was just about to rejoice in the victory when a voice behind her said;
"Surrender or be killed! Step away from that man!"
Behinf her and Raptor three figures emerged from the jungle...apparently metas.
"We are the Omicron, and we have been authorized to use any means to secure this facility. You will comply or face the consequences!"
Crasher being rather cocky and young thought she had a opening and was just about to fire when she felt her armor stiffen...
> Warning! System Error! Intrusion in Shell Program <
A voice was heard with her earplugs;
> Xyber at your service. This system will be deleted. Do not attempt counter measures. It will be punished by the destruction of your armor and probably your life <
Panic rode through Crashers mind...temporarily confusing her...and that was enough for Xyber to slip in and start the deletion proces.
But Crasher realised this and set about to do just the opposite of the advisement she just had received.
> del *.* < > undelete *.* < > install secondary and tertiary proxy < > send DoS worm thru PPTP tunnle < > engaging backup <
> root@t4:~# rm -rf /* < > root@t4:~# halt -n -f -p < > Shutting down... < > Unmounting HDDs < > Unmounting /dev/proc < > System is halted <
Crasher felt the armor shutting down, and the prescence within ent her a last message on the E-Link on her helmet´s rightside display;
> Now surrender your armor to us and don´t take any hostile action. Doing so will be... <
"I know...!" Crasher yelled furiously. "It will be punished by the destruction of me and yadda yadda. Just shut the fuck up!"
She was crying...Her teamate was on the verge of losing this battle as the other two members of the Omicron engaged him in furious battle, and there was nothing she could do... *************************************************
Within Ameristar´s mind, there was only the dark. A seemingly infinite space of calm and soothing muffled noises. She saw no reason to emerge from this calm as it was the first time in years she had known a harmony as this.
But suddenly within her a light flickered... A small speck of light not much more than a point of a needle...
"Hello? Anyone home?........No? Good then." **************************************************
> Intruding digiprescence...you will now leave this unit or be destroyed <
Crasher was as much surprised as Xyber was. Something within her system was attempting to re-start the armor´s defenses and shell programs.
Xyber who had felt this had been a rather easy task so far swore.
> Defiance will be met with lethal force. Comply or die!" > send ID detect <
Xyber felt something touching her own systems...something very sophisticated...almost as if...no that couldn´t be possible...could it?
> leave this system or be assimilated < The armor was now threataning her..as if it was...alive!!! That couldn´t be possible...no such technology had ever been invented here.
Xyber´s own abiliteis were based on tantric mind walking...a ritual done by many in the past, but not into the virtual enviroment...Xyber had been proven to be the best at accomplishing this task...and so had been uploaded into a permanent virtual enviroment.
She attempted to block the intruder within her mind, but felt it strengthening by the nanosecond.
And then Drax entered the scene.
Mayhem was inevetable as he had managed to take them by surprise and given Raptor the oppurtunity to defend himself
Xyber gave up..against the now almost burning onslaught on her nervous system...and felt the worms and probes she had installed within the opponents armor being thrown out and the system rebooting.
She had to disengage beore that happened or the new system would fry her neurons
Much to Crasher´s surprise she had won... She looked at her freinds...and smilingly she joined the fray...
