Capter 1, Part 5: Outbreak

[Ace]

Gnar had already finished the V.A.P.I.D.'s. "Thanks for the help, but it's gonna get risky for me from here." He said to Zyrois. He continued in the doorway, avoiding countless lasers, firewalls, and more.

[Van]

Just as Trance reverted to his normal form again and was preparing to take his leave for a quick bit of rest, a figure appeared behind him. It looked to be a humanoid figure but nothing else was visible, besides what seemed to be shining red eyes, due to a bright silver light. As Trance turned to look at the bright light comming from the ledge above, an explosion came from where the figure was standing, but as the smoke quickly cleared a small army of Vapids jumped out ans ran for Trance.

"Oh freaking crap." Trance started running like mad down the dorm mainstreet and the vapids were close behind. "Gah!" Trance exclaimed as he triped over himself. One of the Vapids jumped at the falken Trance while he scrambled to get back up. "Craaaaapp!!"

"Battlechip, Barrier, slot in." The chip made it just in time to block the attack and get back on his feet. As he continued runing he called back to Van,

"Whew, thanks bro. Saved my butt, for now anyways. But what next? There's gotta be like, 50 Vapids back there!."

"You remember what we just learned? We're going to use it. Keep going just a little farther, you're almost therr."

"Ahh, I gotcha." Trance came to a halt when he found the great fountain in the middle of the Leviathan net. There was an enormous amount of water coming from it and Trance was planning to use it. As the Vapids closed in on him Trance made his move. "Now!" as Trance waved his arms in the air, a crowd of water spheres came out of the fountain. One by one each vapid was traped & frozen in a sphere prision.

"Now lets finish it. Battlechips, Cyber, Long, Wide Swords, Slot In!" As the Betasword appeared on Trance's right arm he charge at the Vapis ice statues, and they were all cut down by the blade. "And now I'm bored again. I need some tea."

[Luso]

The door to Van's dorm room turned 30 degrees away from opening but then stopped abruptly. A bit of fighting could be heard outside, and then a few battlecries. Several men groaned as the dull thump of bone against flesh echoed throughout the hall. Luso opened the door, followed by Thomas. Higgens could be seen snapping one Netpolice's arms at a sick angle, and then he too joined the trio.

"We gotta go Van. And if you're with us, the window is probably the best option in means of escape." The shrill shouts of Net police could be heard done the hall.

"I now suggest going after Jun. He's working in tandem with the Netpolice, and is quite powerful really. Ace will most likely soon aline with him because he really isn't that powerful going solo."

"Van, if you are coming, here's my plan."

[Van]

Van let out another sigh and began his little speech, ignoring the panic and fighting outside "Geez, whats with you. You really wanna get Jun, huh? But why? Sure, he may be working with the police, but he hasn't attacked us yet, has he? You said it yourself, he's strong. Wouldn't that be a battle we'd want to avoid if possible. the less trouble the better.

Furthermore, if we take Jun out, then what? This place will go under and whats the point of what we've been doing then? You seem to forget we're trying to take out the underground, not help them take out the academy. Helping them for a little bit is just one step in the overall multi-step plan.

Also, we don't need to take out the net police, just shoo them out our territory & out our business. Just mobilize them or something like that. In fact... if we create some type of... massive diversion, they'd be attracted there, and not here where we're working. And I might have an idea..."

[Luso]

"What'd you say?" Luso questioned. "I'm actually loyal to Weil. But Whatever. WE seem to differentiate there Van. Jun's my target, I don't know about you guys. And I even think there is a Net Saver about." With that Luso and Higgens darted out of the room through the window. Higgens made an inhuman turn at 40 degrees, and pulled the window as far shut as humanly possible. Thomas and Van exchanged glances, and then the Netpolice busted in, guns drawn. "Put your hands up! You are hereby under arrest by the jurisdiction of the **** Net Police for resisting arrest." Thomas and Van cursed their bad luck with two different, but equally colorful strings of swear words. The Squad was at least 10 feet away, and rushing them could mean certain death.

[Van]

Van just seemingly mindlessly rushed towards the 4 man squad with just two swords in his hands. The squad shot a round of bullets at Van, the first two were deflected back into the heads of the men that had shot them. The next shot went straight through Van's left arm as he dropped his sword from the pain. The last shot landed in the center of his chest and Van fell in pain. Thomas just stood therewith his eyebrows slightly raised as he let out a bit more swearing.

The two remaining guard slowly approached Thomas to capture him, carefully stepping over Van's body. Suddenly, Van's body jumped up behind the guards, and with one hand hanging in the air and a sword in the other he quickly beheaded the two remaining guards."Always wear a bulletproof vest for safety." Van walked past Thomas and over to his computer. He stabbed straight though the CPU and slashed it in half. Then he picked up his PET, walked over to the window Luso had used, and kicked it open. As he began climbing out the window he looked back at Thomas an said, "I'd get out of here if I were you, they'll be back. I've gotta go get this hole in my arm fixed up, but I'll be back soon." And with that he hopped out the window and into the bushes below.

[Kyn Azleos Roya]

OOC: Both of you are taking this a bit two far, again. This will end up like the last two chapters.

"You two are both taking this a little far," Thomas said, picking up the two officer's guns, and any ammo clips left over, and headed for the door, "Luso is after Jun, and Van is after Luso. Looks like I've got to get there before both of them. How fun."

Thomas was out of the leviathan dorm in a few moments, taking the most direct route possible, his belt laced with clips, two handgun in his hands, fully loaded. He saw Luso only just ahead of him, cutting through the forest. Thomas ran toward the line of trees and jumped, grabbing one of the lower branches, swinging himself onto the tree branches. Jumping from tree to tree, occasionally slipping, he got ahead of Luso.

Zyrois began toward the meeting place, fighting the hordes of V.A.P.I.D.s as he went. Net police had left the area, both in cyberspace and in the real world, as the V.A.P.I.D spread got worse and worse. "Hmm, This couldn't get worse. At the rate that this is going, the school could go under in 20 minutes," He cleared out more V.A.P.I.D.s as he got closer.

Thomas landed right in Luso's path, both guns in his face, "Luso, I'm afraid you're run ends here," Luso and his assistant found themselves cornered by guards. With Van catching up, "You are formally under arrest, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law," Thomas said, a net police officer badge in hand. Luso soon found himself cuffed and disarmed, with two large men at his side, guns in hand, as he was taken away. The guards thinned as Thomas and Van walked away, "I thought you were-" Van began, to be interrupted by Thomas, "I still have my own goals, and it doesn't mean I'm completely good. In fact, the badge, it's fake."

Zyrois arrived in a desolate part of the net, standing across from a navi who wore a pure black robe, "Everything has been done accordingly," Zyrois asked.

"Yes it has, now about the payment," The navi responded.

"Oh, right, here," Zyrois ran his blade through the other navi, and walked away, logging out shortly after.

"Luso will be broken out by some of my men, and escorted off campus, where he will wait for a bit, until the heat, and he, calms down. For now, we have to deal with the current problem of Weil, and of these V.A.P.I.D.s. Jun is still too weak, judging by the amount of staff at his door, and Weil can strike at any moment now. For today we will rest, as the current problem is taken care of, but I must ask, where does you're loyalty lie," Thomas asked, as he walked away.

Van began heading back to his dorm as Thomas checked the time, "Hmm, That late already, Wow, time flies when you having 'fun'," Thomas said as the P.E.T's clock blinked 6:00 pm, "I think a nice lunch, followed by a good rest."

Zyrois was lounging around the empty desktop, as Thomas walked into his room, and watched as the exhausted teen dropped into his bed, " I take it you had a good time today?"

"More or less, anyway, Send Van a message, let him know to met me tomorrow in the usual place, I simply wish to talk, say, around noon," Thomas asked, "Yeah, you're clear for noon, I'll send the message," Zyrois responded as Thomas drifted to sleep. Zyrois took the precaution to lock down the room, making sure entry is impossible, for even the net police's most advanced agents.

[Luso]

Luso watched as Higgens twisted and contorted his way out of the handcuffs he was wearing. He reached ever so slowly through the window separating the back seat of the Patrol car from the front, and snapped the neck of the Netpolice driver. He then proceeded to wiggle through the window and dispatch the body, but not before stripping him of his clothes and badge. Luso joined him in the front of the vehicle, and Higgens removed the mask he had been wearing for the past few (chapters) and followed Luso's instructions to their next destination. He bought an expensive mask which would hide his identity. He made sure that neither he nor Higgens were bugged or being followed. Luso wasn't too happy with Thomas, but he knew who to target first; Jun.

OOC: I think it goes without saying that I can't be found without some type of tracking device, but how would that be logical when I stripped my characters of them and shouldn't be able to be discovered because of the mask(s) if I choose to e

[metty]

Edward then noticed the Netpolice Car drove past him. "Did ya ever get the feeling that you missed something?" Asked Edward to Gunslinger as he head back to his dorm room.

[Kyn Azleos Roya]

OOC: You underestimate me Luso. You forget that you have the big chance of driving a bug.

Thomas woke to a flat line sound coming from his computer, "Eh? I think Luso and his assistant 'escaped' me," Thomas said walking over to his computer, "Hmm, They're half way across Japan, eh,"

"What plan of attack should we use," Zyrois asked, looking at the blip, and the list next to it. The list contained all of the bugged objects in the car, the list included all of the items, equipment, and the car engine itself, and the car battery.

Thomas pulled up a private connection using his satellite to one of his lackeys, who responded quickly, "The bugged car, log into it, and activate Bloodmyst."

A few seconds of keystrokes later, Thomas watched the car swerve and run into a tree, knocking the driver and passenger unconscious. A moment passed, and a modified chopper landed, with armed men pulling every body out of the crashed car, and tossing them into the chopper. Thomas pulled up a camera in the chopper and watched as all weapons were confiscated and Luso's face was confirmed, without any mask, and no signs of surgery. D.N.A tests further confirmed the identity. Thomas smirked as Luso was thrown into the back of the chopper, along with his butler and the dead guard. The car was cleaned out, leaving no traces, and every tracker/bug/audio/video device removed. The door was locked on the bodies and two armed guards posted in chairs facing the door, guns pointed at the stack of bodies. The chopper took off and began for Thomas' fortress. Luso's fate had been sealed, as the door couldn't be unlocked from the outside, which the two had no access to. Thomas forwarded the images to Van, to further illustrate what he could do, and what happens to those who stand in his way, in case the hints left earlier weren't clear. "'Tis a shame Luso decided to step out of line, he was a good man,"

"I can agree to that," Zyrois responded, "It's getting late sir, it would do you a lot of good to get some sleep."

"You're right, as usual. At least I finished everything off today," Thomas said, as he walked off to his bed, and dropped onto it, falling asleep quickly.

[Van]

OOC: Nice job with that. Gotta be, like, 98% bulletproof.

IC:
Van walked back into his dirty dorm to find all the bloodstains gone and the majority of things that weren't brojen back in their place. Then out of the broom closest popped Lyn. "Hey, I see you have some fun today." she said with a smile as she cuddled his arm.

"Ow, thats the arm that's been shot." Van said as he squinted from the pain.

" Oh, sorry. Wait ... you got shot!? Why can't you be more careful!? First your arm, then your head! Geez, what the heck am I gonna do with you."

"I'll wear a bullet proof suit next time, alright? So I see you didn't sleep the whole day off. Come to think of it, where were you when I got shot?"

"Huh? Oh, I must have been out to pick up the package. They sent us something by deliveryman but he couldn't get past the police barrier so I had to sneak out to get it."

"Hmm, so it finally came, wonderful." Van let out a huge yawn and walked over to his desk, were his spare laptop sat, with Trance waiting inside. "Hmm, better be safe." Van picked up his PET, click a few buttons, & out came some sort of disruption wave. This wave would knock out any kind of tracker, listening device, or any other type of hidden device that could harm or inconvenience Van. But it wouldn't harm PETs or computers equiped with a homemade barrier defense program to protect it.

As Van let out an ever bigger yawn this time, he said to himself as he walked across the room towards his bed, "Great, another full day tomorrow. And now I can't even have my fun with Luso since Thomas beat me to it. Hmm, maybe he'll let me 'visit' him. I'll need to setup my defense measures first though, I'll have to complete & activate the 'security' I've setup." Van let out one more enormous yawn and finished, "But now it's time for my hard earned sleep." And with that Van took off his jacket & jumped under his covers and closed his tired eyes.

"Hehe, sweet dreams hun." Lyn whispered as she also jumped under the covers and cuddled around Van, being care not to touch his wound and disturb his "sleep state".

"Mm, G'night."

[Luso]

I said that I made sure I wasn't bugged or followed, but I'll let your post slide provided you agree to this here.

Luso looked at Higgens who gave him an apologetic smile. As the guards started to dose, Higgens began to poke himself along his spine. He found the button he had been searching for, and every small device in their vicinity died, and even the Chopper had trouble maintaining flight. The guards were alert to this though, and saw what they were doing. Higgens ran at them with the body of the dead cop, and bowled through them. Luso silently made his way to the pilot, and killed him. He quickly switched to auto pilot. After some fiddling with Higgens back and loud screams, he had removed the Jammer device and conjoined it with his pet. He saw a complete list of every one of Thomas' devices. He checked off which ones to permanately Jam, and ran the program. Every computer connected to the bugs in Thomas' room exploded with a passion. Luso sent Thomas a message on one before it exploded, "Don't try this again. Jun is my target, not you." Every bug and program and device in the chopper that was of no use to Luso or belonged to Thomas was broken beyond repair. Higgens ran a full check on the chopper, but they crashed it just to be sure. After checking themselves, they purchased a new form of transportation, and a new set of masks. Then they bombed the chopper and each individual goon. "Change of plans. Thomas may think I'm going after Jun, but we'll have to dispatch Thomas if we want a chance to take out Jun."

Higgens did a now mandatory check for bugs, and they were off.

[Kyn Azleos Roya]

OOC: Actually, you just blew up a computer in the middle of no where, but hey, nice try. You still forget I am the nearly infinite resource guy, aka chessmaster.

IC: "Sir, we have another problem," Zyrois said waking Thomas up again, "God, Zyrois, what time is it?"

"Almost midnight sir, Luso managed to_' Zyrois began, but was interrupted by Thomas, "Lovely bugger, isn't he, next time I will personally see to his butler's death," Thomas growled, "Sir, I might want to add that our bug computer was just blown, a harddrive overload and cause a chain reaction."

"I am going back to sleep, if you already aren't, and you should have been, I want them watched via satellite," Thomas said in a calm voice, getting out of his chair, "I've been for the last hour, sir, every since the escape began, ti will take them at least a day to get back now, and that is straight driving," Thomas smirked as he fell into the bed, "Good, that means until my meeting with Van, and after, I am off duty. Finally a vacation."

"I will stay behind and monitor the situation here, sir" Zyrois responded, continuing to analyze the movements of what he knew was the pair, "Good, and good night," Thomas said, falling asleep.

[Luso]

FIRE THE LASER CANNON!

[Van]

OOC: Good god Luso, must you spam the story thread? You could at least have put a simple paragraph with it.

IC:
It as only 3:25 in the morning when Van was out and about around the Leviathan dorm. He lets out let another of his over excessive yawns and spoke with his eyelids half closed, "Finally almost done, and it only took me and hour and a half. But that's the last time I wake up at 2:00 in the morning, especially after a tiring day like yesterday." Van walked up a few stairs and onto the dorm rooftop.

"Hey, I finished the scan." Trance called from the PET in Van's jacket pocket. "All the dorm members were evacuated and the police must have run off with their tails between their legs. We're the only ones here."

"Good, then we can activate it now." A few buttons & clicks later, a large invisible barrier shot up around the dorm. This barrier stretched high in the sky(but coming to a close at about a few thousand feet) and low underground(also coming to a close). The barrier could only be bypassed with a special heavily encrypted program, and the only one who knew how to solve it was Van and those he chose to tell, because the solution was only stored in his mind. The barrier was kept up by four hidden posts around the outside of the barrier, each guarded by a customized navi inside it. The barrier would not fall unless all four posts were taken out, and if they were another barrier would pop up, covering a smaller radius, and then another just big enough to cover Van's room and a little bit of space around it like an indoor garden and a security station, but this barrier had five posts and one was inside the barrier itself. People on the inside cold get out, but they couldn't get back in without the code

There was also a titanium-steel alloy plate(about 2-3 inches thick) covering every door, window, hole, chimney and such in the dorm. He didn't bother with the air vents because he knew not even a baby could squeeze itself in their. Each alloy plate would only release with billion digit code, all of which were only known by Trance, since not even Van could remember such a large & complex code. And if someone messed up the code even once several gun turrets would pop out and begin targeting any sign of human life by heat, movement, or sound. And the turrets had no jack in port so navis would be useless.

And to top it off there were about 20 guards in each barrier section armed with bullet proof vests & helmets, various types of guns ranging from revolvers to machine guns, and tranquilizers to about 40-50 caliber shot guns(enough to shatter bones around the shot area and maybe dislocate the shoulder of the shooter if he wasn't strong enough), and net navis if need be. And where there weren't guards there were more gun turrets.

All systems and computers were disconnected from the net and the jack in port were also encrypted. It was a seemingly impenetrable defense.

"Well I think I did well here, and now I'll finally get my well deserved rest." van said as he walked back down to his dorm, bypassing the barriers and the 1' thick door covering his dorm & re locking them once though. "Mm, G'Night again."