Bond Breaker (SI - Multiverse Cross)
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Damn it Shade!
The ascendent intelligence isn't smart, in fact it seems quite reactive; like a child throwing a temper tantrum.
Try manipulating it instead of taunting it.
I have no idea.
Considering bad things happen consistently on the dot every time you ponder that thought, you think you would have a better handle on your open musings...
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Dragonskyt
Ashen one, hearest thou my voice, still?
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You don't hold back now do you, even against yourself.
Wait, so he's immune to 'poisons' and 'sleeping agents', but not 'painkillers'?
Damn, so hard to keep track of all those rules.
Damn, so hard to keep track of all those rules.
Ridiculously Average Guy
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That's actually canon, Kirito monolouges about it in Actilization when comparing the native AI to Yui. He says that for all that she is quite realistic, there would still be moments where he would see the machine. On the other hand, the Underworld AI we're much more realistic (a consequence of them essentially having manufactured souls).
Giygas
Cutest Sawk i could find. Lucario is a nice extra.
A voice survived! And it is the woobie model! I think you should try to reach it, shade.
Ridiculously Average Guy
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from the extened dots and lack of / of [ I think it may be one of the weaker ones.
Ashaeron
Lurker in the Abyss
Wait, so he's immune to 'poisons' and 'sleeping agents', but not 'painkillers'?
Damn, so hard to keep track of all those rules.
I feel like this is one of those conceptual defenses - "is it beneficial to me? Yes, painkillers are beneficial, I would like to not be in pain right now, it passes".
Ridiculously Average Guy
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I thought it was just that he couldn't, medically, be fully disabled?
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Chapter Seventy-Three
"Did you already help Liara acquire the Shadow Broker's information network?" I asked abruptly, as Jane entered the infirmary, while fiddling with my Omni-Tool.
"And good morning to you too Brain-Daddy," Jane drawled out. "And yes, yes I did."
"Does she have the coordinates of the Cerberus' main base?" I asked.
"I don't think she has," Jane commented. "But-"
"Tell her to move her sensitive data elsewhere, Cerberus' going to come knocking eventually and they'll tear her place down," I remarked offhandedly as I kept working on the Omni-Tool.
"All right, but would it bother you to look me in the eyes when you're talking to me?"
"Just a moment," I remarked dryly.
And soon I was done.
"All right," I looked up at her. "What is it?"
"What did you just do?" Jane asked.
"I cleared my browser history. Can't have my daughter see the porn sites I visit."
"Why do I not believe you?" Jane replied with a sigh. "So, that said, what now?"
"This is where it gets sketchy," I replied. "There should be one last mission, but of that I know it's only about an asteroid hitting a mass effect gate, purging an entire solar system, and committing genocide on much of the Batarian race."
Jane blinked. "Oh, I did that. I had to rescue Doctor Kenson from a Batarian outpost, and then we crashed the asteroid into the relay to prevent the Reapers from arriving," she said. "But then she betrayed me, so I had to stop her, and then it was quite the countdown from there to the end."
"Oh," I blinked. "Well...then all I've got is that the Systems' Alliance is going to keep you shackled in jail for a few months or years or until the Reapers actually invade, and when they do, well, Earth's going to get hit hard, and you'll have to leave it in a hurry on the Normandy."
"So it's time to go to Earth and face the music," Jane sighed.
"Well, for you maybe," I remarked dryly. "I'm not coming."
Jane narrowed her eyes. "What do you mean you're not coming?"
"I mean it, Jane. Think about it. When they'll take the ship, what do you think they'll do to me, or to Yui? Yui's an artificial intelligence, I don't have any papers, any identification, and while I'm sure Yui can forge some documents, it's better not to risk it. No, I'm getting off on the Citadel or at the nearest spaceport."
"You'd be an invaluable help in the fight against the Reapers, you know that?"
"I'd be shoved aside abruptly and shot dead in a back alley," I replied calmly. "No proof, Jane. Of course you know who I am now, and what I know is real, but..." I waved a hand in dismissal. "It's not like the others do. Bringing me up will just make you look like a madwoman."
"And what do you intend to do once you reach the Citadel?" Jane asked dryly.
"I intend on doing a little something called preemptive warfare. The Citadel's the final solution against the Reapers. Once you acquire the weapon, the Catalyst, it connects with the Citadel and forms a galaxy-wide electromagnetic type of weapon that can stop the reapers. But the options are, right now, locked. There's Control, where you sacrifice your life to acquire control of the Reapers. There's Synthesis, where you use space-magic of sort to integrate humans and synthetic life forms, and then there Destruction, where you destroy all of Synthetics, Geth included."
I exhaled. "As Yui proved, it can be reprogrammed to only harm Collectors and Reapers programs, sparing the Geth."
"You're going into the Citadel to reprogram it," Jane said. "With an artificial intelligence. How are you even going to get inside without documents?"
"I'll ask for refugee status as a colonist from Freedom's Progress, come up with a convenient lie, they'll drink it up."
"Well...when the Reapers come, I'm recruiting you again," Jane said calmly. "So you better not get too comfortable."
"Don't worry, when the Reapers come, I'll be there," I remarked. "Can't let my daughter have all the fun now, can I?"
"You think you're funny, but you really aren't," Jane drawled.
We lapsed into silence after that.
My Omni-Tool beeped suddenly.
And I grinned. "Have I ever told you how much I love the Geth?"
"Yes, yes, you have a synth-boner, all right," Jane grumbled. "Well, what are you planning?"
"While you go and face the music, I'm getting myself a taxi across the galaxy."
"A Geth taxi? They'll shoot you down," Jane remarked dryly. "Geth aren't liked anywhere, you know?"
"Oh, I know, I know. That's why..."
"Commander, we're receiving a transmission from the Illusive Man," Joker's voice cut through. "He wishes to talk with you."
"Yui," I said in the Omni-Tool. "Track the call."
I stood up with a whistle, and a light wince from the bullet wound in my side. "Do you mind if I come too?" I asked Jane with a light grin.
"If you're thinking of doing what I'm thinking you want to do," Jane began calmly, her voice growing threateningly. "I'm coming along," Jane said. "I can always face the tribunal later on."
I shrugged. "If you say so."
"And you can't trace quantum communications," Jane continued as I followed her. "It is impossible."
"Not with that attitude, of course, but you see...Yui and I act on more than one separate layer of reality. So trust me, when I say that Yui can track it down, it means that she can."
We stepped through the ship, and reached the holographic display of Jack Harper, who was apparently seated already at his 'chair'.
"Commander Shepard, I asked to speak with you alone."
"Well now Jack," I drawled. "I thought you'd like to meet me in person. And you didn't follow my counsel, did you?"
Jack took a long draw of his cigar.
"I don't have time to waste. Shepard, I hope you are happy with the knowledge you destroyed a valuable cache of technology and weapons we could have used against the Reapers."
I received a beep-beep from the Omni-Tool.
Quietly, I checked the message.
-'Yui-Tan-Is-Best'= Found the other Quantum Bit, I've got his coordinates.
"We don't need that base to fight the Reapers," Jane said firmly.
"Maybe I made a mistake," Jack remarked dryly. "But nevertheless, the Collectors' threat on humanity is over."
His eyes turned towards me. "I hope another threat will not show itself before the Reapers arrive."
"Don't worry Jack," I said. "If I'll ever become a threat, you can rest assured of one thing," I took a deep breath and narrowed my eyes. "That you won't see me coming for you. Last warning, Jack. Renounce all Reaper tech and implants, and you can still be saved. Persist, and you'll become their puppet. Indoctrination's a scary thing, and you don't even know how deep you are in it already."
Jack smirked. "So we should fight the Reapers with stick and stones?"
"No, you should fight them with humanity, not with Reaper Implants," I replied calmly. "You're just following their game this way. By playing alongside their technology, you're no better than Icarus aiming for the sun. You'll crash, Jack. You'll crash and burn and no one will come to save you when you do. And when you'll realize it, standing on the shattered remains of Cerberus, when you'll realize how deep you've been played, how badly you fucked up, you will aim your gun at your head and pull the trigger, begging for forgiveness as you watch Earth burn," I hissed. "I know that, Jack. And mine are not empty threat or beautifully stringed words. Ignore me if you prefer...but I refuse to let humanity pay the price of your ignorance."
Jack remained silent, and then closed off the communication.
"Do you think he'll change his mind?" Jane asked.
"I don't think he will, but it hardly matters," I remarked. "I've got his station's location. I forewarned the Geth, and they'll help. After I take care of the Citadel's problem, they'll come fetch me and we'll get to the bottom of this. And tell Liara that if she ever needs a secret place of operation, she can come to the Collectors' base. Megan has more than enough space for her."
"Megan?" Jane asked.
"The Geth that once was in my Omni-Tool. I named her Megan and gave her control of the station."
"So you're that type of guy who gives a name to his comfort androids?"
I glared at her. "You understand she's a living being, right?"
Jane shrugged. "Fine, fine, no need to get all defensive. So my destiny is in the brig, then a dashing escape from Earth, and yours is among the stars. Can't we swap?"
"Sorry," I said. "If it can make you feel better. I'll spend most of the time walking around and generally having boring days."
Jane began to walk through the corridors, headed off towards the galactic map.
"I'm sure. You'll be taking Yui with you?"
"Course I will," I replied. "I don't know when the next dimensional shift is going to come, but at least I know that we'll go together."
"Well," Jane sighed. "What if you can't reprogram the Citadel or something like that?"
I scratched the back of my head. "Eventually I'll manage. Hey, if I happen to appear in your cell, you can always claim I'm a visitor."
"Sure," Jane drawled.
I stepped away from her, and headed towards the infirmary.
"Out of curiosity, Edi, where's Yui?"
"She and Legion are in the AI core," Edi beeped. "They are having a talk."
"Oh," I blinked as I stepped inside too.
Well, it was quite the 'silent' talk since they were apparently connected with a cable.
Yui saw me enter and blushed quite vividly, but I just raised an eyebrow.
There was a moment of awkward silence, before I inclined my head to the side. "This isn't what it looks like, I suspect. Or if it is, it's the tamest thing I've ever seen. Are you playing pokémon and exchanging them?"
Soon, Yui stopped and pulled the cable free, just as Legion rebooted.
"We checked each other's Artificial Intelligence systems and programming," Yui said calmly, coughing slightly. "Legion was curious."
"Indeed," Legion beeped. "The complexity of Big Sister Yui's code is astonishing. I barely managed to extrapolate the most basic of functions for the Geth Consensus to utilize, and yet there is so much more we could learn from her."
"Big Sister?" I asked.
"Well," Yui said, and fidgeted slightly. "I am more technologically advanced in both hardware and software than them, and I didn't want to be referred as 'The Advanced One', so...big sister was better, wasn't it?"
I chuckled.
"That's not something to laugh at," Yui bristled, fists clenched.
"It's adorable, actually," I said. "Well," I remarked. "We're getting off on the Citadel, unless we dimension-shift earlier."
"Oh," Yui blinked. "The Citadel has laws against the AI doesn't it?"
"You look like a girl enough, and Geth do not intentionally infiltrate."
Legion flapped its flaps in a puzzled expression. "I do not understand."
"You'll see, that is, if you ever enter the Citadel. As it is, Yui, you ready for a bit of reprogramming?"
Yui frowned, "I'm downloading the Extranet currently. By the time I'll be done I'd probably be able to take on anything."
I emitted a very low but quite appreciative whistle. "Just how much space do you have inside of you?"
"I write the data acquired on the electromagnetic currents of the black holes themselves," Yui replied calmly. "It's...ludicrous how much power I have. It's...daunting."
"From great powers, come great responsibilities," I said with a knowing nod. "Use your Battle-Loli powers for the greater good, and never for personal gain, for there lies the Dark Side of the Force."
"When you're done mashing up quotes from various movies, what's our plan?" Yui asked, arms crossed and an adorable pout on her face.
"First we reprogram the Catalyst from within the Citadel. It should be hardware locked, but you can probably create an emulation of the actual hardware or at least fake it enough...unless it's mechanical, but I doubt it. Once that is done, we reach the final stage of the Citadel's power and reprogram the Catalyst to allow for a more variegated plethora of options. In that way, we save the Galaxy, the Geth, and deal a blow to the Reapers."
"And what if it's in a separate network?" Yui asked.
"Then we hard-link to it. Or, worst case scenario, I have you spit plasma until we reach the core of the Citadel."
Yui frowned. "That's our plan?"
"Well...in a nutshell, yes."
"It's never going to work," Yui said firmly.
"Oh, I think it will. We have the superior firepower."
"Superior firepower doesn't mean much," Yui said. "This...Catalyst could be on a separate network, or outright unreachable, there could be mechanical blocks, circuitry could be of a completely different format."
"Yes, and I have an Omni-Tool that can fabricate anything, and you are capable of probably infinite calculations per second. I'm an IT Engineer, and you're an AI. Trust me. We'll get to the bottom of this even if we have to solder the entire Citadel and build from scratch a data-jack large enough to fit inside whatever hole the Catalyst has."
Yui blushed again.
"Pervert."
"Why do I have the feeling you said that in that tone just to rile me up further?" I asked.
Then I shrugged. "I thought you'd like it. We're getting a vacation after all. Not like assaulting the-"
It was mid-sentence.
Mid-sentence.
"Illusive Man's base." I finished.
Yui blinked and looked around.
We were on the back of the Eva-2.
We were on the back of the Eva-2 being held above a bubbling volcano.
We were on the back of the Eva-2 being held above a bubbling volcano, about to be plunged inside, and as I came to the realization that indeed, this was a shitty place to be in, all that I managed to say was, once more, the core definition of my emotional status.
"FUCK. YOU."
Yui had a more pragmatical approach.
She clutched on to one of the helicopter's chains that held the Eva up, and I mimicked her, cursing loudly.
When the Eva fell, the chains would snap and hopefully, we'd fly away with the helicopter...
But until then, I began to climb my way upwards.
I hated climbing.
I could do it, barely, because climbing on rope was something funny to do at the local park when I was young, but I did not like it.
At all.
"Hate you." I snarled. "Hate. You!"
HATRED SHALL FEED ME.
"You're a fucking bastard, that's what you are," I hissed. "A fucking, childish, bastard."
... . ... . ... . What's this? ... . ... . ... .
... . ... . ... . Why are you doing this? ... . ... . ... .
... . ... . ... . This is wrong, stop! ... . ... . ... .
... . ... . ... . The Corruption is claiming you! You'll fall if you keep this up! ... . ... . ... .
... . ... . ... . Villains never win, please, listen to me! ... . ... . ... .
... . ... . ... . Why won't you listen? ... . ... . ... .
... . ... . ... . I don't want to be alone, please, listen to me! ... . ... . ... .
"Did you already help Liara acquire the Shadow Broker's information network?" I asked abruptly, as Jane entered the infirmary, while fiddling with my Omni-Tool.
"And good morning to you too Brain-Daddy," Jane drawled out. "And yes, yes I did."
"Does she have the coordinates of the Cerberus' main base?" I asked.
"I don't think she has," Jane commented. "But-"
"Tell her to move her sensitive data elsewhere, Cerberus' going to come knocking eventually and they'll tear her place down," I remarked offhandedly as I kept working on the Omni-Tool.
"All right, but would it bother you to look me in the eyes when you're talking to me?"
"Just a moment," I remarked dryly.
And soon I was done.
"All right," I looked up at her. "What is it?"
"What did you just do?" Jane asked.
"I cleared my browser history. Can't have my daughter see the porn sites I visit."
"Why do I not believe you?" Jane replied with a sigh. "So, that said, what now?"
"This is where it gets sketchy," I replied. "There should be one last mission, but of that I know it's only about an asteroid hitting a mass effect gate, purging an entire solar system, and committing genocide on much of the Batarian race."
Jane blinked. "Oh, I did that. I had to rescue Doctor Kenson from a Batarian outpost, and then we crashed the asteroid into the relay to prevent the Reapers from arriving," she said. "But then she betrayed me, so I had to stop her, and then it was quite the countdown from there to the end."
"Oh," I blinked. "Well...then all I've got is that the Systems' Alliance is going to keep you shackled in jail for a few months or years or until the Reapers actually invade, and when they do, well, Earth's going to get hit hard, and you'll have to leave it in a hurry on the Normandy."
"So it's time to go to Earth and face the music," Jane sighed.
"Well, for you maybe," I remarked dryly. "I'm not coming."
Jane narrowed her eyes. "What do you mean you're not coming?"
"I mean it, Jane. Think about it. When they'll take the ship, what do you think they'll do to me, or to Yui? Yui's an artificial intelligence, I don't have any papers, any identification, and while I'm sure Yui can forge some documents, it's better not to risk it. No, I'm getting off on the Citadel or at the nearest spaceport."
"You'd be an invaluable help in the fight against the Reapers, you know that?"
"I'd be shoved aside abruptly and shot dead in a back alley," I replied calmly. "No proof, Jane. Of course you know who I am now, and what I know is real, but..." I waved a hand in dismissal. "It's not like the others do. Bringing me up will just make you look like a madwoman."
"And what do you intend to do once you reach the Citadel?" Jane asked dryly.
"I intend on doing a little something called preemptive warfare. The Citadel's the final solution against the Reapers. Once you acquire the weapon, the Catalyst, it connects with the Citadel and forms a galaxy-wide electromagnetic type of weapon that can stop the reapers. But the options are, right now, locked. There's Control, where you sacrifice your life to acquire control of the Reapers. There's Synthesis, where you use space-magic of sort to integrate humans and synthetic life forms, and then there Destruction, where you destroy all of Synthetics, Geth included."
I exhaled. "As Yui proved, it can be reprogrammed to only harm Collectors and Reapers programs, sparing the Geth."
"You're going into the Citadel to reprogram it," Jane said. "With an artificial intelligence. How are you even going to get inside without documents?"
"I'll ask for refugee status as a colonist from Freedom's Progress, come up with a convenient lie, they'll drink it up."
"Well...when the Reapers come, I'm recruiting you again," Jane said calmly. "So you better not get too comfortable."
"Don't worry, when the Reapers come, I'll be there," I remarked. "Can't let my daughter have all the fun now, can I?"
"You think you're funny, but you really aren't," Jane drawled.
We lapsed into silence after that.
My Omni-Tool beeped suddenly.
And I grinned. "Have I ever told you how much I love the Geth?"
"Yes, yes, you have a synth-boner, all right," Jane grumbled. "Well, what are you planning?"
"While you go and face the music, I'm getting myself a taxi across the galaxy."
"A Geth taxi? They'll shoot you down," Jane remarked dryly. "Geth aren't liked anywhere, you know?"
"Oh, I know, I know. That's why..."
"Commander, we're receiving a transmission from the Illusive Man," Joker's voice cut through. "He wishes to talk with you."
"Yui," I said in the Omni-Tool. "Track the call."
I stood up with a whistle, and a light wince from the bullet wound in my side. "Do you mind if I come too?" I asked Jane with a light grin.
"If you're thinking of doing what I'm thinking you want to do," Jane began calmly, her voice growing threateningly. "I'm coming along," Jane said. "I can always face the tribunal later on."
I shrugged. "If you say so."
"And you can't trace quantum communications," Jane continued as I followed her. "It is impossible."
"Not with that attitude, of course, but you see...Yui and I act on more than one separate layer of reality. So trust me, when I say that Yui can track it down, it means that she can."
We stepped through the ship, and reached the holographic display of Jack Harper, who was apparently seated already at his 'chair'.
"Commander Shepard, I asked to speak with you alone."
"Well now Jack," I drawled. "I thought you'd like to meet me in person. And you didn't follow my counsel, did you?"
Jack took a long draw of his cigar.
"I don't have time to waste. Shepard, I hope you are happy with the knowledge you destroyed a valuable cache of technology and weapons we could have used against the Reapers."
I received a beep-beep from the Omni-Tool.
Quietly, I checked the message.
-'Yui-Tan-Is-Best'= Found the other Quantum Bit, I've got his coordinates.
"We don't need that base to fight the Reapers," Jane said firmly.
"Maybe I made a mistake," Jack remarked dryly. "But nevertheless, the Collectors' threat on humanity is over."
His eyes turned towards me. "I hope another threat will not show itself before the Reapers arrive."
"Don't worry Jack," I said. "If I'll ever become a threat, you can rest assured of one thing," I took a deep breath and narrowed my eyes. "That you won't see me coming for you. Last warning, Jack. Renounce all Reaper tech and implants, and you can still be saved. Persist, and you'll become their puppet. Indoctrination's a scary thing, and you don't even know how deep you are in it already."
Jack smirked. "So we should fight the Reapers with stick and stones?"
"No, you should fight them with humanity, not with Reaper Implants," I replied calmly. "You're just following their game this way. By playing alongside their technology, you're no better than Icarus aiming for the sun. You'll crash, Jack. You'll crash and burn and no one will come to save you when you do. And when you'll realize it, standing on the shattered remains of Cerberus, when you'll realize how deep you've been played, how badly you fucked up, you will aim your gun at your head and pull the trigger, begging for forgiveness as you watch Earth burn," I hissed. "I know that, Jack. And mine are not empty threat or beautifully stringed words. Ignore me if you prefer...but I refuse to let humanity pay the price of your ignorance."
Jack remained silent, and then closed off the communication.
"Do you think he'll change his mind?" Jane asked.
"I don't think he will, but it hardly matters," I remarked. "I've got his station's location. I forewarned the Geth, and they'll help. After I take care of the Citadel's problem, they'll come fetch me and we'll get to the bottom of this. And tell Liara that if she ever needs a secret place of operation, she can come to the Collectors' base. Megan has more than enough space for her."
"Megan?" Jane asked.
"The Geth that once was in my Omni-Tool. I named her Megan and gave her control of the station."
"So you're that type of guy who gives a name to his comfort androids?"
I glared at her. "You understand she's a living being, right?"
Jane shrugged. "Fine, fine, no need to get all defensive. So my destiny is in the brig, then a dashing escape from Earth, and yours is among the stars. Can't we swap?"
"Sorry," I said. "If it can make you feel better. I'll spend most of the time walking around and generally having boring days."
Jane began to walk through the corridors, headed off towards the galactic map.
"I'm sure. You'll be taking Yui with you?"
"Course I will," I replied. "I don't know when the next dimensional shift is going to come, but at least I know that we'll go together."
"Well," Jane sighed. "What if you can't reprogram the Citadel or something like that?"
I scratched the back of my head. "Eventually I'll manage. Hey, if I happen to appear in your cell, you can always claim I'm a visitor."
"Sure," Jane drawled.
I stepped away from her, and headed towards the infirmary.
"Out of curiosity, Edi, where's Yui?"
"She and Legion are in the AI core," Edi beeped. "They are having a talk."
"Oh," I blinked as I stepped inside too.
Well, it was quite the 'silent' talk since they were apparently connected with a cable.
Yui saw me enter and blushed quite vividly, but I just raised an eyebrow.
There was a moment of awkward silence, before I inclined my head to the side. "This isn't what it looks like, I suspect. Or if it is, it's the tamest thing I've ever seen. Are you playing pokémon and exchanging them?"
Soon, Yui stopped and pulled the cable free, just as Legion rebooted.
"We checked each other's Artificial Intelligence systems and programming," Yui said calmly, coughing slightly. "Legion was curious."
"Indeed," Legion beeped. "The complexity of Big Sister Yui's code is astonishing. I barely managed to extrapolate the most basic of functions for the Geth Consensus to utilize, and yet there is so much more we could learn from her."
"Big Sister?" I asked.
"Well," Yui said, and fidgeted slightly. "I am more technologically advanced in both hardware and software than them, and I didn't want to be referred as 'The Advanced One', so...big sister was better, wasn't it?"
I chuckled.
"That's not something to laugh at," Yui bristled, fists clenched.
"It's adorable, actually," I said. "Well," I remarked. "We're getting off on the Citadel, unless we dimension-shift earlier."
"Oh," Yui blinked. "The Citadel has laws against the AI doesn't it?"
"You look like a girl enough, and Geth do not intentionally infiltrate."
Legion flapped its flaps in a puzzled expression. "I do not understand."
"You'll see, that is, if you ever enter the Citadel. As it is, Yui, you ready for a bit of reprogramming?"
Yui frowned, "I'm downloading the Extranet currently. By the time I'll be done I'd probably be able to take on anything."
I emitted a very low but quite appreciative whistle. "Just how much space do you have inside of you?"
"I write the data acquired on the electromagnetic currents of the black holes themselves," Yui replied calmly. "It's...ludicrous how much power I have. It's...daunting."
"From great powers, come great responsibilities," I said with a knowing nod. "Use your Battle-Loli powers for the greater good, and never for personal gain, for there lies the Dark Side of the Force."
"When you're done mashing up quotes from various movies, what's our plan?" Yui asked, arms crossed and an adorable pout on her face.
"First we reprogram the Catalyst from within the Citadel. It should be hardware locked, but you can probably create an emulation of the actual hardware or at least fake it enough...unless it's mechanical, but I doubt it. Once that is done, we reach the final stage of the Citadel's power and reprogram the Catalyst to allow for a more variegated plethora of options. In that way, we save the Galaxy, the Geth, and deal a blow to the Reapers."
"And what if it's in a separate network?" Yui asked.
"Then we hard-link to it. Or, worst case scenario, I have you spit plasma until we reach the core of the Citadel."
Yui frowned. "That's our plan?"
"Well...in a nutshell, yes."
"It's never going to work," Yui said firmly.
"Oh, I think it will. We have the superior firepower."
"Superior firepower doesn't mean much," Yui said. "This...Catalyst could be on a separate network, or outright unreachable, there could be mechanical blocks, circuitry could be of a completely different format."
"Yes, and I have an Omni-Tool that can fabricate anything, and you are capable of probably infinite calculations per second. I'm an IT Engineer, and you're an AI. Trust me. We'll get to the bottom of this even if we have to solder the entire Citadel and build from scratch a data-jack large enough to fit inside whatever hole the Catalyst has."
Yui blushed again.
"Pervert."
"Why do I have the feeling you said that in that tone just to rile me up further?" I asked.
Then I shrugged. "I thought you'd like it. We're getting a vacation after all. Not like assaulting the-"
It was mid-sentence.
Mid-sentence.
"Illusive Man's base." I finished.
Yui blinked and looked around.
We were on the back of the Eva-2.
We were on the back of the Eva-2 being held above a bubbling volcano.
We were on the back of the Eva-2 being held above a bubbling volcano, about to be plunged inside, and as I came to the realization that indeed, this was a shitty place to be in, all that I managed to say was, once more, the core definition of my emotional status.
"FUCK. YOU."
Yui had a more pragmatical approach.
She clutched on to one of the helicopter's chains that held the Eva up, and I mimicked her, cursing loudly.
When the Eva fell, the chains would snap and hopefully, we'd fly away with the helicopter...
But until then, I began to climb my way upwards.
I hated climbing.
I could do it, barely, because climbing on rope was something funny to do at the local park when I was young, but I did not like it.
At all.
"Hate you." I snarled. "Hate. You!"
HATRED SHALL FEED ME.
"You're a fucking bastard, that's what you are," I hissed. "A fucking, childish, bastard."
... . ... . ... . What's this? ... . ... . ... .
... . ... . ... . Why are you doing this? ... . ... . ... .
... . ... . ... . This is wrong, stop! ... . ... . ... .
... . ... . ... . The Corruption is claiming you! You'll fall if you keep this up! ... . ... . ... .
... . ... . ... . Villains never win, please, listen to me! ... . ... . ... .
... . ... . ... . Why won't you listen? ... . ... . ... .
... . ... . ... . I don't want to be alone, please, listen to me! ... . ... . ... .
RazorBlaxe
Just another transient being
- Location
- Earth
No kidding. Shade lost me a few updates back. Still entertaining to read though.
Also, Big Sister Yui is definitely the best.
Lealope
Not yet invincible
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Let me just make a summary of what I think happened
1. All the ascendants got murdered because zombie unit one or two came back all fucked up
2. Boss god thing is OK with this
3. Zombie-unit wants to destroy everything ever and plans to do this by frustrating and irritating Shade until he throws an omnicidal hissy fit
4. One super woobie ascendant survived...some how and is telling either Shade or Zombie to stop throwing tantrums and calm the fuck down
1. All the ascendants got murdered because zombie unit one or two came back all fucked up
2. Boss god thing is OK with this
3. Zombie-unit wants to destroy everything ever and plans to do this by frustrating and irritating Shade until he throws an omnicidal hissy fit
4. One super woobie ascendant survived...some how and is telling either Shade or Zombie to stop throwing tantrums and calm the fuck down
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Mizu
Software Developer
- Location
- Victoria, Australia
@sithmor
Far as I can tell, shade's going "let's fix everything!" on the various universe he's visited, and has done so ever since he encountered Yui. Also, whatever universe-teleports them is a jerk - they got spawned right about when the Eva was taking a lava-bath! Wonder if Yui could survive that, actually...
Far as I can tell, shade's going "let's fix everything!" on the various universe he's visited, and has done so ever since he encountered Yui. Also, whatever universe-teleports them is a jerk - they got spawned right about when the Eva was taking a lava-bath! Wonder if Yui could survive that, actually...
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Chapter Seventy-Four
Thankfully, whoever was in charge opted for a last check, and decided to pull us away from the volcano together with the Eva, rather than risk throwing us within it.
I exhaled a sigh of relief as they landed the Eva on the ground, and the thing then brought one of its hands near its back.
Yui and I ended up descending the chain, and from there ending on the Eva's palm.
Then the Eva lowered us on the ground just as Misato -and a group of armed soldiers that had bright blue caskets on their heads -the UN?- aimed their rifles at us.
"Hey there Colonel!" I said cheerfully, "How are things going?"
"I'm...not even surprised now," Misato said calmly as we descended. "What do you have to say for yourself?"
"I have yet to successfully genocide a race of gods," I remarked with a shrug, "But I present to you my dear friend, comrade in despair -albeit way more overpowered than me- and clearly not at all victim of the Stockholm Syndrome...the Battle-Loli Yui!" and with that, I gestured at Yui, who kicked me in the shins once.
"I am Yui, a highly advanced Psychological Health Unit Artificial Intelligence," she bowed her head primly. "It is a pleasure to meet you."
"Ouch," I hissed. "They grow up so fast," I chuckled. "So...Lava-Angel right? Don't have the Eva go in. It's going to hatch soon enough."
"Wouldn't that mean we have to get it out sooner?" Misato retorted. "It's in a weakened state right now."
"Nope. You either leave it there until it hatches and then get it out and battle it there," I replied. "Or you throw N2 mines at it while it still hasn't developed a carapace."
I inclined my head to the side.
"Because without Shinji giving aid, and I don't see him around here now, Asuka will die if she goes alone."
Misato bristled. "All right, until then I'm taking you in for disrupting a military operation."
I shrugged. "Yui, kindly, would you spit plasma in the air?"
Yui looked at me and blinked. "Why would I do that? Wouldn't that be considered a show of force and a threat?"
"Oh, but you see, I don't want there to be any misunderstanding. They most certainly can take me in, and I'll go with them. But they must never doubt for one second who holds the cards, and who holds the power. Unfortunately, until Seele is dealt with, it's better if they know the difference in power. You could hard format their Magi from here to give them a taste of what you can truly do, but again..." I sighed, "It's not like I want to start another war. I've already got one race I wish to exterminate, and with due reason. I can survive a bit of...shall we say Simon Says Game?"
Misato raised an eyebrow and clenched her fists. "Why you!"
The ground trembled.
"On the plus side, you do have permission to engage the Angel when it comes out," I told Yui. "A bit of plasma might do wonders to its complexion."
"But Shade," Yui said. "Plasma kills people."
"Oh, right," I blinked. "There's an Angel in there, it's a sort of biological weapon meant for the extermination of human life as you know it. So it's a genocidal machine. When he comes out, kill it and nobody's going to bat an eyelid."
Yui frowned, and then nodded.
"Oh, 'kay."
"If you ever use the 'kay' again I'll wring your neck with my own hands," I hissed softly.
Yui giggled. "You've got the strangest of nervous tics, Shade."
"Ahem," Misato coughed. "So...you'll come into custody?"
I shrugged. "Lead the way, Misato."
I smiled. "But as a friendly warning, know that I'm not afraid of any of you." I inclined my head to the side.
And then I walked hands in my jack-...
My jacket.
...
I was without my jacket.
...
Son-of-a-bitch.
My jacket!
My trustworthy jacket!
Again without my Ipod?! I hadn't even listened to it yet!
And of course, I was without Omni-Tool.
It would have been too much to hope for it, right?
I ended up being carried together with Yui on a jeep towards the Nerv's outpost base as the tremors increased.
Misato bristled suddenly, and then pulled out an earplug from her ears, and passed it over. "Asuka wants to talk to you."
I nodded, and took the earplug.
"Yes?"
"You stupid bastard!" Asuka exclaimed.
"Nice to see you again, Tsun-Tsun."
"I knew you were the one responsible for Shinji's madness!"
I blinked. "You're referring to calling you Tsun-Tsun?"
"Yes!" Asuka snarled back. "When I get out of here I'll wring your neck!"
"Good! Until then, know that the Angel will wake up before you can reach it. Do not engage it in the lava, but force him out! Frankly, as I was about to tell Misato, deploying N2 mines to remove the volcano from the maps would do wonders, but if that's not the case, don't fight it in its turf!"
"You don't need to tell me that!" Asuka yelled back. "I know what I'm doing."
"Please," I chuckled. "I'm older than you and I have no clue what I'm doing most of the time! Misato doesn't know what to do more often than not! So trust me on this, Asuka. You don't know. I don't know. Nobody knows."
I sighed and clenched my right fist, "But remember that if the Prog Knife fails, you'll have to punch it with the AT-Field."
"I'm not as stupid as Shinji," Asuka retorted hotly.
"You'll have to," I replied. "Be stupid for once. Be ignorant. Be common. If it works, who are you to deny it?"
I received no reply in the immediate, and so I pushed on.
"Listen to me, Asuka," I said calmly. "You have the same things Shinji has now. You know what's in your Eva now. You know she'll help you out if you just swallow your pride and ask. It's the duty of parents to help their children when they fall...or they're not parents to begin with."
I rolled my eyes. "At the cost of sounding cheesy, Asuka, know that your mother's watching and helping you each step you take. So...don't worry and trust in the machine spirit."
"Ha!" Asuka exclaimed. "As if-As if I need you to tell me this! You'll see! I'll cave the damn things teeth in so fast you won't even get a video of it!"
There was another tremor, and I hummed my agreement. "Well then," I remarked. "Show me what you can do, kid. I'll pass the mic back to Misato."
"You'll see!" Asuka snarled one last time as I passed the earplug back to Misato.
"By the way," I remarked. "Keep any new Eva machines the fuck away from the pilots. One is controlled by an Angel, and whoever has the smart idea of making a pilot, well, pilot it, should be shot, repeatedly."
"Your 'I come from the future' excuse isn't really much of a thing to work with," Misato said offhandedly.
"That was a lie, and you know that," I replied. "I came up with the quickest thing I could come up with on the fly. Didn't really have much time."
"So you're not even a pilot? Because we could use one," Misato said.
"Uhm, Yui can pilot, probably," I remarked. "She can easily overpower anything with how ludicrously powerful she is."
Misato threw me a glance. "You're not lying on her being...a battle Ai?"
"She said that herself," I replied. "Of course she's a battle-Ai. A Battle-Loli, to be more precise."
Yui's arms encircled me and as she pressed the right side of her face against my left cheek, I inwardly yelped.
"You're weak against hugs," Yui remarked as she strengthened her grip.
"G-Gah! Let me go!" I tried to pull away, but she held it firmly.
"Do you have no concept of personal space?!" I exclaimed.
Yui just giggled and didn't drop the hug.
"Are you stopping or what?" I remarked dryly after a moment.
"No," Yui stuck out her tongue.
I sighed. She must have caught on. "Fine." I dropped my head back against the seat and remained quiet for the rest of the trip.
My right hand went to pat Yui's head halfway through, and once the car stopped, only then, did Yui drop it.
She had caught on.
I was weaponless.
That feeling was...horrible.
I was weaponless, and I could be hit.
I was no longer incorporeal, or ethereal. Sure, maybe if I 'died' I didn't really die, and I had come close a lot of times but...it had hit me on the way back, how weak I now was compared to before.
Yui had noticed, and she had hugged me in reply without me saying anything.
Count on the Battle-Loli and Psychological Help Ai to come up with it.
And I felt dread pool at the pits of my stomach, because if I knew the game played, oh, if I knew, then there would be no happy ending.
But one could always hope.
Right?
One could always hope.
I wasn't really thrown in the brig, but merely brought in front of the radios that Misato used to contact the Eva, and as I watched over the screens, I realized a lot of people were looking my way.
I raised a hand in a general wave. "Dimensional Traveler, ignore me."
Yui pouted, but remained by my side.
The tremors spiked up in intensity, and as soon as they did, the screens showed the Volcano's eruption.
"If only I still had my chain," I mumbled.
"Kyah!" Yui proceeded to tackle me by the midriff.
I raised an eyebrow at that. "You weren't scared even when it came to facing a firing line of Collectors. I'm sure you're just faking it now."
Yui stuck her tongue out again, but remained where she was.
"I'm not a china vase," I grumbled softly.
Yui merely didn't reply.
"And I'm the Darkness made manifest, the Angst born from the richest of Despair, so...stop this. You're making me look like I'm some sort of huggable good guy. And I'm not a good guy."
I'm anything but a good guy.
"She's a battle-hardened AI," Misato remarked dryly.
"And a psychological aid," I added with a knowing nod. "I think I'll sic her on Asuka when she's done battling the Angel."
"Right, because you think you'll be allowed in the same room as her for the foreseeable future," Misato said.
"You can't stop me, halt me, or otherwise contain me," I pointed out. "And differently from the Angels, my genocidal nature revolves against God-Like beings that are scribbled down in the very natural laws of the Universe. Hence, frankly, you should try to at least tolerate me. I'm not asking for offerings like a pagan god. Just a live and let live arrangement."
I took a deep breath, which I cut short as I watched Sandalphon emerge from the volcano, breaking it apart as Asuka rushed in to intercept it, the Eva in a strange white suit, probably against magma.
The prog knife shattered against the exoskeleton.
"Do you have liquid nitrogen?" I asked. "Because if you do, you should use it on its back."
"We have the reserves to cool down the Eva," Misato said, and then tapped her mic. "Asuka! Behind you and to your left, there are barrels in bright yellow! It's liquid nitrogen, throw it at the Angel!"
"She'll have to do it manually!" I exclaimed back. "Remember the AT-Field! Only another can nullify it!"
"Joy of joys!" Asuka yelled through the earphones loud enough that I heard her too.
"Yui," I whispered. "Get a connection, find the satellites, and find Seele."
I narrowed my eyes. "And block any possible transferal of myself into the hands of anyone else. After that is done, find their bank accounts, drain them into the ocean, and ensure every tiny secret they have is exposed within the next hour."
Yui opened her mouth.
Then she closed it.
"They're bad guys, right?" she merely asked in a softly whispered voice.
I nodded back.
Yui silently snuggled her face against my side and I inwardly screamed to the demons of hell for aid.
Once she stopped snuggling, I felt a set of very dangerous eyes pointed on me.
And was someone whispering 'Lolicon' and 'Pervert'?
Oi! Get your facts straight!
"Done," she mouthed in my direction.
I patted her head affectionately.
"You did that on purpose, didn't you?" I whispered to her.
"Tee-Hee-Hee," she drawled out.
I looked at the screens once more.
Asuka screamed a few times as she drove the Nitrogen through the scorching hot exoskeleton of the beast, which soon cracked apart due to the thermal difference, exposing the relatively young flesh beneath.
Asuka's Eva then drove her fist down, and with its fingers pulled out blobs of blood and flesh, until the core emerged in its gory form, which she proceeded to crack by repeatedly slamming it on the ground.
"Well done, Asuka," Misato said.
Misato blinked and then looked at me. "Yes, he's still here."
Misato proceeded to frown. "Sure, I'll tell him, but he'll be in the-"
There was another phone call. From Misato's private phone.
"Yes?" Misato asked.
And then she looked at the cellphone with a puzzled look, before handing it to me.
"Yes?" I asked.
"What are you?" three words.
Not even a 'Who'.
"God made manifest," I replied calmly. "And I despise those who wish to interfere with humanity's evolution in search of their pathetic dreams. The Third Impact is not mankind's evolution, but its involution into the broth of time. I refuse that. So, if you wish to continue, know that I will oppose you every step of the way. I am mankind's god. Bow or be blown away."
"You know who we are."
"Yes," I replied. "And you don't know the things I can do. So live and let live, or prepare to pay the consequences of your hubris," I snarled, and then handed the phone back to Misato.
Misato took it to her ear a second more, and then stiffened abruptly.
"Y-Yes?" Misato said into the phone. "O-Oh! Yes, yes sir!" Misato swallowed thickly. "Understood sir!"
And then she looked at me aghast. "Just what did you do?"
"Yui, give everything you took back."
Yui blinked. "But-"
"Do it."
Yui sighed, and then nodded. "Done," she whined. "But why? Weren't they the bad guys?"
"Yes, but I'm a merciful god," I remarked calmly. "And the defeated enemy must not be driven to desperation. Live and let live. That's my maxim. If they follow it, everything's fine. If they defy it even once," I said softly, "Then I show no mercy, at all, until there is nothing but ashes where once their empires stood."
I smiled. "Because betraying a promise is serious business in my opinion."
Yui nodded. "If it weren't for the bit before with turning empires to ashes, that would be a good cheesy line," Yui said, before smiling cutely.
...
It wasn't just my mind, was it?
Why was there a 'Cutely' every now and then in my head when I described her actions?
I scratched the underside of my chin and looked around.
Yes.
People were staring.
What? They couldn't seriously believe I was God made manifest now, right?
That was as far on the 'Chuunibyou' scale as it could go! It was like calling oneself the 'Dark Flame Master'.
I just said it because Seele had their vision of evolving by following ancient scrolls in order to defy humanity's natural evolution.
...
I wasn't getting out of this, I was sure about...
"Drive me closer! I want to punch him with my fist!" Asuka's yell was eerily recognizable.
The jeep driver thankfully stopped short of it, and as Asuka rushed the final steps in my directions, I did the one thing I knew would save me.
"Battle-Loli, I choose you!" and with that, I gripped Yui by the sides and thrust her forward in front of Asuka's incoming fist.
"You bastard!" Asuka yelled. "Hiding behind a girl!"
"I'm for gender equality! A shield's a shield if it's a boy or a girl!" I exclaimed back, moving around to keep Battle-Loli between me and Asuka.
"Hey!" Yui pouted.
"You can be my thane, Yui!"
"I will not be sworn to carrying your burdens!" Yui retorted hotly.
"Then you can be my pokémon!"
"Not in a thousand years would I be your starter!"
"You can be a legendary!"
Asuka stopped and frowned. "What are you two talking about?"
I grinned, and then threw Yui straight against Asuka.
"Kyah!" Yui yelled as she fell straight against Asuka, pulling the pilot off-balance.
With my hands firmly planted against my sides, I laughed hard -and fakely- into the air. "Ha-Ha-Ha! My cunning plan works!"
One of the Nerv Guys actually gave me a hesitant thumb-up.
Yui was down.
Asuka too.
And then with a grin I extended my hand towards them both.
"Have your homicidal desires waned, fair lady?"
Asuka, in answer, kicked me in the balls.
Or tried to.
I did jump back after all.
Straight into Yui's incoming leg-swipe.
And as I fell on the ground, Asuka drove her elbow in my stomach and Yui jumped on my chest.
"G-Gah! I give! I give!" I choked out in pain.
Meanwhile, I could swear Misato had a hand in front of her face, was shaking it, and was whispering at the same time 'God made manifest...uh...more like man child'.
...
But still...
...
There was something wrong, again.
And I couldn't pinpoint it.
Especially not with Asuka deciding that biting my arm was an apt mean to ensure dominance.
YOU WILL BREAK.
...
Fuck you.
... . ... . ... . Please ... . ... . ... .
... . ... . ... . No, I want to help ... . ... . ... .
... . ... . ... . Let me help you ... . ... . ... .
... . ... . ... . I just want to help them ... . ... . ... .
... . ... . ... . Please, please, let me help them ... . ... . ... .
... . ... . ... . Just listen to me! Please! ... . ... . ... .
Thankfully, whoever was in charge opted for a last check, and decided to pull us away from the volcano together with the Eva, rather than risk throwing us within it.
I exhaled a sigh of relief as they landed the Eva on the ground, and the thing then brought one of its hands near its back.
Yui and I ended up descending the chain, and from there ending on the Eva's palm.
Then the Eva lowered us on the ground just as Misato -and a group of armed soldiers that had bright blue caskets on their heads -the UN?- aimed their rifles at us.
"Hey there Colonel!" I said cheerfully, "How are things going?"
"I'm...not even surprised now," Misato said calmly as we descended. "What do you have to say for yourself?"
"I have yet to successfully genocide a race of gods," I remarked with a shrug, "But I present to you my dear friend, comrade in despair -albeit way more overpowered than me- and clearly not at all victim of the Stockholm Syndrome...the Battle-Loli Yui!" and with that, I gestured at Yui, who kicked me in the shins once.
"I am Yui, a highly advanced Psychological Health Unit Artificial Intelligence," she bowed her head primly. "It is a pleasure to meet you."
"Ouch," I hissed. "They grow up so fast," I chuckled. "So...Lava-Angel right? Don't have the Eva go in. It's going to hatch soon enough."
"Wouldn't that mean we have to get it out sooner?" Misato retorted. "It's in a weakened state right now."
"Nope. You either leave it there until it hatches and then get it out and battle it there," I replied. "Or you throw N2 mines at it while it still hasn't developed a carapace."
I inclined my head to the side.
"Because without Shinji giving aid, and I don't see him around here now, Asuka will die if she goes alone."
Misato bristled. "All right, until then I'm taking you in for disrupting a military operation."
I shrugged. "Yui, kindly, would you spit plasma in the air?"
Yui looked at me and blinked. "Why would I do that? Wouldn't that be considered a show of force and a threat?"
"Oh, but you see, I don't want there to be any misunderstanding. They most certainly can take me in, and I'll go with them. But they must never doubt for one second who holds the cards, and who holds the power. Unfortunately, until Seele is dealt with, it's better if they know the difference in power. You could hard format their Magi from here to give them a taste of what you can truly do, but again..." I sighed, "It's not like I want to start another war. I've already got one race I wish to exterminate, and with due reason. I can survive a bit of...shall we say Simon Says Game?"
Misato raised an eyebrow and clenched her fists. "Why you!"
The ground trembled.
"On the plus side, you do have permission to engage the Angel when it comes out," I told Yui. "A bit of plasma might do wonders to its complexion."
"But Shade," Yui said. "Plasma kills people."
"Oh, right," I blinked. "There's an Angel in there, it's a sort of biological weapon meant for the extermination of human life as you know it. So it's a genocidal machine. When he comes out, kill it and nobody's going to bat an eyelid."
Yui frowned, and then nodded.
"Oh, 'kay."
"If you ever use the 'kay' again I'll wring your neck with my own hands," I hissed softly.
Yui giggled. "You've got the strangest of nervous tics, Shade."
"Ahem," Misato coughed. "So...you'll come into custody?"
I shrugged. "Lead the way, Misato."
I smiled. "But as a friendly warning, know that I'm not afraid of any of you." I inclined my head to the side.
And then I walked hands in my jack-...
My jacket.
...
I was without my jacket.
...
Son-of-a-bitch.
My jacket!
My trustworthy jacket!
Again without my Ipod?! I hadn't even listened to it yet!
And of course, I was without Omni-Tool.
It would have been too much to hope for it, right?
I ended up being carried together with Yui on a jeep towards the Nerv's outpost base as the tremors increased.
Misato bristled suddenly, and then pulled out an earplug from her ears, and passed it over. "Asuka wants to talk to you."
I nodded, and took the earplug.
"Yes?"
"You stupid bastard!" Asuka exclaimed.
"Nice to see you again, Tsun-Tsun."
"I knew you were the one responsible for Shinji's madness!"
I blinked. "You're referring to calling you Tsun-Tsun?"
"Yes!" Asuka snarled back. "When I get out of here I'll wring your neck!"
"Good! Until then, know that the Angel will wake up before you can reach it. Do not engage it in the lava, but force him out! Frankly, as I was about to tell Misato, deploying N2 mines to remove the volcano from the maps would do wonders, but if that's not the case, don't fight it in its turf!"
"You don't need to tell me that!" Asuka yelled back. "I know what I'm doing."
"Please," I chuckled. "I'm older than you and I have no clue what I'm doing most of the time! Misato doesn't know what to do more often than not! So trust me on this, Asuka. You don't know. I don't know. Nobody knows."
I sighed and clenched my right fist, "But remember that if the Prog Knife fails, you'll have to punch it with the AT-Field."
"I'm not as stupid as Shinji," Asuka retorted hotly.
"You'll have to," I replied. "Be stupid for once. Be ignorant. Be common. If it works, who are you to deny it?"
I received no reply in the immediate, and so I pushed on.
"Listen to me, Asuka," I said calmly. "You have the same things Shinji has now. You know what's in your Eva now. You know she'll help you out if you just swallow your pride and ask. It's the duty of parents to help their children when they fall...or they're not parents to begin with."
I rolled my eyes. "At the cost of sounding cheesy, Asuka, know that your mother's watching and helping you each step you take. So...don't worry and trust in the machine spirit."
"Ha!" Asuka exclaimed. "As if-As if I need you to tell me this! You'll see! I'll cave the damn things teeth in so fast you won't even get a video of it!"
There was another tremor, and I hummed my agreement. "Well then," I remarked. "Show me what you can do, kid. I'll pass the mic back to Misato."
"You'll see!" Asuka snarled one last time as I passed the earplug back to Misato.
"By the way," I remarked. "Keep any new Eva machines the fuck away from the pilots. One is controlled by an Angel, and whoever has the smart idea of making a pilot, well, pilot it, should be shot, repeatedly."
"Your 'I come from the future' excuse isn't really much of a thing to work with," Misato said offhandedly.
"That was a lie, and you know that," I replied. "I came up with the quickest thing I could come up with on the fly. Didn't really have much time."
"So you're not even a pilot? Because we could use one," Misato said.
"Uhm, Yui can pilot, probably," I remarked. "She can easily overpower anything with how ludicrously powerful she is."
Misato threw me a glance. "You're not lying on her being...a battle Ai?"
"She said that herself," I replied. "Of course she's a battle-Ai. A Battle-Loli, to be more precise."
Yui's arms encircled me and as she pressed the right side of her face against my left cheek, I inwardly yelped.
"You're weak against hugs," Yui remarked as she strengthened her grip.
"G-Gah! Let me go!" I tried to pull away, but she held it firmly.
"Do you have no concept of personal space?!" I exclaimed.
Yui just giggled and didn't drop the hug.
"Are you stopping or what?" I remarked dryly after a moment.
"No," Yui stuck out her tongue.
I sighed. She must have caught on. "Fine." I dropped my head back against the seat and remained quiet for the rest of the trip.
My right hand went to pat Yui's head halfway through, and once the car stopped, only then, did Yui drop it.
She had caught on.
I was weaponless.
That feeling was...horrible.
I was weaponless, and I could be hit.
I was no longer incorporeal, or ethereal. Sure, maybe if I 'died' I didn't really die, and I had come close a lot of times but...it had hit me on the way back, how weak I now was compared to before.
Yui had noticed, and she had hugged me in reply without me saying anything.
Count on the Battle-Loli and Psychological Help Ai to come up with it.
And I felt dread pool at the pits of my stomach, because if I knew the game played, oh, if I knew, then there would be no happy ending.
But one could always hope.
Right?
One could always hope.
I wasn't really thrown in the brig, but merely brought in front of the radios that Misato used to contact the Eva, and as I watched over the screens, I realized a lot of people were looking my way.
I raised a hand in a general wave. "Dimensional Traveler, ignore me."
Yui pouted, but remained by my side.
The tremors spiked up in intensity, and as soon as they did, the screens showed the Volcano's eruption.
"If only I still had my chain," I mumbled.
"Kyah!" Yui proceeded to tackle me by the midriff.
I raised an eyebrow at that. "You weren't scared even when it came to facing a firing line of Collectors. I'm sure you're just faking it now."
Yui stuck her tongue out again, but remained where she was.
"I'm not a china vase," I grumbled softly.
Yui merely didn't reply.
"And I'm the Darkness made manifest, the Angst born from the richest of Despair, so...stop this. You're making me look like I'm some sort of huggable good guy. And I'm not a good guy."
I'm anything but a good guy.
"She's a battle-hardened AI," Misato remarked dryly.
"And a psychological aid," I added with a knowing nod. "I think I'll sic her on Asuka when she's done battling the Angel."
"Right, because you think you'll be allowed in the same room as her for the foreseeable future," Misato said.
"You can't stop me, halt me, or otherwise contain me," I pointed out. "And differently from the Angels, my genocidal nature revolves against God-Like beings that are scribbled down in the very natural laws of the Universe. Hence, frankly, you should try to at least tolerate me. I'm not asking for offerings like a pagan god. Just a live and let live arrangement."
I took a deep breath, which I cut short as I watched Sandalphon emerge from the volcano, breaking it apart as Asuka rushed in to intercept it, the Eva in a strange white suit, probably against magma.
The prog knife shattered against the exoskeleton.
"Do you have liquid nitrogen?" I asked. "Because if you do, you should use it on its back."
"We have the reserves to cool down the Eva," Misato said, and then tapped her mic. "Asuka! Behind you and to your left, there are barrels in bright yellow! It's liquid nitrogen, throw it at the Angel!"
"She'll have to do it manually!" I exclaimed back. "Remember the AT-Field! Only another can nullify it!"
"Joy of joys!" Asuka yelled through the earphones loud enough that I heard her too.
"Yui," I whispered. "Get a connection, find the satellites, and find Seele."
I narrowed my eyes. "And block any possible transferal of myself into the hands of anyone else. After that is done, find their bank accounts, drain them into the ocean, and ensure every tiny secret they have is exposed within the next hour."
Yui opened her mouth.
Then she closed it.
"They're bad guys, right?" she merely asked in a softly whispered voice.
I nodded back.
Yui silently snuggled her face against my side and I inwardly screamed to the demons of hell for aid.
Once she stopped snuggling, I felt a set of very dangerous eyes pointed on me.
And was someone whispering 'Lolicon' and 'Pervert'?
Oi! Get your facts straight!
"Done," she mouthed in my direction.
I patted her head affectionately.
"You did that on purpose, didn't you?" I whispered to her.
"Tee-Hee-Hee," she drawled out.
I looked at the screens once more.
Asuka screamed a few times as she drove the Nitrogen through the scorching hot exoskeleton of the beast, which soon cracked apart due to the thermal difference, exposing the relatively young flesh beneath.
Asuka's Eva then drove her fist down, and with its fingers pulled out blobs of blood and flesh, until the core emerged in its gory form, which she proceeded to crack by repeatedly slamming it on the ground.
"Well done, Asuka," Misato said.
Misato blinked and then looked at me. "Yes, he's still here."
Misato proceeded to frown. "Sure, I'll tell him, but he'll be in the-"
There was another phone call. From Misato's private phone.
"Yes?" Misato asked.
And then she looked at the cellphone with a puzzled look, before handing it to me.
"Yes?" I asked.
"What are you?" three words.
Not even a 'Who'.
"God made manifest," I replied calmly. "And I despise those who wish to interfere with humanity's evolution in search of their pathetic dreams. The Third Impact is not mankind's evolution, but its involution into the broth of time. I refuse that. So, if you wish to continue, know that I will oppose you every step of the way. I am mankind's god. Bow or be blown away."
"You know who we are."
"Yes," I replied. "And you don't know the things I can do. So live and let live, or prepare to pay the consequences of your hubris," I snarled, and then handed the phone back to Misato.
Misato took it to her ear a second more, and then stiffened abruptly.
"Y-Yes?" Misato said into the phone. "O-Oh! Yes, yes sir!" Misato swallowed thickly. "Understood sir!"
And then she looked at me aghast. "Just what did you do?"
"Yui, give everything you took back."
Yui blinked. "But-"
"Do it."
Yui sighed, and then nodded. "Done," she whined. "But why? Weren't they the bad guys?"
"Yes, but I'm a merciful god," I remarked calmly. "And the defeated enemy must not be driven to desperation. Live and let live. That's my maxim. If they follow it, everything's fine. If they defy it even once," I said softly, "Then I show no mercy, at all, until there is nothing but ashes where once their empires stood."
I smiled. "Because betraying a promise is serious business in my opinion."
Yui nodded. "If it weren't for the bit before with turning empires to ashes, that would be a good cheesy line," Yui said, before smiling cutely.
...
It wasn't just my mind, was it?
Why was there a 'Cutely' every now and then in my head when I described her actions?
I scratched the underside of my chin and looked around.
Yes.
People were staring.
What? They couldn't seriously believe I was God made manifest now, right?
That was as far on the 'Chuunibyou' scale as it could go! It was like calling oneself the 'Dark Flame Master'.
I just said it because Seele had their vision of evolving by following ancient scrolls in order to defy humanity's natural evolution.
...
I wasn't getting out of this, I was sure about...
"Drive me closer! I want to punch him with my fist!" Asuka's yell was eerily recognizable.
The jeep driver thankfully stopped short of it, and as Asuka rushed the final steps in my directions, I did the one thing I knew would save me.
"Battle-Loli, I choose you!" and with that, I gripped Yui by the sides and thrust her forward in front of Asuka's incoming fist.
"You bastard!" Asuka yelled. "Hiding behind a girl!"
"I'm for gender equality! A shield's a shield if it's a boy or a girl!" I exclaimed back, moving around to keep Battle-Loli between me and Asuka.
"Hey!" Yui pouted.
"You can be my thane, Yui!"
"I will not be sworn to carrying your burdens!" Yui retorted hotly.
"Then you can be my pokémon!"
"Not in a thousand years would I be your starter!"
"You can be a legendary!"
Asuka stopped and frowned. "What are you two talking about?"
I grinned, and then threw Yui straight against Asuka.
"Kyah!" Yui yelled as she fell straight against Asuka, pulling the pilot off-balance.
With my hands firmly planted against my sides, I laughed hard -and fakely- into the air. "Ha-Ha-Ha! My cunning plan works!"
One of the Nerv Guys actually gave me a hesitant thumb-up.
Yui was down.
Asuka too.
And then with a grin I extended my hand towards them both.
"Have your homicidal desires waned, fair lady?"
Asuka, in answer, kicked me in the balls.
Or tried to.
I did jump back after all.
Straight into Yui's incoming leg-swipe.
And as I fell on the ground, Asuka drove her elbow in my stomach and Yui jumped on my chest.
"G-Gah! I give! I give!" I choked out in pain.
Meanwhile, I could swear Misato had a hand in front of her face, was shaking it, and was whispering at the same time 'God made manifest...uh...more like man child'.
...
But still...
...
There was something wrong, again.
And I couldn't pinpoint it.
Especially not with Asuka deciding that biting my arm was an apt mean to ensure dominance.
YOU WILL BREAK.
...
Fuck you.
... . ... . ... . Please ... . ... . ... .
... . ... . ... . No, I want to help ... . ... . ... .
... . ... . ... . Let me help you ... . ... . ... .
... . ... . ... . I just want to help them ... . ... . ... .
... . ... . ... . Please, please, let me help them ... . ... . ... .
... . ... . ... . Just listen to me! Please! ... . ... . ... .
Could the "Would you kindlys" be having an effect on Yui's subconscious god personality? Because that, quoted up there, is a victim of stockholm syndrome/mind control.
RazorBlaxe
Just another transient being
- Location
- Earth
Shade apparently gotten used to the evil empty voice seeing as he automatically responds with a Fuck You to it. It's almost instinctive!
Am I the only one thinking that 'Yui' is suspicious?
Don't be fooled by her cuteness, Shade! She's absorbed the internet!
Hah. 'Purging corruption'. Like I'll believe that from a god-like entity.
Don't be fooled by her cuteness, Shade! She's absorbed the internet!
Hah. 'Purging corruption'. Like I'll believe that from a god-like entity.
- Location
- https://discord.gg/z9tBvbh
And the Extranet.
Don't forget the Extranet
But worry not!
I would need to reach a severe point of emotional dependence for me to trust her, which would happen upon my reaching of a near shattering mind-break, which would, in turn, make the mind-break even more severe if it turned out she's actually lying from the very start!
Woo-hoo-all aboard the Angst Train! Next stop: Traumatic Soul-Rending Emotional Rollercoasters!
...
...
Or maybe I'm lying and I'm a very bad person for it.
But the truth is that-gah-gurk-ack!
\\IGNORE THIS MESSAGE.
Lealope
Not yet invincible
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Not sure if the "Ai"s are typos or not.