IC: How Deep the Rabbit Hole goes...(Matrix thread)

[Katamari Roller]

Stone cursed in her mind, in absolute silence. The Twins had taken away her prey...

But there were more to be hunted. Stone broke into a run with a grim face, as she dropped the knife and pulled her Desert Eagle out. She didn't aim at the girl who seemed to be a rebel, but at her motorbike. Her intentions were obvious, so if Stone wanted to hunt her, it was down to her using what she had. She could already feel more Agents come close.

Stone's dark eyes lined with the sights of her gun, and opened fire, the deafening, sharp firing of her Eagle echoing in the air as the heavy rounds whistled towards the rebel and her vehicle...

 

[FenixZero]

Echo felt the entire world shift around him as, as a bizarre man in white pulled him into an SUV, before screeching off away from the female Agent. A powerful set of manacles clamped down around his wrists just seconds before he felt a sharp sting in his neck.

"You don't want to struggle my friend. The program we just injected you with works better if you don't fight it"

He could barely make out the face of the speaker. His vision was already beginning to cloud and fade, a thick muddy fog descending over his world before he blacked out completly. Before the blackness took him, Echo cursed himself for his weakness and for his failure.

 

[Mephistophelily]

Necro frowned as she took to the bike, trying to keep Steel's instructions in mind as she started from the alley- only to have more bullets flying at her as soon as she left the shadows. "Oh, shit!" She shot a glance over her shoulder, seeing the woman that had gotten to Echo first. "Why didn't SHE leave too?!"

Swerving, she tried to avoid the bullets as best she could, keeping her eyes open for the SUV. Still, it was hard to keep a straight mind with someone firing at your back... A loud pop of a noise behind her, and the tail end of her bike was suddenly spinning towards her head as she slid across the pavement. She whinced at the scraping noise of road, leather and skin, getting to her feet.

No time to play with this lady. Echo- Find Echo... Get out of here...

 

[Katamari Roller]

There was still hope to meet her quota today. That was a strangely serene thought for a normal person, but Stone was just like that. Weren't all Agents?

She stopped running, and switched to walking, as she moved in for the kill with her Desert Eagle, reloading it. The sound of the empty mag hitting the ground felt reassuring to her as she slapped another one in. This girl, she would kill with a single shot to the head. There could be further complications, as it seemed... and Stone wanted to be sure this one didn't run.

So, just in case, she fired at the girl's legs...

 

[Mephistophelily]

The sound behind her was enough to make Necro cringe in panic- The woman was reloading, and from the way her shoes hit the pavement now, she was toying with Necro. A rather disturbing cat-n-mouse game... Why wasn't she just killing her? Necro was an open target like this.

Rolling herself up and forward, she kicked her legs back up to standing as she tugged her guns free of her coat. Firing off at her, she bolted back into the alleyway, feeling the sudden searing pain in her left calf as one of the agent's bullets pierced through it. The ground wasn't safe, not with the way this woman was going. Trying her best to ignore the wound in her leg, she grabbed onto the fire escape ladder and hurried her way up it, settling onto the roof. It wasn't like the woman wouldn't find her. Hell, she was leaving a blood trail behind her and wasn't able to go that fast at all. Phone in hand, she called out for Steel. "I need something else. Any suggestions? This lady's not exactly being that friendly..."

 

[Kuuroinochou]

404 slipped out from behind a large chemny placing a hand over Necro's mouth to keep her from screaming before tugging her against him. "Shh... I won't hurt you." he said. The girl looked familiar, that much he knew.

The female agent was close he could hear her steps, they were timed and calculated. She was definately different from the others. Taking Necro's phone he spoke into it, "Operator, send a bike..."

Handing the phone back he took Necro in arms pushing off the wall heading across the rooftops a break neck speeds. His life was not important... he no longer had one. But he would help her get to her friend and get them out. "Why are you here?" He questioned knowing she should not be, she was an ameature he could sense this. "You have mild programing... have you not gone through training?"

 

[Dynosius]

There was a black spot in the Matrix coding. A spot where the symbols didn't reach. Together with Necro's coding it was moving away from the Agent.

"Operator, send a bike..."

Steel was confused. A different voice through Necro's phone. He wasn't certain if he should program another bike. More Agents would swarm around their position. But, there were pressing matters at hand. Necro had to be save first, then they had to free Echo. He had to do it.

"Alright, done." His fingers already flew over the keys. "But hurry up, Agents are on route to your position. Whoever you may be..."

 

[Mister J]

Knives was watching the screen, standing behind his captain. He saw the black spot where the code didnt touch. Some sort of anamoly. It carried Necro away, but she wasnt screaming so it must have been friendly...maybe it was Seraph. He had met the guardian program some time ago, sparred with him on a few occasions as was his way.

"Get her out of there..."

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Sometime later...

Echo would awake to find himself in an old library tucked into a chateau in the mountains just outside the city. The room was expansive, with levels upon levels of books. He sat, unbound, on a large red leather couch.

However, standing across from him were the twins, both smirking. One toyed with his switchblader razer as the other whistled a haunting melody. The doors just behind them were pushed open, large double doors as a man with slicked back black hair and a very upkept black suit walked through. He adjusted his deep crimson tie and smiled.

"Do you know why you are here?"

 

[FenixZero]

Echo slowly raised his eyes to meet the man standing before him. The effects of the tranquilizer program were still running through him and his hands still felt heavy. He wasn't tied up, but he didn't much like his chances. His gaze flicked over the two identical men in white. They radiated a dangerous aura. He didn't much like the idea of fighting any of them without weapons, or any idea of where he was.

Time. He needed time to help Steel locate him and find a way out of whereever he was. Knives had trusted him and Echo was set on delivering.

"Do you know why you are here?" The man asked in a voice that literally dripped with sophistication.

"Yes" Echo responded simply, "I am here because you brought me here"

 

[Katamari Roller]

Stepping into the alleyway, Stone had just enough time to look at the fire ladder before an unknown person, probably a rebel, took the wounded human away. Stone felt something very similar to annoyance. She had lost one target, she was not going to lose another.

Stone started sprinting directly against a wall at such a speed that her hair became a dark blur, before she jumped high and against the wall, stopping the impact with her feet. Before a section of the wall's bricks fell inward, Stone twisted her body and with an unbelievable speed jumped up and against the other wall. This way, she bounced between the walls as she headed for the roofs, until she finally landed on the concrete terraces to see her prey being carried away by the unknown program.

With her purpose set in her mind, Stone sprinted after them, jumping from building to building as she prepared her handgun. A cold anger grew within her, seeing the programs evade their destiny, making things harder than needed be. Why didn't they just give up to the inevitable? Stone had a feeling she had better things to do... although that was a constant in her life.

 

[Mephistophelily]

Necro panicked as a hand clamped onto her mouth, trying to break free- but something about that voice actually soothed her. Who was this?! She looked back, not recognizing this figure... but it was definitely familiar.

"I have to get Echo." She stared at him, still a bit untrusting of this person. "I had to come back for him. The crew is the only family I have... I already lost one of them, I can't lose another."

Her eyes drifted down at the questioning of her training. "Some. But why do you care? You're part of the system, aren't you? Why did you even help me?" She shoved away from him, even more confused now.

 

[Kuuroinochou]

"I promised someone that everything would be okay. I must keep that promise." He spoke calmly but quickly his ears picked up on the female agent. "Are you fit to run?" he asked noting she'd been shot in the leg. It would most likely slow them down but he could handle it.

Lifting her back in arms he gave her a warm smile. "Please. I understand your caution I will not tell you to trust me but I will ask for you to believe that I will help however I can." the girl was familiar to him, he knew that.

The how was what eluded him. Taking off at high speeds he jumped from the roof taking it one at a time. The female agent was swift and she knew how to carry herself with persition. That was her strenght, but he had his own strenght. Speed and allusion. The Matrix could not track him, he could weave in and out of programs undected for a time.

"We must hurry your operator has given us transportation." With that he slide from the rooftops heading down to the streets. Seeing the bike on display he hurriedly jumped on it setting her in front of him, it was less risk of her being shot that way. "I am Error...404 Error." he spoke calmly. "Hold on... Necro." Her name how did he know that? Deciding that was not the issue he revved up the bike just in time as he looked behind him upon the rooftops, the agent growling as she had her handgun at the ready. Surely bullets would rain down on them if he did not hurry.

 

[Mephistophelily]

"I'm not really sure about my leg... You're the lesser of two evils right now, I realize that at least." Necro glanced back to the ladder, tugging back her coat... only to find herself in the strange man's arms yet again. "What're you-"

The guy could haul across these rooftops, as though she were nothing more than a package in his hands. Once back on the street, she gave a soft breath of relief at the bike's sight. Running wasn't an issue any more- just keeping the damned thing upright this time. "This I can handle." She started the bike, glancing back with confused eyes at the name uttered from his lips.

"What did you say?" She stared at him, her mouth open slightly. "Error? But- I thought-" Her attention returned to the road as his hands grabbed around her and the bike took off down the street. He wasn't dead. He was just... whatever he was now.

 

[Kuuroinochou]

Settling back 404 let Necro take over the controls he could monitor any activity from behind better this way. Still they werent in the clear yet. The girl seemed quite confused about his name that had struck him odd. "I am unfamiliar with your confusion. Why do you seem upset by my designation?" He questioned taking a look behind them before returning to the girl before him.

As the wove through the streets he pressed against her keeping his weight matched with her movements least the bike tip and lose control. "I have a strange name, is that the issue?"

 

[Mephistophelily]

"No, that's not it." Necro glanced over her shoulder at him, frowning as she looked back to the road, the bike passing through the streets and alleys easily with her mind no longer focused on that agent.

"It's just... I know that name. And the guy who had it- didn't look like you." She gave a slight curse as a blue subaru pulled in front of her, causing her to zip out into traffic to get around it. She didn't plan to slow down. Anyone else got in her way, she'd go over the damn thing. "Something weird happened in here and- we lost him. Our systems went insane, and his monitors went fl- Shit, hold on!"

Her thoughts on just going over vehicles didn't account for semi's. Those weren't so easy... "Duck!," She shouted out, leaning over the top of the bike and slipping the whole thing beneath the rig's load. Tight fit, and a rather scary hiding spot, but it was working for the moment. Swerving her way back onto the right side of the truck, she flipped open her phone and dialed out to Steel.

"You still with me, guy?," She shouted into it, glancing back again.