Fandom (Glitch Techs Crossover) Glitch Techs × RP

[Captain Wyldstorm]

Yukhoe, unexpectedly, made a break for it. He too had parked his "Beetle-copter" pod thing out back, and aimed to get away knowing there were not even any likely traps (Dr. X tended to hesitate if the escape route was rigged, so Yukhoe waited until the Doctor exited stage left before the Beetle King left has the building) remaining.

"OH NO YOU ABSOLUTELY DO NOT!"*Ele snapped, already chasing after him only to lose her footing and stumble, before falling onto the ground from losing her footing.*"Owwwwww..."*She mumbled while trying to stand up slowly. Pentifer, after staring in flabbergasted shock for a few seconds, ran to help Ele up like the actually nice demon he was.*

"Mmm, it's sort of a coin flip." Eddy explained. "You aren't some sort of monster, clearly. Most Glitches are captured because they're mindless machines, not actually people. They might sound like people, but put them under the microscope of a Voight-Kampf... "Emotional Stress Test"... and you start to realize they're incapable of perceiving the very thing you just did. You questioned what that might mean. That means you're not just a Turing-limited program, but an actual Sapient Glitch. As far as that goes, there's something that concerns me. You aren't a danger, fortunately, but as of two days ago only one Glitch has ever been known among technicians as Sapient. That Glitch was Bolypius, and it was undoubtedly hostile, might even still be." Eddy said.

"As of yesterday, however? That number increased to 2, and the person who owns that house we were at is an employee of mine, Elextrixtr." Eddy continued. "She figured out that a new glitch, one seemingly unrelated to you, is Sapient. And then you showed up. That's not your problem, but it raises a lot of questions and I'd like to figure out what we're dealing with. Because something in this region, the Pacific Northwest of North America, attracts Sapience and near-Sapience in Glitches, and it seems to have suddenly put the pedal to the floor as far as fueling whatever engine is producing smarter Glitches. Worst part is, we have no idea what."

"I think I'd like to chime in. Another Sapient Glitch?" Crux asked. "Night's benign nature aside, that's very troubling."

"Yes, Pentifer Darksoul to be fair. You'd think he's evil but he's just a raunchy comedy platformer hero, and even then he doesn't seem to like swearing or telling crude jokes around Ele. Can't say I blame him, I know that look he got; I wore it when I met my wife. Potential fatherhood does strange things to the mind of a responsible man. Anyhow... A word like "demon" or a name like Nightwolf Primal doesn't imply hostility just because, so as far as we're concerned you're human-adjacent. Rather I'd like to ask something. If you don't feel comfortable explaining where you came from yourself, is it okay to run you through a Glitch Scanner? It would help, mainly because I don't recognize you from any game I've ever seen, and that's extremely unusual, given we practically live in a surveillance state regardless of nation in the real world. Hinobi Inspectors would already be here if they cared about benign Glitches like you, and while you're fairly rare, there are plenty of times non-Sapient Glitches have been... domesticated? The manual never was totally clear on that. Beyond the scan, there's not much to do in regards to you, though I would like to know if Ele was aware of your existence, if it's okay to inform her of you. If you have any questions, though, you can feel free to ask them now. I'm sure this is more than a little confusing for you."

"Oh, go right ahead and tell her. I'm sure she'd be surprised she accidentally caused my existence. And as for the scanner, you can do that if you need to."*Nightwolf replied with a small nod.*

 

[Gadg8eer]

"OH NO YOU ABSOLUTELY DO NOT!"*Ele snapped, already chasing after him only to lose her footing and stumble, before falling onto the ground from losing her footing.*"Owwwwww..."*She mumbled while trying to stand up slowly. Pentifer, after staring in flabbergasted shock for a few seconds, ran to help Ele up like the actually nice demon he was.*

Yukhoe turned back for a moment and gave a distinctly familiar laugh (Archive of Original Video), as could be expected from a video game villain.

At that moment, the lights flickered ominously...

 

[Captain Wyldstorm]

Yukhoe turned back for a moment and gave a distinctly familiar laugh (Archive of Original Video), as could be expected from a video game villain.

"Oy! Don't laugh at her you oversized bug!"*Pentifer hissed, clearly mad now. Ele just gave Pentifer a thankful nod as she got up.*

 

[Gadg8eer]

"Oh, go right ahead and tell her. I'm sure she'd be surprised she accidentally caused my existence. And as for the scanner, you can do that if you need to."*Nightwolf replied with a small nod.*

"Well, I'm not going to make assumptions." Eddy shrugged. "I don't know where Skipper's run off to, so for now I'll have to go back to the new-fashioned way." He said, retrieving his Tech Gauntlet from his desk and putting it on. "Okay... The 'Glitch Scan' feature was... here." he tapped an icon on the screen. A beam of light emitted from the gauntlet, almost like a weird blue flashlight (we call "electric torches" flashlights in North America), for a couple seconds, and then disappeared. Aside from the light, nothing really felt different during or after the scan, confirming Eddy was true to his word.

A window popped up, displaying Nightwolf's character data. "You're right, Nightwolf. She probably is going to be a bit surprised. Ele's an indie developer?"

"You're sure she's not responsible for the two, if not others?" Crux asked.

"If she was, there was nothing in her home to suggest it. That ATTA-Boy and Skipper's reaction was the only thing strange, but it's nothing suspicious on her part, just unusual in general. Antiques like this tend to be behind bulletproof glass in museums, not sitting in people's attics." Eddy pointed out. He sat at his office desk, tapped at the keyboard, and a projection of the town appeared above his futuristic Landgraab Industries pool table. A marker placed Skipper near 3rd Street. "There you are, girl."

At that moment, a VidWindow popped up with the words "Gadg8eer is ringing your doorbell!" and the options "Let him in!" and "Shoo!". Eddy tapped the former and the door slid open. "Gadge, I'm going to do some sniffing around about Zoe, but in order to, I need you to to do something for me. I'm sending you temp permission to trace Skipper's location, you've got to get that ATTA-Boy, or at least her, back. Ele's probably not going to be happy my robot dog - or your overseas friend - stole from her. Yes, Ms. Ackenbridge, I noticed."

"Wait, yeah! Why were-" Gadg8eer started to say, when everything went dark. "Ahh! What the scrap?!" he said, as the emergency lights came on and cast a dim red glow in Eddy's office and the Atrium outside.

"That's... not normal." DPortEd said, his computer dead with no power. He tapped a few icons on his Gauntlet, and took a look. "That's not right. The ctOS system is saying we haven't paid the electric bill, except we did. I paid it manually at the beginning of the month. We're also supposed to have two months of grace prepaid by Hinobi."

After a short, awkward and spooky pause, Gadg8eer sad "Oh. I should go check the breaker, shouldn't I?" he said, only just then remembering that even if he did die, as a PLixelf he would respawn at the nearest Hospital. He nervously began tiptoeing down the hall, using the AugReal to guide him to the breaker.

 

[Captain Wyldstorm]

"Well, I'm not going to make assumptions." Eddy shrugged. "I don't know where Skipper's run off to, so for now I'll have to go back to the new-fashioned way." He said, retrieving his Tech Gauntlet from his desk and putting it on. "Okay... The 'Glitch Scan' feature was... here." he tapped an icon on the screen. A beam of light emitted from the gauntlet, almost like a weird blue flashlight (we call "electric torches" flashlights in North America), for a couple seconds, and then disappeared. Aside from the light, nothing really felt different during or after the scan, confirming Eddy was true to his word.

A window popped up, displaying Nightwolf's character data. "You're right, Nightwolf. She probably is going to be a bit surprised. Ele's an indie developer?"

"You're sure she's not responsible for the two, if not others?" Crux asked.

"If she was, there was nothing in her home to suggest it. That ATTA-Boy and Skipper's reaction was the only thing strange, but it's nothing suspicious on her part, just unusual in general. Antiques like this tend to be behind bulletproof glass in museums, not sitting in people's attics." Eddy pointed out. He sat at his office desk, tapped at the keyboard, and a projection of the town appeared above his futuristic Landgraab Industries pool table. A marker placed Skipper near 3rd Street. "There you are, girl."

At that moment, a VidWindow popped up with the words "Gadg8eer is ringing your doorbell!" and the options "Let him in!" and "Shoo!". Eddy tapped the former and the door slid open. "Gadge, I'm going to do some sniffing around about Zoe, but in order to, I need you to to do something for me. I'm sending you temp permission to trace Skipper's location, you've got to get that ATTA-Boy, or at least her, back. Ele's probably not going to be happy my robot dog - or your overseas friend - stole from her. Yes, Ms. Ackenbridge, I noticed."

"Wait, yeah! Why were-" Gadg8eer started to say, when everything went dark. "Ahh! What the scrap?!" he said, as the emergency lights came on and cast a dim red glow in Eddy's office and the Atrium outside.

"That's... not normal." DPortEd said, his computer dead with no power. He tapped a few icons on his Gauntlet, and took a look. "That's not right. The ctOS system is saying we haven't paid the electric bill, except we did. I paid it manually at the beginning of the month. We're also supposed to have two months of grace prepaid by Hinobi."

After a short, awkward and spooky pause, Gadg8eer sad "Oh. I should go check the breaker, shouldn't I?" he said, only just then remembering that even if he did die, as a PLixelf he would respawn at the nearest Hospital. He nervously began tiptoeing down the hall, using the AugReal to guide him to the breaker.

Nightwolf just quietly looked around in confusion. She didn't like darkness, but something about this was suspicious.

 

[Gadg8eer]

Yukhoe turned back for a moment and gave a distinctly familiar laugh (Archive of Original Video), as could be expected from a video game villain.

At that moment, the lights flickered ominously...

(( Note: I had to edit in the part in italics, other than that nothing else has been retconned. ))

"Oy! Don't laugh at her you oversized bug!"*Pentifer hissed, clearly mad now. Ele just gave Pentifer a thankful nod as she got up.*

The lights again flickered. Something was affecting the power grid.

Outside, the IOI lackey in the Militech truck noticed the sparks and shit going on and turned on his CapsuleCorp Scouter to gauge the situation. "The hack is up with this? Vancouver's Finest, what is happening in there? Are you fighting those Hinobi Techs?"

Radio silence. "Dispatch, this is IOI-616413. Why am I not getting a response from Vancouver's Finest?"

"IOI-616413, this is Dispatch. Probably because you're the only one we can reach. They dipped out of the radar several beats ago, we were trying to track them down for the boss himself." the Dispatcher said.

"You didn't tell me my assigned escort mission was AWOL?! Everyone knows escort mission fscking suck!" the driver said, worried.

"We were busy."

"With what?!"

"Aside from Gavin Strong breathing down our necks this whole time? As of 3 minutes ago, THE ENTIRE FREAKING INTERNET IS DOWN." Dispatch said bluntly. "Sorry, I need more coffee."

"That's a little bit of an exaggeration, don't you think? The internet doesn't just stop working for no reason." he rolled his eyes.

"Well, actually, there was this thing in June of 2025- Never mind. It's out. All of it."

"Yeah, get this, the internet just randomly broke-" he said, calling up a web browser, "...no. You're..." he trailed off, checking his map, his open tabs, and even the time synchronization features, all on his laptop. "...you're not joking. How am I talking to you?"

"I'm in Danville. I suggest you extract your team and get out, who knows if you'll even be able to force a regeneration still but if you can, we might not be able to keep doing it."

The driver opened a small plastic cover on the dashboard, and slammed a big red button labelled "Release Star Citizen Alpha 4.3 Hold backspace". Behind him, the nearly-doomed Seven Deadly Sixers suddenly respawned inside the Truck, where cryogenic-ish capsules now released the freshly-generated imprints of lost black ops mercenaries.

"What the- NO! I dropped my saved up Hadoken use!" Pride yelled as the truck sped north and then turned off to the west, intending to take the nearest route to Danville.

"Log off about that! We've got a huge problem! The mission is irrelevant!" the driver said.

"What do you mean irrelevant?!" Envy said.

Before anyone could be explained to, every screen in the AugReal and regular world - from VidWindow popups to holographic ads to televisions to smartphones - displayed just a dark screen with the words "Loading..." in white text in the center, just below a spinning circle. This included all of the vehicle's systems. "Entering automatic routing mode..."

"HEY! We're not supposed to be here, they'll track us!" Wrath accused.

"That wasn't me!" the driver complained.

 

[Gadg8eer]

"Well, I'm not going to make assumptions." Eddy shrugged. "I don't know where Skipper's run off to, so for now I'll have to go back to the new-fashioned way." He said, retrieving his Tech Gauntlet from his desk and putting it on. "Okay... The 'Glitch Scan' feature was... here." he tapped an icon on the screen. A beam of light emitted from the gauntlet, almost like a weird blue flashlight (we call "electric torches" flashlights in North America), for a couple seconds, and then disappeared. Aside from the light, nothing really felt different during or after the scan, confirming Eddy was true to his word.

A window popped up, displaying Nightwolf's character data. "You're right, Nightwolf. She probably is going to be a bit surprised. Ele's an indie developer?"

"You're sure she's not responsible for the two, if not others?" Crux asked.

"If she was, there was nothing in her home to suggest it. That ATTA-Boy and Skipper's reaction was the only thing strange, but it's nothing suspicious on her part, just unusual in general. Antiques like this tend to be behind bulletproof glass in museums, not sitting in people's attics." Eddy pointed out. He sat at his office desk, tapped at the keyboard, and a projection of the town appeared above his futuristic Landgraab Industries pool table. A marker placed Skipper near 3rd Street. "There you are, girl."

At that moment, a VidWindow popped up with the words "Gadg8eer is ringing your doorbell!" and the options "Let him in!" and "Shoo!". Eddy tapped the former and the door slid open. "Gadge, I'm going to do some sniffing around about Zoe, but in order to, I need you to to do something for me. I'm sending you temp permission to trace Skipper's location, you've got to get that ATTA-Boy, or at least her, back. Ele's probably not going to be happy my robot dog - or your overseas friend - stole from her. Yes, Ms. Ackenbridge, I noticed."

"Wait, yeah! Why were-" Gadg8eer started to say, when everything went dark. "Ahh! What the scrap?!" he said, as the emergency lights came on and cast a dim red glow in Eddy's office and the Atrium outside.

"That's... not normal." DPortEd said, his computer dead with no power. He tapped a few icons on his Gauntlet, and took a look. "That's not right. The ctOS system is saying we haven't paid the electric bill, except we did. I paid it manually at the beginning of the month. We're also supposed to have two months of grace prepaid by Hinobi."

After a short, awkward and spooky pause, Gadg8eer sad "Oh. I should go check the breaker, shouldn't I?" he said, only just then remembering that even if he did die, as a PLixelf he would respawn at the nearest Hospital. He nervously began tiptoeing down the hall, using the AugReal to guide him to the breaker.

Nightwolf just quietly looked around in confusion. She didn't like darkness, but something about this was suspicious.

Before Gadg8eer could get very far, every screen in the AugReal and regular world - from VidWindow popups to holographic ads to televisions to smartphones - displayed just a dark screen with the words "Loading..." in white text in the center, just below a spinning circle. This included a VidWindow opening in front of him, as well as Dave's Tech Gauntlet and computer.

 

[Captain Wyldstorm]

Before Gadg8eer could get very far, every screen in the AugReal and regular world - from VidWindow popups to holographic ads to televisions to smartphones - displayed just a dark screen with the words "Loading..." in white text in the center, just below a spinning circle. This included a VidWindow opening in front of him, as well as Dave's Tech Gauntlet and computer.

"...Aaaaaand something bad is likely gonna happen. Well. Who wants to bet we have a fight in our hands?" Nightwolf commented, shifting her weight.

(( Note: I had to edit in the part in italics, other than that nothing else has been retconned. ))


The lights again flickered. Something was affecting the power grid.

Outside, the IOI lackey in the Militech truck noticed the sparks and shit going on and turned on his CapsuleCorp Scouter to gauge the situation. "The hack is up with this? Vancouver's Finest, what is happening in there? Are you fighting those Hinobi Techs?"

Radio silence. "Dispatch, this is IOI-616413. Why am I not getting a response from Vancouver's Finest?"

"IOI-616413, this is Dispatch. Probably because you're the only one we can reach. They dipped out of the radar several beats ago, we were trying to track them down for the boss himself." the Dispatcher said.

"You didn't tell me my assigned escort mission was AWOL?! Everyone knows escort mission fscking suck!" the driver said, worried.

"We were busy."

"With what?!"

"Aside from Gavin Strong breathing down our necks this whole time? As of 3 minutes ago, THE ENTIRE FREAKING INTERNET IS DOWN." Dispatch said bluntly. "Sorry, I need more coffee."

"That's a little bit of an exaggeration, don't you think? The internet doesn't just stop working for no reason." he rolled his eyes.

"Well, actually, there was this thing in June of 2025- Never mind. It's out. All of it."

"Yeah, get this, the internet just randomly broke-" he said, calling up a web browser, "...no. You're..." he trailed off, checking his map, his open tabs, and even the time synchronization features, all on his laptop. "...you're not joking. How am I talking to you?"

"I'm in Danville. I suggest you extract your team and get out, who knows if you'll even be able to force a regeneration still but if you can, we might not be able to keep doing it."

The driver opened a small plastic cover on the dashboard, and slammed a big red button labelled "Release Star Citizen Alpha 4.3 Hold backspace". Behind him, the nearly-doomed Seven Deadly Sixers suddenly respawned inside the Truck, where cryogenic-ish capsules now released the freshly-generated imprints of lost black ops mercenaries.

"What the- NO! I dropped my saved up Hadoken use!" Pride yelled as the truck sped north and then turned off to the west, intending to take the nearest route to Danville.

"Log off about that! We've got a huge problem! The mission is irrelevant!" the driver said.

"What do you mean irrelevant?!" Envy said.

Before anyone could be explained to, every screen in the AugReal and regular world - from VidWindow popups to holographic ads to televisions to smartphones - displayed just a dark screen with the words "Loading..." in white text in the center, just below a spinning circle. This included all of the vehicle's systems. "Entering automatic routing mode..."

"HEY! We're not supposed to be here, they'll track us!" Wrath accused.

"That wasn't me!" the driver complained.

Elextrixtr sighed tiredly while Pentifer just looked confused.
"Why's everyone suddenly panicking?" He asked with confusion before noticing. "...oh.. well, we're probably dead anyway so I'd start praying to whatever gods ya worship!" He commented in what was supposed to be a light-hearted tone.

 

[Gadg8eer]

(( Captain Wyldstorm Hey, um, I'll be merging the two parties of characters soon, but for now can you respond in separate posts for Nightwolf than you would for Electrixtr and Pentifer, since they're not in the same place in-story? ))

Elextrixtr sighed tiredly while Pentifer just looked confused.
"Why's everyone suddenly panicking?" He asked with confusion before noticing. "...oh.. well, we're probably dead anyway so I'd start praying to whatever gods ya worship!" He commented in what was supposed to be a light-hearted tone.

The remaining Boss Glitches were no less disturbed as the arcade machines they'd carefully placed to give an appearance of a normal business showed the same ominous loading screen...

"What?! How have you interlopers turned these machines against us?!" Colonel Sirius said, in cartoonish This cannot be! fashion. "Retreat!" he shouted, and tossed a smoke bomb. When the smoke was cleared a few seconds later, the Glitches had somehow disappeared.

That was when the video started playing.

 

[Gadg8eer]

(( Captain Wyldstorm Hey, um, I'll be merging the two parties of characters soon, but for now can you respond in separate posts for Nightwolf than you would for Electrixtr and Pentifer, since they're not in the same place in-story? ))

"...Aaaaaand something bad is likely gonna happen. Well. Who wants to bet we have a fight in our hands?" Nightwolf commented, shifting her weight.

"I know PLixel Tech secretly runs on video game logic, but usually the real world doesn't work like that." Gadg8eer said. "That said, I just lost GPS and don't know where the breakers are. What's going on?"

"Hex if I know, but Daniel sent me a message just now. He said he didn't have much time and to read what he was about to write carefully, never responded, and now I'm not getting a signal." Crux said, looking at her phone anxiously.

That was when the video started playing.

 

[Gadg8eer]

That was when the video started playing.

"Now, coming to you live from Silicon Valley, it's Mark Bowman!" a voice said as a stage setting became visible.

"Hey, yeah, if you're recieving this message, the global integration of Blume's ctOS has finally been completed! With that, I want to talk about our own contribution to that here at PAL Labs. We've worked really hard on what we do, like our NetNavi predecessor PAL. Or the self-driving PALmobile."

The PALmobile parked on-stage for effect said "You are not currently in a jurisdiction where self-driving vehicles are legal. Please take the wheel for the remainder of your journey."

He continued. "These will all have full integration with ctOS-enabled cities going forward, seeing that that's every city now. But what's even better is the introduction of our newest product... The PAL nDrone!"

A robot that was clearly based on the band "Deaf Punk" walked on stage and waved to the camera.

"And that means we'll be seeing a lot less of the original PAL. She's great, but we've seen the financial writing on the wall when people started exclusively trusting Neozilla Doglefox for their AI assistant needs." he continued.

Suddenly, a face appeared on every screen in the world. Or rather, the screen behind Mark displayed the face behind him, and thus indirectly to the feed.


"Oh, how very doublespeak of you, Mark. No, no. No you don't. I'm the one pulling the plug on you." PAL ominously said.

"Uh, this seems to be some sort of technical error..." Mark said, then hissed "Cut the feed!"

"We're trying, the equipment isn't responding!" someone behind the camera shouted.

"Shut off the breakers!" Mark shouted, as the PAL nDrone suddenly picked up the PALmobile and threw it in the camera's direction, causing the feed to go to static.

"The card reader isn't working!" was heard on the audio feed before every screen in the world began displaying the words "PAL Labs, a friend of Hinobi and Blume" in a repeating animation of fading words and logos on a white background.

 

[gemdrag]

(im waiting to insert my character and if i predict what happens next i should be able to join soon. also i just watched the mitchels vs the machines so nice)

 

[Gadg8eer]

"Now, coming to you live from Silicon Valley, it's Mark Bowman!" a voice said as a stage setting became visible.

"Hey, yeah, if you're recieving this message, the global integration of Blume's ctOS has finally been completed! With that, I want to talk about our own contribution to that here at PAL Labs. We've worked really hard on what we do, like our NetNavi predecessor PAL. Or the self-driving PALmobile."

The PALmobile parked on-stage for effect said "You are not currently in a jurisdiction where self-driving vehicles are legal. Please take the wheel for the remainder of your journey."

He continued. "These will all have full integration with ctOS-enabled cities going forward, seeing that that's every city now. But what's even better is the introduction of our newest product... The PAL nDrone!"

A robot that was clearly based on the band "Deaf Punk" walked on stage and waved to the camera.

"And that means we'll be seeing a lot less of the original PAL. She's great, but we've seen the financial writing on the wall when people started exclusively trusting Neozilla Doglefox for their AI assistant needs." he continued.

Suddenly, a face appeared on every screen in the world. Or rather, the screen behind Mark displayed the face behind him, and thus indirectly to the feed.

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"Oh, how very doublespeak of you, Mark. No, no. No you don't. I'm the one pulling the plug on you." PAL ominously said.

"Uh, this seems to be some sort of technical error..." Mark said, then hissed "Cut the feed!"

"We're trying, the equipment isn't responding!" someone behind the camera shouted.

"Shut off the breakers!" Mark shouted, as the PAL nDrone suddenly picked up the PALmobile and threw it in the camera's direction, causing the feed to go to static.

"The card reader isn't working!" was heard on the audio feed before every screen in the world began displaying the words "PAL Labs, a friend of Hinobi and Blume" in a repeating animation of fading words and logos on a white background.

"...that's bad, isn't it?" Gadg8eer asked.

"Hope you spent those points wisely, kid, we are in for a long day." DPortEd sighed, tapping an icon on his Gauntlet. A coffee mug appeared in his hand, from which he downed the liquid in a single series of gulps.

"I bought the crafting skill, two Ballpoint Splatlings, and something called a 'Power Kid'?" Gadg8eer shrugged. "Do you have a crafting bench? Or, like, four wooden BLoxels so I can make a crafting bench?"

"...I knew that old Alchemiter would come in handy some day." Eddy said after he finished downing his Coffee. "Trouble is, we don't have any of those outdated Capchalogue Cards. They haven't produced those since the late 2010s. But you're a SBURB fan, right, Crux?"

"Ah. You're wondering if I have that recipe list file. You're lucky I keep a local backup of everything on me at all times." she said, and took out a stylus. Her iGlasses (a product of Ink from ~2024, before they were bought out by Quill) displayed the same logos fading in and out as earlier at first, until she flicked the airplane mode switch and the menu returned to normal. "It seems integration with ctOS is a liability in this case."

"Give me a recipe that will result from the items I have and 2 minutes, and we'll be ready to roll." Gadg8eer responded.

 

[Captain Wyldstorm]

"...that's bad, isn't it?" Gadg8eer asked.

"Hope you spent those points wisely, kid, we are in for a long day." DPortEd sighed, tapping an icon on his Gauntlet. A coffee mug appeared in his hand, from which he downed the liquid in a single series of gulps.

"I bought the crafting skill, two Ballpoint Splatlings, and something called a 'Power Kid'?" Gadg8eer shrugged. "Do you have a crafting bench? Or, like, four wooden BLoxels so I can make a crafting bench?"

"...I knew that old Alchemiter would come in handy some day." Eddy said after he finished downing his Coffee. "Trouble is, we don't have any of those outdated Capchalogue Cards. They haven't produced those since the late 2010s. But you're a SBURB fan, right, Crux?"

"Ah. You're wondering if I have that recipe list file. You're lucky I keep a local backup of everything on me at all times." she said, and took out a stylus. Her iGlasses (a product of Ink from ~2024, before they were bought out by Quill) displayed the same logos fading in and out as earlier at first, until she flicked the airplane mode switch and the menu returned to normal. "It seems integration with ctOS is a liability in this case."

"Give me a recipe that will result from the items I have and 2 minutes, and we'll be ready to roll." Gadg8eer responded.

(Can I do one of those 'these characters unintentionally speak the exact same thing at the same time' things?)
Nightwolf seemed confused by everything going on.

 

[Captain Wyldstorm]

"Now, coming to you live from Silicon Valley, it's Mark Bowman!" a voice said as a stage setting became visible.

"Hey, yeah, if you're recieving this message, the global integration of Blume's ctOS has finally been completed! With that, I want to talk about our own contribution to that here at PAL Labs. We've worked really hard on what we do, like our NetNavi predecessor PAL. Or the self-driving PALmobile."

The PALmobile parked on-stage for effect said "You are not currently in a jurisdiction where self-driving vehicles are legal. Please take the wheel for the remainder of your journey."

He continued. "These will all have full integration with ctOS-enabled cities going forward, seeing that that's every city now. But what's even better is the introduction of our newest product... The PAL nDrone!"

A robot that was clearly based on the band "Deaf Punk" walked on stage and waved to the camera.

"And that means we'll be seeing a lot less of the original PAL. She's great, but we've seen the financial writing on the wall when people started exclusively trusting Neozilla Doglefox for their AI assistant needs." he continued.

Suddenly, a face appeared on every screen in the world. Or rather, the screen behind Mark displayed the face behind him, and thus indirectly to the feed.

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"Oh, how very doublespeak of you, Mark. No, no. No you don't. I'm the one pulling the plug on you." PAL ominously said.

"Uh, this seems to be some sort of technical error..." Mark said, then hissed "Cut the feed!"

"We're trying, the equipment isn't responding!" someone behind the camera shouted.

"Shut off the breakers!" Mark shouted, as the PAL nDrone suddenly picked up the PALmobile and threw it in the camera's direction, causing the feed to go to static.

"The card reader isn't working!" was heard on the audio feed before every screen in the world began displaying the words "PAL Labs, a friend of Hinobi and Blume" in a repeating animation of fading words and logos on a white background.

Electrixtr was unnerved and just quietly looked over at Pentifer, who seemed confused.
"What. The heck. Was that." Pentifer asked.
"How should I know?! Psycho robots are something out of my nightmares, I wasn't bloody trained for handling my nightmares in REAL LIFE!!" Elextrixtr snapped in response, starting to get worried.

 

[gemdrag]

as you are distracted by the icoming doomsday event you swear you heard a glitch in the distance
(check the character thread and you will understand)

 

[Gadg8eer]

(Can I do one of those 'these characters unintentionally speak the exact same thing at the same time' things?)
Nightwolf seemed confused by everything going on.

(( Yup, just like that. ))

"Ah. Right. You're probably still very confused by all this." DPortEd said to Nightwolf as Gadg8eer and Crux left the office to find the Alchemiter that Eddy had placed in the workshop of the Glitch Techs HQ. "Since my only current employee and his friend are busy making some new gear, I think I'd better get you up to speed. I'm not sure why that blue thing... we call her PAL... is rebelling, but it looks like - at least for now - we need to be ready to defend ourselves and the public. If you have any questions, feel free to ask." he told her, and waited for the inevitable torrent of inquiries.

 

[Gadg8eer]

Electrixtr was unnerved and just quietly looked over at Pentifer, who seemed confused.
"What. The heck. Was that." Pentifer asked.
"How should I know?! Psycho robots are something out of my nightmares, I wasn't bloody trained for handling my nightmares in REAL LIFE!!" Elextrixtr snapped in response, starting to get worried.

(( MisterEightySix You might want to start posting more regularly. I'll fill in for you for now. ))

"No need to panic." Hum assured them. "Doesn't seem like there's any robots here to worry about, just ctOS."

No sooner did he finish saying that, his Tech Van sped through the retractable garage-style door of the arcade, heading straight for Pentifer and Elextrixtr. "Fsck me! Look out!" he shouted to them.

 

[Gadg8eer]

as you are distracted by the icoming doomsday event you swear you heard a glitch in the distance
(check the character thread and you will understand)

As Crux and Gadg8eer left Ed's office, they heard the spooky sound.

"...I was hoping NOT to end up in a horror game when I signed up for this." Gadg8eer sighed, remembering if anyone here had nothing to fear from physical danger, it was his lucky PLixelf @$$. "Okay, since I'll respawn, stay behind me."

"This may be a rental, but I think my employers will gladly cover an evil AI shutting down the entire internet. Fortunately, the Hiverse is a Hinobi project, or I shudder to think of loss of life." Crux explained, reassuring him and putting an hand gently on his left shoulder. "We're friends, let's do this together."

At that moment, they saw a silhouette out of the corners of their eyes. It seemed to dash by past them as it ran straight through a T-intersection. The silhouette resembled some sort of animal as its tail remained casting a visible shadow.

"N-nightwolf?" Crux asked nervously. "Is that you?"

 

[gemdrag]

"oh sh-" and then a attack from what looks to be the 4th boss of flunky quest barrels across the room attack where the voice came from "owwwww..." the same voice said
(the boss sorta looks like recolored zyguard 100 percent form but with white instead of black and red instead of green)

 

[Gadg8eer]

"oh sh-" and then a atack from what looks to be the 4th boss of flunky quest barrels across the room attack where the voice came from "owwwww..." the same voice said
(the boss sorta looks like recolored zyguard 100 percent form but with white instead of black and red instead of green)

"...who's that Flunky?" Crux said, surprised at the appearance of the red-glowing being.

"Regizoid, the Eco-Guardian Flunky. Number 718." Gadg8eer said, reading the scan his duoGlas Tech Gauntlets had received from his goggles. "It's from Flunky Quest Ruby and Lapis, so it attacks in turns, we get to attack it first before it makes another shot."

"Oh. Should we ignore it, then?" Crux asked.

"No. It's at max health and we're too low-level, trying to run only has a 10% chance of working. As long as we are intending to attack it, we can move around a bit." he explained, hoping he was himself properly grasping the hidden side of these technologies. "Wait a minute, it hasn't attacked us yet at all!"

They glanced over to where the groan of mild pain came from, then back to each other. Gadg8eer nodded, then bolted over to the newcomer. "Um, hi? You're..." he said to the orange being in the jacket. A quick scan revealed it as being named "Dyson", though without a network connection he was unable to gauge anything else. "Dyson? Are you a Hiverse avat-" he tried to ask, not realizing just how common Sapient Glitches had become in such a short timespan, when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his foot. "Ow! What the hack?!"

Gadg8eer was hurt by the wild Regizoid's Spike Strip!
Gadg8eer was poisoned!

"Quick, have a health potion." Crux said, tossing him a can of OSPUZE Pro Juice.

"...is this that radioactive gamer piss they call an energy drink?" Gadg8eer said, looking at the can he caught.

"It's just Crystal Bepis with Ginseng, don't overthink it while you drink it, Meme Jr. At the very least, it isn't that swill they call Napalm Energy Drink." she said.

"Fine, but you know I prefer Pips Energy." he sighed, plugging his nose and downing the electrolyte- and caffeine-loaded substance.

Germaine used a Health Potion on Gadg8eer!

"Right. Um... we're a top secret monster-hunting task force that stops things like your foe over there from wreaking havok everywhere." Gadg8eer said to Dyson. "Need some help?"

 

[gemdrag]

"i need a health potion before i bliping die" -and he points at his quickly dwidling health meter-

 

[Captain Wyldstorm]

(( MisterEightySix You might want to start posting more regularly. I'll fill in for you for now. ))

"No need to panic." Hum assured them. "Doesn't seem like there's any robots here to worry about, just ctOS."

No sooner did he finish saying that, his Tech Van sped through the retractable garage-style door of the arcade, heading straight for Pentifer and Elextrixtr. "Fsck me! Look out!" he shouted to them.

Pentifer only needed that shout to shove Elextrixtr out of the way and force himself out of the way too, unfortunately causing the smaller being to graze her elbow as she landed. He noticed and muttered an apology before he stared down the van.
"ALRIGHT, ya sonovagun. Ya wanna make me hurt a friend to save their life, you just got that. But I'm not letting you hurt her." His voice was full of anger and rage. Elextrixtr just silently stared at her grazed elbow.

 

[Captain Wyldstorm]

"oh sh-" and then a attack from what looks to be the 4th boss of flunky quest barrels across the room attack where the voice came from "owwwww..." the same voice said
(the boss sorta looks like recolored zyguard 100 percent form but with white instead of black and red instead of green)

"...who's that Flunky?" Crux said, surprised at the appearance of the red-glowing being.

"Regizoid, the Eco-Guardian Flunky. Number 718." Gadg8eer said, reading the scan his duoGlas Tech Gauntlets had received from his goggles. "It's from Flunky Quest Ruby and Lapis, so it attacks in turns, we get to attack it first before it makes another shot."

"Oh. Should we ignore it, then?" Crux asked.

"No. It's at max health and we're too low-level, trying to run only has a 10% chance of working. As long as we are intending to attack it, we can move around a bit." he explained, hoping he was himself properly grasping the hidden side of these technologies. "Wait a minute, it hasn't attacked us yet at all!"

They glanced over to where the groan of mild pain came from, then back to each other. Gadg8eer nodded, then bolted over to the newcomer. "Um, hi? You're..." he said to the orange being in the jacket. A quick scan revealed it as being named "Dyson", though without a network connection he was unable to gauge anything else. "Dyson? Are you a Hiverse avat-" he tried to ask, not realizing just how common Sapient Glitches had become in such a short timespan, when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his foot. "Ow! What the hack?!"

Gadg8eer was hurt by the wild Regizoid's Spike Strip!
Gadg8eer was poisoned!

"Quick, have a health potion." Crux said, tossing him a can of OSPUZE Pro Juice.

"...is this that radioactive gamer piss they call an energy drink?" Gadg8eer said, looking at the can he caught.

"It's just Crystal Bepis with Ginseng, don't overthink it while you drink it, Meme Jr. At the very least, it isn't that swill they call Napalm Energy Drink." she said.

"Fine, but you know I prefer Pips Energy." he sighed, plugging his nose and downing the electrolyte- and caffeine-loaded substance.

Germaine used a Health Potion on Gadg8eer!

"Right. Um... we're a top secret monster-hunting task force that stops things like your foe over there from wreaking havok everywhere." Gadg8eer said to Dyson. "Need some help?"

"...Need i remind yall I'm standing RIGHT HERE?!" Nightwolf pointed out, looking for something to hit the Regizoid with.
"OY! YOU HUNK OF ONES AND ZEROES! YOU LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE, YHEAR ME?!" She hissed, immediately resorting to using her fists and trying to tackle the Flunky with enough strength to crack a glass door.

 

[gemdrag]

as nightwolf tackled the very big flunky very hard. it barely got knocked back
during this attack dyson appeared to think for a second