The TOME Chronicles
Infinity born from zero?
Soundtrack: CelestOrion - Norfair of War [Super Metroid]
One day in mid-2017, arose a man with a vision. He wanted to create his own virtual world, a world where people from every country, gender and age will can live together and be who they always wanted.
He called himself webmaster, and fortunately, he was one of the most successful programmers in earth. But even webmaster couldn't create a game of this magnitude... not alone. Webmaster decided to earn a group of exceptionally dexterous programmers who'll create the game. He called it THE NETKING SOFTWARE!
First of all, webmaster accorded his good friend from work and a texture design expert for helping with the virtual world's ordinary texture. He called himself Bitopio.
Webmaster also contacted his young daughter, an eternal optimist and programmer as well, to create the vocal systems and narrations. Her username was Kindaspirit. But they still needed more people.
Lastly, a mysterious woman spoke to Bitopio through the E-mail and asked to join the project as creator of the basic non-Custom character models in the game. She called herself Rulerruby. The other netkings never met her in real life, but she was a good asset for the team.
The three netkings and netqueens got an offer from a rich internet business man that wanted join the netking software and add an option of combat. In contrast to Rulerruby, this netking did meet webmaster, Kindaspirit and Bitopio in real life. He called himself Execk.
Now they was five skilled programmers and ready to start creating! The netking software used advanced technology to create special console that connects directly to the user's brain and make them feel, with all their senses, like they're really and truly in the places and conditions that appears in the interfaces that connected the console. They created a spectacular varied virtual world, and programs for customize characters. Every one of the netkings created his character in his image:
The netkings also created a virus that can be used as a program supervisor, even a sixth netqueen. They called her Self-Operating Full-Duplex Technical Intelligence, or SOFDTI in initials. SOFDTI was essentially the mind of the virtual world itself, monitors everything, including the process of converting players' thoughts into actions.
After they completed the first layers of the game, the netkings revealed they still needed more people. So they find one: a young Japanese programmer that called himself Zetto, for the sake of testing the virtual reality systems.
Zetto invited to the game also his girlfriend, a singer by profession but yet a dexterous programmer too, for testing bugs. She called herself Kizuna.
Rulerruby added to the game a virus named D-Bug, that at this point wasn't more than a purple flame. She gave it to SOFDTI.
After collecting those 8 members, the netking software could now finish creating the game! At some point, Zetto and Execk decided to add a boss: a virus named Kajet, designed as a being of shadows and netted by gilded marks. Kajet didn't have so many abilities expect of creepy telepathy and massive body morphing. Kajet could also summon spikes made of the same material, or paws that spawn deadly purple laser whips. Zetto got ready to fight Kajet, but when Kajet chopped his left hand, it hurt in real life. The netkings understood that viruses in TOME can turn the consoles' impact and cause pain in real life. They tried to delete Kajet, but hacking can't impact viruses so easily. They didn't knew what to do, until SOFDTI used the powers of DragonBug and herself to lock Kajet in a purse. All thought it's the last time Kajet bothers them, but a few of them were afraid that SOFDTI is too dangerous, and they locked her in another secret biome, a great maze, that was nicknamed THE MOTHERBOARD MAZE. Said area was hidden underneath the darkest depths of the virtual underground, but could be accessed via a supercomputer in the core of the Netkings' headquarters, the world's control panel that could tap into the absolute power of SOFDTI.
After that incident, the netkings created for Zetto a bionic hand with some useful abilities.
The virtual world was almost completed, including a gold moon that the netkings had a secret palace in it. Zetto and Kizuna preferred to not live there. The netkings also hired a new supporter to assist them: a mysterious man called DarkEyesofAnubis.
The thing that the netkings didn't know is that DarkEyesofAnubis was a virus. Once discovering it, the netkings decided to disassemble DarkEyes' character data along with his admin permissions and sealed the shreds within the Motherboard Maze, willing to replace him with a human assistant. They indeed found one, called MadSlayer. Little did they know DarkEyes' consciousness continued existing within the world.
The game was finally ready to launch, and got the name TOME – Terrain Of Magical Expertise. More and more players joined the game. Webmaster, Bitopio, Kindaspirit, Rulerruby, Execk and MadSlayer stayed at their moon most of the time, but Zetto and Kizuna behaved to hide their identity as netkings and live between the other players like regular guys. SOFDTI stayed in her prison.
Soundtrack: BunnyKill 3 Vol. 2 - Leaving for Good
At TOME's first days, the netkings got a moral dilemma. A hacker was in the game, and Rulerruby revealed that hacker has a criminal record. Kindaspirit thought criminals must not play at this game. She pressured the others, and together, they imprisoned the criminal hacker in an amulet, broke it to two halves and locket it in their palace.
And then everyone forgot the entire case.
Days later, another user named Grounda, signed up the game. Quickly another user, T-bones, fell in love with her. He told her that the similarity of their characters (they both were dinosaur-looking), is a destiny signal they are designed to be together. But Grounda said she loves someone else, without detailing that person's identity. Nonetheless the two became partners and close friends.
The Netkings have hired multiple new employees to play different roles around the game. Among them were Triplebeard the Questgiver, who was responsible for giving players quests and rewarding them, and Pawneeko the Dealer, who was set to trade different items with players.
Days after the game was released, DragonBug managed to escape his prison. As he had done this, flames of his purple fire were spread throughout the areas. Users who saw the incident, nicknamed the fire "the forbidden power".
Zetto started getting obsessive to power, and he wanted to earn the forbidden power, thinking it to be the power of Kajet. He decided to found an organization that its goal is earning the forbidden power. He called it D-buggers organization. By little bits of truth and little bits of false, he persuaded Kizuna to join him as the heavy assault of the organization. They created an armor that Kizuna can cloth as his cat form, tough, strong and heavy. Kizuna called that form Tigerlily. Zetto also created an armor for himself, for attack and also for camo. The armor had completely different abilities than his regular form, based on high-tech and runes. He called this form sir Voltarius. Now it was time to gather members.
The first of them was doubling, a man who hated the game and played just for the money that the organization gave him.
Another one was Rackoon, a noob-in-spirit young hacker guy.
The organization also got Bitopio, a melancholy illusionist. She was spying for the organization and gathering information.
DemonKing, Erti's boyfriend (that didn't know she's at the guild of Anubis), was in the D-buggers organization as well.
At last, Neomutant joined the D-buggers organization as a double agent. The organization's members didn't know that the guild of Anubis even exists. They only knew there is another card in their deck…
Voltarius and Tigerlily created a platinum moon in the opposite side of TOME. The civilian players didn't suspect anything – they thought it's an update or something. No one knew about the netkings' palace in the other moon. Actually, at the platinum moon was the D-buggers' secret headquarters.
Meanwhile, DarkEyesofAnubis, now a disembodied mind decided to make an organization of his own. But he had an idea that Tigerlily and Voltarius didn't think about yet: a virus army! DarkEyesofAnubis created simple virusites - virus units - named X-virusites. Their role was simple: to ruin areas! Alone they were pretty weak, but in a group they were incredibly powerful. DarkEyesofAnubis knew that they are not enough. He started gathering human hackers that can be useful.
Firstly joined Neomutant, a relatively old man. He was good at ruse and convincing and could easily camo in other groups.
Another member of the guild was Erti, an anime fangirl and roleplayer who was willing to become stronger by the power of the X-virusites.
The organization included also SwifFox, a sharpshooter, silent killer and spy
The guild also conscripted Ohma. He served the guild of Anubis as a spy and stalker.
Another user joined the guild of Anubis. Her username was Ryouko. Ryouko was a good general and commander, and served the guild properly as this.
An old master swordsman and warrior trainer named FlashBlade joined the guild as well. With a huge sword and widespread knowledge, he served his guild well.
The call of the guild was answered also by PurpleThorn, a crazed fangirl and a music lover who had nothing to do with roleplay. She was the support and morale giver for the guild, and did not hesitate to fight her own friends.
Psycho, a griefer, was the guild of Anubis' energy expert and assault. Psycho's powerful hacking was the only reason why DarkEyesofAnubis conscripted him – if he wasn't a hacker, he was a noob.
The guild started making experiments on X-virusites. At last they succeeded fusing thousands of them into one virus, Xirra, an insane gal with Destructive force of a whole X-virusites army. Xirra always wanted to exit her hide, but DarkEyesofAnubis never let her. He wanted to keep her as a secret weapon. "When everything shall seem lost and hope will be no more", he said, "then you will be released, I promise".
A few of the D-buggers were pretty careless, and a few players revealed the organization. They didn't know what its goals are, they only knew there is a group of hackers that grieves players. A little group of non-hacker players aimed to protect players from them. One of them was GameCrazed, a secluding person with a sense of justice, who decided to stop the hackers from hurting players.
Another one was Nylocke, a legendary epic role-player.
With them was FlameGirl, a pre-teenage girl who wanted to prove herself to older users.
FlameGirl asked her boyfriend to sign up to TOME. He called his character Alpha. Right at the moment when alpha connected first, he attacked by a griefer named Kirbopher. Surprisingly this battle became a great friendship, and alpha and Kirbopher join the group that fought the D-buggers. The group was known non-officially as "the alpha pack" or "team alpha".
One day, a hacker named serpentine, Nylocke's fan, wanted join him to the alpha pack. Nylocke scorned the old man, and serpentine, as revenge, tried to make his character a negative version of Nylocke. Rulerruby, that wanted to use Nylocke for DragonBug, created bugs that caused serpentine's character to become deformed beyond recognition. Serpentine kept stalking Nylocke and become his nemesis.
While a battle between alpha and FlameGirl to Rackoon and doubling, Rackoon dropped alpha out of the battle grid and Ryouko and Ohma, still hidden, opened a portal to the place where Kajet was. Confused, alpha entered the portal. All what he saw is a black-gilded orb Shackled in chains. Kajet spoke telepathically to alpha. Kajet said him that taking the orb would give him unlimited powers. It sounded cool to alpha. He broke the chains and took Kajet. Alpha has respawned in the battle grid as an improved form with the power of Kajet – DEMON ALPHA!
Demon alpha took down Rackoon, made doubling flee and returned to his normal form. What he didn't know is now Rackoon and doubling can tell their master what they saw…
Days later, the netkings added a new unfinished biome to the game, a dark mansion. They knew someone needs to guard the building, so they employed an unfortunate poor young hacker to cooperate with them. He called himself Asterob. Asterob was not matching to support the netkings in TOME and played it just because they paid him.
Curious Kirbopher, Nylocke and GameCrazed tried to infiltrate the mansion. Asterob pushed them to leave, and they got bored and attacked him. Asterob blasted them, and they all forgot the unpleasant incident. As a compensation gift, Asterob gave GameCrazed a drain edge – an Attachment item that can drain elements and use them as material of attacks.
Two new users signed up the game: SaturnDiva, a hot-blooded gal, and Whyti, an otaku girl. Those two girls became FlameGirl's good friends and alpha pack's secondary assists.
While FlameGirl, SaturnDiva and Whyti were gossiping, Bitopio impersonated alpha and enticed FlameGirl to DemonKing's ambush. The two hackers knocked FlameGirl off, but then DragonBug invaded her mind. She found herself in an empty black void with a purple flaming crystal hovering before her. She broke it, what allowed DragonBug possess her, as she returned to the arena now engulfed with purple fire, her red outfit now purple and her hair long, wild and pink, and her eyes empty dots without scleras or pupils, flashing purple and pink, and with two wings made of pink flame. She got a new form having the forbidden power itself: DEVIL FLAMEGIRL!
Devil FlameGirl burned Bitopio. DemonKing used hacking to shut down DragonBug's power and escaped. He started chasing Nylocke, and he beat him.
Meanwhile, Kirbopher and GameCrazed met Hyprelynx, a role-player and fangirl. She knew team alpha and was exciting to meet them. Hyprelynx took them to her friend Elescope. But then, Tigerlily attacked them. An epic fight began, and Kirbopher chopped a few legs of her, then she had to return the base and rebuild herself. GameCrazed felt the need to thank Kirbopher, so they gave him the drain edge. Hyprelynx and Elescope became sub-mates of the alpha pack.
Days later, the netkings posted their last plan: the Gemini tournament, a pair tournament of all the greatest players in TOME. The winners should get lots of experience and also the yang of light and yin of darkness, two incredibly powerful exclusive items.
Alpha got attacked by Tsuzuku and shogun, two brothers, to reach the tournament. They were not the only ones – many players killed each other to gain more and more victories.
Three days before the Gemini tournament began, MadSlayer attacked Zetto. He had a bad feeling about the tournament and feared Zetto will do something deadly. But Zetto beat him and forgot it.
Soundtrack: Infected Mushroom - Gamma Goblins
At last, the Gemini tournament has begun! The netkings employed two new mates as commentators: Foreva in the stadium, and her sister Tamerlisa on the balcony.
Streak of battles surpassed. At last, the winning pair was Zetto and Kizuna. Zetto picked the yin of darkness, and Kizuna picked the yang of light.
But while the battles, deep under the ground, some of SOFDTI's negative emotions created a new virus named Reapmaster flux.
Reapmaster flux was able to see everything that happened in TOME. That way he could see what the Netkings did to his fellow viruses, and was angered. He decided to take down the Netkings and avenge them, and to do that he recruited four hackers.
One of those hackers was MasterChef, Kirboher's past friend. Like DemonKing and PurpleThorn before him, he was no roleplayer and didn't see a problem with fighting his friends.
Also ordered Bowsermond, a two-faced griefer, who wanted to work with a strong virus such as flux.
Another one was UnboundMerchant, an elite warrior who wanted to grow stronger, and saw this gang as an opportunity.
Flux also employed little Sumomo, a little girl who's extremely mature for her age, who had two forms: one looking exactly like her real look (expect of the clothes) and couldn't really do much, and one designed as she imagined herself: an adult woman named Lacksine.
Together, the five users were known as the flux gang! But that time they didn't do anything interesting, so let's leave them for now.
An independent insane hacker role-player named Thorment, heard about demon alpha and his forbidden power, and decided to own it. He attacked alpha at nightfall of the day when the Gemini tournament was over, but alpha and FlameGirl beat him.
The day later, Zetto called alpha to meet him alone at a secret biome he knew. He presented as gestures of reconciliation, but at the moment when alpha reached there, Zetto attacked him. The forbidden power, that was in alpha, remembered Zetto from the time they fought. The forbidden power took over alpha, turned him to demon alpha and made him attacking Zetto back. An epic battle started… but that was exactly what Zetto wanted. Zetto chocked demon alpha with his bionic arm and drained his health points, and the virus as well! Demon alpha, which was now just alpha, shoved Zetto back and watched the forbidden power breaking his arm and flooding him by black-gilded field. Alpha expected it will hurt Zetto… but instead, the remains of Zetto's hand unleashed a burst of qi energy, and he transformed into a brand new form. He became DEMON ZETTO!
The fight proceeded deadly! Not far, Kirbopher, Nylocke, FlameGirl and GameCrazed noticed the battle and decided to join! When they saw what is going on, Kirbopher speared demon Zetto without thinking twice. The drain edge drained the virus power! Kirbopher removed the drain edge from his sword and thrown it away.
But then, webmaster appeared and attacked team alpha! Everyone had no clue what the hell is going on, but they kept fighting courage. When webmaster thrown asteroids on them, FlameGirl has noticed one of them contains a crystal, look exactly like the crystal that gave her the Devil form earlier. She caught the crystal and shattered the crystal in her hand. She became Devil FlameGirl once again! Everyone was shocked, but the battle Continued in full force.
At last, Kirbopher beat webmaster. Just as they thought the weird situation is over, a portal was opened. They entered it. After it happened, Bishipp, another netking attendant, took wounded Zetto to the netkings' moon palace to take care of him and repair his bionic hand.
The portal leaded the alpha pack to the netkings' moon as well – to another department of there, where they needed to face off Bitopio. After they beat him as well, another portal opened. The alpha pack beat them all, netking after netking, until they reached the final one, netqueen Rulerruby. She somehow reversed the effectof the D-Bug on Devil FlameGirl, and turned her into normal FlameGirl. They still beat her.
After the battle was over, webmaster explained to the alpha pack about the netkings and their palace… and the truth about the virus.
And right when they finished talking, Kajet broke out of Kirbopher's drain edge. Kajet was now unleashed.
SniperWheel, an old user, thought Kajet is some kind of new update and tried his luck at blasting the shadow guard beast. His response to Kajet's real-life-pain ability was all what needed to bring everyone to panic.
Under their feet, all TOME was ruined by Kajet's heavy impacts. Webmaster, Alpha, Nylocke and FlameGirl went down to finish the virus that caused them so many troubles. Alpha stormed on Kajet and started a battle, but as a virus, Kajet couldn't be damaged from normal players' attacks. The battle was lost right from the start. Kajet defeated alpha.
But then, FlameGirl had a plan. She asked webmaster to shoot his asteroids on Kajet. Confused webmaster didn't understand why, but he nevertheless did it. He kept shooting until FlameGirl spotted the crystal, caught it and changed again. Then, Nylocke stood nearby to Kajet, Devil FlameGirl stood in front of him and thrown Nylocke on the shadow guard beast. Kajet blew up to thousand to pieces, and FlameGirl returned to normal. All thought Kajet was exterminated and the D-buggers was knocked out…
But it was far from being true…
Soundtrack: TOME: Heroes Don't Ask Questions - Heyitsjosh Remix
A few mounts after that incident, voltarius discovered that Kajet's body pieces are still holding the shadowguard beast's power, and already started multiplying. He called them virus fragments, virusfrags, or Kajet orbs. Voltarius decided to set up back the D-buggers organization with the target to collect the virusfrags, under the name D-buggers organization II! When he told it to Tigerlily, she refused to cooperate and quit the organization. Zetto still succeeded earning enough hackers for the organization. Rackoon stayed loyal to voltarius and serpentine and Thorment joined as well.
The first new member was splat, doubling's younger sister (who was fallen in love with Thorment, what wasn't mutual).
Also joined oddball, a creepy griefer and noob.
Another member was Torben, who saw himself as a mercenary – the only reason to hunt virusfrags for him was because serpentine paid him.
Also, oddball has created an army of viruses look like devilish 1 and 0 digits. Those viruses, called binary imps, couldn't do anything expect biting players at strong melee, but Torben created armed vehicles that they could drive and use them.
The D-buggers organization II was completed. But it wasn't the only one who gathered virusfrags. Elsewhere, psycho, Xirra and a bunch of X-virusites, found too Kajet orbs and used them on a virusite, which got a new design and powers. DarkEyesofAnubis named him Kazaa and appointed him to the military responsible member of the guild.
At the open parts of TOME, Bishipp's boyfriend, the leader of a semi-real-life organization named the web police, decided to take initiative. He signed up the game with the username ChaseAce, along with six more users: Orbit, DarkBlazer, Kinetix, Dikayes, Ik-Ak, and MysteryX.. He also brought the armooras, the web police's virusites, into the game. They aimed to hunt and haunt all hackers and viruses at TOME.
Meanwhile, feeling compelled to be earnest, GameCrazed has revealed to all that they were in fact female in real life, and later changed her model accordingly and renamed herself GameSoft.
A user named GIGA started appearing randomly in the game. No one knew who GIGA was, but everyone knew he is a really powerful hacker.
Meanwhile in the motherboard maze, netqueen SOFDTI revealed a sophisticated way to escape her virtual prison. She created a new user – GameCrasher, a character upendously similar to GameSoft. GameCrasher was a single user played by SOFDTI. GameCrasher introduced herself before the alpha pack as a fangirl of GameCrazed and asked to join them. They allowed her, particularly because they didn't want another case like serpentine.
By the way, serpentine was attacking a player named Archy, a human archer with a sabre and a wide range of special-powered arrows. Unfortunately (for him) Archy succeeded beating him and took one virusfrag from him.
Days later, the netkings created for TOME brand new combat programs. For testing and celebrating it, they created an event named the X-games, another tournament of players. Alpha won, but then Zetto beat him and the netkings thought it means he wins, until GIGA appeared and beat Zetto. He was gone promptly and couldn't be declared as winner. Fortunately there was no prize this time.
A day later, webmaster and Rulerruby invited alpha and FlameGirl to their palace. They gave them presents: webmaster gave alpha an antivirus program that can hurt viruses and abrogate virus and hacking impacts and Rulerruby gave FlameGirl another D-Bug crystal that she can use.
The alpha pack proceeded fighting the D-buggers. They kept collecting virusfrags. Thorment wondered what happens if you fuse a few of them together. The result of 6 ones was an extremely powerful sword. He called it Kageryuken, the virus sword.
Days later, Nylocke was attacked by UnboundMerchant. He was only the first: elsewhere Bowsermond attacked Kirbopher, MasterChef attacked FlameGirl, Lacksine attacked GameSoft and GameCrasher, and Reapmaster flux himself attacked alpha and Zetto. The flux gang wanted to terminate the users who defeated the netkings! But they weren't ready to lose…
They flux gangsters have fallen, one after another. FlameGirl burned MasterChef by an enormous asteroid; GameSoft drained Lacksine into a black hole; Nylocke razed both of UnboundMerchant's forms; and GIGA appeared from nowhere and blasted off Bowsermond (and teleported away) just as it was lost for Kirbopher.
But alpha and Zetto were in a problem. The antivirus programs of them were not enough powerful to defeat flux – not separately. Webmaster had a disliked plan: he merged the two champions to one user, Alphazet, that had the abilities of them both. Alphazet used his double-powered antivirus program to take down flux. Webmaster split them back, and the gang has escaped.
Days later, the D-buggers organization II was active again. Alpha, Kirbopher, FlameGirl and Archy entered a battle with splat and Thorment, which brought his new sword to the battle. Archy used his virusfrag, but something was wrong. The attendance of so many virusfrags at the same place made a well of energy that drained hundreds of virusfrags to the place. Archy's one released brutally from his body, wounding him fatally. His character body model was destroyed and unfound, but now they had bigger problems – Kajet has rematerialized!
The shadow guard beast captured Kageryuken and attacked the alpha pack. A mortal battle started once again, and alpha blasted Kajet with one of his new antivirus powers, the vaccine cannon. Kajet exploded to lots of more virusfrags (not all the virusfrags were there at this time). Splat raised Thorment (that was wounded from the battle), Kageryuken, and a few virusfrags, and withdrew away. FlameGirl, alpha and Kirbopher started searching Archy, but he was totally gone.
Days later, Neomutant called to the whole alpha pack, Tsuzuku, shogun, Whyti, SaturnDiva, Grounda, T-bones, Hyprelynx and Elescope. He told them the place of the D-buggers' staff and implored them to breach it and eliminate the organization once and for all! The random bunch of users jumped at a bargain. Neomutant accompanied them to the D-buggers' moon and left them to complete the mission. But they didn't know what awaits them inside…
The base was made of endless steel rafters that always moved to all directions. It was impossible to so large group to transfer there wholly. And they found themselves split to smaller groups. Moments after they entered, a few of them got attacked by oddball. He wasn't enough skilled or powerful to face them all. As he used his Last resort trump, bringing a virusfrag into his body, Tsuzuku chopped his head down. But it was too late, and the head turned into a monster. Alpha beat him using the antivirus program. Serpentine came after this and used hacking to create a replica of his data and send it to voltarius. The other D-buggers, expect of voltarius, were defeated by the same way. But every time a hacker was beaten, his virusfrags teleported away. No one related it too much.
After beating the hackers, the alpha pack was looking for the D-buggers organization II reservoirs. There was only one virusfrag left, the one that Archy took earlier. How did they know that? Because just as they entered, it turned into a dark replica of Archy, that started fighting them. It was just another form of Kajet, but alpha thought the netkings can use it to recuse Archy, so he captured the Kajet orb and all prepared to the last stand: the final showdown with the menacing sir voltarius himself.
Alpha presented himself to the battle. Then voltarius revealed his secret weapon: two hovering robot hands, which contain the data of all his organization's members, what enabled him to use their powers. And his armor made him Invulnerable, then even alpha's most powerful attacks couldn't hit him… until alpha used Archy's virus fragment to break through it, and reveal Zetto behind the massive armor. After The initial shock, they started fighting again, and Zetto revealed his true trump: he didn't took only his henchmen's data. He took also their virusfrags! Now he equipped all the 7 virusfrags on him. He beat alpha in an epic matter of seconds.
His friends couldn't just stand there. Nylocke used his most powerful move of summoning the a gigantic robot dragon of metal and ice, and FlameGirl used her DragonBug crystal, but now the things really got freaky! FlameGirl's crystal, as it broke, consumed her character body model completely, leaving a mere purple flame, DragonBug's flame. It entered into Nylocke's dragon silhouette and made it burning in purple flames. The two users have been infused, and DragonBug's new form exited the D-buggers' moon. Alpha and demon Zetto followed him. All the others escaped.
DragonBug took alpha and demon Zetto into the netkings' moon. There were only Rulerruby and Neomutant with 10 Kajet orbs with them. Rulerruby wanted to use the all-powerful virus, after Neomutant lobbied her to do it, and helped her by taking the alpha pack to the bosom of the D-buggers organization. Rulerruby ordered DragonBug to connect the supercomputer to merge with it and gained its infinite power.
Alpha's antivirus programs wasn't adapted to DragonBug, so he couldn't hit him! But he had something else to do. He used Archy's virus fragment to vacuum Rulerruby and Zetto's virusfrags. He had now 18 virusfrags, enough to consolidate Kajet – inside his body! He returned to his demon form, with a few upgrades: his skin became sickly red, his feet became giant black-gilded Eagle hooves, his tail turned into a gilded-black devil tail, his right wing turned into a gilded-black devil wing, and his right arm became a neck of Kajet, with a head for a hand.
Neomutant fled away, but no one noticed because of the giant dragon. Demon alpha and Zetto started attacking DragonBug, and a legendary battle occurred. Eventually, Alpha used both of his antivirus program and his new virus powers to destroy the virus, who collapsed into the supercomputer. When it happened, alpha returned to normal, and somewhere below, Archy awakened. But they still needed to finish Rulerruby… or did they?
Just as the battle was over, GIGA appeared. He revealed himself as a governmental agent that came to oversee every viral incident in the Terrain Of Magical Expertise. That day He arrested Rulerruby and Zetto. He tried to arrest Neomutant and the D-buggers too, but there were no clue where are they in real life.
Soundtrack: a hero's weakness | TOME
Since D-Bug penetrated the supercomputer, the damage has been caused – to the control panel and to SOFDTI herself. The supercomputer started spawning new kind of virusites, each every one of them based on one user's data: the shadow users! Fortunately they were colorless, so the players could differentiate them and real users. Also spawned a new kind of virusfrags looking like gushes of purple fire, which hold the power of DragonBug. They were named DragonBug charges.
After a new type of virus fragment existed, it was the experimentation time for the guild of anubis, AGAIN. This time the result was female (to the delight of feminist Ryouko and PurpleThorn), a multiform animal named fauna, that. DarkEyesofAnubis decided appoint her to the gatekeeper and diplomat of the guild… if it would ever NEED a diplomat.
DarkEyesofAnubis got a new plan. He called MadSlayer anonymously, and asked him to found a new hacker organization who'll be looking for both of Kajet and DragonBug's powers. It was the successor organization of the D-buggers organization II, and MadSlayer called it "the purple flame", and its members called the purple flamers. MadSlayer led the organization anonymously, using his shadow powers to hide in a cloak of darkness. Torben joined the new organization. Thorment, that changed his character body model to and renamed himself Kalasu angel, joined the purple flame too.
The organization also ordered Skeight, a crazed fanboy and a noob.
Also joined DustBunny, a hot hybrid bunny girl with powers of smoke. No one of the organization knew who is she in real life or why did she join the purple flamers.
This organization wasn't racist – its last member of it was a virus: shadow alpha. He wanted become more than a virus replica of alpha, and hoped the purple flamers and their hacking will help him.
As usual, alpha pack still was fighting them. This time they got supporting from Kizuna (and Kirbopher fell in love with her). Zetto and Rulerruby were released from the prison because of the deadly situation. Many users found themselves in combat with randomly incidental shadow users. But they diminished as shadow alpha absorbed them to earn their power. At long last, every single shadow user was drained into him, and he became a new character – Phaxal, a character with powers of every shadow user that ever spawned. He left cold the purple flamers, so they needed a new employee. At last they captured GameSoft and changed her character with a DragonBug charge, into a samurai-like battle mage, they forced her to work with them.
Webmaster, Zetto, Rulerruby, alpha, Zetto and Kizuna decided to enter the motherboard maze to find and cure SOFDTI. Zetto, Kizuna and alpha got a new antivirus program that can adjust itself to every virus, and they went down to the maze… but the purple flamers went to it as well.
Meanwhile, the system returned to spawning shadow users. The alpha pack (expect of alpha), rackoon, oddball, doubling, demonking, splat, Bitopio, serpentine, and Lots of civilian users, found themselves in a battle for their lives. Ohma appeared, pretending to be GIGA's comerade, terminated a few shadow users and went with a few civilians to the motherboard maze.
The users found quickly the purple flamers and started a fight. Kalasu angel tried to use Kajet orbs but Devil GameSoft betrayed her forced employers, dropped away KA's virusfrags and helped beating the purple flamers. Ohma and the civilians logged off, and one of them called GIGA, that teamed up with GameSoft to continue their way. Far below, Ryouko exploited Ohma's diversion to extract DarkEyesofAnubis' character data, enabling him to gain his avatar and his moderation access once more.
Kalasu dropped 2 Kajet orbs only, but the infection powered Kajet enough to reform even from it. Alpha encountered Kajet while walking. Once again, a battle occurred and alpha defeated Kajet with antivirus program. Finally the bunch found SOFDTI's room and the true showdown has begun…
They reached SOFDTI's room. But now she was corruptly insanely possessed, and spawned super-boosted shadow users to attack the users. It was a time to make again the alphazet trump. Now three of alpha, Zetto and Kizuna fused into an antivirus-powered user named ALKIZET!
Alkizet beat the shadow users easily, but now had to fight possessed SOFDTI herself. After beating her with the antivirus program, SOFDTI wasn't possessed, but she WAS dying. Storms of purple fire were about to consume the whole virtual world… but GIGA and GameSoft appeared and Devil GameSoft used her virus power to cure her, and all TOME. It seemed everything was back to normal. But the calm was only on the surface…
But bigger troubles brewed as Xirra thought her time was come. She wanted to go out and join the battles, but it wasn't the time that DarkEyesofAnubis spoke about… but Xirra didn't believe him. The next night she escaped the guild of Anubis with many remains of dead X-virusites and homed the destroyed, abandoned platinum moon of the D-buggers. She built a huge chrysalis made of the X-virusite remains, lots binary imp corpses and their vehicles' pieces, and hundreds of the D-buggers' Kajet orbs. She renamed herself as Xirra MK-II. She lied down that place, waiting for the right moment to strike…
Meanwhile In earth, Neomutant, Ryouko, FlashBlade and Erti helped DarkEyesofAnubis create a robotic replica of himself that was completely synchronized with his character and upgraded itself together with it.
The guild of Anubis was at a height of its power. It was ready to revealing itself…
It was ready to make a ground zero!
Soundtrack: Epic Movie Trailer (Tainlorr)
Just now the netkings saw where their old assist gone. The whole guild of Anubis used its improved hacking to create a pyramid-like base at the middle of TOME. They revealed themselves and started a war with the netking software. To counteract the new threat, the Netkings combined their power to create a new version of the Antivirus weapon, one that can adapt to the structure of any virus in seconds.
GIGA, seeing what his "comrade" truly was, decided to found his own hacker organization - BRINGERS OF HOPE! He started collecting hackers from all the game to fight the guild of Anubis, and every other enemy that may appear. One of them was Ichinar, a high-ranked robot with simple melee abilities and shockwaves.
Another hacker in the organization was Phetus, a small Kirby with powers based on colors. The other bringers of hope were hesitating him at start, because he was young and stupid, but he proved himself as a great warrior.
There was also Niidol, a human with metallic spikes and black marks on his body, and with corresponding attack theme of needles, spikes and blades.
Another one was Majin, a young boy who connected TOME for because of his girlfriend, PurpleThorn, but decided to fight against her when he revealed that she is with the guild of Anubis (he saw TOME as a game only and didn't consider fighting against his girlfriend. It wasn't really rare – many TOME players, including some members of hacker organizations, fought their mates user-friendly).
Another member was Bokuden, a living genie concealing his power in a lamp.
Three additional users, Wil the technician, Sephi the fox and Eclipse the rabbit, later participated in the group as well.
A gamed war started officially, and many users chose their side. Team Alpha, the web police and the bringers of hope fought with the netking software. The overwhelmed purple flame, and the hackers who were at D-buggers organization and D-buggers organization II (that were now official members in the purple flame), were looking for revenge for the organization who pulled their strings, and helped the netking software temporarily. Phaxal and The flux gang supported the guild of Anubis, and thousands of civil users also chose sides.
The supercomputer kept spawning DragonBug charges, Kajet orbs kept multiplying, and the netking software kept creating pieces of their antivirus program. Hackers and civilians alike used them just like normal items, although the risks in them. Alpha became demon alpha and FlameGirl became Devil FlameGirl regularly. Zetto and Kizuna started switching randomly with their normal forms and the suits of Voltarius and Tigerlily.
At last, the band of five and the web police infiltrated the guild of Anubis' pyramid and destroyed it from inside.
All The groups still existed, but the war was over… at least until Xirra exited her moon and started sabotaging the motherboard maze. This time the alpha pack and the guild of Anubis needed to Conspire to defeat the traitor. Fauna, demon alpha, devil GameSoft, Voltarius and Tigerlily beat Xirra MK-II, and fauna stayed at the place a bit after the others left it. She captured Xirra's corpse (including her armor) and lots of Kajet orbs, and gave them to DarkEyesofAnubis. He absorbed the corpse and wore the armor. The Kajet orbs locked at the guild of Anubis' curator hall, together with lots of Kajet orbs, and also DragonBug charges.
Days later, DarkEyesofAnubis started attacking the TOME open zones again. It seemed like a normal battle, but just as he was defeated, he brought all the guild of Anubis' virusfrags from both of the kinds and kept fighting! Now he was lots bigger, with sharp lightning-shaped black Tentacles made of Xirra MK-II's armor material, Kajet as his right arm and DragonBug as his left arm, and all the power of these four viruses. He was… THE ULTIMATE DARKEYES VIRUS!
To defeat him, GameCrusher revealed her true identity as the avatar of SOFTDI, and gifted her friends with a new and improved Antivirus that can repair virtual objects and people and heal damaged minds, greatly increase their power and rewrite TOME's codes. With the combined might of the heroes and the Antivirus, DarkEyes was defeated. Xirra MK-II succeeded branching out of him (although he kept the armor and powers, that were now owned by both of them) and for lack of any better option, went after him and joined back the guild of Anubis.
Now all the viruses and hackers were inactive… for now. A time of peace has begun, and almost everyone decided to enjoy it as long as they can.