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Day 3 Part 2 - Caught Silver Handed

Dawn closed her windows and opened up her file of Megaman's data from three years ago. She had meant to scrap it, but had been putting it off until she got the new data. Now she knew that she would have gotten the same problem even with a new scan. The data she couldn't decipher. That was his human DNA. She had to admire Dr. Hikari's craftsmanship. She would have never thought it was possible if she wasn't looking at the data in front of her. Now, all she had to do was to break it down and learn it, starting with that heavily embed piece of code. Unlike the rest of the DNA, this part had gone in deep in Megaman's systems. As she typed in a few keys, she discovered one thing. The DNA had a key. In order to be properly digitized, the computer that had done this work seemed to have created a digital key to the human DNA so that any programs that interfaced with Megaman wouldn't somehow interact with it.

In other words, it had a security system and a map around it. Human DNA was hard to understand. Code, as long as you knew what you were doing, was easy. And Dawn had several years experience to try.

Dawn flicked across a couple screens and pulled up the code. While she worked on messing with the data in its own testing space, Void returned back from the Undernet. He had spent a little time down there getting used to his new power.

"Hello Dawn, anything I can do?" the red navi asked.

"Yeah, email IPC and tell them that I quit the Transer Project and the company. Destroy any contact records they have of me and the account with the research money. Dump most of it back into people's accounts. I don't really care where it all goes. You could give it to some orphanage for all I care. Just save some of it for me. I may need it for a backup plan in case things go south. Also, get rid of any files dealing with a Dr. Diamond Sciona or a Mr. Casius Night. I'd rather not have any loose ends."

"I'll have it completed by the end of the night," Void said, already making plans to brute force his way into several servers. If he attacked the main systems, he would have them so bugged up that the computer would be unable to figure out what 2 + 2 was.

Dawn looked back at the navi for a quick second, "Also, check up on Mortis. Make sure he hasn't screwed up and gotten Freezeman deleted yet and revived the other navis we need."

"I'm guessing you've gotten what you wanted from the inside?" Void asked, looking back at her one last time before turning to leave.

"Oh, not yet. I won't get what I want until I have SciLab's true records of the Navi Project and Megaman in my hands. But," Dawn smirked as she noticed the code beginning to bug, severely, "If you're asking me if I'm any closer to discovering it all. I would say that I'm closer than I've ever been."

"Very well then," he said as he jacked out into the Net.

'Who knew that this navi would be the key to everything?' Dawn thought as she continued to work more and more in-depth on this code. She would have laughed if she was that kind of person. Maybe she would have felt bad if she hadn't seen her own child in pain and suffering. Maybe if she hadn't seen and experience what she had, then maybe she would feel an ounce of sympathy or guilt for what she was about to do. But then again, you don't always get everything you want in life. However, as a doctor and scientist, she had to wonder just one thing about the experiment she was about to do. Even as a navi…would he still feel the pain of not being able to breathe?

She pressed a button and saw the code bug once again. You know, humans were complex. Easy to break and hard to fix. Programs, if buggy enough, could get to the point where they weren't worth fixing. Just how much push would she have to give before they folded? Well, she was soon going to find out. After all, what was once determined by nucleic acids was now only fixated by ones and zeroes. The coding was complex, but the transfer between human DNA and the digital world had digitized Megaman's code. He may be human, but he was also a computer.

And that was something that she would take advantage of.


Void couldn't understand why it was so easy to get into important server. It had only taken him an hour to dispatch of the various forms of delaying that this system had to offer and it was supposed to be a files server. Alright, so there were many of these things, but surely people had to have worried about what happens in a chain reaction right?

His purple saber began to glow as he walked up to a control panel and began a search for the names Dawn had told him to delete permanently. If he caused a loss of data here, then the virus embedded into his blade would spread to all the other servers and take out the same information there. So there was a plus in taking a virus's power. While he didn't have the Zero Virus, he understood how these things spread across computer system. It gave him a sudden appreciation for it.

As he scanned through the plethora of names, his mind once again began to wander. She was in one of her moods again. Fixation. Obsession. Just what was her driving factor? What compelled her? He had no reason to question, but part of him did just for curiosity's sake. He couldn't help but wonder if maybe this was how all navis were. Inquisitive by nature. They weren't humans, but computers. They needed information in order to process the world around them. Without information, they would be outdated and left behind. Perhaps, their own obsession was what drove him to wonder about his NetOp.

He flicked his finger twice, flagging the names he had been given. Well, looks like that was going to be enough for today. However, as he prepared to strike the panel, he stopped. Sure there were many names with Dawn, but maybe the thing that caught his attention with this one was the last name. Silverlight. Yes, he had seen that name before. It was the name…on Dawn's doctorate. He had seen a digital copy of it one time when she had him look for some files in an old hard drive of hers. But…how could she been dead?

Void turned behind him to make sure nothing particularly interesting was happening. Well…it would exactly be betraying her if she didn't know…right? He copied the file into his system files and destroyed the files of Dr. Diamon Sciona, Mr. Casius Night, and Dr. Dawn Silverlight. Well, at least he knew now how she so easily fabricated herself as a doctor. She already was one.

As he journeyed back to the meeting point, he began to scroll through some of the files. Some of it was scattered and he definitely wanted to put it away before he got anywhere close to Mortis's territory. What he read almost bugged his logic function. Dawn was insane…no, actually marked clinically insane by a psychiatric. Not only that, but according to this file, she had not only gotten out of the nut house, but had committed suicide. The only note she had left said two words: The End. Void grabbed his hand which had actually started trembling on its own. Just who the hell was he working for? Was he even the navi of Dawn Silverlight or some kind of imposter? Just what the hell was going on!

"And what is that in your hand, Void?" a voice asked.

Void looked up. Great, he had gotten so involved that he had almost walked into Mortis. The red navi closed the file as it disappeared out of view, "It's nothing. Just a few project files that Dawn wanted me to review."

"Hmm," the navi mused to himself. He wasn't an idiot. Void was hiding something…and that was normally a thing he was good at. So, why show his cards now? Mortis looked around him. Nothing appeared to be out of the norm. However, it was probably better off to have this conversation quickly.

"Anyway, I assume you've raised Freezeman and the others?" Void asked.

Mortis nodded, "Yes. All according to schedule."

"Good. Then you know what you're going to do next."

Mortis smirked. He may not have liked the brunette woman, but he had to admit that she often made good plans, "Yes. Now we reintroduce the Ice Age upon the Net once again."


Update: Monday

Ghost: And thus, we have revealed that Dawn is clinically insane. At least, Dawn Silverlight is. I mean, there is no way that Dawn of now is Dawn of past right?...Maybe...Oh, brr...I'm leaving to go get a jacket. Ghost501 logging...*acchhooo!* out...*sniff sniff*.