Chapter. 10
After the encounter with Carlos, Alice and Mattis headed straight for zakka, inside the two found Julien right away. "Hey Julien!" Mattis shouted as he walked towards him.
"Oh, hello there." Greeted them turned to the female sinner. "Who are you?"
"I'm Alice, a friend of Mattis, nice to meet you."
"Thanks again for rescuing me. I don't know what I would have d-"
"Julien, man, you gotta help us!" Mattis interrupting the citizen. "This is, like, the most important thing ever in the history of time!"
Alice let out a giggle. "I wouldn't go that far."
Julien stepped back from the pair. "Okay, okay. Calm down. Tell me what you need."
"We're looking for a ghost in the level 2 cell garden, but our accessories won't let us in. We heard a citizen can get an accessory to turn a blind eye, so here we are."
"Well." Julien took a second to think about the situation. "I could make the necessary tweaks to the accessories in question, but it would be a serious violation of the people's charter..."
Mattis put his hands together, begging the citizen. "Please do this for us, we have to get in there! A hot ghost chick is waiting for me to save her!"
Okay, okay. I'll do it. You saved my life. This is the least I can do to repay you."
"Woo-Hoo! We're in business!"
Alice smiled brightly, watching Mattis so overjoyed. "Thank you for this Julien, I owe you one."
"But there's something I'll need you to do for me before I can get to work."
Mattis gave out a sigh of frustration. "What!? Like what?"
"There's a particular resource I'm going to need in order to help you out. I'd like you to find it for me."
Alice gives a nod. "Okay, what do you need?" Julien wrote on a piece of paper and handed to her. "Thanks. Be back in a flash." Alice dashed out of the shop running straight for the lift.
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On the first code floor Alice looked high and low for the resource, talking to several citizens. As she rubbed her eyes Alice accessory patted her head. "Stop that Leon!"
"What are we looking for?" Alice showed the machine the paper. "A super will'o graphite. Scanning... this way."
After walking to another wall of cells the accessory picked up the item in question, handing it to Alice. "Thank you Leon!"
"Why do you want to go to the garden?"
"Because I'm curious to see if this ghost rumor is true."
"If it wasn't for my programming, I wouldn't stop you from for filling your wish."
Alice put her arm around the accessory's shoulders as they walked back to the warren. "It's okay, you're doing really well understanding humans."
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"I'm back!" Alice announced.
"Ah, I see you've brought what I need." Alice handed Julien the graphite. "I'll head back to my workshop and get started... Oh, and I'm going to need to borrow your accessories, of course." Julien took the accessories and left.
Alice and Mattis spent the next hour shopping for new weapons, when they finished Julien was outside waiting for them.
"That was fast. Thanks Julien." Alice gave slight bow.
"Anytime. Listen, basically I'll added a nice new function to your accessories." Julien raised a finger to his lips. "Do this and it will trigger a scrubbing sequence that will temporary disable surveillance memory. It's known as the 'zip it system'! Pretty nifty, don't you think?"
"Julien, you're the man! I can't wait to test this out! C'mon! Let's hit the cell garden!" Mattis rushed out the door, almost hitting a couple of people. Alice sighed and fallowed.
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Outside the cell garden, Alice and Mattis turned to their accessories and raised a finger to their lips. Both of the accessories put their hands behind their backs. "Scrubbing sequence initiated. Suspending surveillance protocol."
"It worked! It worked!" Cheered Mattis pumping his fist. "Okay, let's go in!"
The two entered the door, into a large empty room. "This looks like the training center, just dimly lit." Said Alice. The two walked through the door on the other side to find another room that looked the same. They went to the door on other side of it as well, this time as it opened they hid behind the doorframe.
On the other side an accessory was looking around. Alice watched the accessory till it turned its back to them and headed for a door. "Stick close." The sneaked across the room, getting to the next door just as it closes And reopen it.
The accessory looked around some more till it turned right. The sinners fallowed behind again. The accessory looked a door in front of it but took one on its right. When the machine was out of the room the sinners made a break for the door, entering a long hallway with a single pillar in the middle and an accessory walking around it.
The sinners tailed the accessory around the pillar till it had its back to the next door and ran for it.
Inside Alice went for a door on her right when she spotted another accessory, she grabbed Mattis and shoved him a corner. Alice put her hand over his mouth, as the accessory walked right by them.
When it was clear they ran through the door, into another hallway. This time with a pillar that filled the center. Mattis didn't see the accessory and just ran, Alice chased after Mattis.
When an accessory did come around the corner Alice grabbed Mattis, pulling him into an empty space in the pillar and to the other side. As the accessory walked back to where they came from, the sinners got to the end.
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Now out of the halls Alice and Mattis where in a dark room, with dim pale light everywhere. In the middle was a bridge that lead to a girl with purple thorns binding her to a large white eye shaped ring.
The girl had light sandy hair. Wearing an unzipped hoody, a long sock on her left leg and a thorn wrapped around her right, all in white.
"Hey, I got a bad feeling about this man..." Mattis started backing to where he came in. "We need to get out of here. Like, now."
"But we can't just leave her here. Who she is or whatever she's done, no one deserves this!" Alice took off running towards the imprisoned girl. Mattis waved his hands in defeat and fallowed.
Sirens rang out in the area as it began flashing red, two accessories entered the area.
Mattis looked back and forth between the machines and the prisoner. "Aww, shaz! Y-you got the wrong guy, man! Wait, I can explain I-!"
The machines didn't listen and shot the two sinners with their palms, binding their arms to their sides. "Intruders apprehended in restricted area. Returning offenders to containment cells." The accessories struck the sinners over the head, knocking them out and carrying them back to their cells.
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After some time had passed Alice slowly open her eyes. "You're awake! Please sit up, your body requires water." The accessory helped Alice sit up and handed her a glass.
She took water and drank in gulps. "Thank you Leon, your very kind."
"It's because it is my duty to do so, but lately it doesn't feel that way. Why is that?" Alice rubbed her machine's hair. "You hate it when I do that so why do you get to do it to me?"
"It's called teasing. You do something to annoy someone but they don't mind, because it shows that you care."
Leon stands up, facing the door. "Natalie will be here in less than a minute." Leon turned back to Alice. "Would you like me to keep her out?"
"It's okay, better now than later." The accessory nodded and stepped aside from the door.
The door opened up, letting Natalie inside. "Do you realize what you were caught doing?" The officer spoke in a foul mood as always.
"Looking for a ghost?"
"Don't lie to me, maggot! Not only were you caught trespassing in a highly restricted area, you now compound your crime by lying to your superior! Your sentence has been extended."
Alice watched her years increase by four hundred years. "That's not fair!"
"Did you find that room purely by accident or...? No. On second thought, I don't want to know." Natalie took a minute to think. "You will not breathe a word about this little debacle to anyone. If you do, the punishment will be swift and I make myself clear?"
"Yes Miss Woo." Alice lowered her head as Natalie left the cell.
Leon went up to the girl and rubbed her hair. "Don't worry about it. Natalie thinks she needs to be tough all the time, or else the sinners will walk all over her."
"Still don't like it when you do that."
"I know, I'm teasing you."
Alice began laughing out loud. "Thank you Leon. I needed that."
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