Year 20XX . Location - The Undernet. Server 34. Area - Under The Table.
Forte stretches out his legs and then crosses his arms. He sits in a booth alone in a bar in the Undernet. Its a popular location, which is to say , Forte is never here. Its always full of navis trying to find drugs for their users or trying to order some kind of attack , either viral or physical, against another human for some petty reason. He wishes he didnt have to suffer this today or any other day but there is a rumor he heard about a powerful new Navi with the ability to put other navis to sleep. Something that has never been done. Navi programs cannot go into sleep mode. They are either running as programs or not running and the code stops flowing. If it did not stop flowing, programs could not be debugged or fixed from fragmentation errors. He even heard that his Navi was driving other navis insane through nightmares as they slept. This was important for Forte because he just recently started to randomly fall asleep and dream and he had no clue as to how or why. He only suspected it had something to do with trying to copy Rockmans ultimate program and failing. He hasnt quite felt like his full normal self since. He has this anxiety in him that wasnt there before. His dreams lately were stressing Forte with images of his betrayal by the humans before in Sci lab. The fear he felt for his life for the first time in particular keeps recirculating over and over in his dreams. He wakes up often in a panic, alone, with no one to witness what he would think of as an embarrassing display of weakness. Someone at this bar may know something, its what everyone is chatting about anyway when Forte is monitoring transmissions. THey say the Navi appears at random at Under The Table and asks to buy some blastit. Blastit is the newest cyber drug. Its a drug meant to mimic Ecstasy for net navis. Many navis for the more perverted users are designed to stimulate their operators in various ways, one of the more trending ways is getting your navi high on EX while , touch screening her/him to climax. Some users have even married their Navis and countrys like Germany will allow a legal marriage to a Navi as long as the Navi is of a version of 44 or higher. You may have learned in school that net navi number 1 is none other than Siri.
A waitress navi in a glittering sparkling dark purple sequin dress walks up to Forte. Her face is pretty with curvy cheeks and a small nose with a little bit of red on the tip. Her eyes are golden colored and her skin tone is a pale white. She has hair like a brier patch. Dark green vines with black thorns with red tips twist and curl around in the pattern of human hair that looks very much tangled.
Navi - Hi there. My name is Cyster. What will you have?
Forte - ...
Forte , with his eyes closed, and his arms crossed, ignores the waitress.
Cyster EXE - ooook ill just give you a little more time then...
Forte waits till the waitress turns to leave and he opens just one eye to get a look at her. The dress catches his eye and the thorns and vines flowing down her back is a nice touch. He closes his eye and returns to his silence.
One of those normal generic green navis comes bursting through the entrance. He starts to scream out loud...
Navi - Everyone PLUG OUT! PLUG OUT! Its a horde of viruses!
The Navi starts to fade into pixels and plugs out.
The waitress wastes no time in following suite.
A mettar walks in through the bar pushes the door a few inches with its head, then takes a step forward and pushes an inch or two more, then takes another step and pushes on through inside. He then uses his shockwave to attack the bartender. The shockwave smashes into the bar and cracks through the cyber wood and splits the bar like a log in two. The shockwave crashes into the bar navi and he slams into the wall behind, crashing down bottles. The cyber glass flys all the way over to fortes table and a few pieces land on it right in front of his face. Forte opens up one eye again to look at the glass on his table. Again he shuts his eye and ignores whats going on...
The bartender holds his chest for a few moments and then deletes...
Three other Navis are here in this bar enjoying some cyber drinks. One in a booth two booths down from Forte. One at the far far end of the bar thats now a bit crooked from the last attack. And one playing an arcade unit on the other side of the bar next to the cyber rooms.
Cyber rooms are not restrooms but cyber sex rooms. Something not allowed on public servers. Inside these rooms programs can unzip parts of their code and shove them into the spaces unzipped by their partners, resembling sex but the process looks strange to the human eye. The navis will phase in and out of pixelation and it makes it hard to distinguish who is who. Usually after it is over, some part of the partners code remains in them forever unless forcefully removed. The reason this is illegal is because what parts remain and where they are stored in a navis code after sex is random. Cyber sex diseases are bugs that occur in programs who have corrupted too much of their code with these random insertions. Cydeath is the worst one. Cyglitch is the most common. Twitches or vocal glitches are the usual first symptoms. Its also impossible to erase the traces of a program being unzipped illegally. Navis that do this or participate in illegal cyber sex are often isolated to the Undernet. No reputable buisness would hire them and no normal operator would use them. If an operator gets tired of them or wants a different girl navi or boy navi to play with , these navis who are often very attached to their operators get cast away.
This navi playing at the arcade is one such throw away. She gets her attention grabbed by the mettars attack. She stands 6 feet 3 inches tall in the cyber world. She has black stiletto style boots. Black leather leggings and straight jacket for a top. All black, all leather. The jacket has her arms unshackled but her hands dont come out of the sleeves. They are long and have metal zippers and clasps at teh end of the sleeves. She walks up behind the mettar and picks it up. Its little feet try to walk on nothing but air, scrambling to get away from its metta...it crys. Its pickaxe is wildly going up and down but without any surface to hit , it wont create a shockwave.
Mysterious Female Navi - Hey there cuuuutie!
The navi tosses the mettar up and down like a child, toying with it.
Mysterious Female Navi - You cant do nothing like this can you? HE HE he. What are you doing here huh? Let me give you a kiss...
She gives the mettar a kiss on his cheek and he starts to glitch, the mettar makes a noise that sounds like pain and then the mettar starts to pixelate into deletion.
The navi turns around and walks off in a cute fashion skipping back to her arcade unit. She ignores all the damage and the fact that the bartender just got deleted and resumes her game.
Forte feels that its pointless to remain here since the bartender has died and most all the customers have left. The other two navis besides the woman left after finishing their drinks and leaving some zennys on their tables for a bartender that doesnt exist. Forte thinks to himself that the citizens of the Undernet show more honor than some of the humans hes met in his life so far...
He opens his eyes and to his surprise...a black with white pawed kitten is staring right at him on top of his table.
Meeeoow...the kitten squeaks. Its probably the cutest sound a kitten has ever made.
Forte makes a concerned face.
Forte - whatever you want...NO.
The cyber cat hears Fortes voice and jumps up to his head and circles around and around and then nestles down on top. The cyber cats paws hang down on each side of his cross shaped head gem.
Forte stands up...his face looks blank. He reaches up to pick up the cat but she senses it and jumps back down to the table. She turns up and meows again.
Fortes hard exterior couldnt take much more, the cat is innocent, cute, and affectionate. Forte is hard but hes not souless. He reaches down to pet her head.
Forte - Okay...
He continues to pet her and she starts to purr..then Forte...feels something familiar. She seems familiar with him and he cant put his finger on it, but he could swear hes seen this cat before. His memory access is perfect and the fact he cant recall exactly where and when hes seen this cat bothers him.
Forte - come on...lets get out of here.
Forte picks up the cat and carry's her under his arm like a piece of baggage. Her paws and legs dangle down limp and her head and ears are perked up and looking forward. After they exit the bar he teleports to a quiet park bench in a shady cyber city recreational area. He places the cat down on the bench and ponders his next move. That dream navi is still probably in the undernet. This cat though, proves a bigger mystery to me than that...
Forte looks down at the cat again and she looks up and meets his gaze.
MEoww...she says. Forte reaches down to pet her. He pets her and again he gets a sensation of nostalgia or deja vu.
Forte - Thats about enough of that...
Forte activates his copy ability program to scan the cat...
Forte...loses consciousness...