Chapter 2

The next day was slow. I woke up, did some quick personal update run, and then I prepared for the next day.

I got to the meeting place right on time (as usual Floyd made one of his smart ass comments).

"Ok are you all ready?" asked Will

"If we weren't ready we wouldn't be here." Said Dennis

"True" said Will

"Well let's get this over with and get home." I said

"Ok, but first slot this scenery into your deck." Said Will

"Hey I got my desert and I like my desert." I said

"Yea but this will allow us all to see the same things instead of our own things." Said Will

"Fine" I said

As I slotted the program my view changed from a desert to a 16th century atmosphere.

"What's this drek?" Asked Floyd

"Hey I like it so shut up." Said Will

"Look let's just get this over with." Said Dennis

"Fine let's go" said Will

Will then took out a sword and ripped a hole in the air. In the deck this was Will punching in the address of the deck we were going to, but will has this thing for dramatics so he had to do something flashy.

"Well here we go" I said as I jumped into the hole

After entering the hole I was standing in front of a very large castle. The front gate was a large iron door. This signified a very strong ice on the deck's modem.

"So how we gonna get in?" Floyd asked

"Simple, I am about to break the door." Said Will

Will then pulled out a sword that was engulfed in a black flame. He then proceeded to slash at the door. As he slashed away the door began to change into a large face. Will destroyed the door before it could finish.

"That was a black ice my friends and this is blackbane. The best attack program for black ice or any other ice for that matter." Said Will

At that time I wished I had a holocam to take our picture because Floyd, Dennis, and me were standing there with our jars wide open just staring at what happened.

"Don't look so shocked. I said I had a program to destroy any ice." Said Will

"How did you just do that?" Dennis asked

"Simple, when you use a deception program the ice begins to process it. If it is a black ice, it starts then stops. Blackbane uses a deception then an attack in one split-second. This makes the ice begin to process and not defend. This allows a clean attack and gives you a split-second of grace afterwards. Brilliant isn't it?" Said Will

So after another few minuets of talking about Blackbane we entered the castle.

"OK now here is the plan. We will work our way to the back of the castle were Michen hid his back door to Renraku's mainframe. We will have to battle a few ice along the way most likely but I can take care of them." Said Will

"If you can take care of any ice then why did you call us to help you?" Floyd asked

"While Blackbane can take care of any ice I still need people to watch my back. Also I have to be right next to the ice to use Blackbane. So a trace&burn program will be able to get away from me and fry my brain. Also I need the help to find my way though the mainframe because as you know while I am the best at disposal of ice's I suck at navigating a deck." said Will

"True I remember you getting lost in Fuci's mainframe." I said

"Yea well I also figured I would include my friends and fellow horsemen in on this VERY big run. Cuz' if we pull this off, we will be very fraggin' rich. Well any way shall we continue?" Said Will

We then worked our way though Michen's deck. A few ice mostly barriers, a couple of trace&burn ice that I took care of, and one nasty black ice blocking the way to the back door.

"Well this is the back door should be but were is it?" Asked Will

"I don't think the guy would leave it out in the open so look around very carefully until you find it." Said Dennis

After a few moments of searching, Floyd found a false stone that opened the door. In the deck this was Floyd accessing a well-hidden link.

"Well let's go" said Floyd

And so we went into Renraku's mainframe. Little did we know what would come next.