Connection Terminated

By: Pyroteknix

Everyone says that this resembles Future Hope by Galux Kitty. I had this stupid idea ages ago but reading Future Hope kick-started me to write this. Damn coincidence.

10:57, Somewhere in Russia

"Drake, you messed up again." Jex complained as he moved one of his chess pieces. Drake scowled at him and watched as a brown-haired girl grinned and moved one of her knights with finality. "Checkmate, Jex. Looks like I win again." The girl said casually, trying to get under her leader's skin. So far, it was working. Drake suppressed a laugh, as Jex grew red in frustration trying to find a possible escape in his teammate's ingenious play. The blonde government agent gritted his teeth and rolled his eyes as his pale-skinned comrade, Drake, walked up to a board on the wall of the spacious and luxurious room. "67 wins for Sarah, 0 for Jex." Drake announced tauntingly as he added a point under the name Sarah. The brunette girl smirked at Jex before heading out with a pleasant wave. "I'm going to check on the sleeper agents." She explained as Jex and Drake opened their mouths. Jex quickly turned his gaze toward the sad-looking face of Drake, raising an eyebrow. "I see no reason for you to chase that girl around." He said dryly as he noted his friend's vacant stare at the spot where Sarah just left. Drake ran a hand through his slick black hair and walked to the door, frowning at Jex. "2 years of training together and I don't even get one kiss." He complained and his leader rolled his eyes. "Why did it have to be me? I'm Drake, military agent! I should be able to forget about her!" Jex coughed and Drake quickly glared at him. The blonde agent made a sarcastically apologetic smile and pulled out a pistol, twirling the shiny black gun in his hand. "Apparently not." Jex muttered under his breath as Drake sighed in depression. "Oh well, off to upgrade Riwin." He excused himself as Jex reached for a laptop on the floor. He tossed it to Drake and his comrade caught it with one hand, displaying the fruits of their extensive training. "Yeah, whatever." Jex said nonchalantly, grabbing a red apple and tossing it up and down. In a flash, a gunshot echoed through the halls of the building and the apple fell to the floor with a resounding thud as Jex noted its bullet hole. "Score for the master." Jex complimented himself as he twirled the black pistol in his hands happily.

2 months later, 13:29, Kai's room, Rebel Base, Shanghai, China

Kai tapped his keyboard impatiently as he downloaded a particularly large cache of upgrades for Dranzer. It was a well-known fact that Dranzer was the most skilled and powerful bitbeast in the Central China branch with Driger a close second. Kai intended to keep it that way. He smiled thinly as the download completed and he quickly copied all of the files onto Dranzer's storage space. Kai noticed a little symbol on the bottom of his monitor and realized that he had received mail. He simultaneously opened up a list of weapon uploads and his email, humming a funeral song. Scanning the lengthy weapons list and mentally taking note of some, Kai read the email from Kenny. "Damn!" He shouted as Kenny's letter revealed extensive damage to their computer systems. "Good, he deleted the firewalls." Kai muttered as he read through the email. "They're working on the frozen servers." (A/N: Hey shadow wulf! Guess who!) He said quietly before closing the window and accessing Dranzer. "Get to work on solving who's doing this. This is obviously an inside job." He explained as Dranzer's face nodded on his monitor. Kai uploaded an upgraded version of the sniper rifle his bitbeast frequently used and opened up a database containing the personal information of all of the Central China branch rebels. His eyes glanced at Dranzer, warily strolling through a 3D view of the frozen server, noting all the virtual snow covering the floor. He continued on scanning the list without success. "Kai, nothing here." Dranzer said, shivering due to the digital cold. "Same here. I'll run a personal check on the rebels." Kai answered as Dranzer sent himself back to his email address. "Sure. By the way, it appears Driger has taken a liking to the, er, form of Galux now." Dranzer replied and Kai gave an involuntary gasp. "What? You bitbeasts can actually like other bitbeasts?" He spat out and Dranzer rolled his eyes. "Just because we are now digital doesn't mean we're emotionless." The bitbeast replied angrily as his master quickly apologized. "Sorry. It just pissed me off 'cause their masters are obviously in love and that already ticks me off." Kai replied and Dranzer frowned in distaste. "Yeah. I mean, they'll eventually ditch the rebels for their own pleasure. Bastards." Dranzer added and ended the conversation, closing his window for some rest. Kai smiled thinly at the idea and walked out to commence a few quick interviews.

13:30, Max and Emily's room, Rebel Base, Shanghai, China

Max wrapped his arms around Emily's waist as she borrowed his computer for some net surfing. "Watcha looking for?" He asked and removed a stray blonde hair from his eyes. "Government intelligence reports, tip- offs, that kind of thing." She replied casually and Max shrugged. "You never really told me why you came here." He whirled the computer chair around so that she would be face to face with him. She blushed as she did with Kai and stood up before walking over to Max's bed. She sat down and stared at the questioning eyes of Max before blushing profusely again. The blonde American sighed in defeat and closed his computer before sitting down beside Emily. "All those interrogation tactics and I can't get an answer out of you." He said sheepishly and scratched his head. They both raised an eyebrow as they suddenly saw Kai walk in front of their shared room and head towards the cafeteria. (A/N: This is becoming like school.) A thought hit Max and he stared at Emily with purpose in his eyes. "Are you scared of me? You know, like you are with Kai." He asked and Emily took a deep breath. She stared back at him and walked over to the door, shutting it and keeping their conversation safe from the eavesdropping Tyson. "Max, uh, I never told you because I was afraid." She replied, shuffling her feet. "Eh?" Max said, still not in complete understanding. She took a deep breath again and continued. "I was afraid that you would reject me if you knew I only came here to see you again." She admitted and braced for a sudden punch or anything. Instead, Max planted a kiss on her lips and hugged her tightly. "Imagine if I actually decided to go through with leaving to guys to visit you." He said softly in Emily's ear, rubbing her back. "Good thing I had second thoughts." Just at that moment, when Max was leaning towards Emily, Kai burst in the room and looked around frantically before turning on them. Emily hastily put as much distance between her and Max, shooting a longing glance at him. He replied with an apologetic one and jerked his head towards Kai in a symbol of irritation. Kai raised an eyebrow and coughed loudly. "I hope I didn't interrupt anything." He asked and they both shook their heads in response. "Good, 'cause I'm already in a foul mood thanks to Ray and Mariah. You guys are the only ones with the wits to remain focused on the rebellion!" Kai continued as Max gave an audible gulp. "Anyway, I'm looking for this boy who walks around in a red sleeveless shirt, black pants, black gloves and a bandana. Oh, he also has this weird red dragon talisman connected to a silver chain. Seen him?" Kai asked with a false smile. Emily croaked out a "No" and twiddled her thumbs, occasionally staring at Kai and at the door. Kai sighed and mumbled something before slowly walking out of their room. Max rolled his eyes and promptly leaned over to Emily when Kai's head suddenly popped out from behind the door. "Oh, and Emily, sorry for being rude when you visited. I thought you would end up like that whore Mariah." He gave pleasant thumbs up and Max clutched his chest in slight fear. The blonde American turned to Emily and looked at her in worry. "Maybe we can hold this off until Kai finds that boy and stops popping into rooms." He suggested and Emily nodded in agreement.

14:12, Rebel Server, Virtual World

Driger's hands sifted through the dense virtual snow as he helped the ongoing investigation and repairs of the frozen rebel server. He sighed and sat down on the snow, exhausted from his never-ending search. Driger slowly stood up again and reexamined the same snow he had been searching through for an hour already. He bowed his head and faced the endlessly white ground, concentrated on his duty. Suddenly, Driger slammed into another bitbeast and fell flat on the icy floor. "Oh! I'm sorry." Driger smiled thinly as he grasped the hand of Galux, standing back up. "No, I should have watched where I was going. It's entirely my fault." Driger said with a smile on his face. Galux frowned and rubbed her hands together to create some warmth. "You act just like Ray from the real world." She commented as Driger continued with his search for any clues as to who might have frozen their servers. Driger stopped and faced Galux, raising an eyebrow. "Eh?" He said modestly and the female bitbeast behind him laughed a bit. "Mariah says that Ray is the most wonderfully humble, kind and sweet person she knows." Galux said in response while she straightened out her long pink hair that obviously had an uncanny resemblance to Mariah's. Driger pretended to throw up and he fell again, laughing hysterically. "Hahaha! Ray thinks that Mariah is the most independent, headstrong and dangerously cunning girl he knows!" Driger said through erratic bursts of laughter. Galux doubled up as well and laughed beside the white tiger bitbeast. "I can't believe that Ray thinks Mariah is independent!" "I have no idea why Mariah thinks Ray is humble! Arrogant human!" They both exclaimed, causing even more laughter. Driger clutched his digitized chest and panted for air. "Humans can be so blind." He commented and Galux nodded in agreement. Driger raised and eyebrow and stared thoughtfully at the virtual sky. "They even try to make us look like them. Take this yin-yang cloth for example." He observed, pointing to a strip of cloth that was identical to the one on Ray's forehead. Galux stroked her long pink hair but pointed to her Chinese shirt that was a clone of the one Mariah wears. "The pink hair came with the process of being digitized but the shirt is purely Mariah's idea." The two bitbeasts stared at each other for a short while but their thoughts were interrupted by a gunshot. Driger quickly ran up to Galux and inspected a nasty bullet hole in her right leg. He stroked her head as she clutched her wound. Driger's eyes immediately narrowed and he looked up to see a bitbeast, twirling a gun, standing on a virtual pillar. "That was for forgetting your duties." Dranzer said coldly and he pointed his sniper rifle at Galux's other leg. Driger clenched his fists and calmly responded. "How about you? You're not doing anything." Dranzer raised an eyebrow and extracted something that looked like a microchip from his pocket. "I suppose. All I did was discover that the assailants were a team of bitbeasts, related in some way, caused this damage." He stated, brushing some dirt of his black cape smugly. Driger quickly gritted his teeth and made a gesture towards the injured form of Galux. "But why did you have to shoot her?" Driger said angrily but stopped himself from attacking Dranzer because of a lack of weaponry. Dranzer smiled thinly at the defiant female bitbeast and growled at Driger. "You like her in the same way that your bastard of a master, Ray, likes that whore, Mariah. I'm so disgusted by your obvious lack of focus." Dranzer said and struck the final straw for Driger. "Don't even think about calling my master a bastard! You can never be half the anything he is!" Driger shouted in sheer rage and nearly punched Dranzer's face. The phoenix bitbeast avoided the punch and grabbed Driger's arm, tossing him back down to the ground. "I know. How can I be half of nothing?" Dranzer said calmly but a shot from behind sent him toppling to the floor. Draciel and Dragoon approached their leader's bitbeast, a pistol in each of their hands. "Dranzer, get the hell out of here." Dragoon said with utter distaste and watched as Dranzer dissipated into thin air. Draciel ran up to Driger and Galux and quickly opened up a portable medical kit. "You have to stop fighting with him! There is no way you can beat him without support!" Draciel advised to the visibly frustrated Driger. Dragoon surpressed a snigger as he saw Galux look at Driger questioningly and watched the white tiger bitbeast blush profusely. "Like master, like bitbeast. At this rate, Tyson and I will be the only single guys in our happy little group with the exception of the terrible duo of Kai and Dranzer. Lucky us!" Dragoon thought happily and fired shots into the air for fun. (A/N: Blissfully ignorant of everything else. I wonder why I like that attitude?)

15:27, Somewhere in Russia

"The sleepers say that there is increased tension between Kai and Ray. We may be able to exploit this particular weakness." Sarah quickly returned her cellphone inside her jeans pocket and stared intently at her comrades. Jex raised an eyebrow and moved one of his black rooks all the way across the marble chessboard, closing in on Ivan's king, where he and his leader's son were playing. He grinned triumphantly at Ivan before turning to face Sarah. "We work behind the scenes again and subtly push both of them to murder." He suggested casually, as he was used to plotting people's deaths. Drake smiled thinly and tossed a pear up and down, eventually slicing it in half with a concealed knife in his sleeve. "Either way, one of the most powerful rebels we have ever met will be disposed off. It's a win-win situation." Drake said as he caught the 2 pear slices in both of his pale hands. The three government agents turned to the relaxed son of their boss, who they respected more than his arrogant father. "Then the rebels will have to go out of their secret little hole and bury one of them. At that point, our sleepers will pinpoint the rebel base's location and we strike, stealthily and unnoticed." Ivan said calmly while moving a bishop right through Jex's defenses and trapping his king. "Checkmate, I believe." He added as Jex slammed his fist into a desk, visibly frustrated by his loss. Sarah clapped in approval as Drake silently munched on one of his pear slices. Ivan brushed some dirt off his deathly black shirt and stared at his subordinates, grabbing a juicy orange from a basket. Sarah bit her lip and held up a finger. "Was it a good idea to hire mercenaries as sleepers? Even worse, those two are brother and sister." She asked and Ivan narrowed his eyes coldly, tightening his grip on the fruit as everyone in the room paused to see his reaction. "It doesn't matter. I shall eliminate all of them with that wonderful cache of weapons in our storage." He gritted his teeth and squashed the orange, watching its juices drip on the floor. "Nobody stops me." He said threateningly and Drake promptly stopped chewing his pear, slightly frightened. Ivan's mouth snapped back to a pleasant smile and he rubbed his hands, wiping away the orange juice. "Now then, back to business. Jex, practice your shooting skills in the execution chamber. The executioner died of a heart attack today and we need a replacement." He ordered cheerily and Jex stood up, simultaneously saluting him. Ivan turned to Sarah and pointed to Drake. "Sarah, get Ris and battle Drake's Riwin. Jex and Rizel have already surpassed both of you in virtual combat." He two agents saluted him briefly before pulling out disc cases and running out of the room. Ivan sighed and ran a hand through his amazingly black hair while looking out the humongous window of the room. "Time to get rid of the biggest obstacle of all." Ivan closed his eyes and pulled out his cellphone, dialing his father's number.

My bad guys are so freaking evil! Especially Ivan the Demented.