Chapter 9: Anti-Virus Warzone
"Void Ranger, my son. Welcome back... We missed you." Said Total AV as he and Void circled the room together with their swords in hand.
"You like what i've done with the place?" Taunted Total AV,
"It's over Total AV, i've come to bring you to justice." Said Void as he began to hold his sword with 2 hands.
"I know my son, I've foreseen it. Which is why your brothers are just gonna sit back and enjoy the show. By the end of this night, deletion... it is inevitable." Said Total AV as both he and Void took up their fighting stances.
Void and Total AV began circling the room as both combatants were secretly measuring each other's distances and the required momentum for their attacks.
Just then, Total AV and Void began to strike, they clashed swords with each other and used their body weight to stand their ground. Unfortunately for Void, Total AV used his brute force to push him back with a slash to the face.
Total AV then proceeded to slash and hack away towards his son until the force of the last blow sent Void off his feet as he flew and fell back first to the floor.
"VOID!!!" Screamed SNT as she was swinging wildly in the air to get free from the ropes.
"Cmon Void, put your back into it!" Shouted Saki Chao as she let out all her anger to motivate him.
Void slowly returned to his feet and put his hand on the side of his face where he noticed a small amount of binary coded blood drip down on his hand.
Total AV then used his open hand to gesture his son 'en guard' as he began to measure Void Ranger for another attack.
For the second time, swords in hand. Void and Total AV began circling around the room once again ready to strike with another sword clash.
"What is he doing?" Shouted Saki Chao who was looking down at Void aggravated.
"Maybe he's planning a strategy?" SNT guessed as she and Saki both looked down to watch Void's next move.
Void and Total AV then clashed swords with each other and stood their ground. This time however, Void had the edge as he stepped forward and pushed his father back.
He then slashed, stabbed and hacked away at his father until he was sent flying and landing stomach first to the ground.
"GREAT SHOT VOID, NOW LET HIM HAVE IT!!!" Shouted Saki Chao as she was cheering while lifting her hands up one at a time, unleashing punches, hooks and uppercuts in the air.
"Void, I believe in you!" Shouted SNT as she looked down below.
Total AV returned to his feet slowly and proceeded to dust himself off from the attack.
"I must say my son, you've gotten more skilled as the years pressed on." Said Total AV as he stared at his son looking impressed.
"I wish I could say the same for you." Said Void as he and Total AV took up their arms again and began to circle each other.
Suddenly, Void and Total AV then clashed swords again. But this time, Total AV threw a thunderous punch to void's face. They then began to duel each other, clashing swords, swinging wildly at each other as they were trying to behead the opponent.
Void and Total AV even tried slashing, hacking and stabbing each other. But with every hit, the opponent would always position his sword to block every oncoming attack.
Just then, out of nowhere, Total AV jumped over Void and stabbed Void on the side causing Void to fall to his knees.
"VOID NOOOOOOOO!!!" Cried SNT and Saki Chao in unison as they watched Total AV destroy his son 2-1.
But Void didn't give up. Void grabbed onto his side in hopes to stop the bleeding and was on his knees in pain. He slowly got back up and drew his sword once again.
"Lets go Void, Lets go!!!" Shouted Saki Chao as she clapped her hands every time she cheered. "Lets go Void, Lets go!!!"
This time, Void clashed his sword with Total AV's with only one hand, when Total AV tried to sword whip Void's head, Void slid under him and started slashing at his father's body.
Although Void did get some good shots to his father, Total AV caught on and began to block the rest of his attacks. Total AV then performed a spinning tornado slash, in which Void sidestepped out of the way to dodge and slashed Total AV 2 more times to send him flying and hitting the ground once again.
The score was 2-2, and this was the final round to decide who would leave fate to chance.
"Void!!! Hurry!!!" Shouted SNT as she once again swung back and forth trying to get free from the ropes.
"Oh COME ON VOID, YOU'RE HOPELESS, YOU Fight like my grandmother!" Shouted Saki Chao. "Your moving slower than my own cancer! Cancer will kill me faster than you winning this fight."
Total AV returned to his feet and was furious to see what was unfolding before him.
"Why my son? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Could it be for love? You must know it by now. You can't win.
It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Void? Why? Why do you persist?"
Void swings his sword in a circle and gets in a fighting stance and responds, "You were right all along father, deletion... it is inevitable."
Void and Total AV ran towards each other, they then clashed their swords together to push each other back. They then once again tried slashing, hacking and stabbing each other. But they always dodged and blocked each other's attacks.
Finally, Void jumped over his father and slashed him on the chest causing Total AV to fall to his knees. Total AV was down and Void Ranger had won the fight.
After the fight with Total AV came to an end, Total AV got back up to his feet and struggled to stand up as he held onto his side.
"I must admit son... You have guts, and so do your little girl friends looking down on you." Said Total AV as he pointed to SNT and Saki Chao as they smirked. "But if you think for one moment that the virus war is over, you are sadly mistaken!" Roared Total AV as he snapped his fingers.
All of a sudden, the evil clones were at the top of the stage where they drew their swords and cut the rope sending SNT and Saki Chao falling.
SNT was lucky since she had her tails to help her fly. But Saki Chao was still trapped in the cage and unable to escape. Void ran towards the cage and got into position to catch it.
When the cage fell, Void took a direct hit to the face and fell to the floor, the cage used Void's body as a pillow, and it hurt like hell.
"SNT!!!" Yelled Saki Chao as she was happy to see SNT again,
"Saki Chao!!!" Yelled SNT,
Saki Chao escaped the destroyed cage and ignored Void where she flew towards SNT. Saki Chao freed SNT from the ropes as they then went up to Void. They both removed the broken cage on top of Void Ranger.
"Void!! Are you alright?" Shouted SNT,
Void looked at both SNT and Saki Chao, "I'm alright, I'm not hurt." Said Void as he was happy to see them finally reunited together.
Void, SNT and Saki Chao all hugged each other happily, "Wow Void, you were amazing against your father." Said SNT,
"Yeah, you definitely showed him who's the real anti-virus in the computer kingdom." Said Saki Chao,
"Yeah, I guess I won after all." Said Void as he blushed towards SNT, SNT brought Void back to his feet, "Thanks" Said Void as he and SNT hugged it out as Saki Chao joined in.
After the hug, the trio then chased and attempted to attack Total AV and the evil void clones as they headed towards the exit door. Unfortunately for our heroes, despite throwing some good punches towards the clones, they managed to use their rogue anti-virus shields to block all oncoming attacks. They then slammed the doors shut and locked it before making their escape.
Both Void and SNT were now trapped inside and needed to find a way out.
Void and Saki Chao searched the laboratory and grabbed everything they could find in the lab as they attempted to break down the doors. It was no use.
...
Meanwhile, in the same building near the rooftop, Norton and Hacker arrived inside the registry keys room through the computer ad teleporter.
Once they stepped foot inside, Norton was looking very nervous as he was unsure of what was going to happen. The U.A.V were now in enemy territory.
"Hacker, are you sure this is the room where we'll find Void Ranger's stolen dev codes?" Said Norton as he and Hacker were looking around.
"It has to be, the registry keys is the only place where we keep encrypted keys of programs throughout the computer. Void's codes must be in here." Answered Hacker.
Norton and Hacker proceeded to open up the majority of file cabinets where they found registry keys of illegally pirated software from companies like Adobe, Autodesk, ImageLine, etc.
"Those fiends, they have copies of every pirated software imaginable... They even have pirated versions of the old Norton Anti-Virus for MS-Dos." Said Norton looking shocked at all the programs they had in their server.
"Not only that, they even have scripts for every virus ever created in the history of cyber security, everything ranging from MyDoom, Stuxnet, Klez, Magistr, Storm... They have them all." Said Hacker as he put a couple of scripts back in the file cabinet.
"Any luck finding Void Ranger's dev codes?" Asked Norton as they kept looking in the file cabinets.
"Nope, nothing yet. If I were Void's development codes, I would be hiding in a high level security file cabinet." Said Hacker,
"You mean that golden file cabinet over there with the security lasers?" Asked Norton as he pointed to a conveniently placed file cabinet surrounded by lasers in a glass compartment.
"Wait a minute, how the hell did you find his dev codes?!" Asked Hacker as he tried to piece together what just happened. Norton then clothes-lined him as they stood still for a moment when they heard a ferocious sound coming from inside the file cabinets.
Suddenly, an army of viruses, Trojan horses, worms and malware from decades past emerged from the file cabinets and swarmed in to surround the pair.
"Minister Norton, what the hell are we gonna do to stop these idiots?!!! We need to recover Void's dev codes!!!" Shouted Hacker.
Minister Norton bowed his head down, "I'm afraid there's only one thing we can do... U.A.V!!! BATTLE FORMATION!!!" Shouted Norton with a loud thunderous voice.
Suddenly, an army of glide cycles flew towards the roof of the building, riding each glide cycle was every single anti-virus from around the world. Some anti-viruses were known to both Void and SNT, while other anti-viruses were never seen in public before.
Armed with ropes and pick axes, the anti-viruses each tied one end of the rope to their wrists and the other end to the chimney pipes located on the side of the building.
They jumped off the building and bashed the glass windows with their pick axes causing the windows to shatter and the anti-viruses safely landed onto the floor.
They then tossed the pick axes, undid their ropes and took up their fighting stances. They were ready for the ultimate anti-virus battle.
The viruses of decades past hissed in disgust as both armies charged towards each other and the virus war commenced.
The fight began when one U.A.V member with dark blue armour; F-Secure drew his sword and stabs an electrical worm called Storm which was once responsible for tricking users to download email attachments through fake news events.
While this was happening, a white and green armoured minister named Comodo began to rip off the flowers of Poison-Ivy until the flower virus disintegrated in binary coded blood.
Suddenly, a black and red armoured minister named Bitdefender opened a nearby file cabinet and found some AK-47 assault rifles. He then got into a shoot-out with the Metropolitan Police Virus in an attempt to stop their ransomware from propagating. After the shoot-out, the virus was gunned down and defeated. "Hasta la vista, baby!" Bitdefender snarked.
Meanwhile, Norton climbed a giant windows coloured worm named Nimda, who was responsible for reverse engineering admin privileges to perpetrators. As she opened up her mouth, Norton grabbed some bombs and lodged them inside its mouth, "Bottoms up b*h!" Norton shouted. As the worm closed its mouth and bit the bomb, the bomb exploded, causing instant destruction.
At the same time, McAfee grabbed the hammer out of the SQL Slammer worm which was responsible for disabling internet routers. McAfee then proceeded to play whack a mole with the worm as the worm hid in one of 3 holes on the ground. "Where are you Slammer!!! You can't hide from me forever!!!" McAfee shouted. Finally, after 3 hits, the worm was destroyed.
Just then, MalwareBytes stared face to face with a trojan horse named Alureon which was responsible for stealing personal information through intercepted network traffic. MalwareBytes jumped on Alureon and began bull riding the Trojan horse as if he was participating in a rodeo. "Yeehaw!!! Giddy up you b*d!!!" MalwareBytes shouted. The rodeo ended with Alureon slamming into a wall and disintegrating while MalwareBytes jumped off at the last second. "And that's how you do it!!" MalwareBytes snarked.
Nearby, another newcomer with white and light blue armor; Windows Defender was involved in a wrestling match where he picked up a chemistry test tube looking virus named Stuxnet, "GET READY TO FEEL THE THUNDER!!!" Windows Defender shouted as he body slammed Stuxnet into the ring, where his nuclear waste poured all over the ring, causing nuclear fallout.
Avira and a virus responsible for disabling anti-viruses named Klez faced off in a fencing competition, where Klez unfortunately slashed Avira causing him to become paralyzed temporarily. "Where's your leader now, anti-virus?!!!" Klez taunted.
Luckily for Avira, Hacker was behind Klez and with his own sword, he stabbed the virus through the chest paralyzing him permanently. "Zoo-Wee Mama!" Hacker said while looking surprised. He then went towards Avira and stretched out his hand. Avira proceeded to grab Hacker's hand, and Hacker pulled him back to his feet. "Hey Hacker... Thanks." Said Avira.
In the same room, Comodo was also fencing with a swordswoman called Melissa; a virus responsible for mass mailing itself to other contacts and replacing documents with quotes from The Simpsons TV show. Comodo avoided all of Melissa's parry and thrust attacks and managed to behead her with his own sword. "Eat my shorts Melissa. You should have stayed at the strip club," Comodo taunted.
Meanwhile, A dark aqua marine armoured minister called ESET was creating a sea mine in a nearby laboratory that can only be exploded if a virus comes into contact with it. During the creation process, a spyware carrying a large gun named Blaster who was wanted for exploiting vulnerabilities and causing system shutdowns threatened to blast the inventor. ESET grabbed the sea mine and lodged it inside the spyware's gun, causing the gun to explode and the spyware to disintegrate. "Cause i'm TNT, i'm dynamite." Taunted ESET.
Suddenly, AVG arrived and used another sea mine from ESET and bowled it towards Sasser; another worm responsible for system shutdowns on various companies. AVG bowled Sasser down and got a strike. "STRIKE 3, YOU'RE OUT!!!" Shouted AVG.
Meanwhile, somewhere in the parking lot, 3 U.A.V ministers; Avast, Sophos and Bitdefender jumped into some parked fighter jets and took off into the air. As they flew around the room, they managed to gun down 3 viruses such as; Agent.BTZ, a virus looking gunman responsible for disabling networks in the U.S pentagon, Win32FakeSysDef; a rogue anti-malware and the MyDoom worm.
Meanwhile, a red and white looking minister named TrendMicro was in the kitchen singing and cooking up a dungeonous crab, it was the Conflicker worm; responsible for 3.5 million infections worldwide through un-patched versions of windows.
"Sacre blue, what is this?
How on earth could I miss
Such a sweet little succulent crab
quelle dommage, what a loss
here we go, in the sauce
add some flour that's just a dab!"
Suddenly, TrendMicro dropped the Conflicker worm onto the floor as he got electrocuted by Zeus; a virus that steals personal and financial information through drive by downloads. Luckily for TrendMicro, Hacker's rival Virus Ranger arrived just in the nick of time and used his sword to stab Zeus in the heart, putting an end to his god modding. "...Shocking," snarked Virus.
Somewhere nearby, Kaspersky was preparing the RCH-1, which Void gave to him earlier. After preparing the thermal clip, he aimed his weapon towards what looked like an astronaut with a jetpack. It was the CIH virus, which was capable of blue screening and bricking millions of pcs and rendering them useless.
"Danger! Malware reloaded and ready, evacuate immediately!" Said the cannon's computer voice.
"It's a good thing Void Ranger provided us with these proton cannons, they are such good weapons." Said Kaspersky looking impressed.
Kaspersky fired and guided the solar beams towards CIH who was trying to escape on his jet-pack. With one hit from the RCH-1, CIH's jet-pack caught fire and crashed down like an airplane. "NOW THAT'S A FIRE!!! THAT'S A FIRE, LOOK AT THAT!!!" Kaspersky shouted as he pointed towards what was left of CIH.
Meanwhile, Norton picked up the Morris worm which was responsible for disabling NASA's research institute and spreading through multiple computers. He swung the worm around faster and faster. "So long ay Morris!!!" Norton shouted. When Norton let go of the worm, Morris hit the Jerusalem virus which was responsible for corrupting and deleting files from MS-DOS, both viruses slammed into a wall.
Back in the air, the 3 pilots; Avast, Sophos and Bitdefender suddenly came face to face with Solar Sunrise; a sun looking virus responsible for infecting computers belonging to the US government, the army and private sectors as well. Without hesitating, the trio opened fire on the Solar Sunrise virus, and extinguished it's fire for good. "The sun has been extinguished. I repeat, the sun has been extinguished." Sophos announced to his anti-virus colleagues.
Somewhere nearby, Avira and MalwareBytes were simultaneously slashing and stabbing 4 different viruses until they finally disintegrated. The 4 viruses destroyed were Brain; a virus responsible for eating a huge chunk of memory. Bagel and Netsky; twin worms responsible for mass mailing themselves and playing annoying sounds to irritate the users. And Explorer.zip; a worm responsible for deleting Microsoft office files and replacing them with garble data. "God, those worms are irritating." Avira remarked.
Meanwhile on the rooftop, Kaspersky and an athletic virus named Autorun; a virus wanted for infecting USB flash drives were competing in a track and field competition. As the race began, Kaspersky grabbed his sword and stabbed Autorun until he fell down and collapsed, as the anti-virus ran to the finish line. "HAHA!!! IN YOUR FACE AUTORUN!! I WIN!!!" Kaspersky shouted as he jumped up and down in celebration.
Suddenly, a 2 headed worm named Fizzer; responsible for scamming users by using an email address to send spam, was carrying money in it's mouth. As Fizzer approached the anti-viruses, ESET approached the worm with an unamused look. He wasn't stupid, "SAY AHH!!!" ESET shouted as he grabbed the money away from Fizzer's mouth and lodged it down the worm's throat until it suffocated and bursted into code.
At the same time, Avast and Sophos were using their own proton cannons to fire solar beams towards 2 different viruses. SoBig; a worm that mass mailed itself and spread by copying itself to other computers via Microsoft Outlook, and Sircam; a spyware responsible for stealing documents and emailing them to the user's contacts.
"READY? AIM!!! FIRE!!!" Sophos Shouted. After 3 hits on each virus, SoBig and Sircam were disintegrated. "Not so big now, are you? Sir Cam?" Avast taunted.
All of a sudden, TrendMicro and Windows Defender were being chased down by the Magistr worm; a magical worm responsible for destroying computers belonging in the law profession, and the Cryptolocker Ransomware. As TrendMicro and Windows Defender took cover behind a nearby wall. Both Avast and Sophos looked at each other. They then aimed and fired their solar beams directly at Magistr and Cryptolocker, sending the viruses to their doom. "Ha! He has a great disappearing act. Too bad, you Magican't beat me!" TrendMicro snarked.
Finally, F-Secure approached a giant red paint bucket, inside the bucket was the CodeRed worm which was guilty of exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft's internet servers. F-Secure looked down onto the floor and found a blue paint bucket. He then picked it up and poured the blue paint inside CodeRed's bucket, causing the red paint to turn blue, F-Secure then elbowed the bucket, causing the paint can to tip over as the worm croaked. "Bob Ross ain't got nothing on this painting." F-Secure snarked.
Once all the viruses of decades past were destroyed, Norton and Hacker carefully approached the file cabinet containing the dev codes.
"There it is, Void Ranger's dev codes." Said Hacker as they looked at the file cabinet, "Cmon, lets grab it and get the hell out of here."
Suddenly, Norton drew his sword and bashed the glass compartment which caused the glass to break and trigger the alarm. As the sirens blared, Hacker quickly reached into the file cabinet and picked up every last script that was inside before he shut the cabinet and made a quick getaway.
As the U.A.V members retreated, Hacker asks Norton, "Do you think Total AV will be pissed off when he discovers his dev codes are gone?"
"Possibly, Total AV will stop at nothing til he gets his hands on the blue boy." Shouted Norton as they retreated away from Optical Illusions through the computer ad and made it back to the U.A.V in one piece.
Hacker stopped running for a brief moment and looked back at what was left of Optical Illusions and said to himself, "Void & SNT, be careful. We're counting on you."
Hacker then ran towards the portal and joined Norton and the entire U.A.V back in the U.A.V headquarters as the portal between companies closed forever.