Disclaimer: I do not own any Ghost in the Shell. That is proudly owned by Shirow Masamune. This goes for both the original and Stand Alone Complex. Nor do I own any characters created by the Wachowski Brothers. However, I do own this piece of drivel, two whole chapters in fact. Who knew my sense of humor was this extensive.

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The Secret Diary of Motoko

Chapter 2:

(I'm thinking about switching to ASCII characters, just to be difficult.)

If you are reading this, I've already hacked your mind and you're now trapped forever in this world of sliding thoughts. God have mercy on your Soul.

Entry 11:
This "Mouse" character is very irritating. Thought I'd had enough of him with my last encounter with his alternate mainframe reality setup. Today he actually went so far as to try and make me believe I was in a world made up of only various shades of green. Really, and that so DOES NOT match my outfit. I'm thinking about telling the Chief about this idiot so we can take him out before he becomes a threat to lesser minds' sanity.

Entry 12:
Today was NOT fun. Exciting, stimulating, somewhat arousing in fact, but NOT fun. I spent the day chasing the same guy through a bunch of hallways. Everywhere I turned, the SOB was somewhere else. To make matters worse, my two colleagues were telling me they had the same guy. When we put them together, we had 8 different people, I had captured four. Turns out they were all wearing really bad masks. Clones, I could understand. But after the Jarti case, we had closed all known cloning facilities. Here we are running around and thinking we're uncovering another conspiracy, and it's a damned copycat crime, done to try and elicit publicity. I went CyberCafe' surfing on the way back and let me just say that tomorrow night I won't be putting any entries in THIS journal.

Entry 13:
Who says 13 is an unlucky number? I wasn't. It was great! Lots of mental stuff, cyber stuff, and some physical stuff. So, why is my Ghost whispering to me suddenly?

Entry 14:
Ghost, shmost. Well, I'd say that if I didn't actually like my human half. We played ball for a few minutes, it went back to sleep. I'm going to have to take some serious down-time and work on appeasing that part of me. It's becoming unruly. It actually spoke up during a meeting with the team. Aramaki realized what was happening and cut it off. It's one thing for me to talk with it, but my inner, inner soul DOES NOT need to go out for a little teatime.

Entry 15:
Ko is a wonderful partner, again, at work. Not at home. I had a meeting this evening at a friend's house. Ko showed up and whined to be let in. Dogs whine, Tachikomas should wait patiently at the curb for me to get finished with my personal business. Talk about killing the mood!

Entry 16:
Found out what the game is with this Mouse person. He's actually the puppet of a more nefarious plot. Apparently he's been duped into thinking he lives in a world run by computers. Well…he does, but completely by…oh nevermind! He thinks computers are bad, that they control us instead of us controlling them. Now, how does that go again, we control computers, computers…to hell with it. He thinks we're hard-wired into the system, being used as batteries. Batteries, HA, does he know how much power I consume in a day? We're batteries!?! That's where his theory fails.

Entry 17:
Traced Mouse to some abandoned warehouse. Inside we found 5 or 6 people all zoned out, jerking around and flailing body parts everywhere. I jacked one just in time to watch her see herself die. I had to do a hard boot in order to get her back. I hate those. I guess we'll be visiting them at the sanitarium next week to arraign a hearing. Mouse was…well, like his name. Short, squeaky, and beady little optic implants. Has a thing for redheads, pity. They can be so tempermental.

Entry 18:
Togusa let me drive today. Wick…er…very wonderful! We outran the police, which pissed them off. Oh well. He then took me for hotdogs. Much better than fries. He ate four, with chili and onions. I put him in the trunk for the ride home.

Entry 19:
So I walked into work today, Aramaki was nowhere to be found. In fact everyone was gone. I sat and drifted through chat channels and waited to hear something. When I finally made contact, it was to hear them being attacked by terrorists outside the building. I go flying out of my office, by way of the window, to learn that Togusa had set up this prank to get even for the trunk incident. I'd admit we were even, but I stuffed him in the trunk for a GOOD reason. When I explained this to the guys, they howled, smacked him on the back, and told me to quit being so girly. I'm officially offended.

Entry 20:
I stayed zoned all day. Didn't respond to a single stray thought from my team. Well, only one, when I had to go save Batou from some gun-slinging Laughing Man copycat. "Too Girly my ASS!" Then I zoned back out when he tried to thank me. I'm macho, I don't need thanks. I then went home and got me some, after I locked Ko in the compound facility for the evening. Go me.

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A/N: Mata. -TK