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. I also do not own any rights to works done by the linguistic roman catholic, JRR Tolkien.
The Secret
Diary of Motoko
Chapter 4:
(How about just plain English,
that's a language that no one uses anymore. It's all Chinese,
Spanish, and Japanese now.)
Ah hell, if you're still reading my
diary, you're either desperate, or you're studying ancient
civilizations and I've been dead for a millennia.
Chapter
31:
Actually slept pretty well last night, first night back in my
cube since the "domestic terrorism" event (BTW, Aramaki made me
downgrade it from terrorism to simple B&E, now some jackwad is
going to get his/her hands on the case and my plastic parts will have
decomposed before it gets resolved). Alarm system will be on-line
tomorrow…peace, sweet peace.
Chapter
32:
Kicked Batou out of his bed. His damned fault anyways. Got
my new handy-dandy alarm system installed and hooked up. Batou HAD
to come over and point out two different ways someone could hack
around my system and break into my cube without anyone being the
wiser. That's when I packed my 'shack-sack' – minus the
shack, it's is Batou after all- and told him HE was sleeping
on the damned couch until we both agreed my place was secure.
Chapter
33:
Section 9 unanimously voted Togusa best coffee maker of the
year. As a result of the award, he is privileged to come in 20
minutes early and make coffee for the squad. He's so cute when he
gets mad. Still has the ability to blush. If I was even the least
bit inclined…but I'm really not up for experimentation right now.
Chapter
34:
While zoning last night, ran into a contact that had some
information on the battery cult. He's a little weird, talks only
in monotone, but he's wick…er…really funny when doing British
humor. In exchange for an old ratty copy of The Silmarillian
I had sitting around the place (actually, Batou had it sitting around
his place. I didn't think he'd miss it, it was BORING!), I
learned that this Neo is actually being hunted for various
cyber-crimes. This brought up a discussion about an entity called
Morpheus, named for the god of dreams. He's apparently the cult
leader, and much destruction has been done in his name. He's not
sure this person exists in reality, actually suspects that he's a
burner who got fried while in the system and cannot offline and
function as part of society. My contact said it'd be real nice if
I caught Neo because Neo keeps calling him "Agent Smith," and
it's ticking him off, his last name is Martinelle.
Chapter
35:
Batou finally got off his lazy ass and secured my place to his
specifications. I asked him what his deal was. He said as much as
I'd been zoning lately, he wanted to make sure I had a body to come
back to. Said it was hard as hell to break in a new commanding
officer. Awww, almost makes me feel bad for drinking straight out of
his milk carton this week.
Chapter
36:
Damned alarm went off twice today. Second time I took Ko with
me to investigate. Once, setup problems. Twice, issues. Found said
issue. It was black and furry. I was ready to stomp the thing when
Ko informed me it was an endangered animal. Now it's found a
treasured spot just beneath the halogen light on my drop-down desk.
It's curled up in a…cute?…little ball of fur (damned ghost
sentimentality). Has sharp little claws too. I thought 'spot'
might be a good name since it has one white spot on its head, but Ko
looked through historical records and stated that was a name
typically used for a dog. Ko recommended 'fluffy.' Nah, I'm
just not THAT sweet. Kuroneko came to mind, but Ko said it was not
original enough, and had already been used in at least 1 legal anime
series. Maybe the guys at work will have some ideas…and maybe
they'll know what I can do with this creature long term.
Chapter
37:
Sleep…blessed sleep. Something that evil one didn't let
me get much of last night. Hey, EO, not bad! I'll bounce it off
the guys; but I think I have a name. I left my robe lying on the
bed, EO found the sash; and proceeded to pull it off the robe and
bring it up to my face and drop it. I could have gone back to sleep,
but then it had to sit there with all four paws gathered all close
together, as if trying to take up the least possible square space (my
ghost thought it was particularly cute). It blinked at me, then it
opened its mouth, and the most horrifying yowl spewed forth. Played
'fetch the sash' for an hour before EO decided to crawl up onto
my chest and go to sleep. My inner child wouldn't let me bother
it, so I sat with it in my arms forever. It even dared to growl when
I put it on the bed so I could get up and go to work.
Chapter
38:
Woke up to a vibrating back massage. EO was asleep in the
middle of my back, purring. Cute trick, I might have to learn it. I
could definitely see times when that skill could be used to my
advantage. Ko asked me today how EO was getting along without
facilities…bad thoughts. I rushed home to realize the damned cat
was intelligent too. It had figured out how to evacuate the waste
chamber in the room. I scratched its belly, it actually liked it.
The guys liked the name, but wondered why I keep it. I would rather
have taken a slow walk through four cloning chambers filled with
generated bodies of male sexual offenders than to explain that my
inner child wouldn't let me get rid of it. Did a few minutes of
zoning to meet with "Smith" (ha ha), and learned that Morpheus
had sub-systemed into hiding yesterday.
Chapter
39:
I was sitting here watching EO groom tonight, very impressed
with the cat's fastidiousness, when Togusa cut into the silence.
"Major, just learned some important news." Go ahead I
responded. "EO has an owner…a very worried owner." I didn't
respond. "The owner's name is Shiori. She's five, and very,
very upset about her missing Shadow." Damn, even my ghost couldn't
argue with a five year olds' pain, it understood only too well.
"Major?" Go ahead and give the family my contact information.
So here I sit…alone…an hour after EO happily bounded out of my
arms and up to the little girl who picked it up like a ragdoll and
squeezed it tightly. Note to self…never speak to a certain
cybernetically modified human for as long as I exist.
Chapter
40:
No more fun and games for Motoko. Section 9 was just given
the green light to find resolution to this battery clan issue. Today
Hyanuku Yoshirou, the retired mayor, was hacked by a member of the
clan. When the member was apprehended, he kept saying that we all
were just batteries, the machines had our bodies, and we were not
truly alive. When they checked his brain out, they found unusual
alpha patterns but were unable to investigate further because his
linking structures suddenly melted, leaving him in a cybernetic void.
A/N: RaynaDarkstorm, Devilman666, Amourwolf, thank you for the reviews! DM, to answer your query, the woman's a natural flirt. She runs around in lingerie for heaven's sake. She knows what she's doing to the male populace; so yeah, I think she finds herself flirting on occasion. Does she mean it? I haven't seen any evidence of it in what I've watched, she tends to stick with her own kind (if you get my drift). If she was to break out of her norm, I feel she'd go after Togusa, he's still human. I think her ghost makes a connection with him. What do you all think?
