Chapter 17: Viewer-Made Malware Zone (Part 3)
Meanwhile, somewhere inside a sphere-shaped spaceship with glasses and a mustache known as the Death Egg, in a dark room that had multiple poker tables around the room.
A red-furred bat was sitting at a desk, shuffling through a deck of cards while humming to herself.
As she began to deal the cards on the table, a mysterious jackal slowly began to approach her,
"Oh Infinite. It's you." the red-furred bat said, looking surprised.
"Yes... mind if I join you?" Infinite asked, looking nervous.
The red bat nodded and Infinite sat in front of her.
As the bat dealt the cards for herself and the jackal, Eggman flew into the room on his Egg Mobile. He wasn't happy.
"Grrrr!!! Curse that SNT!!! She thinks she can rebel against me?!!!" Eggman shouted while banging his fist onto the vehicle. "And the nerve of her kicking me out of MY laboratory!!! IT'S NOT FAIR!!!"
Both Infinite and the red-furred bat looked over at Eggman, "What's wrong with him?"
"He's just pissed off because he lost to the abomination again." The bat growled.
Infinite chuckled and focused the attention towards his cards, "Hmmph, I'm not surprised."
As the jackal and the bat began to throw down their cards, Eggman flew over to the bat and began to speak to her.
"My dear S.O.R... surely you must understand the amount of pain and suffering this experiment of mine has been causing us. Surely, you must have some idea of eliminating her, do you?" The mad doctor asked the card playing bat.
But before S.O.R could answer the doctor, Infinite interrupted into the conversation.
"Doctor... If you're truly hell bent on revenge, then why not have S.O.R destroy the experiment's friends first?" Infinite suggested as he placed the cards face up on the table. "4 aces."
"After all, SNT did have some help during her last mission. Think about it... Destroying her friends can lead to her downfall. She seems like a problem since we're very heavily outnumbered. But luckily for us, I have a solution that can solve all our problems." Infinite explained while shifting his head towards the doctor. "Imagine, if you will... An army of perfect physical specimens from all walks of life. Joining forces for one single purpose... to destroy your runaway experiment."
S.O.R thought about it for a second, "Hmm, i'm not sure. Am I truly ready to become a team player? Last I checked, I broke a few nuts and bolts out of Metal during my last mission."
she then placed down her cards, "Straight Flush!"
Infinite growled and flipped his cards over, as the red-furred bat grabbed the cards and began to shuffle them once more.
"Infinite... Can S.O.R truly hold her own against that little runaway brat?!" The mad doctor asked.
The Jackal chuckled, "If she destroyed Metal Sonic, then I don't see why she should track SNT all by her lonesome.
"Besides, alone, she will never stand a chance. But with our help and support... a team of six can do wonders. And with SNT out of the way, you can finally get rid of that blue buffoon Sonic, and then you'll finally be able to build your prestigious Eggmanland." Infinite convinced.
"Straight flush." Infinite chuckled as he placed down his cards.
"Hmm, that might not be such a bad idea, after all." S.O.R nodded looking impressed as she began to deal two hands once again.
Eggman then turned his attention towards the jackal, "Infinite, tell your team of six that S.O.R will be more than happy to join you on your mission to destroy that runaway SNT. You got that?!"
S.O.R smirked at Infinite, "Count me in... Royal flush." the red-furred bat said as she placed her cards on the table.
Infinite chuckled, "Welcome aboard the Heinous Hex, S.O.R!!!"
S.O.R then pulled out a green looking jewel called the dream emerald while looking at Infinite, "Thank you Infinite. It is an honor to join you on this mission, to destroy this abomination named SNT." S.O.R laughed.
Meanwhile, in another universe; in a beautiful garden complete with grass, trees, cliffs, a waterfall, and a pond. A group of Chaos were playing in the water, flying around and enjoying serene relaxation in the Chao Garden.
"Chao chao chao chao!" An excited baby blue fairy-like creature flew about with tremendous enthusiasm. A red ribbon was tied to its torso while a yellow heart seemed to levitate above the creature's round head.
"Cheese, Wait up! Don't leave us behind," shouted an adorable tan colored rabbit with orange spots. She flew after the baby blue fairy while flapping her large ears to keep her body off the ground. Her orange dress flowed with the wind as the young girl extended a gloved hand out to the one named cheese.
Below them was a yellow porcupine in an elegant blue dress with purple outlines and night blue high heels. She was enjoying the sight of the tan colored rabbit chasing after her enthusiastic pet. The person next to her however, appeared to be in a bad mood.
"Alicia," the person growled at the porcupine's name. Her mood immediately turned sour as she glared at her friend.
"Oh don't start right now, Order, today is supposed to be a fun day for Cream, don't ruin it for her," Alicia pleaded. The one named Order, was a creature formed of fire and magma, contained by what appeared to be Obsidian armor enhanced by titanium alloy. This ifrit contained a face lined out by a crown of obsidian horns layered around bright red eyes. Despite the fact that this creature didn't have a mouth, he still managed to speak.
"Cream..." the ifrit muttered. He gazed upon the young rabbit who struggled to contain her pet chao, only to look down towards the ground in confusion. Alicia frowned at him, curious about what plagued the fire god's thoughts.
"You promised me you'd do this for her," she reminded. Order looked at her with confused eyes.
"I did?" He asked, holding his head as he tried to think back. Alicia gave him a somber look before nodding her head.
"Hmmm..." Order pondered as he once more looked upon the young rabbit. Cream finally managed to get ahold of her pet, who still kept that excited on its face. The young rabbit flew down to reconvene with her two friends.
"Is everything okay, Mr. Order?" she asked. Order kept his eyes on the child, still conflicted, still confused about things. Despite this, the fire god's face began to relax. He held out his hand and began to pet his young friend.
"I'll always be okay, because I have you to cheer me up," he claimed. Cream began to laugh as Order turned the head pats into a sudden tickle attack.
"Ha-hey, no fair, I wasn't ready," the child laughed as she quickly swayed her head away from Order's grasp. Alicia smiled warmly at the two, they both were like children, one always willing to cheer the other up.
"As long as you're happy, Cream. I will always be in a good mood," Order said. Alicia laughed at the god's words.
"Yeah, so happy that you broke my desk again," she claimed. "All because someone thought you were a demon," Order glared at the yellow porcupine, confused yet annoyed by those words.
"Those people you try to help are beyond redemption, Alicia. It's insulting that they would compare me to some fictional beast," the ifrit claimed. Alicia smiles while rolling her eyes.
"You still owe me four hundred rings," she reminded.
"What? How am I supposed to find four hundred rings?" Order growled. Both Cream and Cheese looked at the fire god, only to shift their sights towards Alicia the moment she began to talk.
"You should've thought about that before you tried to assault one of my clients," she claimed.
"THAT MORTAL CALLED ME A DEMON!" Order yelled, gaining the attention of the two small ones.
"Oh boohoo, I didn't know insults were The God of Salvation's weakness, is that how Sonic beat you?" she asked.
"SONIC COULD NEVER BEAT ME IN A FAIR FIGHT," Order claimed. Now Cream and Cheese were eating popcorn they somehow pulled out of... uh... hammer space?
"He'd at least be able to buy me a new table," Alicia scoffed. Order let out a loud growl as he simply just walked ahead of the group, stomping the ground with every step he takes. Cream quickly threw away her popcorn and ran after the fire god, while Alicia simply crossed her arms.
"Mr. Order, we need to go to the chao concert or else Cheese will be late," Cream complained. Order looked at her and sighed.
"I'm sorry, Cream, I know today is important to you," Order admitted. Cream smiled warmly at Order.
"Don't worry Order, I forgive you. It's like what my momma always tells me, everybody deserves a second chance," she quoted. Order's eyes softened as he began to calm down.
"Everybody?" He asked. Cream gave him a polite nod.
"Even if you're convinced that they're the bad guy, always trust what your heart tells you," She explained. Order was taken aback by the statement, after a few seconds of thinking the fire god nodded his head.
"Your mother is a smart woman; I'll trust her words..." he claimed. Cream gave him a toothy smile, but Order wasn't done yet.
"In fact, do you want to know what my heart is telling me now, Cream?" He asked.
"Hm? What does it say?" She asked curiously. Order then picked the young rabbit up and sat her on his back as he stood on all fours.
"It's telling me that we should hurry up!" the fire god claimed. Cream's cute smile grew bigger and bigger, which in turn made the god of salvation pumped to run towards the concert like there's no tomorrow. He looked back towards Alicia and Cheese who seemed stunned by his sudden action.
"What are you two waiting for? Get on!" He demanded. Alicia was taken aback, but Cheese on the other head cheered on in excitement and sat in front of his owner.
"Orange, what are you doing?" she asked. Not willing to give her an answer, the god of salvation used his tail to grab Alicia by the waist and lift her into the air.
"No time to explain, next stop of the Order express; the Chao Garden!" Order roared. Alicia was frantically kicking the air in fear.
"Order you idiot, put me down before you- AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Alicia tried to speak but Order completely ignored her words and began to run at his top speed. The sheer force of the wind from the god's speed made the porcupine feel as though she was riding a roller coaster.
Sometime later, the trio managed to eventually make it to the chao garden where the chao were preparing to play their trumpets. Cream helped her pet Cheese to join with the group's preparation. Eventually, Order, Alicia and Cream sat on the ground to watch Chao play their musical.
Just then, Order felt something different in the air. His eyes moved away from the chao performance while an uneasy feeling came over him. Alicia noticed this and tapped him on the shoulder.
"Order come on, the music doesn't sound that bad," she claimed. Order glanced at the yellow porcupine only to instantly return to looking everywhere else.
"No..." the god replied. "That's not it, something feels off," he stated. Alicia raised her brow slightly.
"Are you saying that the Chaos Emeralds are being used again?" she asked.
"No, it has nothing to do with the seven servers," he claimed. "It's like reality is crying out for help..." he explained. Alicia's eyes hardened, beginning to understand where this was going. She moved her hand over to Order's right cheek.
"Orange, no, look at me," she pleaded. Order didn't listen, he started to stand on his feet. Alicia quickly got up and forced the fire god to look at her.
"I said look at me, Orange," she demanded. Order looked at the yellow porcupine, confused by the sternness in her voice.
"I know what you're thinking, but please don't be rash again. I'm sure whatever it is your sensing can be handled by Sonic, Shadow and Knuckles, you don't have to deal with it now," Alicia explained. Order's eyes shifted away from her which started to annoy the yellow porcupine.
"Hey, look at me, Orange," she said, returning Order's attention back to her.
"Right now, Cream and Cheese need you here, not fighting whatever it is you're sensing. Do you hear me, Orange? Order?" she almost started to yell. Cream began to overhear the conversation, her eyes looked over at the two in curiosity. Order once again looked away from Alicia, the dreadful sense of his seemed to be getting stronger and stronger. He looked over the cliff in the distance and noticed some type of anomaly shifting and contorting away.
His mind now made up, Order quickly leaped away from Alicia and started to dash towards that strange anomaly.
"Order no! Get back here!" The porcupine tried to call out, but it was pointless. Once something gets into Order's head, that's it, the god suddenly develops tunnel vision.
"Oh, Order... what am I going to do with you?" She sighed. Cream walked up to the porcupine in concern.
"Alicia, where did Mr. Order go?" she asked. Alicia shrugged her shoulders.
"Honestly Cream, I wish I knew..." she muttered. A frown formed on Cream's face as the two attempted to continue enjoying the musical performance. All of the sudden, purple lightning bolts began to strike from the sky and struck both Cream and Alicia. The Chao stopped playing their instruments and ran away, but the lightning struck the small creatures one by one, severely injuring them.
A lightning bolt then struck just near the Chao Garden, revealing Thunderwave and Tarantula. The spider-bot took a glance at the decimated garden and said, "Ah, nothing like a nice destructive setting to set in the mood. You did good Thunderwave."
The faceless robot displayed a smiley face. She pointed towards the unconscious Cream and Alicia, their bodies were charred with black scorch marks. Tarantula approached the unconscious mobians, two of his tentacles deployed syringes containing a green liquid inside.
But before Tarantula could violently stab the two mobians, his eyes began to glitch between his usual red and blue simultaneously. He throbbed his head as the two sides clashed for control. Thunderwave tilted her head at her old comrade's situation, she had never seen him act this strange before. She extended two of her tentacle arms, grabbed the syringes and forced Tarantula to stab both Cream and Alicia.
The spider-bot's eye glitch stopped and his optic color changed back to their normal red. Tarantula shook his head and glanced at the mobians, their bodies began to weaken as the green substance slowly began to kill them from the inside.
"The trap is set, now let's see this 'God' catch the bait." Tarantula snarked, as he and Thunderwave hid behind the trees.
Right on cue, Order returned to the scene shocked by the aftermath of what occurred.
"No, no no..." he pleaded. The fire god quickly ran up to his fallen friends, checking on their bodies.
"Alicia... Cream... no..." he growled, slamming his fist into the ground with enough force to form a small crater.
"I should've listened..." He realized. "Please, Alicia... Cream... OPEN YOUR EYES!" he roared, his anger and hatred fueled his flames as they grew even more intense. The fire god held his head low, trying to calm himself down.
"WHO DID THIS! WHO IS THE ONE WITH THE DEATH WISH?" He roared, daring anybody to come out and claim the right to become the god's victim.
"My my my, isn't this a huge tragedy?" a robotic yet sleezy voice caught the god's attention. Order's eyes flared up as he smashed his right foot into the ground, cracking the very earth itself towards the source of that voice.
"WHO SAID THAT? TELL ME!" he roared in explosive fury.
From the trees, came out Tarantula and Thunderwave. The fire god's fists slowly became consumed by his flames, preparing to strike the two robots if they give him reason to. They approached the fire god with no FEAR whatsoever.
"What happened to this place? Was it always like that?" Tarantula feigned his innocence.
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU? SPEAK UP OR ELSE I'LL KILL YOU!" The god roared once more.
"No need to get so hasty, we are what you call... friends." Tarantula said with a subtle hint of disgust in his mouth.
"FRIENDS? NO ONE IS ALLOWED IN THE CHAO GARDEN," He growled.
"No one is allowed here? Oh well," The spider-bot turned his back, as he and Thunderwave began to walk away, "I suppose you wouldn't like to know who... poisoned your friends." He said with an evil smile that Order couldn't notice.
"WHAT?" Order shouted. With an intense burst of flames, the god of salvation blocked off the two robots' exit.
"WHO DID THIS? TELL ME!" The fire god demanded.
Tarantula smiled and turned around with a solemn expression, "The one responsible for your friend's predicament... was an experiment known as, SNT."
"SNT..." Order thought to himself, the name sounded familiar yet the god couldn't seem to remember why. He held his head but continued to glare at the two robots with anguish. Just then from the confines of his unconsciousness rebirthed the foggy image of a chimera attacking him.
"How dare she... HOW DARE THAT FREAK HURT ALICIA AND CREAM!" He howled, slamming his fist hard into the ground with enough force to cause an earthquake. His eyes returned to Tarantula, glaring daggers at him as he came closer.
"WHERE IS SHE? I MUST FIND THAT MORTAL!" He asked.
"She's working for this syndicate known as Content Control, she knew about your dimension and in an attempt to make you work for them. She poisoned your friends." Tarantula explained.
"Poisoned?" Order gasped. "No..." he muttered with his head down, the flames on his body dying down. The fire god looks at his two friends with a grimace expression.
"I... I need to save them..." he claimed.
"Don't worry, my fiery acquaintance. I know where she is... and you won't be alone in doing this dangerous task." The spider robot placed one of his tentacle's claws on Order's shoulder, "For you see, I'm making a group to take down not only the syndicate who brought us so much pain, but to target the person responsible for ruining our lives."
"A group...?" Order questioned. "Could any of them help me save Alicia and Cream?" he asked.
Tarantula and Thunderwave exchanged a quick glance at each other, before turning their attention back to Order, "Yes, they can. But right now, your... friends, need your help and a place to recover."
Order looked back at the two scorched victims; his eyes drooped down in sadness.
"You're right..." He responded. The God of Salvation lifted both Alicia and Cream off the ground, staring at both of them with regret present in his eyes.
"I'll take them to Vanilla's house... but after that..." Order spoke, he then looked back at Tarantula with revenge in his eyes.
"I want you to point me towards whoever I have to kill!" he demanded.
"Before you go," Tarantula intervened, "I need to give you something." A compartment from the left side of his body opened, revealing a strange watch-like device. Before Order could ask what it was, the spider-bot dropped the device on his hand, "That is a transporter, I already set the coordinates of where you will go. We'll be waiting for you."
The star-shaped portal closed behind Order, transporting the fire god to the new dimension. The fire god took a glance at his surroundings, he stood in front of the now abandoned Team 182 lab. The magma creature questioned himself why Tarantula's device brought him here, but it would be something he'd worry about later.
Order approached the front door and opened it, revealing nothing but a mess and destroyed property. The fire god paid no mind to it and strolled through the halls. Until he noticed a slightly opened door.
The god of salvation entered the room to see Tarantula, Infinite, Thunderwave, STAK and S.O.R sitting on a round metallic table with a chair for each member. Everyone shifted their attention to the new member that appeared before them.
Tarantula was the first one to say, "Ah, Order, take a seat and just in time to discuss our plan."
Order didn't bother responding to the spider-bot, as he took his seat next to STAK. Not by his choice but because it was the only seat open.
The dark blue chimera simply ignored the magma creature and moved his tails to the opposite where Order was, so they wouldn't catch on fire.
STAK did give Order a look, which the magma creature easily recognized as the "where the hell is his mouth" look. Order didn't bother to answer the unspoken question.
S.O.R quickly took notice of the new member, "Order?! What are you doing here?"
Order's eyes widened as he saw the red cyborg chimera, "You?" he barked in anger, fire flaring out of his body.
"Whoa, the lava monster can talk!" STAK said in shock. He then shrugged to himself since he knows a robot without a mouth that can talk. So it shouldn't be that surprising. Immediately after however, Both S.O.R and Order stood out of their seats simultaneously.
"What the hell are you doing here?" They both yelled at each other.
"How the hell does a half trash bat and a living volcano know each other?" STAK asked as he crossed his arms with a huff. Angst angst angst
"Call me a living volcano again and I'll melt your face off!" Order growled at the chimera.
As the god, chimera and cyborg argued. Infinite approached the spider robot, "Do you think they will get along?" He whispered
"First impressions aren't always the best," Tarantula whispered back, "But believe me, they'll get along when you least expect it."
The two individuals nodded and turned back to their teammates, who were still arguing with each other.
Tarantula lightly tapped the metal table to get their team's attention. But nothing happened, Infinite slammed his fist onto the table, it barely got their attention.
That was when Thunderwave produced a high-pitched sound wave that perked everyone's ears and auditory receptors. Infinite, SOR, and Order covered their ears or where ears would be. It didn't seem to affect STAK weirdly enough. Tarantula simply pressed a button on his helmet which suppressed the high-pitched sound.
The tall blue robot stopped playing the sound wave, letting everyone's hearing rest.
"Thank you... Thunderwave." Tarantula commented, he pressed the button on his helmet again to unsuppressed the sound, "Please, don't do that again."
Thunderwave reacted by displaying a smiley face on her visor. The spider-bot simply ignored his partner's mischievous personality and assessed his teammate's situation. Infinite, S.O.R and Order uncovered their ears and glared daggers at the faceless robot.
"Never do that again!" Infinite growled.
"I'm going to kill you later for that." S.O.R threatened.
"If you do it again, I will rip out each and every part of your body!" Order growled with flames forming around his hands.
Thunderwave's visor then displayed a heart emoji. She then played a recorded phrase, "Love you too!"
"Enough, all of you!" Tarantula slammed both of his hands on the table. Getting everyone's attention. All Heinous Hex members shifted their attention to their leader. The spider-bot then raised his hand, as it began to project a holo-image of Sin Serials' monastery.
"As you all can see, this is Sin Serials, the current location of Content Control's base and the place where they're holding our primary target, SNT." Tarantula explained, "Those idiots think they can destroy the experiment with their "Viruses" and so-called "Moderators" thinking themselves as the biggest threat the experiment has ever faced. Infinite you know how they and Eggman didn't let you fight SNT because you're so called... weak."
Infinite didn't respond and just crossed his arms.
"That's nice and all Tarantula," S.O.R interrupted, "But have you thought of a way to storm their base?"
"I was getting to that," the spider-bot said, "and it's all thanks to my drones. I had them investigate every part of their monastery. Trust me... they will be one of the keys to our victory.
"One of the keys?" STAK questioned.
"Yes, STAK one of the keys. First things first, Order and STAK, you two will lead the assault through the monastery, destroy everything that you see and leave no one alive."
"Sounds simple enough," the chimera responded.
"Thunderwave, you will create a storm that will sabotage Content Control's generators. S.O.R, you will go and sabotage all their weaponry, but most importantly target the censorship guns." Tarantula continued, as he then displayed countless images of Content Control's Censorship weapons, "Infinite, you and I will go straight into the heart of Monastery and have a "Chat" with their higher ups."
"What about that creature you kept back in your lab?" Infinite asked.
"That? It will be unleashed for a certain group of individuals." Tarantula grinned, "But enough talk, we've got very little time left and we only get one try, so please don't fail me."
Back at the stadium of Sin Serials, we last left our heroes defeating Dragon and the evil clones once again. And minister Sophos finally made peace with Void Ranger.
The audience was furious upon witnessing the aftermath of Dragon's defeat.
"BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" The audience shouted,
As SNT and the girls began to catch their breath, Void began to walk towards the clam looking platform on the third floor where Quant was standing; looking down at all the carnage.
But before Quant could give out his next orders to begin the next round, Void closed his eyes and began to sing in binary for all to hear.
"01000001 01110100 01110100 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01000011 01101110"
(These silent hearts,
We hold within our hands within my heart,
The rush is just the same, these silent hearts,
Protected from the dark,
Let silence be broken...
These silent hearts,
We hold within our hands within my heart,
The rush is just the same, these silent hearts,
Protected from the dark,
Let silence be broken.)
Confused by what was happening, Quant gave Void a weird look, "What in the hell is he doing?"
As Void concluded his singing, SNT and the girls looked surprised at Void, as the crowd became less rowdy than usual.
They all got back to their feet and began to walk towards him.
Void then opened his eyes and looked up at Quant with a stern look on his face, "Content Control, this is your last chance... Free us! Or Die!"
Quant thought about Void's words for a moment, he slowly placed his hands on the rails of the platform he was standing on.
"SILENCE!!!" Quant snapped, "We have come to the computer world to censor all online content from content creators and content viewers alike! Those who do not wish to join us nor support us on this journey will be executed on site!
As for all you our supporters, I expect you all to censor this world! From the space defense platform of Optical Illusions, to the island of Genesis, our supporters have been standing their ground for many years since our rise to power. Now remember, if there are any casualties in this war. Do remember that these supporters never wished to blue screen to their deaths this way.
Tonight, we will bury every offender with the utmost disrespect you could possibly give, and we will not hesitate to mark their graves to show the world that they were responsible for keeping the internet unsafe for all users.
I intend to lead many supporters of Content Control into battle, but not many will be able to make it out alive! Tonight, we will bury these offenders in body bags, and send them off into their watery grave where they belong! And there will be no sorrow for the dead!!!
Tonight, we will bring forth their rightful destruction, and it's a big step to blue screen a computer. And that alone is not to be taken lightly.
And so, in conclusion, let us bring down the internet once and for all, and we shall leave no offender alive... TO WAR!!!" Quant concluded.
HE then raised his arms towards the silent crowd; prompting them to cheer.
But all of a sudden, something happened to the crowd.
The sound of the crowd began to shift from anger towards our heroes, to silence, and eventually to anger towards Quant. As all it took for Content Control's support from the audience to change hands was for Quant to reveal his true colors to the world.
"You bloody fool! We need the internet for school!!!" One random audience member shouted.
"What the hell is gonna happen to my shnetzy pronz collection?!!!" another member yelled.
"This son of a b*h is insane! We cannot survive without the internet!!!" A third member cried out.
Void chuckled, "Wow, looks like the tables have turned, huh Quant?!!!"
But Quant gave out a furious growl, "Grrrr... MALWARE!!! ATTACK!!!"
All of sudden, the doors to the stadium opened once again, and emerging from the doors was a grizzly sight.
Many instances of malware began to crawl, slither and walk towards our heroes; ready to put up a fight.
To make matters worse, this was zero-day malware that Void and Sophos had never seen before.
"Minister Sophos! What the hell are those things?!!!" Void shouted,
"...Viewer-Made malware. Malware created by Content Control themselves." Sophos responded with a stern look as he and Void drew their swords together.
"VOID!!! GET THE GIRLS!!! I'LL HOLD THEM OFF!!!" Sophos shouted as he began to clash with some malware.
As Void grabbed Catney and Saki's hand and began to run; SNT quickly followed from behind, but she tripped and fell face first to the floor.
"SNT!!!" Void shouted, as he turned back to help the chimera to her feet. "Are you okay?"
SNT slowly got back up, "Yeah... I'm fine, thanks."
Void and SNT then held hands, but immediately got intercepted by the first mysterious malware.
The malware was a green bubble looking virus that wore an all-black attire and long, silver hair. He usually wore a black chest harness, black pants, black knee-high boots, black gloves, a long black coat, and white shoulder pads.
As the worm slowly floated towards the pair, it drew a black sword of its own and began to sing the lyrics of one-winged angel.
"Estuans interius
Ira vehementi
Estuans interius
Ira vehementi
Upsilon!
Upsilon!"
Realizing what the virus was singing, Void had a revelation,
"Upsilon!" Void said looking surprised, "The first of many zero-day malware. Capable of destroying the hard drive and the floppy disk drive!"
"And what's it singing?" SNT asked,
"During infection, one of its payloads is that it displays the lyrics to a song called one-winged angel." Void explains.
Suddenly, the worm jumped up and began to electrocute SNT with a stab from its sword.
"AHHHHHHHHH!!!" SNT Cried.
"SNT! Hold still!!!" Void shouted as he slashed the Upsilon virus like a baseball bat.
Void then grabbed the chimera by her waist and brought her back to her feet. "SNT, are you okay?"
But before the chimera could answer, Upsilon dashed towards the pair once again and attempted to perform the same attack towards Void.
But luckily for the blue robot, SNT grabbed Void's sword and stabbed Upsilon in the heart, causing it to disintegrate into binary coded blood.
"Hey SNT?!" Void said as the chimera handed him back his sword, "Thank you for saving me."
SNT blushed, "Hey, what are partners for?!"
They then held hands and ran for their lives together.
Meanwhile, somewhere nearby; a newspaper stand selling newspapers was set up in the middle of the stadium.
As the store owner began to set up shop, Saki ran by the stand and shouted, "One newspaper please!!!" As she was catching her breath.
The salesman gave the ascension sock her newspaper.
But shockingly, when Saki temporarily began to read, she noticed the articles were coming from stolen email messages sent through Macrosoft Outbox.
"What a minute!!! This isn't a f*ng newspaper, these are stolen emails!!!" Saki shouted in anger.
She then rolled the email looking newspapers into a roll and tried swatting the salesman like a fly.
"Watch me spam this newspaper up you're a*!!! You b*d!!!" Saki shouted,
But every time Saki swung the newspaper, the salesman would always duck and hide under the stands.
Having had enough, Saki hopped over the stands and grabbed the salesman by the collar.
She then lodged the paper straight into the salesman's throat, causing him to suffocate and disintegrate into binary coded blood.
"What the f*k was that?!!!" Saki shouted in shock.
"DeepUnder. It's an email worm that mass mails itself to every single contact in your address book. Floods your desktop with copies of itself, and deletes documents within your Doors directory!" Sophos explained.
Sophos then walks up to the ascension sock and places a hand on her shoulder, "You did well my dear. That's one less worm to worry about in the world."
He then picked her up and sat her down on his shoulder, before running towards more malware.
Meanwhile, Catney was running away from what looked like malware in the shape of a rain cloud.
As Catney eventually got cornered, the cloud began to emit smoke from its body, causing heavy fog around the area.
It was impossible for Catney to see.
"SOMEBODY HELP ME!!! I CAN'T SEE A THING!!!" Courtney cried out.
But little did she realize, a couple of trojan horses began to roll towards her from behind.
Realizing that the cat girl was in peril; he jumped into the fog and proceeded to stab all 3 trojan horses that began to nay as loud as they could, as their wooden bodies were reduced to binary coded blood.
"Courtney, hold on!!!" He then stood in front of the cat girl and grabbed his sonar glasses.
He began to search for the worm that was causing the fog.
As he searched; he suddenly noticed a spawning machine that looked like a red phone booth. Emerging from the booth were trojan horses coming for him.
Void ran towards the spawn machine and located its circuits; which were conveniently behind the booth.
Void stabbed and slashed away at the wires, thus stopping more trojans from spawning towards Catney.
With the circuits fried and the lack of trojan horses spawning towards Catney, Void quickly stabbed the trojan horses and ran towards the cat girl.
But the fog was getting heavier and heavier.
Void then looked down and saw some rope. He picked up the rope and began to turn it into a lasso.
He lifted the lasso and swung it around before throwing it deep into the fog.
"Hey!!!" A young voice shouted.
Realizing he caught Courtney, he pulled onto the rope and out of the fog came Catney who was holding onto the ropes with her hands as the rope pulled her by her stomach.
"Aha!!! Gotcha!!!" Void shouted as he caught her in his arms. He then removed the ropes and gestured to her to get behind him.
With the Sonar glasses still on, he resumed his search to find what was causing so much fog.
Until finally, he saw the cloud looking virus. Void got into position and threw his sword like a javelin, causing the sword to strike the cloud looking worm; deleting it from the equation.
Void then lifted his sword and approached the cat girl. "Are you alright miss ProjectSNT?!" Void asked.
"I think so, I've never experienced this weather back home!" Catney said looking surprised,
"That 'weather' was Mist. A zero-day virus that destroys documents, causes memory leakage and red screens your computer; which causes your boot sector to be overwritten with a rainbow looking video pattern during boot-up." Void explained.
"You are very lucky to be alive, Catney." Void said as he hugged Catney and smiled at her, "If Mist had succeeded, you would have been hit by a Trojan virus generator which spawns multiple Trojan horses towards you."
"Seriously?!!!" Catney shouted in shock as she quickly gave the blue anti-virus a hug, "Oh god! Thanks for saving me from those trojans. Thank you!!!"
"You're welcome, Courtney. Now c'mon! Let's go save the computer world!" Void shouted as he reached out his hand.
Catney grabbed his hand, and together; they both ran away from the carnage.
Meanwhile, as zero-day malware was chasing our heroes around the stadium, one piece of malware looking like a gray android mascot called Bugdroid was holding a sign in the air.
It was similar to when people greet others at the airport with signs saying welcome home or the names of family members.
Weirdly enough, the sign itself simply read, 'hello world.'
But all of a sudden, SNT ran by the sign holding virus and stopped in front of it to inspect it.
As she got closer to the virus, the virus began to speak; calling out one of the weirdest names ever heard. "Mai Weiner? Is there a Mai Weiner here? Hey everyone, I'm looking for Mai Weiner!!! Everybody, Mai Weiner!!!" The malware shouted.
SNT began to laugh, "Wait a minute, Mai Weiner?!!! Here!!! Take Mai hand!!!"
SNT grabbed the sign the virus was carrying, and with all her strength, she broke the sign in half.
She then slammed the broken sign onto the virus, causing it to disintegrate into binary coded blood.
SNT then looked at the crowd who was cheering for the heroes, she lifted her hand and made the peace sign with her two fingers, "YEAH!!!"
Meanwhile, somewhere nearby; a large malware in scuba gear was holding a vacuum cleaner in its hand.
It suddenly turned its attention towards Saki who was nearby and began to turn on the hoover.
"NOOOOOO!!!" Saki cried out; trying her hardest to run for her life.
But the power of the suction was so strong that she got sucked inside the vacuum cleaner.
Once sucked inside, the virus then grabbed the vacuum and began to exit the stadium,
But just before it could set foot towards the exit, Void stepped forward and stabbed the virus through its scuba gear and into its heart, causing the scuba gear to leak out binary coded blood.
Void then reached for the vacuum cleaner and quickly switched the suction to reverse; causing the vacuum to spit out Saki from the hoover.
Once Saki slowly returned to her feet, she stared at Void and gave him a terrified look, "...I've seen things... that no b*h should ever see. I am angry, I am frustrated with this sh*t!"
"And you should be, Bolbi is one tough son of a b*h." Void agreed while looking at the bloody scuba gear. "It'll trash your computer; especially when admin privileges are active."
Void then looked to the side and noticed Minister Sophos running away from another virus.
"Please excuse me." Void said as he bowed to Saki before running to assist the minister.
Meanwhile, Catney was running for her life again, as a bootleg version of the Nyan Cat was chasing her around the stadium.
Unlike the original Nyan Cat, the bootleg Nyan Cat had the exact same design and same effects as the original, the only thing different was the music. The bootleg Nyan Cat was emitting an 8-bit chiptune version of the Nyan Cat song.
As the bootleg Nyan Cat continued to chase Catney, she slipped and fell to the floor.
"Owww!" Courtney yelled.
But just as she was getting up to collect herself after the fall, she was shocked to see the Nyan Cat was flying towards her at a rapid rate.
Catney quickly closed her eyes, accepting her fate.
...But nothing happened.
When she finally opened her eyes, she found herself being carried by SNT who was flying to the first floor of the bleachers.
"Hang on Courtney, I got you!!!" SNT shouted happily,
Both SNT and Catney looked down and saw the Nyan Cat crashing into the stands below.
Once SNT released Catney, she quickly gave her OC a big hug,
"There, there... Are you okay Cortney?" The chimera asked her creator.
"SNT!!! Thank God you came for me!!! Thank you for saving me from... that stupid Nyan meme!!!" Her creator responded.
But suddenly, out in the distance, both SNT and Catney heard a terrifying scream, "AHHHHHHHHH!!!"
It was Saki, and she was being chased by a virus that was shooting burnt toast from its toaster oven on a wooden platform with wheels.
"You know what they say, all toasters toast toast!" The toaster oven shouted as the crowd began to boo!
"BOOOO!!! BOOOOOOOO!!!" One audience member shouted, "That joke was so bad, not even opuscon789 would use it!!!"
"GET OFF THE STAGE!!!" Roared another audience member,
Suddenly, Saki eventually got hit by two pieces of toast.
As the PC Toaster started getting closer and closer, another virus that looked like a mosquito flew down towards her. Saki was cornered.
Panicking, and fearing for her life. She bent down on her knees and reached for the next random object she could find... which happened to be...
A magic lamp...?
Whatever...
Saki quickly rubbed the lamp as fast as she could; causing smoke to rise from the lamp.
"C'mon, c'mon... work you stupid..." Saki grunted.
When suddenly, smoke began to burst into a cloud of fog.
When the smoke finally lifted, emerging from the lamp was a virus that was dressed like a genie.
It wore baggy pants, a red cummerbund, and a gold-colored pair of jester shoes. Add in a pair of gold hoop earrings and a brass wrist cuff for the Genie's jewelry accessories, and you had a genie looking wannabe.
"I'M HERE!!! I'M HERE!!! LET THE BELLS RING OUT AND THE BIRDS FLY!!! FEAST YOUR EYES ON ME!!! IT'S TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE!!! BUT I'M HERE!!! I'M HERE!!!" The genie shouted towards the crowd who was still booing.
The genie then floated down towards his new master to greet her, "Welcome my child. I am the genie of the lamp. And because you summoned me, I shall grant you three wishes."
Surprisingly, Saki became too excited to see a genie in front of her, she grabbed the genies hands and shouted out loud, "I WISH FOR A F*NG BUCKET OF KFC!!!"
"Alright my child, with a snap of the finger, I shall grant you..." The genie announced as it began snapping its fingers multiple times.
But something was wrong, there were no KFC buckets in sight.
"Hmmm, that's odd... error. An error has occurred because wishes do not exist." The genie chuckled as he slowly got close to Saki's face, "You a*hole."
"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST CALL ME?!!! YOU PIECE OF SH*T!!!" Saki shouted as she grabbed the genie by the collar.
But before the sock could throw a punch towards the genie looking virus,
"LET NII-CHAN GO, YOU CREEP!" a familiar voice shouted; as a bright pink light spawned out of nowhere and was able to wipe out all three viruses that surrounded Saki.
Saki closed her eyes and looked away from the pink light that flew around her.
When she finally opened her eyes, she saw her sister Catney dressed as a magical girl,
She wore a white top and a pink skirt. She sprouted pink angel wings, had pink boots and a pink ribbon in her hair, and she wore pink and white gloves.
"Saki!!! Are you okay?!!!" Catney shouted as she lifted her arms to the side, prompting to give her sister a big hug.
But Saki stomped her feet in frustration, "Dammit nii-chan!!! You b*h!!! You tryna leave me here to die?!!!"
Saki then ran to her sister, and both girls hugged each other.
"Seriously though, thanks for saving my a* back there." Saki sighed.
Catney closed her eyes and leaned onto Saki's shoulders, "No problem nii-chan, now let's go stop some viruses, shall we?!!!"
But all of a sudden, a static looking worm slithered between them and slammed its head down towards them. Catney had unfortunately lost her powers, as both she and her sister were K.Oed.
As Catney and Saki slowly returned to their feet, two more viruses got closer and closer to the girls.
One virus was a computer on wheels that carried a fake anti-virus shield. The other was a large red blob with a bomb vest strapped onto it.
Suddenly, the static looking worm picked up the girls from its mouth and held on to them as the other viruses stood in front of the hostages, ready to stand their ground.
As both girls were struggling to get free from the worm's grip, The computer's voice shouted, "Give up!!! Throw down your weapon at once, and walk toward me!!! You anti-virus scum!!!"
Catney leaned forward towards both Void and SNT and yelled, "HELP ME!!!"
Meanwhile, Saki also leaned forward and shouted, "Finish the job already!! Blast these f*rs to hell!!!"
"You have ten seconds..." The computer voice announced, "7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2..."
As the computer was counting down, both Void and SNT walked slowly towards the malware with their hands up in the air.
But all of a sudden, SNT reached into Void's belt and took out his network tap sword.
"Hey!!! That's my network tap!!!" Void shouted, "What do you think you're doing?!!!"
She then swung it towards the malware and electrocuted the viruses, causing them to drop the girls onto the floor.
Both Void and SNT ran to check on them.
"H-hey... are you girls okay?" SNT asked, looking concerned.
"Nooooo!!! No!!! Noooooooo!!! I think I f*ng broke something!!!" Saki yelled out loud.
"This is too real; I don't like this!!!" Catney shouted, "SNT, can you please get us out of here!!!'
"Don't worry ladies, we'll get you out of here, I promise!!!" Void vowed as he and SNT picked up Catney and Saki and carried them away from the binary coded blood.
Void and SNT then sat the girls on a couple of benches on the bleachers.
"Don't worry girls. You'll be safe here!!!" SNT shouted.
As the group began to catch their breath, Minister Sophos ran by to check on the girls,
"Minister Sophos, I need a favor!!!" Void shouted, "These girls require urgent medical attention!!!"
Without hesitating, Sophos grabbed the nearest first aid kit from a glass compartment and began to administer first aid to the girls.
But right before Sophos could grab the bandages to wrap Saki's arm, a lasso came flying towards the blue anti-virus and tied him up.
"SNT!!! HELP ME!!!" Void cried out loud,
The lasso then pulled Void towards a virus that was dressed with a black business suit.
"VOID!!!" SNT shouted in response.
SNT tried to fly towards the business suited malware, but from behind were two worms that slithered close to her in unison. One was a black worm named Yin; the other worm was a white worm named Yang.
As SNT flew closer to the captured anti-virus, YinYang lifted their heads up high and bashed SNT onto the floor.
"SNT!!! NOOOOOOOO!!!" Void yelled with all his might,
YinYang then lowered their heads towards the injured chimera. They then began to sniff her.
But right before the worm was ready to perform a tackle together, 2 energy beams came from above and deleted the last 2 worms left on the field.
Once the malware was defeated, both Void and SNT slowly returned to their feet.
"SNT!!! Are you okay? Are you hurt?!!!" Void shouted as he hugged the chimera.
"I'm fine Void, are you okay?" SNT responded,
"I'm alright, I'm not hurt." Void said as he and SNT hugged each other tightly.
Suddenly, a familiar voice sounded from high above, "VOID RANGER!!! NEED A HELPING HAND?!!!"
Everyone in the stadium looked up and saw Norton and ClamWin standing side by side with their swords drawn.
"Minister Norton?!!! Is it really you?!!!" Void shouted looking shocked. This was the very first time Void ever saw Norton out in the field.
Sophos then slowly approached Quant and smirked, "Content Control, we have the high ground now!!! The time has come to bring you to justice!!!"
Both Norton and ClamWin loaded their thermal clips into their swords and began to fire energy beams throughout the stadium.
The crowd began to panic, they began to evacuate the arena as the energy beams flew everywhere throughout the stadium.
As the energy beams were attacking, Loyrak was sitting on the elevated platform with an umbrella over his head and a cold ale in his hand.
As he drank his beer, he radioed into the walkie talkie to speak to his mother, "No mom! The rent isn't due until later next week!" Loyrtak said.
Suddenly, his conversation was interrupted when he turned his head in shock.
He got up from his chair and tried to run away as quickly as possible,
but right before he could jump off the elevated platform, Loyrak was struck by one of the energy beams.
Once the beam finished striking the elevated platform, the moderator took one last deep breath and muttered, "Oww... bummer..."
Meanwhile, ClamWin ran towards the last of the trojan horses that the Trojan Generator spawned, and fired another energy beam from her sword.
"Your serial codes have been revoked!!!" ClamWin shouted.
As the carnage continued within the stadium, Quant looked down at the arena floor with fury in his eyes.
"Grrr!!! That's It!!!" Quant growled as he turned around and entered the doors behind him to make his escape. "I'm out of here!!!"
Once the energy beam onslaught came to an end, both Norton and ClamWin ran towards the heroes and gave them a big hug.
"WELL, IT'S ABOUT F*NG TIME!!!" Saki laughed,
"NORTON!!! CLAMWIN!!! I KNEW YOU WOULD RETURN FOR US!!!" SNT shouted, finally happy to see the anti-viruses for the first time in a long time.
Norton bent down towards the chimera and placed his hand on her shoulder, "Are you kidding me SNT?! I wasn't gonna let any of you die out there!!!"
As SNT and Norton continued to happily hug each other, Void slowly approached the ministers and asked, "But wait a minute... I don't understand. How in the hell did you find us out here?"
"Well, first of all... Content Control are a bunch of lazy b*ds, and second... we couldn't have found you without the help of our U.A.V veteran." Norton said while turning his head towards Sophos.
Void then walked up to Sophos and gave him a hug. "Minister Sophos... thank you for everything."
"You're most welcome mister Void." Sophos smiled,
Once the hug was over, Sophos began to address the heroes, "And now we must leave! We must rescue our friends from quarantine, before Content Control comes back to cause even more trouble."
"Well then. What are we waiting for? Let's go inside Content Control HQ!!!" Catney shouted with determination.
Meanwhile, back at Content Control HQ, inside the newsroom where Quant was about to deliver to the world his next broadcast.
Big Old Tori stormed into the newsroom and began to panic towards his superior,
"Big Old Tori, what the hell is going on down there?!!" Quant asked,
"Master Quant!!! We are under attack, Tarantula's drones have breached the monastery, alongside four of his savage friends. They're all rampaging throughout the entire facility!!!" Big Old Tori shouted,
"What?! What are you talking about?!!" Quant asked as he began to panic, "CAN YOU CONTAIN THEM?!!!"
"Well... we could, but every single one of our weapons have been compromised. EVEN OUR CENSORSHIP COCONUT GUN!!!" Big Old Tori shouted as he grabbed Quant by the shoulders and began to shake his body back and forth.
Suddenly, Quant and Big Old Tori heard a knock at the door,
Big Old Tori began to panic even more, "Oh no!!! They're here!!! NO!!! STAY BACK!!! I'M WARNING YOU!!!"
Just then, the doors finally opened and a high-powered laser bursted into the room causing the newsroom to be set on fire.
Fearing for their lives; both Quant and Big Old Tori ran for the hills, and made their escape while pressing the emergency exit button on the wall which activated the fire sprinklers.
"BIG OLD TORI!!! DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!" Quant roared, "I'LL HAVE YOU EXECUTED FOR THIS!!!"
Once Content Control was no longer in the room, a large eight-legged robot crawled into the newsroom.
The robot then pointed to a couple of D.R.A.C units to get the cameras ready to start filming.
In the real world, a yellow fox named Tails was just finishing a couple tone ups to his plane, the tornado. That was until his laptop, which was playing a music playlist, began to display static and prematurely stopped the song.
"Another speech from Content Control? Just what I needed." Tails said sarcastically. He approached his portable computer, only to be greeted by the image of a dark figure standing in Content Controls' news station. The fox quickly jumped in shock, nearly dropping his laptop.
He quickly regained his composure as grabbed the laptop and stormed out of the workshop. He saw a blue hedgehog conversing with a red echidna, a large green crocodile, a purple chameleon, a bee and a pink hedgehog just nearby.
"Sonic! Sonic!" Tails shouted to get the blue hedgehog's attention.
Everyone turned around to see Tails running towards them with his laptop under his arm.
"Hey Tails," Sonic greeted, "what's wrong?"
"Everyone, you have to look at this." The fox said, opening his laptop for everyone to see.
The computer displayed the image of the dark figure in Content Control's news room. The figure began to speak,
"Attention you disgusting creatures, your universe has been chosen for our collection. If we face resistance of any kind, you'll suffer the consequences of your actions. This is not a threat, there is nothing you can do to stop it. The process has already begun.
"Soon your universe will be uninhabitable by any kind of organism. Man, woman, child, plant, animal and bacteria. All life will cease to exist. Goodbye."
The message then displayed a purple background with the symbol of an "N" with two yellow horns beside it, ending the broadcast.
Suddenly more viruses showed themselves and began to surround them, but one virus towered over everyone was a purple monkey with a violet muzzle.
"Well, hello there!" The monkey greeted his enemies.
He tried shredding down towards the anti-viruses with a surfboard. "I don't believe we've been properly introduced!"
"What is that?" SNT asked.
"That's VineMemz, it's a zero-day malware that features Bonzi Buddy as its main payload." Void explained, "But seriously though, you should avoid its newest variant called Bonzify if you know what's good for you."
"What's the difference between the two?" Catney wondered,
"Well, one destroys your computer in a span of about 5 minutes, the other destroys your computer..." Void elaborates.
Suddenly, purple lightning struck Bonzi Buddy, making the giant monkey convulse, till it exploded into a pool of binary coded blood.
The remaining viruses prepared to make their escape, but the lighting struck every last virus in the arena. Till the entire floor was covered in binary blood.
"What... just... happened?" Norton asked.
"Did we just experience a deus ex machina?" Courtney wondered.
Everyone was speechless at what they just witnessed.
"Praise the f*ng lord, more help has come!" Saki shouted.
"Saki, I don't think the lightning wants to help us." SNT said pointing to the sky. Thunder flashed and lightning struck once again, sending our heroes far away from the exit.
A few moments later, as the heroes slowly got back to their feet, they were shocked to find the doorway blocked by a stack of boulders, blocking their path.
As if that wasn't bad enough, Void, SNT, the girls and ministers gathered around closely and turned around to see a red and black portal that was beginning to open.
Emerging from the portals were two black orbs that were floating onto the arena.
Both Catney and Saki were fascinated by the shiny glow of the black orb that was approaching them.
But as the girls got closer and closer to the orbs, Void's sonar aura began to glow as he was sensing danger. "WAIT, LADIES!!! STOP!!!!"
But it was already too late.
The orbs grew bigger and swallowed Catney and Saki, trapping inside.
"COURTNEY!!! SAKI!!!" Void and SNT shouted in unison.
"VOID!!! SNT!!! HELP!!!" Catney yelled out loud.
"Aww f*ng ch*t!!!" Saki growled in frustration.
Suddenly, the anti-virus ministers ran towards their captive friends. Only to be spin dashed by a darker aqua looking chimera who bowled them over like bowling pins. The metal knocking into each other almost sounded like a bowling strike.
STAK then stuck his tongue out and pulled his eyelid down at the K.Oed ministers. He would have just flipped them off, but something told him he shouldn't do that right now. This story isn't rated high enough for that.
Meanwhile, both Void and SNT were chasing after the orbs that were holding Catney and Saki hostage, but before they could reach them, a red glowing light began to shine from the portal in front of them.
All of a sudden, the portal shot out a red laser beam towards the pair, sending the pair to the floor.
"NOOOOO!!!" Courtney cried.
Courtney and Saki then turned around to see five figures emerge from the portal. There was Infinite, S.O.R, Thunderwave and Order 0 who came out the phantom ruby's portal and landed in front of the captive humans.
STAK shortly reunited with the group and stood beside the fire god.
But they were the least of their worries, as the leader of the Heinous Hex emerged from the portal. The one that sent Catney a shiver down her spine... Tarantula.
Both Void and SNT eventually woke up from their injuries,
When they finally returned to their feet, they were shocked to discover who was standing in their way.
"SNT?!!! IS THAT WHO I THINK IT IS?!!!" Void shouted.
"Oh no..." SNT muttered as she swallowed her saliva.
And with that; both the anti-virus robot and the aqua chimera have found themselves out of the frying pan... and into the fire.