Saints Row 3 Lovers
Episode 13: Virtual Reality
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Bella, you know if that chair is ready yet?
Um, why are you asking me?
Because you, I can understand…
Oh, um, th-thanks Isabella… I think they said they'd be done pretty soon, uh, you should probably come over to make sure though…
All right…
Kinzie's really nice… A little rough around the edges but with enough chiseling, she's really wholesome…
I've noticed you visit her a lot…
We share an intellectual energy wavelength together, as well as Oleg…
Oh…
Does this mean our date is…?
Oh no, it's still going on… Don't worry, I'm not the jealous type baby…
Oh thank goodness…
Ok, I'll see you there…
Ok…
Bella: [hung up] Kinzie, would you mind holding on for a little bit?
Kinzie: What do you mean?
Bella: I want to go on a date but since Isabella's been busy all the time… I wanna, you know, be with her for the time being… Well unless it can't wait-
Kinzie: Ah, go for it… Matt's not really doing much, only preparing himself for epic failure!
Bella: I'm really sorry but I miss her…
Kinzie: Like I said, go on… I'll be here, waiting! Ok?
Bella: [smile] You're the best…
In one hour and thirty four minutes afterwards, the Boss took Bella to Tits & Grits.
Isabella: Um, hope this is not bothersome…
Bella: What makes you say that?
Isabella: I mean I could take you to a finer restaurant, but after what happened at the original Tits & Grits? Pssh, that was embarrassing…
Bella: [giggle] Nothing's embarrassing when we both have feelings for each other…
Isabella: Easy for you to say when you don't have a reputation to maintain…
Bella's hand cupped Isabella's chin with a genuine cute smile.
Bella: Stop worrying so much about your reputation for the Saints and focus more on yourself… You're smart enough to know that it isn't going to falter, so why bother with the boring details when it really doesn't matter?
When saying that in the most innocent voice, she let go of her girlfriend's chin and relax in her seat, but the Boss grabbed her hand to hold for a while.
Isabella: No, you're right… I've been worried about my image for a long, long ass time… I think it's good now, since the people here believes the Saints are a gang, and believe they protect people…
Bella: You… protect people, and I think it's better for you to teach the rest of the Saints to protect others as well…
Isabella: [smiling with a soft blush] Bella, damn, I…
Bella: It's ok… I have been spending time with one of your daughters, Kiki, and Kinzie who taught me the meaning of life, love, and the adventure… I'd figure you oughta hear it from me, and not the others…
Isabella: [nodding] Off topic, uh… You want anything from this place?
Bella: I want you to sit beside me, and not on the other side of the table… All I ever want is you, and you only…
Wasting no time, Isabella got up from the banquette bench and sat on the same side as Bella, consistently holding the blush that was still apparent across her cheeks, but only getting brighter than a Christmas tree.
Bella: [nudge her shoulder with hers] You ok babe?
Isabella: [giggle and looks down] You're so assertive today… What's gotten into you?
Bella: Dunno, why not let loose and say what's really on our minds?
Isabella: Other than to say that I wanna throw you in that bathroom and have the most intense sex with you as I stroke your thighs? Is that what you want me to say?
Bella: Is that what your mind really thinks?
She twirls her finger around Isabella's stomach before trailing up to swirl her breasts, causing the Boss to shiver.
Bella: I believe it's along the lines of not hurting me too roughly because you know how sensitive I am… And… I think it's that you don't care about it but willingly go for it… Don't lie, ok? Your mind is saying that, but not your heart…
Isabella: [blushing immensely] Fucking hell…
Bella: [cups her cheeks] For now, until I know I'm ready for it, despite how scary it is, I'm taking minor, baby steps, all right? Does that sound appealing to you?
Isabella: [leans in and kiss her lips deeply]
Bella: [soft moan]
Isabella: It does… [wipes Bella's lower lip]
Bella: [giggle] Ok, then let's head back to Kinzie's Warehouse… and take care of this "Matt Miller" shenanigans…
Isabella: You couldn't be more right…
With that, the scene faded out…
…And into Isabella relaxing in the NEMO chair. Kicking up her leg to stretch outwards and crossing, while having her arms behind her head as her hands held the back of her head. Closing her eyes, she sighed softly.
Isabella: Mmm… Ahh… This feels nice…
Bella: So, Isabella, are you excited to shoot things in virtual reality?
Isabella: It's safer than being shot at…
Kinzie: You can survive a gunshot, but if your mind takes too much shock in this chair, you'll go brain dead…
Isabella: [sigh] Great plan…
Kinzie: I know… You ready?
Isabella: [thumbs up] Let's do it…
Bella: Ooh! Can I watch too?
Kinzie: Sure! Sit next to me!
Bella: Nice!
Booting up the system and the server connecting into the Decker User-Net, the NEMO took the form of Isabella's personality and built it into the game itself.
This game, however, it was built like Stillport, only it was in the form of black buildings with blue linings. Like the city, no cars, no roads, only pathways with chunks of no filter objects in the way. The Decker User-Net is gorgeous to look upon, although it really was not much to see.
At the starting point, visual effects were extracting sparkling and lightning energy into creating Isabella's chair model…
Alright, you should be seeing a visual representation of the Decker User-Net now.
What's with that toilet… Oh my god that's me!
Oops, sorry about that! Let me load up another…
So not fucking cool!
I haven't finished your avatar yet! That one's just temporary…
Why would you give me this!? Ugh!
Just start moving through the data, I'll sort it out soon…
Getting the feel of the movement, it felt like her legs are there, but not really. When coming up into the next pixelated glitchy portal error, it transformed Isabella into a blowup sex doll.
Great, now I'm a walking sex joke…
Oh my gosh… I feel so bad for her…
Don't be, Bella, she's fine…
The Deckers have spawned in after getting a call from an interference with an intruder, and already pulling out their cybernetic guns to start firing. Imperious to not flinching at gunfire, it was light work no reaction to the Boss.
Sooner or later, Kinzie gave a physical body with a blaster canon that shoots plasma energy. The character is not completed yet, it looks like a human body would look like, only having no face or anything to see. A skeleton with skin but shows no visual appearance.
Whoa, this is… this is better!
Good, cause Matt sniffed me out…
This is my world to shape as I see fit, not yours.
When coming across at the firewall, Kinzie explained what it means to Isabella, furthermore, by trying to make haste towards it, a snail icon indicating that the Boss is slowed down temporarily, so she can get jumped by a group of Deckers slashing their swords into her. Brutal, yes, and painful, absolutely, but look no further as Isabella made it pass in one fell swoop.
Reaching the firewall, the screen went black… showing a visual of text reading out a story, with a few multiple choices.
Ooh I love these!
I'm happy for you now help me out here…
And ruin it for you? No way you gotta figure it out on your own!
Just saying, spoilers are fine by me!
"You awaken to find yourself on cold flagstone. As you stand up you notice that the small room is lit by two torches. To the north there is a door, to the south a hole in the wall."
What do you do?
Open the door?
Take a Torch?
Go Through The Hole?
Or Take A Nap?
You Have Taken The Torch!
"You lift the torch out of the wall sconce and open the door. Before you stretches a dark corridor that fades into the inky, tenebrous, blackness. You walk for what feels like an eternity before you realize that your torch is beginning to burn out."
What do you do?
Keep Walking?
Search For Secret Doors?
Or Run Back To Get The Other Torch?
You Continue To Keep Walking!
"You press forward, praying to the 31 gods of Diaz that your torch won't go out. Fortunately, it doesn't. Ahead of you darkness gives way to light as a dull indigo glow illuminates the corridor up ahead. You hear the sound of a large rock grinding against stone."
What do you do?
Keep Walking?
Draw Sword?
Or Cast A Spell?
You Continue To Keep Walking!
"As you walk towards the indigo glow, the corridor gives way to a large cavern, and the source of the light becomes apparent… the room is lit by a massive luminescent lake. Lapping at the lake is a unicorn."
What do you do?
Look At The Unicorn?
Pet The Unicorn?
Or Kill The Unicorn?
You Killed The Unicorn!
"You win."
Thanks for playing Dragons and Tears: Part 1 of the Spiraling Darkness Trilogy!
What do the developers have against unicorns? Fucking weirdos…
~Firewall Destroyed~
I'm not going to be beaten by some noob you dragged into my world, Kensington.
Ok, we're back in business, now take out Matt's anti-virus next.
Spawning on the next level of the surface in Cyberspace, Isabella's avatar turned into a toilet again, with her canon that's now floating where her arm used to be.
You said you had this Kinzie!
But I didn't-
I think this is more fitting. Wouldn't you agree?
Give me a second, I'll fix it.
Hey, I'm still packing my canon!
More Deckers on several platforms to shoot from the high ground, Isabella continues to make through the trial without taking too much shock in the chair. Towards the firewall, she combated a couple of men above the viewpoint, and several on the ground. As it was done destroying them all, Isabella took a deep breath, and relaxed her tense shoulders.
Is this the best you can do Kensington? Begone!
In a 2D pixelated game, one blue tank is the Leader of the Saints, and the other is a green tank, most likely the enemy of the Decker.
The fuck is this shit?
Just go with it…
The controls were buggy after micromanaging it for a couple seconds, but Isabella destroyed the enemy tank, and progressed into the next and final firewall.
~Firewall Destroyed~
Onto the next area of the surface, Isabella's avatar was back into a deflated sex doll, with a canon that has a malfunctioning projectile whenever it shoots plasma shots.
Oh come on!
I see it I see it…
Pathetic!
Can't wait to punch this brat…
Kinzie started typing fast into the codes for giving back the character to the Boss, Isabella tried to tank as many shots as physically possible by running from it. It hurts so bad for her to take too much damage, and thank goodness after a moment's rest, health regeneration is a thing in video games. Taking a moment to catch her breath from her stamina, Isabella books it to the next area, closing the gate behind her.
Coming up on the last wall…
It's his Internet Security Protocol. They're blocking access to the main-
Yeah I don't need to know…
Three platforms of Deckers kept spawning in by blasting Isabella, and so many roller skating Deckers with big shock hammers messing up the Boss's vision.
You like the place? It's modeled after the Nyte Blayde Season 3 "Rise of the Cyprian Order." Here is where the Cardinal lays his plan for a bet-
Wait… you modeled this shit off of Nyte Blayde?
It's an allegory for man's inhumanity to man.
It's a shitty vampire show…
I don't expect a chuckle fuck like you to appreciate good writing…
Took far too many minutes to destroy every last Decker there was, and when Matt was getting fed up with the success Kinzie was achieving out of it, he crashed the server.
Crashing Server…
Unhandled Kernel exception…
Null
System
Ctrl
Encrypted
How
Could
You
Let
Johnny
Die?
HAHAHAHAH!
Ok don't panic, we can try and work this out, probably…
You ever been good of lying under pressure?
~Firewall Destroyed~
From beneath the Boss's feet, she fell right through, although managing to save herself from not by Kinzie's amazing ability to hack, but something else. Looking around, ambient music from a certain clothing store was playing all around, different colored textures of blue was glowing and fading in a cycle loop, and in front of her was a sign, reading off as, "Shockingly Disastrous!" The Boss laughed to herself before walking around, waiting for something to happen.
Isabella: Looks like someone's been to my favorite clothing store! Me like! All right, come on out!
?: [teleported] You stay right there, Saint!
Isabella: A girl? Thank god, I was getting bored fighting the rest of you men!
The girl before her was a Caucasian woman in her mid-twenties, has black hair with several dyed dark and light blue strips fading into each other. Her entire outfit is stylish into a classic goth emo girl getup: long sleeve blue and black jacket, a white undershirt is a tank top with a Decker skull plastered to the front, a black and blue striped skirt with ravishing black fishnets, finishing it off with black roller skates. Fingerless gloves, as her nails are in a one by one black and blue pattern: her left thumb, middle, pinky is blue, index and ring is black; her right was the opposite pattern, thumb, middle, pinky is black, index and ring is blue. Showing her makeup was nothing too fancy, and not too much to give off, black eyeliner, faded black eyeshadow, and dark blue lipstick.
Now, the woman's weaponry: two SMGs were strapped on both her sides of the holsters, two butterfly blades were strapped on both sides of her thighs, lastly, a huge shock hammer that looks like a combination of a mallet mixed with a reaper's scythe.
Isabella: Ok, let's get started!
?: I want this fight to be fair and square! If anyone interferes, I'll have to smack them out of here for this battle! What's your name? The Leader of the Saints must have a name rather being anonymous!
Isabella: Don't worry, I let everyone know my name… Isabella Lycian, and yours?
?: Cynthia Morris, but you may get to call me Cya, that is what everyone calls me!
Isabella: Cute name…
Cya: Now, let the battle… commence!
Cynthia has slammed her shock hammer down, creating a shockwave going out in all fours in a north, south, east, west serpentine, thus creating the four outline tips to form a giant circle that went up in blue fiery blaze of heat, based on the arena.
Cya: Walk out of this circle and you will fail, declaring me the winner of this fight, thus starting over from the beginning so you will never see Matt Miller's final boss! His firewalls will be back up, and you'll get to face me again!
Isabella: Sounds simple enough!
Cya: [points to her] And no outsiders!
Isabella: Come again?
Cya: I've seen the amount of help you've gotten from your Saints! It's you and me, no in between assistance!
Isabella: You hear that Kinzie? No hacking involved in this fight… This is me and her!
Yeah, I got it, don't die or anything like that…
Cynthia powered up her roller skates, putting on her glowing LED gas mask, and boosted around.
Cya: Catch me if you can!
Isabella: [chuckling] I can get behind a real challenge! Bring it on sweetie!
It was a tough matchup, the Leader of the Saints standing in the middle of the open floor waiting for her opponent to stop skating, while the other waits for a slight change to open fire so she can interrupt her movement.
Isabella waited long enough and makes a run for it, however Cynthia rolled towards her, jumping into a double jump, flipping over to slam her hammer, creating a shockwave to knock Isabella off her feet.
Cya: [chuckling]
Isabella: [stood up]
Cya: Give up loser!
Isabella: …
Back to roller skating again, the Boss waited patiently while charging up her plasma canon to maximum overload, and concentrated to the sounds of the loud noise of Cynthia's roller skates. It took several seconds to make a move for both of them, so instead, Cynthia stopped skating to perform a sliding tackle onto Isabella, making her fall. With that, to one-up her combo, she slid her knees on the floor, pulling out her SMGs to open fire on the Boss, before skating around again.
Taken too much shock in the NEMO chair, Isabella in virtual reality gets herself together.
Cya: Is this the best the Saints can do? I don't mean to brag but clearly the winning combatant is in my favor!
Getting taunted by a Decker specialist, Isabella took a deep breather, keeping her overloaded plasma canon, and crouched on one knee. Cynthia didn't question it, although she reminded herself not to get too close, and shoot from a distance.
Cya: [pulls out SMGs]
Isabella: Gotcha… [shoots plasma canon]
Cya: [gasp]
Since it was at the maximum level of overload, it made a huge impact on Cynthia since it threw her body forcefully outside of the circle. Isabella looked at her and panted, noticing that she'd won.
Cya: [groans] Damn it…
Isabella: [walks to her]
The circle of blue flames extinguished, as so was Cynthia's fire within her to fight.
Isabella: [smiling]
Cya: I failed… [looks at the sky]
Isabella: [crouches to her level]
Cya: [tears welling up] I'm sorry, Matt… I'm going to die to a Saint and mostly, I can't run from this…
Isabella: Hey, Cya, I can tell-
Cya: Please kill me, so I can accept my fate as a fallen soldier…
Isabella: Nah, not gonna kill you, because even in a video game, you look scared to die, honestly it looks like you're afraid of it…
Cya: [scoff] Geez… Everyone's scared of death you doofus… It's hard accepting it when my life is always on the line…
Isabella: [stroke her cheek] I can help you overcome that fear…
Cya: [looks at her] …What are you doing?
Isabella: Can't help but find how attractive and beautiful you are…
Cya: Ugh, please… I'm nothing more than an empty vessel with no room for words… You're falling in love for someone who hates herself…
Isabella: [snap fingers]
By snapping her fingers, no more seeing Isabella's avatar, instead, it shows her real self as if her body manifested into virtual reality. Even Kinzie was impressed!
Cya: [widen eyes] …!
Isabella: Just relax, and I'll save you from the pain…
Cya: …What… What are you gonna… [gasp]
From Kinzie's point of view, she turned away.
Kinzie: Oh Jesus fucking Christ!
Bella: [stunned] …!
Kinzie: I don't know how she can even do that in virtual reality, let alone Cyberspace, but that is disturbing to watch!
Bella: I… wanna know what that… feels like… It looks like it hurts to try…
Kinzie: [looks at her and back at the screen] You a virgin?
Bella: A what?
Kinzie: Sounds about right…
Bella: [rubs arm] Does it hurt?
Kinzie: …What? Sex? No… It feels good, and uh… You know, she can explain it better than I could…
Bella: Oh, umm…
~Firewall Destroyed~
Why aren't you dying!?
He's scared! Go to the cathedral and finish him off!
Hey Kinzie!
Yeah, hi…
Like what you saw?
Just go to the cathedral Boss, please…
Heheh, and those giant tubes are just happy fun slides, right?
Must be his direct feed into this world, where all his information flows through, yeah that's definitely a trap…
Sometimes, Kinzie, at least try lying, it'll help out wonders, I promise…
Coming up inside the cathedral, echoing laughter from the infamous Matt Miller continues to taught the Boss.
Easy to laugh when you're hiding like a pussy! Come on out!
Gladly!
A huge shadow under the Boss's feet as the radius was getting bigger, she dodged out of the way just as quickly and saw a gigantic creature with a blue sword and blue wings.
What… the fuck…
Don't you get it? I'm god here!
That's just fine… In the real world you're just a bitch with a keyboard…
We're not in the real world now. Here you cannot beat me!
Real world, this world; it's all the same for kicking your ass…
His avatar is big enough to squish the Boss in one go, so she better be careful about how Isabella will beat him; not only that, he can alter abilities to his will of winning the fight: a snail, an hourglass, a toy shooter, and inverted controls.
A snail was Isabella's first encounter, indicating of moving slower, with no fast mobility.
An hourglass is mostly having a lagging server which prompts the player that moves will teleport in place. The only counter is to stand completely still, which it was temporarily.
A toy shooter is basically as the name suggests. No damage to imply. Useless.
And inverted controls is also as the name implies where going up is down and going down is up. The left and right is also inverted so how to combat it is by staying still, only temporary as well.
The battle between a giant behemoth and a small ant was not all that intense but Isabella manages to make it work in some way; somehow getting the upper advantage by charging her plasma cannon to the maximum overload to blast off a huge impact towards Matt.
He had enough of the Boss's crap so he jump to slam his sword towards her, only then for the Boss to dodge away. When trying to slash at her, the Boss shot his face, causing the monster to growl. With him stunned, she climbed to his back by trying to rip his wings off.
What are you doing!? Get down!
As the sounds of the wings clipping off, Isabella started chuckling when falling backwards with the wings falling to the ground, disappearing into thin air.
Argh, coward! You can't win!
Fighting on equal ground, Isabella is still falling short into a disadvantage of her current standing. Although Matt kept altering between abilities to corrupt Isabella's ability to fight back, she was prone to find some sort of power to overtake his dominance.
Stop fighting the inevitable!
Is that the cheesiest line you have?
Getting on top of his back to shoot a dozen of shots to the back of his head, Matt threw her off his neck and growls.
Get off me and fight!
Kinzie shouted, "Got it," and transformed Isabella into the copied version of what Matt is, two types of dragon mixed into one. Preforming shockwaves, shoulder bashing into a short speed dash, a wave of fire breath, and a slash attack.
What!? That's impossible!
Hahaha! So, this is how it feels to be this powerful in a video game? Yeah, I can kinda see it.
Grr, no difference, it doesn't matter how you got that form. I am god in my domain!
Why be a god when you can be a king, little boy? Now here I am ready to descend you from the cathedral, because you certainly aren't heaven sent!
The battle of dragons clashing between swords created a huge shockwave throughout the Decker User-Net, and all of the Deckers, and the Saints from the outside, heard laughter from the Boss, and the continuous grunt and/or struggle from Matt Miller.
There's no room for you in my world! Time to die!
Time for you to wake up in the real world kid!
Matt keeps slashing his sword at Isabella, but dodges everything. When jumping back, she puts the sword behind her back, and leaped onto Matt as they have done a body twirl before slamming to the ground, as the Boss grabbed his throat and uses her other fist to punch his face. After a few powerful blows, Isabella lifted him up to punch him back, before slashing him in numerous ways and jabbing the sword into his stomach area… lastly, slashing it upwards to watch Matt fall on his back.
Crawling and backing away, Matt's avatar disappeared as Isabella's done so as well. "Lights out Matt," Isabella says when raising his plasma cannon at his face, as Matt coward in fear.
Wait! I can clear your name, prove that you didn't destroy that bridge!
I'm sure Kinzie can figure it out…
I literally have the world at my fingertips!
Little vague Matt, gotta do better…
You tell me the name of a company and it becomes the property of the Saints! You get your empire back, and I get to walk away…
Kid, now we're talking… Oh, and before I go, I need to make one request, and I feel like I've earned it, after your EMP crashing the helicopter, causing Shaundi to get a bleeding head over it…
Yeah! Yes! Of course! Anything!
I'm taking Cya into the Saints…
Cynthia? What for?
She charges her canon.
No no no no wait I said what for? She's my best and favorable member in the Deckers!
And now she'll be my best and favorable member in the Saints! Your Deckers either have a conscious mind of surrendering, or die trying while fleeing into another city that's NOT Stillport! So, do we have a deal?
Uh, I guess…
Matt…?
Yes! Yes we have a deal!
Great, now… get the fuck out of my face!
At the 3 Count Casino…
Killbane: I really wish you'd reconsider Matty. These hands of mine were meant to rend bone, not hunt and peck on a keyboard.
Matt: Well if typing is the issue I can recommend some good voice recognition software and I can um-
Killbane: Shh… [wrap his arm around his neck] You stuck with me when I rose from Philipe's ashes like a phoenix. You and me, we've bonded.
Matt: That's lovely, but I feel it's time for me to move on… To be honest I'm a little scared of, well, dying…
Killbane: [sighs] I do run a demanding workplace. Matty, I appreciate how you've shared your concerns. I mean, the way Viola and Kiki handled their… "departures", just make me want to kill someone you know?
Matt: [get off his arm] Oh absolutely! Well, I've got a flight to catch, so… [walks away fast]
Killbane: Matty.
Matt: [startled] Oh god…
Killbane: Feel free to list me as a reference anytime.
Matt: [took a small breath of relief]
To Be Continued…