Wild Boot
by Rarstarr
Reboot and Ranma 1/2 are the property of Mainframe Entertainment and
Rumiko Takahashi respectively and used here (respectfully) without
permission.
I'd like to thank my prereaders: Jin, David Johnston and Shane Burton
I welcome any Comments, Criticism or MSTs. All parts to this and other of
my stories may be found at:
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~djfarr/
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Nabiki: I run Mainframe.
My format: Indexer.
My code to collect and collate.
Business is data
And data is my business.
You want resources,
You talk to me.
v 1.8.3 : SiB
Baudway was the main street in Mainframe's Commercial district and home
of the Baudway shopping mall, the bus depot, the time share market and,
of course, the Nekohanten. Despite missing the owner and primary cook the
restaurant continued to do its brisk trade as sprites from the
surrounding buildings took lunch or coffee breaks and flocked to its
doors. Thus it was to a busy street that Akane and her three CPUs
descended.
Cars hovering along the road pulled to a stop as the group surrounded a
sprite hole. Mainframe's defender scanned the area with a small
tricorder.
"I've got readings," Akane announced. "You three open the hatch, I'll
report in."
"Right!" The three CPUs chorused, then got to work.
Meanwhile Akane pulled out her PDA. "Ranma, I'm investigating some
readings in the Baudway sewers."
The Guardian nodded. "Okay Akane, hold there and--"
"I can handle it!" Akane growled.
"Spam it, Akane wait for---"
With a quick motion she cut him off, closing the comlink. "Right, lets
go!"
*****
"--back up," Ranma finished to the blank screen. He looked at the two
CPUs hovering not far away on a zipboard. The group hovered in old man
Pearson's junk yard, one of the best hiding spots in the system.
"Well, we'd better go check up on her," he sighed. The other two nodded.
Turning his attention back to Glitch he opened another com. "Shampoo,
Ukyo, bring your teams to Baudway, Akane thinks she might have
something."
"And she's hurried on ahead, hasn't she Ran-chan?" Ukyo returned.
"I'm afraid so."
*****
Spots of light from their flashlights crawled along the curved walls. A
sickly green sludge flowed beneath their zip-boards, thankfully only a
trickle of the pipes true capacity.
"Is good place to hide," Shampoo commented. "Nobody in right mind come
down here."
"Then just call us nobody," Ranma returned grimly.
RyoGA light crossed a form lying in the sludge, he immediately moved
back. "What's that?"
"Akane!" Ranma exclaimed and shot forward. He skidded up to the girl
lying face down in pipe, leaping from his zipboard to land at her side.
As the others crowded around Ranma lifted Akane and turned her in his
arms.
"Who-who's there?" Akane whimpered as the sprites around her stared in
horror at her sightless white eyes.
*****
The binome stirred. Darkness surrounded him, but it wasn't ordinary
darkness. No this was more than the mere absence of light, it clung to
him, holding him still and weakening him. He wondered how long he could
live in that inky black, and if he wanted to make the effort.
*****
The corridor outside the Principal Office infirmary was packed. Shampoo
stood next to where Ukyo leant against the wall, both watching as Ranma
paced back and forth before the door. RyoGA stood not far, just looking
mournfully towards where the emergency crews had hustled the wounded
Akane. Watching them all from a distance, arms crossed and a stony
expression on her face, was Nabiki.
With a hiss the door slid open, causing everyone to turn. Kasumi looked
around the group. "I've put her in a recompiler, she'll recover.
Thankfully her blindness is temporary, but she'll be down for quite a
while."
Ranma turned his gaze to his feet and slowly shook his head. "That's
good," he murmured.
"Shampoo want know, why creature not take her like binomes?"
Ranma glared at her, but Ukyo answered. "Who knows sugah, web creatures
are too alien for us to understand. She might have been a warning or
maybe it just missed her somehow."
Ranma's fists balled at his side. "We've got to find it, and totally
purge it from the system."
Ukyo nodded. "And not just for revenge Ran-chan. If that thing makes it
back to the web it'll bring back a whole brood of its pals. Mainframe has
gotta look like a darn good nesting place."
"Ranma," Kasumi spoke in a whisper, a comforting hand on his shoulder,
"she asked for you."
"M-me? Ah, thanks." He slid past the Command.Com and through the
infirmary doors.
Large shapes loomed in the gloom of the infirmary. The rooms light
panels glowed softly, leaving deep shadows haunting the corners. Quietly
Ranma shuffled across the floor to the single occupied bed. Akane lay
there, as still as the processless. A silver metal visors hugged her
eyes, sealing them from the gloom. Other small device sat attached about
her damaged bitmap, working on restoring her functionality.
Sensing his presence, Akane twitched. "Who's there?" she rasped quietly,
fear in her voice.
"It's me Akane, Ranma." His voice was soft, barely more than a whisper.
"You must think me pretty basic," Akane wheezed, "rushing in like that."
Ranma smiled faintly and shook his head. "Nah, I can understand it."
"Yeah, right." Akane broke down into a coughing fit. Despite the
shudders running through her body, her arms remained relaxed by her side.
"What's the matter? Why can't you move?"
Akane smiled weakly. "Don't worry, Kasumi immobilised me so I could heal
properly."
Ranma sighed in relief. "Well you just get better so you can watch over
the rest of us when we get back from fighting this thing."
Akane's smile brightened. "That's a deal."
The pair lapsed into silence. "Akane, you know how I call you a
Guardian-wannabe," Ranma asked thoughtfully
Unnoticed by Ranma the defender's smile stiffened. "Yeah."
"Do you?"
Again silence descended. "Once" she whispered barely. "Back before
mum..." she trailed off. "Anyway, I couldn't leave, couldn't go to the
supercomputer, so I had to make do with Defender."
Ranma stood in silence for a few seconds. "There is another way, you
won't have to leave Mainframe for long, but its harder. Pop trained me
himself, apart from some of the theory. I only had to go to the
Supercomputer to prove myself worthy of the title Guardian."
"Wha- <cough cough> What are you saying?"
Ranma breathed a singe deep breath. "I can give you a field commission,
train you here in Mainframe. The only problem will be that you'll really
have to impress the Guardian council, more than any academy graduate." He
fell quiet.
The silence grew longer. "Why do this for me?"
"'Cause you've got what it takes, if you can learn how to do it right."
The corner of his mouth twitched into a smile. "Plus I know you'll never
abandon Mainframe to fulfil your own dream, and that's the ultimate test
of a Guardian."
Akane sniffed. "Thanks Ranma."
Ranma looked down at Akane's chest. "Can I take your Icon for a moment?"
"Ah... yeah," Akane replied cautiously.
Ranma lightly touched the white and black disc with his left hand and
lifted it. With his right hand he removed his own Icon. He held them
apart, undersides facing. "Download Guardian protocols, version one."
Light flashed in the darkness as a beam jumped between the two Icons.
Moments later Ranma replaced his own Icon then reverently placed Akane's
now Gold and Black dome on her breast.
"Ranma, I can feel it!" Akane exclaimed, strength back in her voice.
Ranma chuckled. "There are advantages to being a Guardian. You get
better and when things settle down I'll take you to the Supercomputer to
register you with the collective."
"Thank you, Ranma."
"You're welcome." He turned. "Be back soon." He hurried off into the
darkness. The door slid open, letting the Guardian exit.
*****
Kasumi stepped into the small room and turned to face the four following
her as they crowded in. "Nobody knows about this place, not even Akane
and certainly not Nabiki, and that's the way it stays, understand?"
"What Command.Com talking about?" Shampoo inquired, her brow furrowed.
Ranma, Ukyo and RyoGA looked similarly confused.
"That!" she pointed past them.
The four defender's turned to find, not the corridor they had just left,
but a large well lit hall. Desks lined the walls as far as the halfway
point, where a single room stood atop a pillar. Catwalks hung in air,
giving both access to the suspended office and a place for various guard
binomes to stand watching the area below.
And below needed watching. While both the guards and the sprites manning
the desks were nothing more than binomes wearing black suits, the sprites
being served at the desk were stranger than anything even the netwise
Ukyo and Ranma had seen. Standing there, talking calmly to the binomes
were alien sprites from distant parts of the net, some insect like,
others little more than random lines and a one looking like floating
tears.
"Kasumi, what is this place?" Ranma asked, staring around at the sights.
"Ranma, I know you're a Guardian, but I need you to promise not to tell
anyone about this, anyone at all."
Ranma turned to her, frowning. "I'm not going to let my honour be
compromised. You start explaining, and I'll stop you when you reach
something I don't like. Until that point, you have my word." The others
nodded their agreement.
"I can accept that." She walked through them and looked out across the
room. "Mainframe is an isolated system, we don't get much in the way of
net based scrutiny, which was perfect for many of the sprites in the net.
It was father's idea to formalise the process," she quietened and bowed
her head, "before mother's deletion," she shook herself slightly. "We
don't allow any hunted criminals, only political refugees or those who
simply want to vanish from net life. We disguise them, give them a new
life here and protect their privacy."
"Kasumi, honey, you must get sprites that abuse your courtesy," Ukyo
pointed out.
"Yes," Kasumi started walking. "This place serves as both a welcoming
hall and as our monitoring base. Normally we don't act unless we have to,
mainly because we don't want to scare the sprites of Mainframe, but we
can bring a lot of force to bear."
"Shampoo want know why Command.Com not just send them out after web
creature?"
"Because its beyond our scope," Kasumi replied. "We never planned for a
web creature, so while we have the hardware, no one here has the skill to
hunt it down." The group passed the pillar at the centre of the room,
beyond were more desks, this time set out in an office layout. Binomes in
black suits sat working at the computers. "I'm hoping you four will join
this group and help us defeat this monster. We'll equip you, but we can't
support you."
Ranma looked around the others. "We accept Kasumi."
The Command.Com beamed. "Ladies, gentlemen, welcome to the SiB, the
Sprites in Black. There are changing rooms over there," she indicated and
pair of doors on one wall, "you'll find Icon writers in there with data
on some special protective clothes. Meet me in my office." She indicated
the room atop the pillar above them.
The group nodded and headed off, Ranma grabbing RyoGA and redirecting
him into the men's changing room.
*****
K sat behind her desk. The room was dark, she liked it that way, it
added mood. She picked up the file folder before her and thumbed through
the documents. Standard reports, what was happening with the various
aliens in the system, new arrivals and a few departures.
The large blast doors that served as an entrance clunked and then
groaned opened revealing the four newest SiB agents. All four had changed
into their white shirts, black jacket, black ties, black trousers, black
socks and black shoes.
Agent R stood in the lead, his shades hanging from the pocket that held
his gold and black Icon. Beside him stood Agent U, her uniform
complimented by the massive spatula strapped to her back. The game
sprite, Agent G stood impassively behind R.
Finally there was Agent S. She took out her sunglasses and with one hand
slipped them on. "S make this stuff look good." She blinked. "Why S refer
to herself as S?"
"Sympathetic resonance," R replied, sliding into one of the chairs
before K.
S turned to U. "What he say?"
"We appear to be something, so we act like It. Has to do with tributes."
She calmly took a seat next to R.
G found himself trapped beneath S's gazed. "What she say?"
G shrugged. "I understood less of that than you." He took the seat next
to U, leaving S the other chair next to R.
"Glad to have you aboard," K's smile beamed. "You already know your
mission, so I can skip straight to your equipment." She touched a button
under her desk, and the entire surface of the table flipped, revealing a
compartment full of gleaming silver weapons.
The SiB leader walked around the table. "U, I know how much you like
your signature weapon," she gripped a large gleaming spatula in amongst
the weapons, and lifted it to the hacker, "I believe you'll find the
Reverberating Spatulator more useful in combating this creature."
U took the giant technological kitchen implement, her eyes sparkling.
"Thank you."
Next K picked up a long rifle with a bulky barrel and passed it to R.
"This is the Core-Line XT, It can fire as much energy as some ancient
systems could generate, be careful where you point it."
R took the weapon and looked it over. Satisfied he slung it over his
shoulder, then nodded his thanks.
The third weapon K took from the armoury looked like a rounded silver
Uzi, but instead of the magazine at the front a canister of blue energy
hung under the barrel. "This is the Series Four Nullifer," she said,
passing it to S, "it will nullify anything you point it at. Use it
sparingly, it can take out walls."
Much to the others astonishment S's face broke into a huge smile and she
cradled the weapon. "S thanks you, she be careful."
Finally K picked up a small weapon. It easily fitted into the palm of
her hand, and looked like a tiny toy with a needle pointing out the end.
"G, this is the Noisy Null, the final word in small arms."
G took the small gun and stared at it in dismay. He pocketed the weapon,
then looked at the others.
K turned to the armoury once more and picked up two objects. Neither
looked like weapons, one was a cylinder, a series of dials inlaid at one
end, the other a small box. "These are the RAM Blocker," she handed the
cylinder to U, "and an advanced scanner, it should be more powerful,
although more focused than Glitch," she handed the box to R. "U, that RAM
blocker will allow you to erase the memories of aliens from the sprites
of the system."
"IT WHAT?!" R growled.
K's calm gaze stared down the angry Guardian. "Normally I wouldn't allow
it, but I don't want a panic on my hands. This is safest for those we're
protecting, both our alien visitors and the locals."
R settled down. "You're the Command.Com I suppose. Okay, I'll go along
with it, just never use it on me."
"Agreed," K nodded. "Your shades will protect you from all forms of
flash attacks, including the RAM blocker, so you won't end up blind like
Akane."
R lifted himself to his feet. "Right, let's go."
*****
The humming of the zip-boards were the only sound in the superstructure
beneath Mainframe. Cautiously the four SiB advanced along the tunnels,
there flashlight beams reaching into every nook and cranny.
"This is where we found Akane," U pointed out, her light hovering on the
energy sludge ahead. "Where's the creature?"
R nodded and pulled the small box from his jacket. "Hopefully K's
scanner will be able to shed some light on the matter." The device
immediately squawked and started emitting a constant beeping. "This way,"
R announced and glided off down the pipes.
The others followed him through dark pipes and massive caverns. Sights
unseen by the eyes of sprites went unnoticed by R as he continued his
relentless pursuit. S and U were forced to keep a close eye on both of
their male companions, to make sure R didn't lose them or G didn't lose
himself.
Finally R came to a stop and shut off the box. "We've arrived," he
stated, unslinging and cocking his rifle.
The other three SiB pulled out their weapons, and nodded to their
leader. They were ready for whatever came next.
Moving to the end of the tunnel R, U, S and G gazed out into the room
beyond. It was large, the floor littered with boxes and light fittings
hanging precariously from the walls. Looking up the four found, hanging
from the roof were a dozen slimy black pods. Inside the pods, dimly
backlit, they could see the forms of binomes and sprites.
"Violent defender's CPUs," S whispered.
"Plus others," R added, flying slowly into the room. "K's people must be
very good at suppressing information if this many Sprites have gone
missing without comment."
"Makes you wonder, doesn't it." U drifted up after R. "Do we free them?"
R stared thoughtfully up at them. "No, we call in K. If we free them
now, we'll just warn the web creature." He held up his arm. "Glitch, drop
a marker for SiB clean up to follow." The keytool shifted slightly and
shot out a glowing green pyramid that floated in the air. "Good, now
we--"
A screech cut R off. The four sprites turned to see the dark shape of
the web creature shoot from a hole in the wall. G acted first, bringing
his Noisy Null to bear on the creature. The screeching of a tortured null
filled the room, then all hell broke loose.
First there was a large boom as G released the trigger, then recoil from
the weapon threw the sprite from his zipboard. Unfortunately the blast
missed the creature and vaporised the wall beyond it.
By this time S had pulled out her Nullifier and turned to face the
creature, just in time to be struck by a flying game sprite. The Series 4
Nullifer spat out a cloud of green vapour, straight up. Thankfully it
struck one of the few empty sections of the ceiling, eating away the
material and revealing the dark purple sky of Mainframe. Seizing a chance
to escape the Web Creature soared out through the hole.
"SPAM!" R swore. "A GAME!" He zoomed out of the hole in close pursuit. U
shot up after him, S dragging G close behind.
"What wrong?!" S demanded, panting as she pulled up next to U.
"That things an energy eater! And probably a portal spawner to boot."
"So?!"
U shot her a glance. "A game is nothing but energy!"
"That bad, very bad."
"That honey, is an understatement."
*****
Akane stepped into the Principal Office control room. Bandages wrapped
around her arms and torso, but her eyes were clear and their usual brown.
She frowned as she watched her two sisters busily working at the panels.
"What's happening?" she demanded, pacing up to them.
Kasumi, looked up. "Akane, you shouldn't be up yet."
"I'm fine," she snapped. "What's happening?"
"Ranma and the others have just chased the web creature into a game,"
Nabiki answered without looking up.
Akane looked at her for a second. "Okay, get all the emergency vehicles
into the surrounding sectors." She turned and headed towards the door.
"Have all the CPUs ready to scramble and get me a driver." The door
hissed shut behind her.
"Oh my!" Kasumi exclaimed suddenly, a hand flying to her mouth.
Nabiki looked at her. "What?"
"Her Icon, it was black and gold."
Nabiki's eyes went wide in shock.
*****
Their zip-boards vanished as the game data overwrote system reality,
forcing the four sprites to freefall for a few seconds. Ranma dropped to
the ground, rolling through the slime then leaping to his feet. Beside
him Ukyo dropped to her knees, her spatula drawn. Shampoo and RyoGA
splashed down behind them into a pile.
"Game sprite get off Shampoo!" the cute sprite complained.
"Hush!" Ranma snapped, looking around them.
The immediate game surroundings took the form of a dingy corridor. Slime
trailed down over lumps and bumps in the walls to join the creak of goo
flowing past their feet. Ukyo looked closer at the wall and immediately
felt sick, they were constructed from the body parts of sprites. Faces
stared out in an endless scream, while arms grasped out at those walking
past.
"Game remind Game sprite of home?" Shampoo asked, glaring at RyoGA
"No, this is much weirder than my game."
"Disgusting too," Ranma commented. "I wonder what the User sees in this
junk?"
"We have bigger things to worry about sugahs," Ukyo reminded them,
"there's a web creature in here and we 'ave to delete it."
Once more Ranma produced the SiB scanner.
*****
High within the lofty heights of the Silicon Tor Kuno sat upon his
throne gazing into the darkness. Gosunkugi and Sasuke rolled up to his
sides. The shorter of the two offered a sparking cup to their master.
"I held ultimate power within my grasp," Kuno murmured.
"No lord Kuno," Sasuke told him, "that was not you."
"And you two helped stop me!"
Gosunkugi shook his domed head. "No sir, we rescued you from the Da
Principal!"
"FOOLS! I could have had both Akane Tendo and the pig-tailed Guardian."
"But sir!" both bots wailed.
Suddenly a vid window popped into existence before them, one of Kuno's
viral binomes staring out. "Lord Kuno, we have detected much activity in
the system. The Defender has moved most of the CPUs to surround the
game!"
Kuno stood and towered over the window. "What of Ranma?"
"He and his three friends are in the game."
"Prepare the ABCs, we can take advantage of this."
*****
The Spatulator hummed as Ukyo swung it, striking out at the game
sprites. It struck freezing the game sprite, which moments later
shattered into a thousand bits.
"I like this weapon," Ukyo commented, dodging a clumsy attack from a
gore dripping zombie.
Shampoo's Nullifer sent a cloud of green gas ripping through a pack of
enemies, turning then into small energy eating nulls. "We no have time to
deal with this."
RyoGA punched a skeleton, then reached over his shoulder and pulled his
sword from the handle of his umbrella. "Well, getting out of this battle
might be a little hard."
A devastating punch sent Ranma's opponent flipping back. "I've got a
solution." He unslung his rifle and fiddled with the controls. "Get
back." The other three stared at him in surprise for a second, then leapt
back. Ranma pulled the trigger and the Core-line XT hummed to life. A
thunderous detonation accompanied the blinding light as the weapon
discharged.
"Ranma-honey, ya think that maybe that was a wee bit excessive?" Ukyo
said, blinking to get her sight back.
Shampoo, first to regain the ability to see looked around. There was no
sign of the zombies, but there was also a large hole through the wall.
Purple energy crackled about the missing section. "Rifle is very
powerful, Shampoo hope that highest setting."
"Nope, not by half," Ranma returned, checking the weapon.
"THERE IT IS!" RyoGA cried, pointing through the hole.
Beyond the wall the four sprites could see the large scaled form of the
web creature. No longer was it the small spiral Mike had described, nor
the small creature they had glimpsed in beneath the city. Instead a
creature bigger than all four sprites together, black scales covering its
hides. Within massive fangs it held a weakly struggling game sprite.
A blast of light and a cloud of green rocketed towards the creature,
barely missing it. The creature raced away, screeching, as another piece
of game scenery vanished.
"AFTER IT!" Ranma yelled, diving through the hole in wall, then
disappearing down the corridor after it.
"He's going to get us deleted," RyoGA commented diving through behind
Shampoo and Ukyo.
The creature bobbed and weaved through the twisting corridors of the
game, shredding game sprites and scenery as it went. Bits of sprite flew
past Ranma as he chased it, forcing him to abandon his rifle to deflect
them.
Finally the chase ended as the creature burst into a massive coliseum.
The creature arced up and circled around the painted sky.
"Now its just you and me!" Ranma sneered, readying his rifle. The
creature cried and looped around to zoom down towards Ranma. Ranma's gun
discharged again, missing wildly and leaving a glowing purple hole in the
sky, the creatures raced towards him, bearing down like death itself.
Light flashed off a projectile as it shot past the creatures snout,
forcing it to veer off. "Not just you Ranma-honey," Ukyo cried from
another level of the coliseum. "Ya got me." She pulled out another brace
of throwing Spatulas.
Another figure stepped out of the shadows opposite Ukyo. "Shampoo here
too." She drew a bead on the creature with her nullifer.
"Yeah, we can't let you have the all the honour of taking this thing
down!" RyoGA announced, stepping out opposite Ranma to complete the
diamond. He held the noisy null in his hand and stood braced, ready for
the recoil.
Ranma grinned. "Its nice to know I have friends. Okay everyone on
three!" he called as he turned down the settings on his gun.
"THREE!" all four sprites shouted, letting loose with their weapons.
Kitchen utensils, beams of light, green gas and invisible blasts of force
shot through space. The creature, unable to dodge the massive volley took
it square and plummeted to the earth.
"Cease fire!" Ranma shouted, and silence descended on the coliseum. The
hulk of the web creature lay still in the centre of the arena, oozing the
energy stolen from sprites. Ranma glanced at the scanner. "It's dead!" he
cried happily, walking towards the creature.
Ukyo and Shampoo jumped down from the upper levels as Ranma and RyoGA
moved to meet in the middle.
"If creature gone, we best get to winning game," Shampoo commented,
"then we go back and process happily ever after."
Glitch's bleeping grabbed Ranma's attention. "What?" he raised the
keytool to look at it.
"Game over," the soft voice of the system announced. The other three
sprites looked at the Guardian who was staring in pure horror at his
keytool.
"Ran-chan, no..." Ukyo whispered, her spatula slipping from her hand as
the scenery dissolved.
*****
"Game over."
Akane took her eyes off the game cube to look at the driver next to her.
"Send a signal, I want all crews in the moment--"
"User wins."
*****
"User wins."
In the Silicon Tor Kuno gloated. "Yes, at last I am rid of that meddling
Guardian!" the dark blue virus threw his head back and laughed deeply.
*****
"User wins."
A black hand touched the image in the mirror. "Oh my darling Ranma,"
Kodachi, virus of Lost Angles, said sadly.
*****
The cell was dark, nulls huddled in darkness. On the only bed a large
man in shredded blue armour slept. His snoring filled the room, but for a
moment the rhythm and the man tossed. "Ranma," he murmured, then dropped
back into slumber.
*****
A single glowing bulb cast light around the table. Around the table
stood a varied collection of sprites. At its head stood a proud woman who
carried a long wrapped package resting on her shoulder.
"Our only hope is to get to a node and..." her voice trailed off and
gaze became unfocused.
One of the others reached out a tentacle and gently held her shoulder.
"Are you okay?"
The woman shook her head to clear it. "I just felt a chill. Where was
I?"
*****
"User wins."
Nabiki and Kasumi stared at each other. Neither said a word, but both
knew that their faces mirrored the others sadness.
*****
"User wins."
Akane stared in disbelief at the huge purple cube sitting in the middle
of the city escape. Vehicles hovered about it, waiting for something that
wasn't going to happen. Time slowed as the game seemed to gather
together. The normally quick motion of the cube shooting into the sky
took nanos in Akane's eyes, but all too soon she was left staring at the
empty hole that had once been a sector of Mainframe.
"Ranma, no," she whispered.
"RRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
!!"
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