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oh well
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>From whose dark bore no traveler returns
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A shot rang out, the shot heard round the world,
suddenly guns to the left of me guns to right of me
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Singularity Tokyo
By Battlekrome
Disclaimer: Ranma 1/2 is property of Rumiko-sama
And yes there's gonna be Ranma
BGC is property of Youmex and whoever's making 2040.
Chapter 3:
<BGM Jonny Quest intro (1996 version)>
Now in my haste to get to the boomer rampage
I broke a couple things I shouldn't do. One, I exceeded the
speed limit by double digits. Two, I was in my armor the entire
time. This identified to any cop with half a brain that A: I
was a knight Saber. B: I was running from something that was
assumed to be more police. Thus I managed to acquire a few cops
on my way.
"Aika, What's your ETA to scene?" Nene radioed.
"About two minutes. What about the AD police?" I replied.
"They're a couple minutes behind you."
"What about the ones chasing me?"
"Well those are going to get there as soon as you are."
"K, noted."
Stepping on the gas, I accelerated onto the freeway. Weaving in
and out of cars as I passed them. The streetlights seemed to
zip by almost like strobe lights. My HUD had popped up a small
radar to show where the cops were, how close the rampage was
and what route I had to take to get there. A glance at my
speedometer put me at over 200kph.
Shifting down to pull down the off ramp. A quick skid turn
later and five blocks away was the rampage.
"Um.. Nene, what was count on the boomers?" I radioed.
"Well most accurate count puts it at ten to twenty."
"TEN TO TWENTY!?"
"Yes, it should be no problem for you. Yuri's ETA is half a
minute after yours and Priss will drop in soon after that. Try
to keep the cops out of it."
<BGM Instruments of Destruction by NRG off Transformers the
movie>
The Cops behind me saw the rampage up ahead and decided to form
a perimeter around the surrounding blocks instead of following
into the ruckus. The Boomers at this point noticed
me. Shots were fired at me. 'Ah, man' I thought. A shot
impacted just before my front tire, and I lost
control of the bike. Spinning and sliding, my bike and I landed
in a conveniently placed pile of garbage. Now fighting is one
thing, garbage is another but scratching my bike is a big No No.
I charged towards the boomers, and the battle began.
Time seemed to slow as I neared the first boomer. Leaning to
the side, I stopped a punch just past my head, and then my
other hand thrust upwards through its elbow, smashing the joint
completely. Then with my other hand, I removed its brain from
its chest the quick and easy way.
Out the back from the front.
Jumping upwards to avoid a five boomer pile up, I flipped in
midair. I aimed my landing at a boomer's head.
Landing behind the boomer, I swept out its feet and then
snapped off a blast towards one of the approaching boomers.
Flipping backwards to get some distance, I popped another shot
at the boomers, which took an arm off one of them. Pulling
back, I checked the ETA of my 'reinforcements.'
Twenty sec's 'till Yuri showed. Gritting my teeth, I decided
some evasive maneuvers were required. I charged the nearest
boomer. As I closed to close combat range, the boomer opened
wide and prepared to blast me with its mouth cannon. I fired
before it could acquire a lock on me. The resulting blast took
the head off the boomer. It stumbled and slumped to the ground.
Flipping over it as I went past, I fired a shot in its chest to
finish it off. Three down, a whole lot more to go.
The rest of the boomers decided to rush me. A booster assisted
jump put me on top of the roof of a nearby building. Mouth
cannons
fired on me as I ran along the top of the building. Jumping up
to clear the gap between the next one, I landed behind the lip
at the edge of the rooftop. Rolling as I landed, I pulled to a
stop on the other side of the roof. Leaning over the lip I
fired a few shots to get the boomers' attention. With a flip I
was over the lip and heading towards pavement. After I hit, I
stood and let loose a shot that I had been charging up. The
football sized blast tore through two boomers before exploding
against the side of a building.
"Hey, Aika ever heard of Skeet shooting?" crackled Yuri's voice
over the radio.
"Yeah, isn't the thing with pigeons and yelling pull?"
"One metal pigeon coming up." and with that a boomer suddenly
was launched up into midair. Quickly aiming, I popped a shot
off
that removed its brain from its chest.
With Yuri now here, things became much less hard. With her
bulldozing her way through and me dancing along after her
covering her back, The boomers were a lot easier to take down.
Yuri lifted the boomer in front of her over her head, and with
a
roundhouse kick, I removed its head. Then Yuri punched the
brain
out. This continued for a couple boomers. Then Priss showed up,
and the fun began. With three of us, the boomers were no
match.
Each of us could take down them one on one. Smashed boomer bits
began to litter the ground as their numbers dwindled. Then
there were three. The fight seemed to pause as the three of us
stood opposite the three boomers. Then the AD police decided to
join in. Unfortunately for us they were more for shooting at
the general direction of the boomers rather than aiming. As if
the start of AD police fire was a starting gun, we leapt
forward. Retracting my claw I began a series of flips toward
the boomer. The flips ended with a switch from a flip to a
roundhouse kick, then a shot to the boomer's chest to finish it
off. Still under fire from ADP, I dashed to my fallen bike.
Kick starting it, I quickly accelerated down a side alley. Up
ahead was an AD police car parked blocking the alley.
"Damn it"
Accelerating faster, I sped toward the cop car. Popping a
wheelie as I reached the car, I ignited my jump pack. Sailing
over the surprised cop behind it, I skid turned as I landed.
Giving the cop a salute I raced off down the street. Deciding
to go the stealthy approach home by the time I had reached the
highway I was dressed normally for a biker and going just under
the speed limit.
----
Now I would like to think that working for the Knight Sabers
changed my life, but it hasn't as much as I thought it would. I
still did the things I did before. Two of the few changes was
getting back into motorcycles again and being on call for the
knight Sabers.
My netsurfing leads me to strange and wonderful places. Weird
sites that haven't been updated since god knows when. One of them
wasn't updated for almost 30 years. It had a page on what
seemed to be a popular series back then. It was about this guy
who dies then comes back with a neat suit. Weird huh? Now the
thing that makes me remember about it was how cool the suit
looked and some of the neat properties. Also he just looked
evil and dangerous.
I was during looking down one of the art pages that I noticed
something. My clothes were changing to what costume of who I
was looking at. My response to this was 'man I'll never have to
dress up for Hallowe'en again'. Then I realized I was hungry.
Not wanting to get up, I thought about how nice it would be to
have something, and then I turned my attention back to the
screen.
It was later when I was stretching that I knocked over a can of
pop on my desk.
'How did this get here?' I thought.
The can was unopened which meant I hadn't gotten it myself.
Since usually I open and drink cans before I get back to my
desk. 'Who could of put this here?' I puzzled.
Deciding to now find out some of the limits of my suit's
costume making abilities. Shifting to the Spawn costume (1) I
stood looking at all the attachments and such. The neat cape,
that fluttered in the breeze. Wait a second, breeze? I'm
indoors. The cape was moving by itself! 'I must be moving it
then' I thought. With that I tried to control it mentally. The
cape shifted by itself.
"Neat" I said.
With that I went through all of the costumes I had seen
recently. Except for the electronic equipment and weapons
systems I was able to imitate them flawlessly. Well, compared
to my memory. Switching back the Spawn costume, I tried to see
how realistic I could make it. The cape fluttered in a non-
existent breeze, the chains moved how I told them. This was too
cool. Switching to my armor, I tried adding the cape and chains
to it. My skin crawled as the suit changed. My armor now had a
chain belt that I could use as tentacles and a cape that I also
could control. Now I looked like death himself though.
Switching to the original midnight blue with red stripes color
scheme I attempted to switch colors. The Color shifted along
the spectrum till it reached a matte black then shifted to
white. Then down along the spectrum until it reached blue
again. I remembered Nene telling me that it had thermoptic
camouflage as well. At this the suit seemed to vanish to my
eyes to be replaces with a green outline. Looking into a
convenient mirror
I saw nothing. Wondering how good it was I switched to various
forms of visual enhancements and checked for the concealment.
Infrared proved to be a disappointment. I showed up equally
well cloaked as I did uncloaked. Oh well, it was quite good for
visual trickery.
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Nene had called me into Knight Sabers HQ. Seems we were meeting
a new client of ours. They were hiring us to do some corporate
espionage or that's what Nene seemed to think. Deciding to
sneak up on Nene. I shifted invisible and snuck into the
computer lab and stood behind her. Five minutes later, after I
had seen her glance at her watch, I reached out and tapped her
on the shoulder. Nene leapt a good two feet out of her chair. I
couldn't help myself; I started laughing and de-cloaked.
"Aika! Don't scare me like that!"
This fell on deaf ears as I was still busting a gut laughing.
"Sorry, Nene, but the look on you face." I managed to get out
between laughs.
"Humph," Nene humphed "So you want to know what we're doing?"
"Sure. Any word on who we get hired by?"
"N-Corp." She replied.
"The N-Corp?"
"Yep"
"Good lord. I thought they were just a myth."
"Most people do. They were bought out by Genom fifteen years
ago. The head of it left a shell Corp that got taken over and
took everything with them."
"So what have we been hired for? I take it they don't need
bodyguards."
"They need us to investigate and depending on findings destroy
or disrupt it."
"So a smash and grab?"
"So to speak, Aika. The only prob is Genom has some heavy ICE
around its computers."
This discussion went on for quite a while. I don't want to bore
you with the details but needless to say Nene and I were up
till early in the morning batting ideas back and forth about
how and where to hack in.
"What about the bug in the OS that involves the FTP server?"
"Naah, they fixed that."
See told you so. This ended with a pizza, and Nene and I
finding places to sleep for the rest of the day. That night we
were at it again. This time though we had slightly more
information. Linna had gotten from one of her sources that it
was probably physically located in a computer in a Genom
factory that seemed to now have a negative output of boomers
now. Now with well, a target to aim for. Nene and I redoubled
our efforts. That is to say we began living like true hackers
yet again. That being Eat, sleep, computer. With little of the
first two and lots of the last.
This went on for a week before we had a full plan. Now
the real hard part telling someone who doesn't know a thing
about hacking the plan. This we first tried on Priss. She was
skeptical.
"So let me get this straight. We smash our way in. Hold off god
knows how many boomers so you two can hack this thing and then
get out?"
This we nodded at.
"And how much are you two going to fight in this?"
"Well, we were hoping we wouldn't have to. With my stealth and
Nene's ECM, we were hoping to be able to sneak in with a
diversion from you and Yuri."
"Oh so Yuri and I are the decoys now?"
"No, it just you get all the action." I replied.
"Yeah you get to kick butt, Priss." Nene added.
This planning stage went well considering whom we had to
convince.
Then we went on the major dam to get this working: Sylia.
This went better than Nene and I expected.
"Yes, go a head but I want you two to talk to N-Corp first."
This was nothing short of amazing.
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<BGM Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins from Top Gun>
It seemed routine a boomer rampaging down the street.
The only problem for us that it was rampaging along at over 200
kph. Now on foot for Yuri ,Priss and I that was easy, but we
couldn't bring sufficient firepower to bear to dent the sucker.
Thus we tried our nice shiny motoslaves as are motorcycles were
properly called.
Down the Highway we rode like devils coming from the
bowels of hell itself. Man, when'd I take English lessons? As I
was saying, we chased after the boomer unable to put a dent in
this thing. The AD police had set up multiple roadblocks but
they had been nothing heavy enough to stop the boomer. What the
boomer couldn't smash through it blew up with a mounted cannon
it had acquired.
"Damn it. Yuri, any of your weapons do anything more than
scratch the paint job?"
"Can't you just blast it?"
"Can't, too busy keeping it from hitting me with that pea
shooter it has. Going to try motoslave's weapons"
With that I put the pedal to the medal and sped ahead. When I
reached a safe distance. I slowed and stopped. Bringing the
bike around to face where the boomer was zooming toward me.
Then I realized I had no clue on how you transformed let alone
use one of these things.
"Um.. Nene?"
"Hey, how's the boomer bashing coming?"
"How do you transform the motoslave?"
"Oh, that well? Blue button beside instrument panel."
"And to fire?"
"Same as you usually do."
"Thank you remind me to get you some ice cream when this is
over."
"Yaah!"
With that I pushed the blue button. My Bike seemed to shift
upwards and envelop me. My view was obscured for a second as
the motoslave began to interface with my suit. The wheels ended
up over my shoulders and the bike body itself formed extra
armor over my chest, legs and arms.
My HUD came alive as three new weapons came online: A pair of
SRM-2s and some sort of cannon. The armor itself seemed to mold
itself seamlessly to my suit. Stopping myself from drooling I
concentrated on the task at hand. Three targeting reticules
popped up on the HUD. Zooming in a bit, I was able to clearly
see the boomer. It was an ugly one. With a face that only
Quincy could love. Well maybe that's stretching it.
"Yuri, drop back I'm going to blow this sucker away"
"Roger, Aika"
Seeing Yuri slow and drop back, I aimed and fired off the SRMs.
The four missiles arced to the target and detonated with a
satisfying boom.
"Oh crap"
Minor to superficial damage. Either my missiles were duds or
something or the boomer was really tough. Aiming the main
cannon. It swiveled from behind me to peek over my shoulder.
Aiming it, as it came on target a little warning light popped
up on the HUD
<BRACE>
"Brace?? Oh!"
With that I crouched slightly and brace myself for the recoil.
With that done I fired. The cannon, seemed to cough and then
recoil almost knocked my on my rear end. The shot itself
flashed down the highway to its target. The resulting blast
blew the boomer almost in half.
"Wow, I like I like!"
Then as if by magic, the boomer seemed to partially reform and
began accelerating towards me again. It swiveled its peashooter
towards me and began firing. Bracing my self again. I aimed,
fire one, fire two! This time the recoil did knock me off my
feet. 'God this thing was powerful'. Finally getting back to my
feet I looked toward where the boomer was. Boomer bits
splattered the highway for almost a kilometer. The boomer's
head had rolled to a stop right beside me. With a casual stomp
it became one with the roadway.
"Aika to Yuri"
"Yuri, here. It dead?"
"Oh yeah. I like these motoslaves."
With that, sirens in the background reminded us of the
ever vigilant if slightly incompetent AD police. Present
company excluded of course. Transforming the motoslave back
into bike form. We rode off into the sunset. Not really, but
it's a nice image.
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<BGM Phantom world from Armitage III>
To celebrate our blasting of yet another boomer the gang
and I went to one of Nene's favorite ice cream parlor. I had a
float, Nene a Banana split, Yuri and Priss shared a large
dosage of ice cream, sprinkles and cherries.
"Well Nene, you're really packing it in. You going to put on
another inch?"
"Priss! I do not eat too much," Nene mumbled the rest.
"What was that Nene?" I needled.
"Yeah Nene, we couldn't hear you" Yuri added.
"Ok. Ok. So sometimes I eat to much."
"Nene, you just need to exercise more." Priss said.
"Yeah, If you'd just do something other than sit at your desk
and surf the net." I added.
"Come on Aika, you know what I'm like." Nene whined.
"Yeah, Yeah. I know. I know. I too was once a lard bucket like
Nene," I admitted.
"Hey"
"Well that was before I got this job. Nene you must exercise
some?"
"Not really, I'm too busy." Nene added.
"Well as soon as I can get time I'm sticking you on the
Hacker's exercise routine!" I declared.
"What's that?" Nene asked.
"Moving your computer to the top of the building and having you
take the stairs up to get it." I finished.
That got a laugh out of most of us. As we dispersed to go our
separate ways. I caught hold of Nene afterwards.
"Nene, I'm sorry it's just that you do need to exercise more."
Nene sniffed.
"I know. It's just I have so little time considering I have two
jobs to do."
"Yeah. You know what I'll help you get some regular exercise.
Every Tuesday we'll go for a short run. Yours not mine."
"Ok. Well see you Thursday for that meeting with Nabs."
"Sure. See you later."
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<BGM In Your eyes by Samantha Newark from Project Ako>
Now Nene had debated this for a while on how to show up. I
thought Nene should go in her hard suit and Nene disagreed.
"But, what happens if we have a boomer go rampaging?"
"Yeah, but.. How are we going keep me from attracting
attention?"
"Ummm." That did stump me. "We'll roof hop."
"What about my power supply. It'll only last a hour?"
"Well.. Ok then we'll go incognito."
Thus the debated ended and I ended up driving Nene and myself
to the meeting point. Added onto my bike was a thousand round
drum and machine gun for the motoslave that masqueraded as a
really heavy toolkit. Nene at first was suggesting the bus.
This led me to point out that nothing but Yuri could catch us
on this bike. That won her over. Well that and an offer of ice
cream later.
We pulled up to what looked like a abandoned building that
looked like it was on the edge of being condemned. After Nene
got off I pulled the bike over to one of the walls and engaged
it's thermo-optic camo. Then with Nene we entered the building.
Looking around revealed nothing but empty rooms and a seemingly
non-functional elevator.
"There's nothing here," I snorted.
"We haven't tried upstairs."
"Nene, you know even when I'm not got my suit on my sensors
still work. There's nothing upstairs."
With that Nene leaned against the wall and the elevator call
button and
Silently the doors opened dropping me onto the floor of the
elevator car, as I'd happened to be leaning on them.
"Well I'll be..."
"What button should I press?"
"There's nothing upstairs so the down one."
"There doesn't seem to be a down button."
The closing of the doors ended our debate. As if on cue the
elevator slid downwards.
"Well, this NCorp sure is thrifty."
"They've been evading Genom so they decided stealth over
luxury."
Then the elevator stopped and opened onto a simple lobby. There
sitting at the security desk was.
"Linna!!"
"Oh, hi Nene. The CEO will see you in about five minutes."
Deciding to rest while waiting I took a seat on one of the
comfy chairs that were scattered along the walls.
"You quit the Knight Sabers to join NCorp??"
"Not really. It's just that I can't endanger myself anyone."
"Linna, so this is your day job a secretary?"
"Actually, Aika, the only reason I'm doing this is cause you
two were coming in to visit today. Usually it's the contact for
the party. That happens to be me for you two."
"So, you're a glorified doorman and the rest of the time?" Nene
interjected.
"Well, the CEO has me keeping an eye on Genom and generally
liasoning between them and Sylia."
"Oh."
Then the phone on the desk beeped and Linna picked it up. After
a quick glance at us, Linna waved us towards the large double
doors at the end of the lobby.
"I'll see you two after this."
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My first impression of the CEO was that instead of the supposed
guy they were female. Their bob cut hair that ended just below
the ears was streaked with gray. She motioned for us to take
seats. Sitting down Nene and faced off against one of the best
businesswoman in Mega-Tokyo.
"Call me Nabiki." She offered. "Now you two are here to explain
a plan to get certain information from a Genom mainframe."
Nene and I were awed if half the things we'd heard about NCorp
were true then this lady had faced down Genom more times than
Priss had an injury fighting boomers.
Turning she pointed a remote at one of the walls. It slid down
to reveal a screen covering the entire wall. Various schematics
of the factory popped up.
"So what's your plan?" Nabiki asked.
Nene and I had rehearsed the plan of attack for us and Yuri and
Priss's part in it. Well not physically but simulations and
such. Thus we were able to say what would happen in almost any
situation and how we'd get the data and out of there.
After the presentation as it were.
She said, "When are you planning to do it?"
"Well..." Nene paused to consider when would be the best time.
"Tonight"
"Tonight?" Nene and I chorused
"Our inside source on this project who we've been unable to
convince to get us the data has given tomorrow as soonest
completion date.
So that means tonight. Any problems?"
"Well, other than telling everyone else not really."
"So I expect to have the data no later than next Tuesday. Linna
knows where to send it." Nabiki finished.
Author notes: That's all for this chapter folks
I'm not going to end up at the climax in the third chapter hope
I can delay till at least the fifth one.
Also sorry about no Ranma in it as promised but,
(1) Cool costume it is and property of Todd Mcfarlane