Roleplay:Technology these days

This roleplay is invite only!

Overview
The entire city is run on technology. Everything from traffic, to bank accounting, even to some people. So in this world run by technology, being a hacker can be a very sweet and destructive job. If you're a good enough hacker, you could even control the city. So, when the technology gets corrupted, and the entire city of Station Square falls into chaos, the group needs to find out why all of this is happening, and when it comes to solving the problem, it turns out they are going to need the help of the most skilled hacker in Station Square.

Participants
NeoExlucky

Zapor888

Saren

Kojak

Involved Characters
Neo Tranquil

Zero Evol

Fey Wayward

Kala the Genie

Trinity Moon

Echo the Cat

Apollo Athas

Celia Takashi

Zapor the Hedgehog

Zak the Kirby

Lexi the Hedgehog

Leo + Wheelie

Saren Arcturias

Clock-Watch The Clockwork Hedgehog

Ryoku The Hedgehog

Ciel Mackenzie Fay

Argent Hellsing

Rose Hellsing

Anderson Bowie

Part 1: Blackout
Just when it seemed the everyone was going to settle into their homes, all of the lights go out,all over Station Square. There is a complete blackout. Then things start to take a turn for the weird. Street lights start working, but change so much, that car accidents happen left and right. ATM's begin to spit money out of their machines, everything starts to go haywire, and right now, nothing is safe.

Neo, Zero, Fey, Trinity, Echo, Apollo and Kala all are on the streets when this happened. Looking around in awe of what's going on. "I don't know much, but this isn't normal, is it?" Kala asked.

"No, Kala, this is not normal in the slightest." Zero answered.

"The hell is going on?" Neo asked.

"It's like all the technical stuff is going nuts." Zapor checked in his pocket, and his phone was messed up. "5th phone this week..."

"You guys think someone's doing this?" Leo asked.

"Most likely kid.." Saren snarked in a very deadpan tone.

Clock-Watch and Ryoku were walking nearby.

"See, Nick? This is exactly why my power core is better than yours. Much more reliable." Ryoku told Clock-Watch.

"Will you stop calling me Nick!? It was funny when that bogus psychic said it was my name, but you know it was a lie!" Clock-Watch replied.

"I know. But 'the mystic powers from beyond' said it was so!'" Ryoku responded, waving her arms and pretending to contact 'the beyond'.

"Knowing the way things hae started going for us lately, I'd say so." Fey agreed.

As soon as she finished saying that. Zapor's phone started to frizzle and make a very high pitched sound.

Saren blinked and looked at Fey. "Well, I guess it's a good thing I don't rely on electronic devices I suppose.."

Lexi took his phone, and crushed it with her foot. "That sound was really annoying."

Zapor sighed. "This is the second time my phone broke."

Ciel darted from the corner of the sidewalk, towards the group. "Hey, what the hell's going on?! I almost got ran over!"

Suddenly every radio, phone, and TV turned on all over Station Square. With Dr. Radon appearing on the TV's. "Hello everyone. I'm in need of some...assistance. I've lost a little experiemnt of mine, in the form of a little girl. Echo Serene, being that thing I have lost. I am demanding that she be returned to me at once. If she is, I will allow everything to return to normal as it was, however if she is not..." He pauses for a moment. "More chaos will begin to insue. If she is not returned to me within the next 24 hours. Every cyborg in this town, will start to drop like flies. Let me give you an example..."

Across the street was a mobian with a cybernetic eye. At the press of a button, his eye began to short-circut, shooting electricity everywhere, and killing him in the process. Every TV in mobius changed to this scene, to show everybody the death of him. "Your 24 hours begins now." He presses another button and every screen broadcasts the time left.

"What the hell?" Kala asked. "He just killed that guy! All for Echo!"

"Whoa whoa WHAT!?" Clock-Watch exclaimed. "That doesn't sound good at all!" He continued walking and noticed Neo, Fey, and the others. "Hey, don't I know those guys?"

"This is bad." Ryoku told him. She seemed to be quite frightened by what had just happened. "If this guy messes with my nuclear power core, this entire city could be vaporized!"

Saren shrugged. "Well, I might not be affected considering if I die I'll probably come back as a ghost or something.." Saren said in a casual manner, like he really didn't understand the panic or he didn't care.

Ciel said nothing, her hands covering her mouth in shock, her tail tucked between her legs.

Zapor couldn't say anything because what just happened was at a level of hardcore death he wasn't even at yet, and he wasn't going to let Radon touch Echo.

"Zak, can't you hack him out of the whole system? Or use your sword?" Lexi asked.

Zak sighed. "Well, the Monando doesn't work like a tool you use to hack, it only short circuts robots and usually hurts other people. And I can't hack from my laptop since that's broken."

"So what do we do?" Fey asked.

"Okay..." Neo said. "I...might know a girl who can help us..."

"What?" Zero asked. "Who?"

"A while back I got involved a little...plan and I wound up working with some really weird people. I met this girl named Celia, she's a hacker." Neo explained. "She might be able to trace Radon, and possibly put a firewall up on some of us..." He said looking at Ciel.

"You act like this is something you don't want us to know." Leo said.

"On just me? What about everyone else?" Ciel questioned. "With OmegaCorp's wide distribution of cybernetics, how many other people are at risk here?"

"Y'know.. I'm very glad I never had any cybernetics implanted..." Saren said.

"Before this turns sour." Fey interrupted stepping between Ciel and Neo. "Let's focus on trying to stop the hacking altogether." She looked at Neo. "Where is Ceilia?"

"She's not far from here." Neo told them.

"Then let's head there, and get those of us who have the power to stop it situated before we do anything else." Fey announced. "Afterwards we can look into distributing it out to everyone else."

Saren nodded, staying silent out of boredom.

"To a hacker girls house!" Zapor cheered.

"Looks like our friends from Soleanna aren't around..." Ciel said, referring to Argent and co. "They won't know where to meet up at. How do we get the word out to them?"

"They might already have word now." Fey said. "If not, I'm sure the hacker has some way of getting their attention."

"Right, come on." Neo told them. He led the group around town, trying to avoid getting anywhere near the chaos, till eventually they came to a very large, but plain-looking house.

"This is it?" Fey asked.

"Yeah, Takashi residence." Neo told them.

"Nice place.." Saren muttered.

"Zak, what's hacking like?" Zapor asked.

"Well, you have a machine that connects to a largely populated.... *insert a bunch of smart words related to hacking here* ....then, you basically have the entire system at your control." Zak answered.

"....."Zapor didn't follow any of what he said, but pretended to get it.

"Hey! HEY!" Clock-Watch yelled, right behind them. "Wait up! I think I can help you!"

Ryoku was running right behind Clock-Watch.

"So you've seen her work?" Ciel asked with a nervous tone. It wasn't the threat of her body shutting down that had her jittery; it was having someone else mess with her firmware.

"She won't do anything negative." Neo told Ciel. "I trust Cielia."

"Oh, hey Clock-watch." Trinity said.

"Help us how?" Fey asked.

Neo knocked on the door. There was silence for a whiel, then a green fox girl wearing a very wornout hoodie and pants opened the door. Her hair was tied back in a ponytail and she wore a pair of thin glasses. "Neo?" She asked.

"Cielia, we need your help." Neo told her.

The girl looked over the group. Stopping to look at Ryoku, Clock-watch and Ciel. She sighed. "Alright. Get in." She offered to her very neat home, with technology litterally at every corner. There were tablets, monitors, panels, and just about anything you can think of.

"..Woah." Zak never seen this much technology altogether in a hackers home in such a neat way, which is saying something since he tries to keep all his hacker stuff neat and tidy.

Ciel went to open her mouth, but she decided to keep her stupid questions about how many digit spaces her electric bill placed at to herself. "You're really dedicated to your job..."

"Yup." She said going over to her very large computer, with monitors covering the wall. "I don't know who this guy is, but he's an idiot to think that he can hack everything within Station Square."

"So you have a cure?" Neo asked.

"More or less." Ceilia answered. "I've done some calculations, crunched some numbers, and I've determined that there is something wrong with his threat."

"What do you mean?" Kala asked.

"Why would he kill cyborgs?" Ceilia said. "One could say that it's because those are his only targets, they're people and machines, but there's a problem with that logic." She typed up something a picture of her appeared on the screens, with a small heart shaped object on her chest. "Machines are normally controlled by the person, but they are hackable, and it is easy to glitch them out and just kill the person, but it's just as easy to reverse the flow of connection and have the machine control the person." She turned her chair around. "So why would he kill cyborgs instead of controlling them?"

"You think he plans on controlling the cyborgs?" Apollo asked.

"No, I don't, and that's the problem." Ceilia told them. "There are a multitude of theories as to what he's doing. The first couple that come to mind are assassination and distraction. He wants someone dead in Station Square, someone important, or he could be distracting people with this rather than something else, but I don't know what that something is."

"Or maybe he could be trying to kill all the cyborgs and bring them back as zombies." Zapor said.

"But the point is that he's shown us what he's capable of. Every cybernetically-augmented man and woman in this city is at risk. If we try to get close to see what he's doing, he could very well just pull the plug on everyone." Ciel said. "What we're doing here is taking that bit of leverage away from him, right?"

"Mostly." Ceilia told her.

"Mostly?" Zero asked.

"A good enough hacker can break into any and every firewall or security system possible. There is nothing in this world that a hacker cannot break eventually. That being said, I have an exception to that rule." She told them. "Theta!"

A hologram of a purple lynx stood before them wearing a black suit with a black tie, and a white undershirt. "Yes, mistress Ceilia?" It asked.

"What we're going to do is going to break a lot of laws." Ceilia warned. "We're going to install Theta plug-ins into this girl." She said. "From there, I'll back hack through Omegacorp's system through that which will infect the system, all users of OmegaCorp with the anti-virus. Afterwards, I'll flip it into mutagen mode, where it will begin to infect every android so long as they are around someone with the anti-virus. It will spread through everyone in town, and eventually build a town wide firewall. From there, a firewall will be built to protect those people. Should push come to shove, I'll be able to handle the virus directly and hopefully be able to keep it at bay long enough for us to destroy the source."

"As long as he can't knock your defenses apart--which he shouldn't--we'll be able to get to work and shut him down. But uhh, will this require a wired connection? I'd like to be somewhere private if it does." Ciel said with an embarrassed blush.

"Uh, is this how most hacking works?" Leo asked.

"Mostly when your countering a hack that affected a large area." Zak said.

"Theta, activate infetion program." Ceilia told the holo-lynx.

"Activating Infect.exe." The hologram said, touching Ciel's shoulder.

"There won't be any weird connections, I don't play that way." Ceilia told her.

"Okay, so for now, we have a back-up, where is the source? Can you track it?" Neo asked.

"Well, here's the thing..." Ceilia said. "This guy is using some sort of proxy, the IP I found doesn't even exist in the first place, and back hacking any signal he's tried to use is worthless."

"Oh great." Apollo said. "Let's play a game of hide and go seek, then."

"It's nothing like that." Ceilia noted. "I might be able to find him, but I'm going to need a couple of items placed around the city."

"Anything you need, just say the word. And uhh, thanks for not having to open up my head or anything..." Ciel said.

"So what stuff do you need?" Lexi asked.

"I have a couple of beacons, that I need placed around the city. Once placed, I can triangulate the location of this guy, and find out where the hacking is coming from. Once we know that, we can take of him pretty simply.: Ceilia told them.

"..Triangulate?" Zapor said, slightly confused.

"Basically somehow pinpoint his position." Zak said.

"Will I get paid for this?" Saren asked.

"So all we have to do is put down these beacons, and then find this guy?" Clock-Watch asked.

"I hope it's that simple... I feel like a ticking time bomb." Ryoku muttered.

"No, you won't be getting paid." Ceilia said. "But, I figure living is just a tad more important than money, and if these things go off, then we're all dead."

"Although getting paid for this does sound good." Neo noted.

"Anyways." Ceilia cleared her throat. "Yes, all you have to do is put them down, and turn them on. Once taken care of, you just have to go find this guy, and probably beat him up or something, simple."

"Huh, you never really know how good a plan sounds until two hackers say a plan." Zapor muttered.

"Exactly." Ceilia told him.

Leo picked up a beacon and tied it to Wheelie so it wouldn't fall off. "So, do you have exact locations for these?"

"And what if he's expecting us there?" Ciel asked.

"I'm sure fighting is something you are all used to, it shouldn't be anything you can't handle." Ceilia told them.

Zapor, not entirely sure if he got the plan, nodded. "Ok, Zak, you stay here and...do whatever hackers do.."

"Well, he could stay here, but there wouldn't be anything to do. since no one is going to be here." Ceilia told Zak. "Obviously I'm coming with you."

"Well that simplifies things." Zapor said. And also means more hacker french..He thought in his head.

"Right, then we need to get going." Neo said.

"Then let's go." Ceilia said.

Part 2: Beacons
Ceilia stepped outside into the dim twilight of the town. She looked around, holding the four beacons in a bag on her back. She had a large technological device on her arm, from her wrist to her elbow. She also had a metal block below her backpack which didn't seem to have any purpose. She looked around the area, and sighed. "Almost everything is under his control..."

"That'll change soon enough." Neo told her.

"I have no idea what's going on..." Kala whispered.

"So we have four beacons, why don't we split up?" Apollo asked.

"We don't know what this Radon guy can do." Ceilia said. "I'd prefer if we stayed together."

"We'll stay together for now, then. But if push comes to shove and we need to cover more ground in less time, we need to have a plan to put into action." Ciel said. "I mean I'm usually not one to bother with plans, but hey. It's my brain that's going to fry if Radon wins."

Zapor nodded in agreement. Leo scratched his head. "So, where's the first beacon gonna go?"

"Sticking together is nice." Ryoku agreed.

 'Huh.'  Clock-Watch thought. '' 'She seems quite scared. I find that unusual, considering how she normally is.'''

"I suppose that works." Neo said. "So, where do we go first."

"A couple blocks ahead." Ceilia said. "We shouldn't be that far."

(If the four of you can, could you check this blog out? http://sonicfanon.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Neoexlucky/What_do_we_name_our_group -Neo)

"That should be easy enough." Leo muttered.

Saren, who had been silently following the group silently from the shadows, finally made his appearance. Planning to scare the group.

"Blargh!" He shouted as he popped out of Zapor's shadow.

Ceilia glared at him. "That isn't funny."

Saren started laughing. "Only because your the one who got scared!" Saren said hysterically.

Ryoku jumped in fright. "Hi there..."

'' 'Huh. Again.' '' Clock-Watch thought. '' 'This seems like the same group from last time. One coincidence is just a coincidence, though.'''

Saren stopped laughing after a bit, yet he was still smirking. "Well now.. What are we waiting around for?"

(well, we've waited a bit, I guess we'll move on for now.... -Neo)

Trinity took a couple of steps forward. "Let's move then."

The group moved through the city until they came to a large parking garage that did not seem to be all that much affected. "There's the first place." Ceilia said. "At the top of the building place the beacon and turn it on." She handed Neo a cylinder the size of a rice cooker.

"I don't think there's any technology in there." Leo said, looking at the building.

"That doesn't exactly mean we're safe. When you hack your way into pretty much everything, you have endless power." Zak told him, taking a step closer to the building.

"That's true." Ceilia said. "Although, that being said, it doesn't appear as though anyone is around. For now, it looks like we're still safe."

As the group went inside m, there weren't any cars in the building, though it was a garage. After a few minutes, the group got to the last flight of stairs leading to the top of the building.

"Well, here we go. This doesn't seem to har-" Clock-Watch was cut off by Ryoku.

"Shut up! Never say something like that!" Ryoku told him.

"Don't you dare jinx it.. Bad things always happen when people say the phrase.." Saren warned.

"That's all just superstition." Ceilia rolled her eyes.

Neo put the weird cylinder down and turned it on. Ceilia than began to tap some buttons on her wrist device. "One beacon active, we're already starting to distribute the anti-virus right now."

"What's next?" Neo asked.

"There's a hospital on the East side of town. We need to get to the top of it." Ceilia said. "I told you this would be a simple task."

"Next thing you know your gonna say ghosts don't exist.." Saren mumbled sarcastically.

Ciel looked into the distance, looking for anything that appeared out of the ordinary...

"Then let's head in that direction." Fey nodded.

The group traversed the city, going through dark alleys to find a large building under construction. "Huh." Ceilia noted. "This building is still under construction."

"Gimme the thing." Neo noted, taking the odd cylinder and began to scale up the building to turn it on.

"And there's two." Ceilia noted, pressing more buttons on her device. "See? Simple."

That was when a very loud boom could be heard above the building and Neo was knocked off, falling straight down towards the ground. He panicked for a moment before pulling the wind around him, encasing it  to break his fall. He landed with a thud, causing the pavement to crack, and the sound of flesh hitting something to be heard.

"Neo?" Kala asked in a distressed voice.

Neo got up, coughing. "I'm fine..." He wheezed.

Followed by Neo was a brown fox girl in black clothing. She had two longswords in each of her hands and glared at the group. "Hello, brother dear. Are these your friends?"

Saren looked at the brown fox girl with an uninterested look. "I wouldn't say friends as I barely know most of the people here... More like acquaintances. Now onto business, who are you?"

"She just called him her brother... so that must mean... Neo, is this really Era?" Ciel trailed off.

"Neo has a sister?" Leo asked.

"I'm pretty sure we covered that at least one other time." Zapor told him.

"That's her." Trinity said.

"Oh, Trinity, you're still here." Era sighed. "All this time I thought you were gone for good. I guess dreams don't come true, do they?"

Neo took this as a time to attack, quickly getting up and striking his twin sister, only for her to quickly parry with one side, and hit Neo in the stomach with the hilt of her other. She took both blades and bashed them into his head, then kicked him away, where he collapsed. "Don't mind him, my brother has always been a bit of an idiot, doesn't think things through all the way."

"He sorta reminds me of me whenever my brother beats me up....though both my arms break...and I would get mad at him first." Zapor said.

Lexi looked at Trinity. "What's her deal?" She whispered to her.

"Maybe it's her time of the month?" Saren responded.

"She's always been like this." Trinity noted. "Era is not friendly."

"Oh, Trinity, that hurts my feelings." Era mocked. "I'm here on buisness, you see, my master doesn't want these stupid beacons to be up, and really hoped you all would listen to what he said. That clearly isn't what happened, so we're supposed to deal with you now." She sighed. "Remember Moros, we are not to kill them."

"Well she's obviously not liking us for some reason." Zapor muttered.

"I can certainly understand why he wouldn't want us to put up these beacons, but I'm afraid that we're going to put them up anyways." Clock-Watch replied.

A feeling of emptiness surrounded the group as a seemingly ordinary black fox with a grey muzzle walked out of his hiding spot and nodded at Era.

The fox, or Moros as Era named him, closed his eyes for a brief moment before he summoned what looked to be six glowing blades that circled around him defensively. As if he was waiting for someone to attack him.

"So then, which of you is currently putting all the beacons up?" Era asked.

Saren had a sardonic smirk on his face. "Try and find out, unless your afraid of getting your hands soaked in blood that is.."

"Okay." Era said walking over to where Neo was, taking her sword and holding it above her brother's leg. "What do you think Moros? A missing leg would be fine, don't you think?"

"She's not really gonna cut off his leg, is she?" Leo ask nervously.

'Just make sure you cauterize the wound... But Why not take an arm also?' Moros mouthed.

"No I won't cut off his leg." Era chuckled, taking her sword and stabbing straight through Neo's left arm. "But an arm though..."

"Really hope he wasn't left handed...." Lexi thought to herself.

"Why would she stab Neo? Aren't they related?" Zapor muttered.

Moros looked at Lexi and Zapor. 'You don't mind if I break these two right Era?'

Saren looked rather bored. "Damn, looks like someone has some sibling issues.."

"You could say that yes." Era told them. She turned to Moros. "Take care of them."

"Light of dawn!" Fey called out shooting a ball of light magic at Era, causing her to to be knocked back. "Flash of Light!" She called next, healing Neo's wound. "We need out of here." She muttered.

"I'm working on it." Ceilia told her. "Keep them busy for a moment."

"I don't know who you are." Era told Fey while gettting up. "But you are nothing compared to me."

"And while you're at it, keep them busy for me!" Ciel stepped back, accessing the forbidden knowledge of the timeline. "This'll take some time, but once I get to work, I'll get things done!"

"Compare this, jerk!" Zapor did some quick ninja hand signs, though they were totally unnecessary. "Fire style: Green fireball jutsu!" He then shot a green fireball out from his mouth, that split into five when they bounced, moving towards Era.

Moros nodded and launched three of his ethereal blades at Zapor, Lexi and Fey. The blades seemed to be aimed at their midsection, yet the tactic could be considered obvious and easy to dodge.

Fey brought her blade up to parry, and right before hand, she realized what they were, quickly moving out of the way. "You're from the void?"

"You should worry more about me." Era told her, quickly sending a barrage of hits at Fey's back.

Zero's scythe was already extended, he looked to Apollo and Echo who both seemed a bit frightened by the attack, then to Trinity. "Keep the kids safe." He told her, launching himself into the fight, swinging his scythe at Era, knocking both her blades out of her hands.

The young fox just smiled, placing a hand over a small Black opal on her chest and pulled a large, very crude, black scythe with white etchings over it out and swung at Zero knocking him back. Fey recognized this as the same way that she used her summoned her scythe. Saren may remember this as well.

Ciel was still "concentrating".

(Sorry, connection problems! I need to catch up! -MHS)

Zak took out his sword and switched to Buster mode, preparing in case Era tried attacking him.

(I wanna have Leo and Wheelie use an attack, but until they meet Eclipse they're pretty much useless in a fight.)

Era and Zero clashed blades for a while, continuted to trade strikes, until Era slammed the bottom of the sythe down. "Parasitic Host..." She mumbled, and two identical copies of her, coming from a purple goo grew up, taking each of her swords. The right handed host went straight for Zak, not attacking but simply standing very close to him. The left handed host lunged towards Ciel, swinging the sword at the ground near her feet, but not her actual feet.

Moros looked at Fey wordlessly before walking towards her, grabbing one of his ethereal blades before flinging the rest at her. 'I am of the void?.. No, I am the void...' He mouthed.

Saren grabbed two of his throwing knives and threw them at Era as a diversionary tactic. "Hey B***h! You want to know the difference between the mud and you!? The mud looks and smells better than you!" Saren shouted, trying to piss her off.

"That sounds like an insult a schoolboy would use." She grabbed Zero and flung him toward the knives, having the hegdehog impaled by the metallic objects. "We could try talking, if that's what you want. We know all about you, we even know your amnesiac friend's past."

"Wait, you what?" Fey got distracted, not being able to dodge the etheral blades, that were coming straight for her.

Then came a very loud screeching sound, followed by a wall of light dividing the group from Era and Moros. "Paladin System is up an' running!" Ceilia called out. "Let's get the hell out of here."

"Right!" Leo hopped on Wheelie, who then zoomed backwards.

Saren nodded, though not before flipping era the bird and running.

Fey grabbed Saren's coat sleeve before he could run off. "Saren, did you see how she brought that scythe out?" She asked, her look extremely distressing. She did not look even remotely like her normal self, Fey looked scared. "A-and that she knows who I am, she knows about my past, she more about me then I do..."

Saren looked at Fey. "Then we just capture them and force them to tell us.." He spoke rather charismatically.

"Uh, Ceilia, should we split up so we can spread the last two..whatever those are to the last location?" Lexi asked.

"They're called disruptors." Zak told Lexi.

"No, splitting up is a huge problem." Ceilia said. "We barely got out of that, we need to stay together."

"So, where to next?" Neo breathed heavily.

"We need to head farther into the city." Ceilia announced. "We should get to the Coffee Break Cafe, that's where the thrid one should be placed."

"Ok, where is that?" Zapor asked.

"Right in front of that one place we went to." Zak answered.

"I could have been swimming in money by now.." Saren mumbled, anime tears streaming down his cheeks.

"Right... in any case, the observation I made should help me predict what might happen next. The café is where we'll meet Argent and co." Ciel said, now that her creator has finally decided to jump back into this thing.

"Good, then we should begin." Ceilia said.

The trip to the coffee shop was uneventful for the most part.Nothing seemed to be doing much around the city, leaving some of the parts of town to be really empty. It took roughly 25 minutes to get to the coffee shop, which was almost a ghost town, with the exception of a human with fair skin, bright blue eyes, thick framed glasses, and wearing a grey vest, matching pants, and a white shirt. He also wore a black bow tie and stood behind a bar table of sorts, cleaning a coffee cup, and talking with Argent and Company.

"At least the owner is still here." Neo sighed.

"Plus Argent and his crew." Zapor said.

"That's a relief.."

"We'd better bring them up to speed on what's happened," Ciel said.

The coffee shop owner looks over at Neo's group. "They're here." He says,then places the coffee cup, on something under the table, and grabs a new one. As the group got closer, it was clear to see that the name tag he wore said "Hart".

"We got a problem." Neo started.

"Uh, can you put this behind your table?" Ceilia asked Hart, who looked at the beacon, and gave a puzzled look, then nodded and did as she said, putting the beacon between a set of brewers.

"Everything technical is broken." Zapor added to what Neo said.

"Well that explains why my phone decided to crap out today." Rose said. "But if that's the case, then how does 'blue' still have all her bearings?" she asked, nodding her head towards Ciel to clarify who she's referring to.

"Just a bit of a software upgrade." Ciel said, winking toward Ceilia. "Anyway, we've been placing these things around the city so we can pinpoint where Radon is hiding. There's just one more location we need to head toward before we can move on, but we have to be quick. We got ambushed at the second site... they know what we're up to."

"We only have one more we need to place before I can find out where the signal is coming from." Ceilia said.

"The people we're dealing with are getting more powerful." Neo noted.

"We probably wouldn't be here with out that wall of light." Ceilia sighed.

"The paladin system, right?" Trinity asked.

"No, my machine uses pulse resonators to push people away. I didn't make the wall..." Ceilia said.

Neo eyed the group. "Well, add a mysterious stalker to the group of problems we're having."

"So, where's the last place we need to hook the beacon?" Zapor asked.

"And how're we going to deal with miss sibling issues and her partner if and most likely when they do decide to interfere?" Saren asked.

"Hope for the best?" Neo asked. "In all honesty that's all we can really do with them."

"There's something about them..." Zero noted. "The girl in particular, when I fought with her, all I could feel was power."

"If someone else created that wall, maybe they are fighting them now." Fey suggested. "We should go while we can."