Special Delivery from FentonWorks! (AKA. The BRAWL!)

[passthefudge]

"Maddie!  Bring my fudge down when you come!"

You hear that bellow?  It's coming from the Door which has just swung open on a set of stairs.  At the top, you might glimpse bits of living room furnature...but not for long.  The view is quickly blocked by a large, orange object which barrels down the stairs and into Milliways.  As it skids to a stop, you can see it's a rather large, jumpsuit-clad human.  A very shocked, larged, jumpsuit-clad human.

He stares for a moment, wheels in his head audibly grinding.

"GALLOPING GHOSTS!  MADDIE!  THE LAB'S BEEN COMPROMISED!"

Comments

[a1enzo]

"Someone made you?" This makes Enzo blink in surprise. "But you're younger than Danny."

Sprites can be copied deliberately - that's how AndrAIa came to Mainframe - but those copies come out the same age as their original. The two-year discrepancy between Danny and Dani had made Enzo automatically think "backup".

He ponders this, then shrugs. "I guess that works different for Users too. Too weird. D'you know why your creator changed your parameters?"

[ami_imperfect]

"Because I was just practice. An imperfect result in his attempts to create the perfect clone of Danny."

Dani's tone of voice may sound just the slightest bit bitter.

[a1enzo]

"Huh? You mean it's harder to make an exact copy?" That's the complete opposite of how it works in cyberspace.

He's a bit more focused on the OMG weirdness of this, but he catches the bitterness. He's bitter enough himself at times (albeit for different reasons) that he feels a surge of sympathy. Tentatively, he reaches out and pats her hand.

Cautiously, he adds, "Why'd he want to copy Danny?"

[ami_imperfect]

"Mm-hm." Dani doesn't know enough about computers to make a cyberspace-related comparison, so she just nods.

She clenches a fist in anger. On the one hand, she wants to tell him. But on the other, its really Danny's story to tell; she's only a small part of it.

"Because the guy's a Fruit Loop, who wants Danny to be his son. And if he can't have Danny he figures that a perfect copy is the next best thing."

[a1enzo]

Enzo considers this. "Welllll... I guess the last part of that makes sense. 'Cept that the start condition is kinda random. Garbage in, garbage out." He continues to pat her hand absently.

[ami_imperfect]

Dani shoots a sidelong Look at Enzo, not too sure whether he just insulted her or not.

"Danny doesn't think I'm garbage," she murmurs quietly.

ooc: ((I have AIM, but I'm on an indefinite hiatus from it. I do have GChat/Mail, though; SN is kgyorkos@gmail.com. I'm not signed on it right now, and I haven't been the past week or so because my connection's being a bit wonky and RL has been a bit of a bear.))

[a1enzo]

Enzo is startled at this. "I didn't mean you!" he protests. "I meant the guy who made you. His logic's okay, but the place he's starting from is nuts so the whole thing's gotta be nuts no matter how good the logic is." He stares fixedly at the crack between two floorboards. "'S just an expression," he mumbles.

[ami_imperfect]

"Sorry," she apologizes. "You're on the right track, though. And the only reason the whole thing is nuts is because the guy who started it is nuts."

[a1enzo]

"Right! That's what I meant!" exclaims Enzo, relieved but still anxious that he's offended her. "And that doesn't mean you're nuts, you're awesome, heck, at least you were made for a reason, even if it was a random reason, I was an accident and I'm all right..."

Take pity on the poor boy, Dani, he's babbling.

[ami_imperfect]

"Enzo. Enzo!" She holds up her hands to cut him off mid-babble. "It's okay."

Dani glances out at the still ongoing brawl. "The Bar's never going to be the same after this..."

[a1enzo]

"They're not gonna keep doing this, are they?" he asks anxiously. "They'll stop when someone explains this place?"

[ami_imperfect]

"I hope not."

Dani sighs.

"Unfortunately the main problem is that no one can get close enough to explain this place to them without getting blasted. I tried it a little while ago, but Maddie just thought I was possessed by a ghost." True, she was technically on the right track, but neither here nor there for the moment.

"I think they'll only stop when Security steps in and hauls both of them off to the cells." At least there they won't be a danger to other Bar patrons.

[a1enzo]

"I hope they get here and quit-file them soon," is rather the obvious response.

He's still feeling dreadfully anxious (for more than one reason), and Dani looks to be so too, so Enzo casts about for a cheerier topic of conversation.

"Hey!" A totally pixelacious idea has just occurred to him. "Danny said he'd gone into a computer once. D'you think you - "

Just then, however, he is interrupted by the arrival of his older self.