Daemon Rising, part 4b

[a1enzo]

[Due to the wonders of Millitime, this takes place the morning after this thread, yet at the same time is happening right now. Whoa.]


Contrary to his own expectations, Enzo slept pretty well last night. No nightmares, although he did have a weird dream in which Hex turned into a pile of nulls with Mike the TV's voice. At any rate, he's well rested and ready for some world-saving.

But first, breakfast. He's at the Bar, eating a large waffle with far too much Maple syrup. Frisket has a bowl of something you're probably happier not knowing about.


[Leading to a supply run, mass digitization and mission briefing, and divers excitement and alarums.]

[First two subthreads are plotlocked. Enzo, at least, would welcome greetings in the third.]

Comments

[a1enzo]

"Uh-huh! I could just barely hear 'em."

What he said amounted to 'yes', anyhow. Actually, it amounted to 'well, duh.'

[ami_imperfect]

"That's so great. I can't wait to meet him...and your sister and the rest of your friends."

[a1enzo]

"Maybe you can come to the wedding!"

He slumps a little as another thought occurs to him. "I hope we can get Dad there, too. If we can even find him."

[ami_imperfect]

"Yeah!"

She blinks at Enzo in confusion. "Why? What happened to your dad?" The last Dani heard, he was a giant null monster.

[a1enzo]

"Remember I told you Hex brought him back? She put the nulls together to make his body and made him, y'know, able to think right and talk and stuff?"

[ami_imperfect]

Dani takes another sip of her green stuff, nodding. "Uh-huh."

[a1enzo]

"Well... she's gone."

[ami_imperfect]

She gets it.

"No more Hex...no more null-monster that was your dad? That sucks."

[a1enzo]

Enzo nods. "He's just a null again. And those all look the same 'cept for colour, and there's still a lot of green nulls."

He manages a small smile - more of a smirk, really. "I bet Hack and Slash'll find him, though. I dunno how they can tell which one he is, but they can. They've looked after him for ages, since he was Megabyte's pet." The smirk turns into a grimace. "He called him 'Nibbles'. We didn't know it was him, though."

[ami_imperfect]

Dani winces in sympathy. "Well, I'm sure they'll find your dad. They seemed very...dedicated."

[a1enzo]

"Oh, they are. They always try to do what you tell 'em." He shrugs and gives a lopsided look to indicate how successful they sometimes are.

[ami_imperfect]

Dani giggles. "At least they mean well, right?"

[a1enzo]

"Uh-huh. And I think they like working for Dot a lot better than they liked working for Megabyte."

[ami_imperfect]

"I can't blame them." Dani doesn't look fondly back on the time she spent working for Vlad.

[a1enzo]

Enzo laughs. "Yeah, Dot's a lot nicer to them and they don't fall apart as much."

[ami_imperfect]

Oh, Dani really shouldn't have been drinking some more of her green stuff right then. She has to cover her mouth to keep from spraying Bar with it.

"Do they really fall apart? Like, in pieces?" Because she has the accurate mental picture of Hack and Slash lying in a pile of blue and red metal pieces.

[a1enzo]

"Uh-huh! You shoulda seen, this one time, when they captured me an' Frisket but we escaped inside the Tor, that was Megabyte's fortress, Silicon Tor, anyway they cornered us and he told Hack and Slash to get us and Frisket scrapped 'em in like two picoseconds!"

[ami_imperfect]

Dani giggles. "And Frisket is that big dog you had when you came in last time, right?"

[a1enzo]

"Yup! He's feral really - or he used to be, I'm not sure what to call him now. I found him in an alley when he was a puppy. He's in Mainframe with Matrix now. I think he missed him."