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Post by Pyre on Sept 6, 2007 21:40:20 GMT -5
Tails scrambled backwards, rubbing his head where he had, indeed, been hit. He had only half-fixed the engine, was this thing mad?! Or malfunctioning would be a better word, really.
"Yea, well I'm sick of you! You never listen to a d*mn thing! No one ever does, what does it take to get it through your thick skulls to listen for once in your lives! You're a machine and you still do what I ask--and ask nicely--about as well as a three-year-old with ADD! Don't you get it?! Stop going through my files like they're your own life! They're mine! It's private! If I was dying like you then it might be a different story, but you don't just go through it just because!"
She didn't care if Skyran left, he could rot until he decided to apologize or until he rusted away to nothing. But there was one problem with that. "And genius, your other wing is still ten yards away from the rest of ya."
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Post by Shukko]| on Sept 6, 2007 21:46:59 GMT -5
The engines lit up. "I can still fly, I............I'm sorry for going through your dam system okay??!!" he shot forward, there was a loud crack sound, then a bang. Sky's half fixed engines shattered at the force they had generated. causing the back of him to catch fire as he crashed into the groun,d hard, breaking the cockpit's glass into tiny shards and damaging the inner computer. He landed damaged on his side.
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Post by Pyre on Sept 6, 2007 22:12:36 GMT -5
Cyan watched with dull eyes and she slowly brought her hands up over her face (her mechanical one back to normal) and buried herself behind their gracious cover. She only wished that that childhood wish was true, that she really couldn't be seen by anyone when her eyes were closed. It'd be nice to disappear right about now and get to stop worrying about everything and anything, especially having to face Skyran.
That was one thing that Cyan hated about herself more than anything else: She had a hard time staying mad at anyone even when she wanted to be mad for the rest of eternity. That was her problem, really. She had found it nigh impossible to stay mad at Pyran, and that's why she'd kept giving him second chances until she'd snapped and ended up running a sword through him. He'd still deserved it, of course. But Cyan couldn't always hate the only people who ever treated her like more than a dumb military dog.
She sighed and slowly lowered her hand, reluctantly walking over to Skyran's smashed form. Tails followed after a long moment, but Cyan let him pass from her mind. She stood over the shattered craft, fur lying flat at last. "You d*mn, stupid, faulty piece of junk," she said, but the words were soft and it sounded more like she was complimenting him. "You know, you're making it really hard to stay mad at you when you go blow yourself to pieces. Hold still, already."
His inner computer was sliced. How much of Skyran was dammaged? She would find out. She teleported into the cockpit and set to work one way or another.
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Post by Shukko]| on Sept 7, 2007 23:25:43 GMT -5
"*Bzzzttt* I'm sorry... I *Bzzt* Really am." He was pretty much torn up now, it was probably useless for Tails to do anything, maybe fix him a little but GUN would have to be called in.
"I promise this tiem I won't go into your system...Okay?" He was very very careful not to say anything stupid, he was pretty much useless now. He had been torn apart, and GUN wouldn't scrap something they had built only months ago.
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Post by Pyre on Sept 7, 2007 23:31:34 GMT -5
Cyan's ears flattened. "You'd better mean it," she said softly as she too observed the damage. But the damage before her eyes wasn't as bad as what she heard in Sky's simulated voice. When it was as broken-up as it was now she couldn't help but feel a pang of sympathy. "I can't do anything, Sky...I'm sorry, I don't have the slightest idea what to do. Even if I did, I wouldn't have half the equipment."
Her hand scarcely brushed a wire and sparks flew out. Cyan snatched her hand back. "Look, I won't let them erase you or anything. I like your personality too much...when you listen."
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Post by Shukko]| on Sept 7, 2007 23:37:42 GMT -5
He stayed silent for a moment, not saying anything for atleast a minute. "I mean it... *Crack* I...{/b] A few lights flickered on and off, some of them just blinked off. 'I'm useless... I should've said yes to that system extention when I was still being built.... For a machine I'm not that sma-*bzzt*-rt ethier..." He just didn't say anything after that, his system was still on. He just couldn't do anything, his engine didn't just blow up, it shattered life glass, wires, metal, plastic and all, but jet engiens didn't do that when they overloaded. So why did it happen? "Cyan? Could I show you something?" He asked her.
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Post by Pyre on Sept 7, 2007 23:46:46 GMT -5
Cyan finally sent the message, making sure it went through this time, to GUN. They wouldn't be here for at least half an hour. Poor Sky...
"Yea...You can," Cyan said slowly, standing up straight and looking at the screens.
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Post by Shukko]| on Sept 7, 2007 23:51:51 GMT -5
A holographic map of the desert appeared, it showed a heat signature of something in the desert. It zoomed in, and then removed of layer of the desert to show a large underground lab. It zoomed in closer to show a map of the large, and a signature in the main room. Very very hot. "This is the lab I was programmed and designed in, the heat signature is from a machine that can bring things back to life. By regeneration, it was used awhile back. But the thing must still be on, it's connected to m-*Bzzztttt* system to... Also i..*bzzztt* if my system crashes, I doun't think it will re..*bztzttzttzstt* reboot at all... A spark came from another wire, but not that big.
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Post by Pyre on Sept 8, 2007 0:08:55 GMT -5
((Heh, oh no...))
"Hey, hey! Calm down there!" Cyan said quickly. She wasn't really listening to what Skyran was saying, possibly because something in her subconscious didn't want to hear it. She was recording it, she could go through it later, but it was irrelevant. "Just shut down, Sky. That way we'll be able to save everything, don't worry about it..."
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Post by Shukko]| on Sept 8, 2007 0:16:36 GMT -5
"I won't... If I do, I'll crash... *Bzzzttt* If I don't I'm better off, there's *bzzt* too many errors... in my system... *bzzzt* Besides I'm just the first model... *bsssttt* I'm crap... You would be better off with Model 002 than me.... *ZZZZZ!!!* I...." A few more lights blinked off, some now blinking off for a few moments before turning on. "I just..." Another holo screen pooped up beside Cyan, flashing red and displaying major errors in Skyran's system.
-Control System Error X-399573 -Reboot System Error XF-9909 -A.I Personality ERROR -Major, System crash possible. -Power Generator Failing Error 34096 B
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Post by Pyre on Sept 8, 2007 0:25:44 GMT -5
"Sky, shut down! Please!" Cyan pleaded. Her heartrate spiked and her computer system pumped her body with more adrenalin than was natural in response. And Cyan's panic grew because of it to the point where she was just on the edge of hyperventilation and hysteria. "I don't want another model! I want you! Sky, you've got something I've never seen in anything like you!"
Her eyes focused on the AI Personality the most. "Shut it down! I can salvage something from you! Anything, there has to be something! Please!"
Skyran was so much more than a machine. Machines were tools. Skyran was a person all in himself, as real as Cyan and Striker and Reoku. The four of them, they were what made up Cyan's world and all that mattered in it. She didn't want to loose them, not one of them! Not really.
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Post by Shukko]| on Sept 8, 2007 0:37:44 GMT -5
"I can't...." There was a few faint beeps and clicks like normal, but they weren't as loud and as fequent. "Don't worry about me any way, this isn't... the last...time.... beside me... and ..m..odel two have.. the.. same.. ID.. Code... and... similar ...pr . ograms..." Most of the remaining lights blinked off slowly. "I'll shutdown..then..for you..." The lights blinked off, then the error screen turned blue but showed different errors.
A.I System Damage - 59 percent Craft Damage - 86 percent Main system Damage - 78.940466 percent
System Status - Failed - Crashed A.I Status - Failed/Normally Shutdown still operational.
... Begigning Model AX-0002 Data transmission, Sky system I is now being transmitted. Damage to system is possible, transfer location: GUN HQ Sky Hanger left section... Complete Transfer.
AX 0001 Now offiline, AX 0002 Online. System start will complete within the next 28 hours. The holo screen went blank and disappeared, wires still sparked but nothing else happened. A few lights that should've been green were fed, signalling a System failure and crash.
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Post by Pyre on Sept 8, 2007 13:01:25 GMT -5
Cyan curled up miserably, her arms wrapped around her knees. "I'm sorry for making you get hurt...I'm sorry..." She was so sick of being sorry. Why couldn't she ever do anything right? Everything that she thought she was doing right had a horrible way of backfiring in her face. Killing Ross? He just came back. Giving Reoku a home at GUN? He'd been reduced to a half-machine! Being friends with Sky? Telling him not to go through her system? Now she was crouched in his mangled hull. The only thing that had ever gone right in her life was Striker, and she clung to that. Please...don't let anything happen to him...
When Tails finnally came up to the craft, he found it empty.
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