Watari sighed and looked at Haruka. "Can we have one more night sir?"

~The White Room~

Scarlet bit his lip, seething just a little bit. "Yes it is hugely obvious your not good on politcis, if i would have not adknowldeged you as terroist as Mr. Red the countries your in still could charge you. I don't have to press charges i could try and drop them but if they would still pick it up anyway, and while your actions would bed free in the game. Yourselves in real life would still be tracked down and arrested. This was the only way that i could protect you fully, if you were to publicly announce your dission not to accept then most will soon relaize that sence the leader is not with us then the group isn't either, you will be right back in the same boat. I was just simply informing you of a command center and my wishes, i didn't say you had to follow them. Also i was trying to protect your group becuase i know a few reside in a place thats about to encounter hundreds of thousands of pounds from the sky. Just didn't want one of those to land in somones kitchen but thats up to you. I already have a cyber defence team, the services i was giving you was just a base of operations, its up to you weather you take it or not. It dosn't matter to me, i was just trying to help. Besides how about we just never say you accepted and if your ever asked publicly its as easy as saying you didn't, and nones the wiser and you still get protection."

Scarlet sent another email to Danu:

Danu,

Eh, sorry i came off a little hash, still getting used to human cutsums of not killing anyone who gets in your way. We should meet sometime, but yeah i will just take that offer back i can only track him down and arrest him, or at least thats what my advisors say.

always,

Scarlet

~Real World~

"Alright Lugh and yes you can stay a extra day," he answerd both at the same time.

~White Room~

"Hundreds of thousands of pounds from the sky...? You're planning a war!?"

~The World~

Scarlet looked away and sneered, "They brought it on themselves. We lost good men and civvlans in there so called 'raid'. We are not some kind of third world nation that the U.K. can enter and leave as they please. Besides, its none of your bussiness, its not like you work for them anymore. Right now we are currently tracking down people of intrest in order to evac them before the offensive launch, besides..." Scarlet paused to look down at his watch, "There isn't no way to put up a good defensive in time even if someone did warn them, its only 3 hours to go time."

~Bahamas~

"Well this is akward... but if you are not coming with me, and i am running out of things to talk about i guess its time that i leave," Scarlet spoke.

~White Room~

"I may not work for them, but that's still my home, my country! I have family there! You can't just start a war. The barbaricdays when that would be allowed are long past. Regardless of what you lost,kill the specific people responsible, not the nation from which they came. Those people didn't do anything wrong. What right have you to say they should die?"

~The White Room~

Scarlet sighed yet again and spoke looking into Dagda's eyes, "What right? What right did they have to kill my people, my citensins. They world needs to learn that that here in the Solid State, that every life is worth the same as the nation. Besides it isn't like i am targeting public locations upfront. I am just makeing sure that our planes don't malfuction because they WILL be flying over public locations. Its just a saftey measure. Its not like we plan on continueing this very far, a simple sweep and 3 quarters of there military bases and outlets are gone and they will know that there will not be a next time. It isn't like i am trying to conqur them or anything"

~White Room~

Dagda stood firm. "And you think that will be then end of it? Tell me, do you think the rest of the world will just stand by and let you do as you please? You're risking too much with this, not only for my people, but for all people. If history has taught us anything, it's that you can't hit a major world power and expect them and their alliesto just back down. Hold off your attack, and I'll get my contacts back home to deliver whoever killed your citizens directly to you. I'm still well thought of there. Let me try a diplomatic solution, before you launch your planes. War is supposed to follow diplomatic failure. If I can spare some lives, let me try." He held himself confidently, staring right back at Scarlet.

~Bahamas~

"Well, if ya gotta go, ya gotta go." Lugh shrugged indifferently. "Sure you won't stay for a drink?"

~Bahamas~

Scarlet bit his lip, "I will take a vodka if you have some."

He turned to his Lt. and spoke, "Call the Kermlin, call the planes back, and have our curise missiles stand codes activated."

~The World~

A strain came across his face as he spoke, "Perhaps your right, i do seem to go a little hostel some of the times. Alright, you have a month, thats all i can giv, only because the order was signed and if the problem isn't resolved in that ammount of time then it will be referred over to my generals, which i do not know if they will persue the matter of not. I will buy you as much time as possiable, oh and Dagda... thats why were friends, you make sure to balance out my cold calulateing nature with some human sense, i have not obtained what do you call it... humanity yet."

~Bahamas~

Lugh actually did have vodka, actually on his person. He peached into the pocket of his black jacket and produced a mickey of straightvodka. "All the way from Mother Russia. Enjoy." The bottle was tossed to Scarlet.He reached into his other pocket and produced a small bottle of passion fruit liquior for himself.

~White Room~

"You will eventually, Scarlet. You should go people watching.

"A month is more than enough time. There should be no issues with extradicting someone to prevent an attack. I'll make some calls."

Scarlet took a decient size chug of it and slipped it in his coat. "Wonderful, your right good ole Russian vodka. I will send you a few more flask when i get back. Well are you just going to let your guess stand the whole time? Please invite us in," Scarlet asked Lugh.

~Bahamas~

"Oh, you want to sit? Well, we can't drink around the twerp, but I can..." Lugh waved his hand at a spot on the beach, looking very foolish while doing so. Nothing happened; he looked disappointed, had clearly expected something to occur. "Damn it..." He snapped his fingers. "Bugger!" He snapped them again, but still nothing."Damn it!" Then he came to a realization. "Oh yeah. Sorry about that. Force of habit from the World.

"Uh, I guess I can look for some lawn chairs. You shouldn't drink too much of that stuff. Your body won't be able to take it." He went to the nearby shed and started rooting around for some chairs.

Scarlet looked over and snapped his fingers, "Hmm, you seem to be right but i was acutally snaping for my secrect service."

The men black suits jumped a little bit blushing a little from relazation that they wern't paying attetion they quickly ran off and brought back some lawn chairs. Scarlet swayed a little as he walked to the chair and sat he took another swig.

"Things are so much more dificult here in the real world, its like logic dosn't count here, its weird. I mean us AI did have the abblity to feel emotions but only when they formed logically and then they would mutatite into illogacal emotions, it took time. Time is not much of what we have. I have a feeling that i will have to open up new levels of protection and offesive tatics to help steady the world if things keep going this way. Tell me, what was your experience like in the world?"

~The White Room~

"Back to bussiness... what areas should we attack first. What needs my most urgent attetion for another battle for the world yet again?" Scarlet qeusioned Dagda. "Oh and i would like to meet Danu in real life, the more i learn about how easy it is to easedrop on code now that more tech is coming out we have alot to introduce in ourselvels and even more to talk about in the upcoming future..."

~Bahamas~

Lugh took a seat, and a swig of his drink.

"My experience was long and lonely. Albeit, I was in less time than you in total, but recall that I lived out here first, so I did have a real sense of time passing as it would out here. The power I possessed at the start was nice, and I was hailed as a hero, but as you know, people are quick to forget. I passed out of sight, out of mind, and was very much the ghost I had become."

~White Room~

"As I've said, I'm at a loss. There's some new entity coming in to replace the old system, so it claims. As it stands, you're the last remnant of that old system. I've seen what its alleged herald is capable of. It dropped my men like flies, it eluded Lugh and I myself am powerless to cause it true harm. The player known as Shura has developed a way to damage it, but not sufficiently. Nuada, who has many more years behind him than any of us, has never heard of anything like this. Since my people can't handle this, I wondered if you might know something, but since you've been gone, I don't know that you would.

"Danu," he warned, "is once again mentally unhealthy. She's undergone one of her episodes recently. I don't know that it would be wise to meet with her. See, she tends to throw things..."

~The White Room~

"Perhaps.." Scarlet spoke deep in thought, "We could supercharge it in a data excerlration champer, it would run through some super programs that run at faster processing speeds then any AI besides myself that i have seen. It may work better if it can attack the vital points faster and harder, so no defenses can be built to it. No matter if it could lose Lugh or not... I am not Lugh i have the power to fully intergrate with the world, my programing was made that if i couldn't save Aura i could replace her, but that is not something i am to keen on doing. But what it does mean is that there is hardly a thing that i can not do within the world, the only reason i can't get your servers under my will or watch is that you host them in co-existance with the wrold but in a seperatie server and encoding. You have to understand, you see the new systems is always built with a ton of checks and balances. This pervents the system from takeing to much power and abuseing it, or to funnel control into other systems or many such things so things like Morganna would never happen again. But the old system like Morganna wasn't made with any balances or checks, so as the last bits and peaces of the old system, nothing in the world can be stronger then me... it just takes time, because i would have to tap into the power, which i have not done on a large scale before, plus i am not sure how much power i lost sence i have entered the human world."

~The White Room~

"Anything you could attempt is better than anything I could do.

"You say that nothing in the World could be stronger than you, but I suppose I should remind you that this thing doesn't come from the World. It comes from outside it, but from where exactly, I cannot say. You're right in saying that you're the most powerful being the World has to offer, but I hope it's enough. We'll support you if it comes to a fight, with whatever aid we can offer. In a case such as this, I'm thinking we'd best serve a purpose of protection for the general populace, since we can't really hurt it. If I can talk the Order into helping out with that, between us we should have enough in the way of numbers to stop this thing from hurting too many people."

"Well... i didn't know i would ever be wipping this bad boy out... call it my gift to the order." Scarlet spoke as he waved down the old guardian he called up at the beginning of the converstation. The guardian disapeared and from it came a little black fragment of metal looking bojects.

"This is my gift to the order... this is a one time use only, this was extracited from the AIDA core down in the vault. I am not sure as to what the full repercautions that it does but from what i can tell... now this only a theory... but from my anaylais it has the ablity to mix the computer charges up in a real life server and create like a mini charge of C-4, not sure all the way on that though... but well i hope it does but it should track down programs to its orginal source, like i said not sure if it will work, but in theory if used on someone like me it would blow the black box into pieaces. Thats just a theory, they maybe something that you want to look into, i find  no longer have the time to do full studes on everything."

~White Room~

Dagda's face darkened. "That reminds me, there was some bad news concerning the Order... Yulia Jue was murdered, according to Luna's info. Not good, considering they were just getting back on their feet."

Scarlets faced paled and a strain came across his face... a sneer formed in his face as it seemed to darken a little with anger, "Tell me there name... and they shall not stand in a single country without fear of me and my men.... they will be caughlt... they will pay."

~White Room~

"Calm down, Scarlet. There's won't be any of that; not yet, anyway. No investigation has begun. We've had no chance to. Leave this to Luna, in any case. I think she wants to handle this herself."

[Sorry I've been gone.... major work i had to do.  Wut i miss?  ^_^]

(Scarlet's just been talking to Dagda and Lugh. You really haven't missed anything in the way of plot advancement)

The Dark Pk laughed silently to himself. The one he was preparing the way for was nearing 'The World'. All these happy people running around the Root Towns and the cities of the earth would find nothing to be happy about very soon.

~Tir Na Nog~

Boand looked up from the document she was composing, taking a break from concentrating so heavily. Quickly, she glanced back down, thinking she'd caught a spelling error, but there were none.

The document had room at the bottom for multiple signatures. The title read 'Charter of the World'. It was supposed to be an official agreement to peace and cooperation between the major organizations of the World. Now more than ever, unity was needed amongst the superpowers.

She saved the file and put it away. "How fascinating that we're on the brink, yet the game is more peaceful than it has ever been. Absolutely fascinating..."

~The White Room~

Scarlet shudered and quickly looked up and spoke, "Something rather large... something diffrent... it... whatever it is. It is coming this way towards the world, i have never senced data waves like this. Its rather diffrent, you must hurry whatever you can do you must prepare for the worst and do so soon."

~The White Room~

Dagda nodded. "We'll get to work straight away. I'll send out word for the Tuatha to start warning people to get out. BBS posts, word of mouth, everything we can. I'll do what I can to mobilize the army and navy as well. Our military hasn't fought as a unit in a long time, and the ships are still in storage, but I'll see what can be done about arming them with weapons that can slow this thing down. I won't make any promises but something's better than nothing, right? I'll get on it." He touched his amulet and vanished.

Mass-emailing began to all Tuatha in and out of the World; everyone was to return and begin evacuating players. Those not set to that task were told to return to the fortress to prepare.

(-_- i am hitting a dry spell all of a sudden)

Scarlet began to pace back and forth, he also was signaling other AI's to prepare for upcomeing battles. He turned to Dagda and spoke, "Well correct me if i am wrong but couldn't it be possiable that sence whoever or whatever is isn't in the server, we could possiably disconnect all the incoming lines into the server. Bypass the black box and rebuild the world to are likeing? I mean well we could rebuild the world to our likeing right now but i mean as far as base codeing... we could in turn make the black box uncompatiable with whatever the thing is. I know i said it was ment to be compatable with everything, but we could use the black virus hellaish fire walls to make it uncompatable."

(I got nothing much either. Dagda's not even there anymore btw)

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