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He was glad Mark's attention was no longer on him, though rather than doing anything, he simply stood there, waiting for the two men to make a decision without aggravating either of them. He didn't do well around guns, less so when they were pointed at him.

As he listened to Mark's proposal, he couldn't help but mumble.

"I was trying to fix it not sabotage it... "

He had no need to sabotage the AI further than he had. It wouldn't blow up, but then, there were more subtle and effective ways of destroying the AI than simply letting it become scrap metal. It was his luck that neither man had thought further than blowing the bike up and that Mark apparently had no idea who Lead's 'little computer nerd friend' was.

"Wouldn't have had to fix me if you hadn't..."

"... found that someone else got to you first, yeah, I know"

Joe covered Vinnies next words which he was certain had been to point out that him having to repair the AI was entirely his fault. Sounding rather tired, he stated the obvious to Vinnie.

"In case you hadn't noticed, the idiot with the smaller gun is trying to get you killed"

"Pitty he didn't kill you before"

"If he had, you'd be whiped out of existance too, remember?"

He pointed out to the AI, reminding it of Lead's previous command whilst he watched the two men warily.

((No, haven't forgotten about Eseen.. guessing that she's decided to not commit suecide?))

He swore as Mark spoke behind him, not having heard the man approach and looked at the empty space behind him unamused. He knew that the man was armed but had no idea where the gun was pointed. Without the ability to see the man, let alone read his intentions, there was little left to do than trust that going against Mark's wishes at this point in time would be deadly.

He sighed as he looked at Eseen, shaking his head. She'd failed completly at what he'd asked her to do, and yet, she might be of some use. With that he turned back to the bike and knelt down to continue where he'd left off before, wiring it up again, keeping the fact that it would self destruct on Lead's command already to himself.

"You know, I'm doing the same thing I was before you started waving that gun around."

His annoyance at the situation showed as he spoke.

"You wouldn't have had to if.. "

"If chaos hadn't played with you first, I'm aware of it!"

The AI was seriously getting on his nerves, had been before the situation had gotten dangerous and pissed him off.

"Your sensors pick up the girl with the rocket launcher?"

"Yeah, you hoping you can score with her?"

He nodded in response, his voice turning sarcastic.

"Yeah.. because I stand a chance with the hacker who screwed you over... she ******** over your intelligence as well or are you always this stupid?"

There was no love lost between hacker and AI, yet, he hoped to turn even this to a positive outcome, making sure Mark understood that he wasn't whom the AI claimed to be. At the same time, it would give Eseen a chance to control the AI, simply by threatening Vinnie with a recurrence of what had happened when Joe first hacked into the AI and let loose the customised virus.

As much as he showed annoyance towards the AI and had previously claimed that the AI was none of his concern, he still saw the AI as someone with his own identity, someone with a mind of his own and not something Joe wanted to see destroyed or in the wrong hands to be exploited. Especially not after seeing the elegance of the code that had been used to create Vinnie.

It didn't take long to finish wiring Vinnie back up, giving the bike full function of its weapons system and engine back. Once done, he started on the control pannel, which was conveniently black.

"God! Vinnie! You wanna do Leadstorm and the idiot a favour and light up for me so I can follow their ******** orders?"

Apparently, there was some self preservation in the AI, else he'd have obeyed Leadstorm's earlier command to let Joe do his job, though if Joe had been thinking clearer rather than being pissed off at the uncooperative bike, he'd have suspected that the bike had brought the fact that Eseen and not him was chaos, thus, to Vinnie, he was a two bit hacker with no talent and not worth of working on the AI.

~Leadstorm walked over to Vinnie as soon as Joe finished and instantly Jacked in. Vinnie, I want you to run silent until you I jack in again he commanded through the link, so no one could hear him. First, I need you to rig your self-destruct system to activate by my remote command, then I want you to set atimer. 45 minutes exactly after Mark leaves your sensors, I want you to auto-pilot yourself back to my location. give no acknologment of this programming, just do it. and show the detonation ready as vivid as possible, we're bluffing our way out. He disengaged the link. "It's done, now let's go" he said, looking as solemn as he could. "There's no other way, we might as well face it."~

((Wouldn't the weight change of you leaving the trailer be noticable? The shocks and all...))

((what am I supposed to do? Mark's invisible, Joe has no idea where he is.. and.. he's not suecidal enough to do anything stupid.. and as for the shocks, that would depend on how heavy Mark is atm and how worn out they are))

"All that work cost me a lot of nerves.."

He responded to Eseen showing annoyance at her inability to keep him out of trouble.

The only thing that seemed to be going right was Leadstorm jacking into the AI and by all sounds of things, succeeding in doing what needed to be done in about 1/10 of the time it would have taken Joe to convince the AI to even let him attempt to enter the appropriate commands.

He shrugged at Leadstorm's statement, though looked at him as he spoke.

"All too happy to leave those three to their fate.. "

He assured Leadstorm as he walked towards Eseen, wrapped an arm around her and proceeded to cover her mouth with his at the same time of liberating a few hairs of hers from her head, effectivly kissing her, thus making sure that any complaint from her about him pulling her hair out would be muffled and would for all intents and purposes seem like he was a horny b*****d who just couldn't help but make sexual advances towards the girl whom he had claimed was one of the more reknown hackers whom he'd have no chance of sleeping with.

~Leadstorm Hopped out of the trailer behind Joe and Eseen. "Hey, you think I could catch a ride back into town?" he said as he fired a grenade into the oncoming hoarde to open a path.~

((Well, what Essen said is plausible, also I wasn't sure but didn't you go back to manning the gun? That would cause recoil that would make my weight movement not noticable, also don't worry it's not a bomb I planted.))

Mark returned to his previous position hoping not to be noticed. " How about you guys wait here, and I will return with the payment." He said as he smirked to himself. He then activated his beetle and then deactivated his cloak. He then walked over and mounted the bike. " This thing will cooperate yes?" said Mark, now that he had stood still, his rifle was noticeably slung over his right shoulder, and a bag over his left, the two crossed in the middle and on the front various grenades could be seen hanging from the straps of his bag, his pistol holster at his thigh was empty and the pistol was still in his left hand. Though all his weaponry was visible, the person still looked like a metallic silhouette.