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 Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 12:20 pm
Once again, when they landed on her Wonder, Mimisbrunnr and Alexandria were on the edge of her well. And still, there was no glow in it, just dark water. She looked over at it and sighed, feeling heavy and sad.
"Come on," she said, pulling out the strange device she and Mistral had put together. "I've got to plug this in and download a thousand-year-old computer virus. Which is a string of words that before all this, I never would have expected to say..."
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 8:39 pm
Alexandria's hands instantly latched on to the side of the well when he realized just what he was sitting on. "Ugh... Does that always happen??" The teen sighed as he hopped off, following the other page. When she commented on the virus, his eyebrow twitched as he stared questioningly at the back of her head. He scrubbed at his face, muttering something about Mercurians and their 'bright ideas'. He couldn't comment on the virus, or the machine.
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 8:59 pm
"Uhm, yeah, I always seem to land close to that." All two times she had come here. "I guess it's the heart of the place?" She walked between the shelves, back towards the server room - the second core of her Wonder, if she were feeling mystical, in that way.
And then, there was what could only be defined as a squeal, just as Mimisbrunnr was pushing the door open. A streak of cybernetic blues and whites in ghostly form appeared out of nowhere and slammed into Alexandria, attaching herself to him.
"ALEXANDRIA!" Aishe declared, more loudly and excitedly than she had introduced herself to her own descendant. Mimisbrunnr turned around, very slowly, and blinked.
There really wasn't much more to do.
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:22 pm
Alexandria screamed. Alexandria screamed, hit the ground with a solid thud, and then furiously began clawing at the ground in a desperate attempt to get away from whatever the hell just hit him like a truck. "What the ********!" He screeched, hitting his head on a low book shelf. "Damn it!" The teen hissed, his hand flying to rub at the offending spot.
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:29 pm
"Alexandria, relax, it's okay!" Mimisbrunnr said, and she shot a glare at her ancestor, who seemed content to pat her hands all over the other Mercury Page. "This is m ancestor, Aishe. I....guess she recognizes you."
"Of course I do!" Aishe said indignantly, putting her hands on either side of Alexandria's face. "A little shorter and paler, but yep, you're Ronan! Don't you recognize me?"
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 7:51 am
"I know it's okay damn it!" He snapped as he tried to swallow his heart. "Sorry... Just. Christ." Then the page shot the spector a glare. Why was everyone commenting on his height? "Yes I know I'm Ronan... And no. I don't remember you. I've only been to my wonder a handful of times." Alexandria could count on one hand. "I've only seen a few memories, but most pertained to myself or the Library."
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 8:27 am
"Aishe, please," Mimisbrunnr begged quietly, a request for her ancestor to get off their visitor. "I need him and I finally have the thing so I can download the virus so I can you know, fix this place?" Aishe pouted at her, but she did let go of Alexandria and stood up, offering him a hand.
"It's just, I haven't seen anyone I know for so long - what do you mean, you don't remember me?" She frowned, looking deeply disappointed. "I - I guess you will, eventually, maybe?" There was a little bit of hopefulness in her voice. "You were my brother, I don't see how you couldn't - oh!" And then, her expression shifted to an almost devilish grin. "Found Prometheus yet?"
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 9:12 am
"What do you mean 'what do you mean'? I just told you that I've only had a few memories recovered and they were mainly me or the library." He hissed at the ...image... girl. "I do not remember having siblings." Alexandria said flatly. He was pretty sure he'd remember siblings.... If they were anything like his current siblings. The page quirked a brow. "...Ronan's Prometheus or 'New age' Prometheus."
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 9:17 am
"Oh, either, Senshi always reincarnate," Aishe said breezily, patting Alexandria on the cheek. "I'm sure you'll remember plenty of things in time."
"Not to break up the happy family reunion," Mimisbrunnr said, "but uh." She held up the device. "I have. A Thing. To fix? Alexandria, are you coming?" She stepped throguh the server room door, beckoning for her fellow Page to follow.
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 11:36 am
"Oh. Then.. yeah I found him." Alex said, blinking slowly. "Hey. I was trying to before I got tackled." The page grumbled as he picked himself up. He wanted, in no way, shape or form, anything to do with that device. He followed at a distance, though at the same time, not venturing far from Mimis.
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 11:44 am
"Good, good," Aishe said, and then she vanished, reappearing next to the central server tower. She leaned on it, and Mimisbrunnr placed the device into the cubic depression that it had come from. The whole thing started to glow bright blue, and then, slowly, like an Earthy download progress bar, it changed to green..
"It's working!" She declared, delightedly. That was at least one success.
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 3:46 pm
Alexandria sighed he leaned against the wall, arms crossed in doubt. "You'll have to believe me if I don't exactly believe in this thing." A hilarious notion given everything he'd been through and seen. He snorted lightly at her enthusiasm. At least that was nice. "It's going to crash..." He commented lightly. "You said it's a virus. It's bound to happen."
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 3:56 pm
"At this point," Mimisbrunnr said, touching her hands together and then bringing them apart, which brought up a strange partially-translucent screen, "it's basicaly permanently crashed. Look." She gestured. The screen was covered in strange lettering, but they shifted and fitzed in and out of view and staticked and broke apart. However, at the top was what distinctly looked like a progress bar, and it was filling reasonably quickly.
"It's not supposed to do that," Aishe said helpfully.
"Ada Lovelace over here," Mimis said, slightly sarcastically, waving to her ancestor, "designed this virus to scramble this system, specifically. All I'm doing is downloading it, basically, so I should be totally safe." She waved her hand, and the screen shrank down to just the progress bar.
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 5:52 pm
"You both,-" Alexandria had made a point to stretch the word both. "Are not allowed anywhere near my computers at home." Alex pushed off the wall, leaning over to look at the fritzing screen. "...You especially." He said, glancing at Aishe. "Ronan was more into the intelligence and the how of somethings working instead of building.. He liked learning languages and things like that."
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 6:27 pm
"You're no fun," Aishe pouted, "I would love to play with your modern-day technology...alas." She sighed heavily. "Ronan was always better with books and tongues and things like that than he was with machines. I was the engineer. Which is why we ended up where we did, I guess."
Mimis nodded amicably. "I mean, I'm just fixing it." There was a soft "ding" as the progress bar reached 100% and the cube turned entirely green. Mimisbrunnr clapped excitedly, pulling out the thumb drive. "All done! And look, no explosions."
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