Lilian Fray's Story

Arctic Ocean
March 17, 2565 4:07 P.M.

Dante continued to brush violently at the snow and occasionally brushing away his white out of place bangs, when he noticed a pair of small pale hands partially covered in long gloves assisting him he smirked. Immediately knowing who those hands belonged to Dante looked up to witness Ava in the same position as he was doing the exact same thing, just covered in snow. He also witnessed his team come down for a landing some landed fairly well and others simply failed at it, this brought a smile to his face. He made a mental note of each individual within his squad and the young pretty brunette that had the striking purple eyes making her perfect landing, he could learn something from her. Once she and the dark haired female made their landing he noticed they were making their way towards them so he straightened up with his knees still on the ground he patted off the snow on his hands which felt like a thousand pricking needles.

“Whoo! That was fun, can we try it again?” He couldn't help but to smirk slightly as he watch the dark haired female move in such a fashion towards him. He was aware of her gawking gaze in the helicopter and could tell by the way she seemed to direct all attention to him that she wanted something from him, but he was so used to war and being around males or male-like females that he wasn't sure how to read the situation. He simply noted in the back of his mind to keep an eye on her.

"Jumping out of a helicopter thousands of feet off the ground with the likely chance that these extremely outdated parachutes will malfunction?" He asked as he crossed his arms in order to drive his point but mainly to warm his hands, "yes we'll have plenty of those chances, shoot a few of them might be without parachutes."

"What're you looking for ~? Do you need - help?" The Brunette's question caught him off guard so he simply stared into her eyes for a few moments before realizing she asked him a question, but what truly caught him off guard was the fact that she had the same unusual purple eye color as the dark haired one.

Dropping his left arm to his side and scratching his head with the right he answered, "Well, you see I'm looking for this little compartment that is supposed to..." he allowed his voice to trail off as he he stared down at the spot Ava was brushing. "Actually Ava has found it" He quickly said causing Ava to stand up and back off as Dante took over, uncovering a light blue graving of an 'S'. "Now we wait for the others to arrive" He said as he straightened up again and looked in the direction of the rest of his squad that were making their landing. Ava watched Dante try his best to watch the rest of his squad make their way to him but the few bits of bangs were interfering with his field of view. She recalled memories of him fighting those bangs and every once a while to solve the issue he had to chop or trim them. She was pulled out of memory lane when the familiar sound of a body hitting and rolling in the snow reached her ears. She turned towards the source only to realize it was that one man that had weird written all over him, he was a very strange man but she couldn't help but to like his accent.

"Looks like luck saved us both" Ava said to the Frenchman.

"Alright, down we go," Dante said as he reached a hand down to the 'S' he uncovered. Feeling around he managed to find five small indents in the steel only large enough to allow his fingertips but once he placed his fingers in position the ground began to groan and creak. Slowly standing up Dante brushed the snow off his legs as the half mile radius they were within began vibrating and finally lowering into the earth in a spiral motion. The walls the large platform descended from had deep spiral grooves in them revealing how the platform was able to rise and fall. Dante took this time to walk away from his squad, with his back to them he pulled out a switchblade and perfectly trimmed the few strands of bangs that bothered his vision. Once he was done the platform came to a halt within a large open room designed like a hangar, it contained land vehicles and armed personnel. Noticing all the eyes that were on them Dante quickly hide his switch blade.

"Ah, the squad is here," A booming voice came from behind Ava, before Ava could take action Dante ran to her just in time to catch her hand that wielded the black dagger she unsheathed from her thigh. The dagger stopped inches from an old man's head. "Wow, maybe next time I will refrain from sneaking up on you." The old man said as the little color he had drained from his face as he staggered backwards.

"Yes, if you cherish you're life that would be best," Ava said once Dante let go of her hand.

Pushing his glasses higher up the bridge of his nose, "Yes, well I'm Dr. Helix the creator of CHIPS."

"Yes, we know," Dante said as he watched Ava sheathe her dagger once again and walk a few feet away with her back to them.

"Well, then we'll finish introductions later, for now follow me," He said once he collected himself. Without another word he turned his back to them and began walking down the walkway that connected to the platform and led across the room to a small tower with armed guards. The guards escorted them to the first checkpoint which contained more armed guards and large turrets aimed dead center of their chests. From there Dr. Helix began leading them through multiple checkpoints. "We have ordered multiple tools, weapons, armored gear that you might find useful that is if you would like to use other equipment besides the ones you've brought. Also, whatever you wish to bring you must have on your person otherwise we will have to hold onto it. You also must know that once you're in you will remain in there for as long as the mission is in operation which could last for years, unfortunately. Here we are." The group was standing in front of a large vault door, Dr. Helix walked on a scanner station which scanned his entire body before the vault door began opening.

Dr. Helix led the group within the room before the vault door closed and sealed itself. The floor, ceiling, and walls was covered in the same designs as the platform on the surface but the alphabets were lighting up at random. The wall directly across the entrance was covered in multiple flat screen wall mounted monitors connected to two computers, one empty and the other was occupied by a blond female. To the right of the entrance was a large man in military uniform accompanied by two other soldiers. The attention was directed at the group when they entered the room, the large soldier was decorated in multiple medals some signifying his rank as a General. Upon laying eyes on him Dante and Ava stood at attention and saluted the general.

"At ease," The General said in his deep husky voice, "I wanted to see the squad we were sending in with my own eyes." Pausing at that he examined each person with a hint of doubt within his eyes before walking past them to leave, "Good luck."

With that he left leaving and the blond at the computer jumped to her feet which caused her to exit out of the holographic applications that emitted from her suit. "So this is the group," She said as she made her way to them and circled them once then went back to her computer, "I guess it'll do."

"What would you rather have?" Dante asked with a bit of irritation showing on his face.

"Don't mind her, she's always like that," Dr. Helix interrupted Lilian before she could answer Dante's question, "Now is the perfect time for introductions." Placing his index finger to his chest Dr. Helix began, "I'm Dr. Helix the creator of CHIPS and the one that will running the operation."

"I'm Lilian," The blond at the computer said as she waved her hand at them as she continued reading data off the monitors.

"She will be the making sure everything runs smoothly, she's our hacker and the one will that will be taking care of you while you're within the system." Dr. Helix added.

"My name is Dante Raize," Dante began as he made his way to the television that displayed what seemed to be millions of stars all connected by a light blue line that connected to a large dot in the center. "A lieutenant in the Russian army and now the squad leader of this team."

Crossing her arms and leaning against the vault door Ava quickly said, "Ava Iron, second-in-command."

Dr. Helix turned towards the others awaiting their answers.

Meh. Minus one...

Sari watched, semi-interested as the leader person started to explain, then stopped as he looked down at the ice queen and saw that she had uncovered a letter - S - carved in blue. S, Sari thought absently. For me. She smiled at the narcissistic thought, then glanced over her shoulder at the sound of a very intriguing accent.

A smile spread across Sari’s face. Her little cutie had come down – and it seemed that he was very happy with the fact that he was still alive. It made him even cuter, and it was nice to have a guy around who wasn’t all about bravery and courage – weaknesses were good. They always provided a conversation starter, and they made for excellent entertainment. Teasing was never off the table.

Before Sari could respond, the ice queen said something. Sari looked at her with a raised eyebrow and then grinned. Ooo ~ competition? How fun ~ She waited a moment, then directed her grin at the man, who seemed mildly windblown and red-cheeked. “Aw, I’m so proud of you.” She widened her smile and tilted her head, a bit flirtatious. “Maybe next –”

The ground started to shake.

“Oh – dear,” Sari said, in a voice much too light for the situation as she slid her feet further apart to steady herself. Her attention flickered away from the cutie, and she fixed her attention on the leader guy, who had just lifted the steel up. Everything trembled as the earth began to fall away, something that almost unnerved Sari at first, but the feeling quickly passed as she saw the very consistent shape that disappeared down – a neat spiral, a bit tight, but unmistakably, a spiral.

…How fancy.

She watched, bemused, as the leader guy trimmed the bangs of his hair, and listened, amused to her sister’s reaction to it. “I’m sorry, Monmon. Just remember that he is hot, and try not to massacre him?” Sari gave her sister a light kiss on the cheek, and then turned her head to glance at the sight that had made Anemone stop short in the middle of a sentence.

Ice queen had almost stabbed someone – an old man, who identified himself as Dr. Helix, the creator of CHIPS.

So she really does have issues. How boring. The ice queen quickly slid from Sari’s mind as she walked down the stairs behind her sister. At the bottom was a large vault door. Sari watched as Dr. Helix walked on to a scanner station, his whole body glowing faintly before the vault doors opened.

On the other side, flanked by two other men, was a large soldier, who, Sari assumed by the badges that he had on his uniform, was probably pretty high up. Of course, none of that really mattered to her until he began to talk.

Oh, hot voice. Hot voice, hot voice, hot voice. She blinked up at him as he inspected them – and eventually her – and then walked out. Glancing at him, she restrained the urge to call ‘marry me’ to him and turned her attention back to the room at large.

Aside from the soldiers, there was one other person in the room, who now got up and came over to examine them. Sari’s eyebrows raised immediately. She was beautiful, and judging by her words, a bit acidic too. Lovely combination, Sari thought, and then, Lilian. Hacker. She smiled. I’m going to have fun with you, Lilian.

She lingered a moment on the hot hacker and then turned her attention to the leader guy – Dante Raize. Her mouth twitched, and she glanced at Anemone. The name ‘Dante’ held a special ring for both of them. She glanced by at the current Dante and tried to imagine him with an innocent air and wide eyes.

Oh dear Lord… Sari had to take a moment to pull her own cheeks to stop the laughter before she could concentrate on the next introduction

It was the ice queen – Ava. Boring person. Boring name. Not surprising

Then, the blonde. Kai Crosshaw. And a pretty accent. Fun ~

And then, her cutie. Her eyes widened in delight as she realized that he was French – something confirmed both by the accent and by his words. Alberto Leroy… Sari felt her mouth stretching in a smile, and her mind began to run in circles so fast that she almost missed Zeren’s name. Almost, but not quite. She never missed interesting names.

Sari smiled at Anemone’s introduction and then stepped up herself and gave a mocking bow to the whole group. “Nice to meet you. You all have – lovely names,” She said, keeping a semi-smile on her lips as her eyes flickered from person to person, lingering briefly on Dante – Oh dear Lord, this is going to make me laugh everytime… – and Alberto. “I am Sari Breuer. Tracker.” She let her smile spread for a moment, then bowed her head again and stepped back into line, slipping an arm around her sister’s waist and lowering her head onto her shoulder.

Arctic Ocean
March 17, 2565 4:12 P.M.

"Now that we've got that out of the way, time to gear you up," The doctor said as he jumped to his feet and walked over to the free computer. Snatching up a silver suitcase from the chair he placed it on the computer desk, "I will be injecting you with millions of nano-cells, this will allow us to be able to locate you at all times, assist yah, and disguise you form the system," he said as he opened the case revealing empty syringes and a container filled with silver liquid. "Even though this will allow you to move freely without any fear of being detected, being scanned directly will blow you cover so be careful of scanning files," He continued as he filled each syringe.

"And that's where I have to come in and save your ass, so please try not to make my job any harder than it is." Lilian said from behind her seat as she rapidly inputted codes within the computer.

"So, this is it?" Dante asked as the doctor rolled up his sleeve revealing scars of previous injections, when suspicion spread across the doctor's face, he answered "When you're the military's property they do as they please with you, I'm used to it."

With a nod the doctor continued, "Trust me this will be more than enough, especially if Lilian is as good as they say."

"You better believe it," Lilian barked as she spun her chair to glare at the doctor before turning back around making her pigtails to spin a circle.

After injecting each member within the squad with the liquid, Dr. Helix walked over to the corner of the room next to the free computer and traced an invisible line on the wall causing the wall to groan then slowly open vertically. "Within this room is the chamber that will send you into the system."

"In that case me and Ava will be going first to make sure everything goes smoothly." Dante said as he and Ava was already on their way to the chambers.

"Actually, hold on I forgot to give you two your gears," Dr. Helix said as he quickly walked towards to what seemed to a large sealed container with something written in Russian on the top. Quickly opening it the doctor backed off to allow Dante and Ava access to it. Dante went first, his gear consisted of futuristic knightly armor, taking off his black coat and shirt revealing the black muscle shirt he wore underneath. Riding himself of his weapons as well he begun with the legs, boots, chest plate, then gauntlets. He flexed his arms and legs then slid his sword into the sheath attached to the back of the chest plate he finally moved out the way to allow Ava to get her gear. Ava on the other hand completely stripped down to the under armor that clung to every inch of her body then she went on to do the same procedure to put on her armor that resembled Dante's just more feminine. Nodding to each other they placed their right hand on the orb on their armor located between their shoulder blades; Dante's orb glowed red causing parts of the armor to glow red and Ava's orb glowed blue causing parts of her armor to glow blue. Immediately right on activation the armor tightened pressing against their skin but had custom ventilation and stuffing for comfort.

"If you want there is more gear within the container, but warning the language is in Russian," Dante commented before walking into the chamber room with Ava behind him. Upon them entering the circular completely white chamber, the doctor walked over to the free computer and began inputting some codes causing the door to seal once again.

"Do not panic simply and stay still," Dr. Helix spoke into the mic.

"The world is still untouched, so it's safe to commence," Lilian said out loud as she entered some codes, spinning around in her chair Lilian pointed to the large television and her voice began speaking within everyone's mind, "So you know those millions of dots are Digital Worlds people created, as you can see they are all connected to the one yellow dot, your destination CHIPS, in the center by a green line which are bridges. But we cannot send you into that area without being detected so we have to place you in a Digital Outer World untouched by the virus which are the blue ones which are the ones furthest away from the center and entering CHIPS through one of those bridges from an unaffected Digital Outer World is a no, no. It's as if the virus knows about our plans and have each bridge that connects an unaffected Digital Outer World under tight surveillance so we have to place you onto an unaffected Digital Out World then create a bridge to a affected Digital Outer World so that you can take that unguarded bridge to CHIPS."

"Sorry for that, I didn't warn you that our communication with you was going to be telepathic," The doctor's voice spoke within their minds this time, "And vice versa you can speak to us or your fellow squad members either as a whole or privately. Now to commence."

The chamber began vibrating and the air began to be vacuumed out of the room through tiny pinholes in the ceiling, lack of air caused Ava to stumble onto her hands and knees and Dante to slam his back against the wall both of them trying to gasp for air but even the air within their lungs were being taken away. Before their vision could black out their body began to succumb to a feeling of millions of hooks being sunk into their skin. The feeling intensified for a few seconds before they began witnessing their body being destroyed one cell at a time at rapid speeds to the point that Dante raised his right hand up only to witness it seemingly to blow away as if he was made of sand until their entire body was completely no more. The walls within the chamber turned a bright light blue then returned to its original white before opening the sealed door once again awaiting its next victim.

Turning to the others the Dr. Helix said, "You're next..."