london ♔ stand across the wire

[spellfile]

Technologic [fool remix] - Daftpunk

WHO ||  Lila, Astrid, Faye, Topher, Zero, One, GLaDOS
WHAT || Lila and Zero go to confront the technomage One, with a little help from their friends...
WHERE || Downtown London, CalTech building
WHEN || Late March, 2015 [backdated]
HOW || Actionspam

It's been a couple of months since the hacker who goes by the moniker "One" assisted in the attack on the Knights' castle, with the inside assistance of the Artificial Intelligence-turned-human GLaDOS.  Zero has good reason to believe, however, that One hasn't left - that he's waiting for him to come face him, and that the stage he's set for the showdown is the CalTech building in the city, whose employees are off for the week.  Realizing it's likely a trap, Zero's stacked his chips on setting a counter-trap - uploading a virus designed by himself and Topher Brink into the now-cyborg Faye Chamberlain's brain, assuming that he is going to try to hack into her and turn her against them.  

They arrive at the building as the sun is going down, staring up at the building that has a light show of digital streams coursing down the front of it, drawing a snort from Zero.  

"Theatrical jackass."

Comments

[bittersweeter]

Put him to sleep, Zero. [ naturally that's lila's choice. lila can be merciful, but only for zero. ]

[andblockbuster]

That seems like a really bad idea, but... He's not my ex- ...person.

[he holds up his hands.] So I'm Switzerlanding out of this one.

[pathology]

[astrid peers her head back into all this drama bc she too would like to participate in this telltale game group vote]

Remember the last time we decided to be merciful? Remember how well that went? That's why we're in this mess now. If we leave him alive, even in cold storage, what do you think the chances are it's going to come back to bite us in the ass later?

[spellfiles]

I can encrypt the storage disk with locks nobody could break, digitally and magically. Don't forget I invented this field. We did. With him out of the picture, nobody's going to be able to reach him without me letting 'em.

[reallywicked]

We aren't an execution squad. Killing him now wouldn't be for self defense. It would be consequences for crimes we can assume he would make later.

Besides, I get the impression it might be a bigger punishment to be trapped inside his own lonely, digital hell.

[bittersweeter]

[ lila already decided on zero's version of nap time but she can't help pointing out: ] He's had plenty of crimes already that would more than warrant a death sentence. There were children on the Eye when he tried to shove it into the Thames.

[ not to mention people actually died after he helped glados take down the castle defenses. it wouldn't be self-defense, sure, but this fuckstick isn't exactly innocent and lila's got something like three years of bitterness pent up because of him, okay. ]

[spellfiles]

[ he hesitates a moment, before lila's words seem to shake a further admission out of him, coupled with something faye said ] I don't have to make it nice for him.

[bittersweeter]

Okay, great, we're agreed, do it.

[spellfile]

[ he hesitates for another long moment, before moving towards the bank of computers ] Fine.

Let's end this once and for all. [ his fingers themselves start glowing with energy as he starts across the keys, dancing lines of energy combining with his own well honed skills as he builds the cage that will indefinitely hold the essence of the man he once loved. irving begins to offer protests, but they are quickly muddled into incomprehensible strings of audible static, the 'eye' of glados' form switching from red to yellow before slowly fading out into darkness. ]

[bittersweeter]

[ once it all goes dark, lila slips forward and reaches out to put her hand on his arm. quietly, so no one else can hear, she murmurs: ] We'll figure it out.

[ for zero's sake, because fuck one. ]

[spellfiles]

[ he looks over at her, then down at the hand on his arm, before giving it one quick pat ] Let's go home.

[bittersweeter]

[ off they go? lila will just yank on zero and truth topher will pick up the roomba robot. let's roll. ]

[spellfile]

[ MISSION END! plz pp or comment here with any follow up questions ]