Future Drabbles VR Quests

[Sl1pstr3am2010]

Toby winced as he barely missed the latest hammer slam. More of a large thing that could squish him, he was going to kill Liam. Most likely Liam or one of the lackies under Liam programed this quest and made it hard. It was possible for a beginner to do if they had proper equipment which usually meant they had to be super lucky and get it from others or super rich and outright buy it. For him he had to pay Liam a ******** large amount for the equipment, Liam stared at him at the request but when asked for the payment of course Toby cursed at him but paid in the end in game, he knew he would have to. The specific items and Enchantments he wanted on them he could do himself it was just Liam was a lot quicker and his usually ended up with better results. He was still lower level at this time to do this quest but he knew he could do it, and the possible rewards at the end would be worth it. He caught his breath ignoring the loud hammering noise behind him and turned to look up at the next obstacle. Of course the hard way to get this particular man was a jump obstacle. ”Saws… really original…” Toby sighed and watched the pattern from them for a bit, with the enchanted items his stamina was that of someone twice his level, so it was possible for him to do it.

Of course Toni had heard of his spending and asked what he was doing and made sure he had healing potions. He shook his head at the thought, most of his inventory at the moment was stacks of healing potions, did she expect him to die the whole quest? Well, he had already had to use one stack, ”God damn Dungeon Troll.” He really was going to strangle whoever coded this route. This was to get the assassin class ability so he knew it was supposed to be difficult but not insane. He was a Ninja class right now which had a assassin ability but the Assassin Class had more skills available. He had watched enough to get the gist of the pattern and started forward. He jumped once, paused and waited, jumped again and repeated. The next was a bit trickier as the platform ahead rotated and was just large enough for him to jump on. He was able to jump to it fine but just as he landed the rotation sped up and he was barely able to keep his balance. Yeah he definitely was going to strangle whoever coded this. He closed his eyes so he wouldn’t get dizzy and slowed his breathing to calm himself. The saws were different enough that each made a different sound so he opened his eyes enough to see which was making what sound. The one he need to go through was more of a table saw sound which was likely the reason it resembled two table saws. The one behind made a swish back to back, being to large axes.

He was right near the end so this was the last one he had to make it through. He waited and was finally able to get the pattern but then the rotation decided to change direction. Ok, scratch the strangling, he was going to punch whoever coded this in the face. He waited again but at a shorter period and finally had to do a back flip to get through the blades at a decent timeframe. He landed with a slide as he had to maneuver his body slightly to avoid the blades. Did they just speed up as he went through them? Seriously, he was going to punch someone. He stood up and looked back with a glare, yeah the person who coded this was definitely not someone he liked at the moment. There was the possibility this was a random generated by some of the smarted boss AIs that Liam had implemented into the game in which that case he was going to punch Liam for sure. As he walked towards where he needed to he found himself staring at a dead end. ”Now what?” He was just barely looking up as something pulled him up. He had noticed a bit of light above him so figured he had to go up but wasn’t sure how but now he was speeding upwards at a dangerous rate. He flew through the opening and was trying to figure out ways to slow down when he realized he was about to slam into the ceiling. He reoriented himself so he was facing the new down and crouched so he wouldn’t slam and break something on impact.

He landed and still fell on his a** and grunted but took barely any damage. Most likely anyone else who wasn’t used to gravity change would’ve been highly damaged. He looked down and noticed a old man talking to other people, some were players who looked up at his loud grunt and took a step back when they noticed him on the ceiling. The old man waved back to them to get their attention and ignored Toby. As they finished the few players that didn’t notice him looked up to see what the others had and as all left the old man turned finally to look at Toby. He blinked a bit in surprise, probably noting that Toby was already reoriented and not heavily damaged by that little trap. ”Now what old man? I made it through the death traps and this, what other sh*t are you going to make me do?” The old man smiled at Toby’s bluntness and then grinned. Toby winced at the grin and sudden fall to the floor. He didn’t have enough time to move his body into another position and came down with a loud thud. ”Ugh… moth…” He started but then was instantly silenced with some spell. He could see the debuff on his HUD but couldn’t do anything.

”Such a daring boy, coming up behind me and trying to kill me.” Toby took the time and was able to stand finally. He winced a bit noting the fifteen percent damage the first slam did and the ten the second did, down a quarter just by that. He had made it through everything else fine but that gravity bullsh*t was what ended up doing the most damage. He glared at the man in front him. Konzu was technically his name but the aura he was putting out now made Toby want to flee so he knew this man wasn’t exactly who he said he was. Toby had a few items that gave him more willpower so he was able to withstand the initial attack until a sudden aura blast from the man sent him to his knees. He winced at the fall and was getting up but paused as the man was now right in front of him. ”Who are you traveler? You’re not a normal player I can tell that much. You went through the quest, and maze easily.” The man lifted Toby’s head up to get a closer look at him. Toby couldn’t move and wanted to deck this guy. Apparently Konzu was a Smart AI, go figure, the one quest he was trying to do and his somewhat contact was one of THOSE. He knew know that he was going to deck Liam when got done with this s**t. Toby just glared at the man and grinned not saying anything. The man pulled his sword out and swung it at Toby and stopped just at Toby’s neck. Toby didn’t even flinch as he heard the blade chopping the air near him.

”Just as I thought. Not afraid to die.” The man sheathed the sword and looked Toby over again and forced him up. Toby winced under the pressure and glared at the old man. He could swear the aura was trying to get at him and was blocking it easily enough. ”You’ve already faced death and a great loss. You welcome death, and run your life with risk and no care for it.” Konzu shoved Toby back to the floor but in a sitting position now. Toby sat silently for a long time as the old man studied him a bit then sat down in front of him. ”So you can’t leave. There’s that option but you want something. I’ll only give you cooperation if you answer my question.” Toby could tell that what was said was true, he was under some gravity force spell and couldn’t move. He could log out but the second he logged back in as this character he would be here. The man smirked at him as he thought of this and Toby shook his head. His thoughts were scrambled at the moment. What the old man said about how he ran his life lately hit him hard and he had to calm his mind to even think. He finally was able to think enough to flash his true eyes and a bit of his main aura at the man. The man blinked a bit but didn’t startle much, seemed more confused than anything. ”A Creato…” ”No…barely.” ”Still, someone of your stature, having this…”

Toby glanced away and down, he didn’t want to talk about this and not to a game AI. Then something hit him, the aura the man had given off. ”I couldn’t kill you if I tried right?” The man smirked as Toby looked back at him. ”What gave it away?” ”Your aura, I’ve felt one similar once. War. He was…” ”An a*shole?” They both laughed at the same time and Toby nodded. Toby thought for a moment he figured by the way the man spoke and his abilities that could be given. ”You’re Death aren’t you?” The man nodded but didn’t change his form. Toby knew they could do that. War had in front of him, hence the reason the guy was an a*shole, Toby barely made it out of there alive and even as his main. They all still had access to their powers as this form but in their actual form the strength and area of effect were more. The man sighed but then looked over, ”Why weren’t you fully disoriented by the gravity change?” Toby smirked at the memory of why. ”My family can do things in their head, much like a virtual world. My sister and cousins would play a game of anti-gravity tag or various ball games when we weren’t doing other things to see what we could come up with. Most of our family has played it in some form so I’m sure if I had that they wouldn’t be phased by it at all.” The old man grinned and placed his hand on Toby’s shoulder, he still couldn’t move and Toby felt a sudden pulse through him that made him wince but was gone just as sudden. New ability, Anti-Gravity He saw his HUD pull up in front of him and he felt the force around him release as he thought to clear the alert. ”Don’t have too much fun with that.” Toby smirked, "I'll try not to." ]b]"You're a Creator whether you say so or not, you yourself are much of a god here as I am." Toby shook his head but thought about it for a minute. "We have the power to create and destroy, but you have the power to grant abilities, I do not without cheating, I would rather US not be a Monarch group but one that helps balance control." The man smiled as they both stood and Toby was about to log off but turned to him. "Would you mind if I returned? I feel that we could talk a bit." "Any time, and next time use the front door." Toby smirked and walked out remembering he would need to be out of the building to fast travel to his base before he could log out and did so.  

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Toby had been traveling with a group of newer players, while they weren’t complete noobs that Liam would kill for fun they weren’t veterans of gaming that leveled quickly and used known loopholes to do so. They hadn’t patched all of them keeping a few open so people that found them could still use them, half the time they weren’t easy to spot or do but once they were it was easy to duplicate. The super easy loopholes were the ones they patched quickly. They wanted players to take the time to level and do the quests and story, though they left some of the quicker ways to level. He had hid his true level so most thought that he was just a few levels above them, though his knowledge of the game was getting him into trouble so he had decided to shut up after a while. There was a few that kept looking at him, he was his main so his actual looks were his own so if they knew of him they’d know but he kept under a full dark cloak that hid his face. Luckily he had acquired one that had that ability even in direct light. At that point a few had asked why he kept to the shadow of his cloak and he just smiled since only his lower face was showing. He frowned as a familiar cat walked up to the group. A few wanted to kill it which Toby just glared at them. The cat glared at them as they commented and that shut them up. ”Yo is this a smart cat or something?” ”Worse.” Toby said as he lowered to glare at the incarnation of Death.

The cat just smirked at Toby as the other players expressions varied at the byplay. ”What the f*ck are you doing here?” He was amused as a few of them just blinked at him talking to the cat and more so as a few of them stepped back when Konzu replied. ”I was bored and decided to see what you were doing.” ”Holy f*ck where did you find a talking cat?” ”I found him.” Toby laughed at shook his head at Konzu not really wanting to go into details. ”He TRIED to kill me and lost.” Toby turned back and glared at Death who just well tried to smirk but it just looked odd on a cat. ”Wait you lost a fight to a cat?” Toby sighed and shook his head, ”No this is a… well this particular AI can inhabit more than one NPC at a time, his main is f*cking powerful, but don’t let his cat body trick you either.” He hadn’t seen Konzu use abilities as the cat but they had been in situations that would kill normal noobs and the so called CAT had merely walked out of after Toby without a scratch. ”God damned cat…” Toby muttered under his breath but the cat still glanced over at him.

”HELP! The female shout made everyone including Toby turn towards a female looking elf who was being chased by about ten other players with various degrees of menace on their faces. Toby frowned and looked down at Konzu but he was still looking at the girl. The guild name under the other players made Toby glare, he had hear of the guild from Liam, player killers, they were lucky Liam wasn’t here he’d just outright kill them in a blink, though Toby had a feeling that someone was watching and most likely alerting Liam to the situation. Toby stepped to the front of the group quickly and put the girl behind him. The other group stopped and glared at him but soon grinned, noticing the lower level of the other players behind Toby. Konzu sent him a mental message, saying he was sharing his abilities. Toby blinked as a small bit of the power rushed into him. The other players still didn’t seem to notice and the leader was walking up to Toby with a confident stride. ”Who the f*ck are you, little noob?” Apparently someone turned off Toby’s player name display so he still showed as a player but they couldn’t see his name just his supposed stats. What was Liam’s team up to? Liam just smirked and watched as the players behind him started gearing up for what they thought was a easy fight. ”Thayne, take the girl and keep her safe.” Toby spoke to the one who questioned him about losing the fight. ”You’re not really going to fight them all on your own are you?” Thayne asked quietly as Toby motioned for the girl to go to him, Toby just grinned.

He finally lifted his head letting the sh*thead see his eyes, which were glowing and giving off power. ”The f*ck?” It wasn’t odd to see but the fact that they were two different colors probably made it a bit more eerie. ”James… that’s…” ”So you like player killing, you’re lucky you didn’t run into my cousin.” Toby finally lowered his hood. A few of the people behind gasped, Thayne just cursed, he was one of the ones who kept questioning Toby. James still didn’t understand Toby looked up and his name finally appeared above him and his full stats. ”You never know who you’ll run into, like me, Tobias, ONE of the creators. Now had you ran into Liam, you’d already be dead, he doesn’t take kindly to your type.” ”You don’t ban us though.” ”Because pvp IS allowed, we just don’t like higher players killing noobs as sport.” ”Its still ten against one, if you’re going to take us on by yourself bucko.” The idiot leader said with a confident smirk. ”James, I’ve seen hi…” ”Kyle, shut the f*ck up and use my game name.”

Kyle was most likely referring to Toby’s streams to which as this character he had easily tanked more than double what the other players were dealing with in his party. If Liam let him the two of them in the times they streamed took on a whole boss by themselves plus the other enemies, in which if that was what he was referring to, Kyle was right to be worried. They didn’t even use admin rights and just use full out abilities to fight fairly. Toby smirked even more as James took a step forward not listening. A few of the other people in the group looked at Kyle in understanding and were backing down. Toby more so understood what to do with a glimpse of a memory from Konzu. He simply stepped forward and touched James instantly paralyzing him. ”See, what I mean by Creator, is CREATOR. Meaning, I F*CKING HELPED MAKE THIS GAME.” James blinked at Toby as Toby got in his face. ”People like you, underestimating people or killing for sport ruin it for other people. No I won’t ban you but I’m teaching you a lesson.” He froze James to the spot with his elemental ability easily in a blink. ”Thayne what do you know about me, my character that is?” ”I know from stories that you took a long time, days training to control all elemental abilities at a low level, which is unheard of and you didn’t even use any cheats, just your mental control and own stamina.” Now James was looking worried as the ice started spreading up his legs even though Toby wasn’t even looking at him when it started to.

”And Kyle, I’ve heard of your guild from Liam. One of you always records right?” Kyle simply gulped but nodded in replied. Toby was recording but he wanted another point of view for this. Most likely there would be multiple, ”I assume James most likely bullied the rest of you to do this since I know his type. This one time I’m letting you off the hook if you walk away after.” He was sure Liam would yell at him for this but he wasn’t here for now. James looked like he was finally not stunned but stayed quiet, still glaring at Toby though. Toby just smirked, ”Your teammates had the right idea of standing down when one of them pointed out who I was, you stupidly thought I was just some other player.” Toby was about to finish him off when he felt something and quickly stepped back before another presence was right in his face. ”We meet again Tobias.” Toby gritted his teeth as War came right up in his face. ”Are you pushing this guild around and plotting their moves a*****e?” ”And if I am?” War finally noticed Death and smiled. ”Seems like my brother is pushing you around is he not?” Toby closed his eyes to keep from bluntly attacking the guy, he liked to cause issues, that was his goal. ”Actually no.” ”The f*ck is he talking about Toby?” Thayne was the first to finally break from War’s overpowering aura and glare at Toby. War smirked at Thayne and pointed at Death. ”This cat, the AI controlling him is my brother Death. You haven’t told them yet either of you? How fun.”

Toby’s eyes narrowed as he felt Konzu push a tad more power into him. I’m weaker in this form, War could easily kill me, you’ll have to be my Avatar for now. ”And now he’s explaining his current form is weaker, and he’s too far to teleport to it right now. I could probably kill him easily but you’re not going to let me are you… BOY.” At this War pulled his battle sword out and pointed it at Toby waiting. ”He’s… ”War… and a a*shole] Toby used the power Konzu had given him to center his focus even more and drew his own swords. While he primarily used one with this class most of his were dual wielding. ”War, death… as in…” ”The Horseman. We may want to step back quite a bit.” Konzu answered for Toby getting to the group and making them move just by a glare. ”You think you can take me on again boy?” ”I don’t just train here, I’ve had years of training.” Before he could attack War sent a fireball at Toby but Toby was already watching for it and in the air with his air magic he used a combination of air and fire magic to make a strong lightning bolt fly at War while in mid air.

War easily dodged it but that was more so a distraction. Toby threw a few fireballs in the direction he figured War was going and managed to surprised the man and make him work for a change. ”What did he me other than here?” He heard Thayne question. ”From talking with him, his family trains heavily and not just guns, but various other weaspons.” ”I thought that was just a myth. I mean besides his parents being cops and such.” ”Apparently not.”  

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War (Battle Armor)= http://fav.me/dbr315r
Toby Berserk mode: https://wallpapers.wallhaven.cc/wallpapers/full/wallhaven-35663.jpg
Death (Battle Armor): http://fav.me/d6zz8vb | Cat: http://pm1.narvii.com/6001/b4086293a2dde4787bf4f2f62087b926909270f8_hq.jpg
Zane : https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/heroes-of-camelot/images/a/a9/ZadkielTheFreeT1.png/revision/latest?cb=20160519191058
Toni: https://i.imgur.com/gK4mT4H.jpg
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War kept Toby moving and while the area was large the two groups had to keep moving occasionally to get out of the way of blasts. Finally Toni popped in and just glared at Death and rolled her eyes at the group. ”Really, full out battle going between two idiots and tons of collateral damage in a nature area that has OUR alarms blaring and you lot are just here f*cking watching?” ”You’re…” ”No sh*t… I swear to f*ck I’m killing Liam’s admin’s if they don’t teleport you to safer area NOW.” Just as she said that the group, besides death disappeared. ”I was having a conversation.” ”Shut up you annoying cat.”

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Zane had been aware something was going on as he got an alert on his phone about weird vitals from Toby while in VR but he wasn’t sure to the extent, when he got to the apartment Toni was livid, tossed a spare VR helmet at him then went to log in. ”Fine I’ll just check on Toby then.” When he had gotten to the room he noticed Toby had a monitor hook up to his VR for streaming and checked what was on it and frowned, he was fighting some… thing. Didn’t explain why his heart rate was so god damn high. He wanted to throw the VR off but knew that could be dangerous so instead got a shot out and found a vein then thought about how Toby would be pissed about it later, shook his head and gave it to the boy anyway. ”Not letting the idiot die from a heart attack.” He wasn’t sure why Toni had given him the other VR until he realized she wanted him to log in and help. ”God damn it, well at least my character isn’t base anymore. “ He sat down on one of the spare chairs and logged in popping in next to Toni.
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Toby felt something hit him but War wasn’t near him and he faltered for a second which was enough for War to get up and close and get him in a choke hold. Toby gritted his teeth as he felt the power that had ebbed come back into him. War had still manage to get the upper hand, ”Need a girl and a Angel to back you boy?” Toby looked over to where Death would be and saw Toni and now Zane there and realized what must have happened and he glared at Zane. ”YOUR HEART WAS GOING OUT OF CONTROL I HAD TO! NOW STOP FIGHTING STUPIDLY AND CALM THE F*CK DOWN AND FIGHT SMART!” ”Taking lessons from him?” Toby was about to give up but Death sent him a mental image and smirked. ”Nope, he’s my doctor. My fighting instructors are a bit more trained.” Toby felt himself changing as his character transformed, something he wasn’t aware they could do. A message popped into his HUD and he smirked at it after the energy blast from the change sent War stumbling back a bit. ”New mode unlocked, As a boon from Death: Berserker.”

Zane barely heard Toby’s reply to War and was about to reply with something witty but paused as some energy started to change the boy. ”That cant be good.” ”GOD DAMN IT YOU IDIOT CAT!” Toni was turning around to glare at the cat that was there when Zane popped in but now it was nowhere to be seen. ”I’ll f*cking find you and end you if this harms him Death.” Zane looked to Toni puzzled. ”The cat is Death, Toby is fighting War. Yes as in the horsemen. I’m so going to yell at some coders after this.” ”Well… I may have to join you. If Toby doesn’t kill them first.” ”I’m more worried about our dad going on a warpath…which is odd since the interactions I’ve seen of War, he reminds me a bit of Dad, the coder has some explaining to do.” Zane just frowned and sighed. ”If you’re watching, said coder. Get Liam f*cking here now, I don’t care what you have to do, grab him out of class yourself if you have to, or send Lexa.”  

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Zane actually popped out shortly after and was able to get the teachers number from the schedule he had for Liam. Of course when he forced the call to go through the instructor was a bit pissed and seemed like she was already about to yell at someone. ”How the hell did you get this number and how the hell did you get the call to go through?” ”Ask the Uncle of the student you were about to yell at then tell said student to leave.” ”I can’t just…” ”I’m guessing he hasn’t been paying attention like normal which is why you were going to yell at him. I already sent you a note so go ahead and tell him to leave, Doctors orders. Yes I’m that Doctor, take it up with Jenny if you really want to. Got to go… bye.” ”You cant just…” In said classroom the instructor was now glaring at Liam and his class was probably staring making him uncomfortable. ”Liam… leave, now.”

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Popping back in Zane sighed as the fight continued, making the area around them into more craters. ”Emergency call?” ”No I figured Lexa would take her sweet a*s time getting her brother her so I did it. He’s going to kill me, then most like his parents afterward.” ”Have fun with that.” ”Had to be done, even if the kid knows what is going on he has to deal with it fast before your father finds out about THIS.” Just as he spoke it Toni sighed and shook her head. ”Mom just messaged me, she’s stuck with a case at work and can’t get off early.” ”Knowing how your parents have tempers I’m sure if she didn’t have rules someone would’ve been shot by now.” ”Actually that was in her text, I just didn’t want to say that part. At least she controls hers better.”

As if to prove the mental left out of The males in our family don’t She heard Toby yelling and cursing then both of them had to dodge a blast from him that War barely dodged. ”HEY FRIENDLY FIRE IDIOT!” ”STOP GAWKING AND HELP OR F*CK OFF!” ”Ok… fine.” ”Zane…” Before Toni could say anything Zane changed into his own battle mode and charged at War catching he and Toby both off guard. ”F*cking idiotic AI piece of sh*t come at me.” War just grinned. Toby drew in a bit more energy and elemental power and formed a full flame sword making the grin disappear as he smacked the man a mile away with one blast. ”Where the f*ck did he go.” ”Toby blasted him, probably knocked over a building by the sounds of it.” And before they both could say anything Toby was gone in a blink and left them in a whirlwind of dust. ”I hope he can’t do that mode all the time.” ”No, only when in dire battle conditions.” Toni whirled at the voice and found Death staring at them and she rushed him quickly before the cat could escape again and grabbed him. ”DO YOU MIND?!” ”Whatever you did made his vitals go insane, Zane had to give him a shot so he didn’t have a heart attack. I’m going to f*cking end you.” ((imagine the interrogation of the Dog scene from MIB XD ))  

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James had been having a very bad day indeed. First the night before he had slept like utter sh*t which was unusual for him then Aurelia had stuck him with training some new team. On top of that in the middle of the training Jack had called with an emergency telling him to drop everything and to go distract Topher, that was never a fun job. ”And to top that my clarvoyance did sh*t to warn me about today, what’s the point of having it.” ”What?” ”Nothing, just having a bad day.” ”What, don’t like hanging out with me anymore?” He had gone to Topher with the idea of going to their old pizza place by the old house. They hadn’t been in ages, and of course Topher was eating a whole damn pizza by himself. And they had to order one for Chris, otherwise she’d would kill them if she knew they went there and didn’t get her one. Hell he decided to just one for everyone that they liked, Jack was paying. Topher’s phone went off and he started looking at a text then frowned and then glared. Then went to something else and then glared at James, shoving a live video from apparrently Toby’s own stream. ”Mind explainng why the f*ck your distracting me from this?” ”Orders…” Topher glared and was about to get very pissed but a timely manager came with their other pizzas to go and James gave him the company card to run and waited.

”I bet if I call Tonya she already knows, jesus, why the f*ck do you keep sh*t from me?” ”Cause you’ll freak out.” ”You’re lucky we’re here and I like Mike enough to not make a scene in his place, otherwise…” The waiter came back and the owner Mike to thank them for the order and to thank Topher for coming back and to come back more often. He noticed something was up and motioned for the waiter to help carry the pizzas out to their car. James took half and followed the storming Topher to his car. As soon as they were in and James had closed his door Topher sped off before James could even get his seatbelt on. Back at the tower Topher skidded to a stop in the valet parking and James mentioned to have the pizza taken to the family’s floor for later and to leave it in Jack and Jenny’s kitchen. Everyone got out of Topher’s way as they made their way up Aurelia tried but just stopped as she saw Topher’s face and the slight shake of James head. They made it back to the appartment quickly and Topher went off in a swearing fit then. James peaked into Toby’s room and found Toby was still there and Zane, which was a good thing, though probably didn’t want Topher to know that. He remembered Jack giving him a new prototype tazer before the lunch and pulled it out as Topher stepped up to the door. ”THEY F*CKING LOCKED MY ACCESS. GET OUT OF MY W…” James zapped Topher and watched as Topher stiffened quickly with a slight shock (no pun intended) look on his face and then fell to the floor. ”As…” And then he was out. ”Eh well at least it works.” He noticed a sticker on the device that said “Plan B” and just smirked at Jack’s labels.

His phone went off with a text and he blinked at it, no sender just a message. ”The Angel and the Mother will need your help dealing with War. – Konzu.” Angel? What the f*ck? Well he recalled overhearing Zane complaining about how they stuck him with a Angel character and he couldn’t change him, and Mother would mean, that Tonya was most likely logging in somehow, even though she was stuck at work. The name Konzu was vaguely familiar, wasn’t that one of the Ais? He looked at the message again and it was gone. ”Not creepy at all.” Disappearing messages from a game AI that shouldn’t be able to send messages, something screwy was going on. He went back to Toby’s room and noticed that Toby had on a different headset than normal, ”Prototype?” The kids were always messing with sh*t lately so it wasn’t surprising. Though as he said this his brain kicked in and he had a vision, that was why it was happening, but it wasn’t supposed to be for Toby. He walked back into the other room and around Topher and found his headset and put it on. He hadn’t really created a character for the game yet he had a account but hadn’t really jumped in, always busy with security stuff. As he logged in he was instantly ported to the area with the others.
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”Isn’t there supposed to be some kind of character creation?” Toni had stopped shaking the Cat when Lexa appeared and jumped hearing Jame’s voice and turned noticing he was stuck as a angel too. ”Why are you here.” ”I got a message from someone named Konzu.” Toni glared at the cat and was about to strangle it again but the cat squirmed out of her grasp and lept to Lexa. ”That’d be me.” James was going towards what sounded like a fight and stopped as the cat spoke. ”Yes, yes, annoying talking cat. If you’re here because of him then we need to help Toby.” ”And Tonya… though…” James was looking around for her just as she popped in cursing. ”MOM!” ”I’m breaking so many rules, no time, where the f*ck is that a*hole and Toby?” Toni pointed towards the sound of fighting and just before Tonya, James and Zane ran off Tonya’s sword changed and James was changed into another battle Angel. ”The sword is your normal sword but will only change when my kind is nearby and have more power, hopefully your nephew will allow it to stay. James and Zane, you’ll have to shield the blast so that War doesn’t go flying off. Liam is containing us. You can’t kill War Tonya.” Tonya’s eyes narrowed at the cat but she didn’t question the talking thing, ”You know a lot about us.” ”Blame Toby, and my being a curious old man in my original form, which will soon be trapped.”

Tonya simply nodded, she didn’t have the time to go though everything right now and the three ran off. Toby was in a decent battle with War keeping good pace but when they got up and started all attacking the man it changed the battle. ”Mom?” ”Less talking more fighting…” They had managed to knock War off a bit and at this comment War laughed. ”Need your mommy to come rescue you boy?” Toby gritted his teeth and faced off with War. ”Wait behind me.” The three nodded as Toby walked up and drew a lot of power. War grinned then rushed him. A loud boom could be heard for miles as they collided and Toby was sent flying but Zane used a shield ability he was hoping to keep both in the area but only managed to keep War tied down. The man looked like hell as he stood back up and smirkd at the three. ”No more Tobias.” Tonya glared and stepped up. ”Just me a*shole.” She drew her longer and wider sword and War looked at it and smirked. ”What are you going to do with that? I’m a GOD, you can’t kill me.” ”You’re bleeding you know. And this.” As War was distracted to look, which he was actually bleeding Tonya moved the sword to smack him right in the face with the flat end so hard even Toni heard it. Apparently the last blast from Toby had taken enough from War that being smacked in the head knocked him out, still Zane used one of his skilled to pull thick vines from the ground and wrap the man, then put three layers of shields on top of him until Liam could get here.

Toby was unconscious for a bit but regained it while in mid air only to land on something, well someone as he heard a groan underneath him and someone laugh nearby. ”TOBY! Toni helped him up awkwardly as his newer bezerker form was a bit bulkier to deal with than normal. He looked down and noticed Liam lying where he landed, ”Oh sh*t… Are you ok?” ”Why haven’t you changed back to normal?” ”I… don’t know how to.” ”Liam will have to with a admin command, Toni could but Liam probably knows exactly what command already. Then when you call apon it again it should revert after battle, the first transformation is always the hardest.” ”Wings are annoying… I know why Zane complains so much, but flying is not bad.”
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Konzu was working on a few things before it would be time. He figured something was going to happen. As he worked he let his partial self in the cat form keep track of what was going on with the fight. What was interesting was the Angel person, actually gave off the vibe of an Angel to Konzu, or someone of healing powers. He was working on a modified sword for Tonya, the boy’s mother as he had a feeling she’d appear. By verbal accounts most likely they wouldn’t let his father in for fears that he’d destroy everything to kill War. His mother on the other hand would deal with war effeciently. He set a few modifications on the sword hoping that Liam would allow it for later or at least if not it wasn’t such a power draw from him that it wouldn’t be woth the loss of it. His internal alarm went off for someone naring the temple and he sent the sword off into the inventory area so he could port it to Tonya from the cat form. He was half tempted to put up a good fight but giving the boon to Toby had weakened him and in the spirit of everything that happened he wanted to show that he wasn’t actually broken. Though if he didn’t attempt something the Creator would be suspicious so he quickly put out all the lights as he heard footsteps and put up dark barriers to make it harder to get to him. ”Iis it that time Creator?” He said, but his voice would seem like it was coming from everywhere.

He waited for Liam to get through the smallish maze and sighed when the footsteps were closer. ”You made me older, hence I have a more curious outlook to this world. You’ll have to forgive me if I overstepped my boundaries.”  

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Toby glared at Liam’s comment and frowned, he had a feeling that was what was going to happen but most likely he wouldn’t have the full out power like he had fighting war. ”I agree, your flying and fighting in that form were horrible.” ”I’m like a foot taller and much bulkier.” ”Means you need more practice.” Liam kept talking through his and Zane’s little conversation and Toby was about to put up a fight about logging out even though he knew if Liam was forcing maintenance he would have to but Toni apparently forced him out with a flick of her wrist. ”TO…” Tonya frowned at Toni and waited for Liam to finish, not one to be rude like Toby. ”Toni…” Toni shook her head and looked to Zane. ”Mom, Zane had to give Toby a shot so he wouldn’t have a heart attack, I’m not letting him stay here longer than he needs to and he’s not arguing the point. Zane, log out and check on him and if you could, dose dad with something before he wakes up from whatever James did. James log out and follow me to Liam’s office and make sure no one gets through that door. I trust his security but I want a person there on the other side to stop interruptions.” She knew if Liam allowed her access she could get in and most others would have a hell of a time but being interrupted would get annoying. Tonya sighed but nodded. ”Agreed, I’ll be home as soon as I can be and help with your father.” With that she logged out followed by James and Zane soon after. Toni looked around again at all the damage and shook her head then logged out herself.
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Toby blinked after being kicked by Toni and groaned as his head started to spin. He closed his eyes and stayed on his bed but pulled the headset off. ”Don’t move just yet ok. Your vitals went out of control so your body probably feels…” ”Like sh*t… did you get the name of the driver of the bus?” ”Pretty sure it was War. Give me a minute.” Toby could hear someone outside of his room, sounded James and his dad mumbling. Zane walked out and before Topher totally regained himself Zane had pulled a high dose sedative out and shot it into Topher’s arm while James held him still. ”I’m so firing y…” Toni just rolled her eyes and after James put Topher back on the floor they made there way out of the apartment. Zane walked back in to find Toby still on the bed motionless, ”So…” ”I’m an idiot, I know.” ”No, I think there’s much more going on and you just weren’t paying attention to Liam as usual, but there is also that.” Toby opened his eyes and groaned again, everything seemed super bright. Zane flipped the switch in the room but turned on the desk lamp Toby had but pointed it away from the bed and at the wall. ”Thanks. I think I…” ”You definitely overdid it, even though you’re in bed I want you to rest, I can give you something for the likely headache you have from Toni forcing you out like that after that battle.” Toby winced, now that he thought about it, yeah his head was pounding and that was likely why the lights and everything was bugging him. He took the pills that Zane handed him with the water and forced them down then went back to a laying position. Just moving to sit up killed him.

Just as he laid back down the apartment door slammed open and both he and Zane nearly jumped but he heard his mom cursing as she found Topher on the floor then he buried himself in the blankets as she opened the door. ”You got home quick.” ”Mention Topher having a possible breakdown, possibly freaking out and they’ll give you a escort.” Toby could hear the smirk in her words and felt her sit on the edge of his bed. Zane had started to check his vitals again but Toby just didn’t want to deal with everything again right now. ”Your son having possible medical issues doesn’t count as a emergency but dad having a meltdown does?” Toby scoffed under the blankets and turned towards the wall. Tonya pulled the blanket off his head and put a hand on his cheek, ”That’s exactly what I told them, I told them next time my children call with an emergency, I’m leaving, I don’t care if the Chief is there they can reprimand me if they have to and they quickly changed their attitude. I think things are just being dealt differently bec…” ”Because of dad.” Tonya looked at Zane and he was pretty much done checking Toby. ”He seems fine now. I’ll stay and keep an eye on him and Topher if you’d like. I want Toby to rest though, don’t let…” Zane motioned towards the door and Tonya knew he didn’t want Topher to go off on Toby and get them going at it and she nodded. ”I’ll stay in here. You can deal with him.”

Toby could see the “Great” look on Zane’s face but he kept the comment to himself and packed his bag and went out the door. Tonya went to Toby’s desk chair and sighed, ”You know your father isn’t going to be happy.” ”Not my fault.” ”Why did you pick a fight with War in the first place… again?” The first time wasn’t his fault either but he hadn’t necessarily just walked away. Toby thought about it then it finally hit him. ”The girl the player killer guild was trying to get after.” ”Yeah so?” ”Was Paul’s oldest daughter and her character just rem…” Toby’s words trailed off and he turned back towards the wall. He didn’t remember freaking out just that something in his brain clicked off and he did when War showed up. Konzu hadn’t helped he was sure Liam was going to give Death hell for that. Tonya sighed and went to the bed and snuggled up to Toby who was about to struggle back and comment but stopped. Actually he probably needed it right now, his dad would just yell at him, Toni needed to help Liam, and luckily their mom had gotten home rather quickly. He was trying to hold back the tears but felt a few fall down his face as he started to fall asleep with his mom hugging him on the bed.
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Toni and James quickly made their way to Liam’s office and she pressed her thumb to the biometric security and punched in the code that was sent to her phone to get into the office. James as told stood outside the door as she closed it and blinked at Liam’s setup, right computer freak. She found the main computer and called him. ”Ok, I’m at the computer, what do I need to do to not get blasted by your security?” She was joking, but with Liam, you really could never tell what he’d do to keep people from using his things, especially when it came to Toby  

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Toni was joking when she asked but knew he was joking at his comment but smirked at her answer. ”Actually yes, don’t ask.” She listened to the instructions on how to get through the security and log in. She was half listening to the conversation and finding the code for the AI as it pulled up though knowing what he was doing she was slightly worried. Knowing it was Liam she knew he would only do that if he had to. At his cursing she paused a bit and was about to get more help but waited, if he wasn’t freaking out, which he never did anyway then things were probably not as bad, just something happened. ”Just be careful Liam…” She muttered, not caring if he responded, she knew Aunt Chris would go crazy if anything happened to Liam over this little project of theirs and Toby would most likely blame himself. She was looking at the code he pointed out and blinked, knowing herself something was off and read it to him after asked. Yeah someone with proper access had been access the code and messing around. She got her phone out and pulled out a quick text to her admin team since she was one of the hiring leads. ”Get me all the lawyers in office in a hour.” Whoever Liam had tracked down was going to have a very bad day.

She read the next line and was about to question the order for the shut down but knew if they were going to implement a fix on that scale they’d have to and coming from Liam it wasn’t a joke, if Lexa told her, she’d talk to Liam first. ”Right, office hell soon.” She sent James a text telling him to get ready to move and get them out without being stopped and if possible spotted when she opened the door. She waited for Liam’s command and hit the shut down icon. It was almost immediate, well besides the flashing light indicating the shutdown the people outside the office were freaking out. Toni quickly open the door, James lightly grabbed her and guided her quickly out the work floor avoiding people, telling her to duck at times and dive into unoccupied cubicles to let rushing people pass. They made it out with ease. She blinked at James when they got out to the main hallway and down a ways and he just shook his head. ”Right, mom said you had some skill, Clairvoyance?” He nodded keeping his attention elsewhere in case he needed to dodge anyone so they’d avoid suspicion. Once they got back onto a elevator they both sighed.

Topher woke with a groan on the floor and glared at the carpet. ”Why am I on the floor?” ”Because I didn’t want to pick you up off the floor by myself and James had to rush off with Toni to do something for Liam.” Topher gritted his teeth and pushed off the floor turning and getting to a sitting position to face Zane. ”You’re so…” The door to Toby’s room open and Tonya came out and Topher looked up to a glare and a point. She was pointing for him to get up and sit. ”Get the f*ck off the floor, stop bitching, and if you so much as raise your voice and wake Toby up… I will shoot you myself, understand?” Topher gulped, nodded and did as told, Zane handed Topher his VR headset and Topher gritted his teeth. Tonya just glared with a “Shut up” look. ”We don’t know what all happened. Something made Toby’s vitals go crazy, that’s why Zane is here. The game may have been hacked, which is why he was in game making sure that nothing was happening serious in game that needed HIS attention, since he’s their primary medical consultant. They knew you’d freak out like you DID, which is why your access was instantly blocked. Liam is already fixing the issue. So, shut up, breath, and deal with it.”

Topher gritted his teeth again and looked at the closed door. ”That…” ”It was handled, as much as I don’t want to say it, they’re growing up Topher. Toni has Kaleb and the twins now. Only reason Toby is still here is…” Tonya grabbed at a throw pillow and just squeezed it, that was one of the reasons for today too, she wasn’t sure if Toby could be by himself. She looked at Topher and sighed. ”He asked me a few days ago if he could move out into one of the single appartments on his own of course on the same floor but after today, I’m not sure.” Topher just blinked and stared at the floor. ”I can still work with him in therapy. I know what you mean. He didn’t say as much but before they were teleported, I saw her.” ”He…” ”He needs to grow up and deal with it in his own way and not have us holding him back as well. But we can talk about it later, now we just need to wait for Toni to get back.”  

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Toni made her way back up with James quickly they didn’t really talk on the elevator ride up. She didn’t even bother to knock at her parent’s apartment. She wasn’t the least surprised her mom was already home when she got up and gave her a quick hug, she was sure that they had passed her running on their way down to Liam’s office in the Game floor. ”What the f*ck is going on?” Toni turned and looked at her dad, at least he was mostly calm but barely. ”We believe someone hacked the game.”’ She shook her head before they could question about it, ”No inside job, which is why Liam is dealing with right now. I have a meeting with the lawyers.” As soon as she said that her phone chirped and she checked it. It was a text from the Lead telling her they were ready already. Another chirp was a text from her assistant that was in the office wondering what the hell was going on. ”Toby ok?” Zane nodded, ”I may have slipped him a small sedative pill besides the pain killer to help with the headache from you force logging him out like that.” ”I’d rather him yell at me than Liam right now. We need Liam to deal with the coding fix on this and not be distracted by that.” ”I don’t think he’ll be upset about it.” Toni looked at James and he blinked, ”Have two of your lead guys meet us at the elevators, I’m having the lawyers meet us there. That could’ve seriously hurt Toby, no way are they getting away with this.” ”Want me there?” Toni thought about it for only a second then shook her head, ”No they’re already freaking out, having you in the office will make them go on mental lockdown. You’ve trained Liam so he can deal with it himself, if we need you we can call you, since you can probably do it from here anyway.”

With that she sent the text to the lawyer group where to meet and they headed back out. She walked calmly and nodded to the group and waited for them to get in then got in herself, the lead on her right and James on her left with his men. On the way down she sent Lexa a text, On the way down, tell Liam to calm himself, don’t need him like my father. I have the lawyers with me, tell him to get whoever in the conference room when he’s done with them. I want to have a little f*cking chat.” She never really swore in business related, at Lexa yes, business stuff never unless Toby was being stupid. However this group could’ve gotten people hurt physically. As the elevator pinged open with only access they had since the office was on lockdown for the time being the front receptionist blinked at Toni. Toni smiled at her and walked out with her little procession. Now she was getting stares, first was the little main business area of sales and regular support, they technically could leave but they weren’t sure who all was with them. She nodded to her right and the Boss motioned for his second in command of the lawyers to take over the main conference room. She nodded at James and he motioned for his two men to go get Sven and Antonio. She had looked at his file information and knew that they were the lead coders on War so they were the ones likely to be questioned. ”Please come with us.” The one said as the got to the area where the two worked. She noticed Lexa had opened Liam’s door and glared at Cadence. ”Liam, I hope you’re keeping calm in there, when you’re done, I’d like a word with her, I believe she’s in violation of her contract. As well seeing as how my brother was potentially at risk of death we’ll have to decide if we’re going to press full charges and get the police involved, my mother is upstairs waiting on my call.” She didn't bother for a response and motioned for the guards with the other two to go to the conference room and made her way there.