Invader Dib 02
Seraph Residence
Atlas Park
Seraph Exited the kitchen carrying a bowl of popcorn and two sodas, after a long day fighting against the Carnival of shadows and the beasts left over from the spiritual outbreak around Halloween; Tish and he were gonna relax with a movie.
Passing the bowl to Tish he dumped him self on to the couch, letting out a sigh. Tish looked over at him. "Aw come on, today wasn't that bad." She commented.
Seraph slid in the couch slightly, shifting till he was comfortable. "Tish, how many times did I end up with my face in the dirt? Not including the time that friken giant Jack o' lantern swatted me down just for flying to close." He grumbled.
She chuckled. "Well, you need to remember one thing Seraph." she smiled and taped him on the nose. "You are not a tank. God only knows why you keep charging in like that?"
He grinned. "I think you're rubbing off on me, I like the thrill."
She gave him a skeptical look before bursting out in laugher. "Looks like you can teach a old dog new tricks." She pulled her glasses of and sat them to one side. "So, just movie and popcorn?" she asked, giving him a doe eyed look.
"Weeeell, maybe for starters, we do have the place all to ourselves for the night." Seraph adjusted his Glasses. "So what do you think we should do?"
Before Tish could think of a comeback, the phone rang. Seraph grumbled and hopped up. "I'll be right back." Tish watched as he headed off to grab the phone. "Seraph resid- … Jack? What is it? ... WHAT? ... When? ... Shit, I'll be right over." Tish watched as Seraph came back into the room. His face pale "Tish I have to go."
"What is it?" she asked standing up.
"It's Gir... she's been kidnapped."
Tish stood up. “When?”
“About an hour ago, I have to go, sorry.” Seraph started heading to the elevator. He was surprised as Tish called out.
“Hey wait up.” she vaulted over the back of the couch and ran up to him. “Were you got to go?” she asked.
“White manor, on the outskirts of Founders.”
“Then hold on.” Tish vanished in a blur, a few seconds latter Seraph felt the familiar tug of a teleportation.
***
White Manor
3 minutes later.
Seraph stager as he tried to recover from Tish’s speed teleports. Form what little he could tell, Tish had just bolted halfway across Paragon, using teleports to drag him along. Looking over he saw Tish puffing slightly. “This the place?” she asked.
Seraph looked at white manor, his heart sinking as he noticed the smoke wafting from one of the wings. He led Tish up to the door, before he could knock it opened to reveal Jacks butler, Giles something. With a quick bow, he led Seraph and Tish upstairs to where he could hear the unmistakable sound of Laz yelling.
Giles opened the door in time for Seraph to hear Laz below a line of abuse at Jack and turn to storm out. Seraph stepped in her way. “Laz, I know your upset about Gir, but theirs no reason to abuse Jack.” He said in a calm voice.
Laz looked down at him, her face twisted into a look of rage. “No reason? That Fucker’s got the bitch responsible for this in his basement! That good enough a fucking reason!” she snarled.
Seraph looked over to Jack, who just nodded his head solemnly. Turning to Laz, he looked up. “And you think abusing him is gonna help?” he spoke in the same calm tone.
Laz’s clenched her fist and let out a sigh. “No dad… it’s just…” she slumped against him and let out a slight sob. “They took Gir dad… what are we supposed to do?”
Seraph hugged her. “We’ll find something out, where's Sera?”
Laz’s sniffed slightly. “She’s with Patti… Jack sent her to try and keep Patti calm.”
“Good… Laz, Tish, I need to talk to Jack for a moment. Alone please.”
Tish glanced at Jack. "are you sure we can trust this guy? i mean, what if Laz is right, what if he is protecting this person?" she asked.
Jacks Face became thunderuose. "I just found out my girlfriend is claiming responsability for what happend here. I have to protect her. Patti wanted to kill her when she found out."
Seraph held out his hands. "were not going to get anywhere like this... Jack, i need to know everthing that happened." He turning back to Jack, Seraph took a deep breath. “Is what Laz said true?”
Jack turned so his back was facing Seraph. “My… my girlfriend has claimed to have ties to the group responsible… who ever they are.” Jack paused before continuing. “But I don’t believe it. She was also a target Seraph, the same people that took your daughter also were here to try and kill her.”
“Jack, what happened here?”
Jack let out a sigh. “Okay, I’ll try and explain everything that’s happened so far.”
***
Bloody Bay
Blade outpost Epsilon
Dib sat at the desk and brought up the read outs, so far everything was going according to plan, he had Gir hooked up to the base’s computers and was already copying all the data from her hard drive. he was annoyed he had to discipline Caz for her method of keeping Gir sedated, repetitive zapping the girl in to submission.
But now he had finally got a close up look at her, it had become obvious where the Data he used to build Mimi had come from. He grimacec slightly at the thought of MiMi, his prized Blade had indeed gone rouge and No. 9 hadn’t been able to eliminate her. I should have foreseen this, her interaction with other humans has corrupted her hard drive and personality matrix in ways I couldn’t of predicted.
Taping a few buttons, Dib brought up a roster of the Blades and selected MiMi. It’s a pity to do this, but I don’t want anyone else getting the data in her head. He typed in a command and brought up the details of MiMi’s fail safes, at least he had a way to prevent her from leaking his secrets.
Closing the window, he stood up, and headed to the lab they were holding Gir in, he had enough time while the base copied her files to get a good look at exactly how she was built.
***
Founders Fall
The Virtue League base
Seraph looked at the feed from Mimi’s room and blinked, she could almost pass as Gir’s sister they looked so alike. The hair was a different colour and a bit older looking, but the similarities were eerie.
He turned to Jack. “So… that’s everything that’s happened?” He asked, casting another glance at the monitor.
Jack nodded solemnly. “She’s been unresponsive since then, she refuses to talk about motive, where’s she’s from or why she was targeted.” Jack slumped for a moment. “She won’t tell me anything else.”
“Can I talk to her?” Seraph asked, carefully taping the monitor.
Jack straightened. “”Define “talk” Seraph.”
“I don’t plan to hurt her Jack, I... I just need to see if there’s anything she can tell me. Anything I can use to find Gir.”
Jack bit his lip slightly. “Okay, but if you do anything to hurt her…” Jack left the threat hanging in the air. Seraph knew that Jack could easily break him in two with out even thinking about it.
“You have my word that I won’t hurt her Jack.” Seraph headed to the door. “If it’s okay, I’d like Sera to be there as well.” Jack face twisted slightly. “No, I’m not gonna have her do a mind rip. I’m just gonna have her there as back up.”
“What do you need back up for?”
“Because I’ve learnt never to take something at it’s face value.”
Jack grumbled his agreement. “Okay, follow me then.”
***
Mimi looked up as the door to her room opened and a figure entered, she recognized him as Gir’s father, Dark Seraph. As he slowly walked up to her, her eyes were drawn to the clunky Gauntlets he was wearing, dull chipped green with Bronze edging, she had seen footage of exactly what he could do with them.
He sat across from her and carefully pulled off his gauntlets and laid them on the table, Mimi gathered that this was a sign he meant her no harm. “What are you here for?” she asked curiosity.
Seraph took a breath. “I am just here to talk.” He said in a calm voice.
“Don’t you want revenge against me for my actions tonight?”
Sighing, Seraph adjusted his glasses. “Milissa, I am not here for revenge, I just want some info.”
“So, an interrogation then?”
“No, I’m offering you the chance to help me, of your own free will.”
Mime let out a bitter chuckle. “So, this is the bit were you offer to wave a magic wand and fix my life if I help?” sarcasm dripped from ever word.
Seraph taped his fingers on the table. “I was going to offer that anyway, from what Jack has told me, your as much a victim as Gir.” He paused for a moment, his composure slipping for a moment. “Milissa, please, I need your help.”
Mimi looked at him, for a split second she saw how much Gir meant to him, how much pain she’d caused him. “Okay… I’ll help you.”
“My real name is Mimi, Unit zero zero of project Blades. I was sent into Paragon to learn as much as I could about the possible link between the Patriot and Panzer saber… a task that I failed.”
Seraph blinked. “You… failed?”
“To be more accurate, I didn’t file accurate reports, I found out early on that both my mast- ex-masters.” She corrected herself. “That both his targets were the same person… I kept staling for more and more time.”
“So… if you never told him who she was… then how did he find out?”
“He must of noticed holes in my reports, inconsistencies, form there it probably didn’t take him long to find out the truth.” Mimi stared down at her hands.
“So, who is this former master? Why did he take Gir? And why did he want you dead?”
Mimi swallowed nervously, she’s come this far, she couldn’t stop now. “My former master probably wanted me dead so he could reclaim my personality matrix and the data it has. That’s part of the reason I think he wanted Gir, her matrix would have had data that mine didn’t.”
“Where would he of taken her?”
“He probably would of gone to the base in Sirens first, then to Bloody bay and finaly to Nerva aplepeligo.”
Seraph looked thoughtful for a moment. “So… back to my other question, who was your master? If he had bases in those locations, he must have had some one in a position of power helping him?”
“His name… his name is Dib Membrain… and he works for…” Mimi let out a squeal and clutched her head, it felt like some one had just rammed a blade into head. Her body started to spasm as she fell from her chair and hit the floor.
“Fuck, Jack! Sera! Get in here!” Seraph yelled as he ran around and garbed her.
She let out a scream of pain as her mind felt like it was it was on fire. Everything grew dark as she realised too late what was happening, a sleeper virus design to wipe her memorises and then leave her effectively brain dead. Tears welled in her eyes, she didn’t want to die… not like this.
She vaguely felt hands grab her and pin her to the ground, then there was a feeling of someone pouring ice water into her head. A slightly accented woman voice started whispering in her mind, trying to calm her, to stop what Dib has started, she grabbed on to it, trying to hold on as her world faded away.
***
Jack looked on, feeling helpless as he watched Sera use some sort of magic on Mimi. A small cube floated around her, some sort of familiar or something according to Seraph, every now and again conveying instructions from Sera. After a while she asked for a computer and some help, so he got Giles to hook up a laptop to Mimi.
He left the room and headed to the study and found Seraph talking to Laz and Tish, Seraph looked his way as he entered. “Is she okay Jack?” he asked, ignoring the snort from Laz.
Running his hands through his hair, Jack let out a tired sigh. “Giles and your sister are doing their best… but we won’t know till their finished.”
Seraph nodded. “We think we have a good idea where this Dib guy’s lab is.” He had a map of Bloody bat and taped along the Dead coast. “Apparently guys matching the description of the attackers have been seen here, so thats where I plan to start looking.”
“Hell no, you stay here, I'll go” Tish snapped at him. “You would be eaten alive out there, let me go, i'm faster and can probably do it alot better than you.”
"No Tish, I'm going." his eyes went steely behind his glasses. "She's my daughter... I have to help her."
Tish looked like she was going to argue the point futer, but sighed and shrugged. "fine, but i'm shadowing you every step of the way, got it?"
Seraph nodded. "as you wish."
“I’m coming with you dad.” Laz stepped forward. “even with the two of you it's probaly still too risky.”
A voice came from the doorway. “I’m coming too.”
Jack turned to see Patti in her full Patri-ette uniform, her face was plae and her eye’s were still puffy from crying. Jack was about to protest when he noticed the dull glow coming from her.
Seraph looked at her. “You sure you’re up to this?”
Patti just glared.
“Okay if we go now we should be able to get to Bloody bay in about a half hour or so.”
Jack looked sceptical. “Just the four of you against some nut jobs private army?”
Seraph sighed. “If I try to get more help or delay this any longer he might catch wind of this and run, I… I can’t risk it.”
Jack nodded, it was a risk, but time was of the essence. “Okay then, good luck.”
“Yeah, we’ll need it.”
Seraph Residence
Atlas Park
Seraph Exited the kitchen carrying a bowl of popcorn and two sodas, after a long day fighting against the Carnival of shadows and the beasts left over from the spiritual outbreak around Halloween; Tish and he were gonna relax with a movie.
Passing the bowl to Tish he dumped him self on to the couch, letting out a sigh. Tish looked over at him. "Aw come on, today wasn't that bad." She commented.
Seraph slid in the couch slightly, shifting till he was comfortable. "Tish, how many times did I end up with my face in the dirt? Not including the time that friken giant Jack o' lantern swatted me down just for flying to close." He grumbled.
She chuckled. "Well, you need to remember one thing Seraph." she smiled and taped him on the nose. "You are not a tank. God only knows why you keep charging in like that?"
He grinned. "I think you're rubbing off on me, I like the thrill."
She gave him a skeptical look before bursting out in laugher. "Looks like you can teach a old dog new tricks." She pulled her glasses of and sat them to one side. "So, just movie and popcorn?" she asked, giving him a doe eyed look.
"Weeeell, maybe for starters, we do have the place all to ourselves for the night." Seraph adjusted his Glasses. "So what do you think we should do?"
Before Tish could think of a comeback, the phone rang. Seraph grumbled and hopped up. "I'll be right back." Tish watched as he headed off to grab the phone. "Seraph resid- … Jack? What is it? ... WHAT? ... When? ... Shit, I'll be right over." Tish watched as Seraph came back into the room. His face pale "Tish I have to go."
"What is it?" she asked standing up.
"It's Gir... she's been kidnapped."
Tish stood up. “When?”
“About an hour ago, I have to go, sorry.” Seraph started heading to the elevator. He was surprised as Tish called out.
“Hey wait up.” she vaulted over the back of the couch and ran up to him. “Were you got to go?” she asked.
“White manor, on the outskirts of Founders.”
“Then hold on.” Tish vanished in a blur, a few seconds latter Seraph felt the familiar tug of a teleportation.
***
White Manor
3 minutes later.
Seraph stager as he tried to recover from Tish’s speed teleports. Form what little he could tell, Tish had just bolted halfway across Paragon, using teleports to drag him along. Looking over he saw Tish puffing slightly. “This the place?” she asked.
Seraph looked at white manor, his heart sinking as he noticed the smoke wafting from one of the wings. He led Tish up to the door, before he could knock it opened to reveal Jacks butler, Giles something. With a quick bow, he led Seraph and Tish upstairs to where he could hear the unmistakable sound of Laz yelling.
Giles opened the door in time for Seraph to hear Laz below a line of abuse at Jack and turn to storm out. Seraph stepped in her way. “Laz, I know your upset about Gir, but theirs no reason to abuse Jack.” He said in a calm voice.
Laz looked down at him, her face twisted into a look of rage. “No reason? That Fucker’s got the bitch responsible for this in his basement! That good enough a fucking reason!” she snarled.
Seraph looked over to Jack, who just nodded his head solemnly. Turning to Laz, he looked up. “And you think abusing him is gonna help?” he spoke in the same calm tone.
Laz’s clenched her fist and let out a sigh. “No dad… it’s just…” she slumped against him and let out a slight sob. “They took Gir dad… what are we supposed to do?”
Seraph hugged her. “We’ll find something out, where's Sera?”
Laz’s sniffed slightly. “She’s with Patti… Jack sent her to try and keep Patti calm.”
“Good… Laz, Tish, I need to talk to Jack for a moment. Alone please.”
Tish glanced at Jack. "are you sure we can trust this guy? i mean, what if Laz is right, what if he is protecting this person?" she asked.
Jacks Face became thunderuose. "I just found out my girlfriend is claiming responsability for what happend here. I have to protect her. Patti wanted to kill her when she found out."
Seraph held out his hands. "were not going to get anywhere like this... Jack, i need to know everthing that happened." He turning back to Jack, Seraph took a deep breath. “Is what Laz said true?”
Jack turned so his back was facing Seraph. “My… my girlfriend has claimed to have ties to the group responsible… who ever they are.” Jack paused before continuing. “But I don’t believe it. She was also a target Seraph, the same people that took your daughter also were here to try and kill her.”
“Jack, what happened here?”
Jack let out a sigh. “Okay, I’ll try and explain everything that’s happened so far.”
***
Bloody Bay
Blade outpost Epsilon
Dib sat at the desk and brought up the read outs, so far everything was going according to plan, he had Gir hooked up to the base’s computers and was already copying all the data from her hard drive. he was annoyed he had to discipline Caz for her method of keeping Gir sedated, repetitive zapping the girl in to submission.
But now he had finally got a close up look at her, it had become obvious where the Data he used to build Mimi had come from. He grimacec slightly at the thought of MiMi, his prized Blade had indeed gone rouge and No. 9 hadn’t been able to eliminate her. I should have foreseen this, her interaction with other humans has corrupted her hard drive and personality matrix in ways I couldn’t of predicted.
Taping a few buttons, Dib brought up a roster of the Blades and selected MiMi. It’s a pity to do this, but I don’t want anyone else getting the data in her head. He typed in a command and brought up the details of MiMi’s fail safes, at least he had a way to prevent her from leaking his secrets.
Closing the window, he stood up, and headed to the lab they were holding Gir in, he had enough time while the base copied her files to get a good look at exactly how she was built.
***
Founders Fall
The Virtue League base
Seraph looked at the feed from Mimi’s room and blinked, she could almost pass as Gir’s sister they looked so alike. The hair was a different colour and a bit older looking, but the similarities were eerie.
He turned to Jack. “So… that’s everything that’s happened?” He asked, casting another glance at the monitor.
Jack nodded solemnly. “She’s been unresponsive since then, she refuses to talk about motive, where’s she’s from or why she was targeted.” Jack slumped for a moment. “She won’t tell me anything else.”
“Can I talk to her?” Seraph asked, carefully taping the monitor.
Jack straightened. “”Define “talk” Seraph.”
“I don’t plan to hurt her Jack, I... I just need to see if there’s anything she can tell me. Anything I can use to find Gir.”
Jack bit his lip slightly. “Okay, but if you do anything to hurt her…” Jack left the threat hanging in the air. Seraph knew that Jack could easily break him in two with out even thinking about it.
“You have my word that I won’t hurt her Jack.” Seraph headed to the door. “If it’s okay, I’d like Sera to be there as well.” Jack face twisted slightly. “No, I’m not gonna have her do a mind rip. I’m just gonna have her there as back up.”
“What do you need back up for?”
“Because I’ve learnt never to take something at it’s face value.”
Jack grumbled his agreement. “Okay, follow me then.”
***
Mimi looked up as the door to her room opened and a figure entered, she recognized him as Gir’s father, Dark Seraph. As he slowly walked up to her, her eyes were drawn to the clunky Gauntlets he was wearing, dull chipped green with Bronze edging, she had seen footage of exactly what he could do with them.
He sat across from her and carefully pulled off his gauntlets and laid them on the table, Mimi gathered that this was a sign he meant her no harm. “What are you here for?” she asked curiosity.
Seraph took a breath. “I am just here to talk.” He said in a calm voice.
“Don’t you want revenge against me for my actions tonight?”
Sighing, Seraph adjusted his glasses. “Milissa, I am not here for revenge, I just want some info.”
“So, an interrogation then?”
“No, I’m offering you the chance to help me, of your own free will.”
Mime let out a bitter chuckle. “So, this is the bit were you offer to wave a magic wand and fix my life if I help?” sarcasm dripped from ever word.
Seraph taped his fingers on the table. “I was going to offer that anyway, from what Jack has told me, your as much a victim as Gir.” He paused for a moment, his composure slipping for a moment. “Milissa, please, I need your help.”
Mimi looked at him, for a split second she saw how much Gir meant to him, how much pain she’d caused him. “Okay… I’ll help you.”
“My real name is Mimi, Unit zero zero of project Blades. I was sent into Paragon to learn as much as I could about the possible link between the Patriot and Panzer saber… a task that I failed.”
Seraph blinked. “You… failed?”
“To be more accurate, I didn’t file accurate reports, I found out early on that both my mast- ex-masters.” She corrected herself. “That both his targets were the same person… I kept staling for more and more time.”
“So… if you never told him who she was… then how did he find out?”
“He must of noticed holes in my reports, inconsistencies, form there it probably didn’t take him long to find out the truth.” Mimi stared down at her hands.
“So, who is this former master? Why did he take Gir? And why did he want you dead?”
Mimi swallowed nervously, she’s come this far, she couldn’t stop now. “My former master probably wanted me dead so he could reclaim my personality matrix and the data it has. That’s part of the reason I think he wanted Gir, her matrix would have had data that mine didn’t.”
“Where would he of taken her?”
“He probably would of gone to the base in Sirens first, then to Bloody bay and finaly to Nerva aplepeligo.”
Seraph looked thoughtful for a moment. “So… back to my other question, who was your master? If he had bases in those locations, he must have had some one in a position of power helping him?”
“His name… his name is Dib Membrain… and he works for…” Mimi let out a squeal and clutched her head, it felt like some one had just rammed a blade into head. Her body started to spasm as she fell from her chair and hit the floor.
“Fuck, Jack! Sera! Get in here!” Seraph yelled as he ran around and garbed her.
She let out a scream of pain as her mind felt like it was it was on fire. Everything grew dark as she realised too late what was happening, a sleeper virus design to wipe her memorises and then leave her effectively brain dead. Tears welled in her eyes, she didn’t want to die… not like this.
She vaguely felt hands grab her and pin her to the ground, then there was a feeling of someone pouring ice water into her head. A slightly accented woman voice started whispering in her mind, trying to calm her, to stop what Dib has started, she grabbed on to it, trying to hold on as her world faded away.
***
Jack looked on, feeling helpless as he watched Sera use some sort of magic on Mimi. A small cube floated around her, some sort of familiar or something according to Seraph, every now and again conveying instructions from Sera. After a while she asked for a computer and some help, so he got Giles to hook up a laptop to Mimi.
He left the room and headed to the study and found Seraph talking to Laz and Tish, Seraph looked his way as he entered. “Is she okay Jack?” he asked, ignoring the snort from Laz.
Running his hands through his hair, Jack let out a tired sigh. “Giles and your sister are doing their best… but we won’t know till their finished.”
Seraph nodded. “We think we have a good idea where this Dib guy’s lab is.” He had a map of Bloody bat and taped along the Dead coast. “Apparently guys matching the description of the attackers have been seen here, so thats where I plan to start looking.”
“Hell no, you stay here, I'll go” Tish snapped at him. “You would be eaten alive out there, let me go, i'm faster and can probably do it alot better than you.”
"No Tish, I'm going." his eyes went steely behind his glasses. "She's my daughter... I have to help her."
Tish looked like she was going to argue the point futer, but sighed and shrugged. "fine, but i'm shadowing you every step of the way, got it?"
Seraph nodded. "as you wish."
“I’m coming with you dad.” Laz stepped forward. “even with the two of you it's probaly still too risky.”
A voice came from the doorway. “I’m coming too.”
Jack turned to see Patti in her full Patri-ette uniform, her face was plae and her eye’s were still puffy from crying. Jack was about to protest when he noticed the dull glow coming from her.
Seraph looked at her. “You sure you’re up to this?”
Patti just glared.
“Okay if we go now we should be able to get to Bloody bay in about a half hour or so.”
Jack looked sceptical. “Just the four of you against some nut jobs private army?”
Seraph sighed. “If I try to get more help or delay this any longer he might catch wind of this and run, I… I can’t risk it.”
Jack nodded, it was a risk, but time was of the essence. “Okay then, good luck.”
“Yeah, we’ll need it.”