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[Black Swan]

Berry stopped and looked over at Phase again. "Are you sure you don't want to rest some more? I could finish this program, and then we could go clean some areas." She looked back at the computer, but wasn't typing. "It's not that I don't believe in you, I'm just...I'm worried about you getting hurt...like that time when I thought I'd lost you..."

[Zai Shukko]

"I'll be fine, besides I'm an AI. We... Sometimes evolve through our deaths..." She smiled, but instead of waiting for Berry to open a door, she created a rift and jumped through, it quickly closed behind her.

Whatever the smoke detector area was supposed to look like had definately been changed by the virus, it was a forest now, a once beautiful forest, with corruption and tears everywhere, plus viral spheres.

There was also above phase and drifting on the ground, and the sounds of an extremely large fire.

"Hey Berry! Can you hear me?! i think the Smoke dectection system is already damaged! Is it working?!"

[Black Swan]

Berry pulled up a screen, scanning the detector network. "Nothing unusual is being shown." Fear came over her face as a thought crossed her mind. "Is there a fire somewhere?" She questioned, fear in her voice. "I can't tell from here. All the detectors are reading normal."

[Zai Shukko]

"It altered the system, I think it's trying to make the alarms go off!" She whipped around, slashing out at some of the virus as it came near, but that didn't to much, instead of dissolving it exploded and spread more infection and tears around.

Small red cracks appearing on her right index fingers. "Do you think you could turn it off? Maybe make this part of the system crash?"

[Black Swan]

"Yeah, but what'll happen to you?" Berry responded, pulling up a third screen. "I'm not shutting it down 'till I know you're safe. Which sector are you in?" She continued working on the program as she talked, bringing it closer and closer to completion.

[Zai Shukko]

"Which sector, I think I'm i-" She was suddenly cut off, nothing but static the area Phase was in suddenly blacked out and disappeared, she reappeared somewhere else, still in the system? Definately, but not anywhere she knew about.

It was a long hallway, a school hallway, on oneside there was windows, on the other there were locked doors. Outside there was nothing but flowing red and yellow data, more corruption and tears outside, but in here.

"Berry...? You still there...?"

[Black Swan]

"Phase?" Berry called out after Phase disappeared. "Phase what-" "Berry...? You still there...?" Berry let out a sigh of relief. "Yeah, I'm still here. What happened? You dissapeared for a moment."

[Zai Shukko]

"Y-yeah, just a little sudden transfer..." Phase stood up slowly and started walking down the hall, glancing at the doors as she walked by. What kind of system would have a place like this?

"Berry, do you have a area that looks like a school?"

[Black Swan]

This intrigued Berry. "Not as far as I know." She replied. "I've always prefered the outdoors to indoors. The only school-related thing I can think of would be from when I was learning how to opperate different extentions of my shell, but that would be a memory in my head...Why?"

[Zai Shukko]

"Well... I'm in a school hallway right now, that seems unaffected by the virus... Yet, I think it was created by it..." She turned and opened one of the doors, the room inside was pretty blank, a few objects scattered around and a few pictures posted on the walls.

"Is there anyway you could bring me back?"

[Black Swan]

"I'm not sure. I've got to locate you first, and if the virus created the place that you're in, it'll be difficult to locate. See if you can make some noise in there. I'll scan for major activity. Do anything. Throw chairs through walls, play frisbee with the clocks. Anything." More typing as she started the search.

[Zai Shukko]

"Noise? Destruction? Okay If your sure!" She slashed at the walls, tearing them open, breaking apart the room, but even her attacks didn't seem to do much damage to the place, just slightly scratch it.

"... Whatever this place is... The virus made it tough..."

[Black Swan]

"Yes, but that much activity should register....found you!" Berry watched the screen in front of her, her hands dancin across the keyboard. "You're in an old and unused sector. I don't know if I can get in right away, but I'll start working on it. Take a look around, see what you can find, but be careful."

[Zai Shukko]

"Okay..." She stopped wrecking things and turned to and old bookcase, it was pretty empty, and all the books that were there didn't seem to stand out much, except for one old one with a torn cover.

Phase pulled it out and began to go through the pages, this wasn't any normal book or journal, but it had computer logs in it, thousands of them, it belonged to the virus! "Hey Berry! Do you think the virus may have a mind of it's own?"

She asked slowly, glancing down in the corner, there were childish drawings at random spots in the book.

[Black Swan]

"It wouldn't surprise me, the way this has been going." She replied. "Is it that boy we've met? When we saw him, he was causing trouble in the system." She stopped typing long enough to stretch. "Out of curiosity, why do you ask?"