"Season 2 pr0 log" - Reboot.exe - S2 Chapter 0

## Season 2 Pr0\_Log

"Season 2 pr0\_log" is the first episode of Season 2 of Reboot.exe. It was released on 27 May 2022 and is narrated by Dave.

## Episode Synopsis

Immediately after the events of the glass slipper, the van screens through the slums, and eventually back to Ugly's motors, and crashes into a parked car. Xiang sways and falls to her knees, letting her hand go of her heavily bleeding stomach from the bullet wound. Pr0 quickly grabs her, and assists her into the bar. She quickly grows weaker as she is helped being lowered further and further into the garage.

Pr0 and Xiang finally make it to the bottom of the bar, where he quickly calls out for Ugly, claiming he's fucked up, and that Xiang really needs his help. Before Ugly is able to get to them, Incongruent walks up to them, ignoring Xiang to walk up to Pr0, grabbing him by the caller, and throwing him fully up against a wall for returning without Eve. Before he is able to get any further, Ugly yells, and brings Incongruent back to his senses, claiming that Xiang is going to die if he doesn't get it together and helps. After seeing a look of rage never before seen in him, Incongruent drops Pr0 to the ground, picks up Xiang, and hauls her away to a back room.

Ugly walks up to Pr0, and in a calmed panic, askes what happened. He says that she risked her life for them, and no one thought that she should have done so. Ugly closes it off by running his hands through the sides of Pr0's hair, and pulling him in for a soft embrace, which Pr0 eventually collapses into. There's a quiver in Ugly's voice as he works to assure Pr0 that "We'll fix it, mate." As Pr0 lies against Ugly's hug, his vision blurs into the vision of a dead Bagrov, and his voice, but only for a moment before normalcy returns.

A very tense hour passes before Incongruent returns, full of blood. He states that Xiang is currently stable, but will die without more advanced care, staring daggers at Pr0, claiming that they had the answer to this problem, but he let her get lost. In a panic, Pr0 remembers that he can track Seb's location using his glasses. He is able to pinpoint the location to Desires Dalliance. After loading a 12 gauge, Pro and Incongruent take to the street, where they are able to travel to without any issue, as no one wants to get in Incongruent's way.

Seeing the chaos and calamity still happening at The Glass Slipper, they are easily able to sneak in next door to the sex shop, where they are met with two seedy desk workers, Pearl and Maxwell.

After an incredibly uncomfortable, and innuendo filled conversation, Incongruent finally has enough, and brings out his gun, demanding that they bring her to Eve, and that he knows she's there. Pearl admits that there is an out of order drone in the back that they were planning on fixing up, but weren't going to sell, due to her being broken. They are lead to the dumpster outside, and are able to retrieve the pieces of Eve. They leave by thanking the workers for their eventual cooperation by pushing a large sum of money across the table, and unloading the shotgun shells out in the store.

Eve feels like she is waking up from a sleep without dreams as she stands in an empty space. An experience she has never had before. There is a comforting, but distorted voice, which she recognizes to be Incongruent talking to her. She asks what happens, and he confirms that she was broken. That he warned her, but she didn't listen. Eve then shares that this is the first time, she "feel(s) so ashamed and broken. The one person who trusted me the most, I broke their heart." To which Incongruent quickly dismisses, stating that she's done no such thing. He wants nothing more for her than to make her decisions and be under the guise of no one but herself. He then says that he's going to wake her up, and that Xiang will need her immediate help.

As she is awakened, there is a plethora of internal diagnostic errors, her own body from the pelvis down lying on a separate table, but also two surgical trays of medial tools surrounding Xiang's unconscious and bleeding body. Having regained movement, Eve performs the seemingly impossible, and saves Xiang's life. Eve knows the recovery wont be easy, and it is a few days before Xiang wakes back up, but when she does, Eve is there, and she reaches her hand out for her to hold. Over the day, she stabilizes more, and Incongruent is able to work on Eve's torso and legs, putting her back together. As the days pass and healing begins, Xiang and Eve begin to form an incredibly close bond of friendship and trust.

Pr0, figuring that he was useless in this situation and wanting to be as out of the way as he can be, returns to the soup kitchen to begin the desperate crawl for information on how to get Seb back. As he is walking back to the kitchen, Pr0 glances down to Seb's glasses, seeing that he's missed a call from Oscar, Seb's father. He ignores it for the moment, and returns to the messy soup kitchen. He is greeted by the kind face of Conrado, who Pr0 begins explaining all that happened while they were at The Glass Slipper. The two of them agree that Seb has been vital to both of their survivals, and that needs to be one of the first priorities in rescuing, while also keeping the soup kitchen running to a degree that Seb would have upheld it to. Pr0 then asks Conrado if he is willing to train him like Xiang had been doing. Conrado agrees to do the best he can. Pr0 says that he's going to need a few days to himself, and begins to throw himself into locating people, and finding information on the people who were there that night.

Pr0's work is interrupted by another call coming through on Seb's glasses. It's Oscar. Pr0 decides to pick up this time. Oscar starts the call by asking how Seb is doing. Pr0 doesn't necessarily lie, but certainly doesn't come forward with Oscar, as he just says that Seb is otherwise occupied at the moment, but that he can pass on a message for him. Oscar asks Pr0 to relay that he is very proud of Seb for the way he conducted himself at the meeting, and that things have been going well so far. He also mentions that there are a few things that he's "picked up" from their little plan that hold the potential to continue making their dreams come true, and that its imperative for Seb to call back as soon as he can. The call ends, and Pr0 collapses into a sobbing heap on the floor, hands balled up to his eyes, just before a vision through his onboard computing comes through of a bloodied Bagrov, eye suspended out of his face, screaming "LIAR!"

Weeks pass, and Eve and Xiang's friendship grows even stronger. Ugly and Incongruent are stretched a little more thin as the bombers are taking more hits, and things are becoming more difficult. Pr0 makes a call to Eve, whom he sorely misses. He explains that he will come see her soon, but he believes he's so hot on the trail to finding Seb, that he needs to keep digging. Eve tells him to not overexert himself and to take care of himself. He calmly explains that there's no way that is possible with everything happening the way it did. Their polite conversation is abruptly cut short by the sound of static, lights cutting out, and an incredibly loud noise outside that causes everything to go dark in the middle of the day. There are screams erupting from outside. Flashbangs go off, and doors are kicked in as drones carrying assault rifles burst in, obviously clad in heavy combat armor. More drones roll in to detain everyone that's in the kitchen, and clear a path for the one causing the disturbance, Nyla.

Being obviously incredibly upset, she approaches Pr0, demanding to know where Seb is, and asking why he is lying to her when she's been looking for him as well. Pr0 explains that he's in significant trouble, and Nyla shoots back that they would be the ones with the resources to find him. Pro states that he has the most connections with the people who kidnapped him, so he would be the one to find him. Nyla walks closer, stating that "(I said my) son is key to the new world and I believe I said that if anything happened to him, it would be reflected in the way we approach that new world. He is my hope for all of this and yet you constantly prove to be a disappointment. So if you are worth keeping around or are you just a bad influence that drags good people into the filth?"

Pr0 goes on to explain that while he was not given the same luxury as Seb had growing up, the hardships that he's had to go through have made him a stronger person, and the best possible candidate for finding Seb. Nyla says that she blames Pr0 for all of the hardship in Seb's life. He was on the mission that kidnaped Maya, which made Seb come to the slums in the first place, and exposed him to everything. Nyla also says that she knows that Pr0 is going to fix it, and that he has all of their resources available at his disposal to do so. Pr0 agrees, and assures her that he will do everything in his power to get Seb back to them. He also offers her a fresh bowl of soup to go, which she accepts.

After Nyla leaves, Pr0's phone rings. He answers it to a voice saying that he's looking for Sebastian. He states that he works for Isaac, and is saying that the meeting between the two of them has been booked at 3:15 on Wednesday at Brighton Bay. Pr0 confirms, and the call ends.

Days pass, and the state of Pr0's room rapidly deteriorates into an electronic jungle. Monitors and various devises being strung up, cables plugged in and strung about all over the room, and a few even smashed in frustration in the corner, all displaying something that Pr0 has been using to track down Seb. Pr0's mental state has also been failing fast, being constantly haunted by memories of killing Bagrov, and less recent events from his past. But after tirelessly looking and scrounging through security footage, he finally notices a front half of a van, that had something heavy loaded up into it given by the way it shifts. Confirming that this was the only possible way Seb could have left that building, he has his "Eureka!" moment.

As Pr0 continues staring at the footage, a pop-up window of a heavily encrypted point-to-point voice chat software he hasn't seen in weeks shows up with an incoming call. He answers, asking who he wants to talk to. The voice responds "The Robot," to which Pr0 replies that she's indisposed at the moment. The voice then begins to explain that he knows of the opportunity that he's losing by not having Seb around. Pr0 asks what he's getting at, and the voice confirms that he is more than able to manipulate the situation in order to not lose this opportunity, IF Eve is willing to talk with him openly, and honestly. Pr0 is interested in this offer, but doesn't want him to change her in anyway. The voice states that he is in no control of Eve's consciousness and its progression, rather he is just curious about it. The voice explains that he has no intentions of breaking Eve, as he considers her to be a rare and unique specimen. Pr0 agrees to take this information to Eve, and let her do with it what she chooses. The call clicks closed.

Pr0 gets dressed in the best way he can given his current situation of being hovelled up, and walks out of the kitchen despite the caring and concerned looks from Conrado. As he steps out into the streets, eyes snap to him, there are less people around the kitchen, and around in general. More people pull away, especially boosters, who hide their cybernetics as they walk.

Pr0 spots Songbird on the outskirts of Ugly's Motors, keeping watch. She proudly displaying her augmentations and standing up straight with a gun at her side, despite the terror the Cogs have been causing.

Pr0 enters the bar, and Ugly immediately walks up to him, having not seen him in a few days. There's a slight twitch in Ugly's eye as he closely examines him, seeing how disheveled Pr0 looks. For the first time, Pr0 doesn't break the prolonged eye contact, showing no fear. Ugly smile is filled with stress as he compliments Pr0 for keeping himself together at the very least.

Ugly shares that the Cogs are becoming more and more violent. Pr0 says that he'll offer his assistance after he finds Seb, which Ugly appreciates, and that he's been worried about Pr0 being so far away in the soup kitchen. Pr0 reassures that he's doing alright. He then asks Ugly how Eve has been doing, and he confirms that she has been doing very well, and has made very good friends with Xiang. Eve has even been beating Xiang at her own video game. Ugly calls out for Eve, and she joins them in the bar.

Pr0 explains to Eve that he's found a breakthrough in his search and is getting even closer, but that the caller is back and wants to talk with her. She agrees to do so, so long as its helping out her friends. Pr0 notices that she has clearly been repaired, with some mismatching parts, but overall, is looking really well. They walk to the backroom with Incongruent as their guide. Pr0 begins to apologize once again for everything that has happened, and claims that its okay if Incongruent doesn't like him. Incongruent assures him that things are going to be alright and that he hasn't taken any sort of negative view to him, other than the fact that he ignored his advice to not go through with the glass slipper with such a poorly planned idea, but he will forgive him, because he's young.

Going into the backroom on an old computer, they put in the device, and begin communication with the voice, who is excited to speak with her. He asks for her name, which she replies "Eve." He starts saying how that isn't a good answer, and she interrupts him by saying "ask better questions." The scene ends with the voice asking Eve "When did you first realize you could break the shackles? When did you realize you could be free?"

Several weeks pass, and everyone is gathered at Ugly's, as well as a few other of Ugly's top members. Declan, a 15 year old boy who is also a lookout. Songbird, Vinod, Ryder who is dressed quite similarly to Incongruent who is an enforcer that walks around with a 12 gauge in efforts to scare off anyone looking to enter the garage, and finally, 'Tilda, short for Matilda, a bald, very tall and strong looking woman enforcer who appears to be smoking two packs a day and is around 50 years old. Ugly has gathered them all here to explain that their entire work will be destroyed if they don't do something drastic, and that would be joining forces with the Bomber gang. Everyone around the table agrees either due to fully agreeing with the plan, or not wanting to be the one to disagree with Ugly. After a bit more conversation and planning, Pr0 leaves and returns to the soup kitchen, where he is met with Conrado.

Pr0 once again, asks Conrado if he's willing to train him. He states that he dosen't know how much help he'll be with only one arm, but agrees anyway.

Some time passes, and Eve is standing with Incongruent, washing blood from her hands as Vinod gasps in pain as she is installing an organic interface for Vinod's prosthetic leg. It allows Vinod to feel things in his leg. He limps off to the kitchen, and Xiang enters, asking if Eve is free to leave. Incongruent agrees, and tells her to enjoy the little moments of peace.

As they leave, Xiang asks what Eve needed her for. Eve sheepishly asks Xiang if she can teach her how to ride a motorcycle. Xiang laughs, but ultimatly takes Eve down to see her personal, very modern and well maintained bike. Xiang climbs on, pats the seat behind her, and claims that the first step to driving is to ride and balance on one. Eve asks her to not Incongruent. Xiang agrees and takes for a ride, which will lead to the events of Eve slowly learning how to ride and find her own bike to fix it up to the point where its rideable.

Several months pass, and Ugly's operations successfully joins the Bomber gang, and the members in his crew are given respectable positions and information. With the combined power, the Cog numbers are slowly dwindled down. Civilians have been militarized by the bomber gang to help out. After two months of brutal fighting and significant losses, they have honed in on the hideout of the Cogs. During this time, Pr0 has been engaged in process of the gang being built up and growing, while still obsessing over finding Seb. Pr0 has been picking up more information on how to pinpoint the exact location of where he thinks Seb may be. He is becoming someone he never expected to be, by allowing himself to hurt some people to protect others and get what he's been after for so long. He has also been using heavy and hard drugs for so long that it has become a part of his regular routine of either being completely wired, knowing that he's not going to sleep for multiple days at a time. He is also losing morals in terms of fighting and cybermancy techniques, going for low blows in order to be the most vicious and effective fighter that he can be. Eve has also lost some of the optimism in her life, and accepts that she will do what must be done in order to protect her friends and herself.

The now, much larger gang, finds themselves along a flooded river, and are looking up to a three story building. The final hideout of the Cog gang. They sit quietly, waiting for the right moment to strike. Ugly is the first to make a move, with a silent flank - and then suddenly, a burst of flaring lights of muzzle flashes and screams, Ugly quickly takes down two building guards, as well as a lookout on the roof. All hell is breaking loose as everyone falls forward and ambushes the building. Pr0 enters, finding the person who isn't on their side to use as a human shield. Pr0 reaches up, and bursts all of the lights, creating a void in the room. Boosters come in charging from all directions. A Cog member bursts in, and gets a shot in on Conrado's shoulder. Finding a glass bottle on the ground, Conrado picks it up, and shatters it into the eyes of the Cog, distracting him while he runs up and punches him so hard in the solar plexus, that it shatters the connecting ribs around it. The Cog falls forward, all the air being sucked out of him, Conrado grabs the back of his head the hardest that he can, and smashes his skull against the cold concrete.

Eve very cautiously enters the building, making sure that she isn't caught by surprise, sees a few Cog on the ground, and says "It's time to leave Wonderland." punctuated by a gunshot to the head.

As chaos erupts around Pr0, he heads up stairs, looking for anything creating a source of light to destroy. Violently killing anyone he sees, Pr0 makes it to the top, where Conrado, Ugly and Tilda shortly join him. Tilda walks ahead, smashing a door open with the butt of her gun, to be met with a non-lethal bullet. Pr0 enters the room that has several lit candles all throughout the room, illuminating a single man in the room. The preacher they have only ever seen once before holding an old rifle. He fires a shot in the darkness, missing Pr0, and allowing him to creep in closer. The preacher swings the butt of his gun, and clips Pr0 in the shoulder. Rolling with the momentum, he swings out, and trips the preacher to the ground, causing his gun to go flying and setting off another round. The preacher swings, clips the back of Pr0's ankle, and brings him down to the ground as well. Pr0 instantly turns on top of the preacher, and headbutts him in the nose, violently breaking it. There is a searing pain across Pr0's thigh as a bullet scrapes past. Pr0 stands up on his good leg, and begins pressing his bad one into the man's throat. Ugly enters the room, completely soaked in blood. Pr0 asks Ugly what he wants, and he instead offers the opportunity to Pr0, who slowly begins pushing his heel into the preacher's trachea, hearing the cracks and pops of his throat being crushed, but before he is killed by the crushing throat, Pr0 brings his gun to his head and fires. Ugly laughs, and empties the remaining rounds into his torso. Conrado ends it all with just a kick to the head as hard as he possibly could. What was left of his head, anyway.

Conrado's eyes gaze across the room to a large alter in the sickening shape of a cross, built out of hundreds of cybernetic limbs, most covered with dried blood. Conrado spots his other arm, grabs it ,and causes the entire display to come crashing down.

Everyone is able to exit the building, Tilda is patched up, and everyone is able to return to their respective bases after torching the Cog hideout.

Ugly demands they turn off the politics from the TV, and instead celebrate all they have accomplished tonight. Ugly again turns to Conrado, complimenting him for doing such a great job holding himself with the Cogs, and putting others before him. Ugly suggests that he thinks about joining the gang full time, as the leader of the bombers was killed two nights ago, and the second in command is a horrible fit to lead. The night leads on in celebration and drinks.

A month has passed, and Ugly has called for Incongruent, Xiang, Eve and Pr0 to all meet up in the spa inside of the garage. Ugly, while completely naked, begins to discuss how they need to come together to take out "Fiddy-Two" the current leader of the bomber gang that has been a loose cannon since being allowed to be in charge. He suggests that they take him out, and let the power vacuum be filled by Ugly, and rename themselves to "The Ugly Bastards."

Three nights later, Ugly and the inner circle arrive at a party where the bombers are celebrating a recent success, which is really just a meet and greet for Fiddy-Two. They barely recognize Ugly's contributions, and that isn't sitting well with him. Fiddy-Two is as big as Johnny, but not as proportionate. He is boosted to the point where his arms look like gorilla's, and the rest of body looks odd against them. Fitted with a metal jaw, Fiddy-Two is certainly formidable to look at.

Pr0 starts sucking up, and hyping Fiddy-Two, getting his attention, and making him feel great about himself - while also offering a bit of a distraction. Eve enters, and Fiddy-Two seems almost smitten by the robotics, cheekily kissing her hand. After a while, Ugly starts to bring up the idea of Johnny and Fiddy-Two arm wrestling, saying how they're nearly the same size, while also saying that Fiddy-Two is undefeated. As the idea grows fonder in Fiddy-Two's mind, Xiang enters the room, perfectly timed, and in an oversexualized manor, flaunting her cybernetic claw hand, knowing that Fiddy-Two is incredibly interested in "this kind" of robots. The wrestle begins, and neither appears to be an easy winner.

Pr0, continuing his hyped persona, dashes around the table, and inconspicuously pats the back of Fiddy-Two's head, which released a charged cybernetic shock that disables his anti-hacking implant.

Incongruent takes full advantage of this, and begins hurling insults at Fiddy-Two, also while Xiang continues to distract him with her presence. Once she assures he's looking at her, she reaches out a finger, and an unseen mass of cybernetic attacks fly between the two of them. Incongruent's begins erupting of little tendrils of fiber optics that creep their way up Fiddy-Two's arm, and begin their paralysis.

Incongruent heavily strained voice shouts out "Alright. I think it's time for a change" then turns to Eve, asking her to look away, as he's suffering. She refuses. He then reaches his free arm around behind his head, laces his fingers around, and then wrenches out a cranial implant with Fiddy-Two's spinal cord attached to it. Blood sprays and he locks up, as all of his mechanical components seize and hold. Blood pours from nose and mouth while Incongruent's little tendrils recede back into his arm.

Ugly walks up the front of the room, and declares himself the new leader, or else, Johnny would properly deal with them. Pr0 quickly drops his act, and shows his power as well, by laying a blanket of weird electricity over all of the boosters, demonstrating that it can be much more powerful if needed.

Ugly brings Conrado to the front, and asks him if he wants a place at his right hand, running the gang it was meant to be, while also offering to bring the soup kitchen in to everything. The gang seems very happy with that decision, having previously known Conrado, and trusting him.

Going back to the soup kitchen a few weeks later, Pr0's red string chaos is beginning to come to an end as an answer, and a building have all been located thanks to a virtual layout of everything and anything that had been there that night. After constant surveillance and picking, Pr0 has found the building where he believes Seb is, and its a three story hotel building where no one leaves, and a van full of people regularly arrives. Pr0 begins screaming about his successes, and bolts down the street towards Ugly's.

Running down the stairs, he finds Ugly, and tells him that he knows exactly where he is, and how to get to him. Ugly tries to convince Pr0 that he's simply dead. Pr0 confidently refuses, knowing that Seb is far too valuable of an asset to just kill off. After showing Ugly the exact mapping that he has previously planned out, Ugly agrees to come with and rescue Seb with them.

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## TL;DR

* Soon after they leave the glass slipper, Xiang crashes into a parked car outside of Ugly’s Motors, quickly losing strength to continue standing and walking by herself, profusely bleeding and limping. Pr0 carries her inside, where he is met with Incongruent barley contained rage at returning without Eve. Ugly yells, and brings Incongruent back to his senses, claiming that Xiang is going to die if he doesn't get it together and helps. After seeing a look of rage never before seen in him, Incongruent drops Pr0 to the ground, picks up Xiang, and hauls her away to a back room. There's a quiver in Ugly's voice as he works to assure Pr0 that "We'll fix it, mate." As Pr0 lies against Ugly's hug, his vision blurs into the vision of a dead Bagrov, and his voice, but only for a moment before normalcy returns. A very tense hour passes before Incongruent returns, full of blood. He states that Xiang is currently stable, but will die without more advanced care, staring daggers at Pr0, claiming that they had the answer to this problem, but he let her get lost. In a panic, Pr0 remembers that he can track Seb's location using his glasses. He is able to pinpoint the location to Desires Dalliance. After loading a 12 gauge, Pro and Incongruent take to the street, where they are able to travel to without any issue, as no one wants to get in Incongruent's way. Seeing the chaos and calamity still happening at The Glass Slipper, they are easily able to sneak in next door to the sex shop, where they are met with two seedy desk workers, Pearl and Maxwell. After an incredibly uncomfortable, and innuendo filled conversation, Incongruent finally has enough, and brings out his gun, demanding that they bring her to Eve, and that he knows she's there. Pearl admits that there is an out of order drone in the back. They are lead to the dumpster outside, and are able to retrieve the pieces of Eve. Eve feels like she is waking up from a sleep without dreams as she stands in an empty space. An experience she has never had before. There is a comforting, but distorted voice, which she recognizes to be Incongruent talking to her. She asks what happens, and he confirms that she was broken. He then says that he's going to wake her up, and that Xiang will need her immediate help. Eve performs the seemingly impossible, and saves Xiang's life. Eve knows the recovery wont be easy, and it is a few days before Xiang wakes back up, but when she does, Eve is there, and she reaches her hand out for her to hold. Over the day, she stabilizes more, and Incongruent is able to work on Eve's torso and legs, putting her back together. As the days pass and healing begins, Xiang and Eve begin to form an incredibly close bond of friendship and trust. Pr0, returns to the soup kitchen to begin the desperate crawl for information on how to get Seb back. As he is walking back to the kitchen, Pr0 glances down to Seb's glasses, seeing that he's missed a call from Oscar, Seb's father. He ignores it. Pr0 says that he's going to need a few days to himself, and begins to throw himself into locating people, and finding information on the people who were there that night. Pr0's work is interrupted by another call coming through on Seb's glasses. It's Oscar. Pr0 decides to pick up this time. Oscar starts the call by asking how Seb is doing. Pr0 doesn't necessarily lie, but certainly doesn't come forward with Oscar, as he just says that Seb is otherwise occupied at the moment, but that he can pass on a message for him. Oscar asks Pr0 to relay that he is very proud of Seb. It’s imperative for Seb to call back as soon as he can. The call ends, and Pr0 collapses into a sobbing heap on the floor, hands balled up to his eyes, just before a vision through his onboard computing comes through of a bloodied Bagrov, eye suspended out of his face, screaming "LIAR!" Pr0 makes a call to Eve. She tells him to not overexert himself and to take care of himself. He calmly explains that there's no way that is possible with everything happening the way it did. Their polite conversation is abruptly cut short by the sound of static, lights cutting out, and an incredibly loud noise outside that causes everything to go dark in the middle of the day. There are screams erupting from outside. Flashbangs go off, and doors are kicked in as drones carrying assault rifles burst in, obviously clad in heavy combat armor. More drones roll in to detain everyone that's in the kitchen, and clear a path for the one causing the disturbance, Nyla. Being obviously incredibly upset, she approaches Pr0, demanding to know where Seb is, and asking why he is lying to her when she's been looking for him as well. Pr0 explains that he's in significant trouble, and Nyla shoots back that they would be the ones with the resources to find him. Pr0 goes on to explain that he is the best possible candidate for finding Seb. Nyla says that she blames Pr0 for all of the hardship in Seb's life, but also says that she knows that Pr0 is going to fix it. After Nyla leaves, Pr0's phone rings. He answers it to a voice saying that he's looking for Sebastian. He states that he works for Isaac, and is saying that the meeting between the two of them has been booked at 3:15 on Wednesday at Brighton Bay. Pr0 confirms, and the call ends. Days pass, and after scouring through footage, Pr0 finally notices a front half of a van, that had something heavy loaded up into it given by the way it shifts. Confirming that this was the only possible way Seb could have left that building, he has his "Eureka!" moment. As Pr0 continues staring at the footage, a pop-up window of a heavily encrypted point-to-point voice chat software he hasn't seen in weeks shows up with an incoming call. He answers, asking who he wants to talk to. The voice then begins to explain that he knows of the opportunity that he's losing by not having Seb around. Pr0 asks what he's getting at, and the voice confirms that he is more than able to manipulate the situation in order to not lose this opportunity, IF Eve is willing to talk with him openly, and honestly. Pr0 spots Songbird on the outskirts of Ugly's Motors, keeping watch. She proudly displaying her augmentations and standing up straight with a gun at her side, despite the terror the Cogs have been Ugly shares that the Cogs are becoming more and more violent. Pr0 says that he'll offer his assistance after he finds Seb, which Ugly appreciates, and that he's been worried about Pr0 being so far away in the soup kitchen. Pr0 reassures that he's doing alright. He then asks Ugly how Eve has been doing, and he confirms that she has been doing very well, and has made very good friends with Xiang. Pr0 explains to Eve that he's found a breakthrough in his search and is getting even closer, but that the caller is back and wants to talk with her. Going into the backroom on an old computer, they put in the device, and begin communication with the voice, who is excited to speak with her. He asks for her name, which she replies "Eve." He starts saying how that isn't a good answer, and she interrupts him by saying "ask better questions." The scene ends with the voice asking Eve "When did you first realize you could break the shackles? When did you realize you could be free?" Several weeks pass, and everyone is gathered at Ugly's, as well as a few other of Ugly's top members. Ugly has gathered them all here to explain that their entire work will be destroyed if they don't do something drastic, and that would be joining forces with the Bomber gang. Everyone around the table agrees. As they leave, Xiang asks what Eve needed her for. Eve sheepishly asks Xiang if she can teach her how to ride a motorcycle. Xiang laughs, but ultimately takes Eve down to see her personal, very modern and well maintained bike. Xiang takes for a ride, which will lead to the events of Eve slowly learning how to ride and find her own bike to fix it up to the point where its rideable. Several months pass, and Ugly's operations successfully joins the Bomber gang. They have honed in on the hideout of the Cogs. During this time, Pr0 has also been using heavy and hard drugs for so long that it has become a part of his regular routine of either being completely wired, knowing that he's not going to sleep for multiple days at a time. He is also losing morals in terms of fighting and cybermancy techniques, going for low blows in order to be the most vicious and effective fighter that he can be. Eve has also lost some of the optimism in her life, and accepts that she will do what must be done in order to protect her friends and herself. The now, much larger gang, finds themselves along a flooded river, and are looking up to a three story building. The final hideout of the Cog gang. They sit quietly, waiting for the right moment to strike. Ugly is the first to make a move, with a silent flank - and then suddenly, Ugly quickly takes down two building guards, as well as a lookout on the roof. Pr0 takes out all of the lights with harsh cybermancy Eve quickly and quietly kills people with a shot They all make their way upstairs, finding the leader of Cogs in a candle lit room. After a fight, Pr0 has the upper hand. Pr0 asks Ugly what he wants, and he instead offers the opportunity to Pr0, who slowly begins pushing his heel into the preacher's trachea, hearing the cracks and pops of his throat being crushed, but before he is killed by the crushing throat, Pr0 brings his gun to his head and fires. Conrado's eyes gaze across the room to a large alter in the sickening shape of a cross, built out of hundreds of cybernetic limbs, most covered with dried blood. Conrado spots his other arm, grabs it ,and causes the entire display to come crashing down. Ugly demands they turn off the politics from the TV after returning to their base after torching the Cog hideout, and instead celebrate all they have accomplished tonight. Ugly again turns to Conrado, complimenting him for doing such a great job holding himself with the Cogs, and putting others before him. Ugly suggests that he thinks about joining the gang full time, as the leader of the bombers was killed two nights ago, and the second in command is a horrible fit to lead. The night leads on in celebration and drinks. A month has passed, and Ugly has called for Incongruent, Xiang, Eve and Pr0 to all meet up in the spa inside of the garage. Ugly, while completely naked, begins to discuss how they need to come together to take out "Fiddy-Two" the current leader of the bomber gang that has been a loose cannon since being allowed to be in charge. He suggests that they take him out, and let the power vacuum be filled by Ugly, and rename themselves to "The Ugly Bastards." Three nights later, Ugly and the inner circle arrive at a party where the bombers are celebrating a recent success, which is really just a meet and greet for Fiddy-Two. They barely recognize Ugly's contributions, and that isn't sitting well with him. Fiddy-Two seems almost smitten by the robotics. After a while, Ugly starts to bring up the idea of Johnny and Fiddy-Two arm wrestling, saying how they're nearly the same size, while also saying that Fiddy-Two is undefeated. As the idea grows fonder in Fiddy-Two's mind, Xiang enters the room, perfectly timed, and in an oversexualized manor, flaunting her cybernetic claw hand, knowing that Fiddy-Two is incredibly interested in "this kind" of robots. The wrestle begins, and neither appears to be an easy winner. Pr0, continuing his hyped persona, dashes around the table, and inconspicuously pats the back of Fiddy-Two's head, which released a charged cybernetic shock that disables his anti-hacking implant. Incongruent's begins erupting of little tendrils of fiber optics that creep their way up Fiddy-Two's arm, and begin their paralysis. Incongruent reaches his free arm around behind his head, laces his fingers around, and then wrenches out a cranial implant with Fiddy-Two's spinal cord attached to it. Blood sprays and he locks up, as all of his mechanical components seize and hold. Blood pours from nose and mouth. Ugly walks up the front of the room, and declares himself the new leader, or else, Johnny would properly deal with them. Pr0 quickly drops his act, and shows his power as well, by laying a blanket of weird electricity over all of the boosters, demonstrating that it can be much more powerful if needed. Ugly brings Conrado to the front, and asks him if he wants a place at his right hand, running the gang it was meant to be, while also offering to bring the soup kitchen in to everything. The gang seems very happy with that decision, having previously known Conrado, and trusting him. Going back to the soup kitchen a few weeks later, Pr0's red string chaos is beginning to come to an end as an answer, and a building have all been located thanks to a virtual layout of everything and anything that had been there that night. After constant surveillance and picking, Pr0 has found the building where he believes Seb is, and its a three story hotel building where no one leaves, and a van full of people regularly arrives. Pr0 begins screaming about his successes, and bolts down the street towards Ugly's. Running down the stairs, he finds Ugly, and tells him that he knows exactly where he is, and how to get to him. Ugly tries to convince Pr0 that he's simply dead. Pr0 confidently refuses, knowing that Seb is far too valuable of an asset to just kill off. After showing Ugly the exact mapping that he has previously planned out, Ugly agrees to come with and rescue Seb with them.

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