"Fallen Friends" - Reboot.Exe - S2 Chapter 1

## Fallen Friends

Jenn

"Fallen Friends" is a the first episode of the second season in Reboot.exe. It was released on 11 June 2022 and is narrated by Dave.

## Episode Synopsis

Pr0, Eve and Conrado begin their attempt to break into the apartment building where they have pinpointed Seb to be. Eve hands Conrado the bolt cutters, and they face the sturdy door that lies ahead of them.

Conrado knocks on the door with his pistol, and a voice replies in Spanish, which no one in the party is able to understand. Conrado replies in a horrendous Spanish accent saying that they're basically there to kill them. No reply.

After a few attempts, Conrado successfully bull rushes the door, and flies off of its hinges, shooting into the room like a projectile, entering all three of them into combat with several gangers, all of whom, are armed.

Conrado chooses to charge a machete wielding man in the back of the room, who completely misses Conrado, and is incapacitated as his head is slammed into the back of the wall. Both Pr0 and Eve are able to avoid an injury or much a confrontation for this round of combat.

Conrado attempts to throw the fallen machete at a different ganger, but wildly misses. Pr0 continues to suppress fire, while Eve is met at the end of a fiery bullet, hitting her smack in the middle of the forehead. Her eyes flicker for a few seconds, before she is sent crashing to the ground, falling unconscious.

As the next round of combat progresses, thumps and bangs from the next room echo in, as Ugly and Xiang grow closer to the room. Pr0 charges across the room to Eve, as the same ganger that incapacitated Eve, points his gun at Pr0, taking a shot to the back of the calf on his dive down. Another bullet takes a few strands of Pr0's hair off as it zips past his ear. He unsuccessfully tries to bring Eve back using his cybermancy.

After another failed attempt to get in contact with Ugly and Xiang, Pr0 flips up the table in front of them, providing a little bit of cover for the two of them on the floor until it is promptly splintered and shattered by the smug ganger who is taunting them.

Being pushed to a point where he can't see himself getting out of this alive, Pr0 tries to reason with the ganger. He asks where the bespoke is. The ganger replies: "The pretty boy? Yeah, he's right downstairs waiting for you!" Pr0 continues to try and reason with him, stating that dealing with Seb's parents is going to a be a far worse fate than anything he could imagine, and urges the ganger to let Seb free, even if he doesn't make it out himself. Pr0 begins to prepare for the end, seeing bits and pieces flash before his eyes, before the distinct clicking of an empty mag echos out. The ganger reloads in front of Pr0.

Meanwhile, Conrado has taken a few bullets to the cybernetics, but has successfully killed the gangers that he was dealing with not long before Ugly bursts in. Having surprised them, the ganger quickly turns around, and fires a shot directly into Ugly's chest, but he is still standing. He and Xiang enter the room, and divide the attention between them.

Within the blur of movement, reloading, and shots, Ugly takes three more bullets, not expecting there to be this much of a fight.

Conrado gets in front of a ganger, and shoves his open hand directly into the man's ribs like a knife. The man looses consciousness, and dies almost instantly. The weight of his dead corpse ripping the rest of his ribcage out, leaving Conrado holding what remained.

Having the last ganger dealt with, Xiang storms over to Eve, and Conrado walks up to Ugly, who is quickly losing his composure, having taken so many bullets. Ugly asks him for a credit card, that he was able to use to create a suction against his chest and lung, keeping some of his ability to breathe. Ugly snaps to Pr0, and shouts at all of them, demanding that he and Conrado go downstairs, and that they have five minuets to find Seb and get out. Pr0 listens, and quickly runs downstairs with Conrado.

Pr0 and Conrado find themselves in a basement that has several mattresses, cots, computers, several cooler boxes, and freezers. In the middle of the room is a woman, whos head has been completely encapsulated by cybernetics. She uses her own cybermancy to quickly gain control of Conrado's arms. She is unable to use this puppetry without moving her own limbs, and ends up injuring herself in the process. After a bit more of combat, and losing control of Conrado, Pr0 accesses that this woman is unarmed, and seems to just be getting affiliated with the gang, and appears to be fighting more out desperation than anything.

Pr0 kneels down to her, presses his gun against her head, gives her a buzz of electricity through her body, and begins asking where Seb is. She quietly asks in broken English for him not to kill her, and then points directly at the door where Seb would be. After catching an unfamiliar glimpse of himself in her cybernetic visor, Pr0 leans in to the girl, saying "I was like you are too. I got out of it and I'm getting someone else out of it. And you can get out of this too. Be better." She listens, and begins to slide a scarf of gang colors around her neck, and slowly pulls it off and away.

Conrado and Pr0 walk to the wall, where a button press opens an advanced appearing door. The contents of this room being more than enough to make them feel ill standing in. Uncared for medical equipment lines the walls. Tools sprawl along the floors and tables and are surrounded by blood stained cabinets. Corpses lie on tables, dissected and pulled apart, perhaps with some purpose, but fun was definitely not out of the equation. After spotting a freshly cut corpse on a table, next to several polystyrene containers, they discover that these bodies have been used for their organs.

Directly across from them, stands a wild looking man in an old, blood stained lab coat, questioning what they would be doing down here. Pr0 and Conrado begin calmly, asking for Seb, and walking into the room wielding guns. They are quickly caught off guard as two corpses, completely rewired with cybernetics leap off the table, and begin getting closer. One of them has been reduced to nothing but cybernetic, steel ribs, that clacks and chitters as it gets closer to the two of them. The other cybernetically enhanced corpses begin to charge.

Pr0 uses his cybermany to stagger one of the corpses, completely frying its perception. Pr0 takes another knock to the chest - flashing images of "Not Dead" in his mind. After regaining balance, Pr0 rushes forward, and tackles one of the corpses to the ground, screaming for Seb.

Conrado's rage sends him into a fury of punching the other corpse, that eventually stops moving. Flashes of who this corpse was race through Conrado's mind as what is left of her falls into a heap on the ground. Pr0 calls out for Seb, only to hear no response. Looking around, and recording more of the room, Pr0 finally spots a white cooler with the name "Seb" scrawled on it. There is a single kidney inside the cooler. There are a few bodies lying on tables. One is a grown man, wrapped in bandages, looking disheveled and miserable. Missing legs and arms, they're disgusting. There is another corpse lying nearby.

As they turn to leave, a gasp echos out from the bearded bandaged man, weakly asking if Pr0 really is there for him. Pr0 begins grabbing what's left of him, not soon before he passes out. Pr0 calls over Conrado in a "Sad and sloppy" attempt to gather Seb, seeing limbs slough off while Seb continues to be dead weight. They found Seb, and they found him as alive as they probably could have hoped for.

-YHTris

## TL;DR

* Pr0, Eve and Conrado begin their attempt to break into the apartment building where they have pinpointed Seb to be. After a few attempts, Conrado successfully bull rushes the door, and flies off of its hinges, shooting into the room like a projectile, entering all three of them into combat with several gangers, all of whom, are armed.
* Eve is met at the end of a fiery bullet, hitting her smack in the middle of the forehead. Her eyes flicker for a few seconds, before she is sent crashing to the ground, falling unconscious.
* Being pushed to a point where he can't see himself getting out of this alive, Pr0 tries to reason with the ganger. He asks where the bespoke is. The ganger replies: "The pretty boy? Yeah, he's right downstairs waiting for you!" Pr0 continues to try and reason with him, stating that dealing with Seb's parents is going to a be a far worse fate than anything he could imagine, and urges the ganger to let Seb free, even if he doesn't make it out himself. Pr0 begins to prepare for the end, seeing bits and pieces flash before his eyes, before the distinct clicking of an empty mag echos out. The ganger reloads in front of Pr0.
* The ganger quickly turns around, and fires a shot directly into Ugly's chest, but he is still standing. He and Xiang enter the room, and divide the attention between them.
* Conrado gets in front of a ganger, and shoves his open hand directly into the man's ribs like a knife. The man looses consciousness, and dies almost instantly. The weight of his dead corpse ripping the rest of his ribcage out, leaving Conrado holding what remained.
* Having the last ganger dealt with, Xiang storms over to Eve, and Conrado walks up to Ugly, who is quickly losing his composure, having taken so many bullets. Ugly asks him for a credit card, that he was able to use to create a suction against his chest and lung, keeping some of his ability to breathe. Ugly snaps to Pr0, and shouts at all of them, demanding that he and Conrado go downstairs, and that they have five minuets to find Seb and get out. Pr0 listens, and quickly runs downstairs with Conrado.
* Pr0 and Conrado find themselves in a basement that has several mattresses, cots, computers, several cooler boxes, and freezers. In the middle of the room is a woman, whos head has been completely encapsulated by cybernetics. She uses her own cybermancy to quickly gain control of Conrado's arms. She is unable to use this puppetry without moving her own limbs, and ends up injuring herself in the process.
* She quietly asks in broken English for him not to kill her, and then points directly at the door where Seb would be. After catching an unfamiliar glimpse of himself in her cybernetic visor, Pr0 leans in to the girl, saying "I was like you are too. I got out of it and I'm getting someone else out of it. And you can get out of this too. Be better." She listens, and begins to slide a scarf of gang colors around her neck, and slowly pulls it off and away.
* Conrado and Pr0 walk to the wall, where a button press opens an advanced appearing door. Corpses lie on tables, dissected and pulled apart, perhaps with some purpose, but fun was definitely not out of the equation. They discover that these bodies have been used for their organs.
* Directly across from them, stands a wild looking man in an old, blood stained lab coat, questioning what they would be doing down here. They are quickly caught off guard as two corpses, completely rewired with cybernetics leap off the table, and begin getting closer.
* Conrado's rage sends him into a fury of punching the other corpse, that eventually stops moving. Flashes of who this corpse was race through his mind as what is left of her falls into a heap on the ground. Pr0 calls out for Seb, only to hear no response. Looking around, and recording more of the room, Pr0 finally spots a white cooler with the name "Seb" scrawled on it. There is a single kidney inside the cooler. There are a few bodies lying on tables. One is a grown man, wrapped in bandages, looking disheveled and miserable. Missing legs and arms, they're disgusting. There is another corpse lying nearby.
* As they turn to leave, a gasp echo out from the bearded bandaged man, weakly asking if Pr0 really is there for him. Pr0 begins grabbing what's left of him, not soon before he passes out. Pr0 calls over Conrado in a "Sad and sloppy" attempt to gather Seb, seeing limbs slough off while Seb continues to be dead weight. They found Seb, and they found him as alive as they probably could have hoped for. -YHT