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Annabelle is not in a good mood when the Game finally ends. The User was defeated, but Annabelle ended up looking really dorky and the Game's rules made her less effective than she should have been.

Thankfully, there's a potential cure for her foul mood waiting elsewhere in Mainframe. Enzo and Bob have gone home for the night, and Annabelle is traipsing through a not-so-good part of town. According to several scalawags at the hotel bar, it's also the haunt of large numbers of Neovirals...

Annabelle's guns were transformed into energy weapons with a stun setting when she was transformed, and she intends to put them to a very...thorough test tonight.

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It looks like several of those sources might be spot on for their information, if the graffiti on the walls of this level are any indication of the locals.

Long Reign MEGABYTE MAY HE SOON RETURN and Bow to the superior format are in eye-searing colors on various walls. If Annabelle's on point with her senses, she'll be spotting a gangly One binome with poorly rendered tattoos of the old Tor adding NEOVYRLZ RUL! to the writing with a spraycan.

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The graffiti on the walls makes Annabelle roll her eyes, but it also puts her on high alert.

The binome catches her attention as soon as he comes into view. Annabelle takes care to walk loudly toward the binome as if she hasn't seen him, "Tra la la. Oh, dear, I appear to be terribly lost," she says with her best attempt at a clueless expression.

The question is, is the binome dumb enough to fall for it?

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If his attempts at grammar were any indication, then yes, this boy IS that dumb. How the little punk manages to do the dirty-eye leer with only one eye is anyone's guess.

"Where were you trying t'go, girlie?"

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Come into my parolor, said the spider to the fly...

"Well, I was looking for people who are...unhappy with the current political situation," Annabelle says with false, bright smile. "You wouldn't happen to know anybody like that, would you?"

Annabelle is hoping that mister leering eye will lead her to his friends....

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"Yer in the right level then....juuust follow me..." The binome waves a mitten hand over further down the alley towards an area even worse looking than the main drag. There's several recycle bins piled up along the edges that haven't been emptied in minutes.

...It can be said that SOME of them must have had some form of intelligence, because Mr. Leery there is tugging a pile aside as if it were on wheels to show a door.

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Annabelle isn't surprised at how bad the area looks. It's not as if they would have passed unnoticed in a more respectable area.

"Do you need some help with that?" she asks with faked enthusiasm. "I'm looking forward to meeting all of you." Which is true, just not for the reasons that the binome might assume.

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"Nah I got it." All it needs is a good kick to get it moving a bit more. ...And some cursing as managing to stub a foot while doing so. When he does open the door, the room isn't quite as packed as it could be. It appears that the bounty fliers handed out at the hotels to pirates has been having the right effect.

Soon as the door opens every binome in the room gives her and the dip switch who let her in the darkest of glares.

"Newbie what the fragging spam?!"

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If they're glaring at him now, he's going to be in real trouble when Annabelle attempts to put them all under arrest.

"I'm not interrupting anything, am I?" Annabelle asks with a faked innocent expression.

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Not yet anyway.

One of the Zero binomes stalks up and slaps the side of Leery's head.

"Newbie.. Initiation before invitations!"

"Whaddaya want lady urrrrp." One particularly...rusty looking One binome belches from a seat.

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"Hm, nothing much," Annabelle replies as she looks around the room checking for exits, weapons, and other potential problems.

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From what can easily be seen the room has 3 exits including the one she just came in through. One door is to her left, which is the side Leery's on, there's another door in the far back of the room if the ceiling lights are any indication.

Four binomes, 3 ones and a zero look up from a table not far from the back exit, looking over various city maps. The light is too dim to make out what's on the maps back there. There's another table closer to the front, with 3 zero binomes and 2 ones working over some small-time thug weapons. The good old coshbag, nightsticks and a sword of some kind. This little group might be the biggest problem right off the bat.

The previously mentioned One binome in it's seat that was formerly the backseat of some car, chugs down another can of something while she takes it all in. And Zero Cox is tearing Leery a new one verbally for not giving this one initiation or even checking who this person was!

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If Zero Cox is tearing Leery a new one now....

Annabelle nods once she's finished casing the area, and she drops the innocent and clueless act with a sharp and predatory grin.

"Now that we're all here," she calls out, "I'm placing all of you lot under arrest for assault, vandalism, and several other things that I'm sure the local law enforcement will be happy to explain at considerable length."

Annabelle takes one Hell pistol out of its holster and the gun makes an ominous hum as the stun setting warms up. "You can all come along quietly, or we can do this the hard way..." Annabelle adds with an expression that's a textbook example of 'Make my day, punk.'

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You know what? They all decided to choose the hard way, seeing as everything erupts into chaos with neovirals either turning over tables for cover or trying to make for the exits.

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The other Hell pistol comes out as the room turns into chaos. The binomes attempting to flee are her first priority. If she can, she's going to shoot something into falling in front of the doors they're fleeing through. (One would presume that few binomes are trying to get through the door behind her.)

Otherwise, well, she'll have to do things the old-fashioned way....

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..And try to pass by the massive lady with the guns?! This lot may be dumber than the bottom of the trashbin, but they are not that stupid, seeing as Leery, Belcher and Zero Cox are making a break for the exit on the left pushing through the...

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Nevermind they are that stupid as thug-nomes from the weaponry table advance on Annabelle. Two of the Zeros are weilding the coshbags, one Zero has himself a shiny sword, leaving the two Ones with nightsticks charging at her all at once.

Two of the Ones from the wayback table with the maps are making for the rear exit, if she's sharp, she can get one of the exposed support beams to close that off in a nano. The One and the Zero seem to have hidden behind their upturned table.

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*Zorch* goes one of the Hell pistols into an exposed support beam. The beam obligingly crashes to the ground, closing off the rear exit.

Annabelle actually laughs as the binomes approach her with melee weapons. She's fast, very fast. *Zorch* *Zizzle* *Zing* *Zow* *Zorch*

Once the bravest dumbest of the binomes are down for the count, it's Leery, Belcher and Zero Cox's turn...

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It is not a good cycle to be a Neo-viral, which is why Leery, Belcher and Zero Cox, who're almost to the left exit, are trying to pour the speed on. The two Ones who were making a break for the rear exit turn about and just about scramble to get behind the upturned table for cover.

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They may be trying to pour the speed on, but binome legs are short. *ZAP* *Zing* *Zoing* Ooooo, that's going to sting in the morning, laddies.

The binomes behind the table can hide behind the table for now, she'll get them in a minute.

Once the fleeing binomes are no longer fleeing, the left exit is going to be made impassable. By melting the edges of the door shut, if no other means present themselves.

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Melting the door shut works. It works really well, but with one entrance blocked by debris, the other by her, and everyone else in the room unconcious...

With all that commotion earlier, something seems off about the room. For having four binomes who're supposed to be cowering behind a table, it's...silent.

And the room has just gotten the recent addition of a horrible stench. One worse than Belcher on the floor.

Behind that upturned table is an upturned rug...with an open man-hole underneath.

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Annabelle growls. "Crash it! I should have guessed they'd have a hidden exit."

Then she shrugs and heads for the tunnel to hunt down the ones who managed to get away. She's humming as she slides through the man-hole and into the sewer.

Her idea of fun is a little strange, what can we say.

The local police force is going to get a very special delivery in the wee hours of the morning....