<span style="color: #FFFF00">GM noticed how out of place Fain seemed and walked over to JD. “I may not know her personally, but your friend needs answers. Shall we?” And he gestured to Fain. JD nodded and he and the GM went over to Fain. GM conjured up some chairs, one seemingly created from Matrix code, one from a glass breaking effect similar to the Arcomovani Servers of their previous endeavor, and the last seemed to spawn from a… Geass symbol that appeared on the floor.<br/><br/>Opting once again to be quite flamboyant, GM said “Fain, was it? If you need any questions answered I would be happy to be of service! No one should be left in the dark now, should they?”<br/></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">Fain was rather taken aback by the sudden appearance of the chairs and the directness of the GM’s attention to her. Her eyebrow rising slightly as if to ask what merited the attention, she waited for him to speak and for them to sit as she wasn’t quite certain, though she could guess quite well, which chair was meant for her. <br/><br/>“Ok,” she started, looking around at those around her and the world, “does one ever get used to the randomness of the environmental shifts? Also what the heck is going on here? Why the games? Are we just your version of entertainment? Is there a purpose? A reason?” she paused and gave a rueful smile, “You know telling me ask questions will just land us all in trouble right? I can think of a million questions for you and that could well take all day. Why don’t you just give me the important parts I need to know? If I have questions that are important after that I’ll ask? Seems a touch more logical to me.”<br/></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #FFFF00">GM smiled, “Ah, good, another intellectual. I suppose I should start with the Hacker… or Overseer. A former employee working on development of the Arcomovani Game Server, the first full dive immersive experience, got fired and regrettably hacked our system… and he succeeded in rewriting the game’s code AND purpose, but by then I had already made the mistake which ended up killing the only man who would have been able to stop him singlehandedly, which created Rukia there, whom now originates from neither fiction nor reality, and sent the worlds into chaos. The machine the Overseer, or Hacker used to do so has since been destroyed, but it caused a ripple throughout fiction and reality, and if we don’t find the Overseer and defeat whatever comes our way, well… reality and fiction will collide like tectonic plates on the sea floor hitting each other… and both fiction and reality will implode. Any questions?”<br/><br/>JD stood up and uttered one word. “Bastard.”<br/><br/>“Excuse me?” GM asked.<br/><br/>JD grit his teeth. “When were you planning on telling me… or ANYONE...” He balled his hands into fists. “That Rukia is literally IMMORTAL even if the worlds implode!”<br/><br/>“Wait… I’m what?” Rukia asked as she heard JD’s voice rising. “You originate from nowhere… if we die… in theory… you would just exist… in the void of nowhere...” JD was literally crying as he had been rather close to her up to this point.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">Fain had just taken her seat when the GM began, she listened intently. So far following along this line of thought quite nicely. It was after all much easier to follow these explanations then randomly jumping around the story. “Ok so-“ she began but stopped as JD rose and all but shouted at the GM. Her eyes widened at that. “Ok wow, I’d wish that on no one. Existing in a void is not a life at all. Also no offence, but I’m rather attached to my existence and don’t really fancy being a part of an intergalactic volcano thanks.”<br/><br/>Sighing she rose and gently placed her hand on her crying friend’s shoulder, “we won’t let that happen JD, we’ll stop this shit before anyone else gets hurt, and nothing is going to happen to cause Rukia to be left in some mindlessly empty void,” she said reassuringly. Or at least as reassuringly as she could. “So tell me, what do these games do to get us closer to finding this Hacker son of a bitch?” No one hurt her friends. That was her golden rule and from the look of things someone was and that pissed her off to a level she didn’t usually get.<br/></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #FFFF00">“Well… I have been monitoring the activity on the Servers, and it appears that there are a few areas that have… escaped the evacuation. Which leaves me to assume that is where these fictitious characters are coming from these sections and The Overseer is somewhere controlling these sections and maintaining them so that we are the area attacked. I need time to pinpoint where to send you all, so essentially we are amassing an army while buying time for me to send you to the correct spot...” GM explained.<br/><br/>“Not to put a damper on your plans, but… I think you misinterpret our intentions.” A red and gold suited arsenal said as he landed in the middle of the room. JD, Suguha, Asuna, Rukia, Ichigo and Yui’s eyes widened as the helmet retracted.<br/><br/>“Hi, Tony Stark, genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist. Don’t get me wrong… what you’re doing is noble, but we just can’t ignore the flaws… and there oh so many, manymanymany of them.” He said as he pointed an arm towards Fain. “Like giving someone mortal...” He shot several small shells into her hip. “An adamantium skeleton. I REALLY didn’t want to do that. So…” his mask dropped over his face and several weapons loading were heard.<br/><br/>“Your move bitch.”</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">Ok so they were essentially bait as well as entertainment. Yah that made sense. Use them to what draw out the lunatics from fiction and hopefully pinpoint the asshat? Man these people needed to chill a little. Thinking over his plans to use them to amass an army. But why use a deathmatch to do that? It seemed so counterproductive. For one thing, wouldn’t recruitment be easier if they actively looked for ohhhh I don’t know sympathizers to their cause? <br/><br/>Her thoughts however were interrupted before she could even formulate a question let alone hear the rest of the information when mister I got my head shoved up my ass and am better than anyone else showed up. Just great.... Just what the hell she wanted. A fight with the prick. <br/><br/>Rolling her eyes at his oh so stupid introduction and ow. Ok that hurt. What the fuck? “Really?” she said. Her eyes narrowing. So much for wanting to say anything more productive. And so much for nonviolence. That theory flew out the window when the dick head in front of her shot her with some dumb ass shit. Her move was it. Grinning she glared at him through her specks. Deciding she’d try and hack his suit if she could while trying to fight him physically. If that was even possible. Hell she had no idea. Worth a try at least. <br/><br/>The claws slowly came out and she launched herself at him slashing at his arm in an attempt to disable the weapons there. Not like there was much place to aim for. He being a nice big metal object and all. Might as well start with the arms. She didn’t really fancy slamming claws into his head after all. That was just a little too gross for her. Just yet anyways. She’d get there if he really started irritating her.... maybe....<br/></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #FFFF00">“Aww now that’s just stupid! Friday, be a dear and fire up the vibranium bullet upgrade?” He said as his armored shoulder sprouted an arm cannon. A few clips were fired and before he knew it, a… girl stepped in front of the blasts and absorbed them.<br/><br/>Yui smiled sweetly. “No one attacks daddy’s friends! Go get ‘im Fain!” She cheered as her “Immortal Object” game tag appeared and she watched the confused and creeped out Iron Man fly back a few feet. “What the hell? I didn’t...” He yelled as the Hack was successful and began causing him to fly randomly, throwing off all his targeting equipment.<br/></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">Fain sighed at first. Oh hell. Fighting was so not her game. Damn how she got into this mess in the first place was anyone’s guess. But she felt her chances of winning dwindling by the seconds with those ice cold words. Vibranium. Shit. Double shit that canon was a gun that could take her out of this world in pieces. Could she heal that? <br/><br/>Lucky for her, Fain never had to find out as Yui stepped in the way. Oh thank the lord. “You are a life safer!” she called a moment before she went for his throat. Screw her earlier thought of not pushing claws through his head. That’s exactly what she wanted to do now. Fain threw herself straight at his face her claws sinking into the metal of his shoulder so she could hold on while he flew erratically. Ok on second thought she should have at least tried to gain control of his flight pattern not just hacked him. Crap. So much for thinking. <br/><br/>Bringing up her right hand poised inches from his face she asked, “Yield so we can end this stupidity. I hate this shit!” She said hoping he wouldn’t force her to kill him. Real or not she didn’t like the thought. It really didn’t sit well with the young female.<br/></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #FFFF00">Tony winced in pain and grit his teeth as the blades ended up digging into his shoulder and the arm went limp. “Maybe if you’d get your claws OUT OF MY ARM!” He screamed as they dug further in when the suit swerved in the wrong direction. “Friday, get rid of that virus please!?!?” He added as he soon had control of the suit again and ripped her off, holding her at arm’s length, he shot upward. Once the two were in the stratosphere, he whispered over the thin air, using a voice modulation program. “Look, I am NOT the bad guy here. I can help you, but I didn’t want The Overseer knowing I was not ‘with the program’. You need a hacker that can find him faster than a mage, right? Well I may not know how he’s teleporting us here, but I do know you and I seem to be damn good hackers. Let’s not end this with bloodshed, but for effectiveness of the element of surprise, rip out my Arc reactor for no longer than a minute, then put it back in, and you’ve got another ally. And... I’m sorry about the earlier insult...” And with that he shot down to the ground, at the last second making it so she was above him and he landed on his back. HARD.<br/></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">Just as she was about to retract her claws from his arm in response to his words. For let’s face it, Fain isn’t into fighting. She’d rather talk shit through and not hurt anyone, well he had started it after all so she didn’t feel as bad, but still felt like shit for hurting him. She didn’t have a chance to even react much less do more then think this before he had yanked her out of him with a startled yip and flow her into the stratosphere... where she couldn’t breath! Yah ok this sucked like way bad.<br/><br/>don’t kill me was all she could think of. Trying her best to listen to her words she got the majority of them. Well enough she knew what he wanted and what he was offering. Ok she could do that. She gave a not just before he started throwing them down to the ground again. God damn! This was gonna hurt. Even landing on top of him was unpleasant and left her rattled and pained. She grunted from the impact but grabbed the Arc reactor from his chest and yanked it out really quick and then pushed it back in just as fast. Really hoping she hadn’t hurt him. <br/><br/>“Oh gods please tell me I didn’t kill you? Or well ya know give you a heart attack or something. Your ok right?” She panted her voice low and strained as tears swam in her eyes. Thank god her shades hid them. She really didn’t fancy hurting people.<br/></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #FFFF00">“Not really… I’ve had worse people yank my heart out. Literally.” Tony joked. “Is your hip okay?” Tony answered. Standing up and putting a finger to his ear. “Engage House Party on my destination.” He said as several other armored suits showed up and the Binary man reworked their Cabin Base to hold a duplicate of Tony’s workshop where the suits landed. “So… two questions. One: where can I get a cosmopolitan, Two: Care to introduce me to the team?”<br/></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">“Oh gods, I really am sorry,” Fain said shifting so she could at least offer him a hand up, “Yah the hip is fine, still stings a bit, but nothing bad.” She replied with a tentative smile. “Ah what? And I can introduce you to those I know,” Fain said staring in awe at those around her. “Um wow, yah anyways, this is my friend JD,” Fain indicated him. “And the GM, Rukai and Yui, those are all I know. I  know they told me their names, but yah I suck at names so sorry,” Fain said with a blush.</span>