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It was hard to pick apart the mystery of this realm when they were currently running for their freaking lives.\n\n``Berdly, how are things on the surface,'' Noelle grumbled.\n\nBerdly chuckled nervously. ``I don't know who...''\n\n``Oh, cut the shit, I'd know your voice from a mile away,'' Noelle huffed, pumping her arms in front of each other. \n\nEven if her physical body was motionless, her mind was being pushed to its limits, making her feel like she was about to combust. It was hard to concentrate on anything when she felt this feverish. Had it always been this hot in here?\n\nRalsei stopped by a segment of wall and started to spread his arms, pulling the barrier open with what seemed to be magic. \n\nThough magic wasn't real. Right?\n\n``They're engaged with your mother's security,'' Berdly finally admitted. ``I'm trying to get them help but Kris picked a pretty remote location for you to try and pull off this little operation.''\n\nKris grunted. ``I was trying to keep us off the grid.''\n\n``And you did that well enough,'' Berdly chided. ``Unfortunately, that's a double-edged sword. I can't exactly get many mercs willing to take a contract to go up against Chara or the Voodoo Boys.''\n\n``I can pay,'' Noelle tried.\n\nKris scoffed. ``Dead men can't collect paycheques.''\n\n``In here,'' Ralsei said, sliding through another hole he had just torn open. It was like a gaping wound, oozing with gory fragments of dark code. A part of her was reminded of the Blackwall and the entities trapped within. His voice was so faint from the other side. ``We should be able to catch our breath in here.''\n\nNoelle looked at Kris who shrugged back at her. The two of them knew that their goose was cooked and they really didn't have a whole lot of options.\n\nKris was the first through, fading immediately into the virtual darkness. It was like they had essentially disappeared from the world. A part of Noelle was hesitant to follow but a much larger part of her didn't want to be anywhere close to where she currently was. So, she went through, following after them.\n\n``Berdly!'' Kris shouted as Noelle emerged into the other side. They spun around to face her. ``Noelle, can you reach him?''.\n\n``Berdly,'' Noelle called out, looking around. ``Can you hear us?''\n\nSilence, utter silence.\n\n``I'm sorry but your allies cannot hear you in this sanctum,'' Ralsei said, tilting his head to the side. ``The downside of keeping you off of the software's radar.''\n\nThey appeared to be in some sort of bedroom, so unlike anything Noelle had ever seen. It was still in that weird digital castle though in a room which was dressed up in blue with a bed, furniture, and accessories set up for a single inhabitant.\n\nYet, there was something about this place that she started to recognize on a second glance. It was familiar in a deep kind of way, calling upon memories so far in her past. The strangest thing was that it kind of reminded Noelle of...\n\n``Is this my room?'' Kris asked, shaking their head. ``From when I was a kid?''\n\nThat was it.\n\nRalsei looked around. ``I had to act fast and tried to model this safe haven off something from your memories. My programming says that it helps my friends feel at ease.'' He smiled. ``Are you at ease?''\n\nThis moment of calm gave Noelle a chance to really take in who this program was. He was a figure of white clad in a digitalized green garb. A part of his appearance reminded Noelle of Asriel though more like a figment of him, a goat monster transcribed into code by a game of telephone.\n\nSomething about that tickled at Noelle's grey matter. Who would program something like that and why would it be programmed to be so useful to them specifically? It almost felt like he was bait but bait would never give them any form of safety even if it was fleeting.\n\n``Who are you?'' Noelle asked.\n\nRalsei perked up. ``Someone programmed to be helpful to you!''\n\n``To users?'' Kris asked.\n\n``Yes but...'' Ralsei looked out the window. It was a gif, playing a looping cycle of a purple tree billowing in a breeze that was never there. ``But only to specific users.'' He looked at them and his eyes glitched, his lips twitching with strain. ``I was programmed to help a Kris Dreemurr and a Noelle Holiday against the overseer of this mainframe.''\n\n``Who programmed you?'' Noelle blurted.\n\nKris nodded. ``And who is this overseer?''\n\n``So many questions,'' Ralsei said, offering a smile as he eagerly clapped his hands together. ``I rarely get to answer questions.'' He sighed, mulling over how he answered. ``I was programmed by an AI trapped in this mainframe. I don't know why they want to protect you but they do.''\n\n``Dess,'' Noelle whispered.\n\nRalsei perked up. ``Who?''\n\nNot Dess or... maybe the AI just didn't know her by that name.\n\nRalsei stirred and pointed at Kris. ``Now for your question! The overseer of this mainframe is another AI who is ensnared by Carol Holiday. The Quality Unified Error Expunging Network or QUEEN for short. My creator thought that she might prove a challenge for you and created me to offer assistance in the event that you ever came here.''\n\n``Noelle,'' Kris said, grabbing her by the shoulders. They turned her around in order to face them with those red eyes of theirs looking so very wild. It was hard to ignore how worried they seemed about all of this. ``We're in way over our heads right now. I know that you want to find Dess but we need to bounce before Susie and Catti get overwhelmed. Hell, if we stay in here too much longer, we're going to get cooked in our baths.''\n\nNoelle was just about to agree.\n\n``That would be impossible,'' Ralsei chimed in.\n\nKris and Noelle both looked at him.\n\n``Pardon?'' Noelle asked, paling.\n\n``By tripping the system's firewalls, you stopped all large flows of data in and out of the system,'' Ralsei explained. ``Until this state of alarm is lifted, there is no means of extracting your digital selves from the mainframe. It is one of QUEEN's more effective countermeasures for dealing with netrunners. Think of a bucket trap, luring you in and then exhausting you until you drown.''\n\n``What kind of firewall can do that?'' Kris asked.\n\n``Unfortunately, my creator was lost in the code attempting the same thing,'' Ralsei went on, as if ignoring their question. ``They never got close to finding the answer but it seems to have a root regarding a partnership between Holiday Corp and... someone.'' He sighed. ``What was that answer again?''\n\n``So, the only way out of here is through this mess?'' Noelle asked.\n\nRalsei nodded, seeming to return to the moment. ``I'm afraid so.''\n\nNoelle looked at Kris, seeing that terror which they felt. She was feeling a little bit of it as well. This very well could've been it, the end, the final thing that she ever did. And that was terrifying.\n\nBut it was also liberating in a certain fucked-up way. She could search without the fear of what the future would bring. If she was going to die anyways then what was going to stop her from finding her sister?\n\n``Kris,'' Noelle said. ``The only way out of this thing is through it.''\n\nKris sighed. ``I know...''\n\n``I promise that I'm not going to let you die in here,'' Noelle said, reaching out and grabbing their hands within her own. They might have only been an avatar but it was still her will holding onto theirs. ``Neither of us is going to die.''\n\nA white lie but maybe that was better than the truth. Regardless, it seemed that her words had a way of settling them, making that fear fade if only a little. It made it easier that they probably wanted to believe her in the first place.\n\nDid that make her a bad person for lying to them?\n\n``We need to get out of here,'' Kris said, looking at Ralsei. ``This might be safe but we're cut off from the rest of our team''\n\nNoelle sighed. ``Berdly is probably on the verge of a panic attack as we speak.''\n\nRalsei nodded and moved over to a wall, grunting as he spread his hands apart. Another rift opened in the virtual brickwork, billowing with a faux purple vapour which started to fill the room. It was an opening, just like before, with no distinguishing features to betray what may or may not have been on the other side.\n\nA part of Noelle wondered if they could really trust a program like Ralsei while a much larger part of her mind wondered if there was any chance for her if she didn't.\n\n``Nothing ventured, nothing gained,'' Kris muttered under their breath.\n\nThey rushed for the opening and leapt through it. As they poofed through the void, Ralsei turned to look at her, offering a thin smile and a wave. The message was clear. She needed to get her butt into gear.\n\nSo, Noelle rushed into the opening as well.\n\n", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "Chapter Four

This architecture was all wrong, being too real and vivid for cyberspace. The walls and atmosphere gave the sensation of winding castle corridors and not the cutting-edge labyrinth of digital hell that her mother had perfectly crafted to kill them.

Was it an illusion to confuse them or was it something deeper than that? A glitch in the matrix, perhaps?

``This way!'' Ralsei shouted.

Kris followed after him and so did Noelle. It was hard to pick apart the mystery of this realm when they were currently running for their freaking lives.

``Berdly, how are things on the surface,'' Noelle grumbled.

Berdly chuckled nervously. ``I don't know who...''

``Oh, cut the shit, I'd know your voice from a mile away,'' Noelle huffed, pumping her arms in front of each other.

Even if her physical body was motionless, her mind was being pushed to its limits, making her feel like she was about to combust. It was hard to concentrate on anything when she felt this feverish. Had it always been this hot in here?

Ralsei stopped by a segment of wall and started to spread his arms, pulling the barrier open with what seemed to be magic.

Though magic wasn't real. Right?

``They're engaged with your mother's security,'' Berdly finally admitted. ``I'm trying to get them help but Kris picked a pretty remote location for you to try and pull off this little operation.''

Kris grunted. ``I was trying to keep us off the grid.''

``And you did that well enough,'' Berdly chided. ``Unfortunately, that's a double-edged sword. I can't exactly get many mercs willing to take a contract to go up against Chara or the Voodoo Boys.''

``I can pay,'' Noelle tried.

Kris scoffed. ``Dead men can't collect paycheques.''

``In here,'' Ralsei said, sliding through another hole he had just torn open. It was like a gaping wound, oozing with gory fragments of dark code. A part of her was reminded of the Blackwall and the entities trapped within. His voice was so faint from the other side.  ``We should be able to catch our breath in here.''

Noelle looked at Kris who shrugged back at her. The two of them knew that their goose was cooked and they really didn't have a whole lot of options.

Kris was the first through, fading immediately into the virtual darkness. It was like they had essentially disappeared from the world. A part of Noelle was hesitant to follow but a much larger part of her didn't want to be anywhere close to where she currently was. So, she went through, following after them.

``Berdly!'' Kris shouted as Noelle emerged into the other side. They spun around to face her. ``Noelle, can you reach him?''.

``Berdly,'' Noelle called out, looking around. ``Can you hear us?''

Silence, utter silence.

``I'm sorry but your allies cannot hear you in this sanctum,'' Ralsei said, tilting his head to the side. ``The downside of keeping you off of the software's radar.''

They appeared to be in some sort of bedroom, so unlike anything Noelle had ever seen. It was still in that weird digital castle though in a room which was dressed up in blue with a bed, furniture, and accessories set up for a single inhabitant.

Yet, there was something about this place that she started to recognize on a second glance. It was familiar in a deep kind of way, calling upon memories so far in her past. The strangest thing was that it kind of reminded Noelle of...

``Is this my room?'' Kris asked, shaking their head. ``From when I was a kid?''

That was it.

Ralsei looked around. ``I had to act fast and tried to model this safe haven off something from your memories. My programming says that it helps my friends feel at ease.'' He smiled. ``Are you at ease?''

This moment of calm gave Noelle a chance to really take in who this program was. He was a figure of white clad in a digitalized green garb. A part of his appearance reminded Noelle of Asriel though more like a figment of him, a goat monster transcribed into code by a game of telephone.

Something about that tickled at Noelle's grey matter. Who would program something like that and why would it be programmed to be so useful to them specifically? It almost felt like he was bait but bait would never give them any form of safety even if it was fleeting.

``Who are you?'' Noelle asked.

Ralsei perked up. ``Someone programmed to be helpful to you!''

``To users?'' Kris asked.

``Yes but...'' Ralsei looked out the window. It was a gif, playing a looping cycle of a purple tree billowing in a breeze that was never there. ``But only to specific users.'' He looked at them and his eyes glitched, his lips twitching with strain. ``I was programmed to help a Kris Dreemurr and a Noelle Holiday against the overseer of this mainframe.''

``Who programmed you?'' Noelle blurted.

Kris nodded. ``And who is this overseer?''

``So many questions,'' Ralsei said, offering a smile as he eagerly clapped his hands together. ``I rarely get to answer questions.'' He sighed, mulling over how he answered. ``I was programmed by an AI trapped in this mainframe. I don't know why they want to protect you but they do.''

``Dess,'' Noelle whispered.

Ralsei perked up. ``Who?''

Not Dess or... maybe the AI just didn't know her by that name.

Ralsei stirred and pointed at Kris. ``Now for your question! The overseer of this mainframe is another AI who is ensnared by Carol Holiday. The Quality Unified Error Expunging Network or QUEEN for short. My creator thought that she might prove a challenge for you and created me to offer assistance in the event that you ever came here.''

``Noelle,'' Kris said, grabbing her by the shoulders. They turned her around in order to face them with those red eyes of theirs looking so very wild. It was hard to ignore how worried they seemed about all of this. ``We're in way over our heads right now. I know that you want to find Dess but we need to bounce before Susie and Catti get overwhelmed. Hell, if we stay in here too much longer, we're going to get cooked in our baths.''

Noelle was just about to agree.

``That would be impossible,'' Ralsei chimed in.

Kris and Noelle both looked at him.

``Pardon?'' Noelle asked, paling.

``By tripping the system's firewalls, you stopped all large flows of data in and out of the system,'' Ralsei explained. ``Until this state of alarm is lifted, there is no means of extracting your digital selves from the mainframe. It is one of QUEEN's more effective countermeasures for dealing with netrunners. Think of a bucket trap, luring you in and then exhausting you until you drown.''

``What kind of firewall can do that?'' Kris asked.

``Unfortunately, my creator was lost in the code attempting the same thing,'' Ralsei went on, as if ignoring their question. ``They never got close to finding the answer but it seems to have a root regarding a partnership between Holiday Corp and... someone.'' He sighed. ``What was that answer again?''

``So, the only way out of here is through this mess?'' Noelle asked.

Ralsei nodded, seeming to return to the moment. ``I'm afraid so.''

Noelle looked at Kris, seeing that terror which they felt. She was feeling a little bit of it as well. This very well could've been it, the end, the final thing that she ever did. And that was terrifying.

But it was also liberating in a certain fucked-up way. She could search without the fear of what the future would bring. If she was going to die anyways then what was going to stop her from finding her sister?

``Kris,'' Noelle said. ``The only way out of this thing is through it.''

Kris sighed. ``I know...''

``I promise that I'm not going to let you die in here,'' Noelle said, reaching out and grabbing their hands within her own. They might have only been an avatar but it was still her will holding onto theirs. ``Neither of us is going to die.''

A white lie but maybe that was better than the truth. Regardless, it seemed that her words had a way of settling them, making that fear fade if only a little. It made it easier that they probably wanted to believe her in the first place.

Did that make her a bad person for lying to them?

``We need to get out of here,'' Kris said, looking at Ralsei. ``This might be safe but we're cut off from the rest of our team''

Noelle sighed. ``Berdly is probably on the verge of a panic attack as we speak.''

Ralsei nodded and moved over to a wall, grunting as he spread his hands apart. Another rift opened in the virtual brickwork, billowing with a faux purple vapour which started to fill the room. It was an opening, just like before, with no distinguishing features to betray what may or may not have been on the other side.

A part of Noelle wondered if they could really trust a program like Ralsei while a much larger part of her mind wondered if there was any chance for her if she didn't.

``Nothing ventured, nothing gained,'' Kris muttered under their breath.

They rushed for the opening and leapt through it. As they poofed through the void, Ralsei turned to look at her, offering a thin smile and a wave. The message was clear. She needed to get her butt into gear.

So, Noelle rushed into the opening as well.

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