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  "description_bbcode_parsed": "<span style='word-wrap: break-word;'>Noelle desperately fumbles through cyberspace, on the verge of death. Can she lead herself and Kris to safety before they stroke out?<br /><br /><a href=\"https://kimberlyeab.carrd.co/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Visit my website to see where else you can find my work, follow my socials, join my Discord, or support me on Patreon/SubscribeStar!</a></span>",
  "writing": "Chapter Six\n\nNoelle was burning up, feeling like she was literally on fire. She'd had fevers before but this was so much worse, like her entire body was on the brink of bricking. In all of her years of netrunning, she had never had to survive something like this. No, never anything close to this.\n\nThe only thing keeping them alive at this point was Ralsei. This program seemed to know every backdoor and shortcut, slipping between antiviruses tasked with frying her.\n\nNow he took them through another one of these backdoors. It was an eerie forest of purple and red with them moving through thick digital foliage at a full sprint. There were creatures in those woods, eyes which followed them as they ran. They weren't hostile but they also didn't seem to be very friendly either.\n\n``Are we getting close to QUEEN?'' Kris asked.\n\nRalsei frowned, skidding to a stop. ``We're getting there.''\n\n``I don't know how much longer I can keep this up for,'' Noelle groaned.\n\nStupid, stupid, stupid girl! What had she been thinking? Her mom was one of the matriarchs of Night City, amongst its most powerful leaders. Did she really think that she was going to get a leg up on her and sneak into her security systems?\n\nAnd what for? Just for the slim chance that maybe there would be something on Dess in here?\n\nRalsei tore open another hole in cyberspace, ushering them through. It led right back into that bureaucratic mainframe, a maze of seemingly endless grey textures. A part of her was offended at the thought of dying somewhere so diabolically mundane.\n\nNoelle no longer felt light as if flying through these endless shapes, carefree upon a digital breeze. No, she felt hot and tired and increasingly weak as her mental channels actively fought back against her attempts to push forwards. Her body strained as she forced it to move, feeling her faculties churn in some desperate endeavour for escape. \n\nEven without the antiviruses or programs finding her, this realm was utterly inhospitable. This was a place of machines and not mortal bodies like her own. \n\nAs she looked at Kris, she saw that they were also flagging, looking tired, gaunt, and failing. Somehow their avatar was sweating, looking downright sickly.\n\n``I don't know if we can take QUEEN,'' Noelle admitted.\n\nKris chuckled, sounding so dark as they hunched forwards. ``No shit.''\n\nThey turned a corner and in the distance was a long corridor. As she continued down it, she realized that only her own phantom footfalls could be heard. What had happened to the-\n\nShe looked over her shoulder and saw that Kris and Ralsei were frozen in place. Not frozen in terror or indecision but quite literally frozen as if cast in a block of amber and preserved.\n\nOr maybe a block of ice...\n\n``Berdly?'' Noelle tried.\n\nNo voice responded though an eerie jingle played out within her mind. It was a jingle she knew from nightmares that she could never quite recall where she had first heard it.\n\nNoelle shook her head and looked around, seeing that the very essence of cyber space seemed to be frozen around her. It was like she was trapped in a moment, a fragment, a mere dream.\n\nDid she finally fry in her chair? Was this her brain freezing before she crashed out completely?\n\nAs she turned around, she saw...\n\nA creature of black, hovering there, void and terrifying. It dripped with a brackish sickness which seemed to vaporize as soon as it hit the ground. As this creature looked up at her, she could see its face pulled back into an eerie smile with a singular piercing and crazed white eye looking right at her.\n\nOnly the mask cracked with a familiar blue eye quickly replacing the white, peering through at her with something that might've passed for recognition. Was that shock it seemed to display?\n\n``Dess?'' Noelle whispered, not quite knowing why she felt like that was the answer.\n\nThe mask continued to crack, like a tempered window hit repeatedly by a hammer. Until it finally shattered completely and a familiar face looked through at her. It was Dess, in the digital flesh, looking so tired and stunned.\n\n``Elly?'' Dess asked. ``What are you doing here?'' She swallowed hard. ``When did you get so grown up?''\n\nNoelle rushed over, leaping towards the figment and wrapping her arms around it. She felt it squeeze back, holding her tight.\n\nWhat if it was a trap?\n\nIt wasn't. Even if it was just a mere avatar, there was no one else who felt that way within her arms. No one ever made her feel this safe. ``I never stopped searching for...'' She sniffled. ``I never stopped looking for you.''\n\n``You're burning up,'' Dess whispered.\n\n``I... I...'' Noelle drew back, laughing. ``We're trapped in mom's mainframe, trying to find QUEEN.''\n\nDess nodded, looking beyond her. ``Kris and Asriel?''\n\nNoelle looked at them and tilted her head to the side. How had she never put two-and-two together. ``He kind of does look like Asriel, huh?''\n\n``Noelle, you need to get out of here,'' Dess said, clasping her face within her dark hands and looking her in the eye. ``It isn't safe for you in this network.''\n\n``We can't leave with QUEEN on the hunt,'' Noelle said, forcing herself to look at her sister. She motioned back to Ralsei. ``He told us that we're trapped in here until she's been deactivated.''\n\nDess frowned. ``I can get you out.''\n\n``Dess!'' Noelle yelped. ``I'm not leaving you when I've literally just found you. Come on, let's just find QUEEN and I can get you out of here too. I promise that I can get you...''\n\n``Noelle, you are on the brink of stroking out,'' Dess quickly said. ``If you spend too much longer in here then you're not getting anyone out, including yourself.''\n\nNoelle whined, balling her hands into fists. She wanted to shout down the claim but she couldn't deny that her sister was right. Her body was at the brink, just wanting to give in. But this was her sister... she had just found her sister. Why couldn't she be strong enough to actually get her back home?\n\n``Please,'' Noelle said, reaching out and grabbing her sister's hand. It felt cold and clammy, so artificial. How long has she suffered in here... alone. ``Please let me save you.''\n\n``Noelle...'' Dess tried.\n\n``What happened to you?'' Noelle whispered.\n\nShe saw a light flash in her sister's eye, her vision blurring with tears that had no chance of being real but felt so very real indeed. Was that pity in her gaze? Sadness? It was always so hard to tell. A part of her would never get used to seeing Dess like this. Though a greater part of her wasn't used to seeing Dess in any capacity.\n\n``I dug too deep, Elly,'' Dess finally said. Her lips twitched, pixelating around the edges. She was like a remnant on a hard drive that hadn't quite been defragged, an illusion too stubborn to go away. A ghost who made a home in the machine. ``Mom is up to some pretty shady stuff and she wasn't willing to let her daughter get in the way of that.''\n\n``Come with me then,'' Noelle pleaded. ``I can get you into an android body. I can save you, Dess.''\n\n``Then who would be there to stop mom and save you?'' Dess asked. She moved her hand out and a baseball bat made of obsidian started to take shape within her palm. ``I can do a lot more good in here than I can out there and we both know it.''\n\nNoelle gritted her teeth. She knew it was greedy but it would do her a whole lot of good to actually have her sister again.\n\nYet, if Dess was serious with these claims then there was only one way that she could possibly get her sister back.\n\n``What has mom been up to?'' Noelle asked. ``I have connections. I can try and help.'' She took a step towards Dess and buried her face into her chest. Angel above she really was burning up, huh? ``Let me help you. Please.''\n\nDess placed a hand upon her back, just like she used to whenever she needed comforting. She stroked her hair, just like she used to whenever she had a nightmare. And her tears started to slow, just like they used to whenever her sister assuaged her worries. It was a facsimile, a mere program, but those memories felt so very real indeed.\n\n``Dess,'' Noelle whispered.\n\n``Mom is working with Arasaka,'' Dess said. ``Something called Project Cerberus. It's the kind of thing that could ruin everything if the corps start flinging nukes at each other again.''\n\n``Project Cerberus,'' Noelle whispered, nodding. She looked at her sister and tried to stand tall. ``Will you still be here when I bring her down?''\n\nDess grinned and drew back her bat, slamming it against the wall. It impacted like a fist upon a punching bag with the force rippling across the surface. Whatever was in her these days seemed to force it right open, ripping through the firewall as if it were wet paper. ``Elly, has our mother ever been able to stop me?''\n\nNoelle grinned. ``Not once.''\n\n``Now get your ass out of here before you and Kris having a fucking aneurysm,'' Dess demanded, snapping her fingers. In an instance she was gone. \n\nCunningham eat your heart out because there was an even badder AI in town.\n\n``Noelle,'' Kris wheezed. ``How did you-''\n\n``Explain later,'' Noelle said, yanking them towards the portal. She looked at Ralsei before dipping through. ``Keep my sister safe!''\n\nRalsei nodded and bowed his head. ``Of course, I will.''\n\n``Sister?'' Kris asked. Their face was beet red and it seemed that they were about to crash any second now. \n\nTalk about cutting it close.\n\nNoelle didn't answer them as she simply yanked them through the wall, tearing them out of cyber space entirely.\n\n",
  "writing_bbcode_parsed": "<span style='word-wrap: break-word;'>Chapter Six<br /><br />Noelle was burning up, feeling like she was literally on fire. She&#039;d had fevers before but this was so much worse, like her entire body was on the brink of bricking. In all of her years of netrunning, she had never had to survive something like this. No, never anything close to this.<br /><br />The only thing keeping them alive at this point was Ralsei. This program seemed to know every backdoor and shortcut, slipping between antiviruses tasked with frying her.<br /><br />Now he took them through another one of these backdoors. It was an eerie forest of purple and red with them moving through thick digital foliage at a full sprint. There were creatures in those woods, eyes which followed them as they ran. They weren&#039;t hostile but they also didn&#039;t seem to be very friendly either.<br /><br />``Are we getting close to QUEEN?&#039;&#039; Kris asked.<br /><br />Ralsei frowned, skidding to a stop. ``We&#039;re getting there.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``I don&#039;t know how much longer I can keep this up for,&#039;&#039; Noelle groaned.<br /><br />Stupid, stupid, stupid girl! What had she been thinking? Her mom was one of the matriarchs of Night City, amongst its most powerful leaders. Did she really think that she was going to get a leg up on her and sneak into her security systems?<br /><br />And what for? Just for the slim chance that maybe there would be something on Dess in here?<br /><br />Ralsei tore open another hole in cyberspace, ushering them through. It led right back into that bureaucratic mainframe, a maze of seemingly endless grey textures. A part of her was offended at the thought of dying somewhere so diabolically mundane.<br /><br />Noelle no longer felt light as if flying through these endless shapes, carefree upon a digital breeze. No, she felt hot and tired and increasingly weak as her mental channels actively fought back against her attempts to push forwards. Her body strained as she forced it to move, feeling her faculties churn in some desperate endeavour for escape. <br /><br />Even without the antiviruses or programs finding her, this realm was utterly inhospitable. This was a place of machines and not mortal bodies like her own. <br /><br />As she looked at Kris, she saw that they were also flagging, looking tired, gaunt, and failing. Somehow their avatar was sweating, looking downright sickly.<br /><br />``I don&#039;t know if we can take QUEEN,&#039;&#039; Noelle admitted.<br /><br />Kris chuckled, sounding so dark as they hunched forwards. ``No shit.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />They turned a corner and in the distance was a long corridor. As she continued down it, she realized that only her own phantom footfalls could be heard. What had happened to the-<br /><br />She looked over her shoulder and saw that Kris and Ralsei were frozen in place. Not frozen in terror or indecision but quite literally frozen as if cast in a block of amber and preserved.<br /><br />Or maybe a block of ice...<br /><br />``Berdly?&#039;&#039; Noelle tried.<br /><br />No voice responded though an eerie jingle played out within her mind. It was a jingle she knew from nightmares that she could never quite recall where she had first heard it.<br /><br />Noelle shook her head and looked around, seeing that the very essence of cyber space seemed to be frozen around her. It was like she was trapped in a moment, a fragment, a mere dream.<br /><br />Did she finally fry in her chair? Was this her brain freezing before she crashed out completely?<br /><br />As she turned around, she saw...<br /><br />A creature of black, hovering there, void and terrifying. It dripped with a brackish sickness which seemed to vaporize as soon as it hit the ground. As this creature looked up at her, she could see its face pulled back into an eerie smile with a singular piercing and crazed white eye looking right at her.<br /><br />Only the mask cracked with a familiar blue eye quickly replacing the white, peering through at her with something that might&#039;ve passed for recognition. Was that shock it seemed to display?<br /><br />``Dess?&#039;&#039; Noelle whispered, not quite knowing why she felt like that was the answer.<br /><br />The mask continued to crack, like a tempered window hit repeatedly by a hammer. Until it finally shattered completely and a familiar face looked through at her. It was Dess, in the digital flesh, looking so tired and stunned.<br /><br />``Elly?&#039;&#039; Dess asked. ``What are you doing here?&#039;&#039; She swallowed hard. ``When did you get so grown up?&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Noelle rushed over, leaping towards the figment and wrapping her arms around it. She felt it squeeze back, holding her tight.<br /><br />What if it was a trap?<br /><br />It wasn&#039;t. Even if it was just a mere avatar, there was no one else who felt that way within her arms. No one ever made her feel this safe. ``I never stopped searching for...&#039;&#039; She sniffled. ``I never stopped looking for you.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``You&#039;re burning up,&#039;&#039; Dess whispered.<br /><br />``I... I...&#039;&#039; Noelle drew back, laughing. ``We&#039;re trapped in mom&#039;s mainframe, trying to find QUEEN.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Dess nodded, looking beyond her. ``Kris and Asriel?&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Noelle looked at them and tilted her head to the side. How had she never put two-and-two together. ``He kind of does look like Asriel, huh?&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``Noelle, you need to get out of here,&#039;&#039; Dess said, clasping her face within her dark hands and looking her in the eye. ``It isn&#039;t safe for you in this network.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``We can&#039;t leave with QUEEN on the hunt,&#039;&#039; Noelle said, forcing herself to look at her sister. She motioned back to Ralsei. ``He told us that we&#039;re trapped in here until she&#039;s been deactivated.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Dess frowned. ``I can get you out.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``Dess!&#039;&#039; Noelle yelped. ``I&#039;m not leaving you when I&#039;ve literally just found you. Come on, let&#039;s just find QUEEN and I can get you out of here too. I promise that I can get you...&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``Noelle, you are on the brink of stroking out,&#039;&#039; Dess quickly said. ``If you spend too much longer in here then you&#039;re not getting anyone out, including yourself.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Noelle whined, balling her hands into fists. She wanted to shout down the claim but she couldn&#039;t deny that her sister was right. Her body was at the brink, just wanting to give in. But this was her sister... she had just found her sister. Why couldn&#039;t she be strong enough to actually get her back home?<br /><br />``Please,&#039;&#039; Noelle said, reaching out and grabbing her sister&#039;s hand. It felt cold and clammy, so artificial. How long has she suffered in here... alone. ``Please let me save you.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``Noelle...&#039;&#039; Dess tried.<br /><br />``What happened to you?&#039;&#039; Noelle whispered.<br /><br />She saw a light flash in her sister&#039;s eye, her vision blurring with tears that had no chance of being real but felt so very real indeed. Was that pity in her gaze? Sadness? It was always so hard to tell. A part of her would never get used to seeing Dess like this. Though a greater part of her wasn&#039;t used to seeing Dess in any capacity.<br /><br />``I dug too deep, Elly,&#039;&#039; Dess finally said. Her lips twitched, pixelating around the edges. She was like a remnant on a hard drive that hadn&#039;t quite been defragged, an illusion too stubborn to go away. A ghost who made a home in the machine. ``Mom is up to some pretty shady stuff and she wasn&#039;t willing to let her daughter get in the way of that.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``Come with me then,&#039;&#039; Noelle pleaded. ``I can get you into an android body. I can save you, Dess.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``Then who would be there to stop mom and save you?&#039;&#039; Dess asked. She moved her hand out and a baseball bat made of obsidian started to take shape within her palm. ``I can do a lot more good in here than I can out there and we both know it.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Noelle gritted her teeth. She knew it was greedy but it would do her a whole lot of good to actually have her sister again.<br /><br />Yet, if Dess was serious with these claims then there was only one way that she could possibly get her sister back.<br /><br />``What has mom been up to?&#039;&#039; Noelle asked. ``I have connections. I can try and help.&#039;&#039; She took a step towards Dess and buried her face into her chest. Angel above she really was burning up, huh? ``Let me help you. Please.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Dess placed a hand upon her back, just like she used to whenever she needed comforting. She stroked her hair, just like she used to whenever she had a nightmare. And her tears started to slow, just like they used to whenever her sister assuaged her worries. It was a facsimile, a mere program, but those memories felt so very real indeed.<br /><br />``Dess,&#039;&#039; Noelle whispered.<br /><br />``Mom is working with Arasaka,&#039;&#039; Dess said. ``Something called Project Cerberus. It&#039;s the kind of thing that could ruin everything if the corps start flinging nukes at each other again.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``Project Cerberus,&#039;&#039; Noelle whispered, nodding. She looked at her sister and tried to stand tall. ``Will you still be here when I bring her down?&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Dess grinned and drew back her bat, slamming it against the wall. It impacted like a fist upon a punching bag with the force rippling across the surface. Whatever was in her these days seemed to force it right open, ripping through the firewall as if it were wet paper. ``Elly, has our mother ever been able to stop me?&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Noelle grinned. ``Not once.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``Now get your ass out of here before you and Kris having a fucking aneurysm,&#039;&#039; Dess demanded, snapping her fingers. In an instance she was gone. <br /><br />Cunningham eat your heart out because there was an even badder AI in town.<br /><br />``Noelle,&#039;&#039; Kris wheezed. ``How did you-&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``Explain later,&#039;&#039; Noelle said, yanking them towards the portal. She looked at Ralsei before dipping through. ``Keep my sister safe!&#039;&#039;<br /><br />Ralsei nodded and bowed his head. ``Of course, I will.&#039;&#039;<br /><br />``Sister?&#039;&#039; Kris asked. Their face was beet red and it seemed that they were about to crash any second now. <br /><br />Talk about cutting it close.<br /><br />Noelle didn&#039;t answer them as she simply yanked them through the wall, tearing them out of cyber space entirely.<br /><br /></span>",
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