The Warubozu Usagi

11.59 pm

Still orbiting around Ukio

After three hours, Wu-chan and Syvil have finished S79 of The Walking Dead.

WU: Well now, that was dissatisfying. In no way is it possible for zombies to just break into a Hafu shell so quickly. I could fall a full floor on my head and my brain would be perfectly fine.

S: (looking straight at Wu-chan) Are you speaking from experience?

WU: What? No, I'm just saying...

S: That you think you can't crack your shell if you landed on your head from the second floor?

WU: You've seen Jageda's ads for the new shells. You can dent a shell with a sledgehammer but you can't crack it.

S: ...

WU: (knocks on head) This thing is harder than steel.

S: Agreed. You have a very hard head. Okay then, time to meet over the plans. (hits the intercom) We're ready. Meet in cargo.

WU: (not amused) We all have hard heads.

S: (looks casually back with a smirk) Yours is made of the densest material, though.

(Everyone, including Meri, assembles in the cargo. Syvil has pulled up the files from Doogé onto the screen.)

SM: Looks like we've got floor plans and diagrams of all the security layers. Oh, and look at that, there's the R&D lab for the prototype shells. Uhm. Hmm.

WU: What?

S: We have everything except details of how to break through each security layer. We know there are two dozen guards and the paths they take, but we don't know when and where they'll be at any given time.

SM: We have to get past the DOS-541 check-in, but no details about how.

RP: Oh boy. Is that right? Is there a failsafe sensor that locks down entire floors and floods them with gas?

WU: (eyes wide open) Whoa. That's cool.

S: No way. We can't do this, Warui.

SM: Yeah, this is too complicated to pull off, Wu-chan.

WU: Oh come on, Shoko. You're the daughter of a fusion engineer and a quantum phsyics engineer. You've built our very own quantum-time messaging device. I know you can find your way around just about any security system.

SM: Thanks for the confidence booster, but I'm still not qualified to break into all these systems.

RP: Didn't Doogé give us some tools to use? Let's go through that stuff first.

WU: (gleaming with joy at Red) Red, once again, you wonderful Tanuki!

S: (eyes rolling) Okay then. Let's see here. Night vision, magnetic boots, anti-gravity packs. Wait, Shoko what's this?

SM: (carefully examing a handful of items) Hmm. I think this one's an 8K-bit decrypter, this looks like a quantum disrupter, and I think this is a gamma ray visualizer.

WU: Yes! What do they do?

SM: They're tools that would help us break into Jageda, more or less.

WU: Cool!

S: Not cool.

WU: Why not?

S: You baka Usagi. No one should have tools like this, not even governments. None of these things are known to exist. Doogé is not all that he appears to be.

SM: I am inclined to agree with Syvil.

WU: Okay, okay. So, Doogé may not be exactly who he says he is. He's paying us a lot of money, though, and he just gave us a bunch of kick-ass tools.

S: Consequences, Warui.

WU: Pffft. Can we reasonably break in and get out without getting caught?

SM: Yes.

WU: Then there we go. We're on!

S: Warui, don't you have any sort of spidey-sense tingling right now?

WU: What? No. Look, if we never got into trouble, how boring would that be? Remember, tomorrow will be better than the next day, Syvil. We'll just blindly go where no one else has gone before!

S: (face palm)

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— The Warubozu Usagi