Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Digital Bath ❯ Chapter 3
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By: Vinyl-Koneko 
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Supernatural / Sci-fi / Fantasy / Cyberpunk / Adventure / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 10.25.2002 | Pages: 1 | Words: 1.8K | Visits: 337 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Supernatural / Sci-fi / Fantasy / Cyberpunk / Adventure / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 10.25.2002 | Pages: 1 | Words: 1.8K | Visits: 337 | Status: Completed
+Title: Digital Bath - Part 4
+Author: Vinyl Koneko (Emily), roguegirl@att.net
+Rating: R
+Pairings: 1x2, 3x4, 5xM, 13x11, 6x9, R+1, H+2
+Warnings: AU, yaoi, cyberpunk, possible lime in a later part
+Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing because if I did I'd get rich auctioning it off on eBay... LOL, just kidding. I'd keep them for myself to make videos and become the real Sabintha. ^_~
+Notes: //Thought//, *emphasis*. Some ideas may seem similar to "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson, "The Matrix", and "Digimon", but I swear that isn't what I'm going for. "Digital Bath" is a song by The Deftones.
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Duo lead me into the large room with the server that he transferred to my memory in the system. Actually being in the space made me feel so much smaller than I had when I was just looking at it. There were so many people in bodysuits... There's got to be at least one-sixty-fourth of the population of the LSOS in the room alone. And to think that I had just been one of them... I couldn't help but wonder where Trowa, Quatre, and Wufei lie now.
"The doctors aren't really that much fun to hang around with unless you want something," Duo was talking and I realized that it might be important for me to pay attention. "Like if you want to get back into the LSOS, they have to handle that. They won't tell us how to reanimate an avatar the system reads as dead. Actually, scratch that thought. They only let me and Dorothy go back in, so it looks like you'll have to sit tight up here." He shrugged. "Anyway, the tall bald guy is Master O; the short guy with the weird mustache is Instructor H; Doktor S is the one with the thing on his nose; Professor G is the other short guy with the helmet hair going on; and Doctor J is the one with the metal pincers instead of a hand."
I nodded, trying to get the names down to memory but all the letters kept getting confused. I'm a hacker; numbers would've been easier for me to deal with.
"Or..." Duo grinned. "Any creative nicknames tends to be much more humorous for everyone. I think the best on record so far is Master Orgasm... What else would he expect us to come up with? Now what else? Ah! Since this is the room where pretty much everything in the system bases off of, technically we're not even supposed to be in here ever. But you're on the grand tour and if it's an emergency and you *really* need to talk to one or any of the docs, look here first."
Duo grabbed a hold of me again, leading me outside. The sun was warm and we were surrounded by trees and smaller buildings that reached up to ten stories tall. It seemed that the server building was the highest one around, which made sense since it really was the only one that got used. Duo was pointing out the various buildings along the way.
"That brick one right there is where we have class. Unfortunately they think we need school *again*, but it's kinda different than school was in the system. Here we're learning more basic stuff because it's going to be hard for a while."
I scowled. "What kind of 'basic stuff'?"
"History and government and war and all that shit. I mean, some of it's pretty interesting, but they only want us to be able to make the right decisions based on knowledge of what has happened before. I'm not even going to be controlling the planet once we get people filtering back in, so I don't know why *everyone* needs to sit in class, but I guess they're trying to be fair to everyone. Treize is nice enough; he lucked out big time! Went from a professor of history and got brought back to Earth by the professors and they're going to make him president! Not a bad change of lifestyle, if you ask me. He misses his daughter, though; hasn't seen her in a few years."
"Do you have any family?" I'd be lying if I said I wasn't more interested in Duo than anything he was telling me.
The longhaired boy shook his head. "Orphan."
My gaze narrowed. That wasn't possible. There was no way to create orphans in the system. It didn't make sense how it could happen. "How?"
Duo scratched the back of his head. "It's kind of complicated. Maybe someone who understands better than I do should explain it to you."
Was it just me, or was Duo avoiding anything personal? "Okay."
Duo pulled open the double wooden doors, bursting through so I had to catch them on my way in. I never realized how heavy a wooden door could be, but that might be because this was real wood and physically I wasn't at the same level as I was in the system. "Anybody here?" he called out, and nothing responded. A frown graced his beautiful features. And yes, I admit, I did say beautiful. Maybe coming here was a bad idea; I don't think I have the control anymore to deal with the hormones of a sixteen-year old boy...again.
"No one's here. Oh well. I can show you my favorite place to study!" An eager yank brought me down the hall and to another set of doors, the room behind them completely dark. Duo opened the doors, placing me inside as he went over to flick on the lights. It was a library, and not just any library, but an immense library. In the LSOS, there was no need for them since anyone could just download a book and read it on a hoverboard at their convenience, but this one truly existed.
"These are all the books that we were able to recover," Duo ran his hand over the spines of the books, picking one out every now and then just to put it back and start all over. "The last actual *books*. Their kind is pretty much extinct. We can still read novels from the system, but anything that's actually tangible is reduced to this little collection."
I looked around. The collection wasn't exactly *little*, but if it represented the last books on Earth, well, then I guess it was kind of sparse.
Duo's somber mood brightened suddenly. "Next stop is the recreation center."
The center was actually across the street from the school, next to large sports' fields, a swimming pool, and a small park with trees and a pathway. This was where we found the majority of the Earth's population.
"There he is! The tall guy with the reddish-brown hair and the weird eyebrows? That's Treize Khushrenada, the professor and future president of Earth. Then the lady next to him is Une; don't ask what her first name is because we just call her Une. She's going to be in charge of security." We walked in a little more, allowing me to catch sight of Relena who was watching Dorothy and a small, blue-haired girl involved in a round of Ping-Pong. "You know Dorothy and Relena; the girl with the blue hair is Hilde. She can fix and build pretty much anything. She's going to be planning major cities and stuff once we get underway."
We crossed the room diagonally from the door, heading toward a stairwell that lead down to a movie theater with an arcade. "They hook us up big time, here. No good selection of movies yet until they burn them onto the discs, but in the meantime we have laser tag which is a lot of fun. Not to mention Frogger!" We were confronted with three more women in the arcade, one that looked Chinese, the other that looked slightly Oriental, and the third that had short, brown hair and was throwing darts at a board with strange accuracy. "Heero, meet Meiran, Sally, and Catherine."
I nodded in greeting at each of them, pausing on Catherine. She looked familiar, but I couldn't place where I might have seen her before. I shrugged it off. I probably had just run into her somewhere before.
"It's a pleasure, Heero," Sally said. "We're so glad you could help."
I just with I knew what I was helping with. "Aa." I felt like a moron. I had no idea where I stood with this people; I'm not even particularly sure why I came. Maybe things were easier back in the system, not in an unfamiliar-yet-familiar world that is planning to be repopulated.
"Hey, have you guys seen Zechs and Lu?"
"Not around here," Meiran said with a slight curve of her lips. "Try the fitness rooms; Zechs is normally there at this hour. Lucrezia's probably with him."
A quick nod and I found myself following Duo back up the stairs and then up another set. "Zechs is having special training with Treize. Him and Relena are brother and sister, even though they go by different names. Their parents were higher-ups in the system, so it's easier for us to add to what they know from their parents. Not to mention that they're wicked Pacifists and the doctors seem to prefer that, even though war is only part of establishing any society, I think."
The fitness room held a group of decrepit-looking machines, old, rusting weights, and not much else. The walls were an entire reflective surface to watch yourself, and from my angle it looked like there were six people in the room instead of two. Well, twelve instead of four, now that Duo and myself had come up. "Pretty-boy is Zechs. Pretty-girl is Lucrezia. Any questions?"
I shook my head. I felt overwhelmed by all these people. I tended to keep to myself and only had three friends in the system; I was happy with that. My more private side was having problems with my predicament. "No I think I got them all. Can we go back to my room? I need to sit down."
Duo's eyes widened. "Oh, sorry, man, I should've thought about that! There is no gravity in the system and all of a sudden you have to adjust to it out here. And I've been dragging you all over the place... I'm such an idiot!"
"No, you're not an idiot!" I said maybe a little too quickly. You're highly attractive and interesting to listen to and did I mention attractive? I mentally beat my conscience into a wall.
The boy grinned sheepishly, cheeks turning a cute shade of pink. Damn, huh? I think I hit my head on the way out of the system or something. I never used to act like this. Then again, I never quite met anyone like Duo before. I only hope I could get to know him better.
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End Part 4
+Author: Vinyl Koneko (Emily), roguegirl@att.net
+Rating: R
+Pairings: 1x2, 3x4, 5xM, 13x11, 6x9, R+1, H+2
+Warnings: AU, yaoi, cyberpunk, possible lime in a later part
+Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing because if I did I'd get rich auctioning it off on eBay... LOL, just kidding. I'd keep them for myself to make videos and become the real Sabintha. ^_~
+Notes: //Thought//, *emphasis*. Some ideas may seem similar to "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson, "The Matrix", and "Digimon", but I swear that isn't what I'm going for. "Digital Bath" is a song by The Deftones.
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Duo lead me into the large room with the server that he transferred to my memory in the system. Actually being in the space made me feel so much smaller than I had when I was just looking at it. There were so many people in bodysuits... There's got to be at least one-sixty-fourth of the population of the LSOS in the room alone. And to think that I had just been one of them... I couldn't help but wonder where Trowa, Quatre, and Wufei lie now.
"The doctors aren't really that much fun to hang around with unless you want something," Duo was talking and I realized that it might be important for me to pay attention. "Like if you want to get back into the LSOS, they have to handle that. They won't tell us how to reanimate an avatar the system reads as dead. Actually, scratch that thought. They only let me and Dorothy go back in, so it looks like you'll have to sit tight up here." He shrugged. "Anyway, the tall bald guy is Master O; the short guy with the weird mustache is Instructor H; Doktor S is the one with the thing on his nose; Professor G is the other short guy with the helmet hair going on; and Doctor J is the one with the metal pincers instead of a hand."
I nodded, trying to get the names down to memory but all the letters kept getting confused. I'm a hacker; numbers would've been easier for me to deal with.
"Or..." Duo grinned. "Any creative nicknames tends to be much more humorous for everyone. I think the best on record so far is Master Orgasm... What else would he expect us to come up with? Now what else? Ah! Since this is the room where pretty much everything in the system bases off of, technically we're not even supposed to be in here ever. But you're on the grand tour and if it's an emergency and you *really* need to talk to one or any of the docs, look here first."
Duo grabbed a hold of me again, leading me outside. The sun was warm and we were surrounded by trees and smaller buildings that reached up to ten stories tall. It seemed that the server building was the highest one around, which made sense since it really was the only one that got used. Duo was pointing out the various buildings along the way.
"That brick one right there is where we have class. Unfortunately they think we need school *again*, but it's kinda different than school was in the system. Here we're learning more basic stuff because it's going to be hard for a while."
I scowled. "What kind of 'basic stuff'?"
"History and government and war and all that shit. I mean, some of it's pretty interesting, but they only want us to be able to make the right decisions based on knowledge of what has happened before. I'm not even going to be controlling the planet once we get people filtering back in, so I don't know why *everyone* needs to sit in class, but I guess they're trying to be fair to everyone. Treize is nice enough; he lucked out big time! Went from a professor of history and got brought back to Earth by the professors and they're going to make him president! Not a bad change of lifestyle, if you ask me. He misses his daughter, though; hasn't seen her in a few years."
"Do you have any family?" I'd be lying if I said I wasn't more interested in Duo than anything he was telling me.
The longhaired boy shook his head. "Orphan."
My gaze narrowed. That wasn't possible. There was no way to create orphans in the system. It didn't make sense how it could happen. "How?"
Duo scratched the back of his head. "It's kind of complicated. Maybe someone who understands better than I do should explain it to you."
Was it just me, or was Duo avoiding anything personal? "Okay."
Duo pulled open the double wooden doors, bursting through so I had to catch them on my way in. I never realized how heavy a wooden door could be, but that might be because this was real wood and physically I wasn't at the same level as I was in the system. "Anybody here?" he called out, and nothing responded. A frown graced his beautiful features. And yes, I admit, I did say beautiful. Maybe coming here was a bad idea; I don't think I have the control anymore to deal with the hormones of a sixteen-year old boy...again.
"No one's here. Oh well. I can show you my favorite place to study!" An eager yank brought me down the hall and to another set of doors, the room behind them completely dark. Duo opened the doors, placing me inside as he went over to flick on the lights. It was a library, and not just any library, but an immense library. In the LSOS, there was no need for them since anyone could just download a book and read it on a hoverboard at their convenience, but this one truly existed.
"These are all the books that we were able to recover," Duo ran his hand over the spines of the books, picking one out every now and then just to put it back and start all over. "The last actual *books*. Their kind is pretty much extinct. We can still read novels from the system, but anything that's actually tangible is reduced to this little collection."
I looked around. The collection wasn't exactly *little*, but if it represented the last books on Earth, well, then I guess it was kind of sparse.
Duo's somber mood brightened suddenly. "Next stop is the recreation center."
The center was actually across the street from the school, next to large sports' fields, a swimming pool, and a small park with trees and a pathway. This was where we found the majority of the Earth's population.
"There he is! The tall guy with the reddish-brown hair and the weird eyebrows? That's Treize Khushrenada, the professor and future president of Earth. Then the lady next to him is Une; don't ask what her first name is because we just call her Une. She's going to be in charge of security." We walked in a little more, allowing me to catch sight of Relena who was watching Dorothy and a small, blue-haired girl involved in a round of Ping-Pong. "You know Dorothy and Relena; the girl with the blue hair is Hilde. She can fix and build pretty much anything. She's going to be planning major cities and stuff once we get underway."
We crossed the room diagonally from the door, heading toward a stairwell that lead down to a movie theater with an arcade. "They hook us up big time, here. No good selection of movies yet until they burn them onto the discs, but in the meantime we have laser tag which is a lot of fun. Not to mention Frogger!" We were confronted with three more women in the arcade, one that looked Chinese, the other that looked slightly Oriental, and the third that had short, brown hair and was throwing darts at a board with strange accuracy. "Heero, meet Meiran, Sally, and Catherine."
I nodded in greeting at each of them, pausing on Catherine. She looked familiar, but I couldn't place where I might have seen her before. I shrugged it off. I probably had just run into her somewhere before.
"It's a pleasure, Heero," Sally said. "We're so glad you could help."
I just with I knew what I was helping with. "Aa." I felt like a moron. I had no idea where I stood with this people; I'm not even particularly sure why I came. Maybe things were easier back in the system, not in an unfamiliar-yet-familiar world that is planning to be repopulated.
"Hey, have you guys seen Zechs and Lu?"
"Not around here," Meiran said with a slight curve of her lips. "Try the fitness rooms; Zechs is normally there at this hour. Lucrezia's probably with him."
A quick nod and I found myself following Duo back up the stairs and then up another set. "Zechs is having special training with Treize. Him and Relena are brother and sister, even though they go by different names. Their parents were higher-ups in the system, so it's easier for us to add to what they know from their parents. Not to mention that they're wicked Pacifists and the doctors seem to prefer that, even though war is only part of establishing any society, I think."
The fitness room held a group of decrepit-looking machines, old, rusting weights, and not much else. The walls were an entire reflective surface to watch yourself, and from my angle it looked like there were six people in the room instead of two. Well, twelve instead of four, now that Duo and myself had come up. "Pretty-boy is Zechs. Pretty-girl is Lucrezia. Any questions?"
I shook my head. I felt overwhelmed by all these people. I tended to keep to myself and only had three friends in the system; I was happy with that. My more private side was having problems with my predicament. "No I think I got them all. Can we go back to my room? I need to sit down."
Duo's eyes widened. "Oh, sorry, man, I should've thought about that! There is no gravity in the system and all of a sudden you have to adjust to it out here. And I've been dragging you all over the place... I'm such an idiot!"
"No, you're not an idiot!" I said maybe a little too quickly. You're highly attractive and interesting to listen to and did I mention attractive? I mentally beat my conscience into a wall.
The boy grinned sheepishly, cheeks turning a cute shade of pink. Damn, huh? I think I hit my head on the way out of the system or something. I never used to act like this. Then again, I never quite met anyone like Duo before. I only hope I could get to know him better.
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End Part 4