BGC Fic Ghost in the Shell By Battlekrome Warning this can be considered a DARK fic reader beware! --------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 1: KIA? Intro - music: Don't Fear The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult ---------------------------------------------------------- Nene decided to make sure she wouldn't be missed from work. Mega-Tokyo was a big city and walking somewhere could take days. Making her way over to a phone booth she used her suit to plug directly into the phone to bypass the camera and hack into it to use as computer access. Her first thought upon accessing the AD police mainframe was that she'd gotten in too easily. Checking her ice on the system she found she was able to crack it without trying. Curious about this ease she tried something she'd never be able to hack, USSD mainframe. Within seconds she had master sysop access. Checking all the security systems for alerts of entry got nothing. She was in and no one noticed, also according to the readouts she wouldn't be. Nene was brought back to reality by a splitting headache. Spots danced before her eyes from the pain. Clutching her head she let out a soft groan and still plugged into the phone booth slumped to the ground. *** Nene awoke lying on the ground. A flashing light on her HUD reading search and download complete. Querying the search brought up a huge list. Nene's eyes widened when she realized half of these files came from places that she didn't know existed. The she saw something that was new. >UPGRADE...? >Query. Upgrade what? >UPGRADE. Of all systems and armor to class II >Query. Current class of armor >ARMOR. Currently breached, at 75% of Max -- class .V Nene gasped as she realized that this 'upgrade' would make her armor four times better than the armor that was top of the line of Sylia's. >Query. System status >SYSTEM. Systems nominal >UPGRADE...? >Upgrade. Yes >UPGRADE. Discard extra mass? >Query. Extra mass >UPGRADE. Suit has 50% extra mass >Query. Does extra mass include pilot of suit? >UPGRADE. Negative >Upgrade. Discard extra mass Nene felt her hardsuit shift around her and then suddenly she felt as if her skin was on fire. Collapsing from the pain, again she fainted. *** Nene woke with a clarity of mind she had never known. Looking down at herself and her new suit. She blushed. Her suit looked as if she was wearing a purple and red spandex suit. All her curves and details laid out for the world to see. It was modest in the fact that everything was covered but it left very little to the imagination. Extra armor covered her chest, crotch and shoulders. Her helmet had been streamlined and the array of antennae and such on her back was gone. Nene wondered where her boosters had gone but figured that worrying about that could be done later. --- Newport City, Japan.. *** An entity formerly known as two names sensed the activity of another of their kind. Checking the tracks of the new one. The trail led to a phone booth in Mega-Tokyo A small girl awoke in her bedroom and sat up. Looking around she moved to the edge of the bed and stood up. Picking up a small bag on her way out the girl left. --- Mega-Tokyo, Japan.. *** Nene decided that walking would only take a few hours to get to the Silky Doll from there she could get Sylia's or Mackie's help. As she walked Nene went over her new suits abilities and new limitations. The ECM suite had been good before. Now Nene was sure she could hack into any system and create a jamming so good that it would block out two city blocks around her. The armor not only was better but also somehow better designed. The joints and such were almost as well armored as the main sections. Somehow the armor flowed when she bent any of her joints. Then she noticed a new option among the evasion jamming. Thermo-optic camouflage. >Query. Thermo-optic camouflage >SYSTEM. renders suit invisible to most visual sensors and all thermal sensors Nene had heard that some companies had been working on this type of camouflage, but none had an actual working prototype. Experimenting with it she found that her body faded out and would blur around the edges so that she could still see where her hands and feet were. Looking in a passing mirror she looked as if there was a pair of gloves with a tarp floating down the street. Experimenting with it more Nene found to her delight that the color scheme of her hardsuit wasn't fixed. Altering it back to the original scheme Nene walked onward. *** Taras drove her car along the freeway in Mega-Tokyo. To her knowledge she was still unique as a species. Her birth as one may call it was almost fated. Whereas an accidental merge was nearly unheard of. Pulling onto the off ramp she turned the car down a side street and stopped at the phone booth. Getting out and checking she found signs of the hack. Her tracking optics found tracks leading northward. Taras realized that the trail was only a few hours old. Getting back into her car she followed the trail. Five blocks later the trail petered out as rush hour pedestrians obliterated the trail. Cynthia decided to find a place to stay while in town and monitor for the new entity's movements. Mega-Tokyo she decided was much worse with Genom and their grasp of the city but there was much she didn't want to do that wouldn't call attention to her existence. *** It wasn't long before Nene wondered why none of the people on the street noticed her unusual appearance. It was if she wasn't even there. >Query. Why are the people around me not able to see me? >SYSTEM. SEP is active do you wish to deactivate? >Query. SEP field? >SYSTEM. Somebody else's problem field renders object psychologically invisible. It was during a musing over what new things her suit still had hidden in it when Nene bumped into a large man. "Sorry," Nene mumbled and pushed past the man. The man turned to watch Nene make her way through the crowd on her way along. Turning he followed. *** >SYSTEM. Boomer approaching, ready combat systems. >Query. Boomer? >SYSTEM. Man twenty meters back. It was then the C-55 boomer split it's skin and went on a rampage. Running to a nearby alley Nene considered her options. >Query. what weapons systems are available for use? >SYSTEM. one >Query. What weapon is that? >SYSTEM. micro-plasma inducer. >Query. clarify >SYSTEM. plasma machine gun >Query. effectiveness against boomer c-55 armor? >SYSTEM. medium to high. >Query. effectiveness depends on? >SYSTEM. amount of times target hit. >Query. what would one hit do? >SYSTEM. minimal damage. >Query. rate of fire on inducer? >SYSTEM. 200 spm >Query. Arm inducer and bring targeting online. >SYSTEM. inducer online... power to 100%... targeting.... Nene watched as her left forearm distended slightly and a muzzle formed near her wrist. Looking around the corner for the boomer she saw it had ripped into the side of a nearby building and had decided that the ADP down the street were more a threat that whatever she could do. 'How dare IT think that!' Raising her arm she opened up. The small blue bolts ripped small chunks off the boomers back. It turned and jumped toward her with its fist drawn back for a punch. Nene involuntarily took a step backward. A bit of garbage caused her to lose her balance. With a roar the boomer the boomer swung its fist down at her. Nene closed her eyes and waited for the pain to start again. It didn't. >SYSTEM. Target neutralized. >Query. How? >SYSTEM. Main database in boomer head hacked. The boomer's fist had stopped about a foot from Nene's chest. It now offered this hand to help Nene to her feet. Nene reluctantly accepted it and stood up. It was then that a large blast blew her off her feet and into unconsciousness and the boomer to component parts. ***-*** Who hoo chapter 1 finished!! Off the dead pages this fic goes