4.03 Sudden change of format....

[command_dot_com]

"She's a what?"

Dot brought Hex into the medical section of the Principal Office. The sudden change in configuration, attitude, and powers was unsettling, even for Hex. To speak of the Virus, who was standing behind the two executives, playing with the nulls in their tank.

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[a1enzo]

Before she can, another window twings open. "Ah must protest most strongly!" cries Cecil, while little Matrix, whom he was told to watch, attempts to use him as a chin-up bar. "I am many things, but I am not a nanny!" He grabs the boy off his back by the back of the vest (Cecil may have limited mobility, but he's got great reach) and holds him up to the window.

Matrix scowls. Renegades don't need babysitters.

[command_dot_com]

"I told you to change out of those clothes!" Dot scolds her little brother, who is REALLY choosing a bad time to pick up on Matrix's bad habits.

[a1enzo]

"No!" Renegades don't listen to scolding either.

[nofileext]

Yet another vidwindow pwings open. This time it's Specky. "Um, sir-ma'am..."

[command_dot_com]

"Not now, Specky!" Dot closes that window as abuptly as it opened and turns to Enzo's window. "Phong, talk to Enzo."

[a1enzo]

"That's little Matrix!" insists little Matrix, before that window, too, closes.

[command_dot_com]

Dot turns to Hex, she is really pissed, upset, and everyone wants a piece of her it seems. "Hex, you're with me. Bob, where's your car?"

[mendanddefend_archive]

"Just outside," replies a very bewildered Guardian. Has everyone gone totally random all of a sudden?

[command_dot_com]

"I'm borrowing it!" She grabs the virus-turned-sprite by her wrist and pushes past Bob outside. She is on a mission right now, User help anyone who decides to get in her way.

[nofileext]

"But... w-where are you going?" cries Phong, who lost track of things about the time Bob arrived.

[command_dot_com]

Dot and Hex as just about out of the hallway when Dot turns back to face them and call back. "To find my father!"

With that, the two are gone.

Hex's madness couldn't be...contagious could it?

[mendanddefend_archive]

Bob is left staring at the closed door, blinking in surprise.

Well, that was weird. But at least it's over now, right?

[nofileext]

Weird is putting it mildly. Phong takes refuge in what he does understand, which is that he has a task to attend to now that Bob is here.

"Well, just slip out of your uniform and hop up onto the scanner. I'll be with you in a nano." He rolls off to fetch the examination doohickeys. Help yourself to a 'zine.

[mendanddefend_archive]

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"I'm sorry?"

[nofileext]

Oh, not this again. Modesty is all well and good, but sometimes it is very unhelpful.

"Bob. We need to run a full compile on you." Clothing code gets in the way of deep scanning, you know that.

[mendanddefend_archive]

Actually, at the moment, Bob's hesitation comes from somewhere else entirely. But Phong doesn't know that. Yet.

"No, no, I-I'm fine!" says Bob with a nervous laugh. "Look, uh, haven't you got to talk to Enzo? I'll come back when you're not busy..."

[nofileext]

Hesitate for whatever reason you like, Bob, but do it on your own time.

"On the scanner!" commands Phong in a brook-no-argument tone. "Is doctor's orders!"

[mendanddefend_archive]

Bob sighs and starts taking off his armor.

Might as well get this over with.