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Spent 3 hours on public transport today so that = more to the story. But I handwrote it all so excuse the rough translation from scrawl-on-train into Australian (for those of you that can't read Australian... well too bad. <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... iggrin.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':D\' />) Oh, this is a bit longer than the other chapters because I had more to write + Ada threatened me with the waterbroom.

Hacker 2 - Part Five

They were stuck. Ava had placed bombs at several locations in the warehouse. Ava had also placed a large group of trip mines who's beams formed a cage of red light around the trio. Ava and his twin had disappeared visibly but were there still there, watching them. The bombs beeped again, signalling the passing of another 5 seconds.

"Losnic, try to leave." Hacker said.
Losnic closed his eyes and he flickered.
"Can't do it." Losnic sighed.
"Don't worry, we still need to wait a little while longer."

Another beep from the bombs. The screen showed less than 20 seconds to go.
"Do it again, Losnic." Hacker said.
"I don't see any..." Losnic was cut off by Hacker.
"Just do it. Two more times and that's it."
Losnic flickered twice more. The bombs beeps again, signifying 15 seconds remaining.
"Ok. Thanks Losnic. That should do it." Hacker said with a slight grin on his face.
They waited.

The last beep signalled that there were only 5 seconds. Hacker stood there still with a smile on his face. Losnic was trying to ask Hacker questions but each time Hacker just raised his hand. Finally the last beep came. It grew in pitch for about a second. Losnic and Blast screwed up their eyes and Hacker stood there, smiling. The beep stopped.
"Boom!" shouted Hacker. He made Blast and Losnic jump and he laughed at the sight. Losnic smiled and Blast growled.
"Bye Bye." Hacker said to the empty warehouse.
Ava became visible and let out a long wail.
"Noooo! How could I fail this time? Where did they go?!"
"I... don't know." said the twin.
"You were supposed to be watching them! Stupid fool!"
"I do know that they are somewhere in that direction." the Twin said, pointing out to the west.
"Argh! How can you be so stupid?"
"I'm you, remember?"
"I created you! I can destroy you just as easily!" said the original Ava, storming off right into a trip mine.
"Now who's the stupid one?" said the clone, grabbing Ava on his way and disappearing from the warehouse.

Back in Blast's apartment, Losnic, Hacker and Blast materialised into the room.
"Impossible!" Blast yelled. "How did you do that? We should all be dead!"
"No, nothing is impossible." Hacker said laughing and patting him on the back.
"But... but" Blast stuttered.
"Should happen right about... now."
A dull boom shook the building.
"What the hell was that?" Blast said, looking out of the window.
"Come on boy! We were only there a moment ago. Surely you can remember!" Hacker said.
"The warehouse?"
"Bingo!" Hacker said loudly.
"But we were there, we could not be here too!"
"And why not?"
"The laws of physics..."
"They are theories" Hacker interrupted. "Laws are proven things. So you beleive that we shouldn't be alive or here?"
"Yeah."
"Well we're both of those things so don't worry. At least we got away from them for now. I'll explain it to you because we have some time now." Hacker said, sitting down in a chair.
"You know about the universe?"
Blast nodded.
"For every choice you make there is at least one other universe."
"What?"
"Well let's say that you decide that you'll just walk out of the room. That's one universe right there. This one is the one where you don't."
"And how do you know that?"
"The Sentinel tells me this."
"What's the Sentinel?"
"Another machine, like the one Losnic and I destroyed along with Ava."
"What does it do?"
"It allows anyone with a special chip to 'hop' between the different universes. You can also time-travel, but there's a limitation of that. You have to have existed. So I couldn't go back to before I was born and I couldn't go forward after I died. Also we can 'hop' inside a single universe, allowing us to basically move ourselves from one place to another. We can also alter things. For example, how I altered the bombs back there."
"Why doesn't Ava go back and kill you?"
"I don't know the exact answer to that question myself. My guess is this. If he went back and killed me, then I wouldn't exist right now, would I? So therefore I wouldn't know I existed and he wouldn't have gone back and killed me. It's an infinite loop. Maybe he needs me."
"How did we get out of there? I thought he said he was going to keep us there."
"He can't. He's never been here. So if he can't see a place he can't go there or stop us from going there. Unfortunately he HAS been in that place I put you in, that's why he was able to come after you."
"Why me? Why not you or Losnic?"
"That is yet another of the many things I do not know. Again, he may need you for some purpose."
Losnic was swinging on his chair and swung too far backwards. Hacker shouted out "No!". Losnic disappeared and then reappeared quickly, standing next to the fallen chair.
"Damn it! Losnic's got a earlier version of the chip that only allows you to hop inside a universe. Each time anyone uses the chip it sends out a signal to the machine and then the machine sends out a signal to everyone who has a chip where they are, what they did and who they are. They can track us now. Losnic, move." Hacker said.

The two Ava's materialised into the room right where Losnic was standing.
"Such a pleasure to meet you again." said the clone.
"Hand it over!" one said.
"Now!" said the other.
"Sorry I don't know what you're talking about. But I do have this!" Hacker pulled out a gun and pointed it at Ava's head. Simultaneously the two Ava's pulled out their guns and aimed them at Hacker's and Losnic's heads and Losnic had drawn his and pointed it at the other Ava.
The original Ava sighed. "So predictable."
"Looks like we have a stand-off." Hacker said.
"We'll take either the disk or him." the original said, moving his head towards Blast.
"How about neither?" Hacker said, fading away to nothingness along with the clone. They reappeared a short time later with their positions swapped. The clone's back was now to Hacker and Hacker had now got the clone's gun and pointed it at the exposed back whilst still pointing his original weapon at the original Ava. He fired two shots and both the Ava's collapsed.
"That won't last long." Hacker said.
Losnic emptied his gun into both the bodies and Blast stood there looking at the horrific scene. The clone rolled over and threw something at Blast and Blast disappeared. The two Ava's also disappeared.
"Now what do we do?"
"I know where they are." Hacker said.

....and another episode well written....

very good, radar <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... /smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':)\' />

Sorry about the delay. Deluge of homework flooded my mind and was finally released last week... but then I had to work four days straight and that drained me. I've had too much time to think about this story but not enough time to write it so... here goes.

Hacker traced the Avas' trail to a place he had been before. It was a replica of the facility he had destroyed when he and Losnic thought they destroyed Ava.
"That's strange." Hacker said as they materialised on top of the staircase.
"What?" asked Losnic and Blast simultaneously.
"Nevermind, tell you later." answered Hacker.

Hacker led them from the stairs to the door at the end. Losnic punched in the code and the door slid open. The room was massive. At the doors there were another set of stairs with three breaks in them, leading a few stories down into the sub-terranean buliding. The staircase was supported by several thick marble columns and had brass handrails. The room was lit well enough to see the floor but they could just make out the roof because it was a few feet above them. At the bottom of the staircase they could make out two silhouettes which they presumed to be the Avas. In the middle of them there was another figure sitting down and hunched over.

They reached the bottom of the staircase to find that both Avas were waiting for them.
"Why here?" Hacker asked quickly.
"Why not? This place gives the quickest response time from the Sentinel." replied the Ava on the left.
"And where is it?" Losnic asked.
"Why would we tell you that? You seek to destroy it and all *we* worked for!" the right Ava replied accusingly.
"And? Wouldn't it do some good?" Losnic asked.
"To you maybe but it does not do us any good. If you wish to destroy it then you must destroy us first."
"What do you mean us?" Hacker cut in.
"What?" both the Avas asked.
"What do you mean us? You said 'you must destroy *us* first' Why do you refer to yourself as two people?" Hacker said with a glint in his eye.
"How..?" Ava stuttered.
"Ahh, the only time you forget to clean up your tracks and I find out two things that help us. The first was where you went, the second was that you only left one track, not two."
"But that means..." Losnic said.
Hacker pulled out his gun and time seemed to slow. Hacker wrapped his finger around the trigger and pulled it painfully slowly whilst one of the Avas begun to form what looked like a shout. A very low boom reverberated around them in the suspended state of time and Blast was sure he saw the air move around him. The bullet slid no faster than a snail out of the gun. When Blast looked up at the Avas they seemed to be blinking on and off. When the left one disappeared, the right one appeared and vice-versa. He finally understood. Time resumed it's usual pace and the bullet shot Ava right between the eyes. The bullet when straight through his head leaving a hole in the wall behind him. Blood flowed out of Avas head.
Then the applause started. It sounded like a single pair of hands clapping.
"Bravo, Bravo!" someone said. The applause echoed around the room and Hacker and Blast looked around for the source of it.
"Over here boys!" the voice said. Another Ava stepped out from behind another column.
Hacker raised an eyebrow and pointed the gun at the new Ava and the gun clicked.
"As you probably have noticed by now there were always two of us, not one as you claim so arrogantly. Yes, there were two of us at the warehouse. When 'we' came to your house it was actually that one. Shame about him. You've probably also noticed that your gun only had one bullet and in remembering so, you specifically recall a memory of you loading it up with a full magazine. Another false thought. As for our floor stainer of a friend over there well..." The dead Ava faded. "He won't bother us any longer." He said with a smile.
"And you escaped how?" Hacker asked.
"You of all people should know that very answer! You answered it yourself earlier!" He said and with another raised eyebrow from Hacker continued, "Well it would seem you have some very short short-term memory then. You said to me, well, the one that you shot, that 'you only left one track'." he said mockingly, continuing his story, "And now you finally come to the answer."
"Is it because Blast doesn't have a chip?"
"Ha! No. Anyone doing any travelling will leave a trace. Keep thinking."
"It was that device that clone of yours threw at Blast!"
"Bingo!" said the Ava, applauding again and stopping abruptly. Blast had disappeared. "Now where's he got to?"
"Hmm?" Hacker said, turning around to see where Blast was and finding that he had disappeared also. "Oh, him. Sorry I was too busy listening to your gloating." Hacker mocked back.
"So how many more of you are there, Ava?" Losnic asked.
"Just me, the original and the best. I know you don't beleive me but it's true." Ava replied.
"How'd you get the clone?" Losnic questioned.
"Him? Clone? Ha! He was my brother. He was always weaker, always following orders and me."
Another gun clicked.
"So that's where you got to" Ava said, spinning around on one foot to face Blast. "Welcome back, care to join us?"
"Losnic, now." Hacker said through gritted teeth.
Losnic pulled out two 9 millimeters and unloaded them at Ava. All the bullets seemed to streak past him.
"Worse shot than he is!" Ava said motioning to Hacker.
Ava now stood in between Hacker, Losnic and Blast with them forming the points of a triangle around him. Hacker winked.
"What?" Ava said, having only time to speak the first word of his sentence before being cut off by a gunshot to the back. Blast had shot Ava in the back. More lights in the dimly lit room came on and lit up the entirety of it. In the middle of the room, the furthest away from the stairs, sat a large sphere. In front of it there was a computer terminal. The trio walked to the terminal and it read.
"Sentinel: Looking After Our Future.
Please login:
User:_
"

The cursor was flashing, Hacker typed in his alias "Hacker" and typed in a password he used more than others. It let him in. The computer spoke in a soft female voice. "Welcome to the Sentinel. Please select an option." A graphical user interface appeared on the screen with three options. They were: "Diagnosis, Users and Shutdown." Hacker went straight for the Shutdown button and when he pressed it the computer spoke again.
"Please ensure that all users are disconnected from the network before trying to shut it down. If you do not do this the users' chips will self-destruct."
Another box came up with the spoken message now in writing and below it "Are you sure?" appeared along with two buttons, yes and no. Hacker clicked 'no' and navigated back to the main screen. He clicked the "Diagnosis" option this time.
"There are currently <pause> four <pause> users connected to the Sentinel Network." The computer spoke and then showed a map of the world with four dots appearing one after another in close proximity. Hacker clicked the zoom button which had appeared along with the map until he could identify the location of the dots. Three dots were close together and one was a few kilometers away from them, and closing quickly. The Sentinel was shown by a large blue dot.
Hacker clicked a ID tab next to each of the dots. The first dot he clicked showed a blank photo with a question mark on it. The name field had a question mark in it too. He frowned and clicked the next one, smiling as a photo of his younger self was shown with his name appearing underneath the name field. He clicked on the third one and smiled wider finding that the next dot was Losnic's representation on the map. He closed the window and clicked the fourth dot.

A photo of Blast came up. Hacker stood there with his mouth agape.
"You had been hiding it all along!"
"Only from you." Blast faded to nothing.
Hacker tried tracking him but found nothing, not even the Sentinel showed him on its map. He clicked the first dot out of curiosity and it now displayed a picture. Hacker stared blankly at the screen.

...................... darn you lol........

Hacker 2 - Chapter Seven

The dot was closing in from behind them. Once it reached the stairs of the enormous underground base Hacker and Losnic tried turning around but they couldn’t. They just kept hoping that the dot was friendly. The footsteps grew louder right when the figure was behind them. Hacker could hear the air flowing in and out of their nostrils.
“Hacker. Losnic. Turn around now.” The figure said.
They turned around to find the figure was Hacker’s old friend, Biscuit.
“Hey! How’d you get here?” Hacker asked.
“Tracked you using this.” Biscuit said, putting a chubby finger to his temple.
“What? You never had one.”
“Remember that time I disappeared? Back in Bismouth Industries HQ?”
Hacker nodded.
“Well, they inserted a new brand of chip they were working on, a prototype.”
“Why did they do this?”
“They said that I was the perfect candidate.”
“For what?”
“They didn’t specify exactly what, but ever since this chip was ‘installed’ in me I’ve avoided a lot of life-threatening situations.”
“Like what?”
“Well, there was this one time when an 18-wheeler’s brakes failed when it was coming up to some traffic lights, right behind me.”
Hacker grimaced.
“Yeah, not pretty. Luckily the chip did something and time seemed to slow down but everything I did was still in normal time… and this was like weird for me but I was afraid that I was going to lose my life. The chip brought me back to Bismouth Industries.”
“What did they do to you?”
“They trained me how to effectively use the chip, now I can control nearly everything. Although there are *some* limitations.”
“Like what?” Losnic asked
“Sometimes I try and do some things and the chip sends out an electrical pulse to my brain which really hurts.”
“Like what?” Losnic repeated his question.
“Well that’s really a long story…”
“Tell us.” Hacker said “We’ve got plenty of time.”
“I’m afraid you don’t, but I’ll tell you after the short version of my story. I’ve been monitoring Blast ever since he got out of jail. Bismouth was the people he was hacking, he says he didn’t do it, the court says he did. He’s been playing you all along.”
“Yeah, we kinda figured that.” Hacker replied.
“Anyway, when you were in that warehouse with the Avas, Ava sorry, you couldn’t escape. That’s another talent Bismouth trained me in, I can pull people out of anything and not leave a trace.”
“But I thought Ava worked for Bismouth.” Losnic said.
“That’s what they thought too. But then they started finding some of their employees go missing, not just any employees either. They were the test subjects for the chip they were installing.”
“Your chip.” Hacker trailed off.
“Yes, my chip. Anyway, when you were in the warehouse, I pulled you out of that. The only way Ava tracked you was when Losnic pulled himself up off his falling chair. Yes, I was watching that too. Losnic, tell me, when you disappeared then what did you see?”
“I saw… you! Then that was quickly replaced with the image of Ava.” Losnic said quickly.
“Yes, you saw me.” Biscuit smiled. “Then you saw Ava. It would seem you have a different chip to mine. Anyway, I tracked your path through this universe and somehow you jumped out of it into my space that I built. Four feet forward and you and I would have shared the same space. Lucky you weren’t where Hacker was. Two objects can’t exist in the same place at the same time.” Biscuit said, quoting Newton.
“So you pulled us out of there… cool. Thanks buddy.” Hacker said. “Now what do we do about our little problem here?”
“Hm? Oh, you mean Blast. Well… he’s gone. Literally. Disappeared completely.”
“What? Can’t you track him?”
“I tried to but he was moving very very quickly. He was hopping around this planet for a little bit and then he just disappeared.”

Hacker turned back to the Sentinel and used its search function. He typed in “Blast” and hoped it would work. It did. The Sentinel was showing Blast to be right behind them, right where Biscuit was. Biscuit leaned over to see what was on the screen.

“Oh dear.” Biscuit muttered and then exploded. Blast now stood where Biscuit was.
“Chunky.” Blast said, disappearing and re-appearing with a clean set of clothes on. Losnic looked like he was ready to throw up but he held it back.
“What do you want?” Hacker yelled at Blast.
“Power and revenge.” Blast said calmly.
“You can’t have either.” Hacker said, pulling his gun out and shooting at Blast’s foot.
Blast and Losnic traded places and the bullet went right through Losnic’s left foot.
“Damn you!” Hacker shouted, shooting the rest of his clip at Blast.
Again, Blast and Losnic traded places and all the bullets except for three went through Losnic.
Hacker screamed and ran at Blast but Blast dodged out of the way.
“You can’t have what you can’t grab.” Blast said.
“Why?! Why are you doing this?” Hacker said, nearly crying.
“Because I can. This is only the beginning.” Blast disappeared, leaving Hacker there crying over the death of his friend caused by himself. He raised his gun to his own head and pulled the trigger. The gun clicked. He kept on crying.

ahem....there seems to be something missing here.....

...like.....MORE STORY <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... isgust.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'(hmph)\' />

Good twists, Radar; you make the reader pay attention all the way through the story, then throw in something entirely 90 degrees from the last twist. Keep up the good work...now would be a good time.... <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... >/blum.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':P\' />

lol that's awesome Radar!

*nudges radar: make it a happy ending to trick da` witch!* <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... >/blum.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':P\' />

Losnic and Biscuit were both dead. Hacker stopped crying and wiped his nose on the sleeve of the jacket he was wearing. He now only had one purpose in his life, to stop Blast. He took one step forward and everything changed. He knew this place, it was Bismouth Industries. It was the job he did before Ava lead them to the first Sentinel facility.
"Stay still." said a woman from behind him. He tensed his muscles as the needle went into the back of his neck.

"Good to see it worked then." said the woman again when Hacker was waking up. It was dark outside. He couldn't remember where he was or when he got there.
"We thought you weren't going to make it." said a doctor who a very wrinkled face.
"Who are you people?" Hacker asked them.
"We are the people who first implanted you with the chip. You were not the only one, however, there were three other people." explained the woman.
"Who? Biscuit? Losnic?"
"No and No I'm afraid, it was actually your wife, your wife's twin and Blast. We haven't been able to locate your wife's sister though, don't ask why, it's just impossible to find her. We expected you to remember the trials, it seems like our little drug did more than just knock you out. It must have reverted your memory to before the other drug. Do you remember who Ava was?" the doctor asked Hacker.
"Yes, I do. He's dead now isn't he?" Hacker said.
"Yes yes, he's dead. We confirmed that ourselves." the doctor stated.
"Good... I hate to go through all of that again." Hacker said with a sigh of relief.
"Don't think yourself too lucky just yet, you still have Blast to contend with."
"I know" Hacker said, frowning, "I will kill him with my bare hands. He killed Losnic and Biscuit."
"And who else?" the doctor asked.
"What? Who else did he kill?" Hacker asked frantically, thinking that the drug really had an effect on his mind.
"Your wife."
Hacker looked shocked and then his face slowly turned red, then purple. He turned around and punched a clear hole through the wall behind him.
"He will die!" Hacker said, disappearing. The doctor sighed and nodded to the lady. She brought Hacker back.
"Hacker, you can't go out so unprepared."
"Why not?" Hacker yelled at him. "I want him dead for killing those who have been close to me."
"If you're not careful he'll kill you. He knows this facility exists but he was banished from it after we found out he killed your wife. He wouldn't dare come back here but there's always the chance that he could do to you what he did to Biscuit."
"And what's stopping him?! Nothing!"
"Not true, we have people who have been watching him. Although it is, as of late, been very difficult to track him. He moves so quickly, even faster than you do."
"So why are you holding me back? Why not send me with your *glorious* army and we can slaughter him?"
"In time, Hacker. In time. For now, rest. When you wake up you will be more prepared than ever."

When Hacker awoke the next morning his head hurt. He tried getting out of bed but stumbled and nearly hit the floor. The nurse grabbed him before he did.
"Where'd you come from?" he asked in a slurry voice.
"Where do you think?" she asked sarconically.
"Oh yeah. What'd you do to me? Inject me with vodka?" Hacker said, still slurring his words.
"No, we actually put you under anaesthesia overnight, well it was actually over two days. It's been two days since we brought you here." she explained.
"What's with the pain then?"
"Oh that? Well the pain is the reason for the anaesthesia. We put a new chip in you."
"And what's it do now?"
"The same as your old one but it can speed up your thought processes but only if you're adrenalin levels are high. The higher your adrenalin levels, the quicker you can do things."
"Cool, anything else?"
"Nope that's about it."
"So when does the drowsiness wear off?"
"Right about now." said the nurse, pulling out a nine millimeter and pointing it at Hacker's head. Hacker disappeared and reappeared behind her grabbing the gun from her hand just as she disappeared and firing off a shot at her.
"Good." she shouted from down the hallway, "It would seem like it works now."
"That wasn't funny you know, I could have killed you."
"I could have killed you too." she mocked "How do you feel now?"
"Much better." Hacker said. "Do you know where Blast is?"
"Come on, even you should know how to find him by now. Look for his chip using the Sentinel. He's bound to be somewhere. Oh, speaking of the Sentinel we also upgraded that and now it searches the majority of the multi-verse." the nurse said.
"Thanks." Hacker said, disappearing from the room.

Hacker re-appeared in the Sentinel room, he walked up to the Sentinel and entered Blast's name into a search field. The lines across the globe faded into nothing until one stood out, bright red against the globe. It was Blast's trail. Where he was travelling to and from and how he was doing it. Hacker showed as a green dot on the screen. The dot stopped in one place a short time afterwards. It didn't seem to be doing anything. Then a red line joined Blast and Hacker's dots and Blast was travelling along the line. Hacker jumped out of the chair and pulled out a gun and pointed it at the chair, keeping his eyes fixed on the screen. Blast's dot finally got to it's destination, right in the chair. Blast materialised and Hacker made contact with the gun to Blast's head. Blast jumped.

"Oh, it's you." Blast said.
"That's right. Why did you do it, Blast?"
"Why not? Don't you think that it has been fun chasing me and my friend around the place?"
"Do you think it would have been fun?"
"Oh I would have had a jolly good time chasing you if our positions were switched."
"Just answer the question so I can splatter your brains all over the Sentinel."
"Just my brains?"
"Answer it!" Hacker yelled.
"Ok. If you want answers you can get them." Blast said, swinging around on his chair and keeping a calm expression on his face, even with Hacker's nine in it.
"It all started with the trials. That's when your wife and I met. She was beautiful and she was stuck with you, of all people."
"I don't remember you. Why not? I thought I got all of my memory back." Hacker interrupted.
"You only got back the parts Bismouth wanted you to get back. They kept the remainder. May I continue my story?"
"The quicker you finish it the quicker you die. Make it quick." Hacker said.
"Yes, she was quite beautiful. We met in the dorms one night when you were out drinking with your mates. I asked her if she wanted to leave you and come with me, she didn't of course, she felt too sorry for you and your... limited group of friends. This did not impress me at all, from that moment on I felt contempt for her. I think she felt the same way too. She kept trying, and succeeding, to outdo me in the trials. She was always wonderful at that. Keeping a long story short, she annoyed me in one particular trial. She had to move me to another point in a room but instead she put me through a wall, horizontally. You realise how long I was stuck there? No, of course you don't. She made me feel real stupid. I tried to get myself out of there but I couldn't. When they did eventually free me, the next morning, I went after her and killed her. You saw the end result. Wasn't she pretty?"
"Screw you! Die!" Hacker said.
"Not yet, I haven't finished my story. You asked why and I haven't finished explaining WHY exactly yet."
"After I killed her I erased the memories of you and Biscuit and befriended Losnic and a new guy who called himself Ava. I sent them both after you. I beleived that you knew the location of the Sentinel. Unfortunately, the person who *did* know was sitting right under my nose the whole time, it was Losnic. Remember? He drove you there, to the first one. You destroyed it and attempted to kill Ava in the explosion but somehow he was still alive. We retreated back to Bismouth Industries, of course this was all before they knew I killed your wife, and they did a good job of healing him. Shame about his face though, they couldn't quite get that right and they didn't know why. We explained our story on the second to last night we were supposed to be there and they gave us clearance to go after you and Losnic. As you would surely know, we failed in that respect, hence why you are holding a gun to my head and asking the questions."
"Why did they have to die? Why Biscuit? Why Losnic?"
"Because they both knew. They both knew where the Sentinel was. They both knew about the Project and every single one of its employees. They knew everything there was to know and to pass that knowledge on was to be the end of me. Apparently so it was not."
"Any last words?"
"Yes, one, die." Blast said, pulling out a gun of his own and firing off a shot at Hacker. It grazed his arm as he turned around. Another shot fired, this time it sounded further away. It was from another gun and Hacker couldn't beleive who was holding it. The gun was pointed at where Blast's head used to be, a woman holding it.
"It can't be." Hacker said, tears coming to his eyes.
"It is, technically." said the woman.
"What? Oh, you have a twin." Hacker said, frowning.
"Her and I shared you, Michael." Hacker's wife said. "We both had equal feelings for you and we both switched occasionally. I'm amazed you didn't know the difference. My twin sent me a message somehow through the chip telling me she was in danger, so I hid. For all this time. Then, just a few minutes ago, I came out of hiding and here I am now, yet again by your side."
Hacker dropped his gun and ran to her and hugged her for what seemed like an eternity.
"What now?" Hacker asked her.
"We carry on with our lives. Forgetting about the chip, forgetting about everything. At this moment Bismouth is working on shutting down all Sentinels and the entire Project." she explained.
"Very well then." Hacker said and they walked hand-in-hand out of the Sentinel facility.

hmmmm..... [i]*ponders this ending*[/i]