Okay, since I don't want to throw you two to the wolves with this, here is what you two need to do. I'm going to set a scenario, and you two are going to post to reach a number of posts that I tell you to. After that's done, I give you an update on it, and then from there, we repeat until we finish the mission. Sound simple? That's because it - for the most part - is. All this will be in both your hands. Imagine this a sandwich, I provide the bread, and you fill it up with tasty fillings. Without further ado...

Killing a Cub before it becomes a Tiger

A man sat in his chair and pondered the screen. On it, showed two custom built navis, one male with beautiful features, fairly tall, armed to the teeth with various guns. Pistols, a few shotguns, rifles, and one very long sniper rifle strapped to his back. On his face was what seemed to be war paint, complete with a predatory grin and glare from two blue eyes covered with an equally blue visor. Covering his head was a mane of well, blue hair. He wore military style camoflauge pants and vest with black underarmor only covering his torso.

Next to him was a female navi, also beautiful. Choosing to be more human looking, she wore red jean shorts, and a top that consisted of a large red piece of cloth that covered her chest. At her hips were strapped two falchions, with an additional two longswords strapped across her back in an "X" shape. War paint covered her face and in contrast to her male partner, her face was softer with kind, red eyes and a small mouth.

The man's hand moved to a mouse where he picked up a PET. Turning on the screen, he spoke to the two navis sharing a screen. Unlike the two navis on the computer screen, these were simple Normal Navis of a generic model.

"You two will inform the two navis that I've chosen for this mission, I'm going to put my trust in them. Ask them to both send an email to me titled "I am but a Volunteer." I have to stop this before it becomes big."

Having that done, he moved to his computer to do some work. Fingers flying fast, he typed out his response to their emails. Along with it, he gave them a picture of both the navis that were on his screen.

I trust only you two, yes, it may be strange, but I want you two to help me. Along with this email is a picture of the two hackers that are in ACDC. While they pose no major threat at this time, I know in my heart that they'll quickly gain power and I cannot allow that. I want you two to search ACDC for their hideout and eliminate them as quickly as possible. I'm not sending you to chase a needle in a digital haystack, though. They love attention, and therefore are situated in the ACDC Square. You two will go in at night and find a lone Program. Approach it one at a time, and say "Hello, how do you do on this fine day?" and it will tell you to leave as it is nighttime and children should not be out.

Now comes the crucial part, wait exactly seven seconds and say "It's daytime on the other side, why not let me see it?" The program will open a portal. Step through. After that, you will encounter a door that you simply push aside and enter. Then, you will battle the two of them and delete them. If you can do this, I will reward you very handsomely.

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I want six posts in total; three per person. Two of which will be being found by the man's Navi, sending the email, receiving his email and meeting up with your partner. One will be your Navi talking to the program, and then entering the Hacker's Stronghold. After that, I'll make another post and you'll battle the two. Specifics about battling will be said then.

So, RP away, the two of you. The entire thing is in your hands and I look forward to six well done posts. Elec will start, then Insaniholic, then Elec, and so on. Remember, make them shine.

Akirai Ryun wandered the net as he usually did. He had still some glimmer of hope that he would find a suitable master, but it was faint, so faint that it didn't seem to exist at all. He appeared to be a wandering soul that traveled the net without purpose. It just seemed like he was existing for the sole reason of being bored or entertaining himself with whatever he pleased.

However, he wasn't such a navi, and he persued endevors that helped other navis and kept him entertained. He took the more honorable path so to speak.

And for today, he was more bored than usual. He had just completed a job for some navi, but now there were no jobs that he could accomplish by himself as the other jobs required a master.

Akirai sighed as he walked slowly around with his head looking forward, but his eyes not entirely seeing his surrounding. He saw as much as he needed to not bump into someonee, but remained looking into space as he pondered about his boredom.

After walking for a while, he heard the sound of a buster shot into the sky right behind him. "Heh, sounds like a battle going on. I wonder whether I should join." he thought for a moment, and then decided, he was bored, so why not?

He turned around and noticed that it was a single navi that was standing before him. The navi had an indignant look on his face as it seemed he was unpleased by the some long journey or something. Akirai sighed, it wasn't a battle that he could 'help' stop; he didn't want to start 'unnecessary' battles where he didn't have an excuse for starting it.

He turned back around and as he began to start off, the navi yelled out, "Oi! Don't just walk away! I've been calling you for the last minute or so!"

Akirai slowly turned about, internally surprised by the outburst, but he didn't show it so that his weaknesses weren't revealed. "Now, what do you want with me, angry navi?" he asked with a polite voice with a sarcastic accent on the last two words.

The normal navi clenched his teeth as he lowered his buster arm, "This was the navi he needed?" he thought as he stared at Akirai, who appeared weak and arrogant.

He sighed and then said his message, "My master asks you to send an email to him titled 'I am but a Volunteer.' You will find information about this mission in the response from him."

"Okay..." Akirai said as he waved his hand and opened a monitor that had his email client there. And under the surveillance of the male navi, he sent his response:

I am but a Volunteer,

Hello, mysterious client. How may I help you with your problem?

-Akirai Ryun

After sending it, he immediately recieved a email with the details on his mission. He read over it quickly and smiled. It sounded like a fun job except for the program. It seemed like so pointless in the mission. The two targets were just wandering around in the Square, so why not go delete them there?

He looked up, and noticed that the male navi was gone. He shrugged and them moved on to wait for night to go to the program along with his partner. Hopefully he or she wouldn't slow him down.

Another annoying request. No doubt by another weak compatriot, incapable of doing things with his own abilities; indeed, these days so many come to believe that their money alone would be enough. The fools. Nonetheless, Tetsujin had complied; it would be an efficient way to weasel in some favors for his own personal gain. Besides, he was bored. It had been forever since the last time he had seen any action, and he was eager as ever to bust some heads and tear things up a bit. After all, what good would heavy training be if those new skills of yours can't be tested out?

In any case, the mission was set. By his own request, the details were limited. If there was anything he hated, it was a long lecture about the importance of his goal. All he wanted was his target, what to do with it, and his pay; the rest would serve itself.

Arriving at the checkpoint, Tetsujin took note of his surroundings; specifically, the sound of battle. No doubt something was already going on, and of course, he was irritated by it. The early sound of battle could only mean one thing. He had a partner.

"Why the hell would they do that?" he said to himself in a tone of annoyance. "As if I couldn't handle a bunch of weak navis on my own... he's probably all weak and messed up, too, meaning I gotta protect his sorry ass while fighting off the other two. How freakin' dandy."

Calmly he walked his way in, slamming one fist into his open hand, eager to fight for the first time in ages.

Akirai sat on a bench in the ACDC Square late at night. He was given a picture of his partner along with the instructions, so he sat still, waiting for his partner to show up as he was able to monitor the entire Square. Hopefully, his partner will also think of starting at the Square.

Akirai silently waited as time ticked by.

(Mokujin, GO)

Finally catching sight of his "partner", or "tag along" as he called them, Tetsujin walked many strides forward; it was obvious to him that this was his partner, judging from his overall appearance, as well as the serious look on his face; but most of all was the picture of Tetsujin was that was in his hand. With all this in mind, he made his usual calm, cool, and collected approach.

"HEY YOU!!! QUIT THIS JOB RIGHT NOW!!!" he shouted loudly, closing the distance between him and Akirai.

OOC: You could have told me about this.
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Akirai turned and faced the guy that shouted at him and raised his right eyebrow. He had been partnered with an interesting and loud person, he thought as he looked at the picture he had to double check that this was indeed the person he was to complete the mission with. After looking at him for a while, he stood up from the bench and then walked towards his partner as his partner walked to him.

When they both met, he held out his hand and introduced himself as Akirai.

"Just great." he thought to himself. "One of THOSE guys, who are always polite. Now doubt I'm gonna have problems with him."

With a swift flick of the wrist, Tetsujin smacked Akirai's hand out of the air, uninterested in formalities.

"The name's Tetsujin." he said abruptly, putting his hands in his pockets. "As I said, I don't need your help with this situation. Pay's low enough as it is; splitting it will just worsen my mood. So either give me your cut, or leave."

Akirai had moved his hand down to his side after Tetsujin had rudely flicked it away. He wasn't particulary moved to anger or annoyance by the gesture. It was just a bit funny to him that a person would react so violently to a mere handshake.

"Heh, aren't we a bit brash." Akirai said as he turned his back to his partner.

"We should finish the mission before you even consider getting any pay, even my share of it." Akirai said as he began walking to search for the program that was supposedly the gate to the two hackers.

"Don't say I didn't warn you..." mumbled Tetsujin, irritated by the navi's state of "maturity". Following suit, he would take advantage of his tracking skills to seek out his unfortunate target; the first step being to detect the unusual. No matter how skilled one is at blending in, there will always be something out of place.

And thus, he wandered; keeping near to his partner, surprisingly. It was for the sake of using him as a tool; they both had the same goal, after all, thus there was little harm in taking advantage of his presence just a little.

But Tetsujin was bored; his patience was easily tried by the situation early on, and he really wasn't ready for the act of "seek and destroy", just destroy. He was ready to rip open the nearest wall and freak out everyone he could see, but that would just mess things up.

So he decided to pull his act, and do things the quiet "disciplined" way. Closing his eyes, he began to envision a flow of water; a river smoothly flowing through a quiet forest, giving the gift of life to its inhabitants. In a near instant, he came to know where the program was most likely to be.

"It's at an outdated protocol center that a massive chip shop was built on top of." he said, making the assumption that his prediction was correct. His precognitive senses were excellent, then so should be Tetsujin's.

"Heh, since you seem so sure of yourself that that's is where the program is located, might as well check it out." Akirai said without concern, though it was an odd skill his partner had. Reliable or not, that was to be decided, but he still scoffed at the methoud of finding the location of the program; it was still quite ridiculously strange.

But, he didn't have any other leads, so he started to dash over to where his partner said the program was as during his travelings, he had found a location similar to what his partner discribed. And whether or not his partner followed him was up to him.

The two begrudging partners reached the ACDC Square to find it very empty. All the Navis that hung out there were gone, and the Navis that tended the shops were also, predictably gone. There was nobody there at all.

Except for a lone program. It just floated around in a part of the Square, seemingly random. It's face, instead of the usual :D was changed to a >:D. Perhaps it made it look fiercer? Or stranger? Who knew. Anyways, it remained there, doing nothing except floating as it pleased.

Time was ticking and the two needed to eliminate both fledgeling hackers before they relocated...