Haxored.

[Thalron]

"$o wut |)1d u \/\/@n7 7o tok abut?" a strange sounding voice said as some equally strange lights came into existence, pouring out of thin air like odd neon green bubbles... They were immediatly followed by a flash, leaving a male hacker standing there looking rather unsure of which way to go, a much smaller hacker... or something at his feet looking up at him.

"My friend stopped talking to me... *sniff*" she said in a rather distraught tone before hopping up and pointing off in a random direction which they then began to walk in "I'll just have to find some new friends I guess..."

The male hacked smiled widely and patted her on the head reassuringly, immediatly rubbing his hand with a slight 'ow' type look on his face... He always forgot about her spikes...

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[kanai]

"Soooo...now that we're here, what do you want to do?"
"Well...I...I don't know. Whenever we come here, we just usually --"
"Wait for something to happen, right?"
"...Um...yeah..."

Seems like a similar conversation is taking place between two Tsumes, which are a little west of where the young Hacker Mix is pointing... ^^;

The first of the pair is white-furred and incredibly large, and he appears to be very delicately trotting about on tippy-toes, directing his words to the crown of a nearby tree. His wings are spread to keep balance, and his tail, tipped in a deadly-looking scythe, swings periodically behind him. Peacock feathers line various points of his body, altogether making him appear moreso festive than hazardous to approach. :3;

A much smaller Tsume peers out uncertainly from the thick-leaved tree, her pigmentation white and blue. She looks like she's about ready to jump onto the male's shoulders, who looks sour but resigned at her preparations.

"Alright, Pixel... Just...flare your wings a little, so you won't knock me down..."

She could just fly down herself, but that would be a waste of time, since she's going to hop up on him anyways. 9_9;

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The male continues walking for alittle ways before... Running headlong into a tree "0\/\/..." he said with a surprised look on his face as he slowly slid down the tree then fell backwards onto his rump... It was rather unusual that he missed the tree as he appeared to have been staring at it moments ago.

The young one giggled at this and looked like she was about to say something when she heard someone else and paused... eyes shifting over to where the voice had come from instantly, Maybe they would want to play or something? she jumped up onto the tree that her father had just ran into and climbed up it, although it looked more like she had just walked up it rather than climbing like most things

about half way up she was able to spot the larger of the two tsumes (the one she had heard speak) and smiled, looking down to her father who was still laying on the ground with swirly looking eyes... Can I go play?" she asked, but didn't receive a response... Frowning she looked back over at the white tsume, forgetting to hold onto the tree for a moment and falling and landing on the over-acting tsume on the ground... He didn't seem to mind but she made a rather loud ear piercing squeek, having just missed one of his blades...

[kanai]

(teklon is awesome. X3 sorry for the delay. aim hasn't been working for me very well, and thus i've been draining my soul into half-life. |D

buuut you know that already. 9_9;)

The smaller Tsume, Pixel by name, rocks her claws into the tree's sagging branch thoughtfully, gauging the distance from her perch to her surrogate father. Carefully, painstakingly, the Air makes the jump right when Teklon gives his girly squeal. That...noise...makes her veer left some, and she ends up hitting the white Tsume full in the face. n_x;

"Argh...!" the male grumbles, sounding muffled as Pixel's wings bat against his skull. The youth meeps and scrambles up his wide but angular shoulders, peeping her apologies. "Sorry, Jam! I heard something squeak."

"And it scared you that much?" Jam counters, spitting out a feather with a disgusted glower. He wiggles his snout some, as it still hurts a little from the impact. "It was probably just a mouse."

Pixel blinks, staring off into the darker depths of the Hills' forestation. She's almost positive she sees something glowing at the base of a particular tree, and she taps one side of Jam's head, whispering, "Look..."

Jam looks, but he swings his head so harshly that the Air nearly topples from the back of his neck. Once she rights herself again, she hunches down some, a little scared of the unknown. "What's that?" she asks, voice shaking.

Her companion, ever the adventurer, gets a smug look on his face. "Only one way to find out," he replies, eyes glinting in anticipation as he drops to all-fours to advance upon the Hacker Mixes..

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The young mix jumped up, recovering from the fall, however, she did not jump off of the larger one, simply standing up on his chest as he continued to lay there with that sort of glazed over look, her wings glow didn't especially show up, but her fathers did as they were much more substantial... "Get up!" she squeeked at him, although not very loud so that it would not be too obvious for anyone around them.

He however just grinned widely and hiccupped, a small neon bubble floating up into the air from his mouth "The vengaboys are comi-mff" he began to sing in a voice very much not his own before she wrapped the wire that extended from her tail around his mouth to hold it closed... Cutting off the song.

"Up, up!" she said again sounding more annoyed, he still did not seem to notice her speak though... in an attempt to regain his attention she jumped up and down afew times on his chest, which... well, didn't really do much...

She wasn't paying too much attention to the other tsumes she had heard moments ago anymore >.>;

[kanai]

(okay i have to download that song now. XD;)

The elder Tsume's movement is fluid and elegant, his gait perfect for stealthy hunting. Although the grass and spoiled leaves crinkle beneath his massive paws, there is hardly any noise to give away the pair's presence now. Gold light pools around the edges of his eyes as they shine with concentration. Jam was no fool; he remembered the renegade beasts he'd slain in Chaos Hills... Caution was needed when he had Pixel in tow. He couldn't afford for the Air to be hurt, what with her stunted size. Although she had stopped growing, her heart had not... It was a disease that could only be tempered by gentle care and guidance. The exact circumstances of Pixel's condition were unknown to him, but he had surmised enough to treat her tenderly, despite his coarse personality.

The Air snuggles into the space between Jam's shoulder blades, peering into the darkness up ahead. "You think it's a firefly...?" she asks in a hush.

"Firefly..." he repeats, running that over in his mind. A smirk tugs at his maw as he seems to remember something, or someone. "Maybe."

Right about then is when the music starts. XD; Jam freezes, and Pixel's form tenses. The quibbling of the female Mix can be heard over some strange dialect of some kind...

Pixel 's and Jam turns around to look at the Air. "Did my CD-player go off?" he asks, "I thought I left that thing at home."

"Er..." Pixel responds, looking a little nervous as she checks around. Pointless, really. 9_9; "Actually, Edward absorbed that thing into her head a while back, remember?"

"Oh."

Jam's lip curls at the reminder. "The CD, too?" he grumbles.

"Yep...sorry..."

"Well, maybe that's him...her...IT...up there," he suggests, raising his voice a little to greet the glowing Tsumes as the two are within speaking-range. "Hey, Edward! Come out of there! I want that thing back!"

Pixel takes a more courteous approach, hopping down from Jam with a squeak. "Hello...? Someone there?"

[Thalron]

( I know I had it stuck in my head forever today XD;

Teklon, despite having his mouth wired shut at the moment attempts to continue singing, the sound only coming out as somewhat of a hum, with the rhythem of the song present... the wire makes a snapping sound and detaches from the young mixes tail, staying around tek's mouth to keep him from blasting music off for everyone to hear.

"Edward?" she asked quietly, hopping up to see them as they walked forward "Not someone, there are two of us ^_^, Ooh air? and light is it?" she asks as she hops up again (the ^_^ pronounced something along the lines of oo-e-oo ) The peacock-ish one was big she just realized... and big things were scary, but fun... they could last a long time, and sometimes could be very difficult, although... maybe she would see if they had any games that they liked to do, hide and seek lasted only so long.

[kanai]

(i'm going to send you "seventeen" by ratatat. X3 it's quite catchy techno.

that is...whenever aim stops kicking me off. tried to get on it this evening, and it just kept booting me whenever i resigned on and off...so i gave up. x_o)

Jam's eyes narrow suspiciously as the dull undertone of party music ekes out from the black woods ahead. His wings, which blend in with the mystic dark, cup protectively around either side of the adolescent Air, making him look more intimidating.

"That was my favorite song on that CD..." he mutters, "Practically had to hide the whole collection in the mattress, so it'd stop eating those things..."

Pixel tilts her head up from her lower position to meet the Light's bitter expression. "Ed told me they tasted like candy, so she called them lifesavers..." she offers, attempting to defend the deranged Hacker a little.

"Lifesavers?" Jam growls incredulously, "What flavor is a black lifesaver? Licorice?!"

Fortunately, the Air hears the spikey Tsume's greeting, and she sweatdrops, waving a paw shyly. "H...hello..." She's a little surprised that the Hacker guesses her type so quickly, but then again...she probably could read her mind. "Yes, I'm an Air. My name's Pixel, and this is Jam."

The big Light looks unimpresed and just kinda stares at the hatchling, ;'ing whenever she goes: "oo-ee-oo." XD

An uneasy pause follows, which Pixel interrupts with a pained cough. "Um...well, you wouldn't happen to know a Hacker Tsume named Edward, would you? Edward Wang Hau...something or other..." she trails off, looking at the ground. "Sorry. We've lost a CD-player."

"Lost..." Jam mutters.


(mother caught me. 9_9; off i go to sleep..)

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Teklon sat up rather abrubtly at the mention of CD's e_e; Ed was probably not the only one that was guilty of eating a cd or two, although usually tek just picked up random things off the radio... He also managed to remove the wire in his quick motion... The yonger mix landing ontop of his head since she had not landed from one of the hops. "We like to party
we like we like to party
We like to party
we like we like to party

Hey now hey now hear what I say now
happiness is just around the corner
hey now hey now hear what I say now
We'll be there for you-" it sounds like he is rather much like a oversized and tsume shaped boombox at the moment <.<;

"Oof! Edward? Nope nevah heard of him, her it?" she says repeating what the light had said earlier about this 'edward' person "ooh I'm Rovea by the way ^_^ Tek could play cd's for you if you want though." she says with a smile and bonks her father on the head before extending an arm in a offer to shake hands, despite the fact that really wasn't used too much by tsumes, and a lot of tsumes lacked the proper hands to do it.

[kanai]

As soon as The Vengaboys start playing, Jam and Pixel get stupefied looks on their faces, which gradually fade. They should be used to the perks of Hacker behavior by now -- after all, they had two living in their realm as well. Andaria was polite and cordial one moment, and suddenly that chip of his would go beserk, making him spit out all kinds of weird things. "BLUE_SCREEN_OF_DEATH" was one particular gem Pixel would never forget. And Ed...

Well, there was no-one and nothing in Chaos Hills like Ed.

Pixel is a bit taken aback by Rovea's old-fashioned greeting, and it takes a while for her to register the Mix's intent. When she finally does, she gives a little "oh.." of realization, shaking her paw in the other female's with an awkward smile. "Nice to meet you.."

Jam seems entranced by Teklon's technological abilities. At last, a Hacker with some practical use. The Light Tsume never liked Edward's kind much; they seemed to him to be like the elemental retards of Tsume types. There was always something wrong with Hackers, but...well, these two seemed nice enough, even if they were a little on the strange side. Rovea's introduction, for instance, was weird.

The male looks from his spearing, killing claws to the hatchling's petite ones repeatedly, electing to stick out one claw in a kind of mock-shake. She could grab onto that if she wanted. 9_9; Once names are given, Jam retracts his belittling wings and kind-of inconspicuously floats over to Tek. o-o

Pixel looks after him, feeling a mixture of embarrassment and abandonment. "Thank you," she says, voice shaking slightly, "Jam likes music a lot, so I think he's appreciative of your offer, even if he doesn't say so." She wasn't much for romping around, but she felt that she needed to make up for her companion's unintentional rudeness... "Do...you like to play games?" the Air asks, almost flinching. She looked so young, but in reality she was a lot older than Rovea, even if she didn't act it.

Jam eyes Telkon with newfound curiosity. "So..." he begins, eyeing the smaller male with an unrestrained grin, "Can you play Scotty D?" XD;

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Rove shook both of their hands in turn, partially grabbing onto Jam's talon but her hand wasn't big enough to really grasp it well >.>; after she had shook hands, she seemed to leave a light tingle-y feeling where she had touched... Kind of like what you get after a mild static shock.

"Your welcome ^_^," she paused and grinned widely when games were mentioned, she liked playing with other tsumes (or toying rather >.> ) "I like lots of games, But I'm best at hide and seek..." her grin seemed to widen abit but in a more creepy manner... But no, why would such a cute little kid look creepy? must be the imagination...

Her tiny little independent wing sections flick out to the sides slightly, making a slight 'Bzzt' noise before she hovered into the air and floated over to Pixel... Her eyes flickered slightly and she squinted as if the other had something stuck to her chest "Your heart beat... It's already loud..?" now it was getting kinda creepy.

~

Teklon had a sortof blank/amused look on his face as he finished the other song he was playing then turned to jam "Scotty D? Wh-who Is-s-s the Art-t-ist?" he asked and cocked his head to the side at the other male, staring off into space just afew inches to the side of the others face, If jam were to look close enough at his eyes he might actually be able to see the bar graphs rising and falling in Tek's eyes measuring the sorrounding sound...

[kanai]

(i like scary little kids. hearts for rovea. )

Pixel's hackles rise, twitching with mild concern at the hatchling's static shock. She didn't know what to expect from this youngling, but she didn't want to be cruel and fix her with reproachful looks, as Jam would. She would have made a very poor mother, so perhaps it was good that her body had stopped growing.

"Hide-and-seek, huh?" she says, doing her best to resume the conversation without any noticeable unease, "We play that sometimes in the realm. I'm pretty good, too." The Air cracks a smile; she doesn't seem too bothered by Rovea's wide grin. After all, Rove was just a kid, and kids were often very enthusiastic about small things, most especially trite games.

When the Hacker Mix nears her, however, Pixel's heartbeat goes into overdrive. Why was she staring at her so intently? And...in that particular spot? Rove's observation frightens her, and she blinks in disbelief. She did her best never to mention her heart problems, so not to worry Jam or strangers, but Rovea had perceived it all independently.

"H...how d-did you...?" she stammers, sparing a self-conscious glance to her chest as she regains her composure. "It's nothing dangerous," the Air Tsume lies, although even she's not really sure, "My heart works harder than most others' do, but I'm not sure why."

Jam blinks at Teklon, his expression slightly disapproving. "Scotty D. IS the artist," he says, then waves a wing dismissively, "That's alright, though. What else do you...have in...there...?" He trails off uncertainly as he glimpses those bar graphs fluctuating in the Hacker's pupils, wondering if he's just hallucinating or something... But no. These were Hackers; he should learn to expect the unexpected.

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"Hehe! Do you really beleive that?" she didn't say it out loud, and it was hard to tell if she had actually said anything... just images and things flashed infront of pixels eyes, things written in blood somewhere dark and cold... Moving faster than one could blink and leaving just haunting words in the wake "I have'ta warn you, I doubt you would last very long at all in hide and seek versus me." she said cheerfully to the other before floating down and landing on the ground.

Now everything about this hatchling was beginning to seem off, or strange... It seemed like she was just pretending to act like a kid in an effort to hide something more... sinister, but it was hard to tell all that was strange, since she was still a hatchling right?

~

Teklon grinned and then went sort of cross eyed before his eyes looked off in seperate directions tracking random things that may or may not exist "Moxy Früvous, orgy, linkin park, vengaboys, tenacious D, styx, Shinhwa..." each was listed as if it the name of the artist was recorded by a different synthetic voice... Which was actually ok as it seemed his normal voice skipped quiet a lot, he stopped at Shinhwa then tilted his head and began singing 'Drop the bomb', apparently having found something from scotty D, whether or not it was the right one...

[kanai]

For a split second, it is apparent that Pixel really is frightened; her opaque eyes widen, shining with animalistic fear, her flat, chicken-like wings fan out slightly, and her muscles all tense with rushing blood. What was this? Some sort of data transmit..? Certainly, she was just seeing things. ...Uh. In her head. Right.

"I..." she starts, swallowing a lump in her throat. All the Hackers she'd met so far had been friendly, and Rovea was so little... The Air thought it wrong of her to find a villain in such a small and...innocent child. Not entirely trusting her own thoughts, Pixel shoves her worries down the dark well of her mind, choosing to ignore them. (After all, she had heart problems. It wasn't farfetched to assume that she might have head ones, too, since strokes resulted from inconsistent bloodflow to the brain.)

"I think I can hold my own against you," she says, smiling with self-renewing confidence. "Um...do you want to hide, or me?"

~

Jam almost squeaks with delight at Teklon's bizarre display. Sure, it was weird, but he was rattling off some appealing tunes. Of course, he wasn't the squeaking type... or, one would assume he wasn't. n_n;

"That's the song!" he grins whenever this boom-box Tsume starts playing "Drop the Bomb." It seems as if music has passified him considerably, and he even makes a very uncharacteristic cooing noise. He wasn't sure if Tek could talk while he was spouting out techno, so Jam waits until the Hacker Mix finishes the song, now in much better spirits.

He's elected to curl up on his belly, wings folded up contentedly as he looks off in the direction of his Pixel and Teklon's Rovea. "So...the little one...is she your daughter?" Jam's not really sure if Teklon can understand him, or vice-versa, but he figures he might as well try to make some conversation. ;

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Rovea smiles and hops around alittle bit rather than just turning to survey the area "I think you would be better off hiding, With all this foliage it could take weeks to find me!" she said in a joking manner then scratched her chin, before covering her eyes with her hands "Ooh what should I count to? It'll be all the time you have left" she asked cheerfully, those strange images flashing through once more as if some sort of warning, or threat.

But even if it was this small hatchling of a tsume, Pixel was much bigger and older, no kid would try to take on a adult right? even if pixel was faint of heart... Anyways that was all nonsense right?.. Right?

~~

Teklon finishes the song after alittle bit then tilts his head and nods "R-rove-e-ea Mi-ine and J-jasha-aels, b-b-b..." his voice skipped repeatedly and afew sparks crackled off his back before he shook it off "M-many type mix." he says with a nod then he stares off into space again... and begins 'Eiffel 65 - I dj with the fire', guessing that Jam enjoyed techno-ish songs and just choosing one at random because no others were suggested.