The City Of Love

Edge: <Why are you looking at me? I don't know.>

*Jack smiles at Kelphy*

Jack: <No problem. We're just glad to help you out any way we can.>

*Jack gives Alto a friendly nod with a smile*

Razz: <Remind me why I agreed to team up with this bunch of losers.>

ShadowMan: <I don't know.>

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*Kelphy giggles.*

Kelphy: <No, but thank you.>

*She then smiles to Jack, wiping her tears with the back of her hands.*

Alto, with all the subtly of a flying brick, decks Jack in the face, "You are slime you know that Jack? It isn't nice to be playing with a woman's feeling by trying to get into her pants when she's friggin crying you sicko! Man I can't even sit here making faces at you trying to get you to stop being a moron. It'd be nice if you were being nice to Kelphy genuinely but no, you're a sick sick bastard!"

*Jack falls to the ground, rubbing his cheek slightly. He gets up, still looking down, trembling*

Jack: <But...I didn't....I....I........I just........I...>

CrashMan: <(Jack, it's alright man. This is all just a big misun-)>

*Holding back tears, Jack dashes out the hotel room, making a dash for the entrance*

Kelphy: <W-What are you doing?!>

*Kelphy looks at Alto with an agry expression and shakes her head.*

"He was being full on creeper, I've seen it happen" Alto shrugs.

*Edge sighs again.*

Edge: <Gee, this is turning out just swell, isn't it?>

*Jack arses off in some bar either in the hotel or next door (This depends on whether Tae wants the hotel to have a bar or not)*

*Kelphy sighs and walks out.*

Razz: <You guys need to stop this crap. She's going through a lot.>

ShadowMan: <We need a plan.>

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*Kelphy walks into the bar next door and walks up to Jack.*

Kelphy: <C-Can you please come back to our room?>

"Sorry. There's just something creepy about that Jack guy"

Jack: <You guys are probably better off without me. I don't want to cause any trouble for anyone.>

*Razz shakes his head and slowly heads towards the balcony.*

Razz: <Aera... Olympe... Colsun...>

*He turns around to face the group.*

Razz: <I think it's time we scan Jack's hard drive.>

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Kelphy: <Th-That's not true, we should work together to...>

*She turns her face away to hide that she's about to cry again.*

Kelphy: <....t-to find out what they're trying to do.>

"Go for it" Alto says as he walks out of the room to go find Kelphy.

Minato grins as he leaves, "He's in love~"

*Edge heads back to the couch and just sits there.*

Jack: <Oh man, what the hell am I doing, making you come to a place like this. Here, let's get back to the hotel. Everything'll be alright. I'm not going anywhere.>

*Jack leads Kelphy back to the hotel*

*Razz sits on the couch and starts scanning Jack's hard drive on his laptop.*

Razz: <Let's see....>

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*Kelphy wipes her tears with the back of her hand before looking at Jack, smiling, and nodding. They head back to the hotel and run into Alto, who's walking out.*

Kelphy: <A-Alto...!>

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~Elsewhere~

Alexander Colsun: <Dr.Turmill!>

*Mayor Colsun is sitting next to Aera Turmill in an airplane with his laptop on his lap.*

Aera: <What?>

Alexander: <Jack Skifter's hard drive... the one he brought to Paris after we installed the prototype... it's active again!>

Aera: <...Oh? This is interesting... Who is it?>

*They start seing images transmitted by Razz's webcam on the screen.*

Aera: <Oh, him... You know what, run the program. Activate that sample.>

Alexander: <Right now?! The test isn't until next week, it's too ea-->

Aera: <Oh, you're so annoying. Do it.>

Alexander: <Activating sample no.1872: Jack Skifter.>

*Edge leans over Razz's shoulder.*

Edge: <What'cha doing there, pal? Anything... secret?>

*Jack stares at Alto with cold eyes for a quick second and starts heading back to the hotel*

"Wanted to find you" Alto says, "Glad to see you're alright" he smiles and ignores Jack's glare.

Razz: <I'm scanning Jack's hard drive. Before we came to Paris and found you, Olympe installed a strange program in almost every private network in Seabreeze. Said she was checking the networks for hackers. After they installed it in Jack's network he removed the drive from his-->

*Razz suddenly stops talking, staring blankly at the wall in front of him.*

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*She smiles awkwardly and nods.*

Kelphy: <Th-Thank you.>

*She then also heads back to their room.*

Edge: <Eh? What are you looking at?>

Alto grabs her arm gently to stop her, "Kelphy... uh... wait a second?"

*Jack walks slowly a few meters in front of Alto and Kelphy*

CrashMan: <(Just chill, man. We've got worse shit to worry about than that asshole.)>

Jack: <(You're right, I shouldn't get all worked up over something so minor. So what's up? It's not like we've got any immediate danger to worry about or anything.)>

CrashMan: <(I've just got this feeling...Hey, you've still got your hard drive with you, right?)>

Jack: <(Nah, I left my stuff back at the room. I mean, it's not like anything's gonna happen to it while I'm gone, right?)>

CrashMan: <(Yeah... right....)>

*Razz gets up and puts the laptop down on the coffee table. He then turns to Brendan, grins, and punches him in the face so hard the couch falls over. If by any chance he manages to dodge, he still hits the couch and knocks it back.*

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*Kelphy widens her eyes and turns to face Alto.*

Kelphy: <Y-Yes?>