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[Gadg8eer]

"Two glitches. They're operating outside of their in game programming suspiciously. Neither Shinobi Man or a Marksman Jim would be this crafty or jump to this level of violence just by spawning in right...? There's no way they could know the threat that I and Gadg8 pose to them... Unless... It's just a hunch but... Dave, we might be facing off against a greater opponent who's controlling them from the shadows."

"If that's the case, it's highly unlikely these are the only two glitches doing this. We may want to pull out. This is definitely something worth notifying your contacts about..."

"...because glitches don't plan. Whoever is manipulating them must be human, which means some extremists of some sort have somehow gotten wind of information that's kept hidden from the public for a number of important reasons, not just the biggest ones the tutorial mentioned. I'll be back in two minutes, this definitely qualifies for involving the government." Dave said, before a symbol appeared in the call screen to notify that he'd muted his gauntlet.

"Oh we have our orders, all we can say is that If you or your Comrade take a step towards that Barrel and try to play hero we are going to Destroy you and this Floodgate, Not necessarily in that order." Shinobi man then heard a voice Speaking in a German accent talking from his communicator.

"Yeah, what is it Doctor?" The Mechanical ninja asked.

"VAT IS GOING ON!?" Doctor X practically shouted into his communicator as soon as a lookout minion had Spotted the Van.

"Two Idiots who for some reason are trying to be Atom Girl." Shinobi man responded

"Zat's all? Show zem how ve deal with Atom girls."
Shinobi man turned to his Comrade. "BLAST THEM!" The ninja commanded, as soon as he did, buster fire started coming from bush aimed at Gadg8, ZoeIRL, and the van as the marksman Jim opened fire.

Gadg8eer, knowing things had somehow gone straight from "leave or we blow this ****er" to "we're going to kill you and then blow this ****er" with no warning of the sudden betrayal, shouted "Van! Get Zoe to safety!" as he dove to the pavement, then de-rezzed the barrel as the Marksman Jim turned to fire on the vehicle.

The van's back right tire popped as the buster shot collided with it, but the van squealed away regardless, sparks flying off the hubcap as the Perfectly Generic Vehicle sped away, a couple of shots leaving those dents that your bullets leave in the popular sandbox FPS game nobi's Mod (now known simply as bMod) when they collide with a solid object.

Before the Marksman Jim could turn back to Gadg8eer, the boy shouted "Eat Weaponized Sylladex, Scissor Jim!" and re-rezzed the barrel in such a way that it was flung towards the soldier robot, much like the aforementioned Sylladex from the once-popular webcomic Hinobi Paint Adventures: VirtuaLife by Anthony Hussler.

 

[Gadg8eer]

"You Named your Van AI van? How original." Shinobi man snarked as he watched the van get away despite the flat tire. He turned back and saw that Gadg8 had made the Barrel disappear, silently Cursing to himself, Shinobi man jumped out into the open just in time to see the Barrel Hit the bush, The marksman jim however was caught in the blast and was blown apart along with the bush.



"Nice try but the Battle isn't over, in fact it's just Begun!" Shinobi man declared before he hit his Boss fight intro sequence pose and the sound of a Life bar filling up could be heard.

"You Named your Van AI van? How original." Shinobi man snarked as he watched the van get away despite the flat tire. He turned back and saw that Gadg8 had made the Barrel disappear, silently Cursing to himself, Shinobi man jumped out into the open just in time to see the Barrel Hit the bush, The marksman jim however was caught in the blast and was blown apart along with the bush.

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"Nice try but the Battle isn't over, in fact it's just Begun!" Shinobi man declared before he hit his Boss fight intro sequence pose and the sound of a Life bar filling up could be heard.

 

[Lady Moldoma]

There was the sound of sliding metal against concrete and rapid footsteps soon after Zoe ducked her way out of the van which had stopped itself on her command after only a few seconds of driving, she wasn't interested in chancing it with a

She was carrying a detached manhole cover in one hand that she snatched up as she rolled out of the side of the van, and her bat in the other, stopping herself a dozen or so meters away and swinging her arm up to hoist the manhole cover into the air.

Shinobi man declared before he hit his Boss fight intro sequence pose and the sound of a Life bar filling up could be heard.

Mid way through the intro, interrupting it, she swung her bat into the manhole cover and sent it rocketing towards Shinobi man, hitting it specifically to impart a horizontal axis of spin on the manhole cover.

 

[Sir loin of beef]

There was the sound of sliding metal against concrete and rapid footsteps soon after Zoe ducked her way out of the van which had stopped itself on her command after only a few seconds of driving, she wasn't interested in chancing it with a

She was carrying a detached manhole cover in one hand that she snatched up as she rolled out of the side of the van, and her bat in the other, stopping herself a dozen or so meters away and swinging her arm up to hoist the manhole cover into the air.


Mid way through the intro, interrupting it, she swung her bat into the manhole cover and sent it rocketing towards Shinobi man, hitting it specifically to impart a horizontal axis of spin on the manhole cover.

The Impact of the Manhole Cover had Shinobi man on all Fours for about 5 seconds, not only that it had Stopped his life Bar halfway and Taken 3 points of Damage off of that to boot! This left Shinobi man with 7 units of Health overall.

"You!!!" Shinobi man Pointed at Zoe as soon as he had gotten up. "You two are gonna get it now!" The Ninjabot declared before Two ninja stars his size appeared in his hands and he threw one at Gadg8 and Zoe Respectively and he jumped into the air after throwing them

"Now which one of you do I destroy first?" Shinobi man asked before internally he began to monologue

"Hmm, Best to concentrate my Efforts on the Girl. She must be the Zoe that the Boy was referring to, I did not anticipate her joining this fight, if she's similar to Atom girl then she's the more dangerous one of the pair. But I'll have to keep an eye on the boy in case he tries anything."

 

[Gadg8eer]

"You Named your Van AI van? How original." Shinobi man snarked as he watched the van get away despite the flat tire. He turned back and saw that Gadg8 had made the Barrel disappear, silently Cursing to himself, Shinobi man jumped out into the open just in time to see the Barrel Hit the bush, The marksman jim however was caught in the blast and was blown apart along with the bush.



"Nice try but the Battle isn't over, in fact it's just Begun!" Shinobi man declared before he hit his Boss fight intro sequence pose and the sound of a Life bar filling up could be heard.

Gadg8eer had always sucked at the original Atom Girl games, they were simply too Hinobi Hard for his poor reaction time. Or at least, they used to be. To be fair, he felt like he had more stamina and after barely saving the town's industrial heart from the flood the way he did, he could also suspect his reaction time and agility were increased too, even though nothing else felt like less of a limit than it used to. He supposed it was simply because kids always had more energy and were less bulky, and he certainly felt like he'd lost 2/3rds of his weight when he applied the PLixelf avatar, and as for his reaction time, the nature of the change did make that a likely benefit as well. That being said, he definitely had less strength to apply and he wasn't actually any smarter or physically faster than he had been before.

He would have taken advantage of the short fancy intro sequence, but his attention went to the gate itself as it began to close, and the edge of the water slowly creeped towards the gate's location as it became clear the route would be shut down for some time.

There was the sound of sliding metal against concrete and rapid footsteps soon after Zoe ducked her way out of the van which had stopped itself on her command after only a few seconds of driving, she wasn't interested in chancing it with a

She was carrying a detached manhole cover in one hand that she snatched up as she rolled out of the side of the van, and her bat in the other, stopping herself a dozen or so meters away and swinging her arm up to hoist the manhole cover into the air.


Mid way through the intro, interrupting it, she swung her bat into the manhole cover and sent it rocketing towards Shinobi man, hitting it specifically to impart a horizontal axis of spin on the manhole cover.

Gadg8eer breathed a sigh of relief that he'd been just in time, and turned back to Shinobi Man and the Marksman Jim, to see the latter getting up with heavy damage to itself, and the former getting slammed in the head by a round disk... "Zoe?! I thought you were in the van!"

The Impact of the Manhole Cover had Shinobi man on all Fours for about 5 seconds, not only that it had Stopped his life Bar halfway and Taken 3 points of Damage off of that to boot! This left Shinobi man with 7 units of Health overall.

"You!!!" Shinobi man Pointed at Zoe as soon as he had gotten up. "You two are gonna get it now!" The Ninjabot declared before Two ninja stars his size appeared in his hands and he threw one at Gadg8 and Zoe Respectively and he jumped into the air after throwing them

"Now which one of you do I destroy first?" Shinobi man asked internally he began to monologue

"Hmm, Best to concentrate my Efforts on the Girl. She must be the Zoe that the Boy was referring to, I did not anticipate her joining this fight, if she's similar to Atom girl then she's the more dangerous one of the pair. But I'll have to keep an eye on the boy in case he tries anything."

Gadg8eer quickly bolted into a run at the Marksman Jim, barely avoiding the ninja star as it made a cut through the left sleeve of his hoodie, and de-rezzed the Marksman Jim before it could attack.

 

[Sir loin of beef]

Gadg8eer had always sucked at the original Atom Girl games, they were simply too Hinobi Hard for his poor reaction time. Or at least, they used to be. To be fair, he felt like he had more stamina and after barely saving the town's industrial heart from the flood the way he did, he could also suspect his reaction time and agility were increased too, even though nothing else felt like less of a limit than it used to. He supposed it was simply because kids always had more energy and were less bulky, and he certainly felt like he'd lost 2/3rds of his weight when he applied the PLixelf avatar, and as for his reaction time, the nature of the change did make that a likely benefit as well. That being said, he definitely had less strength to apply and he wasn't actually any smarter or physically faster than he had been before.

He would have taken advantage of the short fancy intro sequence, but his attention went to the gate itself as it began to close, and the edge of the water slowly creeped towards the gate's location as it became clear the route would be shut down for some time.


Gadg8eer breathed a sigh of relief that he'd been just in time, and turned back to Shinobi Man and the Marksman Jim, to see the latter getting up with heavy damage to itself, and the former getting slammed in the head by a round disk... "Zoe?! I thought you were in the van!"


Gadg8eer quickly bolted into a run at the Marksman Jim, barely avoiding the ninja star as it made a cut through the left sleeve of his hoodie, and de-rezzed the Marksman Jim before it could attack.

"What just happened? It looks like that Robot was sucked directly into his Arm!" Shinobi man thought in alarm. "Too bad I cannot send a copy to attack him unlike Dioscuri Woman. And I seem to be Badly damaged, i'll have to finish him and the Girl Fast before they can combine their forces against me!" With That Thought in mind Shinobi man made sure to Descend Towards Gadg8eer while Throwing Ninja Stars at Zoe to keep her away while he was busy Fighting with Gadg8eer.

"Not bad, you're definitely somewhat capable if you were able to dodge my Shinobi Star Attack." The Robot spoke.

 

[Lady Moldoma]

Zoe?! I thought you were in the van!"

“I was. I jumped out because if you get de-rezzed yourself, I probably lose points.” She said. Though there were probably more reasons than just that.

he threw one at Gadg8 and Zoe Respectively and he jumped into the air after throwing them

Zoe watched as the ninja-star approached her. She tapped her bat on the ground and took the grip in both hands, preparing herself before frame-perfectly parrying the shuriken, sending it careening into shinobi man with a reversed trajectory the splash text for “REVERSAL!!!” appearing to her side. “Did you know if you press the A Button in time with an enemies attack in Father, you can parry attacks? It’s only mentioned once in the game. But I talk to as many NPCs as I can whenever I’m not speedrunning.”

Ninja Stars at Zoe to keep her away

She one-handed her bat and slammed it into two of the three approaching stars, sending them careening back in a curved manner, aiming to sideswipe Shinobi Man, and then spun, before grabbing the third star by the hole in the middle and impaling it into the ground forcibly.

“COMBO 4!” Read the splash text.

She then did her best to close the distance, dragging her bat across the ground and coming in between Shinobi Man and Gadg8 before swinging the bat upwards in an underhanded, hoisting swing.

 

[Gadg8eer]

"What!?" Shinobi man asked witnessing his Ninja stars be batted right towards him, he knew that if both stars (one of which would Shave off four units of his health in his home game) hit him, it was over, he was done. And indeed they both hit him, slicing his legs and right arm off as he ran towards Zoe to start Boxing with her.

"Noooo!!!! I don't believe it!!!" Shinobi man said before...



Explosions began ringing out from Where Shinobi Man's Torso was only moments ago, quite akin to what happens when you Defeat a boss in Atom girl Z4, Z5 and Z6

"Damnit...Defeated by denizens of this dimension... unbelievable." Shinobi man spoke despite having gone through something like the death animation of an Atom girl Boss.

"What!?" Shinobi man asked witnessing his Ninja stars be batted right towards him, he knew that if both stars (one of which would Shave off four units of his health in his home game) hit him, it was over, he was done. And indeed they both hit him, slicing his legs and right arm off as he ran towards Zoe to start Boxing with her.

"Noooo!!!! I don't believe it!!!" Shinobi man said before...

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Explosions began ringing out from Where Shinobi Man's Torso was only moments ago, quite akin to what happens when you Defeat a boss in Atom girl Z4, Z5 and Z6

"Damnit...Defeated by denizens of this dimension... unbelievable." Shinobi man spoke despite having gone through something like the death animation of an Atom girl Boss.

 

[Lady Moldoma]

“Barely one fucking day, one fucking day on the job and I already have to deal with a terrorisfic robot. Great. Either one of us could’ve been killed.”she says, having stopped as the two hits successfully disabled her opponent and not landing the upwards blow.

“I better get a fuck ton of XP for this…” she says, dragging her bat over to the ground-stuck shuriken and grabbing it by the center.

She plants her foot on Shinobi-man’s heavily damaged chest pointing the shuriken’s tip down at his head. “Your own weapon is pretty useful against you.”

“Now…”

“Who the fuck do you work for and why do they want to put innocent people in danger? You’re a machine. They’re not supposed to want to harm people. Asimovs 1st law.” Why she felt the need to bring that up was beyond anyone else listening.

“You know, you glitches can’t die, so you can either tell me. Or I’ll leave your ass in such a sorry state you’ll wish you’d taken the chance to be de-rezzed. We’ll see how useful that immortality is when all of your insides become outsides.” She may have misunderstood how glitch’s mortality worked. But this wasn’t the confident side of Zoe who joked around and treated her job like a clip show or a stream.

This was that angry side of Zoe, the side that was driven to be the best and the angriest gamer. The part that came out whenever she felt stressed. The part that was built on years of self hate and jealousy.

 

[Sir loin of beef]

'You will...You will never get a word out of me..." Shinobi man Blustered Fearfully and smugly at the same time. "Do you genuinely Believe Asimov's laws were programmed into me? I was Programmed to fight. To destroy my Creators enemies! You have won the battle but the war is about to begin!" Shinobi man boasted.

"Vhere is za Kaboom!? Zere vas supposed to be a Floodgate Shattering Kaboom!!" A German accented Voice spoke from Shinobi man's communicator...which was right next to the Van's back right tire now following the explosion. "Answer me! Vhy is ze floodgate Intact!?"

 

[Lady Moldoma]

“Gadg8… what does the digital handbook say that sub-HP-damage does to a glitch?” Zoe turns her head to gadget, her display only showing the image of a single translucent vector of a photograph of an eye.

“Is it painful for them?”

 

[Gadg8eer]

“Gadg8… what does the digital handbook say that sub-HP-damage does to a glitch?” Zoe turns her head to gadget, her display only showing the image of a single translucent vector of a photograph of an eye.

“Is it painful for them?”

Gadg8eer hadn't seen this side of her, but he damn well understood it. The fact the flood would have doomed the whole town to poverty meant he was no less angry than she was. He opened the manual and did a search, but didn't find anything useful on the subject. "Hmm... I mean, being continuous about it would be cruel but..." he said and then gave a vengeful smirk before striking Shinobi Man with his left hand yo-yo.

"Agh! You little brat!" Shinobi Man yelped, glitching a bit due to his health meter dropping below zero.

"Looks like it. The manual does say glitches are as intelligent as a chimp at their smartest, and if we're not supposed to treat them like inanimate objects I doubt the labs are going to do anything horrible either, so... Like she said. Imprisonment?" he asked, "Or should we beat the truth out of you? Because you just threatened the livelihood of this entire town and as far as Hinobi knows, glitches don't have motivation outside of their programming, so either someone reprogrammed you, or something very fishy is going on, and considering Hinobi built every piece of hardware we have on us including the ability to wipe memories and doesn't seem to be taking any action to keep us from investigating, I can't help but assume they're just as surprised and disturbed by this as we are, and very interested in ensuring we find out whatever we might find out. We need to know, nobody who knows about us is likely to want to stop us, and the reason that its a bad idea to negotiate with terrorists is because people who kill and kidnap hostages to get their way never keep their word. Computer program or not, you do understand what I'm saying, right?"

 

[Sir loin of beef]

Gadg8eer hadn't seen this side of her, but he damn well understood it. The fact the flood would have doomed the whole town to poverty meant he was no less angry than she was. He opened the manual and did a search, but didn't find anything useful on the subject. "Hmm... I mean, being continuous about it would be cruel but..." he said and then gave a vengeful smirk before striking Shinobi Man with his left hand yo-yo.

"Agh! You little brat!" Shinobi Man yelped, glitching a bit due to his health meter dropping below zero.

"Looks like it. The manual does say glitches are as intelligent as a chimp at their smartest, and if we're not supposed to treat them like inanimate objects I doubt the labs are going to do anything horrible either, so... Like she said. Imprisonment?" he asked, "Or should we beat the truth out of you? Because you just threatened the livelihood of this entire town and as far as Hinobi knows, glitches don't have motivation outside of their programming, so either someone reprogrammed you, or something very fishy is going on, and considering Hinobi built every piece of hardware we have on us including the ability to wipe memories and doesn't seem to be taking any action to keep us from investigating, I can't help but assume they're just as surprised and disturbed by this as we are, and very interested in ensuring we find out whatever we might find out. We need to know, nobody who knows about us is likely to want to stop us, and the reason that its a bad idea to negotiate with terrorists is because people who kill and kidnap hostages to get their way never keep their word. Computer program or not, you do understand what I'm saying, right?"

Shinobi man decided to take a moment to Weigh his Options, Either Get beaten up even worse than he already was or Blab not enough to Ensure Defeat for the council

"The Council won't be happy with this." Shinobi man muttered under his Non-existent Breath "yes." The Ninja answered Gadg8 and Zoe reluctantly "listen, something Big is going down at the Public works yard. Some Real Crazy stuff ya hear me?"

 

[Lady Moldoma]

“It’s unlikely you’ll be in danger if we de-rez you now and let the R&D deal with it.” She keeps her foot planted not going to make the mistake of letting him pull a frieza with his legs and arm missing.

“Guess we gotta make our way to the public works yard.”

She tosses the shuriken to the side a few meters away, just far enough to be comfortably out of shinobi-man’s grasp. “I wanna keep that shuriken. It’s not a bad melee weapon or a bad ranged weapon; is it gonna de-rez if he does?” She asks.

 

[Sir loin of beef]

“It’s unlikely you’ll be in danger if we de-rez you now and let the R&D deal with it.” She keeps her foot planted not going to make the mistake of letting him pull a frieza with his legs and arm missing.

“Guess we gotta make our way to the public works yard.”

She tosses the shuriken to the side a few meters away, just far enough to be comfortably out of shinobi-man’s grasp. “I wanna keep that shuriken. It’s not a bad melee weapon or a bad ranged weapon; is it gonna de-rez if he does?” She asks.

"De-Rezzed, Heh heh, may as well be Dead with no Rematch judging from what I saw your little sidekick do to that Robot." Shinobi man talked.

"Hahahahaha, you're not the first to Admire my Weapon." Shinobi man Commented before his expression went dark "And Loot it off of me."

 

[Gadg8eer]

Shinobi man decided to take a moment to Weigh his Options, Either Get beaten up even worse than he already was or Blab not enough to Ensure Defeat for the council

"The Council won't be happy with this." Shinobi man muttered under his Non-existent Breath "yes." The Ninja answered Gadg8 and Zoe reluctantly "listen, something Big is going down at the Public works yard. Some Real Crazy stuff ya hear me?"

"Okay, how crazy? And if you can say that, even though you're a glitch, is that because Hinobi is lying about exactly how sentient glitches get? Or did someone do something that Hinobi isn't aware is possible?" Gadg8eer asked.

“It’s unlikely you’ll be in danger if we de-rez you now and let the R&D deal with it.” She keeps her foot planted not going to make the mistake of letting him pull a frieza with his legs and arm missing.

“Guess we gotta make our way to the public works yard.”

She tosses the shuriken to the side a few meters away, just far enough to be comfortably out of shinobi-man’s grasp. “I wanna keep that shuriken. It’s not a bad melee weapon or a bad ranged weapon; is it gonna de-rez if he does?” She asks.

"De-Rezzed, Heh heh, may as well be Dead with no Rematch judging from what I saw your little sidekick do to that Robot." Shinobi man talked.

"Hahahahaha, you're not the first to Admire my Weapon." Shinobi man Commented before his expression went dark "And Loot it off of me."

"Wait... you.... do know... what you are, right?" Gadg8eer realized, wording it as a question so he could be sure.

 

[Sir loin of beef]

"Okay, how crazy? And if you can say that, even though you're a glitch, is that because Hinobi is lying about exactly how sentient glitches get? Or did someone do something that Hinobi isn't aware is possible?" Gadg8eer asked.

"All I can say is that You won't be dealing with the Average 'Glitch' whatever that means anymore once the Clock Strikes Twelve." Shinobi man responded

"Wait... you.... do know... what you are, right?" Gadg8eer realized, wording it as a question so he could be sure.

"Oh I know who I am. I am more than a So called Glitch, I am Shinobi man! The Greatest Ninja who has ever lived you Pint Sized whelp!"

"Pick up! What has happened Shinobi man!?" Doctor X asked

 

[Gadg8eer]

"All I can say is that You won't be dealing with the Average 'Glitch' whatever that means anymore once the Clock Strikes Twelve."

"Operator, time and date please?" Gadg8eer asked.

"It is currently 8:10 PM on Thursday, August 10th, 2028." spoke a feminine computer-generated voice.

"...okay, so that's bad but not too bad." Gadg8eer pointed out.

"Oh I know who I am. I am more than a So called Glitch, I am Shinobi man! The Greatest Ninja who has ever lived you Pint Sized whelp!"

"Hey, I never said you aren't any of those things just because you're a Glitch! I'm trying to ask do you know what a Glitch is? Because it sounds to me like you don't. This isn't some alternate dimension or computer simulation, you didn't go down a hallway or take the elevator to the floor above you that can't exist without the floor you came from. You're in the lobby, you're walking out the front door. This is the real world, the ground and foundation your world was built above and can't exist without." Gadg8eer explained.

"Is he crazy? Or just broken?" Shinobi Man asked Zoe. "I honestly can't tell if he's biological or a machine."

"Look, I know this sounds hard to believe and will be painful to accept, but... You're a Glitch! You're a video game boss! You were brought to life by malfunctioning nanobots we put in video game consoles! You're real now, but the world you came from never was!" Gadg8eer responded.

"...you are a sad, strange little boy, and you have my pity." Shinobi Man responded.

 

[Sir loin of beef]

"Operator, time and date please?" Gadg8eer asked.

"It is currently 8:10 PM on Thursday, August 10th, 2028." spoke a feminine computer-generated voice.

"...okay, so that's bad but not too bad." Gadg8eer pointed out.


"Hey, I never said you aren't any of those things just because you're a Glitch! I'm trying to ask do you know what a Glitch is? Because it sounds to me like you don't. This isn't some alternate dimension or computer simulation, you didn't go down a hallway or take the elevator to the floor above you that can't exist without the floor you came from. You're in the lobby, you're walking out the front door. This is the real world, the ground and foundation your world was built above and can't exist without." Gadg8eer explained.

"Is he crazy? Or just broken?" Shinobi Man asked Zoe. "I honestly can't tell if he's biological or a machine."

"Look, I know this sounds hard to believe and will be painful to accept, but... You're a Glitch! You're a video game boss! You were brought to life by malfunctioning nanobots we put in video game consoles! You're real now, but the world you came from never was!" Gadg8eer responded.

"...you are a sad, strange little boy, and you have my pity." Shinobi Man responded.

"...Okay I'm Just going to assume Zat You've been Compromised.." Doctor X commented in the Background.

 

[Lady Moldoma]

"I honestly can't tell if he's biological or a machine."

"Neither can I. They didn't do a super great job of explaining why transferring someone's mind to a plixel body is any different from transferring their mind into a fully digital format."

She turns to Gadg8eer."It feels like it'd be easier to try and come up with an elaborate story or some sort of faux explanation for where he is and why he's here. Glitches would be a lot easier to capture if they didn't understand what was going on. Or they thought they were in an alternate dimension and we were some sort of force of authority meant to return them home." She says. "good creative writing practice."

"Anyway, I think we've gotten all we can out of this..." She moves her hand to her gauntlet and taps to switch to the de-rez function. "Any objections before I send this guy back into the network?" She asks Gadg8.

 

[Gadg8eer]

"Neither can I. They didn't do a super great job of explaining why transferring someone's mind to a plixel body is any different from transferring their mind into a fully digital format."

She turns to Gadg8eer."It feels like it'd be easier to try and come up with an elaborate story or some sort of faux explanation for where he is and why he's here. Glitches would be a lot easier to capture if they didn't understand what was going on. Or they thought they were in an alternate dimension and we were some sort of force of authority meant to return them home." She says. "good creative writing practice."

"Anyway, I think we've gotten all we can out of this..." She moves her hand to her gauntlet and taps to switch to the de-rez function. "Any objections before I send this guy back into the network?" She asks Gadg8.

"Well, since his programming clearly won't let him realize why we're opposing him... Shinobi Man, I didn't destroy or kill that Marksman Jim. He's just trapped inside my Tech Support equipment after I de-rezzed him, probably my RumblePack, since if he... it? She? Well, whatever, was in my gauntlets like they would be for Zoe then I can't think of a reason why my guantlets are slimmer and more glove-like." Gadg8eer explained. It was also because Zoe had a HUD too but her gantlets were still bulky despite a small nobiGlas: GT Gauntlet Mk. 2 label on the side and a lack of the screen seen on the Gauntlets worn by the other Techs at Gnu Forks, suggesting that the containment of Glitches, not the screen, was the main reason for the bulk of the devices. Of course, Shinobi Man didn't need to know that part.

"He's not going to come to harm to the best of my knowledge and Zoe's knowledge, and neither will you, unless you know something we don't about what our employers do with Glitches, but since you don't even seem to understand how any of this works I doubt that's a valid excuse for what you're trying to do. So, I mean, no reason to panic, but we can't just let you go when you tried to flood the entire industrial park and we're supposed to capture Glitches in the first place. I guess the best way to put it is... We and the corporation Hinobi Technologies that we work for apologize for all the problems your not-so-minor glitching has caused, and Zoe will now de-rez your Plixels. Oh, and don't worry, unlike our fight it won't hurt."

 

[Sir loin of beef]

"Well, since his programming clearly won't let him realize why we're opposing him... Shinobi Man, I didn't destroy or kill that Marksman Jim. He's just trapped inside my Tech Support equipment after I de-rezzed him, probably my RumblePack, since if he... it? She? Well, whatever, was in my gauntlets like they would be for Zoe then I can't think of a reason why my guantlets are slimmer and more glove-like." Gadg8eer explained. It was also because Zoe had a HUD too but her gantlets were still bulky despite a small nobiGlas: GT Gauntlet Mk. 2 label on the side and a lack of the screen seen on the Gauntlets worn by the other Techs at Gnu Forks, suggesting that the containment of Glitches, not the screen, was the main reason for the bulk of the devices. "He's not going to come to harm to the best of my knowledge and Zoe's knowledge, and neither will you, unless you know something we don't about what our employers do with Glitches, but since you don't even seem to understand how any of this works I doubt that's a valid excuse for what you're trying to do. So, I mean, no reason to panic, but we can't just let you go when you tried to flood the entire industrial park and we're supposed to capture Glitches in the first place. I guess the best way to put it is... We and the corporation Hinobi Technologies that we work for apologize for all the problems your not-so-minor glitching has caused, and Zoe will now de-rez your Plixels. Oh, and don't worry, unlike our fight it won't hurt."

"Alright since I clearly don't have a choice I'll play Along." Shinobi man decided

 

[Lady Moldoma]

"and don't worry, unlike our fight it won't hurt."

"I make no promises about how much it'll hurt. HAPPY DEATH DAY!" Zoe says, modulating her voice into a horiffic mechanical echo, as if she's decided that her entire purpose is torturing this one plixel construct while displaying a pretty horrific face graphic on her screen.



She de-rezzes Shinobi Man in one go.

"I hope he ends up paranoid..."she falls over, arms spread as a bunch of steam shoots out of her skirt where her vents are. "Bastard deserves it."

 

[Sir loin of beef]

"I make no promises about how much it'll hurt. HAPPY DEATH DAY!" Zoe says, modulating her voice into a horiffic mechanical echo, as if she's decided that her entire purpose is torturing this one plixel construct while displaying a pretty horrific face graphic on her screen.

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She de-rezzes Shinobi Man in one go.

"I hope he ends up paranoid..."she falls over, arms spread as a bunch of steam shoots out of her skirt where her vents are. "Bastard deserves it."

"NOOO!!! I SHALL RETURN!!!" were the final words Shinobi man said before Getting De-rezzed

 

[Gadg8eer]

"I make no promises about how much it'll hurt. HAPPY DEATH DAY!" Zoe says, modulating her voice into a horiffic mechanical echo, as if she's decided that her entire purpose is torturing this one plixel construct while displaying a pretty horrific face graphic on her screen.

Spoiler: Notes on Horror Titles of the Glitch Techs Expanded Universe

None of these were published or developed by Hinobi, but all are playable on Hinobi's consoles. Each is either an indie game or a product of a much smaller company, and the developers play by Hinobi's development guidelines due to the danger Glitches present.

• "ToyFactory" is based on Baldy's Basics, Poppy Playtime and TinkerQuarry
  • Also influenced by Bendy and the Ink Machine and Five Nights at Freddy's.
  • Horror game about an evil haunted toy factory that kidnaps children to put their souls into "cursed" dolls, "evil" teddy bears and other humanoid toys supposedly animated by evil forces (the exact words being "the ToyFactory's products are powered by the forsaken children"), and grind up their now-dead bodies into "candied hams".
  • If the ToyFactory spawned as a Glitch, the affected (real) children would simply look like the haunted toys (which are purposefully cute rather than creepy already but infamously the player is encouraged to shoot first and ask questions later while searching for the "missing" kids right in front of them) but act normal, removing the only link to the perceived danger and eventual dawning horror the player would normally be led on by. This is backed up by the effects of such glitches as Chomp Kitty and Nogrog, which would be lethal in a darker story but are not lethal to the kids Chomp Kitty noms or to Nix and Bergy when Nogrog uses ice magic on them. That said, an elementary school suddenly overrun by adorable living toys that act like kids without any supervision is bound to be enough of a threat to the masquerade that some Techs would be called in to figure out and resolve the situation.
• "Purgatory" is Limbo and Inside mixed with The Binding of Isaac.
  • Heavily inspired by Dante's The Divine Comedy, Dark Souls and the movie They, making heavy use of fear of the dark and enemies hidden in the shadows in aggrevatingly unfair places that ensure you will die horribly over and over.
  • If spawned as a glitch, the game's save point system relies on beds and so the result of getting hit is waking up in the last bed you slept in. Don't ask how that's possible, just let the Groundhog Day Loop plot start looping and figure out how to make it stop.
• "Graveyard Shift at Ralphie's" is obvious, though it releases a decade after its real life counterpart.
  • Instead of the souls of murdered children, the animatronic robots are attacking because (spoiler alert) the AI in them is programmed to provide joy to children that is incapable of understanding the concepts of regret and redemption, and the player is a former convict who spent 20 years in prison for killing the 13 year old boy who (insert bad thing here) his daughter at her 13th birthday party, thus the AI considers him a threat to children.
  • Due to its plot, the only people that the Glitch Animatronics would attack is anyone wearing a uniform that resembles that of a security guard... including police, military, fire rescue, paramedics, marching bands, astronauts, anyone in a costume of any of the former for any reason, and actual Hinobi and Hinobi-contracted Glitch Techs.
• "CAVETALE" is Cave Story meets Undertale/deltarune.
  • While not horror, Gadg8eer always hated the fact that you couldn't save Carrol in the best ending, only because "YoU cAn'T rEsSuReCt ThE dEaD, tHaT's EsCaPiSm AnD tHiS iS a UniQuE aRtIsTiC tWiSt To FoRcE yOu To SuFfEr ReAlItY jUsT lIkE tHe 1000 OtHeR sToRiEs WiTh An AnTi-EsCaPiSm ThEmE!!!!1! rAwR! CrY aNd SuBmIt To ThE MiSeRy Of GrImDaRk AnD eDgE oR yOu'Re A tOxIcLy MaScUlInE aNd-Or dEvIl WoRsHiPpInG mAdMaN!" was driven down his throat 1001 times and after having his brain get stomach-pumped he was sick of even the slightest amount of anti-escapism in stories of all sorts. Especially video games.
  • Due to CAVETALE not being horror, and the fact that PLixels can't damage biological matter (again, see the Chomp Kitty and Nogrog examples for the canon basis), Carrol the Dreemurr is only truly evil in the "Immortal Soul" (neutral) run of CAVETALE. The "Omnicide" route gives the same fate to her as Flowey got (begging to live), while the "Demigod" route redeems her but The Corruption that killed her the first time is still present and she dies again because of it (the Gaster experiments are replaced with a plot about The Corruption having killed Carrol and her brother when she tried to rescue said brother, and a scientist trying to use The Corruption to revive those that it originally was fatal to).
• "Necromorphobia" is Dead Space.
  • Contains elements of Warhammer 40k and Resident Evil.
  • If spawned as a Glitch, the Geophage (ersatz Bretheren Moon) is already a known Glitch; creating such a thing without pre-determining a way to easily defeat it in the real world would be outright suicidal, so in 2002 a giant robot was built in case anyone was stupid enough to create a giant eldritch cosmic horrorterror. Codenamed "Lowbrow", the Hinobi XLR Tech Van Mecha Dock is a giant robot that costs tons of XP but is programmed to be super-effective against anything remotely resembling the works of H.B. Meinkraft and is digged by chicks across the world. It was first used to destroy the first Glitch based on the Geophage (which materialized in space because a malfunctioning BeeTube broadcast satellite materialized it during a famous streamer's run of Necromorphobia) in the same year that Dead Space released in the real world.
    • The Mecha Dock actually predates the Hinobi Motors Tech Van by a couple decades, and was first tested using such vehicles as a 1972 Botch Piranha, a 1986 DAC Pinball cabover semi-truck tractor, a 1998 Mozza Miasma, a 2003 Crysis Motors GT Bruiser, and a 2015 Hinobi Motors Speedster before the Hinobi Tech Van was first announced in 2019.
• "Naught's Goat Pie Bakery and Faerground" is The Park.
  • If spawned as a Glitch, the villain would be on par with Bolypius, but possibly worse. Fortunately that doesn't seem to have happened... yet.
    • I honestly can't think of a good way to de-grimmify The Park so I'm just going to imply that the Naught's Goat Pie Bakery and Theme Park in the eponymous game-within-a-roleplay is actually about a "haunted" theme park (well, actually haunted but by the ghosts of dead park guests) and the mother hoping to save her son from that fate only to be turned into the doom of the child she was trying to protect, followed by some other suitably not-child-friendly version of that thing where the villain offers "join me or die!" (suicide or fight an unwinnable boss fight in this case) that leaves mother and son trapped in the park forever as ghosts, with the horror being the implication that anyone who eats the park's famous "goat pies" is doomed to the same fate...
• Helix the Copy Katt is essentially what Bendy and the Ink Machine would have to be for The Living Tombstone's Build Our Machine to have accurate lyrics (it was made before the whole series was complete, assuming cartoon characters coming to life to kill their abusive creator was the plot rather than "turn people into cartoons to make money from the improved quality").
  • Also takes inspiration from Cool World, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Cuphead, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Tiny Toon Adventures, Bonkers, Animaniacs and The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat.
  • If spawned as a Glitch, Helix is an angry cartoon cat with a grudge against all animators for toying with the lives of their creations. Her crusade of Rage Against the Author would only be worsened if she became aware of the fact that despite things not being what she thought they were, in practice there is no difference and (to her) is a justification of her wrath.

The move was such a jump scare that Gadg8eer, who always screamed and flinched when unexpectedly finding out that no, ToyFactory was NOT suitable for children and was very much a cheaply-made horror game marketed to children only because of the popularity of streamer bait jump scare games, that, well...

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In fact, such games as ToyFactory, Purgatory, Graveyard Shift at Ralphie's, UNDERSTORY (well, its "Omnicide" ending at least), Necromorphobia, The Mother is Possessed by the Monster and Forced to Helplessly Kill Her Own Kidnapped Son at the End Naught's Goat Pie Bakery and Faerground (Gadg8eer hated just reading the VG Tropes page entry for that one so much he wished he could delete the game from reality itself and only ever referred to it by the former, false name), and Helix the Copy Katt were so deeply horrifying to him that he instinctively lashed out, giving a sudden scream as he his right yo-yo flung straight at the monitor of Zoe's robot body...

"NOOO!!! I SHALL RETURN!!!" were the final words Shinobi man said before Getting De-rezzed

Shinobi Man was confused by the attempt to scare him and the unexpected strike, flinching long enough that he wouldn't realize whether he had been de-rezzed or not for a couple seconds...