Message #313643

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-==IC: Aki==-
Aki deactivated his Armor as he reached the mainframe and furiously started entering commands.  "Come on, come on..."

"What'cha doin'?"  Chris asked as he casually strolled into the room.

Aki's eyes narrowed.  "I don't have time to deal with you," he said, before launching Chris through the ceiling.

As Aki worked, InAki stirred restlessly.  What are you doing?  Why can't I tell what you're thinking?

"It's called Blank.  And it's better you don't know."  Reaching deep within himself, he begins to pour Ki into the computer systems.  A mangled, jumbled form appears in the projection.  Aki feels the power surging from the machine, somehow generating Ki of its own.  "It worked!"  Concentrating hard, mentally assuring InAki that this HAD to happen, he mutters "And now for the hard part..."

In a split second, Aki redirects the flow of Ki from being one of expanding power to one of retraction, and shifts targets from the console to the strange pseudo-being of Ki he had created.  Waves of new strength and power flooded his body, and with it unbearable pain.  Aki knew he had to somehow activate the technique, before the strength of the Ki devoured him.  Mustering all of his willpower, he corraled and directed the stream, and with a final three words managed to finish the technique and achieve his goal.

"Ki...Data...Drain..." he whispered.

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==Fifteen Minutes Later==
InAki awoke by the nearly-demolished mainframe, with no memory of what had just transpired.  "What were you up to, Aki?  Downloading the entire mainframe?"  To his surprise, despite the general devastation, the console was still functional.

[MINOR DAMAGE DETECTED.  EJECT FILES TO REMOVABLE BACKUP? Y/N]

InAki touched the option for "Yes", and a unit on the far side of the room calmly ejected a small hard drive.  InAki picked it up, just in time for the entire mainframe to explode violently in a shower of sparks and flame.  InAki crouched and faced away from the explosion, and was pleasantly surprised that he wasn't burned.  "Huh.  Must not have been as bad as I thought."  As he rushed upstairs to find Kazuki and anyone else in the facility, he failed to notice the cloud of steam, the puddle of molten iron, and the shards of coarsely crystallized glass left behind him...