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Alpha Complex Test Drive Meme

Alpha Complex opened Sunday, July 31st. Please feel free to take a Test Drive to see if the environment would suit your character! All potential players are welcome.

It may be your first day in Alpha Complex or your hundredth, either way, you are in serious trouble.

In a bid to win sympathy and new recruits, the Frankenstein Destroyers - a secret society within Alpha who sees all bots as enemies, has uploaded a virus that is affecting all bots within the complex.

For the next twenty four hours, every bot you see will be the enemy. Your assigned Personal Digital Companion(PDC), a personal communication device, has turned on you and is intentionally misfiring your texts, phone calls and videos. The Bouncy Bubble Beverage machine in the cafeteria is shooting out bottles at passers by at high speeds. The high tech vacuum cleaner used to vacuum your clearance level's common room is attempting to suck up everything in sight. Elevators are trying to coerce people to climb out, so they can behead them. That adorable Petbot you purchased last week is trying to tear your throat out. That Guardbot from the Armed Services Sector is attempting to take out citizens, one by one. Autocars are driving themselves, right onto sidewalks and through windows...

Will you fight for your right to exist or hole up somewhere safe until the chaos passes?

Do not fear, citizen! The Computer and it's high advisors are working to restore order.

In the meantime, be safe and beware of bots and traitors!


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[a_man_out_of_time]

Just as Steve takes down one Guardbot, he hears two citizens scream. They're running straight towards him, yelling and screaming about how some brave man saved them, but whoever it was needed help and needed it now.

He grabs his makeshift shield — the metal plate normally attached to the chest of Guardbots — and runs in Tony's direction. But when Steve finally sees him, he stops dead in his tracks.

"TONY?"

It couldn't be. He'd been dragged away by the Computer months ago.

[im_ironman]

It's not really the name that catches his attention, although it is somewhat of a relief that apparently someone knows him in this crazy place, but it's the voice. He knows that voice. It's not a glitch, it's not just a memory, it's real and it's--

It's Steve. Glancing over his shoulder, he sees Steve and a mix of emotions feel like they swirl inside him. Because yeah, it is good to see someone he knows, but at the same time... Well. It's not like the last memory Tony has of him is a pleasant one, exactly. For a second he can only think of Siberia, of what was done in that fight, and he unconsciously hits his pistol against the bot a little harder to try and knock it back.

"A little help here, Rogers?"

He hates asking for it, but he knows he can't quite take down this bot on his own. Maybe if Steve were to distract the damn thing, Tony could try to jump on the bot's back and find a way to deactivate it.

[a_man_out_of_time]

Tony's voice snaps Steve out of whatever shock he was experiencing in the moment, and he takes off, running down the hall at full speed. Questions could wait until later.

When he's about halfway there, Steve leaps into the air, driving his shield down so the centrifugal force carries him a full 360 degrees around him in midair — and once he touches ground again, he lets the metal fly. It slams right into the Guardbot, leaving not only a dent, but a small breach into it's inside wiring.

[im_ironman]

Showoff, Tony thinks to himself, but it's not a bad thing. Hell, right now he's just glad he has a shot at taking down the Guardbot.

That's why, when he sees the opening that the makeshift shield had left behind, Tony's quick to move as the robot seems to try to decide where to attack first. Tony doesn't wait to see what it decides before he's leaping forward, almost straddling it with his legs so that he could use his hands to rip at the wiring. It's probably careless, how he just blindly pulls at wires and yanks them out as best as he can, but the Guardbot finally powers down and that's good enough for him.

Leaping back down, he looks around as if to check if there are any other crazy bots coming their way. "...are there more of these things around?"

sorry for the delay!

[a_man_out_of_time]

Regardless of whether it was careless, it certainly looked careless. But when it came to tearing out wires (as opposed to tearing off heads), Steve left the decision-making to Tony. Even if he worried sometimes.

"Not that I know of. And the couple you saved, they're safe."

A few glances down the hall and Steve sees the entrance to a staircase.

"C'mon Tony. Come with me." The Captain walks past him, keeping a quick pace. The stairs lead down the basement, around a few corners to a safe house. There were no bots, some food, and breathing room.

no worries!! sorry for my own delay!

[im_ironman]

Tony barely nods in acknowledgement when Steve answers that they won't be having any company soon, but he visibly relaxes at the news that the couple had been saved. Good. He still isn't sure why in the hell the bot had started to attack them, but he's just glad that they're alright.

He doesn't quite get to ask, though, because suddenly Steve is leading him away, and for a moment Tony actually considers not following. He even opens his mouth to tell him as much, but one look at his surroundings makes him change his mind.

With a sigh under his breath, Tony moves along with Steve until they're in the safe house. Tony's confusion hasn't eased - if anything, it feels as if it has heightened, and he frowns. "Alright, spill. What the hell is going on?"

A glitch, a voice in his head tries to remind him, but it's crap. This isn't a glitch. Maybe he has finally reached the point of sleep deprivation where now he's just hallucinating this whole thing.

[a_man_out_of_time]

"I'm guessing they wiped your memory. And then put you through the orientation video again." He's seen it before. Multiple times with people he knows. It was painful, and that pain was becoming routine.

"As far as I can tell, no one's been able to disprove the story the Computer tell us. But I know in my gut Tony, that it doesn't sit right."

He gestures towards their surroundings.

"Everywhere we go, there are cameras watching. This is one of two places where that isn't true. Some of the other 'Specials' — that's what they're calling us — built it, sweeped it, and keep it protected."