Second Chances: Impulse

Chapter 23

After Impulse dropped Lisa off at the base and had made sure that Jesse's new security shields were up to keep her secured until he could come back, he sped back to the scene and saw that Cyborg had been grounded, though her weapons systems were clearly in overdrive as she attempted to deal with the numerous enemies she had circling her, though she was clearly having some difficulty, since she was not field tested yet.

"About time, I'm surrounded." Cyborg said as she fired off another stun blast at the meta that Impulse recognized as Double Down, who attempted to throw his playing card tattoo weapons at her.

"I can see that." Impulse said as he took a look at who she was surrounded by. In addition to Double Down, Cyborg was also surrounded by Vigilante, Atom Smasher, Sand Demon, and Tar Pit.

"Yeah, and that's not even the worst part. Someone is trying to hack my systems. It's taking all of my processing power to keep them out and to keep my guns hot." Cyborg said and now and it made sense on why she wasn't able to go on a larger offensive.

"I'll deal with the ground troops, you deal with that hacker and shut them down before they can do that to you." Impulse said.

"What do you think I've been trying to do for the past 10 minutes or so?" Cyborg asked as Impulse drew the others away, he had an extra ax to grind with Tar Pit, since now he could actually fight back against that SOB who'd nearly killed his sister in the old reality. Though he wasn't quite sure how he was going to be able to fight all of them at once.

"Come and get me." Impulse shouted as he fired off lightning bolts at each of them, though Sand Demon turned to sand to dodge and Atom Smasher and Tar Pit simply used their enhanced forms to absorb the blast, but he took out Double down with ease, since he was probably the weakest link, since his little playing cards could do much to protect him from lightning.

Anyways, while Impulse was keeping those grunts busy, Cyborg could finally focus her whole attention on the hacker.

"Okay buddy, let's do this." Cyborg said she focused all her remaining resources on reversing the hacker's signal and now that she was able to give it her full attention, she had to admit, this was fun. This hacker might be good, considering they managed to get into her systems in the first place, but now that she was able to fully focus on beating him, they were out of their league.

With that thought in mind, Cyborg closed her eyes as things began to get very interesting.

"Damn, did I accidentally hack into the Tron grid?" Kira asked, when she opened her eyes, but she wasn't on the streets on Keystone anymore. Now she could tell that she was in the internet itself and she saw that her appearance wasn't her Cyborg form, but her old human form, which made her realize that she was in the digital cloud, which made her grin, since this was her domain.

"Okay hacker, where are you?" Kira asked as she quickly took control of everything in cyberspace and used that to force her hacker into her line of sight and she saw that it was a 40 year old man with a beard.

"How did you do that? No one beats Kilgore." the man said and Kira rolled her eyes as she identified the man as Ramsey Deacon and she quickly realized that he was a technopath, which explained how he was able to hack her.

"Really, that's what you're calling yourself? Kilgore?" Cyborg asked.

"Who are you that can repel me?" Ramsey asked, only to be knocked back by a blast from sonic cannon Cyborg made appear on her arm.

"I'm Cyborg bitch. You might be able to control tech, but you can't control me. Especially not here. This is my world. You're just an unwanted pest." Cyborg said, since Kilgore had made a mistake by trying to hack her tech, since he was in her world now and she controlled this place completely. Not even the most powerful technopath on the planet could beat her here.

"You're in my world now you idiot and you're nothing more than a virus and a technopath should know what happens to viruses. They get destroyed." Cyborg said.

"You wouldn't." Kilgore said.

"Really, cause I have a question from scientific curiosity. What happens when a technopath is exposed to my antivirus systems? One chance to get out of my system before we find out the answer to my question." Cyborg said as she deployed numerous weapons, all of them armed with antivirus ammo.

"You wouldn't do that." Kilgore said, though she could tell that he wasn't sure.

"Try me." Kira said as she fired off a warning shot that quickly began to reinforce her firewalls.

"Okay, you win. For now." Kilgore said.

"Good. Now, here's a little reminder to stay out of my system." Kira said as she literally punched him out of her head, but not before she copied his code so she could reinforce her firewalls to keep him out again.