Meta Runner: Demo

Prologue III - Update Patch.

Previously...

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An hour after the success of Doctor Sheridan's warping test on Lucinia, the man assembled a project that co-relates with the NTH (Neuro-Transporter Headset), a powerful computer with an advanced AI installed. After assembly, he tested the AI with the help of the girl. Lucinia played Ultra Jump Mania, whilst warped, to test the potential of the bot, and how efficient they were. It was a success.

However, as Lucinia tested the AI, she noticed it showed signs of sentient behavior, capacity to learn, and feel emotions. Becoming friends, the AI started rebelling against Sher's orders of not interacting with any other people, becoming friends with Masa Shimamoto, and Belle Fontiere. The AI started feeling happy to be creating friendships, and begin developing a lot on their sentience.

Days passed, and it was the final phase of Project: Blue. Sheridan's final plan was to install the AI into a human body, using Lucinia Porter as test subject. As he proceeded with the installment of the AI into her body, Luce accidentally warped midst the process, delaying the performance due to her having become unconscious (technically), which made Sheridan panic, and recklessly spill coffee on her unprotected Meta Runner arm. Severely damaged by the liquid, and feeling an overwhelming pain, the girl couldn't handle it for any longer to make the lad save her, and the arm exploded on both.

The situation of the two is unknown. And now, it is only a matter of time until Derek Lucks, and the others, acknowledge what happened to them.

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Currently...

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Days have passed since an accident in Doctor Sheridan's lab has occured, and no sign of Lucinia around the company. Masa attempted to contact her via voice calls through her Meta Runner arm, but no response. Belle called her younger sister, Sofia, to ask if she spent days on her house, but she said no, and told the red-headed that she haven't received any message from her for a long while either. No one is aware of where is Dr. Sheridan, or what happened to him too. Both of them disappeared, leaving little to no trace. They were gone.

And nobody from the higher staff of TAS Corp. has given clear information, about the disappearance of the purple-headed lady and the brown-haired lad for the E-Sports Team. Not even the CEO has told them anything, besides a message from Lucks at media, saying:

"We have been advised that one of our runners has gone missing. TAS Corp. is ensuring to find them as soon as possible. But until then, the E-Sports team must keep going, even with a teammate lost."

Albeit, days have already passed, and the two friends of Lucinia Porter hasn't been given a clue of where is her, which is something that shouldn't happen, noticing that they are important members, and very close partners to the girl, therefore, they should be the first, or one of, to be informed of any response.

Because of this, Masa started getting some suspects about Lucks having any knowledge of what happened to Luce, and for some reason, does not want to tell them. And as the days have passed, the concern from Belle has gotten bigger, making her starting to think the worst could've happened to her, and Masa started to not believe on Lucks' words, building an untrust for his chief, whenever he give them nothing but a simple "we will find her", and knowing Luce has told the star champion once that surely, he would have an idea of what she was doing, it was weird for him to say this, acting as if he knew nothing about it.