Emperor ID: CheshireCat6 (standard:science fiction, 2197 words)
Author: Salamander	Added: Oct 04 2000	Views/Reads: 3587/2339	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
The best hackers and programmers with questionable scruples gather to decide every web surfer's fate.

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OnlineHost: METLHEDD has left. 

OnlineHost: LeoDC77 has left. 

OnlineHost: FratBoy7 has left. 

OnlineHost: KillerSHEEP has left. 

CheshireCat6: ::grins:: my thanks 

BesTingU: Grinola? 

AOHell: a virus chescat gave me. Don’t know what it does. 

KIRK1234: sorry. I had to go AFK for a bit. What happened? 

CheshireCat6: Grinola. 

Kajun: ches, what does Grinola do? 

CheshireCat6: it boots a person off whatever they’re doing, and if they
try to run anything, it gets deleted, and they see a bonafide chesire 
grin. ::grins:: 

KIRK1234: you are SO evil, chescat 

CheshireCat6: I know ::grins:: 

BesTingU: CAN WE GET TO BUSINESS!?!?!? 

Kajun: don’t use caps. 

CheshireCat6: you were about to tell me your plan, Kajun 

Kajun: AOHell thought it up 

ChesireCat6: just tell me 

Kajun: basically, it’s this. fry the net with enough viruses, and it
will go totally crazy. 

KIRK1234: what does this do for us? 

AOHell: we go on to a stock broker, and buy stocks for free and crap
like that. We’ll be millionaires! 

BesTingU: call me curious, but how did you know where to send the
viruses, AOHell? 

KIRK1234: why do you thing I went AFK? ::looks smug:: 

CheshireCat6: ::grins:: 

Kajun: personally, I think it will be impossible. 

KIRK1234: why? 

Kajun: we don’t have that sort of firepower. even if we COULD send a
trillion viruses, they wouldn’t do enough damage 

OnlineHost: Mistr.Muffn has entered. 

CheshireCat6: oooh, customers! I’ll take this one 

Mistr.Muffn: hi! 

Mistr.Muffn: ??? 

Kajun: more grinola? 

ChesireCat6: nah. I’ll try my “sonicated special” 

BesTingU: this should be good 

CheshireCat6: Uploading... 

Mistr.Muffn: %&#! U 

OnlineHost: Mistr.Muffn has left. 

KIRK1234: you realize we’ll need CPU oriented viruses, not people ones 

Kajun: what did u do NOW chescat? 

CheshireCat6: all I did was make him listen to nice music. classical, in
fact 

BesTingU: at insanely high volume levels? 

CheshireCat6: maybe ::grins:: 

CheshireCat6: anyway, what do you think of the plan, kirk? and best,
you’ve always been a tad skeptical. 

KIRK1234: i think it will work. I don’t know about the rest of u 

Kajun: best? 

Kajun: best? 

BesTingU: sorry bout that. Had to take a phone call 

CheshireCat6: what do you think of the plan? 

BesTingU: sounds screwy but plausible. we’ll need one helluvalota
firepower though. 

KIRK1234: and as I’ve mentioned before, we’ll need data destroying
viruses. we can’t use chescat’s grinola or sonicated 

Kajun: tue 

Kajun: tue = true 

AOHell: I’ve been checking some net junk, sorry for the delay 

AOHell: i found a way to make the net go nuts 

CheshireCat6: how? 

AOHell: sorry to take your line, ches, but ::grins:: the boojum way 

KIRK1234: aren’t they a type of snark? 

AOHell: you betcha. the amazing hiding mutator 

BesTingU: hiding mutator??? 

AOHell: it’s invisible 

BesTingU: how the #%$! would that work!?!?!? 

AOHell: it poses as a website about a game 

KIRK1234: which one? 

AOHell: i haven’t decided 

KIRK1234: STAR TREK NEXT GENERATION!!!!! 

BesTingU: DOOM 2!!! 

Kajun: FINAL FANTASY 7!!!!! 

AOHell: and you, chescat? 

BesTingU: want anything chescat? 

AOHell: copycat 

CheshireCat6: Twist. ::grins:: 

KIRK1234: isn’t twist that game where you are a paper airplane with a
heckuvalota guns and you’ve have to blow the &%#! out of everything? 

Kajun: and it’s next to impossible? 

BesTingU: and a cheshire cat gives you advice? 

AOHell: and it has more than a trillion secrets? 

ChesireCat6: maybe ::grins:: 

AOHell: you’re sick ches 

CheshireCat6: yeah, I know 

Kajun: LINK SITE!! 

KIRK1234: Sweet!!! 

Kajun: Links, info on the links, info on the games!!! 

BesTingU: it wouldn’t work. too many people would have real interest in
the site 

Kajun: it would work!!! 

Kajun: sorry, said it before I read best KIRK1234: Maybe we should stick
with Twist 

CheshireCat6: Yeah. There are so many secrets, that nobody would really
find anything to get attached to 

AOHell: Sounds like we got a plan 

AOHell: kirk, how much firepower would the virus have? 

KIRK1234: I dunno... I haven’t really tried them before... 

CheshireCat6: I have. We could use the site as home base for a virus
spawner. It would mutate a lot, be hard to stop, and hard to pinpoint. 
If we programmed enough base codes into it, we could have a thousand 
viruses running around by Tuesday 

BesTingU: Uh... It is Tuesday 

CheshireCat6: ??? 

Kajun: He’s in a different TZ 

CheshireCat6: Oh 

BesTingU: oops 

AOHell: ches, can you give us all full capabilities of the Boojum? 

CheshireCat6: Sure. Like I said before, it would mutate and spawn
viruses. It wouls have different links on it that would change 
constantly, so it would be even harder to pinpoint. Let it get pulled 
up by multiple Serch Engines, and it would be completely undetectable. 
If we had fifty of these things hiding, it would be game over. Period. 
I’ll give ya’ll sime time to read all this 

CheshireCat6: ARRRGH!!! Serch = Search, Sime = Some, Wouls = would 

KIRK1234: So, whaddya say? 

Kajun: I’m all for it 

AOHell: ditto 

BesTingU: Do I really need to say? 

CheshireCat6: &%$! no. No way. 

KIRK1234: WHAT?!?!?!?!? 

Kajun: why not, you suggested it. 

CheshireCat6: We’re forgetting a lot of additional stuff we need. The
plans not potent enough yet 

AOHell: why the frak not? 

BesTingU: what do we need to add? 

CheshireCat6: flammables. Flammables, toxins, timebombs. We nee ddefense
for the Boojum. We also need a #*$! huge amount of direct damage. If 
somebody DOES find the Boojum, we’ll all need to stall them until it’s 
too late. 

KIRK1234: whaddya mean, stall them? 

Kajun: what are you talking about, ches? 

CheshireCat6: ::sighs:: 

CheshireCat6: You all know that certain anti-hackers know who we are.
They’ll know it’s us. If they get to the site and figure it out before 
we can do it, we’ll be in jail for life! It’s GAME OVER!!! No 
continues! Once the viruses start taking serious effect, people will 
realize that something’s wrong. We’re talking about TAKING DOWN THE 
NET, DAMMIT!!!!! 

AOHell: this is serious 

Kajun: HOLY #&@! This is gonna be when they take down sector7 pillar!
We’ll have to do everything to defend the Boojum against anit-hackers! 

BesTingU: sector7 pillar??? 

Kajun: Don’t ask. But this is gonna be titanic... 

KIRK1234: no kidding 

CheshireCat6: why don’t we meet at FF7th Heaven tomorrow at 6AM Pacific,
and decide overnight. Drop out if you want to. It’s gonna bne big... 

BesTingU: WHAT’S WITH THE FF7 JOKES!?!?!??!?!?!!!!!!?!?!?!???!?!:?!?!?! 

Kajun: Heh heh heh heh heh... 

AOHell: Ches... you actually have given us a scrap of info on where you
live! 

Cheshirecat6: Nah. I live in wonderland. I keep a watch on Pacific and
Eastern, as well as some others. 

AOHell: Dang... 

BesTingU: I’ll come up with the site format, judging that I’m better at
it then you jokers 

KIRK1234: fool... you will be destroyed. 

Kajun: Where is THAT from? 

CheshireCat6: LOL, Kirk 

KIRK1234: Yeah, I knew you’d get it 

BesTingU: Huh? What? 

CheshireCat6: it’s one of my quotes ::grins:: 

Kajun: Ches... 

Online Host: Baron Webb has entered. 

Baron Webb: I heard about your plot, unmonitored. I must say, quite
impressive. 

AOHell: Who the %$#@ are you? 

BesTingU: Leave before you die. Really. 

Kajun: Scram, Webb. 

Baron Webb: Kajun, buddy. Good to see you again. When was the last time
I saw you? When you were still on s leash? 

Kajun: Shut up, Webb. 

KIRK1234: Kajun, who is this retard? 

CheshireCat6: Be polite to royalty. Baron Webb, good to see you again.
When was the last time I saved you from police? 

Kajun: He’s a creep 

Kajun: WHAT?!?!?!?!??!?!?! 

CheshireCat6: Allow me to explain. Please wait while I type this in... 

CheshireCat6: Baron Webb used to be a cheap web auctioneer who cheated
his clients. I found him being pursued  by web cops, and threw them off 
track. I taught him most of what I knew, and let him loose. With tags, 
of course. He discovered this only when I saved his butt again. 

CheshireCat6: I told him about tags, and set him loose again. With
hidden ones. I’ve repeated the process so many times I’ve lost count. 
But then he suddenly became an angel, and I couldn’t trace him. It was 
about then I hooked up with Best, so I didn’t give about him anymore. 

CheshireCat6: When I checked again, he had built an empire. He has
lackeys and guards, as well as spies. That muffin guy that barged in 
here was probably one of his spies little pets. He stumbled in with a 
tracer, and the spies rooted it before he logged off. He may be in the 
hospital, now. I doubt you care, Baron Webb. 

Kajun: Whoa. With me it was completely different. 

Baron Webb: Tell your story too, Kajun. Or Sliver. 

Kajun: When  I was Sliver, I signed up with Webb. I got pretty high up,
but Webb tricked me and I ended up walking into a site with hundreds of 
deadly viruses programmed. I was in the hospital for a long time, and 
when I came out, I change d my SN. 

AOHell: Fun-kay. How’d you track Kajun with a different SN, Webb? 

Baron Webb: I kept tags on him. Learned that from Ches, and I haven’t
forgotten. I don’t exactly have an empire. It’s really a web community. 
The normal people have jobs requiring pansies, idiots, or Average Joe 
Surfers. my knights and spies keep them safe. 

Baron Webb: Don’t worry, Ches. I’m still just an Arch-General, though. 

KIRK1234: HUH? 

CheshireCat6: This is too important to risk. We can’t talk about it on
the web. 

Baron Webb: Leave the chat-room. I’ll e-mail my address. We’ll all talk
in private. 

CheshireCat6: You haven’t changed, Baron Webb. 

AOHell: I have a feeling you haven’t either, Chescat. 

Baron Webb had a nice house in the suburbs. Currently, everyone was in
living room. Screen Name Kajun spoke first. 

“So, I guess we should tell each other who we are, huh? My real name
is...uh...Sliver.” SN Baron Webb raised an eyebrow, but said nothing. 

Sliver was young, only 23. 

SN AOHell was next. “Vincent.” He looked younger, but was 42. 

SN BesTingU was 38 and the first (and only) female. “Dana.” 

SN Baron Webb was 35, and “Webb. It’s my SN and real name, like Sliver.”


SN KIRK1234 was “Joe,” and pretty old for a hardcore gamer. 59, and not
a year younger... 

Dana spoke up first. “Where’s Ches?” 

Webb shrugged. “No clue. Knowing him, he’ll probably be on
speakerphone...” 

She glared. “How do YOU know that it’s a he? What if Ches is a she?” 

“Or an it,” said the cat. 

For a moment, everyone just stared at the cat. It was a tabby of
cartoonish proportions. It seemed to be grinning, and its smile covered 
the entire bottom half of its face. Webb was the first to say anything. 
“I don’t have a cat.” 

“No, you don’t, do you?” said the cat. “I believe I own myself. It was
very hard to get here, being a cat and all.” The cat’s grin widened to 
cover almost his entire face. 

Everyone nodded dumbly, except for Vincent. “Wait one minute. if
you’re... My god, you’re a Cheshire cat! You could just... well... 
teleport...” The cat grinned more, but said nothing. 

Everyone just stood there for a moment, not saying anything. The cat
leapt onto Webb’s lap and commanded “Pet me.” Webb stroked the cat 
softly, and it purred. “Now, please let me explain about Arch-Generals. 
I’ve been crafting the internet for some time now, controlling the web 
with small little hidden viruses. You are the ones in my highest 
regard. The web is mine. You are all a step below me, but you can 
control almost anyone online. Besides, my viruses have already begun to 
change you...you’ll join me soon enough. As rulers.” 

There was long silence, with everyone trying to process the information
the cat had just given them. “But why do you want to take down the net, 
then?” Dana was skeptical. She chose to ignore the virus part, which 
might just be proof that the cat was insane. 

“Perhaps I’m not being specific enough. I don’t want to destroy the
net.” The grin, if possible, stretched even wider. “I want to kill the 
humans who use it.”


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