¤ Black Box Bar ¤

The holobutt showed a few pictures from the bar, and the hilarious phone review that was evidence enough to make a titan stew out of her if he wanted. She stayed calm, biting her lip as she watched that expressionless smile of him. Nicole narrowed her eyes in annoyment, but took a few stepts towards the hologram, poking the image of him, to make it move, giggling innocently before talking to him. “ So, you are trying to threaten me eh? Interesting” she whispered huskily to the young male. The possibility of getting caught by the committee was enough to ruin her whole life, even though, it was the committee`s fault of making her as she was. So they had to deal with the damage she made. Her steps circled him. His light reflected to her dazzling skin, with eyes that lightened up the darkness in her. Again, clueless about what to do with this mosquito crap of nothing, really annoyed her patient. “F-fine. The question is, what do you want me to do for you sir? I mean, is there anything I can do for you, after all you are a hologram” she stated.
The bar was about to close, and she was responsible to close it, she had the keys, she started to clean the dishes, not caring that he was there, she had to do her work, and not a holobutt as him could avoid her duty to be the waitress in this bar. The boss would come soon, and she had to be done before he came, or she would earn less money. “Pardon me sir, but I have a duty to finish, so please finish your speech”

He keep the stupid, blindingly fake and mocking smile. The sarcastic and cynical part of his personality wasn't supposed to have existed in the first place after leaving the forsaken ranks of an Ugly, and blatant disregard to the rules of The District could get him reprogrammed. However, the operation with Nicole could end with him one step closer to his goals, one way or another.
His head tilted slightly and still innocently smiling, Taemin made sure the camera on the projector panned around to see that they were indeed alone. He even checked a few others for the small blind spots, but it was as the woman had said. With a flourish, he spread his hands, the orb of light hovering between them unfolding into a long, wide ribbon that played back images of the other leaving the bar with the unfortunate man and ending with the audio retrieved from the phone. When the evidence was finished presenting, he allowed the ribbon to separate into strands and join the rest of the pulsating lights in the bar, still smiling.
"Well you see, dear Nicole, I seem to have stumbled upon some very interesting pieces of information here. Clearly murder would not sit well with The Committee, don't you think? I could have you scrapped, even, and all it would take was a few figurative clicks of a button. And please, don't try shutting down this projector in hopes of losing the data. It's actually all around you right now, thanks to my... special ability. Now of course as a loyal citizen of the Division's system, I should report you immediately, but I think I'll wait to hear the rest of the story from you... as well as what you would be willing to do for me to say, have a slight accident and lose the data entirely?"

@Lee Taemin (Stationary Hologram) Acting normal at work with a fake of a smile, after giving the customers their drink, forcing them to once again get drunk. A few blinks and winks to them was enough for them to follow her and try to hit on her, but she was never interested in one of them, not a single one. She placed her plate on the table, ready to wash up before going home, until a flash of blue light came in front of her, showing off a picture of a human, or to be more precise, a hologram. Nicole folded her hands, looking at the hologram with an emotionless face. “ Stop with the formalties hologram, it`s just me here, nothing to worry about” she talked confidently, smiling bright as she neared the male. Poking the light to see that his picture messed up. Typical those stupid creatures, they were nothing. All of them mostly annoyed her, always keeping an watch of her. This was the third on this week. “So why don`t you take your hologramic out of here, maybe take a drink before projecting yourself home” she spoke bluntly, trying to figure out how she could deactivate the projector.
However, it was first time meeting this male, too bad that he was a hologram, or she could have some huge fun with him. “So tell me mr. holobutt, what are you going to do with me?” she raised an eyebrow, leaning into the wall as she faced him again, tapping impatiently into the wall, still having an express less face, he better have some good threats in his sleeve, cuz this bored her.

He had been watching. Of course he had been watching; that was his job, at the very least. Not that he wanted to really do it, but he wasn't programmed to think about stuff like that. Besides, of all the places to be, this one was one of the best. The lights. Flashing, changing, never once quite the same. Taemin liked it, if that was even possible for a hologram like him. Leaving the Central Core was never a fun prospect, but at least this bar in particular could keep him entertained.
The place catered even to a division like him, setting up strategically placed access points outfitted with a camera and microphone each and obviously, a projector. Such devices were the means to make some poor jaded holograms feel remotely alive once more, though none would ever admit to desiring such rebellious thoughts. Their purpose was this. To serve, and not to gain. Taemin had realized that long ago.
He had noticed the slovenly male make advances on the very eye catching android, briefly surprised when she in turn accepted. Suspicious. The Android were made to be too perfect, too sensible to put themselves in the hands of the known scum. He would follow. He would watch.
Transferring his data to the man's phone was a childishly easy task, the microphone his only sensory outlet. It would be enough, though, to gather grounds to call security if a member of one of the District's top Divisions was to be assaulted or violated. However, that was not to be so. A strangled cry of pain, the clunk of a body hitting metal, the killer's last words to the victim. Now that was something interesting. Something he could use.
Transferring once more to one of the devices inside the bar, which took a little longer this time, Taemin projected himself in front of the woman. His long brown hair pulled back, long sleeved black and white shirt, and black skinny jeans made him appear almost "normal," even if the unavoidable blue sheen to his image did not. Smiling innocently, he held up his holographic hands to hold a crystalline ball of pure data manifested into the form of light, saying innocently,
"Oops. Sorry to say, but I know what you did. Nicole, Android. Worker at this bar. Hm.... I wonder what else I could find on you? Definitely enough to form a profile. You may have just made a fatal mistake, madame."

@Donghae (Ace Specialist) The night was wild like it always used to be at the bar, humans that drank their sorrows away because of some stupidious and reasonless breakups, others dancing their butts off at the floor, while holograms always gibberished about the latest wall decoration, not so weird since it’s the only thing they could be fascinated over. Of course the security was strict and camera`s was watching every single little move you did, however this young lady knew those places they never would get the tracks of her. With metallic skin which reflected so glancefully thanks to the dimmed feeling of the strong neon light, glassy eyes and an outfit that made the boys flutter, Nicole made sure to deliver every single alcoholic drink to every drunk slobs who couldn`t take their eyes from hear, she of course didn`t gave a single notice to those unworthy lower class creatures.

They weren`t worth her precious time. “Here`s your drink sir” politely and nice, only as a façade of her as she faked a smile which almost caused the bold headed man to spill out his whisky. Such a boring day, no one interesting people to have fun with. She sighed as she slung the plate inside the washing machine and leaned in to the wall, sighing of boredom. Her face turned to see one lost young male who had thrown up all over himself, laying himself all over her, looking at her with drowsy eyes and a pale face. “Hello eyecandy, care to have some action with the hunkey trunk” he so bluntly tried to seduce her.

“My, my aren`t you a charming guy” she chuckled quietly, throwing her arms around the male, who aimlessly wanted her, slender hands trailed all over him, ing his old breakfast covered shirt, till he was topless. Without him noticing, fingers held tightly onto something and before she knew it, as he thought of getting something tonight, with those last words of her “ stupid humanbeing” and before he could even count to three was the drunk male over and out, with an fork stabbed right into his brain, and thrown out in the trash. Such an everyday night for Nicole. She off the blood from her fingers, before she turned to work again, with a bright smile.

*and about why T.O.P wasn't being so cold towards him.

OTL too many mistakes.

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*he wasn't in the mood

@Seungri (Hologram) T.O.P continued to stare at the hologram that was projected on the screen in front of him. He rested his chin on top of his fist as he analyzed the situation before him. T.O.P had seen that hologram before....but where? As his eyes trailed over the male's facial features, it had clicked. Seungri had screwed around with the committee once before while they were conducting a very important meeting. One of high importance. The hologram was a trickster who enjoyed playing practical jokes on the committee and others when he had the chance. A frown graced T.O.P's lips as he tilted his head to the side. He was going to make sure that the little hologram wouldn't pull another stunt like that tonight.

T.O.P's eyes flashed a softer color when his ears picked up the soft sounding voice of the hologram once again. "As it may be safer and more effective, before that would even be allowed to happen we would need to write it out and send it to the higher ups to be approved and you and I both know that they wouldn't accept it. They would reject it and throw it in the trash with all the other failed laws that have been made," T.O.P replied as he brought his legs up to rest atop one of the bars of the stool he was sitting on, trying to relax even though he knew that he was still on edge and wouldn't be able to relax no matter how hard he tried.

"I may need to keep the humans in order but with every decision you make comes consequences. I'll help her when the time comes. I'm not going to allow those bastards to her but I'm not the knight in shining armor type. Donghae is handling it, if you can look back into the camera you should see that by now," T.O.P explained tiredly. He was really in the mood to talk to some hologram or to anyone at all, really. But the hologram had intrigued him and he was more than curious to learn more about the mischievous troublemaker and about why he wasn't acting so cold towards him. T.O.P never opened up to anyone or even really spoke to anyone but this hologram seemed to be squeezing his way into his hard drives and T.O.P was a little bit more than willing to talk.

When T.O.P realized how he was acting towards the hologram, he tried to change his personality back to normal. "Don't pout. Cute doesn't suit you," T.O.P muttered as he stood to his feet, not wanting to give in to the hologram's cute nature.

(this isn't good at all. I didn't even proofread it so if it has typos or horrible grammar, I am so sorry. :/ This post wasn't my best but I'll try to make the next one better. ^^)

@Tao (Special) [Hey. Just a warning this time, but remember that your post must be AT LEAST 100 words.]

@T.O.P (Cyborg Commander) At the sight of those sharp eyes boring into his visualized face on the screen, Seungri couldn't help but feel that this man REALLY did command an attention that was worthy of the Cyborg Commander. And that was something rare itself that it came from what the Hologram was thinking, considering that the prankster was more than disrespectful of the Committee... At times and to the right people that was. To the Cyborg Commander though? There wasn't really a reason /yet/ for him to do anything of the mischievous nature...

But back to the scene in front of them, Seungri couldn't help but release a wry chuckle as his finger tapped onscreen on his crossed legs, seeming like a gentleman he was. Seemed like the Cyborg shared the same sort of opinion for those damn "Special". Just because they were called "Special", it wasn't that like they were THAT damn special.

"Just thinking but..." Seungri interjected in then quietly, soft enough so that only the Commander could really hear him. "Do you think it would be more effectively and safer if the Uglies were to patrol about and be the police force as the Specials are doing?" His holographic dark eyes then flashed to a more brighter color, almost the tint of purple as a friendly smile curled on his lips. Just the color change of his eyes was enough to show that the Hologram was thinking... It must be an odd glitch when they read his mind into the core that made it change like that.

Seungri knew that he was tempting the tiger right now to bite his hand off but... The Hologram couldn't help but nudge a slight hint towards his bar companion. "Nothing against what the Committee is doing right now, just to state that... Considering that you ARE the Cyborg Commander, sitting in front of him and not doing his duties to keep the Humans orderly?" And from the camera, he could clearly see the herd of Specials then sweep the Pretty girl off with them to a VIP room, earning a slight sigh from the Hologram as he shook his head, the smile still lingering on his face.

"And as you say... Maybe you shouldn't get involved in affairs that aren't even your business," Seungri murmured quietly as the atmosphere in the bar was lowered to a more quieter one as the loud ones had moved on to their own rooms or outside. Raising his hands in front of him in the screen in a defensive position as soon as he realized what he was saying, the male quickly purred out afterwards with a friendly and placating smile on his features, "Hey, but don't take that offensive, alright T.O.P? The rambling of a lonely Hologram, really..." his words trailing off slightly at the end as a natural pout curled onto his panda-like face, quite unintentionally cute as his holographic eyes stared off absently, letting the constant flow of information run through his mind without any processing.

@Seungri (Hologram) T.O.P watched the specials in absolute disgust. That was another reason he would add to his list of why he despised the specials. It seemed like every last one of the specials deemed themselves as perfect and thought that no matter what they did to others, they would get away with their actions and that they would recieve no consequences for them. He knew he was like them once. Probably partied his nights away, flirting with pretties. He furrowed his eyebrows and sighed exasperatedly. He couldn't remember a single memory before his first cyborg operation. It was as if someone had wiped his mind completely, as if they were giving him a clean slate to start his life over.

T.O.P had often thought about hailing a hologram to see if they could find any information about his past. But he knew if the Committee had purposely wiped his memory that it was probably for the best and maybe he shouldn't know what he had done in his past. Even if his life depended on it, he was not going to go behind the Committee's back to learn about his past life.

His gaze moved back to the pretty who was idiotically doing everything that the male specials told her to do. T.O.P was thankful that he wasn't like her. A mindless beautiful person who doesn't have a care in the world. Where was the fun in that? T.O.P rather enjoyed his imperfections. The machinery that bulged out of where he used to have smooth, perfect skin gave him flaws. Flaws that made him unique. That was part of why he continued to have machinery wired through his body whenever possible. He didn't want to be like the mindless drones of pretties or like the specials who seemed to only do things for their own purposes instead of others.

T.O.P's hearing was far greater than that of a mere special. When he heard the quiet buzz of a hologram hopping from camera to camera, he sighed to himself, not in the mood to be trolled and turned in his barstool to look up at the screen positioned high up on the wall. T.O.P scoffed at the hologram's sarcasm and looked at the specials from the corner of his eye. "They don't even deserve to be specials. They should be degraded back to being an ugly. At least then they would have a bit more respect for females." T.O.P couldn't be more obvious about his hate for specials.

T.O.P stared up at the fancy dressed hologram, waiting to be trolled, but when it didn't come he felt a bit more at ease. "Of course I can do better than those bastards. But why should I get involved in affairs that aren't even my business? She was stupid enough to let those boys take advantage of her."

(I hope this was good enough. o: It took me forever. D:)

@Yesung (Hologram) (( >A> I heard that. ))

(( Right~ Just wait until Dongha- /clears throat. Nevermind! ^^; ))

@Yesung (Hologram) (( Of course XD I'm a special and apparently suppose to not really have any desire for that.. LOL Well I don't know but for now let's keep it that way? ))

@Kyuhyun (Special) (( Aw~ You twisted it /pouts. ))

@Yesung (Hologram) Kyuhyun was sipping his wine like he always did, swishing the contents of the glass before putting it up to his lips. A beep resounded as a notification popped up on his laptop screen. It read 'Labelling a file as 'Midnight Ideas' makes it all the more suspicious, you know' Now that had Kyuhyun racking his brain from when had he ever made such a file on his computer.

"Aish...another nosy hologram, but when did I even have a file labeled 'Midnight Ideas'?" Kyuhyun went to scroll through the secondhand laptop he got for a cheap price and clicked on the mysterious file. Really, the only file he had were work files and Starcraft. The window popped up and it showed multiple pictures of . "..." Kyuhyun's eyes widened and he literally choked on his wine. What the was a file of doing in his laptop? He quickly trashed the file, making a mental note to screen his whole laptop for anymore of those /disturbing files/.

Sighing, he decided the next time he went to the shopping centre, he was going to purchase a new laptop with security codes and all that. Those holograms just doesn't know how to leave him alone.

@Kyuhyun (Special) (( Because I want to see how you would react! XD ))

@Yesung (Hologram) (( Why of all things?? OTL ))

@Kyuhyun (Special) Yesung zipped through the electrical circuits, quickly scanning the live camera feeds for anyone interesting to talk to. Since he got blocked from connecting directly to the Central Core, the Hologram was feeling a little more antisocial than normal. It was ironic how isolated he felt despite his freedom to roam around. He missed talking to other Holograms since they were the only ones he could actually ‘feel’. To all other races, he was nothing but a series of 0’s and 1’s, light particles at most.

He caught sight of a lone figure by the bar and instantly brightened – figuratively, of course. It wasn’t so much that he was happy to see a Special. He was just curious about the laptop. Personal computers were the true windows to your soul, and Yesung loved snooping. He disguised himself as a regular package of data and snuck in without setting off any alarms. The Special probably didn’t even realize he had hacked in. ‘Well, what do we have here?’ Yesung thought to himself as he scrolled through endless gigabytes of . It seemed like this little human had a wide variety of strange es.

Unable to stop himself, Yesung overrid the system and sent a message to pop up on screen. ‘Labelling a file as ‘Midnight Ideas’ makes it all the more suspicious, you know’

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@T.O.P (Cyborg Commander) So... For today, what was the infamously popular Seungri going to do? Just kidding, not THAT popular... But quite infamous he was. And for once in a while, the Hologram had a destination to go to instead of just cruising around aimlessly in the District and hitting up good looking Uglies... Wait, off-topic again.

Those were the thoughts that swirled around in Seungri's mind as he zipped through the wires and surfed along with the pulses of the machines around him. And it was true that the Hologram had a place in mind... A place that brought back not so great memories of his Pretties day. The Black Box Bar. The truly wild place besides the Club Alpha. Ah... Those days of when the male would be hitting up girls all night, doing things that he could only wish his Hologram place in society could still do. But alas...

But now connecting into the Bar itself, Seungri didn't go to the nonexistent Hologram area of the building. Hell, there wasn't a need for one. Why would they? Holograms didn't need to drink... Eat... Do anything besides spit information out for the other Divisions... So instead, he simply cruised around aimlessly through the cameras, flitting here and there until... There was a spectacle of interest.

Huh. Those Specials... People always thought they were so "proper" and "good", but really... Seungri would have sighed then if he had a proper body, eyes rolling at that sight before they froze on the figure of someone sitting nearby. A male for the fact... Mechanical parts clearly dominating half of his figure and giving him quite the intimidating figure. There was only one person who could be like that. The Cyborg Commander.

Almost instantly, his interest was perked as the Hologram zipped down the line to reside in the camera that was built into the holographic screen behind the Cyborg. One of the Committee... Hm... Seungri wasn't feeling that "trollish" today. Why not keep him company as he was feeling a bit peckish for talking?

"Wow. Fine job the Specials seem to doing... Watching over the Pretties and keeping them out of trouble," the Hologram remarked from the screen, the image of him dressed in quite the odd outfit of a black vest studded with white flower brooch [ http://xii4.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/seungri01.jpg ] as he sat easily on an identical stool to the one that the Cyborg was sitting on. The sarcasm laced in the male's tone was off-set a bit by the smile on the Hologram's face, seeming childish and innocent really as he turned his holographic head towards the Commander sitting there. "Do you think you can do better than them? Poor girl is going to get ed tonight, it seems~" he continued on light-heartily, noticing that a few of the Specials were now grabbing in quite inappropriate places of the plastered Pretty girl...

@Seungri (Hologram)

I'm so sorry it took so long to come up with something. D:)

T.O.P walked into the Black Box Bar, a bright, vibrant, overcrowded bar located in near proximity of Club Alpha. From around the corner, he could hear the low buzz of the neon sign out front, providing a backdrop for the clinking of glasses and drone-like chatter of over a hundred pretties, specials, and uglies.

As he entered the joint, the intermingled smells of smoke and sweat and too many people instantly assaulted his nostrils as he inhaled deeply. He frowned as he pushed through the crowd of gossiping pretties, finally finding his way to an empty barstool in the corner. He watched as a pretty laughed and flirted carelessly with the bartender, trying to get him to buy her a drink; even though she was clearly underage. "Gin...and Tonic" she mouthed, and the bartender nodded and disappeared into the back room.

By now, T.O.P's eyes were already adjusted to the imminenet darkness. Bright spots of neon beer signs on the wall stood out, illuminating the faces and cleavage of the crowd, while others disappeared into the contrasting blackness. "How times will the committee send me here to watch over the clueless humans?," he wondered as he turned in his seat to overlook the crowd.

A moment later, before his thought was even finished, he heard combined voices shouting, "Chug, chug, chug!" T.O.P glanced from the corner of his eyes to see a group of male specials crowding around one pretty who was trying her best to impress them by chugging down a bottle of an alcoholic beverage; adding a haze to her already poor senses.

@Yesung (Hologram) Kyuhyun felt a little parched and so he decided that he would treat himself today at the bar with some fine wine. Red wine to be exact. Strolling in as he wore his casual yet stylish clothes, he made his way to the bar. "One bottle of red wine, please. One of the best that you have too." Kyuhyun told the bartender and placed down his money for the wine as he set up his laptop in front of him. Maybe some random surfing on the net can past his time. It wasn't good for him to just spend his whole day playing Starcraft. 'Oh, I need to check the new shippings for the new release games.' He thought to himself before logging in and doing his work related stuff.