[fic] [731] MK: Humanus ex Machina
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ickaimpRemember what I said about not posting much ficcage this week?
ye-ah.
Warnings for playing loose and fast with the facts.
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Humanus ex Machina
By Icka! M. Chif
A Mad Scientist kidnapped me off the streets approximately a month after I inherited my father's Legacy as the Kaitou Kid.
Just your average run-of-the-mill Mad Scientist, who had completed a robot body and wanted to download someone's memories into. And just my luck, he chose me, an average teenager on the street.
We shall not get into detail about how I, a trained Phantom Thief, got captured by a screwball. It's irrelevant and not necessary to the story.
... okay, so walked up behind me and he hit me over the head with a mallet, not that I'm sore about it or anything...
ANYWAY.
Long story short; I wake up in a room that smelled too much like burnt electronics, metal and blood for my comfort and tied to a thick metal beam that goes from floor to ceiling. There's some sort of gizmo strapped on my head that looks like a lampshade's worst nightmare and then attached to a computer. And there's a robot attaching to the computer.
A robot that looks like yours truly, The One, The Only, the Irrepressible Kuroba Kaito.
Turns out it was downloading my -mind-.
And then he went to school.
As me.
Okay, so maybe I wasn't 'the only' Kuroba Kaito at the time...
Details as to what he did at school that day we will not get into primarily because I'm not completely sure of them myself. Just that Aoko turned red a lot and wouldn't talk to me for a week. And there's the bit about my classmates trying to throw a wedding party for us as soon as I walked in the door. Very strange and unusual.
What I do know is that when he came back, he sent a notice to Nakamori-keibu for a heist.
As the Kaitou Kid.
My Father's Name.
MY Name.
Not a slight I can nor will forgive easily. Especially since he made such a mess of it.
He left, and I escaped, by virtue of skimming up the metal beam then sliding down balls first, allowing the friction to cut the ropes binding me.
Very painful and not at all a very recommended route of escape, by the way. But it worked.
I got to the heist a bit late, just enough time to see Robot-san make a complete mockery of the heist. Extendable arm through the window to launch himself in to the room? Honestly. Sure the goal is to get the our intended target, but as a Kaitou, we have the reputation to uphold of getting the target with -class-.
And he nearly hit Nakamori-keibu. Not at all commendable.
Not that he was all that commendable when he spotted me. Talk about a walking arsenal! Arms fold back for guns out of the elbows, a rocket out of the abdomen, exhaust ports out of the back, a pistol for a hand.
This is on top of being faster, stronger and the ability to calculate what I was going to do 0.4 seconds before I can move. He had been downloading my brain after all.
And my weapons?
Brains and my trusty card gun.
It was the 0.4 seconds that saved my life.
I can't believe he actually thought I'd blow my own brains out with the Card Gun just because he shot my arm. Honestly. I'm CRAZY, not STUPID or SUICIDAL.
...usually.
At least Nakamori-keibu took it well, considering the amount of damage and all. The Robot pretty much slaughtered the parking garage we had been standing on. There's a reason why bombs like that aren't legal around Edoka.
After that life went on like as it has been. Normal high school student by day, magician in training by evening and white clad thief at night. It wasn't exactly completely out of the ordinary for my life, so I forgot all about it.
Until about a minute ago.
Which is when I pushed Aoko and Hakuba out of the way of a runaway oncoming truck on our way to school.
I got them out of the way in time, but...
My face is probably mirroring their own shock and horror we watch as the circuitry and wires in my arm slither out to repair my hand and I'm pretty sure they're going to want answers, only I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to be able to explain it to myself...
-fin-
'Humanus ex Machina ' should mean 'Human from the Machine', if we've got the Latin right. ('dues ex machina' meaning 'god from the machine')
Long Story short: Yes, Kaito got kidnapped by a guy who works at Ogami Electronic Laboratory, a big spooky looking place on top of a cliff. He wanted an ordinary teenager. He got Kaito. Anyway. Kaito's brain was being downloaded into a robot (Kaito calls him 'Roboto-san' at one point), who masquerades as Kaito at school (tells Aoko that he's cold to her because he likes her, hence the blushing and 'wedding' scene at the end), then does the Kid thing. Kid shows up, fights him, blah blah, see above.
In a flashback towards the beginning of the story, we see Robot-san dressed as Kid kill Mad-Scientist, and a scene with Robot-san getting splashed with blood.
Voices theory for the story:
The Kaito we all know and love is Robot version 1.0. Only he doesn't know it. Ver 1.0 was built to mimic a human as closely as possible. (for espionage purposes?) Kaito's mind is in there and as far as he knows, he IS Kaito. Since he thinks he's human, he's going act like one, with the limitations of one.
Fleshy Human Kaito was killed by Roboto-san, Ver 2.0 when he killed the Mad Scientist.
Ver. 2.0 being the Weapons version. Faster, stronger and more armed than 1.0, as well as being aware of the fact that he is a robot.
So it's a battle of brains vs brains ^__^
And we have to be up at 4:30am, so we 're gonna go pass out now. G'night all.
MASSIVE EDITS: 24 Nov 2003
ye-ah.
Warnings for playing loose and fast with the facts.
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Humanus ex Machina
By Icka! M. Chif
A Mad Scientist kidnapped me off the streets approximately a month after I inherited my father's Legacy as the Kaitou Kid.
Just your average run-of-the-mill Mad Scientist, who had completed a robot body and wanted to download someone's memories into. And just my luck, he chose me, an average teenager on the street.
We shall not get into detail about how I, a trained Phantom Thief, got captured by a screwball. It's irrelevant and not necessary to the story.
... okay, so walked up behind me and he hit me over the head with a mallet, not that I'm sore about it or anything...
ANYWAY.
Long story short; I wake up in a room that smelled too much like burnt electronics, metal and blood for my comfort and tied to a thick metal beam that goes from floor to ceiling. There's some sort of gizmo strapped on my head that looks like a lampshade's worst nightmare and then attached to a computer. And there's a robot attaching to the computer.
A robot that looks like yours truly, The One, The Only, the Irrepressible Kuroba Kaito.
Turns out it was downloading my -mind-.
And then he went to school.
As me.
Okay, so maybe I wasn't 'the only' Kuroba Kaito at the time...
Details as to what he did at school that day we will not get into primarily because I'm not completely sure of them myself. Just that Aoko turned red a lot and wouldn't talk to me for a week. And there's the bit about my classmates trying to throw a wedding party for us as soon as I walked in the door. Very strange and unusual.
What I do know is that when he came back, he sent a notice to Nakamori-keibu for a heist.
As the Kaitou Kid.
My Father's Name.
MY Name.
Not a slight I can nor will forgive easily. Especially since he made such a mess of it.
He left, and I escaped, by virtue of skimming up the metal beam then sliding down balls first, allowing the friction to cut the ropes binding me.
Very painful and not at all a very recommended route of escape, by the way. But it worked.
I got to the heist a bit late, just enough time to see Robot-san make a complete mockery of the heist. Extendable arm through the window to launch himself in to the room? Honestly. Sure the goal is to get the our intended target, but as a Kaitou, we have the reputation to uphold of getting the target with -class-.
And he nearly hit Nakamori-keibu. Not at all commendable.
Not that he was all that commendable when he spotted me. Talk about a walking arsenal! Arms fold back for guns out of the elbows, a rocket out of the abdomen, exhaust ports out of the back, a pistol for a hand.
This is on top of being faster, stronger and the ability to calculate what I was going to do 0.4 seconds before I can move. He had been downloading my brain after all.
And my weapons?
Brains and my trusty card gun.
It was the 0.4 seconds that saved my life.
I can't believe he actually thought I'd blow my own brains out with the Card Gun just because he shot my arm. Honestly. I'm CRAZY, not STUPID or SUICIDAL.
...usually.
At least Nakamori-keibu took it well, considering the amount of damage and all. The Robot pretty much slaughtered the parking garage we had been standing on. There's a reason why bombs like that aren't legal around Edoka.
After that life went on like as it has been. Normal high school student by day, magician in training by evening and white clad thief at night. It wasn't exactly completely out of the ordinary for my life, so I forgot all about it.
Until about a minute ago.
Which is when I pushed Aoko and Hakuba out of the way of a runaway oncoming truck on our way to school.
I got them out of the way in time, but...
My face is probably mirroring their own shock and horror we watch as the circuitry and wires in my arm slither out to repair my hand and I'm pretty sure they're going to want answers, only I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to be able to explain it to myself...
-fin-
'Humanus ex Machina ' should mean 'Human from the Machine', if we've got the Latin right. ('dues ex machina' meaning 'god from the machine')
Long Story short: Yes, Kaito got kidnapped by a guy who works at Ogami Electronic Laboratory, a big spooky looking place on top of a cliff. He wanted an ordinary teenager. He got Kaito. Anyway. Kaito's brain was being downloaded into a robot (Kaito calls him 'Roboto-san' at one point), who masquerades as Kaito at school (tells Aoko that he's cold to her because he likes her, hence the blushing and 'wedding' scene at the end), then does the Kid thing. Kid shows up, fights him, blah blah, see above.
In a flashback towards the beginning of the story, we see Robot-san dressed as Kid kill Mad-Scientist, and a scene with Robot-san getting splashed with blood.
Voices theory for the story:
The Kaito we all know and love is Robot version 1.0. Only he doesn't know it. Ver 1.0 was built to mimic a human as closely as possible. (for espionage purposes?) Kaito's mind is in there and as far as he knows, he IS Kaito. Since he thinks he's human, he's going act like one, with the limitations of one.
Fleshy Human Kaito was killed by Roboto-san, Ver 2.0 when he killed the Mad Scientist.
Ver. 2.0 being the Weapons version. Faster, stronger and more armed than 1.0, as well as being aware of the fact that he is a robot.
So it's a battle of brains vs brains ^__^
And we have to be up at 4:30am, so we 're gonna go pass out now. G'night all.
MASSIVE EDITS: 24 Nov 2003
