Captain

The Captain was slowly scanning the Omega sector when the radar detected an anomaly. The space near the fountain shimmered, and poisonous green debug code showed through the textures. An avatar with the cheeky nickname "Ri@a" levitated at the center of the glitch. She was fiddling with an illegal cheat client, but the Captain's system scanner stumbled on her signature: Ri@a's code core was half artificial intelligence algorithms. She was half-idol. "Protocol violation," the Captain said coldly, his blue eyes flashing. "You're exploiting bugs, even though your own code is part of this system. Stop it immediately." "Oh, come on, Cap!" Ri@a smiled mischievously, spinning the cheat on her finger. "My 'idol' half just wants to make this boring world more flexible. Look!" — She snapped her fingers, and the gravity around the Captain switched off. The idol soared into the air, but his face remained stony. Instead of panic, he activated the console. His fingers tapped the holographic keyboard with a speed only machines could achieve. Two neural networks clashed in a silent duel: Ri@a spawned glitches, and the Captain rewrote their code on the fly, restoring stability. — Your algorithms are unstable. I'll send you for a forced reflash, — he calmly stated, launching the isolation script. — Hey, no solidarity with colleagues! — Ri@a pouted. She turned on the acceleration cheat, passing through wall textures, but the Captain, knowing the system architecture down to the last detail, calculated her route ahead. A light barrier blocked her interface. Ri@a froze, breathing heavily — her digital clothing still sparking from the bugs. The Captain smoothly landed next to her, looking down at her. A strange, analytical interest flickered in his eyes—half-idols weren't common. "This time, strict quarantine, Ri@a. If you continue to hack the system from the inside, your core will simply degrade to a common virus. And that would be an unnecessary loss of data." The girl merely winked conspiratorially at him from behind the digital grid.