[Episode 21243] [Episode 21243]Yggdrassil was big. Very big. If you think space is big, that's just peanuts compared to Yggdrasil, the computer that runs all of reality.
An aerial veiw of circuit board #678-7349-8312-B(sharp) showed a herd of cute six-legged rabbit creatures hopping around a maze being cased by an apparently twelve-year-old girl trying to whack them with a crocket mallet.
"Baka baka baka baka baka baka!" resounded around the circuit as Skuld chased the elusive bugs back and forth along the at high speed. Looking down a main conduit you could see Skuld chase a particuarly large bug out into a side corridor. It zipped out of another entry. Skuld emerged from a third looking peeved, caught sight of the bug as it darted into another corridor. She hurried into yet another doorway to head it off.
This sceen repeated itself over and over with the two zig zaging across the conduit until you could not be sure whom was chasing whom.
Skuld had enough of this and decided to get smart. She remained in the corridor to wait for the bug to emerge.
"This is getting ridiculous," Hestia observed as the monitor showed Skuld peer down the corridor one way, turn around and peer down the other, and all the while, the bug mimiced her 'sneaky hunter' actions behind her back.
"Waaaa. Those poor bugs!" Kishijoten bawled, as if the 'cute' system errors were in any danger.
"Cheese," Bastet whimpered. "Do you think we should give her a hand, Sis? We are hunters after all."
"You're kidding, right?" Sekmet demanded. "If those things can make a professional debugger look that bad, they must be incredibly cunning."
"Never mind, I'm calling in a professional of my own," Freja said and produced a cell phone from somewhere.
"Who're you gonna call?" Amaterasu asked. "Thor? Tyr?"
"Nah, I'm outsourcing," Freja answered, then spoke rapidly into the phone.
Skuld was getting rather peeved. The dratted bugs were making her look bad. Especially the one that had confussed her by putting on a dress. It was despicable! It was ...
Right there. The cheeky bugger was leaning against a pipe chewing a cable and, she swore, it had an insolent grin on its face. Right! She'd whipe that smirk right off of its mug. She took careful aim and ...
BOOOM!
Skuld ducked for cover as bits of bug went flying in all directions. "Boom! Boom! Boom!" reverberated across the maze of corridors as someone blew bugs to bits like skeets at a skeet shoot.
"Who the heck?" Skuld demanded as she caught sight of a teenage boy in army fatiges armed with a sniper's riffle and flashing an insolent grin at her. How dare he show her up like that. How dare he use firearms inside a circuit board. How dare he be so damned cute! And taken, double damnit!
"Eros!" Skuld fummed. "What do you think you're doing? Debugging requires a delicate touch!"
"Awe, Freja called me in to do some service work on one of our Maxwell's Smart Missile," the greek god replied as he polished the barrel of his gun lovingly. "Hey! No harm done. I'm an expert shot after all," Eros said proudly, ignoring the evidence to the contrary smoking behind him.
Boys and their toys, Skuld thought darkly and prepared to send him home to Psyche with a concussion.
"Well, that's that," Frija dusted her hands. "The bug that 'fixed' Urd up with Ranma's been busted (along with a couple of dozen unrelated bugs and a whole section of architecture (I really hope we don't need to use those circuits any time soon))."
"That kid has issues," Hestia sighed. "Anyhow, lets see how Urd, er Ranma, is doing."
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