The Library Chooses
- Back at the belief circle fight, Tim Hyunh recognizes that the enemy Hacek fans are using GenGen equipment. So everyone from the biotech labs is here, just fighting on different sides.
- Tim is also very impressed by some of the Hacekean virtual beasts, like the giant Dangerous Knowledge that they have. (It's described as half Librarian, half Knight Militant, which sounds like most librarians we know. Do not make them mad.)
- But the Scoochis have their own giant—a Greater Scooch-a-mout that is digitally overlaid over a real robot forklift. (We picture something like this from Aliens, only without a driver.)
- So Tim watches the Dangerous Knowledge and the Greater Scooch-a-mout dance and insult each other. And he's very impressed by whoever is controlling them.
- (You might think that the companies who own these robots might be annoyed, but this is good publicity. Somehow.)
- This protest/riot has attracted journalists, entertainment corporations, and, oh yeah, the police.
- Meanwhile, Alfred talks to Braun and Mitsuri about what's going on. He decides to send one of his mobile robots into the tunnels to track Miri Gu.
- And the spies also decide to kick Rabbit out of this part of the project. Rabbit doesn't like that, but accepts it.
- Everything seems to be going Alfred's way, as the info coming out of the lab says that there's nothing bad going on. (That's thanks to the boxes that the Elder Cabal planted.)
- Meanwhile, back at the riot, the Greater Scooch-a-mout (which is probably Rabbit) faces off against Dangerous Knowledge (who might be Rabbit or another AI or just a skilled person or maybe a dog?). They agree to let the Library decide who should win. What?
- Each side makes a big show of how cool and important they are.
- Then the library itself starts to dance. (Which Tim realizes means that someone hacked into the anti-earthquake motors and is using them to move the library.)
- And at the end of the dance/walk, the library moves towards the Scooch-a-mout side.