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Maaan. I really feel like blasting out music and writing. A lot. But I don't really know what to write about. xD

Hmm, well, I guess I'll make up something right here and now. Sorry in advanced for grammar errors, missing/extra/repeated words, and spelling mistakes. D8 This'll be one of my VERY FIRST ROUGH DRAFTS which I don't normally show other people. xD
Vocabulary:
Com-let: Everyone has them--a pair of bracelets and anklets that can't be removed due to an automatic resizing feature. Can vary in appearance from a thin, bangle-like anklet/bracelet to a broad, tight 'let that more resembles wrist or shin guards. Smooth, silver surface marked with a single smooth, round, blue gem. The city uses it to track its citizens, but the latter uses it for all kinds of useful things including communication, travel, and function of the city's smart-walls.
Hover-let: A feature of the com-let that allows flying. Original display is a blue-white hologram of rings around the wrists and ankles, although customized display hacking is allowed. Only displays when hover-lets are active.
Implant chip (or chip implant): Pretty much a miniature computer implanted surgically into a person. Can act as a com-let without the tracking features, but can be much more useful--information can be downloaded and fed directly into the brain, communication is more easily accessible, technology ignition easier to use, among other useful features. Generally, location of the implant chip depends on the clique or gang a person is in, as members of individual groups have specific locations for chip-placement.
KaioRose: Infamous gang of expert hackers belonging to Asphyxia Ideovara D'Argent. Its existence is mostly unknown to the city, and is considered more a myth because of the things they have accomplished.
Asphyxia IdeoVara D'Argent: Main character of the story. Leader of the KaioRose gang. Looks like (and is often mistaken for) a boy, instead of a girl. She doesn't protest; she would almost rather be thought of as a boy, and throughout the majority of the story, only her closest friends actually know for sure that she isn't. Her gang members always refer to her as a guy: for instance, talking about her, they might say, "He's only, like, the best hacker in the city!" Wear's a white eye-patch around her left eye, for reasons that no one knows about. She doesn't smile much and takes her job as leader of the KaioRose very seriously. Super-customized com-lets; she hacked her bracelets so that they would encircle her shoulders instead of her wrists.
Angel: Legendary hacker who, in city gossip, may or may not actually exist. Not much is known about him, other than that his com-lets have been manipulated so that their hover-let displays a pair of large, silvery wings.

Pronunciation key:
By the way, the schwa (ə) symbol signifies a neutral sound as apposed to a true vowel. For example, the word "exclamation" might be written out as "eks-clə-may-shun."

Aina - EYE-nə
Oriana - ohr-ee-AH-nə
Calum - CAH-loom
Kael - kayl
Nicholi - NIK-oh-leye
Zacharia - zak-ər-EYE-ah
Deion - DAY-on
Dýri - Dýri is hard to describe because I'm not sure myself how it's pronounced, xD! It's of Icelandic origin, and I have no idea what the Icelandic alphabet sounds like spoken, but based off of what I see, I think Dýri should sound like a cross between "THEE-ree" and "TEE-ree." The "Th" in the beginning should be hard, but not so sharp as a T. Kind of like Spanish Ds are soft, I want this D in Dýri to be soft.
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"Guys, we gotta get out of here!" Just as I hissed the order to my teammates, the alarms started chiming the warning tones that somehow managed to sound gorgeous. Walls everywhere sang the same low-to-high tone; I could hear it echoing everywhere and even vibrating through me.

We--the five of us who had been chosen to do the field work for tonight's mission--exchanged nervous, excited glances. They were all smiling. We stood on the top of a twenty-three-story building in the dead of night; the only lights that we could see belonged to the gathering group of hovercrafts that were looking for the source of the explosion and the culprits responsible. Lights didn't matter though--I had hacked into the city and installed dark-vision into our chip implants. We could see our surroundings as well as we could have if it were day-time. The city was probably more worried about the break-in to its data files than the small explosion we caused.

"Finally, a challenge!" Aina exclaimed, her jamoca-chocolate skin practically glowing with her emotions. She was the most petite of us, but her thin-and-curvy self was oppositely the most daring. She was our thief, and she was good at her job.

"They discovered it pretty quickly, didn't they?" Calum pondered aloud, running a pale hand through his thick, fiery hair. "Are you sure they can't track our com-lets?" If any one of us were to get caught, Calum was probably the most likely; he was tall, lanky, and very white, with fiery red hair to top it off. He managed though, despite the odds, and insisted that he wouldn't get surgery for his skin or hair or height (we could get surgery for anything these days).

"I'm sure," I replied calmly. "I thoroughly checked the system for any tracking devices in the 'lets and found none." I scanned around; the hovercrafts definitely hadn't found us yet. "But save talk for later," I directed, "We have to move now, while they're distracted." I was the leader of the KaiaRose gang, so of course they listened to me. I knelt and waved a hand over the com-lets that were around my ankles, first left, then right. I didn't have to do anything else to get the hover-lets to start up--all of the processing for initiation went on in my brain. A hologram of a little silver wing flickered on behind each of my ankles, letting me know that the flight function of my com-lets was up and running.

Not everyone had quite-so-customized hover-lets as I did; some preferred the standard hologram ring around their ankles, others used different features entirely, like a hoverboard. My trademark was the wing. I had hacked my wrist com-lets to widen and enclose my shoulders, vertically, instead of my wrists; that way I wouldn't need a removable hover-let around my chest. Whenever I wasn't on field-work like this, I would use those instead, and I'd have wings at my back. Those who didn't know me referred to me as Angel, but, ironically, those who did knew me by my real name: Asphyxia.

"All ready, Az," Dýri reported. He could have been Aina's albino counterpart. He was very slight, with skin as pale as his silvery-white hair. His eyes were bright red. They creeped most people out because they were naturally red, and not changed through surgery.

I nodded, looking at my fellows. Good; they had all kept sense enough to use small hover-let displays, so that they didn't get caught. The intelligence of my comrades wasn't something I worried over, really; only the best of the best could get into KaioRose.

I turned forward and jumped from the building as a sky-diver might. My short-and-spiky white-blonde hair whipped back from my face. My hover-lets kept me steady, so I didn't wildly turn in midair. I had mastered the art of falling without crying out at the thrill--we all had. That was one of the criteria of becoming one of the KaioRose--our field ops required utmost stealth. We were into serious s**t--hacking the city, causing explosions, breaking barriers. And now we were going to steal city gear--hover-let programs that were so fast, the city didn't want to risk keeping it on the Net. They kept the information on discs, and that was what we were after. No one had ever tried stealing actual physical things before, there was too much techie stuff that kept them out.

'Alright, guys,' I said through my implant chip. Everyone had a chip in some form of another--all the members of the KaioRose had theirs behind their left ear. We were all synched together on a private server that I, personally, protected--so of course no one else could get in without permission. 'Count in. Field first, then standby.'

'One,' Aina reported.

'Two,' said Calum.

'Three,' came Oriana.

'Four.' Dýri finished the field ops count.

'Standby, count in; what's your position?'

'Five, at base, keeping watch,' Kael said dutifully.

'Six, on tower six!' said Zacharia cheerfully, giggling to herself at the idea. 'I see you guys right now. Good job on your displays, by the way; I can hardly keep up with you, and I have dark-vision turned off!

'Seven and eight,' Nicholi and Deion chorused. The latter continued, 'We're keeping watch over the 'crafts. They're going the entirely wrong way--did you completely erase the com-lets' signals, or redirect them?'

'I erased them...but I think someone's helping us,' I replied, insecurity in my thoughts.

'What's up, 'Sphyx?' Dýri asked. 'You don't sound so sure of yourself.'

'Did anyone tell anyone about our op' tonight? Because I didn't, and I don't like the idea of getting help from an anonymous benefactor.'

'Seriously?' Oriana asked, now just as worriedly. 'Someone hacked you, 'Sphyx?'

I growled at the thought, and the unspoken anger carried through the implant.

'Hey, Asphyxia, chill, maybe there was a trace left publicly or something,' said Aina.

'Az, worry about it later, you've got a 'craft on your tail!' Nicholi reported. Excited murmuring flickered through my thoughts.

'Zach, 2M flare at twelve. Let the light from it block our displays long enough to take cover.' My adrenaline was pumping at the fall and the flight and now the chase at hand; I was glad I sounded calm--no gang leader could successfully direct when they sounded nervous and scared. 'Count off light. Field, when the flare lights--no sooner, and no later, that's imperative!--flash your displays to match the brightness so your form is covered, got me? You must do it on time, or we're caught!'

'We got it!' the field team answered.

'3S delay!' Zach cried. 'Five! Four! Three! Two! Light!'

I used the mental clock that my chip had to count off the delay exactly, and brightened and augmented my hover-let display until it engulfed me in light that matched the bright, explosive flare. It lit very close to us, and we all felt the shock of the explosion, but it wasn't something we hadn't practiced before.

'Cover at T9!' I said, diving. My team followed. 'Disable hover-lets on my cue--three, two, one, disengage!'

Everything went dark at once, and it made me so glad that I could rely on my team for good timing. We dropped the last two meters and landed silently.

I was about to give more orders when I heard a clip of a feed I had never heard before. I instantly knew what it was. 'I found the city's admin feed!' I cried excitedly. I tuned it in, trying to see if I could tell what the city officials were discussing.

'Sphyx?' said one of my team.

The city's feed sounded like some kind of news warning. '...believed to be Angel, the infamous hacker who has caused us trouble before...'

I knew it couldn't have been a public news feed;the city wouldn't tell the whole world that it had been infiltrated by a single person--and they certainly didn't want the world to know that Angel existed.

'Sphyx, what's going on?' Calum asked.

'Two seconds,' I replied. I saw what it was now--a conversation. Somehow I had gotten into a conversation network between two city officials.

'Do not underestimate him; Angel has caused a lot of trouble before.'

'Understood. There have been several hovercrafts dispatched--they're investigating the area of a flare signal right now. Other than that flare, we don't have the whereabouts of Angel...although we were following a signal before the flare that was suspiciously active for this time of night. The hair on the back of my neck bristled, and I listened harder, tuning out my team completely. 'Is it possible that Angel is not actually one person, but a team of people?'

'Indeed, that is a possibility--however, there haven't been any other reports of strange com-lets that have been tampered with. The network could tell when Angel had first changed his, but, unfortunately, at the same moment, he destroyed his tracking signal. The network hasn't found any other hacked com-lets to speak of, so its more likely that Angel is just one person who was able to manipulate another com-let somewhere to send out the signal you were tracing.' There was a pause. 'Keep looking around that flare, and report your findings to me.'

'Yes, sir!'

The network dropped.

'Asphyxia, we have to get going!' Kael said urgently.

My reply was cut off by Dýri, who asked calmly, 'Sphyx, did you make sure you couldn't be traced?' He sounded exactly like I did when I was trying to hide the fact that I was scared out of my wits.

's**t!' I cried, jerking out of my thoughts. 'Abort mission! Go back home, now!' I began looking through feeds for any signs that I had been discovered. I could practically feel the lights all turning onto my location, even though we were inside.

'Holy hell, there's practically a fleet of hovercrafts heading right for you, Field!' Nicholi cried.

'Dammit,' I hissed.

'We're not gonna leave you, Asphyxia,' Aina said. I could feel agreement from the rest of the team.

'Abort mission,' I growled. 'They think I'm alone. It'll be easier for all of us to escape if we scatter; don't worry, I won't get caught. Dýri, my lovely technical guy, disconnect me from the KaioRose network.'

'You're leaving KaioRose!?' my whole team practically screamed in my head.

'Just for precautions! If I get caught, I don't want you to be related to me at all. If I don't, it'll be easy for me to hack into my own defenses.' I mentally smiled. 'Don't worry, we'll all get out of this alright. Now, scatter! Dýri, disconnect me!'

'Bye, Sphyx,' Dýri said sadly.

'Yeah, we'll miss you!'

'You're still leader of KaioRose, whether you're here or not!'

'I won't be gone long, honest. Stop sounding like I'm gonna die or something,' I said. Once again, I was glad that I sounded more confident than I felt.

And then I was disconnected from the rest of the KaioRose. I turned off my chip implant just for safe measure. My head felt eerily empty; it made me feel really disoriented, without being able to think lightning-fast and having that thought turn into action. I felt really vulnerable without my technology.

"Now," I said aloud, "I just have to get out of here..." My voice echoed weirdly in the silence of Tower Nine. The alarms had been turned off long ago, when the fire from the explosion had been isolated and doused. The first floor of every tower was almost completely bare, since they were used for gatherings all the time. Everything really started on the second floor.

The great double doors crashed open and a blinding light flooded into the room, revealing me alone and...kind of pathetic looking, I imagined.

"...without getting caught."

"Hello, Angel."