Manaka seemed surprised by all the pushback she got.  It was most obvious that she did not expect everyone to disagree with her so much.  [b]"Wha!! Hold on, hold on!  One question at a time!"[/b]  The woman said, trying to get all the questions in her head.  [b]"Geez, I was hoping you all would be happy enough to learn from the best Hacker in EDEN..."[/b]  Manaka muttered to herself before looking over everyone.  [b]"Alright, first thing first.  I'm not an "old lady" like I think I heard from someone in the audience.  Repeat offenders are subject to heavy penalties."[/b]  She said, glaring at the direction of the gun toting Digimon.

The hacker cleared her throat and continued.  [b]"Now then.  I'll address that question first.  I actually sent out more invitations, but all the males aside Issei decided to not show up."[/b]  She shrugged and moved on.  [b]"That aside, I suppose you don't know the behind the scenes of Hackers?  I vetted you all very hard, I'm sure you all figured out.  Do you all realize how much of an iron grip that Thor has on the major hacking groups and the higher tiered hackers?"[/b]  She looked to the faces of her perspective members.  [b]"I can't just pick up anyone.  Thor has their hands in way too many cookie jars.  I'd rather not have a spy in here.  The only reason this place is safe is because I have more than a couple of measures to make sure it was tough for you all to get here and this place was forgotten even by EDEN's programmers."[/b]

She sighed a bit.  [b]"Anyway, I'm more than sure you all wouldn't betray me for any small reason."[/b]  Then she looked at Harumi and Shion. [b]"Now, you have some issues with us being "evil" was it?"[/b]  She then looked to Issei, [b]"You as well, right Issei?"[/b]  She added, remembering he said that as well.  [b]"Well, what can I say? Good, bad, Evil...  They're just human concepts aren't they?  Back in the day, some members of Jormungundr did some account raiding and other things, I snuffed that light out as soon as I figured it out.  I didn't do that out of some sense of justice, I just didn't want other hackers to group up and beat us down.  What good that did."[/b]  She chuckled to herself.  [b]"I won't lie, I've done some less than scrupulous things in my day as many of you have."[/b]  In particular she looked to Harumi and Ruruka as she said this.

[b]"I'm not too worried about those sort of things though.  Do what you want, that is what it means to be a hacker.  Freedom.  Even at the expense of others.  Right?  Well, Thor intends to regulate us all and put us under their thumb.  Wouldn't that be terrible?  Duchess, what if Thor got on you and forced you to dig up information on the Prime Minister and blackmail him to commit injustice?"[/b]  She looked to the Duchess with a smile.  Then to everyone else.  "And this comes to Reiko's question.  Why should you help me?  Freedom.  I mean, you also get to learn from the best hacker on EDEN and you can get a bit of money while working."

She hoped this would be enough to convince them. To be fair, she was a little hyperbolic.  Thor would likely never do something like that, but things happen when people let power get to their head.   "And before anyone asks, I'm sure we can win this time.  We lost last time because of one deciding factor."  With that, she brought up a terminal.  Terminals were something familiar to any hacker.  Much like the menus available, Terminals were what hackers used to bypass security and other things.  The Sistermon seemed worried for a little until Manaka finished and nothing major seemed to happen.  The woman put her hands on her hips as something fell from the ceiling and landed behind her.  After that, something else slowly fell from behind the group and touched the ground.

[hider=Digimon 1][img]https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/digimon-adventure5140/images/3/38/Raguelmon.png/revision/latest?cb=20171211132800[/img][/hider]

[hider=Digimon 2][img]https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/digimon-adventure5140/images/9/94/Ophanimon_Falldown_Mode.png/revision/latest?cb=20171211135529[/img][/hider]

[b]"Say hello to my friends, Ophanimon and Raguelmon."[/b]  She introduced them.  [b]"Digimon.  When Thor did their takedown on Jormungundr originally, they had Digimon.  It was a mass of confusion.  We didn't know what hit us.  Now though, with some Digimon at our side, we can win.  Of course, we need to build our support and strength.  I doubt that we could just go in guns blazing and win.  The first thing we can easily do is hit their vassal groups and destroy or turn them."[/b]

In an attempt to not seem too threatening, Raguelmon waved at the group and gave them a smile.  Ophanimon seemed a bit bothered with the entrance.  [b]"Manaka, don't you think that was a bit too dramatic?"[/b]

The woman looked at the Digimon and rolled her eyes.  [b]"Just go with it."[/b]  She then looked back to the group.  [b]"Anyhow, what do you all say now? Are you with me? Or are you against me?  Or are you in the group of not caring one way or another?"[/b]