While average passerbys saw little more than a child running around in a typical display of youthful playfulness, the reality was far more gruesome than they could have imagined. A young girl wearing the latest invention of Megamass Inc., the Augmented Reality Visors, dubbed "glasses", was frantically chasing a black, amorphous blob, tears streaming down her cheek as she bore witness to the cruel cybernetic phenomenon before her eyes.

The black blob was not a real entity that existed within the physical world; it was a cyberlifeform that only existed within the world of the glasses, its digital origins unknown. The body of this blob was fragmenting as it fled from its pursuer, leaving a trail of disintegrating cybermaterial much resembling fecal matter in its path.

That was not, however, why the girl was chasing it. Within the grasp of this horrid aberration was the rapidly degenerating corpse of her cyberpet, Tama. A mere three minutes ago, Tama was energetically jumping around like any other pet, but now, its cyberbody was covered with a multitude of errors, the central process maintaining its sentience long since terminated.

The girl relentlessly chased the blob in the hopes of recovering her cyberpet, though deep down inside she knew it was a futile struggle. She ran through busy intersections, down abandoned alleyways, until she finally lost sight of the far more agile cyberlifeform, who already managed to flee far from the young child, having taken advantage of its agility, unhindered by the sandbag of a physical body.

As the young girl wiped the tears from her eyes and looked around, she noticed that she was no longer in familiar territory. She was already deep within the boundaries of a private construction site, her cybernavi unable to paint an exit pathway due to the lack of updated data in this region. Fearful of becoming lost in the unknown, the young girl treaded deeper into the half-finished building, following the only lead she had borne witness to: the rapidly disintegrating line of black, digital matter.

Before long, the girl arrived at a large open space, with the black cybernetic lifeform frozen dead-center in the large, circular lobby, a spiral of furnished tiles adorning the floor along with various chalk lines that seemed to be emitting light. The girl hurried towards the center, but she soon noticed the kneeling figure next to the black blob.

The silhouette turned to look at the young girl and stared right into her eyes, but little did she know, over fifteen trillion calculations had been rapidly processed and completed within that short span of time. Dem0nS1ayer saw only one thing before her AR visors were destroyed in a brilliant shower of sparks: the beginnings of a powerful cybernetic explosion centered on the glowing remains of what used to be the jet black cyberlifeform that she had been chasing.

It took but a mere moment for the city's Cyberspace to be horrifically shaken by the tremendous shockwave set off by the cataclysmic destruction of the now-destablized obsolete space. The mysterious silhouette walked away from the event unfazed, disappearing into the quickly gathering crowd and blending in with the unaware citizens. However, while many curious locals quickly gathered to witness the tragedy, most quickly dispersed when they realized that the disaster was a purely digital event. Only twenty curious souls remained when they noticed the black trail of a fading cybersubstance leading into the disaster site, but they could not proceed further as the entire space of the construction site was ripped to shreds by the overwhelming force of the explosion, its error-correcting codes unable to repair the extensive damage done.

One of the more nerdy group members reached into his pocket and pulled out a large collection of files, spreading them out to show the contents. "This incident is clearly the unstable cascade reaction resulting from the decomposition of a new, undocumented cyberlifeform that I have been tracking for the past few months," he volunteered, "I call it the Illegal. Megamass was supposed to have designed the whole virtual world to be bug-free; could this be a rogue virus running rampant in undeleted obsolete spaces? If we can obtain one, perhaps we could tap into its internal routines and figure out what allowed it to generate so much cyberenergy as to cause the collapse of this construction space."

Most of the group nodded in agreement, their interests perked by the prospect of harnessing this power for themselves. The few who did not, however, had much darker agendas on their minds.

Several AR visors simultaneously opened encrypted connections to Megamass headquarters, rapidly exchanging information at the speed of light as the headquarters greenlighted their final resolution to contain this leak of classified data...

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