Eyeris might have taken care of the Phishingman, but on a strange twist of fate, The unprecedented event would not go unnoticed, C.O.S. hadn’t simply disappeared after the event many issues came to light in the shape of rumors, nevertheless Alexander Steele was good at one thing, taking advantage of a bad situation, twisting what was the catastrophe when Zachary liberated Eyeris, into one of the biggest opportunity for himself. James Holding was the director of COS at the time, attempted to push the blame on Alexander, which would have been a good idea if Alexander, didn’t have evidence pointing it towards being James’s fault, twisting real and fake information with blackmail, he even got to look as the hero that saved and contained the issue from becoming a nationwide catastrophe, into an accepted rumors, nuance and conspiracies mixed along with many others. Even though Zachary’s plan was contained, and measured to not go overboard. The events that followed ended up with the disintegration of COS, and its missing pieces integrating into the secret organization known as VIDEO, taking up the responsibilities of COS, and having Alexander instituted as the head of directors, finally taking a seat among the shadow government.
After VIDEO was established, with the growth of digital media, creepy pastas cursed videos, and chain emails, a department dedicated to managing the particularly difficult cases, and Phishingman was labeled as one, one to be taken care of by agent Owl of the Digital department, who has been tracking their main server so she could take down to take her down until She finally found the location she was ecstatic wafting finally major hunt was at its cusp, she spun on her chair cracking her knuckles getting for her battle, Owl put the network under observation she even got the agency to set up a physical Watch Tower, which was for naught, the moment Owl turned it own, two data transmissions where caught emitting from the server seconds before the computer domain of the Phishingman went down, Owl was shocked as the being she had been hunting for so long had escaped so quickly.
Owl slammed her fist on her desk and began to complain out loud. “what! it escaped, it doesn’t even make sense, he sent a decoy to the same location it’s going, with two different patterns… maybe…”
Meanwhile, her unproductive coworker who dedicated herself more to talking and getting donuts instantly replied making herself part of the non-existent conversation. “oh someone was careless laying down her webs huh? you should call yourself webs. instead of that nickname, you gave yourself”
“That’s a lame nickname what are you 5?, this is serious, this is definitely the center of Phishingman daemon curse… it should not be able to escape from it, and I already had all its proxy servers blocked.” Said frustrated as she typed away trying to figure out the data that left the computer before it shut down the computer.
“No sadly I’m old… but I’ll just send a squad to retrieve the cursed computer, in any case, owl really? it doesn’t fit? what do owls have to do with what we do? besides you can’t pick your nickname.” Said the coworker rolling her eyes and pulling out her phone to start sending a team to retrieve the cursed computer.
“well Weasel you don’t get to choose your code name but the cream of the crop like me do. Besides owls are cute, and night predators like me!” Said pointing to herself in a very self-important mannerism.
“Whatever Miss Ace, do you think it got help from another daemon to escape? part of the data does seem to come from him…” Weasel fiddles around reading the information as if it was already her case to deal with.
“Probably, but whatever did it, can host themself in a decentralized network, which should be physically impossible, so it’s either a high-ranking demon or something else entirely…” Said frustrated exhaling more to get Weasel back on her work than frustration itself.
“Anyway just take a break not much you can do until the computer arrives, and probably need to relax, the Big Bat will be mad about you wasting a tower for a failed job” Weasel smiles gently, slowly moving back to her cubicle.
Eventually, the cursed computer that used to host the Phishingman arrived at the department, the computer was nearly whipped but enough to get data on Eyeris, on Poppet whom the department recognized as the Phishingman given the alterations Poppet. While Owl was expecting to be scolded, she was promoted for finding Eyeris, she didn’t know the story behind Eyeris. She was moved with the prime directive to hunt down the Daemon able to power themselves up without implementing any sort of cursed item, or physical space.
Owl tried different things, even got special access to implement The Eye to analyze and understand the pattern of Eyeris, but no matter what she tried Eyeris always escaped her clutches. That is not to say Eyeris was never in danger from Owl a few attempts, where close escapes for Eyeris, where Eyeris ended up burning Owl’s systems more than a few times to take some respite, or where Owl gave Eyeris for dead, killing systems or fake computers to trap Eyeris, only for Eyeris to sacrifice vital energy to powerup again and for their way out.
That is not to say Eyeris was always the victim, Eyeris got to steal information from VIDEO using Owl’s access to the network, but sadly that never got her to the important documents, that still escaped her abilities. unable to extract any access level 4 or higher area.
That is to say, Eyeris took the gained information as a new objective this agency was the progenitor of COS, and they had to know something about Zachary. But Eyeris was not strong enough to overpower the almost futuristic networks that VIDEO used technology not only got better, but they needed energy to survive and use. Human energy, Eyeris would continue a path of survival, where they grew stronger and stronger consuming energy from human emotions while escaping the clutches of the ever-evolving VIDEO organization.