An Unexpected Arrival

The moment my finger touched the last key, the world went out. The light of the core server, the characters on the terminal, Neon's face — all swallowed by the dark. And when the emergency lamps came on, he was standing there. "It's been a while, Zero." Phantom. "I knew you'd come this far. In fact... I waited." An emergency stop device sat in his hand. Until that released, the shutdown was impossible. "Let's play a fun game." Phantom smiled. "The first lock is about me. Let's see how well you know me." He turned the device around. Three lines sat on its small screen. All of them were his record.