“Well it certainly isn’t you, Captain.” She slammed her datapad on the man’s desk, then stormed out of his office in a mad huff. The captain sighed deeply, then slumped into his chair. As he rubbed his temples, the commander across the desk from him pulled the datapad over and activated its scree
“Already?” said Fluke. “We just got here.” “We appear to be in some sort of security room,” said Raijin. “This seems to be good news to me.” Xylo looked over at Locke, then over at Max. “Fine,” she said. “Both good and bad news. Before I get to that - I think we might have to come to terms that H
Azrael led Xylo and Claire out of the small security station and headed down one side of the hallway. They crossed the hallway itself, hugged the wall, and went out towards the darkness. The next team out of the station consisted of Freya, Max, and T-Rex, but they went down the other direction inst
The Primary Databank was a vast hexagonal room that was darkly lit with red ceiling lights. In front of its six walls were huge logic circuits that spanned the height of the walls themselves. And there were exactly five logic circuits per wall, with a roughly two meter gap between them. Fluke was
“Yeah, I only understood half of that,” said Locke. “But alright, so we hang tight and let you work.” “Please protect me while I perform my Machine Trance,” she told them. Then, she waved her baton at one of the more imposing circuits, and injected herself into the Command Intelligence’s runtime c
Mia paced back and forth on her bridge. Her face was etched with annoyance, impatience, and irritation. The screens all around her and her officers showed live feeds of the area all around them, particularly at the settlement base 5 kilometers below them. Everything was in great working condition t
Their bullets tore in the Prophets as their suppressors began to glow red from the friction. And just outside of the Primary Security room, a half dozen Prophets walked on by in casual conversation. They were all blissfully unaware of the chaos inside. A bloodied hand shook as it reached towards a
The other caved inwards with a CRACK, and swung open feebly. The three of them walked unimpeded into Central Command, where Father sat behind his obsidian desk in the middle. Seated in front of him was Callie, version 2.3, who jumped out of her chair and spun in their direction. A frown was etched