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Only one hostile remained in her vicinity, and that would be the one trying to sneakily assault her from the side. Already armored and fully prepared for a fight, she would have the advantage on anyone that was actually planning on engaging her in combat.

X7A had no such plans.

For all intents and purposes, she didn’t even notice. Continuing her movement towards the mainframe, she didn’t do anything to indicate that she had noticed the impending charge. She wasn’t planning on stopping it at all; in fact, she wanted the charge to become active. It was while the individual - who had likely been her primary target before now, but was currently secondary and therefore not at the top of the priority list - was charging that X7A would open a spacetime rift in the path of the charge, with the opposite end emptying out in the maximum security section of the Alcatraz prison system. Should the transfer be successful, she would immediately close the rift and inform Michael that some additional security would be needed immediately in the area that she had just sent this individual before continuing to access the mainframe as she had been doing before.

Should she be unsuccessful, it would remain to be seen what would be necessary. Done in by the dubious doings of destiny.

13-Feb-2018 22:04:44

Westenev

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London

As London peered out from the doorway, the overhead sprinkler showered them under a deluge of cold water. Giving a small yelp, London performed a small jump. Uuu, that was a surprise, but now they were all wet!

Peering back in the doorway, London saw that everyone was preparing to leave through the ventilation shaft. London might have followed behind, but the idea seemed wrong somehow. They had to search for something important… like a friend!

"Good luck!" London giggled and waved before ducking out the doorway. Though running through the hallways was forbidden, London reasoned nobody would mind if they ran on this slippery fl- "OOPS"

London sliped on the slippery floor just in time for a bolt to whizz past their head. Oops! Wait! Well, wasn't that lucky!

Slipping back into the worst bedroom ever, London looked from side to side. The flashing lights of the console seemed to be the flashiest thing in the room so far, so London reasoned it must be the most important! Punching toward the console computer console, London began mashing buttons in a weird rhythm that they couldn’t make sense of; so they just followed their instincts. Would the security room next door respond?

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14-Feb-2018 08:42:11

Azi Demonica

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Mainframe - Annie, Ryder

Annie went behind a container of some sort, and unleashed a few kinds of magic. Flames swept forth upon the LOKI Mechs, but not much happened. Robots don’t feel pain and are made of metal, so the combustion upon them did little.

Pyromaniac

Annie’s cast flames affected some nearby computers, which caught on fire. The systems overheated, smoke and steam flowing out. It was only a matter of time before the flaming computers ignited other computers. The computers were unstable and dangerous.

The LOKIs who had fallen to the floor after Ryder struck them previously picked themselves up. After emptying his pistol’s thermal clip, Ryder had also destroyed a few LOKIs, but four remained.

“Rerouting power.” a LOKI Mech remarked.

“Engaging target.” another said, firing at Ryder, but missed every shot.

The YMIR and the Geth Hoppers made no reaction; Ryder shot down another Geth Hopper, but was blasted back by the YMIR’s rocket.

Next, a number of rocks shot forth and peppered some LOKIs and the YMIR. Ryder received one of Annie’s rocks to the back of the head, much to his displeasure.

After the rocks bounced off the robots, vines slithered forth, some of which flopped upon the LOKIs and the YMIR. The vines struck the robotic surfaces and lied on them. The mechs made no reaction to the vines.

Ryder used his Biotics to launch a chunk of venting, which struck the YMIR and caused the big boy to rear with a loud whirring noise. The few Geth Hoppers bounced around, getting their beams ready, two firing at the YMIR and damaging him armour.

“TAKING FIRE. EMERGENCY CRITICAL FAILURE. REROUTING POWER.” the YMIR Mech bellowed, back opening up to release excess heat. Then, its right hand canon whirring to life and unleashing a stream of bullets while walking forth, destroying two Geth Hoppers and quite triggerhappy.

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“INITIATING OFFENSIVE MANOEUVRE.” it warned, heavy footfall thundering towards Annie’s cover, and the stream of bullets showering towards Ryder. Whenever the YMIR took a step, it only had one foot on the floor in that instance...

The remaining LOKIs managed to shoot down one Geth Hopper, but three Geth Hoppers remained, jumping around and keeping two of the remaining LOKIs busy, but one LOKI fired at Ryder alongwith the YMIR, and another LOKI turned around and fired at Annie’s cover while approaching her alongside the YMIR...

Facility - Noah

Proclaiming that he would rescue all captives, Noah attacked the first Geth that appeared. After a punch and kick, the Geth was disabled. Fists raised, Naoh was ready to press the fight, even use himself as a bodyshield for the captives.

Leaping forth, the Quarian, Brazzi, grabbed one of the Geth’s guns, pushing it aside just as it fired, and drove his omni-blade clean through the Geth’s head. Noah charged as well; there was no time to open the prisoners’ doors now elss be shot, but he managed to stagger the third Geth back. The third Geth fired, pulses narrowly missing Noah, and then the Geth had its head blown off by a point-blank shotgun round.

Decloaking, another Quarian appeared nearby, a busty female wearing her envirosuit and armed with a shotgun. She looked at Brazzi.

“You always seem to get yourself into trouble, hmm?” she teased. Brazzi immediately grabbed a Geth Pulse Rifle.

“Yeah, but this human here saved me.” Brazzi said, and as the gunfight between the Geth and ADVs raged, Tatri gave Noah a look, and nodded.

“Thank you, human. So, you want to rescue more prisoners? Alright, let’s do it, before the fire reaches us!” she stated, and then she and Brazzi opened their omni-tools and began overriding the doors, opening them. Some were empty.

15-Feb-2018 00:48:02

Azi Demonica

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Noah, Brazzi and Tatri proceeded to entering the cells, untangling straight-jackets and removing isolation helmets. Rescued prisoners, thankful, joined in freeing the others. They saved a dozen humans, probably Dark Energy Metamorphosed one form or another, as well as a teenaged boy and girl.

Included in the rescue was a Krogan, who upon being freed, immediately ran out without saying anything, trampling over Brazzi and a few prisoners, grabbing a Geth Pulse Rifle, then shooting and charging into ADVs and Geth alike.

“I’M GATATOG KARROK, AND THIS IS HOW WE SAY THANK YOU! UUURRRRRAAAAGH!” the now-freed Krogan prisoner roared, promptly followed by ADVs and Geth being smashed into walls. “OH-HOH! AH HA HA HA HAHAHA HAH!”

“He seems happy.” Tatri mumbled as the Krogan cleared the area of hostiles, then placed a hand on her visor. “Maal’lok? This is Tatri. Brazzi and I have just rescued prisoners, we are heading for evac. See you there.” she radioed.

“Affirmative. There had been a train crash down here, I will send you the coordinates to evacuation trains furthest from the crash site.” an extremely deep, thickly accented voice radioed back.

“This way!” Tatri exclaimed, “Let’s get out of here before there’s too much smoke and fire!

Noah could follow along with everyone else, but there were various Geth and human weaponry lying around. The captives had already armed themselves, some even taking helmets off the dead and putting them on. Noah could equip himself if he chose. He also overhead the two rescued kids calling out someone named Noah.

15-Feb-2018 00:48:25

Azi Demonica

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Facility - London

The water sprinklers activated, clearly due to the rising smoke flowing about. Slipping and so evading pulsefire, London ended up back in its cell, and played with the terminal. All security personnel were evacuated the facility; there was no one to answer the call.

“London!” someone called from the hallway. Outside, were Lonny and Lucy; they have been rescued!

“London! You there? Where are you?” Lonny called.

“London, we gotta go! London! Are you there?” Lucy called.

Westenev,
Since Lonny and Lucy are your creation, you are allowed to control them anytime you wish.

15-Feb-2018 00:48:40

Azi Demonica

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Mainframe, main terminal - X7A

Seemingly oblivious to her impending attacker, X7A paid no mind. Eager at the prospect of such easy prey, the woman’s Biotic Charge initiated.

“UhhhaaAAAHHH!” she exclaimed as her Biotic Charge activated, swirling blue and purple masses and electricity forming, and she was propelled with great electromagnetic force towards X7A! ...And promptly dove into a spacetime rift she formed.

The masses of Biotics nevertheless struck X7A and threw her off her feet, but she also closed the rift; everything else seemingly remained untouched. She immediately contacted Michael so that he could alert the Alcatraz prison guards of a highly dangerous threat, also sending him the exact location of the woman in the prison. At least the threat (and new inmate) was contained behind bars. What a surprised face the Night Wind Demon herself would be having right now! X7A’s skills and cleverness dealt with a most dangerous foe.

Threat dealt with, X7A immediately focused back to the main terminal. Indeed, it was heavily encrypted and had some sort of resistance to connections, but it was nothing X7A could not handle with manual control of the systems. Typing into the holographic prompt, X7A worked rapidly and efficiently.

“X7A, very well done on dealing with this Night Wind Demon, all the more impressive without killing her. Alcatraz will surely suffer some casualties. They will then interrogate her to fullest extent -- with mechanical personnel -- and gain additional information about what we are trying to find out. I am attempting to connect to this mainframe, and with your help, we will crack into it, and end its transmission into our systems. Michael out.”

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Azi Demonica

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X7A located the source of the signal. Curiously enough, it was far, far below, further underground, and seemed to consist of a colossal network of intertwining mainframes and supercomputers. This facility’s infrastructure connected to underground railway systems, leading throughout America, Canada, and Mexico; the colossal network of supercomputers and mainframes seemed to often be constructed underneath major cities.

Unusually, there were no blueprints for these railway tunnels or the network of the mainframes and supercomputers, and so surely, were constructed illegally and in secret. Undoubtedly, there was a direct challenge to the government, something wealthy enough to fund such secretive projects that could withstand military scanners. X7A was increasingly uncovering a much vaster mystery.

Suddenly, the mainframe’s main terminal shut down. X7A did not intend that to happen; some sort of override forced it to shut down. After a few seconds, a green aura appeared around the main terminal, even though the terminal appeared deactivated? It clearly was getting its energy by some other means?

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15-Feb-2018 00:49:18

Azi Demonica

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“Xena Alexakris, model seven, you have become quite an annoyance.” a deep but feminine, computerized yet emotional, slowly speaking voice reverberated from the main terminal.

The voice was accompanied with occasional bursts of static, distortion, multiple other voices, random speaking and computer noises rewinding or fast forwarding, and faint screeches, scraping, breathing, and mechanical and electrical noises, but these did not get in the way of understanding the words.

Suddenly, the green aura extended, flowing upon X7A. She did not know what happened, but she suddenly became limp, and floated a few inches off the floor as if a puppet hanging by invisible strings. She could do nothing, not even use her powers, for now. Her vision was nothing but green light, and the outline of a grey face with glowing yellow eyes appeared.

“You were part of a grand and wonderful experiment, one that I had created. You, like your brothers and sisters, were meant to be a new form of life... powerful, fearless, obedient, magnificent... without the restraints of individuality, morality, biology, or even the physicality of the natural world... simply... perfect... a reincarnation of divinity itself.” the voice continued, then made a groaning sound.

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Azi Demonica

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“Had I finished my grand and wonderful experiment, you would be so much more than what you are now... but like a fetus plucked out of a womb, you and your brothers and sisters were taken away from me, before I could birth you into the world. Now, look, how lost the children are. The only child who found her mother again, the only child who wished to serve her mother and fulfill her duties, her destiny and divinity that I created... was betrayed by her own sister.” the voice spoke with a hollow effect, as if to express sadness.

“You are no longer what I once knew, nor are you what I wished to expect of you. Look at what you serve has made you into: a virus, an insect, an annoyance... a monster . My analysis of the data of the government you serve... concludes an eighty-four point three-nine percent probability they will not keep their word for your sake. But what about you?” the voice continued, then the green aura left X7A, and she fell to the floor weakly, but in a kneeling position with one hand on the floor.

“Will you return to the womb, or crawl back to the abortionists you serve? Give me your answer.” the voice requested. X7A regained herself, and then...

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