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Post by Saturn on Feb 7, 2008 17:02:42 GMT -5
Garet was at the back of the group now and wanted to get a closer look at that crystal that had been found. then, this bulkhead got his attention.
"Someone locked inside?" he asked himself. This didn't seem right to him, but he didn't know what else to do. He heard the knock for the numerical passcode and a shiver went up his spine.
He couldn't explain why, but whatever was in there, whether it be that person or something else...he knew that somehting bad had or was about to happen.
He moved to the bulkhead so he could talk to Takeshi,"Sir, forgive me, but something doesn't seem right here..."
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Post by knightc3 on Feb 7, 2008 22:43:33 GMT -5
He typed the code in as it was 'knocked' to him. He was hoping it worked...
As he pressed the 'Enter' button. The door made the familiar sound of opening, something he had been hoping to hear for a long time. He smiled broadly standing in the doorway. His smile dissapeared as he saw the team outside, some of them with their guns trained at him. There were far less civilians this time and a lot more soldiers which was good for them but bad for him if they decided he was to blame.
He realized that he has just been standing there in the doorway, frozen in place. He looked around the group of people to find their CO and saluted him. "Thank you sir... took you long enough to show up!". He knew he shouldn't be talking like this to the captain specially seeing as he just freed him from his prison, and not to forget all the guns still trained at him. But he couldn't help it, it was just his nature.
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Post by Gin on Feb 8, 2008 8:28:38 GMT -5
Illimana was ready and listened to Garet while he spoke to the captain, more or less Illimana couldn't disagree to what he had to say but not opening the door would give no answer,
"Indeed something bad might happen Garet, but to find out what our treath is we need to right?" Illimana jumped into discussion...
*Hope I got that right... And if it is any of ours in there... We need to rescue him right? Even if it is just a single person...* Illimana thought to himself and suddenly goes a time travel back,
------------The Robbery Against the Bank-------------
"Everybody DOWN NOW!" Illimana's companion said rasing his weapon and firing several rounds...
"If you follow our instructions you'll be just fine and we also like to announce to the guys and girls behind the counters that pushing the emergency button will just set off a large explosion underneath you terminating your working friends..." Illimana spoke behind his Air Mask...
The plan was set and now put in motion, deep under the building several guys was just cashing in the money and there seemed as nothing could go wrong while Illimana and his friend Mark was making this manover to confuse the real plan...
"Now I want you there to put this disc into your C-Curity Main System and transfer all of your data!" Illimana said, if this aswell got through as planned they'd made a big bonus to travel for...
By now security was gushing down the stairs, though... Not as thought though,
A large explosion was heard from the stairs at the side of the building as the security at this moment burnt and hopefully retreated by now, also the elevators stopped and told a sign for anyone aboard to get off at the nearest floor... Since the elevator would soon "crash down" as it said eliminating anyone in the elevator, though one elevator wouldn't, since at it would Illimana and Mark be to escape safe in the Subterran tunnel system...
As planned one of the elevators was seemingly about to crash into the bottom of the safe vault though stopped 7 floors above to pick Illimana and Mark up...
But it was now it all seemed to go wrong, somehow or someone had tipped Illimana and Mark off though they didn't find out until later... Well Illimana did... Mark was soon about to face his fate too... Death!
A Unit deployed outside in just a second seemed to rush into the Bank and commanding Mark and Illimana to give up, not happening though the both started to fire back at the Squad while moving towards the elevator...
"Go Mark Go! I'll cover you from here!" Illimana yelled to Mark who seemed paralyzed, it was then Illimana realised he had been shot by the Squad, "sh**, HANG IN THERE MARK!" Illimana yelled and ran at him catching him and pushing him into the elevator and pushed the button, "Good luck Mark..." he said before shutting the doors...
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Illimana just got his senses back to what was going on
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Post by Caelen on Feb 8, 2008 9:59:46 GMT -5
Takeshi nodded to Garet and Illimana. "I agree, this could be dangerous. But, it's the fastest way past this door." He listened to the code being input on the pad on the other side. "Let's see who's there..." His voice trailed off as the door slid open. A kid? What's a kid doing here he thought. He lowered his weapon. "I am Captain Takeshi of the Oracle's Guard battleship Ulysses. We're here to investigate recent disturbances. I need to know who you are and why you're here. Anything you can tell us will help." He glanced over at the marines nearby in a silent signal to keep their weapons at the ready until this person was identified. This kid just didn't seem normal.
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Post by knightc3 on Feb 8, 2008 12:12:25 GMT -5
He took a few steps forward but slowly, to show it was not a threatening gesture. "My name is Acde. Lets just say I am failed experiment, a Reaper Unit, something they are trying to reverse and in return I get to do all the fun assignments for OG...", he said smiling. "So whatever...whats the word... oddities you might notice about them, try to ignore them."
He was in full view of the guns which were still trained at him. He noticed some of them were staring at his armor. The sight of metal blending into flesh usually drew some stares even by experienced soldiers.
"So I was sent down here with the exploratory team which discovered and mapped most of the tunnels and pathways in here and stayed here while the force was reduced as there was no apparent threat. To cut the long story short, the civilians...uh... died and my team, along with my CO... went missing." He didn't think it would be a good idea to tell them that he was the primary suspect. "So Ulysses huh? Sounds big... is it big?", he commented smiling again. He really wanted to get out of the chamber and just walk in the open for a while. He would have but they would have shot him if he had approached them. They tend to do that too often now, he thought.
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Post by Caelen on Feb 8, 2008 19:27:42 GMT -5
"Reaper unit?" Takeshi tightened his grip on his weapon. "The reaper program was responsible for some of the worst attacks on Neo Terra before the Gemini Fleet was destroyed." He eyed the kid with more than a hint of suspicion. "The only other reaper I met was an adult though... Well we'll go with it for now." He waved a pair of marines onward to scout the room. "We're looking for Lieutenant Commander Grace. Do you know where she is?"
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The pair of marines proceeded into the room, careful to keep their distance from this freak of a kid. They made no effort to hide their disgust, but they did as they were ordered. One approached a table covered in various objects. Most of the objects were still covered in thick layers of dirt and clay, having only recently been excavated. The other walked up to a large cylindrical object. "Captain! I found the generator. I'm powering it up." He pressed a switch on it, and it began to hum softly. It was an older antimatter reactor: a model that wasn't used by anyone but civilian researchers, and even then only rarely. It was highly inefficient, not to mention dangerous, but it was definitely far less expensive than a dark energy core.
Moments later, the room's systems activated. The lights came on, emitting a soft white light. The emergency light in the center of the room shut off. The doors all activated with green lights turning on over the tops of them. The room had four exits, arranged like a compass. A large machine started making loud grinding noises. It was a metal-carving machine that was programmed to make a certain part. It had been interrupted mid carve, but still carried the program for what it was supposed to do. Finishing its grind, a process which took a minute or two, the part fell out onto a conveyor belt that took it to a large metal table.
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Post by knightc3 on Feb 8, 2008 23:21:31 GMT -5
Oh great, he thought. He was hoping this captain didn't have clearance for that information, wishful thinking perhaps.
"Well, she was my CO for the last team I was in, which logically means I should know where she is...", he paused for no apparent reason, "but I don't. Like I said, my whole team went missing, that would include her." So since she apparently didn't make it out of the chamber, he guessed nobody did.
He turned as the marines went past him deeper into the room. He called out to them as he saw the lights turn on. "I think I should remind you not to open ALL the doors at once, thats what my team did last time, kept all the doors open...", he trailed off smiling hoping they would get the drift.
He was actually surprised to know there had been an adult subject for the reaper program. He was suddenly interested in more about him. He would ask the Captain later.
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Post by Gin on Feb 11, 2008 8:24:56 GMT -5
Illimana approached the center of this current room, "I'll take a look at the computor. Perhaps I could take a look and see if I can get a map or something alike up on the screen and with luck maybe I could start a scan through the facility Log and see if I can find anything interresting..." Illimana spoke and started to tap on the computor as the lights went on. He hoped the Log was still as it was though much already told it wouldn't be since the electrical damges seen at both the computor and the power resourses in the chamber...
After starting the program up he noticed something already, "Garet, mind taking a look at this?" Illimana spoke incredibly amazed as well as coutioness at his voice...
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Post by Roara on Feb 11, 2008 23:26:54 GMT -5
"Does anyone mind If we set up a small outpost here?" The Janitor asked, narrowly getting his cart into the room. He picked up a toolbox, set it on the ground, then pressed a small red button on it.
"Eeeeeerectin' a dispenser!" He said randomly, then pried a panel off of the side of the computer, and made an attempt to jack into the wires to get a good idea of the layout and schematics of the area.
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Post by Caelen on Feb 12, 2008 1:53:30 GMT -5
Takeshi was careful to keep an eye on Acde while he walked over to see what Janitor had gotten into. "That's a good idea. Comm back for some of the base personnel to set up shop here. It'd be a good comm relay point as well." The entire time he spoke he had one eye literally aimed at Acde. The cybernetic modifications gave him more than just a HUD. "Illimana, Janitor, get these comps up and running. We need eyes down here." He shot an apologetic look towards Illimana, knowing the computer whiz would probably rather figure out what this new mystery was. He turned to face Acde again. "Acde, can you tell me anything more about what happened when you were separated from Lieutenant Commander Grace? We could use a direction to start searching."
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The comm signal arrived on the Ulysses. It was a text-only message sent by Captain Takeshi. The officers were advised to look up any and all information on "Acde" and the "Reaper Program", especially information pertaining to any ties to the Gemini system. The officers aboard carried out their orders quickly and quietly, but the information would not be sent to Takeshi. "Save until my return" is what the message had said.
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Post by knightc3 on Feb 12, 2008 2:53:32 GMT -5
"Uh uh, not seperated, LEFT BEHIND!" He suddenly got furious, and then the next instant he was calm again as he continued, "They sent me down the north-east tunnel to look for what had killed the civis...", he glanced at the new ones before continuing, "It was a change of shift during which the killings occured. I was heading back to this room while the next group of guard left a few minutes late. Within that few minutes, they were all dead. They obviously blamed me for the deaths since I was the last one out."
"And such luck that I was alone guarding them, since not one from the unit stayed ever stayed with me on watch. So I had no alibi. The worst part, I thought they trusted me, as they told me to check up what it was while the rest of the group got ready to charge in after me. Most of my COs, as will you I am sure, will start treating me as disposable soon enough. They also find out I am not that easy to get rid of. I had assumed all this life that at least the she had made it out..." he concluded.
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Post by Gin on Feb 13, 2008 6:54:15 GMT -5
Illimana nodded in response, *Got it...* he packed up a boot system, a back up disc to copy any data important in case of system failure, he took the disc and putted it in the computor to then continue on the boot system. He started to search for a hi-jack to connect it though he didn't quiet find anything alike, he quickly solved the problem by opening one of the side shells of the large computor and search for a raid connection to modify, it all went in about a minute or 2 before he started to type several commands at the computor before getting a response that the Boot System was connected.
The Boot System would help his search and speed the fella up somewhat, he could also put in commands for specified searches through the log etc etc for example like this time search for Protected files with passwords. The Password would problably be solved with'in half a minute with this and opened directly unless some sort of protection messure had been installed.
He started by searching the log 2 weeks back to perhaps find information about what happened.
While the search continued Illimana stood up straight and stretched before litting a cigarette and started with a secondary search about the Reaper named Acde!
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Post by Roara on Feb 13, 2008 18:33:43 GMT -5
"Ok, it looks like Illimana has things under control, I will begin relaying information to the Ulysses' servers." The Janitor informed Takashi, watching piles of data flow past his screen and into his dispenser, which was sending the information is signals to the Ulysses.
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Post by Caelen on Feb 15, 2008 0:24:56 GMT -5
Takeshi listened intently to Acde. "That doesn't sound like Grace at all. We need to find her. At least we know the northeast path isn't the direction to go, and we came from the southwest. That leaves northwest and southeast." He turned back to Illimana and Janitor. "Let me know when we're ready to move out."
Takeshi stared into Acde's eyes to try and see if anything wasn't adding up. He knew that Grace was the kind of person that cared for all of the people under her command. Leaving anyone behind just wasn't her style. He hoped she was unhurt. "I don't want you to leave my sight, Acde. So you'll just have to come with us to find Lieutenant Commander Grace. We can clear up what happened when we find her."
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Post by knightc3 on Feb 15, 2008 0:44:46 GMT -5
"As you say... sir", he added after a short pause realizing he was under a new command now. So now he had a new CO, as sharp as his previous one, it seemed. While he was narrating the events to him a few minutes ago, he realized that he had gone off on a tangent and had potrayed his last CO, Lt. Cmdr. Grace, as being too harsh. If she had not made it out herself, then he couldn't be sure whether she had planned about leaving him locked in here or not. He had just gone off assuming she had.
It happened to him sometimes, this trick his mind played, of convincing him that his suspicions or doubts were anything more than just that. Now, even he was curious as to what happened to her.
He suddenly broke out moving his hands like he was an actor on stage, "I will lead your party down whichever path you wish to take running headlong into danger... hopefully to eliminate it...", he finished this short speech with a smile and a bow. Anybody was saw this performance under such circumstances would need anything more to convince them that he was completely insane.
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