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Chapter Four: Fork In The Road
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“Authorized what?”
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Faye glares at the radio, saying in a angered whisper, “The attack on my homeland.”
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Jack looked at her.
“The OGA.” He said, giving her an ‘are you serious’ look.
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Faye looks back at Jack, rolling her eyes, “I know that much. I’m asking if we know who.”
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Ozymandias pauses, and then says, “I was afraid that you were going to ask that. Midzog, technically, but not even be understands the weapon that he’s building, and my schematics are worthless without a crucial part but… I designed the plan. However, I never that he would use it until I picked up some chatter. Operation Shelley. However, it’s tricky stuff, this Omega Radiation… But I’ll explain more later.”
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Faye sets the radio aside, holding her face with her hands, taking off the headset. He planned this!? This entire time… was she just blind to see this entire time? No…she’s always seen them take care of criminals and rebels like Jack…but…these were innocent people…
Faye takes a deep breath and puts the headset back on, “Okay.” She whispers again into the radio, “Where’s my family?”
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“This plan was not meant to be executed like this. I want to assure you of that. And all I can tell you is that your family is alive. Midzog might be monitoring my signals… And if he knew the truth…well it’s best that he now. He is a fool. A powerful one, and presently the one with the upper hand, but a fool all the same. But you must trust me when I tell you this. The energy harvesters must NOT be damaged. If they do, many people will die. As I said, Omega Radiation is tricky, but I cannot explain over sub-space frequencies. In person only.”
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Jack drummed his fingers on the dashboard, seeing as Faye was clearly preoccupied with talking to Ody. He looked back and saw Geralt, sitting there quietly on the out-of place worn couch in the middle of the ship.
“How you doing? You need some food or anything?” He said to him.
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Apollo spoke through the radio without much hesitation. “Normally they take the Ascendii to the power plant, but they have no use for humans-” Apollo hated the rudeness of that comment “-so they either recruit them as infantry or…dispatch them.”
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Geralt looks up as Jack speaks to him. Umm, I’m feeling hungry and I’d feel better if I had my guns. I can’t remember much before waking up…
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Faye lets out a sigh as she hears this, nodding, even though he couldn’t see it. She then listens to Apollo and looks at the radio, “So, don’t let them break. Got it.” She scratches her head, “Alright, so I’ll have to disguise as an infantryman…” She says, planning out loud…
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“I have bourbon and 200 year old fruity pebbles.” Jack winked at Geralt, pointing to the fridge.
“Maybe some cheese too. If you dig around the cabinets you’ll probably find something.”
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After a chuckle, Do you have anything from this century?
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Jack turned the auto-pilot on, clambering into the back and digging into the fridge. He threw a package of meat to Geralt.
“Boom. Salami.”
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*Pandora got a weird idea and leaned in swiftly to the Radio microphone then blurted*”hi!”, then shrunk away smirking back into her seat.
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