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Chapter Six: Split Paths
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Faye stays where she was, closing her eyes after sometime. She began to remember a bit of her past life… The time when she was a child… The discovery of new things during that time, like finding out how a pen’s inner workings operated… How she first learned of the ‘genetic enhancement’ group… Her memories slowly came back to her. And they all lead up to this… Rotting in a prison cell as she was betrayed by her own…
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Geralt’s vibrations come back, revealing where Faye is in the station. Her heart beat was now coming from the station, the hum of the few machines within were now just background noise to the heart. Geralt neared the station, letting out a low hum to let Faye know he is outside the station.
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“Well,” <i>Jack answered. </i>”His neck. Long story, he’s got robot-y chips in the back of his neck like a walking computer. Don’t worry, we removed it so he’s human now, but then he overloaded it and is on robot steroids? Anyway, that’s why he’s kicking my Ascendii friend’s ass right now.” Jack explained.
“Beat his ass!” <i>He shouted to Ree, chuckling.</i>
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Faye’s eyes slowly open as she hears a soft sound in the distance. Her mind goes to her old friend Geralt at first, the sound seeming more animal-like. She closes her eyes again, realizing that it was a bit too consistent to be anything like that. “Heh…Like Geralt would come here… Put his life on the line for a traitor…” She rubs her eyes, “Probably a generator or something…”
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<span style=”font-family: ‘Open Sans’, ‘Helvetica Neue’, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px;”>“I would have been so much easier if I just melted you all…”</span><br style=”font-family: ‘Open Sans’, ‘Helvetica Neue’, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px;” /><span style=”font-family: ‘Open Sans’, ‘Helvetica Neue’, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px;”>Elliot pulls out a control panel from his backpack and turns it on.</span><br style=”font-family: ‘Open Sans’, ‘Helvetica Neue’, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px;” /><span style=”font-family: ‘Open Sans’, ‘Helvetica Neue’, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px;”>“Anyway, my emitters are still set up and active around the building. If he’s isolated in one area of this facility, I can just flood that area with gamma and we can call it a day.”</span>
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Apollo lifted Jack off his feet and spoke silently, but professionally.
“So, you think it’s cute, hmm? Here’s something that is cute, bub. You go tell your failed experiment and his technology to get us out of here, or suffer the consequences you wouldn’t want to occur. I know he’ll laugh at your butt falling on the ground, which shouldn’t be too hard to make happen, but he seems to be on our side. Might want to think of that before you witness a false butt kicking session.”
Apollo tossed Jack lightly on the ground, making him fall on his butt. “Oh come on, you’re immortal, walk it off, sugarcube.”
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Andaluza fell to the ground, dying with laughter at Jack. “Oh my god! Apollo stop you’re killing me!”
Andaluza mocked a high-pitched scream. “Ahhh!!!! I’m on fire!!!” Andaluza kept on laughing at Jack. “Are you seeing this idiot? He got thrown and fell on his butt! By an Ascend-y’know I’ll just stop.” Andaluza stared up at Apollo, who wouldn’t mess with anything for the next few hours.
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(Ree U. would like to be noticed that he mirrored away and is still not there. Dumbasses.)
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(Didn’t the Alkaline Bottle just establish that?)
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(No, the Alkaline Bottle established that as soon as Ree mirrored away.)
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*Pandora woke up*”Was going on!?”, she said confused.
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(Incoming Ree Monologue)
Ree stared into the mirror, recalibrating his chip. He remembered the horrific experiences with The Keepers. Apollo running past him like the a blur, blastwaving every vein in his body and hitting him in places that were never known to exist before and in times that don’t exist. Andaluza staring into his eyes as he felt his blood boil, literally. And there was Jack, the least impressive, but the second in devastating ability, being able to ram him with the strength of two freighter trains, all locked up in a single fist.
He looked into the mirror and say Ozymandias’s red unforgiving eyes.
“Odymandias, we’re constantly losing to them because we have no idea who we’re dealing with. Apollo’s an electric destruction being, Andaluza can explode things out of pure will, and Jack can bend bars of metal into paper clips. I think it’s time we unleash a new weapon. One that I’ve been working on behind your back for a century. Doesn’t matter now. I’m the one in control. And if you get in my way, I will take you out. Well…er…the superweapon will. Got it? I have actually faced them, for one, and look at my physical being! It’s damaged by him! And I’m going to take him out first. You are now taking my place, Ozymandias, and I am now taking control of the OGA.”
Ree jammed his mainframe into the OGA computers and started uploading a copy of himself. He then hit a dispenser and a small black dart with a White Tulip etched on the side of it. He then threw it at a dartboard with Apollo, Andaluza, and Elliot’s faces on it. He then threw it directly in the center of Apollo’s eyes. “You’re going to try to take out my old leader? I’m going to take out yours.”
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Apollo crouched next to Pandora and stared into her face. “Ok, so there is a perfectly logical explanation for this. You are uh…delusional.” He then looked back at the group. “Now, we’re running out of time, thanks a lot guys. I’m now in charge no questions asked. If you wanted to get something done you’d have done it six hundred years ago, Jack. You can have your position back when you can maintain a team which tends to not turn on themselves or end up in mess piles every evening.”
Apollo tore open the warehouse door and led everyone out of it. “Elliot, do you have a spacecraft we can use? Don’t worry, you can fly it, although it might get destroyed. We need to go back to Iffrozar to reclaim something that Odysseus has left behind for us. It looks like this.” Apollo searched around in his pockets, then grabbed it out of Jack’s hand. A small blue circular device. He then set it down on the ground and hit a red button, then began moving the files shown on the holographic display. “Yes, this vial contains a white tulip. And I know you’re going to ask whether it’s a dangerous thing or not, so I’m putting it out there for you slowpokes. YES, YES IT IS!”
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Andaluza pulled out a red spherical object. “Apollo, can I make Jack fall on his ass twice in one day? He doesn’t have a forcefield so this should be easy.” Andaluza threw the sparking red ball back and forth, staring into it as if it’s going to explode.
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Jack mock-laughed, smirking.
“Yeah, har har. Andaluza, I’d love for you to try. See what happens when someone I don’t consider my best friend to fuck with me. Remember, this is the guy that stopped your heart.” He said, his voice turning menacing.
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