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Chapter Four: Fork In The Road
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Odysseus glances out the window. “It’s time to move. We need to get those children back. Every minute we wait… Here, take these. These will get me directly into the OGA mainframe. Put them in any holo-port, and their local servers will be mine.” Odysseus passes out small silver, featureless, and thin bars to each member of the team. “Suit up.”
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“Not yet, Ody.” Jack said, annoyed.
“We don’t even have a plan. Charging in will only get us killed.”
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*Pandora awoke and went to stretch which ended in her banging her head, arms, wings, and legs into the walls on the dryer, Pandora was so surprise that she spazed and banged her head, arms, wings, and legs into the side of the dryer again! Make 2 loud bangs*”Heh!”, she exclaimed and looked around the dryer slowly remembering.
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“Those children don’t have time to wait! You know that! The plan is simple.” Odysseus pulls out his datapad and throws it on the table, projecting a basic image of the facility. Odysseus points to a red area, deep underground. “The children are here. Now, this is going to require a Zack and Cody…” Odysseus approaches a nearby elongated cabinet, containing a 3-d printer, and pulls out a newly fabricated OGA outfit and throws it to Apollo. “A Mission Impossible.” Odysseus throws some suction cup magnetic grips to Jack. “And a Beyonce. You get me into the computer, we cut the lights. HiFly swaps with Harvin, distracting all of Midzog’s forces sending them on a wild goose chase after half the team, in the dark. Meanwhile, Jack proceeds down this duct systems with Katherine and a portable transmat. We transmat the kids aboard, and get out of dodge.”
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Rose giggled at the references before sobering up, mildly wondering if the young ones understood them. “No offence, but that plan seems a bit too vague as well…”
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*Pandora stumbled out of the dryer and shambled over to her team mates*”Good morning”, she said rubbing her eyes.
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“Why the fuck am I crawling in the vents?” Jack said, indignant.
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“Because you’ll enjoy it.”
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“Fantastic.” Jack said sarcastically. “Crawling through a cramped air-vent with another person. Sounds like a dream.”
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Jack got up, climbing down the ladder to the basement and under-area of the hull of Betty. He dug through old chests where the armor and weaponry was located, looking for something. As he dug through the chest, he saw a flash of red clothing. Confused, he pulled it out. What he found was a red mask, with eye holes and a large cut-out for the lower face, a small triangle embroidered on the forehead of it. He closed his eyes for a moment, tucking it back in the chest, continuing to look. He found what he had been searching for, an old steel revolver, with a long barrel and a wooden handle. He picked it up, feeling the heavy machine. He pocketed it, returning upstairs. He walked over to Geralt.
“Here.” He said, placing it in his hands.
“It’s very, very old, but it’s got more kick than most guns nowadays, and will do the job. In a tight situation, this might save your life. It was a gift to me, but I want you to have it.”
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Apollo slapped on the OGA mission suit. “Awesome! This thing is just as heavy as Jack’s mood on a Monday  morning!” Apollo looked at Odysseus worriedly. “Midzog can tell Harvin from me. Harvin has something I don’t have.”
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Harvin looked into Midzog’s eyes, warming himself and Midzog head to toe in the cold maintenance weather. “Feeling better, dad? I am cold as well, and I wish that we are warm in these times of maintenance. I will continue pleasing the crew downstairs with warmth, once I learn something. Is Apollo Venport an electrokinetic Ascendii or an osmium fabricator? I need an answer.”
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“The thing is, Apollo, is that it won’t matter. When I kill the lights in the confusion, he will just assume. At the very least it should last for a while.”
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“Midzog has the eye power of an Ascendii. He can see the whites of your eyes from 20 minutes away, then confidently say that you are behind the horizon, because you are.”
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Jack got up, digging in the fridge. He placed on the table a bottle of rum, a box of Fruity Pebbles, and a carton of eggs.
“We’re a little tight on food, so in case anyone brought with them a treasure trove of groceries, we’re going into this mission a little hungry.”
