Chapter 404: {To the Vaults} (2/2)

Ahead of hi turret unleashed a constant salvo of bullets, as did several hu smartlink rifles of their own

"We wouldn't be in this spot if you didn't trip thecover beside Falco "My cloud disables ca a physical sensor's going to mess shi+t up no matter what"

"I'm sorry, okay, I didn't see it!" protested Falco

"Now the elevators are locked out" Kris put his knuckles to his forehead in frustration "We have to go down three extra floors that ouldn't have had to to get to the vaults"

"It's fine" Diah the earlink comms

The turrets and drones redirected their aiht to Dia a damn for cover

Or, to be more accurate, with his diamond metamaterial skin, he WAS the cover

"INTRUDERS DETECTED UTILIZING LETHAL FORCE" The drones chanted in robotic unison, firing at will

All the bullets pinged off Diah caliber rounds from the turret

Dia steps like an ar thrown at hirabbed the turret, his crystalline blue hands sinking into the runt, Diaht off in a shower of sparks and shredded e turret at the drones The turret was like a cannonball, shattering the first line of drones in half outright while knocking more behind backwards

The rest, Dia out palh the battle bots like they were ht you would be the last one to be fine with this," said Kris He was not the type to raise his voice, but he was getting close

"What's done is done Hoe adapt to unforeseen events is hoe'll succeed," said Diay on mistakes"

"Cleared out the Cyclops here," said Stella's voice She, Tox, Ace, Alan, and Alexis were at the other end of the hallhere they were dealing with two Cyclops bots

Diaroup, passed the dangerous Cyclops to the end of the hallhere Kris could jack into a control panel and open up the doors to the next floor

"Good," said Diaes don't work as well as you advertised on the Cyclops They can still move around," said Stella "But it doeswith theh hides over tiraded," said Diaot frorading bots as high end as the Cyclops would've taken tied forward, thinking while throwing out diamond shards on autopilot, as if the drones were just minor nuisances

"It's like they expected this place to get attacked"

"They couldn't have predicted us," said Stella "Unless there was a tiny ass chance that they had a seer with theiven to Psionic class Alters who could see through the flow of time They were extremely rare with only a select few individuals even known to have this ability across the entire globe And even then,into the future was dee extremely inaccurate The only Alter in the world who had relatively accurate visions was Prophet as part of the AA, and he could only give vague visions of wide scale disaster

Nothing specific

"Unlikely, like you said," said Dia is that they'vevaluable So the security over"

"Well, whatever it is, we either blow it the fuck up or we take it," said Stella

"Agreed The mission stays the same I've cleared the way to the next floor, but stay on your toes The defenses are light now, but they knoe're in here now And anyone that isn't blind or stupid will knoe're after the vaults

We don't have the element of surprise anyh down in the vaults"