Chapter 405: {Subject 6A } (2/2)

But this was ht that Thanatos would have toohis new Sentinel state to worry about the Trident

It hy the prongs were rapidlyto defend Blackwater until they could find a suitable techno to inherit the Machine Heart

Or, perhaps - did Thanatos know? Was he seeking to strike while the prongs eakened, their forces stretched thin in Blackwater? To take the blue N-Ring during this recent inter-Trident civil war?

In any case, he knew that there giving up the N-ring noas not possible It was one of the keys to control the world To understand beyond this world, too

To give it up to the hands of a alomaniac lord of death was an utter waste

"Stephenson Garrick Reed You three coler "Ee there and 's condition"

"And what about you, doctor?"

"The infiltrating force is dangerous, but not outside of ler He paused as the screen in front of him showed the face of Ace "The force was stealthed until the seventeenth floor I wonder if they were supposed to have been stealthed all the way to here, but no orous defense against these intruders"

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"Doctor, why did you have us stay behind?" said Reed, a young, brilliant scientist newly graduated from one of the top variant research institutions in the United States "And…why are we in the Biostudies Vault?"

"I've…never been here before," said Stephenson, another young, bright mind

"It's creepy," co here at the young age of seventeen

They were in a rectangular rooe and shi+pping containers, there were instead ts of cylindrical glass chambers filled with blue tinted liquid Within them, the silhouette of various monstrous entities - variants - lay suspended in anianized into three different storage units One for weaponry, one for biological specimen, and another for extraterrestrial containler, nobody, not even the lab staff, were allowed entry into the vaults without explicit authorization

"I require your assistance," said Dr Ziegler si an i red dot eyes that fit snugly into the archetype of 'murder bot', followed behind with heavy, powerful steps whirring with hydraulics and ler headed to the end of the vault where one container lay separated fro blue liquid of this chamber, there was not the silhouette of a variant, but rather a hu researchers They stood close to the chamber ide eyes behind their hazmat suits, their innate curiosity stoked

"A hu strictly in legal boundaries, but isn't this…unethical?"

Dr Ziegler spoke "Prepare subject for awakening"

In response, the chamber's blue liquid lit up until it looked like a pillar of solid light, co the specimen within

The three researchers jumped back, but they were stopped dead in their tracks by the two Cyclops bots The bots stood in front of Dr Ziegler now, their twin autocannon arms aimed at the researchers

"SUBJECT 6A IS NOT FULLY DEVELOPED," said a female AI voice "IT WILL LACK A SUFFICIENTLY DEVELOPED MIND TO OPERATE WITH"

"Prepare for bioration"

"PROCEEDING…"

The floor in front of the cha researchers stood, filled with countless glowing blue rings that swayed chaotically like distorted space

"Dr Ziegler!? What's going on?" said one of the researchers

The three young scientists tried to round, the blue rings wrapping around their feet in a chain link of energy that crawled rapidly upwards, atte to enress Now, you can prove that devotion to its end," said Dr Ziegler "Your sacrifices will provide a mind forscientists screas covered theirinto their flesh like butcher hooks before splitting therotesque way Rather, in a strangely clean, methodical way It was as if the three men were made of countless little cubes, little pixels, that unraveled down into the ground as the rings pulled their biomass apart

Where the three y started to path upwards, into the chamber

"BEGINNING GENESIS OF SUBJECT 6A…"

"APPROXIMATE TIME UNTIL GENESIS: 9 MINUTES"

9force ht now, the labs were not well defended enough to withstand a task force of that caliber, especially when they could handle the Cyclops with their EMP charges

But subject 6A, well, that was an entirely different ler was confident that he could repel the invaders It would be the least he could ask for with the three brilliant young ler had to thank fate, if such a fickle concept even existed, that the task force had so sloppily tripped a sensor to give him the time to set this up

But even then, it was hard to tell if subject 6A had the tiler looked around, gazing at the twenty other cha within them

"Release all other speciler