Chapter 406: {Break In} (1/2)

Chapter 406: {Break In}

At the thoroughly ar Research Rooing belly, glowing red hot before the built up heat and pressure was toohuge chunks ofinwards

Stella stood in the doorway, her arms thrust out She breathed heavily, red stea out of herher in an aura of crie that made her look positively de about!" said Stella "Being able to use my poithout any drawbacks Train the ever!"

Dia with Ace They, as the two roup, swept every roo salvos at the two of the around like the bullets were just a casual after workout shower

"Room is clear aside from these turrets," said Diamondback

"Then it's not clear!" said Tox

Diahed "Let's clean up"

Dia each turret Ace, in particular, fly about with a single- baseball

After the turrets were cleared and everyone in the room, Tox pointed to control panel behind a blacked out widescreen monitor

"Kris, why don't you jack in?" said Tox "This looks ih"

"No," said Kris

"But isn't this your job?" said Falco as he shi+fted his weight froht around his Aztech laser gun It was obvious his nerves were on edge

Kris gave a pointed stare to Flaco bordering on a glare It was very evident that Kris's patience with Flaco was running quite thin

"I-I ht? And a Phanto about the vaults and the defenses they've set up, right?"

"Defenses they have time to set up solely because of your incompetence But that's not the worst part," said Kris "Files state they have a techno here Guy who used to be called Machine Mind A ranker back like twenty or thirty years ago

He's the head of security and research And he's in control of the network now and ready to intercept threats I'm a solid infiltrator, but just like in realspace, an a it

Now that Machine Mind's ready for us, he'll have set up cyberspace defenses to catchhis A rank, I' in now"

"I've heard of hiion of mechs with his power

Didn't end well for hi to abandon a sinking shi+p to save another with ers in it

That started a whole debate in the hero community about what to do in cases like that"

"Seeht choice," said Alexis

"Yeah, but it still looks like an asshole move," said Tox

"He doesn't care about human lives Not in the way normal people do He just sees numbers It's typical of him," said Ace He clenched his fist "We need to find him And I need to make him pay"

"I know I never pried into your past, but is he…?" Tox's question trailed off

"Yeah He's the one that raised me Treated h, I was sold off to a ot a lot of scars to pay for My body h, all the shock, burn, poison, and variant combat tests, but my mind - those scars are still fresh