GC Tea House

[Ironwatsas]

Watsas, who appeared to be aimlessly wandering about the passageways of Ainu, was infact linked to the Consortium neurocyte network, co-ordinating amounts of information most super-computers were never designed to handle. Though most of the Consortium troops had been moved off of Ainu as per the GC's agreement (and their needs on the Tohoku front). What remained was Watsas, a select few of his advisors, steve, and a few GUARDIAN robots which had yet to be shipped off of the base.

As the first signs of trouble began to unfold, Watsas immedietly linked to Ainu's sensor network and his secondary sensor unit linked to the Holovision reciver. Detecting the gunboat approaching, he attempted to access it's computer system and identify it remotely, to no avail given it's apparent level of damage. It was at that point that the station alarms activated and security went into action.

Watsas increased his pace toward the tea house, as well as wirelessly activating the squad of Guardian robots which were awaiting loading in the cargo bay.

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Meanwhile, near the Tea House, poor Steve was walking alongside Akiko, too distracted by what he interpreted as beauty when the Security teams invaded. Despite his superhuman senses, he had no idea what happened before he was thrown to the floor. Given his KNF training and enhancements made during his conversion into a Consortium drone, he probably could have held his own. However, he considered the safety of Akiko, and the fact that he was hardcoded to never harm any GC personell... even at the cost of his own life.

Instead, he simply squealed in terror and confusion and clung to Akiko.

"Aieeeeeeee! What is going on!?"

***

Watsas rounds a corner on his way toward the Tea house, and is greeted by a security team consisting of several armed men.

"Individual, please submit situation report." Watsas stated, attempting to gain insight toward the security team's operations.

Startled, the men opened fire on Watsas. This did little to Watsas nanite-enhanced fibersteel armor, and only made Watsas yet more suspicious. However, Watsas too did not desire unnessiscary casualties. In response, he activated a powerful sonic pulse emmitter combined with a blinder charge which stunned the personell before him. He increased his pace toward the tea house, dragging the leader of the security team by the collar of his armor suit.

"Individual, explain to me exactly what is happening here..." He said to the soldier as his hearing and sight began to return.

***

In the sickbay, Naomi was still whoozy from being electrocuted earlier, and had elected to lazily sleep and milk her apparent injury for all it was worth. The station alarms woke her up and forced her to look around to see what was going on. She could see outside security teams arguing with one of the Nurses, and eventually shooting her with a stun-gun. Naomi snapped into action, dressed in nothing but a medical gown, she clamored into an air duct, and began making her way through the crawlspace.

Her first target was Watsas Labs, attemtping to get a hold of the Hoverdrive mine or Egon gun. But already, security teams were present, attempting to break into Watsas' stuff containers. Thinking quickly, she made her way back into the air ducts undetected, crawling toward Cargo bay 4.

This Cargo bay was a storehouse for any of Watsas' contraptions and devices too large to physically fit into the lab. When she arrived, she was fortunate to find the lights still dimmed and no other people present. Making her way out of the air duct, she went through the various containers and contraptions searching for something she could use.

She quickly decided on one machine in partucluar... the Cyclops.

Effectively a walking tank, the Cyclops is a Consortium attack mech designed for planetary assaults and ground battles. This one was merely in storage, subject to Watsas' tinkering and modification. Naomi climbed up the access ladder and into the tiny pilot cocoon, hoping that the mech would be operable (and that nobody would see her running around half-naked). Situating herself into the uncomfortable control cocoon, she took some time to attempt to locate the activation system.

The configuration was unfarmiliar to her, but she was one of the few GC personell who had taken the time to translate Consortium heiroglyphs. She found a keypad and inserted a code which she suspected would unlock the starter. This opened a small cover and exposed the starter button. Upon pressing it, the Cyclops' gas-turbine engines whined to life, and it's indicator lights activated, with an unearthly orange glow. Numerous holographic displays appeared in the cockpit around Naomi, and she looked them over, and tried to interpret the controls.

She input the command to bring the mech from it's kneeling position into a standing one, and took hold of the command yoke, which drove much like a car or other land vehicle, as the walking motion and manuvering was handled by the mech's AI. Now, she hoped that nobody had yet noticed the activation of the 10 meter tall war machine...

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All that begins must end.