36. Technical Difficulties
Stacey boards her jet and preps for launch.
"All systems are go. Open the hanger doors." Stacey
"Yes ma'am." Responded one of the many Guardian Alliance workers.
The hanger door opens up revealing the blue sky, Stacey ignites the engines and takes off towards Global 1.
"Come in Road Burn do you copy?" Stacey
But there is no response.
"Communication must be down again.... Better tread likely upon approach." Stacey says as she continues on.
It didn't take long for Global 1 to come into view. As Stacey examines the orbiting station she notices that its gone dark.
"No power? Looks like a ghost ship." Stacey says just before noticing a streak of yellow light zip through the inside of Global 1 passing the windows.
All of the lights in Global 1 would then slowly turn on signaling the power.
"What's going on in there?" Stacey
Stacey flies towards the closed entrance where the doors opened up allowing her to fly in and land safely. She exits her jet and slowly examines her surroundings.
"Well I'm here. Now all that's left is to find Sam and solve this virus problem." Stacey
Stacey was only able to take a couple of steps before a large holographic screen pops up over head. The screen shows a blue digitized female body.
"Hm? And what are you supposed to be?" Stacey
"Greetings. I am A-Oa. I must inform you that you are trespassing on the property of the planet A-Dola. Please leave or be vacated by force. You have five seconds to comply." A-Oa
"... First it was the CuWei and now we have A-Dola? Really now?..... And since when am I trespassing on the satellite that I designed?!" Stacey
"Failure to comply. Opening airlock now." A-Oa
The airlock opens and immediately the suction of space takes effect. Stacey quickly reaches to her side, grabs a switch blade knife, stabs it into the ground and holds on tight.
"Oh no you didn't!!" Stacey
The jet takes a minute but inevitably gets caught up in the vacuum and is sucked into space.
"Computer! Voice overide code Beta 1!" Stacey
But nothing happens.
"As long as I am in control none of your voice inputs will be affective. You can do nothing but succumb to yo..." A-Oa was suddenly cut off due to a power out.
Stacey continues to hold on for dear life since she is still in danger of being sucked out in space. She was able to hold on for a few more seconds for the power to come back on.
"Danger. Hanger bay door open. Closing now." Computer system
The hanger doors close but Stacey finds herself gasping for air.
"Danger. Low oxygen. Increasing air supply." Computer system
Stacey's movement got slower, she felt herself fading but before she completely lost consciousness she instinctively gasps and catches a large breathe of air. Her breathing becomes steady, her vision becomes stable and she slowly gets to one knee.
"Computer.... Acti... Vate.. Defense system, protocols...." Stacey
"There are 489 defense system protocols. Which protocols would you prefer?" Computer system
"... All of them!" Stacey
Stacey gets to her feet and starts to walk towards the door. It doesn't take long for A-Oa to show her face again in the same area.
"It seems that you have somehow survived. No matter. I will simply reopen the....." A-Oa would begin to say but suddenly stops.
"What's wrong?.. Not so, easy this time?" Stacey
"It seems that you have placed a number of contingencies for such a situation. Note worthy but this will not stop me." A-Oa
"Then I'll settle for slowing you down..." Stacey
Stacey makes it to the door where she notices a black and yellow streak blow past her, followed by a heavy gust of wind and a single path of fire on the ground. Stacey then hears a sound that can be best described as when a car stops on a concrete road, the streak comes back with the gust of wind and Stacey sees that its Road Burn with his black and yellow electricity surging around him.
"Stacey!" Road Burn
"Road Burn. Why are you all charged up and burning the air supply with your hot streak?!" Stacey
"Well to be honest we've been throwing a crazy party up here." Road Burn
"Wh-what party?!.... Did you say we?" Stacey
Suddenly a barrage of lazers begin to erupt from the direction that Road Burn originally came from. Stacey looks over to see a multiple number of full sized A-Oas approaching and firing the beams from their eyes.
"A-Oa!" Stacey
"You've obviously met so let's skip the introductions!" Road Burn says then picks up Stacey and speeds off.
"Why aren't you fighting back?" Stacey
"Because every time I take one down it just clones itself." Road Burn
Road Burn comes to a stop in the main control room a few floors above and lets down Stacey.
"That fire streak only happens when your storm builds up to an extreme level. Why haven't you ripped holes in reality yet?" Stacey
"My storm's only building up because I've been constantly absorbing Global 1's power. I try to run off the excess energy at a certain pace to prevent that but I'm pretty sure those blue manifested AIs somewhat sifen some of the energy as well and use it to power up the sat station at a faster rate than the back up generates do." Road Burn
"That explains a lot... Especially why I was able to take control for a moment! She was rebooting in that time frame!" Stacey says then gets to the main console.
"She should be back online now though... Did I happen to short her out I wonder?" Road Burn
"No. I was able to slow her down in the hanger bay. She's a little busy bypassing the defense systems I was able to activate in the time frame she was rebooting herself." Stacey
"Nice! But it looks like her foot soldiers made it to the hallway way." Road Burn says noticing the small hoard approaching from the security camera on the big screen.
"One sec... Got it." Stacey says just before the doors to the control room slam shut.
"Man am I glad you're here!" Road Burn
"Not out of the woods yet. She's more than halfway finished until she's free to roam." Stacey say as she looks at her watch with a number that indicates the amount of her contingencys still in place.
"I better get to the power core before that happens!" Road Burn
"Before you go you should take this." Stacey says as she hands an earpiece communicator to Road Burn.
"Its not gonna work since she jams frequencies." Road Burn
"I modified these to work on multiple frequencies just for an occasion like this." Stacey
"Your brain rocks!" Road Burn
"Your sweet. Just so you know I won't be opening the door for you." Stacey says noticing the blue hoard behind the door.
"No problem. But could you get the gravity for about two seconds maybe?" Road Burn
"That I can do." Stacey
Road Burn would then ready himself as if he was about to start a race.
"Whenever you're ready." Stacey
"... Now!" Road Burn says then dashes for the door.
Stacey immediately pushes a button that turns off the gravity in her secter. Road Burn uses his moment to soar, vibrates his molecules so that he can phase through the door and slips through the blue hoard who are floating. Just as Road Burn asked the gravity turns back on after only two seconds.
"Better act fast." Stacey says immediately getting back to the console.
A few moments later she hears a few beeps witch signal that her defensive protocols have all been bypassed. A-Oa wastes no time in appearing on the large screen for her current room.
"You have gotten quite far in the short amount of time that I was preoccupied. No doubt due to the speedster that is currently on his way towards the core." A-Oa
"No kidding." Stacey
"Why am I unable to see what you are doing on that monitor?" A-Oa
"Oh no special reason. I was just able to replicate all of the defensive protocols that you broke down and focused them on isolating this monitor from the rest." Stacey
"You are quite the persistent one. It must be a human trait. I was hoping to precure this station before he comes but it appears my time has run out due to your tactics." A-Oa
"Before who comes?" Stacey asks as she stops what she is doing to look up at A-Oa.
A-Oa pulls up a screen to show Stacey a ship is currently on a slow approach heading straight for the Global 1.
"My creator." A-Oa