Selestral 1 - Genros Legacy - Chapter 11, 12, 13

Story by Seth GodofChaos on SoFurry

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Chapter 11

Prey

"What does have happened here, then?", Tarja asked absent-mindedly. Cyron looked at hims daughter worriedly: "We have been attacked. These were several flying robots with knives." Kira nodded: "Pant, we also have made the acquaintance."

The computer inside the rock labyrinth registered the loss of his knife drones and ordered the production of new one. An enormous machinery suddenly moved in the mountain. Assembly lines started, work robots came into movement and the production of new drones was going on at full speed. "However, we also have brought something nice", Tarja crowed. They put the box down and opened it. Cyron looked mistrustfully and the there brake Chiron looked undecidedly on the paper heap. "What is the matter, it has left you speechless?", the tiger-taur asked. "No. We still are a little under shock at the moment. You know it is a matter to know that one moves in a fight and it can get uncomfortable but something completely different if it really suddenly happens and then just with such a force." Tarja nodded. "But good. Leave there what we see each other having there. Cyron squated in front of the box and took a stack papers out after the other one. His eyes got bigger too of and he began to smile. "Bull's eye", he finally said, "we have what we need." It turned out that the papers contained tremendously important information. So among other things tactical data, ground plans of all stations and bases, armaments, electronic key and codings stood written. The news of this find spread like wildfire under the ones involved and let a better atmosphere arise again. In addition, an enormous stack was under it at books. These were all of them operating instructions for computer programs. Kira approached Cyron: "Cyron, I would like to take the books and study them. I agree to take on the work on the computers." Cyron thought it over briefly and consented. The lynx snatched herself the books and disappeared in its tent with them and hers sabertoothed friend. It already had got dark and campfires burned everywhere. Tarja, Cyron and Chiron had combined forces and divided up the first guard duties. The circulation had to be rotating and flowing. "Pays attention always to strange noises and sudden movements. We cannot afford such a defeat like in the afternoon any more. And still a piece of advice. Expect the impossible and fire first, then ask questions." The guard duties nodded, drew their weapons as a precaution and activated them. Then they started and orbited the camp. Kira squated together with Pedro in her tent and read in the books diligently. She otherwise was quiet from time to time slipping away you around it a quiet oh and aha. Hers friend did not have it a second the rumor softened the round from the eyes and at the around sedentary ones again that the two have what with each other. And assumptions were made about this how it would look well if the much bigger tomcat mated with the little lynx. Many lay at the fires and slept or dozed in front of themselves to. Others checked their weapons and practiced them if possible fast and skillfully to draw. Cyron, Chiron, Stella and Tarja had sat down to a circle and also read in documents. "Different number columns okly stand here. It is it the manual deactivation of the defense systems, the energy protections and the light barriers", Cyron said. Tarja took the sheet away from him from hims hand and compared the data with the notes in hers hand. "This matches", she said, "the data match excellently what I have here. The ground plan of the plant is on my papers with references to the light barriers and the defenses. According to their situation they are put on numbers and as I just see, a suitable number stands on the other paper behind every number combination. It should be possible for us with that to penetrate into the complex and to turn a couple of unpleasant things off. We must come first on the whole, though." Chiron nodded: "No worry my wealth. We already create this." At another campfire a sabertooth tiger and a vixen sat together and looked into the flames. "Think you that we will survive it?",the vixen asked. "Yes. But natural. We stay together and I will look after you", the sabertooth tomcat said. Both of you gave yourself a smile. "You are said what at all? Grey is my name", hers answer came, "I am by the way called Sinja." She sighed and her cuddled up to him and fell asleep while he was stroking she. Kira had read enough and set the books aside. She stepped in front of the tent, looked around and went to the little group of the four tigers which still rummaged in the piece of paper economy. Stella noticed: "Ah, hello." "I have read for today enough and think that I come partly clearly with technology", said Kira. "This is super. What have you found out?" "Yes, I have this. The computers in the grotto are part of a network which reaches to the jungle up to the base. If it works, one can check and paralyze the whole jungle base of here. It codings must exist, these make an access to the basis possible for me here and get the other station." Cyron began to grin. "She is good, she is even very good!" "Taaaataaaa!", intonated Tarja and reached Kira the combinations over here. This one took the piece of paper, kept the head crooked and shouted with joy happily. "Exactly what I need is it." She plugged the piece of paper in, tent thanked you and went in it back, she then switched off the light. Outside the camp the Pegasus-stallion Ikarus and the unicorn mare suited Sandra together and a piece nibbled at their greens. They had also got closer to each other and become very good friends by now. "Whether they remain quiet tonight?" ,asked Sandra and snorted quietly. "I already think we after all have come through the first attack and no newcomer might be carried out so fast." She neighed quietly and went along him, rubbed her head at hims shoulder and pushed her nostrils into hims flank. He opened the eyes and looked at them. She had a wonderful figure and her tail put up blew enticingly. He pushed hims nostrils and she nudged under their tail. She stopped willingly, bowed the head and pushed repeated for him into the flank. She snorted and reacted on the touches. She turned into a good position, waited the stallion...

Somebody suddenly shouted: "Alarm! We are attacked!" Hurly-burly came into the pack of hounds. The tent in front of which the two had stood was opened and Syrgon made a headlong dive out. He looked around: "Make further Ikarus later. Otherwise these shoot before you arrive." Several packed burning campfire logs, kept them better into the air around the area to examine and drew their spotlights simultaneously. Her laser cannons activated the taurs and Ikarus and also the necessary information did good on theirs monitors. Sandra was pushed by the Pegasus to the background and he pretended to be protective in front of her. They looked around. "Knife drones! Twenty pieces and it come about the rock slopes" ,Ikarus shouted. If somebody still wanted to say what, it was senseless. No-one anyway understood more because the rest went down in the hissing the hand lasers and grumble of the laser guns. It appeared like a bloodbath. One recognized the positions of the drones by their treacherous aim lasers merely. But this sufficed completely and one staggered from the sky, was left in the ground or exploded still in the air after the other one. After only three minutes the apparition was past. The laser beam weapons had brought about their second use behind themselves and proved themselves very well just like their straps. This time, quiet stopped off considerably faster than at the first attack in the camp. They seemed to have accepted this risk rather fast and were not been frightened or panicky any more. Cyron looked around: "Yes, everything seems to be all right." He went into hims tent and stumbled over a device which they had taken along but whose function was not clear to him. He took it with out to show it to Chiron. Both looked quite stupidly and turned the thing to and fro and shook the head at long last. "What shall no idea", Chiron said be this. Kira stood quite nearby and watched the two. She approached more nearly and got shining eyes. "An active laser radar ribbon", she said. The two tiger tomcats had a look questioningly on and then to the lynx. She tore the device out of Cyron's hands really and went back a step. "This I what whitely is and also like it works. I have read it in the books." Both twitched with the eyebrows. Cyron looked at Chiron and thought that he already said before that it would be something special. Chiron kept the head crooked and waited on what may come now there. Kira did not shilly-shally for a long time. She took her laser, activated it and opened a little socket with a claw on the side. She opened the pocket in which the device was and a thin one but very long pulled wires out. Himself had noticed the other AnChafren and QuChafren that happened a little interesting and surrounded the lynx girl. She do not read himself disconcert and made further. She put the plug of the equipment cable into the socket and fetched a little round and completely inconspicuous thing from the pocket. She put it on the ground and beat with her hand on the top side. Suddenly the device came on yellowly, started quietly to hum and rose into the air. The yellow light in its inside was not even and seemed to turn. The device climbed more and more highly over her heads and then stood still. Kira did not look particularly happily. "I need more energy", she told to Cyron skillfully. He nodded briefly, disappeared and one of the loading up units appeared for the hand lasers. "Suffices this?", he asked. Kira nodded enthusiastically. She activated the charging point, took her hand laser and kept it direct besides that. She unplugged the plug from her laser and as fast as she could connected it into the battery charger. As the lynx called it, it spat briefly and staggered in the air and then happened, the laser radar ribbon for what it had waited. A yellow carpet fanned itself out over theirs heads, in ten meters height altitude. Kira clapped her hands. "Still have we a second?" "Second?". Cyron disappeared in the tent again and clattered around for a while, he then reappeared and two had further of this equipment. "Suffices this?" Kira relieved it of her and also activated her. "All of us can go to sleep calmed now", she said in conclusion. "What? And why should we be able to do this?", one of the bulls asked. Kira very simply explained: "If something should penetrate this yellow surface, it is registered by the radar and the aim destroys the built-in laser unit. In addition, an alarm is, aroused this should penetrate the shield a little in case anyway." Furthermore everyone was astonished and stared on the yellow veil over them. "Moment I show it to you", she said, took a stone and threw it vertically in the height. When it contacted the veil, a wailing extremely loudly sounded and the lasers took hissing her work. The stone was pulverized within seconds and the small chunks fell on the ground. Cyron was delighted: "I okly think us insist by nothing more might unnoticedly minimize the guard duties and limit them to us on floor aim, from above." The situation had relaxed in their favor, many swept back into their tents, others went again to their campfires new pieces of firewood established fell asleep short time later, too.

Chapter 12

advance

A new day broke and it should get very important. Humidity impregnated fog hung over the store and everything dipped the radar ribbon, band in an easy yellow. Cyron stepped in front of the tent, stretched and yawned bravely. He looked around and noticed everyone like it its things sorted. He further looked around and stopped short. "Stella?",he called, after his female. This one stepped from the tent. "What is, then?" "Can you discover Tarja someplace?" She looked around, once again and more exactly to. "No", she said and shook the head. Cyron understood something. He went tent to Kiras and called after her. He did not receive any answer. He called once again and then beat the tarpaulin back. The tent was empty. There were neither a lynx nor a four pawing sabertooth tiger. What he wanted to know and looked for first did not know it to the tiger-taur Helios at all. Because this one was one certainly of the party. He went to Stella: "I will go into the crevice with Chiron." "You want what?" "Pants, we must go in and like it anyway there looks we will not be alone there." "How you mean this?" "Tarja and her three friends already are and make guaranteed yourself at the computers there." Stella immediately decided to come along. "What will experience the young lady. I can promise this to you", said her indignantly. Chiron was still a little sleepy and opened it in its tent as Stella. "Los hold the bottom up and throw the pillow from the face." "What is the matter, then? Why are you so in rage?" "Yours loves tigress. I will about which put knees and you belt the fanny in practice of my function as hers mother." Chiron giggled. There is to laugh there "What?" "I would like to see this, he further giggled. "However, if you have not noticed it yet, she is with the tiger-taur and the strange cat pair in the rock grottos again." Chiron winced and be giggle fell silent. "She has been shifted well." Stella nodded intensely.

When the four met, everything still slept. The fires were been burning down. Fog had spread out and the radar bond hung quietly over them. It was a pure idyll. Tarja whispered "ok, fast away from here before one notices it." They packed the necessary things up and crept from the camp. Arrived to the rock they dived into the split and had disappeared. About two hundred meters further they activated their weapons and looked suspiciously around. The knife drone which they had shot down here on the day before still lay there. You climbed about this and arrived at the way fork, turned right and reached the grotto without incidents with the computers. They took boxes and put themselves in front of the computer monitors. The lynx looked around for a short time and operated the first switch. "Well, then let us look what expects us still, it rejoiced." The computer started. "Ah yes, a system check. It is checking the stored data okly now. The main system is just loaded." The others sat down next to them and observed their activities. "Good. Am then ready." She worked fast and precisely so as if she had never done something else and would become computer in and know by heart. "Since. I have already found the first fundamental attitudes there", she was loudly pleased. "And one can do what with that?", Helios asked. "Ahem, very simple", for example she said it and the grotto was dipped in a bright light, all other operations and corridors were also lit. "We would already have light super, so that." "Switches on your radio transceivers. We will soon need these well", Pedro said. "Well, carry on, what goes still everything?", Tarja spurred the lynx on. "What we need real everything", her answered. "Can you conjure a map up for us on the monitor?" "But clear. Second." Another monitor came on, data were loaded and something unexpected then happened. On the wall a small green light suddenly glowed open and the uneven rocks disappeared besides that on the left. A gigantic cuboid appeared from diffuse light instead. It seemed to float in the air and its edges formed themselves. "This is fantastic", whispered Kira. "A hologram." The others looked at her crookedly. "The outer sharp outlines are here and, the outlines of this base", she tipped, on the keyboard around, "it shows every conceivable angle." It got up, went to the hologram and tapped it. It suddenly changed. Details appeared. One saw every operations, tunnels, every grotto, all force fields and one saw the computer core, a factory and different-colored periods which moved through the tunnels. "It is now as said by everybodies working to the preserves", said Kira into the chamber. We need reinforcements as of here."

"And this one already is there" Stella called brusquely. The four drove around frightened. Cyron, Chiron and Stella had reached the grotto in the meantime. "My love kitten. What have you imagined merely? Also and you others. You are well the insanity. What could have happened to you." "Mother paint now well. Do not always treat me like a whelp." Stella sighed. Tarja was right but it was finally her mother and could not from her fur. "Na, because of me. It was nevertheless very reckless from you." Kira interfered: "But looks what we have made by now." She indicated the holoprojektion. Cyron and Chiron approached more nearly and were astonished. Kira stepped there and began to explain: "These that is are the base operations, corridors", she said and tapped one. The projection twitched briefly and changed. She saw a camera picture of the Ganges which it had just tapped. "This gets better and better", it cheered. She guessed the picture once more and disappeared it again, one saw the entire plant instead again. "One sees the computer nucleus in the middle, we must to there because the safe also stands for this Mech with the coding for the jungle base and the building plans there." "Very good. All this is, very good sometimes anyway", Chiron whispered. "Not quite", Cyron said lostly in thought, "we must first get there", and turned round to Kira, "These are what for points which move in the operations?" "I do not know yet but we know this at once." She guessed one of the tunnels, in which two red points moved and a black one apparently on a side was. The image changed again and a camera picture image appeared. Chiron said, "shit", and bit himself on the lower lip. "I have suspected it", supplemented Cyron. In the picture one recognized two knife drones, which moved through the operations tunnels and did actually at the side a fight robot stand. "I prefer to try what out", Kira suddenly said. She guessed the picture, however, it did not let off and moved the finger slowly to the left. The camera followed her finger movement and turned. They therefore had finished, after Kira was ready unite 180° view and could get an idea of the sizes of the station. "The base seems to be gigantic. We will need hours to find out even days around everything if not", Stella said. "However, we do not have this one. We must purely, on it good hidings, fetch the data and disappear again there. No more single weapon in the base may work including the central computer, though, if we go." Everyone nodded. In the meantime, Kira had further amused herself at the hologram and suddenly gave a cry. The others turned round to her, looked into her direction and petrified really. "It damned", slipped Tarja out. Cyron nodded approvingly. "This is no weapon factory, independent and it completely work diligently." "These build what there?", Pedro asked, between this. "Moment", Kira said quietly. She guessed the picture with two fingers, captured it and spread the fingers. The camera zoomed in close. "Knife drones", she said bitterly, "and fight units are lying around in the corners." The picture suddenly flashed. One of the fight units had noticed that the camera moved and it destroys. "The Peepshow is ended", Pedro said dryly. All of you took deeply deep breath. What said was Helios the first one this one. "Of us two should come out and fetch reinforcements man. We go in there and get the data." Cyron's eyes flashed. This was the fighting spirit it had this one expected. He typed Chiron on the shoulder: "Comes we go." "Switch on your radio equipments", Stella afterwards cried. <"It already">, sounded from her equipment loudspeaker there. <"Happen already, my wealth.">

Twenty Chafren had not assembled in the grotto for ten minutes later. Straight off and one of the fox-taurs, as well the unicorn mare Sandra had notified themselves of all wolves voluntarily, three of the bulls had come along. Another sabertooth tiger and a vixen appeared at the end of the grotto. The round was opened with that.

Chapter 13

Access granted

"I stay at the computer and supervise the operations and activities of the opponent. In addition, I have the papers with the encodings here and can open the doors and deactivate force fields. Perhaps I get even access to the central computer and can disturb it." Excited murmuring. "Well", Tarja raised. "Kira stays with the computers, Stella and Pedro look after her and protect her. The rest of the troop comes along." "I wonder only why we have built seven groups if everything anyway runs wildly in a mess at the end", Stella gave her tomcat a push. "Ahem, very simple. Everything is ok as long as we find volunteers. On this arrives, still can engage groups one if." Stella stopped short briefly and understood. "I only want to hope that it never comes on the whole", he still completed fast. They set out, went to the rock faces pressedly and in a crouching attitude in the direction of the entrance which was blocked by an energy field. Tarja took her radio equipment to her hand and looked at the others. "We form two groups", she said quietly. "The first group consists of Cyron, Chiron, I, the bulls and Helios. The wolves, the sabertooth tiger, the vixen and Sandra, are the second group." The members divided up on the groups looked at themselves, nodded and secured it mutually. Tarja pressed the speaking button. <"Kira, we have arrived at the first energy field."> <"For a moment okly waits I check it. The operations behind this are empty and lead after sixty meters to the left, to those another energy field comes."> <"Good."> The energy field disappeared. Kira did good work. "Ok, people everybodies. We starts." The first ones silently crept in the operations. They had drawn and activated her weapons. The runs flew to and fro only in such a way and seemed to feel every square centimeter of the room. The unicorn went in the operations as the last and she put the hooves very carefully and quietly. The ground seemed to consist of a sound-deadening material and bounced at every step easily through. The first ones had reached the bend, stopped and looked around the corner. The operations were empty. Which was, Cyron raised the right hand, this meant respect quite in front. She waved to the front and the AnChafren squating behind it rose and further advanced in a bent posture. She stood in front of the next energy barrier. Cyron was quite behind now and Tarja had taken the top. She talked with Kira. <"We are at the second barrier. What does it look like behind this?"> <"The next operations are supervised by two knife drones and fork after two hundred meters. You should split up, destroy the drones and go separated further to avoid an ambush. This group should further follow the left operations, the other group of the right operations. The left operations tunnels lead to the computer core which raked to the weapon factory. The drones fly one in the back part of the area, short behind the crossing, in every operations corridors. In addition, I have managed to reduce the sensors performance of the fight units and knife drones. At the first time I had botched it and the central computer noticed the manipulation. But now I have, I believe, the trick found."> <"We will okly see it.">

Till now, it ran well. The energy field disappeared and the look at the behind lying area was clear. Tarja raised hers hand and looked into the operations. She saw nothing, however, the measuring knife listened whirring in an available proximity. Your hand made a forward movement. She cracked and ran in, all other followed her. She pressed yourself thick to the walls and held your breath. Nobody else moved. The knife drones were virtually clear to hear and her fatal aura noticeable. The operations ended at a T fork. The time of the separation had come. Tarja raised a hand and made a circling movement. The others immediately understood. Some changed flyingly the sides. Therefore the first group was on the left wall and should to the computer nucleus and the second for group on the right wall and the weapon factory on the way. The cards were mixed and were put on the table now. They still were together and everyone looked at Tarja. She raised hers hand once more. The first four AnChafren went in shot readiness. Tarja clenched hers fist, the four moved forward on hers height and squated besides each other in the operations. Tarja counted with the fingers. One, two, three. Two AnChafren rest, two to the right to the left in the operations. They opened fire one kneeling each, the other standing behind this. Laser beams hissed on and two explosions sounded. The drones lay destroyed on the ground. Tarja smiled. Top had run this. <"Ok, Kira. The drones are to. Group of one further moves forward to the computer core, group two to the weapon factory."> <"Super work">, praised Kira, <" and watch out well. Group two is standing now in front of an energy field. Longer operations are located in it. Rooms with weapons and papers are on the left and on the right. A fight unit stands at the end of the area and about this a knife floats. Sandra should take on the fight unit with the double machine cannons while two others are fetching the knife down."> <"We okly soften."> - Sandra looked sadly but was ready for battle - <"Group one moves further far along, the operation turns left and goes down the stairs except for level minus three, is there then a force field again."> <"We tackle it.">

Stella looked at Kira and sighed. "Everything does not look good this, or?" "Anyway but. Everything runs very well till now. I only must not lose the summary."

The first group on the way to the computer core so followed the operations, turned left and in front of the mentioned stairs. Tarja raised hers hand and everything got attentive. She lowered hers hand again. "What is the matter, then?", Chiron whispered. "I thought I would have listened what." She shook the head and waved briefly. The others followed her and they went down the stairs. All diverting levels were sealed by force fields. They came to the third level and stopped short. The energy field was switched off. <"Kira, here group one. Have you switched the force field off on level minus three?"> <"No. This should damned be active according to my hologram."> <"Na super. Thank you Kira, we are then warned. Us tried of one slipping up between this."> <"I have a try I can do what. How group two stretch, since it?"> <"Today, what, if you would finally deactivate the force field, it still could do become."> The wolf at the radio transceiver was Syrgon and obvious nervedly. <"I had damned done this anyway. Moment." - One suddenly heard a whirring and Kira's voice in the middle of the transmission which somersaulted. Laser and machine-gun fire then sounded, followed by two explosions. "Oh if a shit . Thanks Pedro, thank you! I am really very grateful that you have at least let the monitor for me which I urgently need at the moment. Is there - again. We just had a visit. Please excuse. I have group two mixed up the decodings. Group one, your force field deactivated by me been. Still wait for instructions for a moment"> <"We okly wait."> "You can further group two move forward."> The field was disappearing at the same moment and movement came in the fight unit and the knife. Both rest toward the group. Sandra immediately was on the place. Your weapons focussed on the fight unit, while the vixen and the sabertooth tiger were standing at the side of her. Everyone opened fire at the same time. The storey hits of the robot solved solid rock of the walls and the splinters flew around in front of their eyes. Ricochet shots bounced off off the walls and caused a shimmering noise. Sandra did not shilly-shally for a long time. She envisaged the robot and fired. The storeys of their cannons on the left and on the right at her neck past flew, hit the surface of the fight unit, brought it from the balance. Broader shots chopped the steel armour-plating through, penetrated into the electronic brain of the robot and tore the electromechanical entrails to pieces for it. Sinja and Grey swept in the meantime the drone from the way and she fell smoking on the wreck of the fight unit. No-one had taken damage. The second group went on in the operations and continued theirs march on the weapon factory. <"Group of one, here Kira. If you move the operations forward, you must immediately turn left, you then come to an elevator. The you get in and drive twenty floors to down with him into. Arrived there you must immediately shoot. A fight unit which guards the elevator stands directly behind the on-train door."> <"We okly move forward."> Tarja made a gesture forwards and they got into movement. They half crouchingly ran to the left and saw a wide open door. "It must be this", cried Chiron. One after the other climbed the cubicle. Cyron pressed the button, when the latter entered, on the -20 stood. The doors closed and it worked downward. The tiger-taur made himself ready and pushed to the front to the door. "I take this", he said. He looked, captivated exactly like the others on the floor display hanging over the door. He made himself ready and activated the weapons when a -18 appeared. He saw already now the red outlines of the robot on the tactical monitor. "Aim included", he said succinctly. The doors were not open yet, Helios had already opened fire there. When the doors had completely glided from each other, they had innumerable gun-shot wound holes and the robot lay giving off smoke in front of their paws. "I call this a successful interview", told one of the bulls. <"Kira, here group one. We are out of the elevator out and have defused the fight unit."> <"Honored. You are damned fast."> Kira's voice sounded pleased. <"Ok, group one. The second to the last hurdle is coming for you now. If you turn right at the end of the operations, you stand in front of a force field again. I will deactivate it if you are in front of that. The access to the computer core is behind it. A fight unit is in the room in front of that and four drones buzz by the room. I will deactivate gradually and activate the force field again. I have found out that there is a time window with the drones. You move by the room and pause for about five seconds at the respective ends. You should care about the robot first. I deactivate the force field on my command for five seconds, then I switch it on for ten seconds again, you are then protected from the knives. According to that we further see."> <"Okly is on the way."> <"Where you are group two?"> <"We have destroyed the unity and the knife and are in the operations now."> <"This okly is super. You almost have made it. Go down the aisle now. There is a high pressure safety door at the end. This is opened with hydraulics. The weapon factory is located in it. You go up to this door now and wait for further instructions. I try to stop the bands of the factory from here, if you have arrived."> <"Well, we go on and wait then."> The first group faced in the meantime a difficult problem. They had arrived in front of the force field and what knew on it now befitted. "We must synchronize perfectly. Perhaps a fault and we are lost", everyone Cyron said. Everyone nodded. The tiger-taur went on the bend in front of the force field and envisaged the position valued by it of the fight robot. <"Kira, here group one. We are in position."> <"Ok everybodies let it crash, in three, two, one."> "Fire", shouted Tarja. The tiger-taur looked around. The force field activated itself again. <"Kira, here group one. Let be it with the force field."> <"What is the matter with you, then?"> <"We have a serious problem here."> <"Okly get this first into the handle and then get in touch with me again."> "What is the matter, Helios? Why have you not shot?" "Nothing was", he justified himself. "Nothing was how, there?", Chiron asked. "No fight unit could be seen there." "Condemns if it is true only I would know what there", Cyron cursed. They looked at yourself. Tarja reached for hers radio transceiver. <"Kira, here group one."> <"Here Kira. What is the matter with you?"> <"We have a serious problem here."> <"Oh, this is completely something new one."> <"Leave the sayings and please listen. You said that fight unit and four knife drones shall be in the chamber lying in front of us, one. Helios wanted to fire, however, could not constitute any aims because nothing is there."> <"Group of one. Have I understood this correctly? There is nothing?"> <"Pants correctly.">

Group two had reached the high pressure door and waited patiently. They sat there and listened to the conversation gottenly between Tarja and Kira. "I would not like to be in the fur", said Grey. "What is not and to be more precise really correct there. This looks damned after a trap and this one stinks to the heavens like a heap of dogshit", Syrgon noticed. <"Kira, here group two. Can we perhaps do something?"> <"Group two, here Kira. Hold back. You can do nothing at all, only wait for"> <"Waiting? This is dung anyway."> <"You want what to do, then? Going approximately to the factory?"> <"Yes! This would be what sometimes anyway."> <"Rushes about! In front of knife drones foreseen by it, it teems that only for your information, in the factory only in such a way five fight units of rum also run there. If I open the sluice now, then it would amount to a murder."> The members of the second group looked at themselves and sighed. "We okly forget it and are left first", said Grey.

<"What your status is group one like?"> <"We still squat in front of the force field and do not know how to proceed."> It was silence. <"What, Kira, is the matter? Answer and do not let us hang here."> The answer came few seconds later. <"Group one pulls you back, of the force field. I have an assumption there."> <"Shall we what?"> <"I said you shall pull you back. Almost but around ten meters. I have an assumption and I want to know this one confirmed."> <"We okly pull each other back."> Tarja waved and pointed behind himself. The team members stepped down in the operations and released the force field. <"Suffices this, Kira?"> <"Yes, this already suffices. My assumption has okly been confirmed. The access door to the computer core definitely is guarded by a fight unit and four drones but these are equipped with a cloaking field."> <"Cloaking field?"> In team two the ones involved looked at themselves crookedly, stared at the radio transceiver and preferred not want to believe their ears.

"Yes, you have got on correctly. The weapon systems are wrapped by an energy field at approach under a certain automatic distance which turns the visible frequencies away. The object within the field seems invisible. However, it still is there, on the other hand, one can run and hurt himself or if it is a weapon killed by it be."> <"Shits once again. And now?"> <"I try what. Wait."> "We quite already are sitting in the dirt now", Chiron sighed. Five minutes passed. <"Here Kira. Group one. I can not influence the disguising field from here but I have found something else."> <"Harm but have heard."> <"Okly pays attention. I have seen in the camera pictures that an aeration system is over the operations corridors. An appropriate leaving shaft for fresh air is in the area lying in front of you. Something like that also must be at your present position. The shaft is located at the ceiling behind iron bars. One of you must climb to the shaft."> <"Ok and what then?"> <"If one is in the shaft, he must think radio silence to not manage the fight unit and also the drones on himself. He is aimed I provide these for him with his laser on the positions, I deactivate sporadically the force field simultaneously as planned first. By the diversion fire from the shaft the sensors of the disguising field are tangled up and deactivate themselves, will work at least incompletely, however, and the fight unit is visible perhaps."> <"Ahem alternatives?"> <"Yes. Letting simply go in and shoot himself down."> <"We okly exclude the alternative and turn to your crazy plan.">

Furthermore what happens followed the second group tensely.

"Who does want to go to the shaft?", Cyron asked. "I. I go voluntarily", said to Chiron. "No, you will not do this. If one goes, then I am", this Tarja rumbled. "Forget it and think", there was Chiron, "If you are killed, Apophis grows up without a right mother. One can do without me if necessary." However, only you also think this because for me you are indispensable "." Chiron shook the head: "It gives no-one other away." Tarja hugged him. "Look after you, kind." "No worry, my little girl. Nothing already happens to me." One of the bulls stood under the air register, a second sat up on his shoulders and the bars prized up. Chiron took hims radio equipment. <"Kira, what is with the bars on the other side?"> <"The distances between the braces are long enough pin together around your weapon and through your hand. However, put only your weapon a small piece far by the bars, please. If the drones notice you, otherwise they will try to amputate your hand."> Chiron twisted the face and laid out the ears. <"Thanks you for the tip."> <"Thank nothing."> "Luck wishes me ok everybodies." They looked at him and kept crossed for him. He crept to the shaft and did not move any unnecessary noises winding forward, always concernedly about it to cause. He had as a precaution turned his radio transceiver off. The other equipment was loud enough and he heard it about the short distance also so. <"Kira, here group one. Chiron is in the shaft and moves."> <"Ok. Chiron, I hope you can hear me somehow. The fight unit is under the shaft flap behind on the right. You should be able to see it if you look at an angle by the braces."> Chiron crept further in front of and actual. He was lucky. The robot stood there and waited. <"Please, the others go to the force field again."> <"Ok, Kira. We are again in position."> Chiron had remembered the position of the fight unit and was aimed blindly now since the cloaking field had activated itself due to the approach of the others again. He heard in the distance how Kira down counted and took his weapon. He opened fire and met at two. The beam of the laser beam weapon met the cloaking field and it came on brightly. The others had an aim now. The force field was switched off and fired Helios on the bright light. There was an enormous bang. The force field was activated again. The robot further had lost its cloaking field and fired Chiron. The explosion shook the operations and the air duct. The fight unit burst in one thousand pieces, metal parts rained on the ground which broke air duct and fell with Chiron to the ground. "No!", Tarja yelled. <"KIRA IMMEDIATELY SWITCH THE FORCE FIELD OFF. CHIRON HAS CRASHED WITH THE AIR DUCT AND AMOUNTS UNDER FIRE."> The force field was going out at the same moment. Helios fell in and the fire opened. He did not see any aims and fired blindly into the air but this did not miss its effect. Somehow he met a drone after the other one, disturbed the cloaking fields with that. Took on the rest the aim automatic system of his weapons and the hand lasers of the others and blew them up really into the air. Tarja ran to Chiron meant much on the ground to it, however, moved. Cyron joined and saw at her. "Puh. Luck had. Only a couple of abrasions and probably a slight concussion." Chiron tried to smile. "Where nothing is, nothing also can be shaken." Everyone relievedly sighed. <"Kira, here group one. We have made it.">

Group two which had listened to everything began to laugh and to knock each other on the shoulders. Sandra, the tears of joy ran for the unicorn female. <"Kira is here group two. You must wait no longer. If group of one is ready, it is your turn in the factory."> <"Okly understood."> They had not felt such a facilitation already for a long time any more.

<"Group one, watch out. The great hour is coming now. The computer core lies behind the door in front of you. It is not guarded further, however, is protected by a force field. I have the combinations for the deactivation here. So relax. You have the worst behind yourselves."> <"Okly then have heard."> <"You turn left first and one computer console each is on the right there with a simple number block."> Kira opened the door from her terminal. Hissing and hissing she opened. They entered and stiffened reverently. They entered this one the room a long round thing which certainly was fifteen floors high was like a gigantic cathedral and was in his center. They stood in front of the computer core. <"Kira, we are in it. What now?"> <"Goes to the consoles."> They looked around and found two pieces of this, on the left and one on the right the way. "We have."> <"I okly pass through at once the number combination to you for the force field deactivation. These numbers must be entered at the same time on the two consoles, otherwise this does not work."> Cyron and Chiron went to the number blocks. <"Tarja here. Kira, you can start with the numbers."> <"I start! 1 5 7 1 8 2 4 9 0 1 8 3 6 9 and press climbing button."> They did wished like Kira. The ground suddenly seemed to tremble and it got darker. The force field had disappeared. Chiron and Cyron nodded appreciating themselves. <"Kira, this was super. It has worked."> <"This pleases me. One of you must go on the platform now, which further is on the left and to the upper end of the core drive."> Tarja agreed to take over this task. She ran toward the platform and entered it. This moved up. Tarja could hardly feel fast enough. She wanted to find it out finally behind itself and more. Arrived above she stepped on the way in front of the platform. "Good Tarja. I see you over the monitors and give the further instructions over the central loudspeaker equipment. Kira's voice holds through the operations and rooms, seemed everywhere to be simultaneous."