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On The Brink of Extinction: Part 1; Quest- Keeping the Secret
Topic Started: Mar 30 2014, 02:09 PM (48 Views)
Ioner Nevitz
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*Rein, New Vegeta*

It had only been a few days since the destruction of Earth and yet cogs continued to turn, people continued to live, and life for the most part continued to go on without much of a hitch. For Ioner and Liza, though, life was getting much more interesting as of late. Upon their arrival on New Vegeta, Ioner had received a bit of information, tipping him off to the location of a scientist trying to salvage technology and information from the debris of the Alpha Collective. It had puzzled him at first as to why anyone would want to go through the hassle of looking through melted down slag and damaged way too far beyond repair computer components, but nothing was as it seemed. Ioner learned, via a great deal of research, and questionable hacking that the doctor in charge of the operation was mainly searching for tech and research from Sector 09.

"Alright, hold up...what exactly is so important about that sector? I heard it was a slum."

"Yes, it was a slum, but it also was the place of dwelling for most of the Tuffle people in the Southern galaxy. If any tech or research files made it through the explosion, things could get bad."

"How bad?"

Ioner and Liza stood on top of a building looking over the supposed lab of Dr. Antiago. Ioner, who had taken quite a bit of interest in shutting this operation down, turned to look at Liza who had no clue what sort of things could be waiting inside the lab. Sector 09 had not been smiles and sunshine for the Tuffle people. It had been a place that the Arcosians had used to milk the Tuffle people of their greatest assets. Their technological prowess and their high intelligence. If a Tuffle declined they were either exiled or worse. Most of the time it was worse. The Arcsoian people had enjoyed the suffering of his people quite a deal, in fact they liked to remind them all the time of what they had lost, and what they would lose if they failed to comply with their edicts.

"Lets just say putting Tuffle military equipment research into the hands of the Saiyan people...a people well known for their love of battle and war like culture... would be detrimental to galactic security."

"I can see your point. But, how do we know that is what they are doing here?"

"You've never dealt with Saiyans before. I've had a few run-ins with them...not all of them are bad, but almost all of them have an undeniable thirst for combat. If even one file on a weapon is here, these Saiyans are searching for it."

"Alright. So how do we get inside?"

Ioner looked over at Liza with a grin on his face and then held out his hand.

"That is the easy part."

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*A Few Minutes Later*

It was odd to him how such an advanced lab could be maintained in Rein, a place where the law was flimsy, and where it would be extremely difficult to obtain the proper protection for such research. It was because of the difficulty to establish effective security that Ioner and Liza had managed to sneak in. Ioner had hacked the main security network and had simply given them authorization, furthermore creating a minor feedback loop for the security cameras would also further aid in their infiltration of the area. Once inside though, things seemed to be a bit easier than hacking a security network or creating a looping feedback. In fact, some would say that the security here was abysmal. Something that made Ioner wonder just what was going on here.

"Too easy..."

Ioner murmured to himself as they came across the main laboratory. The laboratory filled with debris and wreckage was clearly vacant. Something felt off though and Ioner remained cautious.

"What is too easy?"

"All of this shouldn't be this easy. I mean, hacking the security system was difficult, but I did that. Creating the loop was also a breeze, but I didn't expect it to get any easier once we got inside..."

"Yeah, you're right about that. Where is all the security personnel?"

"And the scientists? It is like everyone just dropped what they were doing and left."

Ioner began to make his way into the main lab, peering at the wreckage of an Arcosian cruiser, and random debris that may have once been something of value. As he made his way through the lab he came across a computer terminal, badly damaged, but still functional to some degree. Ioner wondered as to who its original owner could have been. Perhaps a bio-technological analyst or a mechanical enhancement engineer? He walked over cautiously, looking at the machine that held more than likely useless data to someone looking for Tuffle secrets, and then began to work his magic on the machine, hoping to hack in and dispose of the files before anyone could find anything of import. Oddly, no files were present, and even more so he got this distinct feeling that he was being watched. He looked behind himself, trying to find the source of the feeling, and found nothing. He couldn't be too relaxed in this situation, after all he had just got into what he would consider a high priority laboratory with access to files that could tip the scales of warfare forever in the favor of the Saiyan armada.

That is when he heard the scream.

"Liza?"

Ioner said, turning off the terminal, and then smashing it with his fist before making his way over toward the direction of the scream. He went through a door on the far right of the lab and found himself in what he would consider a break room. On the floor was Liza, staring over at the other side of the room.

"What is it?"

She didn't say anything instead she pointed over toward what looked like a man laying over a table. The man however wasn't just laying down for his health. A weird looking knife protruded from his spinal column, but he wasn't the only one who had been killed. In this room several scientists and security officers lay scattered about bloody and broken. Ioner's eyes went wide as he realized he hadn't been the first visitor to come to the lab today. In fact, someone had broken in earlier, and massacred the whole team while disposing of anything that looked like it could be used to educate the Saiyan people on how to improve their weaponry or medical systems. But, who?

That is a question that was about to be answered....


To Be Continued.....


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