Careful Not To Break Reality

In Mindo's defense, the chance of someone building a whole manufacturing compound/laboratory in the outskirts of the settled regions of the Galaxy is exceedingly low and the amount of effort and resources required is really something out of the ordinary. However, he wasn't really expecting this sort of resistance and even fighting at all.

'War Droids, take them down.' It seems like there is no better time to try these bad boys out, with zero civilians, zero facilities and all the time in the universe, Mindo can really let the droids loose and see what they can actually do. However, despite his curiosities, he will need some help, which is why he activated a distress beacon for the other GBI forces nearby at the same time. The tiny beacon disguised as one of the buttons on his jacket flashed a few times, then stopped. This means that his signals has been received, and help should be on the way.

But before they get here, Mindo will have to sort himself and the two teammates out.

'Are you two okay?' Mindo asked over the communications channel.

'Yes Sir, just patching her up, what should we do?' The uninjured agent answered as he finished the quick treatment on his colleague as well as reconfiguring her shields which was set up wrongly, causing it not to activate in times of dire need. Classic rookie mistake there.

'We will use the War Droids as distraction, and get out of here.' Mindo answered as he looked over to see those monsters starting to turn on and immediately starting to identify all the hostiles firing at their direction.

The black painted droids quickly turned inside out and have both shields and physical armor plates ready before pulling out multiple guns and started pointing at the forces from Absolute Being.

'Stop firing, or risk consequences!' The automatic message is played out loud and clear.

Somehow, it worked, and all of them stopped firing and quite a few closest to them even put their guns away, albeit very hesitantly.

'Ha! Those dumb machines work exactly as I thought!' Lady Lily laughed out loud as her orders to stopped all hostilities right as the war droids are activated. She put her the pen of rearrangement back in her pocket and stood up from her chair. Immediately after the war droids are revealed to be completely different from the riot control droids, Lady Lily has activated her artifact and begin studying carefully how the war droids really work deep down, and despite it's name, it is not allowed to fire at anyone who is not engaging the act of violence. There is a block within the coding of the War Droid's operating system preventing any further action, and that's exactly what she used.

'No guns, just the scientific instruments.' Lady Lily ordered, and the one soldier equipped with the mini-mass projector stepped forward, and pointed the screen projector like device at the War Droids. A sphere formed in mid air in multiple locations between the War Droids in formation and started s.u.c.k.i.n.g up the surrounding droids and ground materials instantaneously. The droids immediately recognized this as a hostile response, but by the time they opened fire, they have already been bunched up and made into three giant metal meatballs. Then they were slammed into the ground.

'What is going on? Why isn't the droids doing anything?' Mindo frantically pressed the buttons and looks in despair as the useless droids got taken out. He opened the operating sequences, only to find a limiter placed on the War Droids by the bureu itself, and no attacking non-hostile enemies is one of the fundamental rules. Since there is no gun pointing, there will be no response.

'War droids my a.s.s.' Mindo spitted into the dirt. and he felt a cold hard tube pinned against the back of his head, 'shit, my wife is gonna kill me for this...'

All three human GBI agents were quickly rounded up by the forces of Absolute Being, who stood in a circle and surrounded them awaiting for the orders.

'Lady Lily, what should our next step be?' The one handling the miniature version of the mass projector made it extra sure that all the components of the project is fine, or at least inactive before reporting directly to her, 'The projector works fine, but the induction coil and amplifiers are on the verge of burning now. The energy level going through the system is fairly high.'

'Noted and relay those feedback to the workshop, as for our visitors, just get rid of them.' Lady Lily replied coldly. And the one in charge turned to look at MIndo and seemed to have disagreed with Lady Lily's choice.

'With all due respect, ma'am, I don't think performing such a deed is the best idea forward.' He said, 'killing others is not going to make us a more superior individual, Absolute Beings only fight to better ourselves and defend our goals.'

'Don't go all preachy on me.' Lady Lily yelled, 'who the hell are you?'

'I am Dan, and a recent academy graduate chosen to handle to very first pseudo-artifact.' Dan responded firmly, then he ordered the rest of the soldiers to stand down.

'Right, Dan. It seems like you have chosen the more annoying side here.' Lady Lily lets out a sigh, then overwrote his communications module and directly spoke with everyone else, 'This is Lady Lily. Dispose of the agent as well as Dan.'

The rest didn't hesitate as much as Dan did, and raised their weapons.

'Sir, I guess...it was an honour..'

'No kid, not yet.' Mindo stopped the rookie from saying the word, 'But at least your families will get a good sum of money now...'

The fingers are now on the trigger.

'You might want to rethink that decision, gentlemen.' Someone spoke out from the side, and all the soldiers turned around, only to see Dolon dressed in full combat gear and standing casually on top of the rock that Mindo was hiding behind, 'I would let them go, if I were you. You don't want to fight me.'

Going back a few minutes, Dolon was hiding behind the very same rock that she would be standing on moments later, and Ol's voice came through the head phones.

'I guess there is no stopping you now?' Ol asked playfully with a smile on his face, 'seeing you disappeared the moment they were rounded up.'

'Rydel was right, we need to stop sitting back and not do anything now.' Dolon replied calmly, 'by the look of it, it seems like their boss wanted to capture them all and take them in as prisoners, probably for some questioning or something....wait no, seems like they will be executed.'

'In that case, I suppose there is no stopping you right now.' Seeing lives are at stake, Ol knew that there is nothing more he could do, 'just be careful.'

'Aren't I always?' Dolon shivers with intense excitement as the prospect of some heavy duty combat fills her heart with joy.

'I don't need the scroll to know that you want this to actually happen?' Ol teased her one last time before she sets off, 'who doesn't want a good fight?'

'It's going to be a rather boring one!' Dolon said it out loud, both towards Ol and the forces of Absolute Being.

The soldiers nearest to her looked at each other and laughed, then they wasted no time opening fire at her. In an instant, Dolon activated her shields and drew her blades with one smooth motion and sprints towards the nearest two solders with a sudden burst of speed. The energy and force shields easily negates the bullets, and with a simple switch, the four of her Aquarian leaf blades were switched onto the shield negation mode with electricity running through it's body and two blades made contact with the personal shields of the two soldiers while the other two sliced through their physical armor and leaves a moderately deep wound on their back.

Dolon is not a killer and doesn't want to be one either, so the injury is just enough to make any further movements extremely painful without leaving anything permanent. However, aggravated assault in the name of self defense seemed perfectly fine, given how the only eye witnesses near by is a few seconds away from having their heads blown off. Seeing the shields of their comrades go down made some of the forces of Absolute Being hesitate to open fire and instead put the guns back onto their back and drew out their own military blades also.

'Deal with her now, Dan later!' They have reached an agreement and started circling Dolon and closing in on her slowly. They are well trained all right, and some of them are even at the level of late proficiency to early mastery. With a switft kick of both her lower limbs and knocking the two soldiers back while supporting her body weight by pinning the blades onto the ground, Dolon immediately closes into the whole group without giving them any time to react.

The very first soldier parried the first slice, but the second stab followed suit instantly, shorting out the shields while the third sneaked in between the gaps of his armor and created two few millimeter deep cuts along the obliques and then down the quadriceps. He collapse involuntarily as the muscles failed to contracted and dropped to the ground.

The soldiers were no pushovers however and they flooded Dolon by charging in together and one of the soldiers tackled Dolon from behind, or she thought she did. With the footworks from the roots of the acquiescence of the seaweed, Dolon used the forward momentum of the attacker and rode it, avoiding close range attacks from two stabs at both her torso and her back while dropping the soldiers on top of one another. With another dazzling display of slices, a couple more went down m.o.a.ning and reaching for injury treatments in their boxes.

After taking down ten soldiers in almost no time, nobody has landed a single hit on Dolon.

'Step back! Open fire!' One of the guys shouted loudly as those that can move tried their best to get out of the way and the rest pulled out their fun and prepared to rain all hell on Dolon.

'No! Stop!' The one soldier named Dan yelled, and he pointed the projector at the crowd of soldiers while adjusting for the strength of the singularity to be as small as possible, while being able to create a gravity field to pull them in. The energy input selection was changed and so had the amplifier and resonance settings... Dan ran the calculations in his head at lightning speed before firing away, and a tiny black sphere the size of a sand grain was projected right in the middle of the soldiers formation.

Nothing happens for a while, then all of the soldiers are pulled into the center and piled up in one neat stack, though quite a lot less gruesome than what had happened to the riot control droids. No one was really badly hurt, but there is a lot of m.o.a.ning and complaining and people kicking each other around.

'Cheers mate.' Dolon threw all the blades back into the scabbard and pointed the Lightning Rod at the human sandwich, and gave them a quick zap, putting all of them to sleep.

'You could do that all this time?' Dan dropped the now burnt up pseudo-artifact device to the side of him, 'why didn't you pull this...'

His questioning was cut short quite literally with a blade at his throat. He didn't even see Dolon move.

'What was that?' Dolon asked in a typical emotionless Aquarian tone, yet Dan can feel the fire burning underneath the surface. It may not be rage, but certainly annoyance.

'Nothing...sorry.' Dan answered carefully, and the blade disappeared.

'Good.' Dolon wipes her hands on her armor and half turned around, then looked back and asked, 'It seems like you will no longer be welcome in this organization? So wanna come with me?'

'Yes! This is the perfect chance to get some valuable intelligence on them!' Mindo shouted and Dolon, but was confronted with a blank stare and he swallowed whatever he was going to say next. This tall Aquarian female just single-handedly took down a small platoon of soldiers in a matter of seconds, albeit with the help of an almost mystical technology, or two.

'Yeah... One bad choice just leads to another, I guess.' Dan gave up and started to take off the so-called pseudo-artifact, but was met once again with the blade against his throat.

'Keep that thing on, we also have some questions about it.' Dolon warned, and Dan nodded nervously in response.

'We have questions too!' Mindo said right after , but nobody even acknowledged him. Dolon waved at the two rookies to usher them up and started walking ahead. 'Where are you going?'

'To our ship, out of enemy sight and safe. Wanna join?'

Going back a few minutes before the confrontation between the GBI forces and Absolute Being went completely off the rails crazy, Rydel and Cellica are both making very steady progress towards where Zel is, or at least where they think Zel is. For some reason, Zel's artifact seemed to have stopped working, so Cellica couldn't track down the exact location of where he is using the spatial energy readings he very helpfully provided in the email. By reading through the layout, however, there are a few locations that are quite interesting and are worth a visit.

The key rooms are probably guest rooms and some sort of detention center, which they have located in to be in two separate regions of the whole base. Also if someone is to squint at the map, it looks a bit like that of a ship's layout.

'Right, let's go through this route.' Rydel has been working on the map and trying to plot out a route which allows for maximum coverage of the key areas and more while Cellica made sure nobody's around. And that is strangely the case here. There didn't even seem to be a need for their clothes mimicking the uniforms worn by the crew of the organization here as they barely ran into any of them. They have moved past the manufacturing area and are now moving past the labs

Currently, Cellica is able to see through the doors as well as through one or two corridors before things gets too complicated and hard to make out, but right as she turned the corner and looked around, she sees through the doors into a lab and two people moving a container with a third person in it. They have already unloaded the container onto a trolley and started heading back out when she saw the missing right arm on the person in teh container.

SHIT THAT'S HIM. Cellica whispered sharply and pulled Rydel back a few steps behind the corner, HIS RIGHT ARM IS MISSING RIGHT?

Maybe, he chooses a color for each different day. Rydel replied while trying to peak around the corner, but Cellica pressed his head down and kept him hidden while pulling out the pistol and setting it to the classic stun option. When the two pushing the trolley had completely exited the room and turned the other way, she stepped out and took them both out with two clean shots. As their bodies dropped to the floor, the pair then approached and looked over and into the container, to see Zel looking right back at them.

'I thought the show will go on for me, but you really came, ha...' Zel smiled as he sees Rydel and greets him, 'It's good to see you man.'

'All good?' Rydel asked, 'let's get out now and talk later.'

'Good idea.' Zel nodded the best as he can as Cellica reached into her communications and alerted Ol on the communications channel, 'the cargo is secured. We are extracting. Now, can you walk?'

'Don't worry, he is tough.' Rydel said as he pulled out his mace and knocked the handle against the corner of the container and shattering it. Then Cellica cut Zel out of the restraint as he nodded at her in gratitude. The whole job was done in a matter of minutes, and they hurriedly stuffed both of the unconscious crew member into a storage room near by and pushing the container back into the lab so it looked like nothing had happened in this corridor.

Now, it's time to run away. Or so they thought.

'Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen.' Someone spoke out at the end of the corridor then the sound of footsteps started to approach the trio. They turned around to find an Aquarian male walking steadily towards them, dressed in complete golden amour with the hilts of six blades pointing out the back, 'do you happen to see a guy and a girl sneaking into the base?'

'No, you can check the storage room for that.' Rydel pointed right at the room as the trio tried to sneakily get away, 'we need to leave now, sorry we couldn't be of help.'

'Do excuse me. The base is packing up and leaving anyway, so where may you all be going?' He asked coldly, knowing full well what's about to happen. Two of his hands reached behind his back and pulled out the blades, holding it by his side, 'I will do what Lady Lily wishes, and be prepared to die.'

Rydel swallowed dryly and whispers to Cellica quietly, 'step back, I have a plan.'

'Be careful, he seemed strong.' Cellica and Zel stepped back a few meters, but didn't act like they are running away so the Aquarian won't be alarmed as much.

'No kidding, I might have seen him before.' Rydel pulled out both of his brand new maces and asked directly at him, 'do you happen to play games? The War Game?'

'Ooooh, are you a fan?' The Aquarian sounded surprised at this comment, 'Yes, I am Golden Raider in the game. So you know how strong I am?'

'What's your name in real life?'

'For you, just call me G.'

'Well...G,' Rydel got into a ready stance and activated the compliance mechanism in his macing and started the coiling process so that he can catch Gold by surprise, 'all I remember about your performance is how Lightning Rod took you down in one move.'

Gold didn't say a thing. He remained still like an iceberg, and reached for the other four blades from his back.

'Um...Is pissing him off his plan?' Zel asked Cellica, who shrugged in response. She has her gun ready at all times and she is confident enough in her shot that she will at least be able to severely damage Gold if Rydel is in mortal danger. She has no idea who Golden Raider is, however, so she can only guess that he is fairly good at melee combat if he is going around carrying six blades.

What the hell is Rydel thinking?

Right now, he is not thinking at all. Got to keep the distances up.