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"Kayora we have need of you" A man in a pure white suit walked out of the shadows of the young woman’s room and stepped into the shaft of sunlight coming through the window, the sunlight illuminating the pleasant features of his face.
Kayora sat up in her bed and turned to face the man "Yes Calno?" she asked simply. she had never questioned anything Calno had told her but the woman in red that was sometimes with him she didn't trust as completely
"Kayora the bandits are once again setting up a camp in the forest" his tone was sad as though he genuinely wished they would stop threatening the peace of there village "the village elders hate to ask this of you. But would you once again rid of lands on these brigands so we can live in peace?"
"Of course Calno for you anything" she gave him a pleasant smile having been forbidden to hug him as would have normally done. Before exiting her room and gathering the presented weapons of a javelin, a short bow, and a light sword and shield. She strapped on the equipment and settling the bits of armor provided gave a jaunty salute and launched her self into the air.
"I don't know why you insist on carrying on this fantasy farce Michael" the woman in red said from where she was sitting at the table idly picking at one of the flowers in the vase
"I told you never to call me that here Aiath" he said turning on her "it's Calno and this fantasy world was the most readily accepted by her mind from all the different worlds we tried on her. so the fantasy world stays"
"You do know its a less accurate representation"
"Yes but we've been getting far superior results and that’s what’s important"
All personnel clear stations neural control being transferred to unit GINX-001 prep the Melee pack load assault riffle and ready the missile mount. Operational clearance a go... the GINX is launching
Kayora glided over the forest searching the ground for The bandit camp she had been told about it was up to her to flush them out and hopefully convince them to never return she fought because she had to for the defense of the village not because she enjoyed causing pain on others.
She was keeping her eyes on the ground letting her senses and instinct guide her search. There was no feeling like the air rushing across her skin as she flew through the open sky the warm sun shining on her. she suddenly paused as a couple of the trees below her flashed different colours for a moment before returning to normal
In a dimly lit room filled with computer screens several men started scrambling there fingers flying across keys entering line after line of diagnostic code
"Someone want to tell me what the hell that was?"
"We are checking now sir. But it would appear to be a minor software glitch"
"Software glitch? The system was supposed to be isolated"
"It is. We are trying to get a better idea of what happened"
"What about the subject?" he turned to face a window into the next room holographic vital signs displayed along the bottom edge. the window looked into a small room where a young woman lay on a table seemingly unconscious with numerous wires and cables coming from various parts of her body primarily one anchored to the base of her skull
"No change in vitals or connectivity other than the multi colour tree's there’s no sign anything’s wrong"
"You know that’s even more disturbing that a massive failure because we don't know what the hell is wrong" he looked back through the window at the girl lying ever peacefully on the table
Kayora stared at the trees for a moment longer before moving on dropping to the ground to search through the trees more closely. as she walked around on her search it slowly began clouding over until the sky had turned black and the wind had picked up
"Now what’s going on... its supposed to be clear and sunny?"
"Something’s gotten into the program. we can't seem to isolate it"
"Track it find out what its after we need enough warning if we are going to safely pull the plug" they have only had to do it a couple of times and then usually for hardware upgrades due to the subjects growing body but she had no memory of this because since she was hooked right into the main system they where in control of what she remembered and even insert memory's
as the weather continued to worsen it started raining and there was the odd thunder clap which actually scared her making her heart rate increase as she huddled under a tree to avoid the rain she hated the thunder and being wet and now she was out in both and she wasn't liking it with every thunderclap startling her
The vital sign monitors started beeping due to the increase in heart rate and other physical signs of stress and anxiety
"Can you stop it or not?"
"No sir. Whoever programmed it knew what they where doing. Its rewriting its self as it moves through the system"
"Pull the plug!"
"I'm trying to sir its no-- SHIT" a static discharge pulsed through the keyboard right before arcing between the consoles shorting out monitors casing sparks to fly everywhere further illuminating the room with the occasional bright flash as a monitor blew
Kayora screamed as a flash of lightning hit close to her flinching at the immediate thunder that went with it
"some one get in there yank it manually!" it wasn't the best option as there was the risk of damage to the subjects neural pathways but it was a damn sight better than having her brain cooked by an electrical overload
Someone ran into the room as the girl started visibly thrashing on the table matching her movements in the program
She screamed again as another strike hit near her again she took off running the lightning strangely seeming to following her as she ran
in the room the man was struggling to manually shut it down but couldn't get close enough with arcing electricity and sparks flying all over the place
Kayora jumped backwards and fell down screaming as lightning hid right in front of her she huddled in the fetal position for a moment before looking up to see a bolt of lighting coming right at her.
she sat up screaming as the wall of the room she was in exploded sending the man that was there flying into the opposite wall. She screamed again as six men ran into the room through the smoke and dust. two started clipping black cords while two more watched the hole they had come in and the remaining two fired there weapons into a window shattering the glass. she cold hear screams coming from the other side but couldn't see who it was
"Secondary cables cut sir!"
"Good pull the primary and lets get out of here"
There was a sharp sickening pain as someone pulled at something at the back of her head that almost caused her to black out but instead left her very dizzy and disoriented as she was picked up by one of the men who then ran out of the hole into a hallway.
There was more lashes and thunderous noise from the strange weapons as they ran through the hallways. The men where shouting things back and fourth but she couldn't make out what they where saying but by there urgency she could tell they where in a hurry.
the group burst through a set of doors and were outside where after some more bursts of the noise she was roughly thrown into a metal carriage followed by 4 of the men as the other 2 got into the front seats before taking off. She could hear the sounds something impacting the outside of the carriage as they sped off.
"We did it we got her!"
"Shut yer hole we haven't gotten away yet"
"Are you kidding with the way jimmy drives we are scott free" the carriage suddenly started spinning out of control as something impacted with it
"Shit!"
"Jimmy what’s happening!"
"Sniper must have shot out a rear tire! if we can make it across the bridge we will be ok though"
"Good the forest after that corner should give us enough cover to escape the sniper fire"
they continued on for another moment or two in tense silence Kayora was still lying groggily on the floor still not fully recovered from being unplugged so abruptly, not that she knew that’s what had happened, she just knew that she had been hit by lightning and woke up in a room full of wires and cables, had a wall blow up and was now in a metal carriage going who knows where and if she could just clear her head she would just fly out of here and figure out where she was
"there it is there’s the bridge we made it" the first man spoke up again almost cheering but it was premature... as soon as they started turning to cross the bridge another tire was blown out sending the van slamming into the railing and over the edge into the river below killing or seriously injuring the men when it hit the bottom of the very shallow river Kayora being more or less relaxed and lying on the floor remained largely unhurt due to dumb luck more than anything although she did break a arm not that she could tell from all the shock she was in.
The sudden shock of cold water on her face woke her up enough to see that the rear door had been knocked open and water was rapidly filling the inside sure to drown everyone. She forced herself up and out of the van only to be carried down the river by the current not being able to swim against it due to her weakened state only to wash up tired and exhausted on a riverbank somewhat farther down stream.
