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Authors: Joel Burdick
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Nefarious Zod's voice perfectly. Denise chuckled and shook her head.
“Let's stay focused.”
“Yes, yes. Don't want your evil ex to bring out his death ray and kill us all.” Denise and Spark started forward again. Spark laughed, then abruptly stopped. “He doesn't have a death ray, does he?”
“He thinks death rays are too stereotypical for mad scientist, evil genius, world dominating supervillains like him. He prefers piranha guns.” Denise laughed and continued forward while Spark stopped and watched her, processing the comment. Spark flashed forward to hover beside Denise again.
“I can't tell if you're serious or not,” she said, more than a hint of worry in her tone. Denise smiled behind the visor of her helmet. Spark was fun to play tricks on.
The hallway they were in now was just as large as the previous one, maybe five yards tall and wide, but there were doors spaced along the walls every so often. The hall stretched for maybe three hundred yards before opening into a wide room. The center of the room was dominated by a raised circular platform, consoles and desks surrounding the platform. More hallways, each about three yards tall and two wide, branched off at each of the cardinal directions from the room. Anansi walked into the one on the left and through a door with a radiation hazard sign on it. Denise stopped at the door, looking in.
The room was filled with a mechanical device of some sort. Whatever it was, it was big, extending a good distance both above and below the floor they stood on. Anansi had pulled a second cable from his implant and plugged it into a port on the terminal at the base of the machine. The screen lit up and started streaming information in code faster than Denise could read it even if she knew how. She watched over his shoulder as he worked, waiting for something to happen.
Something did, indeed, happen.
Lights along the machine lit up in sequence, starting from the bottom and continuing to the top. Then the lights came on, illuminating the base with pale fluorescent bulbs. Screens in the main chamber began lighting up, diagnostics programs beginning start up procedures. The platform in the center of the room began to hum, a deep vibration that set Denise's teeth chattering.
Finally, a blue-green ball of light formed beside Anansi, resolving into the form of Kay. The AI stretched and looked around, appraising the situation. Spark and Stone stared at the hologram's sudden appearance with awe from their positions outside the reactor room.
Then the door slammed shut, sealing the other two agents outside behind a metal door. Anansi turned around and adjusted his glasses. “Kay, I think we need to talk with Agent Uso alone.” Denise felt her heart stop.
-~-~-
[Command Protocol: Initiate]
Anansi felt the base start coming to life through his link, machines waking up for the first time in years. Several spider drones activated first, moving from their containment area at the base of the reactor to return the fusion cores back into the reactor to give the base power again. The lights began cascading up the reactor until it came fully to life. Then the terminals in the teleporter room, and the teleporter room itself. Everything running just as smoothly as the day he had shut the base down, for the most part. All the data was gone from everything, and the teleporter would require some work to get operational. No big deal.
[Long time, no see, darling.]
Information flooded Anansi's neural link and glasses, emotion, locational data of research pods from Sanctuary, and the sense of rightness as his
“Let's stay focused.”
“Yes, yes. Don't want your evil ex to bring out his death ray and kill us all.” Denise and Spark started forward again. Spark laughed, then abruptly stopped. “He doesn't have a death ray, does he?”
“He thinks death rays are too stereotypical for mad scientist, evil genius, world dominating supervillains like him. He prefers piranha guns.” Denise laughed and continued forward while Spark stopped and watched her, processing the comment. Spark flashed forward to hover beside Denise again.
“I can't tell if you're serious or not,” she said, more than a hint of worry in her tone. Denise smiled behind the visor of her helmet. Spark was fun to play tricks on.
The hallway they were in now was just as large as the previous one, maybe five yards tall and wide, but there were doors spaced along the walls every so often. The hall stretched for maybe three hundred yards before opening into a wide room. The center of the room was dominated by a raised circular platform, consoles and desks surrounding the platform. More hallways, each about three yards tall and two wide, branched off at each of the cardinal directions from the room. Anansi walked into the one on the left and through a door with a radiation hazard sign on it. Denise stopped at the door, looking in.
The room was filled with a mechanical device of some sort. Whatever it was, it was big, extending a good distance both above and below the floor they stood on. Anansi had pulled a second cable from his implant and plugged it into a port on the terminal at the base of the machine. The screen lit up and started streaming information in code faster than Denise could read it even if she knew how. She watched over his shoulder as he worked, waiting for something to happen.
Something did, indeed, happen.
Lights along the machine lit up in sequence, starting from the bottom and continuing to the top. Then the lights came on, illuminating the base with pale fluorescent bulbs. Screens in the main chamber began lighting up, diagnostics programs beginning start up procedures. The platform in the center of the room began to hum, a deep vibration that set Denise's teeth chattering.
Finally, a blue-green ball of light formed beside Anansi, resolving into the form of Kay. The AI stretched and looked around, appraising the situation. Spark and Stone stared at the hologram's sudden appearance with awe from their positions outside the reactor room.
Then the door slammed shut, sealing the other two agents outside behind a metal door. Anansi turned around and adjusted his glasses. “Kay, I think we need to talk with Agent Uso alone.” Denise felt her heart stop.
-~-~-
[Command Protocol: Initiate]
Anansi felt the base start coming to life through his link, machines waking up for the first time in years. Several spider drones activated first, moving from their containment area at the base of the reactor to return the fusion cores back into the reactor to give the base power again. The lights began cascading up the reactor until it came fully to life. Then the terminals in the teleporter room, and the teleporter room itself. Everything running just as smoothly as the day he had shut the base down, for the most part. All the data was gone from everything, and the teleporter would require some work to get operational. No big deal.
[Long time, no see, darling.]
Information flooded Anansi's neural link and glasses, emotion, locational data of research pods from Sanctuary, and the sense of rightness as his
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