Sebastian watched the maxtac AV land within a designated hanger given for the transport of the prisoner , Red lights blaring throughout as the AV came to a gentle stop on the cold hard surface of the hanger.
" Form up " Benjamin barked in an uncharacteristically commanding tone , Several of NEW HOPES ai controlled machines coming to form two lines infront of the AV Bay door . While maxtac had been gracious enough to enlist the assistance of the transport squad to guard the psycho during their stay at the BOO , Sebastian and Benjamin would rather be safe than sorry.
And so they mobilised a good portion of their own on base security to guard the pyscho. Afterall a single one of these machines was several times deadlier than anything maxtac had to offer . Afterall these were based on militechs Cerberus robots .
" Disembarking now ... Woah " The maxtac units paused as they saw the line up of twelve robots staring them down , Red lenses , their cold efficiency, the indifference, The knowledge that they would snuff out your life without a seconds hesitation, Stared maxtac in the face.
They were alittle unprepared for this situation , When they had been informed of a change of location , they had been briefed on the situation that some crackpot scientist had pulled some stunt and wanted to analyse the cyberpsycho. They had also been under the impression that they would be needed around the cyberpsycho around at all times , chalking it up to some small out of the way group with short unreliable security.
But now , high up over night city, With what could only be described as instant death for any resistance, the maxtac squad weren't entirely sure what they were here for . Rather than looking at them as some security force , It looked like they too were here to he studied as much as the captured psycho .
" Permission to stay in the AV captain " Dani whispered to his superior " I don't like the look of the one staring us down "
" Denied " Dani cringed at his commanders harsh tone .
" Alright no need to Bute my head off Jesus " Daniel turned back to see the restrained cyberpsycho being hauled off of the AV transport .
" Prepare to disembark " the commander announced to the AV pilot , aware that they would be staying for a long period .
" That ... " Dani flinched at the deep voice that spoke up from behind him , Turning his head slightly to see a black haired man with a sharp jawline , Glowing orange eyes and a rather dismissive stare on his face , To be looking down at him down the bridge of his nose " Won't be necessary "
[ AI signature detected ] The Red Key announced in the back of Sebastian's head , Drawing his attention to a rather interesting phenomenon , A constant signal travelling to and from the Maxtac AV . Having spent several of the last days interacting with AI alongside Sebastian , Whether it be interacting with the blackwall, Hunting decard or bantering with the Transidental AI under the pacific ocean , The red key had grown particularly adept at recognising and deciphering their presence when any other device shouldn't have been able to detect them .
' Find out everything you can about it ... and make contact ' Sebastian looked down at dani " The AV has been sanctioned to remain here , residence shall he provided for all personell of course"
" Ah forgive him " The larger of the two maxtac agents spoke up , Clearly the superior as he stepped infront of dani , Shielding him from Sebastian's gaze .
" I am captain Nathaniel price , Commander of this particular unit " He raised his hand to which sebastian raised his own and shook the offered hand .
" This here is our assault specialist dani ... got something loose but he's a good soul ' Nathaniel stood half infront of dani , Sending a warning glance to his junior whom Interpreted the subtle gesture.
" The lady over there , Caitlyn smith is our designated netrunner ... best we've had on our squad " Caitlyn turned her head to the group but quickly turned away , focussing on maintaining the unconscious stage of the cyberpsycho.
" And our last team member , buck ... our heavy " A larger man stood behind the transport module of the cyberpsycho , Pushing the restrained cyberpsycho's restraint chair across the ground .
" Greetings " Sebastian downloaded all available information he could get on them storing it for analysis later " I am Sebastian markus ... CEO and head of development in NEW HOPE ... you are henceforth under my charge and care during your stay "
" Please " Sebastian motioned behind the twelve Cerberus inspired robots , Towards the larger elevator door on the other side of the hanger , which lead to a specially designed lab he would be poking and proving the cyberpsycho in " Let us move on "
Immediately beginning ti walk away after his small introduction , Sebastian nodded for Benjamin to follow " This here is our site director , You will he communing with him during your stay here "
The maxtac units grew tense as they walked through the two lines of robots. Quickly noting that the robots weren't guaging the restrained psycho but themselves.
And as they reached the end of the formation , Four of the waiting robots broke formation and began to walk alongside the group , Specifically surrounding maxtac and the prisoner as they marched towards the elevator .
" Greetings , Just call me Benjamin, I'll be your liaison during your stay , If you have anything you want or need please be sure to let me know " Benjamin extended his hand , Shaking hands with Nathaniel just as they reached the elevator, The group stepping in along with the four robots .
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" Just in here " Sebastian stepped into a large surgery theatre , The centre of the room being bare for the cyberpsycho to be placed " Please place the cyberpsycho in the centre of the room , Afterwards Benjamin will escort you to where you will be residing during your stay "
" Very well " Buck walked forward , The four robots that had followed them the whole way walking forward to take formation in the four corners of the room , Buck approaching the centre of the room with the wheel chair with the unconscious cyberpsycho.
" Thank you " Buck stepped back , As sebastian moved across the room towards a workbench and series of machines that would be used for treating the cyberpsycho.
" Your services has been appreciated, Now please... Benjamin will guide you to your rooms " It was all but clear the dismissal Sebastian threw at them , Not even turning his back towards maxtac or Benjamin as he sat down and began to type away on his computer .
" Ser if I may for your security " Buck paused as Nathaniel shut him up .
" I assure you , I am perfectly safe , Now please ... I must work " Sebastian reached into his jacket to pull out the security case the Alpha program shard was held in .
" Alright ... if you need , you know how to contact us " Nathaniel stepped back , instructing his squad to follow , Benjamin hastily leaving with the team , The door sealing shut with a heavy thud behind them.
" Did you get in " Assistants hologram materialised at his side , The cyberpsycho sat at the centre of the room pretending to he unconscious, Waiting for the prime opportunity to attack .
" Of course , their ICE was negligible at best ... they didn't even notice my breach ... i did however .. find a back-door present , Created by one like myself " Assistant brought up a series of scripts , Showing a gaping hole on the maxtac units cyberware .
" I take it is present in all of them " Assistant nodded " I see ... this AI that they spend significant time around seems to be active in all maxtac units and their vehicles ... I am very interested in it. It would explain how they are able to mobilise so quickly , Most likely being aware a cyberpsycho outbreak is about to occur befire it is about to happen , That is ... impressive predictive ability , although I suspect it's something else this AI relies on to determine a cyberpsycho " Sebastian turned to Assistant, Staring the hologram in the eyes " Please begin extensive monitoring , I want them studied much the same way this cyberpsycho here is about to be ... also ... subtly install the Alpha program in them too ... I want to see the side effects "
" At once " Assistant cloned the Alpha program , The hologram dissapearing as it went to go re-enter the maxtac units systems.
" Now then ... mister cyberpsycho " Sebastian rose from his chair , Grabbing the shard now sitting in its open security case , Turning to the restraint chair with a scanning gaze.
" I know you're awake ... and " Sebastian approached the restraining chair , Leaning down to stare the cyberpsycho in its closed eyes " I know what you're planning "
" While I could simply slot the shard into you amd immediately activate the program , I wish to see your combat ability " Sebastian walked around the back of the chair , Pulling out the jack inserted into the cyberpsychos head to keep then restrained .
Immediately the psychos eyes snapped open , The man Tearing apart the restraints and Leaping from the chair , skidding across the ground , Mantis blades Erupting from his forearms .
" That's what I want to see " Sebastian slid the shard in his pocket , Taking a regular boxing stance across from the psycho .
" Remain stationary " Sebastian instructed the robots in the corners of the room , Beckoning the psycho forward with a flick of his fingers .
The psycho didn't say anything , Instead he blitzed to his left. sandevistan active whilst trying to gut Sebastian.
He ran around in a circle , going low as he approached Sebastian's right side .
' EEUAGH ' No coherent thought escaped the psycho , A brutal killing machine wanting nothing more than to neutralsie any perceived threat in his way , Stuck in his own mind behind the craze of his infected ware .
His mantis blade slung around as he stabbed for Sebastian's stomach , yet just as he was about to strike , Sebastian moved at a rate twice as fast as even he was with his sandevistan active .
Sebastian's hand caught the extended mantis blade with his open palm , Locking it in a vice grip as he dragged the psycho forward , His right leg extending before kicking into the psychos leg , Snapping the cap and breaking the psychos leg in the process before he simply tossed the psycho away like a rag doll .
The psycho skidded across the ground , Snapped left leg lagging behind as his mantis blades screeched across the ground, Sparks spewing from the sharpened tips that failed to penetrative the ground.
" High motor function appears to be running at sub capacity, It appears to be a state of instinct guided by infected cyberware , The fragmented personality appears to be sudued currently " His notes were being recorded for future study " a state of primal aggression "
This time he didn't take his previous stance, rather allowed his posture to exhibit no defence what so ever , Something the cyberpsycho picked up on instantly.
To make a show. Sebastian turned away , Amd the psycho, In its degraded mental state , Rushed forward , Hobbling along with his dandy activated once again , though due to his leg it's effects were severaly diminished.
Sebastian rounded, Pivoting on his leg and landing a devastating sweeping kick to the psychos stomach launching it back to where it impacted the wall with great force.
" If my hypothesis is correct , And scans shall verify. Research I have compiled over the last several weeks indicate cyberpsychosis may be triggered by something akin to what I call, Dehumanisation . Where the person affected by the ware they installs begins to take apart their humanity , in a sense ... They lose their ability to think and feel as a human would . Often either becoming excessively violent, Confused or fragmenting their personalities .. further tests are needed to verify this " The cyberpsycho slunk to the ground , About to get up before sebastian all but appeared before them , Kicking them squarly in the Jaw which made their head slam into the wall behind them .
Sebastian looked down , Seeing the cyberpsycho seem to give up the will to fight, Arms falling to the side as it took ragged breaths .
" Hm ... " Sebastian leant down , Grabbing the psycho by the head , Opening their eyes and staring directly into their pupils " I see ..."
"CEASE " A multitude of inhuman voices tore from Sebastian's mouth , The computers , cameras and even the robots arpund simply shut down at sebastians command , Falling to the ground with a loud clatter as the word struck the cyberpsychoat point blank range , Assaulting the cyberpsycho and their cyberware , Forcing them to freeze in place . Once more he had given a near divine command directly to the brain and cyberware , Resulting in the near complete shut down of the psycho.
" The combat test was ... sad to say the least, But " Sebastian reach into his pocket and pulled out the shard , Grabbing the psycho by the head , turning it and slotting the shard in place .
" Now we wait ... " Sebastian turned away , The Alpha shard immediately breaching the innert cyberpsycho whilst they were defenceless , Meanwhile he returned to his computer station , And waited for his computer to recover from his command.
Within the passing of several moments the robots around powered back on , Going back to their previous guard duty, The computer itself starting up as Sebastian began to go through the scans performed on the cyberpsycho and its brain during combat.
' The amygdala appears to be... going through a kind of stress response ' He watched the cyberpsychos brain activity, The amygala seemingly muting or diluting the other responses to external stimuli , Resulting in high aggressive activity ' Whether this is the brains natural response to cyberware or brought on by cyberware itself remains uncertain ... I am certain however this cyberware appears to have the usual ... virus imprinted on it , Whether this appears to be man made or an unknown factor also remains to be seen '
He turned back to the psycho just as he knew the Alpha program had began to take effect.
" Perform real time brain scan , Alpha program, Run initial test " Sebastian looked half at the cyberpsycho and the new brain data .
An external response was detected by the cyberpsycho's cyberware , But thanks to the nature of the Alpha programs coding. It was powerless to respond. A purge like process was going on within the cyberpsychos neural ware , Highjacking the neural processors , Pulling back activity from the strained amygdala and other parts of the brain that showed high rates of stress .
' Initilisation appears to be successful ' Sebastian noted the lack of movement from the psycho , yet was aware the way the psychos eyes seemed to follow his movements ' Neutralised aggression successful. The Alpha program has successfully muted the amygdala response.
' The Hypothalamus appears to be attempting to take over for the amygala , Maybe attempting to push for a flight response now that it's aggressive response has been all but eliminated. The Alpha program should be now taking control of the limbic system , Removing access from cyberware and giving basic control back to the user ... now let's see ' Sebastian watched the brain activity , Rising from his chair and crouching infront of the still slumped psycho .
" Can you hear me , Your cyberware has been deactivated ... blink once if you understand me " Sebastian stared down at the cyberpsycho , For all intents and purposes , completely cut off from cyberware and neural ware influence turned down to pretty much off , the Alpha program had removed the cyberware factor from cyberpsychosis. Pretty much a big off switch , This was just the initial phase however , the second would be to purge the cyberware of the virus found on second hand wares , which should be a simple task for the program to execute. However the human response remained ... something beyond the Alpha programs ability to control , That would be something later handled by the beta program.
Staring down , Sebastian smirked slightly , Seeing the cyberpsycho blink a single long ... slow blink, Yet his face froze slightly as the cyberpsycho began to spasm slightly before breaking out into hysterical laughter before beginning to talk to himself.
' He understands yes ... but it appears he has sustained severe neural damage... I will need to investigate. From what I've been able to determine , The effects have fragmented their personality quite severely , The beta program must have the ability to identify and re-engage said fragments , Putting them back together the way they should be '
" Now that you pose little to no threat , You will be staying in here for the meantime , I will have your fed and accomodations made , I assure you , My unfortunate friend " Sebastian pet the downed man on the head , Ignoring the whispering the man was doing " I shall have you whole and human once more shortly "
He turned away and sat back down on the computer , Bringing up a tab that showed the brain activity of the maxtac units in the building.
" Begin analysis , From what I can see each of these individuals has had similar responses ... yet they have overcome the damages done and returned to a somewhat most normal state ... however there appears to be lingering affects mostly in the amygdala ... " And so he began coding the beta program , But he couldn't finish the program without extensive data and analysis , And so it became a waiting game. With the threat of the cyberpsycho neutralised. Robots came in to take care of the man , Wheeling in a cot and monitoring equipment.
The same was happening to the maxtac units. Though they were completely unwarare they too wer being picked apart piece by piece , Scanned through the camera systems .
" I believe I shall be back in two days to review and finalise the beta program ... please hold on until then , I have my hopes for you " Sebastian departed without further delay , Abandoning NEW HOPE as he headed for his apartment, Wanting to go cheer up his seemingly depressed spouse.
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" Alright " Sebatsian made a show of wearing of aviators Cap and goggles that made Victoria giggle "safety Prep for ultra high speed transportation known as me "
" You need three to four installations before we depart ... one ... a vacuum seal for your orifices, These will seal you ears , Nostrils and mouth during high velocity movement. This leads to the second point, You will not be able to breath let alone speak during transport , As such you will be given both an internal oxygen supply and neural transmission cyberware for both breathing and communication respectively " Sebastian explained as he paced around the surgery, bringing out both examples of cyberware he would be installing Victoria with .
For a moment , Victoria's face contorted into a rather thoughtful look before she spoke up .
" Wait ... does this mean I'll be able to survive in space without any protection ... " Those words gave sebastian pause , ceasing his pacing momentarily .
" I ... apart from the sheer drop in temperature which would cause all the fluids in your body to evaporate , And the lack of gravitational forces pulling your atoms away from eachother as you're exposed to the vacuum slowly over time , If you got cyberware to counter these then ... I... don't see why not " Sebastian shrugged and turned back to the last piece of cyberware .
" And this here is reinforcement so the speed at which we travel doesn't simply tear you apart or cause you to spontaneously combust during travel ... sound good " He looked to his significant other who puckered her lips before shrugging.
" Sounds good to me ... it'll be nice to go to space though " Victoria settled back into the surgery chair .
" all in due time lovely all in due time " Sebastian wasted no time in beginning the surgery , Maintaining the utmost care for the woman he cared for .
' You'll smile again ... I'll make sure of it '
...ALDECALDO CAMP ...
" What is this " Saul entered the make shift surgery , The tent full of life saving equipment currently hooked up to what was for all intents and purposes and mutilated corpse.
The eyes sockets stared ahead , Unblinking , The charred face had flaps of skin simply dangling from the chin , The hair itself had been completely burnt off , Left a pitch black and angry red colour.
" The result of our latest fuck up " Mitch looked away , Refusing to meet Saul's eyes as he began to explain "
" We recieved a request from an officer that helps us out in night city some times , Needed to get a buddy of theirs pit if night city pronto , We put together a squad to get them out ... then " Mitch cringed as he continued to explain .
" We arrived to see our contact engaging a single hostile ... we thought to neutraksie the threat but ... I've never even heard of what that guy did back there , We chose to disengage and retreat what we came for ... We thought we had gotten away when ... " Mitch went quiet for several moments.
" The attacker ... turned out they were also a netrunner , damn cracked one. Ellie was chosen to transport the pick-up... but .. we found out they were a netrunenr when ... her car exploded with the two of them in it "
Mitch went silent as he saw the rage that overcame Saul's features , The veins on his forehead visibly bulging at the news " And where is Ellie "
" The explosion ... she didn't make it... and we didn't think he did either ... we pulled him from the wreckage but we couldn't get to Ellie... we thought he was dead too but ... the fuckers tough ... didn't have a pulse when we pulled him out then he started moving. Must have a second heart or something ..m thought from what we see , he doesn't " Mitch gestured to decarrs charred body , Seeing the head slightly turn in their direction " He's creepy as hell too but I bet I wouldn't be any better in that situation "
" But... when we realised he was alive we rushed him here. We thought if Ellie died then we might as well finish what we started , otherwise it would've been for nothing "
" I ... " Saul clicked his teeth together , taking in several deep breaths " Prepare him for surgery ... and prepare a funeral ... I need. . To go "
Saul stormed off , Punching the tents support beam as he moved deeper into the camp .
" You hear that you sorry bastard " Mitch looked at the burnt body " You got the seal of approval ... though at what cost "
Slumping slightly , Mitch looked down not too long before hutch walked in .
" Help me get him over to my equipment ... this is going to be ... invasive "
CHAPTER COMPLETE
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