• Summons pg. 3


    Resuming their course to Spatial Tunneling, CJ kept looking over the image of the knight in distress, looking in the background he spots at least a dozen unknown life forms which must've pursued the fleeting knight but noticed that they aren't moving any closer. Looking at Carmine who seems preoccupied, CJ rocks the PAD a little to get her attention which worked somewhat.

    With an annoyed look on her face and nail polish all over her paws Carmine looks at CJ raising her arms, "Can I help you with something? I'm sorry if I was busy with my nails since we're not "actually" busy working on stuff at the moment." she said while trying to use a towel to wipe off the nail polish.

    "I need you to work this time, we're trying to get the facility up and running again and I also need you to contact AVI for me and ask him about the status of the defenses in the outer walls." CJ calmly says as he keeps his cool before putting the PAD down on the dashboard.

    "Fine, I'll see what AVI got to say, so next time you try to get someone's attention. Just swipe left." Carmine says as she opens a linkup.

    Looking back at the image taken by the gate's security camera, CJ scans the creatures.

    "Hmm these creatures are mainly local fauna frequently found outside the wall." he stated but looked at a few folder pages back and noticed something different about their appearance.
    Taking a closer look and comparing both images of the ones taken by the gate's camera and the images in the folder, Carmine looks at CJ and trying to get CJ's attention but since anytime he's focused on something, it's hard to break his concentration.

    Bumping up the volume on the PAD's speaker Carmine opens up an audio file and plays it. A flock of birds flies away as a couple logistics robots turn to where the loud noise was coming from before returning to their duties.

    After an inaudible scream loud as a revved up motor engine and a shocked look on his face CJ catches his breath grasping his chest, later on glaring at the mischievous virtual vixen.

    "Sorry to break your investigation habit and stuff, but I just finished talking to Avi and he says we could but right after we're done with Spatial Tunneling because he's picking up bizarre readings there and the siphons have become highly active." Carmine says covering a smirk on her face after seeing CJ's reaction.

    "That's good to know." was all CJ could say as he gets back into the driver's seat taking over the wheel.

    "Oh and another thing, Avi said he'll get a few units to take care of whatever is going on at the gate." Carmine stopped which CJ looks at her.

    "Is there something else?" CJ commented while driving

    "Yeah, he said that perimeter lookout have found a few corpses within the facility, they're not employees though." Carmine added before pulling up images of the corpses found by perimeter units.

    "Let me guess, they've got medieval armor on same as our guest outside the gate correct?" CJ said as he pulls up an image he took of the corpse he found.

    Confused and baffled, Carmine wonders what happened after the entire facility went tonic.

    "I've also noticed something odd about the local fauna outside the wall when I pulled up a list of the animals observed outside." CJ mentioned after passing the image to Carmine which she also takes a look.

    "What's with their eyes?" she said as she moves it to the rover's HUD. "They look like their eyes were clawed out but then again they still have eyes only it's not there." she stops there.
    With nothing but clues on what's happened to the facility both in and out they reached Spatial Tunneling but right before entering the section's motor pool they get a call from Avi. With expectations of the news from the gate CJ answers Avi's call only to see that the signal was being disrupted.

    "Guys once you've... careful... scans show... near the mess... you're not... [inaudible]... security room... [inaudible]... for safety"

    With the rest of the audio starting to come out unclear the signal cut the call.

    "It's only atmospheric disturbance since the siphons are online." Carmine said before coming up with a suggestion. "We should go check out why the siphons are online and maybe find a way to clear up the atmosphere a little so we can call Avi again just in case." she finishes after CJ picks her up.

    "Yeah maybe we should but we can check the status on the siphons from the hadron chamber so it'll be quicker to do two things at once." he stated as he walks into the glass corridor leading into the ST section.

    Finding what looked like a place that's been occupied by someone or something else and with rooms having torch stands and makeshift furniture coupled with old fashioned nails they continued onward to where the hadron chamber is but stopped at every room as more questions comes to mind until they've found one room that appeared all burnt up and few remaining ashes covering up piles of human and domesticated animal bones. Picking up a skull with odd features, CJ blew some of the ashes off and noticed cuts around the eye sockets and begun to see that almost every skull has the same wounds around the eyes. Putting the skull back down he continues walking towards the hadron chamber only to find that it's been closed off by emergency containment door.

    Using the security card CJ got earlier on the door's panel and lifting the locks, the corridor behind looked nothing like the other rooms as he continues onward.

    Opening another containment door for the hadron chamber itself, the interior looked way more different than both the corridor and the rest of the section. Filled with strange writings, numbers, formulas, and odd circles, CJ focuses his gaze at the highly active hadron sphere as the exterior appeared to have the same decals as the chamber itself and with a cloaked skeleton standing with out stretched arms facing the sphere.

    Carmine replied, "Well this is beyond strange, Doctor."