You grab the other bot and hold him up against the lockers. The metal-on-metal bang echoes through the large locker room.
"H-hey! What are you doing?!" the bots shouts in alarm.
"How do you know where we are?" you demand.
The bot struggles weakly against your hold. "M-my senses became sharper after I lost my sight- I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Please don't hurt me!"
You let him go and he sinks to the floor, putting his hands over his head in fear. "I'll take you and fix your optics as long as you cooperate," you tell him. "Get up, we're heading in now."
The other bot gets up unsteadily as you open the doors. In front of you lay rows upon rows of tall cubes, all filled with surprisingly clear Kkryonitte. There are pipes reaching out of most of them, all shooting up to the ceiling to merge into a mass of cables and piping. There are large industrial lights suspended from the ceiling on heavy duty cords. You spot a mess of catwalks up above with the occasional crane.
You hear the sound of running coming towards you. At first you think it's Shy'ryx troops, but then you remember that they're all on 'break.'
"Bot! You actually made it," you hear Ciricad call as she come into view. She stops dead in her tracks as she spots your companion. "...He's in worse shape than I thought," she says quietly, her words barely audible.
"Well, he can't see and he's got a few dizzy spells," you sigh. "And he has acute senses," you add harshly.
Lia rounds a corner, followed closely by Navaro. "Ouch, he's in bad shape," she comments. "Though we'll probably be able to take care of him back at the TMS Station."
"Oh, thank go-" the other bot stops suddenly, trying to grab his weapon. "You're those Triloslynne robots?"
You quickly grab his rifle and pull it off of his back, sending him tumbling forwards.
"I thought I could trust you!" he cries, trying to get up. "You told me you'd help me!"
Navaro steps up suddenly, holding one of his katanas to the robot's face. The little machine seems to sense it and immediately stops moving. "Shut up and maybe we'll consider fixing your head. Of course, I wouldn't mind killing you right here, one of you is enough."
"Hey, watch it," you mutter.
"Both of you," Stojanow steps in. "We have more important things to do than arguing."
"Stojanow's right. You can save the bickering for when we get back to the station," Ciricad says, folding her arms. "Bot, I trust you know the way to the KPF's main computer?"
"I have a rough idea, yeah. It wasn't exactly on the map."
After a bit of walking along the surprisingly creepy aisles of Kkryonitte, you arrive at what looks like a silo. Sort of odd to have the main control unit here, you think. It reaches up all the way to the ceiling- and probably beyond. After all, the KPF is only part of the System Center.
"Hey, who are you guys?" you hear a voice yell, followed by the sound of several metal boots running.
"Oh joy, soldiers," Navaro remarks, drawing his other katana.
You turn around and see a group of nine Shy'ryx troops in front of you, all holding their weapons at the ready.
"Drop your weapons or we will fire!" they order, aiming at you and your team mates.
"You'd shoot them anyways, wouldn't you?"
The soldiers turn around and find Deceb Zetra in front of them, her arms folded. She looks rather intimidating with her armor on, actually- but the soldiers don't seem to understand what's under it.
"And who would you be?" they demand.
"Oh, no one that you'll remember."
In a few seconds, half of the enemy squad is down and the rest have scattered in hopes of escaping from the armored demon pursuing them.
"She's seriously overpowered," Navaro mutters.
"What do you expect?" Ciricad rolls her eyes. "She'll keep them busy lo-"
"-kill them before you can even open the doors?" Navaro cuts in.
Ciricad looks at him sharply. "I suppose," she replies as she turns and examines the door's locking system. "Hey Bot, did you pick up any keycards?"
"Yeah, the Commander had a few," you answer, taking them off of your belt and handing them to her. There's a loud crashing sound followed by groaning of metal somewhere in the KPF, but it isn't near any of you.
After a bit of distant screaming and fighting, Ciricad finally manages to get the System Center's doors open. Inside is a rather large computer system (actually, more like computer systems)- well, that isn't surprising really. After all, this IS the System Center.
"So. Where do we start?" Lia asks, looking around the room.
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