Stealth was key.... Yes what a great sentiment, what a necessity for Ultimatum to deal with. He, an almost eight foot, 200 kg, reflective silver droid would have to play stealthy. What a brilliant idea. He might as well wear bright lights to them a target, oh wait he had glowing red lights that further gave him away. How would he get anywhere hidden?!
Yet, organics once more showed their apparent incompetence. The tower was guarded, but by new guards who were considered in need of training before they could be guards in the main facility. Under most circumstances this wasn't a problem, in fact it still wasn't. Ultimatum's attempt to sneak through ended with him being seen and questioned by one of the guards. The mistake had been that the man hadn't requested back up, after all it was only a droid. The man simply called in and told the tower overseer that he had a droid and was seeing why it was here. After the man turned off his radio Ultimatum acted.
He grabbed the man and lifted him off the ground and threw him against a tree. The man groaned and slumped over, still alive if the vital readings were correct. Ultimatum then moved forward past the fence and into the direct vicinity of the tower. From there he came across another guard, this one a little more experienced. He called in and had he had a friend nearby. Ultimatum didn't do anything other than say he had been sent from the main facility to help with some recalibrations. One of the guards unfortunately had some knowledge of the comms the tower used and pointed out that it didn't require recalibration until a week from then. As the guard moved to call it in, Ultimatum punched the man in the face while his other hand grabbed the organic's security pistol. The other guard was just pulling out his gun when Ultimatum shot him, the droid's reflexes were much quicker and more effective evidently. The blaster was set to stun and the guard dropped to the ground.
The blue light emitted by the blaster caught the attention of another guard nearby. Ultimatum then decided to surrender and was taken to the overseer of the tower, as would be expected in most military doctrines. The overseer was an older gentleman who had was an old hand at the facility, but relatively new to the tower, and was intelligent enough to know something was up.
"So, what is going on?"
Ultimatum pretended to look confused, "What do you mean?"
The overseer wasn't fooled, "You're here and there is no scheduled calibration or repair for at least a week. That means that you aren't supposed to be here. A droid wouldn't be here without its master so there are more of you likely. So, where are the others and what are you planning?"
Ultimatum continued to look uncertain, "I don't understand what you mean. I don't have a master I am a free droid as organics call them. I came to see the comms being used by this tower so as to understand organics better."
The overseer didn't change his opinion, "Well then, I guess you'll have to have a restraining bolt until you're willing to talk."
At this Ultimatum stepped back as if afraid. He intentionally stepped on one of the guard's toes, the man shrieked from the sudden weight. Ultimatum turned, his appearance becoming that of an apologizing person. His hand moved quickly, going for the man's blaster as he said, "I am truly sorry about that. It hopefully won't last long." That was followed by a shot to the chest, leaving the man unconscious. Ultimatum then turned firing two more shots at each of the other guards before turning his attention to the overseer and the two comms personnel who were both caught by surprise. The overseer held a blaster rifle and was aiming with only a slight shake at Ultimatum. The man loosed a shot and a number of factors all came together.
Firstly, and probably most obviously, the man's shaking hands made the shot slightly off target. This coupled with Ultimatum's instantaneous response to move away from the shot led to the shot only burning his Agrinium armor. The shot hit a cold cup of caf that had been left out. The caf, superheated, evaporated along with the cup. The steam that resulted wafted up into a broken light that was to be replaced later that day. The light had been broken due to a small break in electrical circuit. Now the caf had enough water vapor within that the electricity for a single moment passed through. This led to the light momentarily shining for a second. The comms personnel at this point were scared and were hiding behind some equipment. However, both were watching intently as the battle unfolded. Unfortunately, the bright light set off a momentary epileptic fit on one of the men who reacted with a sudden jerking move that knocked over a small container of electrical equipment. Small pieces of fuses and small bulbs rolled around onto the floor.
Ultimatum fired a stun round at the overseer, who had fallen behind cover when the light had shone. The man returned a shot, this time hitting a set of transparisteel windows, which absorbed the shot. The transparent metal spread the heat over an area as it opaqued. This heat was partially transferred into an electrical cord on the roof. The rubber protection melted under the heat but the metal wiring stayed intact. The next exchanged of blaster fire found a circuit board blown. For a single moment an immense amount of energy moved through the wires, including the one on the ceiling, before being cut off. The cord's metal melted and it fell to the floor. Because it had no power going to it anymore the lights in the room went out. At this point the comms personnel were able to conjure enough strength to try and send a signal to the base.
Ultimatum and the overseer were circling one another, taking shots as they moved from cover to cover, often moving behind the same piece they had been using previously. One of Ultimatum's shots happened to hit the same circuit board that had been destroyed. The energy moved quickly through the broken wires, completing the circuit for a second. Sadly, one of the comms person, Larksun, had stepped on the broken wire when the circuit was completed. The electrical surge was powerful enough to go through the man's shoes and run through his body before exiting out through one shoe. Larksun almost instantly lost control of his legs, which seized up and he then fell over. Unfortunately, Larksun was a well fed man. When he hit the floor the mere weight of his body falling was too much for his body to hold. He was left unconscious from the pain.
Soon after, the overseer stepped on some of the bulbs and fuses, one of these pierced his shoe and poked him painfully on his foot. Ultimatum used the man's momentary distraction to shoot him. The man fell to the floor with a thud. Ultimatum then proceeded to shoot the other comms person who had been trying to get to the comm. Ultimatum clicked a few buttons on the computer to make sure it still worked before connecting his systems with an uplink to the computer. From there it was a mere minute before he had a map, an estimated number of forces, and access to all the communications going in and out of the base. He spoke into his comm, "Got your map, will need a bit of time for the systems control. About a minute or so." He then set his processors to overriding the system's natural response to not allow outside control of internal systems.
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