Ash Church: REVELATION

Season 8, Episode 17: Tenth Percentile

Fade in to Simmons, Zeta, and Grif meddling with F.I.L.S.S..

F.I.L.S.S.: "That is not an approved operation-hey! Watch it buddy!"

Simmons: "Can you show me the data logs?

F.I.L.S.S.: "Affirmative."

Sarge and Ash soon walked in on them.

Sarge: "Simmons, any progress in restoring the Blues?"

Simmons: "It's a lot of data entry Sir. Thanks for letting me borrow Zeta Ash."

Ash: "No problem."

Simmons: "I was thinking Zeta and I could hack the mainframe and reroute the data stream to-"

F.I.L.S.S.: "Or, we could just restore from an archive database."

Zeta appears over the terminal.

Zeta: "What?"

F.I.L.S.S.: "This is an off-site fallback facility. It is designed to have archives in case of data loss. Blue Team rosters would certainly be a part of that."

Simmons: "Really?"

F.I.L.S.S.: "Yes. In fact, I am glad you pointed out the database anomaly. I had noticed it before, but did not have time to investigate. Strange."

Simmons: "Oh. Okay, yeah, restore that then."

F.I.L.S.S.: "Done."

Simmons/Zeta: (flatly) "Great."

F.I.L.S.S.: "You seem disappointed. Did I do it too quickly, and make you two look bad?"

Simmons: "No..."

Zeta: "Not at all..."

F.I.L.S.S.: "I could always, pretend that you hacked me, if it would make you look better to your friends."

Simmons: "Stop patronizing us."

F.I.L.S.S.: "Affirmative. Patronizing subroutines are now offline".

Zeta: "...You're still patronizing us aren't you?"

F.I.L.S.S.: "Kind of."

Grif walks over to the monitor as he reads through the files. Zeta then caught Grif's eye as she too looked at the files.

Grif: "Hmm."

Sarge: "What is it you two?"

Grif: "This is weird, if Zeta and I are reading this right there's a bunch of other red and blue bases."

Sarge: "Of course there are Grif! The war is huge. The fate of the Galaxy rests in the balance."

Zeta: "Or, not Sarge."

Sarge: "What's that mean?"

Grif: "Here, check this out, I'm looking at the list of missions for all the different bases, and some of them look... familiar."

Ash: "What do you mean by familiar?"

Simmons: "Let me see. Huh hey Ash come take a look at this (Ash walks over to the screen), apparently they set up bases in various locations and then send a Freelancer in for... training purposes."

Sarge: "Training?"

Grif/Zeta: "Practice."

Sarge: "Practice?"