Angels of death

Chapter 18: Loose end- Part 1

Time: 1:30 am
Location: Mother ship

Tessa was peacefully sleeping in her pink bed when she was awoken by the sound of a ringing phone. Tessa groaned, lazily grabbing her phone and answering it, "do you know what time it is?", she asked rhetorically.

"Sorry to wake you captain but this concerns Beta squad". Tessa immediately sprung up from her bed after hearing Beta squad.

Tessa rushed down the corridor. She didn't have time to get into her usual outfit so she just put on a robe and her hat, there were bags below her green eyes and her messy auburn hair was out for the world to see.

Tessa was concerned for the safety of N, J and V, they were some of her favourite drones, she'd basically known them for her whole life.

When Tessa bursted into the control room everyone turned to salute her. "What happened!" Asked Tessa. One of the personnel walked up to her, "Beta squad haven't given us any updates on their progress, infact when we tried to contact J the signal wasn't even received and we can't directly contact N and V due to direct communication to the mother ship being reserved only for squad leaders. Meaning we're completely in the dark".

Tessa sighed, "shit. Come with me, we have a protocol for this", the personnel looked surprised, "o-oh right away!"

Tessa and the now timid personnel walked up to an elevator. When they went inside Tessa scanned a key card and the screen that displays where the elevator goes showed, 'floor -'.

The personnel was confused by this as there was no floor -, there couldn't physically be a floor -, "u-uhm ma'am, what is floor -?".

Tessa smirked at the personnel's confusion, "what's your name?" Asked Tessa, "Charlie, ma'am", replied Charlie.

"Okay Charlie, well firstly you don't have to call me ma'am. It's a bit weird, just call me Tessa", said Tessa informally, "oh and to answer your question, floor - is a secret floor, only I and the CEO himself have access to it".

Charlie nodded, "r-right, but ma- I mean Tessa, why? What is it about this floor that warrants it being this secretive, and how is it going to help us?", inquired Charlie.

Tessa chuckled, "you'll see", she replied, mischief in her voice.

The elevator stopped and the doors opened revealing a giant, dark room with concrete walls.

"We're here", said Tessa as she walked forward. Charlie didn't move through, he was hesitant to walk into the eerie room. Tessa turned around, "well we don't have all day" she said. Eventually Charlie walked forward.

Tessa soon stopped, "welp here we are, *ehem*" Tessa coughed into her hand. Suddenly a yellow light turned on off in the distance where Cyn sat at a bar.

"Charlie, I'd like to introduce you to Cyn, the creator of the disassembly drones and easily the biggest mistake of my life". Charlie stood in awe as he looked at the unassuming drone.

"Cyn here is responsible for modifying my own worker drones into the disassembly drones. She is also responsible for reprogramming them and implanting the absolute solver program into them.", Charlie was still speechless, "s-so a drone made the disassembly drones?", "uh yeah" said Tessa.

"Hello, Tessa, what brings you here?", asked Cyn. "Cyn you are absolute solver, you have access to the absolute solver network, the same network that N, V and J are connected to. I need you to check on their status", said Tessa.

Cyn just 'sighed', "why should I take orders from yo- AAAAA!" Cyn cried out in pain as Tessa pulled out a remote and twisted a dial causing Cyn pain.

After a minute Tessa stopped. As Cyn looked at Tessa with hatred so to did Tessa. "Ugh. Fine. Checking serial designation N... ... ... N is in perfect physical condition, however, his restricted file has been compromised as the data has begun to resurface"

Tessa went still, "right. Well then, I'll have to think about that later.".

Cyn continued, "Checking serial designation V... ... ... V is in perfect physical condition, although I am still unable to redact her designated data".

Tessa just rolled her eyes, "yeah, yeah, I know about V's 'defective state', although its funny how Verity, the timid soft spoken maid, was the only one able to avoid memory loss. And after what you did to her... she must feel awful... but anyway what about J?"

Cyn continued, "Checking serial designation J... ... ... J has been heavily damaged, she has lost 67% of her body mass currently rendering her deceased".