Field Smoke

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Military School, Command Center room
1 hour since the Nuke was compromised

Grace is seated at the head of the round table, she uses the tablet again, causing the TV to display Δlice's file. The file shows everything they know about Δlice, which isn't much, it shows her name, age, height, and criminal record, it also displays a picture of her and her true form. All the teachers look up at the TV, all of them giving a different reaction, both Grace and Bloomie narrow their eyes, Circle glares and grits her teeth, Emily and Sasha glance at one another from their sides of the table, they both give each other a concerned and unsure look, Demi shivers in fear, he hopes they can solve this without any casualties, and Thavel is to preoccupied with the grenade from earlier, the grenade's fuse partially burned causing the smell of gunpowder to emit from it, to which she inhales getting euphoric and somewhat high.

Grace finally speaks, causing all the teachers to focus on her....except Thavel who's still sniffing the grenade

"As you all may already know, earlier today at 1700, Δlice stole one of the remotes to launch one of our Nukes, her intentions and whereabouts are still unknown. I'll be sending a few people over to the Silo site.

"Circle, Bloomie, Demi you three are going, take..."

Grace pauses and searches through the tablet, she pulls up the student files to see who's failing, and she pulls up Abbie's file. She looks at his file and sees that he failed the test again today, she sighs and looks at Circle, she thinks for a moment then finally continues.

"Take Abbie with you....he might learn something or Ve might give him something"

"What?! You're joking right?" Circle asks, hoping for her to say she is.

"Do I look like I'm the joking type?" Grace retorts with a cold stare.

"You three, Dismissed" Grace motions for the three of them to leave.

Demi, Circle, and Bloomie stand up and salute before heading for the door one by one, leaving only Grace, Sasha, Emily, and Thavel.

"Sasha, I need you to check the base's security systems, and take a look at the server room afterward"

"Will do, ma'am" Sasha responds while standing up and saluting cheerfully

Sasha heads out the door, and Grace then turns to Emily.

"Keep an eye on the students in the mess hall, especially Oliver, treat the wounded, keep them there for a few hours, and wait for further instructions"

Emily gets out of her chair and salutes.

"I know right now is a very stressful situation, but we all have to be level-headed, especially you ma'am", Emily advises Grace.

"I am" Grace's expression is blank

"Ok, just making sure" Emily chuckles before leaving.

Grace watches Emily leave and then turns her attention to Thavel, who finally seems to be in the right state of mind.

"Are you finally thinking straight?"

"Yes ma'am"

"Good, I need you to check the perimeter and set up more mines"

"Understood", Thavel stands up salutes then heads out the door, she's excited to finally do something involving what she now does best.(the sedatives have little to moderate effect on her)

Grace sighs knowing full well she going to at least set off a few mines. Grace sits in the room in silence for a few minutes, she then decides to review the security footage, hoping to at least find something.

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