Another Life (Oc x reader)

Chapter 51 - Sending a Spy

William is in the particle accelerator room with Iara. "You're sure they won't detect you once you're on board?"

"Stop worrying. I'm made of the same code."

"Half of the same code."

"Which is more than enough. They're not gonna know I'm there. Trust me."

...

You're getting everything ready with Javier on the observation deck with Jason and Richard.

"Iara, we're ready." You tells through the comms when you are.

"Ready." She answers from the particle accelerator.

Iara disappears and is suddenly inside the Achaian vessel. In the distance, she sees the light Ethan described. She bends down and put her hand on the floor and her hand starts glowing. Your screen starts glitching.

"Javier, what's happening to my tablet?" You ask him and then see that it's happening to all the screens.

"It's an influx of activity on our servers. We're being flooded with data." Javier says.

"They're hacking our systems." Richard says. "We need to shut this down. Sever Iara's connection."

"No, no, no. It's not the Achaia. It's us." William says. "It's Achaian data coming from Iara.

"Iara's hacking the Achaian ring?" Jason asks.

"Looks like it." Javier says. "I'm rerouting all the data to a secure server now."

"Forget the data, Iara. Focus on finding Ethan." Jason tells her.

"She's already inside. Why not gather as much intel as we can?" Richard asks.

Jason turns to William. "Are they reading her?"

"I'm not picking up any changes in activity."

"Look, you were right." Richard tells Jason. "Iara's an incredible resource, and we were wasting her. So let's stop doing things half-assed. Intelligence is our best defence against the Achaia."

Jason looks at him, then address Iara. "Iara, get what you can. But Ethan is your main priority. Du not stay in there any longer than you need to."

"Understood."

...

"Everything is black and white. Right and wrong. Another bad habit you picked up from your father." Ava says to Ethan.

"You slaughtered an entire species."

"That wasn't us."

"They had implants. The same shit you forced into Sasha's head. And the bodies, there were fields of them. The entire planet was a graveyard."

"Casualties of a war they started."

Ethan stands up. "And you ended, by destroying their planet! Is that what you do? To species that resist you?"

"Wrong. The Zakir were offered the same deal. Environmental rejuvenation, unlimited prosperity. But the rich, the establishment, they resisted. 'There must be a catch.' Meanwhile the rest of Zakir were begging us for help. Factions grew. Civil war broke out. That's the carnage you saw."

"And now they're dust.. because of you."

"No!" She stands up. "Because of you. Because you interfered. You blew up our Artefact, killing thousands of Achaia in the process. So we retaliated against you."

"I was protecting them." Ethan says.

"No."

"I was helping them."