Solar Warden

The vault gate Part 109

"Connected," Newman radioed. This was the signal.

Kelsey hit the enter button, then all started.

Ryan looked at the vault gate. There was nothing to see. But some clicking was to hear. And then it started to move. The door opened, slowly but steady.

Behind was an empty corridor with walls probably out of metal. The bottom seemed to be different. Still the door was opening. It was now broad enough to get through. Ryan waited to see more and let the door further open.

"Prepare the drones," he said to Yamada and waited further 20 seconds. "Send the drones now."

Yamada gave the signal. Five drones went in to scout the area. They flew through the dark corridor. At the end was an opening without a door. They reached it and entered a huge hall. Much bigger than the hall of the tower. The drones spread out and flew high to avoid direct detection. No one was to see. But some cameras were in the top.

Then the door stopped and started to close, stopped again and opened.

Ryan triggered the charges. Three explosions went off blowing dust and stones from the nearby wall around. The huge gate was falling to the ground and then to the left side which let the entrance unblocked. Else they had to climb over it or whatever.

"They detected the door opening. I countered it. But now they know we are hacking them. I try to get the camera feeds and other information. The control of their system will be difficult to gain without plugging cables," Kelsey informed.

Dust was now all around. Ryan waited till the dust vanished, while Newman and Samuel were coming back.

"Kelsey, the dust has cleared. Did you detect any defense systems? We have seen no threat with our drone scan," Ryan said as he wanted to move in.

"There is nothing that looks like that. Only further doors I try to get control of," she replied.

"SW-3, SW-4 and SW-7 move in. SW-2 and SW-6 hold position," Ryan ordered.

The teams moved in. They used two bikes to have the option to better secure a location.

Yamada's team were the first which reached the hall. Then they went right to secure every room or door they encountered.

SW-7 did the left side while SW4 split up and followed in a close distance.

Now Samuel and Newman where controlling some of the drones. A team on the Icarus did the threat analysis.

On Yamada's side was first nothing. It was the wall to the outside where behind the assembly line was. Then further away, it must be over 100 meter, they came to a curve. The hall had no corners, it just was a curve that changed the angle of the wall. Also it was no circle, it had parts that were straight. Now there were rooms with doors to check.

On the other side, SW-7 found a maintenance area where probably the machine was. There were also robotic systems and replacement parts, but no second of those machines.

Yamada had now found the control room. It was empty. Camera feeds were shown and it seemed there were some malfunctions. The details he could not figure out.

"I guess we found the control room. The door was closed, but not locked," Yamada radioed and sent a video feed.

"Perfect, I move with my team in and see what we can do from there," Ryan replied. "SW-5 let's go!" They used the two bikes which Samuel and Newman used. In the trunks were the needed equipment for scanning and hacking.

Yamada continues his inspection with his team, while two of SW-4 waited for Ryan. Then they also continued.