Battle Born Vagabond

Chapter 26: Intruder Alert: Fidem: March 26, 5007

I pick up the phone and immediately hear, "This is Dane. Can I get the hourly security check?"

With an excited glee I respond, "Hey, honey!"

With a loving tone I respond, "How's my concubine this evening? "

I start rattling off what he wants to know, "It's going well, I'm trained in the jobs your men want me to learn. Now I'm on my own. And I still have some things to figure out but it will be okay."

He inquires further, "First night? Who's with you?"

I correct then inform him, "First night properly trained. Number nine. Until hour six then number one."

Jokingly he says, "Just be careful when you work with number four, he gets handsy."

I laugh at his joke, "Haha, very funny honey. That boy, he doesn't even need his arms or hands other than using his staff I don't think I've seen his hands come out of his pockets except to hold his staff. And with that black trench coat of his, for all I know he has a third arm."

He gets back on track, "But anyways, how about my report?"

I tell him of the strange things that have happened, "Two roaming cameras are down. They both went down around the same area roughly 20 minutes apart. Both were headed into the pad to the power plant. I think its a magnetic issue."

I hear a loud hiss from the phone and radio on my shoulder. "Baby, I'm going to ask you to hang up so I can give an order. The loud hiss was because feedback came over the phone."

I hang up and I hear over my shoulder, "Number twelve you are close to the power plant, please make your way to there and take a facebot with you. We have downed facebots and I would like to see the cause. The running theory is improperly housed magnetic interference, please investigate."

I hear a crackle from the radio, "very well sir." A few minutes later I hear another crackle, "Dane and camera room, I have facebot number 157-07-8491"

I say over my radio, "thank you, Barrette." I punch in the numbers on the keypad to only see the one facebot. I watch and listen. As through time, the hallways become less and less clean and less maintained. Before approaching this vast empty area with a large building inside emitting a red aura that becomes brighter and a deeper red as you get closer.

Some balls appear from his hand and he grips the doors through the balls to open them to the pad. Over my and number 9s radios "Opening the doors I see nothing. Going to look around a bit. I think I see something not sure what yet. I'm going to investigate someth-"

The facebot's in front of him as he ventures forward. There is an object that appears out of nowhere and flies past the facebot without hitting it going directly over it. Then the facebot appears to be artificially lifted in arms and is turned off silently without an object or person being seen.

I turn to number 9 amazed and surprised, "what the fuck was that?"

He motions for me to cover my radio, "Baker's dozen to power plant, baker's dozen to power plant. Intruder alert, intruder alert. Probie 100 you are now number 12. I repeat Probie 100 is now promoted to number 12. Intruder alert. Calling baker's dozen to the power plant this is not a joke this is not a drill."

I just look at him as a friend, "be careful. Will you?"

He looks at me with a smile, "no." And he walks out of the room and looks back at me, "do you want someone in here with you or are you good by yourself?"

I know exactly who to ask for, "Can you send in Black please. I think he's like number 43."

He rolls his eyes, "Well request him over the radio."