The Horrors of Breeding in 2635
The third security point was within a spherical room. The squad entered with ease. As soon as the security door closed behind them the room's gravity changed and the squad members had to quickly engage their gravity fields on their cybernetics.
As the gravity around them changed they stood still – gauging the situation. Lyra's ruby eyes lit up and Jackie's 360-degree view engaged.
"What are we seeing?"
As soon as Dax spoke the spherical room began to spin. When it stopped the squad now stood in the position of a wall and not a floor. The six members frowned as one.
"Lyra?"
Lyra shook her head as she took Tally from her charging case. The amorphous blob began to extend itself and connect to Lyra.
"I have no clue Commander. Let me get Tally on it." He ruby eyes ignited with light as Dax nodded and looked to Jackie.
She nodded to her commander ans BDJ spoke into her neural net.
>The room is set to be a tumbler inside a combination lock but all is electronic, highly calibrated, and set to an LED system. The tumbler system needs to hit the LED illuminated areas precisely in a predescribed pattern.
The LED scanners in the room were highlighted in Jackie's HUD. She nodded as she sent everything to the squad.
"Okay. Let's figure this out. Sura, bring that analytical brain over here and team up. Tally focus everything."
Sura's grav-boots hissed as she moved to Lyra's side. As they began the spherical room moved again – now their positions had moved to the ceiling.
Jackie narrowed her eyes as her 360-degree view picked up an anomaly – as usually BDJ spoke before she could formulate the question in her mind.
>It is probable that the room needs to be set accurately before its 7th revolution. There is a 87.69% probability that an alarm will be triggered if the correct pattern is not completed timely. There is a 98.25% probability that their will be a fatal incident as well as a silent alarm triggered.
Jackie sent the information to the squad and Dax looked to her before looking at the four red LED lights scattered over the room.
The diameter of the room was getting smaller after each spin.
Lyra pushed out a breath and her ruby eyes flared and she seemed to lean into data streams.
"Jackie calculate the numbers for me. I think that is the variable I am missing."
Jackie nodded and quickly calculated the following moments for the next spins, and how much the room will shrink after each. She sent the info to the entire Squad.
Sura nodded and suddenly the room spun – but in the opposite direction.
"Dammit Sura! Give warning before you start."
"Calm down Lyra. I have the combination now."
The room spun clockwise, then counterclockwise twice – with each move the squad turned with the room. The room turned once more, clockwise, and all paused. They heard mechanisms hiss and grind and then the entire room seemed to settle into place.
They all turned to the sound of a door opening at the opposite end of the room. They now ran across the wall and leapt through the open port.
They went through a short luminous hall and found themselves in a massive mainframe. Lyra and Sure immediately took up positions, Tally connecting to both and then to the mainframe itself.
Data rapidly streamed across Lyra's ruby eyes and flood both her and Sura's neural nets. They began to quickly process and collated the information before them.
Jackie stayed with them as liaison and to watch their backs as they worked. Dax, Mikael, and Aiden moved from the mainframe room and into three different areas off of it.
"Jackie take this block information and see if you can understand it. There is some encryption on it."
BDJ took the information and began to decode it as Jackie maintain vigilance in her far corner of the room.
Dax re-entered the. "Go check my room. There are six different pods - maintained by a central system. Get what you can. I will take your position here."
Jackie nodded and moved to the door. The room was sterile. A large mainframe computer sat in the center of the room – six life pods, each occupied, surrounding it.
All of occupants were female, Jackie memorized each face as she walked to each before going to the computer. She pulled a computer cable from the nape of her neck and plugged into the system.
BDJ spoke quietly, almost introspective.
>Encryption still being processed – 82% complete. Begin information gathering process. Stratus Bastion sleep room. Six subjects. Five subjects are still part of on going experimentation, one subject is only being maintained. The system also maintains and monitors three of the other rooms within the Breeding center. There are two other monitoring systems in the center.
Jackie stopped actively processing and allowed BDJ to work as she went to see Asset Orion-2739 – the one subject only being maintained but not being experimented on.
The woman was merely a spine with veining and the neurological systems extending to ovaries and two uterus. There was a quarter of a skull but there seemed to be no brain matter – and a single soft green eye.
It was both hideous and sad at the same time.
Why was this woman still being kept alive? Was she even alive at this point?
>All pertinent information downloaded and being processed. Encryption 96% complete.
Images slid over her neural net – she found herself pushing it all out as her brain processed the what she was seeing.
The squad's encrypted comms hissed and Adien's strained voice came through.
"Commander. We need to end all of these. They are people. They need…"
"Calm down. We only have twenty more minutes here. The security transport will leave in less than an hour."
"Don't worry about it Ai. Jackie, Sura, and I will set off a cascade to end all of it."
Lyra's voice was also strained, the images sent over by both Adien Mikael still brining her optical nerves.
"Let's get this done. We leave in 5!"