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Colossus By Design: Season 2 - Log 142

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  1. [July 1, 2166]
  2. [Harmonization Room]
  3. [Scientific & Technological Advanced Research Labs]
  4. [Central City, U.S.A.]
  5. [Colony State - Canadian Super-Nation]
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  9. After a member of the Storm Covenant revealed himself as a spy before promptly being subdued and taken off-site for interrogation, everyone else has been put on edge; this is a particularly bad breach of security.
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  11. The diplomatic representatives from the Global Union of Divisions and the Da'at Yichud have decided to reschedule their meeting for another time in the wake of this revelation. Right now, the primary discussion at hand is being held in the Harmonization Room where the original major figures of the now-defunct Project Warmonger were catching up and reuniting after many years of separation. Of course, the topic of urgency at this moment is what to make of recent events.
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  14. (Jiro Ifukube): Most interesting, indeed.
  15.  
  16. (King Eugene Roy): More like most concerning. This is a serious breach of security. Honestly, how did this even happen? We were already keeping an eye out for these damn cultists after that stunt they pulled at the Kremlin, so how the hell did this one slip by us up until this point?
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  18. (Wei Ho): It's possible that the Forced Evolutionary Virus that permeates every militant Storm Covenant member's body has taken on more subtle and insidious changes, allowing minute reconstruction of things like facial features and bodily composition to throw off our search parameters. The man we caught was identified as Robert Ackermann, husband to Agnes Ackermann, and yet he barely looks like our old records of him.
  19.  
  20. (Minister Carrie Brown): Well, it could be that he simply got reconstruction surgery, or maybe--
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  22.  
  23. Dr. Anna Maximoff suddenly throws a datapad onto the holographic projection table; everyone else looks down at it at first before turning their attention to her. Their stares make the good doctor sigh, as they apparently didn't get what the point of this little charade was about. She then pulls up her own datapad and inputs some commands that activate the one on the table.
  24.  
  25. After a few seconds of this, an audio feed suddenly opens up on the datapad on the table.
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  27.  
  28. (Feng Lee): Dr. Maximoff, what's going on?
  29.  
  30. (Anna Maximoff): I picked up Robert Ackermann's datapad after he was subdued and ran it by some of this facility's cyber-warfare Synthetics. We're now patched in to his audio COMMS.
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  36.  
  37. [Axis Alliance Headquarters]
  38. [Unknown Global Location]
  39. [Unknown Territorial Affiliation]
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  42.  
  43. At the ramshackle communications centre of the Axis Alliance's headquarters, Agnes Ackermann is patched in to her husband's audio COMMS. Beside her are the leaders of the Storm Covenant and the Order of Homo Novus, Cevat Lockhart and "Bloody Mary".
  44.  
  45.  
  46. (Agnes Ackermann): Robert! Robert! Can you hear me? Please, respond!
  47.  
  48. (Cevat Lockhart): Maybe he had to go COMMS-silent to maintain his cover.
  49.  
  50. (Agnes Ackermann): But he would've just turned it off in that case! He NEVER leaves it on and doesn't respond with a report every few minutes!
  51.  
  52. (Mary Stoker): He's compromised.
  53.  
  54. (Agens Ackermann): SHUT UP! Robert, honey, please...... SAY SOMETHING.
  55.  
  56.  
  57. For several seconds, nothing happens. After what seems like forever, Agnes Ackermann slumps her head down on the table; Cevat comforts her, whilst Bloody Mary starts to walk away. Suddenly, some audible static can be made out, which instantly lifts Agnes's spirits up and brings Bloody Mary back to the communications table. Everyone is now eagerly awaiting a response from Robert Ackermann.
  58.  
  59.  
  60. (Agnes Ackermann): Robert, is that you?!
  61.  
  62. (Anna Maximoff): [COMMS] Afraid, not, bitches.
  63.  
  64. (Agnes Ackermann): WHAT?!
  65.  
  66. (Mary Stoker): I'm ending this now.
  67.  
  68. (Agnes Ackermann): No wait, we need to--
  69.  
  70.  
  71. With one quick motion, Blood Mary turns her arm into a shadowy claw and smashes the COMMS station with one swipe, instantly cutting off the audio feed. Agnes is left fuming and is trying to lunge at the Post-Human, but Cevat manages to barely hold her back.
  72.  
  73. The entire time, Agnes Ackermann has light tears streaming down her face.
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  75.  
  76. (Cevat Lockhart): Agnes, there's nothing we can do!
  77.  
  78. (Agnes Ackermann): YOU BASTARD, YOU LEFT MY ROBERT TO DIE! I'LL KILL YOU!
  79.  
  80. (Mary Stoker): Unlikely. What I did was necessary.
  81.  
  82. (Agnes Ackermann): LIKE HELL IT WAS!
  83.  
  84. (Mary Stoker): Actually, it was ENTIRELY necessary. The COMMS line was hacked by the G.U.D.'s best and brightest at S.T.A.R. Labs after your husband carelessly left his datapad behind and open to be used to track us down. In that short amount of time, I'm positive they've pinged our location and are getting ready to organize an assault force. We're leaving.
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  91. [Harmonization Room]
  92. [Scientific & Technological Advanced Research Labs]
  93. [Central City, U.S.A.]
  94. [Colony State - Canadian Super-Nation]
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  97.  
  98. The COMMS audio feed has been cut off; everyone turns to Dr. Maximoff, whom can't help but devilishly smile.
  99.  
  100.  
  101. (Karen Marais): You know, you could've let them ramble on for a bit longer before butting in like that.
  102.  
  103. (Anna Maximoff): Maybe. But it sure was fun to dash their hopes so quickly.
  104.  
  105. (Set Roth): Whilst that was indeed quite the show, I must ask if we got the traces necessary to track them down.
  106.  
  107.  
  108. Dr. Wei Ho is scrolling through his datapad after Set Roth's comment; he finally comes onto what he was looking for.
  109.  
  110.  
  111. (Wei Ho): We just got it. It looks like they're holed somewhere in the Australian Outback.
  112.  
  113. (Jiro Ifukube): Good job, people. We'll need to inform the G.U.D. about this so that they can send a strike force. We all heard Bloody Mary, so they'll be gone by the time we get there and might have some surprises waiting for us.
  114.  
  115. (Maksym Skala): I'll inform the rest of the Da'at Yichud's leaders to meet with the Governance Council in Antarctica.
  116.  
  117. (Feng Lee): What about us, sir?
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  119.  
  120. The former Warmongers all gather around Jiro Ifukube.
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  122.  
  123. (Jiro Ifukube): You're coming with me. We need to have a few words with Jacob Hargrove about the Eva Unit.
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