Protected against EMPs

Dr. Gero's lab had a tall ceiling with wires of every kind hanging from it. Unfinished projects were scattered throughout the lab and a heap of junk parts littered the back corner. Oil bins were also randomly strewn on the floor, and the low repetitive hum of several computers filled the cavern. Against the wall on the right were four large pods, two of which were wide open, revealing a coffin-like red padded interior. The lids, which were raised like an open hatch, had the numbers 19 and 21 on them. The other two pods, still closed, were marked 17 and 18. Smiling underneath his giant grey mustache, the doctor crossed his arms behind his back and walked to a table in the center of the room.

"I anticipate at least a fractional possibility that I may have to deactivate them again. The last time was too close for comfort—those rebellious little attitudes of theirs somehow overpowered the submission sub processes I installed. I admit: their perpetual energy reactors make them much more difficult to control."

Just in case, he grabbed a small remote from his workbench with a single white button in the center of it. He had designed it as a failsafe – a transmitter specifically tuned to the metallic implants in the cyborgs he had created. Though their systems were protected against ordinary EMPs, his remote would induce a pre-programmed electrical pulse that shut down all their systems even if they somehow tried to resist directives.

- Bringer of Death Chapter 37