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Danielle can disable Cerberus verbally

Jul 15th, 2023
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  1. Gibbs’s snort echoed over the battlesuit’s speakers. “Are those your last words?”
  2. “Not quite,” she said. She wiped a wet strand of hair off her face and took a deep breath. “Patriotic! Crustacean! Houdini!”
  3. The bright lenses flickered. Just for a moment. Loud clacks came from the ammo hopper. Across the armor, two dozen small panels opened at the shoulders and hips and around the waist, each one the size of a matchbook. Four of them popped up around the thick collar the helmet sat on. A gleaming bolt sat under each one.
  4. The cannon pointed at her trembled but didn’t fire. She stepped back and Gibbs growled inside the armor. “What the hell have you done?” he yelled.
  5. “A subroutine I wrote a while ago to save time,” Danielle said. “Back when I had to do most of this myself.”
  6. The steel fingers flexed, and he snarled. It was a rasping sound through the speaker. She imagined him trying to activate the stunners again and again with the optical mouse.
  7. She took another step back. “Cerberus is preparing for disassembly. The weapons systems are offline,” she told him. “You can’t turn any of them back on without a hard reboot.”
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  9. Excerpt From Ex-Purgatory, pg 600-601
  10. Peter Clines
  11. https://books.apple.com/us/book/ex-purgatory/id676938479
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