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Started October 03, 2022 by @Nyx-is-with-frost health_and_safety brightness_7

tune

She took a deep breath and nodded "okay… Let's do this."

Sylus took lead as they walked together through the door then flashed his badge at the secretary then she pointed to the oracle command room

Angela walked with him quietly not really making eye contact with anyone there

Sylus took his respective seat at the table

Angela sat next to him quietly

Sylus kept tapping on the table impatiently

Angela watched her lap sitting quietly as she waited for something to happen she was nervous, she knew exactly what this was about she knew they were going to to be asking them to leave

Three other teams had also shown up about the same age as our heros different ethnicities though one Mexican team and one from the United Kingdom

Angela looked over at stylus a bit worried "why are there two more groups?"

"must be an international crew that they lost up in the great beyond" he said with mild sarcasm knowing that what he just said was most likely the truth

Angela flinched a little at his words and looked back down at her lap

"Don't worry they look like old era troops like us so at least we have that much but all we do is wait until a general shows up" he said then put his hand on top of hers in an attempt to comfort her

Angela nodded and glanced up at him for a moment with a small attempt at a smile

Four well dressed men walked in leading the way for the general of operations at the facility then the general took a seat "I would like to thank you all for coming on such short notice as you might know by now one of our expedition teams went offline as of last night leaving a disturbing message before doing so" he said as he played the message only screeching and clawing sounds could be heard while one of the team members were saying her finals words before what sounded like she got torn to shreds

Angela squeezed sylus's hand staring at the recorder in fear and she whispered "sylus…. I don't like this."

"neither do I" he whispered
The general stopped the recording and showcased the new armor "this armor is named meteor-7 as you can see it has a higher mobility and range of motion this situation is a perfect performance test given the over shield system is a new product now enhanced for use on the human body the armor plating can withstand a tank round and keep kicking with minor tears in the under suit and multiple dents in the chest plating it may be weakened but still useable"

She looked over at him with tears in her eyes "i-i don't know if I can go through that again.."

"it's ok if you don't want to go I'll do it I'll have the rest of the teams with me you can run the suit here since it takes a secondary pilot to run shield protocols and knowing that I'm the biggest guy here I'm also probably gonna be wearing a much heavier set armor" he said looking at the specs of the armor in the touch screen terminal Infront of him

"but- I don't want you to go out there without me what if something happens to you??"

"look I'll have two other units up there with me and it'll probably make your anxiety worse than it is now" he said point out her body ques

"I don't care sylus.. I have to go."

"alright well you can't say I didn't try to stop you" he said hitting the accept button on his armor type which was a set of heavy class armor with a black paint emblem in the shape of a trident and a gun metal grey color for the actual armor

Angela took a breath and did the same

(she chose heavy armor meant for those who favor action? I'm surprised) Sylus stood up and went towards the pedestal coming out of the ground for a hand print then he simply pressed his hand down and it looked his selection in

(she's pretty tough lol)

She watched as he did so and stood up "this is new.."