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[u][b]       Diana        [/b][/u]
[sup][sup]Current Location: Alt Signia, On the way to Portal Room[/sup][/sup][/color][/h2]
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Diana continued to prowl around the edges of the battlefield, regardless of the ensuing chaos of the main skirmish. If there was a point to be learned from the previous battles, it was that victory lies in subtlety, not massive displays of power. Diana was sure that somewhere on the Fortress the Machina, and maybe even the Demons had already began their infiltration operations and she was the only one that could face them at the moment.

She had to do it... [color=daa520]"Ew! What was that?"[/color] Diana shuddered as she her palm just crushed a maggot. [color=daa520]"Those dwarves need to hire some pest control."[/color] Diana looked around and noticed that the tunnel she was crawling in was full of those disgusting critters and worse.

[color=daa520]"Wha!? Where do you think you are trying to crawl, you creeps?"[/color] Diana slapped some maggots that tried to crawl up her thighs, however the damn things only continued to do it over and over again. The sensation of the slimy beasts rubbing against her skin with their tiny pointy teeth made every hair on Diana's body rise in disgust.

With a hurried pace, Diana tried to find a passage to out of the tunnel and, if possible the source of those maggots, since they clearly weren't normal. Soon enough she reached an intersection where the small pests were fighting something that looked like spy robots in a veritable critter war. [color=daa520]"So, I was right, then- Gah, get away from me, you freak!"[/color]

[color=daa520]"Anyway, now that I was busted without even doing anything... again. I guess that the best plan I have is to lead all of those Demon and Machina to a same place and take them down while the confusion lasts."[/color] Diana kicked an air vent, jumping to the main corridor bellow. Now that her whole counter-infiltration was jeopardized she had to rely on Plan B.

To Diana's luck no one had taken the route to the volcano's core, where the power to feed the whole of Alt Signia was taken directly from the flows of magma by a series of dwarvish contraptions. Once she arrived on the vault like chamber, that was bathed in an smoldering heat, to the point that the pipes which conducted the slow from of lava being glowing on a bright yellow light, Diana pulled all the levers that closed the facilities main gates —but left all doors open. If someone planned to take the resources by foot they would have to blast the reinforced gates, but Diana made sure to leave escape routes for the enemies that gave up on fighting as well as her allies.

[color=daa520]"Now, to make sure no one will hijack the teleporter, or open the doors..."[/color] Diana reached for the deepest part of the the power house, the center plug. In fact it was little more than a burning, white hot plug made of tungsten that kept the lava flowing. No one would be able to touch it —or get close to it, for that matter)— without being incinerated by the heat of the lava that was too hot even for steel to contain. However, Diana simply put her hands on it and, [color=daa520]"One, two... now!"[/color] with a mighty heave she pulled the metal rod with little consequence, given that her draconic nature along with the Shroud of the Dragonblooded protected her, and her possessions, from even the hottest of flames.

A low rumble shook all of Alt Signia as soon as the lava flow was halted and the power for the fortress, including the portal was cut. Diana wasn't aware of the cause, as she secured the center plug on her belt with a length of chain and went for the portal chamber, however, someone else was...

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[color=00aeef]"FCUs Hibiki and Shizuka, this is Dawnbreaker. I have an emergency report. Thermal and seismic scans show that the lava flow on Point Hephaestus core was stopped. If nothing is done the volcano will erupt, current time estimative is of two hours and thirty six minutes until the first blast. Please, send this information to the other units."[/color] Came a sudden communication for Hibiki and Shizuka, through Eos' channel. Apparently someone else had thought that tampering t=with the fortress' power source was going to be a good plan. Who did it, was yet to be seen, however...
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