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The bug queen finally spoke up, and surprisingly she claimed not to be an alien after all, that she had been transformed into one by...

[color=crimson]”Xenomorphs? Like from the movie Aliens?”[/color] 

Shen was briefly dumbfounded by this comment.

[color=#92B3DB]”You watch movies?”[/color]

[color=crimson]”I spent 20 years in that facility, there was very little to do. So I watched a film where an alien killed a load of humans. Just like what happen outside really.”[/color] 

[color=#92B3DB]”And in both the humans won in the end”[/color]

[color=crimson]”not in the film they didn’t”[/color] 

[color=#92B3DB]”... yes they do, Ripley, the kid, the android and a bunch of the marines shoot the crap out of the aliens, escape and nuke the site from orbit.”[/color]

[color=crimson]”Not in the one I had. She falls into a reactor and the aliens live happily ever after. I’m… not sure about the kid and the android. The editing at the end is kind of sloppy but presumably the kid gets eaten and the android escapes”[/color] 

[color=#92B3DB]”I. What? Why would they? Wait. The editing at the end of the one I saw was crap in comparison to the rest of it too...”[/color]  

They should probably just move on at this point and leave the topic behind.

[color=#92B3DB]”Anyway, um.”[/color] 

Where had she been. Ah. yes. The suspicious humanoid that claimed to be human. Most of the Elders troopers had been part human and she sure as hell wouldn’t trust them, so even if she spoke truth she wasn’t magically in Lilly’s good books now. The fact that Kerrigan followed up with a threat on their lives if they endangered the town was neither for nor against her humanity really, but Lilly was pretty sure that no matter what Kerrigan was, Shen didn’t like her attitude one bit.

[color=#92B3DB]”I’ll keep that in mind.”[/color] 

Lily took note to make a mind shield as soon as possible on her PDA for future reference, along with the various dates the others, including one from a man straight out of a noir film who had just joined them, gave her. The mention of zombies in 1998 was certainly an anomaly, but that might have been an event that either nobody had brought up or had been covered up at the time. There was a president for cover ups after all, XCOM itself was originally a covert operation and there were some indications that something XCOM related had gone done in 1962 as well.

[color=#92B3DB]”Thank you all for that information, and it's nice to meet you mr Payne, I’m Lily Shen. Yours seems to be the highest date so far, baring my own of 2036.”[/color]

As for the rather dusty room it looked to be filled with junk, non perishable food, complete with a dinner plate and some unidentifiable drugs found by the others.

It was Julian's advanced sensors that eventually picked up on the anomaly in the room ( he noted that Abe was watching him in fear and took it as a compliment). While Shen was marveling at probably the most delicious smelling meal she had ever witnessed he carefully(as careful as a giant robot can be anyway) edged his way towards the odd shimmer that was sitting on one of the benches.

[color=#92B3DB]”The hell is with this noodle bowl? It smells amazing and laced is with… stimulants and medical spray?”[/color]

She muttered to herself. It was the best she could find to describe what she smelled, unable to even think of the existence of magically infused food.

[color=crimson]”Can’t hide from me!”[/color] 

Julian suddenly roared, his metal fist slamming into the invisible thing and then bouncing harmlessly off of the energy shield. This did cause the suit to de-cloak and fall from its perch on the bench however.

[color=#92B3DB]”Julian what are you doing? And When did that get here?!”[/color]

She was startled first by the attack and then by the appearance of the collapsed inhuman figure 
 
[color=crimson]”Just showing off my superior eyesight [/color][color=LightSlateGray]and protecting you”[/color] 

After an inspection of the fallen foe she announced 

[color=#92B3DB]”well, good job from saving me from an empty suit. Still, this is entirely out of place, it’s way too advanced”[/color]

It was incredibly advanced just in general and while the aliens had exhibited instances of shield tech on shieldbreakers and invisibility on the seekers from the original invasion this was, on first inspection, a sublime combination of the two that didn’t seem to fit any previously encountered alien life form. The sophistication of the tech was promptly demonstrated as the suits shields recharged and it dropped from sight again. It was a shame it didn’t fit anyone, but she was definitely going to see if she could dismantle it later and retrieve the generator and hopefully salvage the unusual metal the suit was made from too.

The suit itself was carefully placed back on the seat and the plate placed on its lap to denote it’s position. She would work on those once they returned.

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She and Julian joined the others at their embankment point, ready to head the north. It was as good a direction as any, she honestly couldn’t remember which direction her little group had come in from in the first place anyway.