This distress signal compounded by the live feeds now streaming in had incriminated the sadistic Zelthis, with little sway for his innocence. However, Vropda noted that the shapeshifter’s phrasing was peculiar. Decreeing viciously and intermittently with a foreward of [i][b]Simon says[/b][/i] and later punishing the sentry grunts if they followed any direction without such a preamble, Nick had reached a level of maniacal sophistication which had not seen for some time. The Council deemed that he could be regulated; she always had her doubts. ACASIAS had fortunately captured and deciphered the audio; it was a reference to an elementary game played by school children on Earth, a primitive planet, several hundred light years away. 

[i]Fascinating.[/i]

He was out of control; the engineer now knew what must be done.

With the gravitation manipulator in hoe, the captain hastily communicated by root via command prompt glove as her ship prepared for launch.

[b]> CONTAIN
	> VACCUM
		> EXTRICATE[/b]

The location of the trickster turned traitor was ascertained. The fungal machination worked imperceptibly and automatically, with the chamber already quarantined and reinforced. The two security guards would have to be sacrificed, but this, in the mind of Creft’s sister, would be a mercy in lieu of the promise of future torture. 

However, the biological computer stalled on the second order with an unexpected hesitation. 

[b]> ARE YOU SURE [/b]		It questioned.

This was ACASIAS’ reminder to Vropda that the death would be quick but extremely painful. She knew that he could be salvaged; his harvested cells withstood almost everything science could inflict upon them.

The rapid decompression would suddenly instigate a severe form of ebullism, gas within blood, lymph, urine, and cerebrospinal fluid would literally be bubbling due to the quickly reduced ambient pressure, while slowly icing his bodily liquids due to the glacially low temperature.  The water vapor within his respiratory tract would quickly cool forming icicle roots branching and filling every alveoli of his pulmonary system, inducing a thoracic-wide frigid atelectasis. Then, the rapid hypoxia would induce flaccid paralysis if his corpus was not yet frozen, while the severe hypocapnia would force the pH within each cell to become acidic, due to the inability to evacuate carbon dioxide, the body’s way of removing volatile protons and atomic waste from the Krebs' cycle. Without this, the internal milieu would begin to burn with the build-up of undesired potassium, phosphorus and calcium, inducing seizures and instant rigor mortis, in a person whose consciousness was possibly still trapped in such a rigid in situ. 

This could all occur in one to six hundred seconds, not necessarily in that order, all the while his corpus would shrivel and expand due to all the pathologic processes occurring almost simultaneously.

[b]> ARE YOU SURE[/b] 		It asked again.
[b]> YES[/b]				Was the response.

A few moments later, her cephalic monitors provided the necessary imagery and confirmation of three floating carcasses in the confined area, grated and equalized to deep space. The slits then closed and oxygen was suddenly restored in the room. The process, in total, took no more than 1-2 minutes.

Nick would have to hover, in the meantime, until reinforcements would be able extricate his body from the lack of gravity.

Vropda messaged all within the Council.

[b]> THREAT PURGED [/b]

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