Zen glared silently at the altercation between David and Cass.  Because no violence broke out, he did not need to take any action, but he was prepared for some form of 'Break it up!', if necessary.  He was also maintaining contact with his ship in order to observe the effects of their arrival without the use of an exterior camera.  The gunship WAS his exterior camera, and so he could see that the desert-variety Serris were still around the door right up until the few operational turret guns came online.  One was caught by surprise and had its head blown to pieces, causing the whole of the creature to revert to a viscous floating gel that was incased in a translucent hardened membrane.  With this no-longer-burrowing creature flying about, the turrets were firing at a near-constant pace.  This only made the other creatures more inclined to burrow and attack them directly, though.  Even as they progressed, the turrets would probably all be destroyed, especially since a few other fauna of the planet - more than likely X-copies of the things - were starting to show.  He could see things that were large and shelled insectoid creatures, and at least a few other winged insectoids, as well.  Scanners about the ship which caught their movements confirmed.  They were X.  They were attracted by all the noise.  Nothing to be concerned with yet, but it did prove that the planet was infested.

Time to return to the matter at hand, now that everyone was checked up on and their next move known.  The needed to secure this facility to some extent and locate the main computer chamber.  Kaze and David were on the whole 'patrol and secure' end of things.  The rest were either finishing their check-up with Cass or getting ready to move on.  So, the first thing is that Zen connected to all of their data systems and gave them a basic overlay of the bunker's layout.  He had requested it going in, since it was a Federation facility, and had received it for use to make the first part of their mission easier.  This was the last time that they would be able to get such intel so easily.  From here on out, they were on their own, on that front.  Now, they were in the main entrance/garage.  All vehicles that had been used around here were wrecked beyond repair.  From here, it seemed that a command/communications area was upstairs and connected to the observations area where they had been watching BSL Station and SR-388.  Obviously, constrols and the data in question could also be accessed up there, provided there were no connection problems to the main computer.  However, as something had ripped through this place, to the point where some hallways were positively thrashed, going for the actual mainframe seemed wisest.  It was built right around the main power station for this complex downstairs, sunk underground with the machinery that dug into this area in the first place.  Because this place was obviously still [i]intact[/i], no explosion or meltdown having occurred, the main computer they wanted to access must be usable, the data they came for reachable.

[color=ed1c24][b]"I will attempt to find a working station along the way to ascertain the full extent of damages to the facility.  It will be important as we move towards our objective."[/b][/color]

And with that in mind, we must move on to the results of David and Kaze's sweep of the area.  At first, nothing, but then the sound of people where there had been none caused a couple of far-off rooms to open, and for a few creatures to shuffle on out.  They were going to find a number of these wherever they found humans.  Whatever they were before infection, the Federation referred to these soulless remnants, these shells of what was once human, as mere [url=https://www.metroid-database.com/bestiary/artwork/dc_zombieresearcher_mf.png]zombies.[/url]