Audacious

Myriad Reality

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*we slowly reach the other side as the massive door is opened to us, pressure escaping towards the open space and I smile when I jump, letting it suck me into the doorway*

@Extra

W-aye!
*The pressure involuntarily pulls me through right behind you, due to my deceptively low weight*

Myriad Reality

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*glances back then turns to look at both of you, rolling my eyes and helping you both up, pointing at my eyes the then I lean on the wall, waving you to follow*

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*waves you to follow as I push through, grabbing on to a handrail that is lining the outer walls from a very sturdy catwalk*

@Extra

*Wraps both arms around the railing at your signal, and despite the fact that the chaotic shifts send my body flailing in all directions at their whim, I hold tightly without seeming to strain very much*

Myriad Reality

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*pulls down the lever with a hefty slam and an alarm rings as interconnected locks move and a loud screech is heard from the door. I quickly step ahead of you and lean against the wall, shortly after the door begins to move and open, almost all sound seems to disappear and a shower of luminescent colors fills the corridor. An almost overwhelming wave of pressure torrents through the room, gravity beginning to push and pull in all directions. Through the goggles the light is filtered through a multitude of shades of blues and greens. The door reveals a colossal room with eight gigantic mechanical arms four on top and four on bottom that have what appears to be glowing pads on each end, pointing towards the center. The center is what appears to be a giant atom, but is two massive metallic rings that rotate and flow around a core, the rings being two stellarators and in the middle of the ring being a nuclear core within cube that is expanding and contracting simultaneously. You all feel the thrumming of the core’s power.*

@Extra

*Puts on the goggles and stands against the wall. In the midst of all the forces pulling in every direction, I look largely unphased except for the fact that I very slightly slide off my feet and up the wall a small ways*
There is no way this is normal practice.

Myriad Reality

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Lattice? That’s interesting.
*flips the panel and removes a cover, replacing some electrical parts with some from my pocket, after I type in a code and flip four switches*
…I think you will be fine, but we have to wrap something over the wounded Isis metal patch.
*flips another switch and three green lights sequentially turns on, the final flashing green I go to the trunk and rummage through it*

@Extra

I still have that bandage I guess, unless it needs something more.

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*Lifts my shoulders and drops them*
I haven't asked. It can understand you, at least.

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What does that do?

@Legend

So it's an AI?

Myriad Reality

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Maybe Panda will be able to tell you once and for all? I really don't like the idea of being burned to death because I said something wrong.

@Legend

Is it sentient?... Also, I'm not burning either of you arbitrarily. I would just want to keep something from happening.

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I am pretty sure you and David, I don't know who else.

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*breathes in sharply*
That is what I was worried about. We are coming up to an experimental reactor and if you are made of metal you may not have a good time like we are.

@Extra

Not metal. It's... Well, all I've ever had it described to me as is "a lattice". But it's definitely not metal.

Myriad Reality

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*Hurt briefly flashes across my face*
This is the worst possible time for it, y'know.

@Legend

I hate that I have to say it too. But as long as I stand on the ground that I'm not gonna succumb to the old movie trope of shooting the doppelgänger, I just have to assume one of you two might try and ruin everything. I know you don't want that.

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Well, this reactor has a funny thing. Normal humans can survive well in it, but I don't know how outsiders fare.

@Extra

*Waves my hand dismissively*
I'll be fine. My body isn't even organic anymore. Nothing to hurt.

Myriad Reality

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Believe that both of you are Isis? What is there not to believe?
*takes a left and down a curved corridor where the humming is growing louder*

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Some of these guys are a little too confident in forgetting stuff and nothing happening. It’s how I get into some special areas that are more of a private room. Found a badge that allowed me into a personal break-room with a popcorn machine!
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If you don’t mind, what are your abilities exactly?

@Extra

If it's all the same, I'll keep that one little tidbit private for now. It's the one thing I have over someone who I just met in this situation.

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That's a really good idea, actually. And I think Zinnia will be able to use Pamda instead of me.

@Legend

*Nods*
I thought it might be agreeable, at worst. I'm just sorry we're in a position where I can't fully trust you right now.

Myriad Reality

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What do you have in mind instead?

@Host

You both wait outside. Maybe I still let you both in to offer guidance or something, but I confine you both to a small space with a cage of superheated air to prevent the fake from making potential moves to sabotage.

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You wouldn’t I lifted the emergency authority measures to allow specific people to go without a badge, you and your clone are one of them.

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Oversight is upstairs past the reactor and I can almost guarantee that someone dropped a badge or two under the machines or desks.

@Extra

I hope you're right, but that seems like such a gamble to be depending on.

Myriad Reality

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Okay, now that the fake is optimistic, I feel even worse about this whole situation.

@Legend

I think it might be best to go ahead and throw this out there now. I’m not sure it’s the best idea for either of you to actually access this thing with us. Just in case whichever is the fraud is malicious.

Myriad Reality

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It's going to be fine. We'll get you a badge, access Panda, and push Dark Dynamo out of this universe once and for all.

@Host

There we go! Just like a good movie.