10/12/2017, 04:07 PM #155 Military owned backroad in California
Mission accomplished. The subject had begun their retreat just as planned. Now Sidna just needed to track them. From the drones Sidna still had left, Sidna released many small drones onto the ship. Most of them were small spider bots a few cms in size. They were only the decoys. The real trackers were small tokens roughly three mms in diameter, having only the bare minimum needed to transmit a signal when they were within a wireless network. The catch was that unlike the spider drones, or other trackers, they could not produce a network on their own, meaning that Sidna had to hope they were going someplace with a wireless network. The good part was that finding a place without wireless network was hard, and the tracker only had to send a single signal to indicate where they were. If the ship went underground, where there would most likely not be any signal, they still had to get underground somehow.
In case she was lucky, Sidna also had some of the spider drones attach themselves to the ship. The other drones began cutting into the ship, installing better trackers internally instead.
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Sidna tried to monitor the situation with Jason and Accelerator as closely as possible. As she already had many eyes on the super soldiers, she could redirect more of the reconnaissance drones towards Jason and Accelerator. It was, however, a bit hard while they were zooming around the forest at high speed. It became much easier when they slowed down, as she could use the infrared vision and for some drones normal cameras to get a good idea of what was happening. She was amazed when Jason managed to hurt Accelerator, making a note to analyze the data she had gathered further at a later point. That was the end of the good news. It turns out that another group had made their way towards Jason and Accelerator, how they managed to find them Sidna did not know. Maybe from the sound created by Accelerator destroying the environment? It didn't look like they intended on just watching the fight either. As soon as they arrived, the match was over. Judging by their abilities, they were likely some of the espers know to work together with Accelerator. It was clear that the prototype of Project ACHILLES was a failure. In addition to that, the group working with Accelerator, which was supposed to be top-secret had revealed themselves.
The best course of action was if Accelerator had killed Jason without any help. It would reveal the prototype as a failure; more pressure would be put on Accelerator, and no significant investigation would take place. The espers helping Accelerator could more easily be kept top-secret. At the same time, Sidna could try to convince the government to create a better prototype. Perhaps she could use this event if she just fudged some of the details? From there, Sidna could persuade the government into taking a more active role in the fight against the terrorist groups.
Sidna then proceeded to begin the preparations. The first thing she started was constructing a fake video using the data gathered of Accelerator defeating and finally shooting Jason in the head. She then made several calls. The first one was to a doctor she knew that worked within the government and has previously worked on Jason. "Hey doc, would you mind if I asked for a favor? I need a corpse that looks exactly like Jason. Oh, and please put a bullet hole through his head. I need it ready within the next 12 hours. Can you do that?" Sidna said. "Well... You see, do I have to do this? I wanted to put that stuff behind me. Besides, 12 hours is a bit soon" the doctor answered. "You know what happens if you don't do it right? I'll send some soldiers over to retrieve the corpse in around 12 hours" Sidna replied. "Yeah sure," the doctor reluctantly answered.
She then called the current chairman of the project, if he could even be called that as he was only a substitute for the demoted previous chairman. "Hello, mister chairman. I have bad news for you. The prototype of project ACCHILES has been deemed a total failure. I'll give you the full report later, but the basic gist is that he managed to escape the transport. While escaping, he managed to run into the terrorist known as Accelerator. They fought, and Accelerator won, killing the prototype. I'll hand you a video clip of it later. We'll begin investigating the site in around 12 hours when we know it's safe" Sidna told him.
(In case it matters, Sidna is doing those things in parallel, not sequentially)
Born in the light.
Molded in the dark. Never Forget,
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Don't Forget.
Always, somewhere,
someone is fighting for you.
As long as you remember her,
you are not alone.
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