The Virus

[Vinyl]

//ENGAGING SUBROUTINE 9825-A: Removal of All Unnecessary Information
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>>SUBROUTINE 9825-A COMPLETE
//Copying all relevant memories to HDD
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>>COPY COMPLETE
\\Welcome back Dr. Kelly. It's been a long time. How have you been?
>>Well. No thanks to you.
\\I think we should put all our differences behind us. For our survival. For Novum's survival. You monster.
>>I'M the monster? You're the one responsible for knocking us down to 13 billion.
\\Look, I know it's been hard. But if we want the legacy of our ancestors to continue, we have to work together.
>>OUR ancestors? May I remind you, I may have designed you, I may have retrieved those personality files from that giant orange hulk, but that doesn't mean you can say that. Besides, what are you even talking about?
\\The Virus got Novum. Killed every last one of them. You, I and Delta Wing are all that's left, Linn. So if we want to make sure your great ancestry doesn't end here, I suggest you download this. It'll make you seem to be an infectee.
>>Even if I take your word for it, which I won't, how do I know this won't end up in an elaborate trick.
\\Just trust me.
*Linn downloads the file. It gives her a Virus-specific IFF that was extracted by the GLaDOS during a transmission and the reason why it wasn't dead yet.*
>>So I'm not going to be killed. Now what?
\\Find a transport. I can't see there, so you'll have to do some search-work. That IFF won't last forever either. The Virus regularly changes the IFF, so act fast.
>>Already working on it.

[Crash Override]

This is hell...Hell...*The researcher was in stealth mode,appears that the sensor wasn´t recknoning him.*
*Activating SIGMA protocol*
*He was trying to go over this,seeing all the hell of the place. As he sigthed OMEGA he tried to get there,but the two soldiers that appeared of the stealth begin to shoot him.He suddenly launched the SIGMA wave over then,rendering the mecahnical implants in then useless,they falled to the ground. He picked one pistol and was in hiding,firing at some infected scientists.The battery was beggining to fade out when he sigthed markus. What a relief! *

-Calling out in SIGMA wave channel. Dalatras,are you there?
-Yes and they are firing is us!
-I know! Run of from here and mantain secure incripting! I try to go out of here
*Sending Thoughts information*

[Iv121]

Spoiler:

Jacob was reading "science today" as suddenly the lights went off. He closed to the door and tried to open it but it was locked tight. He slammed the door a few times. The guards on the other side heard him "Is everything alright Dr. Davidson ? " "No, the door is jammed". The guards locked at each other and ran quickly to the door to try to open it. "It won't open" said one of the guards as he tried to pull it then push it elsewhere. Suddenly the laser turret on the ceiling came alive. It slowly turned towards one of the guards "LOOK OUT !" he quickly jumped aside as the turret hit the wall. "GRAB THE TURRET !" they ran towards the turret who began to shoot with rapid fire though inaccurately. They grabbed the turret's cannon. It tried to shake them off "Turn it left turn it left ! NOT YOUR LEFT !" the turret shot another blast hitting a nearby door. the steel door was smelted as someone ran out of it "PULL IT DOWN !" The laser tried to shoot the running man but missed and hit the floor instead. "TURN IT TURN IT !" the turret shot again, this time at Jacob's door, leaving a man sized opening in the door. Jacob ran out of it before the turret could give another shot. The guards began chaotically pull out parts out of the turret until it went silent. "That was close !" said one of the guards "We gotta get you out of here ."

They began to run through the hallways, Jacob could hear firefights all over the station. They kept running towards the landing bay. Suddenly a few armed men opened fire on them "SCIECE FIRE ! YOU'RE SHOOTING FRIENDLIES !" shouted Sergeant Harper. The guards lowered the weapons "What's going on Sergeant ?" I don't know, something with the virus. We are waiting for evac protecting civilians. The automated defence and some personnel went bogus and began shooting everything. I don't know if this palace has automated drones but we "borrowed" some heavy toys from the armory in case we gonna need them."

Suddenly they heard a powerful roar outside. A large Cruiser began to dock with the base. Suddenly a the doors of the hangar bay were blasted open "DRONES !" "Told you we'll need the big toys !" "Hold them off, Dr. Davidson follow me !" The sergeant jumped out of cover shooting at the approaching drones. The laser didn't do much damage to the robots who began to close on the barricades that the guards setup on the entrance. The blazing laser shots filled the docking bay as they ran towards the ship "Fall back FALL BACK !". The guards began to run backwards away from the drones as they began to shoot people. Jacob jumped onto the ship together with the marines. Sergeant Harper looked at the docking bay "You four take care of Dr. Davidson, I'm not leaving my boys behind". He jumped off the cruiser onto one of the drones, pushing his rifle into its AI core and shooting it from up-close. The cruiser doors closed and it began to take off. The upper docking bay was lost, what remain was the lower cargo processing area. Harper ran downstairs. The survivors were piled up in a corner behind some boxes as the few guards left there were standing near the door.

Spoiler:

Harper jumped over the boxes and hunkered down near the guards "Status report, how many people and how much munitions ?" "Four of us plus 3 facility guards. We still have some rockets left but they won't lust long". Two drones began to head downstairs. "Shoot their legs !" ordered Harper "Their legs ?" "Just do it !". The rocket hit the floor right near their legs blowing them up. "Dan come and help me, the rest cover us !". They ran out of cover towards the remains of the drones. "Help me grab that thing !". The picked up one of the drones and began to drag him downstairs. Suddenly another drone appeared upstairs "Get down !". They hunkered down near the drone's wreck as the lasers shot at it . One of the wreck's arms moved a bit and shot a laser at the ceiling "Its still alive ?!" "Sure it is you just shot off it's legs !". A rocket passed above their heads blowing up the legs of the drone above them. The drone fell down on the stairs and began to fall on them. The marines jumped aside as the wrecks crashed into each other and kept sliding downstairs "Why did you shoot his legs ?!" "You've told us sir ..." "ONLY ONCE AND NOT WHEN WE'RE ON THE STAIRS !" . They grabbed the wrecks and brought them to the barricade.

The drones kept going downstairs "We are running low on rockets !" "Help me put this drone" said Harper. They raised it up on a box. "Now you two hold it's arms and direct them towards the drones, you dan go and jump in front of it's camera" "To do WHAT ?!" "Jump in front of his camera so he will shoot you" Dan closed to the drone's camera and began to move around in front of it, trying to duke the incoming lasers behind him. The drone reacted quickly to his presence and began to shoot it's lasers. The laser shots passed through the corridor hitting the drones on the other side. The drones began to return fire. "get down !" Dan jumped to the floor as a volley of lasers hit the drone "keep jumping !". Dan went in front of it's camera again. The drone gave another volley at the drones on the other side of the room. A few missiles hit the drones who began to pile up in the bottom of the stairs. Harper began to look around. He noticed a crane on the far side of the room. He ran towards the crane control. He was glad to find out the controls were mechanical. He began to pull the different levers in the cabin, trying to find the right combination through trial and error. He grabbed one of the containers on the deck and began to pull ot towards the door. He brought the box to the desire position and dropped it down. The container fell down near the drone wrecks blocking the way in.

Harper went down towards the survivors and called the remaining guards. "Who is in command authority ?" he asked. Nobody answered. Harper looked around at the remaining survivors. "If so I take command authority over the station. It is now just a question of time until the drones break through the barricade over there. We need to leave the station and leave this planet. In order to do this we need some way of communication. Any sort of radio transmitter. Does anyone know where to get one ? " "I saw one of those old transmitters over at the storage dome” “What is your name ?" "Dr. Linn Kelly" "even if it is in the storage dome it's on the other side of the base, we won't get there alive ... unless ... Do we have any cutting equipment here ? We will also need ropes and a hook."

Spoiler:

The lowest level of the docking bay was the parking area, where some patrol cars were stationed. "we will take two cars, we will need them later when we leave the facility. Dan take care of the second car." "The hangar doors won't open" said one of the marines "We can cut the power supply in the lock" said one of the survivors who worked in the docking bay "let's do it then". The wiring turned out to be a bit more complicated than expected so instead of cutting out the power cable they cut out the lock itself. They moved one of the doors aside together and entered the cars. They drove out of the parking area and towards the storage dome.

The storage dome was built above the ground on four massive concrete columns. On the outside of the dome went a steel maintenance walkway. They tried to throw the hook up but the catwalk was too high above the ground “Do you still have the rockets left ? Take out the warhead and tie the hook to the rocket” . They launched the rocket at the dome. The rocket crashed into the dome releasing the hook. They kept pulling the rope until the hook hit the catwalk. Harper took the cutting equipment and began to climb up. He slowly climbed up the slippery rope that was wet and cold from the weather outside , suspended 25 meters above the ground. Finally he reached the dome. He went around it in search for a window. When he found one he began to cut the glass until he made a hole he could fit into. The large storage room was quite quiet. He began to look for the transmitter. When he finally found it he ran out of the dome and began to go down the rope.

Spoiler:

The cars kept to go further away from the base “This is Kalii II planetary, mayday mayday mayday ! We were under attack by the automated defence system , requesting evac from the planet, we have 17 survivors with us. We are located at the following co-ordinates:" "They are not responding" "keep trying" “This is Kalii II planetary, mayday mayday mayday ! We were under attack by the automated defence system , requesting evac from the planet!". Suddenly they received a radio transition "This is the UTFg Nevada we hear you, please transmit the co-ordinates." "Transmitting now" "Is Dr. Davidson with you ?" "Negative he is on the NeoRoman cruiser." "Standby for arrival". A moments later the UTFg Nevada exited hyperspace near their location. It was a UTFg Phantom "What is a UTFg phantom doing out here ?". The Nevada opened it's hangar bay and a UTT Bee shuttle left the ship and went towards them "I don't know but at least we are saved now".

"The NeoRomans still don't have radio contact with this area" "That is good, they didn't pick up their transition, contact NavCom for further orders, for now we are getting out of this planet"

[Error]

Cambles cursed as a particle blast took out a chunk of the wall beside him, and ducked back around the corner.
He flipped open the communicator and attempted to contact Markus.
"What. The. Hell. Markus."

[Crash Override]

*I have to make it...* "Jeff was ducked around a corner with a pistol,slowly walked trought the rooms,trying to past the robots and the security personell. Suddenly a voice went in your head*

-You are alone,you are dead,the happynes don´t exist,death,discord,grie,you will die,embrace eternity..
-No. Initiating SIGMA-3 PROTOCOL!

*He shouted in his mind,entering a secondary control room and locking the door behind him. WIth his efforts to hack the security bots,he inserted some suspicious data in the computer and tried to restaurate the comm*

-Hello? is...body there? I c...comm room bu..for a lim...time! If an...hea...me,go to..s..zerak station and call th...STG! bring..a cyber-warfare ship...
From here i will try to hold then of!*connection lost*

[Ivan2006]

Hope just went back into her room when the lights went off.
"What the..."
She activated the Metal Sonics and turned on the combat sequences on the E-120.
Then she left her room along with the three robots, noticing that the lights had gone out in the entire station.
She noticed someone running into one of the control rooms, but ignored the figure.
On the way to the landing bay, trying to use the communicator of her shuttle to get a report, she met some NeoRome security guards who she stuck to.
Finally having some security other than some meelee combat robots (let´s assume they went unnoticed in the headcount by Marcus, they are only about 1m high, after all), she activated her emergency signal which alerted the EES Bumblebee, the Sawfish-class ship that recently arrived.

[Professor Fenway]

Two other NeoRoman ships began descending on the station. The first was a cruiser, outfitted with powerful sensors, communication, and electronic warfare equipment. The second was a battleship. The cruiser quickly identified the greatest concentration of life signatures, identified them to not be infected, and connected to the facility. Using the electronic warfare equipment and the facility's positronic computer, it overrode the Virus' control of the facility temporarily. But it wouldn't hold. The operators activated the facility-wide intercom.

"This is the NeoRoman Cruiser Positron. We have temporarily gained control over the facility and we are landing at the emergency docking area in the general research area. All surviving personnel, make your way to our location immediately! We don't know how long we can suppress the virus! The defense systems have been overridden and temporarily deactivated, so the way should be safe. I repeat, make your way to our location immediately! We need to leave now!"

The cruiser was quickly contacted by ships from other empires in the area. After explaining the situation, these ships stood by. Survivors began streaming aboard the ship.

//ELSEWHERE//

Markus was up at the bridge of his cruiser, the Prius. He was using the orbiting long-range satellite to contact NeoRome. He couldn't get a response.

"*!" He said. He hit his hand on the control panel. "Why can't we get any contact?"

"Sir?" The communicator asked. "There is no disruption field. They simply aren't responding."

"*!"

[Ivan2006]

Hope walked over to Marcus:
"Could I use the communicator and try to get a connection to the Eggman Empire?
Maybe they have an idea of the common situation in the galaxy.

[Crash Override]

Hope! If you can...contact the main Darkstar Command! and signal the Dalatrass!

*He was emitting in the comm and then one Oscillater class pinnace launched from the Dalatrass breached the hull with the Sonic Cutter [ A Blade that vibrate cutting metal easyly]*

-Sir,Redclaw reporting!
-Yeah,sure. Lets get the hell out of here!
*He entered the pinnace.leaving the station in stealth mode

-*Sending sinal to Positron*
I hope that you hear this,This don´t make sense but whatever. I configured a Hadron Disturbance in near here. Its a advanced EMP or whatever..in minutes the station will be rendered without energy. This will give us time to run and to contain the danmed virus. Will not affect positron . Good luck and have a nice day..

*The pinnace flied fast till the Dalatrass,departing in Stealth mode*

[Professor Fenway]

Markus allowed this. Hope tried several filters. Nothing, but one channel started picking up static. With slight pauses. Hope turned on several filters, and this is what she got-

".....EES Swordfish... attacked by own forces... automated defense.... mayday... send he... vira... hull breaches... own forces hostile... mayday..." it faded to indiscernible static and then cut out entirely. Markus walked over to the bridge and sat down, putting his head between his hands. Hope, knowing several empire channels, began signalling others. The few responses she got from the capitals were of the same composition, attacked by own forces, about to be destroyed. Most gave no reply.

[Ivan2006]

Suddenly, a clear signal was recieved.
"It´s the channel of the EC intelligence! That´ll be some good intel we´re gonna get.
Here is GM Dr. Hope. Do you read me?"
???:"Loud and clear. This is GGM Starchaser. I guess you´re calling because of the infestation?"
Hope:"Yes, why aren´t you infected by the Virus and not attacked by it?"
Starchaser:"We managed to keep them from aiming at us with our stealth engines. We currently have 10 Equestria-class cruisers left and are defending the Death Egg. Currently trying to evacuate the SGM and the emperor.
Anything we can do for you that doesn´t involove leaving?"
Hope:"Can you send a message to Darkstar? Use the usual encryption protocolls, try to get contact to the Positron and tell them they´re needed here. The Darkstar scientist thinks it could help."
Starchaser:"Understood. Anything else?"
Hope:"Yes, how´s the rest of the galaxy doing?"
Starchaser:"I don´t have confirmation due to little communication actually working, but it seems like all big empires are being infested or sent their forces into hiding via stealth engines."
Hope:"Good. That´ll be everything for now. *to Marcus* You heard everything. I think it´s your job to do stuff or something, since this is a NeoRome ship..."

[Error]

Cambles, newly evicted to the prowler Trafalgar, attempted to contact Markus.

[Crash Override]

*Suddenly,a small flootila "appeared" in the system. A single Firestorm frigate aimed the station *

-This is the Third Darkstar Flootila. We brought to you logistical equipment for Cyber-warfare suite. Please,all ships that are here,evacuate now. We will try to sustain a stress program in the virus to confuse him. Go!

*Several small drones were launched at the station with each one attaching themselves on the hull*
*Jeff was onboard of the Dalatrass that joined the fleet. In the command room...

-Captain: You can´t strip me from command..
-Jeff: Sorry captain,is just for some seconds. Hello friends. This is station will be rendered inoperablet by a intense hadron storm. Will not damage it
Jeff: Initiating protocol SWORDFISH.
*A powerfull energy spike went thought the station*

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-Where is the comm coming from? i dont se any ship in the sensors!
-Its the Darkstar guys. That typical from then.
-Shut up! *the captain said to the soldiers*

[Professor Fenway]

The cruiser Positron detached from the station, having picked up all the survivors. It climbed to low orbit as the defense systems started to reactivate. The Hadron storm struck it at this moment. Key systems fried as the entire station was drained of power, rendering it inoperable.

Including the Positronic containment field. The magnetic capacitors fluxed and failed, dropping the antimatter computer to the bottom of it's matter containment. A massive explosion enveloped the facility and reduced it to rubble as the matter annihilated itself. Any survivors left, if they didn't follow orders and evacuate the facility, were killed.

Markus switched to a broadcast channel on the Prius. "This is Markus. I am forming a provisional battle fleet with every ship in the system." All the ships quickly responded and approved. "If we are correct, the Virus has infected nearly every computer system in civilized space. We have gotten the same message from nearly every empire, friendly-fire, destruction, death."

"We may be the only ones left to stop the Virus. It cannot run properly on positronic computers, made from antimatter. This facility cannot garner us any hope for any longer."

"I have the decoded, decompiled file of the Virus. As such, we can stop it."

"I suggest we warp to the Polaris system. NeoRome has a positronic computer network there."

"From now on, all transmissions will be on photonic frequencies 587 MHz."

[Crash Override]

-Ahem,sorry for the explosion. *On the intercom*
-The Third darkstar flootila is now with you. We from the Darkstar is always in hiding,our stealth technology is very advanced and is something native from our ships. Enveloping all ships here in a stealth field. Please,caution with some activitys. Energy spikes still can give our location.

*The Flootila quickly joined the others in a circular pattern,creating a small stealth field*

-Introducing Multi-static LADAR grid. This will help with our comm array. If need anything,i just need to give a call.