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Helga glanced over in complete shock with her blue eyes widening. Seeing her Heckler and Kock P-8 clatter across the tiled floor, the German sergeant quickly recovered from her shock carefully placing the blood tubes on a the table to her side without breaking eye contact with Blindside.

The heavily muscled German woman warily moved toward Blindside's right -- ready to leap in either direction, if the boy attacked. Helga had moved behind another table and then out from the other side of it, being careful not to let the boy realize that she had just tripped the alarm.

"Miss Carter, please look after Miss Goldman, as she recovers," Helga spoke without breaking eye contact with Blindside, "Mr. Joe, perhaps it vould be advizable that you stand down. You, like ze others, vere brought here because of your parents involved with ze program. If you are villing ot stop und listen, ve can help you...."

Helga's voice trailed off, then she saw an electrical blur move in between herself and Blindside. The German's eyes blinked in surprise, when she fully realized that the crackling electrical energy was coming from Nathalia Carter.

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Cpl Alleyne froze in her tracks, when the alert hit the Black Talons comms. The alert was coming from the Infirmary. The black soldier pivoted on one foot and sprinted back toward the infirmary with her own HK drawn.

Ivana spoke up to keep the discussion on the table from becoming a full blown argument, "Rose, Jimmy, take it easy. Let's work with both plans. I want you two to set up the first four gen actives with your fail-safes...," Ivana glanced toward the doctor couple, then turned her gaze at Jimmy Zorn, "And you will set up your first batch of four from the survivors for Stonewall as soon as subjects are procured."

Jimmy Zorn nodded, "Yes Ma'am, we'll be ready to go."

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Caitlin looked over to Roxy and slowly tried to sit up, even though the room felt like it was spiraling. Slowly, the mousy redhead pushed her glasses up where she could see, then held her head, "Ow, damn migranes.... How are we going to.... What are you doing, Roxy?"

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Daedalus heard the alert in the Infirmary, and popped back out of the vent -- making a dead sprint for the nursing station. As the Stonewall assassin passed several Black Talons, he yelled at them, "Hurry up, we can't let the saboteur get away!!!"

"Ivana? It's Black Talon company B returning. We lost our key in engaging one of the escapees. Can you let us in?"

That transmission interrupted Ivana's train of thought, to which the I.O. director blinked hard in surprise. After a couple of moments, Ivana's eyes narrowed into slits as she angrily tapped the comm button on the digital display on the table, "I'm in a meeting right now... Wait... Are you saying that our birds who have flown the coup got away from you!?! Get inside, I need your reports ASAP!"

Ivana switched off the channel and sent a message to someone down there to check on the agents and let them in, drumming her gloved fingers the entire time. Suddenly, the raven haired beauty stood up, began staring out the thick bulletproof windows gazing outside at the wide desert and mountains. Ivana folded her arms in front of her lost in thought for a minute or two, then spoke, "It's only a matter of time before those three will be informing Batman and his minions about us. Which means... we need to strike now. Since we know that Bruce Wayne is involved either as the Batman or as his financier, we'll need to strike Wayne Manor and Wayne Enterprises simultaneously. One thing in our favor as Rose pointed out to me earlier, I've contacted our legal department and have drawn up the appropriate federal warrants. Since that has been done, I would rather catch these heroes flat-footed at their base, than them be in a position to attack me here. And Rose, I think you need to call Redfire in here now; she'll need to be here for this briefing."

Henry sat there, watching. Not saying another word. He was contemplating more than just what was going on here.

Helga pivoted on her heels to keep facing Blindside. Her mind still tried to absorb what all she was seeing. Keeping her face as calm as possible, Helga held out both hands almost in a apologetic nature toward the blind agent, "Take it easy, Mr. Joe. If you are villing, ve can sit and talk zis over."

As Rachel slowly poked her head up over the bed to see what was going on, Cpl. Alleyne reentered the Infirmary with her HK drawn. The black woman's eyes swiftly darted around the people in the room. The blonde girl was just behind a bed peeking with eyes wide open. The goth redhead was crackling with electricity. But what Alleyne duly noted was that Helga Kleinmann was facing the young boy whom she had never laid on before, and her superior had her hands up, The boy is the threat.

Alleyne snapped her HK up and pointed it directly at Blindside flicking the safety off with her thumb. While hold her semi-automatic pistol at the boy with her right hand firmly griping the firearm and her trigger finger ready to fire, Alleyne's left hand was cupped under the gun's grip to stead it for better accuracy, "Drop the whip, kid!!! And put your hands on top of your head!!!"

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Outside of Caitlin's and Roxy's cell, the robots began to falter and then suddenly collapsed amongst the debris falling from the ceiling above them -- echoing very loudly.

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The speaker on the table in Ivana's office squawked, "Director, we have two alerts inside the base! A priority alarm in the Infirmary. Units are closing in on the Infirmary as we speak. The other one is from sensor failures and drone shutdowns in cell block Delta. We're having equipment failures in most of the block. Our sensors, before they completely malfunctioned, picked up a massive increase in gravimetric pressure -- registering ten G's before equipment failure!!!!"

Ivana's eyes widened as she stared at the intercom. Moving over to the table, Ivana's gloved hand pushed a button to respond, "I see from the report on my screen, that two of our subjects were just placed in that cell block. Obviously, one of them is gen active. Flood the entire compartment with knock out gas, and be quick about it!!!"

"Yes Ma' am!!"

Ivana cupped a gloved hand over her chin and nodded, "That... sounds like a viable plan, Henry. The only thing is that the one to go in would have to go in wearing a power suit.... like the Titanium Man armor." The I.O. director glances over at Dr. Jack Summers.