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Cuatela slowly turned to face the bot, redirecting his sensors at the pod. After a minute, he shook his head and allowed the sensors to return to radius scan.

"Nothing. As far as my systems can detect, this thing isn't even here."

[yaaaaay! It's Tso-chan to save the day! Or is it? Haha, I'd been hoping you woild come to us Tso! Welcome!]]
Agent Ginji looked at the pulsating Pod, searching for some way to destroy it and whatever may lay inside, without causing it to release it's contents first. Staring at the cracks on the Pod, Ginji took out his trusty Datapad and did som minor calculations, seeing where he'd have to stand in order to to hit the pod at the right angle to completly pierce the interior, as well as shatter whatever cranial structutre the thing inside had, assuming it was of human-like anatomy. Ginji sighed lightly, and took a few steps back, and then whispered to those around him "Ok everyone...tis pod has a very reflective surface when it comes to projectile protection. If it wasn't already cracking, it would be impossible to destroy with any of the guns we have here. But it's started cracking, so there is a way...Just make sure you don't get hit if the blast ricochets. Agent Cutela, I'll need to borrow your gun for a bit if you don't mind."
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Elsewhere in the room, a certain door's security lock was malfunctioning. It seemed that the keupad's lockking mechanism had been partially damaged by all of the bvarious vibrations today, making it able to go in, but impossible to go out. Fortunatly, there existed two ways to remedy this problem. 1) The Cheif of Security, Agent Tso, could at some point in time manually fix the door from outside and initiallize a full systems Security Reboot from his desk, thus repairing the security sytem that kept the lock in place. 2) Someone could somehow hit the keypad with an incredibly high voltage of energy from a very certain angle to melt right through the core of the keypad and shift the doors lock to Manual mode. The problem with option 2, while seemingly easy, was that the shot woould have to be incrdibly precise due to all the various security protocols set to prevent rouge agents from blasting open whatever doors they felt like. If the keypad was simply and blatantly destroyed without melting only the core, the door as well as it's contents would be sealed away permanantly, untill the Chief of Security himself completed option One.

[[oh trust me, I'm counting on that.]]
Agent Ginji took the rifle and breathed in deely, never actually using one of these before, despite having updated a few with cyber-optic implat options. Stepping to an appropriate position, Ginji once again sighed and took aim. He relaxed his breathing, stood tall, and placed his hand over, but not touching, the trigger. "Allright...One shot...If I miss, the impact will make that pod fall down, and who knows what will happen..." Ginji carefull aimed again, and started charging the Pulse Rifle, breathing to a count, preparing to fire. "One....Two...Thr--" Suddenly, a noise appeared from out of nowhere, startling Ginji. He jerked backwards, slipping in some of the ooze, and in the midst of his fall squeezed the trigger, releasing a fully charged blast at the Pods reflective surface. As predicted, the Energy Pulse rebounded off the pod, doing virtually no damage to it, and flew off in an arc directly behjing GInji and the others, ironically aiming at the same door the noise that startled Ginji had come from. Amazingly enough however, the energy round hit not the door, but the Keypad besides it. The very core of the key pad. Forgetting about the pod momentarily, Ginji handed the Rifle back to Agent Cutela and rushed to inspect what had been done. "Oh s**t...Agent Tso's gonna kill me for this! That blast
disabled this entire damn doors security, so now we'll have to replace it...What is this room anyway? Agent Cutela, come with me, Agent Exe and Tenshi, keep an eye on that pod, but come get me if anythign happens to it!" Slowly, Ginji opened the door to the room, not sure of what to expect on the other side...

[[Aw, you guys are doing a great job. Keep it up!]]

[[I might, especially if you need a doctor. At this point, it looks like you will. XD]]

Tso, banging on the door, was stunned when the distinct sounds of weapons fire rang through the cold metal composite. "Oh crap... They are using live ammo and I'm in a target room." Tso quickly took cover behind some barrels in the corner and hoped noone sprayed the room, because energy weapons would cut right through his protection like butter. As he heard the door open he yelled "Hold your Fire! Friendlies! Don't Shoot!" Tso slowly stood up, hoping that he didn't get incinerated by some brand new recruit with an itchy trigger finger.

Cuatela followed Ginji inside, but stopped short as Ginji ran off yelling. Somewhat confused, Cuatela took a few more steps inside, tracking past Ginji as he did, then lowered his rifle as he recognized Tso. Shaking his head, Cuatela continued looking around the room. Seemed this room was a targeting room of some kind. Cuatela shrugged and walked over toward Tso, careful to keep his rifle pointed away from him.

"As glad as I am to see you three... What's going on in here? I didn't think there were any exercises scheduled for today?"