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Unlike some of the people in the room, who seemed more inclined to yell at the child AI or declare that she was going to get destroyed--not that he could blame them for being angry about the whole containment thing--Encke was more inclined to answer her questions. When she asked, after rubbing at his ear because of that annoying screech, he smiled.

"I suspect it has something to do with our starseeds," replied Encke, tapping his chest as a way to show this. "We have powers granted to us by planets in space." Or some kind of Chaos queen, he guessed. He wasn't really sure how Negaverse power worked, other than it was a perversion. He supposed the Dark Mirror Senshi were the same, but he didn't spend too much time focusing on that. "That must sound strange, but it gives us abilities unlike normal humans. Magic, strength, speed, the ability to see your Lambda Unit, I suppose."

They hadn't exactly gone looking for the strange monument that decided to show up in their city particularly, but when they stumbled upon it, they were definitely able to see it.

As he listened to the AI talk, it seemed that she was starting to get ... confused. There were more curious responses from her, remarks about memes on the internet--he was sure there were plenty of people there who could fill in the aliens on memes--and then she just ... cut herself off.

Did Delta say she liked them?

"Are you okay, Delta?" asked Encke, cautiously. A nearby lieutenant seemed concerned, too. Unusual, to see concern from an agent, but this AI was likely in control of their ability to leave at the moment...

General Zircon

Zircon was done with this tower and anything it had to offer. While it was heartening that no automaton was any match for a well coordinated team of Metallia's finest (and some other people, she supposed), she'd had quite enough of anything to do with being contained, and no friendly looking alien child would deter her.

"We're leaving," she muttered under her breath to Sinoite, distrustful of the 'healing' square that had been provided for them. Let the others ask ridiculous questions of this programmed girl, who clearly had no interest in their safety or health except as it applied to her program. Zircon would be no one's experiment, nor would she allow any of the subordinates she'd collected to come to harm.

In the process of reaching for Sinoite's hand to lead him away, she caught sight of a familiar feather headdress in the crowd and started to shove her way between the rest of the fodder, the senshi and knights in between Zircon and her corrupt. "Are you hurt?" she spoke lowly, looking for signs of injury, and then her glance traveled up a swath of blue and purple to look at Fafnir, her lips pursed. He shouldn't have been here. Neither of them should have been here.

(She made no notice of the hell bird. It was beneath her.)

"Hold hands," she ordered of the senshi pair, and then she reached forward for Sweetite and back for Sinoite, who had been left to the crowd. With all four of them in contact, she closed her eyes and called for Negaspace--and scowled when it gave no answer, leaving them stuck in this facility still. Zircon turned her gaze upon the Delta figure, her eyes narrowing, and she stepped forward to put herself between her and Sinoite, should it come to a fight.

She counted at least two other generals in the room, as well as Camelot, his aura as oppressive as always. She'd yet to see any of the true terrors of the Negaverse present--Obsidian, Cinnabar, Labyrinthite--but the raw power in this room could fell armies and overall had little interest in complying to Delta's request. They were leaving the obelisk, one way or another--it was just a matter of how much some of them would bleed first. The better their plan, the less the people who mattered would bleed.

"Teleportation's still out," she murmured in hushed tones, matching Fafnir's dark expression. She watched as sensors blinked from blue to red behind the unit and the wrinkle in her brow deepened, glancing from Delta back to the others. "When this comes to blows--and it will--I want you to stay together, watch your backs, strike when there are openings." There was so much she wanted to say to these new recruits, so many ways to survive, but she lacked the time and the privacy to share her hard-won secrets. When they got back, training was getting doubled for sure. She would not have them caught so unaware a second time. They deserved better than this.

General Arsenopyrite

Arseno grinned under his mask. If there was one thing he could count on with Beni, it was a plan. And if Arseno was correct, Beni was probably trying to make the program, Delta, question what it was actually doing. It reminded him of a certain boss in World of Warcraft, Algalon the Observer who had declared the world in need of "re-orginiating" and the raid had to defeat it to make it realize that the world was worth saving.

It wouldn't quite be like that in this case though, there would probably be less fighting, and it seemed as though Delta was here only to capture a certain number of subjects and do what it was programmed to do with them rather than worry about the rest of the planet.

"Right. I'm with you." Arseno said, whispering back, and letting Beni do the talking first. Arseno only now agreed that being 'nice' to the program might be of use to them, only in the way that it might make it change it's 'mind'. Some of the others were joining in, however, when one senshi spoke up telling the program exactly how senshi got their powers, Arseno had to quickly go and grab Mithra's arm, as she was about to go and clearly either punch or kill the senshi. She looked back at him, her eyes telling him she was going to kill that other senshi. Arseno looked at her with a look that said, "not now, later." She growled, but backed off, he could still tell that she was seething though.

He felt sorry for that senshi in case they ever went up against her.

Since Beni seemed to want to take advantage of the situation, Arseno would try to help. "You've been reading our internet. I hope that you have been learning quite a bit about us, and I'm sure if you ignore most of the vitrol that's spouted on there, you will know that humans are compassionate beings, beings with free will." He wouldn't mention any mental illnesses that left people out of control of their actions. "So, even if we are ordered to do something, we have the choice not to. Why would your creators not give you that choice Delta? Why should you have to do what they say?" The problem with Arseno was that he was not good with words under pressure.

Something he would have to work on once he actually had to start working with patients. "Do you like your Creator, Delta? Are you sure about that?" If they could start to get the program to question what it was doing...


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DMS Super Mithra

Mithra was practically foaming at the mouth with fury. She couldn't believe that one of the senshi was STUPID enough to actually go and tell a hostile program where they got their ******* powers from! What the **** was wrong with people and why were senshi so stupidly naieve as to go and tell a program all of their secrets?!? She felt herself moving towards the senshi, ready to kill him. She wasn't having a repeat of that stupid Altea thing. Too many of her fellow Dark Mirror had been dumb enough to feed that queen all of the information she needed to know, and look how that had turned out! What was wrong with all of these people?! Did they not have any common sense?!?!?

She was taken out of her rage as she felt an a hand around her arm and she whirled around, ready to punch whomever it was who was holding her arm when she saw that it was Arseno. She cooled down a bit, knowing that he had only done it to stop her, but he gave her a look, and she knew that any punching would have to wait a bit. But if I ever see that senshi while I'm out... she thought, still seething.

She moved back, this time more towards Arseno, as she knew that he would keep her in check, and probably keep her from making some terrible decisions based on how angry she was. It seemed however, that he had been talking to another General, and they had plans of some sort... she would let them do it. She knew if she said anything now, it would most likely be to antagonize the dumb program. He had already let go of her at this point, and while she was sad about it, she knew now wasn't the time for any romantic gestures.

She felt another reassuring squeeze and realized that Acubens was back, and quite a bit of rage flew away from Mithra. At least she had one person here, besides Arseno, that she could count on to go in with fists flying.

General Zircon

Given the choice of going into combat headfirst or planned, Zircon was normally the sort to err on the side of caution, preferring contingencies be set in place and tactics well thought out. However, the seconds that went by while she waited for signs of the tides turning were a special sort of agony that set her hair on edge, pulled at her shoulders until she felt frozen and stiff. There seemed to be no particular source to the humming around them, no power source to destroy and free them all, and so it meant fight. That being said, Zircon needed to save her energy to teleport them all back to safety when the alliance of convenience was inevitably broken and all hell broke loose--but if she held back in the battle to come, there might not be subordinates to take to Negaspace.

While she considered her options, she eyed the other blonde general on his approach, knowing him better by face than by name but registering as familiar all the same. "We are managing," she replied, professional but curt as she eyed the company he'd joined them from. Benitoite was a seasoned veteran of the Negaverse, a general for many years and an authority--but Zircon was a general now, too, and she didn't have to grovel at his feet because he'd earned his stripes.

His proposition was about as interesting as the company he kept, namely the mirror senshi--was he just trying to play for allies in the moment, or did he really think that the Dark Kingdom had any room for competition? "I'm listening," she added, tentative but willing to hear him out. Mayhem was not her specialty, but she'd picked up a trick or two along the way, and the reality was that there was safety in numbers when it looked like a fight was inevitable. "What did you have in mind?"

Placeholder for acrucis/ slidr while I figure out what's going on.

Lieutenant Strengite

Strengite might not be the best of fighters but she was very perceptive so when Beni didn't reply to her flirting like he normally does, laughing it off or flirting back, she knew he wasn't in the mood for her shenanigans. His loss. "You don't look too bad yourself, I just ended up a bit shocked on one of the 'games' but I'll live." Silver eyes took in the smaller General before once more eyeing the rest that clustered around her boss. "Well that's no fun but I guess I can do that," Only mostly faking the pout she presented Strengite backed off and just hung back, watching the Q&A proceed around her. The urge to make a sarcastic quip was squashed forcefully.

She absently rose a brow when Delta answered her question. It knew about memes? It studied the internet? Well wasn't that interesting. It made her want to ask some more asinine questions like if it liked cat videos or dog ones. Or something else equally stupid but she held her tongue especially when another general (Arsenopyrite) joined Beni's little harem, it wasn't lost on her that he had mostly girls around him. God she hoped her outfit wouldn't have that many layers! The lieutenant eyed the new fellow and contemplated messing with him only to toss that idea out... for a few different reasons. Primarily because Delta was apparently having an argument with someone they couldn't see or hear. That did not bode well for the large gathering here, nor did those red symbols flashing across the screen behind the hologram. What's the other reason you ask? Because now wasn't the time... later maybe but not now.

The busty nega officer could feel the tension rise in her, the feeling that a fight was rapidly brewing and there was nothing she could do about it. When the new general quietly murmured his concern Strengite silently agreed, you can say that again bird boy. Even the brightly colored brunette (Mithra) was itching for a fight, not that the lieutenant really blamed her, she wanted a good fight too. One that wasn't a giant kids game, one where she could feel the flesh beneath her knuckles give way. Apparently though Beni had a slightly different plan then just punching someone. A more devious plan.

One that would hopefully pit the hologram against it's creator. The ashen blonde general spoke up, asking questions about what Delta had found out on the web as two more people joined them, another girl and a new boy. The girl (Acubens) had a pretty cool purple get up and curdles Strengite envied, the boy was all green and gold and plant-y(Itokawa) and honestly looked a bit lost as far as Strengite was concerned.

Even as the other general and the DM senshi started to pepper Delta with leading questions Beni apparently needed to further his plan. Her silver eyes narrowed in suspicion when he started to warn the two, Acubens and Arseno apparently, to get them out of here when it all blew up in their faces. She wasn't entirely happy with that plan. Strengite wanted to fight not run! And he was going off too!

Since he hadn't given her a direct order she didn't have to stay back. However, no matter how much it galled her, Beni would be disappointed if she didn't stick with the rest. She was just a lowly lieutenant who honestly stunk at fighting. "Beni... be careful there is a Princess here. Like these 'chicks' here." She muttered her warning before the chibi general left the group to go talk to someone else.

Lieutenant Sinoite

Finding that Sweetite was in fact alive and currently in the company of one of Zircon's....other teammates made the lieutenant...a few mixed emotions. She had survived, perhaps stronger for it. She had proved capable of herself, while he still followed Zircon like a dog on a leash.

He gritted his teeth at the command, almost hissing at the idea of touching hands with Sweetie but it was Zircon who took his and he found himself relaxing. He'd be free soon, and he could get whatever medical attention he needed for the bruised if not broken ribs from the attack.

When they did not teleport out, the pain and the annoyance of the questions asked by the group made Sinoite snap.

"Why are they asking questions in different languages? Why are they asking this AI if it has parents?" Sinoite said it loud enough for the other flock, if they were going to have to fight out of here, he wanted to know DAMN sure what he was facing, not these useless questions.

No wonder the white moons and whatever faction the transparent chaos senshi or whatever didn't have their s**t together. General Zircon at least made sure that they wouldn't waste time on useless resources. The appearance of another general with a crazy plan set the already high strung lieutenant on more edge.

His gaze snapped to Benitotite. "Using a machine that is trying to capture us is like asking the cat that prowls the birdcage in." How did they not see this?

His gaze landed on Zircon, "I'm going to be..." He hesitated because Sweetie was there, and another corrupt senshi, but his eyes were glazing over, "unable to fight well if I remain in my condition general." He looked at her, "If not the heal pad, what other ways is there for me to recover?"