An hour or two later, and there was much commotion at the museum. It was close to the time of the lecture which would also involve a public display of the artifact. Bris and Dee were two ordinary guards dispatched into the storage room to get the Codex Wheel which was under a reasonable amount of security.
"I can't wait to haul this thing upstairs and rest until shift's over." Said Dee as she opened up the door to storage facility
"I hear yah, I really want to get upstairs and go back to my soup." Briss said following her. He then checked the directory to see where they needed to go. The space was rather massive despite the modest size of the museum.
"You think we can get Chris out for more of that soup before all the vendors close ship?" Dee asked.
"Maybe, depends on how quick we do this thing."
The employees continued chatting and walking through the massive storage space. Unbeknownst to them, they were not alone in this area.
When they approached the container with the artifact they noticed it had been tampered with. The meticulously placed security wards were destroyed without tripping them off. The locks also too, were completely shredded through and no where to be seen was the artifact. "Such wisdom is wasted on infantile species like you!" A rough spiteful voice rang out. The intruder than knocked them over with a sweep of his tail and ran out. The shocked and confused guards called for help but it was bit too late.
"What the hell is that!?" said Briss as he was struggling to get up despite his instinct telling him not to agitate this intruder. Epecially after eyeing the menacing sickle-shaped toe-claws on his feet.
The reptilian figure had already blown up his way out through the museum's wall and was now running through the open streets with absolutely no regard for being seen in public. A group of guards where surrounding the figure now, but he laughed haughtily as he pulled out four orbs that fit barely in his clawed grasp. "None of you are worthy of fighting a warrior like me, much less machines like these!"
With a flick of the wrist these orbs went flying out and rolled on the stony street. The orbs then began to fragment into various parts, as said parts began to rotate and shift around until they had expanded into theropodian robots. These robots despite their whimsical appearance were quite powerful as a stray shot fired from one caused a building's wall to explode into rubble. Even their melee was powerful as the claws on one, glowed with energy that enabled it to sheer through a guard's armor wounding him.
People were already running scared at the sight of these robotic dinosaurs fighting the guard and causing collateral damage to their surrounding. The figure admired the chaos and destruction these automatons were dishing out to these impudent young lifeforms. He then began to continue his running away. "Commander, I have acquired the human relic, I will begin inputting the glyphs so that I may warp out."