"I will try... The generator itself was secured well enough from breaching, but depending on teh strenght of the bombs, they may be able to force it to malfunction despite that. I've protected it from tampering, haven't actually gone the route of giving it a strong blast resistant shell yet. It was planned for when I complete the serial manufacturing design for wider use." It was true, the generator here was a prototype same as the time machine. For the 'comercial' version, she was already finalizing some of the schematics and one of the key features was a nearly indestructable shell and safeties she designed just in case somethign like this happened... sadly those weren't featured on the prototype.
"Rhi, don't get killed... if you have to, just comply with whatever they demand, I will get you out if something happens." She pleaded as they were separating to go both ways in attempts to stop a massive tragedy from occuring. There were thousands of people in the research complex, it was a multi-bulding one, so many pscientists and engineers worked here after all.
Pulling herself away from Rhiannon was the hardest thing she had done in many years, but they had work to do. The machine and the generator had to be stopped. Her first course of action however was to go to the security room and at least take a peek at it from distance. The fact she couldn't see anyone there or outside the door wasn't meaning well for the situation as she crept in closer and snuck a glance inside. The security room was wrecked. The computers smashed, the security guards were both killed. She wanted to throw up at the sight of their dead empty eyes and the holes they had in their heads, but held it in. Their guns were gone... and seh could safely assume that the other guards were likely targeted too. There were more infiltrators than the one they had seen, tehre was whatever number that had snuck in with the inspection group at the main lab, then there were the duo that apepared in the engineering. It wasn't a stretch to assume there were more and now with the communications and emergency alert system out, they could clean up any guards without raising too great a fuss.
"Fuck...fuck...fuck" She growled as she began rummaging around the room for anything of use and to her luck, she quickly located what she was mainly searching for. The guards had a hidden gun stashed away in a hidden spot. It was for situations where something unsuspecting happened and they were disarmed or caughed unaware and needed to rearm. It was a pretty simple revolver, wouldn't make it through armor, but it'd do. With that in hand she hurried to power, but sadly didnt' make it all the way there, mainly because there were too many people guarding it now and because she saw from distance that they had smashed the emergency shutdown manual switch. The fact they had made it in, meant they had the codes, which didn't bode well. Lisa's paranoid conspriacy theorist mind, quickly formed a pretty spot on theory that this was an internal job. SHe swore and ran back towards the lab, if the notifcations for the experiments weren't shut off yet, it meant that Rhia was either killed or captured. There was no way to stop it now. Even if they shut down the experiment and had access to the controls, if these infiltrators and terrorists had access to their codes, it meant that the ones that Lisa and rhia could use, were likely already replaced, making them unable to access the system.
No, Lisa ran, stopping for just enough to tear one of the sleeves of her lab coat to turn it into a makeshift bandage around her arm. She had one way and one chance to save Rhiannon and maybe herself. The machine... they knew it was operational, but these people didn't. True it didn't have a blink drive, which meant no control over their destination be it time or space, but also no way to track them either in case somebody tried to do so, which would already be hard once this whole places goes 'nuclear'." Can do it... I assembled that machine, I know it inside and out... It's not impossible to trigger it manually..." She mumbled as she neared the lab and stopped, it is guarded, she reminded herself. She snuck a glance over the lab's door's glass window and saw her wife sadled and pinned to the ground. Well Lisa now saw red. Nearby she spotted one of the big tool cabinents that was with wheels down. It was completely metal and could easily hide her and a manic plan formed in her head. From what she counted the guys here actually had one gun, likely the others that had grabbed the weapons off security were killing more seucirty.
She swiped the keycard and ran behind the cabinet, pushing it down the corridor while hte doors were opening, it flew forwards into the lab at speeds due it's weight, the completely even floor and it's well moving wheels, making all the instruments clank and rattle inside, creating a horrendous noise that pulled the attention of everybody inside the lab. Shots immediately were fired from the terrorists, while Lisa herself tossed herself kneeling on the ground and aimed the gun just like how she'd do in shooting ranges.' 5 people, I got 6 shots... breathe in breathe out and kill the fuckers. Rhiannon's mine.' She thought and the first shot rang out while everybody was distracted and there was complete chaos from her distraction tactic. it hit the man stradling Rhiannon straight in the chest. The next one rang out, taking the guy with the weapon. The rest all ran for cover, thinking they were being attacked by some remaining security.
Lisa ran into the room, over to where Rhia was and in the emantime fired another loosely aimed shot to keep the other 3 buggers occupied and hiding while the countdown of the experiment had already began, making it too late to stop it without the codes, codes she inwardly knew were already changed." COME ON, RHIA!" Lisa cried out, losing no time in pulling her wife standing and dragging her towards the time machine. A shot flew past her head as one of the men had ran over ot he gun his comrade dropped. Lisa fired back, making him hide just in time as she pulled Rhiannon into the machine. It didn't appear protected, but once they were fired upon once more, the shots veered off course because of the magnetic fields surrounding it. Lisa then tore one of the panels and proceeded to cross the wires inside. The countdown till generator intiation was growing lower and lower. The magnetic fields were on ebcause they were seprate powerline and were almsot always powered on.
"It's too late..." Lisa finally stated as she finished fiddlign with the wires and switches in the panel, she sat down, all energy leaving her body from the stress and bloodloss." There's no stopping it... this is our only chance... if we don't make it... I'm sorry for everything and know that I love you." She stated as the countdown reached zero. There was a loud proclamation over the speakers. then a distant explosion, then sparkls flew off everywhere from the walls and cables. The machine came to life, energy emmitters and coils crackling with power as reality was folded on itself and torn to pieces. There was a blinding roar, everything was trembling adn then with a deafening explosion there was only white as the machine, overcharged from the spike as the generator overloaded, snapped to life in a blink.
White,dark,twisted colors of madness, being crushed,reformed, the infinity of the world, the madness at the edge of human perception and the void between worlds... It all lasted a single moment and and yet was an eternity. A paradox within itself and an impossibility within the possible.
Lisa saw the flash of light, saw what she could only describe as madness, a paradox and then after an eternity for the human mind and a moment in time, they were out and falling. She fell flat on her back, blasting the air out of her lungs from the impact as she groaned, staring at the gray sky over them. She was bloodied, tired, hurt and completely confounded... Her mind couldn't quite understand what had happened, but she knew one thing as she looekd to her side. Rhiannon was there and they were (probably) alive.
"Rhi, don't get killed... if you have to, just comply with whatever they demand, I will get you out if something happens." She pleaded as they were separating to go both ways in attempts to stop a massive tragedy from occuring. There were thousands of people in the research complex, it was a multi-bulding one, so many pscientists and engineers worked here after all.
Pulling herself away from Rhiannon was the hardest thing she had done in many years, but they had work to do. The machine and the generator had to be stopped. Her first course of action however was to go to the security room and at least take a peek at it from distance. The fact she couldn't see anyone there or outside the door wasn't meaning well for the situation as she crept in closer and snuck a glance inside. The security room was wrecked. The computers smashed, the security guards were both killed. She wanted to throw up at the sight of their dead empty eyes and the holes they had in their heads, but held it in. Their guns were gone... and seh could safely assume that the other guards were likely targeted too. There were more infiltrators than the one they had seen, tehre was whatever number that had snuck in with the inspection group at the main lab, then there were the duo that apepared in the engineering. It wasn't a stretch to assume there were more and now with the communications and emergency alert system out, they could clean up any guards without raising too great a fuss.
"Fuck...fuck...fuck" She growled as she began rummaging around the room for anything of use and to her luck, she quickly located what she was mainly searching for. The guards had a hidden gun stashed away in a hidden spot. It was for situations where something unsuspecting happened and they were disarmed or caughed unaware and needed to rearm. It was a pretty simple revolver, wouldn't make it through armor, but it'd do. With that in hand she hurried to power, but sadly didnt' make it all the way there, mainly because there were too many people guarding it now and because she saw from distance that they had smashed the emergency shutdown manual switch. The fact they had made it in, meant they had the codes, which didn't bode well. Lisa's paranoid conspriacy theorist mind, quickly formed a pretty spot on theory that this was an internal job. SHe swore and ran back towards the lab, if the notifcations for the experiments weren't shut off yet, it meant that Rhia was either killed or captured. There was no way to stop it now. Even if they shut down the experiment and had access to the controls, if these infiltrators and terrorists had access to their codes, it meant that the ones that Lisa and rhia could use, were likely already replaced, making them unable to access the system.
No, Lisa ran, stopping for just enough to tear one of the sleeves of her lab coat to turn it into a makeshift bandage around her arm. She had one way and one chance to save Rhiannon and maybe herself. The machine... they knew it was operational, but these people didn't. True it didn't have a blink drive, which meant no control over their destination be it time or space, but also no way to track them either in case somebody tried to do so, which would already be hard once this whole places goes 'nuclear'." Can do it... I assembled that machine, I know it inside and out... It's not impossible to trigger it manually..." She mumbled as she neared the lab and stopped, it is guarded, she reminded herself. She snuck a glance over the lab's door's glass window and saw her wife sadled and pinned to the ground. Well Lisa now saw red. Nearby she spotted one of the big tool cabinents that was with wheels down. It was completely metal and could easily hide her and a manic plan formed in her head. From what she counted the guys here actually had one gun, likely the others that had grabbed the weapons off security were killing more seucirty.
She swiped the keycard and ran behind the cabinet, pushing it down the corridor while hte doors were opening, it flew forwards into the lab at speeds due it's weight, the completely even floor and it's well moving wheels, making all the instruments clank and rattle inside, creating a horrendous noise that pulled the attention of everybody inside the lab. Shots immediately were fired from the terrorists, while Lisa herself tossed herself kneeling on the ground and aimed the gun just like how she'd do in shooting ranges.' 5 people, I got 6 shots... breathe in breathe out and kill the fuckers. Rhiannon's mine.' She thought and the first shot rang out while everybody was distracted and there was complete chaos from her distraction tactic. it hit the man stradling Rhiannon straight in the chest. The next one rang out, taking the guy with the weapon. The rest all ran for cover, thinking they were being attacked by some remaining security.
Lisa ran into the room, over to where Rhia was and in the emantime fired another loosely aimed shot to keep the other 3 buggers occupied and hiding while the countdown of the experiment had already began, making it too late to stop it without the codes, codes she inwardly knew were already changed." COME ON, RHIA!" Lisa cried out, losing no time in pulling her wife standing and dragging her towards the time machine. A shot flew past her head as one of the men had ran over ot he gun his comrade dropped. Lisa fired back, making him hide just in time as she pulled Rhiannon into the machine. It didn't appear protected, but once they were fired upon once more, the shots veered off course because of the magnetic fields surrounding it. Lisa then tore one of the panels and proceeded to cross the wires inside. The countdown till generator intiation was growing lower and lower. The magnetic fields were on ebcause they were seprate powerline and were almsot always powered on.
"It's too late..." Lisa finally stated as she finished fiddlign with the wires and switches in the panel, she sat down, all energy leaving her body from the stress and bloodloss." There's no stopping it... this is our only chance... if we don't make it... I'm sorry for everything and know that I love you." She stated as the countdown reached zero. There was a loud proclamation over the speakers. then a distant explosion, then sparkls flew off everywhere from the walls and cables. The machine came to life, energy emmitters and coils crackling with power as reality was folded on itself and torn to pieces. There was a blinding roar, everything was trembling adn then with a deafening explosion there was only white as the machine, overcharged from the spike as the generator overloaded, snapped to life in a blink.
White,dark,twisted colors of madness, being crushed,reformed, the infinity of the world, the madness at the edge of human perception and the void between worlds... It all lasted a single moment and and yet was an eternity. A paradox within itself and an impossibility within the possible.
Lisa saw the flash of light, saw what she could only describe as madness, a paradox and then after an eternity for the human mind and a moment in time, they were out and falling. She fell flat on her back, blasting the air out of her lungs from the impact as she groaned, staring at the gray sky over them. She was bloodied, tired, hurt and completely confounded... Her mind couldn't quite understand what had happened, but she knew one thing as she looekd to her side. Rhiannon was there and they were (probably) alive.