March 18th at 16:45pm
The four mechanical limbs of the Mech Adept run over the cogitator console with ease, ignoring the chaos surrounding her as if she was in a stasis field. With ease, her consciousness dives in the binary coding and melts with the spirit machine's.

One at a time, a row of spotlights blast through the darkness from the walls down the rat-mutant horde. As one, they freeze and shout, as if the yellow lights burned them more than the laser fire itself. Finally, as the underground gallery fills with clarity, the mutants scatter back to their holes.

Mech adept LIV blinks with a beeping sound and moves her arms over the keyboard. The heavy double gates begin to close with the same screeching sound until they meet at the center with an echoing “thud!”. Then, they go to sleep and Adept LIV unplugs herself from the cogitator's console.

Commissar Bryce changes the energy cell of her pistol and sheaths her sword back, the blade is pristine, clean of mutated blood and filth thanks to the power field that surrounds it when it gets activated. With a deep breath, she takes a quick look at her heterogeneous retinue, born of need more than time and trust.

Field doctor Bast is attending the flamer soldier, The old imperial helmet and breathing mask are mauled and almost destroyed, but they fulfilled their mission, the soldier, a tall and strong woman with a brush cut is wounded, but alive.

“Little sister” Titanya is covered in scratches and bite marks but all of them look mere flesh wounds. She is sitting in front of the gates petting the corpse of a dead rat-like mutant surprisingly delicately as if it was some kind of lap dog.

And Veteran soldier Thanatos Tempesti… he is looking towards the end of the courtyard, where a thin figure with a destroyed imperial low rank official uniform limps towards them. As he walks through the soldiers, he makes a gesture with his hand and only then they allow themselves to drop to the floor panting. Some of them take off their helmets, but none of them take off their breathing masks, and Commissar Bryce can see their haggard eyes and almost corpse-like faces.

The man walks up to Doctor Bast and kneeling next to her, puts the breathing mask back on the unconscious wounded soldier that she is attending, then she points at Doctor Bast`s own mask and makes a gesture. The small woman puts it on and nods.
-...she will live-

Soldier Tempesti takes off his helmet and puts his heavy rifle on his back-mounted power unit, then he extends his hand towards the officer.
-Sergeant Miles…?-

The thin and gaunt man looks at the hand and stands up. He is shorter and looks weaker and consumed before the heavy armored soldier, but his gaze is proud and intimidating when he stares at Tanathos in the eye. He takes out a old and worn out lasgun and points the man between the eyes, then he answers with a deep and firm voice.
-It`s lieutenant now, traitor.-

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What should Commissair Bryce do now?
1-Get involved
2-Stay out of it