Ivan’s eye became ferocious as he heard Frederick.
“The Ark goes to hell! This is the most hypocritical, most selfish lie! You are just using the name of the New World to sacrifice others, to fulfil your own fantasy!” Ivan shouted.
“Why must we sacrifice ourselves, our own happiness for the New World!? Our life only last a few decades, and we only live once!”
Frederick was shocked as Ivan pointed out the truth. He never thought a clown he looked down upon could hurt him. Not for long, Frederick was laughing again, but his tensed face betrayed him, he was just hiding his anger.
“Since you wanted death so much, then die.”
The screen went black and Ivan was all alone in the engine room. While he wanted to take a deep breath to calm down, there was noise at the gate again.
“Ivan! Open the door and surrender!” Reinforcement from the Security Force had arrived.
All through the years, there had never been a violent incident involving a T1 personnel. Ivan even mowed down a squad of automata, which nobody could have imagined. Ivan looked through the surveillance camera and saw two dozen automata with rifles were waiting outside. Two of them were cutting through the door with a heavy plasma cutter, they are preparing to break in.
“Ivan!” Lotti’s voice went through the terminal. “Are you okay?”
“I’m fine, very good! How about you?” Ivan did not want to scare them and pretended to be fine.
“We are almost done-”
“Ivan! Open the door and surrender!” The Prefect banged on the door, interrupting Lotti.
“What’s happening!? Are you in danger?” Lotti heard the noise and was concerned.
“I am fine, coming over now,” Ivan cut the call.1021Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlruQS2icJY
Ivan took a deep breath to calm himself.
“Right, Lotti is waiting for me.”
He closed his eyes and thought for a plan. A while later, he opened his eyes again – the rage in his eyes transformed into resolve. He walked to a corner and opened a big box, inside was a suit of Conglomerate Standard Issue Powered Armor, and a rifle with unknown origin.
“I’ll show you what happens when you corner an engineer.”
He put on the armour and felt amazed; he had worn the armour numerous times for hazardous work, but now he was wearing it for battle. He checked the rifle – in good condition. While working on the kinetic system, he was inspired for this little side project – a “Kinetic Entry Tool” – which he was about to fire at people.
Ivan didn’t waste another moment, he hauled up some duct tape and tools, and improvised something for the coming encounter.
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