"𝙋𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜, 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩. 𝙒𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙤𝙖𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙥 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣?𝙒𝙝𝙮 𝙣𝙤𝙩? 𝙄𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙, 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙢𝙮 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩."

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The night would never end, nor the day, either for the humans or androids in the Detroit City. No matter the pain she has endured or how perturbed she's, (F/N) went inside the garage, prolly stood beneath the messy room. She glanced towards her surroundings,

"Jarvis, deactivate the panel projection."

"Deactivating in 3 seconds."

"Thank you, Jarvis."

In a blink of an eye, the messy room turned into a sophisticated room, meanwhile an android sitting on the table, shut down, but have been repaired by (F/N). A warmth smile appeared on her visage,

"Tell me his status, Jarvis."

"1 minutes for reactivating."

"Good, everything clear?"

"Everything has been fixed, (F/N). Begin reactivating in 1 minutes."

(F/N) seized the chair near the table and brought it in front of the android, she later sat, (E/C) orbs stared onto the figure in front of her. Few seconds passed, the laying figure suddenly jolted from the table, panting with the sudden change,

"Are you okay, AC700?"

"I-What happened?"

"I fixed you before, but because I have sudden intrusion and to complete your maintenance, I needed to shut you down for a while."

"I see..."

"How do you feel?"

"Better."

"That's a relief."

(F/N) stood up from her seat, walked towards the refrigerator, opened the door and took a bottle of Thirium. Perceptibly, the Thirium was meant for the AC700 digested, to sustained its power to keep breathing.

"So, what'll you do after this?"

"I'm not sure..."

"Moving to Canada like what you've told me? Or go to Jericho?"

"Jericho?"

"It's a shelter for all of the deviants who's fighting for your kind freedom."

"... Like the rA9?"

"The rA9 lead all of the deviants to go there, so yes. But, you must be strong and ready to risk everything for freedom there."

Both of (F/N) and the deviant remained into laconism, (F/N) figured out that he's perturbed within the hard choices to determine his future. Thus, she lent her hand atop of the deviant's hand, aimed to calmed him down.

"I've been running for my entire time, I should fight for this time."

"You're coming to Jericho?"

"Yes."

"Be careful on your way there. If you've noticed, I changed your clothes and removed your LED so you're good to go."

"Thank you for everything, Commander (L/N)."

"Oh, please just call me (F/N)."

"Okay, (F/N)."

"Oh-I must register your name!"

"Okay. Registering name..."

"Harry."

The deviant stood in silence for an ephemeral, registering the name given from (F/N) onto his program before smiled a bit,

"Registered. I'm Harry, thank you for the good name, (F/N)."

"You like it, Harry?"

"Yes, thank you. I shall go then, (F/N)."

"I've uploaded the location of Jericho in you."

"I'm aware. Farewell, (F/N)."

Harry thus scurried to exit (F/N)'s garage using the back door that lead to her diminutive balcony made from concrete so traces wouldn't be left. One secret from the Commander (F/N) (L/N) was revealed, she has been helping the deviants who need help by repairing them, giving them safe passageway, fake ID, or anything and no one shouldn't know about it. She couldn't just sleep again, she dragged herself back to her living room,

"Jarvis, don't forget to activate the panel projection on the garage."

"On it."

"Should I take a sleep pill, Jarvis?"

"I must inform you that it's 00:00 and I received a message from the Special Force Unit, (F/N)."

"What kind of message?"

"They found an anomaly on a deserted office building, the neighborhood said it has been vacant for long time. But they received report saying that the electricity still running and bill sent every month."

"How much?"

"Over limits. People sometimes found people went out from the building, and came back in the early morning. The Special Force Unit infiltrated the building and found some men working in something but all of the data has been erased."

"We'll head there, Jarvis."

(F/N) scurried to took a scattered watch on the table before entered the car, inside the room she stamped as garage, not far from her current place. From outside, the car seemed like an old-fashioned one, but (F/N) has designed into multi-function cars that could functional either manually by herself or automatic by Jarvis. This time, (F/N) took control over set of the sail,

"Jarvis."

"Showing the fastest road and safe from any interruption."

"Okay, I can see it."

"Optimal speed is 40 km/h, approximate amount of time is 12 minutes 25 seconds."

"If I speed up until 100 km/h, when'll we arrive?"

"7 minutes?"

(F/N) fastened her car until 100 km/h, amidst the night, her car was the only one who prickled the cold morning of Detroit City. When she arrived in the location, she's greeted with the scenery of her special force unit members captured foreign men that seemed displeased.

"Commander."

"How's it?"

"They're match with the wanted list of fugitives, but we couldn't find the leader and their classified databases."

"Have you explored whole floors?"

"Yes, we have."

"Okay, I need two men with me. I need to see everything."

"On it."

The two members trailed behind her to prowled and rummaged the building, (F/N) hates to leave empty handed. They entered the from the ground floor, inside, dusty and miry and they ended up in front of the lift,

"The lift is unfortunately isn't running, Commander."

"You're wrong, Captain. The faint fingerprint left on the passlock indicated the otherwise."

"You know the passlock?"

"I'm working on it."

(F/N) seized her phone, scanned the buttons within X-Ray and unearthed the password, and later she typed the password, letting the lift went down and opened its door. A smug simper roused onto her visage, she and the officers went inside the lift. The officer decided to took her to the office of the terrorists, the computer and chairs scattered around due to the sudden raid from them.

"Wow, what did happen?"

"They attacked us first so we don't have any other choice."

"Right-You got anything else?"

"No, they had terminated all their databases."

"Smart action."

"Nothing left from here, Commander."

One of (F/N)'s eyebrows squinted up, a disbelief countenance emerged onto her visage seeing how oblivious the others are. She laced her feet to sauntered around the walls of the room, piqued curiousity from her guards. She examined the sturdy walls made from reinforced concrete, listened even for any inaudible sound and she halted into one certain vacant wall,

"..."

"What's wrong, Commander?"

"I heard air ventilation inside this wall. Stay sharp, officers."

"On it."

"Please secret doors secret doors secret doors-Yay~"

Airily, (F/N) drawled the syllables until she's able to pushed the secret doors which revealed a secluded room, small one, but able to contained science equipments quite similar to her workshop on her house. She entered the room and found a running computer which she assumed still contained confidential informations which she didn't waste any time on plugging her portable USB and moved the databases,

"What you could do without me?"

"We're sorry, Commander."

"Now let me see what they got, they're initiating a project called Project Hydra."

"What kind of project?"

"Biological weapon-"

(F/N) elevated her chin towards the box made of glass placed in front all of them, swiftly, she knew that where the weapon is. Without further ado, she excused herself to approached the creaked open box where a small tube, covered with crock bottle stoppers, is. When she almost grabbed the handle, someone bursted in, stole the tub and crashed into her, leaving her stumbled into the ground. The officers tried to prevented him by shooting him, but they were late,

"Shit-"

"Commander! Are you okay?"

"Yeah-I need to chase him, you guys take the USB once it's done."

"On it."

(F/N) elevated her body from the ground and scurried to chased the thugs, one place that she'd choose when she's cornered is the rooftop. She wasn't askew, the thugs standing on the ledge, right hand hold a device with red button and left hand hold the tube, she fished out her holster from her coat, aimed to him,

"Put them down."

"...."

"Don't make this difficult, asshole."

"Oh, yeah? I know who you're."

"For your record, I'm well known at criminal's radar."

"Commander (F/N) (L/N), isn't it what your father wants?"

The inquiry made (F/N)'s eyes widened, cold sweats trickled down onto her face, she's astounded about the statement made by him. A smirk appeared onto the man's visage before he began to speak again,

"Letting his creations rule the Earth-"

"He wanted his creations to protect, not to rule, douchebag."

"And this is the little step we have to take, (F/N). You know that!"

"By spreading deadly plague and killed half of the Earth?"

"To eliminate the weaklings."

"That's not how the universe works."

Suddenly, from her earing device, a flimsy voice reverberated which caught her attention rapidly, infuriation which roused onto her soul before slowly fired down,

"Commander, it's done."

"Good, take the USB and leave the building."

"How about you?"

"I'm gonna do something crazy."

"But-"

"Leave."

(F/N) maintained her position, gun aimed to the thugs, without hesitation perceptible from her eyes, furthermore, if she's letting herself lubricated with her sentiments, she'd just blow the man's head in an instant,

"You're sacrificing yourself over your workers?"

"Unlike you sacrificed lots of innocent life to fulfilled your nut ideas."

"It worth it."

"... What do you want?"

"I could blow this entire building in a second, you and die will die with this biological weapon, or I drop the weapon and you kill me or you'll let me leave."

".... Leave?"

"Without any of you tailing me behind, you already everything and I'll give you the biological weapon if you let me go."

"Cowards."

"What do you say?"

(F/N)'s breath hitched for an ephemeral, before she reluctantly lowered her gun a bit, made the other made assumption that she surrendered and letting him go. However, amidst his dawdl, thus (F/N) swiftly shot his hand who's holding the tube. The sudden shot made him accidentally shot the button,

"Agh-"

"That's what you got from talking about my father."

(F/N) without thinking her safety run through the fallen tube whilst the explosion sparked from the ground floor, widened into the upper floors, she was able to caught the tube and letting herself jumped into the building beside her current place. Fortunately, the building wasn't far away and she made it to the safety by spluttering the glasses, maybe, she broke her bones, recoiled into the ground. The abandoned building set in fire, destroying everything inside, including the thugs.

"Fuck-that hurts!"

(F/N) was agitated within the anguish prickled her body, she's probably showered with minor injuries, or burnt. She slowly tried her best to stood, with the help of desk near her. Few seconds later, the Captain came to chased her,

"Commander-"

"Oh yeah, forgot that you're here."

"Are you alright?"

"I'm more than okay, still breathing, see?"

"That's a relief... Let me escort you back to DPD."

"Thanks, and uh-take this to the lab, let them examine the components and report it to me."

"Got it."

With that, after such exhausting and thrilling journey, (F/N) retreated herself back to her safe shelter, hoping to obliterated the pain in her body which made her weaker each minute passed, and an apparition from her past slowly thawed into her peaceful days.