Bunker, February 8th, 2028
The silence... The silence was one of the things he used to enjoy when he was a kid, but in this day and age, silence is one of the worst things you could think of, but like everything bad, silence is something you get used to with time, and ten years, is a lot of time.
The problem? well, when you are used to silence, you find it... comforting, silence meant you were not in imminent danger, silence meant you could focus your mind on whatever you are doing, silence meant surviving.
That was probably why, since their group started growing in number, he spent most of his time alone in the conference room.
The room was the most further one of the Bunker, making it a place where no one would just walk by, except if you had something to do in a room filled with chairs and tables.
Or maybe, the reason he was in this room, in the dark, for almost a week now, was because he was waiting for something to happen, something he was expecting to happen more than just twice.
He closed his eye, and took a deep breath, then at the sound of the door opening behind him, he turned and saw Jade walking to him, putting a caring hand on his shoulder.
"Hey."
"Hey..."
"I... I came here to tell you that our guests are well settled and know their way around the Bunker."
"Good, that's a good thing. How're the preparations?"
"Going well, we are almost ready, the Dr. Stoppable took the laboratory for herself and is working on creating some kind of ointment she called unguent using some very specific plant she asked me to grow, and that bottle of green goo we had in the infirmary, the Cassius something."
"The Caduceus one?"
"Yeah that one, huh... where was I... Oh yeah, her husband is either helping her in the laboratory or taking care of the infirmary, he is quite good with small injuries and burns."
"Good, we need a good support team, in our rank."
"I agree, and speaking of burns, I think the two soldiers who joined us are going to kill each other at one point if we don't keep an eye on them. But it will be good having them with us for tomorrow, they are really good with weapons, both of them, and I also saw them spar...I don't think I could take them without my powers..."
"I see... thank you for taking care of them, you can go, I'll keep waiting for any new arrival..."
She stayed in place an looked at him staring at the floor for a long minute.
"How many CR have we sent?"
"Two thousand three hundred and seventy-two..." She already knew that but every time, it seems crazy that only those two groups joined them.
"... You should come out of here, see them, talk to them. They all agreed to join us in this, because you asked them, they need you to brief them, you know the place, you've been there multiple time, and you have the plan."
"Sure, I'll be there in a sec."
After a few moments, when she knew he wouldn't move, she left him, closing the door behind her.
When she left, he thought about what he had to do, about what they were all going to do, he then walked to the door and opened it.
Renton's Cybernetics Laboratory of Research and Development, March 2nd, 2019.
He closed the door behind him in hast, after he had led his team inside the facility, all of them exhausted after running all the way from Ground Zero, to this safe house.
"What the hell was that?" Her question only was only met with silence. " No one told us about giant sword-wielding robots!"
"I don't know Joss, but I know who to ask." Anger creeping into his voice.
When they arrived in the Control room of the Lab, Wade walked to Felix but was stopped when Joss' dad ran in front of him to hug his daughter.
He waited a moment, his feeling somewhat better after the father and daughter got together again when he focused on Felix in front of him facing multiple screens on the wall, he walked to him, pulled him by the shoulder and pinned him to the nearest wall.
"What the hell Wade! What is wrong with you."
"What is wrong with... Are you kidding me! What was that outside."
"It... was to be expected."
"Expected... Expected! I told you it was a bad idea, from the beginning. None of us were ready. We barely got inside, when those things attacked. And now everybody is dead."
"You got inside?"
He stopped not believing what he was hearing when two pairs of arms forced him to let go of Felix.
"Come on Wade, you got to calm down."
"Yeah men, snap out of it."
"Can't believe you guy are still with him after what happened, you were out there with us."
"Oh trust me we're not ok with this!"
"Yeah, he still has some explaining to do."
Wade and the Twins exchange brief looks before turning to Felix, expecting answers.
Felix looked at them, towering most people in the Lab from inside his own version of the armor Wade was in and answered after a few seconds.
"As you know in the last two years, all the Intel we have gathered on our enemy is that they are of alien origin and probably Lowardian related, as seen by their technologies. The second thing is that they were very well prepared, they knew what, when and where to attack, to take down our defenses the more efficiently."
He stopped, looking at everybody in the room before continuing.
"And for the last two years that is all we knew about them, nothing else. No weaknesses, no deficiency, no flaws, the perfect killing machines... We knew nothing except that we were doomed... until NOW!"
He stopped again, seeing surprise and confusion in some eyes but nothing but contempt in the one-eyed cyborg.
"NOW! We know that they create new units and that they need all their power to do so. That means two things. First, they aren't perfect if they need enhancement. Second, the next time we detect a spike in the enemy's power consumption, all we need to do is strike when they are all down, with all we've got."
He looked at everybody, satisfied with his speech, a pair of metallic hands closed on both his sides sending him flying across the room, but this time he was prepared and ended his fall on his two feet.
When Wade ran toward him to attack him again, Felix pulled a small remote from his side and hit the big red button in the middle of it.
At that moment, Wade still running felt a jolt of pain before losing momentum and felt to the ground face first.
Felix looks at the cyborg at his feet and crouched down for him to hear what he had to say.
"Don't forget that I am the one who built you."
He got up and resume walking ignoring the agonizing Wade on the ground.
"Status report, what is the enemy troops situation?"
Everybody was still shocked by what just happened, but Hope sitting the closest from Felix saw him staring at her, and start answering the command.
"Feli...huh... Sir the enemy troops are still out cold, only the new units are active two hours after the encounter, Sir."
"Good, now we... ARG!"
He yelled in pain as something grab his arm with enough strength that the nitinol alloy his armor was made of cracked under the pressure.
He turned to face a very angry Wade staring at him, and pulled the remote with his other hand, and pressed the button.
But nothing happened...
Wade pulled the arm closer to him so his half human half machine face was only inches away from Felix before saying.
"Don't forget that I am Wade Load, and nobody, NOBODY spikes my system."
He let go of his arm and Felix fell to the ground shaken to his core.
"We lost hundreds of people today because of you, and I swear that you..."
He was cut when the main screen on the wall showed an incoming audio transmission from a voice he thought he last heard two years ago.
"... casting on ever...equency, taki... hea...fire... clos...to th...ld...school... my wife...jured... and da...ter..."
"We lost contact of the signal." Said Hope in her post.
"Jim was that?"
"I think it was Tim."
"Drew... I need an away team immediately. We're going out for a rescue mission."
Bunker, February 8th, 2028
He closed the door and find himself in the Bunker. A little lost he flinched and leaned on the door a second. Good thing he did since because of that he saw a small glow radiating from behind him.
He turned and opened the door to find himself in front of a blast from the past.
"Hello Wade, I'm Kim Possible, and this is my partner, Ron Stoppable, and we are here to help.