Isaac checks the shield generator to find it in bad shape still sparking bits of electricity.

"Ah no this is bad." [Said Isaac]

"How bad?" [Hex asked]

"Not as bad as the plasma rotors but still no better either I can fix this if you can give me the ships schematics because I'm not familiar with this shield tech."

"Yeah sure here you go, it's relatively new stuff it was developed a year ago and was put to mass production and use two months after the Sprawl Incident."

"Interesting, have they been able to make personal shielding?" [As he starts working]

"As a matter of fact yes its built into all of EarthGovs troop's suits and armor, there's even a wearable model that you keep on your person and it'll protect against most stuff like bullets, plasma bolts, and even sharp objects like knives and Slasher pincers." [Hex explains]

"Cool stuff… probably another thing made from the research on me and the marker on Titan."

"Yeah I heard about that, I heard they tortured you."

"If they did then I don't remember… I've seen some videos of me they kept in the records when I was held in the psych ward, I did things."

"What kind of things?"

"I chewed on my fingers till they bleed so I could write more marker script on my cell walls, I pulled my own nails off my fingers what really scares me is that I don't remember being like that at all… to me when I woke up and I was somewhat sane it felt like the Ishimura and Aegis VII was yesterday when it was three years ago."

"I'm sorry."

"Yeah it doesn't bother me too much anymore."

"Um… Hawk wanted me to ask you when I got chance if you were still having those weird dreams, something with a kid and a guy?"

"Yeah sometimes, it goes the same way every time."

"What's with the two people in it that boy and that man?"

"I still have no idea… the man, his face is blacked out and distorted and the boy he's very familiar but I don't know... I'm still piecing it together."

After a few minutes Isaac managed to fix the generator.

"Alright that should hold for a while no guarantee it'll hold up as long as it did with those defenses but it's something… how are the repairs going with the rotors?" [Stated Isaac]

"The Bench is almost done cutting them into shape shouldn't be long now and the plasma should have dissolved by now so installing them should be seamless."

"Good."

"Ha, I just noticed you cut your hair looks good." [Hex pointed out]

"Oh yeah it was getting long for me."

"Not a mustache person either?"

"I'm on and off with it sometimes I'll let it grow a while then I'll cut it."

"Hmm, looks like we have more company."

"Is it… Ashatear?"

"No its something else." [Said Hex]

[Day emerges from Isaac's RIG]

"We have a problem."

"What is it?" [Asked Isaac]

"More automated weapons have activated and they're closing in on our position."

"Didn't you…"

"I did but something or someone has overwritten my commands and reprogramed the IFF system on this ship, high probability points to your relative while we were securing weapons."

"Figures how many?"

"Twelve all Sentinels, fortunately they don't know our exact location but they do have an approximate location if we move now we may elude them."

"Can't rehack them?" [Asked Carver]

"No they have completely locked me out whoever they are, they have superior hacking skills to be able to corrupt my people's technology on the fly."

"Okay, the rotors are ready we can install them now." [Said Carver]

"You go out and install them and I'll prep the ship, Carver get on that turret just in case." [Said Hex]

"Got it."

Isaac enters outside through the hold to the engines quickly works on the rotors while Hex monitors the long rage sensors, within a few seconds five of the hostile machines appear on the holo screen.

"Hey Day this ship is equipped with a ghost drive can it fool them?"

"It'll fool their visual sensors but they'll switch to a vision mode that'll penetrate the cloaking effect and reveal us they may see the engines thermal emissions through their standard infrared and ultraviolet vision."

"Great, Isaac?" [Called Hex]

"Its done we're good to go?"

"Good hope it holds."

"It will if it took that long to cut it into shape it will." [Insured Isaac]

The Patriarch lifts off and flees as fast as it can with its engines still badly damaged narrowly evading the machines.

"Looks like the cloaking is working and or we got away in time but there still looking for us… you'd think that bastard brother of yours would give us a break after that goo monster shit."

[Isaac is silent]

"You okay… is it about him?"

"Sorry… I was thinking, a part of me refuses to believe he's my brother even more with that thing."

"I'd be freaked out too not every day you find out you have a lost sibling and he's also a psychopath."

"I checked my programs and I still have control over the Sentinel we encountered earlier, I've ordered it to follow us."

"If the rest of them find us can it hold its own against its own?"

"Defiantly they were often tested by pitting them against each other a single one can last a while."

"Nice looks we don't have to worry about anymore asteroids."

Having cleared the asteroid field, they see the marker creator race's home world in countless fragments and more ships still caught in the planets orbit.

"Wow, guess the planet was torn apart like Earth was."

"Yes it was absorbed by him when he transformed into his moon form he took everything from our people to all the matter of our planet."

The ship is rocked hard when its hit by laser fire from two Sentinels.

"Damn they found us, Carver!?"

"I got it!"

Hex tries to avoid their attacks as best he can without stressing the damaged engines too much, a few shots hit them but the shields absorb the damage weakening it to a low level.

"Those damn lasers are strong they're burning right though the shields!"

"Now might be a good time to call that Sentinel."

"It's almost here."

More Sentinels arrive firing at them taking out their shields again.

"Shields overheating… recharging." [Ship computer announced]

"Damn it where's that help!?"

Suddenly five of the Sentinels explode, from above the one they hacked dives down and grapples one of the machines distracting the rest. As it destroys the one in its grasp it charges the others as the Patriarch gets away from the conflict, another Sentinel comes up on their left side slamming itself against their ship almost dazing Isaac, Hex and Carver.

"Ah tough bitch huh?" [Said Hex]

Hex slams back into the Sentinel knocking it away it lets out a mechanical screeching noise then retaliates by taking out another thruster hindering their movement even more.

"Oh you mother-!" [Hex angered]

The Sentinel grabs hold of the ship positioning itself facing the cockpit with its head, it opens its mouth with swirls of energy converging to its center charging it's beam attack. Before it can fire laser fire from above destroys the Sentinel releasing the Patriarch.

"You guys took your sweet time."

"Hey we got held up by more of those things but we're here now." [Asha over the com]

"Your welcome by the way."

"Glad you're here Colonel." [Said Isaac]

"Wow you guys took a beating."

"Yeah guess we underestimated the defenses after billion or so years they're still active." [Said Isaac]

"Good thing you called us, standby we're gonna connect airlocks."

"Okay ready."

Ashatear's ship docks with the Patriarch, he and his board the damaged ship.

"Well what now." [Asked Asha]

"I'm not sure yet but I think the white marker is here somewhere in this system."

"That explains the marker heads tailing us, they're probably looking for it too."

"And we're probably leading them to it." [Said Hex]

"Well we can't let them get it or what's left of humanity might as be dead." [Replied Isaac]

"I agree; I don't suppose you have an idea where should we start looking?"

"Well according to Day his creator took both of the markers and hurled them out into outer space, one of them the black marker crashed on Earth and the white one went somewhere else but something keeps telling me that it didn't go as far as the black one did."

"That's a pretty big leap Isaac if he threw them into space they could've gone anywhere."

"Maybe, maybe not we won't know until we look now would we?"

"How do you know that it's here?" [Asha inquired]

"I get visions now and then, now more than ever after my most recent near death experience I'm very sensitive to the marker signal."

"Yeah Hawk told me about that you almost became a necro."

"Yeah."

"Okay so we look till you basically tap into the signal again and shows you something."

"It might take time the visions can sometimes be vague."

"Alright let's go explore."

"Oh we found some interesting stuff while earlier."

"What'd you find?"

"Weapons alien weapons."

Hex take one of the shrunken containers and activates it, within seconds it reverts back to its normal size.

"Bloody hell now that is awesome."

"We already tried some of them and they are something to be reckoned with best part infinite ammo they just have to recharge and cool off when used too much."

"Groovy we these should make it easier if those marker heads try something again." [He grunts as he picks up a QXB- 808 Dark Light]

"Can you handle that thing." [Chuckles]

"Hell yeah besides if there's more of those… what did you call em Sentinels?"

"Yeah."

"Well these'll pack a nice punch against them if they find us again."

"Good thinking, alright we need to check on a few things before we go okay."

"Shure thing lets us know if you need help."

Unbeknownst to them a long distance away from their location an enormous moon-like entity with colossal tentacles similar to the brethren moons discretely observes them.