Maya's Half-Life

Episode 50 – A Name And A Face

Zero, meanwhile, is in the shadows of Romulus doing an investigation into a possible spy lurking in the depths of Romulus. In his investigation Zero uncovers something disturbing, about the truth of the school for soldiers and the true purpose of the DAHL instillation on Acheron.

I waited as the guard walked toward my hidden position. As soon as he was upon me I darted out in one direction but instead cloaking myself slid in between his legs so I went behind him to where he had come from initially. This confused him for 2 seconds which was enough time for me to quickly but silently dash behind the bend in the wall.

"What was that … guess I'm just paranoid. Still, probably should call command down here to get one of those androids to guard the vault way," The guard said to himself under his breath, but I still heard his words thanks to my suit's enhanced audio spying capabilities.

As soon as I heard him walking away I silently crept backwards when he was out of earshot I spun around to face the vault way. It was a 100 foot chrome walled and ceilinged hallway that ended in a very traditional looking vault door with handles that spun allowing the massive slab of metal to be swung open on hinges.

I snaked my way forward and when I reached the vault door I began to work quickly. I'd been at this search for a few hours now. In that short time among various barrack common rooms and outside the offices of higher-ups I got the general sense that the people here suspected something was up. That however hadn't been helpful to me at all so I've decided to do some digging for myself.

And what better way to access another person's computer to research files? The way to make this work was to access the archivist's computer, that way my activity on it would blend perfectly with the rest of the activity log.

Eventually after 10 tense minutes I slipped through the vault door and closed it soundlessly behind me. What greeted my senses wasn't a closed off area where a lone man or woman sat at a computer desk but rather an entire antechamber filled to the brim with floating spheres where various people sat suspended working on various projects that floated in the air around them in their own little sphere.

After closing the vault door completely and stepping into the room I got a glimpse of the almost microscopic cameras whizzing around outside the spheres – my only guess as to their purpose was to monitor the progress of the workers inside the spheres, and to make sure the working people didn't 'step' outside of policies or set boundaries.

A sphere floated in the middle with an access code attached to its identity. This particular sphere was empty so not even one of the tiny cameras ever focused on it. I knew this was my new and probably only opportunity to get into the system. I now knew it wouldn't be easy, but my suit seemed to be sending me a message. The access code will allow for trickery of the cameras into thinking the suit is the person the access code is assigned to. This made total sense so I remotely hacked the access code from the sphere and uploaded it to my suit.

Suddenly all sensation from what I am disappeared to give me this new experience.


Chilean Gilly walked through the spheres weaving around them to get to her terminal. After arriving Chilean "Chilly" Gilly entered her access code into the terminal. After entering Gilly sat down and sighed in defeat. She thought about what she was to do, turn off the life support systems in all the surrounding spheres and replace it with the mind control system so that Handsome James could finally succeed in his millennial long goal in controlling an entire planet. If enough of the creatures were awoken from their slumber by humans willingly offering up their bodies as sacrifices than the only remaining human left on the planet would be granted access to the subterranean Vault, which held untold powers. But most of all it was inhabited and guarded over by a bloodthirsty old god which demanded willing sacrifice on a genocidal scale. And since Handsome James had long ago lost grips with humanity, he was more than willing to provide the old god with exactly what it wanted. Starting with the entire DAHL military.