Normally this is where I would sum up the chapter, but I don't really want to this time so I'm just gonna let you read it if you want to. Have fun.
It's been only three days since the first group of hybrids encountered the Omaticaya, and already more were appearing. They kept venturing into the forest, mainly to collect samples or survey land, but they kept trying to interact with the Omaticaya. They have shown no aggressive behavior towards us yet, but none of them have been soldiers. Only scientists have been in the bodies, and we have studied them whenever they enter the forest.
"Sir, I've run some simulations on the hybrids,"said ARC, " and would like to gather more information on them. All information on them from before the accident has been corrupted or destroyed. If we could infiltrate the camp again and download the data there, it would allow me to more fully understand these hybrids. I also think that the information could help us. "
"How do you think it would help us?" I asked. I was currently at our auxiliary camp, trying to calibrate our broken holoprojector from the shuttle's bridge.
"One of the ways it would help is by updating our limited information on our enemy. It will tell us how many hybrids there are and what they are doing, as well as their military abilities. The information we acquired the first time is already outdated and was proven inaccurate. "
"Okay. I guess it couldn't hurt. We'll drop in tonight. Tell the others I'll be back late. "
"Yes sir. "
I reached under the holoprojector and moved a few wires around to get to the circuit boards. I found a disconnected wire and plugged it in. an image appeared, but it was shorter than it should've been, and the left side was a few inches lower than the right. I sighed and continued to troubleshoot.
I had arrived at the human camp an hour before dark. A building outside the wall was mostly completed, and some workers were beginning to clean up. I was in the forest, observing this building. A worker had missed the truck back inside the camp and was left to lock up everything. I waited until the lights were turned off and went up to the building, waiting for the worker to come around the corner to lock the back door. As soon as he came around I quickly knocked him out and got him behind the building before the guards on the wall could see. I took his keys, communicators, and keycard and locked him in the building. I froze all of the locks and doorknobs so he couldn't get out for a while if he woke up. I muted the communicators and took out the batteries, leaving them outside the building.
I flew up using the bands we used to get around now, and found a dark area of the camp. I dropped in quickly and looked around. It was a storage yard with construction supplies. No cameras were here, but they were probably elsewhere. I found an entry point and opened the door to an airlock. I had left my bow at Hometree in favor of a light pistol and a personal cloaking device. Indoors it would be hard to draw back the bow in tight spaces. Once I was through the airlock, I wandered around looking for a usb plugin. Once I found one, I would be able to use a wireless flash drive from the shuttle to transmit all the files to ARC. All that remained now was to find one.
A few minutes later, a squad of guards ran down the hall to the airlock I had entered from. I was able to duck into a side room before they saw me. Cloaking devices were best used at distances more than 20 or 30 feet. Much closer and the average person can tell that something was different about the patch of wall or whatever was behind me, and would probably figure out what was going on and catch me. I looked around in the room as the guards passed and saw I was in a server control room. I found a usb port easily and plugged in the flash drive.
"Downloading data. This is getting interesting already. Just a few more minutes and we'll be good to go, " said ARC.
"Good, I don't need to be caught in here, " I said. A few minutes later the troop of guards came back down the hall and passed the door, oblivious I was there.
"Download complete. Let's go, " ARC said after some time.
"On my way out already, " I replied, while grabbing the flash drive and replacing everything as it was before. I exited the room and was able to get back to the airlock I entered, and exit the building without incident. Once I was in the open air again I flew back to Hometree with new knowledge on the human's activity.