Stitch scurried out of the air lock planting his feet firmly on the ground and pointing his blasters all around looking for a target. Jumba stepped out and reached over his shoulder pulling out his plasma rifle. The two of them slowly made there way down the hallway towards the maintenance hatch. "Hatch should be up ahead. Door uses mechanical force created by user… so Hamsterviel will be unable to trace a power surge to our location. Stitch walked up to the hatch and placed the two blasters in his upper pair of arms in his lower arms arm pits. He reached out and began to turn the massive wheel on the hatch. The hatch made a loud clang sound and then swung open beyond the door was a huge room filled with wires and mechanical devices.
"This is where all of the basic operations of his lab are controlled and operated. Things like waste disposal, energy production, and material reclamation." Stitch looked around. There was a large magnet running on a track above them. it had unrecognizable bit of metal and scrap attached to it. it stopped at one point on the track and then released its magnetic grip dropping the scrap down below. Stitch's vision followed the scrap as it fell into a massive vat filled with molten metal. The scrap slowly became whit hot and submerged into the vat. "There is something I am not recognizing..." Jumba pointed up towards one of the corners of the room. Stitch looked up finding a spherical mass of metal. There were a series Turian characters painted on the surface of the metal. Jumba reached into his satchel and pulled out a pair of his specially made quad-oculars.
"Already ahead of you." stitch read the tiny print. "50,000 kilo ton blast resistant armor."
Jumba put his quad-oculars away. "Hmmmm. There's no way Hamsterviel would be able to transport anything with that much of a yield…. unless… A Hah!" stitch turned his head to face Jumba. "Hamsterveil has new power source recently installed… Galactic Federation will be looking for one type of emissions from a power generator while his power source is creating a completely different type of emissions. Look closer 626 what do you notice about the armor?"
Stitch looked at the armor... it looked like it had a few patches of spray paint on it. The texture was also different. The spray painted areas were a little rougher. Some of the areas also had bead welds. "Looks like it had a really bad patch work done to it."
Jumba nodded. "Means it was installed by a low profile, low budget mechanic. And I am doubting that it can withstand fifty-thousand kilo tons of explosives. Come, we must keep going." Jumba walked off across the catwalk and towards another hatch.
Hamsterviel sat at his desk looking at a massive screen filled with security camera's feed back. One camera began to flash with a red boarder around it and then grew occupying the whole screen. The title on the screen read "maintenance access". It showed stitch turning a wheel on a hatch and then walking through it followed by Jumba. "Ha! You think that you can just walk right into my laboratory like something that is not noticed eh Jumba?" Dr. Hamsterveil spun around in his chair and pushed a button on his desk and then screamed into an intercom.
Shauni sat in the room across from Project Alpha. He was sitting on the fold out mattress blankly looking at the floor. "Hey!" He looked up at Shauni. "You ok?" Project Alpha looked around. He got up and looked at all of his surroundings.
Shauni shook her head, got up and walked over to the mattress. She saw both of Kyle's necklaces lying on the mattress. Her eyes darted open as she got an idea. She quickly picked them up and walked over to Project Alpha who was in the corner looking at how the two walls met without some visible joint. Shauni tapped his shoulder and he spun around quickly bringing his paws up ready to strike. Shauni hung her head cowering with her eyes closed. Project Alpha slowly lowered his paws and relaxed. Shauni opened and eye and stopped cowering. She held both of the necklaces in both of her hands. Project Alpha looked at the necklaces. Shauni put the loops around his neck and stood back looking at the necklaces. The gold one hung down to his belly and the rosary beads hung down to his legs. Shauni grinned and took them back. She looped the necklaces around his neck and then stood back and looked again. The gold one fit around his neck perfectly and the rosary beads hung over his chest. "Do you remember these?" Project alpha picked the cross up on the rosary bead and looked at it. "These were yours."
Project alpha slowly saw images of a box wrapped in red and green paper. Then he saw a pair of human hands carefully tear the wrapping off to find a velvet covered case. The hands opened it. It had a gold necklace in it with a cross on it. Project Alpha blinked a few time and then looked down at the gold necklace.
A speaker wined for a few seconds making Shauni cover her ears and then blared a few words. "Project Alpha! We have some intruders in the maintenance area. Find them and bring them to me!" Project Alpha looked at the door as it quickly opened with a hiss. He walked out of the door and went down the hallway.
"Hey wait for me!" Shauni ran towards the door only to find them close before she could leave.