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Volume 1 Chapter 3: Open Sesame
The light of the moon reflected off the silver frame of Shasta-Lunar as Kole got into position. He laid down, chest flat to the roof as he shifted the stock of his rifle into his shoulder. "Alright, Neptune I'm set up. Now where are you…?"
"On the fifth floor, West side," Neptune replied.
Kole shifted his legs and swung the barrel of Shasta-Lunar, as he leaned into the stock of his rifle. His eye darting left and right scanning for his partner's position. After a few seconds, he saw the image of Neptune come into focus in the window. "Got eyes on you Neptune. Make sure to watch your corners. I have good detection but I can't see everything."
"Sure thing partner." Neptune slinked slowly down the hallway, tilting his rifle from left to right as he carefully regarded the Atlas-Knight sentries that marched by him. "Are you sure these things can't see me? They are really creepy…" Neptune said. Sweat was trickling down his neck as he walked past them. The mechanical sounds of the sentinel machines drowning out his footsteps.
"Neptune you are invisible to them I promise you, don't worry about those pieces of junk. However, the guards are a different story so please stay focused on your corners and I'll watch your back." Kole responded forcefully over the radio.
"Okay, jeez I heard you the first time." Neptune shifted his weight as he put one foot in front of the other. He stopped as he reached an intersecting hallway. Leaning back on the corner of the wall he looked down the right hallway. "Alright, Kole, which way to Miss Schnee's office?"
"Floor schematics show her office two floors above the door on your left. You have to go down the left hallway and take the stairs up. When you get there I'll unlock the security door." Kole replied. Before Neptune could say anything in response he heard the recognizable click of an Atlas assault rifle and froze.
"Shit…"
"Freeze! Lower your weapon or I'll blow your head off!" Neptune released his grip on his rifle, allowing the sling strap to take the weight, and slowly raised his hands in the air. Out of the corner of his eye, he could see the reflection of an Atlas soldier in the window, wearing yellow armor and pointing a model forty-four assault rifle at the back of his head.
"How did the sentries not catch him?" another voice enquired.
Two of them?! Man, I really screwed up this time…
"We better call this in. There could be more of them." The first replied. Neptune could feel the barrel of the rifle jab into the back of his skull as the guard got next to him. "Weird, this guy's not a faunus. He's a human."
"Neptune…Neptune, listen I need you to do exactly as I say okay?" Kole's voice came over the radio in a whisper, so as not to be heard by the guards. "Disarm the guy who has you. If you can do that I can have Epsilon set up an opportunity to make a shot on the second one. Just tell me when alright?"
Neptune merely chuckled. 'I can do that but you better not miss." Neptune replied.
"You know I won't."
The guard pushed the barrel forward a little more forcefully. "What did you say? Who the hell are you talking to?" He accented each question by further jabbing the barrel into the back of Neptune's skull.
Alright got to think this through- 'ow' I could probably try to- 'ow'.
The guard continued to jab the rifle into his head and it was really starting to get on Neptune's nerves. "Hey! Are you ignoring me punk?!"
This guy is really starting to piss me off! OW! Seriously! What the fuck is with this guy?!
"Seriously dude can you stop poking me in the head with-" The guard pressed the barrel further into his head.
"Alright, fuck it!" In a flash Neptune had spun around and smashed his hands downward on the guard's rifle, after engaging the manual safety on the side of the pistol grip, he pulled forward on the barrel and threw the rifle in the opposite direction before getting the guard in a headlock and then smashing his head into the floor knocking him out cold. The other guard raised his rifle and pointed it at Neptune. "Kole shoot him!" Neptune leaped forward from the floor, towards the threat while a few hundred meters away Kole started to exhale as he zeroed his sights on the gunman.
everything froze.
For computers time is relevant. Seconds? Minutes? None of it matters in the grand scheme of things. All that matters is the time between one calculation, to the next. One process to the next. One program to the next…
If the human brain can solve one mathematical computation in a single second and a computer can do millions in the same second…
How must that feel…?
A line of blue code flew outward from Neptune's radio before it coalesced and materialized together into a tiny humanoid shape. As the shape became more defined it showed the image of a tiny soldier in blue armor wielding a sniper rifle similar to Kole's. He regarded the frozen form of Neptune leaping toward the Atlas security guard holding him at gunpoint. The guard's finger mid squeeze of the trigger on the rifle. Ready to cut the young agent down. The small blue figure gradually levitated over to the Atlas security guard.
"Huh, you are packing some serious heat their buddy." A hollo-screen appeared showing a picture of the rifle. Identifying it as a Schnee company model forty-four rifle, along with all of its tactical information and attachments. "Wow! A model forty-four? Hey D? Isn't there a high probability of jamming on this particular Atlas model?" A small green soldier similar looking to the blue one appeared next to him.
"The Schnee model forty-four assault rifle does not jam. You are thinking of the model forty-two, the model that was replaced by the forty-four. But why to ask me when you could have figured it out for yourself?" He replied curiously.
"Hey, it's easier to share information between us than to process it. Besides, I like talking to you." He turned to the Atlas guard again. "So we can't jam the rifle. Anything else we could do?"
Delta and Epsilon flashed away and reappeared in the middle of the hallway. "The Model forty-four does have an electrical based safety and firing mechanism. If we overload the rifle's electrical system we could make the rifle unable to fire long enough for Kole to disarm him." Delta replied.
"Excellent, get on it Delta." Delta disappeared in a cloud of code. A few seconds later the stats on the Rifle's info screen turned red and the word inoperable appeared. "Awesome! Now to account for Kole's angle and for bullet trajectories for Shasta-Lunar." A pink cloud of code dispersed next to Epsilon to reveal a much smaller soldier similar to Delta in pink armor.
"Are you talking to me, or Delta?" the pink AI asked.
Delta reappeared next to them. "He is talking to both of us."
Epsilon shook his head. "I'm just thinking out loud guys." A beam of blue light showing the path of Kole's bullet from the tower to the window appeared totally straight until the beam of light hit the window and went off course. Epsilon cursed "Damn can't make that shot reliably with that window in the way."
The pink AI, Theta, disappeared only to reappear next to the window across the hall by the guard, waving his hands excitedly. A holographic image of the window opening appeared next to him. "Look! Look! The window has an electronic opening capability integrated into the security system. If we open it the bullet won't ricochet!"
Epsilon recalculated the bullet trajectories and sure enough, the light changed from targeting the expensive looking painting on the wall to the Atlas guard's rifle. "Good eye little buddy!" All three of them disappeared into clouds of code before reappearing hundreds of meters away next to Kole on the roof. "Okay agent Kole, how is your aim?"
Delta brought up a hollo-screen showing Kole's vitals and important information pertaining to field performance. "He hasn't been sleeping well…"
"He's been having bad dreams… about his mom…" Theta interrupted. His voice petering out at the end. Epsilon shook his head.
"No Theta, don't worry about it, he's fine." Epsilon looked to see Delta Lowering the stats for accuracy from ninety-five to eighty-three. "Delta, he's fine…" He said vehemently.
Delta resets the stats to ninety-five percent before turning to look at Epsilon. "This does not seem very scientific..." Delta replied doubtfully.
Epsilon scoffed. "Yeah well sometimes, you have to operate on faith."
"That seems like an unwise decision," Delta said with a disapproving tone.
"Yep but it is more…fun." Epsilon turned to Theta. "Has he really been having those dreams again?"
Theta shook his head, "Yeah, they have been happening in greater frequency since the director assigned the guys this mission two weeks ago. I'm worried about him…"
Epsilon put a comforting hand on Theta's shoulder. "Hey there buddy, he'll be okay. I'll talk to Jaune about it when this is all over with alright? He'll know what to do." Theta nodded his head to verify Epsilons solution. "Alright, time to get this show on the road!" all three of them dissipated into fragments of code.
"Well… I think that went well."
"Went well?! You shot the rifle out of the dude's hand! That was fucking awesome!" Neptune replied excitedly, "How'd you even do that?"
"Lots of practice Neptune…but I did have a little help." Kole smirked at epsilon, floating next to him. "Thanks for the help Epsilon honestly I wasn't sure I could make the shot in time."
Epsilon shrugged, "Eh, what can I say? I had faith."
Kole shook his head, "Alright Neptune are you done cleaning up?" Kole asked.
"Yeah there was a closet across the hall. They're both going to have a really bad headache when they wake up."
"Good," Kole switched frequencies on the radio, "Jaune, you and Sun make it to the main lab yet?"
Meanwhile over in the research and storage side of the complex Jaune and Sun had finally made it into the main research hub of the Schnee headquarters. Multiple lab tables covered with beakers of dust and mechanical parts filled the center of the room while huge computer screens adorned the walls. "We're in the main lab now. Can you send Epsilon over to help with the transfer?" Less than a second later Epsilon appeared next to Jaune in a cloud of blue light.
"Already here, just insert the drive." Jaune removed a small flash drive from his scroll and plugged it into the console in front of the computer.
"How long will it take you to get the data?"
"About forty-five seconds," Epsilon answered.
Jaune quirked his eyebrow in curiosity. "Wait really? You and Kole can shut down the entire security system for the Schnee dust company in a matter of seconds but can't upload a few files?"
"Oh, well that's a limitation of physical media, don't even get me started on that, besides that will give you plenty of time to keep Sun from breaking any-" The loud sound of glass shattering and a small explosion cut Epsilon off. Both he and Jaune turned to see Sun with his hands on a prototype Atlas assault rifle that had been resting on the table. A huge scorch mark had been burned into the floor where it was apparent a vial of highly concentrated fire dust had reacted violently from being broken and exposed to the air.
Jaune walked over to Sun slowly while pinching the bridge of his nose. He ripped the rifle from Sun's hands before pointing a finger at him. "Don't touch anything else. Not the weapons, not the dust just stand over there and wait for the transfer to be over." He said in a voice that betrayed his increasing irritation before putting the rifle back on the table.
"Okay, okay." Sun waved him off and walked over to the wall next to the computer and leaned against it nonchalantly while Jaune merely made his way back to the computer to wait for the files to copy over.
After about thirty seconds Epsilon reappeared, "Jaune the files are all copied but…there is something else."
"What is it Epsilon?"
"There is a door in this room. A door that doesn't show up on the security system or the floor plans."
A secret door…in here? "Epsilon where is this door?"
"Hold up, I'm opening it…now."
Sun suddenly felt the wall disappear from behind him and the weightlessness of his body before crashing to the floor. "Ow…" he groaned in pain.
Jaune glared at Epsilon who merely shrugged. "Oh come on, you know that was funny."
Omake
Project Freelancer: File Code 75AI951
(R&D) Research and Development Division
Subject: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Up until this point, our research teams experience with AI has been limited to what we know from Atlas technology and the Schnee Company. We also assumed that the Atlas Model Codenamed PENNY, was the most advanced AI to date, with the ability to imitate human emotion and produce its own aura, something only humans and faunas have been seen capable of.
But analysis of the fragments the Director had given us from agent Kole Tausend after 'the two souls incident' changes these assumptions entirely. After extensive research of the fragments named Epsilon, Delta and Theta, we have gained a wealth of information on their capabilities. Using their own generated aura networks, the fragments can take ethereal shape. They are also capable of traveling through both radio waves and physical media such as computer networks and our own aura networks. They do this by using their aura to bridge an almost invisible gap between the host and themselves monitoring vitals of the individual. They can also process battle simulation information at speeds that dwarf some modern computers. It is amazing to think that a fifteen-year-old was capable of designing an AI this powerful. While Atlas has created am AI that is restricted to its form Agent Tausend has done an entirely different approach to AI structure giving it the ability to go beyond its physical boundaries.
However despite these abilities, they do not seem to inflict any permanent damage to the host. After extensive analysis, we can conclude for certain that an event similar to the 'two souls incident' will not be repeated by these fragments.
Notes: The AI known as Theta wishes to see agent Kole Tausend of team JNKS, if possible, director.
Chief Research Officer: Dickerson Simmons
Director: Leonardo
AN: I follow the Color Rule of RWBY to a T but it makes bringing in characters annoying, Monty I swear...
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