Chapter 14: They're Ours!: Let's do this! Ultimatum's moment to shine!
I stood at the caddy corner to Yahama watching HHO and the Knights Battalion protest Yahama taking the Vocaloids away from me. As soon as the side gate guards moved to deal with the increasing crowd, as apperantly some of the locals had heard and were also protesting now. I signaled to Omega and we moved over to the gate, I hooked Ranger in and he took down their security system and opened the gate when went through and began to make our way inside. Once inside I was able to get Ranger into the main database through a service computer.
"Alright Ranger, are there any prototypes here?"
"No sir, however this building does appear to have the designs for the mass production versions. Compared to the prototypes they are terrible."
"Mass production was a key there Rangy." I said as we moved deeper into the building. Along the way we had to near misses as guards from deeper inside the facility went to quell the uprising at the front gate. After a little while Ranger contacted me again.
"Sir, the paper copies of the copyrights are in the room through the next door on your right."
"Roger that." I said and got to the door, it was locked. "Damn it. Ranger is there anyway for you to open this door?"
"No sir, it's a manual bolt lock."
"Can you call the person who has the key to come open it?"
"And how would that benefit us?"
"I can deal with that." Ultimatum said coalescing next to me. "Ranger: Pull up the bio on someone who has clearance to enter this room, I'll check it and assume it."
"Yes sir." Ranger said pulling up a bio on one of the people Ultimatum read it over and morphed the hologram to take on that person's appearance.
"There, now all that's left is to call someone down here to open the door." He said, the rest of Omega went back down the hall and hid in an unoccupied room. I used the Holo to cloak myself. Ranger called a staff member down and when he got there he made some small talk with Ultimatum as he unlocked the door and left, as soon as Ranger said he was gone Ultimatum let his disguise drop. "Good, that man was short, fat, and a pain in my ass." He said vanishing Omega came back and we went into the copyrights room, turning on the lights and locking the door behind us.
"Alright guys, spread out and find anything related to the Vocaloids." I said walking over to the computer and accessing it. "Ranger, you ready?"
"Yes sir, I'll have the electronic copyrights in about 30 seconds." He said, that must have been the longest 30 seconds of my life. Suddenly the door's dead bolt was thrown open. Omega dived for cover and I turned my Holo on, again taking the appearance of the man who need in.
"I'm impressed how much thought you put into this." Came and all to familiar and unwanted voice, I casually glanced over my shoulder to see none other than the Director of the Possessors project.
"Ma'am?" I questioned
"I know that's you Mack. It's much to obvious." She said walking over and knocking the chair out from under me. I fell to the ground, standing back up I turned and faced her, dropping my holographic façade.
"Well, I'm impressed you figured it out."
"Yes well when you hear someone call down from this room and that someone is sitting across from you in a meeting its rather hard not to know who it is. Now then, why are you here?"
"I'm simply here to collect what is rightfully mine." I said as I began randomly twitching my hands, my signals to Omega for them to leave and that they were clear all the way to the exit, Ryan and Jackson snuck out behind thee Director. She either didn't hear or didn't care that they were there.
"Oh is that so? And just what is rightfully yours?"
"The Vocaloids you placed under my protection."
"That job is finshed."
"No its not, I was instructed to protect them and that is what I will do. Protect them from you and your people recycling them for scrap." I said, my eyes began glowing
"And you can not keep Us from that task!" I ground out from between clenched teeth. She smiled and walked up to me I stood my ground, once she was directly in front of me she reached out and touched my face.
"Such a handsome face, it's a shame I'm going to split it open like a coconut." She said. My eyes stopped glowing as Ultimatum defused with me, I paniced mentally.
'What the fuck are you doing?' I yelled at him.
'Getting rid of a problem,' he said, 'I figured out what Miku's ability was a long time ago.' He said cryptically before disappearing, l tried to figure out where he went but couldn't find him anywhere. Suddenly I was pulled back to reality by a bright light. Once there I saw that the light was me. Suddenly I realized what Ultimatum said.
"Seperation!"
"And Duplication!" Ultimatum and I bellowed, throwing our clasped hands apart. The light faded to show Ultimatum standing in his Omega squad costume. "You are in for a world of hurt bitch!" Ultimatum growled walking forward. The director's eyes narrowed as she backed up. Her hand went to her hip and she pulled a Tazer from it, firing it the shock pegs hit the costume and bounced right off. "It's designed to have shocks run across it to simulate an energy shield effect. This armor generates a strong magnetic field, your tazer isn't going to touch me." He said walking up. "Now sleep!" He said winding back and slugging the director in the side of the head sending her flying, and knocking her out cold.
"Reabsorption!" I said clapping Ultimatum on the back. 'so what was Miku's Special Ability?'
'The ability to grant one wish to her master, or in our case two because we both are.' He replied.
"I see." I said out loud
"Sir, the files are done. Its time for us to leave, given the amount of racket we've been making the remaining guards are surely on their way." Ranger said, I nodded and using the Holo to cloak me made my way out of the building. Once outside I joined up with everyone else and called off the crowd.
"Now all that's left is to hope that Cameron and the Possessors got the equipment from Crypton." I said to myself as we all walked off. Suddenly my Holo blared to life
"This is Longshot, mission success, 1 casualty, Longshot signing off," Longshot said, my eyes widened as a saw the casualty's name come across my Holo.
Cameron DeLagile: "I think there is one more. Finish 'em for me."