Chapter 59: On the Wings of Angels.
Seven sat on a stool watching both Timothy and Shauna working on the device that had caused the changes to Passa who was still sitting in the medical lab for observation as he wanted to make sure that the nanites that had invaded his body had no further surprises in store for them.
"How the fuck could the Enclave have something this fucking powerful in their possession and not have it under lock and key or I don't know if one of their major labs?" Seven asked and Timothy shrugged.
"Not sure but my best guess is they had absolutely no idea what it is they had, all the major powers have tech scav teams operating all over looting old private and government labs for useful tech but the general rule of thumb for these teams is if it looks intact simply grab it, if it's not useful or is broken it'll then get dumped or scrapped for parts, you wouldn't believe the sheer amount of prewar tech that scribes like me have to sift through and for every one hundred items we might find five useful things, trust me when I say there is a backlog, there are only so many scribes to go around and catalogue every broken plasma canister or electromagnet that gets brought in so it's really fucking easy to overlook something actually important simply because it's buried in the backlog unless we go into a place specifically targeting a piece of tech in which case that goes right to the front of the list" Timothy explained.
"So you are saying they didn't know they had it?" Seven said and Timothy nodded.
"Pretty much yeah, I mean think about it, I didn't see either a name or a fucking manual with the thing did you?" Timothy said and Seven shook his head as he knew that Timothy was right, there had been no markings on the case to even indicate what was inside the thing and other than the case itself there was no real indication that it was in any way important let alone powerful.
"Ok, so that's the why now onto the how, how the hell did the Ghouls get their hands on this thing?" Seven asked turning this time to Faith who had spent all morning chatting to her people back at Underworld via their hardline comms to find out what had happened.
"Ok so from what I was able to gather a scav team hit an Enclave cashe about a week ago, they'd been watching them for a while and they'd seen them hitting labs all over the area and bringing out gear, so they decided to hit them just as the team went out on another run so there would be minimum resistance but they only had minimal space to carry things so they went for weapons and anything else they could snag that was man-portable, that thing was among them as it was just a case, they had no idea what was inside it so they just grabbed it and ran, but they had no idea what they had, so it was just listed for our scientists to get to I didn't know about you but I haven't seen that many Ghoul scientists or engineers have you?" Faith said and Seven nodded in understanding.
"So you guys had no idea either huh?" he said and she shook her head.
"You think it would have just been laid here on a shelf if we did? That thing would have been so far locked away that Satan himself would have had to go through ten fucking checkpoints to fucking reach it, shit to know we had a tool capable of rewriting Claw genetic code in our possession our scientists would have been creaming their pants I mean think about the potential for that, its a tool capable of either undoing or adapting what the fucking FEV does to its victims, hell it might even be possible to have used it to undo what has been done to Ghouls and something like that is fucking priceless to us" she said and Seven nodded again.
"So the question remains here, how exactly did it do that to Passma I mean surely rewriting a living being's genetic code should outright fucking kill it surely?" he said and Shauna glanced up from her powerful electron microscope.
"Well, I'm not a hundred per cent sure yet but my best theory is because of the way the nanomachines work, while some of them are adopting the genetic coding another set are repairing the damage caused by the process while also creating the body parts that the new code is trying to create, granted this is all just theory at the moment as nanotech has always been a pretty unstable tech, hell I can count on one hand how many times I've heard of it being applied successfully," she said and Timothy nodded.
"I'll second that, the Brotherhood are always ultra-cautious when they come across nanotech and usually it gets destroyed though mostly because of the fear of the grey goo doomsday scenario," Timothy said and Seven cocked his head curiously.
"Grey good scenario?" he asked.
"It's the scenario where nanomachines essentially just run amok and they just replicate over and over-consuming everything they come into contact with and reducing it all to a grey goo made of base components" Timothy explained making both Seven and Passa shiver and the big white claw looked at his hand.
"Those things are inside me right now?" he said sounding forlorn and Timothy gave him a sympathetic look and nodded.
"Though I don't believe they mean you any harm as they would have done it already if they did," he said.
"Ok, so what about what happened to Passa, to begin with? How did this happen to him and from what he said the ball relayed to him that his DNA had been damaged by radiation but I thought Claws are immune to it?" Seven said and Shauna shook her head.
"No creature is fully immune to the effects of radiation, not even Ghouls, they just have a much higher resistance to it's effects than most but how ever slow the damage effect it's still there and you are forgetting the point that it might not mean that the damage was done to Passa himself, it could be the damaged genes were actually passed to him through breeding, it could be almost anything like making a once dominant gene a ressesive causing a mutation now whether that'sa positive or a negative is a question for time really as evelution is a series of mutations to DNA over time, now this could do somthing as inocus as changing the colour of his eyes right through to somthing more damaging like giving him a hole in his heart, all of these things are genetic and radiation has a habit of simply speeding the process up or totally fucking it up cauing things like tumors or cancer by damaging cells and DNA" Shauna explained in very much laymans terms for the benifits of the none scientists which made up nearly one hundred percent of her audiance.
"So when the device said it repaired twenty per cent of his genome it might not have meant the giving him wings thing? It might have just detected degradation of his DNA potentially causing him or future generations of his line to develop a genetic disease or condition?" Seven said and Shauna smiled nodded and clicked her fingers.
"Exactly! Unfortunately, we don't know what genes it modified or what it did to really know and even if I take a sample from him now I still won't know I have to do a series of tests on his mother and siblings to try and isolate the changes and I simply don't have the tools to do that here, we'd need a full-on genetics lab for that kind of thing" she said.
"Ok then so where did the wings come from and what was that he reported about inserting mammalian DNA into the mix? What was that about?" Seven asked and Shauna shrugged.
"Not sure though all I can think of is it detected potentially dangerous sequences that if left unchecked would cause his descendant's major problems down the line, but why it decided to spice in mammalian DNA is a mystery I have only theories, perhaps it figured that it could repair the damage by swapping these genes with compatible ones from other species in order to try and correct these problems, or maybe it was programmed to make him into what he was meant to be all along, there has been many speculated theories about what the Claws were meant to be when they were originally made using the FEV, but without a pure sample of Claw DNA it extrapolated what it thinks it should be, or it could even be damaged and it simply operated on what code it had worked, there are just so many theories here that I really can't nail one down, not yet, I need more information," she said.
"Yeah, me too I can't find any obvious evidence of damage or flaws here but I still need either the original documentation that came with it or studies were done on it and I might know where we can lay our hands on such things but they will be a major pain in the ass to get," Timothy said and Seven looked at him and groaned.
"Let me guess, the brotherhood archives?" he said and Timothy nodded.
"Yup the place where I originally remember reading about this thing and it is going to be a royal cunt to get into," Timothy said.
"Well it's a good thing we have an invisible Nightstalker girl and a cloud girl who can pass through any gap and break into any machine then isn't it?" Seven said with a grin.
"So let me get this straight you want us to break into the Brotherhood? I thought we were going after the Enclave and the labs?" Wisp exclaimed glancing between Timothy and Seven In amazement.
"We are but we're going to need to split our forces here, so while the main team will be heading to the lab to hit it, you two will be heading to the Brotherhood to break in and find any details you can on this project Unity that did this to Passa, but we cannot afford to wait on hitting the lab so we got no choice here," Seven said.
"Jussst the two of usss?" Riss asked and Seven nodded.
"Yeah you two are the only ones who could slip into the place unnoticed and given that we aren't trying to start an all-out war with the Brotherhood unless we really have to this is our best and realistic option, I'd rather not bust in there and fuck up the place if it can be avoided, I'm saving that shit for those who truly deserve it in the form of the Enclave but don't get me wrong if it does turn out to be needed then we will do it, but for now stealth is our best option," Seven said.
Riss nodded and looked at her husband who was standing at her side and reached out to stroke his face, "Do not worry my love, they will never ssssee me coming or going" she said with a warm smile as he stepped in and hugged her.
"I's not doubts it for single second," he said into her chest his voice sounding slightly muffled.
"Well, I guess I'm leaving my new body here then huh?" Wisp said and Seven nodded.
"I'd recommend it, we'll make sure it's safe and good before you set off and if you ride in with Riss that should stop them seeing you," he said and she nodded before turning to Malakai who was wringing his hands nervously and shuffling from side to side as he contemplated being separated from his love, she stepped forwards and just like Riss she wrapped him in her arms to comfort her beloved man and to soothe the fears of losing her that were blatantly running through his head.
"Don't you worry my big sexy spider I'll be right back in you arms before you know it, you can't hurt a cloud and I'll have Riss watching my back so we'll be fine" she said and he hugged her even tighter.
"I hope so," he said softly kissing her cheek and rubbing her face with his little mandibles.
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Seeing how quickly Riss could see from rooftop to rooftop leaping with such incredible strength and grace and covering truly massive gaps with ease made Wisp finally understand how Riss was able to scout the way she did.
She was incredibly agile and fast on her feet while moving with such sure-footed confidence that it was a true joy to watch through her eyes as she rode with her, she could even climb near-vertical walls of solid concrete because the claws tipping her feet while they weren't at Claw levels of sharp or strong still allowed her to dig in and climb vertically up as long as she had handholds to hoist herself up she could go vertically as fast as if she was travelling horizontally.
"So according to the map that Timothy drew for us the Brotherhood compound should be about five hundred meters to our left," Wisp said into the radio transceiver in Riss's ear which they had discovered that Wisp could use to communicate when she was out of her body without trying to patch into Riss's mind.
"I sssee it," Riss said looking over towards the massive building that was surrounded on all sides by fences and guard stations.
From where they stood atop a broken skyscraper they had an extremely good view of the Brotherhood compound, the place once upon a time had been called the pentagon and was now called the Citadel.
The building had taken an obscene amount of damage both in the war and since as was evident by the constant state of repair it seemed to be in with metal plating having been welded over just about every surface, anti-missile fences were set up everywhere, the building itself had fences running around its entire outer perimeter that formed patrol channels that power suited soldiers patrolled near constantly.
Atop the building a series of watchtowers that held snipers armed with heavy calibre, anti-material rifles and plasma weaponry sat ready to take out any perceived threat with pinpoint accuracy.
"That's a lot of security just like Timothy said," Wisp said and Riss nodded her head though to anyone watching she would be nothing more than a slight shimmer in the air.
"Alright according to Timothy the archives are in the basement where the Scribes are based, he said our best bet for entry was through a parking garage that had been converted into a quick access bay for the teams to work on their power armour, it's on the east side of the building and there will be a lot of soldiers and people in there but given how open it is should be no problems for us to pass through right?" Wisp said and Riss nodded again.
"I will be asss sssilent assss a sssshadow at night," Riss said and with that, she leapt right off the side of the building.
Riss landed with a thud on the roof of another building and proceeded to leap from building to building until they ran out of them, then she dropped them back down to street level and began to slowly cross the open ground, moving fast would cause her cloak to shimmer and make her easier to see so slow steady movements were their friends.
The only speed to Riss's movements was when she had to leap the twelve-foot fences like she was jumping over a knee-high wall, she was timing her movements to coincide with the guards being clear of the area, but when they got around to the East side of the building they found something that made her pause.
"Ummm I don't think we should tell Visa or Vess about this or we might have a Claw riot on our hands as much as I'd love to see these bastards face some fucking Claw justice for this given that it was the Enclave that made them do it I really hope that Seven and the other turn those poor Claws loose right in the middle of that lab" Wisp snarled in Riss's ear.
"Agreed I would love to ssssee those innocent Clawsss get even for this atrocity!" Riss snarled quietly as they looked at the burn pit filled with bones that had obviously once belonged to controlled Claws.
"At least they didn't leave them to rot, as little comfort as it is as least they can be together in the ver after if there is such a thing" Wisp said and Riss nodded.
"It isss little comfort but at thissss point, I'll take a little over none" she replied before turning away from the gruesome sight of the pit filled with white and black ash that had once been proud and noble claws but was nothing more now than a reminder of what had once been.
They found the garage rather easily and just like Timothy had said it was a massive open area that had obviously once been protected VIP parking but was now a staging area for the Brotherhood engineers to work on the power armour suits that all stood silently in their stands.
The place was swarming with soldiers, scribes and paladins all milling about as patrols came in and went out, "Ok silence from this point on just nodd your head to agree and shake it to disagree ok?" Wisp said and Riss nodded.
"Ok then according to Timothy we need to head to the far side and there will be an elevator that heads down to the basement, it's locked behind a card reader but that should be no problem for yours truly, once there we're going to need to pass through a few checkpoints so a few distractions may be in order," Wisp said and Riss nodded again as she began her slow controlled walk through the living minefield that was the garage.
The crescendo of sounds washed over them from all sides, everything from talking to the sounds of grinders and various power tools overwhelmed the senses, Wisp did not envy Riss at this moment with her very sensitive hearing having to endure this but endure it she did as she moved just as she said she would, as silent as a shadow in the dark.
She ducked and dodged and weaved between the masses of Brotherhood personnel as she made her way across the garage right to the far side where just as Timothy had said there was a bank of elevators that looked like they had been fixed up with additional security layers by the Brotherhood.
"It should be that one on the right" Wisp said remembering the layout plan that Timothy had barraged her with before they'd set off.
Riss headed over to it and pressed a call button to bring it up to them while stepping to one side to avoid bumping into the constant flow of personnel using them, it felt really odd to be right next to all these people and for them to be completely unaware of their presence.
The elevator doors opened with a soft ping moments later revealing a large open cab that Riss poked her head into to look for cameras, fortunately, it was clear but there was a card reader on the wall of the cab next to the buttons which wee currently dark, "Ok I'm up close the doors and keep an eye out while I work" Wisp said and Riss pressed the door close button before Wisp shot out of her head which she was switching between and her radio when she needed to speak.
She penetrated the card reader with ease and then it was just a simple case of bypassing it, compared to the lockouts on Raven Rock this was like a luggage lock, the buttons lit up as she completed the bypass and Riss pressed the button for the correct level.
Wisp flowed back up into her head with nothing to say as they travelled downwards in the surprisingly smooth elevator, she'd half expected it to be jerky and bumpy but it seemed the Brotherhood engineers really knew their stuff.
As it reached the floor required the cab gently jerked to a stop before the doors slid quietly open revealing a long narrow concrete corridor beyond it, there was a series of wall lamps creating pools of bright white light along the wall and floor.
"Slow and low big girl let's not get cocky here we could be here for a while and the last thing we need to be doing is playing hide and seek with these fuckers" Wisp said.
"Ssspoil sssport," Riss said playfully in a nearly silent whisper that made Wisp laugh, she could see why Runs like her, she was so confident in herself that it was kinda infectious sometimes.
The corridor was rather tight and narrow and more than once Riss had to flatten herself against the wall in order to allow a distracted looking scribe to pass by unhindered, all the scribes down here seemed to be wearing the same Pipboy's that Seven had and most were so engrossed in the files and research they were looking at that more than once they witnessed them walking into each other.
The place was like a maze with all kinds of small labs having been set up all over for the scribes to test a massive variety of things but eventually right dead centre in the middle of the maze they finally found their target, the main archives.
The place was a bastion of order in the chaos that surrounded them, there were large circular wooden and metal shelving that surrounded a large series of computers one a large circular desk that had one or two scribes researching them, while the shelves were filled with a mixture of both paper and books and holo tapes.
"Alright big girl head over to one of the computers and I'll jack in and we'll see what we have," Wisp said.
Riss nodded and silently moved over to one of the computers and looked around quickly before ducking down and allowing Wisp to exit her body and to infiltrate one of the computers which to the casual observer would appear to be working all on its own as she began to search the files for this project unity.
Thanks to her ability to access technology directly without any need for peripherals like keyboards it speeds things right up because once inside the chips it was like her thoughts became the commands so searching for project unity was as simple as thinking about it.
As it turned out the computer simply held a card catalogue number for the shelving which obviously meant that the files were either paper or hold discs, though Wisp was silently hoping for the latter as files would be rather tricky to carry out of here unnoticed.
Silently she exited the computer and slipped back into Riss's radio, "Ok big girl it appears they have it filed away, it's on the shelves in B twelve section two" Wisp said and Riss nodded immediately looking up at the ceiling to see if the brotherhood had been helpful enough to label the sections which thankfully they had.
It took them all of five minutes to find the section they were looking for, once in there Riss began the long laborious task of searching the long curved shelves for the files they wanted, to Wisp it kinda felt familiar searching through the library shelves like this but to her memory, she had never even been in a library like this let alone done hours of searching through one but somehow this as triggering all sorts of feelings of de ja Vu.
It took quite a bit of scouring but eventually, they found what they were looking for it was a series of three holotypes that were compatible with a pipboy that were contained in a boy with a large circular symbol on it with a double helix of a DNA strand at the centre, after checking the body Riss snagged the tapes and hid them in her pockets which thanks to the field her body generated were as hidden as her flesh.
"Alright that's it, mission complete time to bug out big girl," Wisp said and Riss nodded her affirmation and that's when they heard something interesting and stopped to listen in before they got the fuck out.
"Hey did you hear about what was going on down towards Boston?" one of the scribes was saying to another.
"Yeah odd synthetics running around, fucking mutants everywhere and now sightings of those fucking avians and did you know there's been some whispers that those fuckers are actually people?" the second scribe said and the first one who was a young human woman with bright green eyes and blonde hair looked shocked.
"People? As in walking-talking people?" she said and the second scribe a young man in his early twenties with jet black wiry hair nodded his head.
"Yeah from the reports I got to see before the elders squirrelled them away they got driven down from the mountains but there were a couple of reports of when the paladins shot them down of them speaking, even begging for mercy but I don't know how accurate they are," he said and the woman looked shocked.
'Fucking bird people now!? Fuck this is almost as bad as the reports I read about those insect people living in those caves near Florida and that new breed of Deathclaw that supposedly infesting the area around Nukaworld, they are supposed to be twice the size of a normal Claw, then there are the reports coming in from our scouts about talking scorpions I wonder what in the fuck this world is coming to, it's going fucking crazy" she said and the other scribe nodded his head.
"Well that was interesting maybe it might be a good idea to see if we can get our hands on those scout reports I think Seven will be rather interested in them what do you say, big girl?" Wisp asked and Riss nodded and quickly headed back to the computers for Wisp to once again do her thing.
It didn't take her long to find what she was looking for as all the computers were all one a central network here just with large amounts of security and encryption protecting the more sensitive data but to Wisp it was nothing more than a hindrance and pretty soon she was inside the files and forcing it all to be written to a holotape for Riss to collect just like printing out a file, once it was done it was time to leave this place with their bounty in their possession, she just hoped the other team was having as much luck as they were.
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"Watch the flanks!" Seven yelled as he deflected a hail of incoming fire from a trooper carrying a minigun before throwing the lead right back at him forcing the power armoured soldier to duck out of sight as the wall of lead shredded everything around him as well as sparking off his armour.
Visa dashed across the open ground avoiding the hail of fire from the entrenched Enclave soldiers before diving into a narrow corridor taking the two soldiers hiding in the by complete surprise and by the blood-curdling screams she was fresh out of mercy.
"Fuck me these bastards are dug in like bastard scale ticks!" Ven yelled as he grabbed hold of one of the Enclave officers and used him as a club to sweep the legs out from under a soldier in power armour before smashing the screaming officer against the fallen man's head with a series of sickening crunches.
A second bellowing roar from their right drew Seven's attention and he turned just in time to see Vess smash clean through a wall trying to get to the men who barricaded inside the room beyond where they had set up a machine gun that had been pinning them down for a bit, but the screams that came from inside she had taken a leaf out of her daughter's book and was using them as living breathing vents for her frustrations and by the way of of the men tried his damded to craw through the firing slot they set up on the makeshift pillbox she was showing as much mercy as well.
"We need to break through!" Raymond yelled as he fired a series of shots from cover to Seven's side.
The Enclave had apparently managed to not only reach the lab but had dug in defences on the entire entrance and they were not giving up without a serious fight, no sooner had the group arrived on the scene than they'd been forced into cover by the sheer wall of projectiles thrown down at them.
"Get on my ass! We're punching through these fuckers!" Seven bellowed and with that, he jumped over the concrete barricade he'd been using for cover and held his hands out in front of him, he focused so hard it felt like a game of pong involving bowling balls and hand grenades was going on his skull.
All the fire now focused on him but the telekinetic shield before him stopped all of the lead projectiles dead and that helped to deflect the energy ones he couldn't stop, once he had enough he focused all of his power into one cataclysmic blast that sent the whole mass of projectiles speeding with the force of a giant rail gun straight towards the doors sending the whole thing inwards with enough force to drag all of the soldiers gathered around it in with it.
"Oh fuck yeah here comes the fucking Dark Angel motherfuckers! Let's fucking go!' Shepherd bellowed and her cheer was picked up by the others as they all burst out of cover either shooting or just charging as they all fell in alongside Seven as he ran forwards only just aware of the energy crackling around him again as he focused his anger into his power, if there was ever a time unleash his anger this was it.
"What the fuck is that thing!?' one of the soldiers beyond the door yelled to his companions as Seven dashed through the large hole that had once been a giant metal blast door with his team at his flanks either shooting or full-on sprinting towards them.
The Claws got royally stuck in infact the only one who was missing was Passa who Seven had left behind to recover despite his protests, infact it had taken a direct command from his mother to get the now winged claw boy to agree, at least she didn't have to whack him with a giant claw sized sandle to get him to calm down.
"For the claws!" Vess bellowed and all of her children and Ven as well as Visa bellowed roars in response like a giant war cry that had the desired effect, the gathered enclave soldiers that were holding the lobby area that was more of a vehicle maintenance bay than a lobby freaked out scrambling over each other to find either cover or their armour.
Seven spied a large group of captured and controlled claws stood in the corner just seemingly bemused by the sudden appearance of these strangers but given they had been no commands to attack them they simply stood there watching, that was until one of the Enclave officers dressed in a black uniform grabbed a large control box from a box near them.
"Shauna now! Unleash the claws!' Seven bellowed as he stood like a living bulwark to the hail of oncoming fire aimed at his friends and loved ones, other than Malakai's armour he was the only thing between his people and certain death and he would not fucking fail them!
"Suck claw justice you fucking cowards!" Shauna bellowed and she punched the button on the jammer she was carrying inside an armoured bag that Malakai had made for it.
The effect was once again instantaneous, the claws reached for their heads as the signals were jammed and their senses began to flood back in, Vess instantly saw her chance, "Brothers and sisters! To me!' she bellowed running in front of the confused Claws, now they might not have been able to understand her words but the feral Claws recognised an Alpha matriarch when they saw one and without so much as a second thought they released bellowing roars of their own and joined her charge running alongside their sentient armoured brethren as they ran across the lobby towards entrenched Enclave troops.
This unleashed pure carnage as the Enclave quickly realised they'd just lost their trump card, those that had the presence of mind that hadn't been replaced by the pure fear that came with seeing a whole pack of angry claws sprinting right at them with murderous intent.
It was like watching a light scattering a room filled with radroaches, the claws leapt over the tables and crates that the Enclave had been using as makeshift cover, the sheer amount of fire that was hitting Seven's shield was beginning to ebb his power down and he could feel himself falling, "We need to end this now I'm fucking losing control!" he yelled as the pain began to break back through the wall of anger that was allowing him to keep the large semi-circular wall of energy between his people and the oncoming projectiles.
"Seven let it go! Hit them with it all at once!" Shauna yelled and just like a sunbeam through the clouds Seven saw what she meant and a cruel smile lit his face, why hadn't he thought of that?
"FUCK YOU!" he bellowed as he focused every single bit of his anger from all the injustices both he and the claws had suffered right into a single burst and with a push he sent it ripping forwards like an invisible wall of death.
The telekinetic wave was like pure chaos washing over everything in its path, he'd angled it just right to avoid his people and to only hit the Enclave soldiers, the unarmoured humans it completely tore apart, shredding their bodies like they had fallen into an invisible blender that tore limbs from sockets and launched them around, screams became the new anthem of the room.
The soldiers that had managed to reach their power armour weren't torn apart but they were far from spared, their armour was crushed and smashed like they had been hit with a nuclear blast, panels dented in, electronics smashed, helmets containing heads torn off, Seven's raw fury tore the entire place and the people within apart.
With his power spent Seven collapsed to the floor trying desperately to hold onto consciousness as his people tore into the survivors like a wave of fury, even Malakai and Gregory were getting stuck in firing shots at anyone still moving until finally after what felt like an eternity the room fell silent as the last of the defenders fell dead.
One of the feral claws went to charge toward Gregory upon seeing the human near him but before he could take more than two steps Ven appeared right in front of him and bellowed so loudly in his face that the whole place shook, "Touch him and I will remove your arms and kill you with them this human is MINE!" he bellowed.
The claw screeched to halt and looked confused as all of the sentient claws formed a scaled wall between the humans and non-claws and the ferals, they all glanced back and forth before turning to look at Vess who with the power, confidence and authority that being an Alpha matriarch claw gave strode forwards and touched the nearest one, "You are free children, go and roam free as you were born to, you are the slaves of these vile humans no more" she said and with the last of his strength, Seven crushed the components in each of their helmets making them fall silent on their heads freeing them from the control completely.
"The claws glanced at him and then at Vess and then back again as if understanding that he was responsible for their freedom, then as one the ten claws turned and ran for the exit as a pack.
Visa appeared at Seven's side and she scooped him up, "are you ok my beloved one?' she asked and he nodded.
"Yeah I will be, got a skull full of nail bombs but I'll be ok in a bit," he said and she hugged him tightly against her.
"You are once again true to your word Seven, with every passing minute I see why my niece loves you the way she does, thank you for not taking the easy way and killing those innocent claws, thanks to you they will go forth and find their own way now and thanks to what they saw they will know that not all humans are bad and that there are those who will stand for them and not against," Vess said and he smiled and nodded.
"Thanks, Vess that means a lot coming from you," he said and she bowed to him.
"Ok as soon as I've rested up we'll crack that door open and we'll see if this place was worth the effort," Seven said and the group set up to defend against further attack while they waited for Seven to recover his strength.