'There it is!'
As the connection lit up on Patty's end after Bones had plugged in the transmitter in the control center, Patty shot up on her seat, threw the box of orange juice to the little pile in the corner of the tent and began breaking through the securities of the EDGE's network.
By disabling the internal communication network, Bones has bought enough time for him to make a move to join with Jon and Pethant. However, that does not mean everything is fine and dandy from this point on, as the guards within the compound can still use means of external communication to reach the outside world, similarly to how Patty is reaching from outside to the inside with the transmitter Bones plugged in.
At the very least, Patty can slow down the speed at which the signals are transmitted outwards by jamming and overwhelming all of the major frequencies using the transmitter she has got, and this also allows for her to access the internal monitoring system and locate Jon and Pethant's whereabouts.
It took five seconds for her algorithms to crack through the securities, two more seconds to locate Jon, Pethant and Bones through facial recognition and a few more to pinpoint the eight other massive 'entities', which corresponds to each of the eight underground cities that is yet to be freed.
'Go help them, Purple and Yellow. Ally! You wanna go too?' Patty said, inputting the coordinate of the estimated point of intersection into her robots before sending them off. Yellow was just picking up all of the rubbish she has thrown all around the room when the command came, and she dropped a plastic bag full of rubbish onto the floor before following Purple out of the tent.
There, Ally was sitting outside and watching the morning sun as she jumped up into the air.
'Fuck-yes!'
Then, the two robots combined in midair around Ally's body into a torpedo with a spinning drill at its front and dived through the ceiling of the main factory compound at the Edge, tearing through the layers of floors and security mechanisms with ease.
'Have we figured out how we can let the people out yet?' Pethant asked as the four of them are running along a long empty corridor between the two massive underground cities.
'We can probably open up everything...' Leila suggested, 'and if we can find a storage area for all of the harvester suits...'
Bones and Jon exchanged a glance, and the latter activated his eyes as sharp as a string of atoms.
'On it.'
The nearest underground city still took them five minutes to get to, and there are only groups of scientists monitoring the status of the area when Bones appeared. One of them almost reached the alarm but was knocked cleanly out by Jon before he could do so. The alarm system was wired separately to the communications network, so if it goes off right now, there would have been nothing the four can do to stop it.
Right now, all they can do is to bolster the forces as much as they can by recruiting the help of those in the underground cities!
'There it is!' Jon said excitedly before he kicked down a hidden compartment behind a wall and revealing countless harvester suits behind it.
'I will open it up.' Bones volunteered before he dashed towards the control panel located hundreds of meters away and started opening up the sky.
At this time, this particular underground city had just been harvested, and the survivors are still recovering from the trauma of the massacre. Then, just as their hope for a better future is slowly rising, the portals from the sky opened once more.
'No...not again...' The village leader cried out in desperation, only to see Leila popping her head down and waving a hand at them.
'Would that really do?' Pethant asked before pushing an entire cartful of the harvester's suit through the portal and seeing it smashed into the ground upon landing.
'If they had someone that's remotely like me who's questioning everything, they will soon realize what is happening.' Leila said before looking towards Bones, 'have you found the central speaker?'
'This may be....' Bones said, flipping a switch and turning a dial, 'is this the speaker?'
'God...god is speaking...' The people on the underground city started kneeling and praying once they heard the thundering voice of Bones echoing all throughout.
'Yes!' Leila shouted excitedly before she started running towards Bones. Then, Jon appeared next to her and picked her up.
'Allow me.' He said with a smile before bringing Leila instantly towards Bones and dropping her down gently onto her feet.
Then, the cameraman disappeared again with a camera in hand.
Clearing her throat quietly, Leila then approached the speaker and laid out the truth for all the people underneath.
A minute later, a small squadron of battle-scarred young men and women rose up through the hole in harvester suits. They looked on at the compound around them mortified before anger swallowed the entirety of their existence.
'Are you with me?!' Leila asked, and they all shouted out in response.
'This is all we have that's left...' The leading young man said with a faint voice, 'but...we are gathering as many people as we can, and we are taking this place down!'
That was when Purple and Yellow crashed down through the ceiling and slammed onto the ground next to them.
'United-Networks...at-your-service.' The combination of Purple and Yellow said before Ally jumped out from the formation.
'Your-bestest-girlfriend-at-you-service~'
'They are with me!' Jon said, calming down the young men and women who were alerted by Ally's entrance.
Then, an alarm sounded all throughout the entire compound thanks to the ruckus caused by Ally, Purple and Yellow. However, with their arrival, there is nobody in the compound that can rival them.
'We are going to free the other cities, can you guys handle the rest?' Leila asked, and the few in the squadron nodded before accepting a small communicator from Yellow.
'Please-communicate-and-coordinate-our-attack-using-this...' Yellow suggested before dropping the packets of button-sized communicators onto the young man's hand.
Then, it was onto the next.
Compared to the previous city, they were quite a bit further on their road to recovery, and they are no less angry when they learned of the truth. It didn't take too much convincing for them to start moving and mobilizing the forces. The evacuation efforts down there is going to take time, however, the effects of time dilation is actually now working in favor for them as they literally have more time than anybody else in the world.
With more and more underground cities being freed and alerted of the truth, Leila began to feel a fire burning inside of her again. It was the fire of hope that she has never felt before. There IS a future for them, and all of them recognized Leila as the one who leads them into the future.
The squad of Purple, Yellow, Ally, Pethant, Jon and Bones is then split up where they are taking out each cells of the security forces before freeing the various underground cities. Watching everything from above, Patty is directing them through all of the various junctions and channels of the massive compound.
The soldiers that were freed from the underground cities also encountered a few of the security forces during their evacuation efforts, though with the help of Patty, they were able to set up various ambushes. With harvester suits around their body, the scale of power is balanced at last, and the battle-hardened soldiers are indeed the ones that are the winners of the various skirmishes.
A single hour later, the split up rescue squad managed to reach to all of the underground cities.
It took another hour for them to clear out all of the remaining security cells in the compound's lower levels with the help of Patty, then all of the battle-ready forces are gathered into one place while the rest continued to help with the process of evacuation.
Looking on at the thousands of soldiers wearing the harvester suits from all of the nine underground cities in one place, Leila couldn't help but bear a tear in her eye. One of the superpowered soldiers created a concrete platform high up in the air, and Leila stood on top of it, garnering the attention of all of those around her.
'My brothers...sisters.....' Leila said, both to the crowd and into the communication channel, 'our day of freedom and truth is here...Today is the LAST day when we had to cry over the fallen bodies of our mother, father, brother, sister, son and daughter. Today, we take the fight to the sons of bitches who locked us down there like farm animals, and today...we free them all!
The crowd cheered thunderously that the echo is shaking the entirety of the compound.
'They wanted to harvest us for our power, so we will show them what our powers are capable of!' Leila said, raising her fist into the air, 'all of you combat and non-combat types...help each other in this battle! We move as one, we fight as one and we WIN as ONE!'
'All of the security forces within the compound had been pulled out and regrouping outside.' Patty said, pulling out from the internal monitoring network and tuning into the citywide network of the EDGE. The scattered security forces loosely guard each of the exits, but thanks to the handy work of the rescue squad inside the compound, not too many of the security forces are left.
Now, the farm animals had made their move, and it is up to the farmers to respond.
In the meantime, in the middle of downtown of the underworld, the young head of one of the biggest criminal organizations, or in the case of the underworld, corporations shoved one of the nude girls laying over him and unwound the bubbles of time dilation around him. His power does allow him to enjoy the acts in bed for longer, but even that gets boring with time.
'Huh?' Seeing the flashing light from his communicator that he set next to him, it looked like only a minute has passed since he left everything on hold and jumped onto the bed.
'Sir! The farms....they are revolting!' His personal secretary said quickly, 'they have taken over all of the harvester suits and are preparing to get out of here!'
'And what of the security chief?' The young head asked, his rage instantly filling the entire room, 'where the fuck is she?'
'She...is nowhere to be found!' The secretary said in a panic, 'Sir...What are the orders...'
'Gather all UPPERS that's not out on missions and reconvene at the EDGE in one hour.' The young head said, 'Execute all those that didn't make it in time.'
Has his rival organization finally decided to make a move against his empire? The young head wondered as he stepped towards the window without a single piece of fabric attached to his lean body. A tattoo of a clock covering his left chest as he looked on at the reflection of his in the window.
'Guess it's time to go, Chronos....' He said into the mirror, and the reflection of his face began to twist and came to a grotesque life before it replied with an eerie voice, 'yesssssss massssterrrrr Kronnnnn.'