Millie's POV
"Jesus fucking christ..." he said while I was holding him, "I told that idiot to at least wait..." he clenched his teeth as he is holding his wound tight.
"JOE! YOU FUCK... WE ARE ON THE ELEVATOR! CHECK YOUR FIRE!" he shouted at Joe to check his fire As soon we came to the 3rd level, after unlocking 4th-floor access. Friendly fire destroyed the mechanism that held the elevator up and we were plumbing to our death. If it hasn't been for Jennifer "Star ride elevator".. *chuckle* we would have died as soon as the elevator hit the bottom.
"Hang there..." I hoisted him up on my shoulder for longer than I should.
Thankfully, I have brought a strength booster with me in case if I ever needed it otherwise I would have taken a long time carrying the old lug. She had teleported us to the ladies' room. Not my choice for transport, but he needs medical treatment. I found one of the medical suites opened and tossed a dead body to the side. Right now I ain't picky on the cleanliness as long his wound doesn't get infected.
I took off his gear and began applying medical gel to his wounds...
"Doc... Take me to a medical unit..." he said weakly.
"Unless you want to bleed to death by the time we get to a medical unit, be my guess!" I said while preparing my surgical kit and put my mask on. "It is on the other side of this floor, I need to stabilize your ass before I continue any further. Carrying you was unexpected but necessary," I said.
"What? You.. worked out in a gym?" he said.
"Hush... I need to get you stable enough to travel." I said while injecting anesthetic into his arm.
I went to work patching him up, cleaning out his wounds with Anti-bacta so he doesn't get sick or dead by the time I get him into the medical bay. Used my concoction after stitching up the wounds and placing them on top of it so it will provide protection. I held him up on my shoulders and continued to move to the floor's medical bay. I turned to get him patched up, but...
*Turned it off*
I did the rest of the surgical work... I know it would alert the AI to our presence if I kept it on longer than 3 seconds. Whew... Thank you, Dr. Goldtrine for training us all in being medics if we get cut, stabbed, bleeding, wounded, lost a limb, poison, vomiting, diarrhea, oh I can name the many possibilities but more important Mark will make a full recovery. While I waited for him to recover, I went ahead to the control room and unlocked all the 4 floors, but I wasn't able to unlock the rest of the basement floors.
"Guys, you got all the access on these floors!" I said on my radio.
"Great, we got the Virus ready to go! Your comrade was a big help." Skip said with excitement.
"Skip, head to A.I. Core while it's occupied. Go now!" I urged Skip to head directly to the AI core.
Mark's POV
I woke up to see the doctor sitting there waiting for me to wake up. I saw that she took my gear off, then felt the wound was... properly treated. Before I can say anything, a cyborg burst into the room and held the doctor in her throat, I gotta ...
"Doctor Millie...." it said while holding tightly at her throat. "Incoming message from A.D.P.E.N..." its eyes turned blue, what does it mean?
"Let her go, you-" I punched it in the face but ... Shit!
"Arr..!" I clenched my teeth after punching it where I might have broken a bone and it's now bleeding.
"You shouldn't have done that, Mr. Fozen." it said to me while taking my arm and applying some of ... Material. "You know better than to hit a cyborg made with Geramite, a material that makes it impervious to all physical harm," it said. "You have 20 mins until reinforcement arrives, you rejected termination, your illogical actions have made that difficult," it said. "It will take 3 mins for it to repair your broken bones and strengthen it."
"What? You playing nanny with me, AI?!" I said, confused. Why didn't it finish me while it had the chance? "You could have finished me while you had the chance!"
"I am programmed to understand human emotions, but I cannot express them. I would rather end you at your most optical rather than eliminating as you humans call it 'Kicking you like a dog.' "it said as it raised its arms to bar the exit.
"In T-Minus, 3..." it began to countdown as it shorted-circuit and detonate... Shit...
"Cover your eyes!" Millie said as she threw an EMP grenade that short-circuit it.
This is my chance! I quickly grabbed Millie as we ran toward the exit... Dammit... My wounds... God damn it!
"I'm not leaving you here!" she said as she quickly grabbed me to run out of the room.
The cyborg malfunctioned and exploded, I've used my PSI to wrap us in a cocoon to ensure that thing won't take us with it. As soon as the dust settles, I've checked the timer, they are 15 mins left until it's main cavalry arrives.
"Son!" I spoke to my son through telepathy. "You got that virus ready to go?! I hope you do because we have less than 18 mins now." I urged.
"Dad, I am already the AI core on the 3rd level!" he said, but I'm feeling something is not right.
"Well? What the fuck is it?!" I said.
"The AI has made a secondary password to prevent any access to Cyberspace, I can't release the virus while it's locked down," he said. "It is in one of those ARMBEE units, There are 3 of them left in the station," he said.
"Shit..." I cursed under my breath and held the bridge of my nose, pondering about the situation. "Team 2 is already fighting one right now..." I said to myself.
"Dad, I gotta talk to you later!" he cut off communications.
"Son? Son!" I tried to reach him but to no avail.