The trip to Mars had been uneventful but now the boys had to find a way to infiltrate the orbital station. They had planned for this eventuality, It was their preferred plan. Rescuing someone from the planet had many more variables involved and they weren't sure if they could achieve it.
They had been monitoring the communications and had discovered that Christopher was transferred to the station and placed under the watch of their favourite trainer John. This wasn't something they were expecting. John was one of the Martians that the twins respected, and they were unsure if they could defeat him in a fight especially in the stealth suit which lacked the exoskeleton.
Lisa and Zero had studied the incoming information from the backdoor programs they had installed and were able to identify a couple of senor blind spots but they were all too small for the Eous to use to enter martian space but they were good enough to hide the ship.
They had left the Eous was left in high orbit in one of these blind spots and the boys had attached themselves to an unmanned delivery drone. Zero had already registered the drone with the system so it was able to infiltrate the station. Null and Infy used the active camouflage of their suit to avoid visual detection and escaped before the drone was actively scanned.
Everything had gone to plan, they were able to sneak aboard the station and make their way to the cellblock. The same one they used to call home only a couple of weeks ago. Infy used a clone to possess a mini-infiltration drone and do reconnaissance to identify the guard's locations and access the security systems. Null was able to quickly neutralise the guards using a paralytic agent which had been installed in his new suit.
They knew they only had less than a minute before the guard would be discovered. So far the plan was going flawless. Sadly when they found him, Christopher didn't want to leave.
They allowed Christopher to talk to his mother via the holographic device.
"Mum, but how? They said you were part of a cultist terrorist cell and that you are an enemy of the state"
"Pumpkin, remember that time when you were 6 and you met Mr Nookin for the first time"
"ok, ok you don't have to bring that up, but Mum what going on?"
"I don't have time to explain, just trust me and go with the nice boy in front of you"
It didn't take Chris long to make up his mind, he trusted his mother implicitly and tried to escape with Null. Except as soon as he stepped out of the cell he collapsed.
Lisa panic. "No, what happened? he is still alive, right?"
Null checked on Chris condition and found that he was still alive and seemed just to be sleeping. It seems the Martians had taken more precautions than they were aware of. It seem when Chris left the confines of his cell his system was flooded with a sedative.
Null was out of time, he picked up Chris and started his escape route. As he was passing by one of the rooms he felt something hit against his mind like someone was trying to make contact. He cautious open up his mind to the link.'
'AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHH' was all he could get from the mysterious link.
'Infy you still connected to the system, can you see who is in cell 3B'
It took a few seconds for Infy to reply, but Null could sense the rage via his soul link. He passed on all the information he had access to. The information painted a bleak picture. The person in the cell was Jania Anders a 15-year old female who had been enrolled in the super soldier program since birth. She had consistently been testing in the lowest percentile.
This had made her the perfect candidate for human experimentation, they over a series of operations had mutilated her brain. The experiment was trying to replicate Null's brain. They were investigating what effect each change would make to a person. After each operation, she would be subjected to a battery of brutal tests.
The experiment had to be cancelled as the test subject had now become unresponsive so no further data could be collected except for life expectancy. Lisa was horrified at the experiment her own people had been performing. She was the lead scientific officer but did not know about this experiment. Which made her wonder how many other experiments she didn't know about.
Infy opened a path for Zero hacking software to connect his their previous installed backdoors so that they could recover all the data from the experiments. They unlocked the door and the sight of what they saw shocked them.
Jania was wearing only the most basic of outfits and her cell was covered in a mixture of human waste products and blood. When Null came near her she lashed out at him forcing him to use the paralytic agent on her as well.
The rescue was getting more difficult by the second. Now Null was carrying 2 unconscious bodies and to make matters worst the new suit didn't enhance his strength. The alarm was now in full swing. Time was up the body of the guards had been discovered.
''Infy, we need a plan"
"let us get an escape pod, I will get the Eous to rendezvous with us."
"NULL, STOP! I know it's you. You have nowhere to go and you know you can't beat us please come quietly". The rescue plan kept getting better, they had now been discovered by John.
Lisa asked Zero if he could teleport all 4 of them as he did earlier.
"I could but there would be consequences, so we will see how work out" The Watcher was concerned with the current events as well but he didn't want the council to get involved.
Null and Infy had lost control once they saw John. From the files, they knew that John was fully aware of the treatment of Jania and that he had even delivered some of the harsh examinations. They had felt betrayed that John would let one of his students be butchered and experimented on.
Jania mental link was still active with twins, and upon identifying John her rage fed into the rage of the twins. This rage changed something within the boys and they started to transform. Infy energy form no longer took the shape of a ball instead he merged with Null giving him black wings made of energy. Above his head also spun a black halo that was part of Infy body as well.
Null body was pulsating with visual black energy. This had cut off the connection to Zero and Lisa
They weren't aware but they were also channelling the rage of Jania through the mental link that Null had opened. Infy had transformed and was now a blood-red halo spinning above Null head and was pulsating visual energy the same colour as his body.
John had no idea what was going on but knew he had to act. He pulled out his service weapon and attempted to fire at Null. Before he could fire the gun had imploded on its self taking John hand with it. The rage could not be sated with just a hand and boys instantly blinked across and got into John's face.
They wanted to watch while John died. They were currently holding John heart in their hands, they have teleported it out of his body while they blinked towards him. This was the first time the twins had killed someone outside of VR but all the training they did inside the pod seemed to have dulled them to reality.
In their new form, they were able to lift both of the children and teleported to the nearest escape pod. Infy had just enough energy to summon the Eous to scoop up the escape pod and set it on a path home before passing out.
Null was about to relax when the voice of the universe sudden changed, it had become so loud and out of harmony, That Null could only cradle himself in the fetal position why trying to cover his ears. Which didn't help at all as the voice wasn't a physical sound.