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Ellie didn't, exactly, expect the world to end when she woke up this morning
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"We can revisit this under more pleasant circumstances."

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"Sounds like a plan." Kiss, then Ellie will wiggle free.

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She'll allow that. Reluctantly.

Onwards in their investigations, then?

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Onward. Maybe now that Ellie has an idea about what they were doing here, her poking of the terminals can be more conclusive.

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A pretty solid start. 

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That's the idea.

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Still... There could be functions a lot worse than turning the operator - or possibly everyone in the room, if Jade and Cat would be naturally immune - into catgirls. Something caused Cat to wake up with global amnesia, after all, and while the power armor's probably designed to handle poison gas... The - cat-ification beam or whatever? Got through it.

...Ellie should probably get back in the power armor first, come to think of it.

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Yeah.

There's still plenty of other things that could potentially squish her.

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Unfortunately Ellie doesn't seem to have any of Cat's other powers.

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They can do more investigating later, maybe.

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Once they're somewhere more secure.

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Right.

Hopefully Cat didn't bust the armor up too badly trying to get Ellie out...

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It's still intact and fully functional, luckily enough (it's a durable design).

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Right.

Ellie slots herself back in, then returns to her hacking.

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The file system is a mess, and a lot has been deleted, but Ellie's eventually able to pull up some records.

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Keyword "synth", keyword "cyborg", keyword "replacement", keyword "experiment"...

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As she's pulling up the files, there's a soft clanging noise from somewhere outside their room. 

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...Probably not a good thing. Let's see how much she can get downloaded to local storage before someone starts shooting or something gets lit on fire.

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A really good chunk, at least of the files she's found and decrypted so far. She can't rule out the existence of other files, though. 

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She also can't rule out the existence of enemies about to attack, and that one will have to take precedence.

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"They're close. Try to hole up, or try to run for it?"

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"I'd rather not get cornered."

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"Then let's go."

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"Right." Ellie briefly debates destroying the computer, but they might want to come back at some point.

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Faster to just leave. 

Cat will take the lead? 

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