Saviour - Stealth 500

You walk into the vehicle hanger, with your shuttle now in ruins you will need alternate transport. You opt for the Stealth 500, hover bike. Within the black moulded metal frame sits a turbo injected Reactorlight engine and state of the art 360 anti-grav pads. It’s fast, light and manoeuvrable, and will work perfectly.

You sit on the seat of the bike and press your palm to the panel situated between the handlebars, the screen immediately flashes into life,

“State Your Clearance” a mechanical voice sounds from the bike

You reply “This is Commander Anya Saviour, Confirm Vehicle Synchronisation Clearance One Alpha Charlie Foxtrot Zulu Seven”

“Clearance Confirmed. Welcome Commander Saviour. Synchronisation in progress” the bike responds

Your Helmet Visor display, changes and a map appears in the top right hand corner and a status picture of the bike appears in the lower right. You now have access to the bikes navigation and status systems using the Just a Thought technology built into your helmet.

“Synchronisation Complete”

All set you place your hands on the handle bars and apply the throttle. The bike springs into life, and within a blink of the eye you are out of the hanger and onto the streets. You set the Navigation system to Juniper Boulevard and speed on.

The world flies past you as you weave in and out of the downtown traffic. It is not long before you are approaching the power grid. It is on a hill at the outskirts of the town, in your rear view mirror you can see the multitude of lights from the city below.

In front of you, the large pyramid structure of the pylon base comes into view. The Pylons are large metal cylinders 50 metres in circumference, their base is a large framed metal pyramid structure. The pyramid rises about three kilometres into the air, the Pylon 10 kilometres, a similar pyramid structure meets the pylon at the top. There are thousands of pylons scattered across the country, their purpose is to support and power the sky grid defence system.

1024 must be trying to bring down the defence system, if that happens no one will survive the hell storm the Sanctum will unleash on earth. But you need to be sure of one thing before you bring the militia in.

If what prof thought was true maybe 1024 can be talked down. Most people thought Prof’s plan was totally crazy, make a Synth understand the human condition. With his true AI algorithm Prof believed we could turn the tide, make Synth's realise life in not just 1’s and 0’s, on or off, alive or dead. You had believed in him. What other choice was there? Facing the Sanctum in open warfare is suicide and the war of attrition that is currently in play is only prolonging earth’s demise.

 The way 1024 acts is different to any Synth you have seen. He seems more sentient, more aware. Although prof did not think 1024 accepted the algorithm, maybe it did, or maybe 1024 did not need it. You have to be sure.

You ride up to the power grid security gate and see that it has been torn from the ground. The security guard is tied up hanging from the fence, still alive but unconscious. You find it curious not to find the guard dead. You have arrived before the law enforcers, which is good, they would just get in your way.  You leave the guard hanging on the fence and continue into the compound.

As you approach the pyramid structure, you begin speeding up. You aim for one of the metal girders at the base of pyramid and the bikes 360 anti-grav system kicks in. The Stealth 500 is capable of riding up walls and along ceilings, it not quite flight but it’s not far off. You are now cruising up the side of pyramid structure. After a short while, you near the top of the structure, you can make out movement up ahead, you use your Visor tech to zoom in and switch to night vision, its 1024.