10 Betrayal 1

2 weeks later.

After entering the systems undetected where planet Crypso 3Q3U was located Jayde and her troops were transported to the planet surface near the Xi Corporation's secret base.

Since they had detailed plans of the base, Jayde squad knew exactly what they were supposed to do. The team members separated to carry out their individual missions, while Lawrence and Jayde infiltrated the main base. Their mission was to locate the main hub where the power core was located and place a miniature antimatter bomb to blow the place up.

After entering the main hub Jayde was feeling slightly uneasy, the mission was going a little bit too smoothly for her taste.

Turning to Lawrence she asked, "Bro, seriously don't you think this is a bit too easy?"

Grinning at her Lawrence shook his head "Shit Jayde, why can't you just be happy that we are lucky for a change, instead of landing in our usual shitstorm?"

Sticking her tongue out at Lawrence, Jayde walked onto the platform and looked around.

The main hub was a large dome-shaped room. The room itself was hollow, from floor to ceiling, it had to be over 100 meters. The power core was located at the bottom of the room.Small screens were located all around the walls, some of the screens displayed maps of the Earth Federation, with red dots on them. Those red dots must be chipped GESS people, Jayde thought.

The most surprising thing was that other screens showed real-time scenes, it looked as though the scenes were from a personal point of view.

"Yo Lawrence, check this out!" Jade called.

Lawrence walked over to Jayde and had a look at the screens she was pointing too.

"It this was I think it is?" Jayde asked Lawrence.

"F*ck these bastards," Lawrence swore, "Yeah I think you are right Sis, it looks as those kill chips, aren't just dead man switches, it looks like they monitoring the poor bastards too."

Shaking her head Jayde replied, "Just when I figured Xi Corp couldn't get any lower."

"Ah what a pleasant surprise SN1098 and SN1055, long time no see."

Hearing a voice that she hadn't heard for over a decade, Jade swirled around and faced the man who had just spoken.

"Vice President Xi, what a pleasant surprise," she replied sarcastically.

Vice President Xi was a tall man, handsome man with an athletic build, he was accompanied by a dozen or so bodyguards.

As Jayde made a small movement to grab her blaster on her hip, he smiled.

"Uh-uh, SN1098," wagging his right index finger.

Lifting her hands in surrender, Jayde frantically tried to think of ways to reverse the situation. While she and Lawrence were outnumbered, she wasn't too worried about the bodyguards, not with the training and experience that Lawrence and she had.

These bodyguards were fish on the cutting board, just waiting to be slaughtered.

The most important thing to Jayde at the moment was too take down Xi Corporation's supercomputers, no matter what it took, even if the price demanded was her life, Jayde was more than willing to pay. This base had to be destroyed.

From the secret intelligence that the Centauri has obtained, not only did the computers at the base control the kill switches of thousands of GESS people but it also had all the latest research on weapons, genetics as well as the latest research in starship technology. Bringing this base down would set back Xi Corporation for decades.

Those decades would buy the Centauri time to dominate the sector they were in and ensure with their current advancement in technology they would continue to be safe and free from human enslavement.

Thinking of the children running free on Eden, and just imagining what the Xi Corporation would do to them if they ever found Eden, Jayde decided to act.

Trusting Lawrence to have her back, Jayde lunged to her left, grabbing her blaster, she started firing rapidly.