Chapter 49 - New Order VII

Arc was already standing because of the tension he felt, he looks at the Ex series combat droid and thought they look like a small heavy armored mech and no matter how strong a ???? star rank human they can't compete with a mech using only their flesh, he regrets not giving more powerfull weapon to the Shadow Unit especially to Ruby and Jem and although the rank 5 suits can save them from most fatal damages it also have limits especially since the Ex series droid was equipped with the many heavy weapons that were designed to deal with heavy equipment like tanks or even mech, how can a mere human compete with that, he was about to order a retreat when Tiffa stop him.

"Boss believe in them, they can do it," said Tiffa resolutely to Arc

Arc looks at Tiffa for a few seconds and saw how serious she was. he sigh.

-fine but if I think that there would be any meaningless casualties I'll pull the plug I don't care if we have to wait for a few more months if I can prevent meaningless death I'll do it.- said Arc

"You don't have to worry too much Boss though those droids look strong Ruby and Jem is more than a match for it look they are even smiling," said Tiffa as she points at the projection

And indeed without realizing it Ruby and Jem are caught up in the moment of their fight and began to enjoy it of course, not to the point that they will play with it, in fact, they were very serious but that seriousness is what leads to them enjoying it, maybe because they haven't been able to utilize all their ability since they arrived in this world so without them realizing it they already enter combat mode maybe it was programmed in their genes when they were created this type of battle truly suits them the most.

Arc also notice it he just gave a wry smile because he understood it he himself encounter this kind of feelings many times when he was training in the training machine, he knows he can't stop it anymore he can see the look in the face of Ruby and Jem he recognizes it, in fact, he knows it too well for he was an adrenaline junky himself he discovered it the very first time he tried the training machine.

At the same time, the Shadow Unit blows the wall the people inside the Spider HQ also heard the explosions but unfortunately for them, they couldn't confirm anything as Eve immediately intercept all their communications and she also gives a lot of false information to more confused the enemies but that was only effective for those who didn't know the existence of Ex series droid as they were immediately informed the moment the droid encountered the enemy.

Mikasa and Mikhail are brothers and sisters in The Spider organizations have prominent reputation but unlike the rest, they didn't have any title like Elder or leader, not even an officer but their existence is special because no one in The Spider organization will offend them not even an elder have the guts to do it the reason is that although those two don't have any specific title they do have a very specific job, to protect the Head of Spider and only the Head of the Spider they didn't care about anything else.

The moment the Ex series Droid encountered the enemy Mikasa, Mikhail and the Head of Spider was informed immediately according to plan they would immediately take the Head to a Specially designed bunker or take him to the hidden tunnel to escape,

But when they tried to ask Beru about the situations Beru reassured them everything is fine and under control, of course, that was not really Beru but Eve pretending as Beru, this delayed Mikasa, and Mikhail from making sudden moves and even the head though worried decided to continue the meeting but ask Mikhail to investigate the action of the Ex series droid.

Normally their first action is to take the Head to safety but because Beru said everything is under control they believe that the Ex series droid has already taken care of the problems, and so the Head sends Mikhail to check and at the same time try to minimize the exposure of the Ex series droids but halfway to the power and safety control terminal another explosion was heard but to everyone surprised and confusions, there was no alarm given they even receive transmission that everything is under control from the head of security so believing in the transmission many personnel continued with their works but Mikhail is different he knew something is wrong he check his mini terminal and sure enough the droid is still active unfortunately it didn't tell any more than that he needs the main control terminal of the droids to completely check everything but the main control terminal of the droid is in the hidden chamber next to sleeping chamber of the Head.

So he contemplate if he should go to the droid and risk being in danger or head back to the control terminal of the droid, as the head's protector he cannot receive injury or place himself in any form of danger unrelated of the protection of the Head they can only get injured while protecting the head any other way and they will be considered failure, in the end, he chose to head back he also informed Mikasa and The Head of the circ.u.mstances, The Head check the message he got from Mikhail and frowned according to Mikhail the HQ system is compromised and even Beru most likely is compromised as well.

The Head is using a secured communication device separated from any network this communication is a three-way personal communication exclusive for him and his two personal guards so its impossible to hack since its not connected to another network,

He used his other communication device and call and check Beru he ask about the situations but Beru confirmed it's under control but The Head notice something, he knew Beru for a very long time it can even be said that they were quite close so he knew Beru's mannerisms but the Beru he was talking to is different to the Beru he knew...

No matter how good Eve is she can't completely copy another person she can pretend and most people can't tell the difference especially those that don't know the person personally and even those who do can still be fooled as well but it's different from those who really knew the person they will be able to tell the difference, of course, they won't be able to tell they are talking to a different person but they will suspect that the said person is being controlled or compromised.

The Head couldn't tell if Beru is being controlled or if Beru betrayed him and although the chance of Beru betraying him is very small it's not impossible since it happens in the past, even now those that betrayed him are now suffering in Hell.

As the head is contemplating

Bang!

The Web doors were forcefully opened, and when the head saw who it was his eyes went wide...