Chapter 242 Mox Is Calling

"I am glad that you two figured something out," Sofia said as we walked into the briefing room with Lily carrying one of the Power Focuses behind us.

"Yeah, we are still not entirely sure how everything works, but Lily has an idea of how to use the power from the crystal safely. We just need to figure out how to make it work with the generator at Area 51," I explained as Sofia nodded her head in understanding before turning toward Lily.

"That is a start, but do you think that you will be able to figure out more while you are there?" she asked, and Lily hesitated for a moment before giving a confident nod.

"I am pretty sure of it. I have never seen anything like this before; it is fascinating," she replied with an excited look on her face, and Sofia chuckled softly as she shook her head.

"You two are going to be busy for a while then," she said as she turned back toward me with a serious expression on her face now. "Do you think that you will be able to keep things under control at Area 51? The last thing we need is another incident."

"I will be fine; I promise. Lily will just be working on the generator. I try not to do anything that could possibly cause any problems," I assured her, and Sofia nodded her head in understanding before turning back toward Lily.

"Just be careful; we still don't really know much about these things," she said, and Lily nodded her head eagerly in agreement before the two of us turned and left the room.

We were quiet on the ride over to Area 51 as we each lost ourselves in our own thoughts, but eventually, Lily broke the silence with a question that had been on my mind since she had first mentioned it. "What exactly is an interdimensional portal?"

"That is a very good question, but I am hoping to find more information at the base. I am going to send all the data back this time from their computers, so Octavia and Sofia can look it over or find someone that knows more about it. There is a storage unit that they have buried deep on the bottom floor of the bunker, and I need to understand more about it. As far as I know, people that go in come out talking different languages, so there must be something that needs to be adjusted for proper use," I explained as Lily nodded her head in understanding.

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"I see, that makes sense," she said as she turned back towards the window with a thoughtful look on her face. "I am really excited to see what we can find out."

​ "Yeah, me too," I muttered as I turned my attention back to the open air ahead of us.

I was trying to mentally prepare for another clash with the Shalgoth, but I would be able to get information from the computers about how to deal with it. That would make things easier, but I knew that this would still be hard to deal with the creature and get it back in whatever was containing it before. There was also Mox, the Gideon, that I needed to deal with. He would be much easier, but I still wasn't sure if I would be able to get him to join my side.

We eventually arrived at Area 51, and I took us down to the small shed, using some gravity to blast it away, making Lily squeak, but I had to concentrate. Next, I headed to the top and then melted the metal back until there was a hole big enough for me to lower us down to the massive two-story special generator that we had to fit the Power Focus to. As we moved down, Lily looked around with wide eyes at the size of the thing.

"This is amazing," she whispered in awe as I set us down on one of the metal catwalks that ran along the sides of the massive room.

"Yeah, it is," I muttered as I looked around myself before turning my attention back towards Lily with a serious expression on my face. "I need you to be very careful while you are here and don't touch anything that you shouldn't."

Lily nodded her head eagerly in agreement before following close behind me as we made our way across the catwalk towards a small door that would lead into one of the many rooms inside this place. We went through a few rooms until we found one that had several computers lining the walls inside of it with wires running everywhere. It looked like a control room for something, but I wasn't entirely sure what it was for yet other than monitoring the generator.

I walked up, and metal vines extended from me and splashed into the computers, downloading all the data from them and sending it off to the girls; then, I turned to Lily. "Can you start trying to figure out how they installed the Power Focus? The computers are all open to use."

Lily nodded eagerly as she made her way over to the computers before sitting down in front of one and starting to mess with it. I leaned against the wall and watched her for a moment before turning my attention back towards the door that we had come through. My senses were telling me that there was someone else in here with us, but I couldn't see anyone.

I focused on extending my hearing, and soon enough, I could hear faint footsteps coming from one of the other rooms attached to this one, and I realized who it was before the door opened. Dawn walked in with a stretch and a big yawn as she saw me staring at her and froze in place before quickly recovering. "Oh, hey, Daniel. I was wondering what you were doing over here."

"Yeah, I just bought Lily here to help us out with the Power Focus," I explained as Dawn nodded her head in understanding before turning her attention toward Lily with a curious expression on her face.

"I see; what can you do?" she asked, and Lily looked up from the computer screen with a confident smile on her face.

"I am an expert on energy sources from all over the galaxy. I should be able to help you figure out how to use the power from the crystal safely," she replied confidently, and Dawn's eyes widened in surprise for a moment before she quickly recovered and crossed her arms with a smirk on her face now.

"Is that so? We will see about that," she said as she turned her attention back toward me with a serious expression on her face now. "I need to speak with you in private, Daniel."

I nodded my head in agreement before following Dawn out of the room and into one of the other empty ones nearby. Once we were inside, Dawn closed the door behind us before turning towards me with a worried look on her face now. "What is wrong?" I asked, instantly concerned by the look on her face.

"It is Mox; I have been monitoring the bottom floor, but he used a computer to talk to me," she explained, and I furrowed my brow in confusion as I crossed my arms.

"Why would he want to talk to you?" I asked, but Dawn shook her head.

"He thought that I was you and just wanted to know when you were coming back down to the bottom floor of the bunker," Dawn explained, and I signed. So, Mox was getting impatient.

"I will go down there and talk to him soon, but I need to get Lily settled first," I explained as Dawn nodded her head in understanding before turning back towards the door.

"I will leave you to it then," she said as she walked out of the room, and I waited until she was gone before heading back into the other room where Lily was hard at work. It looked like she had made some progress as there were schematics up on one of the screens in front of her that showed how they had installed the Power Focus into the generator.

"Hey, how is it going?" I asked as I walked up behind her, and Lily turned in her seat to look up at me with a tired smile on her face.

"I am making some progress, but it is slow going. They have the Power Focus installed in a way that I have never seen before," she explained as she turned back towards the computer screen and began to type something in. "I think I can get it out, but it is going to take some time."

"Well, just take your time; we don't want anything happening to that thing until we know more about how it works," I said as Lily nodded her head in agreement before turning back towards the computer screen and getting lost in her work once more.

I stood there for a moment longer before turning my attention back towards the door with a sigh. It looked like I was going to have to deal with Mox sooner than I had wanted to, but it couldn't be helped. I needed him on my side if I was going to have any advantage when Alpha's Strike Team of mechs came.