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Date Posted: 21:13:48 04/30/02 Tue
"Do you know what you're suggesting?", Thunder Ram asked with intensity. "This is incredible. I can't shut down the whole city's power!"
Tortise remained adamant. "This is important, please you know how much he means to everyone. He can help us. If we release him, he will help us all go home."
"How do I know that? How could I risk my life to save him being unsure that I will be compensated. What if Doppler finds out. Do you know what he could do?"
"Don't be afraid of him. X was responsible for Doppler's fall last time. It will be no different I assure you."
"It isn't that I don't want to help. Its just...."
"What?" ,Tortise asked, obviously flustered.
"In order to power down the city, we need to do it a sector at a time. Sub-sectors first. We have to wait 10 to fifteen minutes for the power packs to cool before we set off another one. It isn't as simple as that either. We have to run the program, and do a diagnostic on each sub-sector, then power down each sub-sector on the same circuit. And finally we get to.."
"Spare me the details. We just need you to drop the power the energy shield. Do you know where it is linked?"
"I can find it. But Doppler has techs loyal to him in here. They monitor all of my work. They are going to seem suspicious of me if I power down the block that X is being kept. I think we need a plan."
"Like what?", WT asked.
"A power surge would overload the breaker, I could then trip the restart button for that block, and power would be restored. It would only show up as a flicker on the chart, and the blackout could be blamed on those pirates up there."
"How long would we have to get in?"
"Maybe ten seconds to jump through the shield. But then you be stuck inside with him. What good would that do you?"
IO joined in on the conversation. "Not if we can find a way to divert the energy flow of the shield."
"What do you mean?", both Tortise, and Ram asked him.
"I think my energy shield could merge with the energy flowing from the emitters here. If I can create a link, I can open my shield, and allow someone in...or out."
"How long could you keep this up for?", Ram asked him.
"Well, I can hold the shield around me as long as I need to. But, to open it, and close it requires a great deal of my power. I will be temporarilly weakend. I don't think I'll have but a few seconds to open it."
"That's long enough for me.",Ram said. He ended the transmission, and Tortise loked down at Zero.
"If He is our gate way, which one of us will go?"
"Zero is too weak to go. You go in.", IO added.
"Alright. I just hope this works."
True enough to Ram's words, the lights went black. The shield was gone, and IO took his position. He yelled to the Tortise, "GO NOW! You don't have time to lose!" (to be continued)
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