[Blake Warren]

1401
On Hampton Park Drive
Colorado Springs

Blake thwacked his head against the dash of the Ford. "I don't know. But I know this is wrong, because my preacher father sayin', 'They should get married' about me and Colonel Hamrick is right out of the darned Twilight Zone."

Logically, logically, think it out. Blake pressed his fingers into his temples. "Go straight down Hampton Park, get out of the suburbs, we'll have more room to run once we get on North Union."

He looked behind as the twenty-year-old truck's engine complained with a grinding sound. "Should have taken the Charger, don't ever tell him I admitted this, but it's way faster than my truck."

Which was going to be a problem, as they went faster than strictly necessary onto North Union and the black muscle car was backing at high speed out of the drive. "Floor it, but I don't think this truck can outrun his car."

Not that Blake would ever let go of the F-150 he'd had since undergrad at GSU. There had to be a reason that they had apparently skipped the hotel and yet Sarah was gone. "Just drive, I'll navigate. Head for the Radisson Hotel, at the airport."

He had a feeling, maybe if he found Sarah things would start to make sense. He had to laugh. "Whether this is real or not, you feel like meeting my ex-wife, Sergeant?"

<<tag Nick Harper>>
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0800
Radisson Hotel
Colorado Springs

Sarah shook her head. "Well, depends on your definition of pain, Robert."

She got away from him and walked toward the bed, working on understanding. Why had Dr. Warren left this form, and yet Captain Oxford was clearly interested if his vitals were any indication.

She went stiff, looking at the window. There was a problem in the situation. She grabbed his arm and pulled. "We need to go somewhere else, now. I don't think you want us to be here when my husband gets here."

<<tag Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr>>

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2003
Hospital

Lequana was sitting up her bed as she was taken a drink of her apple juice the nurse had given along side her dinner. She was surprised how the food tasted so bland. No more than two minutes before had a Sargent left her a laptop, with a note,
Who needs pen and paper when you have a Laptop
Eating only half her dinner she placed the tray with her food on to the side table, she tried to open the laptop with one hand and as she tried her fake father entered sitting down in the seat beside the bed

" You look a lot better after some food, let me give you a hand." With that he took the laptop and opened it up in front of her.


" Thank you and I feel better.
Straight away Lequana felt home with the the laptop tapping away even if it was with one hand. Just as she began to get a understand of the system, Matthew stepped in and with a few clicks displayed a file concerning her work so far.

" This is what we have, we have some information on your work. You still have your Clearance you had so feel free to look up information that may help.

With the laptop handed back to her, Lequana went to work and with little conversation, Lequana went to work in beginning to try to understand these nanites she had so called created as Matthew drifted asleep. An hour passed and Matthew still lay asleep in the bed beside her.
Lequana continued to work away on the nanites in hope to recall anything she could remember, than she found a programme which had not been there when she first opened it was called 'Aear'. With a number of security checks she found no danger and with curiosity eating away at her she opened it. As A moment of panic hit her, she doubted her actions, she was almost tempted to wake Matthew but when Hello Linda came on to the screen she relaxed and as she went to hit next she felt a jolt of energy run through her.

Her eyes blink like made as if she had awoken from a nightmare, with a quick look at Matthew she noticed he was beginning to awaken. With her two hands now at work, it was as if her arm and hand wasn't wrapped up. She began to type away, ten seconds later Matthew was asleep again and all with in sight of her froze in there position. For five minutes Lequana worked as if her life depended on it on the laptop typing away creating a new programme. With the hit of enter a flash swooped the room. The clock changed time to 1401 hours in her room with an effect of making the coming night disappear and also forcing her zone to join Blake's.

Lequana sat on her bed lost and confused once again Linda but this time a voice was telling her to get out of the Hospital as soon as possible as everyone unfroze and Matthew awoke.

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[Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr]

0804
Radisson Hotel
Colorado Springs

Two things struck out to him.

One was that she was married. He wasn't the one to fool around with a married woman. It was a peronal choice.

Second she called him Robert. No one called him Robert unless it was his CO, or his fmaily when he landed himself in hot water with them.

The Coast Guard Captain frowned and looked at her. No didn't want to be here when the other man got here. Going into the bedroom, he grabbed his stuff - all of it. Dressing up in his Dress Blues minus the coat, which hung on his arm instead, "Where you have in mind?"

But still a feeling won't leave him that something was wrong. He couldn't pin-point what it was as he followed her lead away from his room and towards the elevators.

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[Blake Warren]

0804
Radisson Hotel
Colorado Springs

As the truck stopped, Blake jumped out. He'd have expected Steve to be right behind them in the Charger, but they were eerily alone, considering this was a decent hotel right at the busy Colorado Springs airport.

He shook his head and a minute later, people appeared from apparently nowhere, milling about with their luggage. And maybe it was going to make Sergeant Harper think he was nuts.

Really Blake wasn't completely sure that he wasn't crazy already as he yelled to, something, someone, he didn't know. Maybe God or whoever was really behind whatever this was. "I know this isn't real! So just give up and come out and face us, all right?!"

He looked at Harper helplessly. "It was worth a shot?"

Just as Blake spoke, the people apparently walking around outside the hotel stopped in place, frozen in step, some of them looking like they should fall over.

And the day, already chilly, got colder until Blake started to shiver.

Bootsteps rang ominously as Steve stepped from the frozen crowd, looking at both Dr. Warren and Sergeant Harper. His clothes had changed from the casual civilian dress of earlier to a severe black uniform. "And you just got what you wanted, Doctor Warren."
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Sarah looked around wildly. The elevator door had stopped half-open. She looked down the hallway. A housekeeping employee was frozen in the hallway, mid-push of the cleaning cart.

She looked at Oxford and her tone changed, the flirtatiousness was gone. "I am so, so sorry. The Military Caste just overrode the simulation."

And then her mouth formed a shocked "O" and she disappeared. The elevator door opened all the way. A person stepped out.

The avatar had been chosen from the darkest depths of Captain Oxford's fears and  regrets.

<<tag @adaofhearts, Nick Harper, Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr>>

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0110-1010
Hospital
Colorado Springs


Lequana slipped her legs out of the bed as she lay the laptop down the end of her bed, still that impulse to leave pushed and pushed. It was then that she noticed a pink tracksuit folded upon a table. Her eyes shifted to her so called father who looked asleep in the seat beside her, but he wasn't asleep and instead he was frozen in his seat with his eyes open. If it reminded her of anything it was of a doll, blank and emotionless. She clicked her fingers in front door of his eyes but he didn't even blink. As she looked at him an inner voice said she knew the face but he was no father. Over and over in her head she heard the word lie.
Jumping of the bed to a cold floor Lequana dressed her self into the pink tracksuit. As she got dressed her heart began to beat like mad as she watched the world move around her, figures passing by the window of the door but still her so called father lay frozen and the voice inside still beat at her to leave the lie.
Lequana picked up the laptop and couldn't beat that these nanites should be under no ones control but hers. These nanites were more than just a tool they felt part of her. For a minute Lequana watched the door waiting for her moment, she heard a beep on the laptop and as she opened the laptop a programme began to run. As soon as the programme finished a nurse walked up to the two guards and as her hands touched them they just seem to vanish from the door.
Lequana saw this as her chance so closed the laptop and slowly exited the room. As she left the room Lequana couldn't help but notice a number of medical staff including the nurse watching her, they did nothing but there eyes stayed locked on her as she moved. With out waiting for the guards to show there face she made a quick speed down the corridor to the sound of her racing heart. As she made her way down the corridor she couldn't help but feel that something wasn't right and everything around her felt Alien as if from another world.
Finally she reached the door to the stairs and as soon as she placed her hand on the door a second hand gripped hard on to her shoulder and flung her back the way she had came.

" Stupid little girl," Matthew voice spoke blank and with out emotion as Lequana reeled from the impact of hitting the wall," All you had to do was one thing and instead you mess up the system, security is now a risk.
Lequana tried to make a run but Matthew seemed to almost predict her moves throwing her back to the ground hard and his eyes starred over her.


"Your not my father, I know that."
[/b][/font] She locked her eyes on to his not wanting to seem weak.


"No I'm not but I could be if you just give us control of your nanites. You could final have a home and live happy to the end of your life."


"That's not going to happen, I won't live a lie and I'm not going to give you control of these, no my nanites.


Two guards appeared from the stairs door, " Take her back to her bed and make sure she doesn't leave the room ." Matthew eyes remained locked on hers as the guards lifted her up and took her back towards the room.

To Lequana surprise plus Matthew the group of medical staff blocked there way. " I'm going to have to ask for you to leave the patient with us, I'm also going to have to ask for you to leave.

Matthew gripped his hand on to Lequana arm as he realised the medical staff were no longer part of the main programme but now under control of Lequana's nanites. He pulled her back to the stairs as a nurse placed her hands upon the two guards which vanished in front of Lequana's eyes. Lequana pulled back towards the medical staff in someway knowing they were no harm but Matthew never lost his grip as he pulled Lequana the whole way to the main entrance as she struggled to escape every second and if from Tau'ri horror movie any medical staff they came across walked slowly towards them repeating the same words,
" I'm going to have to ask for you to leave the patient with us, I'm also going to have to ask for you leave,"

As they existed the main entrance he pulled Lequana to a waiting military car. She could only watch with terror as the soulless Matthew watched her every move and he spoke the same way too.

" Hospital area has become a risk, has fallen to Lequana's nanites defence. Unable to reset request deletion.
As the car drove out of the hospital grounds the hospital just melted as if ice on a fire and vanished.


"What in the cold is going on ?
despite Lequana's question Matthew just stared blankly at her as the car headed towards Stargate command and police sirens soon began to echo through the streets.

" We tried to be nice, you have all brought what happen next on your self's. Time is short. His hand remain with its firm grip on her wrist not wanting take the chance.

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[Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr]

0805
Raddisson Hotel
Colorado Springs

The figure he saw was not someone he would every expect to see. The dead weren't alive, spoke or walked at least not by waiting for doors to open as if they were solid and not transparent. He hadn't aged a day since Bobby had seen him alive; years ago. He still could imagine the deep voice that belong to him. As a child, he recalled he had been frightened of it. He had been barely a teen when, he had lost him, see the glare, Bobby winced, "Granddad," he greeted.

"Pathetic," the man scowled in disapproval as he walked in very strict military walk that his grandson would remember and slapped the Coast Guard officer over the back, "I thought you knew better boy."

Better? Bobby knew better than to start sassing with his grandfather, but looked at him bemused, "In what way?" he asked as the look on the elder Oxford was close to thundering, that alone to him he was being dumb.

"Or maybe I should go and scold that son of mine. Answers are right in front of your eyes kid. Find 'em"

Leaning on the wall he looked at his old man's old man skeptically, "G'pa," he was close to whining, "What answers?" Which earned him a nice smack across the head.

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[Nick Harper]

0804
Radisson Hotel
Colorado Springs

Nick got out of the truck and was starting towards the hotel when Blake spoke, "I know this isn't real! So just give up and come out and face us, all right?!" he looked over to the doctor, "It was worth a shot?" Nick nodded.  The headache he had though had gone away eariler, suddenly came back, the stabbing pain was right where he had hit his head, and it wouldn't stop. He grabbed the side of the truck to keep his balance as he leaned down a little to catch his breath, "And you just got what you wanted, Doctor Warren." Nick looked up at the sound of Steves voice, "You stay the hell away from us!" he yelled. He moved around the truck till he was standing beside Blake, if not a little in front of him, he realized that enviroment had suddenly changed, it was colder and everything was oddly quiet again "Where is the rest of our group?" Nick asked, not moving from where he stood. 

[Blake Warren]

0804
Radisson Hotel
Colorado Springs

"Being interrogated, Sergeant Harper." He walked closer.

Blake swallowed, but they were getting somewhere at least as he stepped out around in front of Harper as the tick of the cooling metal of the Ford made an odd background. "We're peaceful explorers looking for friends against the Asuras. Your address was listed as the home world of allies of the Devas."

"Irrelevant. You're trespassers in the Veerth hive."

"And we'll leave if you want us to, but the Asuras are a threat to everyone in this galaxy and based on this," Blake gestured around to the detailed duplication of the Springs, "you're obviously technologically advanced. Any one civilization of this galaxy might be outgunned, but if we band together we can end their control of the galaxy."

"Any attempt to leave the simulation and you will all die."

"Because you'll kill us?"

"Your team was dying when we found you. Our planet is inhospitable to your weak form of life."

<<tag Nick Harper, Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr, @adaofhearts>>
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Outside reality, one very angry Scientist chattered his mandibles in indignant fury as he scuttled rapidly on four of his legs while the other two, folded up for grasping and catching things, were held up in front of him like a constant prayer. His head turned constantly back and forth to help his vision as he stormed into another section of the hive and on seeing another, a Diplomat, and his chattering went up in pitch and volume, vocally complaining about what the Military caste had just done.

The Diplomat shared most of the Scientist's body plan, but was thinner and more humanoid, having only four legs with a pair for grasping and a pair for walking and an upright posture. The diplomat clicked smaller mandibles, re-explaining that protecting the hive was the Soldier's responsibility. The Scientist chattered back and stormed off as fast as it could to find someone else to complain to.

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110-1010
on route
Colorado Springs


Lequana sat in the truck just watching her so called father and guards. As she sat there she began to feel strange, her eyes and mind began to flutter in and out of the dream. Then Lequana just pushed the fake Matthew Oxford away with only a flinch. Things slowly began to make sense, her memories slowly began to return to her and her injuries just faded away with her cast. Lequana looked the fake Oxford right in the eyes as her nanites formed a secure connection between her mind and the alien system ,

" Your too late, my nanites have formed a secure link and you have no control over me. " She gave a faint smile as she continued speaking " It wasn't you who stopped me from remembering, it was my nanites stopping you from accessing them and my mind" As Lequana pick up the laptop it dissolved in to her right arm and it returned her pad that was a thin strip under her skin on the arm.

" Mission failed, unable to receive nanite..." Oxford stopped half way in his sentence by Lequana's as she tapped a few light buttons upon her arm. His facial features went blank by her command and so did the rest of the guards in the truck.

" Now my so called father, you shall broadcast this to your main system." Lequana took a breath as she began to type away on her arm. With in a minute she was on her way to turning them in to a virus. Her nanites had done enough and she needed them to stop any one from trying to link back straight in to her mind direct. To her a system like this was tough, but experience of interaction with Ancient systems helped greatly. But working from the inside wasn't going to work for long, she needed to escape.

Suddenly the truck stopped and Lequana stepped out. With a few more taps the truck took of to infect more of the system. Lequana knew there was little chance the virus could do much damage before been stopped but what it could do was distract those in control and give her team a chance.

Lequana stood there across the road from Radisson Hotel, she took a look at the clock at the window which did not read the same as her time and than she knew this area around the Hotel was the centre point for the programme.

As soon as she saw Blake and Nick she wanted to run up but she knew that was a bad idea. Instead she spoke.

" Blake, he's not real and not to be trusted. All he is is a programme, a tool. "

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[Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr]

0805-0807
Radisson Hotel
Colorado Springs

Why did he think that sassing with his grandfather was bright idea? It never had been. As a child he knew better.As an adult he should have known better too. He had no excuse. He walked beside his old man's old man. Entering the elevator, he felt it go down. He opened his mouth to say something. Thinking better of it he closed it. Walking through the elevator he followed towards the lobby but it a two people who engaged in a conversation caught his attention.

Walking over he heard bits and pieces. The faces looked familiar. Whatever he was hearing didn't make much sense. Getting closer, "What simulation?" he asked. Just what was going on around here?

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[Blake Warren]

The Scientist, after scampering on all four of its walking legs to the center of the hive, had tracked down the head of the Diplomat caste and chattered its case at length, its grasping legs gesticulating with its agitation.

The Diplomat listened very politely, nodding its head at the appropiate points as the Scientist went on about the significance of anyone from Vedas having come after so long and how the Soldier was rapidly screwing it up. Finally the Diplomat and the Scientist both took off back toward the nearest plug-in to the hive simulator.
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0805
Radisson Hotel
Colorado Springs

Blake shook his head, and on seeing her he knew her clearly. "I really don't think so, Lequana. We're actually talking to someone, outside whatever this is but plugged in."

Steve hesitated as the nanites attacked the program before, frozen in place. Then he moved. "I would not recommend attacking the simulation with your microrobotics, if it crashes your life support will fail, the pods will eject and I will happily allow you to suffocate on the surface, the way you were when my patrols found you at the portal after your attempt to invade."

And Blake had to try, because they were laboring at a core misunderstanding. "You're called the Veerth then, we're not here to invade you. Lequana, stop, please, while I try to do what we're here for."

Hive, he'd mentioned a hive. Weren't there all sorts of specialized insects in a hive? "You're a soldier, then, that's the only thing you know how to do is defend the hive. We aren't a threat, and we do appreciate your saving us from the atmosphere. Now we ask to speak with someone whose role is to represent the hive."

Two more people appeared behind them and Blake turned to see his parents. Jonathan Warren had a completely smug expression that Blake had never seen before. "I may not outrank the Soldier caste, but the Diplomats do."

Steve glared with deadly intent at Jonathan while speaking to Ruth. "They are a threat, Diplomat."

Ruth Warren looked at all of the strange form of life and ignored Steve. "You are friends of the Devas?"

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[Deleted]

0805
Radisson Hotel
Colorado Springs

Lequana listened as they spoke and took in evey piece of information and tried not to burst out in rage for the horror they had done with there memories and mind. On her world an act like this was considered

" As an act of faith for Blake I shall be truthful, what's left of the nanites that defended me have retuned to my body, the only reason they attacked you was cause you tried to access my mind in the way you did. The technology you use pulls the memories and with them you tried to manipulate us." Lequana wanted to say more but felt it might just make things worse. " I shall also suspend the virus with in your system l have released," With a few taps she stopped the virus.

Lequana's right arm began to flash a a bright blue and as she looked at the information upon her arm It showed her nanites had dropped by over seventy percent and were unable to prevent a connection they were beginning to make. She knew this was not what was need at the moment, her voice turned to panic " Blake, Nick there almost able to access my memories, they've just sent a high level pulse through my body taken most my nanites out. " Lequana paused to try to sound clear as possible " If my nanites can't protect my memories they'll prevent my soul from been tainted the only way left. Death Lequana had died once before and didn't want to do this for good this time.

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[Nick Harper]

0805
Radisson Hotel
Colorado Springs

"Being interrogated, Sergeant Harper."

Nick did not move as Blake stepped around to now stand in front of him, he made sure that Warren was within an arms reach, just in case the thing pretending to be Steve decided to try something. Whoever these...Veerth were, they sure knew how to make a facade look convincing, that is till they try to hard and make those they are trying to fake realize that they were not actually back home on Earth. Even though he did not like the ide aof being held prisoner inside a simulation, it was nice of the Veerth to save them from their toxic atmosphere and put them somewhere they could breath. 

Then Le'quanna appeared, she to knowing that everything they saw was a simulation. That was good, but what was not good was the fact that her body was fighting back against the Veerth and it did not seem to be going well. "You are friends of the Devas?" Nick turned and looked at Ruth, "Yes, we are friends of the Devas, if you don't believe any of us just do what you've been doing and dig thru our brains some more." he replied. His head was still killing him and Le'quanna was saying something about how her midiclorians where dropping and she could die, something he knew he would not be able to stop. 

[Blake Warren]

0806
Radisson Hotel
Colorado Springs

Blake gave both Lequana and Nick grateful looks for their willingness to not escalate the situation.

It had to be progress, though the Veerth officer using Steve's form looked like it'd been unexpectedly given a Warhead candy before disappearing.

The Veerth diplomat wearing Ruth's form sighed with an exasperated expression and addressed them. "We apologize, it has been a very long time since we dealt with any other species. Like many of the advanced races of the Vedas Galaxy, we Veerth have become very isolationist in fear of the Asuras. The Soldier caste is created to treat all non-Veerth as a threat, Sergeant Harper. I'm sure you yourself have similiar conditioning."

Their castes were very clear, though it was surprising that the Diplomat seemed to be under the Soldiers amongst them.

She looked at the Scientist using the avatar of Reverend Warren. "Do you have others of your caste monitoring vitals? Their Scientist is in trouble."

Jonathan nodded. "My staff are adjusting the input to her. But we have found the oxygen-adaptive equipment and it is in working order. They can be removed from the simulation." He looked than at SV-1. "I will have my other Scientists immediately present, do not be afraid, we will look strange to you and unable to directly communicate until a Diplomat arrives, but you have to take the respirators, since our scans of your biology indicate that the chlorine gas of our atmosphere would kill you without the oxygen-adaptive equipment."

And it was for purposes of demonstration that Jonathan changed, flickering as on the outside the Scientist changed the avatar parameters. And his true form appeared, a huge praying mantis rubbing his grasping legs together in somewhat nervous excitement. But he still spoke with Reverend Jonathan Warren's Southern drawl. "This is the true form of we Scientists. Outside the simulation, I lack the physiology to speak in a way you can understand. But the Diplomat will be able to."
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The head of the Soldier caste stormed away from the simulation plug-in. He was about the same size as the Scientists, but far bulkier in every way with more grasping legs, a thicker carapace and a much stronger mandible for combat. Clearly, the the Diplomat caste had lost its collective mind. He squealed and chattered as he skittered through the hive, calling up all the other Soldiers he could find to attack the weak, not-Veerth things if the Diplomat and the Scientist were stupid enough to release the squishy things from the captivity of the simulation.

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[Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr]

1448
Security Room
Vedas Base

Dealing with alien was Travis's fort, Bobby sighed as he listened, yet not fully comprehending what was going on. As his team members jumped 'what to do' wagon'. He wanted no one getting killed or making foolish sacrifices for whatever it was. He had a er moment when they spoke of threats. While they did have a system for allies, they didn't go around screwing with everyone's memories.

"Yea, we have system," Bobby spoke up before Harper, "But we don't mess with minds and memories. Which I did find rather rude." Touching an area of his life, he tried not remember was bitter to accept. Finding himself waking up to Jamie certain had been a shock to system.

Chlorine Gas?? How the heck did they ever gate here? Scratch that, he heard something about life support. "Thank you," he knew his manners at least, "What do you mean you have us on life support?" He caught that one a little late as one of them turned into their true form.

Praying Mantis.

That was just peachy.

He supposed he had seen worse, "Cute," he responded, sarcastically, "real cute. I'm sure there are life forms out there scarier than you." Walking talking lepoards for one. However, praying Matins were still scary enough.

"Do you have a leader we can talk to?" Bobby asked. It would make things a lot easier.

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