Titan Online

Trevor sends us to a safe house location - at least he claims it is. We go pick up our vehicle and then head down the street. I look around eagerly as this is not a section I have been in before. It looks like the city is trying to make improvements and bring some industry back to the area. We enter a very nice workspace that appears to have been recently remodeled - this does make their claim of no one being around for a while suspect. They begin discussing what they have observed and what they think is the problem - this includes a nice synopsis of how AIM operates. They then begin to break down the problem for us. Dr. Hogan Grimm has been stealing chroniton generator from Lex Corp and then doing experiments in which he is giving moss enough intelligence to do a maze. In the first phase, he was able to keep them active and working for six hours. They think he might have gotten the time frame up to twelve hours by now. They have also observed city maps with triangulation spots that encompass several of the city parks and have the potential to create a city-wide disaster. There are tow main locations with activity: a scrap yard with Star labs leftovers and an office building with a lab/office on the 10th (top) floor. They both want out of AIM and think we can help them - and help the city at the same time.
 
We ask for some privacy to discuss the situation. They walk around the corner and we get into a conversation. I lay out the situation as I see it and ask each member of the team for feedback. Amethyst has some reservations about their story, but does want to help them as well as the city. Moss overrunning the city is also a bad thing and he does want to stop it. Samaritan thinks we call the boss, report, and get our next orders. Medkit is of the opinion that we should confirm their story first and get more facts before we call the boss. Feral thinks the duo has been duped by AIM and is probably either under surveillance or being used without their knowledge. I am of the opinion that I do not want to call the boss because I am wanting to prove myself as a leader. Feral has been pacing about as she does and mentions that she can text the boss our plans while the doctors "talk" to the pair to see if they know more than they have told us. Then all plans are tossed out the proverbial window as Feral tells us to get quietly and quickly to the center of the building just as a LexCorp commando breaks in with two robots. We are in a hallway and halfway to the stairwell when we hear a crash of glass from the east wall. Windows all around - great concept!
 
Feral takes off to do her thing and I run to find a computer to see if I can do something. The computers are here and plugged in and working, but there is no Wi Fi. How in the world can there by no Wi Fi!!! I think very quickly and look around to see if there is maybe a sprinkler system I can trigger - water and mechanics do not mix well and then I suddenly think of it! LexCorp will have a hot spot or bluetooth or Wi Fi or something. I hack into the nearest combat drone and I have seconds as I can tell he is figuring out programming to block me, but I find the maintenance auto shut down sequence and turn him off. One down! No way that trick will work again so I run down the hallway to work with Amethyst. I pull my disc of doom and throw it at the combat drone in front of me. It hits and there are some sparks and a yellowish lightening plays over the drone. The disc comes back to me, but no obvious effect. I am fairly positive that I did some damage, but I am not sure what. Then the armored dude shoots out a green mist that covers the two drones in front of him. He has repair nanites!!!
 
I furrow by brow and decide that Mr. Power Suit needs to know that he can't hide behind his drones so I hurl my disc of doom at the south wall and bounce it past the drones straight into the armor dude. He staggers a bit and then my disc comes back to me. Just to keep him off his feet, I bounce it off the north wall and it raises sparks from his arm. Not getting as much effect as I really want. There has to be a better way to do this. Then Ameythyst is jumping in front of me and grabbing me in a protective embrace as a wall of flame and debris rolls down the hallway. I am shaken by the concussive force of the blast and feel more than a little shaken. The battle is over. The two power suits fly out - fast - and then we start trying to figure out how they found us. Feral is sure it was our own gear since LexCorp is determined to take us out. Silverwing drops by with new tech and to grab the old to have it overhauled. Amethyst brings over the memory cores from the drones and I do a dump to see what there might be before corrupting them.
 
We gather our gear and head to the junkyard. We see little clock work moss creatures scurrying around the yard and digging in piles. Each time they find something they scurry to a back corner. In the back corner is a ten foot tall clock work creature. It might have weapons and it certainly has items from Star Lab and Lex Corp parts on it and then we hear it speak. "Titan online."