The hivemind is conquering for me?

Having shot a zipline across to the next building, Janine and Farah were now one building away from their target building, A large warehouse. As Janine scanned the building while Farah was taking out audio enhancing equipment from a large bag, she noticed a large vent shutter open on the warehouse roof.

"Farah, look!" Janine said as she pointed to the opening. Farah took a gander before shaking her head. "No, too risky. There are known Psionic users present in that building, they could sense us."

Janine smiled slyly. "They could detect you, not me. I even tricked Apollo's bodyguard for a while after all with my power. Give me the emergency zip line. I want to go down there. We can get more consistent audio if I go down there." She urged.

Farah thought for a moment. She was the handler of the operation, she could not just rely on her link with mother for answers to every hard question. There were pros and cons to letting Janine go down there.

Farah decided to allow Janine to go down there, as she was sure Apollo would only be sad for a short time if the Sepiidan died. "Very well Janine, but if you are caught, I will not be coming to your rescue. Leave your rifle here, I will provide overwatch."

Janine smiled as she unclasped her helmet from her hip. "Thank you for trusting me." She said before putting on her helmet. She then handed over her rifle and picked up a small pack of surveillance equipment and a suppressed pistol, just in case.

As Janine picked up the Zipline gun, she tried to find a decent place to shoot the anchor, but the warehouse roofing appeared too thin. As she was scanning, she happened to spot some scaffolding towards the end of the warehouse she could use to get on top. It seemed guarded at the base, but she could deal with that trivially.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Ok, I am zipping to the ground. You will need to pull back the line as soon as I am down, understood?" Janine asked and was given confirmation with a nod. After the confirmation, Janine lined up both the front and the back anchor and fired the Zipline.

With a satisfying *Thunk* in the wall behind her, The back anchor was set up and a moment later, the zipline became taught as the front anchor embedded itself into the ground down below.

Janine proceeded after a very brief sturdiness check to clip a device onto the line and rode it down immediately. It would take ten seconds to reach the bottom of the line, and Janine spent that entire time preparing her Psionic power. She closed her eyes briefly to harness the power, and right at the end of the line, she opened them once more and was now invisible to anyone who did not know what to look for.

After unbedding the anchor, Janine watched for a split second as it began to retract back up to her overwatch. She could not linger for long as she did not have the strength for extended use of her ability and had to climb the scaffolding fast.

While sneaking past the positioned guards, she was annoyed that they were well trained and were not casually speaking about what was going on inside, that only happened in the movies after all.

After climbing the scaffolding, Janine was tired as she was carrying a decent amount of equipment and undid her invisibility temporarily. Taking a short moment to take a breath and curse out Apollo for his stupid Gyrokinesis that she was totally not envious over right now.

After a few breaths of air, she slowly began making her way to the vent shutter. She had to watch her step on the metal roof, making sure her steps were evenly distributing her weight so she wouldn't make too much noise.

After two minutes of walking, what should have taken thirty seconds, Janine made it to the vent shutter and took off her pack while taking a peek inside. Janine could not believe her luck. Dead centre in the middle of the warehouse, her target was sat directly beneath her on a table, tapping her fingers slowly as she was waiting for something.

The target was a 5ft10 woman who appeared to be in her late twenties, but according to the mission briefing, was rumoured to be nearly six hundred. She was beautiful with her small angular nose and purple tender lips and short white hair, but upon closer inspection something else became evident. The woman's eyes were black with a trace of neon yellow and if you looked extra carefully at her face, you would notice cut marks from where the woman had undergone surgery for the unblemished synthetic skin she now wears.

Another apparent thing about the target was her arms, they were very clearly metal augmentations as the woman did not wear any synthetic skin over them, but that also made it more than apparent that the augmentations were not Spartari in design. They were silver in colour, with intricate parts that had functions that one could not understand with an outward glance. No, these were beyond Spartari's capabilities as they moved as elegantly, or perhaps even more smoothly than regular arms.

The woman was wearing a white crop top and black leather jeans, which exposed her tight midsection while also exposing the black, undyed synthetic skin that her upper torso was made of.

This woman was considered a significant threat, as apparently, from the rumours Sophia had gathered, the sheer amount of technology inside the woman's body is not a hindrance to her Psionic power, but rather enhances her abilities by an exorbitant amount

Evidence of her power was the guards stationed all around her that feared to look at her, but were also honoured to be within her presence. The woman continued to rasp her metallic fingernails against the wooden desk, leaving small bumps on the table with rasps as she waited with a bored expression on her face.

Just as Janine had finished setting up the audio device, a series of crashes were heard towards the entrance of the warehouse. "Ugh, finally." Janine heard the woman mutter through the headphones she now had on."

Looking over towards the crashes, the best she could, Janine spotted a man that was also in the briefing. Standing at 6ft4 and almost as wide, Talos, The leader of the militia group of the same name, was covered head to toe in illegal augmentations and was an imposing figure with the amount of visible weapons that jutted out of his body.

The sound of crashing was a result of him never having come to this warehouse in person. As such, he had to simply walk through a bunch of boxes as he was too wide to fit through the corridors.

As Talos arrived in front of the sitting woman, he seemed to loom over her imposingly for a moment before he knelt down with a thunderous thud and opened up a compartment on his chest with a paper baggy inside.

Upon removing the food, He spoke. "Here you go my truest love. I kept the food at the perfect temperature and placed it close to my heart so I could infuse it with my love for you." The man's eyes sparkled with an obsessed fixation unlike any other as he watched the woman take the bag.

Janine was shocked upon witnessing that and remembered a key point of the dossier. 'Pussy whipped does not even come close to what I am seeing. The man is beyond that.' She thought as she continued to observe the conversation.

The woman took the paper bag from the man's hand while grimacing. "I did not need to hear that last part Talos, keep your perverseness away from my food. It is one of my greatest comforts after all." She said and proceeded to open the bag and started munching on some chicken nuggets.

Everyone stood in silence as they watched the woman eat. "My days, It might be horrid processed shit that has no actual benefit to me in any way, but fuck me if its not delicious." She said as she stared at the nugget in her hand with so much emotion, that it made the kneeling Talos writhe with jealousy internally.

The woman ate the rest of the meal in silence, no one daring to utter a word while their benevolent queen enjoyed herself. After finishing her food, she took some napkins to wipe her fingers and face and put them back inside the bag.

"You there." She pointed to a young man nearby. "Take my trash and throw it out would you. I feel disgusted with myself now after eating all that garbage, I don't want it in my sight. The man in question did not say anything, in case he upset her and simply walked briskly towards the bag before walking away. Once out of eyeline, the man rummaged through the back and pocketed the napkins. They had her saliva on them! He would use these to pleasure himself later!

After pulling out a mirror to check she had no more blemishes on her face, The woman was satisfied and smiled to herself before closing the mirror and staring at the Simpleton in front of her.

"So, Talos. I heard you sent someone to go talk to this Ghost woman, Sophia? How did it go?"