Goddamn Balmarian clones!

[prismphantom]

[In an otherwise silent room, the sound of Ingram's voice can be heard.]

"Good. Hate me then. Cherish your hate. Grow stronger."

"Ze Balmary Empire - what you call Aerogators. It collects strong warriors to add to ranks of its own army. Earth picques our interest."

"Ze Balmary will make good use of warriors such as you."

[And if you were to look inside, you'd see Selena, playing audio files taken from the incident over and over again, with all those notes on Balmarian weapons of war found in La Gias in the other.   The notes get crumpled up and thrown in a bin.  They feel less like a cheatsheat and more a pity handout given while the doner was sporting a shit-eating grin.]

The Zentradi and Decepticons just want us dead.  The UE just want us guessing about everything that has to do with them.  The Wulgaru want our genetic material.  The Indalph and the Gebian AEP want us as a trophy of conquest.

... And now this.  He gave the documents to us.  He just did it so we'd be worthy enough footsoldiers for his Empire.

Comments

[actuallyselfish]

"Look on the bright side!" Dido remarks, holding a cold compress to his forehead.

"We've got the chance to become stronger than he can imagine...strong enough to break through his plans and beat him!"

[prismphantom]

I'd rather not try to solve this situation with merely brute force. That's taking a gamble of just giving him and the Balmarians exactly what they want.

[actuallyselfish]

"I'm not disagreeing with you..." Dido says with a firm nod. "The way I see it, there's other kinds of strength besides building bigger guns and pumping iron. We need to master those kinds of strengths and blindside those flying crocodiles exactly where it hurts!"

She clenches her teeth, then lets out an audible sigh. "So. What's in the documents?"

[prismphantom]

Just a copy of all the files we recovered during that incident in La Gias. The one where Albhard got a Grungust and we found out data pertaining to the proper names and capabilities of a number of Balmarian machines.

[actuallyselfish]

"Anything about that beast Ingram made out of the R-Gun?" Dido wonders. "Or the technology it uses?"

[prismphantom]

Of course not. And what details I've gotten regarding the original R-Gun are a pale cry compared to what it pulled off out there.

[actuallyselfish]

"That's what gets me." Dido mutters, peering at the documents. "The guy managed to construct a completely different mech, then hide it underneath the shell of the R-Gun? How'd he manage to sneak all the supplies and tools into the R&D division?"

A thought occurs. "...and are those materials still there?"