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could do so Gillian raised her hand to stop her. Gillian waited for everyone else except Caroline to leave hangar. Then she let Caroline to hold her hand and lead her through empty hallways of base.
     
    Gillian looked more like corpse than a person. Mud and sand covered her face, she had scratches all over her body. John threw her far enough from explosion but it was a long fall.
     
    Caroline led Gillian to her apartment. Apartments were most remote underground part of base, Gillian was first subject who saw this part of base. It could be sealed off from rest of facility in case of fire or uprising. Caroline wanted Gillian to stay in with her tonight. She washed Gillian's face with wet towel and waited for Gillian to fall asleep. Then she left her alone and went to check on progress in medical wing...
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

 
 
 
ACT II – THE LIBERATOR
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Chapter 4 – The Spectre Protocol
     
     
    John was in Sub-reality again, he had no idea for how long. You can keep up time conscious but not for long, time in Sub-reality can be slower or faster and nobody knows why. John was bored of walking around endless world of Sub-reality, he played his memories again most of them were inaccessible, he even tried to reprogram some of his implant functions but he couldn't. That meant someone was hooked into his cybercore functions and was doing something. John could tell one thing, whoever was doing it or whatever was the person doing it was big, all core activity was of the charts. It looked like the person was rewritin g all core functions. It meant that he's still alive and that he has a chance of recovery. Suddenly process window popped up right in front of him:
    >New core firmware installed
>Rebooting...
     
    Everything went dark for a moment. Then new Sub-reality started to appear around John. Something he never saw before. Lines of blue pulsing light on the floor. Giant, blue, glowing sphere in background. First time John saw objects that weren't contained in his memories. Multiple process windows rose from the floor.
    >New core detected...running diagnostics
>Core clock rate 100 petahertz
>A.I. Compatible...
>Advanced Combat&Control installed
>HiSense chip connected
    >Spectre series implants installed
    >Memory: Recovered and loaded
>External hardware detected...initializing
>!Error! Code 5x427
>Manual activation required
>Lockdown authorization: Sanders, David
>Subject: Ready
>Stasis mode: Releasing
     
    John woke up in real world. At first he couldn't see or hear anything, soon he was staring at the ceiling.
    “Ok, John you woke up. You can't move because your body has been severely damaged. We've repaired the damage but external implants aren't active. I'll activate them one by one. Eyes first, they had to be replaced. What you see now it's just basic sight. Activating now.”
    It was Doctor Sanders talking. Suddenly John could see far better, new HUD loaded and his hearing also improved
     
    “Now slowly lift your right hand.”
    John did as asked. He nearly screamed from shock. There was mechanical arm instead of original one. He flexed mechanical fingers and formed fist. Then observed artificial muscle fibbers and the place when arm was connected to his chest. John was sure this arm is much stronger than than normal one.
    “It has a blade built in, try that out.”
    As soon as John thought of the blade it ejected from upper side of forearm. One inch wide and one foot long titanium alloy blade.
    “Cool. I guess you'll have to deactivate it for security reasons.” John said looking turning his eyes at Sanders.
    “Not necessary, it isn't sharp. Now if you feel well enough we should test legs.”
    John was surprised like never before.
    “Legs?!”
     
    Sanders sighed, it was time to