Frontiers and Pioneers (sci-fi, NSFW(violence,possible teases), robots)

@Cerebrate  
he quickly picks them up and lays them down spreading them out

@NyantaStarhunt  
Amy: “whoever hijacked the beetle seems to have messed with the safeties, normally the charges would make it stop and wait until after detonation… speaking of which, you should back off those things, with how many you took it may bring the whole scaffold down.”

@Cerebrate  
All part of the plan!  
he dash backwards and sheaths his blade

sure enough it charges him again, and the makeshift minefield tears the scaffolding they’re on apart, sending the beetle plummetting.
 
“that wasn’t too hard either then.”

@Cerebrate  
he nods and waves the dusty air out of his face i am curious as to where he was trying to get to. Or if was just ‘eating’

@NyantaStarhunt  
Amy: “it was digging at a more massive piece of mountain so it was probably set to tunnel, either a cable hole or a full sized one.”

@Cerebrate  
he strokes his chin Well i am going to assume our dear imos is in here

@NyantaStarhunt  
“that would be bad, mainly because that’s bedrock and has been there forever.”

@Cerebrate  
Hm…. Excellent observation

@Cerebrate  
a radio call came in from kat, straight to amy
 
Administrator, weve got an issue out here. Theres a bunch of bug bots getting riled up out here. Came out of nowhere, massing up. Weve got our big guns trained on them and security is arming themselves.

@NyantaStarhunt  
AMy: “continue on your way, bring imos back, whole or in pieces, as i mentioned.”
 
@Jinx  
AMy: “Jade will try to connect them to our local command hub, if they come any closer though, scrap them.”

@Cerebrate  
Affirm. Awaiting status report.

@Jinx  
the insectoids were watching the new arrivals intently, no doubt they knew what happened to the beetle digger.

@Cerebrate  
the big battle mechs were farther in front of the security, acting as aggro targets if need be, lest security be shredded by machines

@Jinx  
didn’t seem like any of the insectoids were armed, in fact most seemed to still be equipped for their standard functions, of sample connection and base assemblies, sure enough a few antlike ones went into motion and began setting up walls.

@Cerebrate  
even so they could severely hurt organics
 
Maam, theyre setting up a wall.

@Jinx  
“the only good that would do would be as a fortress for us… or a prison, do not yet engage, an encirclement like that could be useful once we set up and even the oldes leaf suits can scale the walls these machines are programmed to set up… in fact they do not know the concept of armed turrets, a safety feature. i’ll be coming down with sada soon, just all stay frosty.”

@Cerebrate  
Will do. All units are notified to hold fire until i fire.
 
up above in the cockpit sada was attempting to communicate, alongside jade and omega
 
Sada: jade, whats the deal here.

@Cerebrate  
salutes and continues hus investigation

@Jinx  
Jade: “the insectoids are not being talkatvie, that is to say i cannot access their interconnection networks, otherwise i’d transfer command to us and that would be the end of it.”
 
Amy: “hmm, what about more rudimentary communications, if i were to approach them in a non-hostile manner think they’d hear me out?”
 
JAde: “chance of success, low, risk high, i advise against.”

@Cerebrate  
Omega: if they continue to build the wall higher, termination and engagement are reccomended. The mechs may not be able to knock down an exit for us, and if the eriksson is trapped in atmosphere under a dome, we will have no escape.

@NyantaStarhunt  
rounding another corner you find a collapsed scaffold that probably held a building once, and in the ditch, the source of the signal.

@Jinx  
Amy: “i see, Sada, would you play the negotiator please?”

@Cerebrate  
In what capacity, maam.
 
(Brb, shampooing my hair. Ill only be a minute

(no need to rush.)
 
@Jinx  
“either a fellow synth asking if we wronged the bots, or a distraction while we prep a signal killer and kock out their communications, that will let independent ones like yourself and of course our security teams, able to deal with them one at a time.”