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Ben Dascomb

Once he was done packing some more food into his room, he checked his medical supplies. As he'd expected, the situation was exactly the same as it had been with his food and water. He had enough for maybe a week, but it was better to be safe than sorry.

He clipped a rebreather to his side in case he came across any infected, and then made his way down to the hospital dock. A number of the other Uppers were already there, and Ben swore quietly to himself. Getting adequate supplies could be difficult now. One of the other Uppers, Narcis Hadad, turned to him with a sneer. "Dascomb. About time you dragged yourself out of that hole you've got upstairs. Here to scab some more meds?"

Ben frowned, not particularly wanting a conversation, especially not with Narcis. He pushed past him, trying to get through to the store room. Narcis caught him by the arm, "Uh, not so fast, Dascomb. You get the meds when we're done here. You're going to help us load this platinum."

Ben gritted his teeth, the last thing he needed was being stuck outside the safe zone. The hospital was the most likely place to be contaminated. But he needed the supplies, "Fine. How long should this take?"

"No more than a couple of hours. Get to work."
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The atmosphere was tense, yet exciting. Officers pushed levitating carts filled with platinum over to the hospital docks and began unloading. This was our only opportunity to strike. Zander smiled wickedly at Remi, Bree and I before foolishly running out towards the docks.

"Zander!" I whispered harshly. "Your going to get yourself killed!" But he pretended not to listen to me.

Gunfire rang out and the officers ducked for cover. None were harmed, they just looked shaken. Bree looked frightened, but ran up by Zander's side with her gun at the ready. Remi and I did the same.

"Step away from the platinum." Zander said authoritatively. They complied, but not before one of the officials pressed a 911 button on their tele-watch.
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((Remi O'Haren - Guns - Mechanic))

"Drop 'em!" Remi yelled. They understood. Remi, Bree, Zander and Kate rushed the men and whacked them in the temples with the butts of their guns. Remi took the mans wrist, looked at his tele-watch and reached for her own. A wire snaked out from hers and she attached her watch to his. It intercepted the 911 call. They were safe from the Authority for now.

"Get the carts attached to the bikes and get going. Once I unhook the call will be sent. Hurry!"

Zander grinned and grabbed two carts, straining towards the bikes. Bree and Kate followed suit. Soon all the platinum was hooked to the bikes. Bree secured the last cart shakily, looking around nervously. She finished and hopped on the third bike.

"We'll take it all back to my place and divide it up there." Kate announced and turned her bike on. It rose above the ground while she looked at Remi. "Get back soon."

Remi nodded. The three on bikes hovered a moment longer and took off down the street, quickly and quietly. Remi look at deep breath and shifted. She quickly unhooked her tele-watch from the officer's. The 911 signal went out.

Remi ran.

Down a few blocks she was closing in on an underground entrance when she heard the sirens. She pumped her legs faster and skidded around the last corner. Down the alley ten feet was a discolored piece of ground. Remi stomped on it, hard. It cracked and slid aside, revealing the tunnels. Remi placed her hand on the side and lowered herself down. Once she was in the top slid over, the alley looked normal.

Remi sighed and started walking. Dots all along the walls glowed, like fireflies or stars. The tunnels were comforting. Remi took a few turned down the spiraling hallway and watched the ceiling, singing to herself all the while. Finally she found a red stripe that ran across the ceiling, indicating the opening she needed. She pressed on the stripe and the ceiling moved up and out of the way. Remi hoisted herself out of the tunnels and closed the trapdoor behind her.

She was facing Kate's house. She jogged over to the door and knocked, hopefully they had gotten back alright.




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"What the hell"? Kerry was walking by the hospital when the kids started loading the platinum.
Kerry thought fast. He whipped out his TeleScreen, and dumped it in one of the motorcycles while they weren't looking and ran off. He wasn't happy about losing it, but the GPS would inform him off the kids location. "Rotten little punks, think they can do whatever they want.. Good reason I left the Guns."
Kerry watched them speed off, but was too late to catch the girl, and turned to one of the officers.
"You have a phone? I need to speak to the Captain..."


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Jamis unwired himself from the central control. The ship was still on course, and there were no risks in its immediate path. Just like every time, a waste of time.

No sooner had he laid back in his chair, pouring a glass of wine which, strictly speaking, he was not allowed to drink, than the phone rang. He looked around to see if anyone else in the cockpit could take it, but they were all clearly very busy. So, reluctantly, he picked up the phone.

"Hello?"

"Captain, it's Kerry."

"Kerry? What's wrong?"

"Some punks just stole loads of Platinum..."

"Ah, that must have been what the signal was about," Jamis interrupted, "don't worry, we have everything under control."

"When I say "some punks", I mean an organised team. Probably Guns. They've already left, but I put my TeleScreen in one of their motorcycles."

"Motorcycles, eh? Sorry, carry on."

"Right. Anyway, so I can track them with the GPS."

"Okay..." Jamis made a few popping noises with his lips to indicate that he was thinking, "okay, Kerry, please come to the cockpit as soon as possible. I've stepped up security, as you know, so the guards won't just let you through, even if I tell them you're coming.

"Right..."

"When they ask you what your purpose is, you need to tell them that you have come to part the red sea. Once this business is over, I will change the password, so enjoy your time up here while it lasts. See you soon."

Jamis hung up the phone before Kerry could answer and called the police HQ.

"Police, who is this?"

"Captain Jamis, I come to part the red sea. Concerning the hospital situation, I need you to send the Chief over here ASAP."
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Seth Wilkerson

Something had to be going wrong if the captain didn't feel that a direct line to police HQ wasn't secure enough. He stepped over to the chief's desk, "Chief, captain wants to speak to you. In his office, now."

The chief looked up at Seth for a moment, as if expecting some kind of joke, and then nodded, startign towards the captain's quarters. Then he paused, "Seth, you come with me. If this is as important as it sounds, I'l probably want at least one officer ready for an immediate response."

Seth nodded, strapping his pistol to his belt and following the chief to the captain. He stopped just outside the door, "Sir, just in case the captain only wants to speak to you, I think I'll wait here, alright?" Waiting outside, he checked the charge on his pistol quickly. Better to be safe than sorry.

Ben Dascomb

He fumed silently, watching the man - Kerry? - using his phone. He wasn't even an Upper, there was every chance Ben was being forced to stand next to an infected man. But even so, Narcis might have been unconscious, but Ben wasn't one to just take his supplies and go. Not when it meant that Narcis would lose his precious platinum.

This is ridiculous. There's a virus running rampant through the ship, and he takes all the platinum he can get his grubby hands on. It probably all comes from the lower levels, too. It didn't occur to Ben that Narcis' platinum was probably the very currency being used to purchase the supplies Ben dug into ever now and again.

Seeing Kerry hang up the phone, Ben raised an eyebrow at him, "You done?"

Kerry nodded and offered him the phone. Running a quick scan of it from his gauntlet, Ben reached out gingerly to take it in his right hand, being sure not to make any physical contact with Kerry or the phone, other than through the gauntlet. That was the other thing he liked about it, he didn't have to worry about picking anything up in that hand.
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Remi had just entered my room out of breath. She looked like she ran here while being chased.

"Are you alright?" Bree asked.

"I'm fine, but I think we might have some followers." she said. Zander stiffened for a short moment, but quickly recovered by barking orders.

"We need to leave. Everyone go back home and if anyone comes by tell them you have no idea what they're talking about or make something up."

"What about me? This is my house." I told Zander.

"Go out and get something to eat." Zander said. Remi looked uncomfortable.

"How am I supposed to get back? I came here through the tunnels and left my bike a while back." she shifted her weight from foot to foot and looked down at the floor.

"You have to legs-use them! We need to split up now." I exclaimed. Bree looked frightened, but left along wiith Zander. Remi looked reluctant.

"What about my bike, though..." she trailed off as I gently shoved her out the door with me. I locked the door behind me then spun around to face her.

"Remi, I promise we'll get it tomorrow," Under my breath I added. "and you platinum." Remi looked unconvinced, but left toward her home anyway. I started off toward the food court trying to look normal.
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"Man is that guy weird, he wont even pick up the phone. And i thought the guns were paranoid." Kerry thought as the gauntlet man gingerly took the phone back. Kerry started to the captains cockpit. As soon as Kerry got within 10 feet of the main door, one of the gaurds asked him what his business here was.
"I am here to part the Red Sea." The guards let him in. As Kerry took the glass lift up, he saw the stars out side. The captain's dock was one of the few areas where you could actually see them, but they were slightly blurred due to the speed they moved through space. When Kerry reached the dock, he had to get a fingerprint check and go through a metal detector. When he was done being checked out, he walked out onto the dock.
"Hello, Jamis. Busy day."
"Quite. What's the exact details here?"
"A bunch of teenagers stole platinum from a hospital."
"They're probably going to make weapons. I can't believe they stole it from a hospital. Aren't they needed for the high power cancer treatments?"
"Yes. That's what has me worried. That platinum is difficult to obtain. You were young at the time, but this ship stops every 100 years or so to send a drilling team down to a semi inhabitable planet to dig for plutonium and other ores. But we are getting low again. It's more crucial then ever to recover that platinum, drilling teams have a 20% mortality rate, and I don't want to have to send one.
I want you to recover that platinum. Use your contacts in the guns council to get it back. I doubt this was a sponsored undertaking. If that doesn't work, force might be our only option."


(Plutoniam switched to Platinum)
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As Kerry left the cockpit, the chief walked past him up to Jamis' desk.

"Ah, morning, uh..."

"I'm the chief of police, sir." The chief said, as if Jamis was stupid.

"Yes, I know that," Jamis replied sarcastically, "I was just...oh, never mind. Actually, I'm a bit busy at the moment. You saw that guy, Kerry, who just left?"

The chief nodded.

"Right. Well I need you to lend your full assistance to him. He's on a hot case - stolen plutonium from the hospital. Getting that plutonium back is our highest priority, after discovering the reasons for and preventing the deaths."

"Understood sir. Was that all?"

Jamis shrugged.

"I had something else on my mind, but it's gone. Sorry for wasting your time."

The chief stalked out, muttering something about "immature despots". Jamis muttered something much worse about the chief under his breath, before turning towards the mountain of paperwork on his desk.
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**Wait, we are after Platinum or Plutonium?**

"Hello officer, anything new happening?" I asked as i saw a police officer walking towards me.

"A robbery" replied the officer simply.

"Guns?" I asked sighing.

"Yes, you know anything about it?" He asked.

"Yup, I used to be in the Guns" I lied "Want any help?"

"Could you tell me where the closest Guns HQ or cabin is?" he asked.

"Sure follow me" I said as i walked in the direction from where i had come.
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