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<span class="mu-r">“My family’s in trouble. I need you to track them down for me so Rintrah can portal them to safety.”</span>
Julia cursed and started fumbling with something. <span class="mu-b">“I’m on it. Hopefully they’ve still got their phones on them.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“My brother and best friend were teleported somewhere during their encounter. I’m not sure if that’ll mess with your search.”</span> you reported.
<span class="mu-b">“It might. If they don’t have location data turned on, then we might have to wait for their phones to send out a ping. Just need to figure out what their last ping interval was…”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“Do you need their numbers, or something?”</span> you asked.
Julia let out a snort. <span class="mu-b">“No, I’ll just pull the info off of your phone. Duh.”</span>
Yeah, you should’ve seen that coming. You were going to have to have a conversation with her about boundaries sometime later.
<span class="mu-r">“Fine. Let me know when you’ve got something. We need to track down Vic and Pete too.”</span> you said. <span class="mu-r">“Oh, and have Rintrah call Pandora. I might need her help at ESU.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">“Why? What’s happening at ESU?”</span> she asked.
<span class="mu-r">“There may or may not be an army of killer robots headed there right now.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">“I’m starting to see why Webb is freaking out right now.”</span> Julia hissed. <span class="mu-b">“I’ll take care of it. Just sit tight and stay alive.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“Trust me. I’m not gonna be the one that dies tonight...”</span>
And before Julia could question you, you switched over to Warren and pocketed your phone, hoping that he was somewhere near his. It took a few tries, but he eventually picked up, sounding clearly panicked.
<span class="mu-g">“The signal blocker! It’s been sabotaged!”</span> he exclaimed. <span class="mu-g">“My defense grid has been completely crippled.”</span>
You’d hate to say you told him so…
<span class="mu-r">“Warren, listen to me. You’re never going to be able to repair that thing in time. I need you to kill those spiders before the Spider Slayers get there. Without them, they won’t be able to latch onto the frequency properly.”</span> you demanded
<span class="mu-g">“And ruin everything I’ve worked for? Are you insane!?”</span> Warren said, sounded appalled by the idea.
<span class="mu-r">“No. ‘Insane’ would be letting those robots tear that campus apart just to kill a few lab experiments.”</span> you argued. <span class="mu-r">“There are other spiders out there, Warren. If those robots get there, then it might jeopardize your entire cloning gig, along with every student and staff member that might still be around. I need you to do the right thing here.”</span>
For a while, there was only silence on the other end of the line, until eventually, he let out a weary sigh.
<span class="mu-g">“...Fine. I’ll kill…one spider. The one that I used to give Abel his abilities.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“Warren…”</span>
<span class="mu-g">“It might be possible to salvage the spider that was used to create W! Her ability is far more valuable, and if we could somehow replicate my success…!”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“WARREN!”</span>
(Cont.)
