>>5191644You are still Employee <span class="mu-s">Benjamin Carniceiro,</span> and you've made your decision about this call.
"Haven't you ever considered that you've been relying on a random stranger to give you the code?" This is just pure <span class="mu-i">incompetence</span> right here. "I could hang up at any moment now, destroy all your hard effort."
There is silence as the anomaly considers your words.
"'Davidson,' <span class="mu-g">regular people can't stop war.</span> We're too small for that," you continue. "But for what it's worth, the code is 00000001. We're done with your game of telephone."
<span class="mu-g">Halting nervousness explodes into side-splitting laughter from the other end.</span>
"Do not worry, do not worry! Everything is guaranteed, my friend. <span class="mu-b">If you wouldn't do it for us,</span> there will be someone else coming to relay our message." A final harsh bark of laughter comes through the receiver. "<span class="mu-b">After all, the phone line is endless.</span>"
*click*
You hang up the receiver, with a little more force than necessary. You clench your jaw.
It's over. And yet, something just isn't right.
Ellison calls your name. You turn to respond and find yourself breathing in the sterilized air of somewhere else. The words die in your mouth as you try to understand. This a cleaner facility. <span class="mu-g">This is a better City.</span>
You are wearing your white coat again. It's longer than what you remember from all those years ago. <span class="mu-b">It only takes a moment to realize that this is from a time that will never come.</span>
A flash of blinding white overcomes you without warning.
The light is unbearable, crashing upon you like the blastwave that soon follows. You try to shield yourself but it shines through your finger, your arm, your skin itself, burning deep into your retinas...
As it all goes so white, a tremendously strong grip seizes onto your arm and drags you back into the darkness.
<span class="mu-i">Employee B has lost connection.</span>
<span class="mu-s">Epiphany DEFCON GUARDIAN has manifested.</span>
