[Warning local spike in drive is imminent please follow procedure]

"Fuck Fuck Fuck! That's the third this week!"

[Subjects follow the arrows to the nearest incarceration hall or risk terminal damage]

"Your the boss, wouldn't want the latter now would we?"

I take a glance at my onesie. "It'll have to do there isn't time." I grab my jacket and head out of my cell.

Immediatly I'm battered by blaring alarms, flashing lights, and the sounds of panic.

[Please remain calm and follow the arrows]

"For all the good that'll do in about a minute."

I weave by some older folks  clearly already feeling the impact and start jogging along the path avoiding the ones with a distant look to them.

[Local subjugation forces have arrived to deal with the driven continue as is]

"Thank god for that its starting to get ugly in here"

I hurriedly took a left following the monotonous halls towards the nearest incarceration center. I had to avoid the subjugators swarming through the area grabbing other subjects and pressing them to the floor and injecting them with sedatives.

"Glad those things only target the driven ones I for one am NOT fond of being manhandled by those things. They give me the creeps! Those damn things wheel around like they're ice skating despite having legs, and the clattering! Their motors make this out of place clacking noise when they move. I swear its like the things are designed with being as off putting as possible in mind."

[Spike imminent counting down...]

10..

"Damn I need to hurry, almost there.."

9..

8..

I hasten my efforts to run despite my having just woken up I pull through.

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7..

6..

5..

"Incarceration halls spotted! Lets go!"

I hurry into the nearest vacant pod. Once positioned I let the spiderworks secure me in place.

4..

3..

[Injecting nimbex, do not struggle we are here to help]

2..

The pod closes, half my vision is taken up by reinforced windows. What remains is the beginnings of madness as the subjugators pour into the room in a feeble attempt to restrain the rest of the subjects.

1..

"Almost there.. brace for the wave.. you'll be fine, probably.."

[Spike Arri-VEd..

"Thats concerning at the least, that hasn't happened before?"

My body starts to lightly spasm but the nimbex mostly counters it. Those who are outside? Unfortunately for them they've lost control of their own bodies and become driven mindlessly attacking anything in sight every site in their body being put to use whether it wants to be or not from screaming to limbs spazming and contorting in directions that no arm should go.

The subjugators that hadn't caught anyone begin to keel over or sieze up.

"What the.. something is definitely wrong here!"

[ErrOR---]

The announcement system begins to screech and shrill soon after hell raises. The splayed subjugators rise up menacingly and utter nonsense insues as the spike continues to climb far beyond the norm.

The subjugators all simultaneously start making snapping and whirring noises. The first one collides into a pod and starts clamouring at its occupant in a futal attempt to do something, what though I wouldn't know. A brawl ensues as the rest begin to tackle eachother using wild swings and bladed arms. The driven most heavily impacted use their newfound strength to completly pulverize anything and everything that moves.

"..."

My futile attempts at screaming produced nothing more than some gurgling the spike had hit.

Several minutes of savage sights later, Control slowly seeped back into my body and I started flexing control over my muscles. Relief flooded through me as the subjugators began to reboot and the best thing I've heard all day comes on over the announcement system.

[System reboot complete. Control re-established. Drive ambiance returning to tolerable parameters. Subjugators temporarily on standby until further notice. Please hold out until emergency services arrive.]

"Th.. Thankfully thats done with." I spat out blood, I probably bit my tongue in my spasming.

[Emergency services have arrived enjoy the rest of your day.]