2 weeks later.

After entering the systems undetected where planet Crypso 3Q3U was located Jayde, and her troops were transported to the planet surface near the Xi Corporation's secret base.

The planet Crypso 3Q3U was a terrestrial planet in a vast solar system filled with fifteen other planets. Crypso was about half the size Earth, but due to its strange core, its gravity was about three times that of Earth.

While life will never be possible on this planet, it did offer a unique sight in the night sky of nearby planets. Its colors and distance to the planets around it occasionally made the night quite magical on those planets, especially those with an atmosphere.

The surface of Crypso 3Q3U reminded Jayde of Mars, with its blood-red sand, and rocky outcrops.

Eight members of Jayde's elite team transported down with Jayde and Lawrence. Since they had detailed plans of the base, Jayde's squad knew precisely what they were supposed to do. The team members separated to carry out their individual missions, while Lawrence and Jayde infiltrated the main base. Their purpose was to locate the central hub where the power core was located and place a miniature antimatter bomb to blow the place up.

After entering the central hub Jayde was feeling slightly uneasy, the mission was going a little bit too smoothly for her taste.

Turning to Lawrence, she asked: "Bro, seriously don't you think this is a bit too easy?"

Grinning at her Lawrence shook his head. "Shit Jayde, why can't you just be happy that we are lucky for a change, instead of landing in our usual shitstorm?"

Sticking her tongue out at Lawrence, Jayde walked onto the platform and looked around.

The central hub was a sizeable dome-shaped room. The room itself was hollow, from floor to ceiling, it had to be over 100 meters. The power core was located at the bottom of the room. Small screens were located all around the walls, some of the screens displayed maps of the Earth Federation, with red dots on them. Those red dots must be chipped GESS people, Jayde thought.

The most surprising thing was that other screens showed real-time scenes, it looked as though the scenes were from a personal point of view.

"Yo Lawrence, check this out!" Jade called.

Lawrence walked over to Jayde and had a look at the screens she was pointing too.

"It this was I think it is?" Jayde asked Lawrence.

"Fuck these bastards," Lawrence swore. "Yeah I think you are right Sis, it looks as those kill chips, aren't just dead man switches, it looks like they monitoring the poor bastards too."

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Shaking her head, Jayde replied: "Just when I figured Xi Corp couldn't get any lower."

"Ah what a pleasant surprise SN1098 and SN1055, long time no see."

Hearing a voice that she hadn't heard for over a decade, Jade swirled around and faced the man who had just spoken.

"Vice President Xi, what a pleasant surprise," she replied sarcastically.

Vice President Xi was a tall, handsome man with an athletic build, his brown hair was expensively styled, and he had brown eyes which were staring at Jayde and Lawrence coldly, his thin lips were curled into a small smirk. A dozen or so bodyguards stood around him. At a glance, Jayde could tell that the bodyguards were normal humans.

As Jayde made a slight movement to grab her blaster on her hip, he smiled.

"Uh-uh, SN1098," wagging his right index finger.

Lifting her hands in surrender, Jayde frantically tried to think of ways to reverse the situation. While she and Lawrence were outnumbered, she wasn't too worried about the bodyguards, with her and Lawrence's superior physiques no human could match them, add their physiques with their training and experience, these bodyguards were fish on the cutting board, just waiting to be slaughtered.

Jayde didn't think that Vice President Xi would make such a stupid mistake just bring normal humans. He must have the base surrounded by GESS warriors, she thought. Guess he doesn't want those GESS warriors to know about his dirty little secret which why he only bought humans with him here to the core.

Stupid bastard, he has totally underestimated me, Jayde thought. The most important thing to Jayde at the moment was too take down Xi Corporation's supercomputers, no matter what it took, even if the price demanded was her life, Jayde was more than willing to pay. This base had to be destroyed. Vice President Xi would never have taken into account that Jayde was willing to sacrifice her life just to ensure that this base was destroyed.

From the secret intelligence that the Centauri has obtained, not only did the computers at the base control the kill switches of thousands of GESS people but it also had all of Xi Corporations latest research on weapons, genetics as well as the newest research in starship technology. Bringing this base down would set back Xi Corporation for decades.

Jayde knew according to her intel that she only had a small window of opportunity to strike a devastating blow to Xi Corporation. The core below Jayde was the most advanced cybernetic computer in the Federation. Xi Corporation had pumped trillions of credits and over two decades developing the system. The core controlled every single computer in the Xi Corporation, every scrap of information was contained just below Jayde feet.

Xi Corporation backup cybernetic system was nearly complete and would go online within a couple of days. Xi Corporation had planned to have both systems operating at the same time, it was only due to Jayde's team hijacking a shipment of rare synthetic gel packs that had delayed the backup system, and since Xi Corporation had already started the process of bringing the system online, they couldn't stop the process.

The decades it would take for the Xi Corporation to recover from this loss would buy the Centauri time to dominate the sector they were in and ensure with their current advancement in technology they would continue to be safe and free from human enslavement.

Thinking of the children running free on Eden, and just imagining what the Xi Corporation would do to them if they ever found Eden, Jayde decided to act.

Trusting Lawrence to have her back, Jayde lunged to her left, grabbing her blaster, she started firing rapidly.