This was a DUMB thing....

After opening the case and investigating the intel we decided to see if we could liberate the power sources for our own use.
 
Surprisingly, the site was fairly close to us.
 
We arrived at the site, and it was a large underground bunker area, similar to the opening of the Cheyenne Mountain 'secret' base the government uses.
 
It was short work for the 5 of us: Hunter, Ricochet, Tinker, Eclipse and I, to enter the base.
 
On our way down, I do my best to keep connected to the net, but the signal gets weaker the deeper we go.
 
I'm glad that Eclipse was here with all of his climbing gear, some of those shafts were difficult to climb down.
 
We finally reach the bottom level of the base. It looks like it has been unused for several years.
 
Hunter and Ricochet move out and start clearing the area. I pull out my service pistol as Eclipse returns topside to guard the transport.
 
Electronic signatures are almost non-existent down here. I start, somewhat stupidly and blindly, walking into the room. Hunter and Ricochet have my back, I know that. They have their strengths, and high ground is it.
 
Tinker checks over to our right, as I continue looking for the power sources.
 
Ah, there they are, #Against the far wall appears to be our targets.# I continue to make my way over that way.
 
While I have found the em-source, there isn't any electronic means to expose the cores. #Tinker, this looks like something you need to do. No electronic controls on these containments cells.#
 
I continue to focus on the electronic signatures, looking for anything else. Suddenly, the ground begins to shake, I stumble a bit to the side, and just in time too. The whole room flips into something else, and comes to life. Lights power up, the floor panels between the barricades flip over, and suddenly, there are robots in the room. I am almost blinded by the electronic signatures that spring to life.
 
I glance around, and Tinker is caught in some mechanics that flipped over where she was.
 
We are scanned by something up high. I look up, and where one of the pillars were, it has grown in size, and on top, there is some sort of robot. It is what scanned us. I jump back into my cyberdeck and begin trying to hack the system. I try to change it's programming enough to show that we are friend, not foe..... over the radio I say #Don't sh.....#
 
Just as I begin speaking, I hear the report from Hunter's rifle. <<Well, that didn't go as expected.....>>
 
Ok, new plan, reprogram the weapons systems to be unusable. This is going to take some time. This is a fairly tough system.
 
I'm making slow progress, but progress none the same.
 
Suddenly, my world goes black. My breath is knocked out of me. "owwwwwwwweeeeeee" I'm laying on the ground... Wait, I'm on the ground! Something must have hit me. I open my eyes carefully, and I'm looking where Tinker had been standing. One of the robots has reached some sort of control panel, and one of the machines near me powers up. I feel weak. But, I have to try to do something, I switch my control systems over to controlling the robot at the controls. <<#Cease current command#>>" is what I send to the robot. Ah, good. It worked. A second robot arrives to the control panels and activates a second machine. Both of the machines have almost the exact same power signature of the power sources we were here to collect. Over the coms, #The power supplies appear to be over here.#
 
Ricochet, Hunter, and Tinker were all attacking the sentry robot at the top of the pillar. They finally shut it down, that was the good news...... Bad news, well, something large and mean appeared out of the vat over by the door. Hunter, true to form fires at it. Not good, I hear the shot ricochet, never a good sign with that rifle and ammo of his. Tinker whispers something about Mechanon. Not a good thing....
 
Speakers come to life, and a voice begins speaking. I try to pin point the source, but fail. What ever it is, it is encoding it's transmission.
 
Mechanon steps out of the vat, and speaks in a voice similar to what we heard over the speakers, asks Hunter if he is smart enough to not fire again. I guess he is, as I don't hear Hunter's rifle report.
 
I know that there is no way that we could get out of here alive with Mechanon here, so I quickly shut down my cyberdeck so he can't find me that way. Not that is really much protection, but, like a cockroach, if you can't be seen, you don't get stepped on.
 
Wait, that wasn't Mechanon? I know that there hadn't been any reports on the web about Mechanon for several years, but it sure looked like one of his bodies. Did it just call itself 'Algorithm'. Great, we just upgraded one of the newest big bad AI's out there. Just fantastic. We are so hosed, so very hosed.......
 
Another voice begins speaking to us over our com-system rather than the speakers. Just great, someone has cracked my code.....
 
#Hello Agents. Allow me to introduce myself, I am sorry for the intrusion. I am Socrates, and I would like to invite you to a special meeting with the New Champions#
 
Tinker looks at Sparks, and he looks back at her and shrugs, with a look of confusion on his face. He speaks out loud, "I don't know, but, we need to get these power sources and get out of here, before anyone or anything else shows up."
 
The four of us each grab one of the power sources and begin our trek out of this bunker, and back towards the surface. Luckily, we don't run into any Mechanon agents, or Algorithm. We return to our base, and sit down and decide what to do.