Broken Gear (Indi/Aletha)

[Indifference Indigo]

Indi moved through the computer's regular system and began searching for the source of the intruder that had broken the alarm so suddenly. His eyes finally shot to the front where it appeared that several people had just come within the premise of his front yard. His eyes narrowed sharply as he tried to dicern the faces that were reflected on screen. They looked extremely familiar, and yet even with that, Indi was taking no chances. "Someone just busted the alarm for the front gate," Indi said sharply. "They're walking to the front door... Don't make any movements until we're sure that they are going to break in." Indi's voice was calm, and yet there was an air of tenseness around it that seemed to engulf the air around it. If it is the government again, I'm going to kill them all with my plants.... Indi leered sharply at the screen.

[The Broken Gears]

Etha heard what Indi had said and shifted her eyes to the dining room door, and didn't move to aim. There were movement detectors that the intruders that they could send in much like the bug that had been found in her elbow earlier, tiny things that could slip beneath doors and other entrances, and she didn't want to give a hint that she was there. She could faintly hear footsteps on the sidewalk she had been on only a few hours eariler, and it took up her attention and hearing, where it should have been else where.

But she noticed too late, another pair of lighter footsteps as it stepped on the grass to come around to the window at the end of the hall. Etha's head jerked to look down the hallway at the window as a human solider opened fire on the window, directed more at her then anything else in the area.

[Indifference Indigo]

The sounds of raining bullets that transpired in the half a second that Indifference Indigo held his breath caused him to release the breath sharply. His eyes darted straight to his computer, and with the skills of a technological genius, Indi began to type in pass codes and locks. Doors began to shut themselves and bolt shut while windows shut and the glass became infused with diamond. Yet it wasn't enough. The sounds of bullets flying still rang through the red haired man's ears.
Turning again to a different computer, Indi began typing in more locks and with a finally act, he unleashed his plants, his metalic demons from hell, and called them to rise up from their peaceful state and devour those that were intruding upon his house. A strange laugh escaped Indi as he did this. "They'll all be nothing but corpses soon... and then I'll make them suffer even more using their bodies later for my experiments...." Yet as he said this, there as a tension in Indi's voice that he could not kill.

There were still those that had made it into the house, and Indi began to step upwards in search of Aletha. If anything had happened to his precious experiment, there would be hell to pay. He stepped up the steps once more, and yet he could not spot Aletha on the dot. His eyes moved around, and suddenly the sound of clicking hit Indi's ears. His mechanical eye side back and the red haired man glared at the solider aiming the gun so perfectly at his head.

[The Broken Gears]

Aletha had opened fire on the solider, and within the bullet his chest was full of metal, and his back was blown out. There were shots that rang through the dining room as the lock was shot, and then forced open, making it bang against the wall. She gave up all restrictions, and slid the contact off of her mechanical eye, and let it do it's xray thermal thing through the walls. There were five soliders similar to the one that laid dying outside of the wall, and the last to come in the xray didn't pick up much heat, more on the cold side.

"Shit, a damn traitor mechanical," Aletha cursed quietly before aiming her gun hand and letting loose through the walls. The speed and the amount that were shot at once penetrated the two blocking walls, and hit the closest guy that had been assigned to the dinning room check. There was a shout, and then the man was down, and the other four came running, making for easy pickings until the mechanical stepped out of the door and hit her with a pure metal fist. It was in the arm, and it screwed up the elbow again, but didn't break it, just locked it into aimed postion.

The other was clearly a foreign mechanical, and looked more machine then human. His arms gleamed with metal, and he was in general the heavier between the two, and it gave Etha the advantage. She skipped backward, and manually aimed with her other hand, and shot into the heart of the beast, dropping him quickly just as the last 2 rushed through the door shooting. Some of the bullets hit gold into her legs, but the only things injured were skin.

After everyone was down, Aletha panted and watched the dead bodies, and opened fire on the mechanical when his foot twitched. She was ready to slide down the wall when she heard a loud click, and she opened her mechanical eye and looked at the room that head down to the basement. There were two people there, and by the solid cold spot around where the head is, she could tell where Indi stood, and where the other stood. She folded her left hand so it morphed into the energy cannon, and slinked up to hear what the intruder was saying.

[Indifference Indigo]

"Doctor Indifference Michael Indigo, formally known as Doctor Indiana Michael Indigo age twenty-one hair color red eye color green frame build tall and skinny," the dark haired soldier stared morosely at Indi in the way many stare at dead things. Indi's face was calm and collected, and there was even a small hamper of light to his visage on the matter.

"Yes that is me," he answered lightly moving on head to the side and then to the other. "And who might you be?"

"Where is your sister Selene Emilia Indigo cyborg 0005 age at time of transformation sixteen stolen from research lab by none other than Indifference Indigo, yourself."

"I have no idea what you are talking about," Indi smiled lightly as he continued to talk to the man and moved somewhat to the right. Any time now, Aletha.... Indi thought to himself as he made somewhat of a side step as though he were just walking lightly to keep in motion.

[The Broken Gears]

Aletha unfolded her hand and slid the contact on before pushing the door open, a brillant plan shining in her mind. "I am Selene Indigo, 0005, stolen from the government facility by not Indi, but by Aletha T, 0001. He had nothing to do with it." She kept a straight face as she walked over to Indi, and hugged him sisterily, and gave a puppy face to the solider. "Take me back if you want to, but please don't hurt my older brother." She started to cry, overplaying the part.

[Indifference Indigo]

The soldier looked form Indi to Aletha and then back to Indi as though confused. There was a moment of complete silence that followed, and no one moved a hair. Taking a step back, the solider seemed to eye Aletha darkly as though considering the possibility along with the probability that this girl before him was indeed Selene Indigo. However, his eyes narrowed and he returned his form once more. "Show me your bar code, and I will believe you. Then come quietly, and nothing with happen to your precious brother." the man finished.

Indi's eye moved to Aletha, and a quiet smile had already started to crawl upwards on his visage. 'Sister... why don't you step forwards...." Indi commented understanding and somewhat happy about what was about to transpire. Indeed, the red haired scientist felt nothing for what was to come expect a morbid sense of happiness.

[The Broken Gears]

Aletha hesitated a second, and hoped it wasn't obvious. The barcode had never come to mind with this plan, and she knew if it was going to fail, it was going to happen now. "But of course," she said lightly and stepped forward and turned around, not lifting her hair up for him. It made it so both of the soliders hands were busy as he picked her hair from her back. With his sight blocked, she brought her hand up and folded it, storing up energy as fast as she could in the energy cannon as her eyes met Indi's.

[Indifference Indigo]

A devil's smile had formed on the face of Indifference Indigo, and his arms crossed somewhat complacently over his lab coat. His hand reached down into his pocket, and he slowly began lifting the gun that had seated itself so happily within his pocket slowly came up without the solider noticing. Slipping it into the crutch of his arm, Indi's face became blank once more. The solider appeared to be trying to read the barcode but was having obvious problems with it. "Bye," Indi said suddenly and as the guard turned his head around, fifteen bullets entered his cranium. "Your turn," Indi smiled at Aletha.

[The Broken Gears]

Aletha laughed as she swung her hair back into place as she turned and pushed the solider all the way down onto his back before letting loose the built of energy. The close range laid ruin to his body, and almost knocked Etha back again, but she had thought to set her feet into a more steady footing then earlier. Letting out a sigh, she kneeled down and poked the dead man before sitting down and poking at her bleeding legs. "I'm pretty sure nothing is broken. Just need some wrappings so I can put pressure to make it stop bleeding. Do you have any?" She asked, looking up at Indi.

[Indifference Indigo]

Indi let out a cold breath after a moment and then looked at Aletha's legs. "Indeed," he answered. "I have some. Just wait here." He turned sharply and walked back down into the lab. Making a corner and finding his usual paperwork desk, Indi opened a drawer in the desk and pulled out roll after roll of gauze. Taking five full rolls in hand, the red haired man walked back up the steps and found Aletha where she was previously. Bending down, he handed her own roll and opened another. "Hah just like old times, no? I play doctor. You play good patient?" he half laughed to himself. "Then again back then you were always fighting with people and wouldn't let people take care of your wounds for ya....."

[The Broken Gears]

Aletha laughed as she opened the gauze and started at her ankle. "Most of those injuries were by my clumsiness. I would do something stupid, and I would end up falling or something, and getting scraped and shot. I was stubborn as hell, and just as embarrassed." She rolled it around her calf, and held the end there as she reached for another roll. "Now I know when to shut up and let people heal me. I didn't know a thing when it came to healing anything, but I still tried. Remember how I learned when to shut up and sit down? My arm had been nearly blown off by a mine that I had so clumsily not noticed," she said, and laughed at the memory.

[Indifference Indigo]

"Indeed," Indi answered. "You were a very stubborn cyborg... not nearly as bad as Xero, but indeed pretty stubborn." Almost impressed with his work of cleaning the situation, Indi rose fully and looked around his house somewhat using his cyborg eye. "Not too much damage... it appears they finally gave up... good for them," Indi half laughed again before helping Aletha up as she finished wrapping her bandages and started to rise again. "Although cleaning this up is going to be annoying..." Indi shook his head. "I'll just build something to clean it for me when I get the chance."

[The Broken Gears]

"They knew that they were going to get their asses kicked if they tried any harder to get to you. I should wait for nightfall though, to leave. I don't want to be captured or anything like that," Aletha said as she stood up straight and stretched her legs to get used to the extra resistance of the gauze. She took off her contact, and observed the damage herself. "Ah, sorry about the dinning walls. Kind of the spur of the moment, get an advantage on the attackers kind of thing." She smiled sheepishly, and opened the door all the way too look into the hall to see the damage that she had caused. She hadn't really seen the damage that had been happening while she was shooting, since her normal seeing eye was closed while her mechanical eye was doing the seeing for her.

[Indifference Indigo]

"Indeed but why don't you just stay the entire night," Indi answered back. "Or will 0004 and that special someone miss you too much?" With that, Indi burst into a light joking laughter that one teases another with. "It's up to you. Either way, I get to talk with my 0001 a bit more." His smile was light still, and after a moment, Indi let out a cold breath. "Trying to take Selene away... they know better than that.. if the president or that weakling Bayard sent them, I'm going to have a bone to pick later..." It was a play on words being the grave robber that he was, and yet Indi's tone was so caustic that the words were more of a death threat than anything else.