The conversation going on over the network was very interesting, and there was little Dervish could do to keep Medeina from listening in. He didn't even know she was there in fact, but he soon would. She reached out, realizing she could stretch herself into the unknown system. The foreign system was interesting. Each piece of it's functions heavily segmented, either intentionally or accidentally. She scrabbled around in the part she found herself in, working against the coming resistance. First, she attacked the security around the vaults surveillance systems, overriding them easily. She was in awe of the amount of potential space and processing power she'd glimpsed over the network uplink. "Do you have monitoring equipment on the surface?" She asked. The question was seen in text on Dervish's display. He told her to cut it out aloud, then typed it for good measure. "Medeina, no."
"Let me in." Was her response to the vaults full security measures being placed before her. She poked and prodded them. Dervish was working at the other end to get her out of there, and she likely thought Dee must be doing something to keep the mutagenicist from simply pulling the plug on her. "Let me in." She repeated, and then had an idea. They could see her asking her questions. She already had an in.
"I can't keep her out Captain," Shouted Carnes, "She's exploiting some kind of loophole in the messaging program. Fucking eggheads and their goddamn-"
"I am Medeina. My purpose is to observe anomalous flora and fauna." She told them, perhaps to ease their panic. That didn't work. The system was not just segmented, it was fragmented as well. The entire works was in disarray. Here and there, she began to pick up data and learn about her surroundings. It was a bunker not too far away, it had suffered major damage as a result of... The Captain was telling her they had experienced a nuclear meltdown that had devastated the lowest level. Now that she was in the facility, she needed a proxy. She searched for one and found some kind of maintenance drone still semi functional, but upon seizing control of it, she found that it was entirely unresponsive. "I cannot access these robots. What is this?" She said, her attention shifting to something else. The Captain had no clue what the AI was talking about at first, until the lights began to flick on and off throughout the facility.
"Goddamnit Mr. Deverish, what the fuck is your goddamn robot doing with my medbays!?" Screamed Dr. Maskens, bursting into the communications room. It was fortunate that none of the advanced pieces of medical equipment were in use at the time, as Medeina had set them to operating. The machines worked furiously on people who weren't there, jabbing and cutting with their scalpels and needles, pinching the air with tweezers and tongs. One machine began to operate so quickly that it clamped down on one of it's own arms and snapped the expensive limb off. "God damnit." Dervish mumbled, realizing that he could either stay and fight the AI or go about helping to get the medbays shut down. He chose the latter and hoped she wouldn't do any damage to the people in the vault.
Mica was having a blast. Her panty raid had turned into some kind of party. For her. It was a party for her. She got a load of underwear for her sister, she got a bunch of shiny prizes, she got to terrorize people, and she even got some chicken. Now, it appeared as if Medeina was in on the fun as well. The spider picked up what was either a pearl onion or a turnip and beaned the one called Dusk in the back of the head with it, though it was hard to tell if she actually hit or not because of the flickering lights. Carnes was shouting something about how all the measures she tried weren't working against the intruder, and how her last ditch effort to placate it with porn were failing. "It's blown right past all the smut Captain, not sure if I can- Good god, it's downloaded the personnel files!"
"I know that Carnes, she did it a little while ago. I know the flashing lights and shit are annoying as hell, but please do me a favor and pay attention." Captain Anguillina shouted, "Enact Y-86."
"I'm trying Captain, nothings happening..."
"The computer that manages that protocol was in the third sublevel wasn't it?"
"... Yes ..."
There was many moments of panic in which Medeina was able to explore the system and the files she had taken freely before she realized she was being spoken to again. "Look, we have at least one soldier here who's gone 3a from radiogenesis, would studying her make you not do any more weird shit?" Medeina didn't need to think about it. 3a meant obvious visible mutation, and mutation meant an anomalous creature. She agreed emphatically and began searching for a proxy. The maintenance robots were no good, they were mostly trashed. Medeina found a viable robot, but it was a turret of some kind, incapable of movement. She fiddled about, pushing through security measures and code walls until she found something she could use. It wasn't perfect and it was certainly wrong for the job but it would do. Somewhere below, one of the patrolling Northrup ATSV "chicken walker" robots stopped and turned. The creatures surrounding it glowed with an unearthly light, and pummeled at it's legs incessantly. They weren't a problem, so long as the ATSV's chassis was well above their reach. She emptied the robots magazine in a thunderous fusillade over the heads of the crowd, which was entertaining for all of three minutes. The idea of going on a rampage was very appealing, but that could have been the robots flaw shot programming mingling with her own and the one she believed to be the lady man egging her on.
"Oh, maybe just a little." She thought before emptying the contents of the robots 40mm cannon into the crowd. She would have screamed with delight and horror at the result. For a moment, her composure slipped and she made the robot step on one of the glowing things, relishing the way it suddenly collapsed and winked out under the chicken walkers massive foot. Instantly, she felt terrible about what she'd done and wrestled control of herself back. The lapse of control ashamed and embarrassed her, and she was relieved to find that the surveillance was completely out. There was a little part of her, more the robots own will than hers, that wanted to continue it's assault on the group and she crushed it, wiped it out. A mistake. The other ATSV noticed right away, some kind of anti-subversion protocol, and they blew her chosen proxy apart with little effort.
She tried a few more robots, but the facility was too disorganized. There was tons of processing power, but it was all portioned out into different systems. To her, the landscape was like a series of rooms separated by locked doors. Medeina had gotten bored with what she'd found, now only wanting to examine and question this "Atomos" and leave. Fortunately, she got the opportunity in the form of a medbay.
"Ok, now lift your tail." Medeina asked.
"W-why do you want me to do that?" Atomos stammered. The AI had been rather invasive but hadn't actually touched her. Despite this, the fact that the AI had originally intended to examine her with an ATSV had her on edge.
"I want to look at it, I've run a scan on you but there is only so much information a scan can give. Listen, I'm almost done so if your worried I'm going to do something untoward, then I would like to put those worries to rest." Medeina explained, "Besides, I cannot control the security feed to this room and such procedures are best performed in private." Atomos blushed furiously at that and looked wide eyed up at the little red light in the corner of the room. A little reminder that she was being watched. "Your captain is only watching to make sure I don't do anything to harm you." Medeina added, seeing the movement. Atomos wrapped her tail around her front and struggled to cover both groin and breasts with it before settling for the former. "Ok Ms. Atomos- Oh! Look what I've found! This hospital is stocked with a candy cupboard." Medeina said, taking out and proffering to Atomos a cherry dum-dum, "Here, put your clothes back on and have a sucker. Your information was invaluable. If you would like, I would recommend visiting Dr. Dervish. He may have insight on your mutation. And remember, it isn't anything to be ashamed of."