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Half a cycle ago the disc review was to take place; half a cycle ago, Number Four was ankle deep in fizzling cubes. He’d have to explain his absence, an annoyance he’d tolerated plenty of times before, but after the mass reprogramming a number of higher-ups had become problematic. Even Lieutenant Roz, with her abnormal blind spot for him, could justify his actions just a number of times before her own code would begin recalculating his devotion to the cause - to the Luminary.
The boosted Lightcycle’s whining electric engine was loud in the shortening distance as the Guard sped toward home base, having little concern for civilian traffic. He weaved around the 4-wheelers and slower bikes through the off ramp, and dove down and under the highway toward the facility entrance, its towering geometric pillars wound by glowing ribbons of gold; a small semblance of the overwhelming presence of their tyrannical leader. He shouldn’t have chosen this cycle of all cycles to engulf himself in personal work, but the raid of an unofficial refugee camp had been too tempting to dismiss. He’d pay for that now.
The Lightcycle’s engine was merely a low, rumbling purr once he reached the base’s entrance, and its rider had barely sat up from it when it it was deactivated, collapsing from its glowing orange grid and then into just a baton. He holstered it quickly, approaching the Commander already waiting for him alongside two senior sentries.
The segmented, black surface of his adorned helmet stared back at her at an ever so slight angle, maintaining the Guard’s usually complacent facade. “To what do I owe the pleasure now, Commander?”