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Newton has done it. He is the new Blackwell Technologies Chief Executive Officer. He has done it, it has taken years and years of work to get to this moment. Stocks are up, business is good. His assistant L3 has been put to work managing his things, there is a ton of stuff to go through for the galaxy's premier mega-corporation.

Today Newton's ship would have arrived at the environmental safe zone on the planet M4-78 not too long ago. It's about time to get something off of Newton's list that should have been done a couple years ago. Normally this would be something that he would entrust purely to others, but Newton just wants to make sure this gets done.

The Blackwell Executive would be wearing a new set of armor he commissioned, some slicing tools, an Ion Blaster along with spare ammo for that and other usual gear. One last thing, a datacard containing something special.

Newton would have his back against the wall at the safe-zone, there would be handful of armed Blackwell droids surrounding him as well. He was here incognito as a Blackwell agent by the code name 'Epsilon'

He also reached out for some outside help. All that was said was for him to meet the said agent here, that this was an escort mission with a good chance of fighting and will pay good. The coordinates were given to this mostly unknown world and specific coordinates for the meeting place. Newton also was sure to advise them to bring certain items, such as a filter and ion weapons.

So now, Newton would check the chrono, it's almost time. Almost time to do what should have been done long ago...

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Like the so-called agent Epsilon, Strill had equiped herself with a PK-32 ion blaster as her primary carried weapon. Her trusty two westar-35 sidearms were in their holsters as was to be expected for the Mandalorian. The green armor was equiped with features that could help in the less hospitable parts of the planet which was all the more reason for the twi'lek to keep her helmet on at all times.

Strill had a SGG-50 grapple gun on her belt should the need arise. She was inexperienced with jetpacks nor did she possess one. Being on the ground would be a slight change of pace for her.

The environmental safe zone was not dangerous as far as Iviinyc Eldar knew. But her client had seen fit to have the Tracker hired for the job. The pay was good through the connection of the Bounty Hunter's Guild. Her alias as 'Strill' was used for this mission as always. But unlike most missions, the bounty hunter wasn't flying her starfighter. Instead, having parked and secured her Baskad-9, the Mandalorian was working as a foot soldier.

Epsilon was waiting with an entourage of machines. Each of them looked to be capable of combat to some degree. This whole job gave her the impression she was going to be blasting droids. Not being particularly stealthy, the twi'lek waltzed up to the group and waited for the contact to begin speaking. She found it helped to lean into the 'quiet warrior' trope people associated with her people.

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So his contractor arrived, a Mandalorian in the flesh, or should he say 'iron flesh' or skin. "Right on time" Epsilon stated, the helmet gave the persona a difference voice than his normal one. He would then explain the job to her. "Your job is to follow me and keep me safe from the many many droids we will encounter until I insert a datacard in a special terminal inside the planets hub.." There was a reason that the job advised her to bring ion weapons, because of their ability to deal with droids in short order.

"Ideally, we will talk our way through as many security checkpoints as possible. But should worse come to worse, we will have to destroy all the world's droids as possible. These droids besides me are our back-up." Newton wondered how the Mandalorian would feel about fighting side by side with droids. Don't Mandalorians typically distaste droids? But at least they will have their fill against the planet's droids too. It will be inevitable for when reach their goal.

"Lets get to it then" he said, not wanting to use any more time. He wants this project done and over with. The shadowy man would then proceed to walk with his droids towards the bridge that goes towards the spire of the Central Zone. Before too long, they would be leaving the shielded safe area. Newton would look once more into the skies, the pollution is so palpable that you could cut it with a knife. Almost.

There would be a protocal droid that would then walk towards Newton and the crew from the other side. The two would meet. "Hello there, are you with Blackwell? You and those droids look very well armed. Unfortunately, we can't let you proceed with those weapons."

Newton would then reply "I am an agent with Blackwell yes. I have been tasked by Blackwell to hand over these droids directly to M4-78 along with the weapons they carry as a show of corporation between it and us. We would like to deliver these personally." he said.

The droid would buy it "Well then, proceed to down the elevator that way, and you will be speaking be able to find it in no time. Good day". With that, all they would have to do is proceed down the elevator. Newton already knows the way.

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HK-24 had been assigned to this particular job quite by chance. He had never really intended to find himself working for Blackwell - despite their pay levels, he had always found them a little 'restrictive'. However, on this occasion, they had offered to double the fee he would normally have charged.

Thereafter he had gathered his gear, and joined the droid retinue of some high profile executive. Keeping pace just off to the immediate left of Newton Arden, he kept his silence as the man briefed the team on the mission ahead.

HK was not used to being a bodyguard.

However, on this occasion, and for this sort of remuneration, he would make an exception. "Observation: It may be difficult to differentiate between your droids, and the wider planet." HK remarked matter-of-factly "Query: Am I going to need to interact with this virus in any way?" he enquired, reasonably keen to not be wiped out by the virus the man now held. His question asked, HK emotionlessly followed along behind the executive, before being approached and asked to surrender his weapon.

"Unfortunately, we can't let you proceed with those weapons."

Does not compute.

"I am an agent with Blackwell yes. I have been tasked by Blackwell to hand over these droids directly to M4-78 along with the weapons they carry as a show of corporation between it and us. We would like to deliver these personally."

Had HK been able to outwardly show relief, he would have done so. He tensed his grip on his rifle and scanned the protocol unit. Within a single second, he had worked out the most effective way to dismember the hapless unit. He tapped his way along, drawing pace with Newton "Observation: Meatbag, this planet appears quite ripe for destruction. When do we proceed with the carnage?"
 

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It is going to be a bit weird, droids fighting droids on a droid planet. HK-24 has a good point. As for the virus though"No, Do not touch the virus or interact with anything infected by it." Newton warned the HK droid. The droid doesn't need to know the details, but the SERVITOR virus would do really bad things to the HK droid.

Hearing the assassin droid speak more, now that Newton thinks about it, the HK droid reminds him of Pedee. She always liked getting into fights, punching things into pieces, and wasn't so fond of organics although he was still on decent terms with her. Still, did feel odd having an HK droid be escorting him. Oddly comforting though, the HK models despite being by the rival company Czerka are really good. And the being an independent bounty hunter for hire demonstrates how the droids can evolve. "Soon. Soon..." Newton would walk down the elevator, his droids accompanying him.

This is all familiar, he's been here before. Once to gain a foothold, but now it's time for everything to come together. The elevator would stop, and then they would come before the large droid himself: M4-78. The droid would be protected by a shield from attacks, but Newton eyes the the terminal in front of it and him. "Hello there, welcome to M4-78, Blackwell agents. I heard that you are here to transfer those droids to us. Is this true"

Newton, with a helmet on, the droid over-mind is none the wiser. First he would whisper to the HK "On my signal, start shooting", the enormous-sized droid wouldn't notice. Looking around, Newton would spot a total of six guard droids, three of them around the room, and two by the terminal, all armed with blaster rifles.

"It's true." Newton would then respond to the droid, he would then step forward. "My employer had prepared you a demonstration so that you can see how advanced these droids are. Let me get my datapad real quick.." Newton would then pull a fast one on the droid, instead pulling a pistol and drawing it out really fast. and then blasting a U9 droid by the terminal, double tapping headshots would destroy it "Droids attack, protect me while I hack the terminal" With that, a massive shootout with ensure. Alarm klaxions would sound, more metal would be matching their way. The Blackwell droids would pelt the other terminal guard with so much blaster fire it never had a chance before moving on the others.

Using this opportunity, Newton would get to the terminal. He would inject the terminal with the datacard of virus. It will take time for the virus to fully infect the terminal, but if it works, then M4-87 the droid will be brought to heel. While the dataplague is doing it's work, Newton would duck down using the terminal as cover. It's going to take some time, they just need to survive until then.

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For HK-24, the command from Newton was like music to his ears. Sweet, violent music. He had his DC-17x in its blaster configuration and mapped the location of each hostile unit, as well as cover and egress routes. Six enemies in total, three dotted around the room, two by the terminal and one directly in front of Newton, which he quickly dropped.

The UP-XX series droid was an inferior model, despite its modernity compared to HK. Nevertheless, this was something that pleased him enormously. Having secured his rifle in a guard position since they had entered the room, he snapped a burst of three shots at the droids that stood around the room. Each blast was fired with jaw-dropping accuracy through the knee joints of each droid's left leg. HK then proceeded to drop to one knee himself, enabling him to fire a fourth shot through the faceplate of one of them, dropping it.

The remaining two staggered back under the barrage of fire. Meanwhile, the remaining Blackwell Droids tidied up the other hostiles as HK closed the distance between himself and his final targets and fired the last two shots into them, bringing the skirmish to an abrupt end.

"Statement: Room secure. Further hostiles anticipated."
 

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Room secure. Good, but as the HK also said, more droids are anticipated. Newton would look at the console and he would grit his teeth under his helmet. "25 percent". The sheer memory and code of the terminal and the droid tethered to it is vast. But it will have to do. The metal marching would get louder and louder.

"<GO AWAY>"

The machine overmind said with a deep booming, bass. With that, two large droids emerged from the left and right corridors, with a total of four. They were large and menacing, being equipped with two blaster rifles in their hands. Newton raised his eyebrow as he recognized them as the DT Sentry Droids. Very tough and very unrelenting. Very powerful too.

Newton woud duck down as the sentry droids would rain fire at the group. The Blackwell droids would be firing back to but two of the V3 droids were lost quickly. The Hawking droids would then spread out and try to fly above them to try and draw their fire. Using this chance, Newton, using the terminal as cover, would draw out his ion rifle and aim it to one on the right, firing an ion shot. The blue bolt of energy would hit square in the chest piece. With static and ionized particles cracking from it, the droid would drop down to it's knees, before falling completely to the ground. That leaves three move to go.

Newton would duck back down and take a deep breath. One of the shots almost hit him square in the helmet.

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HK heard the approaching droids before he saw them, and ran his through memory banks, trying to assess what unit they could be. As they stepped into frame, he identified them immediately - Baktoid Combat Automata Units. Heavy-set droids with a penchant for unbridled destruction, heavily armoured and hard for normal droid units to take out.

Yet, as HK so often reminded his clients, he was not a normal droid.

Ducking into cover as Newton fired an ion shot at one of the approaching units, he fired two shots through the faceplate of an approaching droid, bringing it crashing to the ground even as its remaining two colleagues turned to focus their attention on HK himself. Rolling from his cover to another position behind a nearby console, he fired a shot through the arm-mounted blaster on the rightward mounting of another droid.

One and a half droids left, technically.

With their fire now focused on HK, Newton could try and return to his task.
 

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"forty percent" Newton said after he popped up and checked the progress of the terminal. They are half way there, still have a ways to go before they are completed. With the sentry droid's numbers reduced, there would be less firepower going around from them, making it safer to maneuver.

Newton's droid blaster arm mounted on the back would then pop up and then fire two shots of it's pistol into the damaged droid, destroying it. The other droids would destroy the last one remaining, it would be riddled with blaster shot after blaster shot, after blaster shot. It would fall down to the ground full of missing chunks and scorch marks.

The alarm klaxons would still be sounding overhead, M4-78 the droid overmind would, still encased behind it's barrier sees now see what's going on, he is trying to speak, but his vocabulator is is messing up. Looks like the virus is starting to take affect, Newton thought, but still not under control. But then M4-78's speech would become audible. "You seek t-to infect/corrupt mE?! yOu will pay/be destroyed for what yo-your transgressions/crimes. <Activating Emergency Protocol> All units to me. Protect/safeguard me"

The next wave has arrived, four small but fast combat droids would come from the left, moving with speed towards the intruders, firing on the move while manuevering around attempting to dodge blaster shots that come their way. Bile droids. Next from the right would come some droids even Newton has a hard time figuring out what they are. And their blaster fire isn't even that accurate. Looks like three of them.

"Blackwell droids, left side. Suppressive fire. " he called out. The remaining Blackwell droids would focus their attention on the Biles. The firepower of the droids would damage a few of them in a spray of blaster fire, the Blackwell droids would also take some damage, one of the D3 droids went down.

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forty percent

The mission was proceeding according to plans, HK-24s processors confirmed that Newton was operating 'normally', if not 'optimally'. Even as he went to congratulate the man on his progress, HK was interrupted by the incredibly rude M4-78 droid-mind. Had he been able to, he would have rolled his photoreceptors at such a lack of decorum.

"Observation: This droid-mind appears unsettled, meat-bag." HK remarked, helpfully, before returning his attention to the four new arrivals. He fired a shot into one of them, walking backwards into the console room itself as he heard the clunk-clunk-clunk of even more arrivals. K4 series droids.

He recognised them immediately. "Statement: These units are K4 series. Old Imperial models meat-bag." he fired a shot at one of the incoming droids, hoping that the smaller droids would be being dealt with by the Blackwell Units. "Continuation: Very inaccurate at range, but well armoured. It is more optimal to take them down up close." he ducked into cover, stowing his rifle and charging at the K4's, taking a shot to his armoured torso as he did so.

Shoulder barging one, he sent it flying back into the other two, and continued toward them. Jabbing his right hand into the neck joint of the staggering droid, he yanked out a wire connecting it to its power core, and then turned to face the remaining two, who were recovering from being bodyslammed by their now-dead colleague.
 

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"Good to know" Newton muttered. At this point, he was more concerned with rendering those droids nonfunctional than he was with getting to know them, but good to know those old things aren't super droids or anything. Looks like so far the team is holding themselves pretty well. The despite the droid overmind activating it's emergency protocal, the waves have been pretty steady.

Newton would turn to taunt the droid overmind "Is that the best you got?" he would then snicker "Looks like you've gotten complacent since you had no threats for thousands of years!" he proclaimed to the droid. The droid overmind, if it could make a face, it would be a pretty angry one. "<DIE>" it echoed with a menacingly with a distorted, deep choice voice.

The Blackwell droids would destroy two of those small droids to the left and managed to supress them, keeping them from going towards the terminal. But however, one of the flying HW droids would be shot down. Newton would look to see what shot them, only to see a blaster shot hit him in the chest piece from above. Oh?

From the ceiling, he saw two more of the U9 droids, upside down with blaster rifles this time. They are hanging from the ceiling using their magnetic feet. Newton would adapt to the third dimension being incorporated in their battle here. He would use the terminal as cover, and then he would fire an expertly aimed ion blaster shot at the U9 droid on the right. The ion shot would hit it's left leg. The leg would be disabled, and then gravity would do the rest of the work from there, as the leg would come down, then the remaining foot isn't strong enough, and the droid would fall down, crash landing onto the ground below, shattering it in pieces.

That was interesting. Newton would take a look at the terminal "Seventy-one percent. We are more than two-thirds of the way there" Just got to hold out a bit longer. Newton would then glance to the HK droid that would be putting in a lot of work, it is living up to the line's reputation.

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Whatever Newton was doing, it was quite clear their 'host' did not want him to succeed. With more and more hostiles coming from a seemingly limitless source, HK-24 began to ponder whether he would run out of ammunition before the percentages maxed out. However, he had more pressing matters to engage with at present - the remaining two K-Droids. One of them swung toward him in a lumbering attack, HK stepping to one side and grabbing the droid's outstretched arm, using its own momentum against it as he drove it into the ground, his foot crashing down on its neck-joint. Its partner-unit hung back, and HK scooped up the downed droids gun and fired two shots into the partner's faceplate, keen to conclude this little interlude of melee in the worsening skirmish.

He spun on his heels, shooting a third bolt through the other ceiling-bound U9 droid, temporarily bringing an end to the fighting. With a degree of arrogance that seemed hard-wired into him, HK-24 dropped the K-Series Units gun and unhitched his own from his back. Scanning down the approaching corridor, he heard the tell-tale sound of heavy footsteps. Unable to ascertain from sound alone what they where, he warned Newton "Alert: We have more incoming, some sort of heavy weapons unit."
 

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The little droids were demolished by the Blackwell Droids. For a moment it seemed like the droid overmind had no more backup, until he was warned by the HK-24. And then after that, he would look around and he heard the foot steps too now that there was a break in blaster fire.

Then at the rear of the room, there would be an explosion, and entire wall just exploded and burst out. Once the smoke and rubble clears, it would be revealed, a huge droid. Newton's jaw dropped. "Oh kriff...." After a second of revealing itself, it would switch on it's shield generator, and then take aim at the Blackwell team while it advances around the room "<Destroy them>" M4-78 the droid intelligence yelled.

The droid would then fire it's repeating laser cannons, using them to more or less instantly cut a swath through the Blackwell droids on the ground, destroying half of what's left in just a second. Such firepower... Newton would take cover by the terminal "Droids, take cover" There really wasn't much cover for them, and the angles involved and the size of the Vega droids makes it difficult, but that monster is ripping through his droids anyway so that would mitigate some damage. The blaster shots don't seem to have any effect.

Newton would take a quick two shots of still with his ion rifle, immediately dropping down once he completed his sequence of shots. Ion weapons do tend to do good against shields, but the huge droid's shielding is still up, he's not sure how much on the shield he has left. Newton sure doesn't want to try getting any closer. Newton would raise up to see where the virus' progression is at. Seventy-six percent. That is not much of an increase.

Either they are going to have to try taking down this droid, or surviving until the virus finishes.

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A Scorpenek.

HK-24 ran through every entry on his 'Encyclopedia Destructica' and came back blank, whilst he performed an expert and only slightly panicked dive and role behind what little cover he could find. He ran through a few plans to terminate the droid, but came up short. However, HK-24 did not need to destroy the droid, that was not the mission - the mission was to ensure Newton could complete whatever it was he was doing on that terminal.

So he rolled out of cover to the large attacker's right, and fired three shots into the droid's shields, drawing its lumbering attention toward him, and away from Newton. He scrabbled back as the droid fired, missing him by centimetres and sending him spiralling to the floor, where he rolled and continue to fire from a prone position. This was, quite possibly, the worst idea he had come up with in a while, but HK-24 was committed to it, and continued to run backwards, zigzagging to avoid fire as he tried to hold the assailants attention.
 

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That thing is too powerful for them... Newton didn't see that droid or anything like it popping up. Clearly there is more to this planet than Newton knows. Who knows what other surprises lie in wait. Newton will be sure and study all of what this planet has to offer once he is done. If he survives.

While the HK droid has the big droid distracted, Newton would see if he could come up with a plan to either further stall it or do more damage. Lets see, the droid looks of old design, possibly CIS era? Usually shields like that while they can block fast moving attacks like blasters, they can't stop slow physicals objects from moving inside.

Newton would hunker down and then get on his coms and relay to his Blackwell droids, not the HK droid though. "Charge, get inside that droid's shield and start attacking once you do.".

The Blackwell droids would then start rushing towards the big droid again, luckily for them they all have jump boots as standard, so they would use them to propel themselves forward at the juggernaut of a droid, and once they do, they would enter it's shields. The big droid would then turn around and then start shooting at the droids, or trying to. That would give the HK droid some reprieve. The Blackwell droids in return, would return fire, firing upon it's chassis with as much firepower as they could muster.

But the big droid would, although it's cannons can't fire that low to the ground, it would instead swing it's front right leg across, knocking the droids out of it's shield, then it would start firing it's laser cannons at them, finishing them off. All that would be left is one V3 droid with no legs and can barely move.

On the plus side, that stopped the large droid's advance momentarily and some measure of damage was dealt. The droid would then set it's eyes for the terminal next. Newton would glance at it. Eighty-five percent. Almost there, he thought. Aside from the HK, Newton only has 1 of the HW flying droids, one crippled V3 unit left.

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Listening as Newton proposed a new approach, and acting accordingly, HK watched as the assorted Blackwell Droids hurled themselves at the assailant. Many of them did not survive the following carnage, not that he cared - it ensured his own chassis remained in one piece at least.

However, as it slowly turned its attention to the module upon which Newton was working, HK realised he could not leave the other Blackwell units to do the dirty work. Throwing himself at the droid, he lept on the Scorpions back, and stamped ineffectually on its head, before shooting, equally as ineffectually at its faceplate.

The droid refocused its attention on HK, swatting him away with a flick of its head, like an irate fly. He went shooting back, hopefully buying Newton more time as the huge droid turned and started to lumber toward him.
 

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The distraction from the HK's part wasn't in vain - it was brave of the droid to do so, or perhaps very confident in it's skill). Nonetheless the leviathan of a droid would begin it's march towards him, if he popped out of cover he'd be shot up and then wouldn't live any more. He couldn't escape...

But what is this, the remaining V3 droid that had it's legs severed would then crawling towards the big droid as it advanced close. The large droid wouldn't be able to turn it's attention fast enough. The V3 droid would grab on the droid's leg. The droid would see this, it would attempt to raise it's leg and begin to try to shake it off. Newton would see this, Newton would realize it just activated it's Last Ditch Protocol. After enduring five seconds of resisting being thrown away like trash, the droid would then explode in front of the droid's face with the power and area of effect of a concussion grenade. That and the shield worked against the droid this time, containing the explosion in side.

The big droid would be staggered quite a bit from the impact of it. Even it's visual and audio sensors would be blinded and the droid would be disoriented, the four legged droid would then be dropped to a kneeling position. This brought the team some much needed time.

Newton would then move forward a few meters. "Hey HK, think fast" Newton yell as he would then toss his Ion Blaster Rifle towards the droid. The Blackwell Executive thought this would be a good opportunity to do some damage. Although the shield can deflect the ion blaster attacks, he wonders how the droid will fare against it while the HK unit can get inside it's shield to shoot the droid's chassis itself.

Once more, the would glance at the terminal. Ninety percent. Just a few moments damn it! He thought. The droid overmind would then speak "No matter what you d-do, you cannot w-wil-win---...-- You ca-can't prevail. <CAN N NOT PREVAIL>" the droid's voice would change pitch, would stutter, and briefly become intelligible. The virus seems to be working, corrupting it.

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Perhaps this is the end? HK pondered as the droid clamped his merry way toward him. To be killed by a Scorpion droid? Not a bad way to go I suppose?

However, his impending doom was halted by the imposition of a V3 droid, which latched onto his harbinger and detonated itself. This was just the moment HK needed, with his attacker momentarily stunned, he grabbed the ion blaster Newton threw with ease, and slid across the ground, firing upwards as he passed between the Scorpion droids legs, blasting bolts into its exposed, and unshielded, underbelly. It staggered a bit more, as suddenly lights went out in its faceplate.

The droid fumbled forward, its circuits fried from within, falling directly onto HK.

Trapped beneath the droid, HK-24 let out a loud sigh "Observation: I am stuck." he declared, looking up into the dead face of the Scorpion, and sighing once more.
 

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There, the beast is down. The HK droid did it, he brought it down with the ion rifle. It was a combination of factors that needed to take out the droid. Newton would look towards the droid overmind M4-78 itself, and then he would look at the console.

97%

98%

Just a few more moments...

99%

A few more U9 droids, eight of them emerged. HK was down and the Blackwell Executive realized didn't have his ion rifle anymore.

"100%! Eureka."

Just as the U9 droids were about to fire their weapons, they would pay attention tot the droid overmind which seems to be malfunctioning and going beserk. It's vocabulator would be going off, being distorted to the point where it's pitch lowers and rises and what it's seeing isn't intelligible. It's clear it's 100% infected and it shows. If the overmind had limbs and weapons, it would surely attack everyone in sight.

Newton would then type in the terminal the password. After hitting the enter key, Newton would smirk and then take off his helmet "M4-78. From this moment on, you are under my control and you are property of Blackwell. This world is property of Blackwell Tech. First order of buisness, stand down your droids"

"I... I... I will obey" the droid echoed. Newton would watch the U9's seize up and await further orders. "M4-78. Help my trapped associate get free""Yes sir." And like clockwork, the U9 droids would put away their blasters and then start lifting the disabled Annihilator droid. They are strong droids and with having sufficent numbers, the HK droid will be free.

Well then, Newton would take a deep sigh, this was a close one, but this is finally done. He would walk over to the HK droid and pull out a credit chit. After pushing a few buttons on it, he would then present it to the HK droid. "Well, this was quite something." That's putting it mildly. "You have done very well. Excellent work. Here is the payment promised, and a little something extra" The droid will notice a twenty-five percent increase on top of what was already agreed on. "That should more than compensate for any repairs, if needed" Blackwell knows good work when he sees it. "Anything the droids dropped, you're welcome to keep as well." Maybe the assassin droid model can build an arsenal with the weapons, or sell the salvage extra.

With that, Newton would look at the obedient droid overmind now under his control. He has a lot to study about it... Once more look at the HK droid "i'll keep you in mind if I have further work. Sound good?"

@Nor'baal
 
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