Now that Metcalf had a plan of attack, she had a real chance at victory.\u00a0 A great holo-movie lie was that someone could be good enough at improvising to escape a challenge such as this.\u00a0 Being a big fan of the holo-movies, she giggled to herself at the lie.\u00a0 Without a plan, mistakes and successes were indistinguishable until it was too late.<\/p>\n
A small light on Metcalf\u2019s visor flashed signaling information being received.\u00a0 With a few touches on her glove, she saw what Master Fu was planning.\u00a0 The convenience store her instructor talked about was not that far, a short walk in a normal situation; pretty convenient.<\/p>\n
Thinking ahead, Metcalf also checked Master Fu\u2019s vector.\u00a0 If Fu stayed at her average speed, she should be at the store within two fifths of an hour.\u00a0 Not a lot of time given the current situation.\u00a0 At least, she knew where she was going and about how long she had to get there.<\/p>\n
For the extraction to be flawless, Metcalf had to be a swift ghost.\u00a0 It would be too easy to track her if she leaves a clue in the same area as a mysteriously escaping van.\u00a0 It would also be suspicious if Master Fu shopped at a convenience store for more than three minutes.\u00a0 It was time for Metcalf to be on her way.<\/p>\n
Metcalf heard the faint marching of the training-bots in the distance.\u00a0 She crouched low to the ground.\u00a0 Her suit quickly turned dark shades of the shadowed grey alleyway.\u00a0 She was impressed as the color of her suit even mimicked the small cracks on the ground.\u00a0 She crept slowly towards the street hoping not to see any guards but prepared to disappear if any were seen.<\/p>\n
Thankfully, the patrols hadn\u2019t made it this far out yet.\u00a0 She needed to stay ahead of them.\u00a0 So she needed to move.\u00a0 Still the street was the most dangerous place she could be right now.\u00a0 Her color changing suit would not help her unless she crawled on the ground.<\/p>\n
Ugh.\u00a0 I don\u2019t need<\/strong> this right now.<\/em><\/p>\n Getting even lower and flatter to the ground, Metcalf prepared for the trek across the street.\u00a0 There was a good reason why the suit she wore was nicknamed the Chameleon Suit.\u00a0 She had to pretty slow for it to hide her perfectly.\u00a0 She was definitely strong enough to handle the crawl.\u00a0 Her motion energy skills would help her move more easily at the slow pace.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll have to avoid streets from now on.<\/em>\u00a0 It took a dreadfully long half minute before she was almost across the street.\u00a0 Thankfully there were no early morning drivers in the factory district.\u00a0 Also, it was either a blessing or a curse that there were no patrols flying over her area.\u00a0 It was wonderful not to be caught.\u00a0 Still, with no patrols, she could have dashed across the street without a care and had been on her way.<\/p>\n She felt inner joy as she touched the curb.\u00a0 However, a high-pitched whine above her head ended all how her inner cheer.\u00a0 Judging from the sound, a speeder patrol hovered just a decimeter away.<\/p>\n Metcalf\u2019s natural response was to freeze in place, a good response since they couldn\u2019t actually see her.\u00a0 The stealth suit started getting warm as she waited for them to make a move.\u00a0 It sounded like there were about three speeders.\u00a0 Metcalf had to be patient and look down not showing them the slightly less camouflaged visor.<\/p>\n After fifteen seconds of pure terror, the speeders lifted higher into the sky and sped off to the intersection.\u00a0 Instead of celebrating her relief, Metcalf used this time to activate the cloaking field around her suit.<\/p>\n One of the suits flaws was that it could only be reasonably hidden from one angle.\u00a0 She would prefer them not to see a chisho-shaped bit of concrete sticking out of the road.\u00a0 That would be an obvious tell.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, activating the suit\u2019s cloaking field exposed another flaw.\u00a0 It was getting really hot!<\/p>\n #1<\/a> \u2013 Lost and Found #30<\/a>\u00a0– Lost and Found #32<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now that Metcalf had a plan of attack, she had a real chance at victory.\u00a0 A great holo-movie lie was that someone could be good enough at improvising to escape a challenge such as this.\u00a0 Being a big fan of the holo-movies, she giggled to herself at the lie.\u00a0 Without a plan, mistakes and successes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[117,26,140,2,107,141,170],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-master-insula-fu","tag-metcalf-luo","tag-oakwood-factory","tag-sons-of-sword","tag-tales-of-glory","tag-training-bots","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}