Operator Chapter 1-4 Program

"That wire goes there, this connects to that" Taylor mutters silently as she works on a device, it's a device that I asked her to make, it does a couple of things, one of them is locate the exact position of the Simurgh, send itself to that location and attach itself to her, and finally, it can block his signal from controlling her, it also had a few other features, but they aren't really important.

"And done!" Taylor finally announces, attaching the last part to it, the thing was vaguely domed shape, no outer shell on it, there was a mess of electronics on it that I couldn't really make heads or tails of, even with our tinker power, there were 3 thrusters on it, all pointing downwards and outwards, picking it up it was about a foot in diameter, probably larger, and weighed quite a bit.

Setting down the device she lets out a sigh, then asks "should we implement counter measures? Like, just in case she tries to turn on us?" Taylor asks, looking at the device, staring intently at it.

"The simurgh would see the countermeasures in the future and disable them using her telekinesis"

"What if we make it immune to her future sight?" Taylor asks.

"She'll still be able to see it while we're working on it and probably use her telekinesis to change something so that it won't work."

That just made her sigh, placing her head into her hands as she asks, "is there something we can do to make sure we won't die?"

"Not as far as I am aware, I mean, she is the Simurgh."

Once again Taylor sighs, "also, I've been meaning to ask. What do you mean that the Simurgh is the most human out of all the endbringers?"

"Oh, that's easy, she's the most aware"

Her eyebrows scrunch up in confusion, as she asks another question "What do you mean by that?"

"She's the most aware that she is being controlled by Eidolon's Shard, and what's going on"

Her face blanks slightly as she starts to process the information, and after a while she says "Okay."

I told Taylor about Eidolon's Shard controlling the endbringers a before she started working on the device, as she needed to know about it to make it to block his power from controlling Simurgh. Taylor's was mostly shocked to learn about it and resulted in many questions provoked by her, some of which I answers some of which I didn't.

"So, when should we deploy this?"

"Around midnight should be good, and we should do it where there aren't very many people around, so probably in a forest as well"

"You make it sound like we're going to commit a murder" She mutters, but nods anyway and heads over the Coal chute and starts removing the screw once again, she had to remove a few more screws to move a few more boards to get a opening large enough to put the device in there, then we closed it up, hiding the device and the parahuman locater once again.
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It was midnight, and we where traveling West from Taylor's house, she was wearing stuff that obscured her the most, a jacket with the hood up, sweat pants, shoes, and a mask over the lower half of our face, we had our hair hidden in the hood of the jacket. She also had her backpack slung over her shoulders with the device inside, in her hands was the parahuman locater, so that we could avoid all the capes that could get near us, we had it at a diameter of 1 mile.

But, even with it, we notice a dot getting dangerously close to us, and I quickly activating our future sight we quickly shove the parahuman detector into our jacket pocket, and lowered our head to avoid being seen, the roar of a motorcycle passes us, with our future sight informing us that it was Armsmaster that just past us, and once he turned a corner, Taylor let's out a sigh that I didn't notice she was holding, and mutters.

"That was scarier than I thought it was going to be like."

Carefully, she takes out the Parahuman locater once again and looks at it, we carefully follow Armsmaster's dot to check where he was heading, and before we could stop paying attention to the dot, we notice him start to circle around, going around in a circle to go down the street we are still on, quickly shoving the parahuman locater into our pocket and keeping our head down, we hear the engine once again.

And once the Armsmaster turns the corner again, we check the locater, we start to head down the next street, and we notice Armsmaster head down a larger arc, but one that'll pass by us again.

"Oh fun, he's following us" I tell Taylor

"I noticed that!" She hisses back, shoving the locater back into her pocket as the engine noise passes us once again, we don't think he saw it.

"well this makes things slightly harder, but it should be easily avoidable."

She just nods as she hides the locater once again as Armsmaster passes us, she was still going down the street, quickly checking our Future sight shows that there isn't anyone in the alleyway ahead of us, so quickening our pace we turn down it, heading down the alleyway Taylor pulls out the locater once again to check the dot that is Armsmaster, and he goes around a few more times to try and find us, but eventually starts heading away.

And once that is done we continue down our path, keeping our future sight active this time while looking at the Parahuman Locater, and for the rest of the trip, we didn't have much of a problem for the rest of the trip as we continued headed south.
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We eventually made it to a wooded area, and after traveling though it for a short while, we made it to some sort of clearing, and this is where we decided to launch it.

Taylor lifts the backpack off of her back and sets it onto the ground, then opens it up, and pulls out the Device and sets it down on the ground, with the flat part perpendicular to the ground, Taylor also takes out two more things, a device that looks similar to the parahuman locater that constantly checks the device to make sure it is working and will do other stuff once the device is connected to the simurgh, and a thin cylinder device with a button on top that actives the launching mechanism for the device.

Checking that everything was working order and wasn't going to spontaneously explode, Taylor starts to leave the clearing with the backpack on her back, with the parahuman locater in the pocket of the jacket, the device checker, and the launcher in hand.

After getting a suitable distance away back on the street, Taylor presses the button, there was barely a noise, as we looked back, it took a few seconds, but we saw something slowly heading upwards towards the sky, in the dead of night is was barely visible, besides for the white glow that was its thrusters.

We used a not so conventional propulsion mechanism using various materials we had at Taylor's house, and it resulted in a propulsion mechanism that was silent, but created a white glow, it could easily be mistaken for purity unless you spent a few minutes looking at it.

We could spend time admiring our handy work, but we had something else to do, we dropped the launcher on the ground, and smashed it under our foot, we picked up the remained, and picked it apart, separating it into multiple pieces and then we tossed the pieces into various garbage bins as we headed back.
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The next morning Taylor was tired, it was the weekend so no school, we had the device checker hidden.

"We should probably come up with a name for the device, so that we stop calling it the device."

"We probably should" Taylor responds, looking at herself though the mirror.

"Any ideas?"

"How about, the Blocker, no wait, the Endblocker."

"That could work, though it makes it sounds like it blocks endbringers, how about… End Freer?"

"Now that sounds weird."

"Not as weird as Endblocker."

"How about the Shard Control Disruptor Designed for the Third?"a third voice suggests, it sounded like Taylor's voice, but monotone, devoid of emotion.

That made us freeze as we both immediately realize who it was, we weren't hearing any scream in the back of our mind that was changing in pitch and tone, I don't know if that is a good or bad thing.

"W-well, I didn't think you would contact us, I thought you would be more subtle"

"I determined that this would be the best course of action, as to what would be coming, plus you are an anomaly." Simurgh tells us.

"Oh, Well, that's nice to know"

Taylor was silent, her face twisted into a mixture of shock and fear, I mean, I would be too if the most dangerous being that you know is currently casually talking in your head to another voice in your head.

"So, how are you going to help us?"

"Directly."

"Directly as in… tell us advice and what to do?"

"Directly as in being right there at the current moment."

"wouldn't that go badly? You're a 15 ft tall human shaped female with countless wings, I'm pretty sure you'll stick out like a sore thumb."

"I won't be using the Conflict Engine body. I'll create one with the help of various shards."

"that, works, also it would be less freaky for Taylor hearing two voices in her head."

That made Taylor snap out of it, hearing her name be mentioned.

"So, what do we call you?" Taylor asks, a bit hesitant.

"Any of the various names you have given me will work, I don't have a preference, or the ability to do so."

"ah, okay, Simurgh, so I'm guessing you're accepting our request to join us to prevent the end of the world?"

"Correct."

That made Taylor let out a sigh, and make me let out a mental sigh, we probably should have asked that first.

"So, what now?"

"Get someplace to hide out, probably a bunker that's hidden from clairvoyance, and be prepared for what's going to happen as a result of me being free"

"What do you mean?" Taylor asks, a bit confused, it also took me a few seconds to realize what she meant

"oh goddammit, something that I forgot to take account of, new endbringer."