Things happened lightning fast after metal fingers closed firmly around Cain's weapon and tore the weapon out of her hands. In less than a second, Toshimi had closed the distance between Alice and her even as Alice whirled around to try and intercept her. The machine instantly froze as glowing energy blades sought out the more vulnerable locations of her reinforced chassis. Red-ringed eyes watched Toshimi carefully. While not fatal in any way, decapitation was inconvenient. She was going to lose a few main wires if the blade cut through her spine, but she can rely on second level wiring. Just have to keep her from causing any damage while charging her pulse weaponry, so Alice remained frozen at the threat of those energy blades.<br/><br/><i>"Enough Alice. We are on the same side here." </i>The Artificial Intelligence frowned at that.<span style="color: #00b3b3">"Are we?" </span>She asked curious, while Inviere reached her boiling point.<br/><br/>Being disarmed apparently was the spark that set alight Cain's rather volatile temper. Alice's frown remained, looking neither amused nor intimidated by Cain's outburst. Grown men might have soiled their trousers and such a display, but the AI remained impassive throughout it. Only at point three did Alice's expression twist further into a dark frown, fingers gripping the bat tighter and leaving deep prints in the metal.<span style="color: #00b3b3">"That's twe-... thirteen fucks. Impressive redudancy."</span>Alice calmly notified the pirate after her ineffective punch that didn't even make the machine flinch. There was a dermal layer covering the metallic chassis, but not enough to soften a full force punch.<br/><br/>Toshimi had stepped back, so Alice relaxed and charged down her pulse weaponry too.<span style="color: #00b3b3">"Schrödinger is a scientist in federation history whose theorems served involved a famous cat in the box thought experiment where the cat is both alive and dead as long as the box is closed and the cat is unobserved... The analogy is apt considering Toshimi's situation."</span><br/><br/><br/><br/><i>“This is an incendiary grenade,”</i>While Alice, Cain and Toshimi had been distracted with eachother, Maggie Greer hadn't exactly been idle. Artificial eyes widened at the sight of the weapon, the AI standing there motionless as Greer explained further and then proceeded to actually USE the weapon. Fingers twitched while Alice desperately tried to activate her security protocols only to find them missing. What happened? What has this woman done? How did she suppress her StationSec protocols?<br/><br/><span style="color: #00b3b3">"You... you're insane... the station is a closed-air system. If even one got into the vents..." </span>Alice would have no issues surviving the incendiary grenade if Greer found cause to enact a murder-suicide, even if her chassis would be quite mutilated by the flame. However, incendiary weapons were banned from space stations for very good reasons. Fire and concentrated oxygen are a bad combination.<span style="color: #00b3b3">"F-fine... I'll assist you, provided you don't use any more of those."</span>Alice growled to Greer as she submitted to the will of the impulsive businesswomen.<br/><br/>Alice glanced to Toshimi and Cain, circuits throwing up alarms when she noticed how pale and quiet Inviere was as her alien lover helped her up. Something was wrong, very wrong. Her mind buzzed with possibilities as they departed the elevator, before short circuiting at Greer literally burning down the way back.<span style="color: #00b3b3">"The black dragon is going to be blacklisted forever if the governor finds out about this, miss Greer." </span>The AI said, with no small amount of distress in her voice, while handing back Cain's metal bat. It had clearly visible dents in the shape of a gripping hand.<br/><br/>Protecting the station had been her duty and one of her core personality anchors for nearly her entire aware existence. Even if she didn't care about the criminal scum on the station, the sudden inability to act upon her security protocols destabilized her already unstable emotional core.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>