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To be honest Valerie didn't even really notice Officer FitzPatrick's approach. She was too focused on Stan and his his fits of seizures. Even when all the others bolted for the other exit on the other side of the garden, she continued to just stand there. Valerie found herself fascinated, she'd never seen a reaction quite like what was happening to Stan. Biological warfare was always a possibility, it happened in other parts of the world all the time, but on the Ark? That was very much impossible, GM would have noticed any hazardous containers of microbial and was programmed to properly dispose of them.

The officer's voice finally brought her out of her head. She couldn't really understand what he was talking about. GM was in working at optimum conditioning that last time she had done configurations. Hell, that had only been a few hours ago. The computer was also incapable of being 'moody' and Valerie found herself giving Ryan a look, as if asking 'are you serious?'. "What are you-" But just as the man was cut off during his speaking so was she when Stan suddenly grabbed at Ryan and gave a loud gurgling growl. It caused Valerie to jump back and away, though watching as the trained officer rammed his foot into her colleague's face.

Then the most unnerving thing occurred. Just as Stan's secretary attacked him earlier, the scientist stumbled his way to his feet and tried to attack them. Thankfully Officer FitzPatrick had the sense to push her behind himself because Valerie probably would have been too stunned to move on her own. Stan ran, the man she once knew was apparently not home anymore, but as fate would have it Stan met quite the unfortunate end. A desk flew from the upper floor window and landed squarely on top of the scientist, leaving him nothing more than a splattered puddle of gore. As part of Stan's skull rolled passed them, it didn't take long for Valerie to promptly loose her cookies.

After spending a few moments in the bushes, making sure she got everything out of her system, Valerie stood and took a deep breath. She promptly avoided looking in any direction that could possible have a piece of Stan in it and made her way towards her laptop. Her phone was unfortunately in her office desk drawer, but she had a wireless device on her ear that could hook directly to her laptop. As she opened the machine she tried to pull up the numerous operation systems for GM. Strangely enough anything related to the program's functions or protocol. Valerie couldn't change anything, all her passwords were being denied before the everything went black on her computer screen. A frustrated sigh escaped the woman, she had no idea what the fuck was going on.

Rebooting her system she tried once more using a backdoor program. She wouldn't be able to actually do anything while inside it, just like with the normal functions GM kept a considerable amount of security up to keep her out. Valerie was able to view numerous things though, like look at footage from security cameras or check a few of the local communication channels. Everything that was supposed to be leaving the Ark was completely shut down and the young woman had to wonder if any distress signals were even able to leave the man-made island. She doubted it.

As she scanned from some of the videos she noticed that it was pretty much the same everywhere. People were just attacking others viciously, it was absolutely awful and horrifying to view. Valerie had to switch the screen to something else before she upchucked again. That's when she noticed something on the Leader network.

Switching to her wireless headset she closed her laptop and contacted this Sam. "Officer Tanner?" She asked once she was logged into the group. "This is Doctor Valerie Rush, I'm here in the SL+6 hanging garden in the Ark's main towers with another officer." She scanned her surroundings, dutifully avoiding the mess of Stan, and tried to locate where the others went. The door on the other side was shut, but she supposed that their group must have gone through there. "We were with others, but it seems we got separated. I'm not exactly sure how we're going to be able to reach the -2 floor, those…people are everywhere. I have access to some of the security cameras, but won't be able to view them while we're moving."