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Warren focussed on the building before him, looking for any movement. But then he got the transmission of Terminus. "You don't have to yell, I can hear you without you blowing my eardrums." He said back to Terminus. Warren pressed a button in his suit and a computerized female voice replied. "Communitacion links broken, voice command now enabled." He couldn't see Terminus and he didn't sound in the position to do much to make himself visable, thus he figured that this was his best chance. "Search the ARS suit with Identification Delta 0." "Target Identified, visualising now...Target is moving at a high speed, shall I activate trajectory controll?" "Yes and reroute the ion cannon energy to the jump jet boosters." "Calculating trajectory...Calculations complete, visualising trajectory. Reroute not possible, system override needed." "Protocol: Airborne." "Protocol accepted, reroute active. No organic material detected in danger zone."

Warren didn't even care if he'd end up scorching civilians or some endangered animal/plant, he just wanted to get Terminus safe on the ground, and if possible the hostage too. He gave the computer another set of commands: "Activate jump jet boosters, activate ion cannon overcharge, activate jet pack, de-activate energy shielding." "Boosters active, ion cannon overcharge charging, jet pack active, energy shielding offline." He ran as far and as fast as he could before he was lifted into the sky by the jet pack, keeping a close watch on Terminus trajectory he made an interception point in his mind. "Ion cannon overcharge ready." "Fire ion cannon overcharge." A sudden boost launched Warren forward with a light blue flame creating an inferno under his feet.

He saw the ARS with a green lining around it, holding someone in a suit that looked like nothing he had ever see before. He stopped when he reached his interception point wilst looking at both of them falling straight towards him. He dampened the boosters so they didn't get a sudden stop when he would grab them. A second later he grabbed both of them with his hand and he was jerked down by the sudden increase of weight. He gently increased the power on the boosters and the jetpack to gradually slow their fall, but even at full power they were still falling at a parachute speed. About a meter from the ground Warren disengaged the ion overcharge and the boosters to ensure that he wouldn't fry Terminus with the burning ion steam that rebounded from the earth.

Finally on the ground he lets Terminus loose and gives his last commands before activating the communication links. "De-activate protocol: Airborne, de-activate tracking and activate energy shielding." "System override de-activated, tracking de-activated, energy shielding online." The comm links were restored and he activated his comm to Terminus. "So, tell me what happened. What could have happened that would make you call for me for help instead of asking the entire team?" Warren asked this because this was the first time that he went out of his way to save anyone and it also was the first time that he specifically was asked to do so.

( Just to say it: there already is a house that is completly voice controlled, so a suit with the same tech isn't that strange.)