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As everyone showed up, someone walked up over to him, introducing himself as Commissioner Cain. He mainly asked about the situation.

"Well, actually it was just me. I am currently the only responding Engineer to this situation, unless you want to count my friend blue" Jacob told him, pointing out the hovering drone nearby. He then brought up a holographic display of the ARCNet facility. "Its a level four breach. Ravager class mutants from what I saw. I killed a number of them before getting out of there myself. From what I saw though, it could have been any number of things. A destabilized Plasma Charge placed on the reactor itself, which caused destabilized plasma to also get into the flow pipes and cause the secondary explosions in the three other rooms. Someone overloading the Plasma in the reactor with a contaminant that caused their own plasma to destabilize, though this would require intimate access to the reactor controls. Another possibility is precision det charges were somehow sneaked in, and that all four explosions were set off by seperate devices in a blind attempt to try and damage what they could, which would mean the bomber probably never even entered the building, but had it hidden on four other people. Additionally, it could have also been a reverse chain reaction. Normally, a chain reaction would work from the reactor down through the pipes, but a powerful enough explosive that was plasma based could have been planted in whatever other room got mainly hit, and the plasma's mixed in a way that caused a rapid reaction that went fast enough to ignore flow speed and reach the reactor as well as two other spots, build up there, and then explode within seconds of the primary explosive".

He then put his bagged shoes away, and was still barefoot as he had not put on his new shoes yet. He brought out a sample kit, and took some of the plasma gunk that had dripped onto the floor before securing the sample and putting it away. "Anyways, mutants are not even the worse problem. THe plasma residue down there is strong enough to be toxic. Its contained to the lower levels right now, but eventually it will turn gasous and then we will be in trouble".

It was probably worth noting that Jacob held no fear when talking to Cain, and stood tall (figuritvely, he is a fourteen year old Dreven/Psion Mutt and he inherited the slow aging from his mother's Dreven DNA so in fact he appears to be nine or ten) and proud. After all, most Rapid Response Engineers work in teams, but Jacob Murrue (Which for the record, the Mur as in Murky and the Rue as in Roo) had arrived and immediately started working by himself, managed to stabilize the fusion lines while under mutant attack, and successfully got out of there alive. Not many Engineers could do that. The number was in the single digits.

"We should really be focusing on containment of the plasma down there. That should be a prior....." Jacob started, when the alarms went off.

"Alert. Power has returned to the security functions. Alert, a Cyber Breach has been detected. All ARCNet data was downloaded offsite. Backup files are damaged, system corrupted. Restoring remaining ARCNet data to the database now" the AI told them. A split second later, and Jacob felt a very minor vibration through his bare feet. He immediately took out his weapon, pointed it in Candice Jackson's direction, and shot the mutant that sprang from the vents and right at her, killing it with a headshot.

He immediately looked towards the security officer at the desk. "What the fuck was that? I told you this was a level four breach! All vents should be locked down and monitored!"

Jacob then turned towards Commissioner Cain. "Anyways, if we don't deal with the Plasma Issue, and the gas builds up, even if the toxicity does not reach us, it could cause more explosions if it meets an ignition source. So that needs to be a priority. Speaking of priorities, I should take a damn shower. While the gunk only got on my shoes, I am sure every bit of clothing I am wearing is covered in plasma residue just by being down there. So, lets finish this up. What else do you need to know?"

Meanwhile, in the background, someone passed by all the security and started heading upstairs.