Dr. Helen Cho finished another long day at Umbrella Corporation.
At the exit checkpoint, she raised her right hand toward the scanner. Beneath the skin of her palm, an implanted Umbrella security chip activated instantly.
Access granted.
Next ca the oral lock.
A slim chanical device extended forward and scanned the inside of her mouth with clinical precision. Once complete, it automatically perford a full cleaning and sterilization cycle that probably left her teeth cleaner than a hundred rounds of brushing ever could.
After that ca the weight verification scan.
Not exactly any woman's favorite part of the process.
Still, Umbrella Corporation wasn't an ordinary company. Any sector accessible to Level Six personnel or higher contained heavily classified projects. Security protocols bordered on obsessive.
What Helen didn't know was that during the oral scan, the system had also extracted a fresh DNA sample for secondary verification.
Only after the entire authentication sequence finished did the facility gates finally open.
A black vehicle was already waiting outside.
The rear door opened automatically as four heavily built Umbrella security operatives stepped out and ford a protective escort around her.
The vehicle itself was one of Umbrella's proprietary designs.
Its outer shell had been forged entirely from high-strength secondary Kryptonian alloy. Even a direct hit from a Jericho missile would do little more than scar the exterior. Internally, the car utilized advanced shock absorption systems capable of neutralizing most explosive impact forces.
Even the windows had been reinforced with Kryptonian composite materials.
Bulletproof barely described them.
"Dr. Cho."
The guards escorted her into the vehicle.
Far away, hidden in the shadows of a nearby building, a tall man with silver hair and black clothing lowered a pair of binoculars and made a call.
Gin.
One of the overseers of Umbrella's darker divisions.
Protecting high-level personnel fell under his authority.
The car traveled several blocks before sothing black suddenly slamd against its side.
Clang.
The object magnetically attached itself to the vehicle.
Instantly, the onboard electronics crackled violently.
Warning lights flashed.
"What the hell happened?"
One of the Umbrella security personnel frowned.
Had the logistics departnt cut corners?
Or had the tech division failed to patch a vulnerability?
Before anyone could finish processing it, a rocket slamd directly into the vehicle.
BOOM!
The explosion was far stronger than a normal RPG strike. The payload detonated with terrifying force and hurled the car through the air.
And yet…
The vehicle landed upright.
Stable.
Intact.
It barely even looked damaged.
Then the attackers erged.
War Machines surrounded the street from every direction.
Several Iron Mongers marched alongside them, massive steel fras shaking the pavent beneath their weight.
The convoy was completely boxed in.
One of the War Machines stepped forward and knocked against the armored door.
"Open the vehicle."
No response ca from inside.
After a brief pause, the machine simply bent down and prepared to carry the entire car away.
Even that oversized rocket hadn't managed to crack the armor. Ultron imdiately judged the vehicle itself to be highly valuable technology worth recovering.
But before they could retreat, reinforcents arrived.
Gin appeared with the Black Umbrella division.
True to Gin's personality, every operative under his command was ard for full-scale warfare.
And behind them ca sothing worse.
The newest bioweapon developed by Umbrella's research division.
Nesis.
Gin personally disliked the grotesque bioengineered monsters, but the combat division needed field data, and testing them in live battle conditions had obvious value.
Besides, bioweapon developnt technically belonged to Wesker's departnt now.
Unfortunately, Wesker had beco completely obsessed with researching Extremis, the T-Virus, the G-Virus, and the A-Virus, leaving most operational responsibilities behind for Gin to clean up.
"Terminate all hostile targets."
Gin gave the order coldly.
The Nesis units imdiately identified Black Umbrella operatives as friendly targets. Every hostile War Machine lit up red within their targeting systems.
Then the creatures raised their oversized rotary cannons.
These weren't conventional ballistic weapons.
The barrels spun.
Hundreds of rounds erupted forward in a storm of fire.
Ultron's War Machines were shredded almost instantly.
Steel alloy armor proved useless against Umbrella's absurdly expensive ammunition, each round reinforced with traces of secondary Kryptonian alloy. The penetration power was monstrous.
But then a helicopter appeared overhead.
Gin's expression changed imdiately.
"Bring that aircraft down!"
The four Nesis units instantly redirected their weapons upward.
"Stop them!"
Ultron reacted at once.
Even without understanding what those monsters were, it recognized the threat imdiately. Any creature capable of firing weapons that powerful without recoil compensation had to possess terrifying physical strength.
The Iron Mongers charged forward.
Their impact forced the Nesis units to interrupt their attack.
anwhile, the helicopter descended rapidly.
It barely sounded like a normal helicopter at all. The craft moved with eerie smoothness, more like a hovering anti-gravity prototype than conventional rotor technology.
Black Umbrella soldiers raised their Gauss rifles and opened fire.
Then they froze.
Every shot ricocheted harmlessly off the helicopter's hull.
"Good thing I used vibranium for the exterior," Ultron noted remotely.
A massive magnetic clamp dropped from the aircraft and latched onto Helen Cho's vehicle.
Inside the armored car, Helen's breathing quickened.
"Don't worry, Doctor," one of the security operatives reassured her calmly. "Our ergency signal may be jamd, but the vehicle maintains a continuous encrypted connection with the company. The mont that signal disappeared, headquarters already knew sothing was wrong."
And more importantly…
Even if Ultron attempted to infiltrate the communications systems, it wouldn't succeed.
The Red Queen, a sub-program derived from the Black Queen herself, was anything but a primitive AI.
Thanks to Kryptonian computational architecture integrated into her core systems, Red Queen's processing capabilities far exceeded ordinary strong AI fraworks.
Ultron's intrusion attempt had been effortlessly blocked.
Worse, Red Queen nearly traced the connection back and counter-invaded.
Ultron imdiately severed the link.
For the first ti in a while, it experienced sothing dangerously close to anxiety.
Umbrella's response was terrifyingly fast.
The instant contact with Helen Cho's convoy disappeared, the Decepticon units had already mobilized.
Unlike the first and second generation War Machines, the third-generation Decepticons existed on an entirely different level from modern military technology.
Each one represented an overwhelming weapons platform capable of dominating an entire battlefield alone.
Their interception systems were so advanced they could theoretically achieve near-perfect missile and nuclear warhead interception rates.
One Decepticon fighting a nation was no longer an exaggeration.
Especially when they possessed micro-spatial storage systems capable of carrying enormous quantities of ammunition internally.
And now there was an entire squadron of them.
The battle ended almost as quickly as it began.
Within minutes, every War Machine Ultron deployed had been annihilated.
The helicopter didn't survive either.
The efficiency of Umbrella's retaliation was horrifying.
Even Ultron, despite already expecting Umbrella Corporation to be powerful, found the display difficult to believe.
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