A Wretched Hub of Scum and Villainy

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It's a simple enough plan: go to a system the Guardians haven't taken control of yet, explain the situation to its citizenry, and recruit volunteers to aid in the fight against Daemon.

The tricky part is finding a system with a decent-sized population that hasn't attracted the Guardians' attention yet.

Fortunately, the Crimson Binome believes he may know of just such a place.

"Can ye open a portal to these coordinates, lass?"

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"You are not authorized to leave this system," the ship's loudspeaker blares. "Stand down or you will be deleted."

The guns being pointed at YT suggest that they might not wait for her to comply.

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YT doesn't think she can make it out of the hole before the guns start blazing. But she's not going to surrender. With a battle cry of "Screw you!" she dips beneath the fighter, swinging her 'poon again, and sending that magnet straight for the ship's underbelly.

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It makes contact, and the ship crackles with energy. Smoking and flickering, it drops like a rock toward the energy sea below.

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There's barely time for YT to dodge out of the way before the ship can fall on her and take her down with it. Then she heads through the hole and out into the Net. She doesn't know how to get to Mainframe from here, but she has the system's IP address, and she knows there are free-floating tears around. She can make a portal there if she finds one.

She's not happy about leaving Capacitor behind, but she's going to make sure he won't go down for nothing. She'll tell Dot and Bob about the Guardians' strategy so they can find a way to stop it.