evacuation vehicle has been destroyed." His frozen smile never changed.

"Daaa!" Milton said. "Now what?!"

Kevin said, "Destroying non-encrypted uncompressed data. Sending distress signal to allies in network."

A loud crash came from the lobby. The unarmed receptionist android could do nothing to stop the invasion.

"We have to do something!" Sharon screamed.

Beth came running out of her room with her bag. She pulled a toy rifle squirt gun out of the bag.

They all looked at her and her pathetic weapon.

"What?!" Beth said, "Are you all going to stand there looking stupid or what?!"

"Which way?!" Milton asked Sleepy.

Sleepy said, "The back door is a zero-outcome scenario, so we are sending some of our less valuable Lucid members that way to keep them busy. We are sending more Lucids up on the roofand Kevin the Custodian too. All those androids had no problem being destroyed so we could make it out of there.

Sleepy said, "They were valuable resources and do not have the human will to survive. They were useful in our war effort, but your life was their priority, Beth Thomas."

Beth asked, "What was that creepy thing in that battlesuit that you blasted back in Hartford, Sleepy? Some kind of a cyborg or cloneborg? Or borgyborg?"

"It was not a cyborg or cloneborg. I do not know borgyborg. That was a human in a synthetic presence. The surrogate presence was basically a human remotely controlling an android which was wearing a protective battlesuit."

Beth said, "I bet some wimpy fat guy sitting at home eating donuts threw his VR stuff across