The Aero-Transit Mag-Rail 4 tears between towers beneath you. You reach the carriage roof in a clean landing, upgraded Aero-Stride Greaves glowing beside the repaired Prism-Echo Decoy Puck.
X clings behind the roof housing while the projector crawler anchors its metal legs near the rear coupling. Three decoys bloom around the train, matching your silhouette and footwork.
X
Live pursuit test! Try not to ruin my data before the heroes arrive.
Far above the elevated line, distant Vanguard drones swing into formation, their searchlights narrowing on the moving carriage. Passenger windows flash with startled faces below.
You launch into the first leap toward the forward carriage. Midair, the upgraded greaves cut out without warning, dropping your acceleration and scattering the synchronized decoys.
The decoys snap into emergency routes, drawing drone fire away from the passenger cars while the crawler projects a false landing. X grabs a roof rail as the train plunges onward.
X
That shutdown was not random. Helix-Cortex is tracking the converter through the greaves' phase signature!
✓ Quest Accepted
Keep the Mag-Rail passengers safe
“I sprint along the roof, drawing drone fire away from the passenger windows.”
SUCCESS (Legendary Athletics, rolled +0)
You sprint along the carriage roof, Super Strength driving each stride hard enough to dent the panels. The Aero-Stride Kinetic Greaves resync with your engineered biology, supercharging your spring-loaded leaps between roof braces.
The Vanguard Drones follow your exposed route instead of the passenger windows. Their searchlights and tracking fire converge on you, Helix-Cortex's phase signature turning its old threat into a usable beacon.
You vault a roof seam, twist through the incoming fire, and land running. Each kinetic brace compresses and releases beneath you, carrying the pursuit farther from the carriage glass.
X
Yes! Keep that rhythm. The drones are completely obsessed with you now.
Behind you, the three decoys scatter along the train's spine while the projector crawler maintains their false routes. The drones commit to your movement, leaving the passenger windows outside their firing lanes.
Your Arch-Nemesis has handed you a dangerous advantage: Helix-Cortex tracks the converter, and you make that tracking system chase the fastest target available.
You reach the forward carriage still sprinting, with the drone formation drawn decisively away from the passengers. The mag-rail roars beneath your feet as the decoys keep the escape lane alive.
Quest Complete
Keep the Mag-Rail passengers safe