Quote:The doors and walls of the office of the President of Stellvia Corporation were soundproofed, so that none of Stellvia's day-to-day operations chatter would disturb anyone working in the office and so no corporate secrets would get out of the office before their time.--
And the President of Stellvia Corporation was not known to use profanity, either on a regular basis or under most types of stress.
Which is why everyone in Main Operations was doubly shocked to hear, through the closed doors, Noah Scott yell "Holy FUCK!"
The Gamma 2 bulletin that Kohran Li had flagged "Priority: SuperNova" and forwarded to Noah sat on the middle of the desk as he used his Great Justice OF-8 clearance to cut through the red tape and contact Task Force Butterscotch.
Knowing that he was only human (and thus not able to send burst transmissions), they patched him through to the field team immediately to reduce data transfer lag.
"Jet Jaguar here."
"This is Elite Troubleshooter Noah Scott. You requested information about an entity known as 'Quattro'."
"That's right."
"From what little information you were able to provide, my best guess is that she is a Scott-series android built by Agatha Clay, based upon the most sociopathic character in the anime 'Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS'."
"The team on site indicates she's a 'cutesy bitch', Mr. Scott."
"Yes, she's very good at faking that persona. It gets people to underestimate her. The canonical Quattro appeared to everyone, even her sisters, to be something of a ditz, but she was more than capable of keeping a criminal conspiracy organized while still toying with the lives of almost everyone around her."
Jet winced. "Are you sure of this, Mr. Scott?"
"As sure as I can be without actually coming on site, Mr. Jaguar. And if I was to do that, your operation would be blown. However, your report also said that she's the station's resident madgirl. The canonical Quattro was more of an administrator and power behind the scenes than a researcher, so this Quattro likely doesn't match the canon character exactly. That's why I think it was Clay who built her - Agatha tends to deviate from canon whenever she can."
"So you don't actually know who or what Quattro is, then."
Noah thought for a second. "Maybe not, but I'm willing to bet a share of StellviaCorp stock on this."
"You're *that* sure?" Everyone knew that owning even one share of Stellvia Corporation stock was enough to let you retire to Pallas.
"I'm sure that Quattro was based on the character. I'm also sure that you won't be able to predict her actions with complete accuracy by comparing her to the canon character, but I'm having Kagome work up a personality profile of Quattro even as we speak. Expect to receive it within the hour. Do you need any additional troops?"
"Surely it can't be that bad."
"That depends on who else is there and what strings Quattro has been pulling behind the scenes. And don't call ..."
"... me 'Shirley'." they finished in unison. Jet continued. "If you're making jokes, then the situation can't be that dire, Mr. Scott."
"I'm making jokes because the situation is that dire, Mr. Jaguar. I don't want to start swearing at you over the radio. If it's at all possible, could you send me a copy of whatever data you manage to retrieve about Agatha Clay when you storm the base?"
"Why?"
"As you can probably figure out from the fact that she can build my sort of androids, I have a certain responsibility for her. I'd like to bring her to justice eventually."
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012