They returned to the people who wanted to join the Enclave. Vyken found that he and Danya had recruited twenty-five people where the other two teams had only gotten ten and fourteen. It was hard not to conclude the presence of a female and one other person was more successful than an all-male team with a natural human male and five burly cyborgs.
As they walked back through their route Vyken continually scanned their surroundings while contacting the cyborgs back at the enclave to check for female cyborgs among the three thousand on level four. Even though the females were just as lethal as the males, they could appear less threatening to frightened, mistrustful people.
The other teams had encountered buildings where people were afraid to come out. By the time Vyken and Danya returned to the transport, Vyken heard back from the cyborgs on level four that there were a hundred females among the cyborgs in stasis. He then contacted Medic Kydel to choose three females to activate for the enclave recruitment program.
In the coming weeks, he planned to have all the females activated for his crew. Some of them might be too close genetically to be mated with the males but integrating them into his crew would be beneficial. His archives told him some had been created for breeding and some had been created for pleasure. All could be trained as soldiers or anything else they needed to be.
The bottom line was it could keep Danya out of danger.
Commander, sir…Cyborg GRL 0824 enquired.While I was checking for females in room 418, Director Jacob Black came through the hallway looking into the rooms through the windows. He didn’t know that I was observing. He was trying to open the doors, but none would open for him, so he left.
Thank you 0824. I will look into it.
So, he had been right to suspect Jacob Black had more than a passing curiosity about the inactivated cyborgs. He wasn’t sure yet if his interest was helpful or malicious. Now that he knew about the cyborgs on level four, Vyken would inform him they were there as though Jacob had not been observed exploring level four. Vyken would decide what to do after he saw Jacob’s reaction.
It could very well be a coincidence that Jacob found the other cyborgs and that he was merely looking at the third level to expand the residential section then found the secret stairwell to level four. Vyken did believe he was genuinely surprised to learn about the three hundred inactivated cyborgs in level three.
Jacob Black had authority over the Enclave, but he had none over cyborgs. Vyken was representing the Cyborg Council on Earth. The inactivated cyborgs in the former cyborg production facility were Vyken’s responsibility, and he could activate and train them as he determined their purpose. He wondered how many other inactive cyborgs were contained at the South American site. Perhaps it was time he found out.
