Editi 9000

Tommy's friends try and prevent Editi from destroying the world.
=Summary=
The mission begins with Tommy's friends already assembled at the outside of Tommy and Editi's secret Philippines lab. Tommy explains that Editi has been acting strange lately, and that he fears Editi may be planning to launch ICBMs loaded with a Forced Evolution Virus as a shortcut on her long-term goal of uplifting humanity through genetic engineering.
The pilots note that they feel uncomfortable out in the open given Editi's propensity for creating monsters, but Redneck affirms that Editi is a friend, and that they should try to talk her down before taking her out. Edin asks what potential enemies they could face inside the lab, and Tommy provides the following response:
Tommy then stresses that if any fighting were to take place in the lab, it could cause an FEV leak, but basic suit filters should be enough to protect the pilots.
Their prebrief taken care of, the group approaches the entrance to the bunker, only to encounter a woman crouched over the corpse of a tiger, covered in blood and eating a chunk of meat torn from the tiger carcass. The woman notices the pilots right away, assumes a fighting stance and roars at them. She is the Girlcat. SHOWTIME projects a hardlight image of another tiger to get the Girlcat's attention, succeeding in sending her off to the trees and getting her out of the way.
The pilots finally enter the bunker-lab and are provided with a shitty map of the labs. The pilots then debate on which direction they should take, forgetting the several times within the past 20 minutes that Tommy stressed going left, and not right. Some pilots point out the possibility that Tommy may have gotten left and right mixed up either when making the map or when giving the instructions. Tommy clarifies that right is a bad direction to go in, and that the left path is much safer.
The pilots take the left route and are greeted with a room full of clone workers - clones of a number of different pilots, including Redneck Rider, Zulu, Turtle and Tommy himself.
The pilots are extremely weirded out by the encounter. Micheal does a 360 and leaves immediately. The clones are shooed off and the group moves on to the next room, labelled by a sign that reads GENE THERAPY. The room houses 8-foot tall super soldiers. The pilots quickly move on from this room and go to the next, where a number of horrible monsters are being kept in cages. Some of the caged creatures resemble humans with animal parts, while most of them look like a mixture of other animals. The pilots begin questioning if the Armor Corps higher-ups know about what's going on here, to which Tommy shrugs and says he was told yes. Saltire declares that Editi's experiments here have gone too far and that the lab will be destroyed after they get back. Saltire then taunts one of the super-soldiers, provoking the mutant to attack him. Saltire quickly kills the superhuman before rejoining the rest of the group. Attempts to proceed to the next part of the lab cause a power fluctuation that turns off the plasma-cage of a particularly gruesome monster, which immediately attacks the pilots.
Edinborther, Peacewalker, Redneck Rider, Czar and Saltire battle the monster and defeat it. After Saltire determines that none of the experiments in the room have any sort of intelligence, they move on, reaching the "FEV lab". Predictably, the lab is occupied by giant green humans; Super Mutants. The Super Mutants' reaction to the pilots is essentially the same as the pilot clones encountered in the first lab; they ask if there was a memo for VIPs, then assume that since they're here and there's no alarm, they must have been let in. Redneck asks the super mutants are working on, and the briefly explain that they are going over the results of other volunteers exposure to the FEV, but that there's this really weird and totally unexpected 100% infertility rate problem they've been encountering.
The pilots proceed to the final room, encountering more clone people, though at least not of anyone they recognize. They also meet the Girlcat again, though this may have been a clone of the previous one encountered earlier, as there are other individuals around in the same uniform as her. In the room also is Tommy and Editi's shared suit, Carrier Prime. Edin, Peacewalker, Redneck Rider and Saltire attempt to call out Editi, but decide Redneck Rider is the best person to try to talk her down.
Takeda explains to Czar, Peacewalker and Saltire that Tommy was previously stuck inside Carrier Prime 24/7, but recently found a way to free himself, revealing Editi as the one who was keeping him inside the suit the whole time, to absolutely no one's surprise. It seems that Tommy's absence caused Editi to go crazy. Attempts to contact Tommy to weigh in on the conversation don't receive any meaningful replies. Tommy eventually sends a message to Redneck Rider saying that while he does want to help Editi, he doesn't want to be stuck inside the suit again. The pilots eventually manage to get Editi to stand down.
=Aftermath=
It is unclear if word ever got out of this incident. Certainly no one present thought to take this as a warning sign of Editi's mental instability and Tommy's lack of responsibility, as the two remained in control of the Engineers afterwards. Editi's experiments would continue unabated, giving rise to the Kantoku and other creatures years later.
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